2024

[Typical Lax Dad]

Waiting for his name to come up in Puffy trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics ... index.html

The GOP knows how to pick winners.

[MDlaxfan76]

Waiting for his name to come up in Puffy trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics ... index.html

The GOP knows how to pick winners.

MAGA

[Seacoaster(1)]

Waiting for his name to come up in Puffy trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics ... index.html

The GOP knows how to pick winners.

MAGA

https://x.com/DisavowTrump20/status/183 ... 57/photo/1

[Typical Lax Dad]

Waiting for his name to come up in Puffy trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics ... index.html

The GOP knows how to pick winners.

MAGA

https://x.com/DisavowTrump20/status/183 ... 57/photo/1

Looks like they were in section 60 at ANC. Same smile and pose.

[PizzaSnake]

Waiting for his name to come up in Puffy trial.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics ... index.html

The GOP knows how to pick winners.

Only the best people...

I can't decide if this is more like a Don Delillo or Tom Wolfe novel.

But the Magats are so far gone it won't make any difference.

[dislaxxic]

Think that the ballot box is our ONLY way to effect actual change in our country?

Think again.

Wow... dissss is right for the first time ever!

Imagine this:
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1836720415411933538
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/1 ... n-00179951

We can file this under "the end justifies the means" along with all other D methods.

Egregiously bad behavior - with CONCRETE EVIDENCE of it - by the rightwing Ohio Supreme Court and this guy just wants to instead throw out conspiracy theories about foreign intelligence in some lame attempt to divert from the gerrymandering debacle going on in Ohio? So typical. The Harris campaign has gone OUT OF ITS WAY to NOT do SQUADOOSH with this purported intelligence...but in the upside down that is todays MAGAt party, ANYthing for a little whataboutism...jeebus it's so old and worn out. Not to mention totally pointless.

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[youthathletics]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

[NattyBohChamps04]

It's happened over and over. Thank the telecoms and lobbying and lax regulation...

From 10 years ago.

The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal And Free The Net

By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that's the low number.

[cradleandshoot]

Think that the ballot box is our ONLY way to effect actual change in our country?

Think again.

Wow... dissss is right for the first time ever!

Imagine this:
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1836720415411933538
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/1 ... n-00179951

We can file this under "the end justifies the means" along with all other D methods.

Egregiously bad behavior - with CONCRETE EVIDENCE of it - by the rightwing Ohio Supreme Court and this guy just wants to instead throw out conspiracy theories about foreign intelligence in some lame attempt to divert from the gerrymandering debacle going on in Ohio? So typical. The Harris campaign has g one OUT OF ITS WAY to NOT do SQUADOOSH with this purported intelligence...but in the upside down that is todays MAGAt party, ANYthing for a little whataboutism...jeebus it's so old and worn out. Not to mention totally pointless.

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The real question to be asked is why is Iran supporting Harris in the first place? Russia being in the trump campaign is bad. That has to equate to Iran being in the Harris camp as also being bad. The Iranian leadership must be having visions of C130s and shiny gold bars

[a fan]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

You're a Federal contractor. What key part of how these funding bills work is this Republican leaving out in an attempt to score election points....and instead, lying to you to make it seem like Kamala's fault?

Should take you less than ten seconds, and no need for google.

And if you don't know, you're the problem, not Kamala (like the VP is in charge of this key part )

[a fan]

I get that you hate our oil dependent American way of life & economy.
So move to your EUroparadise, ride the trains, heat with coal, & complain about the US.

I'm tired of you and your FoxNation boomer buddies telling us America can't lead, innovate, or solve problems anymore.

You all have given up on America, and I can't wait for folks who think like you to get the F out of the way, and let Americans who know how to get stuff done will do their thing. How the heck you guys got ANYTHING done with you "it's too hard" attitude is beyond me.

Oh no! Not working and thinking! We can't do that! We should just curl up in a ball and quit!

Meanwhile, Germany launches an electric train made by (drumroll) not America....

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-launch ... 35136.html

Pretty sure I said something similar like 3-4yrs ago but was accused by some snowflakes or knucklheads of ageism

You left the foxnation part out....thankfully, not all boomers have given up on America.....

[Typical Lax Dad]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

You're a Federal contractor. What key part of how these funding bills work is this Republican leaving out in an attempt to score election points....and instead, lying to you to make it seem like Kamala's fault?

Should take you less than ten seconds, and no need for google.

And if you don't know, you're the problem, not Kamala (like the VP is in charge of this key part )

Lucifer out here deceiving folk:



White House unveils $42.5B to connect every American to high-speed broadband internet
BY: ASHLEY MURRAY - JUNE 26, 2023 4:37 PM

It’s the black lady’s fault.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday announced $42.45 billion to connect all Americans to high-speed broadband internet by the end of the decade, likening the ambitious goal to FDR’s New Deal-era rural electrification program that brought the then-modern technology to farms and rural areas across the United States.


The funds, which will be distributed as grants across U.S. states and territories, are allocated under the bipartisan infrastructure law, passed in 2021, but unveiled as the kick-off for the administration’s three-week tour highlighting infrastructure projects and private sector investment across the U.S.

“What we’re doing is, as I said, not unlike what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when he brought electricity to nearly every American home and farm in our nation. Today (Vice President) Kamala (Harris) and I are making an equally historic investment to connect everyone in America to high speed internet, and affordable high speed internet, by 2030,” Biden said at the White House event in the East Room attended by guests and members of Congress.

“Because for today’s economy to work for everyone, internet access is just as important as electricity was, or water or other basic services,” Biden continued.

Twenty-four million people lack access to high-speed internet because networks do not reach their homes or because of affordability issues, according to the administration.

Harris opened the event with a description of her visit to Sunset, Louisiana, where she said 40 percent of households do not have broadband access.

“In Sunset, I met with parents who cannot apply for remote-work jobs because they do not have a high-speed internet connection at home,” Harris said. “… I met with entrepreneurs who struggle to start or grow a small business because they cannot get online. And I met with students who, when public buildings were closed during the pandemic, had to sit in the parking lot of a local library just to submit their homework over Wi-Fi.”

Jeff Say, manager of community engagement for UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center and a resident of Culpeper County, Virginia, told the crowd that the local internet service provider’s broadband connectivity stops a half mile from his home.

“What we ended up with was a hotspot that’s spotty at best and an ongoing struggle to work our schedule around the lack of connectivity,” Say said after Harris spoke and before he introduced Biden.

“We have to drive our children into my work, to my wife’s school, or to our county library to finish projects or homework assignments. Every aspect of our daily life has now seemingly been touched by internet access — education, health, commerce, and entertainment,” he continued.



‘Bidenomics’ touted
Connecting Americans to high-speed internet is a “key part” of “Bidenomics” — Biden’s plan that “is rooted in the simple idea that we need to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up—not the top down,” according to a memo the administration released Monday.

During his remarks on broadband funding, Biden highlighted recent employment numbers and big-ticket private investment in areas like semiconductor manufacturing — a nod to the CHIPS and Science Act he signed into law in 2022 that provided subsidies for the industry — as proof of his administration’s recent economic success.

The latest round of broadband grants builds upon the Affordable Connectivity Program that provided income-eligible families at least a $30 discount per month on internet service as a part of the American Rescue Plan, both Biden and Harris noted.

Dubbed the “Internet for All” initiative, Monday’s announcement begins the near-month-long tour by Biden and administration officials to spotlight some of the 35,000 projects either funded or underway since Biden took office.

Biden is running for re-election in 2024.

The money will first be prioritized to install and upgrade broadband networks, according to the White House. Once those goals are met, remaining funds can be used for “access-, adoption- and equity-related uses.”

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration will administer the grants to all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. The funding comes from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program established under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

States and territories are expected to receive a formal notice of allocated funds by June 30.

States, internet providers, tribal governments and community organizations will then have 180 days to submit grant proposals. The various grants are detailed at InternetForAll.gov.

[Seacoaster(1)]

Think that the ballot box is our ONLY way to effect actual change in our country?

Think again.

Wow... dissss is right for the first time ever!

Imagine this:
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1836720415411933538
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/1 ... n-00179951

We can file this under "the end justifies the means" along with all other D methods.

Egregiously bad behavior - with CONCRETE EVIDENCE of it - by the rightwing Ohio Supreme Court and this guy just wants to instead throw out conspiracy theories about foreign intelligence in some lame attempt to divert from the gerrymandering debacle going on in Ohio? So typical. The Harris campaign has gone OUT OF ITS WAY to NOT do SQUADOOSH with this purported intelligence...but in the upside down that is todays MAGAt party, ANYthing for a little whataboutism...jeebus it's so old and worn out. Not to mention totally pointless.

..

And, of course, it is bullsh*t:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ha ... d40a2c8910

[youthathletics]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

You're a Federal contractor. What key part of how these funding bills work is this Republican leaving out in an attempt to score election points....and instead, lying to you to make it seem like Kamala's fault?

Should take you less than ten seconds, and no need for google.

And if you don't know, you're the problem, not Kamala (like the VP is in charge of this key part )

It’s always someone else’s fault. You are the one that believes spending billions fixes everything….like the bi-partisan bill for the border. But that time you all blamed trump, who’s not even in office. Is there going to be a time when you and your crew take accountability for anything?

42 billion dollars in queue, and not a shovel got dirty. Yet….you’ve been clamoring for infrastructure updates for years. Not to mention all the continued frustration that the low income areas did not have access to internet for voting and depriving them of services that more fortunate people have.

Your answer is Red Tape…..yet another one of those things that R’s got chastised for when trying to minimize regulations and bureaucracy. So much so, local and state businesses don’t want to deal with the BS red tape stipulations.

Wonder where that 42 Billion will end up and what ear marks were in the bill….rather than line-item strategic tasking. Kinda like what you do in your shop.

Shouldn’t we both be pi$$ed?

[a fan]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

You're a Federal contractor. What key part of how these funding bills work is this Republican leaving out in an attempt to score election points....and instead, lying to you to make it seem like Kamala's fault?

Should take you less than ten seconds, and no need for google.

And if you don't know, you're the problem, not Kamala (like the VP is in charge of this key part )

It’s always someone else’s fault.

No...for YOU it's ALWAYS the Dems fault.

No. My answer ain't red tape, and what you're now telling us is that like the FCC Republican, you don't understand how Federal Grants work, and don't care to learn.

And if you don't know, and don't care, I can't help you here.

And I know exactly where the money is. And it took TLD all of five seconds to tell you what I already knew. You didn't bother reading it.

[youthathletics]

Kamala's work is crushing it again with the FCC...over a 1000 days. 42 Billion and 7 years later....not one shovel of dirt moved or one person connected to the internet. I suppose we just need more money to get it off the ground.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/18 ... 7057278191

You're a Federal contractor. What key part of how these funding bills work is this Republican leaving out in an attempt to score election points....and instead, lying to you to make it seem like Kamala's fault?

Should take you less than ten seconds, and no need for google.

And if you don't know, you're the problem, not Kamala (like the VP is in charge of this key part )

It’s always someone else’s fault.

No...for YOU it's ALWAYS the Dems fault.

No. My answer ain't red tape, and what you're now telling us is that like the FCC Republican, you don't understand how Federal Grants work, and don't care to learn.

And if you don't know, and don't care, I can't help you here.

And I know exactly where the money is. And it took TLD all of five seconds to tell you what I already knew. You didn't bother reading it.

you’re right….the leader of the FCC is thrilled he can’t do his job, while state and local contractors don’t want to deal with the BS of the bureaucratic paperwork and liability.

I most certainly read it and was excited about it when it happened. Close to four years, just to receive applications for grants….in order to bury cable/fiber and set up some substations in areas without internet. And yet we can tilt up a a 100 MegaWatt data center in 9 months

Keep pushing your partisan gaslighting….you too, should be livid.

[a fan]

you’re right….the leader of the FCC is thrilled he can’t do his job, while state and local contractors don’t want to deal with the BS of the bureaucratic paperwork and liability.

I most certainly read it and was excited about it when it happened. Close to four years, just to receive applications for grants….in order to bury cable/fiber and set up some substations in areas without internet. And yet we can tilt up a a 100 MegaWatt data center in 9 months

Keep pushing your partisan gaslighting….you too, should be livid.

Dude. You CLEARLY don't get how grants work. Someone has to write the RFP's.....look at the release. How many different kinds of grants do you count? And that's surely not a complete list.

Someone has to write the RFP's, and give folks time to send in their grant proposals. Then States and Counties and other entities apply and submit for the monies.

The they have to be sorted. Then the money is awarded. Read the release.....some of the money is there, already having been sent to individual States and other GO's.

You're getting played by R's again: if they had blown all the money already, the R's would claim "the money was sent without proper vetting and due diligence".

Someday you'll figure out this game where no matter what the D's do, they have a notecard at the ready that explains to the R base how the Dems 'are doing it wrong'. It's a game, and nothing more.

But if you want to blame someone for no shovels in the ground (and ignore that many of the grants have nothing to do with shovels)....yell at the State of Texas or any of the States run by Republicans for "not blowing the money fast enough".

And if you don't want to blame them, and blame a freaking VP? Who's the partisan here?

[Typical Lax Dad]

[Typical Lax Dad]

[Brooklyn]

Oklahoma just purged 450,000 voters from its voting registration system.

Previously, Texass purged even more voters.


What are Democrats going to do about that?