Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Qualifies for First
Presidential Ballot
Posted By: Dreadnought, 1/3/2024 10:08:37 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reached the minimum threshold — 1,000 signatures — to qualify for placement on the presidential ballot in Utah as an independent candidate, the first state where the upstart populist has qualified. Kennedy has campaigned across the U.S. with the hopes of gathering enough signatures across states to appear on state ballots as an independent candidate. As each state sets its own requirements, and the costs for collecting signatures and filing across states can be prohibitive for candidates without party backing, it is unlikely that Kennedy will qualify for candidacy in every state. Last month, American Values 2024, a super PAC supporting the third-party candidate,
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The worst part about being chairman of the College Republican club at my school (shoutout to JMU) was constantly being hit on by babes. I’d tell them, “Stop, please, I’m trying to do important work here. Go harass the football star instead.” But NOOOO. They just wouldn’t leave me alone. I never had a moment’s peace.
Because, obviously, nothing’s sexier than being in a political party. It’s the coolest thing ever!
Okay, I’m lying. Most of the time, talking politics is an anti-aphrodisiac: People either don’t care at all — or they care WAY too much. (Hide the knives.) Neither party had a positive Q rating,
President Donald Trump is ushering in a new age of peace, stability and cooperation in the region, according to Hassan bin Youssef Yassin, a senior Saudi diplomat and advisor to King Salman bin Abdulaziz, who expressed strong support for the President’s efforts to create a “new world order” based on coexistence and cooperation, as he urged Arab nations to back his initiative as they did in the past.
In an article published Tuesday in Arab News, Yassin argues that President Trump’s shift to diplomacy — particularly with global powers — offers an opportunity to resolve long-standing conflicts, including the Arab-Israeli dispute.
Gene Hackman's wife died of hantavirus;
actor died of cardiovascular disease,
Alzheimer's: Officials 12 replies
actor died of cardiovascular disease,
Alzheimer's: Officials 12 replies
The causes of deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were revealed by officials on Friday, more than one week after the couple was mysteriously found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home.
Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease likely around Feb. 18, about one week after his wife died from a rare syndrome, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, on about Feb. 11, officials said. Hackman's death was from "hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributory factor," Dr. Heather Jarrell, chief medical investigator for the state's Office of the Medical Investigator, announced at a news conference.
Three U.S. Army soldiers, two active and one former, were arrested on Thursday for selling sensitive military documents and information to buyers in China.
Li Tian and Ruoyu Duan were charged in Oregon for “conspiring to commit bribery and theft of government property,” the Department of Justice said. Jian Zhao was charged in Washington for the same crimes but also for “conspiring to obtain and transmit national defense information to an individual not authorized to receive it.” The unauthorized recipients were based in China.
Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Laura Gillen (D-NY) appear to be among the very few in their party to criticize the behavior of Democrats during President Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening joint address before Congress, stating that they stood up for young cancer fighter DJ Daniel when others did not.
In an anecdote shared to X on Thursday, Khanna began by recounting what a flight attendant told him while he was traveling this week: “Jim Barrett, a flight attendant, politely chased me down at Chicago Airport,” the congressman wrote. “‘Sir, I am a Democrat but the way the party behaved was embarrassing. Made us look heartless.
Poll: Public Opposes ‘Gold Card’ Visa Plan 31 replies
The public does not like President Donald Trump’s plan to sell “Gold Card” citizenships to wealthy foreigners, according to a Rasmussen poll.
The Gold Card plan is strongly supported by only 22 percent of likely voters, including just 38 percent of Republicans, according to the February 27 to March 3 poll of 1,180 likely voters.
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With the Trump administration and Congress focused on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget, there’s an effort underway to make sure public broadcasting ended up under the microscope. The notion that public broadcasting would be held to any form of accountability, including the possibility they broke federal law, was apparently beyond the pale for former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron, who vented to CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. “And Trump is working in a very determined way to try to undermine the press in every conceivable way that he can. And we are only, well, not that many weeks into this administration,”
If Hollywood’s answer to Donald Trump’s first months at the White House in 2017 was resistance, the 2025 edition so far appears more muted and a tad indifferent.
The Academy Awards eight years ago celebrated diversity as Trump implemented his “America First” vision for the country that thrusted actors and other talent onto the frontlines of the culture wars. Warren Beatty invoked politics in his presentation of the best picture nominees, observing that those movies, of which Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight emerged as the winner, “show us the increasing diversity in our community, and our respect for diversity and freedom all over the world.”
ActBlue, the leading fundraising platform for Democrats, is in disarray after at least seven senior officials resigned and a company lawyer alleged that the platform had retaliated against him, the New York Times reported.
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The upheaval deals a heavy blow to the Democratic Party
Democrats stepped in it big time with their behavior at President Donald Trump's Joint Address to Congress.
They had been warned by House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY) not to make a spectacle of themselves, to make a "strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber."
But instead, they made fools of themselves not just holding up the silly bingo signs, but creating a ruckus, with Rep. Al Green (D-TX) waving around his cane and getting booted out. Some of them also walked out during the speech and then play-acted about how tough they were after. Now, there's more evidence the Democrats are in disarray.
President Donald Trump is limiting the power of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency after hosting a meeting Thursday with cabinet secretaries.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has agreed to sign a mineral deal with the U.S., President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, announced Thursday.
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Poll: Public Opposes ‘Gold Card’ Visa Plan 31 replies
The public does not like President Donald Trump’s plan to sell “Gold Card” citizenships to wealthy foreigners, according to a Rasmussen poll.
The Gold Card plan is strongly supported by only 22 percent of likely voters, including just 38 percent of Republicans, according to the February 27 to March 3 poll of 1,180 likely voters.
The plan to sell Gold Cards for $5 million is strongly opposed by 33 percent of all respondents, including 36 percent of “moderates.”
Overall, the plan is strongly or somewhat backed by 41 percent and opposed by a plurality of 47 percent.
That opposition matches the national mood, which is increasingly opposed
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Donald Trump’s policies were going to “incite revolution.”
When asked about tariffs, Dean said, “You know this applies not just to red states like Kentucky. We’re getting hurt badly in Vermont because we’re right next to Canada, and there are a whole lot of Canadians who own houses here, but they’re not coming to ski. We’ve got the biggest snowfall we’ve had in years and years, and Canadians aren’t coming. That’s an important part of our business. So it hurts everybody. The Canadians are mad. I would be mad,
Take that, Donald Trump. The View host Whoopi Goldberg revealed Thursday she has “no plans” to return to the Kennedy Center until it returns to “what it was supposed to be” in the time before the president took over.
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“I understand why they did it, and I have no plans to go back to the Kennedy Center, until
Donald Trump is being lobbied to make Puerto Rico an independent nation and save American taxpayers $617.8 billion, DailyMail.com has learned.
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Friday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” long-time MSNBC personality Chris Matthews likened President Donald Trump to 20th-century Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
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Meghan Markle bizarrely corrected her friend Mindy Kaling — telling the The Office star her surname is “Sussex” — in an episode of her food and lifestyle Netflix series With Love, Meghan, sparking mockery and ire from viewers.
“I don’t think anyone in the world knows that Meghan Markle has eaten Jack in the Box and loves it,” Kaling is heard telling Markle in an episode of With Love, Meghan, to which the Duchess replies, “It’s so funny that you keep saying ‘Meghan Markle,’ you know I’m ‘Sussex’ now.” [Video]
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“We Somalis living outside of Somalia must always prioritize our country, Somalia, and think of developing our country,” she said in a video obtained by The Maine Wire.
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MAGA activists have turned against one of President Donald Trump's own appointees to the Supreme Court: Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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"She is a rattled law professor with her head
President Donald Trump is limiting the power of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency after hosting a meeting Thursday with cabinet secretaries.
Trump shared an update about the cabinet meeting on Truth Social and explained his belief that cabinet secretaries and DOGE should be more precise in who they fire from government positions.
“DOGE has been an incredible success, and now that we have my Cabinet in place, I have instructed the Secretaries and Leadership to work with DOGE on Cost Cutting measures and Staffing. As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise
It’s more like Mortal Kringe-bat.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic congresswomen were ruthlessly roasted — including directly by the White House — after they appeared in a cringey “Choose your fighter” TikTok clip that quickly went viral.
The 20-second video of progressives was initially posted by cookbook author and influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo to her 5.6 million followers in honor of Women’s History Month on Wednesday — leading the Trump administration to troll with their own version of the online trend Thursday.
James Carville Says Dems Lost On Immigration
Because Biden Listened To ‘Idiotic Far-Left’ 15 replies
Because Biden Listened To ‘Idiotic Far-Left’ 15 replies
Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday that the Democratic Party lost on immigration in the 2024 election because President Joe Biden took advice from the “idiotic far-left.” Border officials encountered a record-high of over 2 million illegal immigrants throughout Biden’s term in office, prompting concerns about immigration and drawing attention toward heinous crimes committed by illegal migrants. During an interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Carville said the far-left influenced the last administration to keep the border unsecured and caused the massive immigration crisis witnessed by Americans throughout the past four years.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has uncovered and cancelled a $56,000 contract it was paying to a “plant contractor” to water eight decorative potted plants — with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) promising to water them “free of charge” from now on.
“The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year,” DOGE, led by Elon Musk, said in a Thursday night X post:
“The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge,” the department added, along with photos of a pair of the VA’s potted plants next to a sign reading “Please do not water these plants.
