lol, man I wish I was getting those type of ads instead…I can’t stand listening to this PragerU BS all the time
We've enjoyed it. There seems to be an endless number of things, some actually fun, to do around the house. No algorithm required!
This just in .. the One Man Crime Wave misplaced his dog whistle and thought "screw it. I'll just go full in racist." What's next? "Africa did not send their best!"?
This is how guilty people talk, they all live in some bizzaro world. I am curious, exactly what group of people make up the "deep state" and if they exist, why didnt trump get rid of them? Oh that's right................its just another lie told by maga to scare the base. I am shocked he didn't have a grift link at the bottom of his tweet
US Conservatives Are Trying To Kill Government's Top Cyber Security Agency (politico.com) An agency set up under Donald Trump to protect elections and key U.S. infrastructure from foreign hackers is now fighting off increasingly intense threats from hard-right Republicans who argue it's gone too far and are looking for ways to rein it in. These lawmakers insist work by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to combat online disinformation during elections singles out conservative voices and infringes upon free speech rights -- an allegation the agency vehemently denies and the Biden administration is contesting in court. The accusations started in the wake of the 2020 election and are ramping up ahead of 2024, with lawmakers now calling for crippling cuts at the agency. "CISA has blatantly violated the First Amendment and colluded with Big Tech to censor the speech of ordinary Americans," Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which oversees CISA, said in a statement to POLITICO. The fight over CISA underscores yet another way Trump's election fraud claims are reverberating into 2024. And though the hard right doesn't have enough votes to defund CISA today, the growing backlash against it has supporters worried that a hard-right faction could hobble the agency in the years ahead -- undermining its efforts not just to secure future elections, but also protect key U.S. and federal networks from major hacks. CISA had broad bipartisan support in Congress when lawmakers passed legislation creating the agency in 2018. At the ceremony where Trump signed it into law, he called it "very, very important legislation" to protect the U.S. against both nation-state hackers and cybercriminals. But when Chris Krebs, the then-head of CISA, debunked Trump's 2020 election fraud claims, the president fired him. And since the GOP assumed control of the House in 2022, like-minded Republicans have been ratcheting up their scrutiny of the agency. [...] Conservatives now argue that activity has become a smokescreen for left-leaning government censorship. In Congress and within the courts, they contend that pressure from federal agencies like CISA led social media companies to limit the spread of information perceived as damaging to Joe Biden's campaign, such as stories relating to Hunter Biden. In a sign of trouble for an agency once boasting strong bipartisan support, 108 Republicans supported the failed push to cut CISA's budget last month -- a near majority within the conference. Backers of the budget cut included a swathe of increasingly influential hard-right lawmakers, like Jordan and James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee. Those with direct oversight over CISA also backed the vote, such as the chief of the Homeland Security Committee, Mark Green (R-Tenn.), and another panel member, August Pfluger (R-Texas).
Republican states swore off a voting tool. Now they're scrambling to recreate it Last month, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen stood at a podium at the state capitol in Montgomery and announced what he called a novel way for his state to keep its voter lists up to date. The program, called AVID or the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, will use federal data, as well as voting lists from five other states, to monitor when voters move, die or illegally vote in two different states in the same election. "We are the first state in the nation to implement a system like this," he said. But his claim is missing a lot of context. AVID appears to mimic a bipartisan, cross-state partnership known as the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, which Alabama was a member of until Allen took office. He and a number of other Republican secretaries of state abandoned the group earlier this year after the far right began targeting the organization with conspiracy theories. When he vowed to pull Alabama out, Allen himself repeated a conspiracy theory about the involvement of liberal billionaire George Soros in ERIC. Nine states — all Republican-led — have now withdrawn from ERIC. They all left without a plan to replace it. And now, experts and election officials are watching a scattershot effort on the right to essentially recreate what the system produced, with many players — both mainstream and fringe — throwing their hats in the ring to try to capitalize on the data void. Many details about these evolving projects remain unclear, but the elections community is deeply skeptical that any of them will be able to fully replicate ERIC, which took millions of dollars and years to develop. "These states have decided that instead of using a wheel, they're going to invent a spherical device that will allow them to easily transport and roll items from A to B," said Josh Daniels, a former Republican county clerk in Utah. "Political officials who made bad choices to exit ERIC now have to make up the difference by essentially reinventing ERIC but without the benefit of years of experience and a system that has improved over time." ERIC began a decade ago as a partnership between Democratic- and Republican-led states, and it gives its members access to the same federal data Allen cited for Alabama's use. The compact also facilitates data-sharing between its two dozen or so member states and crucially does so by matching unique identifiers so election officials can feel confident the reports it produces are good enough to act on. But records reviewed by NPR indicate that recent data-sharing agreements touted by Allen, whose office did not respond to an interview request, as well as other Republican secretaries of state may lack enough detail to yield reliable results. "I'm not skeptical that they will fail; I know they will fail," said Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat and a former local election official. "ERIC is a system that was very carefully engineered by some of the best [experts] in the country to make sure that we could have a good system to achieve the ends that all of these folks that withdrew were asking for." Rest:
It's disheartening that MTG is a member of the house, what's worse is that a majority of people actually voted for this BS. Her district actually wants this type of behavior
Santos big hope is that the One Man Crime Wave wins in 2024, so Santos can get a pardon after he loses in 2024.
It's paid for and since I'm relatively ancient, and have been for years, our property taxes aren't bad. While we were once considered pretty far out (late at night, there were actually loads of stars and you could hear cows "moo" from time to time after midnight when we built the house), we're now close in. The only reason we'd cash out (and yes, the place is worth several times what we paid for it) would be to move out of the state due to the incredibly extremist, bigoted state government Texas has now. My significant other worked for the legislature as an executive with an important state commission for many years. Over time, the state legislators who were a significant part of the makeup of the commission, which was supposed to be bipartisan, morphed from members of both political parties working together on the state's (and people's) business, often getting together on weekends for BBQ with their families, to the complete opposite. Extreme partisan Republicans, with fewer and fewer Democrats, and with the Republican members having no interest in working in a bipartisan way to improve the state and the way it operates. As for "getting together on weekends," if a commission Democrat suggested it today, the GOP member would probably laugh and walk away, shaking his or her head. So my significant other ended up retiring earlier than she likely would have otherwise had the commission remained essentially non-partisan while doing the people's business. Our state government under Abbott, Patrick and yes, Paxton, has become so bad, so political in the worst possible way, so disinterested in working for the people of our state, and so totally interested in working for corporate and "big business" Texas at the expense of the citizens of Texas that in some respects, our state government barely functions, in my opinion. It didn't use to be this way. It is now. George W. Bush was actually a decent governor. The Republican Party of today is nothing at all like the Republican Party when Bush was governor. So to sum up, we'd consider "cashing out" and moving to another state for political reasons. Both of our kids are seriously considering doing just that. If that happens, maybe we will.
