Politicial post something for no reason

[Biker]

There's been plenty of evidence. You just choose to dismiss because it hurts your argument

Just on the face of it, mail in ballots are not secure, for you dont know who filled them out, sent them, or requested them

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There's been plenty of evidence. You just choose to dismiss because it hurts your argument

The projection is so strong with the cultists. Upwards of 60 failed court cases say you're wrong.

Just on the face of it, mail in ballots are not secure, for you dont know who filled them out, sent them, or requested them

From the party of dead people are voting. The party of people are voting, going outside to change hats, then come back in and vote again.

I'm more concerned when your chosen criminal candidate demands voter fraud be committed in his name and you dgaf. When the attempted and indicted voter fraud party denies federal official poll watchers from doing their jobs. Take your performative fake outrage elsewhere.

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I still got nothin'

[CHEEZY17]

LOLZ

[Who]

Oh happy days

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[Animal]

that looks like a pretty damn big crowd for a political rally on a Monday night.

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I still got nothing and I have sex with kids.

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I still got nothin'

Rudy Giuliani shows up to vote in the Mercedes he was ordered to surrender

[Antknot]

https://x.com/Banned_Bill/status/185384 ... anned_Bill

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I still got nothin'

[CHEEZY17]

Justice Department weighs how to drop charges against President-elect Donald Trump: source
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 094494007/

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I still got nothin'

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 112532007/

Black college students nationwide targeted in racist texts; investigations underway

Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery.

The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."

Officials could not say Thursday where the messages originated.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate incidents nationwide, and local authorities in Ohio, Alabama, South Carolina and other states were investigating the messages, which were sent out after the announcement of Donald Trump's election.

It's unclear who sent the messages and how many were sent. At least some of the messages claimed to have come from "A Trump supporter."

A statement from the FBI said the agency is “aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter."

Representatives from civil rights advocacy organizations, including the SPLC and the NAACP's Columbus chapter, said the contents of the messages constituted hate crimes.

Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, called them "a public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history" in a public statement on Thursday.

Huang called on political leaders to "condemn anti-Black racism, in any form, whenever we see it."

Experts on domestic extremism were shocked by the messages Wednesday, telling USA TODAY the campaign appears to represent a tactic that has not previously been employed by white supremacists or hate groups.

“This is the first I've ever seen of this kind of racist attack using texts – it's frighteningly personal and harrowing,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “I've also never seen this kind of racist messaging threatening people directly.”

Where are students receiving racist text messages?
Authorities began investigating the text messages following reports that students from Clemson University in South Carolina; Ohio State; the University of Alabama and other schools had received them.

But not all of the recipients were in college.

Mary Banks, who has a daughter in Columbus, Ohio, said her 16-year-old daughter received one of the hateful text messages Wednesday evening which included her full name. A few of her daughter's friends in the Columbus City School district received similar messages, she said.

Banks said she's not surprised that racist hatred would surface at this moment in history.

"I feel white supremacy got stronger after the election," she said.

Ben Johnson, a spokesman for Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, that hateful messages were sent to "several students."

Bethany McCorkle, a spokesperson for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office, said the office was aware of the text messages and looking into them.

Columbus NAACP President Nana Watson told The Columbus Dispatch that she believes the text messages are a hate crime.

"This is racism at its highest," Watson said.

Diedre Simmons, a spokesperson for the University of Alabama, told the school newspaper The Crimson White, that university officials informed local authorities about similar messages sent to students there. Authorities at Clemson University are also investigating racist text messages sent to Black students in South Carolina, according to the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.

R.J. Polite, a senior at Clemson, who received a version of the text, said he was shocked by the message and mentioned the negativity he's seeing on social media after Trump's results."It was ignorant and kind of childish." Polite said. “I really tried to stay off of my phone and off the internet for the day because it was just so much going on. It was just bad.”

Who is sending the messages?
It's unclear who sent the text messages.

Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, said this is the first time she has seen a widespread racist attack using text messages. Tracking the culprit who perpetrated the campaign may be complicated, depending on how extensive it is, she said.

That is also unclear.

“It remains to be seen how widespread this is,” Caraballo said. “If this is a few hundred texts it could be done by a local racist group in an afternoon as a trolling tactic, but if it’s thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people then it would have to be automated and involve a fair degree of sophistication.”

If the attack is that widespread, Caraballo said, she wouldn’t rule out foreign actors seeking to foment discord in the United States in the days after the presidential election. She said bomb threats to majority Black polling places on election day were reported to have come from Russian email addresses.

Bad actors can quite easily purchase lists of phone numbers – some categorized by race or other demographic characteristics – on the dark web, to be used for anything from sales campaigns to cybercrime, Caraballo said.

In some states where voter registration information is public, including a voter’s race, she said, and that information could be combined with phone records to create a targeted account like this.

Place your bets. Russia again or other hostile foreign entity or just homegrown.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 112532007/

Black college students nationwide targeted in racist texts; investigations underway

Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery.

The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."

Officials could not say Thursday where the messages originated.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate incidents nationwide, and local authorities in Ohio, Alabama, South Carolina and other states were investigating the messages, which were sent out after the announcement of Donald Trump's election.

It's unclear who sent the messages and how many were sent. At least some of the messages claimed to have come from "A Trump supporter."

A statement from the FBI said the agency is “aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter."

Representatives from civil rights advocacy organizations, including the SPLC and the NAACP's Columbus chapter, said the contents of the messages constituted hate crimes.

Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, called them "a public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history" in a public statement on Thursday.

Huang called on political leaders to "condemn anti-Black racism, in any form, whenever we see it."

Experts on domestic extremism were shocked by the messages Wednesday, telling USA TODAY the campaign appears to represent a tactic that has not previously been employed by white supremacists or hate groups.

“This is the first I've ever seen of this kind of racist attack using texts – it's frighteningly personal and harrowing,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “I've also never seen this kind of racist messaging threatening people directly.”

Where are students receiving racist text messages?
Authorities began investigating the text messages following reports that students from Clemson University in South Carolina; Ohio State; the University of Alabama and other schools had received them.

But not all of the recipients were in college.

Mary Banks, who has a daughter in Columbus, Ohio, said her 16-year-old daughter received one of the hateful text messages Wednesday evening which included her full name. A few of her daughter's friends in the Columbus City School district received similar messages, she said.

Banks said she's not surprised that racist hatred would surface at this moment in history.

"I feel white supremacy got stronger after the election," she said.

Ben Johnson, a spokesman for Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, that hateful messages were sent to "several students."

Bethany McCorkle, a spokesperson for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office, said the office was aware of the text messages and looking into them.

Columbus NAACP President Nana Watson told The Columbus Dispatch that she believes the text messages are a hate crime.

"This is racism at its highest," Watson said.

Diedre Simmons, a spokesperson for the University of Alabama, told the school newspaper The Crimson White, that university officials informed local authorities about similar messages sent to students there. Authorities at Clemson University are also investigating racist text messages sent to Black students in South Carolina, according to the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.

R.J. Polite, a senior at Clemson, who received a version of the text, said he was shocked by the message and mentioned the negativity he's seeing on social media after Trump's results."It was ignorant and kind of childish." Polite said. “I really tried to stay off of my phone and off the internet for the day because it was just so much going on. It was just bad.”

Who is sending the messages?
It's unclear who sent the text messages.

Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, said this is the first time she has seen a widespread racist attack using text messages. Tracking the culprit who perpetrated the campaign may be complicated, depending on how extensive it is, she said.

That is also unclear.

“It remains to be seen how widespread this is,” Caraballo said. “If this is a few hundred texts it could be done by a local racist group in an afternoon as a trolling tactic, but if it’s thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people then it would have to be automated and involve a fair degree of sophistication.”

If the attack is that widespread, Caraballo said, she wouldn’t rule out foreign actors seeking to foment discord in the United States in the days after the presidential election. She said bomb threats to majority Black polling places on election day were reported to have come from Russian email addresses.

Bad actors can quite easily purchase lists of phone numbers – some categorized by race or other demographic characteristics – on the dark web, to be used for anything from sales campaigns to cybercrime, Caraballo said.

In some states where voter registration information is public, including a voter’s race, she said, and that information could be combined with phone records to create a targeted account like this.

Place your bets. Russia again or other hostile foreign entity or just homegrown.

A black person.

[CHEEZY17]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 112532007/

Black college students nationwide targeted in racist texts; investigations underway

Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery.

The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."

Officials could not say Thursday where the messages originated.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate incidents nationwide, and local authorities in Ohio, Alabama, South Carolina and other states were investigating the messages, which were sent out after the announcement of Donald Trump's election.

It's unclear who sent the messages and how many were sent. At least some of the messages claimed to have come from "A Trump supporter."

A statement from the FBI said the agency is “aware of the offensive and racist text messages sent to individuals around the country and is in contact with the Justice Department and other federal authorities on the matter."

Representatives from civil rights advocacy organizations, including the SPLC and the NAACP's Columbus chapter, said the contents of the messages constituted hate crimes.

Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, called them "a public spectacle of hatred and racism that makes a mockery of our civil rights history" in a public statement on Thursday.

Huang called on political leaders to "condemn anti-Black racism, in any form, whenever we see it."

Experts on domestic extremism were shocked by the messages Wednesday, telling USA TODAY the campaign appears to represent a tactic that has not previously been employed by white supremacists or hate groups.

“This is the first I've ever seen of this kind of racist attack using texts – it's frighteningly personal and harrowing,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “I've also never seen this kind of racist messaging threatening people directly.”

Where are students receiving racist text messages?
Authorities began investigating the text messages following reports that students from Clemson University in South Carolina; Ohio State; the University of Alabama and other schools had received them.

But not all of the recipients were in college.

Mary Banks, who has a daughter in Columbus, Ohio, said her 16-year-old daughter received one of the hateful text messages Wednesday evening which included her full name. A few of her daughter's friends in the Columbus City School district received similar messages, she said.

Banks said she's not surprised that racist hatred would surface at this moment in history.

"I feel white supremacy got stronger after the election," she said.

Ben Johnson, a spokesman for Ohio State University, told The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, that hateful messages were sent to "several students."

Bethany McCorkle, a spokesperson for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office, said the office was aware of the text messages and looking into them.

Columbus NAACP President Nana Watson told The Columbus Dispatch that she believes the text messages are a hate crime.

"This is racism at its highest," Watson said.

Diedre Simmons, a spokesperson for the University of Alabama, told the school newspaper The Crimson White, that university officials informed local authorities about similar messages sent to students there. Authorities at Clemson University are also investigating racist text messages sent to Black students in South Carolina, according to the Greenville News, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK.

R.J. Polite, a senior at Clemson, who received a version of the text, said he was shocked by the message and mentioned the negativity he's seeing on social media after Trump's results."It was ignorant and kind of childish." Polite said. “I really tried to stay off of my phone and off the internet for the day because it was just so much going on. It was just bad.”

Who is sending the messages?
It's unclear who sent the text messages.

Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, said this is the first time she has seen a widespread racist attack using text messages. Tracking the culprit who perpetrated the campaign may be complicated, depending on how extensive it is, she said.

That is also unclear.

“It remains to be seen how widespread this is,” Caraballo said. “If this is a few hundred texts it could be done by a local racist group in an afternoon as a trolling tactic, but if it’s thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people then it would have to be automated and involve a fair degree of sophistication.”

If the attack is that widespread, Caraballo said, she wouldn’t rule out foreign actors seeking to foment discord in the United States in the days after the presidential election. She said bomb threats to majority Black polling places on election day were reported to have come from Russian email addresses.

Bad actors can quite easily purchase lists of phone numbers – some categorized by race or other demographic characteristics – on the dark web, to be used for anything from sales campaigns to cybercrime, Caraballo said.

In some states where voter registration information is public, including a voter’s race, she said, and that information could be combined with phone records to create a targeted account like this.

Place your bets. Russia again or other hostile foreign entity or just homegrown.

A black person.

Yep, or a white ultra Lib.

[Geist]

[CHEEZY17]

The paid Democrat Twitter machine. LOLZ
Some of lefty favorites that get posted here:
21 is Brooklyn Dad
Jo from Jersey
Occupy democrats
Jeff tiedrich

All paid hacks

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History will — or at least should — see a $165 billion error in revenue estimates as one of California’s most boneheaded political acts.

It happened in 2022, as the state was emerging from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Finance, based on one short-term spike in income taxes, projected that revenues from the state’s three largest sources would remain above $200 billion a year indefinitely.

Newsom then declared that the budget had a $97.5 billion surplus, although that number never appeared in any documents.

“No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” Newsom bragged as he unveiled a 2022-23 fiscal year budget that topped $300 billion.

With that in mind, he and the Legislature adopted a budget with billions in new spending, most notably on health and welfare programs and cash payments to poor families.

Within a few weeks, Newsom and legislators learned that real revenues were falling well short of the rosy projections. But the damage, in terms of expanded spending, was done.

Two years later, buried in its fine print, the deficit-ridden 2024-25 budget acknowledged that sales taxes and personal and corporate income tax revenues would fall well short of the $200 billion a year projection, estimating a $165.1 billion shortfall over four years.

The past two years have seen budgets with deficits papered over with direct and indirect borrowing, tapped emergency reserves, vague assumptions of future spending cuts, and accounting gimmicks. For instance, the current budget “saves” several billion dollars by counting next June’s state payroll as an expenditure in the following fiscal year.

This bit of fiscal history is important to remember because the twin 2022 acts of overestimating revenues and overspending billions of nonexistent dollars on new and expanded services continues to haunt the state, as a new analysis indicates.

The Legislature’s budget analyst, Gabe Petek, unveiled his office’s annual overview of the state’s finances Wednesday and it wasn’t a pretty picture.

There’s been a recent uptick in personal income tax revenues thanks to wealthy investors’ stock market gains , some stemming from Donald Trump’s presidential victory. However, Petek said, government spending — much of it dating from 2022’s phony surplus — is continuing to outpace revenues from “a sluggish economy,” creating operating deficits.

“Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs in a year and a half,” the analysis declares. “Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25% higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022. Consumer spending (measured by inflation‑adjusted retail sales and taxable sales) has continued to decline throughout 2024.”

Meanwhile, it continues, “one reason the state faces operating deficits is growth in spending. Our estimate of annual total spending growth across the forecast period — from 2025‑26 to 2028‑29 — is 5.8% (6.3% excluding K‑14 education). By historical standards, this is high.”

Petek’s grim outlook coupled with the more conservative bent of voters, as shown in this month’s election, present a political dilemma for a governor and a Legislature oriented toward expanding government.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, reacting to the analysis in a statement, indicated that he’s gotten the message.

“We need to show restraint with this year’s budget, because California must be prepared for any challenges, including ones from Washington,” Rivas said. “It’s not a moment for expanding programs, but for protecting and preserving services that truly benefit all Californians.”

Newsom will propose a 2025-26 budget in January, but no matter what he and the Legislature decide, the structural budget deficit will still be there when he exits the governorship in 2027. It will be part of his legacy.

[Animal]

That is insane. In the private world that would be a crime.

[B-Tender]

That is insane. In the private world that would be a crime.

And to think he is a potential Presidential candidate...

[Animal]

That is insane. In the private world that would be a crime.

And to think he is a potential Presidential candidate...

The really insane part is that he will manage to sweep this under the rug and it will be completely forgotten in 5 years. It blows my mind how short people's memory is when it comes to political figures.

[Antknot]

That is insane. In the private world that would be a crime.

And to think he is a potential Presidential candidate...

The really insane part is that he will manage to sweep this under the rug and it will be completely forgotten in 5 years. It blows my mind how short people's memory is when it comes to political figures.

And many of the left will continue to believe in the “surplus “.

[B-Tender]

Obviously the study came up with improper biased conclusions.

https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why ... king-study

*The [study](https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/ ... .13.24.pdf), conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University, found that certain DEI practices could induce hostility, increase authoritarian tendencies, and foster agreement with extreme rhetoric. With billions of dollars invested annually in these initiatives, the public has a right to know if such programs—heralded as effective moral solutions to bigotry and hate—**might instead be fueling the very problems they claim to solve.***

*the researchers demonstrated that exposure to anti-oppressive (i.e., anti-racist) rhetoric—common in many DEI initiatives—consistently amplified perceptions of bias where none existed. Participants were more likely to see prejudice in neutral scenarios and to support punitive actions against imagined offenders. These effects were not marginal; hostility and punitive tendencies increased by double-digit percentages across multiple measures. **Perhaps most troubling, the study revealed a chilling convergence with authoritarian attitudes, suggesting that such training is fostering not empathy, but coercion and control.***

*This context makes the suppression of the study even more alarming. *The New York Times* , which has cited NCRI’s work in nearly 20 previous articles, suddenly demanded that this particular research undergo peer review—a requirement that had never been imposed on the institute’s earlier findings, even on similarly sensitive topics like extremism or online hate. At *Bloomberg* , the story was quashed outright by an editor known for public support of DEI initiatives. The editorial decisions were ostensibly justified as routine discretion, yet they align conspicuously with the ideological leanings of those involved. Are these major outlets succumbing to pressures to protect certain narratives at the expense of truth?*
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