THE MORNING RANT: Is Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?

Is Democrat fundraiser ActBlue laundering illegal campaign donations through a network of small donors who are not even aware of their political giving? It certainly looks possible.

In his first big project since leaving Project Veritas, James O’Keefe has started investigating what seems to be a huge campaign finance scandal.

Specifically, elderly people and others with limited means have been verified to be donating tremendous amounts of money to ActBlue in thousands of small donations per individual. One couple O’Keefe interviewed was shocked to learn that $230,000 had been donated to ActBlue in their names, whereas they said they had donated less than $1,000.

Following O’Keefe’s lead, other independent investigators are uncovering more of the same. Per Federal Election Commission records, one elderly gentleman in Texas has made over 10,000 small donations from 2020-2022 totaling over $100,000. He stated that he did not make those contributions. (The video is linked further below.)

What is ActBlue? This is from its website:

As a nonprofit, we’re driven by the belief that our democracy works better when more people participate in civic life and when our campaigns and nonprofits are powered by the people they serve. That’s why we’ve built a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits. Our tools make it possible for anyone to build a grassroots campaign or movement and give donors an easy and secure way to support their favorite candidates and causes.

Per Wikipedia, in 2019 ActBlue raised roughly $1 billion for almost 9,000 Democratic campaigns and organizations, with 3.3 million unique donors. In 2020, even more money was raised, including over $1.5 million to bail out violent “protestors” from the various Summer Of Love riots.

From Politico just weeks before the 2020 election:

ActBlue’s Stunning Third Quarter: $1.5 Billion in Donations - Democratic Online Donors Are Pouring Cash Into 2020 Campaigns, From Joe Biden Down to State Legislative Candidates. [Politico – 10/15/2020]

If ActBlue were laundering illegal campaign donations to help elect Biden and down ballot Democrats, wouldn’t that be election interference and a “threat to our democracy”?

Why would someone launder campaign contributions? The most likely reason is to evade the individual donation limits. For instance, right now there is a cap of $3,300 that an individual can donate to a Congressional campaign. If someone wanted to donate $50,000 to the candidate running against a hated incumbent Republican senator, he might seek to spread the other $46,700 over 4,670 small-time Democrat donors, who wouldn’t even know that they had “donated” $10.

This 9-minute video features James O’Keefe interviewing people about the thousands of political donations made in their names. It’s all fascinating and disturbing, but if you don’t want to watch the entire video, skip ahead to the 6:30 mark where O’Keefe asks a couple about the 31,000 donations they’ve made to ActBlue totaling $230,000. They respond that they’ve given less than $1,000.

BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group Uncovers Potential MASSIVE Money Laundering into Political Campaigns #FollowTheMoney pic.twitter.com/MiNS63G2rI
— O’Keefe Media Group (@OKeefeMedia) March 29, 2023

Inspired by O’Keefe, and with information found in FEC records, other investigators are finding similar examples of prolific donors who aren’t aware of their prolific donations.

One of these investigators is Esala Wueschner, who ran for Austin City Council in 2022 as an anti-woke candidate. He has done some research on ActBlue donors living in Austin. In the tweet below is a video of Wueschner asking an elderly gentleman if he donated $106,304 between 2020 and 2022. The gentleman replies, “That wasn’t me.”

I found out today that an Austin, TX resident made 10,000+ different donations to the democratics from 2020-2022 worth over $106, 304.45. The resident mentioned that he has not used @actblue but @FEC website says otherwise.
The same resident made $12,848.50 from 2009-2019. https://t.co/FZuxtYdJe6 pic.twitter.com/G6Zf9twIsn
— esala (@esala12) April 6, 2023

Also in Austin, Clinton Rarey found that an 80-year old woman living in a retirement home has made 26,143 online donations over the past 6 years (about 12 donations per day to ActBlue) in an amount exceeding $160,000. His interview with her provides similar feedback to what O’Keefe and Wueschner learned.

I decided to look into @actblue in Austin, TX

I spoke with Ann who is a 80+ year-old living in a retirement home.

Over the last 6 years according to @FEC she has made 26,143 donations or 11.9 donations a day for 2,190 days straight on average. Totaling $161,541.70 in donations.… https://t.co/T6K0W0NK5C pic.twitter.com/CIVG2kFmC3
— Clinton Rarey (@ClintonRarey) April 4, 2023

To be clear, all these people clearly donated to Democrat causes at one time, which is just fine. What’s not OK is if ActBlue is receiving donations that are attributed to people who did not actually make the donations.

Conservative media is waking up to this story:

ActBlue Under Fire: James O’Keefe’s Latest Investigation Reveals Suspicious Donations [Scott McKay – The American Spectator – 3/31/2023]

People in politics, particularly on the Republican side, will tell you they’ve had some real suspicions about ActBlue for a long time. To generate as many small donations as that organization does is something that Republican vehicles like WinRed have never been able to come close to doing, despite the fact that Republican voters are generally of a socioeconomic profile in which $25, $50, or $100 donations ought to be very common.

Are folks on the left more passionate about politics than folks on the right? Generally, yes — a little. But not so much that what ActBlue does, which was to generate some 76 million political contributions in 2021–2022 (not $76 million — 76 million separate contributions), would have nowhere near an analog from the GOP.

O’Keefe’s initial foray into this, which was to visit a few of the more obviously suspicious donors and have them say on camera that no, they didn’t make the vast majority of those donations attributed to them, shows why.

By the way, it is a crime in most locales to donate to a political campaign in someone else’s name,
including in Texas.

While O’Keefe, Wueschner, and Rarey are doing fantastic work finding the mules who are credited with making the donations, the bigger question is who actually donated the money that is being funneled through these unknowing mules, and who allocates the donations through the mules.

If you have any interest in researching suspicious donations to ActBlue in your area, the Spectator article provides a link to the FEC website and instructions on how to navigate it.

One other thought from Kyle Becker…if Democrat fundraisers are (allegedly) doing this with campaign contributions, do you think they’d have any qualms about doing something similar with mail-in ballots?

It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Whoa.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:00 AM (vaAZV)

2 *without reading*

Sure they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 10, 2023 11:00 AM (zZu0s)

3 "Follow the money" -- "Deep Throat"

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at April 10, 2023 11:00 AM (Nmmyc)

4 We're not voting our way out of this

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:01 AM (bs+z0)

5 wow

Posted by: Ciampino - Those Canadians at April 10, 2023 11:02 AM (qfLjt)

6 If ActBlue were laundering illegal campaign donations to help elect Biden and down ballot Democrats, wouldn’t that be election interference and a “threat to our democracy”?
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Yes. But it's okay when they do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:02 AM (t0OGg)

7 Update. H/T to Jen. Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 21 minutes
BREAKING: Five killed and at least six hospitalized in Louisville mass shooting, according to police

https://tinyurl.com/4cshnjrh
27 seconds; video of cops in the street.

Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres
"Active shooter at the bank!"

Louisville police officer screams for people to get away from Old National Bank as gunfire erupts.

Authorities are calling this a "mass casualty incident."

Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres · 20 minutes
Five killed and six wounded, including a police officer.

Shooter is dead.
https://tinyurl.com/mudte4kt
[Cop statement].

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 11:03 AM (Vwz3I)

8 Why would someone launder campaign contributions? The most likely reason is to evade the individual donation limits. For instance, right now there is a cap of $3,300 that an individual can donate to a Congressional campaign. If someone wanted to donate $50,000 to the candidate running against a hated incumbent Republican senator, he might seek to spread the other $46,700 over 4,670 small-time Democrat donors, who wouldn’t even know that they had “donated” $10.
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Another reason is foreign money. Foreigners looking to buy influence through campaign finance need a straw man. ActBlue has plenty of straw men to use.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:03 AM (t0OGg)

9 When you paint your opponent as a "fundamental danger" to the republic then cheating is an obligation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2023 11:03 AM (EZebt)

10 You bet they are. It's alternated with dead people voting.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (GshMh)

11 Huh.
But I don’t think you followed the rubric:

Please make sure it is lighthearted, and packed full of interesting insights and information, and spot-on when it comes to amazing knowledge of arcane and fascinating . . .stuff.
(Per CBD!)

Posted by: RI Red at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (zblAz)

12 Also kverr last week found out Barky and others got millions from foreign donors

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (4gpuX)

13 Did this pique IRS/FEC interest?...no?

Posted by: BignJames at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

14 Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 11:03 AM (Vwz3I)

Here we go again....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (bs+z0)

15 Is this the spark?

Posted by: The guy that often asks if this is the spark at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (ufFY8)

16 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

Anybody really think anything will come of this? I don't.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at April 10, 2023 11:05 AM (PWI4f)

17 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

I believe it's also identity fraud. I want arrests and perp walks.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (DMyTF)

18 How long do you think it'll take for the Corporate Leftist Media to lose interest in the bank mass shooting after the shooter's identification is made public?

Posted by: exdem13 at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (W+kMI)

19 is the election process from funding and contributions to voting and counting hopelessly corrupt? yes

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (/6GbT)

20 I'll get right on it.

* makes shake-weight motion *

Posted by: Merrick Garland at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (fs1hN)

21 Morning.

At its heart, Leftism is nothing more than a criminal conspiracy.

Posted by: Robert at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (98dB2)

22 18 How long do you think it'll take for the Corporate Leftist Media to lose interest in the bank mass shooting after the shooter's identification is made public?
Posted by: exdem13 at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (W+kMI)

We all know it depends on skin color

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (bs+z0)

23 Yes, they are. And they've been doing it for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

24 Did this pique IRS/FEC interest?...no?

You bet it did. We want to know why these MAGA lunatics have not been jailed for harassing innocent voters.

Posted by: IRS/FEC at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (eOEVl)

25 20 I'll get right on it.

* makes shake-weight motion *
Posted by: Merrick Garland

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He won't have a veto on state actions against ActBlue and its employees.

Time to force them into a consent agreement.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (bVz3B)

26 ACORN was busted up and reincarnated as
ActBlue. No one goes to jail, name change, file some new paperwork.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (jTmQV)

27 >> Is Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?

Yes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2023 11:08 AM (up/3i)

28
I checked my zipcode for unemployed people contributing to ActBlue. Bingo. A ton.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 10, 2023 11:08 AM (enJYY)

29 To be clear, all these people clearly donated to Democrat causes at one time, which is just fine. What’s not OK is if ActBlue is receiving donations that are attributed to people who did not actually make the donations.
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And that's what makes the scam so effective: its simplicity.

ActBlue has loads of real donors who donated once, or who donate occasionally. ActBlue needs an identity to attach to laundering operations, and they have big files of useful identities to do it - people who are real and already verified, and who are exceedingly unlikely to donate this year or to donate very much. They can use those identities as cutouts up to, say, 80% of the limits just in case the real person actually does want to give $50 or $100.

The legwork is already done and finding candidates is a fairly simple database query. Given access to their database, I could probably come up with a high-value candidate identity list in a matte of a couple of hours. The payment automation definitely took more work than the identification stage.

A nice, simple scam that only works if the lawmen loudly ignore it. It's fairly obvious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

30 "Is Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?"

Is this a trick question?

Posted by: fd at April 10, 2023 11:08 AM (iayUP)

31 Gotta say I love James O'Keefe's rebound. Kicked out of the company he helped found by grifters? No problemo! get a new outfit, get a new scandal, get it out there. Will anything come of it in Blue States? Yeah, right. Will anything come of it in Red States? Possibly.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 10, 2023 11:08 AM (W+kMI)

32 Is Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?

Yes.

TL

R
*posts picture of black guy wearing puffy coat and making pointing motion at the reader*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:09 AM (eOEVl)

33 At the risk of putting some math on the blog, a back of the envelope calculation assumes it takes about 5 minutes to submit one donation (regardless of the amount). Multiply that by 10,000 donations and that means it takes around 35 DAYS of time to submit that many donations one at a time.

The fact that "individuals" are donating 10's of thousands of donations should really be a wake up call that something funny is going on. Normal people don't do that. Only an automated system would do that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2023 11:09 AM (YIVH2)

34 4 We're not voting our way out of this
Posted by: It's me donna
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No but the Dems have opened the box to include state prosecutions of people out of state. That includes ActBlue and its minions.

Make them the new Acorn as an example.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (bVz3B)

35 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.
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It would be very easy to prove. It looks, right now, like ActBlue is running a laundromat but we've only seen the outside. The inside will make it clear. Subpoena all the financial and web records.

How many funding sources are there for these frequent fliers? How many charge cards and bank accounts? Whose name is on those accounts? Geographically, where did the requests come from? Are they from IP addresses in the correct locale, or are they elsewhere?

This is pretty easy to do, but would require subpoena power to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (t0OGg)

36 Is it Ukraine or China? Or maybe it's multinational.

The only thing you can be sure of is that it's anti-American.

Posted by: cpurick at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (bwWDS)

37 28
I checked my zipcode for unemployed people contributing to ActBlue. Bingo. A ton.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Many repetitive out of state donations to dems too.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (DMyTF)

38 No DA will touch this.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (p8cAR)

39 Beshear speaking in Louisville right now. Said he lost a good friend today and another is severely injured . Seems odd. Shooter was a former or current bank employee.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (F0jcH)

40 Euphemism alert! (Concerning Louisville mass shooting this morning)

LMPD@LMPD
There is no longer an active aggressor threat. The suspected shooter has been neutralized.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

41 the bigger question is who actually donated the money that is being funneled through these unknowing mules, and who allocates the donations through the mules.
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This is probably where foreign donations go.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (krQz2)

42 Local story.

Posted by: MSM at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (j40lz)

43 Make them the new ~~Acorn~~ William Wallace as an example.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (eOEVl)

44 ActBlue has loads of real donors who donated once, or who donate occasionally. ActBlue needs an identity to attach to laundering operations, and they have big files of useful identities to do it - people who are real and already verified, and who are exceedingly unlikely to donate this year or to donate very much. They can use those identities as cutouts up to, say, 80% of the limits just in case the real person actually does want to give $50 or $100.

The legwork is already done and finding candidates is a fairly simple database query. Given access to their database, I could probably come up with a high-value candidate identity list in a matte of a couple of hours. The payment automation definitely took more work than the identification stage.

A nice, simple scam that only works if the lawmen loudly ignore it. It's fairly obvious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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My guess is that some are not even donors but simply data harvested from voter registration lists. I would not be surprised that this obvious ploy is also marked by connection to voter fraud operations.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (bVz3B)

45 As usual, nothing will come of this. The media will quash the story and call O'Keefe a disgruntled fired employee. THat damn sandwich stealer.

They will champion Alissa Gordon and her anti-cis fratboy language. Who would put a NYC girl from Groton-Harvard in charge of this brand if they wanted it to survive? Nobody. Now the lefties say poor Alissa is being "bullied"

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (Zzbjj)

46 @Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Since I now know how to use the tiny url thing, here...

tinyurl.com/4p2fdtc2

nom-nom-nom

Posted by: Dick Morris at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (Y1sOo)

47 Another reason is foreign money. Foreigners looking to buy influence through campaign finance need a straw man. ActBlue has plenty of straw men to use.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:03 AM (t0OGg)
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That would be the most logical conclusion. We already know that Obama's campaigns turned off address verification so they could avoid accountability.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (YIVH2)

48
When you paint your opponent as a "fundamental danger" to the republic then cheating is an obligation.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Would you not cheat to defeat Hitler?

Posted by: ActSmurf at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (63Dwl)

49 But AI progress won’t stop—at least not globally. There exists no global governance regime that could hope to get buy-in from all the world’s governments. Indeed, international cooperation and trade are headed in the opposite direction from what’d be necessary to coordinate a global pause or slowdown.
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And this is presented in one of JJ's articles this morning as a BAD thing. The fact that there's no global governance system in place to slow the progress of technology that might be used for harm.

Huh. Sometimes I really wonder what "my side" is at all.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (vaAZV)

50 Computer technology is a wonderful thing. Remember all of the data hacks? Those provide useful information on involuntary potential donors.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (DEWDQ)

51 "It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating."

Does it have to be only govt lawyers? Can't anybody play the game?

Get some white-hat hackers to work tracking the cheaters' comms and e-trails. Get some 4chan guys and PIs building dossiers on the uncovered suspects.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (MvF+J)

52 Has Project Veritas folded yet?

Last I looked at their Twitter feed (a few minutes ago), they're constantly getting shit on.

O'Keefe's new Twitter feed is crushing it.

Posted by: McLurkerson at April 10, 2023 11:12 AM (wNDOJ)

53 Just last week Leonardo DiCaprio testified in a federal trial that he was told by a corrupt Indonesian businessman with ties to the CCP that the Indonesian was going to launder between $20 and $30 million to Democrats including Obama in 2012 through former Fugees frontman Pras Michel. Michell is the one currently on trial for fraud. The money was stolen from the Indonesian 1MDB fund and it is well established.

It's a real trial about real fraud with Obama on a huge scale and almost nobody is talking about it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 11:13 AM (ZLI7S)

54 Why would someone launder campaign contributions?

Illegal foreign contributions.

Which is weird, since the United States government and the EU have explained to Israel, Hungary, Poland, the country of Georgia, and elsewhere, that a key provision of democratic governance is allowing foreign NGOs and foreign contributors to interfere in your domestic politics.

You are a fascist state if you don't allow such foreign interference.

Strange that we (at least officially) don't allow this here at home.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2023 11:13 AM (2tUFv)

55 38 No DA will touch this.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (p8cAR)

They'll accept the payoff or the great job for the spousal unit instead.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:14 AM (Zzbjj)

56 Has Project Veritas folded yet?

Last I looked at their Twitter feed (a few minutes ago), they're constantly getting shit on.

O'Keefe's new Twitter feed is crushing it.

PV has a new recovery strategy. They're going to hire Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:14 AM (eOEVl)

57 38 No DA will touch this.
Posted by: rickb223

No Fed DA will touch it for obvious reasons but both State AG's and some red state DA's in safe rural districts are able to act and probably will.

Attacking corruption like this is a pretty easy vote getter because you are attacking a faceless website and organization and good for rep going for higher office. Harder to do perp walks on voter fraud peeps because for the most part they have faces and are often minorities.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (bVz3B)

58 My guess is that some are not even donors but simply data harvested from voter registration lists. I would not be surprised that this obvious ploy is also marked by connection to voter fraud operations.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (bVz3B)
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Using real donors is much, much safer and easier. Of the people O'Keefe interviewed, they were all actual ActBlue donors. Just intermittent, small-money donors.

It's way better to use real donors for your cutouts. They have a history of political donations and you have plenty of data on when and how much they donate. If anyone asks them, "hey, did you donate to ActBlue," then they'll answer in the affirmative

And if that's the *only* question they're being asked, that's as far as it goes. Nice and neat. It's much better to harvest your real customers than run the risks of bad information or someone catching on to it by buying identities from the wider market. Besides, you already have all those identities in your possession. Besides being known-good, you don't need to buy them. They're fully-vetted, fully-cured, real identities you've already acquired. It's lower risk, cheaper, and has a higher probability of success.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)

59 It's a real trial about real fraud with Obama on a huge scale and almost nobody is talking about it.

For the same reason that nobody is talking about Hillary going to jail.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (eOEVl)

60 How many arrests from the insurrection in deep red Tennessee?

Oh?

Posted by: Just Asking at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (9IO4j)

61 Aggressive Aggressors > Act Blue.

Posted by: Roland HTG at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (j40lz)

62 It's a real trial about real fraud with Obama on a huge scale and almost nobody is talking about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 11:13 AM (ZLI7S)

Why would they, Obama told them not to, and they do as he tells them.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (Zzbjj)

63 ACORN was busted up and reincarnated as
ActBlue. No one goes to jail, name change, file some new paperwork.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (jTmQV)

Their foot soldiers took a small break and then went right back to work under a new banner. My SiL is friends with one.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (wBpKf)

64 Posted by: Paul at April 10, 2023 11:14 AM (GXAba)

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Check our gun crime stats against the rest of the world. We're actually not that abnormal.

And then take out the big cities.

Gun crime is a blue enclave problem, like Louisville, run by Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (UVZX7)

65 Did this pique IRS/FEC interest?...no?
Posted by: BignJames

Don't ask stupid questions!

No, that is not a stupid question (that was sarcasm), but this is all part of the cheat. The three - letter agencies are part of the regulatory capture of the government by the Deep State functionaries.
And yes, we are not voting our way out of this.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (vcOmj)

66 May explain why Act Blue is suddenly laying a bunch of people off - they know that the storm is coming.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7muz5p

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2023 11:16 AM (2tUFv)

67 "It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating."

Does it have to be only govt lawyers? Can't anybody play the game?
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We need to bring this under investigation. The sooner we can start explaining that we can't comment on an ongoing investigation, the better for America.

Posted by: The FIB at April 10, 2023 11:16 AM (krQz2)

68 Is ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?

The answer is yes. Go to the FEC's 'individual contributions' page at tinyurl.com/yc85auj4 and you can see for yourself.

Just pop in your own zipcode (for example). If you don't want to download the data and do a full analysis, just click on the first name. Odds are going to be an extraordinarily, unusually active contributor.

There was an article a few days ago about an 80-year-old woman from Austin who made 26,000 contributions over six years to ActBlue.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:16 AM (A0/af)

69 If ActBlue were laundering illegal campaign donations to help elect Biden and down ballot Democrats, by using even one unknowing contributor wouldn’t that be election interference and a “threat to our democracy”?

Yes it does.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

70 Funny, I have never donated to a political campaign.

Posted by: Infidel at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (/0+YE)

71 Gun crime is a blue enclave problem, like Louisville, run by Democrats.

The homicide rate among white Americans is equivalent to the homicide rate among white Canadians.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (2tUFv)

72 59 And if that's the *only* question they're being asked, that's as far as it goes. Nice and neat. It's much better to harvest your real customers than run the risks of bad information or someone catching on to it by buying identities from the wider market. Besides, you already have all those identities in your possession. Besides being known-good, you don't need to buy them. They're fully-vetted, fully-cured, real identities you've already acquired. It's lower risk, cheaper, and has a higher probability of success.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (t0OGg)
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This is the thought process of an organization that considers itself doing something wrong that could lead to punishment.

Now, try to apply that thinking to the Democrat Party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (UVZX7)

73 4 We're not voting our way out of this
Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:01 AM (bs+z0)

My vote for comment of the week.

Posted by: cpurick at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (bwWDS)

74 Who cares? This is a nothing story going nowhere.

The Democrats will just claim these old yokels are lying about their donations, if they even deign to comment.

No court will hear this case that will deem has no standing, and if it ever went to trial, the Democrats would simply buy the silence of potential witnesses (who it seems are all Democrats anyway, and would be happy to protect the Party). They may have told OKeefe they didn't make those donations at first, but they'll sing a different tune when it counts.

Posted by: rendered at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (BudYP)

75 We need to get Joe Biden to CONDEMN this "theoretical" process

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

76 72 Yup.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (MvF+J)

77 Joe must be gleeful today.. Another "mass" shooting and abortion pill bruhaha...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (bs+z0)

78 It's a big fucking crime syndicate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (Kd/GP)

79 4 We're not voting our way out of this

That would appear to be the point.

Posted by: cpurick at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (bwWDS)

80 Using real donors is much, much safer and easier. Of the people O'Keefe interviewed, they were all actual ActBlue donors. Just intermittent, small-money donors.

If you will recall, they were asking for $1 or $2 donations in 2012. They didn't want the donation, they wanted the ID.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (OnMKT)

81 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

No standing. -- Pretty much every judge

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (z99Zw)

82 I won't donate to any candidate using WinRed. They're crooked, too. Not as bad as ActBlue probably, but I don't believe they've been around as long.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (ViCCR)

83 May explain why Act Blue is suddenly laying a bunch of people off - they know that the storm is coming.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7muz5p
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 10, 2023 11:16 AM (2tUFv)
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Maybe. My bet, though, would be that ActBlue expanded too much during the 2020 season and COVID, like a ton of other organizations did (especially in high tech, and ActBlue is sort of both a political funding conduit and a tech company).

ActBlue won't be going down over this. If it gets too noisy, the FEC will investigate and find nothing wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

84 Attacking corruption like this is a pretty easy vote getter because you are attacking a faceless website and organization and good for rep going for higher office. Harder to do perp walks on voter fraud peeps because for the most part they have faces and are often minorities.
Posted by: whig

We have lost the Republic out of fear, accomadation and "tolerance" (permissiveness).
I don't expect "Republicans" to finally discover that they have spines and can fight back

"That isn't who we are!"

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (vcOmj)

85 Local story.
Posted by: MSM
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10,000 x 100,000 local stories!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (Vwz3I)

86 Da Nang Dick in the hospital with a severely broken leg. Maybe he has bone cancer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (DMyTF)

87 46 @Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Since I now know how to use the tiny url thing, here...

tinyurl.com/4p2fdtc2

nom-nom-nom

Posted by: Dick Morris at April 10, 2023 11:11 AM (Y1sOo)
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It helps if you add the http:// to the front of that so we can open it directly when posted.
Just saying.

Posted by: Ciampino - Formatting for the win at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (qfLjt)

88 >>For the same reason that nobody is talking about Hillary going to jail.

Surprisingly, this case has already produced consequences. DiCaprio's film The Wolf of Wall Street was partially financed by this same corrupt Indonesian businessman using some of the same stolen funds and he has been forced to repay $60 million. And Michel is actually on trial, this is not a campaign slogan.

And the Indonesian government really was robbed of $4.5 billion dollars as part of this scheme. And the Indonesian businessman really is tied to the CCP.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (ZLI7S)

89 Let's ignore the fact that 90% of gun crimes happen in the ten largest US cities, use it as an excuse to grab the guns from everyone else and leave the ten largest cities alone.

Winning!

Posted by: Anti-Civil Rights Campaigners at April 10, 2023 11:20 AM (fs1hN)

90 Beshear recommending prayers. Is he a fascist or something? I thought that was banned for donks

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:20 AM (Zzbjj)

91 ActBlue won't be going down over this. If it gets too noisy, the FEC will investigate and find nothing wrong.

Wrong. They will determine that it was the fault of a few bad actors in Cincinnati.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:20 AM (eOEVl)

92 This is the thought process of an organization that considers itself doing something wrong that could lead to punishment.

Now, try to apply that thinking to the Democrat Party.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:17 AM (UVZX7)
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The desire to hide your bad behavior isn't just related to legal punishments. ActBlue will not go down for breaking the law because it's too important, but that is not the only consideration.

Having the outward appearance of being a well-run, honest machine is valuable in its own right. ActBlue does, after all, take in loads of legitimate money for the Left. Nobody likes giving money to a cheater or a crook, even if the crook is unpunished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:20 AM (t0OGg)

93

87 Da Nang Dick in the hospital with a severely broken leg. Maybe he has bone cancer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM (DMyTF

What a terrible thing to say!!

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:20 AM (Zzbjj)

94 And this is presented in one of JJ's articles this morning as a BAD thing. The fact that there's no global governance system in place to slow the progress of technology that might be used for harm.

Huh. Sometimes I really wonder what "my side" is at all.
Posted by: ...
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That is where true principles of individuals come into play--ethics of most of the ruling class including its nominal opposition party--the GOP is transactional.

Only most the GOP's voters have an actual functioning conscience while the Dems overlook or even celebrate their party's illegal actions (see TN Leg ousters for example). So, we get grudging lip service from GOPe bots with occasional action--the Dems in the ruling class get to avoid perp walks. That is why the GOPe hates its own base--the base reminds GOPsters of their sins committed for power and money aka generational wealth as Steve Schmidt put it.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (bVz3B)

95 Another Tranny gone wild Paul, The FIB is already on site scrubbing bothersome details.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (Lzpvj)

96 @32

>>TLR
*posts picture of black guy wearing puffy coat and making pointing motion at the reader*

As I noted during the Bill Lee discussion, there are numerous unemployed people in Cali giving small dollar donations to politicians in Florida and Texas.

Every Red State AG needs to start weaponizing this into active investigations, who knows what fishes they might get in their investigatory nets.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (up/3i)

97 For the same reason that nobody is talking about Hillary going to jail.

Surprisingly, this case has already produced consequences. DiCaprio's film The Wolf of Wall Street was partially financed by this same corrupt Indonesian businessman using some of the same stolen funds and he has been forced to repay $60 million. And Michel is actually on trial, this is not a campaign slogan.

And the Indonesian government really was robbed of $4.5 billion dollars as part of this scheme. And the Indonesian businessman really is tied to the CCP.

And Hillary is still sitting at home hoovering up box wine and vodka.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

98 "Why would someone launder campaign contributions? The most likely reason is to evade the individual donation limits."

I would suggest it is just as likely to launder illegal foreign donations as it is to bypass caps on legal donors.

Posted by: can of spam at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (7oNMO)

99 And Hillary is still sitting at home hoovering up box wine and vodka.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)
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I doubt it. She's super rich. She probably guzzles down really good wine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

100 Why would someone launder campaign contributions?

Pay offs and laundering. All that money they send to Ukraine needs a way to return undetected.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (AGhs5)

101 I would suggest it is just as likely to launder illegal foreign donations as it is to bypass caps on legal donors.
Posted by: can of spam at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (7oNMO)
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This is very much a "power of and" situation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

102 Paul tacitly admits he isn't an American.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

103 As I noted during the Bill Lee discussion, there are numerous unemployed people in Cali giving small dollar donations to politicians in Florida and Texas.

Every Red State AG needs to start weaponizing this into active investigations, who knows what fishes they might get in their investigatory nets.

Agreed, but I'm going to need to see some results before I'm convinced this will ever amount to anything.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (eOEVl)

104 Let's ignore the fact that 90% of gun crimes happen in the ten largest US cities

Which is why we now use "gun violence", which includes suicides.

Then the cities don't look so bad.

Posted by: The Democrats! at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (2tUFv)

105 Did this pique IRS/FEC interest?...no?
Posted by: BignJames at April 10, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

As I understand it, the IRS is going through the list of taxpayers who are NOT listed as ActBlue donors to schedule them for audits.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2023 11:23 AM (z99Zw)

106 98 And Hillary is still sitting at home hoovering up box wine and vodka.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

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"Boxed vodka?! Where have you been all my life?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:23 AM (UVZX7)

107 >>And Hillary is still sitting at home hoovering up box wine and vodka.

And, so what? I wasn't talking about Hillary, you were. I was talking about a real court case.

Yes, we live in a corrupt system. This really hasn't been news to anyone here for years. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to ignore when things do go the right way.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 11:23 AM (ZLI7S)

108 Just got in from mowing the yard so I missed if this had been commented on yet...
But nobody seems to be addressing the 81 year old chairperson of the Maryland Election Commission that hung up on the OMG caller asking for her comment before breaking the story.

And the next morning, she announced her intent to retire at the scheduled Commission Board meeting.

And that announcement has been scrubbed from Maryland media as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2023 11:23 AM (1n+EO)

109 Dinesh D'Souza did time for providing the "individual contribution" for one other person.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (krQz2)

110 ActBlue won't be going down over this. If it gets too noisy, the FEC will investigate and find nothing wrong.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Joe, the FEC does not have sole jurisdiction over issues involving computer fraud etc. State AG's would have jurisdiction over that under state DTPA (Deceptive Trade Practices Acts) and any state contributions for state offices as well. Acorn was taken down over similar actions after a certain O'Keefe and Hannah Giles revealed their misuse of federal funds.

ActBlue may well shut down but the left will simply clone it with another new organization as they did with Acorn. The battle is forever essentially to keep a republic.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (bVz3B)

111 Da Nang Dick in the hospital with a severely broken leg. Maybe he has bone cancer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Maybe he missed a vig payment?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (p8cAR)

112 Didn't D'Souza go to prison for something (one person donating in another person's name) like this, but on a far, far smaller scale and with the full agreement of everyone involved?

Posted by: 29Victor at April 10, 2023 11:25 AM (BJKQV)

113 Joe, the FEC does not have sole jurisdiction over issues involving computer fraud etc. State AG's would have jurisdiction over that under state DTPA (Deceptive Trade Practices Acts) and any state contributions for state offices as well. Acorn was taken down over similar actions after a certain O'Keefe and Hannah Giles revealed their misuse of federal funds.

ActBlue may well shut down but the left will simply clone it with another new organization as they did with Acorn. The battle is forever essentially to keep a republic.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (bVz3B)
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I doubt there's a single AG with the balls to do anything about it. If one of them surprises me and ActBlue goes down, then yeah - it will be replaced just like ACORN was.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:25 AM (t0OGg)

114 103 Paul tacitly admits he isn't an American.
Posted by: andycanuck

It self identifies as a skunk. Pronouns, I and stink.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:25 AM (bVz3B)

115 Why would someone launder campaign contributions?

Pay offs and laundering. All that money they send to Ukraine needs a way to return undetected.
Posted by: t-bird

This is largely what Sam Bankman - Fried was doing...largely at the behest of the Biden Junta.
They know exactly what they were doing.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 10, 2023 11:25 AM (vcOmj)

116 110 Dinesh D'Souza did time for providing the "individual contribution" for one other person.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (krQz2)

Doesn't mean a big dem plan will be punished. It won't

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (Zzbjj)

117 Crazed Trannies don't kill people; guns kill people.

Posted by: Paul's Sphincter Opines... at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (ptElO)

118 112 Da Nang Dick in the hospital with a severely broken leg. Maybe he has bone cancer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Maybe he missed a vig payment?
Posted by: rickb223

Speaking of that, has McTurtle been seen in public yet?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (DMyTF)

119 ActBlue may well shut down but the left will simply clone it with another new organization as they did with Acorn. The battle is forever essentially to keep a republic.

There is only one way to stop these people, and that's to make it too painful to continue. Long jail terms are an absolute minimum. I'm not optimistic.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (eOEVl)

120 Da Nang Dick in the hospital with a severely broken leg. Maybe he has bone cancer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Gotta be careful of those red exercise bands, Dick!

Posted by: Harry Reid at April 10, 2023 11:27 AM (ptElO)

121 I doubt there's a single AG with the balls to do anything about it. If one of them surprises me and ActBlue goes down, then yeah - it will be replaced just like ACORN was.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Easier to go after a faceless organization over financial crimes (also money in fines to be gained) than criminal prosecutions for state AG's. Nevertheless, even subpoenas and other harassment will probably cause ActBlue to quietly go out of biz and the remnants morph into a new org. Bill Paxon in TX is pretty much going after the right people and might well do it or assemble a coalition of state AG's in red states to do a joint lawsuit against the organization.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (bVz3B)

122 ACORN was busted up and reincarnated as ActBlue. No one goes to jail, name change, file some new paperwork.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Make them the new Acorn as an example.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:10 AM (bVz3B)
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Well, that's IS how O'Keefe made his name the first time around ... Guess he figured he'd stick with a winning formula.

Posted by: Cold Rage at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (9oQI+)

123 110 Dinesh D'Souza did time for providing the "individual contribution" for one other person.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (krQz2)

Rosie O'Donnell was caught doing the same thing and she just said that it wasn't her, it was her financial manager who she said "donate this money" because she thought she could and no one told her it was illegal. (I have no idea if whoever that person is went to jail for it, but Rosie sure didn't.)

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (BD/yx)

124 Dinesh D'Souza did time for providing the "individual contribution" for one other person.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:24 AM (krQz2)

Doesn't mean a big dem plan will be punished. It won't
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (Zzbjj)
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Oh, I'm not saying anybody else would be going to jail. I'm just saying that it was important enough to Obama to get a judge to incarcerate D'Souza--who leftoids never tire of calling "felon"--for providing as much as a single other person's "contribution".

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (krQz2)

125 118 Crazed Trannies don't kill people; guns kill people.
Posted by: Paul's Sphincter Opines... at April 10, 2023 11:26 AM (ptElO)

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"Conservatives who don't get guns off the streets are more responsible for this specific bout of deaths than the person who committed it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (UVZX7)

126 I am shocked that there is money laundering happening for democrats, shocked I tell you.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2023 11:29 AM (ncXxy)

127 Didn't Obama and Hillary both turn off the tracking for credit card donations during their campaigns? I recall something to the effect that they didn't have any tracking for donations under $100 or so. Running a lot of small amounts from foreign accounts would not be seen but could add up to a lot of money. There was a Chinese facet to that story. Need to find a link.

Posted by: JJ at April 10, 2023 11:29 AM (OQVWs)

128 Easier to go after a faceless organization over financial crimes (also money in fines to be gained) than criminal prosecutions for state AG's. Nevertheless, even subpoenas and other harassment will probably cause ActBlue to quietly go out of biz and the remnants morph into a new org. Bill Paxon in TX is pretty much going after the right people and might well do it or assemble a coalition of state AG's in red states to do a joint lawsuit against the organization.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:28 AM (bVz3B)
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Time will tell. If it happens, they'll just make a new ActBlue to replace it - but hopefully some people go to PMITA prison for a decade or more. There needs to be a deterrent, not an easily-replaceable scalp.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)

129 Posted by: Ciampino - Formatting for the win at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM

http://tinyurl.com/4p2fdtc2

Posted by: bed head at April 10, 2023 11:29 AM (Y1sOo)

130 But nobody seems to be addressing the 81 year old chairperson of the Maryland Election Commission that hung up on the OMG caller asking for her comment before breaking the story.

And the next morning, she announced her intent to retire at the scheduled Commission Board meeting.

And that announcement has been scrubbed from Maryland media as well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Maryland's politics have been corrupt forever and she knows where the bodies are buried and probably how the contribution data from MD was hoovered up--that gives her possibly legal exposure to those 'contributors' giving to red state candidates.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:30 AM (bVz3B)

131 Paul tacitly admits he isn't an American.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (Vwz3I)

The vermin aren't generally American and they're never up front about it either.

Posted by: Robert at April 10, 2023 11:30 AM (98dB2)

132 "not $76 million -- 76 million separate contributions."

If only half were fraudulent, at an average of $50, that is $3.8 BILLION ... from foreign or enemy interests (or whatever oligarch was buying political power)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 10, 2023 11:31 AM (Cus5s)

133 I think Paxton has the stones to pursue this. He should call a press conference and announce there will be not be one stone that is not overturned. Criminals will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:31 AM (DMyTF)

134 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

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You can stamp it out in red states and still it won't make any difference. The blue states are a lock for Dems which means they have won everything. I just can't be optimistic about any positive changes.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 11:31 AM (3JfbU)

135
And, so what? I wasn't talking about Hillary, you were. I was talking about a real court case.

You said "It's a real trial about real fraud with Obama on a huge scale and almost nobody is talking about it."

You asked why nobody is talking about the case. Who's interested in Indonesian financiers? Nobody. The only reason to get excited about this case is that it mentions Obama. Hillary and Obama are both big fish that made their respective stories interesting. So that IS what we're talking about.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

136 McConnell fell?

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Infidel at April 10, 2023 11:32 AM (/0+YE)

137 in 2019 ActBlue raised roughly $1 billion for almost 9,000 Democratic campaigns and organizations

With this kind of money, the corruption in our government will never go away and will only get worse.
I've said it before, the corruption occurs early and often.
Fun thing to do on a rainy afternoon. Find the newest elected small town mayor or city/county council member and do a FOI request on their travel expenses. Suddenly Good 'ol Bob, your friendly new mayor, has serious business for the city, in the Bahamas...or Hawaii.
It is truly disgusting.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2023 11:32 AM (anj39)

138 Time will tell. If it happens, they'll just make a new ActBlue to replace it - but hopefully some people go to PMITA prison for a decade or more. There needs to be a deterrent, not an easily-replaceable scalp.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Twill always be that way until either the GOP plays hardball (stop laughing) or Dem voters get so disgusted with their party that they demand change. Happened in machine cities run by Dems before but rarely seen at a state level. Usually reform comes from a group of individuals frozen out of the current setup and the loot plus an unchecked party simply becomes a looting operation.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:32 AM (bVz3B)

139 It been Acorn and SEIU but, allegedly, they cut ties in the late 2000's. Nevertheless, an SEIU and ActBlue search remains to be interesting.

Also of possible interest, reportedly ActBlue is laying off some of its "union employees" after questionable fundraising techniques came into play.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (GshMh)

140 But remember the real issue of the day:

Trump said pussy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (UVZX7)

141 "But where's the prooooooofffffff!"

Seems to me that the financial audit that would find out where that money came from would require two sorts of forensic audits, one on the software itself, and one on where the money came from that was credited to these various people who never saw $100K in their life.

And the only people who can authorize that level of forensic audit work for the government, for the justice systems at various levels. And will they begin those investigations?

Since the "New Rule" is "proof before investigation" I have no faith that anyone will bother.

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (BD/yx)

142 Why are people such helpless morons?

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at April 10, 2023 11:34 AM (roPuI)

143
With this kind of money, the corruption in our government will never go away and will only get worse.
I've said it before, the corruption occurs early and often.
Fun thing to do on a rainy afternoon. Find the newest elected small town mayor or city/county council member and do a FOI request on their travel expenses. Suddenly Good 'ol Bob, your friendly new mayor, has serious business for the city, in the Bahamas...or Hawaii.
It is truly disgusting.
Posted by: Diogenes
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It has always been so. Corruption from those in power you will always have with you. It was that way even during the American Revolution.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:34 AM (bVz3B)

144 The call to action has been sounded. And we take this seriously. The Federal Investigation Bureau will handle it from here.

First of all, we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.

Mr. O'Keefe must immediately cease and desist with his obstructive private investigation.

Posted by: The FIB at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (krQz2)

145 As a short term stopgap, and assuming a noncorrupt FEC, the obvious solution is to require investigation of small donors who contribute more than X times in X days.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (eOEVl)

146 Twill always be that way until either the GOP plays hardball (stop laughing) or Dem voters get so disgusted with their party that they demand change. Happened in machine cities run by Dems before but rarely seen at a state level. Usually reform comes from a group of individuals frozen out of the current setup and the loot plus an unchecked party simply becomes a looting operation.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:32 AM (bVz3B)
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Yup.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (t0OGg)

147 Trump said pussy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (UVZX7)

Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

148 Can't investigate ActBlue until we get to the bottom of Marco Rubio's trash cans.

Posted by: Private Dick at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Nn3xT)

149 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.

Well, sure, but how many candidates have as spotless a reputation as Biden?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)

150 Actually there is a possibility of change in our fortunes and it involves population movements. If enough Republican voters move from blue to red states it changes the electoral college votes and enables a win. It also enables more Republican congress people. Don't know what to do about the senate.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 11:36 AM (3JfbU)

151 148 Trump said pussy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (UVZX7)

Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

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The only solution is to nominate someone that Democrats won't demean as a woman-hating monster. Perhaps Jeb Bush.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (UVZX7)

152 The marks that have been donating to the dems without their knowledge should be able to deduct these 'contributions' on their tax returns right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (DMyTF)

153 150 Well, sure, but how many candidates have as spotless a reputation as Biden?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)

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Obama never heard a single harangue against white people in his whole life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (UVZX7)

154 Don't know what to do about the senate.

I'm pretty sure it involves volcanoes.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)

155 101 Why would someone launder campaign contributions?

Pay offs and laundering. All that money they send to Ukraine needs a way to return undetected.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:22 AM (AGhs5)
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I like that thought. The Ukraine link is very probable and at least possible.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Formatting for the win at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (qfLjt)

156 It has always been so. Corruption from those in power you will always have with you. It was that way even during the American Revolution.
Posted by: whig

A republic if you can keep it.

Posted by: Ben Franklin at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (/0+YE)

157 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN

Then she isn't pro life.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (p8cAR)

158 I just realized the other convenient thing about "Gun Free Zones" is mass murderers are unlilely to be stopped by a "good guy with a gun" which self-circles the narrative that you need Police and that there are no "good guys with guns".

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (vaAZV)

159 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (+sD5M)

160 How long do you think it'll take for the Corporate Leftist Media to lose interest in the bank mass shooting after the shooter's identification is made public?
Posted by: exdem13 at April 10, 2023 11:06 AM (W+kMI)

We all know it depends on skin color
Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:07 AM (bs+z0)

Given that this apparently took place in the bank's conference room at 8:30 A.M., I'm going to go with "personal vendetta" until proven otherwise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (tkR6S)

161 149 Can't investigate ActBlue until we get to the bottom of Marco Rubio's trash cans.
Posted by: Private Dick at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Nn3xT)

Watch out for Ewoks - they get pretty territorial.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (N3zMI)

162 Seems to me that the financial audit that would find out where that money came from would require two sorts of forensic audits, one on the software itself, and one on where the money came from that was credited to these various people who never saw $100K in their life. ...
Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (BD/yx)
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It would be easy. Subpoena the transaction records and web logs. If there are multiple accounts attached to the donor or the web logs reflect a distant IP address (say, the donor is from Missouri but the IP address is from Florida), those are red flags and go into stage two.

Then subpoena the banks and ISPs to get account holders and subscribers associated with those account numbers and IP addresses.

I strongly suspect that what they'll find is dozens or hundreds of accounts attached to these frequent flier cutouts, likely from distant places. Those accounts have names on them, and those IP addresses have subscribers. The net traffic can be easily obfuscated, but the banking traffic is harder and should be the primary target.

But this is not hard to prove if you can get ActBlue's internal transaction registers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

163
Well, sure, but how many candidates have as spotless a reputation as Biden?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)

but, he's Catholic! Anyway her point was that any RTL wins were illegitimate if brought about by Trump. He would put no evil plan past Trump, and excused everything Biden.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (Zzbjj)

164 Is Democrat Fundraiser ActBlue Laundering Illegal Political Contributions Through Unknowing Small Donors?

Yes.

But Trump might've paid a hooker to shut up. Get your priorities straight, Buck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (+sD5M)

165 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)
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Sounds like an idiot.

And I use words that harsh scarcely.

"Abortion is murder (every day)" vs. "Trump said 'pussy' (one particular time, years ago)".

That's somebody who can't sort out degrees of severity.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (krQz2)

166 "Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster."

Show her the videos of Joe groping kids. I just don't understand how anybody who's seen those could vote for the guy. I assume that GOP failed to work hard enought to get the videos out to the LIVs and TV addicts and oldsters.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (MvF+J)

167 I spent 15 minutes looking at ActBlue donations in my zip code and immediately found an 80yo male who, in his life had given $100 to a CA conservative senate fund. Then he gave 230 small donations to ActBlue over a 7 month period totally several thousands of dollars. It was VERY easy to find this guy. I have not interviewed him but given his public info biopsy, he is not a democrat supporter.

Posted by: MGUNSON@ME.COM at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (O5Dys)

168 Will no one rid me of this troublesome O'Keefe?

Posted by: Merrick Garland at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (UHGaK)

169 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj

What amazes me is that Biden is a creepy pervert and somehow he's okay to vote for.

Posted by: Emmie at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (Emce2)

170 ActBlue will be sued, lose and simply morph into something equally slithery, slimy and corrupt.

Posted by: LASue at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (Ed8Zd)

171 Conservatives have got to get better about fundraising.
Republicans used to enjoy a huge advantage on this front, but it's been gone for a while.

Posted by: Blago at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (cOFom)

172 When you look at the ActBlue donations. Sometimes 3 times a day from the same unemployed person. Some for 50 cents. There must be credit card receipts, unless they are using gift cards. No one uses a credit card with a $4.00 processig fee to donate 50 cents.

Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (RzLGh)

173 This busty bikini blonde in the water once donated to ActBlue because her friends told her it was a good idea, but now she's worried that she's been "donating" for years:
https://is.gd/JiZ9kd

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

174 Trump said pussy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (UVZX7)

Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

Meanwhile her husband calls her a filthy slut while he blows his load all over her tits.

Posted by: Robert, a tad cynical at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (98dB2)

175 Then she isn't pro life.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (p8cAR)

It's practically her life, but she will sacrifice success if it flies under a Trump banner.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (Zzbjj)

176 but, he's Catholic! Anyway her point was that any RTL wins were illegitimate if brought about by Trump. He would put no evil plan past Trump, and excused everything Biden.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (Zzbjj)
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He and the other Good Catholic, Milley, don't want practicing Catholics in the military.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (krQz2)

177 57
To me, you're a problem.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (ruYJi)

178 It's practically her life, but she will sacrifice success if it flies under a Trump banner.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (Zzbjj)
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That's tribal thinking.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (krQz2)

179
Meanwhile her husband calls her a filthy slut while he blows his load all over her tits.
Posted by: Robert, a tad cynical at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (98dB2)

Nope. Widowed for 20 years, considering a convent.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (Zzbjj)

180 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
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It was a private conversation. Do middle-aged women get their panties in a wad when they find out that men occassionally have "locker-room" talk in a private setting? Please keep them away from reading the comments on AoS.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (fs1hN)

181 I'm also seeing strings of small contributions to WinRed. 96130 zip.
8000 people, 4600 donations. Split between ActBlue mostly and WinRed less. Only a few people contributing.

Posted by: torabora at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (OUiUM)

182 Meanwhile her husband calls her ....

Posted by: Robert, a tad cynical

Dude. A little restraint.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

183 How hard is it for the FEC to track donors who supposedly make 10+ individual donations every day for years?? The donor is obviously not doing that him or herself. Fat Bragg should get right on this.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

184 That's tribal thinking.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (krQz2)

Completely.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (Zzbjj)

185 172 Conservatives have got to get better about fundraising.
Republicans used to enjoy a huge advantage on this front, but it's been gone for a while.
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I think you meant to say buying Ballot Harvesters. Just raise the price of a ballot and win.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (OTXUv)

186 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

And the media decided for her which profanity she needed to hear about and which profanity she didn't need to hear about.

Such as, Joe Biden likes to swim naked. In front of his female security staff. Because he can.

The tradition of a family holiday gathering with the VP and his security and their families was ended because he wouldn't keep his paws off people's wives. Got punched for it once, too.

Doctor Jill even made a public apology for her handsy husband who just didn't understand that getting pawed wasn't what every woman wanted, so he would now endeavor to "do better".

And the MEDIA decided for your middle aged woman friend which disgusting behavior mattered and which didn't matter at all.

One candidate parading naked in front of employees with no power to object or to leave.

The other candidate saying the word "pussy".

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (BD/yx)

187 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:15 AM (UVZX7)

Oh yeah Pauly Wants a Cracker really gives a fuck about facts.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (vaAZV)

188 My bet is the bank shooter is a disgruntled homosexual.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (DMyTF)

189 They arrested Trump for illegal contributions. That means they're doing it x 1.89 MILLION.

It's what they do. Deflect to keep you distracted from what they're doing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (+sD5M)

190 ActBlue will be sued, lose and simply morph into something equally slithery, slimy and corrupt.
Posted by: LASue at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (Ed8Zd)
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It will just delay the re-influx of Ukraine money.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (krQz2)

191 174 This busty bikini blonde in the water once donated to ActBlue because her friends told her it was a good idea, but now she's worried that she's been "donating" for years:
https://is.gd/JiZ9kd
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
____

She needs new friends. Also, nice pins. Could be a contender with the other linked ladies in the previous thread.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 11:43 AM (fs1hN)

192 It has always been so. Corruption from those in power you will always have with you. It was that way even during the American Revolution.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:34 AM (bVz3B)

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At least then you could shoot them.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 11:43 AM (3JfbU)

193 https://is.gd/JiZ9kd
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

I'd like to make a donation in her name, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Robert at April 10, 2023 11:43 AM (98dB2)

194 Say, how's that Getting Rid of Biden op going? I was assured by People Who Know that the classified document drop was an op to get rid of Biden and not at all a controlled demolition of a potentially harmful political story.

And how's that manifesto release?

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (AmBa0)

195 In Texas.

Where's Ken Paxton?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (+sD5M)

196 Lil' Marco says maybe America just won't be best friends anymore with Macron and France or play World Police if France wants to be friends with China too.....

https://tinyurl.com/2p8js2b7

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (vXKrL)

197 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

I'm not going to suggest that she might be less than fully truthful but I doubt that there is a single adult in the US who hasn't used that term to describe that body part at least once in their lives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (z99Zw)

198 Meanwhile...

Bruce Springsteen’s veteran E-Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt issued a call to fans and supporters on social media Sunday to “Exterminate the (Republican) cockroaches.”

OK Stevie Boy. I'm not a Republican but I vote for them. But I am your worst enemy...a Conservative. So bring it. I'm right here. Take your best shot.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (anj39)

199 It was a private conversation. Do middle-aged women get their panties in a wad when they find out that men occassionally have "locker-room" talk in a private setting? Please keep them away from reading the comments on AoS.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (fs1hN)

Oh, they do. It was crazy, do you remember?

That "locker-room" talk thing? You guys NEVER do that. Pretending that it's normal for men to BS and use crude language when women aren't around is *gaslighting*.

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (BD/yx)

200 It was a private conversation. Do middle-aged women get their panties in a wad when they find out that men occassionally have "locker-room" talk in a private setting? Please keep them away from reading the comments on AoS.
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Only women have women only clubs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (OTXUv)

201 Junta AG Garland is on it!

Durham will come ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (wUAh7)

202 Bruce Springsteen’s veteran E-Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt issued a call to fans and supporters on social media Sunday to “Exterminate the (Republican) cockroaches.”

Bring it. I'm betting our aim is better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (+sD5M)

203 Speaking of that, has McTurtle been seen in public yet?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Nope, possible that he had a stroke or some other major health issue as the cause of the fall given the radio silence.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (bVz3B)

204 187 We've got the videos of Joe groping kids. Testimonial evidence from SS agents is less convincing than video of Joe in the act. We've got the nukes. Use the nukes.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (MvF+J)

205 I'm not going to suggest that she might be less than fully truthful but I doubt that there is a single adult in the US who hasn't used that term to describe that body part at least once in their lives.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (z99Zw)

Some women I know, when talking about stupid feminist dogma, like to use the term "glittering hoo-hah."

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:46 AM (BD/yx)

206 189 My bet is the bank shooter is a disgruntled homosexual.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:42 AM (DMyTF)

They "think" it was an employee or ex employee so must of been a white person because they had a job.... I denounce myself

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 11:46 AM (bs+z0)

207 130 Posted by: Ciampino - Formatting for the win at April 10, 2023 11:19 AM

http://tinyurl.com/4p2fdtc2

Posted by: bed head at April 10, 2023 11:29 AM (Y1sOo)
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LOL. I didn't actually want to go there ......
Some of us post URLs without the leader and I've been wanting to mention that for some time.

Posted by: Ciampino - Formatting for the win at April 10, 2023 11:46 AM (qfLjt)

208 A little restraint.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

Do what now?

Posted by: Robert at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (98dB2)

209 158 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN

Then she isn't pro life.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (p8cAR)

Bingo.

Posted by: 2d look at repealing the 19th? at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (V6LRK)

210 I think "let you grab them by the pussy" means that Trump literally did this against the owner's will and should be in Jail for sexual assault. Not like kindly Grandpa Joe, or the arkanciding wife of cool boxer wearing Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (fs1hN)

211 The answer is yes. Go to the FEC's 'individual contributions' page at tinyurl.com/yc85auj4 and you can see for yourself.

I did that for a red ZIP code and found people who have made hundreds of small denomination donations to WINRED, Trump for president, NRSC, etc. in the last year.

It seems that this is being played by both "sides" of the Uniparty

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (YXHzG)

212 Lil' Marco says maybe America just won't be best friends anymore with Macron and France or play World Police if France wants to be friends with China too.....

https://tinyurl.com/2p8js2b7
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 10, 2023 11:44 AM (vXKrL)

The EU hates Trump because he forced them to pony up for their own defense. Now they're crying that they can't possibly defend themselves from Putin in Ukraine, so they're cozying up to China.

Good luck with that. Rickb223 is right. Fuck Europe. Bring our troops home. Close the bases. Bring all the equipment home.

Let them defend themselves again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (+sD5M)

213 Actually there is a possibility of change in our fortunes and it involves population movements. If enough Republican voters move from blue to red states it changes the electoral college votes and enables a win. It also enables more Republican congress people. Don't know what to do about the senate.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 11:36 AM (3JfbU)

Remember when the Biden administration "adjusted" the 2020 census data? Remember how all the upward adjustments went to blue states and the downward adjustments went to red? What did they reckon? Something like 5-6 Democrat members of the House who shouldn't be there?

Everything they do is pantomime to fool the masses that they're obeying the law. Lots of people will just accept if they think things are on the up-and-up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (z99Zw)

214 152 148 Trump said pussy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:33 AM (UVZX7)

Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:35 AM (Zzbjj)

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The only solution is to nominate someone that Democrats won't demean as a woman-hating monster. Perhaps Jeb Bush.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (UVZX7)

I nominate Caitlyn Jenner!

Posted by: Inogame at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (53oGX)

215 176 this woman doesn’t make sense at all. But that happens when you age, I guess.

I know another person who was very religious. Pretends she still is, but is also a “feminist”, read awfl. She feels there needs to be less energy toward the fight against abortion and more energy in gender neutralization of God along with heavy focus on the feminization of doctrine. If you want to rationalize something, you can commit amazing acrobatics to do it. The end result doesn’t change, nor does the associated sin.

Posted by: Piper at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (ZdaMQ)

216 "It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating."

HAHAHAHAHA! It's so funny you think anything will happen.

Posted by: butch at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (cHvOo)

217 Just found my first hit on the FEC data base for a person that I know in real life that would NEVER send money to support Democrats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (1n+EO)

218 205 187 We've got the videos of Joe groping kids. Testimonial evidence from SS agents is less convincing than video of Joe in the act. We've got the nukes. Use the nukes.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:45 AM (MvF+J)

How did that work? Oh, he's just hugging and cuddling them, why are you a perv?

Testimonial evidence from adult SS agents should be more convincing, not less. But in order for that to be true, "journalists" have to care. They have to investigate. They have to put it all together in a "news report".

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (BD/yx)

219 At least then you could shoot them.
Posted by: President Select Decaf
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All governments have corrupt individuals but democracies occasionally try them or have them voted out when the stink is too bad.

In dictatorships, everyone can see who the corrupt are because they flaunt it but as long as they don't piss off el jefe, they are free as a bird and guilty as sin.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:49 AM (bVz3B)

220 Red state attorneys general cannot enforce violations of federal election laws.

Posted by: Alvin Bragg at April 10, 2023 11:49 AM (vN+oL)

221 hope you don't have your savings stored in Tupperware

Posted by: REDACTED at April 10, 2023 11:49 AM (us2H3)

222 It seems that this is being played by both "sides" of the Uniparty
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (YXHzG)
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It would not surprise me in the least.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:49 AM (t0OGg)

223 Unless I missed it, Fox didn't even bring this up last week! Is O'Keefe now banned there?
A massive story......IF it's covered

Posted by: ziggggeeee at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (AsMdZ)

224 .... where O’Keefe asks a couple about the 31,000 donations they’ve made to ActBlue totaling $230,000. They respond that they’ve given less than $1,000

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In an odd coincidence, the couple was also found to have voted 31,000 times in the 2020 elections.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (CE2Fi)

225 "If enough Republican voters move from blue to red states it changes the electoral college votes and enables a win."

The blues will follow you wherever you move. Unless there are ideological restrictions for state residence, you're just delaying the inevitable.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (MvF+J)

226 Watching countries line up to blow China because they think China will be number 1 soon is interesting.
Funny how they think they'll be able to use and abuse them with a little ass kissing like they did to us.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (/Td2i)

227 Ukriane cash finding its resting place most likely explanation.

Posted by: Eli Cash at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (9OTdF)

228 It seems that this is being played by both "sides" of the Uniparty
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (YXHzG)
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Didn't finish, apologies.

This is another reason for nobody to go after it. If both "sides" do it - and my default position is that it's likely - then that is further insurance against interference in the scam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:50 AM (t0OGg)

229 I'm also seeing strings of small contributions to WinRed.

Different side of the same UniParty coin. Plenty of GOPe in office, as we've noticed. ActBlue and WinRed probably share servers to make sure this money all gets divvied up correctly.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (Sv58p)

230 93
'Nobody likes giving money to a cheater or a crook,'

Wrong!

Posted by: Every democrat at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (ruYJi)

231 Mind. Blown.

https://youtu.be/b675YYkUBuA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (FVME7)

232 There's footage of Pedo Joe pinching some 7-year-old girl's nipple at some White House photo op. Dude's a sick perv and should be, uh, retired.

Posted by: None so blind as those that will not see at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (V6LRK)

233 If some one were to somehow gather up a trillion odd dollars and give it to Barack Obama to run for president as a Republican, within fifteen minutes the networks would be parroting their script of "not really black" and "Here's Why Obamacare Didn't Work".

The enemy is the enemy. Whatever squawks and honks and belches they emit as a response to someone doing a thing mean absolutely nothing and should never be used as a consideration in deciding on a course of action.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (/EuRN)

234 But this is not hard to prove if you can get ActBlue's internal transaction registers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

You mean wiped.. like with a cloth?

Posted by: WineLuver at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (53oGX)

235 Sadly, this really IS an issue with middle aged women. I know a big pro-life woman who voted Biden because of it, she would not sully the RTL principles by voting for that profane monster.
Posted by: CN

My guess is that she has her bread buttered by Dems financially or is ideologically sympatico with what the Dems do in private--she is just a poser about RTL because she views profanity worse than actual baby killing. Actions always speak louder than words.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:52 AM (bVz3B)

236 Wrong!
Posted by: Every democrat at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (ruYJi)
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They convince themselves that they're not cheaters and crooks. Not the guys in power - they all know the score - but the rubes. This happens on the Republican "side" as well. The rubes want to think that things are okay and that not everything is a scam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:52 AM (t0OGg)

237 Posted by: Paul at April 10, 2023 11:14 AM (GXAba)

... say the idiots who ignore Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian sub continent, while omitting the fact their northern European anti-gun heroes have had the security guaranteed and paid for by the eeee33vil violent US taxpayers for the last 83 years.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at April 10, 2023 11:52 AM (516e+)

238 "How did that work? Oh, he's just hugging and cuddling them, why are you a perv?"

How many LIVs and Dems have seen the videos? Why didn't GOP use them every night in primetime TV ads in Oct-Nov 2020? Why weren't they on billboards, etc? I think it didn't work because we didn't use it.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (MvF+J)

239 You mean wiped.. like with a cloth?
Posted by: WineLuver at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (53oGX)
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That's possible, but even that is illegal. Campaign finance must have full record-keeping and the taxman might have something to say about it, too.

Not that it matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (t0OGg)

240 >>LOL. I didn't actually want to go there

Yeah, I know you didn't. But now that you did...pretty amazing feet, huh?

*snicker*

Posted by: bed head at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (Y1sOo)

241 225 .... where O’Keefe asks a couple about the 31,000 donations they’ve made to ActBlue totaling $230,000. They respond that they’ve given less than $1,000

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In an odd coincidence, the couple was also found to have voted 31,000 times in the 2020 elections.
Posted by: ShainS
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Two sides of the same coin.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (bVz3B)

242 I must have picked the right area to live. Largest donation here is $1000 to a physician's PAC.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (u7leW)

243 I think "let you grab them by the pussy" means that Trump literally did this against the owner's will and should be in Jail for sexual assault. Not like kindly Grandpa Joe, or the arkanciding wife of cool boxer wearing Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 11:47 AM (fs1hN)
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A crucial part they always leave out is that the condition is wider than just Trump: "When you are a star" and consent is at least suggested: "Women let you do anything you want". Of course, men's past claims of consent exceed the number of times women have given consent, most likely.

But the concept is in there.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (krQz2)

244 Posted by: None so blind as those that will not see at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (V6LRK)

The widespread support for him from TrueCon Central tells you everything you need to know. Then again they supported Hillary too and Obama before her.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (rH9O0)

245 The EU hates Trump because he forced them to pony up for their own defense. Now they're crying that they can't possibly defend themselves from Putin in Ukraine, so they're cozying up to China. [/i\

That's one way to look at it. An American way.

Or....

China is whispering in the ear of European leaders "Why do you hate China and Russia just because the PTB in America tell you to? Russia is selling you cheap fuel. We are selling you cheap goods.

We don't want your land. European countries for Europeans are fine with us. Russia for Russians is fine with us. China for Chinese is fine with us.

The only one's invading your countries are the rapist migrant hordes you are bringing in yourself, also at the behest of the PTB."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 10, 2023 11:54 AM (vXKrL)

246
Q: Are the Party and State committing crime X?

A: Yes.

The answer is always "yes." There's no law they're ever *not* breaking. It's both their right and their duty.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 10, 2023 11:54 AM (oINRc)

247 A crucial part they always leave out is that the condition is wider than just Trump: "When you are a star" and consent is at least suggested: "Women let you do anything you want". Of course, men's past claims of consent exceed the number of times women have given consent, most likely.

But the concept is in there.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (krQz2)
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He says it flat out. "They let you do it." He's talking about starfuckers. They're real, although it's impolite to talk about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:54 AM (t0OGg)

248 Just found my first hit on the FEC data base for a person that I know in real life that would NEVER send money to support Democrats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 10, 2023 11:48 AM (1n+EO)

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Was his name Joe Mannix?

;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:54 AM (rFp0F)

249 democrats steal, plunder, loot, mooch and launder money.

It's what they do.

Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (XUYt+)

250 "Testimonial evidence from adult SS agents should be more convincing, not less."

For me, video evidence is FAR more convincing than testimony and affidavits.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (MvF+J)

251 I just searched my bro in law on open secrets (other relatives also). He shows donation history like 15 times for specific candidate for governor, like 10 15 dollars a each. he's a demo, but it seems unlikely that he did these donations. I think I'll ask him, at the risk of opening a can of worms.

Posted by: Search your family if you have lefty s at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (Y4GwN)

252 Amend your income taxes for the last three years and declare the donations for refunds.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (xhaym)

253 My late elderly father was trapped in a monthly subscription scam from ActBlue. Took me a while to get it all un-subscribed. Bastidges.

Posted by: Aunt Ralph at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (SbycW)

254 They take Trump literally at the most convenient times.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (rH9O0)

255 Amend your income taxes for the last three years and declare the donations for refunds.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (xhaym)
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I do wonder what would happen if someone did this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (t0OGg)

256 233 There's footage of Pedo Joe pinching some 7-year-old girl's nipple at some White House photo op. Dude's a sick perv and should be, uh, retired.
Posted by: None so blind as those that will not see at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (V6LRK)

There's video footage of Bill Clinton reaching back and grabbing a stewardess by the pussy. She's laughing and he looks like a naughty boy.

I saw it.

And I've never regretted not having a compulsive need to save stuff like that because I can not find it back. It's just GONE.

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 11:56 AM (BD/yx)

257 My guess is that she has her bread buttered by Dems financially or is ideologically sympatico with what the Dems do in private--she is just a poser about RTL because she views profanity worse than actual baby killing. Actions always speak louder than words.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:52 AM (bVz3B)

Nope. She's an RN living like an RN. Spends her free time at pregnancy centers babysitting and raising RTL money. But she's hated Trump since Marla Maples. Pure middle aged women stuff.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:56 AM (Zzbjj)

258 Louisville gunman is 25 year-old Connor Sturgeon, an employee at the Old National Bank branch where the shooting occurred.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/
1645454646062768128/photo/1

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:56 AM (DMyTF)

259 I just want to comment once again on the fascinating duality of leftist talking points about culture right now.

On the one hand is an open acknowledgement that things have gotten worse, not better, that things were better before Year Zero.

On the other hand is an open contempt for anyone who proposes anything in terms of policy or social change that takes us back to the time when culture was better and safer.

It's fascinating to watch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 11:56 AM (UVZX7)

260 I know another person who was very religious. Pretends she still is, but is also a “feminist”, read awfl. She feels there needs to be less energy toward the fight against abortion and more energy in gender neutralization of God along with heavy focus on the feminization of doctrine. If you want to rationalize something, you can commit amazing acrobatics to do it. The end result doesn’t change, nor does the associated sin.
Posted by: Piper
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From the outside, it is impossible to separate the posers from the faithful until you account for their actions versus their words.

In reality, she worships herself--not scripture because she values her thoughts and feelings over that of an objective guidebook (the Bible). Most of us always invent our own rationale when we want to sin--some are ingenious as inspired by the Father of Lies--but the truth is that we rationalize our sins as being justified when they are not.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (bVz3B)

261 I just looked up myself on the FEC site! Seems I've been donating heavily to WinRed. I haven't. Scary times

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (Zzbjj)

262 The phrase "grab them by the pussy" was intentionally hilarious. But just as we all have to pretend men are women now, we have to pretend Trump was making a deadly serious confession, not an off the cuff joke.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (rH9O0)

263 I must have picked the right area to live. Largest donation here is $1000 to a physician's PAC.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

It's the number of donations. Wait 'til you see all the $5 and 50¢ donations.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (e2onP)

264 I remember one of the things a Dem vote-fixer mentioned in regards to the 1960 election is that he'd bring in a bunch of people from nursing homes and "help" them vote...for Kennedy of course.

His argument was that they would have voted for JFK as life long Dems so he wasn't cheating.

And there have been a few isolated cases of this in recent elections were various left wing people have mentioned they've "helped" their invalid relatives vote and since they were life long Democrats it wasn't cheating...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (lc5cP)

265 155 Don't know what to do about the senate.

I'm pretty sure it involves volcanoes.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)
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You want (active) volcanoes?
You'd settle for helicopters?
You'll get lampposts

....... and I'm good with that.

Posted by: Ciampino - rope for the win at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (qfLjt)

266 "Specifically, elderly people and others with limited means have been verified to be donating tremendous amounts of money to ActBlue in thousands of small donations per individual"

This actually isn't really news. Do any of you remember that totally bizarre press conference that Giuliani held at that random-ass landscaping business after the 2020 election, but before the inauguration?

A lot of people were trying to figure out what that was about; but something lost in the later freakout over J6 and subsequent social media censorship blitz was that it was found that a fuckton of money had been "donated" by employees of the business. It was really bizarre and pointed off down a bunch of other rabbit holes, like the premises being used as a physical location for transferring fake ballots, etc.

Posted by: somedood at April 10, 2023 11:58 AM (wsx8x)

267 I just looked up myself on the FEC site! Seems I've been donating heavily to WinRed. I haven't. Scary times
Posted by: CN

Do you live in South Carolina? You KNOW Lindsey Graham is heavily supported by this scam.

Posted by: t-bird at April 10, 2023 11:58 AM (e2onP)

268 I just looked up myself on the FEC site! Seems I've been donating heavily to WinRed. I haven't. Scary times
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:57 AM (Zzbjj)

A: Where do I go to look this shit up?

B: What legal recourse do I have?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2023 11:58 AM (anj39)

269 I just looked up myself on the FEC site! Seems I've been donating heavily to WinRed. I haven't. Scary times

AH! Now I understand the email claims that a "secret donor" will match dollar for dollar my donation if I do it today!

How they do that is get your ID, then launder the equivalent money through it.

At least they are up front about doubling or tripling your donation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (YXHzG)

270 I think I'll ask him, at the risk of opening a can of worms.
Posted by: Search your family if you have lefty s at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (Y4GwN

Tell him "I heard about this scam the Party has been running, and checked out everyone in the fam... I'm worried you got swept up in it, and wanted to tip you off."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (oINRc)

271 "She feels there needs to be less energy toward the fight against abortion and more energy in gender neutralization of God along with heavy focus on the feminization of doctrine"

Women's suffrage was such a tragic mistake.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (MvF+J)

272 For me, video evidence is FAR more convincing than testimony and affidavits.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (MvF+J)

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It's gonna be a wild ride when #DeepFake videos of people in compromising situations are unleashed.

I assume somebody already has or will come up with a technology that differentiates between actual true real life video and deep fake ones ... at least, I hope so.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (rFp0F)

273 nood

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (MvF+J)

274 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (oINRc)

Or don't bother because it's not going to fix or solve anything.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (rH9O0)

275 Nope. She's an RN living like an RN. Spends her free time at pregnancy centers babysitting and raising RTL money. But she's hated Trump since Marla Maples. Pure middle aged women stuff.
Posted by: CN

She voted for baby killers that will finance and support more dead babies and glory in it. Plus, not really Christian now is it to not forgive and forget especially when the cause of the innocent is at stake. That type deserves what the Dems do to them because they place their own feelings over the welfare of others. I find that as sinful as what she imagines Trump did that aggravated her so.

The books of the prophets tell you that the Lord has a wicked sense of humor when he uses flawed humans to champion his causes.

Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (bVz3B)

276 Can't figure out why she left that one toe unpainted. Maybe it has an underlying meaning in the foot fetish community.

Like when a woman wears an ankle braclet on her left leg. That's supposed to mean something, too, but I forget what.

Posted by: bed head at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (Y1sOo)

277 "It's gonna be a wild ride when #DeepFake videos of people in compromising situations are unleashed."

Yes it is.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (MvF+J)

278 Poll: Trump's popularity near all-time low, majority of independents think he broke the law in wake of arrest

https://bit.ly/40WVxBB

Also, Biden did not break the law because he's not under arrest.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 12:01 PM (FVME7)

279 258 Louisville gunman is 25 year-old Connor Sturgeon, an employee at the Old National Bank branch where the shooting occurred.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/
1645454646062768128/photo/1
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 11:56 AM (DMyTF)

People in the replies pointing out Citizen Free Press scrubbed the image of his "preferred pronouns."

Posted by: Robert at April 10, 2023 12:01 PM (98dB2)

280 Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (rFp0F)

Like even the best photoshops, AI videos have all kind of tells.

People will learn not to trust video any more than they trust photos now.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 12:01 PM (rH9O0)

281 I shan not believe it, as ace says.

BTW, act blue as a platform is amazing. Some party *cough* should learn from it.

Posted by: Not a fed at April 10, 2023 12:01 PM (m9Acq)

282 It’s time for some red-state Attorney Generals and District Attorneys to start investigating.

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Those are some of the laziest fuckers on the planet.

When I looked at Hillary Clinton campaign donations in 2016 about 95% of them were maxed out at $2300 and it didn’t matter what occupation the donor put down.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 10, 2023 12:02 PM (QnIJ2)

283 Conservatives have got to get better about fundraising.
Republicans used to enjoy a huge advantage on this front, but it's been gone for a while.
Posted by: Blago at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (cOFom)

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That will happen when you have contempt for your voters.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 12:02 PM (3JfbU)

284 "I assume somebody already has or will come up with a technology that differentiates between actual true real life video and deep fake ones ... at least, I hope so.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 10, 2023 11:59 AM (rFp0F)"

Fake stuff has already been pushed out as real, by the interested parties, specifically to muddy the water with examples of what is or isn't real as battlespace prep.

Posted by: somedood at April 10, 2023 12:03 PM (wsx8x)

285 Nope. Widowed for 20 years, considering a convent.
Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 11:41 AM (Zzbjj)

Then she's a stunned c*nt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 10, 2023 12:03 PM (tkR6S)

286 I do wonder what would happen if someone did this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:55 AM (t0OGg)

a) ignore it because it is such a giant can of worms no one wants to touch it
b) demand proof
c) reject the amended return
d) reject the amended return and charge penalties for knowingly filing a false return.

The last one will be purely out of spite, since you could show that you used federal FEC filing information to support your claim, and the fraud is actually with the FEC
Of course, with thousands of such returns bells will have to go off at some point.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 10, 2023 12:04 PM (xhaym)

287 239 You mean wiped.. like with a cloth?
Posted by: WineLuver at April 10, 2023 11:51 AM (53oGX)
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That's possible, but even that is illegal. Campaign finance must have full record-keeping and the taxman might have something to say about it, too.

Not that it matters.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 11:53 AM (t0OGg)

I know, my point was more to there not really being consequences. At most there will be a patsy blamed for the destruction of "evidence", or they will say russian hack! Just to rub our noses in it.

Posted by: Inogame at April 10, 2023 12:04 PM (53oGX)

288 Is Biden's perversion remotely debatable? Yes I know the criminal media hides it.

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 12:05 PM (eGTCV)

289 "283 Conservatives have got to get better about fundraising.
Republicans used to enjoy a huge advantage on this front, but it's been gone for a while.
Posted by: Blago at April 10, 2023 11:39 AM (cOFom)"

Conservatives need to be better about acquiring practical skills, caching, building trusted relationships, knowing when to shut the hell up, and relocating when they need to relocate. There is no political solution to the larger problems, nor are there any national-level political organizations that represent them or advance their interests to fundraise for.

It's 2023, not 1965.

Posted by: somedood at April 10, 2023 12:06 PM (wsx8x)

290 A: Where do I go to look this shit up?

B: What legal recourse do I have?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 10, 2023 11:58 AM (anj39)

FEC.

My demented auntie has been donating her brains out despite having little brain left and NO money under her control.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 12:07 PM (Zzbjj)

291 The Louisville shooting looks like five dead (including the murderer), eight injured (including two police officers). The murderer was apparently a current or former bank employee. One of the police officers shot is in critical condition and is in surgery.

https://tinyurl.com/4yp5rjha

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 10, 2023 12:07 PM (sWM8x)

292 hope you don't have your savings stored in Tupperware
Posted by: REDACTED at April 10, 2023 11:49 AM (us2H3)

Crap. You've been spying!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 10, 2023 12:09 PM (Zvtjl)

293 I must have picked the right area to live. Largest donation here is $1000 to a physician's PAC.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Scroll for repeated names. They seem to be odd amounts repeated multiple times. It is hard to differentiate from those and the "give to the general fund that gets split between 50 individual nationwide elections"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 10, 2023 12:09 PM (xhaym)

294 The books of the prophets tell you that the Lord has a wicked sense of humor when he uses flawed humans to champion his causes.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (bVz3B)

My argument that Trump is essentially a huge convert didn't work at all. He said pussy and divorced Ivana.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 12:10 PM (Zzbjj)

295 He and the other Good Catholic, Milley, don't want practicing Catholics in the military.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 11:40 AM (krQz2)

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It's also very well publicised that all Dems are abortion absolutists so I call BS on the Catholic old ladies who cannot possibly vote for Trump and then vote Democrat. Yeah, nah.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 12:10 PM (3JfbU)

296 What they fear is someone like Trump which is why they are pursuing him with the same maniacal intensity of Ahab. I wouldn't discount what is being uncovered by people like Comer in the House just because the media isn't talking about it yet. There are at least some on our side finally fighting back. Just a few minutes ago the House announced they will be holding hearings in NYC next week with victims of Bragg's lawless policies.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 09:06 AM (ZLI7S)

I know, I know, blaster and JackStraw going hammer and tong again, what's with these guys? That is not what is happening. This isn't about me and JackStraw - we mostly agree on positions etc. Where we differ is on interpretation of the same facts - what Scott Adams calls two different movies on the same screen.

There are a lot of people who describe the extreme measures that the Left takes as "desperation" - that they are doing things out of fear. I don't think the Left fears ANYONE on the Right, certainly not Trump. They have beaten him before, and they know they can keep messing with him as long as they need to.

continuing

Posted by: blaster at April 10, 2023 12:15 PM (pwExq)

297 I just looked up myself on the FEC site! Seems I've been donating heavily to WinRed. I haven't. Scary times
Posted by: CN

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So one could do a small donation to ActBlue then wait for the fake donations under your name, then sue them for identity theft.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 10, 2023 12:16 PM (QnIJ2)

298 So one could do a small donation to ActBlue then wait for the fake donations under your name, then sue them for identity theft.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 10, 2023 12:16 PM (QnIJ2)

Probably. The last time I donated was to Trump in 2020. Not one penny since then, but maybe I just forgot how much I love the GOPe

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 12:22 PM (Zzbjj)

299 The books of the prophets tell you that the Lord has a wicked sense of humor when he uses flawed humans to champion his causes.
Posted by: whig at April 10, 2023 12:00 PM (bVz3B)

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I said in 2016 when Trump won that the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 12:22 PM (3JfbU)

300 What they fear is someone like Trump.

Its not that they are afraid of him per se. They are trying to kill populism. His kind must not be permitted to rise again. A populist movement weakens parts of both parties and limits their ability to do whatever they want if they have contested elections. Money is expected, risk is entailed, and project timelines are extended. Its just not convenient for people to get involved.

Posted by: Ask the British at April 10, 2023 12:23 PM (STqwR)

301 It's also very well publicised that all Dems are abortion absolutists so I call BS on the Catholic old ladies who cannot possibly vote for Trump and then vote Democrat. Yeah, nah.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at April 10, 2023 12:10 PM (3JfbU)

Before I retired, all she did was bitch about Trump to the point that he was planning on nuking Hawaii.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 12:23 PM (Zzbjj)

302 This is the criminal political party that took deliberate steps to disable fraud and foreign detection checks in credit card processing for the Obama campaign back in 2008. Fraud is in their DNA.

If an expose like this was in the works, little wonder they tried to sideline O’Keefe. How long before a more permanent sidelining occurs? I have to think the only thing keeping him alive is the Uniparty’s ability to limit his reach to the general public. If he had a wide-reaching platform…

Posted by: Advo at April 10, 2023 12:52 PM (VHN21)

303 This isn't that new....reach back to the Obama campaigns "small donors" using gift cards to make donations and disabling the identification authentication on the card processing- as I recall all of the Disney Characters made donations in one county and lots of folks in foreign countries.

So, let's pick a red state with a ActBlue darling who was always talking about his small dollar donors and big Hollywood donors..... I'd hand this stuff over to the Texas Rangers and take a close look at Beto O'Roark.

Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at April 10, 2023 12:52 PM (hxeXm)

304 Poll: Trump's popularity near all-time low, majority of independents think he broke the law in wake of arrest

_____
If a story is widely reported -then it must be true -this is what low info. voters think now a days. (Paraphrasing Dennis Prager).

Posted by: Glenn John at April 10, 2023 03:11 PM (M3hSG)

305 I looked up my zip code and found one person had contributed to ActBlue 842 times in 2021 and 2022 for a total of $8,693. Sometimes 3-4 contributions per day; most donations were under $20. He's listed as being "Not Employed". There's a lot of other "Not Employed" people on the list that made hundreds of donations. This seems pretty suspicious to me.

Posted by: SL at April 10, 2023 04:39 PM (biSLb)

306 Their lights are starting to dim

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 10, 2023 05:14 PM (wGqjj)

307 So I call up the DNC and ask for my donations back. Might hit it big. Worth a shot.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at April 10, 2023 08:13 PM (dSnnl)

308 I know a few people for this 10k pop town who are listed.

One with 384 'donations' in 2022 is vice-chair of the local Dems (retired teacher). I'm sure if asked she would say she gave each of the multiple daily donations.

Another had 132 in 2022, mostly small (

A third with only 53 but up to 6 in a day is also retired USFS, an avowed socialist of older days, Bernie like. He'd say the cheating is wrong but ok for the cause. We've had civil discussions about politics over >20 years.

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at April 11, 2023 01:40 AM (qEor5)

309 Also found someone donating to Winred 3282 times in 1 year!

Do both parties use this hack?

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at April 11, 2023 01:52 AM (qEor5)

310 Error in above, Winred and RNC combined.

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at April 11, 2023 01:54 AM (qEor5)

311 After I initially commented I seem to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I recieve four emails with the same comment. Perhaps there is a means you are able to remove me from that service? Appreciate it!

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