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0 replies | The Karmelo Anthony murder trial started this week ... | By  Moneyman/TX on 6/6/26 4:08pm
in case anyone was interested. This should be an interesting couple of weeks in TX.
Started off with some black potential jury members flat out saying they wouldn't convict him because of his age and one even saying she couldn't send a "brother" to prison. Not really sure if those people are really just that stupid, in general, or if it was their way of ensuring that they would not be on the jury. If it was the latter, I'm not entirely sure I could blame them, given how all the race hustlers have acted and fund-raised up to this point.
Then you have some who want to claim that Anthony (no relation) is going to be railroaded because there are no black jury members. <smh> Gotta love these people who claim "racism" while at the same time showing their own racism to the world without a clue of the irony. When someone makes such an ignorant blanket claim, they are, in fact, saying that every non-black jury member is a racist (simply because they are not black, no other reason). Such ignorance by itself is not something that should even be entertained or allowed to stand alone without being called out for what it is.
If someone has proof that a jury member is, in fact, an actual racist, they should put that out for everyone to see. Otherwise, they should take that trash, their own racism, and their full on display of stupidity and go hide in the corner, if only for the decency of attempting to limit level of embarrassment for their parent's. Playing the race card, especially in this case, is a pathetic admission that that person knows they can't defend the crap coming out of their own mouths.
As Whoopi Goldberg once said in one of her comedy shows about OJ Simpson around the time of his trial, "Am I supposed to support him because he is a brother, or because I think he's right?" She was seriously asking her audience. Clearly she has moved away from that kind of logical thinking, but at one time, she was able to think logically.
There have already been some "bombshell" (Internet's interpretation) facts regarding the knife that have come out in court, and it was only the 2nd day of the trial.
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| Msg #84061
11 replies | Real question, What is up with CA and the election results? | By Moneyman/TX on 6/6/26 3:26pm
Can anyone from CA help me understand why they don't have the results already? Honestly, for mail in votes, the USPS cannot be so slow that it takes a week, or longer, for any first class piece of mail, en mass, to reach its destination, can it? When it is supposedly mailed from within the same city, or same region of the state??
I thought that just about everyone today uses computers when voting or when counting votes, then, maybe, followed by hand re-counts, if that is required in a specific area. I never really even took any notice in previous elections, but if this is a "normal" thing for CA voters, how could this type of actual chaos NOT make people question the integrity of their elections? That's not a D or R question, just a common sense one that, I would think any voter could agree with.
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Not saying this is a reason this time around (also, not saying it isn't at this point either), but I ran across this report from the non-partisan Transparency Foundation regarding their audit of the 2022 CA election.
"Audit Reveals Evidence of Voter Fraud in California’s 2022 Election"
http://thetransparencyfoundation.org/news/audit-reveals-evidence-of-voter-fraud-in-californias-2022-election
Just one quick pull-out from the report (the linked page has many, many more, one is the 6.6M figure within the info by itself)
From the linked article:
"Even worse, of the 388 individuals with rejected and uncured ballots that were located by investigators and submitted to interviews, the audit uncovered a 14.17% likely fraud rate where the voter denied ever attempting to vote – and some individuals claimed to not even live in California.‍"
When you have people the state itself is contacting with questions about "their" ballot, and they get answers like, "No, I didn't send in a ballot. I didn't even vote at all." and "NO, I didn't vote, in fact, I don't even live in the state any longer so I couldn't vote," can we all be adults and just drop the, "voter fraud doesn't happen" fake argument. Clearly, it does.
Then there is the point that a large number of people have reported receiving 2, and sometimes 3, ballots directly from the state for the same person to vote, even when that person is either dead or no longer lives at that address.
The linked article provides several data points for just CA 2022 elections alone that should worry every voter, regardless of what political party, if any, they might support.
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| Msg #84054
4 replies | Jill Biden | By Mike Goodey on 5/28/26 8:02pm
It doesn't get better than this. On an interview with CBS Jill Biden claimed that at the debate against Trump Jill thought Joe was having a stroke when he couldn't answer a question legibly. So, instead of calling for a White House physician, she talks to her husband like he was a little boy saying "Joe, you answered the questions and got them all right!" Then they went to Waffle House!
Must have been some famous doctors there.
Of course during the interview she claimed that she never saw Joe that way after the debate...does she not see that the coverup has been exposed? She is still lying to the people...talk about power mongers!
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7 replies | Amazon has been forcing other retailers to raise $$ for yrs. | By Moneyman/TX on 5/1/26 3:45pm
Info on new lawsuit against Amazon that is exposing part of why we all have been seeing higher prices over the last 3 years, at least the last 3, more than likely, a lot longer than that.
Meanwhile, all of us, Americans, have been being gaslight and trying to figure out exactly what governmental policies are causing inflation. While gov't policies do have effects on inflation (and always has in the past, prior to this specific price-fixing scheme), I think it is safe to say that everyone, Dems, Repubs, & Indeps have all been being played for fools and used as pawns to keep us fighting amongst ourselves (with the 2 major political parties playing their part in keeping this going as they always do), while both political parties have worked to increase THEIR power and Amazon has worked to keep profiting while Americans are getting screwed.
"Amazon's Biggest PRICING SECRET Just Got Exposed"
http://www.youtube.com/live/z-tF9E8Mk1U?si=_kfSoCSgTvmYpUQh
This video is part of a weekly podcast/show so the video itself is lengthy, HOWEVER, the info about what Amazon has been doing to force companies to work on Amazon's behalf and force Walmart, Target, and many, many other retailers to raise their prices on all kinds of products (i.e. price-fixing) is at the start of the video, so don't let the overall length of the video discourage you from at least watching a few mins of it for the info.
Interested in what others think of what Amazon has been doing, as well as the other retailers who knowingly "worked with" them to raise prices, and their own profits at the customer's expense.
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| Msg #84043
1 replies | Democracy is the worst form of Government, | By SC/CA on 3/28/26 11:50am
except all those other forms.” - Winston Churchill
I am attending the No Kings protest today, to stand up for Democracy. When the Supreme Court ruled that a President could not be held accountable for their crimes while in office, it greenlit corruption and authoritarian governance the likes of which I have never seen.
I disagree with the dissolution of the balance of power between the three branches of government, which is the very foundation of any democracy. And I am exercising my right to say so.
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| Msg #84042
0 replies | Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs As Unlawful | By SC/CA on 2/20/26 11:57am
From Forbes:
[Supreme Court] Justices ruled 6-3 against Trump’s tariffs, ruling the International Emergency Economic Powers Act... which Trump used to invoke the tariffs, does not authorize the president to impose sweeping tariffs.
While Trump has claimed his tariffs are a way to punish foreign countries, research shows its American consumers who are bearing the brunt of the cost. Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank, found in a January study that foreign exporters only absorbed approximately 4% of the cost of Trump’s tariffs in 2025, while U.S. importers and American consumers bore 96% of the burden.
Companies have been betting on the Supreme Court overturning Trump’s tariffs, with more than 1,000 companies preemptively filing lawsuits seeking refunds if the tariffs were struck down. The court’s ruling Friday likely delivers a win for those firms as the court appeared to pave the way for tariff refunds.
Trump imposed his tariffs despite warnings from economists that doing so would raise prices for consumers and harm the economy, and small businesses filed suit against the policy, arguing the increased fees had substantially harmed their operations.
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2 replies | "Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook | By SC/CA on 1/29/26 3:20pm
used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities"
http://theconversation.com/anti-ice-protesters-are-following-same-nonviolent-playbook-used-by-people-in-war-zones-across-the-world-to-fight-threats-to-their-communities-274498
I am not okay with the use of force and violence by ICE in our communities, cities and towns across the U.S.
I will be continuing to stand up and exercise my right to assemble and right to free speech as I protest in my town, as I have been doing for the past several months.
Our rallies have been substantially large for a small community, well-organized and peaceful. We’ve had music, speakers, and walks through town. The local police have been present, visible, and respectful, not at all intimating nor infringing on our right to assemble.
We have not been raided by Federal forces, and we feel safe, for now, but we’re aware that everything could change if our town gets put on the list. In preparation, we’ve asked the local law enforcement agencies how they might respond and assist us, should that occur as we wish to continue to be allowed to hold our rallies in peace – which is our Constitutional Right.
Attendees have ranged from young men, Mom’s carrying children, students, clergy, the elderly, to one man who was a 101 y/o WW2 Veteran, who, for the first time in his life attended a rally to oppose the Trump Administration - in his wheelchair, in full uniform, wearing his Congressional Medal of Freedom.
I have engaged in civic activities since I was High School, when my mom took me to my first non-partisan League of Women Voters meeting. I interned at non-partisan Common Cause in Boston. I helped organized two non-partisan environmental organizations to help save the Redwoods, along with far-Right and far-Left leaning community members – who to this day have remained good friends.
To me, human rights issues, environmental issues (and other issues) are not partisan, they are about respect for oneself, others, and the environment in which we live. What kind of Country do I want to live in? Do we want clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, to be able to hold rallies, to not fear the Federal government?
I am not jaded, and do not consider people as enemies. If we don’t agree, that’s okay. We all have the right to be treated with respect, and equally under our laws. And I will continue to stand up for that. I’m aware that not everyone can do that, for a variety of reasons, so I must be there for them too. If the 101 y/o WW2 Vet can protest, for the first time in his life, then I can surely get myself out there and do the same.
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2 replies | “Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it | By SC/CA on 1/27/26 3:03pm
impossible for citizens to think and to judge.”
http://theconversation.com/repeated-government-lying-warned-hannah-arendt-makes-it-impossible-for-citizens-to-think-and-to-judge-274340
Here are some excerpts:
When the public repeatedly experiences the same sequence – confident claims, partial disclosures, shifting explanations, delayed evidence, lies – the damage can outlast any single incident.
It teaches people that “the facts” are simply one more instrument of power, distributed strategically. And once that lesson sinks in, even truthful statements arrive under suspicion.
And when government stories keep changing, democracy pays the price.
Politics is not a seminar in absolute clarity, and competing claims are always part of the process. Democracies can survive spin, public relations and even occasional falsehoods.
This is not a novel problem…. But Arendt’s observations show that it is the normalization of blatant dishonesty and systematic withholding that threatens democracy. Those practices corrode the factual ground on which democratic consent is built.
Arendt did not wonder why officials lie. Instead, she worried about what happens to a public when political life trains citizens to stop insisting on a shared, factual world.
The greatest danger of organized, official lying, Arendt warned, is not that people will believe something that is false. It is that repeated, strategic distortions make it impossible for citizens to orient themselves in reality.
“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie,” she wrote, “but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world … [gets] destroyed.”
She sharpened the point further in a line that feels especially poignant in today’s fragmented, rapid and adversarial information environment:
“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer,” she wrote. “A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history … depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge.”
When officials lie time and again, the point isn’t that a single lie becomes accepted truth, but that the story keeps shifting until people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, because a shared world no longer exists.
The U.S. Constitution assumes a people capable of what Arendt called judgment – citizens who can weigh evidence, assign responsibility and act through law and politics.
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