I saw this opinion article, on MSN of all places, about a bill that was introduced in congress: H.R. 3432, the TDS Research Act of 2025 by R
I saw this opinion article, on MSN of all places, about a bill that was introduced in congress:
H.R. 3432, the TDS Research Act of 2025 by Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH). The bill’s purpose is “to direct the Director of the National Institutes of Health to conduct or support research to advance the understanding of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and for other purposes.”
The article is offensive in a multitude of ways. First of all, it describes TDS as:
“a behavioral or psychological phenomenon characterized by intense emotional or cognitive reactions to Donald J. Trump, his actions, or his public presence, as observed in individuals or groups.”
Personally, I feel that anyone with a conscience would have these reactions to him. It’s insulting to call this a “syndrome.”
Warren Davidson of Ohio says aid should be withheld until the state ravaged by wildfires reforms forestry management
A Republican US congressman from Ohio has called for federal disaster relief to be withheld from California unless the state reforms its forestry management practices that some blame for the rapid spread of wind-fanned fires that broke on Tuesday.
Warren Davidson’s remarks to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday came as California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, urged officials to avoid politicizing the response to the blazes which had killed people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Davidson’s comments came in the context of a spending bill that Congress would need to pass before March to prevent a government shutdown would include disaster relief for California.
Davidson pointed to the American Relief Act, 2025 – passed in December – that contributed $110bn to disaster relief for areas affected by Hurricanes Milton and Helene, including North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Other disaster-affected areas were also included.
The congressman said that Congress will “need to address fires” as it had with the previous hurricane damage, “but … if they want the money, then there should be consequences where they have to change their policies” with respect to forestry management.
“I mean, we support the people that are plagued by disaster, but we have to put pressure on the California government to change course here.”
The politicization of the Los Angeles fires, which started almost as soon as they took hold, show signs of intensifying in the aftermath. Donald Trump – who begins a second presidency on 20 January – weighed in, alluding to his having accused state leaders of “gross mismanagement” of forests in 2018 after wildfires devastated Malibu and Paradise, California.
At the time, Newsom defended California’s wildfire prevention efforts while criticizing the federal government for not doing enough to help protect the state. “You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation”, Newsom told Trump in a post on X.
Trump more recently blamed the Democratic-controlled state of withholding water from northern parts of the state to southern California as part of environmental efforts to help protect a small fish – the Delta smelt – and blamed environmentalists for hampering the state’s fire response.
But Friday, Newsom temporarily sought to put that dispute to one side, inviting Trump to visit areas affected by the fire disaster and to meet with first responders, firefighters and “Americans” affected by the catastrophe.
“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans – displaced from their homes and fearful for the future – deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”
But hours later, Newsom amplified comments critical of Trump in an interview with Pod Save America in which he rejected Trump’s claim that water is being withheld to save the endangered fish, calling the messaging “delusional” and “a consistent mantra from Trump going back years and years, and it’s reinforced over and over within the right wing ... and it’s profoundly ignorant”.
Newsom said fears that Trump could try to withhold federal relief funds from California was reasonable. “He’s done it in the past, not just here in California,” he said, and pointed to prior efforts in Puerto Rico, Utah, Connecticut and Georgia. “The rhetoric is very familiar, it’s increasingly acute, and obviously we all have reason to be concerned about.”
Newsom added that Trump’s assertions about a state water project and the delta smelt were a “salad, it’s the form and substance of a fog, it’s made-up, it’s delusional”.
Trump’s claims, Newsom added, were “sort of an indelible misinformation that’s he sort of manifested, a falsehood, and he decided to bring it into this crisis in a profoundly demeaning and damaging way”.
Joe Biden has already approved a disaster declaration for the southern California fires, committing the federal government to covering all of the fire management and debris removal costs for six months. But with days left in Biden’s presidency, the federal recovery assistance that California receives will soon be up to Trump and a Congress controlled by his fellow Republicans.
Newsom thanked Biden – his fellow Democrat – for having “approved our major disaster declaration”. According to Politico, in his letter to Trump, Newsom wrote Biden’s action was “a strong indication of the partnership California needs and appreciates with any federal administration”.
“However,” Newsom added, “the threat to lives and property remains acute. Higher-than-normal winds of up to 70 miles per hour are still forecast for the next several days, and more extreme winds are likely early next week, with no change to dry conditions.”
According to Politico, an unnamed Trump official downplayed the idea that he would withhold aid to the state.
🚨Trump RAGES As His IRAN BOMB Just Triggered REPUBLICAN REVOLT
Sorry but, Rump's not raging anymore than he usually does.
But, he is worried...
His MAGA base is reacting badly to his bombings of Iran - with Israel's help - or, visa-versa.
Rump's saying that his goal is to topple Iran's current regime - but, the cost is already in the billions!
Where's this money coming by from?
Rump wags the dog, invokes the Emergency Powers Act & sends soldiers off to kill or die - & he does it without leading them himself!
Why hasn't he dropped by the nearest Recruitment Office & tried to join up?
Maybe cause, even without his "bone spurs", he's still unfit to be a soldier or any kind of leader.
So far, Rump's added to his number of kills from the others before:
A. 50 elementary school girls killed & some 60 injured.
B. Three US servicemen dead to their families & five injured.
C. Some evil leaders who didn't kiss D royal arse.
What's the total now?
Even Rump's Congress Republikkkans are now trying passing a War Powers order & it's being pushed by Kentucky's Thomas Massey & California's own Ro Khanna!
Ohio's Warren Davidson, MTG & the influencer Cassandra Macdonald is using Charlie Kirk's taped words against the Prez!!
Of course, Rump doesn't care for any one, so he hasn't thought about the deaths he's caused, retaliation attacks in the US, a civil war in Iran nor of the new refugee crisis that he just created...
Stable genius, my arse!!
Rump's bombings have already been condemned by Spain, Norway & Brazil.
Democrats are asking that he be totally removed from office...
But, don't forget the Epstein Files nor that the Mid-Terms are in November.
So the Republicans are trying to shut down the government to damage their own states so that they make the Democrats look bad before the election… Is that the game plan they’re going with?
Here is the full list of Republicans who voted against the stopgap bill to prevent a government shutdown in September 2024:
Indiana: James R. Baird, Jim Banks, Rudy Yakym III, Victoria Spartz
Ohio: Troy Balderson, Warren Davidson, Jim Jordan, Max L. Miller
Florida: Aaron Bean, Gus M. Bilirakis, Kat Cammack, Byron Donalds, Matt Gaetz, Anna Paulina Luna, Cory Mills, Bill Posey, Michael Waltz, Daniel Webster
Texas: Michael Cloud, Tony Gonzales, Lance Gooden, Morgan Luttrell, Nathaniel Moran, Chip Roy, Keith Self, Randy Weber Sr., Beth Van Duyne, Roger Williams
Arizona: Andy Biggs, Elijah Crane, Paul A. Gosar, Debbie Lesko, David Schweikert
North Carolina: Dan Bishop
Colorado: Lauren Boebert
Illinois: Mike Bost, Mary E. Miller, Darin LaHood
Oklahoma: Josh Brecheen
Tennessee: Tim Burchett, John W. Rose, Andrew Ogles
Missouri: Eric Burlison
Georgia: Andrew S. Clyde, Mike Collins, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Richard McCormick
Utah: John R. Curtis
South Carolina: Jeff Duncan, Russell Fry, Nancy Mace, Ralph Norman, William R. Timmons IV
Kansas: Ron Estes, Tracey Mann
Mississippi: Mike Ezell, Michael Guest, Trent Kelly
Iowa: Randy Feenstra
Minnesota: Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach
Idaho: Russ Fulcher
Virginia: Bob Good, H. Morgan Griffith
Wyoming: Harriet M. Hageman
Maryland: Andy Harris
Louisiana: Clay Higgins
Pennsylvania: John Joyce, Scott Perry
West Virginia: Alexander X. Mooney
California: Tom McClintock
Kentucky: Thomas Massie
Montana: Matthew M. Rosendale Sr.
New York: Claudia Tenney
Wisconsin: Thomas P. Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden
New Jersey: Jefferson Van Drew
Alabama: Barry Moore, Gary J. Palmer
Arkansas: Bruce Westerman
Why is this important to me? I would have been out of a job. Government contractors would rather cut you and rehire you for less pay or benefits. Also, if I miss 1 or 2 paychecks I will be homeless.
Ohio congressman Warren Davidson's "problem" with the state's forest management appears to echo misleading claims in conservative media.
Ben Blanchet at HuffPost:
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) on Friday sounded off about his “problem” with California’s policies as he threatened to withhold disaster relief aid amid the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.]
“If they want the money, then there should be consequences where they have to change their policies,” said Davidson in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.
He later added, “I mean, we support the people that are plagued by disaster but we have to put pressure on the California government to change course here.”
Davidson, moments earlier, declared that officials “need to address” the fires before taking issue with the state’s forest management.
“All these things that they’re doing are making it far easier for fires to grow and spread and be huge,” he claimed of the blazes in Los Angeles that have killed at least 16 people and burned over 12,000 structures with about 57,000 more still at risk.
Right-wing media figures have recently pushed misleading claims that California’s “bad forest management” is to blame for the fires while ignoring how climate change impacts measures to prevent the spread of fires, Media Matters for America reported.
The bad forest management talk marks an apparent regurgitation of right-wing claims from 2018 when then-President Donald Trump blamed California’s Camp Fire — the most destructive and deadliest in the state’s history — on “poor” policy.
Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson (R) is grossly playing politics with disaster relief.
From the 01.10.2025 edition of FBN's Mornings With Maria:
Davidson told the Washington Free Beacon that his vote against the act was due to an included provision that required private enterprises to report their business activities to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Violations of the act would be enforced through the SEC rather than the Departments of State or Treasury, which Davidson also expressed concern about.
"Should this provision be removed in the Senate, I would welcome the bill being signed into law. Reports of the Uyghur genocide are appalling, and deserve international condemnation, accompanied by appropriate sanctions," Davidson said.
Massie told the Free Beacon he voted against the bill because he believed sanctions damage the people of China more than the Chinese government. "Sanctions generally do not hurt the repressive governments they claim to target," Massie said. "Instead, the burdens disproportionately fall on innocent people who are already suffering under those repressive regimes."
"Confronting the generational threat that the CCP poses should be a bipartisan issue," Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in his opening remarks on the House floor. "It is an American issue, the greatest national security threat to the United States of America. I believe this failure of perspective needs to change."
Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson faced off with constituents at a town hall on Tuesday. When the issue of health care came up, Davidson told the crowd if you want health care get a better job.
