[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] California cops who have trialed Teslas ahead of the state's ban on gas and diesel vehicles have revealed they are 'nearly unusable' for police departments.
Gov. Gavin Newsom mandated in September 2020 that all vehicles sold in California be zero emission by 2035.
Since then, a number of local municipalities have implemented their own goals to convert their fleet of gas-powered cars to electric vehicles.
But the police chiefs who have purchased Teslas say the design of the cars is detrimental to police operations.
Among the California police departments that have tried using Teslas was the Ukiah Police Department, the largest municipal police force in Mendocino County.
There, Police Chief Cedrick Crook requested the City Council approve the purchase of two Tesla Model 3s, which is the company's sedan, on August 7, 2024.
That purchase totaled nearly $150,000 between the cost of the cars and $35,000 in modifications to make the Teslas patrol-ready, Crook told the San Francisco Gate.
He said the vehicles needed the standard emergency lights, sirens, radio, antenna, push bar, partition and gun rack, but the Teslas also needed to be upgraded with ballistic panels to toughen it up for the streets.
The problem is that there is only one modification shop for Teslas in the state: Unplugged Performance in Hawthorne, which is about 500 miles south of Ukiah.
Store employees said it would take months to make all the modifications necessary to make the vehicles patrol-ready.
Adding to the issues with the cars, only two Tesla Supercharger stations have been installed in the city over the past two years. It remains unclear how officers would be charging the electric vehicles, Crook said.
He noted that police are often required to transport suspects, witnesses or victims to trials or court dates, which could be far away, and if detectives were driving a Tesla, Crook said they would have to spend time at an unsecured public charging station while protecting the person.
Police Chief Cedrick Crook requested the City Council approve the purchase of two Tesla Model 3s, which is the company's sedan, on August 7, 2024
[NYPOST] ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that has collected millions of dollars for Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been , has been named in a bombshell racketeering lawsuit by a Wisconsin Republican strategist who alleges his identity was stolen to make at least 385 fraudulent donations to left-wing causes — including to the Harris Victory Fund.
Mark Block, former chief of staff to Republican 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain ...the personable but seemingly horny former Godfather's Pizza CEO who coulda been a contenda... , alleges that a total of $884.38 given in his name and without his knowledge between May and October was designed to circumvent federal election law and may be part of a larger scam involving tens of thousands of unwitting donors.
The individual donations were all under $200, meaning that they did not have to be reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s deputies have allocated roughly $750 million to settle thousands of diverse migrants in North Carolina communities since 2021.
The spending shows the administration’s preference for migration while many Americans in North Carolina lacked decent jobs, homes, and schools. The preference continues even after the Hurricane Helene disaster killed hundreds and wrecked myriad communities around Ashville.
This week, federal officials are offering a $750 fast-track loan to each victim of the hurricane disaster.
The migration spending was tracked by a pseudo-anonymous researcher who runs the RandoLand.us website.
The biggest project in North Carolina is a $536 million program to operate an 800-bed refugee reception center in Greensboro, N.C. That funding comes through a government department created to help American families and children, dubbed the “Administration for Children and Families” (ACF). The ACF is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The website reports additional spending for refugees in North Carolina:
Over $221 million in primary grant awards have been issued during the Biden Administration for refugee aid and assistance services to be performed in North Carolina. These grants were issued to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and to various religious and non-religious non-profit organizations.
More than “200 subgrants were issued with these funds throughout the state to local governments,” the site said, adding:
Non-profit ACF grantees in North Carolina provide comprehensive aid to refugees, including furnished apartments, assistance obtaining Social Security cards, enrollment in welfare benefits and health care, food, legal services, and employment services. Extended case management services are provided through two main ACF programs:
In 2024, these programs delivered 3,462 more migrants into North Carolina, according to an end-of-year report by a non-profit group, the Refugee Processing Center. The population included 413 people from Venezuela, 574 people from the Congo, 302 people from Burma, and 317 people from Afghanistan — all of whom must be expensively educated, trained, and supported to help them avoid poverty in Americans’ society.
The spending documented by RandoLand is only for refugees, not the many other categories of migrants now being welcomed by Biden’s deputies, the website operator told Breitbart News:
Just in the Department of Health and Human Services, I’ve got a database of about $30 billion in spending since 2021, and then another $10 billion … from the Department of State. That’s just a few different buckets of money right there. Once I start looking into other buckets, I can’t imagine how much I’m going to find in those.
The Department of Homeland Security, which includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, also spent at least $700 million to help move, house, and feed migrants in 2024.
The federal spending accounts used by RandoLand do not show tax breaks for migrants, the distribution of government-backed loans to selected migrants, nor the elite philanthropy given to migrants that would otherwise go to American kids.
The data also ignores the flow of aid money to migrants via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, as well as the various healthcare, training, and education programs.
[TheBlaze] A top adviser in the Harris-Walz presidential campaign admitted that the lead reported in the media for Vice President Kamala Harris was fake.
David Plouffe made the revealing comments on the "Pod Save America" podcast over the weekend.
"So I know for all of us that want to see Kamala Harris win, we wish there was an easy pathway — that pathway does not exist. This is basically going to come down to, you know, history would suggest it’s not going to come down to several thousand votes in seven states, but it’s going to come down to a very narrow margin," Plouffe said.
#4
He is giving a rosy outlook. If he gave the truth, his career would be over. The reality of their situation is that Kamala will be too loaded to make a coherent concession speech so it will just sound as nonsensical as all her other speeches.
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Difficult to hide she is absolutely dissolving in real time, and Tim Spaz becomes more insufferable every time he pops in with the very real chance that a story about his younger days around younger boys may get out.
Barry out there, trying to mansplain. Michelle rolling out Grandma THOT and The Tranny Five. Both negatives.
What do they have left, a grand slam with Brett Baier? He hasn't been anything since Hannity's mind went vegan.
The contrast is staggering and undeniable. Trump is all over the map doing wild shit every day. They brought in their best relief pitcher Madame Haggard to watch Vance get his, and he hits it 600' to past the center field fence, where it then lands touching the boccino.
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BTW, anyone check if the shotgun given to Tim Spaz had a plug to limit capacity to 3? I understand that is a law when hunting Pheasant in Minnesota?
Also, I was at a store a while back and a dude from Minnesota asked if he had to provide proof of ownership to purchase and then possess ammunition - is that a Minnesota law thing or was he surprised to be visiting The American Sector?
#8
When what democrats are doing to Black Americans is too far for DaKlan.
'We were fine with it all, then Barack went on TV, calling himself a male role model, and Black Men should put up with Harris and shut up, we were like, wow, that's pretty degrading, let's cut them some slack this cycle.'
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'I didn't understand the movie Roots until I saw Obama tell Black Men to get back in the shed and vote for the generational slave owner descendant. Lord, I've been wrong. *sobs*'
#10
Ruh roh.
I came across someone today who also follows news but in a different route than I, seems to think:
That those who have never heard of Walz until recently and had him sized up shortly as someone who likes to diddy boys may want to start considering the winnings payment method.
Unsubstantiated rumor, and from a person who would embrace such a rumor faster than I, but *if* it is an open secret behind the wall of silence, then that would explain why that ticket is too toxic for even DaKlan.
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^ Watched it. Clusterfuck for her. They should release complete transcripts and video, start-to-finish, just to rub CBS's nose in their shit-reputation.
I was pleasantly surprised Baier did such an exceptional job in (Harris-Staff-Shortened) time
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[FoxNews] Johnson posted his own footage of the CBS interview on social media
House Speaker Mike Johnson accused CBS News of cutting critical key answers he gave during a "Face the Nation" appearance on Sunday as the embattled network still faces backlash over airing two different answers Vice President Kamala Harris gave to the same question.
While TV news organizations cut or trim pre-taped interviews for time on a regular basis, the process is supposed to be done with journalistic integrity that doesn’t strip critical context or give the appearance an answer could have been given at a different stage of the interview. CBS News has faced scrutiny in recent days for airing a longwinded answer Harris gave when promoting a recent "60 Minutes" interview, but cutting the poorly received answer when the show aired in primetime, instead showing a different response.
"CBS has been under fire for selectively editing their interviews to PROMOTE Democrats and UNDERMINE Republicans. Yesterday, they chose to cut FIVE important minutes out of my nearly 15 minute interview. You can be the judge as to why," Johnson posted on X before providing examples.
"I recently traveled to NC and victims of Hurricane Helene told me nearly two weeks after landfall, the Biden-Harris Administration had STILL not provided them with all the resources they desperately needed," Johnson added. "But CBS selectively edited OUT ENTIRELY this first-hand perspective."
Johnson, whose staff appears to have filmed the interview separately, then shared side-by-side video of what CBS aired compared to his entire answer. Moderator Margaret Brennan asked the House speaker about hurricane relief funds.
In the version that aired on CBS, Johnson said that the Biden-Harris administration has "obligated some funds, but they’ve only distributed two percent."
"The rescue and recovery effort is still going on, and then we address the rest of it," Johnson said in the answer that aired on CBS. The entire exchange was roughly 11 seconds.
But Johnson’s own footage, which he posted to social media, shows him providing a much more thorough answer.
"So they’ve obligated some funds, but they’ve only distributed two percent. When I was there on the ground, and you should go, I mean bring the cameras and talk to the people there, they’ll tell you. Don’t take a politician’s word for this, or the administration’s word for this, talk to people there on the ground. They had not been provided the resources, almost two weeks after the storm, that they desperately needed. And when I saw there, 13 days post the storm hitting that state, people are still being rescued… stuck in the higher elevations and the mountains because the roads are down… they need every available resource and all-hands on deck. The rescue and recovery effort is still going on, and then we address the rest of it," Johnson said in the more thorough answer that wasn’t shown in full on CBS.
Johnson then shared another one of his "receipts" to reveal CBS’ editing job.
"Apparently, CBS also doesn't want you to hear about Virginia Gov. Youngkin, who is trying to clean the state's voter rolls so non-American citizens can't vote there. We need more states doing this, but the Biden-Harris Administration is SUING VIRGINIA and trying to STOP it," Johnson wrote on X to caption another side-by-side video.
In the second clip, Johnson and Brennan have a brief disagreement over non-citizens voting in federal elections.
In the version that aired on CBS, Johnson is heard saying, "Here’s the problem, there is a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when illegals or non-citizens register to vote. We know that’s happening... everybody should want the law to be followed."
But a much more thorough answer was left on the cutting room floor.
"Here’s the problem, there is a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when illegals or non-citizens register to vote. We know that’s happening. Look, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia… he issued an executive order to clean up the voting rules heading into the election. Look, less than 30 days out, a couple of days ago, the Biden administration Department of Justice… sued the governor and the commonwealth of Virginia to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rules. See, that kind of thing creates a lot of doubt and concerns in the minds of the American people. Why would they do that? Everybody should want the law to be followed," Johnson said in the clip that didn’t air in full on CBS.
Johnson then posted a third example.
"The Biden-Harris Admin let millions of illegal aliens in our country. So, the House passed the SAVE Act to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections. CBS edited that out and focused on 2020 instead of immediate threats to election integrity," he posted on X to caption the side-by-side video.
Footage recorded by Johnson’s team shows that a lengthy response he gave was edited out by CBS.
CBS News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CBS News has been under fire after Harris’ lengthy "word salad" answer that was aired on the Oct. 6 episode of "Face the Nation" to promote the "60 Minutes" sit-down was edited out of the primetime edition of the show that aired Monday, Oct. 7.
CBS has faced pressure to release the transcript, or unedited video, as many question whether Harris’ widely mocked answer was simply cut for time or removed to help the Democratic presidential nominee.
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[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s deputies have allocated roughly $750 million to settle thousands of diverse migrants in North Carolina communities since 2021.
