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BatmanVonDoom posted...

Why would anyone buy an xsx when it has no exclusives for 3 years? Just buy an xbone for way cheaper

You try playing Control on an Xbox One

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I have a Series X and have really enjoyed it

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harley2280 posted...

Nah. Just gotta get the Fox propaganda machine to tell the boomers that it was a good call.

If we've learned anything about GOP voters in the last four years it's facebook memes and Fox news can convince them of anything.

Fox doesn't wanna turn on Trump for risk of losing viewers to Newsmax/OANN

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Also, TC, I believe you mean shirt-off

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The (mid-game? IIRC) motorcycle in the sewers scene is so incredibly cool.

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ssj3vegeta posted...

democrats can forgive cuamo for dis tbh

Why should they?

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You need to see these explosions, CE

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https://youtu.be/skIg83NiEt4

I played a ton of this game growing up, so seeing someone complete it in 15 minutes is amusing to me

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Yeah Kuze kicked my ass a couple times too. Bring healing items!

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/12/politics/trump-mccarthy-shouting-match-details/index.html

In an expletive-laced phone call with House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy while the Capitol was under attack, then-President Donald Trump said the rioters cared more about the election results than McCarthy did.

"Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are," Trump said, according to lawmakers who were briefed on the call afterward by McCarthy.

McCarthy insisted that the rioters were Trump's supporters and begged Trump to call them off.

Trump's comment set off what Republican lawmakers familiar with the call described as a shouting match between the two men. A furious McCarthy told the President the rioters were breaking into his office through the windows, and asked Trump, "Who the f--k do you think you are talking to?" according to a Republican lawmaker familiar with the call. [Antifar's note: pulling a "do you know who I am?" to the president is very funny.]

The newly revealed details of the call, described to CNN by multiple Republicans briefed on it, provide critical insight into the President's state of mind as rioters were overrunning the Capitol. The existence of the call and some of its details have been previously reported and discussed publicly by McCarthy.

The Republican members of Congress said the exchange showed Trump had no intention of calling off the rioters even as lawmakers were pleading with him to intervene. Several said it amounted to a dereliction of his presidential duty.

"He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them," a Republican member of Congress said. "On January 13, Kevin McCarthy said on the floor of the House that the President bears responsibility and he does."

Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump's comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation.
"You have to look at what he did during the insurrection to confirm where his mind was at," Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted last month to impeach Trump, told CNN. "That line right there demonstrates to me that either he didn't care, which is impeachable, because you cannot allow an attack on your soil, or he wanted it to happen and was OK with it, which makes me so angry."

"We should never stand for that, for any reason, under any party flag," she added, voicing her extreme frustration: "I'm trying really hard not to say the F-word."
"I think it speaks to the former President's mindset," said Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an Ohio Republican who also voted to impeach Trump last month. "He was not sorry to see his unyieldingly loyal vice president or the Congress under attack by the mob he inspired. In fact, it seems he was happy about it or at the least enjoyed the scenes that were horrifying to most Americans across the country."

As senators prepare to determine Trump's fate, multiple Republicans thought the details of the call were important to the proceedings because they believe it paints a damning portrait of Trump's lack of action during the attack. At least one of the sources who spoke to CNN took detailed notes of McCarthy's recounting of the call.

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I hope you enjoy this game; I had a blast with it

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K181 posted...

Note for the unaware, grand juries are basically rubber stamps for whatever the prosecutor wants. The threshold for getting a grand jury to issue an indictment is so damn low that any prosecutor worth two shits could indict anyone for anything.

So, to be clear, this prosecutor is either a) incompetent or b) didn't want an indictment.

I've served on a grand jury, can confirm

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Those are the profa

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Photo mode has some fun stuff to it

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I'm pretty sure this is CE's fault because I don't encounter Rogan stuff anywhere else. I keep telling it to show me that shit less, but it keeps coming up.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/criminal-charges-dropped-against-buffalo-cops-who-shoved-75-year-old-protester/ar-BB1dCbFU

In one of the most widely seen acts of police brutality that took place last summer during the historic protests against police brutality, two officers, Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe, violently knocked down 75-year-old Martin Gugino outside Buffalo City Hall on June 4. Demonstrating peacefully against the police killing of George Floyd the previous week, Guginos head hit the ground hard. He began to bleed instantly.

Eight months later, all charges have been dropped against Torgalski and McCabe, when a grand jury dismissed a potential case of felony assault. (In New York State, anyone who attacks a person over 65 and is more than ten years younger can be charged as such.) According to the Buffalo Police Department, the officers remain suspended as they await the outcome of an internal-affairs inquiry, which was on hold as BPD awaited the outcome of the criminal case. Discussing the grand jurys decision on Thursday, Erie County district attorney John Flynn said he was unable to disclose much from the proceedings, though he sandbagged nothing. He added, I went into that grand jury, I put all relevant evidence into that grand jury. I put multiple witnesses in that grand jury. I put everything that was not cumulative into that grand jury. And you got my word on that.

In the wake of the violent incident that left Gugino hospitalized, local protesters and national observers were outraged when the Buffalo Police Department initially claimed the longtime activist had only tripped and fell. After Torgalski and McCabe were suspended without pay, all 57 officers in the citys Emergency Response Team resigned from the squad, which is deployed to quell demonstrations.

Having served on a grand jury, I will just say, we indicted every case except when the prosecutor made it clear they didn't want us to.

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darkmaian23 posted...

Does anyone have a defense for this? Usually someone pops in and gives one even when there shouldn't be one to give. Maybe we need to wait for all the facts?

So far, the police union has gone with "she's lucky we didn't hurt her more"
https://www.newsweek.com/rochester-police-union-chief-defends-pepper-spraying-nine-year-old-girl-1565700

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RPD also appears to be stonewalling the city's police accountability board on this incident, and perhaps others
https://twitter.com/ravi_mangla/status/1359959942640381952?s=19

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So what the hell is happening here?
https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1360304675212337152

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I don't know why there's a focus on digital only; you have to install games from discs regardless.

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thronedfire2 posted...

oh are we supposed to start caring how politicians conduct themselves now that Trump is out

Did you stop?

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Alpha218 posted...

Do you think if there was a Republican (Martha McSally) in Sinemas seat, they would vote for $15 minimum wage? Like yeah she is far from being great, but the alternative is much worse.

The alternative, right now, is Sinema voting for the minimum wage increase. Her next election isn't until 2024; is she going to spend the next 4 years lording over the worse-ness of a hypothetical Republican replacement, or is she going to get on board with a policy that has support from a majority of her state's voters?

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A thing about the 60-vote threshold, and the filibuster that preceded it, is that it is entirely fabricated by slaveowners and segregationists. There's nothing in the Constitution about it; southern senators just realized they'd usually be in the minority and seized upon a technicality in Senate rules.

The history of the oral filibuster is it almost exclusively being used to block civil rights legislation; the 60-vote threshold as it is now commonly understood basically did not exist until 25 years ago.

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Do you ever get tired of trying to convince strangers that you're a moron?

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You're not as stupid as you're pretending to be, but congrats on convincing people that you are.

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PoundGarden posted...

The Capitol attack along with the points you listed are serious to be sure, however hey were also very small groups of lunatics

PoundGarden posted...

I already addressed Jan 6 and at no point called that group small

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Alpha218 posted...

Up until recently AZ was a solid red state. Im more than glad to have someone like Sinema there, who I will disagree with some times, than a Republican who doesnt give a shit about Democrat goals

Florida voted overwhelmingly for a $15 minimum wage; do you think it's significantly less popular in Arizona, a state with two Democratic senators?

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/i-will-destroy-you-biden-aide-threatened-a-politico-reporter-pursuing-a-story-on-his-relationship

A White House official tried to quash a story about his relationship with a reporter by issuing threats and using derogatory language to another reporter pursuing it, according to two sources familiar with the incident. In a sympathetic profile Monday, People revealed that White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo is dating Axios political reporter Alexi McCammond, who covered the Joe Biden campaign. But behind the scenes, Ducklo had previously lashed out at Politico reporter Tara Palmeri, who was reporting the story, exhibiting behavior that led to tense meetings between the Washington news outlets editors and senior White House officials.

After Vanity Fair published this account, the White House announced that Ducklo would be suspended for one week.

The confrontation began on Inauguration Day, January 20, after Palmeri, a coauthor of Politicos Playbook, contacted McCammond for comment while one of her male colleagues left a message for Ducklo, according to the sources. Ducklo subsequently called a Playbook editor to object to the story, but was told to call the Playbook reporters with his concerns. But instead of calling the male reporter who initially contacted him, Ducklo tried to intimidate Palmeri by phone in an effort to kill the story. I will destroy you, Ducklo told her, according to the sources, adding that he would ruin her reputation if she published it.

During the off-the-record call, Ducklo made derogatory and misogynistic comments, accusing Palmeri of only reporting on his relationshipwhich, due to the ethics questions that factor into the relationship between a journalist and White House official, falls under the purview of her reporting beatbecause she was jealous that an unidentified man in the past had wanted to fuck McCammond and not you. Ducklo also accused Palmeri of being jealous of his relationship with McCammond. (Palmeri had no prior relationship or communication with McCammond before calling her to report on the Playbook item, which was a story that she was assigned and had not independently pursued.)

The following day, an editor at Politico reached out to the White House about Ducklos threats, spurring multiple conversations between the news outlet and senior-level officials on January 21, including White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, and Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn. In one of those calls, senior White House officials acknowledged that Ducklos handling of the call with Palmeri was inappropriate and said he would send a note to her apologizing for the comments. In another conversation, the same White House officials took aim at Palmeri by accusing her of breaking an off-the-record agreement with Ducklo and pressing Politico as to why the contents of the call had been revealed. Palmeri had only informed her editors of the contents of the call, which she had transcribed into her notes as it was happening, after they asked her about it.

Palmeri declined to comment. Psaki and Ducklo did not immediately respond to requests for comment. After publication, Psaki issued a statement: TJ Ducklo has apologized to the reporter, with whom he had a heated conversation about his personal life. He is the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the President. In addition to his initial apology, he has sent the reporter a personal note expressing his profound regret. With the approval of the White House Chief of Staff, he has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay. In addition, when he returns, he will no longer be assigned to work with any reporters at Politico.

When the series of calls between the White House and Politico had concluded, Ducklo sent Palmeri an email stating that he was sorry he lost his cool, but he did not delve into any specifics or apologize for threatening and sexually harassing the reporter, according to sources familiar with the exchange. Politico reported on Ducklo and McCammonds relationship in Tuesdays Playbook, after it was first revealed the previous night by People.

Ducklos alleged response to Politicos reporting raises serious questions about behavior that is tolerated in the Biden White House. I am not joking when I say this: If you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands, or buts, Biden said during a virtual swearing-in of appointees on his first day in the White House. Playbook highlighted those remarks on January 21 under the heading Biden Sets Standard for Professional Behavior, and asked, Serious question on our minds this morning: Does this standard apply to how mid-level press aides treat reporters?

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This game rocks!

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JimmyFraska posted...

Get out of here fox news, Cuomo is good, Trump is bad, end of story

Who do you think you're posting to or for?

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Thinking the Empire is good is just a standard Conservative thing
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-case-for-the-empire
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/on-star-wars-and-conversations

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It's good, imo

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/nyregion/new-york-nursing-homes-cuomo.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his top aides were facing new allegations on Friday that they covered up the scope of the death toll in the states nursing homes from the coronavirus, after admissions that they withheld data in an effort to forestall potential investigations into state misconduct.
The latest revelations came in the wake of private remarks by the governors top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and a cascading series of reports and court orders that have nearly doubled the states official toll of nursing home deaths in the last two weeks.
The disclosures have left Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, scrambling to contain the political fallout, as lawmakers of both parties call for censure, including stripping the governor of his emergency powers during the pandemic, federal and state investigations and resignations of Ms. DeRosa and other top officials.
In a conversation first reported on by the New York Post, Ms. DeRosa told a group of top lawmakers on Wednesday during a call to address the nursing home situation that basically, we froze, after being asked last summer for information by the Trump administrations Department of Justice.

At the time, the governors office was simultaneously facing requests from the State Legislature for similar information.

We were in a position where we werent sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, and what we start saying, was going to be used against us and we werent sure if there was going to be an investigation, Ms. DeRosa told lawmakers, according to a partial transcript obtained by The New York Times.

The news of Ms. DeRosas remarks sparked a flurry of angry denunciations, including from Mr. Cuomos fellow Democrats.

This is a betrayal of the public trust, State Senator Andrew Gounardes, a Democrat from Brooklyn, said on Twitter. There needs to be full accountability for what happened.
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Early on Friday, Ms. DeRosa, the top nonelected official in the state, sought to clarify the context for her remarks, saying she was trying to explain that we needed to temporarily set aside the Legislatures request to deal with the federal request first.

We informed the houses of this at the time, she said, referring to the upper and lower chambers of the Legislature.
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As I said on a call with legislators, we could not fulfill their request as quickly as anyone would have liked, she said.

The revelation of Ms. DeRosas remarks comes two weeks after a damning report from Letitia James, the states attorney general, who accused the Cuomo administration of undercounting coronavirus related deaths connected to nursing homes by the thousands.

The report forced the states health department to make public more than 3,800 previously unreported deaths of residents who died outside a facility, like in a hospital, and had not been included in the states official nursing home tally.

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They've responded by getting mad at the reporter
https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1360173406323429377


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darkprince45 posted...

So wait, theres Hitman 2016, and then the levels are in 2/3 again?

Yes; the idea was that the trilogy would just keep building upon itself, but IO split off from Square after the first game, which made everything a much more complicated process. Still, owners of 3 can now play pretty much the whole content of the trilogy.

Each game has roughly 6 "new" maps, but I'd say 2016's had the most content to them in terms of escalations and bonus missions, because of the episodic nature of that game and Square's backing. Still, 2 and 3 offer plenty to do on their own right.

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Are you playing Hitman 2016, or Paris within 2/3? What I'd say is that they've really improved the UI with 2 and 3 to make things clearer for players, particularly when they're entering restricted areas. But also 2016 is probably the hardest of the three games.

I think it's useful to follow the opportunities/mission stories as you're getting used to a level, as they help to give you a sense of what disguises are allowed where, and how the targets' routines can be altered.

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Hi Cornhuskers

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https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1359992211186843649
Something to note about Bitcoin is that it uses more electricity than Argentina

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They're good

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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/11/biden-withdraws-trump-medicaid-rules-468759

The Biden administration on Friday will notify states it plans to revoke Medicaid work requirements, starting the process of dismantling one of the Trump administration's signature health policies.

The move is one of several steps that Bidens health department is expected to take this week to unravel the contentious work rules long criticized by Democrats, according to internal documents obtained by POLITICO.

The documents which were labeled close hold do not make clear how quickly Biden will cut off work rules the previous administration approved in a number of states, which for the first time were allowed to mandate that some people work or volunteer as a condition of enrollment in the low-income health care program.

Health officials are also preparing to withdraw the Trump administrations 2018 letter that first announced the work requirements policy, and rescind a separate letter from earlier this year aimed at making it more difficult for the incoming Biden administration to quickly overturn the policy.

CMS has serious concerns that now is not the appropriate time to test policies that risk a substantial loss of health care coverage or benefits in the near term, according to a health department draft rollout plan entitled Medicaid Work Requirement Rescission.

President Joe Biden, who has targeted other Trump health policies as he looks to build on Obamacare, has long signaled plans to unravel the Medicaid work requirements. Democrats have criticized the rules as unlawful and aimed at kicking people off the programs rolls.
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The move also comes as the Supreme Court is slated to consider the validity of the work rules on March 29. Lower courts have so far blocked attempts to institute the work rules, which led most states with the requirements to halt their enforcement. Biden's plan to withdraw the work rules could render the Supreme Court case moot.

Seems good, imo

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Does he think withholding that money from them will help those issues?

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TC thinks Atticus Finch was a bad lawyer because he lost his case.

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Sitcom episodes where due to a mixup with a stranger, characters have to pretend they are someone else, usually involving a cascading sequence of lies as more people are roped into the ruse.

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Bump

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https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-b14be5f06588b8f1d78125d4141394cb

Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high.

Led by several prominent former Republican consultants, its slickly produced ads attacking President Donald Trump made it perhaps the best known of the so-called Never Trump organizations. The group tried to claim a higher moral ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP. Money flowed in by the tens of millions of dollars from donors eager to help.

But within the organization, a grave threat was emerging.

In June 2020, members of the organizations leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation. The email and phone calls raise questions about the Lincoln Projects statement last month that it was shocked when accusations surfaced publicly this year. Its also the first known suggestion that Weaver targeted a Lincoln Project staffer.

Despite the early warning, the group took no action against Weaver and pressed forward with its high-profile work. For the collection of GOP consultants and former officials, being anti-Trump was becoming very good for business. Of the $90 million Lincoln Project has raised, more than $50 million has gone to firms controlled by the groups leaders.

There is no evidence that the Lincoln Project buried the allegations against Weaver for business reasons. But taken together, the harassment allegations and new revelations about spending practices raise significant questions about the management of one of the highest-profile antagonists of Trump. The revelations threaten the stature of not just the Lincoln Project but the broader coalition of establishment-oriented Republican groups hoping to pool their resources to excise Trump from the party.

Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt insisted that he and the rest of the groups leadership were not aware of any internal allegations of wrongdoing involving Weaver.

No Lincoln Project employee, intern, or contractors ever made an allegation of inappropriate communication about John Weaver that would have triggered an investigation by HR or by an outside employment counsel, Schmidt said. In other words, no human being ever made an allegation about any inappropriate sexualized communications about John Weaver ever.

Weaver declined to comment for this story, but in a statement released late last month to Axios he generally acknowledged misconduct and apologized.

To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time: I am truly sorry, he wrote. They were inappropriate and it was because of my failings that this discomfort was brought on you.

The Lincoln Project launched in November 2019 as a super PAC that allowed its leaders to raise and spend unlimited sums of money.

Its founders represent a whos who of prominent Republican strategists on cable television, including Schmidt and Reed Galen, both former advisers to John McCain; conservative attorney George Conway; former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn; Florida-based veteran political ad maker Rick Wilson; and Weaver, who has long advised former Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Backed by its founders commanding social media presence, the organization quickly attracted a massive following of Trump critics in both parties that exceeded even its own founders expectations.

Since its creation, the Lincoln Project has raised $90 million. But only about a third of the money, roughly $27 million, directly paid for advertisements that aired on broadcast and cable, or appeared online, during the 2020 campaign, according to an analysis of campaign finance disclosures and data from the ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG.

That leaves tens of millions of dollars that went toward expenses like production costs, overhead and exorbitant consulting fees collected by members of the group.

It raises questions about where the rest of the money ultimately went, said Brendan Fischer, an attorney with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington. Generally speaking, youd expect to see a major super PAC spend a majority or more of their money on advertisements and thats not what happened here.

The vast majority of the cash was split among consulting firms controlled by its founders, including about $27 million paid to a small firm controlled by Galen and another $21 million paid to a boutique firm run by former Lincoln Project member Ron Steslow, campaign finance disclosures show.

But in many cases its difficult to tell how much members of the group were paid. Thats because the Lincoln Project adopted a strategy, much like the Trump campaign they criticized, to mask how much money they earned.

While several firms did collect payments, Weaver and Wilson are not listed in publicly available records. They were likely paid as subcontractors to those firms, an arrangement that avoids disclosure. Schmidt collected a $1.5 million payment in December but quickly returned it.

We fully comply with the law, Schmidt said. The Lincoln Project will be delighted to open its books for audit immediately after the Trump campaign and all affiliated super PACs do so, explaining the cash flow of the nearly $700 million that flowed through their organizations controlled by Brad Parscale and Jared Kushner.

The Lincoln Project parted with one co-founder, Horn, last week, claiming in an unusual public statement that she was seeking a $250,000 signing bonus and a $40,000-a-month consulting contract. Horn said that she left following revelations of Weavers grotesque behavior and divergent views with existing leadership about how to move forward.

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Now that's not very nice

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

My friend got his 2nd shot the other day

Hope you took a day to rest

My shift starts in 25 minutes, so

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They've been really insistent we stay hydrated today, so we'll see how this goes.

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Mr. Game & Watch

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Sonic Heroes
The Crew 2


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