Live coverage: House set for Friday vote to avert shutdown, without debt ceiling hike

Live coverage: House set for Friday vote to avert shutdown, without debt ceiling hike

House Republicans are searching for a way to avoid a government shutdown hours before the late Friday deadline, after their second funding proposal was defeated Thursday night.

Let's be real folks, Elon Musk wants a government shutdown because Vladimir Putin wants a government shutdown. - Liam Nissan

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Musk floods X with spending bill misinformation
• ‘We’re Hanging on by a Thread’: Asheville NC Resident Begs Trump and Congress to Pass Budget and Hurricane Aid
• Murphy, Kinzinger slam Musk for backing German ‘neo-Nazi party’
• Thousands of Jews have left Israel since the October 7 attacks
• Ukraine collects vast war data trove to train AI models

I think this should be kind of a big deal: @elonmusk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party. - Bill Kristol

Sounds As Though Speaker Johnson Will Be Toast

Steve Bannon gave Mike Johnson (R-LA) a vote of no confidence in front of a MAGA-friendly crowd as the House speaker grapples with a looming government shutdown.

CNN’s Dana Bash played a clip of Bannon telling a gathering in Arizona that Johnson doesn’t have “the right stuff” to push through a spending bill that will meet the approval of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Maybe it’s just me, but Republicans having two daddies seems kind of woke. - Alex Cole

Republican Shenanigans

• 'Way to Go Guys': Fox's Brit Hume Blames Trump and Elon Musk For Failed Spending Bill
• Elon Musk Hits Blasts 'Legacy Media Puppets' Trying To Tear Him and Trump Apart with 'President Elon' Talking Points
• GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace Suggests Fox News’ Trey Gowdy Is Transgender
• Trump Rages at 'Obstructionist' Texas Congressman Chip Roy Amid Budget Battle: 'Just Another Ambitious Guy, With No Talent'
• House Republican Says Congress Should Act Only As a 'Supportive Board of Directors' to Implement Whatever Trump Wants
• House Ethics Committee votes to release report on Matt Gaetz before Christmas, reports say

President Musk's latest budget deal crashed and burned faster than a Tesla. - Jeff Tiedrich

What Will Happen To Luigi Mangione?
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where his lawyer questioned conflicting federal charges she described as “highly unusual.”

Good luck finding 12 jurors, and a couple of alternates, who haven’t been screwed over by a health insurance company.

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says
• Biden makes final pre-holiday trip to DC children’s hospital as president
• Joe Biden is going out quietly but with trademark decency
• Schumer Calls on GOP 'to Go Back to the Original Agreement' Musk And Trump Killed to Avoid a Shutdown

If Fani Willis had a conflict of interest because a man might have paid for a meal, imagine how serious it would be if Supreme Court justices heard cases related to an election their wives had tried to overturn. - Andrea Junker

Hey Y'all, I Think This Is What's Called "Drunk With Power"

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday claimed he will fund moderate primary challenges to incumbent Democrats in heavy-blue districts around the country.

“Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jackass,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X Thursday night.

Why is the Biden administration silent on the richest man in the world doing the bidding of Putin?

WHY IS HE STILL A FEDERAL GOVT CONTRACTOR??? - Adam Kinzinger

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Business/Tech News

• Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally
• Bird flu drives US egg prices to all-time highs before Christmas
• Stocks retreat as US inflation ticks higher
• Tesla's Recall Surge: Nearly 700,000 Vehicles Affected

Tesla issued its 7th recall this year.

Elon Musk can’t even make a reliable car but do go on about how he’s gonna make the government more efficient. - Art Candee

Apparently, Partying Is Way Down
Party City, once among the top names in party-supply retailers, is going out of business, according to an announcement from CEO Barry Litwin that was viewed by CNN.

Trump was right about one thing. Immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans. Elon just took his job. - Alex Cole

Diddy & Luigi being in the same prison & their Lawyers being married to each other is a great addition to the plot. - MajestyRia

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Odd News

• Dark energy 'doesn’t exist' so can't be pushing 'lumpy' Universe apart – study
•  Fossils Reveal Mysterious 'Alien Plant' Is Unlike Any Other Known
• Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas
• Brazil bar gets 24K Magic moment with Bruno Mars visit
• Baby Jesus Figurine Stolen From Colorado Nativity Scene Returned Anonymously With Apology

Time To Deflate Photo

New York City is always magical at Christmas time. Always.

Peace.

Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for speaker

Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for speaker

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested that Elon Musk serve as Speaker in a Thursday morning post on X following contentious debates over the continuing resolution (CR).

“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . . ,” Paul wrote.

Really curious who Congressional Republicans are more afraid of…Trump or Musk? I say Musk. $$$$$$$$. - Former Senator Claire McCaskill

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Trump threatens government shutdown unless debt limit demand met, blames Biden if it happens
• Trump Insists Mike Johnson Must Act 'Decisively and Tough' on Spending Bill to Remain Speaker
• House Republicans Scrap Bill That Would Avoid Shutdown, Say 'There's No New Agreement Right Now'
• CNN Panel Melts Down In Finger-Pointing Fallout Over Elon Musk’s Role In Derailing Spending Bill
• Reporter Warns Elon Musk ‘Is Definitely Playing a Risky Game’ by Getting Ahead of Trump on Key Issues
• David Axelrod Says Trump and Musk Need to 'Get Together and Decide Who the President Is'
• Most disagree with Trump plans to use military for deportations, issue Jan. 6 pardons: Survey
• Putin says he’s ready for Trump meeting ‘if he wants it’
• Putin says Russia is ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war
• Rights group accuses Israel of genocidal acts in Gaza

All you guys in Appalachia waiting on hurricane relief. Musk just had it killed. - Dave

Why do the billionaires - Musk, Ramaswamy, Trump - want to shut down the government for Christmas? Because they still get paid. 

It's our troops, TSA agents and other federal workers who won't get paid. It's their kids who will suffer this Christmas. - Senator Chris Murphy

You know what's scarier than the Pentagon having a secret drone program?

A blackout drunk in charge of the Pentagon having a drone program. - John  Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• 'EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!' Trump Touts Popularity After Blowing Up GOP Budget Bill on Eve of Government Shutdown
• Marjorie Taylor Greene open to Musk for Speaker
• Greene blasts Johnson for ‘dirty swamp deals,’ keeping ‘everyone in the dark’
• Trump says US should get rid of debt ceiling
• Thune not ready to abolish debt limit in government funding bill
• ‘F*cking Lying Piece of Sh*t’: Dan Crenshaw Lashes Out at Claim He Wants Pay Rise for Congress
• 'You Told Fox—' Kaitlan Collins Nails Trump Border Czar Tom Homan When He Blames 'CNN Reporter' For Something HE Said
• ‘He Is Fake News!’ CNN’s Jim Acosta Rips Elon Musk for Spreading ‘Misinformation’ and Adding to Trump ‘Chaos’

Now I really am starting to believe Elon Musk did something real to the election.

Dude literally has full power of the government now. - aes

Sex Abuser/Election Interferer Gets Off The Hook Because Prosecutors Played Kissy Face. What A Joke The Legal System Is.

A Georgia appeals court on Thursday booted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D)’s office from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump over her relationship with a top prosecutor on the case. 

The panel described Willis’s relationship with ex-special prosecutor Nathan Wade as a “significant appearance of impropriety.” 

Fani Willis didn't ask Georgian officials to find her 11,780 fraudulent votes. Donald Trump did that. - Liam Nissan

The deportations we need to see are Peter Thiel, Melania, Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Rafael Ted Cruz, etc. Start with the actual criminals. - Ricky Davila

After all the Republican birtherism BS about Obama, how ironic that America is about to have a president who really was born in Africa, and he’s a Republican called Elon Musk. - Mrs. Betty Bowers

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Rock The Voter News

• Gov. Andy Beshear says Democrats should set partisanship aside, work to meet people's needs
• Harris tells supporters bruised by election loss that ‘no one can walk away’ in forward-looking speech
• Obama, federal government once saved Musk's Tesla, says Sen. Durbin
• House Democrat on spending drama: ‘I’m just gonna sit back and sip my tea’
• Jeffries dismisses Trump debt ceiling demand: ‘Hard pass’

The fact that I know more about Fani Willis’ and Nathan Wade’s relationship than I do about the crimes committed by Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media. - Andrea Junker

I Hope His Trial Will Be Televised

Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, faces four new federal charges, newly unsealed court documents show. 

Mangione was already facing state charges in New York and Pennsylvania, but the newly filed federal charge of murder through use of a firearm could enable authorities to seek the death penalty.

A large part of what Trump and Musk are up to is simply showing congressional Republicans—vividly, dramatically, unpleasantly—who’s in charge for the next four years. - Bill Kristol

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Business/Tech News

• Trump says US should get rid of debt ceiling
• Amazon workers to strike at multiple sites: Teamsters
• Neil Cavuto leaving Fox News
• All Big Lots stores to see 'going out of business' sales

The thing you need to understand about the Trumps as a clan is they were always a people in search of an owner; Elon is the latest, Donnie has been dog walked his entire life. From Fat Tony Salerno thru to Putin. He is brand, that is sold to the highest bidder. Musk owns him. - Noel Casler

I Wonder If The Homes Sales Are By People or Investors
Existing-home sales in the US topped a rate of 4 million in November for the first time in six months as house hunters begrudgingly accept mortgage rates above 6%.

It’s amazing to see how easy it was for Musk to buy himself an entire country! Welcome to Amuska! - Stella Parton

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Odd News

• Spacewalkers Exit Station for Science and Robotics Work 
• The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought
• Squirrels spotted hunting and eating animals for first time
• All 51 accused, including victim's ex-husband, guilty in French mass rape trial
• Monkeys spotted roaming 3 Florida neighborhoods as police issue warning
• A Florida Woman Is Trying to Sue Taylor Swift, But Can't Find Her
• Actor Morgan Freeman Joins Celebrity Wave in Costa Rica

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The Dolomites in Tuscany, Italy. They remind me of waving hands.

Peace.

Elon Musk opposes Johnson-backed spending package

Elon Musk opposes Johnson-backed spending package

The incoming leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency wrote in a post on X at 4:15 a.m. that “this bill should not pass.”

Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years. - Elon Musk

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Musk Under Federal Investigation for Flouting Security Clearance Rules
• How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation
• Trump Taunts Embattled Trudeau By Doubling Down On Canada As '51st State': 'Great Idea!'
• ‘Liz Cheney Could Be in a Lot of Trouble’: Trump Fans Threat Of FBI Investigation Into Former GOP Rep Over Jan. 6 Probe Handling
• Governors are lining up behind Trump and pledging to use national guards to boot immigrants from US
• Putin Ally Admits Russia Can't Kick Ukraine out of Kursk by Year End
• Israel drops 'earthquake bomb' on Syria causing huge mushroom cloud as Americans urged to leave

Justin Trudeau should say "We're building a wall and the U.S. is going to pay for it." 

Just to taunt him. - adgirlMM

Senate Passes Defense Authorization Bill

The Senate on Wednesday voted to pass the $895 billion Defense authorization bill, despite a provision on transgender care that turned off some Democrats, moving it along to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

Can someone please explain to me how assassinating one rich person is considered terrorism, yet murdering scores of children at school in a mass shooting isn’t? - David Leavitt

Republican Shenanigans

• CNN’s Scott Jennings Says ‘I Don’t Frankly Have a Problem With’ Trump Suing News Organizations
• Tucker Carlson ‘Killed’ Mike Pompeo’s Chance of Becoming Defense Secretary: Report
• Trump’s So ‘Handsome,’ You ‘Can’t Honey-Trap Him,’ Says Fox News’s Jesse Watters
• Trump nominates ex-US Senate candidate Herschel Walker as ambassador to Bahamas
• Republican Senator Says RFK Jr. Assured Him He And Trump Have An 'Agreement' On Abortion
• South Carolina Republicans Reintroduce Bill That Would Punish People Getting Abortions With Death Penalty
• ‘What’s Your Message to Elon Musk?’ Steve Doocy Confronts Speaker Mike Johnson With Musk’s Saying Spending Bill ‘Shall Not Pass’

Trump Sues Voters Who Told Pollster They Would Not Vote for Him. - Andy Borowitz

This meme of mine, is from 12 years ago, and nothing has changed. Sigh.

Revenge Shall Be Mine Sayeth The House
The House Ethics Committee voted secretly to release the much-anticipated investigatory report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), CNN reported on Wednesday.

When you read the Gaetz report, remember that Donald Trump nominated Matt Gaetz to serve as the chief law enforcement officer in our nation. - Aaron Parnas

Steve Bannon on Speaker Mike Johnson: “He’s a Democrat. He holds the Bible, and he’s got the New Testament wrapped up tight. He can talk happy talk on a handful of social issues, you know, checking his son’s porn sites. All this nonsense…”

To preserve the legacy of Robert F. Kennedy from now on I’m calling his son Bobby McMeasles. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden honors the memory of his late first wife and baby daughter who died in a 1972 car crash
• Biden's Approval Rating Quietly Sinks to New Low in Devastating Poll That Shows Him 32 Points Underwater
• Chris Hayes Rips Older Democrats Unwilling To Step Aside: ‘Genuine Madness’
• Joy Reid Takes Apparent Shot at Pelosi for Thwarting AOC: 'This Gerontocracy Seems Like It's Intractable' 
• DNC Candidate David Hogg Blasts Dems For Dismissing His 'Concerns' About Party's Appeal To Young Men: 'Shut Down By Consultants'
• Al Sharpton Knocks Dems For 'Acting Like There Was a Landslide Against' the Party After Trump Win: 'That's Not True!'

Democrats still beating up on Biden and other Democrats are the problem, not the solution. We need a charismatic leader not a whiner. Period.

How Conveeeeeeeeenient.

Following the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, New York state is exploring a hotline where CEOs can report threats.

The proposal reflects heightened concern from officials, even though there have been no documented attacks on other executives since Thompson’s murder. Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter, has already been arrested.

So Congress will bail out airline companies for $50 billion but they won’t cover $5 billion for the US Postal Service after intentionally sabotaging it. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Fed slashes rates by a quarter point, scales back 2025 cuts
• Elon Musk, RFK, Dr. Oz and the coming clash over Ozempic
• Pod Save America Accuses Joe Biden of ‘Quiet Quitting’
• Costa Rica and U.S. Jointly Identify Alleged Cyber Intrusions from China

ABC News Adopts Zero-Tolerance Policy for News. - Andy Borowitz

Russian Cancer Vaccine? Say What?
Russia claims to have developed a new mRNA vaccine for cancer, according to state news agency TASS. The vaccine is slated for public release in early 2025 and will be available free of charge.

I like presidents who don’t make me feel the need to keep a go-bag.

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Odd News

• Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at International Space Station must delay return to Earth yet again
• Earth's Magnetic North Pole Officially Has A New Position
• Complete mastodon jaw unearthed in upstate NY backyard
• Stone tablet engraved with Ten Commandments sells for $5 million
• Supporters rally around Lakeland woman accused of insurance company threat
• Hunter dies after bear falls on him: Virginia officials

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The Taj Mahal is the result of a man's pure love for his wife. We need more of that.

Peace.