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Hard to find any humor among this sorry, pathetic bunch... But this one below from Fuentes (from the OP article above) really takes the cake! Are you listening, Donald? ""So, why did we do Stop the Steal? Why did did anyone go to Jan. 6? Why did any one go to jail? ... It would have been good to know that before 1,600 people got charged," Fuentes said on his podcast, referring to the criminal charges for those who invaded and ransacked the Capitol. "It would’ve been good to know that before (I) had all my money frozen, put on a no-fly list, banned from everything, lost all my bank and payment processing.” DUH!!!! Nick, maybe take a long pause next time before you believe anything, or act on anything, that Donald Trump says.

Musk & X also are facing similar problems in the EU: Like Brazil, the European Union also has an X problem September 05, 2024 Brussels — Elon Musk's woes are hardly limited to Brazil as he now risks possible EU sanctions in the coming months for allegedly breaking new content rules. ... Politicians worldwide and digital rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about Musk's actions since taking over what was then Twitter in late 2022, including sacking many employees tasked with content moderation and maintaining ties with EU regulators. ... The European Union could decide within months to take action against X, including possible fines, as part of an ongoing probe into whether the platform is breaching a landmark content moderation law, the Digital Services Act (DSA). ... The list of governments angry with Musk is growing. He also raised hackles over the summer in the UK during days of rioting sparked by online misinformation that the suspect behind a mass stabbing that killed three girls was a Muslim asylum seeker. (more) https://www.voanews.com/a/like-brazil-the-european-union-also-has-an-x-problem/7772200.html

"The indictments came after a lengthy investigation into Biden’s business dealings while his father was vice president, which Republican lawmakers and former president Donald Trump have tried to use as evidence of corruption within the Biden family. No evidence has surfaced publicly to suggest any wrongdoing by Joe Biden. [emphasis added] Tax evasion is common — American individuals and companies underpay their taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars each year — but criminal charges for tax evasion are rare. The Internal Revenue Service often does not find out about underpayment of taxes at all, and when agents do, they typically handle it by auditing the taxpayer and charging them fees, not by charging them with a crime. AND "Special counsel David Weiss charged Biden last year with three felonies and six misdemeanors, including failing to file and pay taxes, tax evasion and filing false tax returns. He is accused of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 through 2019, though he has since repaid that amount. [emphasis added] Washington Post: https://archive.ph/oDn7u#selection-1319.0-1319.391 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/05/hunter-biden-alford-guilty-plea-taxes/

This one in the report you cite above from back in January: "Republican and Democratic senators are taking to the airwaves, scrambling to pass severe restrictions on migrants flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. There's just one thing: Their plan is all but dead. Why it matters: The Senate might pass the plan, which would be one of the harshest immigration bills of the century. President Biden is ready to sign it. But House Republicans — egged on by former President Trump — already are planning to shut it down." So let's be very clear here about just who is responsible for there being no legislation to address the U.S.-Mexico border issues -- Trump, and his sycophant or fearful Republican lawmakers.

Making friends around the world.... 😞 Brazil's Supreme Court upholds nationwide ban on Elon Musk's X Musk has criticized Alexandre de Moraes, a top Brazilian judge, over his efforts to crackdown on right-wing online disinformation on X. Sept. 4, 2024 Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld a nationwide ban on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, who has been openly feuding with a judge over the proliferation of right-wing political misinformation on the website. A Supreme Court panel decision on Monday affirmed a Friday ruling from Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, to suspend X over concerns about disinformation and the company’s refusal to appoint a local legal representative as required by law. Moraes also said that users who circumvent the ban with a virtual private network, or VPN, could be fined 50,000 reais — or roughly $9,000 — a day. Moraes has aggressively cracked down on online disinformation in the past few years in what he has described as a bid to protect Brazilian democracy. His suspension of X was the culmination of months of escalating tensions between him and Musk, who has used the platform to amplify right-wing grievances over “free speech” in Brazil and accuse Moraes of trying to suppress right-wing voices on X. (more) https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-x-brazil-ban-supreme-court-rcna169356 Nothing can be allowed to interfere with Musk's use of X / Twitter to promote his right-wing disinformation allies.

From the actual CNN report: (CNN) -- Vice President Kamala Harris likes to portray herself as tough on the border and immigration. Recent TV ads highlight her time as a “border state prosecutor” who aggressively targeted criminal cartels and drug smugglers, as well as her support for “the toughest border security bill in decades.” ... In response to questions from CNN, a Harris campaign aide said in referencing the recent campaign ad that it was “inaccurate to imply a few images” are “somehow representative of the VP’s overall policy position on a complex issue when the entirety of the ad, the VP’s remarks as the nominee, and the governance of this Administration have been clear where she stands on border security - supporting the bipartisan border agreement.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/kfile-harris-border-wall-asylum-contradicts-progressive-immigration-positions/index.html Part of having a bipartisan agreement in politics is both sides end up having to accept things that might not have been their preference in order to get agreement on other things they want. The Republicans and the Democrats crafting the proposed legislation HAD an agreement... until Trump came in and cowed Republicans to abandon the agreement. Republicans kill border bill in a sign of Trump's strength and McConnell's waning influence Feb. 8, 2024 "WASHINGTON — Within 48 hours of the release of a long-awaited immigration and foreign aid bill he had championed, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Republican conference rejected his pitch to support it, knifed the deal and left it for dead. Just four Republicans voted for it. In the end, even McConnell backtracked and voted against the package that he had helped develop. ... “I followed the instructions of my conference who were insisting that we tackle this in October. It’s actually our side that wanted to tackle the border issue. We started it,” McConnell said. “Things have changed over the last four months.” His office declined to comment further. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-border-bill-sign-trumps-strength-mcconnells-waning-in-rcna137477

Nice that you finally managed to figure out just now above that there will be no trial... long after everyone else had. I would echo your post above as regards your own prior comments, specifically: Followed shortly thereafter by: Oooppsssss.....

Ya, so much for your nonsense above. There will be no trial in the wake of Hunter's guilty plea on TAX charges, nothing else. And all your political wet dream stuff above is out the window.

And, on the labor relations front: Elon Musk Wants to Gut the National Labor Relations Act Elon Musk is challenging the New Deal legislation that established the National Labor Relations Board. Experts warn that this is “a serious threat.” April 9, 2024 ... "When the second-richest man in the world is complaining that giving employees a voice in their workplace creates negativity and “a lords-and-peasants sort of thing,” we’re definitely through the looking glass. (See Bryce Covert’s new feature about the racism, sexism, and other workplace abuses that plague Tesla’s factory floors.) But Musk is hardly the first billionaire manufacturer to flip out over the prospect of having to treat workers with the respect that the law requires. Unfortunately, this billionaire isn’t satisfied to simply rant and rave; he’s now in the courts with a challenge to the New Deal legislation that established the National Labor Relations Board, conveniently filed before the NLRB hit his company SpaceX with a complaint in late March about unfair labor practices. If Musk gets his way, this scheme to gut the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 could destabilize a wide range of federal enforcement agencies that administer laws regulating everything from workplace safety to environmental conditions." (more) https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-nlra-serious-threat/

And then more recently there also was this missive from Musk, which clearly puts him near and dear to Trump's dark heart: Elon Musk Endorsement of 'High-Status Male' Governance Theory Sept. 4, 2024 Elon Musk, has once again stirred controversy by endorsing a theory that advocates for governance by "high-status males" while excluding women and "low T men" from decision-making roles. The theory, which appears to have originated on the internet forum 4chan in 2021, was reposted by Musk on X, drawing widespread criticism. The theory suggests that a truly free-thinking "Republic" could only be established if governed by "high [testosterone] alpha males" and "aneurotypical people"—a term that the post appears to use to describe individuals on the autism spectrum. According to the theory, these "high-status males" are the only individuals capable of objectively analyzing information and making decisions based on truth rather than consensus. The post further argues that individuals who cannot defend themselves physically, particularly women and men with low testosterone, rely on societal consensus to filter information as a safety mechanism. ... Such theories, which promote a hierarchical and exclusionary form of governance based on perceived masculine traits, have been widely criticized for being sexist, unrealistic, and toxic. These ideas are often associated with alt-right communities that champion hegemonic masculinity and reject egalitarian principles." (more) https://aseannow.com/topic/1337173-elon-musk-endorsement-of-high-status-male-governance-theory/

Ohh... but the list doesn't end there! Trump and Musk share a laugh about a company firing workers who were attempting to organize union representation. Trump, Musk LAUGH About Firing Workers For Organizing UAW files federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk after threatening workers on X interview August 13, 2024 (CNN) — The United Auto Workers union on Tuesday filed federal labor charges against former President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk for threatening to intimidate workers who go on strike. During Trump’s interview on X Monday night with Musk, who is also the principal owner of the social media platform, the pair discussed a potential role for Musk in Trump’s administration should he get reelected. Trump called Musk “the cutter,” and praised Musk for his anti-union stances. “I look at what you do, you walk in and you just say, ‘You want to quit?’ They go on strike – I won’t mention the name of the company – but they go on strike, and you say, ‘That’s okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. Every one of you is gone,” Trump said. Musk could be heard laughing and replying “yeah.” (more) https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/business/uaw-trump-musk-charges/index.html

And further on the same points regarding Hunter Biden's business ventures: GOP Misleading Claims in Biden Impeachment Investigation December 14, 2023 "House Republicans passed a resolution on Dec. 13 to formalize their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. In attempts to build momentum for the vote, Republicans continued to present misleadingly incomplete information in service of the claim that Biden benefited from his family members’ “influence peddling” with foreign businesses and governments. So far, Republicans haven’t been able to establish that Biden was involved in his family’s business dealings, that the president directly benefited from those deals or that he ever used his position as vice president to assist the companies." (more) https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/gop-misleading-claims-in-biden-impeachment-investigation/

How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe August 17, 2023 ... “The Committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates.” — Majority staff of the House Oversight Committee, Third Bank Records memorandum, released Aug. 9 ... "As for the $20 million in payments, Comer and other Republicans invoke this figure often. A close reading of the memos, however, finds that only about $7 million can be directly attributed to Biden family members, mostly Hunter, while the rest went to “associates,” according to the memos. Yet Comer and other lawmakers misleadingly suggest all of the money went to the Biden family or, as some label it, “the Biden crime family.” No evidence has emerged that any of these funds can be traced to Joe Biden himself." [emphasis added] https://archive.ph/6uw3V https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/ Hunter Biden was and is a private citizen, not an elected official or government employee. He had the right to engage in private business transactions, just as anyone else would. But of course, he also had the legal obligation to correctly report his income and pay the resulting taxes, for which he is now being held to account. And unlike Trump in his legal woes and prosecutions, President Biden isn't making unfounded accusations of "lawfare" or disparaging the U.S. legal system or those involved in it. The difference between the two is stark and telling, another example showing why Trump is unfit and ill-suited to serve as president.

Really??? Trump’s Company Gets Maximum Punishment for Evading Taxes The Trump Organization must pay $1.6 million for giving executive off-the-books benefits and pay. Jan. 13, 2023 Former president Donald J. Trump’s family real estate business was ordered on Friday to pay a $1.6 million criminal penalty for its conviction on felony tax fraud and other charges, a stinging rebuke and the maximum possible punishment. New York Times https://archive.ph/sEnOy AND Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s. Oct. 2, 2018 President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

From Axios' report today: "President Biden has ruled out pardoning his 54-year-old son." https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/hunter-biden-trial-republicans-impeachment President says he won’t pardon Hunter Biden He also seemed to indicate he would not commute Hunter Biden’s sentence. 06/13/2024 ... Trump was convicted last month in his criminal hush money trial in New York and will be sentenced next month. Biden’s words of respect for the legal system stand in stark contrast to Trump’s relentless criticism of it. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/president-says-he-wont-pardon-hunter-biden-00163281

The House Republican committee came up with nothing of substance proven relating to the current president. Former Biden family business associate recycles unproven allegations to House panels February 13, 2024 A former Biden family business associate levied critical but unproven allegations against President Joe Biden in a closed-door House interview Tuesday, resurrecting claims he has lobbed since 2020. Over the past several years, Tony Bobulinski has seemingly shared his story with anyone who would listen, including the Trump campaign. But his loftiest claims — that Joe Biden was deeply involved in his son’s overseas business deals — are still uncorroborated and have been undercut by other key witnesses. [emphasis added] ... Bobulinski’s claims also stand in stark contrast to a growing list of other Biden family business associates who have stated that Joe Biden, as a private citizen and as vice president, was never involved in his any of his family’s foreign business dealings. Raskin had raised serious questions about Bobulinski’s credibility ahead of Tuesday’s interview. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics/tony-bobulinski-impeachment-investigation/index.html GOP's Biden corruption crusade goes up in smoke Sept. 5, 2024 ... The July ticket switch didn't stop House Republicans from releasing a report last month — on the first day of the Democratic National Convention — accusing the president of a conspiracy to "enrich his family" through influence peddling. The report doesn't offer direct proof that Joe Biden engaged in any corrupt quid pro quo on behalf of his family, but suggests he abused his power even if his family members only sold the "illusion" of influence. [emphasis added] ... The bottom line: It's not just that the GOP's "Biden crime family" attack has lost its salience. Trump himself could be sentenced to prison on Sept. 18 for his New York hush money conviction, which he continues to fight. https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/hunter-biden-trial-republicans-impeachment

Putin's saying one thing in public, because he knows he's considered a criminal pariah in the West, and thus anyone who he publicly claims to like might suffer. Meanwhile, he and his government are spending money to accomplish their true end, which is to get Trump elected so that he'll drop the U.S. support of Ukraine and ease Russia's illegal takeover of its neighboring country. As Sky News reported: "With relations between Moscow and Washington as bad as they are, he [Putin] will know that any endorsement of a candidate might actually harm their chances come November, rather than improve them. So that might well be what Mr Putin is trying to do here, hoping instead that Donald Trump takes power. And why would he want that? Because in all likelihood, it would mean a cut to US aid to Ukraine, which in turn would significantly boost Russia's prospects on the battlefield." https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-latest-putin-war-live-updates-skynews-blog-12541713?postid=8231104#liveblog-body Trump is Putin's U.S. lapdog, and Putin wants his lapdog back! Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence July 16, 2018 Helsinki, Finland CNN — US President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community, declined on Monday to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying he doesn’t “see any reason why” Russia would be responsible. Instead, Trump – standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin – touted Putin’s vigorous denial and pivoted to complaining about the Democratic National Committee’s server and missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal account. “I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today,” Trump said during a joint news conference after he spent about two hours in a room alone with Putin, save for a pair of interpreters. (more) https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html Trump 'treasonous' after siding with Putin on election meddling Donald Trump has been condemned as “treasonous” for siding with the Kremlin over his own government agencies after a stunning joint appearance with Vladimir Putin in which he seemingly accepted the Russian leader’s denial of election meddling. At a joint press conference after one-on-one talks lasting more than two hours in the Finnish capital, the US president offered no criticism of Putin or the cyber-attacks that the US intelligence community says he coordinated to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign. ... The comments set off a new firestorm in Washington and critics suggested it was a historically weak performance by a US president against a foreign adversary. It also fuelled the intrigue of why Trump’s refusal to speak ill of Putin remains one of the few constants of his White House tenure. (more) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/trump-finds-putin-denial-of-election-meddling-powerful

Sep 3, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump’s request to intervene in his New York hush money criminal case, thwarting the former president’s latest bid to overturn his felony conviction and delay his sentencing. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required for a federal court to take control of the case from the state court where it was tried. Hellerstein’s ruling came hours after Manhattan prosecutors raised objections to Trump’s effort to delay post-trial decisions in the case while he sought to have the federal court step in. ... Prosecutors urged the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, not to delay his rulings on two key defense requests: Trump’s call to delay sentencing until after the November election, and his bid to overturn the verdict and dismiss the case in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. Merchan has said he will rule Sept. 16 on Trump’s motion to overturn the verdict. His decision on delaying sentencing has been expected in the coming days. (more) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-turns-down-trumps-request-to-get-involved-in-hush-money-conviction

Crims are gonna be crims! Joined in criminality together.

Strange that the above OP report doesn't seem to include the following nugget cited in CNN's report on the same case: "CNN has independently confirmed that “Company 1” is Tenet Media, which is a platform for independent content creators. It is self-described as a “network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues,” according to its website, which matches language contained in the newly unsealed indictment. The goal of the operation, according to prosecutors, was to fuel pro-Russian narratives, in part, by pushing content and news articles favoring Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others who the Kremlin deemed to be friendlier to its interests. [emphasis added] ... Among the commentators listed on Tenet Media’s website are right-wing personalities Benny Johnson and Tim Pool. Both have millions of subscribers on YouTube and other social media platforms. Pool interviewed Trump on his podcast in May." https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/doj-alleges-russia-funded-company-linked-social-media-stars/index.html In other words... support Vladimir Putin?... vote Trump!

Davidson was sentenced to three months in jail in May A convicted murderer whose life sentence was commuted by Donald Trump on the last day of his presidency has recently been convicted of attacking his wife. Jaime Davidson was serving a life sentence in a New York jail for his role in a 1990 robbery that led to the death of Wallie Howard Jr., an undercover police officer. Davidson, while not present, planned the robbery that targeted one of his rival drug dealers. Trump, in the final 24 hours of his presidency, commuted Davidson’s sentence. Then, earlier this year, officers in Orange County, Florida, charged Davidson with beating and strangling his wife, who he had been married to for five months, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. A jury acquitted him of all charges except misdemeanor domestic battery and a judge sentenced him in May to three months in jail. (more) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clemency-jaime-davidson-b2606960.html The above case also isn't the only one of it's kind where Trump's actions as president going soft on criminals have come back to bite him. The above article also recounts the past case of a New York drug smuggler and loan shark who Trump gave clemency at the same time as Davidson above. That person also later was arrested and now faces several assault charges after police say he punched his father-in-law in the head during a domestic dispute. Perhaps it's a case of one future criminal (Trump) having natural sympathy for other criminals. Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes May 31, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who said the two had sex. https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0

Ya.. a really "radical" agenda, as expressed in the above White House transcript: "And it saddens me to think and then talk about aspects of the moment we are in — a moment when LGBTQ+ people and families and freedoms and basic rights are under attack in our country. ... These extremists have a plan to push their agenda as far and as wide as they possibly can. Their blueprint is to attack hard-won rights and freedoms state by state, to attack the right to live as your authentic self, to attack the right to vote, to attack the rights of workers to organize, to attack the right to make decisions about one’s own body." https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/26/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-biden-victory-fund-and-the-lgbtq-leadership-council-24th-annual-lgbtq-gala/

I'd say, another topic about dangerous, despicable Trump.... another good example of why he doesn't deserve to be elected as U.S. president. Uncle Donald, the trauma-maker Sept. 3, 2024 ... "The Trump name is toxic,” echoes her brother, Fred C. Trump III, in his own new memoir “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.” Without quite as much introspection, Fred chronicles his own Uncle Trump atrocities. A disturbing number of the stories in “All in the Family” show the former president as much more than obnoxious. He causes, countenances, orders and savors the physical pain of others. “If this wasn’t evil,” Fred writes of one especially horrific incident, “I couldn’t say what might qualify …. Where did the cruelty come from? I’ve wrestled with this question for years.” Los Angeles Times https://archive.ph/hEnFA#selection-2591.0-2619.187 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-09-03/donald-trump-fred-trump-mary-trump-memoir

There's nothing in the meat of Harris' actual full answer, as posted in the full video I linked above, that was "simplistic kindergarten speak." But she was a bit slow to focus in on the asked topic, which of course is why the various Republicans choose to post and reference only that brief into to her remarks, and ignore/omit the substance of all the rest. No one with a non-partisan mindset who would read / view Harris' full answer as given in the video above would describe it as you have. Clear evidence below. Harris transcript from Fox: "There is also a point that is important to make on the Build Back Better framework. One, it is designed to make it less expensive for working people to live. It was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care and increase accessibility and availability. Designed to bring down the cost of elder care and make it available to all the working families that need that support and need that help," she said. "And, Build Back Better is not going to cost anything — we're paying for it. So when we can get Build Back Better passed, and we are optimistic that we will, the American people will see costs actually reduced around some of the most essential services that they need to take care of their basic responsibilities, including issues like child care and elder care, and also preschool," Harris said. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/flashback-kamala-harris-responds-how-shed-handle-inflation

Harris' full 4 minute long answer to the asked question was clear, detailed and cogent... But readers here of only the OP don't get to see/hear any of that, because the failed Republican congressional candidate consciously decided to post only the small opening part of Harris' actual detailed answer, which came to a question having nothing to do with the event and discussion Harris was participating in. Nor does the OP post make clear that the video clip in question was back from 2021 at an event in Paris where the substance of the meeting and discussions were about the U.S.-France relationship and global international cooperation, not U.S. domestic inflation. So perhaps that's why it took Harris a moment to reorient her thoughts to an entirely unrelated out-of-left-field question before proceeding to give a clear and specific answer. Adams' lately posting a clipped, out-of-context excerpt video from three years ago that omitted the substance of Harris' actual answer is anything but classy.