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Increasingly, MAGA Republicans associated with Trump are convinced he is going to lose the election. But they have a backup plan to put him in the White House no matter what. And that plan even has a second backup plan of its own. The three states most likely to swing the election in the Electoral College this year are Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. And, just by coincidence of course, Republicans in those state passed laws in 2020 guaranteeing election day chaos around their vote counting this November 5th. Like Bush, Trump lost the election in 2016 by three million votes. But in five swing states — focused on by Vladimir Putin and Jill Stein — he was able to eke out a tiny Electoral College win. And then everybody forgot he had lost by 3 million votes. Tip your hat to our media. This year, Republicans are again counting on the Electoral College (and Jill Stein, Putin, and Elon Musk) as their first line of defense, focusing billions of dollars on a handful of swing states with ads that range from deceptive to outright lies. It’s all backed up by a massive Russian effort on social media. As Joyce Vance noted today at her excellent Civil DiscourseSubstack newsletter: “This cycle, Republicans are filing so many meritless cases that it’s fair to wonder if their goal isn’t to win legitimate cases at all. Those cases are useful as a way to try and convince voters, in advance of the election, that the system is rigged against Trump.”

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Have you read the bill? Are you ok with only $20 billion of the $118 billion going towards border security, but only after a weekly average of 5,000 illegal crossings a day? That's 1.825 million illegal crossings a year before this bill requires any action to stop them.

Kamala Harris’s big Fox gamble did not pay off Kamala Harris’s interview with Fox News on Wednesday night was never expected to be a friendly affair. The network has been consistently hostile to the vice-president since she entered the race in July, and this awkward 30 minutes was no different. There are many within the Harris campaign who thought sitting down with Bret Baier, one of Fox’s most experienced interviewers, was a mistake. But the stakes were too high. With several swing states too close to call, including battlegrounds that Ms Harris needs to win the presidency, she has just three weeks to convince Republicans to vote for her. It is hard to see how Wednesday’s interview achieved that goal. On almost every subject, Ms Harris batted away policy questions and opportunities to push her plan for the White House in favour of slamming Donald Trump. Ms Harris described border security as a “topic of discussion that people want to rightly have”, but then didn’t talk about it. She talked about Trump’s role in blocking Joe Biden’s border deal, and offered no solutions of her own. She was then asked why voters do not trust her to tackle inflation, and she talked about Trump’s economic plan, not her own. A question about transgender operations in federal prisons produced a response about Trump. Even in the most newsworthy section of the interview, about how her White House would differ from Mr Biden’s, Ms Harris suggested she would avoid “the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump”. It is hard to imagine that this strategy was compelling for Fox News viewers, who are almost all likely to think Trump’s policy positions are at the least defensible, more probably laudable. Ms Harris has spent weeks on the back foot, unable to answer detailed policy questions even in softball interviews with Left-wing outlets. When she finally sat down with Fox, she could only attack the man the network most supports. The other theme of the interview, which got heated at times as Mr Baier tried to interrupt Ms Harris, was Mr Biden’s legacy. Ms Harris is stuck with the inheritance of his administration, including a record of high inflation and record border crossings. She must support him and continue the fiction that he is mentally agile, while trying to run a campaign based on a “new generation of change”. Many Republicans will have tuned in to hear Ms Harris face their favourite anchor on Wednesday. After hearing her answers, my instinct is that they will still support Trump. What alternative did Ms Harris offer? Patronising, stuttering, this was a disaster for Harris Kamala Harris is evidently sensitive to criticism over her reticence to take interviews, even with friendly outlets. Well, on Fox, she was ready to prove the critics wrong. Fox News proved it was no friend to Kamala almost instantly, with host Bret Baier immediately questioning the Democratic administration’s handling of illegal immigration.

"Trump threatens American citizens with military action." FIVE MINUTE NEWS 113K subscribers Join Subscribed 5K Share Download "54,345 views Oct 15, 2024 FIVE MINUTE NEWS Trump's latest aggression is to threaten American citizens who don't agree with him with military action around voting day. VP Kamala Harris wasted no time pointing this out. Anthony Davis reports." "Join this channel for exclusive access and bonus content:   / @fiveminutenews   Five Minute News with Anthony Davis is an Evergreen Podcast, covering politics, inequality, health and climate - delivering independent, unbiased and essential news for the US and across the world. Visit us online at http://www.fiveminute.news  Follow us on Twitter  / fiveminnews   Follow us on Instagram  / fiveminnews   Support us on Patreon  / fiveminutenews   You can subscribe to Five Minute News with your preferred podcast app, ask your smart speaker, or enable Five Minute News as your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing skill. Please subscribe HERE  / @fiveminutenews"  "CONTENT DISCLAIMER The views and opinions expressed on this channel are those of the guests and authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Anthony Davis or Five Minute News LLC. Any content provided by our guests or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything."

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New Post: What’s Left of Diddy’s Assets? - https://lnkd.in/d5AMErAZ - As Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs sits in a Brooklyn prison awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges and prepares to fend off multiple civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault, those in the music industry are asking how much of his wealth could be at stake. Sources tell Billboard that the hip-hop mogul has sold many of the assets that earned him hundreds of millions of dollars. And Forbes estimated that Combs’ net worth — once fueled by ventures in music, fashion, liquor and cable TV — has fallen from approximately $740 million in 2019 to $400 million as of this past June. Related What Comes Next In Diddy's Racketeering and Sex Trafficking Case? 09/26/2024 Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the alleged victims likely will go after the money Combs earned from his businesses and other assets, and his own legal defense potentially could cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars as well. That said, prosecutors will need to prove that the businesses were in some way connected to the alleged crimes, to which Combs has pled not guilty. Lawyers representing individuals suing Combs in civil court do not need to meet that barrier of proof. It is unclear when a jury trial will take place for the federal charges, and the many civil lawsuits he faces are at various stages of adjudication. Combs’ attorneys, representatives and federal prosecutors did not respond to requests for comment. Here is a breakdown of Combs’ current financial picture viewed through his music, real estate and cable TV assets: Bad Boy Records While Combs began diversifying his investments long ago, his core music industry holdings have dissipated. He once owned his masters and publishing rights through Bad Boy Records. Currently, he may still own his publishing rights and albums recorded from 2010 onward, but he likely no longer owns the albums he recorded before 2009, which were the most successful of his career. B.I.G. and Diddy That’s because of a joint venture Combs entered with Warner Music Group for the entire Bad Boy catalog in 2005. The deal ended in 2009 with WMG retaining full ownership of the vast majority, if not all, of the catalog released by Bad Boy prior to that year. Those include the catalogs of The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, Mase and another dozen or so platinum albums by Bad Boy artists. In June, Billboard estimated that Diddy’s own catalog brings in $2.4 million annually in recorded masters revenue, as well as $600,000 in publishing revenue, of which his share is $222,000. We estimated his catalog

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LIKE TRUMP HIMSELF … THE RIGHT-WING MAGA MEDIA ARE TOTALLY INSANE. These "broken" voting machines must explain why Trump beat Haley, 60% to her 40% in South Carolina. Time for Trump, MAGA, and the GOP to investigate this, don’t you think? But wait … Trump won, so the voting machines must be OK, right? As for this podcaster’s YouTube post and video about the INTERNET, what’s that got to do with anything? Because, as everyone knows, you vote by ballot, whether early, late, or absentee, on paper, on a voting machine, or paper mail-in ballot. No internet, as recently and clearly stated by the South Carolina State Election Commission. But more “fake news” and fodder for Trump’s 35% of Republican MAGA maniacs, who will lose in November 2024 but still represent a significant threat to American unity, i.e., “E Pluribus Unum”. 🙁   https://lnkd.in/eqA5_WS4.