Down ballot Republicans should be questioning any part of donationintended to help them when he has access to millions from foreign dictators? Does he share those cash donations from Egypt with down ballot Republicans? I bet not!

"I hope he sues and gets a bundle."

I hope he does on top of his Gofundme donations.

The local news did a very short reoirt about this on our ABC affiliate and then vut away to a shot of Desantis speaking about it 9I think); he looked positively unhinged. Desantis does not take criticism well but mant Floridiabs are sick of him and not just Deocrats. The proprty insurance crisis is out of control and everyone I've spoken to of either party; it's not really a party issue. It is an issue pushing people out of their homes. Insurance rates are ridiculous in this state. Understabdably on the Gulf Coast for lots of reasons but on the east coast we haven't had a hurricane cause major damage since 1992 but our rates hae increased tremendously this year and Desantis is doinf exactly nothing besides opening up the property insurance market up to fly by night companies who will fold up and leave homeowners to deal with a magor disaster on their own. Previous governors stood up to the insurance indusrey by telling then that if they stopped selling wind coverage here then they wouldn't be able to sell auyo policies here either and it worked to convince majot insurance companies to keep selling the policies homeowners need here but Desantis takes so much campaign money from the insurance industry he isn't doing that and Floridians are pissed...at him!

I don't think the parents o the children left behind when one of these women die will ever want to hear anything from Cruz.

"Why did this take 4 years to come out?"

It's sort of like toothpaste though. Even wnen the tube is nearly empty and it's really difficult to get it out of the tube it's still going to be exponentially harder to put it back in the tube. I don't see this being forgotten or going away and could accepting this money be construed as part of the President's official duties? Someone go change Donald's diaper it's suddebly stinking up Mara Lago!

I'm afraid that if my daughter did die due to the unavailability of this drug the ideological murderers who felt that aderance to their ideological purity was more important than my daughter's life should probably find a good plsce to hide and stay there permanently because...well ... because it would be a good idea.

Floeidians do owe Mr. Gaddis our sincere thanks for exposing this abominayion of a plan to let afe "good old boys: make millions by destroyinf irreplaceable habitat to create accommodations Floeida already has in plentiful supply because the secretive nature of this project was quite obviously crucial to devekping these natural parks before the people of the state realized what they were intending to do; if he had not ezposed this when he did the damage would have been so far along that there would be no turning back and all those parks would just fond memories. I am very glad to hear aboutFloridians who care his go-fund me account and I thi.nk that most Floeidians who care about the natural environment will get to feel like they are giving Desantis and his cronies the middle finger with every dobation we make. I feel certain that Desantis and his cronies will feel something poking rhem quite a bit this fall. I just hope they don't start enjoying it too much because that would just be gross!

Lucifer is preparing an entrance for Putin to use when he goes to his final destination. I hope they seal it up so he can't come back.

The bid-rigging scheme was a classic of the genre. A small Rust Belt city needed new garbage trucks. Its mayor and two of his donors needed money. The mayor, a struggling mortgage lender, owed years' worth of back taxes; the donors were two brothers desperate to save the truck dealership they'd spent the past few years running into the ground. So the mayor fixed things to steer the garbage-truck contracts to the brothers, a million-dollar cushion under their failing dealership. Thankful for this good turn, they cut the mayor a check for $13,000 ostensibly for some consulting work, the substance of which was never clear.

"The feds caught on to this arrangement, and in 2021, the mayor, Jim Snyder, was tried and convicted on corruption charges. On Wednesday, in Snyder v. United States, the Supreme Court threw out the verdict in a 6"3 vote, with the three liberal justices dissenting. The majority cut in half the federal law Snyder was convicted of violating. That law, the Court held, applies to bribes promised or dispensed before any official action is taken but not to "gratuities""rewards, as the majority put it, "given as a token of appreciation after the official act." The majority reached its conclusion by pointing to various indicators that, in its view, showed Congress never intended the law to dictate whether state and local officials can or can't accept gratuities. As far as federal law is concerned, state and local officials are now generally free to accept gifts small and large"$13,000 checks, lavish vacations, cash-stuffed valises"from the beneficiaries of their actions in office. (State and local laws still apply to them, but only a small fraction of corruption cases are brought

"Gore didn't have the votes in Florida and he knew it."eir petition that continuing the recount

Absolutely not true. Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush were conniving to steal that election and brought the case to the Supreme Court to stop the recount and even said in th petition that continuing the recount would harm George W, Bush, which if he, in fact, had the votes a recount would only have confirmed his victory. Nut instead the corrupt Supreme Court decided to arbitrarily declare Bush the winner with the partially counted recount vecause no doins so could resukt in irreperable harm to George Bush; never mind that their decision did irreparable harm to Al Gore. the fact that the Roberts court is corrupt which lhas now been clearly demonstrated on other issues. Hell Clarece Thomas nd Samuel Aliti prove that

Whi has the power to meddle ib national elections and punish his opponents with prison? Answer: Putin.

So how much would it cost to create new faciities for thousabds of Federal jobs in these red states abd then to these workers would have to sell homes and move which would have to be compensated, Dobak Trump's need for revenged just be too expenxive and disruptuve to the operation of rge government not to mention federal employees wirg homes, chilren inschool etc. all because his ego got bruised? And the sheep on the right would still vote for this egomaniac? MAGA really is a cult. No other explanation for people conyinuing to support such a childish person for Ptrsident.

So how much would it cost to create new faciities for thousabds of Federal jobs in these red states abd then to these workers would have to sell homes and move which would have to be compensated, Dobak Trump's need for revenged just be too expenxive and disruptuve to the operation of rge government not to mention federal employees wirg homes, chilren inschool etc. all because his ego got bruised? And the sheep on the right would still vote for this egomaniac? MAGA really is a cult. No other explanation for people conyinuing to support such a childish person for Ptrsident.

I'd just love to see what would result if Ronald Trump let his thoughts be transcribed.

" it's weird for me to be dating the chief of police and our wives told us it was time to stop."

so, if she has a wife too then I guess she's a lesbian? Not that there is anything wrong wity it but if it was more than friendship then your views on marriage must be interesting though questiobable. NOMB though!

I've been up most of the night surfing the web and just reading all sorts of things. One tid bit I stumbled upon was J.D. ance's opinion that Labor Day shouldn't be about the Labor movement but about women, in labor, having babies. I thought someone should whisper in his ear that we celebrate Mother's Day every year and try to show our Mothers how much we appreciate them but apparently J.D, is unaware of that and thinks we should forget the real reason for making Labor Day a national holiday, probably because him and his running mate do not support organised labor even, apparently, if some of the members of unions are mothers or even fathers. Never mind that the unions help parents earn more money to raise their families with.
So then, couldn't we make a case that J.D. and Trump really don't support parents earning more money so that they can take better care of their families? It would be a fair case because it's true. They don't support unions and unions do enable families to live better so you could easily construe that to say Trump and Vance don't support working class families. When Kamala destroys Trump in their debate and when J.D, meets Tim Walz I hope both Kamala and Tim make that point. Not just Donald and J.zd. but thr entit=re Republican Party is anti-organised labor whether they admit it or not. They believe all the power in an employment relationship should belong to the employer. Example ;if you fecide to change jobs they expect a notice of anywhere between one week to one month or even longer as they look for a replacement. However when they want to fire you they purposely give you no warning; on that I am sure because they did it to me on a job I held for 20b years.
Unions lrvrl the playing field between employer and employee and many employers think that is just wrong that an employees should never have any power in an employment squabble.
zso it stands to reason that SCABs like Trump and Vance would want to change the basic neaning of Labor Day to anything that doesn't celebrate ubions.

When enough people get vaccinated it creates "herd immunity" which id what Republicans are depending on to prevent themselves from being blamed for a repeat Pandemic and the associated death toll just like the previou round

"What they found: 28% of respondents to Annenberg's survey incorrectly believe that COVID-19 vaccines have been responsible for thousands of deaths, up from 22% in June 2021. The percentage who know this is false declined to 55% from 66%."

Misinformation is the intentional spreading of false information snd it wotks because we have so many stupid people in this country. COVID reduces the number of them but many survive despite their stupidity, and that;a good. I really don't want them to die just because they are stupid. I guess, it's not their fault thst they are stupid and I don't enjoy watching them get sick and die.
i didn'y lsugh when Herman Cain got sick and died and he was one of those denying that vaccines are importantm thought masks were stupid, eyc. Turned out he was wrong but I was not happyhe goy sick. I kind of liked him.

But, not to worry, Trump told his "beautiful Christians" that this the last election they will have to vote in because he's going to fix it so voting will no longer be necessary. Hmmm? Wonder what he meant by that "beautiful Christians"?

Zed is right, they still hold pretend elections in Russia and, amazingly, Vladimir Putin always wins!

Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Someone stands to make money from this I hsve two suspects; the private prison industru and the pharmsceutical companies wfo make Oxycontin and other prescription drugs. Oh but, we must not leave out the lawyers who have seen a dramatic loss of income fdue to decriminalization.

"Guns make us safer!: I recently saw that on a young man's T-shirt. I told him it was b.s. but I figure I'm luvky he didn't open fire on me,

I don't know if Vance has said it yet but he is expressing ideas that will eventually end in one place. i.e; outlawing oral contraceptives which literally changed the lives of millions of women, allowing them to have careers even after marriage and even after having a family planned usually two or three childre instead of 8 very which was common before birth control pills.My own mother was pregnant 14 times though only seven were born and survived. That precluded any thought of a career for her though she never complained about it but she was a very intelligent person awo could have been quite successful had she had the opportunity. Being a good Catholic wife her life was dominated by pregnancies and babies whilr my father was free to pursue his career as a Naval officer which took him for nine months of sea duty most years. He got to see the world; she got to cook, clean, and raise all those kids. Then he decided to retire and asked her for a divorce so he could marry a girlfriend none of us ever even suspected existed. And that's what he did after all those years. That's the MAGA world when America was great! So don't let them fool you ladies, they want you barefoot and pregnant and J,D, Vance is trying to sell it as the key to happiness but he really is just full of crap! Just know this, the very same people who want a nationwide ban on abortion will be pushing for a ban on birth conytol next!

What kimd of pstriotic American would vote for a defender of Assad or Putin? Are Gabbard supporters just so pootly informed or do theyjust think dictatorships are superior to democracies?

Really have to wonder, if Fox News became as they ptrtend it is; i.e: "fair and balancwd" what would happen to this coumtry? Enoughimagining things that will never happen,

From Nixon yill today, when Republicans are desperate they reach out to the worst scum in America and take get a con man advantage of white resentments against blscks, gays, women, immigrants, etc. who they feel got moved up in society due to DEI and feel that their own situation isn't because of qualifications or hard wotk by others but by our "woke" culture that disadvantages straifgtm white men. J.D. Vance is the poster boy for that; he just needs a white robe and a pointy white hat and he'll fit right in at Klan rallies. Maybe yhat's why Trump pivked him and at these rallies in the nost racist cities he'll be very popular! Nixon's Southern Strategy might still get a con man elected by capitalizing on the resentments of white men.

Yeah Effete, which state do you suggest we evacuate for this new Jewish theocracy to br created in the United States violatibgour Constitution in so many ways I can't list them all. That anyonw would suggest such an ybAmerican concept demonstrates a total lack of underatanding about wgat the United States if and what the Bill of Rights guarantees in every single state with no exceptions for any religion to declareposession of or control over. You really beed a Civics Lesson or two.
Instead our policies towards Israel should emphasize that if Israel will not rein in the Zionist crazies we will discontinue our support for them. Kamala Harris needs to speak out and tell AIPAC they cannot control her. Probably AIPAC should be investigated as foreign sgents infiltrating our government. Isralis in Israel and Jews in the Unitrf States need to learn we do not owe Israel anything. We certainly don'y have to support the IDF rampage in Gaza.