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But the poll also found that this Supreme Court draft opinion hasn’t substantially altered the overall political environment heading into November’s elections — with inflation and the economy remaining the public’s top issues, President Joe Biden’s job rating falling below 40 percent and a whopping 75 percent of Americans saying the country is headed in the wrong direction.
It’s the fourth straight NBC News poll with the wrong-track number higher than 70 percent, and the fifth time in the poll’s 34-year history when the wrong-track number hit 75 percent or higher.
The other times were in 2008 (during the Great Recession) and 2013 (during a government shutdown).
an NBC News poll. Trump is more popular than Biden.
Also, I've fact-checked the following, and it appears to be true.
Creating white guilt does indeed appear to be a highly profitable business model. And what's even better is that it isn't even a crime.
The family and friends of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reaped millions in lucrative contracts and payments from the charity after it received a windfall of cash amid nationwide protests in the summer of 2020, according to charity tax documents released Tuesday.
BLM doled out millions to Patrisse Cullors's family and friends, IRS filing shows
Damon Turner, the father of Cullors's only child, raked in $969,459 from the embattled charity through his art firm, Trap Heals, BLM's Form 990 disclosure shows. An LLC run by Cullors's brother, Paul Cullors, received $840,993 for "professional security services." Shalomyah Bowers, a member of the BLM board of directors and a close associate to Cullors, pulled in $2,167,894 to his company for consulting and management services. New Impact Partners, an LLC run by the sister of BLM operations director Raymond Howard, received $107,000 for "fundraising counsel activities."
Cullors ultimately had exclusive control over how BLM spent its funds, as she was the only member of the charity's board of directors from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, the time frame covered by the Form 990 disclosure.
"This 990 shows why Cullors could no longer lead Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation," Tom Anderson, the director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center watchdog group, told the Washington Examiner. "I'm sure people who donated, in some cases their rent money, to BLM didn't expect millions of dollars going to family members and close associates of Patrisse Cullors while thousands of protests were taking place."
It gets even better. Patrisse Cullors has stated that laws requiring financial transparency in charity organizations are "triggering."
"It is such a trip now to hear the term '990,'" Cullors said Friday during an event at the Vashon Center for the Arts. "I'm, like, ugh. It's, like, triggering."
"I actually did not know what 990s were before all of this happened," Cullors said, an apparent reference to the Washington Examiner's reporting in January about BLM's lack of financial and leadership transparency that led multiple states, including California, to order the charity to cease raising funds until it discloses what it did with the $90 million it raised in 2020.
Cullors said activists suffer trauma and that their lives are put at risk when charities under their control are required to disclose publicly what they did with their tax-deductible donations.
"This doesn't seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure," Cullors said. "This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with."
"People's morale in an organization is so important. But if their organization and the people in it are being attacked and scrutinized at everything they do, that leads to deep burnout. that leads to deep, like, resistance and trauma," Cullors said.
Cullors, who left BLM without a leader after she resigned in May 2021 amid scrutiny of her personal real estate purchases, said media scrutiny of the charity is an "experiment," that, if successful, will be used to take down other black-led activist groups.
"They know what they're doing: how to create the infighting, how to create the distrust," she said. "We have to stop it before they do it. We have to shut it down. We have to be showing up against it."
Cullors did not return a request for comment.
The $6 million LA mansion BLM purchased in October 2020, just two weeks after the charity received a $66.5 million cash infusion from its former fiscal sponsor, was used in multiple videos on Cullors's personal YouTube channel, raising concerns from watchdog groups that BLM used nonprofit assets for the private benefit of its leaders.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that maybe if you're embezzling millions of dollars from a charity organization, it's ok for other people to make you feel uncomfortable about that.
Pennsylvania Election Thrown Into Chaos Due to Unexpected ‘Error’ Affecting Mail-In Ballots
...“An error by a company that prints ballots for several Pennsylvania counties made thousands of mail-in ballots unreadable Tuesday as voters were deciding hotly contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate in one of the nation’s most important battleground states,” PBS reported.
“Officials in Lancaster County, the state’s sixth most populous, said the problem involved at least 21,000 mailed ballots, only a third of which were scanning properly,” the report stated. “The glitch will force election workers to redo ballots that can’t be read by the machine, a laborious process expected to take several days. Officials in the GOP-controlled county pledged that all the ballots will be counted eventually.”
“Citizens deserve to have accurate results from elections and they deserve to have them on election night, not days later,” Josh Parsons, a Republican and vice chair of the county board of commissioners, said at a news conference. “But because of this, we’re not going to have final election results from these mail ballots for probably several days, so that is very, very frustrating to us.”
28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections
Between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots remain unaccounted for, according to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The missing ballots amount to nearly one in five of all absentee ballots and ballots mailed to voters residing in states that do elections exclusively by mail.
States and local authorities simply have no idea what happened to these ballots since they were mailed – and the figure of 28 million missing ballots is likely even higher because some areas in the country, notably Chicago, did not respond to the federal agency’s survey questions. This figure does not include ballots that were spoiled, undeliverable, or came back for any reason.
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It's literally just a few posts up from here, on this very same page, above the post where the brain is talking about the militarization of the police in America.
I think this is dead wrong. Everything except for taxes and houses costs about the same in a city vs rural.
I mean, you are completely wrong.
Free range, organic eggs
- - in the country - $2
- - downtown Portland at Whole Foods - $8
Gallon of Diesel fuel
- - in the country - $4.99
- - in downtown Portland - $6.15
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
We are now faced with an unenviable choice: Is removing Fauci from office worth a second Trump term? Before answering, consider the effect that four more years of Trump will have in deepening the divide among the electorate, and creating yet more hysteria and screaming in the public discourse.
Yeah, who would want border control, more jobs returning to US, reduction in sending money overseas, etc. Even the sacred one, Obama, had no clue as he prepared us for "look folks, this is the new normal" about poor economic growth. Trump turned the economy within 6mos. Obama didn't put anything in place or you can bet he would have been crowing about it. The Trump economy was so shitty that sometimes I needed to abandon trips to Costco or Home Depot, or my grocery store because there were no empty parking spaces.
Originally Posted by Braineack
Today in bad business decisions..
I jus don't understand the issue. The men and women had both choices available - guaranteed money or high risk/reward pay-to-play. Women chose safe. Men chose risk.
Free range, organic eggs
- - in the country - $2
- - downtown Portland at Whole Foods - $8
Nothing at Whole Foods is reasonably priced, nor is it necessary to go there to purchase eggs. People shop at Whole Foods because it's a lifestyle choice, not because of the groceries.
I live in Chicago, which in most respects is pricier than Portland. I just checked at Marianos and Jewel (the two big supermarket chains here) and both have what is labeled as "Organic, free range eggs" for $3.79 - $3.99 per dozen. That said, I don't care about whether chickens are kept in cages, so my eggs cost $2.99 per dozen.
And it's actually kind of funny that you use the eggs example. One of the guys in our IT department lives a little ways out in the 'burbs, and he raises chickens. He brings their eggs to work and sells them for, and I swear I'm not making this up: $2 a dozen.
EDIT: How does one produce an inorganic egg?
Originally Posted by Diamond Dave
Gallon of Diesel fuel
- - in the country - $4.99
- - in downtown Portland - $6.15
You really love and/or hate the Federal Republic of Portland.
I haven't checked the price of diesel lately, but 93 octane is $6.29 right now at the closest gas station to me. Out in the 'burbs (I chose Aurora, because that's where Wayne and Garth were from) it's between $5.59 - $6.09 according to gasbuddy.com.
But, yeah, fungible commodities do tend to cost more in major cities. There are more taxes, and the fixed costs of running a business tend also to be higher due to property values, transportation costs, fees and permits, bribes, protection money, etc.
Salaries, particularly for skilled workers, also tend to be much higher. I make something like $170k a year at my current job, and there's just absolutely no way in hell I'd come anywhere near that at a TV station in a small market. I'd be lucky to make half that.
Same goes for realtors, cosmetic surgeons, finish carpenters, new car dealers, hairstylists, dog groomers, insurance agents, and so on.
And, while living costs are definitely lower in the sticks, they're not half as low. So I'd wind up putting a lot less money in the bank overall.
Do I want to stay here in Chicago forever? Hell no. I hate this shithole, but I tolerate it because it's beneficial to my long-term plan, which is to work for another ten years (actually closer to nine now that I think about it), then retire and become an RV-nomad in the western US.
Originally Posted by Diamond Dave
Yeah, who would want border control, more jobs returning to US, reduction in sending money overseas, etc.
Here's a chart of the total amount of all foreign-aid payments made by the US since 2000. I have shaded the columns according to which party was in the White House at the time:
So, I'm seeing more than a doubling of money sent overseas during the GW era, then a very slight decrease under Obama, a very slight increase under Trump, and then a pretty noticeable decrease during Sleepy Joe's first year. (Maybe if you can't remember the names of foreign countries, it's harder to give them money?)
$50-60 billion are big numbers, of course, although they absolutely pale in comparison to the amount of money spent on domestic handouts. Just the big four alone (Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits and public housing) accounted for $825 billion in 2021.
And those have also been increasing over time at a more or less constant rate, regardless of the hat-color of the president.
The chart for immigration statistics looks pretty similar. The little sections of wall made for good PR photos, but didn't actually accomplish a reduction in illegal immigration. Oh, and We the People paid for 100% of those wall sections, not Mexico.
As for jobs, are you suggesting that the Fed should take an active role in dictating to businesses where they may operate and with whom they may trade?
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