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Weird. Who could have foreseen this? Trump’s very fine people. Remember, they’re like so economically anxious and love immigrants but just want immigrants to follow the process. Or something. Amirite???
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A fifth-generation resident in the small city between Columbus and Dayton, Mr. McGregor was struggling a few years ago to fill positions for machine operators, forklift drivers and quality inspectors. Mr. McGregor, 48, began hiring Haitians who had recently settled in Springfield. They now represent about 10 percent of McGregor Metal’s labor force of 330.
But he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a political firestorm. Former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, denounced the Haitians in Springfield with false claims that they were stealing and eating pets. The rumors fed growing resentment over rising housing prices, crowded clinics and a town whose character seemed to be changing. Mr. McGregor, who had publicly praised his new employees for their hard work and willingness to learn, became a target.
A flood of threats was directed not only at him, but his family and his business.
They came by the hundreds — phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other people they had never met.
“The owner of McGregor Metal can take a bullet to the skull and that would be 100 percent justified,” said one message left on the company voice mail.
“Why are you importing Third World savages who eat animals and giving them jobs over United States citizens?” another asked.
“Stack all 20,000 Haitians inside Jamie McGregor’s factory at once and force him to praise the benefits of foreign labor while being crushed to death by Black bodies themselves being crushed to death,” another said.
An Ohio Businessman Faces Death Threats for Praising His Haitian Workers
The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.
A fifth-generation resident in the small city between Columbus and Dayton, Mr. McGregor was struggling a few years ago to fill positions for machine operators, forklift drivers and quality inspectors. Mr. McGregor, 48, began hiring Haitians who had recently settled in Springfield. They now represent about 10 percent of McGregor Metal’s labor force of 330.
But he has suddenly found himself in the middle of a political firestorm. Former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, denounced the Haitians in Springfield with false claims that they were stealing and eating pets. The rumors fed growing resentment over rising housing prices, crowded clinics and a town whose character seemed to be changing. Mr. McGregor, who had publicly praised his new employees for their hard work and willingness to learn, became a target.
A flood of threats was directed not only at him, but his family and his business.
They came by the hundreds — phone calls, emails and letters from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other people they had never met.
“The owner of McGregor Metal can take a bullet to the skull and that would be 100 percent justified,” said one message left on the company voice mail.
“Why are you importing Third World savages who eat animals and giving them jobs over United States citizens?” another asked.
“Stack all 20,000 Haitians inside Jamie McGregor’s factory at once and force him to praise the benefits of foreign labor while being crushed to death by Black bodies themselves being crushed to death,” another said.
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J D Vance, upset that in a Post Truth era, someone fact checked him. Post Truth means lies=facts. Meaning the equal of facts, if one prefers the lie. It no longer matters. Lies are expected to vie with facts, and people are allowed to push the narrative they prefer. Lacking factual basis is irrelevant to Trump’s approach: talk his reality into existence. Of course this is very familiar: repeat a lie often enough….Post Truth is the era of “alternate facts”, the term Kelly Conway famously coined.
And from Vance’s perspective, alternative facts should not be fact checked.
Trump supporters do not recognize this emerging playing field. They chose to believe the lie. They created a term, as a couple of posters here are fond of pointing out, known as TDS. Actually TDS is nothing more than a reflection of those of us who recognize that what Trump did, and continues to do, are both simply lies, (and why on Earth would we not point that basic truth out?), as well as simply being not how we do business in this country. We do not expect, and should not allow, the loser of a race to declare himself the winner.
How hard is that to understand, that some here would rather label that TDS, rather than a simple fact that any American should be alarmed at: the transition is peaceful, and the loser exits without attempting a coup. Yet, to these MAGA clowns, folks that recognize this impossible not to recognize fact (if they had half a brain) are hypocrites!
TDS is not a form of mental derangement. It is the simple recognition, by American citizens who know their civics well enough, to recognize a very simple, very easily recognizable fact: Trump is lying and attempting to remain in power. You know, third world stuff. The people that claim what they call TDS is the problem, are themselves victims of their own inability to apply critical thinking skills. Their alternative facts have nothing to do with truth, and everything to do with “divorced from reality”.
You know who you are(although it’s possible the Dunning-Kruger Effect means you’re too stupid to realize just how stupid you are), your blindness to the truth is all over these Trump threads….while you call those who don’t buy into your pure nonsense “hypocrites”. Sorry, but you’re dumb.
View: https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1841411601703841832
And from Vance’s perspective, alternative facts should not be fact checked.
Trump supporters do not recognize this emerging playing field. They chose to believe the lie. They created a term, as a couple of posters here are fond of pointing out, known as TDS. Actually TDS is nothing more than a reflection of those of us who recognize that what Trump did, and continues to do, are both simply lies, (and why on Earth would we not point that basic truth out?), as well as simply being not how we do business in this country. We do not expect, and should not allow, the loser of a race to declare himself the winner.
How hard is that to understand, that some here would rather label that TDS, rather than a simple fact that any American should be alarmed at: the transition is peaceful, and the loser exits without attempting a coup. Yet, to these MAGA clowns, folks that recognize this impossible not to recognize fact (if they had half a brain) are hypocrites!
TDS is not a form of mental derangement. It is the simple recognition, by American citizens who know their civics well enough, to recognize a very simple, very easily recognizable fact: Trump is lying and attempting to remain in power. You know, third world stuff. The people that claim what they call TDS is the problem, are themselves victims of their own inability to apply critical thinking skills. Their alternative facts have nothing to do with truth, and everything to do with “divorced from reality”.
You know who you are(although it’s possible the Dunning-Kruger Effect means you’re too stupid to realize just how stupid you are), your blindness to the truth is all over these Trump threads….while you call those who don’t buy into your pure nonsense “hypocrites”. Sorry, but you’re dumb.
View: https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1841411601703841832
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Trump is saying that Jack Smith is committing election interference but actually........
The new disclosures from the special counsel's office, however, were made in an ongoing criminal case at the order of a federal judge, Tanya Chutkan, who ultimately made the decision to release the redacted filing Wednesday.
Smith wasn’t aware that Chutkan was going to make the decision to release the document nor when, two sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly said.
Also....... Others have compared the “October surprise” filing to the then-FBI director James Comey’s pronouncements about Hillary Clinton’s emails in October 2016, to Trump’s benefit. But the scenarios are starkly different. In 2016, the director of the FBI made disparaging comments about a presidential candidate who, its investigation found, didn't commit conduct that warranted criminal charges. In 2024, a special counsel who secured three separate indictments from different federal grand juries against a former president disclosed information in an ongoing criminal case at the order of a federal judge.
Trump argued on his Truth Social account Thursday that the Justice Department should do “absolutely nothing” that could interfere with an election in the 60 days before it. "They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference," he wrote in one post. "I did nothing wrong, they did! The case is a scam, just like all of the others."
The 60-day period doesn't apply to judges, nor does it generally apply to pending cases, although that's always subject to discretion if prosecutors want to avoid taking certain actions even in pending cases. Chuck Rosenberg, a Justice Department veteran and NBC News legal analyst, said Smith's team was doing things by the book.
“The case was previously indicted. Litigating that case is an obligation of the Smith team and not a violation of Justice Department guidelines," Rosenberg said. "In any event, the Smith team properly sealed its filing. The judge properly unsealed it. It’s really not any more complicated than that.”
Smith's decision to swiftly seek a superseding indictment in August can't be separated from the reality that he and his team believe Trump is a criminal who committed four felonies in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, that he is a repeat offender who the committed the kind of criminal conduct that would earn him a lengthier sentence and that he should be serving that sentence in 2025, not in the White House. Had Smith's team had its way, the Supreme Court wouldn't have stepped in, and Trump would currently be in federal prison or, at least, a convicted criminal, and it would be preparing its sentencing memos for Chutkan as Election Day nears.
The new disclosures from the special counsel's office, however, were made in an ongoing criminal case at the order of a federal judge, Tanya Chutkan, who ultimately made the decision to release the redacted filing Wednesday.
Smith wasn’t aware that Chutkan was going to make the decision to release the document nor when, two sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly said.
Also....... Others have compared the “October surprise” filing to the then-FBI director James Comey’s pronouncements about Hillary Clinton’s emails in October 2016, to Trump’s benefit. But the scenarios are starkly different. In 2016, the director of the FBI made disparaging comments about a presidential candidate who, its investigation found, didn't commit conduct that warranted criminal charges. In 2024, a special counsel who secured three separate indictments from different federal grand juries against a former president disclosed information in an ongoing criminal case at the order of a federal judge.
Trump argued on his Truth Social account Thursday that the Justice Department should do “absolutely nothing” that could interfere with an election in the 60 days before it. "They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference," he wrote in one post. "I did nothing wrong, they did! The case is a scam, just like all of the others."
The 60-day period doesn't apply to judges, nor does it generally apply to pending cases, although that's always subject to discretion if prosecutors want to avoid taking certain actions even in pending cases. Chuck Rosenberg, a Justice Department veteran and NBC News legal analyst, said Smith's team was doing things by the book.
“The case was previously indicted. Litigating that case is an obligation of the Smith team and not a violation of Justice Department guidelines," Rosenberg said. "In any event, the Smith team properly sealed its filing. The judge properly unsealed it. It’s really not any more complicated than that.”
Smith's decision to swiftly seek a superseding indictment in August can't be separated from the reality that he and his team believe Trump is a criminal who committed four felonies in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, that he is a repeat offender who the committed the kind of criminal conduct that would earn him a lengthier sentence and that he should be serving that sentence in 2025, not in the White House. Had Smith's team had its way, the Supreme Court wouldn't have stepped in, and Trump would currently be in federal prison or, at least, a convicted criminal, and it would be preparing its sentencing memos for Chutkan as Election Day nears.
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I just don't know how the economy survives such devastation.
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Such dark and dreary times we live in.
I just went fishing earlier this week (Monday) and noticed my waders were leaking.
Today my new waders arrived. Gonna go camping next week and try them out. Got a new folding saw yesterday that I'm going to try out on this trip as well.
Life Sucks! Damn Biden administration!
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Biden-Harris' Helene Response Has Been Way Worse Than Katrina
As a veteran of military logistics, I can tell you exactly why the Democrat administration's response to Helene has been abysmal.
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4 more years like that and we wont even have a country left.
This is gonna be you favorite fishing spot after 4 years of Kamala.
