Infighting Is Funny

The New York Post reports: President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers, appearing to side with Elon Musk in the roiling intra-MAGA debate on the issue. “I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said by phone, referring to the H-1B …

Politico reports: Rep. Scott Perry said that he’s not committing to voting for Mike Johnson for speaker, adding a former Freedom Caucus chair to the conservative crowd sowing doubt over Johnson’s prospects to retake the gavel. “I think that Mike has done an admirable job under tough conditions, but I’m going to keep my options open,” Perry (R-Pa.) said today …

Mediaite reports: Steve Bannon slammed Elon Musk as a “toddler” as the X owner doubled down on his views on H-1B work visas and his criticisms of American workers. “Someone please notify ‘Child Protective Services’— need to do a ‘wellness check’ on this toddler,” Bannon wrote on Gettr on Friday night in response to Musk telling his critics to “fuck …

“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B. Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” – Elon Musk, after days …

“So Elon Musk stripped the blue check because someone hurt his feelings? Dude lay off the ketamine, talk to a therapist, help the poor, retire, talk to your kids, and grow up. He going to keep strangling this place. If you love him great, but don’t pretend he’s for free speech.” – Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, wading into the …

Axios reports: Elon Musk condemned a segment of the MAGA movement as “contemptible fools” who should be purged from the Republican Party in a social media post Friday. A virtual right-wing civil war has broken out over race, class, immigration and the future of President-elect Trump’s movement, and Musk is increasingly at odds with Trump’s historic base. The schism may …

Marjorie Taylor Greene writes on X: Good gracious, I came out of Christmas bliss to see arguments about American labor vs H1-B imported labor and MAGA split over this issue. Good, that means everyone is engaged in saving this country. Here is some tough reality for some of you: There are some big MAGA voices with large social media platforms …

“H-1B visas? That’s not what it’s about. It’s about taking American jobs and bringing over essentially what have become indentured servants at lower wages. This thing’s a scam by the oligarchs in Silicon Valley to basically take jobs from American citizens, give them to what become indentured servants from foreign countries, and then pay ‘em less. Simple. To let them …

“You know, Congress has paid over $17 million in hush money for sexual misconduct inside of the offices in these buildings. And what’s more is that was taxpayer money. There may be some on this dais, I mean, I’m for turning loose all of these records. “Who in here has had the taxpayer pay for their misconduct charges, the hush …

The Meidas Touch reports: It’s official: Elon Musk has suspended MAGA influencer Laura Loomer after she spent the entire day yesterday calling him out over his support for H1B visas. After several hours of back and forth arguing between Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Loomer, and other MAGA influencers, Musk took the extraordinary step of stripping Loomer and others of their verified …

Trump just shared a link to this Townhall column: Like ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, and almost every other major “news” paper in the nation, The Wall Street Journal has seemingly morphed into a propaganda arm of …

Raw Story reports: In replies to a post criticizing Musk from Trump ally Laura Loomer, some Trump supporters said that they were still owed money after they took part in his petition drive scheme that promised participants $47 for each successful referral to sign the petition. “I am waiting 80 days for payment from his AmericaPAC,” wrote Cheré Woltz Oliver …

Axios reports: A MAGA-world civil war erupted over Christmas when a social media post on American culture turned into a pitched battle over race, immigration and billionaires versus the working class. The fight exposes one of the MAGA movement’s deepest contradictions: It came to prominence chiefly via the white, less-educated, working class but is now under the full control of …

Mediaite reports: Several conservative critics of billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk were stripped of their verification badges on X, Thursday after publicly challenging Musk’s stance on immigration. Trump ally Laura Loomer, New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax, InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, and the pro-Trump ConservativePAC were all stripped of their verification badges after criticizing Musk’s controversial remarks about …

Politico reports: House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris told Fox Business on Thursday that the chamber’s Republicans need to consider if current leadership “is what we need” going into unified GOP government next year. “Before the last couple of weeks, I was in his corner, but now we should consider what’s the best path forward,” Harris (R-Md.) said of Speaker …

Loony Laura Loomer writes on X: Telling the truth isn’t trolling. Read the room! @elonmusk You bought your way into MAGA 5 minutes ago after Trump almost had his head blown off in Butler. Remember when you voted for Biden and propped up @GovRonDeSantis and you said Trump was too old? We all know you only donated your money so …

Roll Call reports: Lingering ill will among House Republicans after another messy spending fight could complicate Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to retain the House gavel — and potentially the Jan. 6 formalizing of Donald Trump’s election victory. As president of the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris would be the presiding officer during a joint session of Congress that day to …

Axios reports: The House Ethics Committee’s report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) had been poised to stay officially buried — until two centrist Republicans on the panel unexpectedly voted to release it, Axios has learned. Reps. Dave Joyce [photol (R-Ohio) and Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) sided with the committee’s five Democrats in voting to release the report, two sources familiar …

“I watched him [Mike Johnson] make the number one priority of his Speakership funding Ukraine without any audit at all, at a time when the U.S. border was open, the United States itself was being invaded. And his priority was protecting the borders of a country whose language he doesn’t speak, he knows nothing about. It’s not the only country …

CNN reports: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky called Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the situation “not that great,” saying he had a lack of “situational awareness” to know the first bill wouldn’t pass. He also expressed frustration at adding a debt limit increase into the bill, after President-elect Donald Trump demanded it on Thursday. “In some sense, there’s an institutional …