Rep. Barry Loudermilk told The Gateway Pundit reporter Cara Castronuova that key evidence surrounding the January 6 pipe bomber “mysteriously disappeared” or “corrupted.” There was no control of the scene when the bombs were found, people were allowed to taint the pipe bomb scene, and no one appeared to be in charge. Agents working on […] The post J6 Pipe Bomb Fiasco: Key Evidence “Mysteriously Disappeared” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is weighing in on President Donald Trump’s call for doing away with the Senate filibuster in an effort to end the government shutdown that began a month ago on Oct. 1. “[T]hat’s up to the Senate. Of course, it’s their rules. As someone who worked in the Senate and has a pretty good amount of expertise in the Senate, I have always been predisposed to enjoying the ‘cooling saucer’ and the higher threshold to move legislation through the Senate,” Roy told The Daily Signal. The term “cooling saucer” is a metaphor for the Senate serving as a moderating force for legislation passed as “hot tea” by the House of Representatives.  Roy, who has represented Texas’s 21st District in Congress since 2019, continued: “That being said, I said a couple of weeks ago that we need to take a long, hard look at a 51-vote threshold, because Democrats are clearly playing games.” The Texas congressman has extensive experience in the Senate, having previously served as chief of staff for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and as a staffer for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. Roy explained, “It’s more about reclaiming the games that Democrats are playing with the 60-vote threshold for simple common-sense things. We’re not talking about a big, complicated, new piece of legislation that really ought to have a ‘cooling saucer’ approach. We’re talking about a freaking [continuing resolution].” “Like that’s how bad the Democratic Party has become, that they’re willing to play games, hold the government hostage, all while they’ve been holding the American people hostage to a broken health care system,” the Texas lawmaker continued. Roy commended the president for his outspokenness on the issue. “So, I think President Trump was right yesterday to rattle about a 50-plus-one voting option. And look, I’m happy to have that conversation,” he said, adding, “I can also tell you that I’m having strong conversations with my friends in the House about whether we should move either legislation or a constitutional amendment to force this question, because I’m tired of Democrats being the ones that play the games and go, ‘Oh, well, we’ll decide whether we’re going to break 60.’” Roy said that the Senate could, in theory, lower the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster so that it was still more than a simple majority, but less than 60 votes. That could potentially enable the GOP to end the government shutdown and pass more of their priorities without opening themselves up to the possibility that radical left-wing legislation gets passed if Democrats control the majority in the future. Republicans have been able to muster support from a few Democrat senators leading to 54- or 55-vote majorities to pay essential federal workers or pass the continuing resolution.Roy said that he thought the Democrats would abolish the filibuster the next time they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress and expressed support for senators being required to actually have to speak in order to block legislation through a filibuster. “If you’re willing to be on the floor debating that, I’m on board, like, keep it up, but if you just got to throw an arbitrary 60 out there, then we better cement that for everybody, because otherwise, I don’t want to unilaterally disarm all my country. It’s getting decimated by liberals every time they get in office and they back-door, through reconciliation, things like Obamacare, and we’re all left holding the bag,” he said. The post Texas Congressman Chip Roy Discusses the Filibuster appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The House Oversight Committee has released its report on Biden’s autopen use as a cover-up of the former president’s mental decline — and while it’s not good, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t surprised.“As you probably already guessed, because you have eyeballs and a working brain, there was a coordinated cover-up of his deterioration from the public ... but more importantly, the senior Biden staff exercised presidential authority or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization from President Biden himself,” Gonzales says.“And now that they’ve found all of this out through their report, they consider that any action that was signed with autopen is null and void if it is discovered that Joe Biden did not know about it, which, of course, is the right call,” she continues.While hundreds of actions were signed with autopen, the question remains as to which ones he knew about.“I mean, we had all of these pardons, all of these pre-emptive pardons on the way out the door in the 11th hour. ... President Autopen was like, ‘Just to be sure, I’m going to sign pardons for all of my family and for Dr. Fauci and Mark Milley and the January 6th fake committee members, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Adam Kinzinger, Jamie Raskin,’” Gonzales mocks.BlazeTV contributor Breanna Morello points out that the “first big red flag” regarding the autopen scandal was Joe Biden allegedly giving “clemency to a convicted pedophile” who had “thousands of child pornographic images on his devices” and was a “Chinese national.”“And then the media covered for it. They didn’t actually cover that story ... I think I was the only reporter talking about it initially, and then everyone else caught wind of it afterwards,” Morello says.“So it’s not surprising. I couldn’t imagine why any president would have wanted their legacy to be freeing a convicted pedophile with over 42,000 child pornographic images on their devices. ... And the fact that he pardoned the whole J6 committee when they pretend everything was legitimate tells you everything you need to know about all this,” she adds.Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania were surprised to receive a vulgar email from the university's account after it was hacked Friday.The university confirmed that the email came from a security breach and that its incident response team was investigating the incident.'This is obviously a fake, and nothing in the highly offensive, hurtful message reflects the mission or actions of Penn or of Penn GSE.'"The University of Pennsylvania is a dogs**t elitist institution full of woke retards. We have terrible security practices and are completely unmeritocratic," reads the hacked email, which was posted to social media. "We hire and admit morons because we love legacies, donors, and unqualified affirmative action admits. We love breaking federal laws like FERPA (all your data will be leaked) and Supreme Court rulings like SFFA," the email continues. "Please stop giving us money."The subject heading reads, "We got hacked (Action Required)." The hackers referred to the Supreme Court decision in favor of the Students for Fair Admissions in 2023 that forbid race-based affirmative action in admissions to colleges. They also accused the college of violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects students' school records data. RELATED: Cybersecurity expert says he accidentally discovered 'disturbing' data transfers from TikTok: 'The app should be banned' A university spokesperson released a statement decrying the email. "A fraudulent email has been circulated that appears to come from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education," the statement reads. "This is obviously a fake, and nothing in the highly offensive, hurtful message reflects the mission or actions of Penn or of Penn GSE."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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