Further, allowing politicians to remain in office longer than eight years leads to stagnation and corruption. I don't have disdain for Mr. McConnell I think he deserves to be out and able to enjoy his golden years.
https://t.co/sMTtTiTECa This needs to end. We deserve better. Term and age limits for both the House and the Senate. Legacy politicians bring nothing new to the table and we need leadership that is reflective of the Republic and the home state. We also need stronger rules on birth and residency. No moving to states to run for office.
@FROSTBlTING My son was going to a birthday party earlier this year and the young man wanted a Pokemon pack. 4 stores with empty shelves and signs saying one per customer. All gone, so grown men can buy them all and list on eBay...lame as shit. I hope the market collapses on them.
@stalker_thegame I've been traveling to the Zone for a long time. I want to thank all of you for all of the Stalker games over these many years. It's given me many wonderful adventures. Thank you!
@King_Shark02 The new bullets and gas expansion would increase the accuracy eponentionaly and be fought with the same tactics as the American Revolutionary War
@King_Shark02 This was the last of "civilized" warfare. With the invention of the rifled barrel and the mini ball The American Civil War would be fought in the same manner with much higher casualtites due to the accuracy of the new rifles and many good Americans would perish on both sides.
Is El-Sayed's Campaign Funded by Elderly Fake Donors?
ActBlue says an 88-year-old widow has given over $150k to Dems over the past five years, but she says that's not possible
By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
Milan — Out in the country on a rutted dirt road lined with corn lives an old woman and her dog.
Elizabeth Waffle, 88, was forced to move into a shabby trailer two years ago after her house burned down. She owns an old pickup truck but no computer.
Nevertheless, Waffle, who lives on a modest pension, is a true believer in liberal causes and continues to make small political donations by way of ActBlue—the Democrat online fundraising platform.
But somehow, those few dozen small donations she has made over the past five years have transmogrified into 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000—the equivalent of eight donations a day, every day for the past five years, averaging $9.18.
“One hundred and fifty thousand?” Waffle said with real surprise. “Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money.”
She says she has contributed to Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Socialist running for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, but not 47 times spanning the last two years, as federal filings show.
El-Sayed promises to get money out of politics. He makes a great show of refusing corporate PAC money. But that’s just wordplay.
El-Sayed does take special interest money. He takes money from his father-in-law. Most concerning, he takes money from ActBlue.
The subject of multiple investigations, the fundraising platform is accused of “rinsing” foreign money and massive private donations by using the stolen names and addresses of real, often elderly Americans to fabricate hundreds of small-dollar donations. Names like Elizabeth Waffle.
ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones recently invoked her Fifth Amendment rights 22 times during a congressional hearing regarding foreign contributions.
According to FEC campaign contributions compiled by Bob Cushman, ActBlue shows Waffle donating from her trailer, even though she has no computer and spotty internet access. It also shows her donating from an apartment she rented in town two years ago after her house burned down. Sometimes it shows Waffle donating from both the trailer and the apartment on the same day. It shows her donating to out-of-state candidates she’s never heard of.
“This is very abnormal,” said Waffle, who sat in the trailer threshold looking over the paperwork I had brought. “I think it’s wrong, and I think there’s something in there that’s off.”
El-Sayed’s campaign brags that he’s the top Michigan fundraiser off the ActBlue platform, having raised 10 times the money from small-dollar donors than his primary opponent, Haley Stevens.
Stevens has also taken ActBlue money. As has Slotkin, Whitmer, Nessel, Benson, Gilchrist, and the entire Democrat gang.
But it is Abdul who plays the sanctimony card. If he is really serious about getting corrupt money out of politics, then he ought to get off ActBlue and return the money.
Anything else is elder abuse.
Bright Ideas From the Dimmest Bulbs Will Ruin Us
Everyday Michiganders go without power despite all the talk about "infrastructure modernization"
By Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff
When the power goes out, the light bulb goes on and the political candidates scramble to make dumb videos. This proves, once again, that a fool and her money are soon elected.
It rained a little bit last week, and more than a million Michiganders found themselves in the dark.
What does Jocelyn Benson do? She makes a freakish selfie from a bluff at a lake house somewhere, commiserating with the hoi polloi who—yet again—were baking in the darkened streets of Detroit.
“I have a plan to change these unfair profit driven rate hikes,” she said dressed in a black blazer in 95 degree heat accessorized with a splendid view of a lake and beach behind her. “But also ensuring we’re investing and modernizing our energy grid.”
She said that last week, too, in different lame video about high-speed trains.
Her buzzwords seem to be: “modernizing infrastructure.” But that’s exactly how DTE and Consumers make their profits. Investing in “modern infrastructure.”
What the monopolies do not do is upkeep the current infrastructure. There’s no profit in it. What we really need is for the power companies to cut the trees and maintain the existing grid.
Benson instructs us to go to her website to see the plan. Go to the website. There’s no plan at all. Dumb.
Then there’s Perry Johnson. He’s got a video. He’s got lots of videos. One of my favorites is him standing in an open collar, remembering how a hundred years ago his parents used to be poor.
That’s why the mega-millionaire wants to return $4,747 to our pockets. Nice number. Johnson says he’s going to do a mega-audit and find the waste to give us the money.
But how do you settle on a dollar amount before you do an audit to find the money? Dumb.
Haley Stevens wants to be your senator. So there she stands on the Detroit River, claiming that the Gordie Howe Bridge is being shanghaied by Matty Moroun, a corrupt billionaire crony of Donald J. Trump.
Moroun, who owns the rival Ambassador Bridge, is Trump’s biggest contributor, she says in a cringy voice. Trouble is, Matty Moroun died six years ago. This proves once again that Stevens knows little about international affairs or Michigan. Again, dumb.
“Doctor” Abdul El-Sayed—he of little professional accomplishment—can be found on Instagram, prancing about in a suburban cowboy costume. He wants to expand Obamacare into Medicare for All.
The problem there is that Obamacare exploded medical costs and now there are more uninsured people than ever before. They’re not the poor. They’re the middle class. And the country is broke. Dumb.
I like social media as much as the next guy. I can’t afford cable. Or health insurance. Or air-conditioning at peak hours. But it’s going to take more than some yard signs and lame videos to convince me they know what’s going on out here.