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GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 9:24 am Before I even heard of that study I started seeing "lol republicans think they're trying to ban gas stoves." Well I like my gas stove, so I did some digging. NY and CA had already banned new gas installation. So when I provided those links and said, "Well, yeah, they're already banning gas stoves," I was downvoted.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:43 am OK, but no one's trying to take beer/alcohol away, which is what the Reps tried to turn this into.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:09 am Serious question: How is this different from "No one's trying to take away your guns"? We all know that's a lie. The ultimate goal is disarming the American populace. Some Ds are more open about it than others.

GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:04 am When you say "no one" you automatically lose your argument. Plenty of people are trying.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:17 am

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:09 am Serious question: How is this different from "No one's trying to take away your guns"? We all know that's a lie. The ultimate goal is disarming the American populace. Some Ds are more open about it than others.

Because no one's trying to take away our guns? If so, they're terrible at it for 15 straight years.

GORDON wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:08 am Clarification: they want to selectively take away guns. Their own security details/private police will still have them. It's just from the little people. The correct voters people will still have them.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:49 am This cannot be understated. The hypocrisy amazes me, and the way the cultists ignore this double standard amazes me even more.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:49 am I also believe it to be far more than 10%

TikTok had hardly any friends in government earlier this year as the Biden administration, Congress and state legislatures were threatening to ban the Chinese-owned video giant.

TikTok now has many more friends, with something in common: backing from billionaire financier Jeff Yass. They’ve helped stall attempts to outlaw America’s most-downloaded app.

Yass’s investment company, Susquehanna International Group, bet big on TikTok in 2012, buying a stake in parent company ByteDance now measured at about 15%. That translates into a personal stake for Yass of 7% in ByteDance. It is worth roughly $21 billion based on the company’s recent valuation, or much of his $28 billion net worth as gauged by Bloomberg.

Yass is also one of the top donors to the Club for Growth, an influential conservative group that rallied Republican opposition to a TikTok ban. Yass has donated $61 million to the Club for Growth’s political-spending arm since 2010, or about 24% of its total, according to federal records.

Club for Growth made public its opposition to banning TikTok in March, in an opinion article by its president, at a time when sentiment against the platform among segments of both parties was running high on Capitol Hill. Days later, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) stood up on the Senate floor and quashed an attempt to fast-track a bill by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) to ban downloading of the TikTok app.

“We will be acting like the Chinese government if we ban TikTok here,” Paul said around that time.

In June, Yass donated $3 million to a political committee backing Paul. Including that contribution, Yass and his wife, Janine Yass, have donated more than $24 million to Paul or committees that support him since 2015, according to federal records. Club for Growth has given a Paul-supporting political committee $1.8 million since 2020.

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:46 pm Nobody outside of DC gives two fucks about the Speaker of the House.

Troy wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 10:01 pm I'm surprised Santos lasted this long. The boogey man for Florida, Texas, North Carolina and other red states right now are trans people and cross dressers.

The report said Santos engaged in “knowing and willful violations” with regard to financial disclosure statements filed with the House, and “knowingly caused his campaign committee to file false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission.”

A statement from the committee accompanying the report said the panel unanimously voted to adopt the report. The committee said it uncovered additional “uncharged and unlawful conduct” by Santos that go beyond the criminal allegations already pending against him, and would immediately refer these allegations to the Justice Department for further investigation.
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The panel concluded Santos “sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.”