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wcmagumba (6,602 posts)
I still believe T-rump was "installed", not elected for his second term...Musk and other oligarchs did this. Damn them..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221237451
The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.
The labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s approached 100 percent. Now it is 89 percent, meaning roughly 11 percent are not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work).
Among all men over 16 years of age, the rate is a devastatingly low 66 percent, so about one-third are gone. Among U.S.-born men, nearly 22 percent are gone.
This is really quite shocking.
This week the Democrat mayor of Arcadia, CA pled guilty to charges of acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. Prosecutors alleged that from 2020–2022 (pre-mayor but continuing into her time in office), she and an associate operated a website promoting pro-China propaganda at the direction of PRC officials, without registering as a foreign agent.
She faces at up to 10 years in prison for the crime, and it raises questions about how many more US mayors are on the payroll of foreign governments. But this scandal, like most scandals surrounding Democrats, will probably be erased from public discussion and forgotten within days. It's a tale that keeps repeating over the last decade and the lack of scrutiny (or pattern recognition) is leading to devastating consequences for the US as a whole.
The common reaction among many conservatives when they come across such news is to dismiss it as predictable. "The idiots living in that city got exactly what they voted for..." is the often heard retort. The implication being that it's "not our problem" and that leftists should be allowed to rot in the hellholes they created for themselves. But the truth is, it is a problem, for the entire country.
A New Hampshire woman says Planet Fitness canceled her membership after she complained about seeing a man in the women’s locker room last month.
Judy Walcott, a longtime member of a Planet Fitness location in Concord, New Hampshire, told Fox News Digital she felt unsafe after encountering someone she believed was male in the women’s locker room near the shower area on April 11.
"I was shaking. Like I was actually trembling because it freaked me out that bad," she told Fox News Digital.
Walcott said she reported the incident to a young employee at the front desk, who told her there was nothing staff could do because it was company policy. She claims the employee did not check the locker room while she was present.
May 12 (Reuters) - The Republican speaker of Tennessee's House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous protests during last week's special session on redistricting.
LPC n00b can't be any worse than Nads' journalistic "brilliance"...
Reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick came after FBI Director Kash Patel hard, alleging he was a derelict and an alcoholic while running the nation’s preeminent law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency. Patel’s lawyers have filed a lawsuit over the story. The piece is riddled with anonymous sources, which is no shock, as this same reporter pushed the hoaxes peddled by Julie Swetnick, who tried to derail the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
Still, the FBI has a job to do, so when Ms. Fitzpatrick sought their help over threats she was receiving related to the article published in The Atlantic, again, no shock there, this story took a wild and ironic turn. The publication obviously contacted law enforcement, which later referred Ms. Fitzpatrick to the FBI. Fitzpatrick has continued to work, but there has been some inside-the-beltway hubbub over this case since MS Now alleged that the FBI was investigating Fitzpatrick in connection with the article. That was denied. There does appear to be a threat assessment probe involving her, but on something entirely different. The threats lobbed against her happened three days after the Kash Patel hit piece was published in April. ...QuoteThe FBI has opened a “threat assessment” case into menacing messages sent to Fitzpatrick — called a “guardian intake” in FBI speak, I’m told by an FBI official who requested anonymity to share details. It did so because the reporter herself contacted the bureau twice.
THE DETAILS — On April 20, Fitzpatrick described the horrifying messages in a call to the FBI. “Your days are numbered,” one read. Another said, “It’ll be your obituary,” according to this FBI official. Fitzpatrick first went to the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, which referred her to the FBI, according to a statement The Atlantic gave me tonight.
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In addition to speaking with her, the FBI was also in communication with MPD to make sure her house didn’t get swatted, I’m told.
On May 5, Fitzpatrick and Atlantic attorney DAVID BAUMGARTEN attended a Zoom meeting with FBI officers, where they shared additional threatening messages she’d received. I’m told Fitzpatrick relayed to the officers that she received calls during the night and had concerns about her family’s safety.
PLOT THICKENS — The irony of the entire situation won’t be lost on those who’ve read Fitzpatrick’s work: A reporter whose coverage the FBI director sued over, now consulting with the FBI about her safety. And an agency making moves to protect a journalist who’s been the bane of its director’s existence.
Newly released depositions in Georgia confirm Federalist reporting that Democrats’ attempt to imprison President Donald Trump for his 2020 election challenge in the state was based on a misinterpreted and illegally recorded phone call.
For years, Democrats and the propaganda press claimed President Donald Trump had asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to steal the election, and further claimed their allegations were supported by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between the two men. In fact, Trump asked Raffensperger to take seriously the legal challenge that his campaign had made, which cited numerous areas where votes were in question. The call became the foundation for an impeachment effort and for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ since-discredited and dismissed racketeering case against Trump and his allies.
The newly released testimony transcript confirms what The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway reported in 2024: The call wasn’t just misconstrued, it was illegally recorded by Raffensperger’s “second in command.”
Jordan Fuchs — Raffensperger’s deputy chief of staff — admitted under oath that she recorded the call while she was in Florida, a two-party consent state that requires all parties on a call to consent to a recording.
