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BREAKING NEWS: The election fraud conspiracy theorists finally found real election fraud...and it was one of them. MAGA freedom caucus leader and Turning Point USA exec Austin Smith surrenders to the fraud allegations against him and quits his race for the legislature. Austin was accused of having over one hundred fake signatures on his nomination petitions, and he was personally the circulator for those petitions. At least two people signed sworn affidavits saying they did not sign Smith's petition, yet their names and fake signatures were on it. Many signatures looked the same and were strikingly similar to Austin's handwriting. It was egregious. Smith quit rather than defend himself, which is basically an admission of guilt. Why else would he surrender rather than fight. Turning Point and the MAGA faithful would have provided more than enough money to hire the best defense attorney available. This election fraud must be investigated and prosecuted. Hopefully, Secretary of State @Adrian_Fontes  will make a criminal referral to @AZAGMayes  to investigate what appears to be blatant fraud on our elections. I look forward to all of the MAGA election deniers calling for an investigation.

Rhule learned last year that even vague, tangential statements will be used by Colorado as rage fuel, so he made a point not to give the reporter anything.

The whole gist of the article is manipulative.  It was pretty obvious the reporter was trying to drum up controversy.

Happy five-year anniversary of the release of the Mueller report, and this ringing endorsement of Orange Man Bad's virtue:

"As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime."

4 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Yeah...it's hard to think of, reform, change, remold, modify, rebuild, restructure, improve......

The word they should have used was "reallocate," because the non-crazy people pimping "defund the police" wanted to use some of the public funds that go to police for things like first-responder mental health intervention. Basically, instead of the police having to deal with people experiencing mental health crises, trained mental health professionals would be the first responders. 

But "Reallocate funds currently given to law enforcement to instead be distributed to better mental health responses" isn't as catchy as "defund the police!" 

That's where Republicans have just run circles around Democrats, for decades now. They absolutely understand how to provide succinct, easy-to-remember phrases to their constituents that convey a clear, direct message. 

I'm curious why everyone is willing to throw NPR into the trash heap of biased journalism based on one person's statement. 

How much vetting has been done on Berliner's allegations? 

Here's one thread about that. 

These are just the first few posts. It's a long thread. Berliner does regurgitate Republican talking points that we keep seeing right here on HuskerBoard from everyone's favorite goalpost-mover. 

Why does someone who's apparently willing to fudge facts get so much up-front credibility?  

38 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

This is the thing that they absolutely don't want.  They are starting to fight against birth control being available.

This is a race issue. They've said it out loud - they want more White babies being born in America. 

Anyone watched Resident Alien? I just finished season 1 on Netflix. Is season 2 & 3 worth watching?

Without looking it up, can anyone tell me why people were gluing their hands to countertops?

Without looking it up, can anyone tell me why protesters were throwing soup on paintings?

I just don't think these kinds of protests move the needle in a direction the protesters want it moved. 

The House GOP is a complete clown show. They're going after yet ANOTHER Speaker. 

Granted Johnson is about the bottom of the barrel, but dang, this is a mess.

This never happened when Nancy Pelosi was running the show. She had her caucus in line.

Twice impeached. And now this. 

The ultimate Republican.

34 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

So, is it now:

 

Dopey Don

Slumpy Trumpy

Drooling Donald

 

Don Snoreleone 

I thought Joe was supposed to be "sleepy."

3 minutes ago, ZRod said:

It shouldn't be hard to make a reasonable tax system to combat this. Either tax it at the point of sale, manufacture, or profit level if it isn't already taxes at a reasonable rate where ever the money is held now.

Correct. But Congress lacks the will to do so (or are being actively encouraged not to do so).

This happened in the Bay Area today, too.

I don't think the reactions on HB are much different than the rest of the country. Yes, we're aware that these activists want a positive outcome for their cause. And yes, we are more aware of their cause because of these actions.

But are they changing minds by blocking traffic to O'Hare, or the Golden Gate Bridge? Did climate activists change anyone's mind by throwing soup on paintings? I'm not thinking so. I think a lot of these annoyance/vandalism actions are detrimental to their cause. 

Protesting creatively isn't always the answer. 

'Free Palestine' protesters block part of I-880 in Oakland, Golden Gate Bridge

OAKLAND, Calif. - ‘Free Palestine’ protesters blocked several sections of freeway around the Bay Area on Monday, including a section of I-880 in Oakland and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Traffic was snarled after the demonstration took over the northbound lanes of Interstate Highway 880 at 5th and Embarcadero in Oakland on Monday and the southbound lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge. 

Traffic was backed up past the Coliseum. 

14 minutes ago, ZRod said:

Revenue isn't profit.

The article explains better than the tweet.

Pfizer, which is headquartered in New York and received billions of dollars from the federal government for its COVID-19 vaccine, reported an overall 2023 loss of $4.4 billion domestically, bringing its effective corporate income tax rate to -105.4 percent, the company reported in a recent regulatory filing. 

Conversely, Pfizer reported more than $31 billion in revenue from international market sales, netting more than $5.4 billion of income for 2023. Pfizer has more than 300 subsidiaries in more than 60 different countries, with 98 subsidiaries based in known tax havens such as Ireland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, and Puerto Rico, according to a Lever review of Pfizer’s recent 10-K filing. 

The 2017 tax law championed by Trump cut the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, but many corporations offshore profits and exploit other loopholes to pay even less. 

From 2018 to 2022, the Trump tax cuts allowed 342 of the largest U.S.-based corporations to pay just $562 billion in taxes on nearly $4 trillion in profits, an effective average rate of 14.1 percent, according to a recent study from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan tax policy organization.

Pharmaceutical companies comprise a significant portion of the companies engaged in tax avoidance. In 2022, major U.S. pharmaceutical companies reported more than $214 billion in revenue and only $10 billion in profits in the U.S. Those same companies reported more than $171 billion in foreign revenue and more than $90 billion in profits overseas, despite the fact that Americans pay the highest pharmaceutical costs in the world, said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“A large number of American pharmaceuticals report getting the bulk of their revenue from the U.S., earning no income in the U.S., and earning very substantial sums outside the U.S.,” Setser told The Lever. “And that same set of companies typically tends to report the bulk of their profits that they earn globally are in some combination of Ireland, Switzerland, Singapore, and Puerto Rico.”

The jacket is made by Nike, sure. But Clark's didn't have the Nike swoosh on the N like the ad.

That's the Nebraska N. It's trademarked.

https://ucomm.unl.edu/brand/our-marks

"These are the official marks of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln"

On 4/11/2024 at 5:57 PM, teachercd said:

We had a guest DEI person for I think 4 days of development.  Well after the 3rd session the person was asked to not come back.  They used a very "wrong wrong" Hahaha

Tell us more about this guest. What did they say? What "wrong wrong" made them asked not to come back.

22 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Joe CAN'T go to war, not even any version of war, not at all.  The nut-jobs here in the US will ruin his reelection all for Instagram "likes".

 

Iran sucks, we know, but just wait, wait it out.  

Right wingies want to paint war in the Middle East as Bad For Biden.

But if Orange Man Bad was in office, the narrative would be, "We can't change horses mid-stream!"

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

Only in the deepest MAGA fantasies is that fat tub of orange goo considered 'hardened.'

1 minute ago, BigRedBuster said:

Then change it and fix it instead of just proclaiming all of FISA is bad and get rid of it.

Exactly. They don't want FISA because they're getting caught by FISA.

This isn't so much a citizen's rights issue (although authoritarians could use it against citizens, which is obviously a concern) as much as it's politicians upset they're being watched while working with foreign powers.

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

We had a guest DEI person for I think 4 days of development.  Well after the 3rd session the person was asked to not come back.  They used a very "wrong wrong" Hahaha

What, specifically, did they say?