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  1. Really a sad story, overall. 

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindells-mypillow-getting-evicted-083254676.html

    Mike Lindell's MyPillow is getting evicted from its Minnesota warehouse after the company failed to cough up over $200,000 in unpaid rent

    Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
    Updated ·3 min read
     
     
     
    • Things aren't looking great for Mike Lindell.

    • The embattled businessman is now facing eviction for one of his warehouses in Minnesota.

    • Lindell's company owes more than $217,000 in rent to its landlord, per the  Star Tribune.

    Mike Lindell's MyPillow is getting evicted from one of its Minnesota warehouses, the Star Tribune, a local Minnesota newspaper, reported on Tuesday.

    "MyPillow has more or less vacated, but we'd like to do this by the book," the landlord's attorney, Sara Filo, said during an eviction court hearing on Tuesday, per Star Tribune.

    "At this point, there's a representation that no further payment is going to be made under this lease, so we'd like to go ahead with finding a new tenant," Filo continued.

    MyPillow owes First Industrial more than $217,000 in rent and other charges, per court filings seen by the Star Tribune. It is unclear if MyPillow and its staff have fully vacated the premises, but First Industrial's representatives say they have sent at least four eviction notices to MyPillow since September.

    Filo's request was granted by Scott County Chief Judge Caroline Lennon on Tuesday, per the Star Tribune.

    Lindell discussed the eviction in an interview with the Minnesota Reformer published Tuesday.

    Lindell told the outlet that the warehouse, located at 4701 Valley Boulevard S. in Shakopee, was one-third the size of MyPillow's main warehouse and was initially used to store retail equipment.

    But the property, he told Minnesota Reformer, was no longer as useful to MyPillow since most of the equipment had been auctioned off last year.

    Lindell told BI that MyPillow staff have not been working out of the building since August 2023, and that it's now "an empty warehouse." It was being sub-let, Lindell said, but "the sub-renters backed out in February."

    Lindell added that the MyPillow headquarters in Chaska are still going, and that the company also continues to operate a facility in Shakopee.

    The eviction notice is a new development in a shocking downward spiral for one of America's biggest pillow salesmen.

    Lindell's legal and financial woes have been piling up ever since he became a hardcore advocate for former President Donald Trump's baseless election fraud claims.

    Before he became a MAGA acolyte, Lindell inspired many with his rags-to-riches story. The former crack addict turned his fortunes around when he got sober and started MyPillow in 2004.

    But Lindell's growing belief in conspiracy theories on election interference has created some dire straits for his pillow business.

    Multiple retailers, like Costco, Bed Bath & Beyond, and JCPenney, severed ties with Lindell and MyPillow in 2021. Then, in June 2022, Walmart told BI that it would stop carrying MyPillow products in its stores, though they would still be sold online.

    The decline in sales also appears to have put the brakes on MyPillow's marketing activities. Lindell told the Associated Press in January that his company owes Fox News around $7.8 million in advertising fees.

    It's not just a loss of income.

    Lindell is fighting billion-dollar defamation lawsuits against the voting technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.

    In October, Lindell's lawyers said they were dropping him as a client after he owed them millions in legal fees. Lindell has since engaged new lawyers to represent him in court, per Star Tribune.

  2. Here's the bottom line: I believe that there are people out there who don't need to have access to guns, and that includes those with mental health issues, those with violent felony convictions, domestic abusers, and those who are not of age or mental capacity. There will never be a full acceptance of any of those categories by the gun nuts in this country, as too many wrap up their whole identity as gun-carrying members of our society. So, quibble amongst yourselves. I am not interested in expending energy chasing your rabbits. 

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  3. Republicans blame mental health, well, drugs for mental health on shootings, or video games or supossed lack of prayer in schools, everything but the easy access to killing weapons, then when something is actually put into motion to 'red flag' those who are unhinged, they start hiding behind the Constitution, which has to make think that they have come to just accept mass shootings as a part of our fabric. Sigh. 

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  4. 30 minutes ago, blesseddaily said:

    I'm sure the "red flag gun laws" will be only targeting the criminals that are responsible for 99% of the murders, right? LOLOL!! What could possibly go wrong with this mental genius at the helm!!! LOLOL!!! What could possibly go wrong?!!!

     

    The White House has announced a new national office to support states implementing “red flag” laws to combat gun violence, an initiative funded by the justice department.

     

    Kamala Harris announces new office to implement ‘red flag’ gun control laws (msn.com)

    School shootings? Hilarious!
     

    Can always count on you to make me feel better about myself, as I'm not you. 

  5. 7 hours ago, gamewatcher63 said:

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/stephen-colbert-sent-legal-notice-rose-hanbury-over-prince-william-affair-jokes-report

     

    joking about Prince William while his wife is fighting for her life with cancer…

    First, that rumor about William has been going on for 5 years, so he didn't put it in the 'mainstream'. Second, joking definitely wasn't a good idea, two weeks later, when it is revealed she has cancer. Third, Colbert is only a target for Fox and you because he rips on Trump relentlessly. You can admit that. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, gamewatcher63 said:

    Context doesn’t matter to morons…Trump was talking about the auto industry and the BLOODBATH!!!!! coming if the democrats continue their agenda of destroying America industry’s…..

    I don't understand the cowardice regarding your devotion to Trump. He is pushing your buttons, and you respond but then deny his motives and control. Embrace the dark side already! 

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  7. 32 minutes ago, Sportsfanatic1 said:

    LEFT BIAS

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    • Overall, we rate HuffPost Left-Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that favor the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks and the promotion of pseudoscience.

    Detailed Report

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    What a dork. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Monte1076 said:

    Harris' qualifications were what, exactly?

    All that's required is what's in the Constitution.

    Her education, experience as a lawyer, district attorney of San Francisco then attorney general of California, our largest state, then Senator. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, KirtFalcon said:

    Right, he might as well have just grabbed the first black woman he found on the street and probably would have been a better choice than Camel 🐫 A ...

    Your nasty insults aside, which are revelatory of your misogyny and you push a junior senator, who has done nothing of substance, or the posturing governor of a state with a population smaller than most big Texas cities, Sure, they ooze with qualification. You can admit that the pick would be based on trying to appeal to a demographic that traditionally doesn't vote GOP and a demographic that is rapidly moving away from voting GOP more and more. 

  10. 7 minutes ago, Monte1076 said:

    He's got a high probability of winning North Dakota, too. Isn't that where Noem is governor? It doesn't make sense for him to pick a running mate from a state like California that he's not going to win.

    Why then pick Scott? Would like to hear him give his thoughts. Why pick Noem? I will even stipulate that President Biden chose Kamala, in part, because of her demographics. 

  11. 18 hours ago, DaveTV1 said:

    40% of it is being exported to foreign countries with 7% going to Biden's buddies in China.  Oil imports and exports - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).  I wasn't even referring to the oil reserves that Joe sent to Chiner when he was trying to bring down gas prices for the midterms which is a political move.  I don't write anything on here, because I think it is so or "feel" it to be that way as many libtards believe.  I want the facts and nothing but the facts, ma'am.  

    Fact Check: Has Biden Sold Off More Oil Than Every Past President Combined? (newsweek.com)

     

    What We Do in the Shadows: Colin Robinson Steals Our Energy Through the TV  | Den of Geek

  12. 34 minutes ago, Monte1076 said:

    The article DOES say that doctors can prescribe it off-label. You read that, right?

    They have been able to do so, but it is NOT seen as a recommended or approved drug for Covid by the FDA. You got that, right? 

  13. Discounted if you can identify who John Barron is! 

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/sale-donald-trump-lightly-used-080735193.html

    FOR SALE: Donald Trump, lightly used Republican presidential candidate. $454 million, firm.

    Rex Huppke, USA TODAY
    ·2 min read
     
     

    FOR SALE: One used Republican presidential candidate. $454 million, firm.

    Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to own a Republican presidential candidate!

    Donald Trump is a used, one-term former president in peak mental and physical condition – many say they’ve never seen a former president so fit – who would prove an asset to any buyer seeking political influence, substantial tax breaks or an opportunity to undermine western democracy.

    To date, this presidential candidate has never been wrong about anything and has done everything – from managing his businesses to calling foreign leaders seeking dirt on his political rivals – perfectly.

    Experience includes: Being the best Republican president in American history, even better than Abraham Lincoln; forging close, admiring relationships with notorious dictators; and almost-successfully overthrowing a RIGGED presidential election.

     

    This one-of-a-kind, pristine Trump model comes complete with legions of authoritarian-curious supporters who are easily convinced to trade their money for cheap red hats and unkept promises, as well as an array of New York real-estate assets the candidate very much does not want the state to seize to pay for a recent $454 million business fraud judgment.

    One of the candidate's many real-estate assets.
     
    One of the candidate's many real-estate assets.

    The candidate is skilled at bankruptcy and has extensive experience selling: steaks, vodka, mortgages, board games, ice, a university, himself, plane flights and a magazine.

    Seller is highly motivated and will include all of the candidate’s family members, his impressive portfolio of 90-plus criminal indictments, a $50 gift certificate good on purchases of $1,000 or more at his Mar-a-Lago resort gift shop in Florida, one random box of classified government documents and a free autographed copy of his best-selling book “The Art of the Deal” ($1 million shipping and handling not included).

     
    In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, former U.S. President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump was booked on 13 charges related to an alleged plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump and 18 others facing felony charges have been ordered to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail by Aug. 25.
     
    In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, former U.S. President Donald Trump poses for his booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Trump was booked on 13 charges related to an alleged plan to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump and 18 others facing felony charges have been ordered to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail by Aug. 25.

    Please note, the candidate is missing: morals, scruples, a basic sense of human decency, the ability to think outside one’s self, empathy, remorse, a moral center, loyalty, coherent thoughts and an understanding of how laws work.

    Serious inquiries only, foreign bidders welcome. Sale must be completed by Monday, March 25.

    Please contact: John Barron, 1-800-LUV-MAGA.

  14. People really don't understand that no one is fooled by his violent rhetoric or that his associations with bad people are okay, or that his insults and slurs are acceptable. 

    (Washington Post)

     The bloodbath Trump promised has already begun

    By Dana Milbank

    Columnist|

    March 22, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. EDT

    Until this week, I had no idea I was a self-hating Jew.

    I light candles and say blessings on Shabbat. I saw my kids through their b’nai mitzvah and took them to Israel. I volunteer with my synagogue.

    But — who knew? — I actually hate my religion. What’s more, the 70 percent of American Jews who vote Democratic also hate Judaism.

    So says that noted Talmudic scholar, Rabbi Donald J. Trump.

    “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion,” he ordained this week. “They hate everything about Israel and they should be ashamed of themselves.”

    Good to know.

    These have been difficult times for American Jews, facing a wave of antisemitism from the far left because of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. And now, in one of Trump’s first acts since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, he has decided to attack American Jews from the right. Dayenu!

    Compounding the insult was where Trump made it: On the podcast of his former White House aide Sebastian Gorka, who went to a Trump inaugural ball wearing the medal of Vitezi Rend, a far-right Hungarian nationalist group with Nazi roots. Gorka said he wore the decoration to honor his late father and isn’t a member of the hateful group; its officials have said otherwise.

    “Right,” Gorka said as Trump went on with his rant. “Yeah … yeah.”

    Trump disparaged millions of American Jews in the service of propping up his fellow aspiring autocrat Benjamin Netanyahu, the deeply unpopular Israeli prime minister. Netanyahu is clearly prolonging the war in Gaza because when the fighting there ends he will likely be voted out of power and held to account for the government failures that led to Oct. 7.

    Because American Jews (like many Israeli Jews) want to end the Netanyahu nightmare, they hate their religion and the Jewish State? The chutzpah.

    Now that Trump has locked up the nomination, we’re in for seven months of this ugliness before the election — and potentially four more years of it if that election goes badly. But fear not, dear reader: I will watch Trump so you don’t have to.

    In the torrent of crazy and dangerous utterances coming from the man, we tend to bounce from one to the next. I will attempt to pause at week’s end to build a record of his greatest (or, rather, worst) hits so there will be no doubt about what Trump would do if returned to the White House. His apologists once said that Trump should be taken seriously but not literally. From experience, we now know to take him literally: He is going to do, or at least try to do, what he says.

    So what did he say over the last week?

    He said that certain immigrants are “not people” but are in fact “animals” and “snakes.” He affirmed his view, seemingly lifted from “Mein Kampf,” that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” He said his plan for mass deportations, modeled after “Operation Wetback” of the 1950s, “will be very evident” and “will go very quickly.”

    He saluted those who have been duly convicted of attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling them “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots.” Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, who those “patriots” wanted to kill on Jan. 6, called that language “unacceptable” and told CBS News that he “cannot in good conscience” support Trump. In that principled refusal Pence is joined by GOP Sens. Todd Young (Ind.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah).

    Trump suggested that he would support a nationwide abortion ban. “The number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m thinking in terms of that,” he told WABC radio.

    Trump said his former adviser Peter Navarro, who reported to prison this week after being convicted of contempt of Congress, was “treated very badly” by the legal system. And he said his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, convicted of bank and tax fraud related to his work for pro-Russian interests in Ukraine, is “another person that was treated badly, and he was a patriot.” The Post’s Josh Dawsey reports that Manafort will likely return as a Trump adviser this year.

    Trump went on a show hosted by the anti-immigrant British politician Nigel Farage, where he threatened to expel the Australian ambassador to the United States and said he might deport Prince Harry. But asked whether Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a person he could negotiate with, Trump replied: “Yeah, I think he is.”

    Oh, and he said this at a rally in Ohio: “If I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” He was speaking in the context of automobile imports. But given his history of provoking actual bloodshed, this was small reassurance.

     

    As the general election campaign begins, Trump isn’t doing much campaigning. While President Biden has been barnstorming the country, Trump has visited only one battleground state since Super Tuesday, instead playing golf, making voluntary court appearances and granting interviews to friendly outlets from his Mar-a-Lago residence. This might be because he’s broke.

    His campaign is struggling to raise both small- and large-dollar contributions, and donations have been diverted to cover his legal bills. Last Saturday’s rally had been planned for Arizona, but Trump’s campaign moved it to Ohio, where a group affiliated with Senate candidate Bernie Moreno agreed to foot the bill. Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, said this week that he doesn’t have enough cash to post a bond for the $464 million judgment against him for business fraud, after asking about 30 insurance companies to underwrite the bond.

    If Trump, for all his self-proclaimed business acumen, isn’t a good risk for 30 different insurers, how could he possibly be a good risk for the country?

    Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally on March 16 in Vandalia, Ohio. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    On Wednesday, while Biden was at an event in Phoenix, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung issued a statement saying the president was “wandering” off the stage, “distracted by a mother and her baby. He isn’t all there, folks!”

    This is the best the Trump campaign can come up with? Biden loves babies: Impeach!

    “Well, folks, I have to tell you straight up,” Biden explained to the crowd. “I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that little baby.”

    Trump routinely criticizes Biden for allegedly having a light schedule and declining mental faculties, but the presumptive Republican nominee struggled mightily at his only campaign event of the week.

    “We want to have a rock-solid majority in the Senate,” he told the crowd. “We want to take over the House,” he added, apparently forgetting that the Republicans already control the House.

    Trump used to boast that “I don’t use teleprompters,” even arguing that “if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters.”

    But when he suffered a teleprompter malfunction because of windy weather outside Dayton, he was lost.

    “It’s good when you don’t have to use a teleprompter because I can’t read a word and they’re moving around,” he complained.

    Thirteen minutes later, he repeated that “we have no teleprompters.”

    Seventeen minutes after that, he protested: “I can’t read this damn teleprompter. This sucker is moving around. … Don’t pay the teleprompter company!”

    The unscripted Trump reminded America just how presidential he could be. He said he was asked not to bad-mouth his primary competitors, but “I don’t give a sh--.” He said the first name of Georgia prosecutor Fani T. Willis “is spelled ‘Fani’, like your a--.” He called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “New-scum” and “a bullsh-- artist.” He said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who like Trump is overweight, is just “too busy eating.” He invoked “Barack Hussein Obama” and called Biden a “dumb son of a ...” and a “Manchurian candidate.” He complained about the removal of names of Confederate generals from military bases and he objected to the Cleveland baseball team dropping the name “Indians.”

    He tried to clean up one of the previous week’s messes when he said “there is a lot you can do … in terms of cutting” Social Security and Medicare: “We won’t be cutting it.”

    But the most disturbing part of the performance was thoroughly scripted. “Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated Jan. 6 hostages,” the announcer intoned as Trump came in. The campaign then screened a recording of Jan. 6 prisoners singing the national anthem, as Trump saluted.

    In a Fox News interview with Trump that aired the next day, host Howard Kurtz asked Trump why he used “words like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning of the blood’” for immigrants and opponents, even knowing that it would be compared to the language of Hitler and Mussolini.

    “Because our country is being poisoned,” Trump replied. He claimed that foreign “insane asylums are being emptied into the United States,” likening the incoming migrants to Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.”

    In the same interview, Trump declined Kurtz’s invitation to “stop calling national news organizations ‘the enemy of the people’,” a Stalinist phrase, and, strangely, he said he had attacked host Jimmy Kimmel of ABC during the Oscars because he wanted to get even with “George Slopanopoulos.” Trump was angered that ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos had said two juries found Trump “liable for rape” — and Trump later in the week filed a defamation suit against the network. (A jury found that Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, while the judge in the case said the rape claim against Trump was “substantially true.”)

    Trump has filed many defamation suits over the years, almost all without success. That’s not surprising, because he’s usually the one doing the defaming. This week, when he wasn’t defaming migrants, he was defaming millions of Jews, starting with the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States.

    Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) talks to reporters at the Capitol on March 20. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

    Trump concluded that any Jew who votes Democratic “hates their religion” after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave a balanced and nuanced speech on the Senate floor on March 14 about the fighting in Gaza. Schumer condemned the spreading antisemitism on the left, seen in the demand for the “right to statehood for every group but the Jews.” He cited the “central role” Hamas plays in the bloodshed and said he was troubled by protesters who “decry the loss of Palestinian life but never condemn this perfidy or the loss of Israeli lives.”

    But Schumer also said “Israel has a moral obligation to do better” and that Netanyahu, who rejects a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict, “has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”

    Schumer called for the ouster of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and declared it “unacceptable” for Hamas to retain any “meaningful power.” But he also urged the removal of extremist Israeli ministers who encourage “unacceptable vigilante settler violence in the West Bank.” And he called for elections in Israel.

    To that, I say: Amen. Schumer undoubtedly spoke for many American Jews.

    “I’m so glad Schumer said what he said,” my rabbi, Danny Zemel, an ardent Zionist, told me this week. Netanyahu “has abandoned the basic tenets of Zionism. … Bibi is a one-man wrecking ball, and he’s out for himself alone. His morals are the morals of self-preservation.”

    Trump, too, operates by the morals of self-preservation alone. Like Netanyahu, he has every political interest in prolonging the bloodshed in Israel. Both men would make Israel a pariah and put it on a fast track to its destruction for their own gain. So let’s not quibble about what Trump meant when he promised a “bloodbath” if he loses the election. The bloodbath has already begun.

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  15. Has been and will continue to be a simpering weasel 'yes man', so right up Trump's alley. 

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/one-vice-president-possibility-gaining-143359493.html

    One Vice President Possibility Is Gaining Traction With Donald Trump, NBC Reports

    Ron Dicker
    ·2 min read
     

    Donald Trump is warming to the idea of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) being his running mate, according to NBC News.

    The network reported Wednesday that Rubio is “moving up the list” of candidates to be Trump’s vice president pick, citing six sources familiar with the search.

    Rubio, 52, is “young and telegenic,” could influence Latino voters as the son of Cuban immigrants and would be the first minority to appear on a GOP presidential ticket, NBC noted.

    He also has a record of Trump allegiance. Rubio recently endorsed the idea of the Republican National Committee helping Trump pay his mounting legal bills.

    The senator also downplayed Trump’s incendiary remark that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to other NATO countries. “He doesn’t talk like a traditional politician,” Rubio rationalized last month. “You think people would have figured it out.”

    Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he leaves the TikTok briefing in the U.S. Capitol on March 20.
     
    Sen. Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he leaves the TikTok briefing in the U.S. Capitol on March 20. Bill Clark via Getty Images

    “It’s pretty clear from Trump’s orbit that Rubio is in play,” a Florida GOP operative told NBC. “It makes sense because he checks almost every box if they can get past both being from Florida.”

    There are constitutional obstacles to a presidential ticket being from the same state (remember Trump changed his residence to Florida), but a workaround might be possible.

    In 2000 Dick Cheney changed his voter registration from Texas to Wyoming to remove a possible impediment to his sharing the ticket with eventual President (and fellow Texas homeowner) George W. Bush.

    A court later ruled that Cheney, a former Wyoming congressman who moved to Dallas to be chair of Halliburton Co. in the 1990s, was a Wyoming resident.

    Other possibilities for Trump include Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.).

    Someone in Trump’s camp told NBC the search was far from over.

    “The list is long, and it’s extremely early in any kind of process,” the adviser said. “No one has been directly reached out to yet, and I do not expect that for some time.”

    HuffPost reached out to Rubio for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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