#OTD (Dec 18) in 1920, New York crime figure Frank #Scalise is arrested at #NewRochelleNY for burglary.
#Scalise
#OTD (Dec 15) in 1923, #NewYork crime figure Frank #Scalise is arrested in #Manhattan for burglary.
#SteveScalise Knows Exactly What Led to the #BourbonStreet Attack: #DEI Initiatives
#Scalise claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives bore part of the blame for #lawenforcement’s failure to disrupt attack that left 15 people dead and dozens more injured.
“Some of these agencies have gotten so wrapped up in the DEI movement — call it #wokeness, call it whatever you want — where their main focus is on diversity and inclusion as opposed to security,” https://theintercept.com/2025/01/02/steve-scalise-bourbon-street-new-orleans-attack/
#NewOrleans
A liar through-and-through.
#Louisiana embarrassment Steve Scalise tells constituents in his weekly email that the U.S. military has suffered under the Biden administration as “it's been hard to recruit and retain servicemembers because of the woke policies.”
Evidence? Facts? None offered, per usual.
The reality:
🔸 Recruiting is up this year and will hit quotas in 2024.
🔸 Recruiting has been hampered by low unemployment, not at all related to “woke policies.”
Scalise and Republicans will continue to scapegoat everything they don’t like on Biden and progressive and liberal policies all the way to perdition, and that’s the truth.
Republicans appear to have completely forgone the “unity convention” theme this week in favor of a much more divisive brand:
a total call to arms.
In a prerecorded message to the convention Tuesday night, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald #Trump insisted that Democrats are
“destroying our country,”
and once again claimed that the 2020 election was #stolen from him, urging supporters not to let “what happened” that year happen again.
“We must use every appropriate tool to beat the Democrats,” Trump said.
“These people want to cheat, and they do cheat, and frankly it’s the only thing they do well.”
In a post on Truth Social, Trump twisted an old lie into something new,
trying to convince his base that Democrats are “attempting to interfere” in the 2024 presidential election.
But Trump wasn’t the only Republican stoking the flames.
In his own speech, Louisiana Representative Steve #Scalise nodded toward a white supremacist, alt-right #conspiracy known as the
“great replacement theory”
while baselessly advancing the idea that
“Biden and Harris want illegals to vote.”
House Speaker Mike #Johnson shared a similar idea, telling the conference that Republicans
“cannot allow the many millions of illegal aliens [the Democrats] allowed to cross our borders, to harm our citizens, raid our resources, or disrupt our elections.”
Of course, undocumented immigrants (and any other noncitizens) cannot vote in U.S. elections.
But that didn’t stop Texas Senator Ted #Cruz
—whose state overwhelmingly identifies as Hispanic
—from mindlessly hopping on the bandwagon.
“[Illegal immigration] happened because Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more than they wanted to protect our children,” Cruz saidTuesday.
Senate candidate Kari #Lake, who’s running to represent 2.3 million Latino voters in Arizona,
also advanced the bold-faced lie that Democrats “voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.”
But few summed up the aggressive mood of the convention better than West Virginia Governor Jim #Justice,
who told conference-goers on Tuesday that the “bottom line” for Republicans is this:
“We become totally #unhinged if Donald Trump is not elected in November.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/183953/trump-dangerous-call-arms-rnc-election-integrity
The U.S. #House will make a change in its schedule to consider legislation that supports #Israel and holds #Iran accountable, House Majority Leader Steve #Scalise said.
It was unclear whether Scalise was referring to a stand-alone bill to aid Israel, or the $95 billion supplemental spending bill that includes $14 billion for Israel, in addition to $60 billion for #Ukraine, support for #Taiwan and billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance.
There was the 2017 shooting of US Rep Steve #Scalise & colleagues by a #Trump detractor. There was the hammer attack on US Rep Nancy #Pelosi’s husband by a #RightWing #conspiracy theorist who sought the then House speaker in her home. Then there were #threats by #RepublicanExtremists against #Republican members of Congress for refusing to support their preferred candidate for speaker. These acts grabbed headlines & spurred increases in #security for federal ofcls.
What are we to make of Steve Scalise, the Republican Congressman who voted NO to funding stem cell research, but who now is eagerly undergoing cancer treatment based on that research? #GOPFail
#USPolitics #USHealthcare
#Scalise
🧵Via Clara Jeffery: 1/…
When I heard that #Scalise had multiple myeloma—which my dad died of—I wondered if he'd get stem cell treatment despite having voted & campaigned against stem cell therapy. My dad was too old for this option. Lucky for Scalise, hypocrisy is no barrier
Jake Sherman: STEVE SCALISE will be out of DC until Feb…getting a stem-cell transplant.
House GOP has 220-seat majority. Bill Johnson is out Jan. 21. After that, w Scalise out, GOP will have a bare bones 218-seat majority
#Scalise #Louisiana does nothing but make excuses. The House failure to do ANYTHING to help Americans is all because of----- well, Republican messes.
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/unlike-kevin-mccarthy-steve-scalise-says-hes-staying-put/article_e026f3e8-956e-11ee-993e-e3ddefd4011a.html?
White House hits back at Scalise over refusal to say 2020 election wasn’t stolen
#WhiteHouse #Scalise #2020Election #Stolen #Refusal #HitsBack #Politics #News
So a lot of people, self included, had fun watching the #HouseGOP turn into the Kilkenny Cats the last 3+ weeks. Funny, right?
Except not. Because now it's clear who owns the GOP. It was his gang that got #McCarthy booted out, and then made it clear #Scalise would not be it, and that put forward #JimJordan and then sank #TomEmmer in hours. And it was his gang that got his fervent ally, Mike Johnson, through UNANIMOUSLY.
#DonaldTrump IS the #Republican Party, and vice-versa. God help us all.
Is there anything less scary than #Scalise screaming at the top of his lungs about notifying #JoeBiden they finally have a new #SpeakerOfTheHouse ?
Camera #USA, #MikeJohnson eletto speaker
Al quarto tentativo - dopo quelli falliti di Steve #Scalise, #JimJordan e #TomEmmert - i Repubblicani riescono così a sostituire #KevinMcCarthy
https://www.rsi.ch/s/1965786
Speaker for a day 😂 #RepublicanCult
“Republicans nominated Rep. #MikeJohnson of #Louisiana as its next sacrificial victim. Johnson lost in previous ballots to Steve #Scalise, Jim #Jordan, and Tom #Emmer.
He voted against the certification of the count of electoral ballots in 2020 and took the lead in authoring a brief to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the election. In other words, he is unfit to serve in Congress, let alone serve as Speaker.”
#USA #House
Risultati del primo scrutinio:
Presenti: 432
Hakeem #Jeffries (#D|Centro-sinistra): 212 voti
Jim #Jordan (#R|ECR): 200
Steve #Scalise (R): 7
Kevin #McCarthy (R): 6
Lee #Zeldin (R): 3
Mike #Garcia (R): 1
Tom #Emmer (R): 1
Thomas #Massie (R): 1
Tom #Cole (R): 1
Quorum: 217
❌Necessaria una seconda votazione❌
House Republicans collapse into anarchy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/13/scalise-jordan-house-gop-speaker-chaos/
#WashingtonPost #HouseRepublicans #Anarchy #Scalise #Jordan #SpeakerChaos #Politics #News
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