And why do I stress the importance of getting hybrids on the road? You know the EVs with a small, emphasize small, gas driven generator to provide enough electrical power to keep the EV running until; they find those charge stations.
I am a politically involved Independent voter. I lean hard left on social issues while insisting on real fiscal responsibility. I'm not shy, and I love to learn. Reciting slogans is counterproductive.
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And why do I stress the importance of getting hybrids on the road? You know the EVs with a small, emphasize small, gas driven generator to provide enough electrical power to keep the EV running until; they find those charge stations.
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
Stupid question time. This is Florida, what are they going to do come hurricane season? Those tents won't last five minutes.
Bring back Musk! We need some fresh blood in those unemployment lines!🙃
Time to bring Musk back. Need some fresh blood in those unemployment lines.🙃
taken from the day of the upside down Bible photo-op.
Jesus. What the hell is wrong with them.
We know full well that we're next. The administration picks the most vulnerable with the least influence first to soften up the public, but the goal is of every authoritarian regime is the same: Everyone powerless, everyone alone, everyone subject to arrest, torture, and execution at any moment.
Your so-called illegals might just be legals. We can't tell if they are here awaiting court dates for their hearing to determine "legal" status. Trump's administration doesn't care for due process or the law. Trump has turned ICE into a "brown shirt" goon squad led by an unappointed illegal goon.
in case anyone is interested in who is legally, tho tentative, head of ICE. It ain't Homan. thehill.com/homenews/adm... thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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And that, possibly, was the line that brought Pharisees to the offices of the then-federal government in the form of Pontius Pilate, to demand Jesus' death. Anybody volunteering to follow that outcome? The protests have become more violent, & violence begets more violence. It is called escolation.
I stand corrected. I guess they did arrive on Sunday. Hard to tell from some of the ICE agents.
When did the guard arrive? I don't remember them ever getting there?
IDIOT. Dialing up the rhetoric is stupid. Actions would speak much louder. Arrest the rioters while protecting the demonstrators. It can be done. Anger-driven rhetoric does not affect Trump except to stoke his ego.
Shut the protest down. That exposes the rioters for what they are.
Once he calls in the guard, legally or not, the next step of declaring an insurrection and martial law are imminent. That is what he wants. If you had researched Project 2025, you would already know that. The rioters are pushing you toward that precipice.
L A Protesting Once again, we are witnessing a righteous protest turning into unlawful rioting. To those legally protesting, you are losing the battle to the rioters who are corrupting your protests. This is what Trump wants to see, because he can "call in the troops."
To all the Trumpsters that now claim that Trump's current actions were not what they voted for: Did you not read Project 2025 when it was first issued? Did you not heed the warnings of the people who did? You\re getting what you deserve. I only wish you hadn't taken me down with you.
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Can I suggest that we quit the game of privatization and fully restore NASA?
You aren't waiting for a constitutional crisis but instead you are living it. Sanctioned by omission, a Supreme Court that Biden's hand picked commission said we didn't need to do anything about.
The DOJ should have already stepped in but it has been so weaponized by Trump and his minions that it is politically strangled. In essence a bloodless coup.
Brought about by an illegal, non-congressionally ordained department or agency. Congress can't control or provide oversight of something that legally doesn't exist.
A decision by members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to hook the White House communications system up to Elon Musk's Starlink internet service was done over objections from Donald Trump's own communications experts.
Trump praises ‘great job’ by national guard in calming LA protests, as mayor says troops are not in the city – US politics live
Not that it means a dam thing to Trump and acolytes, but constitutionality?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a stark warning, threatening the deployment of active-duty Marines in Los Angeles amid ongoing riots against ICE.
Their tiny brains are brainwashed and endlessly fed fake news propaganda.
If it is to be content-neutral, how do you determine if a Fairness Doctrine can be enforced?
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So that then makes then unlicensable? Then, how would you enforce a Fairness Doctrine? Maybe you should define for us what the Fairness Doctrine is to you. Define it?
I didn't say regulate content. I said monitor content or how else do you determine "fairness". "And the Fairness Doctrine had nothing to do with ownership." I thought I said that a few times already. They are two issues. The FD is in today's world unenforceable. The other a case of just too big.
Which makes the Fairness Doctrine moot.
Just like Trump's taxes.
How and who would determine whether it was being applied "fairly"?
Re-regulating ownership, diverse ownership, by market is the real solution.
Short answer it can't and that is in part because you won't pay for the infrastructure needed to even attempt it. That would require taxes.
How do you reduce the size of that megaphone? And that is just St. Louis. Now multiply that by the number of other major markets where he has that kind of market influence. All broadcasting/printing the same drivel. How does the Fairness Doctrine handle that?
"No, that had nothing to do with cable channels, websites, or print media." I'm not certain of your stand there. Do some homework on Murdoch and his influence in let's say the St.Louis, Mo., marketplace. Look at his influence on all the media in that market.
In today's world, with the millions of hours/pages of content how would you even begin to monitor the situation? The Fairness Doctrine is an anachronism from a prior century. Ownership regulation is the real issue.
But never stipulated honesty/accuracy. Nor did it spell out how much time any idea was given. Nor did it address when the idea was broadcast. Many received the sign-off treatment. You do remember when TV signed off around midnight? That's when local broadcasters stuffed those diverse viewpoints.
Sorry, sometimes my sarcasm can be a bit clunky.
How do you handle ISPs that are also content providers? Busting up those conglomerates might be a damn good start. Emphasis on local ownership might not hurt either. But the Fairness Doctrine as a tool in today's world? Like I said, a quaint but obsolete idea.
What would you do with the Murdoch empire? Print media has no licensing requirements. Cable and satellite, if subscription-based, are somewhat immune. Radio, almost as quaint as FD itself, and local TV affiliates, many of which are independently owned but exclusively content-dependent on networks.
So with that conglomerated mish-mash of media housed under shrinking numbers of ownership do you ever think FD could be monitored and policed, let alone enforced. Can you imagine the server farms and number of human monitors needed to accomplish that task?
It led to the cross breeding of ownership that allows ISPs, media content creators, including news sources, of Radio, Tv, and satellite all be melded in with print media. Murdoch, Sinclair, and more, across wide swaths of our country, were all possible because of that.
The age it was relevant and lived in, did more than the Doctrine did. I also pointed out that at the end of Reagan's second term, after dismantling "FD" he went after the ownership restrictions that eliminated ownership to ;locales.
Thank you for the upgrade in knowlege. Your links have provided me with better info. Overall, it doesn't change my original comment that the Fairness Doctrine was a better threat than a tool. That was not a "truth serum". It did not stop the spread of lies and misinformation.
Well, OK, maybe kinda. Was it an anomaly, or is there a pattern? What it really makes me wonder is how many of these issues involve a damn touch-screen? I'd like a screenshot of those screens to see the proximity of those ballot lines.
Take a good look at the map. What are these red states so afraid of with Rank Choice Voting? Do you understand, or do you need to do some reading? news.ballotpedia.org/2025/03/25/t...
Ukraine destroys a bunch of Russian Strategic bombers. Russia strikes back by attacking Ukrainian civilians, killing three. When will somebody, anybody, EU included, get up the guts to call Putin a terrorist? Confiscate all his assets outside of Russia's borders Shut down all banking.
Now here is a simple truth. The DNC rigged the Democrat primaries to create Biden as the winner. www.vox.com/2023/9/12/23... news.northeastern.edu/2023/05/11/d... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... cssh.northeastern.edu/why-arent-an... fivethirtyeight.com/features/why... Where were you then?
Take your collection of facts to the courts or shut up with conspiracy BS. you have an interesting collection of facts and assorted statistic, not all of them really related.
What did Democrats do to address that? At that time? They had a bill in Senate committee in the first two years of Biden's administration and did jack shit with it and let it die for the second time. In case you forgot it that was the John Lewis bill.
But it is an interesting assemblage of curiosity. That is how conspiracy theories are built. Many of the facts presented are true but legal by local laws. When Biden won in 2020 47 states rewrote hundreds of laws to make voting harder. That's also a known statistic.
No it is not a lie. In fact, a lot of it might be true. One question: why has this assemblage of facts not been taken to more courts? Could any of it withstand the scrutiny of discovery? You take a set of facts from one state then juxtapose them from national statistics. That's not a provable fact.
Without proof, it's a stretch.
If you use Wall Street as a barometer, I'm gonna puke on your shoes
I have yet to see a simpler or more secure system than one that uses sequentially numbered paper ballots and feeds those ballots into a OCR tabulator that is air-gapped. That even works with RCV. Got a better idea?
There is a case in New York that once again involves touch-screen voting machines. I can't find how many districts or ballots are involved. Is it an insignificant anomaly or really a machine issue? My guess? Local officials did not aggressively vette the equipment. Stop using touchs-screens.
Doing some extra digging I found that the |ballots" questioned were once again touchscreens. I simply and emphatically prefer sequentially numbered paper ballots fed into OCR tabulators that are air gapped from the internet. Too many of these anomalies are centered around touchscreens.
Are you familiar with under voting or partially filled ballots? Let\s see where the court case goes. If simply bringing a case was enough Trump would actually be rich. You have to win the case before you can bank it.
If I accepted every implied proof, I'd be living on the street. Cough up the proof but stop attacking me personally because I refuse BS. OK? Bring the pudding or go home.
A megalomaniac is a person who has megalomania, which is a mental disorder characterized by an obsession with power, wealth, and grandiosity. This condition often involves feelings of personal omnipotence and a desire for excessive admiration.
As soon as somebody starts the legislation process so we know what we are voting for. I am thoroughly disgusted with "anti-" voting. I've been voting anti-Trump for multiple elections, and look where that got us.
So where's that proof?
At what point does a reporter become a historian? In truth, had Woodward reported his information in real-time, given Trump's chaotic world, how long would people have remembered what most already acknowledged?
Just about the time networks discovered they could make money with "the News". Until then, most networks treated news broadcasts as loss leaders.
You are not thinking like the 1%. Wrong perspective.
Those two are in way over their heads, and neither one scares me like the megalomaniac currently hunkered down in the White House.
Where is that proof? All I ever find is a generic "I helped DJT win". That is not an admission of guilt for any fraud, machine tampering, or other similar misconduct. That Musk spent millions, legally permitted by Citizens United, is evident. Anything else is a stretch.
Oh, I hope. We've seen this predicted so often.
Amazing. Respect the lede.
⚡️ EU considers adding Russia to money-laundering 'gray list,' Financial Times reports. Inclusion on the list would damage Russia's global financial standing and compel banks to apply stricter scrutiny to transactions involving Russian individuals or entities.
Sidebar, in the late 50s an amendment to the Fairness Doctrine was passed that required broadcasters to provide free and equal airtime to all candidates running for office. In today's Citizens United fueled environment, that just humorous.
It never was a truth serum as many of those alternative views would attest to. In today's hybrid ownership of multi media ownership the Fairness Doctrine is nothing more than a quaint, but obsolete, distraction.
The "Fairness Doctrine" is nothing more than a shiny object to attract attention and divert effort. All it ever required was that broadcasters provide a timeslot for alternative views. That normally translates to Sunday around midnight, just before signing off.
Now the total confusion of ISPs and content providers with single ownership was complete. And destroys any rebirth of any "Fairness Doctrine" rebirth.
After it was abandoned Reagan started the campaign to deregulate the ownership rules which cleared the way for today's fiasco It allowed the ownership of multiple media outlets by a single entity. Further clouded by the AOL purchase of Time Warner.
Honestly, the Fairness Doctrine has been lasrgely misconstrued as some sort of "truth serum". It was never that. It simply said every broadcaster had to allocate some unspecified time for alternate candidates and viewpoints. .
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Time to make her squeal youtu.be/zc8uLuHsNw0
The oppressed became the oppressor.
Ah, the golden age.
He cut many of those taxes with Tip O'Neil's help.
If all you have are personal attacks in response to my comments, go back to grade school or join the Republicans. Those are their tactics.
Voting yellow/blue dog Democrat is a vote for status quo. Eventually you have to move forward or the other side goes forward by going backwards. If you don't attack the issues you end up being consumed by them. SCOTUS resolution and the John Lewis bill in 2021 & 2023? What happened? Result?
Look neither Hillary or Biden were able to motivate the voter's sufficiently. OK in 2020 Biden had 81m votes. How many of them were anti-Trump voters? I'd vote for a moldy ham sandwich before I'd ever vote for Trump?
Oh, that worked well for Bush II vs. Putin. Try reality.
Where was I? staring at my Michigan ballot that had Biden, worm-brain boy, and the spiritualist. Any other questions? Where were you?