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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

This fall, Ohioans' ballots will falsely inform them that an amendment to END gerrymandering would actually REQUIRE gerrymandering. A brazen lie, now greenlit by the Ohio Supreme Court. It is, as one dissenting justice put it, a "fraud upon the voters." read more


Donald Trump has already found a new town to harass with racist claims that immigrants have overrun it, and it's in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. read more


Tuesday, September 17, 2024

JD Vance blamed Democrats on Monday for a second possible assassination attempt on Donald Trump, saying: "The big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months." He added: "I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebody's gonna get hurt by it, and it's gonna destroy this country." read more


Blaming immigrants for eating pets was an American urban legend years before Donald Trump spread the rumor about Haitians in Ohio. Following the pattern of other urban legends, such as the "rat in the Coke bottle" and the "Vanishing Hitchhiker," the legend that newly settled immigrants are eating dogs and cats has been around for decades.


A pretty long story about a thing that didn't happen.


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There were more stories but I stopped at these:

Man wanted by police arrested near residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, gun and ammo found in car
www.cnbc.com

Florida man arrested after allegedly making death threats against Biden
www.cbsnews.com

Pennsylvania man charged with threatening Biden in online video
www.cnn.com

Billings man charged with making threats to kill U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, threats against President Joe Biden
www.justice.gov

Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and killed as FBI served warrant
apnews.com

Wichita man who threatened to kill President Biden sentenced to 21 months in jail
kansasreflector.com

Michigan man charged with threatening to kill Biden, Harris, officials in X posts
thehill.com

FTA:

"I believe that Sen. Vance's comments were spoken without ... real knowledge of what the workforce situation in Ohio is," says Ross McGregor, CEO of Pentaflex Inc. His company makes brake and axle components for trucks. Which trucks? "All of them," he says proudly. He tries to be diplomatic about Sen. Vance. "I don't think he really understands from a boots-on-the-ground perspective what employers are dealing with in trying to have a consistent and reliable workforce. If he were to apply a business mindset to this situation, he would see the benefit that we get from simply being able to rely on somebody coming to work every day."

Eventually, he stops trying so hard to be diplomatic: "It doesn't help all the memes going around about eating cats and geese and crazy --- like that. None of that helps." The McGregors have been active in business and community life in Springfield for more than a century, and the CEO is proud of that longevity, which also gives him a little bit of perspective that the senator seems to lack.

"He is a highly intelligent man," he says of Vance, "and he has a fantastic education. But from a business standpoint, I don't get why he doesn't understand what a stable workforce means for us." He compares Springfield to Vance's hometown. "Springfield and Middletown are like twin sisters. The Appalachian migration--this is a documented historical fact"was real, and it was about jobs, people looking for jobs, here and on up into Detroit. They came here for jobs. They needed work. They needed to take care of their families. And that's exactly what the Haitians need as well. In Springfield, it's history repeating itself. Before it was the Haitians, it was German and Irish immigrants, and they were treated like ---. This is nothing new. It's not that there are no issues trying to assimilate 12,000 to 15,000 people in a community of 58,000. They are stressing our social services networks, our health care, and our education system. It's hard."

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