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I occasionally disagree with my Governor, AG, and SoS and put it out there to discuss on a political forum which most people get to based on their love of Detroit sports, which the Governor, AG, and SoS represents. I never saw anyone get mad at anyone else for posting about Snyder because he was a man. I voted for all of them, but even if I didn't, I think I should have a right to criticize issues I disagree with them on. It's clear for everyone else here that them being anti-Trump is enough to shield them from criticism, except for Oblong who doesn't think they are strong enough to handle criticism and have to be protected for that reason. Chasfh, you're point on the source is legit. But a legitimate issue, not just in Michigan, but everywhere, is local news doesn't have the investigative journalists they had before. The money is not there and therefore much less scrutiny is being put into investigating state and local officials. Going forward you're mostly only going to have partisan folks investigating the party in power, regardless which state you're in. In this case though, it's not like it's a wild accusation that can't be easily proven or disproven. He's not saying some women he refuses to name is involved, he's giving names and exact donation times and amounts. He's even going to that women and she's flat out saying that the information he has must be wrong because she didn't give that much. Personally I think it's worth taking that next step and verifying. Instead, Act Blue and its supporters don't even want the question asked, so you guys are doing what you do: Redirect to Trump. Attack the source. Attack the person that brings it up as misogynist (or racist, or ageist, etc).

FWIW, I suspect Act Blue and WinRed both try and push folks towards reoccurring payments towards candidates (No different than any other business). I will go further and say that WinRed, probably at the lack of morals from the party leading them, pushed it in a way that at least can be deemed unethical. I wouldn't be surprised further if it's tougher to stop those payments if you gave to WinRed than if you gave to Act Blue either. While everyone says I 'both sides', even I'm not even pretending to give each the same benefit of the doubt. But that doesn't mean the other side may not be doing things wrong. And by calling them out for it shouldn't be called 'both sides'ing'.

Gehringer, while I give everyone here the benefit of the doubt, you are hold in higher regard than most. You are one of the few that can occasionally smell some BS being thrown at you from your own side and acknowledge it. You are absolutely right to say there is no definitive proof this was a lab leak. You are absolutely right that science has shown that such a thing can happen naturally. Honestly, I would not even put my life on the line to bet that it was definitely a lab leak..... but c'mon, you and I both know that if I bet my 401k on it, I'd probably be a whole lot better off. And trust me, the US knows too.

What a weaksauce response. Not sure if that is in reference to me or LeDuff, but regardless it's BS.

Pretty sure every person in this forum but 1 or 2 of us still believes a bat infected a pangolin 1000 miles away from Wuhan, but got shipped up there and via a wet market, began Covid, yet I’m still able to set that aside and assess new stuff you guys add here. Also looking forward to you guys citing LeDuff when he goes after our next Republican governor.

Haha, this response is awesome. LeDuff tracked down a Michigan person based on research he cited from another person that has noticed many circumstances like this. LeDuff chose to follow up on this one example. What evidence do we have that WinRed was being unethical? If you google it, you'll see many articles regarding Blue state AG's investigating it because WinRed 'misled consumers'. But all you will see in those articles is that they detail those AG's complaints. In the last year, many red state AG's have done the same to ActBlue but not surprisingly, you won't see a ton of articles about it (Gee, I wonder why?!?!) So because there are articles saying what Dem AG's are complaining about, we have proof, but because we don't have a ton of articles detailing what GOP AG's are complaining about, there is no evidence....lol. One of the Trumpy responses I remember hearing as a defense of WinRed was that elderly people just aren't as good with technology and probably didn't realize they were setting up reoccurring payments. As such, please realize your defense of ActBlue sounds just as Trumpy. One thing that seems like it could easily be proven though, this women doesn't seem to think she gave more than $2.50 cents a few times. I would think she could easily confirm if her checking account has 80k less than she expects. If 80k wasn't pulled from her account, but more along the lines of the $2.50 change a handful of times, then where did that money that ActBlue gave on her behalf come from?

That's for an individual though right? The article says this lady only gave 9 donations to Benson, 7 dollars and then 8 more donations every month of $2.50 cents. Would you set up recurring donations to a candidate for governor if you weren't even sure if you were going to vote for them either? Because she says she told LeDuff she wasn't even sure who she was supporting yet.

I can assure you LeDuff is not working for Trump in investigating this. He focuses on local and state level, so whoever is in charge, rest assure LeDuff will be looking at them. If you read his article, he found a local women that ActBlue states she donated over 8000 times and over 80k. When asked about it, she said she's donated a few times, but not this much. Definitely seems fishy, but again, maybe nothing illegal and they just prayed on an old women and are glad she didn't realize she was giving reoccurring donations. If that's the case, we can just all ignore and move on as that would only be unethical if Trump was doing it....amirite?

If they are guilty, all they need to do is admit it, don't apologize for it, claim the investigation started under Biden, and Trump will pardon all involved.

LeDuff is quite a character, but if he goes sniffing somewhere, there is usually something that stinks. I mean, we know from Trump and his auto-renew donations that he conned people into does indeed happen, so maybe there is no money laundering going on and Benson and dems are simply stealing money from their supporters. Either way, not good.

https://enjoyer.com/jocelyn-benson-grassroot-fundraising-smurf-lie/ Looks like ActBlue is just a money laundering group to funnel illegal funds into Democratic campaigns. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

I listened to a little and he is fixing the FAA by no longer 'putting copper into the fiber' because you 'can't just do that, it doesn't work that way'. Ironically I was helping a co-worker review some inventory of our TDM aggregators, which is exactly that, bringing copper connections from customers and putting it on fiber. It's an older technology, we are trying to phase it out as well. Still, it's not going to stop planes from crashing (as Trump alluded to right after making that comment.)

I was a little lost on this response to I re-read this page and realized I misread the Twitter quote I quoted. I read it as Mace's consultant was resigning because Mace wasn't loyal to Trump and Mace's consultant was now joining forces with Rand Paul. I apologize for the screw up.

Doesn't most MAGA think Rand Paul is disloyal to Trump? Just a whole lotta crazy going on around Mace.

Exactly, it's like the left and Science.

A person critical of the border and says 'Open Border' to point out the same issues we all agree to (Except Pfife) and that means they are dishonest and probably a racist.... but I went off the rails? My guess is we are probably pretty close on immigration, but there are legitimate reasons for disagreement. Simply labeling disagreement as dishonest and racist isn't helping your cause. I don't think Civil Rights leaders, democratic politicians, and all the 'peaceful' protesters with BLM were dishonest. They saw a legitimate problem and IMO, were a bit misguided at the scale and direction of it, so while I would like to see police reform (screw getting rid of qualified immunity, but lawsuits should be paid out of their retirement funds), I vehemently disagreed with those leaders that it was an endemic, an epidemic of cops killing black people, or that policing was started so it could kill blacks and continue enslavement. My guess is most people don't believe in those comments either, especially here. My guess is that most of you were probably a bit more sympathetic to those leaders and even if you disagreed, you either participated in BLM protests or at minimum, supported them. Harsh words and phrases sound a lot more harsh when you disagree with them and softer when you don't.

You are correct that we have not had open borders, anytime in any of our lives at least. The problem with the left stating it like this, is it backs up some of your side that says we have no border issues at all. For many years, and especially during Biden's years it was extremely porous, even if it wasn't 'open'. To say the border issue isn't complex would be naive and I'll be the first to blame a foreign policy decades in the making in Latin/South America which exploded when Biden happened to be President. But Biden encouraged people to seek asylum, said we could absorb 2 million people easily, and said everyone at the border 'deserves to be heard', then he became president and signed EO making it easier to seek asylum. Millions came hoping to be 1 of that 2 million figure. Millions more than the 2 million figure. It's lazy to say 'open borders' in referring to how Biden managed the border, but Biden managed it so much differently than any other president has that it seemed so much against an aspect of a border they have seen before. They may be lazy, but it seems to be a jump to call them dishonest or racist just because they have more concerns about that issue than you do.

Sounds like even this is in dispute, time may be up already.

I'm surprised I missed this news. Based on what I had read I believed the judge was going to throw it out based on how Halligan failed to get the indictment on all 3 and then got the foreman to sign and pursue with just 1. I'm interested in hearing legal experts talk about this. I have to believe even if this is overturned, Comey will still have the indictment issue in his back pocket.

Batteries are getting better and for many when batteries become a problem, they are more apt to replace the battery as the phone itself still works well.

Honestly, who cares? I have to remind my Mom all the time, if you see stats in a post, unless there is a link to an articles about that stat, ignore it. 99/100 times it can quickly be dispelled and even if it's the one time its legit, don't give it the benefit of the doubt if they can't cite a source. 33000 homeless vets, seems to be accurate based on a quick google search As for the fraud figure, Google found 1 article indicating that in the last 5 years for all of Minnesota, up to 1 billion dollars of fraud AND attempted fraud. Additionally it stated that the 1 billion dollar figure wasn't just medicaid, but medicaid was just one of the programs that added up to that figure. So honestly not even sure if that is just federal or federal and state aid in that dollar figure. Want to know what is outrageous though @Tigeraholic1, that we have 33k homeless veterans and past presidents, including some of our most recent ones like Biden and Trump haven't done much to improve that number.

I've been telling you Trump is a democrat all along.

https://jmail.world/ Enjoy! Props to whoever put this together.

We're a big company, so while we do have a large acquisition going on right now, this specifically was done for cost cutting purposes only. We were specifically told none of these jobs were lost to AI, simply we needed to get leaner and meaner.

My company was hit with layoffs today. My team escaped any hit, but the news is reporting about 17% of our non-union workforce was affected. We knew it was coming and read that October had more companies submit WARN notices in a month since 2003. I re-balanced my 401k to be heavier on the bond side once I got off of my 'all clear' meeting. I think the AI bubble will keep the stock market up for a bit still, but you can't outrun unemployment and I feel like that's going to hit before the AI bubble does.