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- Randall Flagg
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/f11cb2a8-6 … n-ban.html
This is one of those areas I agreed with Obama and the Democrats. If you need disability because you're mentally incapable of handling finances, you aren't mentally competent enough to own firearms.
- Smoking Guns
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mitchejw wrote:Why bother with the pretext...what's up down and down is up now.
They still talk about voter fraud, even though it's like .0001 percent and the only people they caught last election voted for Trump a couple of times.
Lie. They found 700+ bad votes for Hillary in Detroit alone.
Re: US Politics Thread
slcpunk wrote:mitchejw wrote:Why bother with the pretext...what's up down and down is up now.
They still talk about voter fraud, even though it's like .0001 percent and the only people they caught last election voted for Trump a couple of times.
Lie. They found 700+ bad votes for Hillary in Detroit alone.
This is what happens when you get all your "news" from right wing shit sites.
AP FACT CHECK: No proof of mass vote fraud in Michigan
DETROIT (AP) — A widely shared story that claimed in headlines that Michigan had mass Democratic voter fraud and that more than half of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Detroit vote faces disqualification is false. State election officials say there is no proof to back up either claim.
The story posted by Higgins News Network on Dec. 6 is headlined: "Michigan Recount: Over 1/2 of Hillary Clinton's Detroit Vote Faces Disqualification," with an updated headline on Dec. 7: "Michigan Recount Halted After Mass Voter Fraud Discovery," with a subhead: "Federal Judge Officially Stops Michigan Recount After Discovery of Widespread Democrat Vote Fraud."
The claim comes from reports that many precincts in Detroit — which Clinton won with about 95 percent of the vote over President-elect Donald Trump — could not be recounted because the number of ballots stored in a sealed container on election night due to scanning machine malfunctions did not match the number of voter names recorded in a poll book.
In such cases, election night totals stand in the recount and are not disqualified.
It is not uncommon for there to be slight inconsistencies between the number of stored ballots and the number of voter names in a poll book, typically due to human error, but Michigan's elections bureau has ordered an investigation into discrepancies in about 20 of Detroit's 490 precincts.
Fred Woodhams, a spokesman for the Republican secretary of state, has said the differences would not have affected Trump's narrow victory over Clinton in the state.
Clinton cut into Trump's 10,704-vote win by only 102 votes during Michigan's recount, which covered more than 40 percent of the statewide vote before courts stopped it.
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Another law suit for screwing over his workers.
Trump hit with $2 million suit by contractor on D.C. hotel
An electrical contractor is suing President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel for $2 million over what the contractor contends are unpaid bills for “nonstop” work performed to open the luxury lodging at the Old Post Office Building last year.
The suit filed in D.C. Superior Court by Laurel, Maryland-based AES Electrical, also known as Freestate Electrical, contends that the company was instructed to rush work on electrical and fire alarm systems at the hotel in advance of a visit then-candidate Trump made there for a “soft opening” in September and again for the “grand opening” of the hotel in October.
“Acceleration of Freestate’s work required Freestate’s crews to work nonstop, seven days per week, 10 to 14 hours per day for nearly 50 consecutive days, prior to the ‘soft opening,’ at significant additional cost and expense for which Freestate expected payment,” the complaint filed by attorneys Roger Jones and Nicole Campbell says. “Subsequent to the Hotel’s ‘soft opening,’ Freestate was required to continue its acceleration efforts and the performance of extra work in order to permit the ‘grand opening’ of the Trump Hotel by October 26, 2016.”
The suit makes several references to the importance to Trump’s presidential ambitions of getting the hotel open. The complaint says the October opening was set for just before the election “to provide an opportunity for positive press coverage for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.”
Freestate says the Trump Organization has offered to pay only one-third of the project change and acceleration costs the contractor incurred. The suit contends that Trump’s businesses have a practice of unfairly pressuring contractors to accept reduced payments on projects.
“On information and belief, Trump’s actions in refusing to pay for work performed, after a project has opened, is a repeated practice of the Trump organizations on various projects, evidencing a typical business practice mean to force subcontractors to accept ‘pennies on the dollar’ with respect to amounts owed for the cost of the work performed,” the complaint says.
Freestate filed a lien on the Trump property last month as part of the same dispute but took the matter to court last Thursday, one day before Trump’s inauguration. The contracting firm suggests it went to court because of concerns Trump might divest his financial interest in the project. The hotel operates under a lease from the federal government that says federal officeholders should not benefit from the arrangement. Trump’s lawyers contend that provision only restricts participants in the lease at its outset and not situations that arise after the lease is signed.
Trump has resisted calls to divest from any of his businesses, but the White House says he has turned over management of the companies to his two adult sons.
The suit also names as a defendant the general contractor on the Trump hotel project, Lend Lease of New York, but says that firm claims to be holding back funds from Freestate at the Trump Organization’s direction.
Lawyers for Freestate and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A nearly $3 million lien filed against the hotel by a plumbing and heating contractor, Joseph J. Magnolia Inc., appears to have been resolved.
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Another law suit for screwing over his workers.
Trump hit with $2 million suit by contractor on D.C. hotel
An electrical contractor is suing President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel for $2 million over what the contractor contends are unpaid bills for “nonstop” work performed to open the luxury lodging at the Old Post Office Building last year.
The suit filed in D.C. Superior Court by Laurel, Maryland-based AES Electrical, also known as Freestate Electrical, contends that the company was instructed to rush work on electrical and fire alarm systems at the hotel in advance of a visit then-candidate Trump made there for a “soft opening” in September and again for the “grand opening” of the hotel in October.
“Acceleration of Freestate’s work required Freestate’s crews to work nonstop, seven days per week, 10 to 14 hours per day for nearly 50 consecutive days, prior to the ‘soft opening,’ at significant additional cost and expense for which Freestate expected payment,” the complaint filed by attorneys Roger Jones and Nicole Campbell says. “Subsequent to the Hotel’s ‘soft opening,’ Freestate was required to continue its acceleration efforts and the performance of extra work in order to permit the ‘grand opening’ of the Trump Hotel by October 26, 2016.”
The suit makes several references to the importance to Trump’s presidential ambitions of getting the hotel open. The complaint says the October opening was set for just before the election “to provide an opportunity for positive press coverage for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.”
Freestate says the Trump Organization has offered to pay only one-third of the project change and acceleration costs the contractor incurred. The suit contends that Trump’s businesses have a practice of unfairly pressuring contractors to accept reduced payments on projects.
“On information and belief, Trump’s actions in refusing to pay for work performed, after a project has opened, is a repeated practice of the Trump organizations on various projects, evidencing a typical business practice mean to force subcontractors to accept ‘pennies on the dollar’ with respect to amounts owed for the cost of the work performed,” the complaint says.
Freestate filed a lien on the Trump property last month as part of the same dispute but took the matter to court last Thursday, one day before Trump’s inauguration. The contracting firm suggests it went to court because of concerns Trump might divest his financial interest in the project. The hotel operates under a lease from the federal government that says federal officeholders should not benefit from the arrangement. Trump’s lawyers contend that provision only restricts participants in the lease at its outset and not situations that arise after the lease is signed.
Trump has resisted calls to divest from any of his businesses, but the White House says he has turned over management of the companies to his two adult sons.
The suit also names as a defendant the general contractor on the Trump hotel project, Lend Lease of New York, but says that firm claims to be holding back funds from Freestate at the Trump Organization’s direction.
Lawyers for Freestate and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A nearly $3 million lien filed against the hotel by a plumbing and heating contractor, Joseph J. Magnolia Inc., appears to have been resolved.
Slc....come on now...that's the new type of leader that we look for in this country...
RF and SG will likely laud this behavior... which Trump has made common practice over the last few decades.
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He's really going to waste tax payer money on investigating voter fraud in California (California!) to find the three million illegal votes.
He would have had a really good week had he not shot himself in the foot. I like the idea of renegotiating trade policies. I like he talked to unions, etc. The climate change shenanigans is incredibly worrying, the purported 30-40 Billion dollar wall plan is stupid. The block grants for Medicare is fucking disgusting. And the pipelines are ridiculous. The tax cuts will be self defeating as it has never spurred job growth, especially if they don't come with stipulations. They always take the money and run overseas. There's no way a Republican congress and Senate will approve tarrifs or outsourcing taxes.
You would really be better off inacting an automation tax, an environmental tax for items made in country's with horrible environmental practices and pollution status, and living wage taxes for items made in slave-wage countries.
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{THUMP THUMP THUMP} "HELLLOOOOOOOO!!! Is this thing on!? I know you're out there, I can hear you breathing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=kKFUL_dksUA
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Well, that is 11 minutes I can't get back. She has been around a long time!!
