Kansas Crimson

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:51 am This goes here methinks.

https://www.momsforliberties.com

Overlander wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:07 pm

japhy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:51 am This goes here methinks.

https://www.momsforliberties.com

Awesome

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:01 pm WaPo: ...the Alabama Republican has insisted his support for the armed forces is beyond reproach. “There is nobody more military than me,” the GOP senator said earlier this month...

The senator has, over the course of many years, wildly exaggerated his father’s military service. Charles Tuberville did serve in World War II, but some of the details the lawmaker has peddled are demonstrably untrue.

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:01 pm WaPo: ...the Alabama Republican has insisted his support for the armed forces is beyond reproach. “There is nobody more military than me,” the GOP senator said earlier this month...

The senator has, over the course of many years, wildly exaggerated his father’s military service. Charles Tuberville did serve in World War II, but some of the details the lawmaker has peddled are demonstrably untrue.

RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:35 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:01 pm WaPo: ...the Alabama Republican has insisted his support for the armed forces is beyond reproach. “There is nobody more military than me,” the GOP senator said earlier this month...

The senator has, over the course of many years, wildly exaggerated his father’s military service. Charles Tuberville did serve in World War II, but some of the details the lawmaker has peddled are demonstrably untrue.

Let's review.....

Off the top of my head - if my bad memory serves me correctly - and it may not.....
One of Tommy's players raped an "underage" child and Tommy let him play.
Tommy ran an investment company in which he knowingly and purposely screwed his investors.
Tommy's personal charity/foundation lied about what they do and was audited by the IRS. For some reason unknown to me they closed shop. What did they do with the money they had raised?

Tommy decided to get in to politics and his biggest platform was to blow President Donald Trump.
Tommy wasn't a resident of the state he wanted to run in (because he of course felt he could win in Alabama) so he bought a house in Alabama despite living in Florida.
When asked, he didn't know the 3 branches of Government.
He said something in regards to defending White Supremacists and after being called out he pretty much incriminated himself and made things worse. Which I find odd being he was someone who made a very good living off of Black people and came off as loving them. Then again, I suppose he was their "master". Maybe a bit harsh and offensive of me? Oh well. He's an asshole.
After he became Senator he was one of those who claimed Biden's win wasn't legit and probably because he blew Donald and Donald supported him, he fought to have the election overturned.

Now you have this shit.

The anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad and its founder and former CEO Tim Ballard may have misled donors for years about purported “rescue” missions, according to investigative documents obtained from a local and federal investigation by KSL.com on Friday.

Ballard, whose experience as a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security was the inspiration for the recent hit film “Sound of Freedom,” has often touted the group’s dangerous overseas missions to rescue trafficked children. Operation Underground Railroad’s website claims it has been involved in more than 4,000 operations and over 6,500 arrests.

While the group was involved in at least one successful operation in Colombia in 2014, some former Operation Underground Railroad staffers allege in the reports that the group is rarely involved in actual rescues, and say that could lead to donors and the public being misled about what the group does.

[…]

One former employee, development director Cherstyn Stockwell, who left the organization in 2019, told investigators that Operation Underground Railroad is a “pass-through organization” that would donate money to other groups that were actually doing the work, according to an interview transcript.

“Cherstyn said OUR is simply a pass-through organization, not really doing the rescues, not really doing the aftercare, just funding it all but does not tell the donors that. … They wanted to promote that OUR was doing the rescues and all the work,” Bryan Purdy, an agent with the Davis County Attorney’s Office, wrote in an August 2021 report describing the interview.

“Cherstyn said everyone internally knows that they don’t rescue anyone anymore, but the public thinks that OUR is actively rescuing children,” the report states.

She told investigators, “That’s just not true,” according to the report.

Stockwell also told investigators that higher-ups within the company never provided documentation she requested to corroborate the number of children Operation Underground Railroad had publicly claimed to have rescued, the report says.

David Lopez, a former Navy SEAL who was part of the Colombia rescue, contracted with Operation Underground Railroad to run operations in Haiti several years later. He told investigators the organization had changed and was no longer focused on rescue operations, although that was still the image it projected, according to another follow-up report by Purdy.

Lopez told investigators he became frustrated with the “massive dishonesty,” but when he brought it up with Ballard, Ballard allegedly “responded with something to the effect of, ‘Well, how would they find out?'” according to the report.

“Dave said OUR was most scared about people finding out the way they were actually doing operations because their narrative doesn’t match that,” the report states. “He said they shifted from all the operations where they go in and work the cases and build out a real case to be prosecuted and it went away and it became more of a ‘throw some money at law enforcement agencies and throw the numbers up on a board.'”

An email included in the investigative documents from Operation Underground Railroad domestic coordinator Carlos Rodriguez sent to Ballard and other organization leaders on Oct. 8, 2020, addresses several alleged discrepancies with a videotaped interview Ballard gave.

“This video has many problems: Tim talks about every time he comes home from an operation. Does he run operations right now. This can be attacked,” Rodriguez wrote. “I don’t believe this to be true statement. There are times when Tim said we are working, we solve it. WE don’t do the actual work.”

[…]

Investigators also describe video footage of an undercover agent for Operation Underground Railroad who allegedly groped the breasts of a girl while in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for the filming of “The Abolitionist” movie and television series, according to another report from Purdy titled “Supplemental Report Cabo San Lucas Op.”

“During this portion of video reviewed there was an incident between (him) and an underage female approximately 16 years old,” the report states.

According to a transcript of a phone call between the agent and another Operation Underground employee, the agent said the owner of the strip club who presented the minors to the undercover agents grabbed the agent’s hands and placed them on the girl.

[…]

According to a separate Vice article published on Tuesday, Tim Ballard’s departure from Operation Underground Railroad on June 22 followed an investigation into sexual misconduct claims against him involving seven women. While with the organization, Vice reported that he allegedly asked women to act as his “wife” on undercover missions and “would then allegedly coerce those women into sharing a bed or showering together, claiming that it was necessary to fool traffickers.”

Tim Ballard forcefully denied the sexual allegations, calling them “baseless inventions designed to destroy me and the movement we have built,” in a statement to KSL.com, through the anti-trafficking organization SPEAR Fund, where he has served as a senior adviser since leaving Operation Underground Railroad.

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:11 am I'm sure there's an explanation, and Randy will be here with it, soon...

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:23 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:11 am I'm sure there's an explanation, and Randy will be here with it, soon...

I believe I put this in the Sound of Fury thread, but this. Especially starting at 0:16.

https://youtu.be/D1ELuUzct3A?si=3CuHUyrY4ttj1MjG

Overlander wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:27 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:23 am

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:11 am I'm sure there's an explanation, and Randy will be here with it, soon...

I believe I put this in the Sound of Fury thread, but this. Especially starting at 0:16.

https://youtu.be/D1ELuUzct3A?si=3CuHUyrY4ttj1MjG

I see your Sound of Fury...and raise you a BALLS OF FURY!
https://youtu.be/G9l24ydR32c?si=cFWEE001qerkIr0K

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:54 pm

Overlander wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:27 pm

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:23 am

I believe I put this in the Sound of Fury thread, but this. Especially starting at 0:16.

https://youtu.be/D1ELuUzct3A?si=3CuHUyrY4ttj1MjG

I see your Sound of Fury...and raise you a BALLS OF FURY!
https://youtu.be/G9l24ydR32c?si=cFWEE001qerkIr0K

A volunteer!

* Longreads first: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has profited by spreading lies and half-truths about vaccines for twenty years now. A book his group, Children’s Health Defense, and his publishing partner Skyhorse put out about the COVID-19 vaccines used the photo of a 12-year-old who died when a malformed blood vessel burst in his brain on its cover, claiming he’d died from the vaccine. He was unvaccinated, and of course they used his photo without his family’s permission. This Associated Press story talks to several families hurt by Kennedy’s lies and his so-called activism.

[https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy- ... 8494f0a16a]

* A Koch-funded right-wing site, Cowboy State Daily, is injecting climate denial and transphobic rhetoric into Wyoming politics, crowding out legitimate news sites that adhere to basic journalistic standards. It’s part of the national Metric Media network, which has over 1200 sites across the country and also takes funding from the Koch family’s DonorsTrust foundation.

[https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/ ... unding.php]

[...]

* The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Hiltzik looks at how anti-vaxxers are exacting a personal and professional toll on scientists, and we’re losing the war against such disinformation. Dr. Peter Hotez notes within the story the death threats, doxing, and other intimidation tactics he’s seen as a vaccine developer and advocate for vaccination and science in general.

[https://www.latimes.com/business/story/ ... cket_saves]

* Meanwhile, a new study in BMJ estimates that 27 would-be mothers in the UK died during the pandemic because of confusion over the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy.

[https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2388]

[...]

* Barbers Hill ISD in Texas suspended an 18-year-old Black student for wearing dreadlocks and is now forcing him to attend an alternative high school, despite the fact that Texas passed its own CROWN Act, prohibiting discrimination based on hairstyle, and the district already lost a lawsuit over the same issue in 2020. The district’s superintendent and deputy superintendent are both white, in case you were wondering.

https://apnews.com/article/hairstyles-r ... 9b7499901e

* Book-banning zealots in Iowa are having a field day by targeting any books with a ‘sex act,’ including numerous important works of literature like, ironically, the dystopian novels 1984 and Brave New World.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... ensorship/]

[...]

* Twitter Blue subscribers have become “super-spreaders” of misinformation about the Israel-Palestine conflict according to a brief analysis from the independent group NewsGuard, which attempts to rate the reliability of news sites.

[https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/x ... 235763100/]