The Federal Trade Commission hit Razer with a $1.1 million fine Tuesday. The order claims that the gaming accessory maker misled consumers by claiming that its flashy Zephyr mask was certified as N95-grade. “These businesses falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified […]
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She's baaaaack!
Former crackpot Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann claims the World Health Organization has a satanic plan to create global governance.
It appears Bachmann is a big Rothschild conspiracy theorist that comes from the dregs of QAnon.
In my remarks, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit about that.
If there's time to talk about the World Health Organization that is the health care arm of the United Nations, they're meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the end of May.
And they have a plan.
They have a satanic plan.
And that plan is to create a platform for global governance.
So we'll probably be talking about that.
But here's the greatest thing.
In the last few weeks, as maybe you felt the same thing, as despair has come upon your mind and been on your shoulders and weighted us down to the point where we thought we could never see it get as bad as what we've seen in these last few weeks, I have to tell you, the Holy Spirit has been speaking.
And the still, small voice in my spiritual mind has been fluttering.
It's like a fluttering, a fluttering that goes along with springtime, that says that there is a new thing that God is doing in our midst.
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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) for conducting "investigations that go nowhere."
During the Sunday Morning Futures program on Fox News, Bartiromo said Americans were upset at the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.
"Well, look, I mean, at this point, American citizens are asking, what can you do about it?" Bartiromo challenged the chairperson. "I mean, look, with all due respect, people are sick and tired of congressional investigations that go nowhere."
"People are sick and tired of letters being written and sent to the people who we know are bad in the first place," she said. "They want you to do something about it. You're an elected official. What can you do to right these wrongs?"
Jordan defended his record by saying he was fighting for Trump.
"Well, we've passed legislation out of the committee that would help remedy this situation, particularly the one in New York, that the president or vice president can move a case to federal court from when you do these state prosecutors who are going after someone for a political reason," Jordan said. "So we're a legislative branch. We can't put anyone in jail."
"And I don't think the Biden administration, their DOJ, is going to go after the people who need to go after," he added. "You're just not going to get that from Merrick Garland."
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President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok – for real this time. After so many false starts and stops, some creator economy founders and their clients are rolling their eyes. They’ve been through this before. “I think two years ago, this would have been devastating,” Karat Financial co-founder and co-CEO […]
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We've already established here that Trump lawyer Alina Habba is trash And Habba has established that she's ridiculously stupid, too. Habba was asked in a relatively recent interview whether she would rather be pretty or smart. She said, "Oh easy, pretty … I can fake being smart." That's not true at all. She hasn't been faking it very well.
And I'd rather be smart because being a smart lawyer means rejecting any possible ties to Donald Trump. The twice-impeached guy who was found liable for sexual abuse is a career-ender. Just ask John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, among others, about that. So, she's trash and stupid.
Alina Habba thinks Manhattan is a state. Repeat: One of Trump's 'best people' thinks Manhattan, one of five boroughs in New York, is a state. New York *State is a state, you weirdo. It's also the former President's home state.
"He should win, and if he's given a fair jury, if he's given a fair court, if he's not in Manhattan, which is a completely blue state where they only polled blue state members of the jury on purpose, well, that's a different game," Ms. Smarty Pants said on Fox News.
She appears to have faked her way through court appearances and on Fox News, where she gets softball questions tossed her way. From the E Jean Carroll case, where she even failed to stand up when making objections, to the present time, where she helps Trump feign being victimized. But she's good at that, too.
Republicans sure have changed, huh? As if Talking Point USA's Charlie Kirk wasn't bad enough, he somehow decided to bring Curtis Yarvin, an anti-democratic blogger, on as his guest. What could go wrong? Well, I'm glad you asked that. OK, you didn't really ask that. I did. Yarvin wants to give Trump unchecked power in November.
Trump's lawyer is currently arguing in the Supreme Court for presidential immunity, which is not even in the Constitution. Things are so weird right now that conservatives in the SCOTUS will likely be OK with writing new rules for Lumpy. So sure, let's give His Highness unchecked power, too.
"So, in order to remedy this sort of great imbalance or this usurpation of the legislative and judicial branches over the executive branch, which has become the democratic branch with a small d and thus has been rendered utterly toothless in the sense that the president himself has power over the government, the only remedy for this wrong is to put the president entirely in charge of the government," Yarvin said.
Note: What in the actual hell does he mean by a small d for democratic? This Lurch-looking weirdo is trying to make it a thing. It's not going to be a thing.
"And that essentially means that the executive branch, far from being checked and balanced in a way that does not work and has left the executive branch not checked and balanced, it's simply hogtied and held a hostage is to render the executive branch completely unilateral," he added.
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TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. A bill including a deadline for TikTok parent company Bytedance to divest within nine months or face a ban on app stores to distribute the app in the U.S., was signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday as part of broader legislation including military aid […]
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Day 2 of the Donald Trump Election Interference Criminal Trial was a rocky one - for Donald Trump and his lawyers. It started off with the long awaited Gag Order Hearing where Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, got the legal equivalent of a tongue lashing that surely left bruises.
A bit of the highlights, from both sides:
Out of the gate.
Lots of back and forth about posts and statements, but the prosecutors make it clear that they have Trump's number. He wants to go to jail. They aren't asking for that.
They go through 10 violations, this one being the most egregious.
On April 18, the Kennedy family held a press conference in Philadelphia to announce their support of President Joe Biden and a slap in the face to RFK Jr.
The Guardian reported that RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry Kennedy, led the announcement. "President Biden has been a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncle stood for," Kerry Kennedy said.
The independent candidate's sister continued, "That's why nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden. That's right, the Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president."
Rolling Stone reports that RFK Jr.'s family, friends, and former work colleagues want him to drop out of the presidential race because they fear he will hand Trump the presidency. A group of environmentalists blasted RFK Jr about running for president and urged him to drop the campaign. But what if being a spoiler for Trump is the point of his presidential run?
RFK Jr as a Spoiler Candidate
Many arrows point to the idea that RFK Jr is running as a spoiler candidate to help Trump and hurt Biden.
Tesla profits fell 55% to $1.13 billion in the first quarter from the same year-ago period as a protracted EV price-cutting strategy continued to cut into the automaker’s bottom line. Tesla reported revenue of $21.3 billion in the first quarter, a 9% drop from the first quarter of 2023. Analysts polled by Yahoo Finance expected […]
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Professor Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian and an expert on Ukraine, calmly schooled controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor. Marge can't seem to stop spewing Kremlin propaganda, but Snyder took a minute to straighten her out over her "Nazis in Ukraine" lie. Props to Snyder for being so polite about it! Marge makes me all stabby.
"So when you want to talk about misinformation, Mr. Snyder, you might actually look a little closer to American media if you don't like what they're saying," Marge said to the Professor.
"First of all, I'd like to thank the representative from Georgia by making clear with her comments and with her person that any discussion of political warfare has to include Russia, Ukraine, and America," Professor Snyder said. "She's just demonstrated that point, I think, very powerfully."
"On the question of Nazis, I've written two books as a historian about Nazis and the Holocaust," he continued. "On the question of Ukrainian nationalism, I am the leading scholar of that subject in North America and have been writing about it for 20 years."
"If the Chamber is interested in the degree of far-right participation in Ukrainian politics, you can be assured that no far-right party has ever crossed 3 percent in a Ukrainian election," Snyder explained. "So, of course, there are bad people in every country, but by any comparative standard is a very small phenomenon."
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Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) sat down for an interview with News Nation. In the interview, RoJo started becoming histrionic as he talked about the trials that Trump is currently in or will soon be facing.
Absolutely. The Attorney General, the District Attorney that's prosecuting this case, they both basically ran on a platform that they were going to get Trump. That's not the way that our judicial system ought to work where we're targeting individuals and then can prosecute him, indict him, on completely spurious charges. So, this is without a doubt a travesty. It is election interference. Can you imagine if there's a Republican jurisdiction that was prosecuting President Biden at this point in time, the nominee of the Democrat Party. Let's just make up a crime of aiding and abetting the murders and rapes perpetrated by illegal migrants that Biden has let into this country through the open border. So, can you imagine if there was a Republican jurisdiction indicting the president on aiding and abetting those murders and rapes? Can you imagine what the news coverage would be about that?
Well, most district attorneys - actually most Republican politicians, including RoJo - run on a platform of being tough on crime, even when they're not, such as in RoJo's case. And yes, district attorneys and attorney generals are supposed to go after the criminals and take them to trial. That's why they are called prosecutors.
A couple of weeks ago, GOP mail order candidate and California banker went on a Wisconsin right wing squawk radio show and said that people in nursing homes only have a few months to live and that they are at the point where they shouldn't be voting. After he made those inane comments, he got rightfully pilloried for them.
So Hovde decided that it was time to do some damage control. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know how to do damage control. Instead, he came out with this three minute long rambling video of him mewling that people were talking about how badly he screwed up. He complained that it was only Democratic-controlled fake news sources reporting what he said on tape. You know, Wisconsin-based fake news sites like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, AP, NBC, CBS, New York Times, etc.
Hovde then repeated his false claims that ballots were cast in the names of people that weren't able to vote. If Hovde actually lived in Wisconsin or actually voted himself, he would have known that any person living in Wisconsin maintains the right to vote regardless of their current living situation. The only way they lose that right is by a judge's order finding them incompetent or guilty of a felony.
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Finally! Via the Washington Post:
The House approved a $95 billion package of foreign aid bills that would provide funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, among other priorities. The bills moved forward despite a far-right threat to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) if he advanced Ukraine aid.
The House voted separately Saturday on the four bills. The House considered a fifth bill of GOP priorities to secure the border, but it failed because it required a two-thirds vote, unlike the other bills, which need a simple majority.
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Thanks to a bombshell footnote in a document from Donald Trump’s New York fraud case, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has just filed a criminal complaint to the FBI and the Department of Justice about a fake $50 million loan Trump has repeatedly “disclosed.” The fraud-case footnote reported that the loan did not exist.
C&L reported in January that the fake loan looked a lot like tax evasion.
Now Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is asking the FBI and DOJ to look into it. “Donald Trump should be investigated for knowingly and willfully making false statements about debts owed to his Chicago business on his public financial disclosure reports,” CREW said in a statement.
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Senator Ron Johnson (MAGA/Q - Moscow) is in mid-election season form with his flip-flopping. For example, if you ask RoJo how he feels about absentee ballots, and if he were being unusually honest, his answer would be yes.
During an interview, he warned that absentee ballots were part of a nefarious Democratic scheme to get illegal immigrants to be able to vote in American elections:
But let's face it, New York - they allow illegal immigrants to vote in their local elections. The whole push towards mail-in balloting without controls, that's made to facilitate illegal immigrants to be able to vote. Again, that's their long-term game plan. It probably won't take effect as rapidly as they'd like.
While RoJo is correct that some immigrants are able to vote, it's not the free for all that he alludes to. The immigrants have to meet strict requirements, including a stable residence, paying taxes, etc. And under no circumstance are immigrants allowed to vote in federal elections, per federal law. So whatever swamp fever-induced paranoid thinking that RoJo is experiencing is just that, paranoid thinking.
However, just a couple of weeks before RoJo was all up in arms against absentee ballots, he was all too happy to tell his base to use them, stated that he used them himself and even gave a tutorial on how to use them:
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George Santos, the serial liar who was expelled from Congress for multiple financial malfeasances, told Stew Peters (of course) that Congress actually needs more people like him.
RightWingWatch describes Peter's as a vehement antisemite, violent conspiracy theorist, vicious bigot, and virulent racist. He's also a virulent ant-vaxxer, who produced a movie in 2023, that claims swathes of people are suddenly and suspiciously dropping dead in large numbers, and that Covid vaccines are to blame.
Santos: We need more outsiders like myself, like Matt Gaetz, and people who are willing to fight for the American people. That's why every single time you see an outsider like Lauren Boebert or AOC, I don't like AOC's policies.
I don't agree with her. But I can tell you one thing, she's not corrupt. And I respect that about her. She's not a corrupt member of Congress. She's idealistically stupid, but she's not corrupt.
Don't you just love Santos describing other members of Congress as too corrupt to be in the House of Representatives?
So the reality is I'd rather have 10 AOC's than one Nancy Pelosi, than one Steny Hoyer, than one Kevin McCarthy, than one Den Crenshaw.
Because these are people who are morally corrupt for the elitist establishment and for all the special interest groups.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin took a whack at Republicans and Trump for doing Putin's bidding with blocking aid to Ukraine. As I already discussed here, Rep. Mike Turner was trying to put a happy face on that aid making its way through the House this week.
Raskin wasn't so optimistic during an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, and did a nice job of laying out just who's running the show these days in the Republican party:
PSAKI: I know, we've also seen this movie before, but right now, House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting to hang onto his gavel as the far right flank of the Republican Party threatens to take it away. And it says a lot about the Republican Party that the one person Speaker Johnson believed could get him out of this pickle he's in is Donald Trump.
It says even more about the Republican Party that the one issue they figured everyone could really rally around is what they're calling election integrity, which I'm putting in quotes because it actually means peddling conspiracy theories.
That's the great unifying issue, the glue that's keeping this party together. This time, Johnson and Trump pushed a bill to keep non-citizens from voting. Now that is already illegal, just so everybody knows, and very rare.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Sunday pressed for a new law against immigrants voting in federal elections while Fox News reported on an existing law that already prohibits noncitizens from voting.
"You talked with President Trump on Friday about ensuring a transparent and safe election," Fox News host Maria Bartiromo told Johnson on Sunday Morning Futures. "Do you have any evidence that the Democrats are pushing for illegals to vote in this election?"
"They've allowed it in some municipal elections," Johnson said. "What Congress has control over is federal elections. We have to do every single thing we can to secure that our elections are free and fair."
"One thing we need to do, and this is what we're about, the House Republicans are about to enter legislation into the record, that will ensure that no illegal can vote in a federal election," he continued. "You have to prove you're a citizen instead of, as the law currently states, just checking a box to say it."
As Johnson spoke, Fox News displayed the text of an existing law, 18 USC 611, which prohibits voting by aliens in presidential elections.
"Maria, we have so many illegals in the country," he opined. "They could tilt the election if this happened."
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Fox's Lawrence Jones did his best to paint Michaelah Montgomery, who had a hug with Trump at a Chick-fil-A go viral this week, as just some average Trump supporter, and failed to inform his audience that she's actually a GOP operative who's worked with Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.
Here's more on that from MTN:
A video of a Trump supporter who hugged the presumptive Republican nominee and shouted out support during a visit to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A turned out to be a Republican operative according to social media posts reviewed by MeidasTouch.
Nothing about Trump or his campaign is authentic. Every event is careful set up ahead of time and staged. They all fit into the same pattern every single time. On every road trip to an event or rally, the campaign sets up an excursion to a fast food restaurant either before or after his speech.
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Lindsey Graham is a simple creature, or so we thought. A clownfish in need of a sea anemone to rely upon for nourishment from their..um..fecal matter. He had John McCain, but once McCain was gone, he attached himself to Trump, an ample provider of nourishment w/ his high cholesterol diet.
In any case, after Lindsey prostrated himself before Trump on the issues that mattered most to him--immigration and foreign policy--it was kind of shocking that Graham challenged Trump this week on the issue of abortion. Trump wants to pretend the GOP is moderate (won't work), Lindsay just wants to fly their freak flag and pass a national ban.
But the key is that Graham stood up to Trump and even pissed Trump off to the point where he attacked him. So what gives? Who got to Lindsey? Evangelicals? Never-Trumpers? Did he actually have a moment where he decided to act on a belief?(Nahhh.)
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Georgia Klan mom Marjorie Taylor Greene told Steve Bannon that everything she says she means and she's "not full of sh*t like Mike Johnson is."
Language, dear Marge, you may get hit by lightning because of your insolence. Does she believes she's sitting on the iron throne? WTF is that?
Bannon, the seditious former Trump consultant and lead spokesman for MAGA, asked Marge why she is always described as the one of the leaders of the Christian Nationalist and neofascist movements and vilified by the left. He couched his question only in terms of the FISA debate and not most of her actions in Congress.
They have to call me horrible names and turn me into a monster every single day and night on the news because if they really allowed my words to be heard and told the truth about me, Americans would know that I'm actually very mainstream.
(Marge believes Americans are of the opinion that global warming has been beneficial to us? "We have already warmed 1 degree Celsius and do you know what has happened since then? We have had more food grown since then, which feeds people.")
And I'm actually, I think and talk like most Americans do.
(No, you don't)
And that is the last thing that MSNBC, the Democrat Party and any of these people want real Americans to know about Marjorie Taylor Greene is that, uh-oh, we might actually agree with her.
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House speaker MAGA Mike Johnson is set to visit Donald Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, to work on critical issues. The two brainiacs plan to push a bill to ban non-citizens from voting even though that is already illegal.
The Independent reports:
Mr. Johnson is set to hold a press conference at the former president's residence on Friday, part of longstanding Republican attack lines against Democrats. There is little evidence to suggest that non-citizen voting is a widespread issue throughout the different states. In a study of the 2016 election by the Brennan Center, researchers found that just 0.0001 percent of voters across 42 jurisdictions, encompassing 23.5m votes, were suspected to be non-citizens who managed to vote - that is an estimated 30 incidents in total.
However, Donald Trump has incessantly laid down claims of election fraud and has subsequently spoken about his unsupported theory that migrants are in the United States because they are being "signed up" to vote.
"I think they really are doing it because they want to sign these people up to vote. I really do," Mr Trump said at an Iowa rally in January. "They can't speak a word of English for the most part, but they're signing them up."
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Fox News host Harris Faulkner claimed she didn't hear Donald Trump insult Jewish American voters with his usual anti-Semitic spin after he arrived in Atlanta Georgia Wednesday.
T.W. Shannon, Faulkner and Fox news contributor Marie Harf locked horns after Harf correctly called out Trump's attacks on Jewish Americans.
"Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the loyalty, he has repeatedly questioned the loyalty of Jewish Americans," Harf stated. "He said anti-Semitic and offensive things that how Jewish-American should vote."
T.W. Shannon feigned outrage and tried to interrupt her, " Oh, my God."
"Over and over again," she continued. "Over and over again. He just did it five minutes ago, he just did it five minutes ago!"
Host Harris Faulkner pretended she was the peacemaker and jumped in.
"Anti-Semitic, anti-Israel anti, we have all of it," she said. "This is what we are covering and we have to get our facts right."
"I didn't hear what you're talking about Maria," Faulkner claimed. "What I did hear [Trump] do is call Biden out not having clear policies, successful policy with Israel."
See no Trump evil, hear no Trump evil. Faulkner was Johnny-on-the-spot to rewrite and gaslight Donald Trump's ignorant words to Jewish-Americans.
Fox News hears what it wants to hear and not what is said. Or to be more specific, they say what they want to say and lie to their viewers on a minute-by-minute basis.
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Donald Trump released a video earlier today to try to "clarify" his stance on abortion, and in the process, he repeated the ghoulish debunked lie that Democrats want to execute babies after they are born.
Trump took credit for getting rid of Roe V Wade, claiming all legal scholars on both sides and America wanted it ended (another fucked up lie), and then jumped in like a ghoul eating a freshly buried corpse.
Roe v. Wade. They wanted it ended.
It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth month.
The concept of having an abortion in the later months and even execution after birth, and that's exactly what it is.
The baby is born. The baby is executed after birth is unacceptable, and almost everyone agrees with that.
Trump, like Joseph Goebbels before him will lie about anything and then keep repeating it over and over and over again.
The Biden-Harris campaign responded immediately. Biden said Trump “is simply lying” about Roe. “It was never about public policy or what was right or what Trump believed. It was always about politics.”
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo highlighted revenue losses suffered by Donald Trump's Truth Social platform.
During a Sunday interview with Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes, Bartiromo reviewed the company's financial condition.
"President Trump's media company has had a volatile two weeks," she noted. "The stock finished down about 30% this week. The company, which operates Trump's Truth Social platform, lost $4 billion in market value after gaining six billion in value during its debut on the Nasdaq two weeks ago."
"For 2023, Trump media posted a loss of $58 million on revenue and $4.1 million [profit] in a regulatory filing," she continued. "The company also disclosed that its auditor had raised concerns about its ability to continue operating before its recent merger and IPO."
The Fox News host then welcomed Nunes.
"I was looking at the filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the loss," Bartiromo said. "When would you expect this company to turn profitable?"
Nunes blamed the losses on overregulation.
"So even if you take the ridiculous cost that it took us to get to this point, we are well positioned," he said. "Because we have no debt. We're coming out of this with no debt, a platform that works really, really well, that communicates to millions of people. And then we have $200 million in the bank."
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by Paul Hammel, Nebraska Examiner
April 5, 2024
LINCOLN — Former President Donald Trump picked up a phone to pressure a Nebraska state senator to revive a winner-take-all system of awarding its Electoral College votes for president, sources told the Nebraska Examiner on Friday.
Trump, the sources said, called State Sen. Tom Brewer, who chairs the State Legislature’s Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, and urged him to take action to get a winner-take-all bill up for debate in the waning days of the 2024 session.
Four working days remain in the 60-day session.
Brewer, the sources said, responded that it doesn’t work that way. The deadline is past to vote a bill out of a committee and get it passed this year. In addition, the Speaker of the Legislature on Friday said it’s also too late to amend a bill into another bill.
Trump then reportedly told Brewer, who is term-limited this year, that his political career was over.
Brewer, 65, is a decorated military veteran who represents Nebraska’s Sandhills area.
When asked about the call Friday evening, Chris LaCivita, the co-manager of the Trump campaign, said Trump “absolutely, 110% did not speak with anyone in the State of Nebraska in the last six weeks.”
The March jobs report blew away expectations by adding over 300,000 jobs for the month which caused Trump's former advisor Stephen Moore to find a way to credit Trump with the economy over President Biden.
Maria Bartiromo's seven squares of pundits tried to figure out how to downplay President Biden's strong economic growth and job creation and Stephen Moore came up with a bizarre take. He claimed that since Biden wants to raise taxes to normal levels the Dow, S&P500, NASDAQ and Russel 2K are responding to the early polls and are hiring people they don't need. Something like that. it's hard to decipher MAGA madness all the time.
I just wonder if maybe the market is pricing in a little bit, you know, and employers too, the idea that maybe we're going to get a new president in November.
We'll see.
Does that work into your looking at markets, the idea that we could see policy changes next year?
What do you think, Bob Dahl?
Yeah, it has to.
The policy differentials between these two guys is pretty significant, and I agree with all Steve has said.
As if corporate America would use early polls to decide their hiring practices seven month before the election.
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The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs […]
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Can you imagine any elected official wanting to name an airport after Richard Nixon after his crimes were exposed? Welp, House Republicans have introduced legislation to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after twice-impeached multiply-indicted former president Donald Trump. Oh, and he was found liable for sexual abuse, so let's name an airport after him. So many important issues are going on, but they are more concerned with massaging Lumpy's ego.
Via The Washington Post:
The bill was filed Friday by Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), with six Republican co-sponsors: Reps. Andrew Ogles and Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, Michael Waltz of Florida, Paul A. Gosar of Arizona, Barry Moore of Alabama, and Troy E. Nehls of Texas.
The measure would change the airport's name, about 25 miles west of D.C., to Donald J. Trump International Airport. Any reference to the airport on maps, documents, papers or other government records to the airport "shall be considered to be a reference to the Donald J. Trump International Airport," according to the two-page bill text.
These are not serious people. Most of us want to show our bosses that we've earned our paychecks by working hard, but that's not the case with most Republicans these days. They are doing the opposite of that. They are not paid to kiss Lumpy's ass.
At the upcoming TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 event taking place in Boston on April 25, one session will stand out for early-stage companies seeking to navigate the turbulent waters of tech and staffing strategies. Titled “How to Evolve Your Tech and Staff Strategies for Future Rounds,” the session will be led by Brad Stanton, the […]
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X is warning users they may see a reduction in their follower counts as the company attempts to clear the network of some spammers and bots in a large sweep. Via an announcement published by X’s Safety account, the company on Thursday will begin a “significant, proactive initiative” to eliminate accounts that violate X’s rules […]
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Stable Genius Donald Trump has already broken the recently expanded gag order in the hush money criminal case the former President faces. The twice-impeached orange menace appears to be deliberately defying the gag order. This time, though, he not only targeted Judge Merchan's daughter on Truth Social by sharing a LOL "article" by MAGA weirdo Laura Loomer, but he went after his wife, too.
Merchan expanded the order to include family members of the court as well as prosecutors' families after Lumpy targeted the Judge's family members. Who the fuck goes after the wife and daughter of a judge? It's like he really wants to piss him off.
On Wednesday, the bonded-out Donald Trump shared articles by Loomer to attack Merchan's wife and daughter in two Truth Social posts.
Trump is trying to claim that Merchan's wife is biased, which he believes would disqualify Merchan. OK, so to put this in perspective, I'm the only Democrat in my family, so since there is a MAGA side of my family, that means that I'm a Trump supporter. I can't stop laughing. I fucking hate that delicate manlet. His thinking to disqualify the Judge is flawed, and attacking a man's wife and daughter isn't going to help Trump's case.
I'm not even going to quote Loomer's "articles" to highlight Trump's attacks on the Judge's family members because fuck her. Trump has done this before, but without targeting the Judge's wife.
For the second time in just over a month, Meta’s apps including WhatsApp, and possibly Messenger and Instagram, are facing outages and intermittent issues. While it’s rare for services as large as those operated by Meta to go down entirely, Meta’s status page details disruptions to key business services, including its Ads Manager, Messenger Platform, WhatsApp […]
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FOX Business Network host Maria Bartiromo claimed President Biden "knows" he can't win the election, so he's authorized by executive order undocumented workers, migrants, and felons to be able to vote in November.
The MAGA Queen spoke to Republican National Chairman Michael Whatley, who was brought on to the RNC by Trump because he's an expert on voter suppression.
"It certainly appears that Joe Biden can't win on his policies," Bartiromo said. She then cited the latest Wall Street Journal poll that has traitor Trump ahead.
Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year.
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Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, PHP Foundation, Python Software Foundation, and Rust Foundation revealed their intentions to pool their collective resources and join […]
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Footage obtained by TechCrunch shows the catastrophic ending that Astra’s Rocket 3.0 suffered during prelaunch testing in March 2020. The explosion, which occurred at Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, was simply reported as an “anomaly” at the time, an industry term for pretty much any issue that deviates from the expected outcome. “I can confirm we […]
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has transferred formal control of the eponymously firm’s named corporate venture fund to Ian Cathaway, OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch. The Open AI Startup Fund, launched in 2021, was initially set up with Altman as its named controller. The arrangement could have presented a major issue to the company if he had […]
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Telegram Business introduces options like a customized start page, plus the ability to set business hours, use preset replies, greeting and away messages, chatbots, tags for chats, and more.
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