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What did I invent? You want zero carbon emissions. Burning wood emits more CO2 than fossil fuels per megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generated or per unit of heat generated.

Yeah - the main goal of the Democratic party is to outlaw campfires

Your main goal is power over everyone. Everything else is just a means to achieve it.

Here we go with the "Trump does it too" crap. I don't support that BS either. The republicans have been spending like drunken sailors. They took it to a new level under W, especially with the auto industry bailouts and that's when I quit voting for them in the presidential elections.

That would be terrible if there were any truth that Biden would attempt to do that, but he won't. There are other things on that list Biden would never do. See, he's not AOC or Bernie and looking on his own web site proves that.

I just get rather amazed at the comments sometimes. Republicans get into office and run the debt up like crazy. Then all of a sudden, when they think a Democrat is going to do the same thing they're all, "They better have a way to pay for it!"

Trillions in the pocket of big business and all of the loopholes they use to get out of paying their fair share seems far less concerning to some than when you start talking about using some of that same money helping the average or poor. Yes, it's simply amazing to me.

Non-Partisan Watchdog Accuses Trump Campaign Of ‘Laundering’ $170 Million
Andrew Solender
Andrew SolenderForbes Staff
Business
I cover politics and the 2020 election
TOPLINE The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Tuesday accusing the Trump campaign of “laundering” $170 million through numerous companies, some with connections to former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
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KEY FACTS
“The Trump campaign and Trump Make America Great Again Committee disguised nearly $170 million of campaign spending by laundering the funds through firms,” the complaint claims.

It adds that the firms are “headed by Trump’s recent campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and/or created by Trump campaign lawyers.”

The complaint alleges that the Trump campaign paid millions of dollars to campaign-connected vendors without reporting those payments to the FEC, specifically honing in on American Made Media Consultants (AMMC), a firm created by Parscale, which has been paid over $106 million, making it the campaigns largest vendor.

AMMC was ostensibly created to circumvent media buyers, but the complaint points to FCC records that show the campaign has used media buying firm Harris Sikes to place some of its ads, alleging the campaign is “failing to report payments to the firms and is instead using AMMC as a conduit for its payments to the firms.”

The complaint also points to an app called Phunware, which Parscale has said was created and is “directly owned” by the campaign, but which has never appeared in the campaign’s spending reports because, as the complaint alleges, it was paid through AMMC.

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh denied the charges made in the complaint, telling Forbes, “The campaign reports all payments to AMMC as required by the FEC. The campaign complies with all campaign finance laws and FEC regulations.”

CRUCIAL QUOTE
By failing to report payments to the campaign’s true vendors and employees, the Trump campaign and Trump Make America Great Again Committee have violated, and continue to violate, federal law’s transparency requirements,” the complaint asserts, adding that such activities “undermine the vital public information role that reporting is intended to serve.”

KEY BACKGROUND
Parscale was named as Trump’s campaign manager in February 2018 but was replaced in that role by Bill Stepien earlier this month. Parscale’s firms have long been the object of media scrutiny for receiving large sums from the Trump campaign and for Parscale maintaining a lavish lifestyle well beyond the means of most presidential campaign managers.

CHIEF CRITIC
"Voters have a right to know how campaigns are spending money to influence elections," CLC founder and President Trevor Potter, a Republican and former FEC Chair, told CNN. "This scheme flies in the face of transparency requirements mandated by federal law, and it leaves voters and donors in the dark about where the campaign's funds are actually going."

NEWS PEG
The allegation comes amid reports that the Trump campaign also moved millions in campaign funds to Trump’s private business interests. Forbes’ Dan Alexander and Michela Tindera reported earlier this month that the Trump campaign has pushed nearly $7 million towards Trump’s businesses since the president entered office.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR
The complaint asks the FEC, which regulates campaign finance, to “conduct an immediate investigation” and “seek appropriate sanctions for any and all violations, including civil penalties sufficient to deter future violations.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolen...n/#1846a7426128

Vers.

I stand by my comments on mental heath.

However, even you gotta admit that the timing is suspect of this guy wanting to commit suicide, and now this report dropping.

I’m hoping it’s a coincidence, but.....

This is 2 months old right?

it is but its being recirculated and now at the forefront due to the tax return bombshell.

His supporters don't care. They don't care what he does or what he says.

Nail. Head. Hit. On. The.

It was on a link on Drudgereport to Forbes this morning-right after the story about Pascale

I just started skimming this forum. I really haven't been reading the individual posts because they all say the same things depending on the poster. It's so important that they win an argument and there are very few true conversations. It always digresses into character attacks, as if that makes their opinions more valid.

Anyway........I saw you made that post to me, but I missed something. What are you referring to? Are you saying his attempted suicide wasn't due to mental illness? You can PM if you want.

I saw your post was more about attacking other posters than actually making a point about the topic. I mean if we're here to comment about what we noticed.

It's all you do anymore. You sound more and more like Pokapornstar every day.

He doesn't make any valid points either while he attacks everyone else.

Parscale is being accused oy lying to congress, laundering $170M from the Trump campaign and was recently demoted.

It sounds like a guy that is under extreme stress and falling apart in the face of all the pressure. Turns out, he was beating his wife as well.

More on the story...

He only hires the best.

Can we just toss the scumbag in the Oval to the curb with the rest of the trash... aka... the rest of his sycophant administration? Enough already. He’s human garbage. His appointees are human garbage. What an embarrassing chapter this is in US history. My God our great grandchildren’s generation will read about all this and gasp that there were citizens dumb enough to vote for him once... let alone some will have done it twice. Unreal.

According to Pocapornstar the SCOTUS will decide.

j/c

Thanks for posting this.

One guy is leading by example during a pandemic that has killed 205k. The other is packing his brain dead supporters together like illegal immigrants in a connex, during a pandemic that has killed 205k.

Yes. 1 guy has over 15,000 supporters show up, while the other guy has 20?

One guy knows that .5 percent that get covid die, IF that, while the other guy wonders if he's still in his basement.

wow, you really are praising the president for acting like there isn't an active pandemic going on.

thats.....eww.

Pretty sure that's NOT what I was doing.


Did you see the survival rates of those that get it? Perhaps not.

thats exactly what you're doing. you're praising the president for packing people into an arena during a pandemic that has killed 205k of your FELLOW americans, just so he can stand on stage and rant like like an old senile man that you call Biden all the time.

thats just hot garbage. straight up disgusting. both from Trump and for you supporting it.

So you are ok with 205K people dead because it's just .5% or whatever and Trump lying about it means nothing to you? Trump cheating on his taxes means nothing to you? You are ok with Trump doing whatever... I called that.

You sound like a battered wife. He can cheat with his Russian girlfriend as long as he says he loves me... He's a good man...

GOP LADIES, when you and your daughters hide on prima nocta, don't tell your husbands where you'll be hiding!

Biden and Trump however want to keep the Campfire girls around

LOL. Ok boomer.

j/c...

2020 U.S. Elections
September 29, 202010:23 AM Updated 20 minutes ago
U.S. intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election

By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke, Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns.

FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos say threats by domestic extremists to election-related targets will likely increase in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election.

Those warnings so far have largely remained internal. But New Jersey’s homeland security office took the unusual step of publicly highlighting the threat in a little-noticed report on its website last week.

“You have this witch’s brew that really hasn’t happened in America’s history. And if it has, it’s been decades if not centuries,” said Jared Maples, director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, which published the threat assessment.

Nationwide protests in recent months over racial justice and police brutality have been largely peaceful, but some have led to violent confrontations, including between extremist factions from left and right.

The United States is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, high unemployment and a contentious presidential election in a polarized political climate.

President Donald Trump last week declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election to Democratic rival Joe Biden. Trump has sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election because of his concerns about mail-in voting, which Democrats have encouraged during the coronavirus pandemic.

Documented cases of mail-ballot fraud are extremely rare and election experts say it would be nearly impossible for foreign actors to disrupt an election by mailing out fake ballots.

A recent internal FBI bulletin warned that domestic extremists with varying ideologies would likely pose an increasing threat to government and election-related targets in the run-up to the election, according to a person familiar with it. The bulletin was first reported by Yahoo News.

An FBI spokeswoman said the agency “routinely shares information with our law enforcement partners in order to assist in protecting the communities they serve,” but declined to comment on the specific document.

A DHS memo dated to Aug. 17 said ideologically driven extremists and other actors “could quickly mobilize” to engage in violence related to the election. The document, also first reported by Yahoo News, was confirmed to Reuters by a person familiar with it.

The memo said that lone offender white supremacists and other lone offenders with “personalized ideologies” pose the greatest threat of deadly violence.

A DHS spokesperson directed Reuters to early September remarks by acting Secretary Chad Wolf, in which he said that the department “has taken unprecedented actions to address all forms of violent extremism, to specifically include threats posed by lone offenders and small cells of individuals.”

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Trump and his top officials have not so far publicly highlighted any threat by violent extremist groups to the election.

Trump officials have pointed the finger at left-wing anarchists and anti-fascists during protests against police brutality and racism over the summer, but federal court records provide little evidence showing those arrested for violent acts had affiliations to far-left groups.

Last week, the top two DHS officials acknowledged in congressional hearings, however, that white supremacists have posed the most lethal domestic threat to the United States in recent years.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said during congressional hearings earlier that his month that his agency was conducting investigations into violent domestic extremists, include white supremacists and anti-fascist groups. He said the largest “chunk” of investigations were into white supremacist groups.

White supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-government, and related ideologies were tied to 77 percent of 454 alleged domestic extremist murders in the past decade, according to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, a New York City-based anti-hate advocacy organization, and presented at one of the congressional hearings last week.

National Security Council spokesman John Ullyot told Reuters that Trump’s highest priority is “protecting the U.S. from all threats, both foreign and domestic” when asked if the president had addressed the election threat publicly.

Maples, the New Jersey homeland director, said his agency did not issue a pre-election threat assessment in 2016, but that it was necessary this time around.

“We want our allies and folks across the state to recognize that we need to be thinking about this,” he said.

The New Jersey report outlines three possible scenarios for the November election: a quick election outcome, a protracted process where determining a winner takes months and a legal battle that eventually goes to the Supreme Court.

Each of the scenarios could lead to extremist violence, with the possibility of deadly confrontations between protesters and targeted violence toward police officers, the assessment concludes.

The agency’s report says the extremists will likely be “anarchist, anti-government, and racially motivated,” but does not say which groups pose the greater threat.

The domestic extremist threat has always been present, but is getting more attention this year, according to Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents state-run “fusion centers” staffed by federal, state and local public safety personnel who monitor threats and facilitate information sharing.

“We have always had threats during the national election cycles from violent extremists, including terrorist organizations,” he said. “With current events, it is more in the spotlight than ever.”

The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank, said in a June report that the outcome of the election could incite violence by the far-right or far-left.

“If President Trump loses the election, some extremists may use violence because they believe - however incorrectly - that there was fraud or that the election of Democratic candidate Joe Biden will undermine their extremist objectives,” the report reads. “Alternatively, some on the far-left could resort to terrorism if President Trump is re-elected.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-e...n-idUSKBN26K2J7

The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank, said in a June report that the outcome of the election could incite violence by the far-right or far-left.

“If President Trump loses the election, some extremists may use violence because they believe - however incorrectly - that there was fraud or that the election of Democratic candidate Joe Biden will undermine their extremist objectives,” the report reads. “Alternatively, some on the far-left could resort to terrorism if President Trump is re-elected.”

Gee - wonder why there are some Trump supporters that feel - incorrectly - that if Trump loses it must be due to fraud????

Barr and Trump both doing their best to ensure the country is even more divided after the election. Scumbags both.

Trump gets third 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination
Trump is reducing US involvement in wars, one of his nominators said

President Trump received his third 2020 Nobel Peace Prize nomination in September, this time from a group of Australian law professors.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-third-nobel-nomination-doctrine

How does that change that there are over 200,6000 dead from the virus and counting? Why are you trying so hard to minimize more deaths of Americans than our last five wars combined?

I guess the numbers you wish to promote mean more than all those corpses somehow. And somehow you think gathering all those people, indoors, without masks makes Trump great?

That taking the proper precautions to try and lower the death count is now a bad thing? Only in the world of Pocapornstar is promoting the death count rises a good thing.

Bet that won’t be on any of the nightly news shows.

FOX has it covered.

J/C

Man who authorizes drone strike at an airport that kills 10 people is nominated for a peace prize.

Wow.

Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize


By Christopher Brito

September 24, 2020 / 5:23 PM / CBS News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the Russian state news agency TASS reported Thursday. Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the nomination did not come from the Kremlin.

According to TASS, a group of Russian public figures led by writer Sergey Komkov submitted the nomination, which was sent to Oslo on September 10.

"If this decision is made" — to award Putin the prize — "great, if not, it's no problem as well," Peskov said.
Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The nomination comes as one of Putin's most prominent critics, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is recovering from poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Independent laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have confirmed that he was poisoned with Novichok, a toxin that has also been used against other opponents of the regime. The Kremlin has flatly rejected the claim that Navalny was poisoned in Russia.

President Trump has also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. His nomination was submitted by a Norwegian lawmaker, who nominated him in 2018 as well.

Last week, Presidents Trump and Putin were among those "honored" with the Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education — a tongue-in-cheek award bestowed on them and other world leaders "for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-nobel-peace-prize-nominated/

I wonder if FOX News is covering the entire story?

So the nominations are a joke? lmao

j/c...

Joe Biden releases 2019 tax returns. Copies of returns in link...

Yes. The real joke may be on 40 cent. I mean he never looks around for the truth. He gets his news spoon fed. So he's probably the most disappointed.