Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Ilhan Omar Beats The Noise!

Congratulations Queen.

A good night for Minnesota.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, you two got my support (for now).

AIPAC backed Don Samuels lost his second attempt to oust progressive lawmaker Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar will join Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) in the 119th Congress if they win their general.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) lost their primaries to challengers who were staunchly supportive of Israel. Goode also took even more of a hit because of his support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Former president Donald J. Trump, Kevin McCarthy and AIPAC backed John McGuire. Bowman and Bush were defeated by two AIPAC backed candidates George Latimer and Wesley Bell.

Both faced well-funded challengers and millions of dollars in spending by the United Democracy Project, a super political action committee affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which appeared to sit out the Minnesota race.

Omar, a vocal critic of Israel is the first African American woman and one of three Muslim Americans to serve in Congress. Tlaib and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) are Muslim.

Omar is often vilified with the rhetoric of colonialism. She and Tlaib being outspoken have often led to members of their own party as well as Republicans to criticize them.

They claim they support terrorists and are anti-American.

It's because they aren't following the status quo of bowing to a foreign apartheid ethnostate like Israel.

Samuels had criticized Omar’s condemnation of the Israeli government’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. While Omar has also criticized Hamas for attacking Israel and taking hostages, Samuels said she’s one-sided and divisive. He also stressed public safety issues in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020.

Samuels said he was “very disappointed” with his loss.

“What I was hoping is that a strong ground game and an attention to the details of folks who felt left out would trump an overwhelming superiority in dollars,” he said in an interview. “Clearly money matters a little more in politics than I had hoped.”

Omar will face Republican Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American journalist and self-described secular Muslim who calls Omar pro-Hamas.

Meanwhile, conservative populist and former NBA player Royce White defeated Navy veteran Joe Fraser in Minnesota’s primary election for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November.

Take a seat Don.

And former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, supported by former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and the National Republican Congressional Committee, won a contested GOP primary for Minnesota’s 2nd District seat held by Democratic Rep. Angie Craig.

His opponent, defense attorney Tayler Rahm, won the endorsement at the district convention with support from grassroots conservatives.

While Rahm announced in July that he was suspending his campaign and would instead serve as a senior adviser for Trump’s Minnesota campaign, he remained on the ballot.

Teirab will face Craig in what’s expected to be Minnesota’s most competitive House race in November.

Craig issued a statement following Teirab’s win calling him “a guy who recently moved to the district because he saw a political opportunity.”

“He’s a guy who has spent months doing anything to win the support of Washington Republicans,” Craig said. “And he’s a guy who has made it his life’s mission to take away reproductive freedoms from families and give those decisions to politicians.”

In the U.S. Senate race, White — an ally of imprisoned former Trump aide Steve Bannon and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — shocked many political observers when he defeated Fraser at the party convention for the GOP endorsement.

Ilhan had the city of Minneapolis backing her.

White’s social media comments have been denounced as misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic and profane. His legal and financial problems include unpaid child support and questionable campaign spending, including $1,200 spent at a Florida strip club after he lost his primary challenge to Omar in 2022. He argues that, as a Black man, he can broaden the party’s base by appealing to voters of color in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and others disillusioned with establishment politics.

Following his win, White said in a post on the social platform X: “Bring it on commies… The People Are Coming.”

Fraser has said White’s confrontational style and message won’t attract the moderates and independents needed for a competitive challenge against Klobuchar, who’s seeking a fourth term. He said he offers a more mainstream approach, stressing fiscal conservativism, a strong defense, world leadership and small government. Fraser has also highlighted his 26 years in the Navy, where he was an intelligence officer and served a combat tour in Iraq.

Neither had anywhere near the resources that Klobuchar has. White last reported raising $133,000, while Fraser took in $68,000. Klobuchar, meanwhile, has collected about $19 million this cycle and has more than $6 million available to spend on the general election campaign. She faced only nominal primary opposition.

Another clash between establishment and grassroots Republicans played out in western Minnesota’s 7th District. Trump-backed GOP Rep. Michelle Fischbach, considered one of the most conservative members of Congress, defeated small businessman Steve Boyd. Boyd ran to her right on a religious platform and blocked her from getting endorsement at the district convention. Boyd reported spending $170,000, while Fischbach spent over $1 million.

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See Kamala Harris Ain't Calling For Trump's Emails!

Trump just keeps failing.
Flashback to July 2016 when Donald J. Trump say to the world, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

When Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee, Trump and Republicans obsessed over her emails, Benghazi, Seth Rich, Pizzagate, Jeffrey Epstein, former president Bill Clinton's affairs, her coughing, her laughing and her voice and her health.

Clinton lost to Trump and it was an earthquake. 

How the hell did she lose?

Russia.

Wikileaks obtained information from a Russian account called Gucifer 2.O. The leaks were coming from Clinton, John Podesta, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile's emails. It gave the impression that the Democratic National Committee intentionally denied Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his campaign for Clinton.

They amped up leftists to abandon her for Sanders and later Jill Stein in crucial swing states Pennsylvania and Michigan. Clinton avoided Wisconsin and Ohio. 

Sean "Softball" Hannity, Dick Morris, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin constantly talk about her. They sat with Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Natalya Veselnitskaya and Roger Stone planning and plotting on how they can drive Clinton's favorability down.

Kevin McCarthy even admitted that. 

Clinton to this day believe that Trump is still willing to ask for foreign help to win.

The junk food media did not release stolen information. 

The Republican presumptive nominee boldly and confidently asked for a foreign country to interfere in the U.S. elections. 

Mind you, it's not only Russia, but Israel and Iran meddling.

Trump, as a former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee now wants the junk food media to not reveal the emails that were allegedly hacked by Iran.

Iran is warning President Joe Biden and Western leaders to not interfere in the pending retaliation. Israel had once again violated international law and invaded Iran. It committed a war crime by doing an airstrike on the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Now Iran and Hamas are vowing to return the favor by going after Benjamin Netanyahu, Issac Herzog and Yoav Gallant. They are plotting cyber attacks and possible assassination attempts on the Israeli regime's leaders. They are also going to target Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Roger Stone. The Iranian leaders also want to expose the Anti-Defamation League.

Kamala Harris ain't calling for Iran to release Trump's emails.

The FBI is investigating allegations that sensitive documents from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign were stolen in a cyber intrusion, as well as attempts to gain access to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, days after the Trump campaign declared it had been hacked by Iran.

The FBI released a brief statement on the Trump matter reading, “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.”

The Trump campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim came shortly after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S. election in 2024. The report cited an instance of an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor.”

Two people familiar with the matter said the Biden-Harris campaign was also targeted in the suspected Iranian cyber intrusion that is under FBI investigation. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the details of the investigation.

Politico reported Saturday that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source — an AOL email account identified only as “Robert” — passed along what appeared to be a research dossier the campaign had apparently done on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The document was dated Feb. 23, almost five months before Trump selected Vance as his running mate.

“These documents were obtained illegally” and “intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.

Roger Stone is a doofus.

At least three staffers in the Biden-Harris campaign were targeted with phishing emails, but investigators have uncovered no evidence the attempt was successful, one of the people said. The attempts came before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

The FBI began investigating that cyber incident in June and intelligence officials believe Iran was behind the attempts, that person said. Officials have also been in touch with tech companies in recent months about the possibility that people linked to the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns were being targeted through email.

Harris’ campaign said in a statement, “Our campaign vigilantly monitors and protects against cyber threats, and we are not aware of any security breaches of our systems.” It declined to address whether it had identified any state-based intrusion attempts.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations, when asked about the claim of the Trump campaign, denied being involved.

However, Iran long has been suspected of running hacking campaigns targeting its enemies in the Middle East and beyond. Tehran also long has threatened to retaliate against Trump over the 2020 drone strike he ordered that killed prominent Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

In its report, Microsoft stated that “foreign malign influence concerning the 2024 US election started off slowly but has steadily picked up pace over the last six months due initially to Russian operations, but more recently from Iranian activity.”

The analysis continued: “Iranian cyber-enabled influence operations have been a consistent feature of at least the last three U.S. election cycles. Iran’s operations have been notable and distinguishable from Russian campaigns for appearing later in the election season and employing cyberattacks more geared toward election conduct than swaying voters.”

“Recent activity suggests the Iranian regime — along with the Kremlin — may be equally engaged in election 2024,” Microsoft concluded.

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Election Denier Will Get Some Time In The Iron College!

I'm not going to jail, I am a white woman.

Winners and losers of 2024.

The former Grand Junction, Colorado election worker who allowed an election denialer into a secured room to steal information from Dominion Systems was found guilty.

She could face up to 20 years in the iron college for her actions.

Defiant to the end, Tina Peters strongly believe that the Dominion Systems voting machines changed votes from Donald J. Trump to Joe Biden. She was a part of the Mike Lindell Cyber Syposium and was a folk hero among the far right.

Her grift cost her not only her job but it will be a costly set of fines at most five years of the 20 in the iron college.

Peters, the Republican former county clerk and right-wing folk hero, was found guilty Monday on four of seven felony counts against her, and guilty of all three misdemeanor counts. The charges related to one of the most significant election security breaches in recent years.

Peters, who declined to testify at trial, is the former clerk and recorder of Mesa County, Colorado, which is home to Grand Junction and around 150,000 people. She became a cause célèbre for the nationwide election denial movement after she was indicted in relation to the security breach ― maintaining that the breach occurred while she was trying to investigate Dominion voting machines, and that her actions were legal.

The jury reached the verdict after about four hours of deliberation Monday. Peters was not taken into custody at the courthouse but rather instructed to report to a probation officer by noon Tuesday.

She’ll face a sentencing hearing on Oct. 3. Based on the verdict, Peters could face anywhere from 7¾ to 22½ years in prison, according to Marshall Zelinger, a reporter at KUSA-TV in Denver.

“Tina Peters willfully compromised her own election equipment trying to prove Trump’s Big Lie,” Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state, said in a statement reacting to the verdict.

“She has been found guilty of 4 felonies and 3 misdemeanors by a jury of her peers and will now face the consequences of her actions. Today’s verdict sends a clear message: we will not tolerate any effort to threaten the security of our gold standard elections. I am proud that justice for Colorado voters has been served today.”

Mike Lindell relied on Tina Peters to push his bogus conspiracy theories.

After the 2020 election, Peters secretly brought a computer analyst aligned with the election denial movement into a protected software update meeting for Dominion election machines in her county, wary of state officials erasing election information. The analyst attended the update under a disguise, using the name and access badge of a local Mesa County resident.

Digital images from the software update soon leaked online ― published by Ron Watkins, a key QAnon figure ― and state officials quickly descended upon the Mesa County elections office to investigate.

Peters was indicted in 2022, and pleaded not guilty ahead of trial to three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and one count each of criminal impersonation, identity theft, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. The first seven counts were felonies, the last three were misdemeanors.

Peters was found guilty Monday of all felony counts except one of the counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, criminal impersonation, and identity theft. She was found guilty of the three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one of the counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.

The crux of the case against Peters was that she used the identity of Gerald “Jerry” Wood, a local resident, as cover for the computer analyst, Conan Hayes, who attended the software update, which is known as a “trusted build.” Peters, working with Hayes, a former pro surfer who co-founded the clothing brand RVCA, meant to deceive both county employees and employees from the Colorado secretary of state’s office, prosecutors argued; the office had previously denied Peters’ request to include members of the public in the trusted build.

Peters’ then-deputy in the county elections office, Belinda Knisley, also faced charges, but reached a plea deal with prosecutors, agreeing to testify against Peters in order to avoid prison time. Prosecutors alleged Peters had instructed Knisley to have security cameras turned off prior to the trusted build.

Another former Peters employee who testified against her as part of a plea deal, Sandra Brown, told the jury that Peters introduced her to a “new hire” ahead of the trusted build, but that she grew suspicious after she overheard “Jerry” talking about taking “forensic images” of voting systems in other states. Peters “lied to me,” Brown said. Both Brown and Knisley recalled Peters telling them, “I’m fucked,” after images of the software update were published online.

Despite ― or perhaps because of ― the charges against her, Peters became popular statewide among Republican Party faithful, earning the support of 61% of delegates at the Colorado GOP assembly to be the Republican nominee for secretary of state. Still, she later lost the actual statewide Republican primary ― then raised $250,000 for a recount, which confirmed the loss.

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Trump Flying On The Epstein Express!

Flying in style.

So when is Sean "Softball" Hannity gonna find some way to blame Bill and Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris?

Former president Donald J. Trump and his presidential campaign confirm that the Republican nominee is using a charter jet once owned by the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump is still obsessed with rallies and President Joe Biden. Biden dropped out after Democrats pressured him after a series of blunders and his terrible debate performance.

The optics are bad.

Really bad.

The European Union had warned sexual predator Elon Musk that his X Spaces town hall must adhere to facts or face sanctions. Musk endorsed Trump after the Butler, Pennsylvania mass shooting and assassination attempt. 

The Spaces has already failed. Over 2 million complain that the platform is down. 

Allegedly Musk claimed there was a DDOS attack. It has finally got started.

As Musk prepares for his interview with Trump, the former president is dealing with damage control after a picture leaked of his running mate J.D. Vance in drag. The Republican Ohio senator has more negatives than Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and governor of Minnesota.

Trump riding on Epstein's planes only makes the conspiracy theories about his association with the billionaire turned pedophile more convincing.

In 2019, Epstein was found dead in a federal time out in Manhattan, New York. He was awaiting trial. Five workers were terminated and two were indicted for failure. Charges were dropped but their terminations remained.

The campaign said they used the plane on an emergency basis on Saturday after "Trump Force One" was sidelined en route to a campaign rally in Montana. Officials said they did not know the replacement plane they used to go to fundraisers in Wyoming and Colorado was once owned by Epstein a long time ago.

"We had absolutely no idea," said a campaign official who discussed the airplane situation on condition of anonymity.


The plane in question was not the so-called "Lolita Express" that Epstein allegedly used to ferry young girls to a private island. That aircraft has been destroyed.

Trump and Epstein once knew each other socially, but there is no evidence that the former president was aware of Epstein's illegal activities.

The imbroglio surfaced after a social media user tracked the tail number of the airplane that Trump used Saturday.

The Washington Post revealed that Iran allegedly tried to hacked into white nationalist Roger Stone, the Trump-Vance Presidential Campaign, the Biden-Harris Presidential Campaign and the Harris-Walz Presidential Campaign.

The Iranian government warned the U.S. about its attempts to shield Israel will result in a retaliatory strike. The Iranians may have leaked out Vance's strengths and weaknesses along with Trump's concerns with North Dakota governor Doug Burgum.

Stone was informed by Microsoft and the FBI that his personal email was compromised by a “Foreign State Actor,” with the intention of utilizing the account to phish officials in the Trump campaign into opening a link that would give perpetrators access to that person’s computer, one of the sources familiar said.

The Post first reported that Stone’s account was targeted. The Trump campaign declined to comment on whose account was breached.

The FBI also briefed the Biden-Harris campaign in June about Iranian hackers targeting that campaign, one of the sources said.

Remember trumpburgum.com officially went to the Republican National Committee Winred and official Trump-Vance presidential campaign.

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Susan Wojcicki Passed Away!

YouTube and Google leader Susan Wojcicki passed away from lung cancer.

One of the early pioneers of Google and YouTube has passed away from lung cancer. Her impact has grew the video platform from a mere 5,000 videos to over 4 billion.

Susan Wojcicki has passed away on Friday. She leaves behind husband Dennis Troper and her five children. Her son Marco died in 2019.

Wojcicki worked in the technology industry for over twenty years. She became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders. She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, and later led the company's online advertising business and original video service. After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023.

Susan Diane Wojcicki was born in Santa Clara, California, on July 5, 1968, the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor at Stanford University. Her maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her paternal grandfather, Franciszek Wójcicki, was a Polish politician who was elected MP during the 1947 Polish legislative election. Her paternal grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library of Congress and was responsible for building the largest collection of Polish material in the U.S. She had two sisters: Janet, a doctor of anthropology and epidemiology, and Anne, an entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.

Wojcicki grew up on the Stanford campus, where mathematical scientist George Dantzig was her neighbor. She attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, and wrote for the school newspaper. Her first business was selling "spice ropes" door-to-door at the age of eleven. A humanities major in college, she took her first computer science class as a senior. She studied history and literature at Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1990. She originally planned on getting a PhD in economics and pursuing a career in academia, but changed her plans when she discovered an interest in technology. She also received her MS in economics in 1993 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA in 1998 from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

After Wojcicki became the CEO of YouTube, the company reached 2 billion logged-in users a month and that users were watching one billion hours a day. By 2021, YouTube had paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media companies. There are localized versions of YouTube in 100 countries around the world across 80 languages. Since she became CEO, YouTube's percentage of female employees has risen from 24 to nearly 30 percent. Wojcicki also emphasized new YouTube applications and experiences designed to cater to users interested in family gaming, and music content. While CEO, the company developed 10 forms of monetization for YouTube creators, including channel memberships, merchandise, BrandConnect, and paid digital goods like Super Chat. She also launched YouTube's advertisement-free subscription service, YouTube Premium (formerly known as YouTube Red), and its over-the-top (OTT) internet television service YouTube TV. In 2020, the company launched YouTube Shorts, its short-form video experience, which surpassed 50 billion daily views in February 2023. In November 2022, YouTube publicized that the company had surpassed 80 million Music and Premium subscribers, including trailers. The company also reported over 100 billion hours of global gaming content watched on the platform in 2020.

Wojcicki tightened YouTube's policy on videos it regards as potentially violating its policies on hate speech and violent extremism. 

Let me guess Israel. 

Israel has confirmed it has impact on Facebook, X, YouTube, Tinder, Instagram, Myspace, POF and is trying to force TikTok to abandon the pro Palestinian content. The U.S. is forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok to American investors like Zionist Steven Mnuchin so they can police content. The ADL and AIPAC are notorious for pushing for content creators to be deplatformed.

The more stringent policies came after The Times showed that "ads sponsored by the British government and several private sector companies had appeared ahead of YouTube videos supporting terrorist groups" and several large advertisers withdrew their ads from YouTube in response. The enforcement policies have been criticized as censorship. YouTube has also faced criticism that the company applies its enforcement policies inconsistently, with larger content creators treated more favorably. During the controversy surrounding Logan Paul's YouTube video about a person that committed suicide, Wojcicki said that Paul did not violate YouTube's three-strike policy and did not meet the criteria for being banned from the platform.

Wojcicki has emphasized educational content as a priority for the company, and on July 20, 2018, announced the initiative YouTube Learning, which invests in grants and promotion to support education focused creator content.

On October 22, 2018, Wojcicki wrote that Article 13, as written in the European Union Copyright Directive, would make YouTube directly liable for copyrighted content, and poses a threat to content creators' ability to share their work.

On February 16, 2023, Wojcicki announced her resignation from YouTube via a company blog post. She said she wanted to focus on "family, health, and personal projects" but would be taking on an advisory role across Google and its parent company Alphabet.

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Trump Returns To X For Elon Musk's Softballs!

Sexual predator Elon Musk will do a town hall with sexual predator Donald J. Trump.

The former president was allowed back on X (formerly Twitter) after its controversial owner Elon Musk deactivated the permanent block on him and numerous agitators who violated the platform.

Musk is taking X to Texas or Florida by 2025. He will move the iconic social media company out of San Francisco after the state demanded he release his books and are investigating the allegations of unfair labor laws and sexual abuse.

Now as he is regrouping, Trump is heading back to X to instigate, misinform and gripe.

Smells of desperation. Calling his opponent a radical is nothing new. You wanna know what is radical? A political party backing a man convicted of 34 felonies. A man who instigated a seditious rebellion against the peaceful transfer of power. A man who lies about 10 seconds whenever he speaks. A man who doesn't have his former vice president backing his bid. A man who is a sexual predator.

But let's call our opponent a radical. Good job Republicans.

Trump could also be in violation of Truth Social, the platform he partly owns but also uses more. He is supposed to devote more time in promoting that platform. He is going to piss off the investors and co founders.

Musk is a sexual predator as well better be cautious. The feds are looking into those claims of abuse by former workers and women who were paid off to not speak about his conduct and his affection for underage minors.

The conversation serves not only as a way for the former president to reach potentially millions of voters directly. It’s also an opportunity for X, a platform that relies heavily on politics, to redeem itself after some struggles.

X has already been the scene of some of the 2024 cycle’s most memorable moments. As he skipped the first GOP presidential debate in August, Trump launched counterprogramming of his own, appearing in a taped interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, which aired on X. Last month, President Joe Biden broke the news of his departure from the campaign in a letter posted to the platform.

Also notably, in May 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used the platform as a way to officially announce his presidential bid, a disastrous rollout marred by technical glitches, overloaded by the more than 400,000 people who tried to dial in.

Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting “some system scaling tests” to handle what’s anticipated to be a high volume of participants.

Musk, who has described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed Trump’s candidacy two days after the former president was wounded during an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

Long before he endorsed Trump, Musk turned increasingly toward the right in his posts and actions on the platform, also using X to try to sway political discourse around the world. He’s gotten in a dustup with a Brazilian judge over censorship, railed against what he calls the “woke mind virus” and amplified false claims that Democrats are secretly flying in migrants to vote in U.S. elections.

Musk has also reinstated previously banned accounts such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump, who was kicked off the platform — then known as Twitter — two days after the Jan. 6 violence, with the company citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” By November 2022, Musk had bought the company, and Trump’s account was reinstated, although the former president refrained from tweeting until Monday, insisting that he was happier on his own Truth Social site, which he launched during the ban.

Hours ahead of his interview with Musk, Trump posted a two-and-a-half minute video to his X account, featuring video from his time in office, as well as audio of him saying one of his standard campaign lines referencing the legal cases that have mounted against him: “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way, and I will never be moving.”

But Trump’s audience on X is legions larger than on Truth Social, which became a publicly traded company earlier this year. Trump has just over 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, while his mostly dormant X account is followed by 88 million. Musk’s account, which will host the interview, has more than 193 million followers.

Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a message as to whether he would cross-post his interview with Musk via his own accounts, including on X.

The former president has most recently posted on X only once, with a photo of his mug shot after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail a year ago on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss in the state.

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Sunday, August 11, 2024

That B***h Can Beat You!

Trump called Kamala Harris a bitch.

Vice President KAMALA HARRIS has a 50% chance of winning the 2024 presidential election.

Harris will now face former Republican president Donald Trump in November. During the Democratic presidential primaries held early this year, President Joe Biden won about 95% of all delegates to the August 19–22 Democratic convention. These delegates are likely to support Harris given Biden’s endorsement.

Since the debate with Trump on June 27 that was widely thought to have been a disaster for Biden, he has faced pressure to withdraw. In an Ipsos poll for US ABC News that was released before Biden’s withdrawal on Sunday, Democratic voters wanted Biden to withdraw by 60–39.

Harris said that Trump doesn't have the balls to say these insults to her face. She finally got Trump to change his mind and do the arranged debate with ABC News on Sept. 10. 

Last week, Trump was unhinged, senile and chop full of lies. He lied about a helicopter incident with Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor. Brown called the former president delusional. He also endorsed Harris for president.

We are the underdogs in this race.

Trump isn't holding many campaign rallies. He has to contact his probation officer in New York. Trump also is trying to change his campaign strategy so he can regain footing.

While at his Mar-a-Lago course with his son Barron he talked to supporters and made a snide remark about Harris. He literally called her a "nasty bitch."

Trump’s embattled campaign has spent two weeks navigating a rising Harris and a series of missteps from the former president. Still, averages in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin showed Saturday morning that Harris had not yet become the favorite to take the White House in November.

J.D. Vance admitted he tried to repress gay thoughts. This is allegedly a picture of the vice presidential nominee in drag.

Iran allegedly hacked into the Trump 2024 Presidential Campaign website and internal data of the Republican National Committee. They leaked out the vulnerabilities of Trump and his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

Trump is still fuming about Harris being the nominee and not President Joe Biden who the former president labeled, smeared, used every allegation to his advantage.

The questions of Harris' race, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's military service and fearmongering isn't working.

Vance is flipping. White nationalist Nick Fuentes complaining about Trump picking Vance who is married to Indian American lawyer Usha Vance, supportive of Israel and the former president rehashing a playbook that isn't new. He said that the base ain't buying it.

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🇦🇸🇬🇺🇲🇵🇵🇷🇻🇮 Are 🇺🇲! Why Are They Still Treated Like Second Class Citizens?

Team USA won Olympic Gold in basketball. They played in a competing round against the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

There are 4.1 million citizens living in the U.S. territories. The islands are located in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.

The current U.S. House members are non voting delegates with one being a residential commissioner.

  • Rep. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (NPP/R-PR) (retiring)
  • Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI)
  • Rep. Gregorio Kilili Sablan (D-MP) (retiring)
  • Rep. James Moylan (R-GU)
  • Rep. Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS)

Puerto Rico is the most populated has 3.2 million residents.

Those living in our occupied territories are U.S. citizens. They just don't have the complete rights as the United States consist of 50 states, five territories, one federal district and 10 uninhabited islands under either military control or in protection of the Department of Interior.

In the five permanently inhabited territories, citizens are not allowed to vote for president. They only are allowed to pick the nominee for president. They have a U.S. Representative who is a non-voting delegate who only votes in committee but not on the general floor. Inside The District of Columbia, those who live there are allowed to vote for president and it holds three electoral votes.

With the exception of American Samoa, anyone born in a U.S. territory are citizens. They can freely enter the mainland without any restrictions. 

President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama failed at this. It appears that the Democrats will still have trouble trying to pass voting reform so it allows all Americans the opportunity to vote.

Puerto Rico is a U.S. commonwealth that has semi-autonomy. Most citizens speak Spanish.

The U.S. Virgin Islands is a territory that maintains all motorists drive on the left of the road. 

Guam is the most strategic point between the U.S. state of Hawai'i, Japan and Australia.

Northern Mariana Islands is the poorest of U.S. territories. The commonwealth is notorious for sweatshop labor.

American Samoa is the only territory where being unincorporated inserts that born residents are not citizens but U.S. nationals. They have to obtain a special U.S. passport and pass a citizenship test to be citizens. They also can't work in federal jobs until they become citizens. It which means you're only 2/5 of American. Due to their conservative traditional laws and regulations, for the time being they are comfortable with it. If they are granted citizenship, any U.S. citizen could sue the territory for land ownership and access to reside without being denied. You must obtain a passport to enter American Samoa due to the territory having no U.S. Customs and Border Agency stations.

Due to the Insular Act, those born on U.S. territories are 3/5 American. They have legal right to travel freely to the United States if they did not land on a foreign port. They are considered not American enough in the minds of the Supreme Court and Congress. 

According to a 2021 U.S. Commission of Civil Rights Report, these territories have a total population of 3.5 million, 98 percent of whom are ethnic or racial minorities. This is equivalent to the number of people residing in the country's five least-populated states - Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) one of the sponsors of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act is pushing for President Joe Biden and Democrats to grant voting rights to the five territories.

The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act allows former residents of any of the 50 states living in a U.S. territory or commonwealth to vote absentee in presidential elections. The 2021 U.S. Commission of Civil Rights Report recommended extending the right to vote to all citizens living in U.S. territories and commonwealths.

Republicans oppose granting voting rights to those living in the U.S. territories.

They also oppose granting statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 (H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The bill would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most notably its requirement for certain jurisdictions to seek federal approval before enacting certain changes to their voting laws. The bill was written in response to the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which struck down the system that was used to determine which jurisdictions were subject to that requirement.

The bill is constantly stalled because Republicans oppose any opportunity for citizens to vote because they assume voter fraud despite evidence saying it is rare.

Defeating Donald J. Trump is essential. Defeating Israel is essential.

To save democracy will be making a choice between Kamala Harris and Trump.

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

A Little Lesson In Virginia City, Nevada!

They told a Black man that the law ain't gonna do anything to stop them from a lynching. Now these three are facing charges.

A Black man who was doing a voter registration in rural Storey County, Nevada was accosted by a white man and his family. The white man told him that he would have been swing from a tree had he gotten near him.

The man and his wife owned a local bar in the unincorporated town of Virginia City.

Because of the confrontation and the woman touching the Black man, the man, his wife and daughter faced battery and possible hate crime charges.
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A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him.

The incident occurred when Ricky Johnson was collecting signatures for a ballot measure during the popular Hot August Nights classic car festival in Virginia City, a tourist town just south of Reno. Johnson began videoing after the alleged racist comments were directed at him. In the video Johnson demands that the man repeat the words on video.

It's 2024 and we still have this stuff happening.

A loud, profanity-filled argument on both sides followed before a woman told Johnson he was on her property. Johnson repeatedly asks her not to touch him as they move the conversation into the street, the video shows. At no time on the video is the “hanging tree” comment repeated, nor are any racial epithets uttered.

“I’m still shaking every time I think about it,” Johnson told The Associated Press by phone Monday as he boarded a plane in northern Nevada back to his home in Houston, Texas.

Johnson posted part of the video of the Aug. 2 incident in Virginia City, Nevada, on social media, and the comments drew swift condemnation from local and state officials. Sponsors of the 10-day Hot August Nights classic car event that was being held at the time said it revoked the registrations of those identified in the video confronting Johnson.

Storey County Undersheriff Eric Kern said Monday the office has completed interviews with Johnson and potential suspects and delivered the case to the district attorney for a decision on any charges.
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Johnson posted the video to TikTok on Aug. 2, drawing prompt condemnation from local and state officials. The Storey County Sheriff’s Office interviewed Johnson and others involved, then turned over evidence to the district attorney.

On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office issued a news release saying two women and a man had been arrested and booked into jail. The man in the video was charged with breach of peace, a gross misdemeanor that includes making threatening comments based on race. One of the women was charged with battery and the other with interfering with a peace officer, both misdemeanors.

The arrests drew quick praise from Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who is Black.

“The public outcry was heard loud and clear, and steps have been taken to hold these individuals accountable for their racist and unlawful actions,” Ford said.

Johnson, from Houston, was in Virginia City working for Advanced Micro Targeting Inc., a Texas-based company that provides voter outreach and get-out-the-vote services. He was collecting signatures for a proposed Nevada state ballot initiative aimed at capping fees that attorneys collect from clients in personal injury cases.

The verbal altercation occurred in downtown Virginia City, an old mining town that attracts tens of thousands of tourists who walk its wood-planked sidewalks filled with old saloons and stores.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Friday, August 09, 2024

Michael Brown: 10 Years Later!

Michael Brown changed the world.

The American teen who was gunned down by a Missouri cop in August 2014 became a spark in the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the tragic death of 18 year old Michael Brown.

Brown was shot six times by then Ferguson, Missouri police officer on Aug. 9, 2014. The fatal encounter all stemmed from an incident earlier in the day when Brown was accused of stealing a pack of cigarillos from a nearby liquor store.

Brown's death ignited weeks of protests, chaos and unrest in the small town located 15 miles north of St. Louis, putting Ferguson into the public consciousness. Claims of excessive force and racial bias would lead to demonstrations around the country.

Of course, I am still working on the Sean Hannity Word Vomit. Sean "Softball" Hannity also had a part in this tragedy because he and the late white supremacists Rush Limbaugh and Colin Flaherty instigated the violence.

The incident in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis was a catalyst. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Democrats were caught off guard by the disappointed voters who demanded they do something. It led Republicans to win back Congress because they had used the pain of Black America to scare whites into voting.

Then president Barack Obama and attorney general Eric Holder address the Talk.

Obama who had his second term marred with Republicans in the House blocking his gun and police reforms. He had Republicans in the Senate filibuster judicial nominees, appointed officials and numerous bills to protect Black Americans, LGBTQ Americans, immigrants who were children but not American and women.

Michael Brown's death was a horrible reality of police abuse. All over a pack of cigars.

Darren Wilson, the former police officer who shot Brown left Missouri and allegedly changed his name after being placed in federal protection. Michael's mother Lezley McSpadden and father Michael Brown, Sr. continue to push for police reform and accountability for police officers. 
Darren Wilson.

Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson. Wilson, a white male Ferguson police officer, said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked him in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's service pistol. The struggle continued until the pistol fired. Johnson said that Wilson initiated a confrontation by grabbing Brown by the neck through Wilson's patrol car window, threatening him and then shooting at him. At this point, both Wilson and Johnson state that Brown and Johnson fled, with Wilson pursuing Brown shortly thereafter. Wilson stated that Brown stopped and charged him after a short pursuit. Johnson contradicted this account, stating that Brown turned around with his hands raised after Wilson shot at his back. According to Johnson, Wilson then shot Brown multiple times until Brown fell to the ground. In the entire altercation, Wilson fired a total of twelve bullets, including twice during the struggle in the car. Brown was struck six times, all in the front of his body.

This event ignited unrest in Ferguson. Witnesses to the shooting claimed Brown had his hands up in surrender or said "don't shoot", so protesters later used the slogan "Hands up, don't shoot". A subsequent FBI investigation said that there was no evidence that Brown had done so. Peaceful protests and violent riots continued for more than a week in Ferguson; police later established a nightly curfew. The response of area police agencies in dealing with the protests was strongly criticized by both the media and politicians. Concerns were raised over insensitivity, tactics, and a militarized response.

A grand jury was called and given evidence from Robert McCulloch, the St. Louis County Prosecutor. On November 24, 2014, McCulloch announced the St. Louis County grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson. In March 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice reported the conclusion of its own investigation and cleared Wilson of civil rights violations in the shooting. It claimed that Wilson's account was "corroborated by bruising on Wilson's jaw and scratches on his neck, the presence of Brown's DNA on Wilson's collar, shirt and pants, and Wilson's DNA on Brown's palm", and claimed that witnesses who corroborated the officer's account were credible. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded that Wilson shot Brown in self-defense.

In 2020, St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell spent five months reviewing the case with an eye to charge Wilson with either manslaughter or murder. In July, Bell announced Wilson would not be charged. Bell is the Democratic nominee for Missouri's 1st Congressional District. Bell is facing controversy for allegiance with AIPAC, the foreign lobbying group associated with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

McSpadden said that Bell promised her he would file charges, but then chose not to pursue an indictment in 2020.


"Wesley Bell promised to review the evidence and would never promise to file charges in any case," Chris King, spokesperson to the prosecuting attorney, told ABC News in a statement. "And he kept that promise by reviewing the evidence and making a public announcement that he would not file charges. At the end of the day, as was concluded by the DOJ and other investigative agencies, there is not sufficient evidence to justify any charges."

As ABC News interviewed Brown's family, they admit that lawmakers are failing and it leads to more young Black Americans to be killed.

"That's kind of like my worst nightmare that came true," Deja Brown, Mike Brown's sister told Morgan. "You always hear about Black males in the world just being killed for whatever reason, like, they don't make it past 25."

"I was at work," McSpadden said, referring to the day her sister called her to tell her Brown was shot. "She just said to me, 'They shot Mike-Mike' [Brown's nickname]. Those were her only words to me. When I clicked over and say 'Hello,' my heart dropped."

McSpadden immediately received a ride from a co-worker to the scene where her son's body lay in the street for more than four hours.

"I saw an officer standing there," McSpadden said. "He's never seen me. I've never seen him. And I asked him, 'Is that my son? And he say, 'yeah.' And I can't tell you anything that happened after that for probably 72 hours because I died for a second there. I just lost it. I couldn't believe it. Why?"

Michael Brown, Sr. and Lezley McSpadden were the parents of Michael Brown.

Wilson claimed Brown attacked him and tried to take his service weapon. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to press charges against Wilson in November 2014, sparking more protests, arson and clashes with law enforcement in Ferguson.

"They got out the car, maybe six police officers, and they grabbed their dogs, and I was one of the people who was blocking the street," Deja Brown said when she remembered one particular night of protests. "I felt like I needed to be out there too. You know? Like, us being out here was making a statement."

Wilson resigned from the police force soon after.

The U.S. Justice Department also chose not to indict the former officer in March 2015 due to witness accounts and evidence that claimed Brown attacked Wilson. The DOJ stated that they found no evidence to disprove Wilson's belief that he feared for his safety.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump represented McSpadden and the family right after Brown was killed.

"Everybody to a one in that Black neighborhood said that Michael had his hands up, which is the universal symbol of surrender," Crump told Morgan. "And I don't care what you allege he did. Once he puts his hands up, you don't kill him."

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continue to push for the George Floyd Policing Act.

Accounts that Brown put his hands up are "inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence," the DOJ states in its criminal report.

Brown's family received a $1.5 million settlement in 2017 after they filed a lawsuit against the City of Ferguson.

The judge ordered the settlement agreement sealed, writing that its disclosure "could jeopardize the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigators," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News in 2014, Wilson told George Stephanopoulos during an interview on "Good Morning America" that he wished to see peace in Ferguson in the wake of the civil unrest.

"You can't perform the duties of a police officer and have racism in you," Wilson said. "I help people. That's my job."

ABC News reached out to Wilson by phone to request an interview, but he declined to comment.

"I met mothers that didn't look like me that experienced the same thing," McSpadden told Morgan. "And what we did have in common was the communities that we came from. Poverty stricken, low-income housing, people that they think are uneducated. But I will say that it's been outrageously done to those who look like you and I."

McSpadden created the Michael O.D. Brown Foundation in her son's memory after his death. She said the foundation has awarded thousands of dollars to college-bound scholars -- most of the students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

"All of his siblings loved him," McSpadden said as she described how she wanted her son to be remembered. "When it comes to the tech industry, computers, music, he was a lover of all those things. And he was self-taught. … He would have been a great contribution to this world, had his time not been cut short."

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