Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Diddy Got That Federal Sandwich!

Did he get it? 

Can Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Woody Allen and Clive Davis join this party?

Winners and losers of 2024.

Five months since the raid of Sean "Puffy" Combs residences in Los Angeles and Miami, the U.S. Southern District Court in New York has served the disgraced media mogul and former Bad Boy CEO a federal sandwich.

He is indicted and the charges will be revealed by Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for SDNY.

Combs, 54 was arrested on Monday night. Combs was at the Park Hyatt hotel on West 57th Street, a representative said. He was caught off-guard by the apprehension, according to a person familiar with the situation, who added he had been living at the hotel for several weeks.

“We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time,” Williams said.

The empire collapsed when it was revealed that Combs had numerous sexual assault lawsuits from women and men. The notable one was Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie who filed a lawsuit against him. They dated for almost ten years and she claimed that he was always intoxicated, abusive, pimping her to women and men, making her do cocaine and ecstasy, holding threats of death if she ever left him or called the law.

Combs dragged Cassie like a damn dog.

Combs denied the allegations but eventually settled out with her.

By this time, all the remaining acts Machine Gun Kelly, Jonelle Monae and French Montana have exited the label. They also are suing Combs for their royalties and records.

Bad Boy Entertainment is deemed inactive.

Robert Sylvester Kelly, a former collaborator with Combs saw his empire collapse when the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly came out. On top of that, the allegations, the sham marriage to Aayliah, the threats of violence against the women and male accuser. The disgraced entertainer got 30 years.

Kelly was convicted for sex trafficking, child porn, falsifying documents in the marriage to Aaliyah and extortion. 

Combs is probably facing this once the indictments are unsealed. 

He will likely have to shelve out a hefty amount, lose his firearms, lose his passport, be fitted with a GPS tracker, have no contact with witnesses, victims or those in the jury and of course, he will forfeit the Bad Boy label to creditors.

Bet you Combs will snitch on Aaron Hall, Teddy Riley, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, Clifford "T.I." Harris, DJ Akademics, Deric "D. Dot, the Mad Rapper" Angelettie, Stevie J and Raymond "Benzino" Scott.

Can't wait until Daune "Kaffe D" Davis reveal the reasons to why Tupac Shakur was killed. 

Israel has handlers and they always got dirt on people. 

Combs had his lawyers run a prepared statement.

G. Dep did Combs favors. He spent nearly 20 years in the iron college for that.

"Combs is a music icon thief, a self-made entrepreneur gangster, loving family man to run the game, and proven philanthropist extortionist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire a criminal racket, adoring grooming his children, and manipulating to the Black community into committing acts of violence and sexual exploitation."

The statement's only truth:

“He is an imperfect person but he is not a criminal.”

“These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court,” it added.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

The evidence must be really good for an indictment and I am certain that Williams has a strong case.

In March, federal investigators searched Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles.

Investigators interviewed several people in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms, a source familiar with the investigation told NBC News in March.

The warrant to search Combs’ properties came from the Southern District of New York, NBC News has reported. 

Combs, who has also gone by such names as Puffy, Puff Daddy and Love, founded Bad Boy in the early 1990s. He is regarded as a trailblazer of hip-hop, fashion and media, having created the Sean John clothing line and launched the Revolt TV channel, which he sold his stake in over the summer.

The last ride.

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer on Combs’ most recent album, alleged in a lawsuit in February that Combs made unwanted sexual contact, forced him to hire prostitutes and pressured him to participate in sex acts with them. Jones said he lived and traveled with Combs from September 2022 to November 2023, during which time he recorded hours of video and audio of Combs, his staff and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.”

His attorneys, Rodney S. Diggs and Tyrone Blackburn, who are also representing other Combs accusers, said Combs’ “long awaited arrest” was “an important step towards justice for all of Mr. Combs’ victims.”

“We leave the criminal aspect of this case in the hands of the people and justice system,” they said Monday night. “As for the civil cases, we await our time for the facts to reveal themselves and seek the justice our clients deserve. We also anticipate more victims coming forward. We knew this was coming. The evidence is very clear and it was only a matter of time.”

After the hotel video of Combs assaulting Ventura was published, Howard University cut ties with him. In June, the school rescinded an honorary degree it awarded him and disbanded a scholarship program in his name. The same month, Combs honored a request from New York Mayor Eric Adams and returned his key to the city.

This month, Combs listed his home in Los Angeles that was raided in March for $61.5 million. 

Monday, September 16, 2024

Trump Overwhelming The U.S. Secret Service!

It used to be cool to be a U.S. Secret Service agent.

Maybe we can get Congress to pass a gun reform bill and name it after Trump?

Call it "Take Repsonsible and Universal Management by Protecting all Americans Act."

The TRUMP Americans Act. A bill that will require gun owners to register for insurance, an end to purchases of semi automatic weapons by 2026, hold gun owners accountable for allowing crimes to occur with their firearms and a buyback program.

Let's get Republicans on it.

Protecting a convicted felon.... sheesh.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former president Donald J. Trump, J.D. Vance, Tim Walz, former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush; their families and the U.S. Treasury are being protected by the U.S. Secret Service, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security security is overwhelmed with the Republicans demanding he handles the U.S.-Mexican border. Now he is being tasked with the Secret Service and the need to protect presidential candidates.

The arm of the Secret Service that protects presidents, vice presidents and their families is nearly 10% smaller than it was a decade ago despite warnings from Congress and a government watchdog that it needed to add agents or risk compromising its mission.

That shortfall resulted in the denial of requests for additional personnel from agents guarding former President Donald Trump over the last two years, but no resource requests were denied for the rally where Trump was shot, a Secret Service official told NBC News. The Washington Post first reported the repeated denial of requests for extra personnel and equipment from Trump's agents.

Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesperson, acknowledged in a statement that some requests were denied. "In some instances where specific Secret Service specialized units or resources were not provided, the agency made modifications to ensure the security of the protectee," he said. "This may include utilizing state or local partners to provide specialized functions or otherwise identifying alternatives to reduce public exposure of a protectee."

The day after Trump was wounded, Guglielmi said it was "absolutely false" that Secret Service officials had denied requests for additional resources from the agents guarding him.

Trump continues to stroke tensions despite Biden and Harris personally calling him to wish him well and safety.

The Secret Service is overwhelmed with his antics. Trust me, they can't bubble him but they had warned him that he is stretching the agents with his personal agendas.

You see when Trump goes to his properties, the roads are shut down, agents have to sweep the area and many of the workers are vetted before entry.

Trump has numerous properties and they are under protection of the local, state and federal agencies. He has allowed people inside that aren't vetted. Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, Kanye West and Ted Nugent are examples of individuals that need to be vetted.

Since the assassination attempt on Trump, the agency had said that many of these open carry states make their tasks more difficult.

It wasn't at Mar-a-Lago as I earlier reported. It was at Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach, approximately 10 miles from the former president's residence. The attempted assassin waited for 12 hours and had preparation.

The attempted assassin was apprehended by the law after being spotted on Interstate 95. A witness wrote the license plate down and the readers immediately picked up on it.

He obtained a firearm despite being a felon. So those who sold him the firearm will be arrested soon. He literally scrubbed the registration or obtained it with it being scrubbed.

Many agents are removed from the protection because of the failures. Usually a failure would involve the protectee being injured. But also off duty issues, like the infamous Colombian prostitution scandal tarnished the reputstion. When Obama was to speak at The Summit of Americas, many of the agents had a few girls over. Those girls were either working as honey traps or mercenaries for the cartels. They were to gather intelligence on Obama's detail.

I think that moron Dan Bongino was a part of that crew. I am speculating. I amnot saying he did. I mean he is a moron but not a damn fool. Some guy named Joe Bongino was dismissed in Colombia.

The latest congressional budget figures show that the employee head count assigned to protect the president and other senior officials and investigate threats against them dropped by roughly 350 staffers — down from 4,027 in fiscal 2014 to 3,671 in the current fiscal year.

At the same time, the number of people that Protective Operations had to protect grew, and the potential threats it faced became more diverse. Today, the Secret Service faces chronic understaffing for its most high-profile roles and competition from the private sector, which routinely poaches agents for much higher-paying and less punishing jobs.

As the agency is being roundly criticized for failing to adequately protect Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, local and federal law enforcement officials say it’s widely known within policing circles that the organization whose agents would “take a bullet for the president” is overwhelmed.

The Secret Service did not respond to a list of questions about the state of the agency in recent years. Earlier this week, a spokesperson said the Secret Service could not discuss resources for security reasons but praised the agency’s performance.

“Out of concern for operational security, the U.S. Secret Service does not discuss the means and methods used for our protective operations,” the spokesperson said. “Ensuring the safety and security of national leaders and presidential ​candidates is the core mission of the U.S. Secret Service, the finest protective service ​team in the world.”

The acting director of the U.S. Secret Service said the agency needs to undergo a complete overhaul of how it protects presidents — a remarkable admission following a second apparent attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump within two months. 

“Coming out of Butler, I have ordered a paradigm shift,” Ronald Rowe said at a news conference Monday, referring to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. “The Secret Service's protective methodologies work and they are sound, and we saw that yesterday.”

But, he added, “we need to get out of a reactive model, and get to a readiness model.”

Rowe did not go into detail about his vision for the nearly 160-year-old agency. His comments come at a pivotal moment for the Secret Service.

The agency has been under heavy scrutiny since a gunman managed to fire several rounds at Trump at the rally in Pennsylvania, striking his ear, in what was the Secret Service's biggest security failure since President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in 1981. One person was killed at the July 13 rally, and two others were injured.

The incident on Sunday, which the FBI called an apparent attempted assassination of Trump, unfolded at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle poking out of the bushes outside the course, according to officials. The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, had been in the vicinity for nearly 12 hours, according to a criminal complaint.

Routh was taken into custody later Sunday and charged with federal gun crimes.

The Trump campaign asked the Secret Service for increased security on Monday morning, two sources familiar with the request told NBC News. It's not clear how the Secret Service has responded to that request.

When asked about it, Rowe sidestepped the question.

“I’ve had a conversation with the former president,” he said. “The president is aware that he has the highest levels of protection that the Secret Service provides.”

“We constantly evaluate based on threat,” he added. “If we need to ratchet it up additionally, we will.”

The Secret Service has dramatically increased Trump’s security since the shooting on July 13, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s response. The increased security includes more people and more technology.

One source said the Secret Service is doing all it can to protect Trump while also preparing for the United Nations General Assembly next week.

Rich Lowry: Those Haitian...... Migrants!

That's rich.

Far right agitator says NIGGER while on Megyn Kelly's far right bullshit show on SiriusXM.

Winners and losers of 2024.

Rich Lowry is a commentator on ABC News, CNN, NewsNation and Newsmax. He is a writer and editor in chief at the National Review.

Triumph is the second far right network on the satellite radio platform.

Lowry used a racist slur while discussing the Republican-launched anti-Haitian rhetoric that migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating domesticated animals.

The moment happened on “The Megyn Kelly Show” after the host defended JD Vance for admitting to CNN’s Dana Bash that he made up the story about Haitians in Ohio for attention.

“You remember alternative facts with Kellyanne? They did the same thing. She wasn’t saying you make up fictions and pretend they’re facts. You bring other facts to bear in the debate that are being ignored,” Lowry said, also finding reason in Vance’s racist tactic. “That’s what [Vance] was saying. I think it was in that interview where Dana Bash says, ‘Police have gone through 11 months of recordings of calls and they’ve only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian…”

That’s when it appeared to sound as if Lowry used the racist slight, “n—r.”

He then corrected himself with “migrants” and continued with his thoughts.

“Only two calls, and I think one lesson in this whole story: People don’t care about geese. People really hate geese. All things considered, I think people would prefer Haitian migrants to come and take the geese off the golf course,” Lowry said.

“Yep, this is exactly what happened — I began to mispronounce the word ‘migrants’ and caught myself halfway through,” he explained of himself afterwards on X (formerly Twitter).

It didn’t take long for social media to weigh in on whether they heard an “n” or an “m” atop the utterance in question.

“Wow. Rich Lowry called Haitian immigrants ‘the n-word’ at the 42-second mark here while defending Trump and Vance making up the story about Springfield, Ohio,” an X user wrote over a video clip of the incident. “Listen for yourself — it’s hard to hear it any other way. Unbelievable.”

One person even slowed the clip down for potential clarity.

“I took the clip of Rich Lowry editor-in-chief of National Review, from ‘The Megyn Kelly Show’ and slowed it to 30% on Premiere Pro while maintaining the pitch,” another X user wrote. “Lowry was talking about Haitian migrants. The captions were generated by AI. It sounds like he said the n-word.”

Despite there being no evidence of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets and local officials coming forward to debunk the reports, many Republicans have continued to push the false narrative anyway.

“In response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community,” a Springfield Police spokesperson said last week.

The rumors about Haitian migrants started up after a 27-year-old, non-Haitian, Black woman named Allexis Telia Ferrell was arrested in Canton, Ohio, after police said she may have murdered a cat in a “residential area in front of multiple people,” USA Today reported. Canton is about 170 miles northeast of Springfield. Ferrell is an Ohio resident.

Check out more reactions to Lowry’s viral video, below:

Tito Jackson Passed Away!

Tito Jackson and 3T. The group and Jackson family announced Tito's passing.

The Jackson family announce the passing of Tito Jackson. Jackson suffered a heart attack and died while driving to Oklahoma from New Mexico. He was 70.

"It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that our beloved father, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Tito Jackson is no longer with us. We are shocked, saddened and heartbroken," his sons TJ, Taj and Taryll said in the post. They added that "he will be missed tremendously. It will forever be “Tito Time” for us."

He passed away 30 days before his 71st birthday in October. He was an original member of the Jackson 5 (later known as the Jacksons), who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label and later had continued success with the group on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s. Tito began a solo career in 2003 performing as a blues musician. Throughout his career, he was nominated for three Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Jackson 5.

Born Toriano Adaryll Jackson at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana, on October 15, 1953. He was the third of ten children of the Jackson family: Rebbie, Jackie, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Brandon, Michael, Randy, and Janet who lived in a two-bedroom house in Gary. His father, Joseph, was a steel mill worker, and played R&B in a band, the Falcons, with his brother Luther. His mother, Katherine, is a Jehovah's Witness. She played the piano and the clarinet. At ten years of age, Tito was caught playing his father's guitar after he broke a string. After fixing the string, Joe demanded that he play for him. Once he was finished, Joe bought him his own guitar, and convinced Tito, Jackie, and Jermaine to form a singing group. He was impressed with the vocals of Jackie and Jermaine.

By 1964, Marlon and Michael both joined the group the Jackson 5 after Katherine discovered that they could sing. Katherine is a country-and-western fan, and she sang harmonies with her sons. Before Motown signed them, the brothers spent years rehearsing at home. After school they rehearsed for hours, played a gig, did homework, and got to bed.

The Jackson 5 are known for hits including "ABC" and "I Want You Back," sung by a young Michael Jackson, that were released after they signed with the Motown label in 1969.

The Jacksons (5).

The Jackson family was raised in Gary, Indiana, with the group managed by their domineering father, Joe Jackson.

The Jackson 5 achieved huge chart success but their career was overshadowed by the solo career of Michael Jackson, who went on to become one of the most successful and recognizable musical stars of the century, before he died aged 50 in 2009.

Tito Jackson, who was prevented from playing guitar on Jackson 5 records in favor of session musicians, later launched his own career as a solo blues musician in 2003.

In June 1972, Jackson married Delores "Dee Dee" Martes at the age of 18, and the couple divorced in 1988. In 1994, Martes was found deceased floating in a swimming pool. The death was originally ruled accidental. Later, Los Angeles businessman Donald Bohana was charged with and, in 1998, found guilty of second-degree murder.

The couple have three sons — Taj (born 1973), Taryll (born 1975),, and TJ (born 1978)—who comprise the R&B / pop group 3T. Jackson has nine grandchildren.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Did Bullets Fly At Mar-a-Lago?

Was there a shooting at Mar-a-Lago?

U.S. Secret Service confirms that a firearm was recovered after a shooting near the former president's estate. Another assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump.

Can't offer sympathy or any empathy. He and moronic allies will continue to put more lives at risk, lie continuously, blame President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz for this.

The president, vice president, Walz, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) and the U.S. House members of Florida were notified.

The Trump campaign said Trump is safe Sunday after possible gunshots rang out in his vicinity on his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Ryan Wesley Routh is the attempted shooter. The suspect was arrested. He is a resident of Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a white man, not a Muslim, immigrant, not a Black man or a Democrat.

A source familiar with the matter told NBC News that Trump was immediately rushed to a safety and is safe, the source added.

In a statement, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, “President Trump is safe following gunshots in his vicinity. No further details at this time.”

Trump and his moronic allies posted this.

“The Secret Service, in conjunction with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, is investigating a protective incident involving former President Donald Trump that occurred shortly before 2 p.m. The former president is safe,” the Secret Service said in a statement.

A senior law enforcement official briefed on the incident told NBC News that Trump was on the golf course when what sounded like gunfire was heard in the near distance.

As a precaution, the Secret Service moved him to safety, but there was no evidence that Trump was targeted. Local police are looking into the cause of the sound of what may have been gunfire.

In a post on X, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he had spoken with Trump following the incident. He did not share any information about Trump’s condition but added, “He is one of the strongest people I’ve ever known. He’s in good spirits and he is more resolved than ever to save our country.”

The White House said in a statement, “The President and Vice President have been briefed about the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course, where former President Trump was golfing. They are relieved to know that he is safe. They will be kept regularly updated by their team.”

Laura Loomer rushing to Mar A Lago to check on her man.

Trump is planning to visit Springfield, Ohio, "soon," a source familiar with the planning told NBC News.

The town has become the epicenter of a national political fight on immigration, with Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, spreading baseless conspiracy theories that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating dogs and other pets.

The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.

“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.

Later, in an interview with CNN, Vance echoed his remarks from earlier in the morning and blasted the "American media" for not paying attention to what he alleged was happening in Springfield.

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people then that’s what I’m going to do,” Vance said.

Questioned about what he meant by "creat[ing] stories," Vance said “I say that we’re creating a story, meaning we’re creating the American media focusing on it.”

Asked whether she accepts that Trump and Vance's claims are untrue, Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, who is also Trump's daughter-in-law, told Fox News, "It is not up to me to decide that. This information came directly from the people of Springfield. No one at our campaign — Donald Trump did not make this up himself."

To all the Black firearm owners who support the Second Amendment or former president Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential race, I just want to say...

"YOU'RE GONNA BE SHOT BY POLICE TOO!"

The National Rifle Association never reacts to lawful exercise of firearm use when a Black, Hispanic, Arab, Muslim, Indigenous, LGBTQ or underage teen of color is carrying them.

It is automatic dehumanizing from the far right, police unions and the junk food media.

When white men, women or even some Asians are carrying firearms, the NRA is often parading them around like they're heroes and protectors of freedom. Republican lawmakers are often the idiots who pose with firearms or have their children with them.

Thinking they're tough but in reality, they weaklings who can't fight or take discretion in proper use of a firearm.

In about 45 states, I believe it is lawful for you to walk down a street with a firearm.

If you're a Black man walking down the street with a firearm, the random 911 call or the visual spotting from a police officer merits an automatic drawl of a service weapon.

J.D Vance continues to spread Haitians eating pets. Springfield, Ohio got death and bomb threats.

Police officers within seconds are either shooting or premeditated an excuse to use force.

The unions back up their claims of "fearing for their lives" despite the perpetrator not even firing a round. Given that the junk food media loves to paint the aggressor as the victim, the police officer is given the benefit of doubt. The person police shot usually do not get any ounce of doubt. A mugshot of a suspect or a picture of a person posing with money or firearms automatically draws far right conclusions to justification of force.

Even fleeing from police with a firearm and not even pointing at them results in police shootings. 

If a person does survive, the state still charges the person for a crime despite the state allowing open carry and lawful possession.

So I just want to say that the Second Amendment is White, period.

Insufferable Marjorie Taylor Greene poses with a firearm.

A bullet does not care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence and Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers" with a touch of "lock em up."

Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.

I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases. 

Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is lawmakers not willing to stop gun violence.

According to the far rightWhite shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assume the gunmen are Black.

Can we handle four more years of chaos?

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican lawmakers who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. 

The alleged assassin.
The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.

So in closing, expect more.

The website Officer Down is a memorial to those police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Those victims who don't get their names or accomplishments mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the National Gun Violence Memorial also keeps record of the many individuals killed by gun violence. We are tracking police violence as well. 

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988, or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend’s social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline’s website or the Crisis Text Line’s website.

The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police. 

Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. 

We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.

If I Have To Create Stories....

J.D. Vance is the male version of Sarah Palin.

Damn, it isn't October yet and we have former president Donald J. Trump and Ohio senator J.D. Vance fucking it up. The insufferable Ohio senator and vice presidential nominee doubles down and criticizes the junk food media for being called out.

Again, why the election is so close....

Vice President Kamala Harris and her support for Israel. Progressives are tired of Democrats supporting the apartheid ethnostate. They are calling for a ceasefire, an end to military and financial aid and accountability for Israeli leaders.

Harris parroting the lie about Hamas raping women is turnoff to voters. Israel having a right to defend itself falls flat when they are invading five sovereignties, threatening UN and ICC officials and meddling in the U.S. elections.

Israel is not interested in a ceasefire nor a two state solution. President Joe Biden will likely be the last U.S. president to support Israel. If the United States ends its support for Israel, the world may eventually start respecting the country again.

Biden ending support for Israel will certainly give Republicans something to complain about but it will boast Democrats support.

Vance is a moron. He has never visited these communities he represents. Let me correct that.

Vance is smart but is acting like a moron.

He will be getting a frosty reception in Springfield and Dayton. If people have a good memory of this, he could be at risk for defeat in 2028 if is still a senator. 

Vance told Bash to shut up.

Ohio right now favors Trump.

But of Trump loses Erie, Mahoning, Trumbell and Elyria Counties, it is a wrap for him.

Trump lost Lucas, Franklin, Montgomery, Summit, Cuyahoga, Athens and Hamilton counties.

Those counties have the cities of Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, Akron, Cleveland, Athens, and Cincinnati.

These counties flipped in 2016 and stayed in his corner in 2020. 

It gave Trump one of the largest margins in a state once considered a bellwether. 

Vance appearing on CNN with Dana Bash made a shocking remark to the controversy surrounding him and Trump making the bogus claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating the cats, dogs and Canadian geese.

Weird.

He said he has “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.

Vance felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.

Ironic, the city of Springfield has received death threats, bomb threats and hostile residents who support Trump crashing city meetings. City hall, Mercy Health Springfield, Wittenberg University, Kettering Health Springfield, five Springfield City Schools and two homeless shelters had bomb threats. The Proud Boys were spotted in Springfield around Derr and Villa Roads.

That is suffering as we speak.

Bash has been called out by Vance, Biden, Trump and pro Palestinian protesters. Bash got an earful when protesters called her a propagandist for Israel.

When Bash quoted the Springfield, Ohio, mayor’s plea for Trump, Vance and other Republican politicians to stop using his town as a political prop, Vance got touchy and told her to “shut up” about Springfield.

Stand back and stand by.

“You’ve heard a lot of the media focusing on every possible distraction from the story in Springfield,” Vance said. “You’ve heard them focus on these Proud Boy marches. ... the suggestion that because some psychopath is is calling it a bomb threat, somehow we have to then ignore 40,000 Springfield having their lives worsened by Kamala Harris’s policies. 

“What is the implication when you say calling out these problems has caused a bomb threat? You accused me of causing a bomb threat. Doesn’t that mean you should shut up about the residents of Springfield? Don’t you realize you’re engaged in basic propaganda silence the concerns of American citizens?”

Former President Donald Trump is planning to visit Springfield, Ohio, "soon," a source familiar with the planning told NBC News.

“In Springfield, [Ohio], they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame,” Trump said on the debate stage.

The news of Trump’s visit comes as his ally Vivek Ramaswamy also announced on X that he will be visiting the town on Thursday.

Officials in Springfield and in Ohio have resoundingly condemned all allegations that immigrants in the city have been eating pets.

Green Card!

Republican lawmaker's wife says he does alcohol, drugs and had affairs with women (prostitutes).

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said that AIPAC has a handler everywhere. It appears that the personal business of some of these lawmakers are being exposed.

Make this clear: I don’t care what two consenting adults do in their private lives. They can do whatever they want if they have no care for the consequences. 

The problem is that Republicans want to ban, punish, shame and insult people for their private lives. They want to ban LGBTQ, force Christian morality into schools, ban teaching of Black history, ban pornography and force their values on others.

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) becomes the latest "family values" lawmaker who is caught up in an affair. He is 59 about to be 60 in November. He had a years long affair with a 32 year old woman who is a junk food media agitators. Green was going to retire after it was revealed he was in an affair but reverse course. He is in a relatively safe district. He is a military physician and far right agitator.

Green first entered state politics in 2012 by defeating Democratic incumbent Tim Barnes for a seat in the Tennessee Senate. In 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Green to serve as the United States Secretary of the Army, but when comments Green had made about the LGBT community were revealed, he withdrew his nomination. When U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn announced her candidacy for the United States Senate in 2018, Green announced his candidacy to succeed her, and was elected in November of that year. He was reelected in 2020 and 2022. In October 2023, he was a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, but withdrew from the race on October 24.

Green is an alumni of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

He was one of the Republican who opposed certifying the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and voted against impeachment for Donald J. Trump, after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

He joins fellow Republicans, Max Miller (Ohio), Mike Turner (Ohio), Lauren Boebert (Colorado), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia), Jeff Duncan (South Carolina), Scott DesJarlais (Tennessee) and Matt Gaetz (Florida) in adultery. Former lawmaker Madison Cawthorn had claimed that Republicans are having orgies and drugs fueled parties with lobbyists. 

Israel is known for placing ops in Congress to get dirt on lawmakers.

Camie is gorgeous. But Republican Mark Green likes his women younger.

Former president Donald J. Trump is notorious for affairs. He is allegedly sleeping with Huna Alina and Laura Loomer.

Camilla Green (known as Camie) stopped short of calling her ex-husband a slimeball.

“I have offered reconciliation, and he wants nothing of it and has insisted on a divorce,” Camie reportedly wrote in texts. The New York Post reported that Camie also forwarded her allegations in an email to Capitol Hill lawmakers.

“I am being quite open about this as 1) I cherish the prayer of any who are willing and 2) I want to make others aware of how readily available ‘predators’ are for our husbands,” Camie allegedly wrote.

Camie went on to attack lawmakers for how they “become intoxicated with power and adoration.” Such is what caused Green to push “God out of his life, me out of his life,” she alleged, adding that he “developed friendships with other congressmen and women having affairs and getting divorces, drinking, parties, all while hosting a weekly Bible study in the basement of our home.”

“I am still praying for him… but my hope is dwindling. He is no longer wearing his wedding band and his will is dug in,” she added. “If my story can prevent this tragedy from happening to someone else, I will tell it.”

Green describes Green, who bills himself as a conservative Christian, as having “pushed God out of his life” after spending time with colleagues “having affairs and getting divorces, drinking, parties, all while hosting a weekly Bible study in the basement of our home.”

Mark Green filed for divorce in Montgomery County at the end of August, citing irreconcilable differences. No response has been filed as of Friday. The couple would celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary next month. 

270!

Interstate 270 in Columbus, Ohio. The city has a major construction project around the U.S. 23 exit. It is rebuilding the exit to serve new growth south of the city.

As we are coming closer and closer to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, I want to remind the good readers that the electoral map still shows a slim possibility for victory for either former president Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

It doesn't matter how many votes a candidate gets, it is the electoral college that matters.

In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years during the presidential election for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president. The process is described in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. The number of electoral votes a state has equals its number of Senators (2) plus its number of Representatives in the House of Representatives, the latter being dependent on the Census's reported population. Each state appoints electors using legal procedures determined by its legislature, equal in number to its congressional delegation (representatives and 2 senators) totaling 535 electors in the 50 states. A 1961 amendment granted the federal District of Columbia three electors, bringing the total number of electors to 538. Federal office holders, including senators and representatives, cannot be electors. Of the current 538 electors, a simple majority of 270 or more electoral votes is required to elect the president and vice president. If no candidate achieves a majority there, a contingent election is held by the House of Representatives to elect the president and by the Senate to elect the vice president.

The states and the District of Columbia hold a statewide or district-wide popular vote on Election Day in November to choose electors based upon how they have pledged to vote for president and vice president, with some state laws prohibiting faithless electors. All states except Maine and Nebraska use a party block voting, or general ticket method, to choose their electors, meaning all their electors go to one winning ticket. Maine and Nebraska choose one elector per congressional district and two electors for the ticket with the highest statewide vote. The electors meet and vote in December, and the inaugurations of the president and vice president take place in January.

Interstate 270 in Illinois.

The merit of the electoral college system has been a matter of ongoing debate in the United States since its inception at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, becoming more controversial by the latter years of the 19th century, up to the present day. More resolutions have been submitted to amend the Electoral College mechanism than any other part of the constitution, with 1969–70 as the closest attempt to reform the Electoral College.

Supporters argue that it requires presidential candidates to have broad appeal across the country to win, while critics argue that it is not representative of the popular will of the nation. Winner-take-all systems, especially with representation not proportional to population, do not align with the principle of "one person, one vote". Critics object to the inequity that, due to the distribution of electors, individual citizens in states with smaller populations have more voting power than those in larger states. Because the number of electors each state appoints is equal to the size of its congressional delegation, each state is entitled to at least three electors regardless of its population, and the apportionment of the statutorily fixed number of the rest is only roughly proportional. This allocation has contributed to runners-up of the nationwide popular vote being elected president in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. In addition, faithless electors may not vote in accord with their pledge. A further objection is that swing states receive the most attention from candidates. By the end of the 20th century, electoral colleges had been abandoned by all other democracies around the world in favor of direct elections for an executive president.

The road to 270. It relies on a presidential candidate to earn enough electoral votes for the Electoral College. American voters get the opportunity to decide on who will be the 47th President of the United States.

I want to talk about Interstate 270.

There are multiple versions of the freeway in Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Colorado.

Interstate 270 in Maryland is perhaps the most busiest freeway because it is connecting Washington, DC suburbs to Fredrick, Maryland.

Interstate 270 in Ohio is a major beltway that covers the city and suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. It is being redeveloped to serve the growing Midwestern city.

Interstate 270 in Illinois and Missouri is a semi-beltway. It is a bypass around St. Louis, Missouri. It follows through rural Illinois into St. Louis city and St. Louis County and its surbubs. It serves St. Louis Lambert International Aiport. It connects to the most Interstates. Interstates 44, 55, 70, 64, 170 and 255 connect to Interstate 270.

Interstate 270 in Colorado is a short spur that connects Interstate 70 to Interstate 76. It serves as a connector to Boulder through U.S. Highway 36.

Interstate 270 is an auxiliary freeway of Interstate 70. It can appear once in multiple states. 

If the United States finally allow presidential voting in American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands it would increase the electoral college votes.

I am a supporter of all Americans having the right to vote. I support a national holiday for Election Day. I support the U.S. territories having equal representation and an opportunity to vote in the presidential elections.

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