UPDATE: This podcast was recorded early Friday morning. The WH correspondence dinner was cancelled because of the security breech
Here's just one segment of the latest episode of the Jay Weber podcast. The Democrats scumbaggery on full display. The story of a Florida woman who ran for congress fully intending to lie, cheat, and steal. Time stamp coincides with run time on the podcast.~~ Gregory Jon
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I'm getting a kick out of the cleanup that we are told is going
on in Congress because three scummy House members have been
forced to quit over the last three weeks or so.
This of course, started with the Democrats engaging in a
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campaign to explode Eric Swalwell's run for California governor, and
unfortunately for them, it meant that he had to be
shoved out of Congress too. They would have liked to
have kept his vote, but they really couldn't. He had
to go if they were going to pretend to be
upset about the decades long womanizing that he was famous
for in DC. He had to resign from Congress too,
so he resigned. Then it was a Republican, Tony Gonzalez
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of Texas, who had his own sexual misconduct scandal going on.
He resigned. And then this week it was another Democrat,
a black woman from Florida named Sheila McCormick. And I
admit she's hyphenated, but I stumble over her maiden name,
sher phyllis surefulless, we'll just call her Bocephus. So then
there's the third resignation, Sheila Bosephus McCormick. So in a
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chamber of four hundred and thirty five members, three people
actually are being called out for their scumbaggery. And apparently
this is a house cleaning. It only is to longtime
elitists who have set up a system over two hundred
and fifty years that ensures that they will never really
be held accountable for their own actions, of your own criminality.
Only by that measure. Is this any sort of ethical
house cleaning going on in Congress? Good grief, But bosiphas
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here didn't resign due to a sex scandal. Hers was
a good old fashioned theft and ethical misconduct scandal. She
was charged with stealing nearly five million dollars in FEMA
funds and pled not guilty to that in criminal court.
But she was going to be expelled from the House
if she hadn't resigned first. McCormick said in a statement,
rather than play these political games, I choose to step
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away so that I can devote my time to fighting
for my neighbors in Florida's twentieth District. I hereby resign
from the one hundred and nineteenth Congress, effective immediately. By
the way, Love, the resignation statement makes no sense whatsoever,
proves she's a moron. Sheila said she's going to resign
from Congress so that she can focus on better representing
her constituents in Congress. What it's like saying you're going
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to go on an all cake diet in order to
lose weight. But McCormick resigned literally minutes before the head
of the Ethics Committee convened to hearing in order to
release the final results of their investigation into her activity,
and that investigation found McCormick was in fact guilty of
at least twenty five different ethical and criminal counts against
her quote. Investigators found substantial evidence of conduct consistent with
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the allegations and the indictment, as well as more extensive misconduct. Yeah,
Sheila McCormick is a real peach. She's only been in
Congress for about three years, but the rap sheet of
offenses and crimes that she racked up here is incredible.
She's actually been criminally charged for dozens of real crimes
in addition to the House Ethical investigation and the findings
that pushed her out of Congress. This woman's going to
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prison regardless of what Congress has done. She stole from FEMA,
She clearly stole from her own campaign and filed false
and inaccurate campaign statements. That's a crime, and this is
across numerous election cycles. The investigators say she's charged with
falsifying paperwork on loans, accepting bribes, lying about her campaign finances,
spending all sorts of tax payer money on quote luxury
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goods like jewelry and designer clothing. HeLa McCormick is the
sort of person who never intended to do this job
honestly or properly. You have to put yourself in her
mindset when she ran for Congress. In one when you
look at the timeline and the charges against her. McCormick
was a slippery grifter right from the start, from the
moment she ran from Congress, and in the three short
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years she's been in Congress, she's pulled off every dishonest
and illegal stunt she could think up. Apparently during that time.
Here's a fun twist. Sheila McCormick one office in a
special election in Florida to replace longtime scumbag Elsie Hastings.
Hastings was a decades long congressman from Florida who was
also among the most famous sexual predators in scumbags in Washington,
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d C. Hastings was Eric Swallall before Swalwell was ever born.
So the people in that district in Florida traded one
scumbag criminal for another when they went from Hastings to McCormick.
I'll say one other thing about Sheila McCormick resigning, and
it comes from her criminal lawyer. I do think he's right.
I'm not cutting Sheila any slack here because she did
the crimes and you put herself in this situation. But
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I acknowledge the correctness of her lawyer's statement. McCormick's criminal
lawyer says she had to resign from Congress because there
was no way she was going to get a fair
criminal trial after the United States House of Representatives officially
declared her a criminal scumbag. He said, how can she
possibly go into court and have a fair trial if
her jurors have already heard that she was found guilty
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by the House of Representatives. It's an impossibility. So she
was left with no choice but to resign. That's true,
but it only means that she made a spark decision
to resign because when she ran for Congress, she had
to know that she would be living as a public
figure and beholden to her constituents and held to an
ethical standard. I mean, she had to know on day one.
There are actually little seminars that they go through with
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new House members. So she had to know on day
one the House had a process for investigating ethical and
criminal violations. And so it isn't some great constitutional question
as to whether her rights are going to be violated here.
She set herself up for any such consequences when she
ran for office in one one. I don't feel sorry
for her in any way, but if you still do,
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here's the Kapper. Please understand that Sheila Bosephus McCormick doesn't
appear to be a decent person in any way. She
committed all of these crimes and all this misconduct, and
she shows no remorse and only wants to portray herself
as some sort of victim. And at that point, once
you realize that, I think any normal person is going
to say, well f her. Then meanwhile, this little flurry
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of scandals and resignations has Speaker Mike Johnson vowing to finally,
finally adds some tougher rules of conduct on US House members.
And it's long overdue, folks, This is two hundred and
fifty years overdue, because as great as this country is,
the people who both formed this Republic and those who
have come to DC in the two hundred and fifty
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years since to represent Americans in Congress have spent all
of this time protecting themselves from consequences and exempting themselves
from accountability. The idea that we've had an ethical House
and Senate policing themselves over the last two hundred fifty
years is ridiculous. Heck, the idea that we've had an
ethical House and Senate policing themselves over the last two
decades is ridiculous. There is clearly so much corruption and
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grifting and scumbaggery and skullduggery going on in Washington, DC
that you cannot possibly pretend our leaders in DC really
care about it or want to stop it. There's a
reason it's called the swamp. Consider that around this time
last year, DOGE was uncovering decades long schemes in which
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, but mostly the Democrats,
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were kicking taxpayer money to all sorts of ridiculous and
even fake outside groups and mngos just so they could
set up their friends and relatives with dishonest, cushy incomes
and funnel a bunch of that money back into their
own campaigns. It's gone on for decades. These are the
people who are supposed to view as honest or ethical.
Come on, and whether it's sex scandals or taking bribes
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or whatever, it's clear that Washington, d C. Really is
the swamp. It is clear that over two hundred and
fifty years now, the people whom we as Americans have
sent to Congress to represent us and rule us govern
us mostly abandon their ethics and sense of integrity once
they get there. And not all of them, not everyone,
but way way too many of our longtime DC dwelling
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lawmakers have more interest in being exempted from the social mores,
the ethics, the laws of our society than they have
any interest in following them and are holding the members
of their own chamber accountable. And it's why I'm getting
such a kick out of this, this fake purge that's
going on. This is being called a purge three congressmen
who are obviously guilty of ethical and criminal violations. And yeah,
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it really is on both sides. I've seen a lot
of claims on social media lately, as Eric Swollwell got
shoved out, what Republicans never punish their predators and pedophiles?
You know? Right now it's vogue on both sides of
the aisle, but really on the left to smear everyone
as a pedophile. This seems to be the twenty twenty
sixth smear. Yeah, well, why aren't you pollutioning your own
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pedal files? That's what passes for a snappy retort. But
the truth is neither side has been good at policing
their own because if you think about it, if you
hold members of your own party accountable, You're losing their
vote in the Chamber. Right. The truth is neither side
is very good or interested in really holding their own
members accountable, and this list that Congress released earlier this
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week proves it. They released a list of House members
investigated for sexual harassment over the last forty years, and
they claim it was twenty eight people. Twenty eight members,
fourteen Democrats and twelve Republicans. First of all, that number
seems low, but you can see that being a sexually
harassing creep is not exclusive to either party, and that
both sides have had their scandals in general. Though from
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what I've seen in the forty years that I've been
watching this, in general, Republicans have been significantly better at
acknowledging the scumbags within their midst and actually doing something
to punish them or push them out. Republicans did shove
out George Santos and Matt Getz on their watch, by
the way, those are just recent examples. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi
and the Democrats protected Eric Swolwell and Elsie Hastings for decades.
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They ignored Barney Frank scandal altogether, etc. The truth is
that sexual harassment claims on Capitol Hill are being filed
quite routinely and by the dozens, and the American people
never hear about them. We don't hear about the vast
majority of them. And by the way, the same goes
for scandals related to bribes and campaign finance abuse, etc.
The vast majority of Congressmen who are called out for
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unethical behavior suffer no consequences, and the average voter never
hears about it. So color me skeptical as House Speaker
Mike Johnson now promises to tighten the sexual misconduct rules
in that lower chamber. And you know, if I trust
anyone on this, it would be Mike Johnson. Not only
is he a religious man and committed to clean government,
but he has two young daughters who are working as
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staffers on Capitol Hill. So I don't doubt that Mike
Johnson will be serious about finally maybe making some decent changes. However,
I highly doubt that the majority of the over four
hundred members in his chamber are really going to vote
in favor of placing tougher sexual harassment rules onto themselves
and onto future congresses. These are bodies the House and
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Senate that have protected their own members vigorously over the
last two hundred and fifty years. Mike Johnson said this
week that he's taking suggestions from other lawmakers and ways
to tighten these rules. Quote, I will lead that myself,
he said. All Right, we'll see where it goes, but
I won't be holding my breath.