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Political smurfing at Act Blue?, Elon and the crony sword, DEI at Treasury, If you vote for Trump your cat will get shot says letter in PA
Act Blue Smurfing?
Smurfing is a money laundering technique where large sums of money are broken up into smaller amounts to avoid detection by financial institutions. The goal is to evade reporting thresholds and obscure the money trail. Smurfing is also known as structuring.
Mark Block has been consulting for Republicans for years. So when he discovered an old email account he used for the 2012 Herman Cain presidential campaign was receiving receipts for donations to Democrat candidates like Kamala Harris, he became alarmed.
The discovery led Block -- a stalwart Republican -- and his lawyers on a journey that escalated Monday evening when he filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in the Wisconsin state courts under civil racketeering laws, alleging he is a victim of identity theft in a conspiracy to abuse the massive ActBlue fundraising platform.
That platform is designed to benefit Democrats with small donations under $200 that evade Federal Election Commission reporting requirements, the suit stated.
Are you being smurfed? Check the list to see if you are a political money mule
Musk is targeted from California to Brussles
The thing is Musk has long played the crony game and now that he has spoken out and offended many on the far-left he is having the crony game played right back at him. (We must say that he has done some work to redeem himself. Taking over X and freeing it was incredibly important for free speech and a civil society.)
Check this headline from a prominent EU fasci…er…“progressive”.
Elon Musk is a ‘promoter of evil,’ EU rule-of-law chief says
The European political class has always hated free speech going back to the Dark Ages. Free speech challenges the aristocratic order which still very much exists in much of Europe.
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