1. Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome. It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay
2. Fine; showy; as a gay dress.
3. Inflamed or merry with liquor; intoxicated; a vulgar use of the word in America
Prior to the devilution of the English language the above was the definition of “gay.” Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary was the first recognized authority of the English language in the USA.
BTW, don’t try interpreting the US Constitution with today’s dictionaries.
Yeah, i guess crimes actually taking place is an important distinction.
Whats up with the 2 New York State cases vs Pres Trump? He was found guilty twice, but both cases are expected by rational observers to be overturned on appeal?
I think they might be going for it. If there is one thing this administration is demonstrating, it is that they aren’t concerned with political norms of past administrations.
Thanks for your advice the other day, btw. I’ve been in communication with one of the immigrant nonprofits who received mass shooting donations and they were also misled about how much was going to survivors and victim families.
I was able to connect the leading advocate for whose nephew was murdered with the nonprofit head. She has extensive documentation of fundraising deception by the Maine Community Foundation that she shared with the immigrant nonprofit. This whole scandal has negatively impacted the immigrant nonprofits public perception and their fundraising efforts.
This seems to be heading in the direction of continued pushback on the MCF to make it right with the victims. They are worth $732 million, so it is doable.
MCF apologizing and compensating victims would be ideal.
My other suggestion was for the MCF to grant additional funds to the nonprofits to then give to the folks with hospital bills, funeral expenses, etc. that they had to pay out of their own pocket.
File a Complaint with the Maine Attorney General’s Office – Charitable Trusts Unit because it seems they may have:
Misrepresented fund use
Breached fiduciary duty
Failed to follow donor intent (This seems to apply most but others could as well)
Then it may violate charitable solicitation laws or charitable trust principles.
The AG can:
Investigate donor deception
Demand restitution or redistribution
Pressure or compel corrective action
Encourage victims or donors to file individual complaints too. This builds public record and pressure.
File with state representatives and congressional reps.
Reach out to the actual donors with all of the evidence.
Review IRS Compliance for Fiscal Sponsors
If MCF acted as a fiscal sponsor, it had:
A duty to retain discretion and control
A duty to ensure the charitable purpose was followed
A responsibility to accurately report on IRS Form 990
An advocacy letter to the IRS Exempt Organizations Division that lays everything out and numbers could be a brutal weapon.
Thanks. I’ll pass this along to the victim advocate. The Maine AG has already closed the books on the investigation, finding no wrongdoing on the MCF’s part.
Here is an example of an email a victim family member received from the MCF, where the title references the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response fund, making no reference to the two separate funds. This whole thing is so freaking slimy. DEI scumbags.
The advisory board for the fund literally awarded funds to their own nonprofits, which boggles the mind beyond belief. They also awarded the two prisoner advocacy nonprofits $65,552 each, both led by a guy who murdered his coke dealer in Lewiston in 1995, got it dropped to manslaughter, then got into the public grifting business after serving 19 years.
I believe I may be living in a corrupt narco state run by gay racist communists.
Here’s his appeal. Local politics is such a wild world.
honestly, I think there is no amount of evidence of any impropriety that would ever land barrack inside a jail cell. He is the left’s hero - so much so that they wanted michelle to run because it was close enough to barry for them.
I mean, arms sales are pretty straightforwardly beneficial to a number of US interests. More orders, more work, more money. Risk of nuclear war might be slightly heightened.
One of the things I’ve noticed about modern politics is that nearly everyone involved is lying to us in some way, so for me it has been a matter of paying attention to actual public policies, especially on the local level, making note of the people who’ve been consistently lying or flat-out wrong in their coverage of it.
The public perception battle always ongoing, but the good news is that the professional propagandists seem to be losing a lot of their business, which was a de-facto monopoly for a very, very long time. Colbert closing down his propaganda operation is a good sign of that, as is Maine Representative Pingree’s ridiculous statements about a show that was losing 40 million per year for the network.
The left is getting killed in the information wars. A lot of this crap was funded with tax dollars, too. I’m not saying Colbert was, by my local newspapers have been awarded very large contracts directly from the government, and it shows in what they cover, how they choose their words, and what they do not cover.
Colbert was great when he debuted his character on the Daily Show. I still have Indecision 2004 on DVD.
The ad money isn’t what’s drying up, it is the audience that make the ads valuable, and they are drying up because he’s a shitty comedian and people are getting sick of being lectured by know-nothings.
I doubt he’ll get another gravy train job acting as a mouthpiece for Democrats, but he could definitely still make a few bucks podcasting or something.
What we’re learning is that a lot of these left-wing propagandists weren’t really popular to begin with, but being propped up by indirect taxpayer money granted through NGO’s/Nonprofits. Bots on twitter gave the illusion of popularity to many. There are still bots on X, but they seem to take measures against them.
I’m not saying there aren’t real Democrats out there, but I don’t think there were ever as many as they wanted us to believe. The illusion of popularity has been a major tool and they coopted a lot of institutions to perpetuate it. I think that’s why so many polls were flat-out wrong in ways they weren’t 20 years ago. They didn’t get worse at measuring public opinion, they abandoned that mission to focus on manipulating it.
They even fooled the professional election analysts.
The CIA and more recently the State Department has been meddling in foreign elections for a long time. There is growing evidence that the soft power regime-change machine that has worked so well on other countries was unleashed on ourselves, paid for by ourselves (and children, grandchildren, etc.).
I want to assume good intent but the way trump and the republicans are handling the media on this shit is making this issue a losing ticket in the worst way possible.
If they’re going to release these files, they need to fuckin do it and stop with the theatrics because its painting everyone in the right as pedophiles.
Keep in mind that Axios released a draft memo they got their hands on, not an official one. This trick has been used before to create media narratives. 5 years later, still no outbreak of white supremacist terror attacks coming from MAGAland, but a whole lot of major rioting from the left. Maine’s only terror attack was by a schizophrenic guy who heard voices and thought people were making fun of his dick all the time. I don’t think many of the people shooting up the town every week are Trump voters, either. Most aren’t old enough to vote.
Matt Taibbi is on the Megyn Kelly show, will be discussing GayRama; I plan to listen later. I feel like Taibbi is a definite must listen for objectivity, whether you agree with him or not.
I’ve been a fan of Matt Taibbi going back probably close to 25 years now, when he was railing against the neoconservatives in Rolling Stone and similar publications. He’s a great journalist and a great example of how the Democratic Party has moved so far away from where it was back then.
Every time I get called a fascist or a Nazi, I just remember that Taibbi gets the same stupid crap from people who don’t know what either of those things are.
Why would they? Trump has his second term so he’s basically untouchable, and They know they have their entire based cucked and none of you will ever, ever, ever turn on them
Mike Johnson just stopped their release for at least 2 months or so. Think you’ll care again then? Think you’ll care come vote time next year? I don’t
As I said earlier, Trump could go on TV and admit it with a self pardon and you all would huff and puff for a day or two and then “we need to unite and move on” and never talk about it again and it would be about as bad as J6 is now to you all. Something that kinda leaves a bad taste in your mouth but luckily not something you ever have to seriously think about again or figure in to who to vote for
And don’t worry in a week or so it looks like Obama getting arrested is gonna be the big story so you’ll have something to pivot to and never have to think about it again. Lawfare is good when it’s against our enemies after all
