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The DUmpster / Re: Is a new stereotype being born?
« Last post by ADsOutburst on April 17, 2026, 11:20:01 AM »I din’t think that’s really a new stereotype.
but he is getting away with it
https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/tax-refunds-swell-thanks-to-trumps-worker-friendly-deductions-in-the-big-beautiful-bill-he-knows-what-hes-doing/
This is terrible news for democrats
Most wind up in the slow-rolling disaster column, and man - that does seem to be the case with the Biden administration's $1.6B push to electrify city transit fleets.Quote...E-buses have been purchased by transit agencies in part through a "Low-No" emissions grant program mainly through the Federal Transit Administration that received a $1.6 billion infusion during the Biden years.
"Given the scale of this investment, there must be an examination into whether taxpayers are receiving the reliable, deployable transit assets capable of serving the communities for which they were funded," Power the Future (PTF) President Daniel Turner said.
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...Similarly, PTF highlighted a 2024 EPA Inspector General audit that found the agency failed to meaningfully track the deployment of electric school buses under a 2022 rebate program through which $836 million was handed out by federal officials.
...An EPA Inspector General statement from October regarding the school bus program said "three material weaknesses so significant that they could lead to material misstatements in the Agency’s financial statements" were found.
"The EPA did not monitor bus deployment status and recipient use of over $836 million of 2022 Clean School Bus, or CSB, Program rebates, despite the Agency stating it would do so," another OIG report from 2024 said.
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In March, I had a field day posting some of the latest news that had come in on both the urban and school district E-bus experiments. Tragically for the tax dollars involved, and, in some cases, the health, comfort, and well-being of the kiddos on the buses, most were abysmal disappointments and many flat-out disasters.
There were mechanical issues galore, scary fires that thankfully erupted in unoccupied vehicles but consumed the fleet in some cases, and maintenance/parts problems arising from bankrupt bus manufacturers that seemed insurmountable.

LAS14 (15,522 posts)
Is a new stereotype being born?
About a month ago, as we were watching one of Swalwell's frequent appearances on MS.NOW, I said, completely joking, "Nah, ever since John Edwards, I've been suspicious of handsome politicians. It never crossed my mind that, indeed, it had happened again.
So I'm wondering if handsome politicians are going to begin suffering the fate of good looking blond women.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221180297
Really? No idea at all, Washington Post? Surprised, Wall Street Journal? Or just attempting to cover up the complicity of the Protection Racket Media?
The framing used by the WaPo amounts to a self-indictment by the Beltway's home-turf newspaper. The lack of self-awareness in publishing this poser:QuoteThe stunning fall has Hunt and others asking how someone who was dogged by persistent rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women similar to what she heard in 2020 could have risen so high and so fast in a party that says it supports women’s rights.
That's certainly one question. Another question is how these rumors flew around the Capitol for at least six years, and yet not a single reporter reported on them ... or even thought to investigate. Bear in mind that by 2020, when "several other young women" working in congressional offices knew enough to warn Hunt that Swalwell was a predatory creep, three years had passed since the #MeToo explosion that detonated in Hollywood, New York, and Washington DC.
It wasn't just the Democrat Party that posed itself as the defender of women's rights. The Post itself led the "believe all women" charge, and had carried the banner Democracy Dies in Darkness for at least the same period of time. And yet, despite the fact that Swalwell was hardly a backbencher and that he operated in the Post's own exclusive turf, they either missed or ignored the story – and the latter seems a lot more likely.
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Yes, let's find out what Democrat leaders knew, and when they knew it. But what about reporters, such as those for the WSJ, which covers Congress in some depth? What did they know, and when did they know it? At what point did reporters hear 'rumors' about Swalwell and his predatory nature, and did they ever bother to follow up or talk to staffers who may have come into contact with Eric the Pred and could shed light on his actions?
Ending Iran's 47-year war-by-proxies against the US will be well worth gas prices having come (past tense, at this point) close to LIEden's highest.