The Isolated Politics Blurt Thread I: A New Beginning

Another republican backing a democrat over trump-endorsed republican candidate:

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, scion of one of the state's best-known Republican families, threw his support Sunday behind Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in his hotly contested reelection race against GOP nominee Bernie Moreno.

Taft cited, among the reasons for his decision, Brown’s collaboration with U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, on behalf of the Dayton area, including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Brown's 25 years of experience in public office; and Brown's committee assignments as a result of his senior status in the Senate.

“Although not in agreement with Senator Brown on every policy issue, I believe Ohioans very much need a highly effective, experienced advocate in the U.S. Senate — someone who is squarely focused on both Ohio's and America's needs,”
Taft wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...p&cvid=70de304e39b841b68b1b48293fe7661e&ei=85

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It’s damn near impossible to get a campaigning Republican in a Joe the Plumber moment.
Every thing is scripted to keep them from facing a constituency to possibly give them even the mildest of pushback.
 
"I am the "Worlds Best" fry man... "Order of fries, seaboard !" ~ donnie (employee of da month)

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just like musk, really:

On neither occasion did she refer to Russia explicitly, but in recent weeks Moldovan authorities uncovered a giant scheme of payments coming from Moscow – and paid to people to vote against her and the EU referendum.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Sandu would need to present "evidence" for her claims that there had been foreign interference in the vote.

EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Monday that the vote had taken place "under unprecedented interference and intimidation by Russia and its proxies".

Last month Ilan Shor, a pro-Russian Moldovan businessman and politician who now lives in Russia, said he would pay money to convince “as many people as possible” to vote No or to abstain in the EU referendum. This week, Shor then made a video statement telling people to vote for "anyone but Sandu" in the presidential election.

On Sunday, the BBC stumbled upon evidence of vote-buying at a polling station for residents of the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria - which is economically, politically and militarily supported by Russia.
 
Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.

The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children’s libraries.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...&cvid=2bbeef6f7dcc4484a10346c362f69174&ei=101

(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal that sought to give the president control over agencies that have long operated independently, potentially including the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

The appeal, pressed by two research organizations in a case involving the Consumer Product Safety Commission, contended that the Constitution gives the president broad power to fire the leaders of executive-branch agencies.
2 'research organizations', lol: trump sycophants fail to grab potential president felon trump even more power—of course, should he become president then SCOTUS may decide to hear the case.

The ruling, known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, upheld job protections for FTC commissioners and paved the way for the independent agencies that now proliferate across the US government.

Congress established the CPSC in 1972. The commission sets standards for thousands of products — including cribs, cleaning products, kitchen appliances and all-terrain vehicles — and can seek multimillion-dollar fines from violators.

The agency is headed by five commissioners who are appointed by the president for seven-year terms and can be fired only “for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.”
The Biden administration said the 'FOIA requests are insufficient to give the groups legal standing to challenge the commissioners’ job protections.' SCOTUS decided, wisely this time, not to even hear the case and so leaving the protections in place, guaranteeing a better chance of such agencies performing their jobs in a non-partisan fashion outside of the whims of whomever has the job of POTUS.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...&cvid=2bbeef6f7dcc4484a10346c362f69174&ei=101


2 'research organizations', lol: trump sycophants fail to grab potential president felon trump even more power—of course, should he become president then SCOTUS may decide to hear the case.




The Biden administration said the 'FOIA requests are insufficient to give the groups legal standing to challenge the commissioners’ job protections.' SCOTUS decided, wisely this time, not to even hear the case and so leaving the protections in place, guaranteeing a better chance of such agencies performing their jobs in a non-partisan fashion outside of the whims of whomever has the job of POTUS.


just one of the reasons team trummp and his minions wanted to have the power to kick Lina Khan to the curb...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...p&cvid=fef91eb30c67420baaff20a665ed0897&ei=70

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect.

The Federal Trade Commission issued the rule in August banning the sale or purchase of online reviews. The rule, which went into effect Monday, allows the agency to seek civil penalties against those who knowingly violate it.
Specifically, the rule bans reviews and testimonials attributed to people who don’t exist or are generated by artificial intelligence, people who don’t have experience with the business or product/services, or misrepresent their experience.

It also bans businesses from creating or selling reviews or testimonials. Businesses that knowingly buy fake reviews, procure them from company insiders or disseminate fake reviews will be penalized. It also prohibits businesses from using “unfounded or groundless legal threats, physical threats, intimidation, or certain false public accusations.”
these rules must apply so so many grifts linked with trump, including my pillow'nut'case
 
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