Miscellaneous Political Stuff - Part 22!

This is just funny and ....

WASHINGTON — Virginia GOP congressional candidate Derrick Anderson has issued a cease-and-desist order to his Democratic opponent, Eugene Vindman, over campaign ads accusing Anderson of trying to pass off someone else’s wife and three daughters as his own family.

Anderson, who is unmarried and has no children, made national headlines in September after The New York Times flagged that his campaign was using footage of him posing with the woman and children in what could easily be mistaken for a family photo shoot, except it turned out to be a friend’s family.

One video featuring Anderson with the woman and girls was shared on Anderson’s YouTube channel and posted on a website paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee. In another video his campaign filmed for a possible ad and that was posted on the NRCC’s site, Anderson is shown sitting around a dining room table with the same woman and girls.
On Thursday, Anderson released a new ad about abortion that includes that footage of him sitting at the dining table with the woman and her daughters. They appear right around the 20-second mark.

His campaign told HuffPost in September that this footage was simply Anderson appearing in “a normal campaign video with female supporters and their kids.”

But in the final days of this election cycle, Vindman and Democratic groups are running a barrage of campaign ads accusing Anderson, who reportedly lives with his dog and is engaged, of trying to give voters the impression that he’s a family man. And Anderson’s campaign responded with a cease-and-desist letter, saying on Monday that Vindman and local TV stations don’t have the right to air images of the family seen in Anderson’s videos.
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“This letter is to serve as written notice to your station that Vindman for Congress did not obtain the permission of Mrs. Cremisio to use her image or the permission of Mr. or Mrs. Cremisio on behalf of her three minor daughters, to use their images in their advertisement,” read the letter.
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The ads hitting Anderson over his “fake family” range from serious to comical.

A Vindman ad called “What Is Real” flashes an image of Anderson with this family as ominous narration says the Republican candidate “got caught lying again, faking a family.”
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“Ready, sweetie?” says the Anderson look-alike, tossing a Frisbee-like toy at a cutout of one of the girls and watching as the disc falls to the ground. This ad, called “Fake,” warns that the Republican candidate is trying to fool people about lots of things, including his extreme views against abortion.

www.huffpost.com/entry/derrick-anderson-fake-family-photo-cease-and-desist_n_6722487ce4b03a564e7cf110

He's been in Michigan and Wisconsin a lot.  Maybe because there are so many Harris surrogates right now - governors, Clintons, Obamas etc, he hasn't been in the news as much?  Also, regrettably, Trump has been sucking up a lot of the oxygen and election coverage lately




Pete

The whole family was thrilled to welcome Tim_Walz to Traverse City tonight!

These people are truly sick.. they are creating havoc...

A group of anti-government extremists who showed up in western North Carolina promising to provide disaster relief after Hurricane Helene is now threatening to destroy cell-phone towers and sabotage military vehicles.

The group, Veterans on Patrol, attracted attention by setting up a disaster relief staging area in the parking lot of the Ingles grocery store in Lake Lure, about 50 miles from Asheville.

But locals, including some who initially cooperated with the group, began to complain about threats and harassment.

Over the past three weeks, members of the group, which falsely claims that Helene was caused by a “weather weapon,” have been making conspiracy-driven claims that the U.S. military is attempting to kill U.S. citizens with “directed energy weapons.”

Veterans on Patrol’s channel on the encrypted social-media platform Telegram posted a message on Thursday displaying photos of what appears to be a cell tower on a mountaintop. The message asserted that locals “are in Live Exercises where the United States Military is permitted to destroy your homes, bodies and minds,” while suggesting that equipment on the tower “is solely for providing the U.S. military the means to murder Americans.”

“Focus on tearing down their weapons,” the message reads. It continues, “All it takes is one weapon tower being toppled with the stated reason spoken boldly.”

Another message posted in the group’s Telegram channel appears to advocate for sabotaging military vehicles and assets.

"Simple acts of pouring sugar into fuel tanks of military equipment, backup power systems, and personal vehicles of military personnel can wreak havoc on those who murdered all these people out here,” reads the message, which was posted on Wednesday.

Soldiers from Fort Liberty and Fort Campbell have deployed to western North Carolina to assist in the disaster response, along with National Guard members from nine states.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/hurricane-helene-extremists/

I have no idea what I did. I do not like or follow any MAGAts but for the last day I am inundated with ig posts from seemingly real guys who are justifying voting for Trump.

Nothing they say could make me change my mind, I scroll past but they keep coming.

I feel attacked

Can’t wait til it’s all over.

Prison. They are damaging US property. Military property!; Endangering military equipment. Risking our soldiers lives!!

Guess I'm a bit pissed. If it had been this time last year, my youngest DGS could have been there, deployed from Fort Campbell where he was stationed at the time!!!

Supposedly RFKjr is going after IVF.. Someone claims it is evil and immoral..

Maybe there is hope, when even someone like Nick Fuentes speaks out against MAGA:
“That was the moment when I realized Trumpism was a cult. That was the moment when I realized liberals are right. That was the moment when I realized it had gone too far. It is Frankenstein’s monster. We have created a golem. It is a problem.”


www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-commentator-nick-fuentes-accepts-liberals-are-right/

And more.... Great honesty...

Former President Donald Trump’s social media company outsourced jobs to workers in Mexico even as Trump publicly railed against outsourcing on the campaign trail and threatened heavy tariffs on companies that send jobs south of the border.

The firm’s use of workers in Mexico was confirmed by a spokesperson for Trump Media, which operates the Truth Social platform. The workers were hired through another entity to code and perform other technical duties, according to a person with knowledge of Trump Media. The reliance on foreign labor was met with outrage among the company's own staff, who accused its leadership of betraying their “America First” ideals, the person said.

The outsourcing to Mexico helped prompt a recent whistleblower letter from staff to Trump Media’s board that has been roiling the company.

That complaint, reported by ProPublica last month, calls for the board to fire CEO Devin Nunes, a former Republican congressman. The letter alleges he has “severely” mismanaged the company. It also asserts the company is hiring “America Last” — with Nunes imposing a directive to hire only foreign contractors at the expense of “American workers who are deeply committed to our mission.”

"This approach not only contradicts the America First principles we stand for but also raises concerns about the quality, dedication, and alignment of our workforce with our core values,” the complaint reads.

www.rawstory.com/trump-media-outsourced-jobs-to-mexico-as-trump-pushed-america-first/

Can one of our Australian peas confirm whether this is real or satire? 😂 if it’s real, I bow down to the Australian awesomeness! AussieMeg

Let's think about this. TFG was in North Carolina calling out praise and looking for the Senatorial candidate... However he was calling McCormick... from PENNSYLVANIA..


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Another one who has no clue...

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign shared the video without comment — but with quotation.

x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1853229063931838755

And constitutional law professor Anthony Michael Kreis declared Walker's address to be nearly historic.

"Herschel Walker’s introduction of Trump in Macon might be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a minute," he wrote.

He always treated Michelle Obama with great respect..? Really..??


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