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      Fast Car, by Tracy Chapman — It’s even darker than you thought.

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      • Post date October 3, 2023
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      Fast Car is a Grammy Award winner (1989).

      It has been covered by several artists, the latest being Luke Combs.

      By the summer of 2023, Luke Combs went to No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart and No. 2 on the Hot 100 with his cover of “Fast Car.’ Featured on his fourth album, Gettin’ Old, “Fast Car” was more than another cover song for the country singer, who shared that he would listen to the Chapman hit, and her entire debut album, while driving around with his father in a beat-up 1988 Ford F-150.

      Most people realize that the song is not about the car. It is about the narrator and her living conditions: Poverty and despair and the desire to escape it. It is also about the generational cycles of the very poor.

      You got a fast car
      I want a ticket to anywhere
      Maybe we make a deal
      Maybe together we can get somewhere
      Any place is better
      Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
      Maybe we’ll make something
      Me, myself, I got nothing to prove

       

      You got a fast car
      I got a plan to get us out of here
      I been working at the convenience store
      Managed to save just a little bit of money
      Won’t have to drive too far
      Just ‘cross the border and into the city
      You and I can both get jobs
      And finally see what it means to be living

      The first hint is in the following verse. Her dad is a drunk whose wife has left him and the narrator. Whether his drinking is the cause of her leaving or vice versa isn’t clear. What is clear is that the wife didn’t take her daughter with her.

      See, my old man’s got a problem
      He lives with the bottle, that’s the way it is
      He says his body’s too old for working
      His body’s too young to look like his
      My mama went off and left him
      She wanted more from life than he could give
      I said, somebody’s got to take care of him
      So I quit school and that’s what I did

      While there is no indication that the narrator and her father were on welfare at the time, the last two lines reveal her descent into enablership. He didn’t need to be taken care of; he needed to get sober.

      You got a fast car
      Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
      We gotta make a decision
      Leave tonight or live and die this way

       

      So I remember we were driving, driving in your car
      Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
      City lights lay out before us
      And your arm felt nice wrapped ’round my shoulder
      And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
      I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone.

      Somewhere she hooked up with the owner of the car, who already shows some potential red flags — which she doesn’t see because he makes her feel special, like she could “be someone.”

      They make the jump to the city. (If the father is dead, it isn’t stated.)

      You got a fast car
      We go cruising to entertain ourselves
      You still ain’t got a job
      And I work in a market as a checkout girl
      I know things will get better
      You’ll find work and I’ll get promoted
      We’ll move out of the shelter
      Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

      This verse indicates that they live in a homeless shelter and that she got a job as a cashier, while he hasn’t done squat. Red Flag, but again she doesn’t notice.

      Later, in another verse, we see that she’s been pregnant several times by this guy, but that she’s  risen high enough to pay their bills by herself:

      You got a fast car
      I got a job that pays all our bills
      You stay out drinking late at the bar
      See more of your friends than you do of your kids
      I’d always hoped for better
      Thought maybe together you and me would find it
      I got no plans, I ain’t going nowhere
      So take your fast car and keep on driving

      So, she’s basically married a twin of her father. And she’s been enabling him to not straighten up and amount to something.  She’s been caring for him now for years. He seems fine with the situation.

      There’s also an implied warning: she is running out of patience with him. The first time she says “We’ve got to make a decision.” But the final verse is somewhat different.

      You got a fast car
      Is it fast enough so you can fly away?
      You gotta make a decision
      Leave tonight or live and die this way

      A failed relationship that started for the wrong reasons, as Tracy herself has said. She said it’s not autobiographical, even though she did grow up near Cleveland, OH to a single mother.. Did the ‘Fast Car’ owner wake up and make amends, or did the narrator become yet another single mother? The song doesn’t say definitively whether things got better —

      or worse…?

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      Where do you go for answers to legal questions?

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      • Post date October 3, 2023
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      Doing someone's homework doesn't qualify.

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      Where do you go for answers to legal questions? I tend to use a variety of sources. Law books are worthless unless you’re a college student. Case Law now that’s different. I know a loon is going to say there’s no difference. With Case Law you see what’s been decided in similar situations. Watching CNN or MSNBC lawyers or Academia is a joke.

      Academia who has never practiced law or been in a courtroom rarely will have the answers. Why anyone listens to them, is beyond me. Many of them and former prosecutors you see on TV, will agree with the host interviewing them.

      When It comes to individual sources on legal questions, I like to use a friend of mine who’s a lawyer and has the highest degree a lawyer can get. The Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD). I also have a family member who’s a Federal Judge.  And I myself having been a police officer who also testified as a witness for and against prosecutors.

      And no, someone who filed for bankruptcy, and does someone elses homework doesn’t qualify as a source to use when it comes to the law.

       

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      Joey Boy is upset that X is now allowing Conservative and real doctors to post facts.

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      • Post date October 1, 2023
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      Lying to PROPUBLICA.

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      Joey Boy is upset that X is now allowing Conservative and real doctors to post facts.John Hardwood interviewed Biden and as usual Joe told one falsehood after another. But what I found interesting was his bull about X since Musk bought them.

      Before Musk when it was Twitter, one lie after another from the cultists on the left was allowed to go unchallenged.

      After the purchase, more Conservatives were able to voice their opinion and use facts instead of MSM talking points.

      We also got shown the proof where real doctors were shadow banned or outright banned. Plus Musk revealed how the Biden administration cabinet members were asking for Conservative thought to be deleted. Biden is now upset because those on the left are finally getting the truth.

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      Like a clock, Newsom can be right twice. Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay.

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      • Post date October 1, 2023
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      Like a clock, Newsom can be right twice. Newsom Vetoes Bill Offering Strikers Unemployment Pay.

      Editorial-Reuters.

       

      California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have paid unemployment benefits to striking workers, and had drawn strong support from labor unions and from his fellow Democrats in the state legislature.

      In rejecting the bill, Newsom noted that the state’s unemployment trust fund is already nearing $20 billion in debt.

      “Now is not the time to increase costs or incur this sizable debt,” he wrote in a message explaining his veto.

      The Democratic-majority legislature passed the bill in September amid several high-profile strikes. Hollywood writers ended their nearly five-month walkout 12 days later but Hollywood actors remain out on the picket lines. Southern California hotel workers are also on strike.

      The bill would have made workers out on strike for at least two weeks eligible for unemployment checks. The vast majority of states, with the exception of New York and New Jersey, do not offer unemployment benefits to striking workers.

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      Democrat’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him.

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      • Post date October 1, 2023
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      Democrat’s Words Come Back to Haunt Him.

      Story by Carver Malone.

      Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland argued that it was wrong for Republicans to move forward with an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden without having a full floor vote.

      It appears Raskin has short-term memory issues because he argued this was unnecessary while impeaching former President Donald Trump.

      Raskin, who is a former constitutional law professor at American University, supported Nancy Pelosi in 2019 during the impeachment of Trump.

      BREAKING – BIDEN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY: Respected legal scholar Professor @JonathanTurley affirms that the threshold for impeachment inquiry into Biden has been met. WATCH pic.twitter.com/pGif4k1N0p

      — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 28, 2023

      “There’s no formal constitutional or statutory [requirement] or even House rule for how an impeachment inquiry is to begin, and so it means different things to different people,” he said in September 2019.

      “A lot of people believe we’ve been in an impeachment inquiry ever since we started looking into potential high crimes and misdemeanors and the misconduct of the executive branch,” the congressman continued.

      “I would say we are in an impeachment investigation and as to the results of the investigation, it could lead to articles of impeachment or it could lead to something else,” Raskin said.

      In contrast, Raskin called for a vote for the impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden. This shows Raskin makes decision based on his personal biases and political motivation, rather than respected principles.

      “We’ve had to slide awkwardly into a House impeachment process without the benefit of the floor vote that Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy insisted was absolutely imperative and necessary when Donald Trump was impeached,” Raskin said.

      “That’s exactly what has not happened here, because they don’t have the votes, because dozens of Republicans recognize what a futile and absurd process this is,” he added.

      Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York hilariously said, “Jamie Raskin should listen to Jamie Raskin.”

      🚨FLASHBACK 🚨

      In 2019 Rep. Raskin didn't think a House vote was needed to launch an impeachment inquiry.

      “There is no formal constitutional or statutory or even the House rule for how an impeachment inquiry is to begin, and so it means different things to different people." pic.twitter.com/bE1tihy1aF

      — House Republicans (@HouseGOP) September 28, 2023

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      Hillary Clinton Gets Bad News From Judge

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      • Post date September 29, 2023
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      Hillary Clinton Gets Bad News From Judge.

      Story by Taylor Gold 

      The Clinton Foundation, which was launched by former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton, has been under major scrutiny and rocked by scandals for years.

      As a non-profit, the foundation is accused of abusing its expense privileges and creating a tax haven for the multi-millionaire Clinton family.

      The foundation has been involved in shady deals that exploit the Clintons’ power and influence, including the solicitation of large donations from countries where the Clintons have business interests. 

      As a result, U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson signaled that more legal problems may lay ahead for the Clintons.

      TEAM USA 🇺🇸 on X: “Do you think the investigation into Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation should be reopened? https://t.co/qCvIfEGJPf” / X (twitter.com)

      The bombshell “Durham Report” by Special counsel John Durham found that the Clintons have avoided legal trouble due to their power.

      Specifically, the FBI and DOJ were guilty of “significant failures” related to investigating allegations into the Clintons.

      Beginning in 2014, the Durham report found that the FBI was hesitant and “more careful” to proceed with the investigation into the high-profile political family because agents were “scared with the big name [Clinton]” involved. 

      “They were pretty ‘tippy-toeing’ around HRC because there was a chance she would be the next President,” the report found.

      A reliable whistleblower alleged IRS improprieties involving the controversial Clinton Foundation.

      Hillary Clinton said a 'small fringe minority' is undermining democracy by attacking institutions & the press.

      Sorry if we're a threat to your version of democracy where you demand obedience to the state, want the power to punish dissent, trample rights & freeze bank accounts. pic.twitter.com/CAoplihq9J

      — govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) May 6, 2023

      Judge Gustafson previously refused an IRS request to dismiss the case. The judge has demanded that the IRS disclose whether it conducted a criminal investigation into the foundation.

      Judge Gustafson said there is a “gap” in the IRS’s records and suspicions about its investigation.

      In 2018, witnesses testified before Congress that the Clinton Foundation wrongfully operated as a foreign lobbyist by accepting overseas donations. This was an illegal attempt to influence U.S. policy.

      A reliable source told the FBI that a foreign government planned to support and “contribute” to Hillary Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign as a way to “gain influence with Clinton should she win the presidency,” the Durham report found.

      𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐒® on X: “After John Durham bombshell, judge breathes new life into Clinton Foundation whistleblower case U.S. Tax Court judge has once again breathed new life into a years-long whistleblower case alleging IRS improprieties involving the controversial Clinton Foundation.   U.S. Tax Court… https://t.co/zt4SjAcEOT” / X (twitter.com)

      An FBI field office began investigating this claim and sought a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant.

      Republican Florida Rep. Donalds continued, “Look, the media was in on this from the beginning in my view. They are the ones that were helping to launder out Hillary Clinton’s phony made up information about Donald Trump, the same information that she used with her friends at the upper echelon of FBI to start the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”

      “So her media friends are not going to come out now and say we were wrong and this is damning,” Donalds continued. “They are just going to laugh it off, cover it for one or two days and then ignore it.

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      Elon Musk fires X ‘election integrity’ team for undermining election integrity

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      • Post date September 28, 2023
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      Cleaning house.

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      Elon Musk fires X ‘election integrity’ team for undermining election integrity

      “Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.”

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      Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that he has cut the Electoral Integrity team at X (formerly Twitter) in half, including the newly brought on board head of the group, Aaron Rodericks.

      When the news was reported, Musk replied “Oh you mean the ‘Election Integrity’ Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.”

      A person familiar with the circumstances, said that four people had been released, which constitutes the whole of the election integrity unit in Dublin.

      In an August blog post, X said that there were positions available on the “threat disruption” team, and that they company was “currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging threats.”

      In a post concerning election integrity, the platform posted that “You may not use X’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes, such as posting or sharing content that may suppress participation, mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process, or lead to offline violence during an election. Any attempt to undermine the integrity of civic participation undermines our core tenets of freedom of expression and as a result, we will apply labels to violative posts informing users that the content is misleading.”

      The post clarified what that meant, however, and noted further that “Not all false or untrue information about politics or civic processes constitutes manipulation or interference. In the absence of other policy violations, the following are generally not in violation of this policy: inaccurate statements about an elected or appointed official, candidate, or political party; organic content that is polarizing, biased, hyperpartisan, or contains controversial viewpoints expressed about elections or politics; discussion of public polling information; voting and audience participation for competitions, game shows, or other entertainment purposes; using X pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account to discuss elections or politics.”

      This comes after Musk named a new CEO in the spring, Linda Yaccarino, who had been with NBC. She had stated that X would expand trust and safety teams, along with election integrity units.

      Trust in the platform’s ability to police itself took a severe downturn after the publication of the Twitter Files, which revealed intensive bias within Twitter management toward Democrats and the left, and that government agencies had been interfering by insisting on policing speech on the site.

      Some of the meddling Twitter undertook during the 2020 presidential election included suppressing negative information about Joe Biden and his involvement with his son’s business dealings. Voters polled after the fact said that had they known about these concerns, they would not have voted for Biden in that hotly contested election.

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      Fact or Fiction. Biden Documents Probe Expands Beyond Obama WH.

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      • Post date September 27, 2023
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      Exclusive: Biden classified document probe widens: Sources The federal probe into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents prior to becoming president has grown into a sprawling investigation, sources tell ABC News. © Provided by America Insider

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      Fact or Fiction. Biden Documents Probe Expands Beyond Obama WH. ABC News is reporting that Special counsel Robert Hur’s office has been interviewing scores of witnesses, ranging from executive assistants and senior advisers to White House attorneys, for nearly nine months, with several sources estimating that as many as 100 witnesses have already been interviewed. Some have reportedly been asked to return for follow-up sessions.

      I myself think that this is just a stall tactic like the Hunter Biden Investigation. As a Senator and Vice President Joe Biden had top secret documents that weren’t locked up. And the documents were in several locations across the country. What’s there to investigate?

       

      I used ABC News and Newsmax as a source for this.

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      Joe Biden on the picket line. Yeah right.

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      • Post date September 26, 2023
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      Joe Biden joins striking members of the United Auto Workers on the picket line in Belleville, Michigan, September 26, 2023. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

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      Joe Biden on the picket line. Yeah right.

      Yes my friends Joey Boy was out here breaking bread, swapping war stories, carrying signs, leading the union brothers and sisters, just spending most of the day with his fellow union friends.

      Actually Joe never was a union worker and in his younger days he worked for his father who owned a used car dealership. And did I mention that Joe was there for only 12 minutes.

      What did he do the rest of the day? After his brief stop in Motor City, Biden headed to Atherton, California, for a fundraiser at the home of hedge fund Billionaire heiress Liz Simons. Simons and her husband, Mark Heising, run the Heising-Simons Foundation.

       

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      Winning. For now. Ford Pausing Construction of Michigan Battery Plant.

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      • Post date September 25, 2023
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      Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, during the 2022 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. The Detroit auto show returns this week after a three-year absence and in a downsized format, reflecting a broader shift by car companies in how they reach consumers. Photographer: Erin Kirkland/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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      Winning. For now. Ford Pausing Construction of Michigan Battery Plant. This is a major blow to the Governor who gave Ford hundreds of millions in incentives and tax breaks. The Chinese who are partners control the technology.

      Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it’s pausing construction of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan until it is confident it can run the factory competitively.

      The move comes as the company is in the midst of national contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which wants to represent workers at battery factories and win them top wages.

      In February, Ford announced plans to build the plant in Marshall, Michigan, employing about 2,500 workers to make lower-cost batteries for a variety of new and existing vehicles. Marshall is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Detroit and is near two major interstate highways.

      But Ford spokesman TR Reid confirmed Monday that plant construction has been paused and spending has been limited on it.

      “There are a number of considerations,” he said in an email. “We haven’t made any final decision about the planned investment there.”

      This from Senator Rubio.

      “… if Chinese companies like CATL are able to exploit both Chinese and United States incentives for battery and EV technology through clever corporate arrangements, then there is no use in investing federal funds toward industrial development in the first place,” Rubio wrote to officials earlier this year. “Taxpayer dollars should never be used to support [People’s Republic of China] champions.”

      As Breitbart News reported,  CATL CEO Zeng Yuqun is a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee — a high-ranking CCP advisory body that serves as a central component of the party’s “United Front” efforts.

       

       

      China’s “United Front” efforts, as the federal government has noted, are considered to be a front for CCP intelligence operations overseas.

      “The United Front strategy uses a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” a federal commission report from 2018 details.

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