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The 1,547 page funding bill includes an extension for the Global Engagement Center—a massive contributor within the Censorship Industrial Complex, who pressured social media companies to censor Americans.
X ^ | Dec 18, 2024 | Te𝕏as Lindsay

Posted on 12/18/2024 3:30:26 PM PST by george76

The 1,547 page funding bill includes an extension for the Global Engagement Center—a massive contributor within the Censorship Industrial Complex, who pressured social media companies to censor Americans.

This bill would extend their existence for another NINE YEARS!

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This is why the bill is 1500 pages long... to ensure it never gets read.

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We need to go back to single issue bills

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The Global Engagement Center should not be included in a funding bill!


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; dissent; freespeech; internet; jan6; jan6committee; jan6th; socialmedia
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1 posted on 12/18/2024 3:30:26 PM PST by george76
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don’t forget the 40% pay hike for all congress critters


2 posted on 12/18/2024 3:32:29 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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This CR needs to be voted down, and I hope and pray the GOP do just that, though I’m not confident they will.


3 posted on 12/18/2024 3:33:17 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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Musk killed it .

Johnson needs to be replaced .

He is a Dem plant .


4 posted on 12/18/2024 3:34:33 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil)
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So now that the bill was killed, why aren’t reporters or other Republicans grilling Johnson about WHY this pork crap was put in. Grill him until he cries.


5 posted on 12/18/2024 3:34:52 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: sten

A new provision in the latest CR lets Congress block subpoenas for House data, including emails, potentially preventing any investigation into the Jan 6 Committee..

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1869426984134291902


6 posted on 12/18/2024 3:35:56 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Pelosi said of Obamacare you have to pass the bill before you can read it.

To get through 1,547 pages why not have a big crew read small portions and report on it as asked in a roundtable session.
As the book memorizers in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. “Where’s the kid who has non pre-arranged title transfer disputes can be subject to grandfather clause federal tax intercessions if property sales are under $500,000?”

So far members of the DC crowd have only read “pay raises for Congress” and stopped after that.


7 posted on 12/18/2024 3:41:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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It will be 100x better to have the federal government shutdown (except for extremely necessary services) until January 21st than for this monstrosity to pass. Speaker Johnson and anyone who has not been warning and preparing for this monstrosity to be defeated must be finished politically in the GOP IF this passes. It’s a red line that has been crossed & it must be stopped.


8 posted on 12/18/2024 3:41:50 PM PST by Degaston
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Fox and Wash Post reporting the bill is dead. Elon said ‘Primary’ any Republican that votes for it


9 posted on 12/18/2024 3:42:50 PM PST by 11th_VA
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Good to hear.


10 posted on 12/18/2024 3:44:53 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: george76

This just proves that none of the CONgre$$$$$ members read bills, except for the pork that they put in them.


11 posted on 12/18/2024 3:47:22 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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Who wrote this piece of excrement CR? House or Senate?


12 posted on 12/18/2024 3:47:48 PM PST by jpp113
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AGREE 1 million %

SHUT IT DOWN.


13 posted on 12/18/2024 3:52:35 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: george76

bttt


14 posted on 12/18/2024 3:55:14 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: frank ballenger

Likely - a big crew read small portions and report on it


15 posted on 12/18/2024 3:56:18 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Uh WHO wanted the appropriately named HOR to pass it???


16 posted on 12/18/2024 3:58:06 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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So they tried the old method of adding some carrots (funding for hurricane victims and farmers) while adding 100’s of pages of BS that only the Administrative State wants.


17 posted on 12/18/2024 3:59:49 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Who wrote this piece of excrement CR? House or Senate?

I used the Grok AI tool on X and it said primarily by Mike Johnson, Kay Granger (TX)

18 posted on 12/18/2024 4:02:04 PM PST by Blue Highway
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I guess they didn’t get the message. There’s a new admin in about a month from now that’s going to tear this pork filled excess to shreds. Well, that’s what I voted for, for whatever it’s worth.


19 posted on 12/18/2024 4:16:49 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan
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To: Blue Highway
Grill him until he cries.

Until he cries. His excuse in favor of kicking the can down the road is unforgivable. I am STILL WAITING for Bill Frist to activate the Nuclear Option.

Johnson, you are a namby-pamby mama's boy. Even Little X has more intestinal fortitude than you.

20 posted on 12/18/2024 4:33:32 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall
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