One of the funny things about trolls is that they are so partisan that they don't take the time to read and understand what they are responding to. They just jump in to attack and they think that everybody is partisan like them.
MrSly: Go and read the list again. Your insinuation is far from the content of the post.
1) What list?
2) I very much doubt that you have the mental capacity to understand my "insinuation", but tell me what you have been able to produce from your brain, let me see if I can educate you.
(My point is actually written explicitly in the article, but I very much doubt that this guy can understand it)
BuyMeBanger: I've been thinking this from the jump about Ikorodu but specifically Ikorodu Road. They can construct a tram line that starts from Jibowu along the middle of Ikorodu Road that runs to Ikorodu itself using the existing BRT path of way.
That was the original route of the metro, but it was scrapped because they would have to demolish a lot of buildings (just imagine the extent of the demolition and compensation). However, the right of way of the national rail line has enough space with less need to demolish buildings.
Did Kamala Harris work at McDonald’s? Here’s everything we know
What has Kamala Harris said? Why has Donald Trump jumped on it? Have McDonald’s confirmed she worked at the restaurant? All we know, here
Cameron Henderson. Benedict Smith 21 October 2024
The question of whether Kamala Harris ever worked at McDonald’s has become one of the most unexpected talking points of the election campaign.
The Democratic candidate has used it to burnish her middle-class credentials by claiming her time behind the deep fryer helped fund her way through law school.
But Republicans, led by Donald Trump, have pounced on Ms Harris’s claims, accusing her of lying in a desperate attempt to make her seem more relatable to voters.
McDonald’s reportedly said it could not confirm claims made by either camps because its records do not extend back to when the vice-president would have served french fries to customers.
“We and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early 80s,” it said in an internal memo circulated to staff, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Ms Harris has also failed to provide anything more than a vague account of her time at the golden arches.
When The Telegraph visited branches in the area where she claimed to have worked, we found staff had been told they were not to talk about whether she had ever worked at McDonald’s.
Now, Trump has taken things a step further, by entering the kitchen himself and serving up portions of fries to supporters at a franchise in Pennsylvania.
Asked how he found swapping his suit for an apron at the fast food restaurant, the Republican candidate said: “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala at McDonald’s.”
The ongoing sparring match has raised questions about the truth of Ms Harris’ claims and put pressure on the Democratic candidate to come clean about which restaurant she worked at.
Here’s everything you need to know about whether Ms Harris ever worked at McDonald’s.
What has McDonald’s said?
The Telegraph visited all three McDonald’s restaurants in the Almeda region of California where Ms Harris claims to have worked and found that employees had been sworn to secrecy at one of the sites.
It is not known which branch she worked at, but at one location (pictured below), on Shore Line Drive, staff told The Telegraph they had been instructed by bosses not to talk about the vice-president.
The Telegraph understands McDonald’s head office has never commented publicly on whether Ms Harris was ever an employee.
The fast food giant has sought to stay out of the debate, and in an internal memo confirmed by the Wall Street Journal it said it did not have the records to confirm Ms Harris’s claims.
“We’ve been proud to hear former president Trump’s love for McDonald’s and vice president Harris’ fond memories working under the Arches,” it said in a message on Sunday.
“We and our franchisees don’t have records for all positions dating back to the early 80s.”
It added that Ms Harris had been offered a visit to its restaurants by franchise owners, after Trump visited a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in an attempt to show up the-vice president.
“Upon learning of the former president’s request, we approached it through the lens of one of our core values: we open our doors to everyone,” the memo added.
McDonald’s was contacted for comment by The Telegraph.
What has Harris said?
Ms Harris has spoken repeatedly about her time spent working at the restaurant, claiming her job there during her university degree in the 1980s inspired her to support working families.
“Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family,” she told MSNBC last month.
“I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility then is to meet those needs.”
Ms Harris said she first “did fries” at the restaurant and then worked as a cashier to help pay for her law degree at the University of California.
According to Quentin Fulks, her deputy campaign manager, she worked at a branch of McDonald’s in Alameda, California during the summer of 1983, while she was a student at Howard University.
Her time at the restaurant helped her to earn a bit more spending money, Politico reported.
What has Trump said?
Ms Harris’s story has been disputed by Trump and his supporters, with the former president accusing her of lying.
Ms Harris “lied about working at McDonald’s”, he told supporters at a rally in Detroit on Friday .“That’s like not a big thing, but can I be honest with you, it’s terrible,” he added.
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Trump claimed the restaurant manager had admitted she had never worked there.
“I know she didn’t [work there],” the Republican candidate said. “We checked it out. They said she never worked here. She even picked the store. We went to the manager. The manager’s been there forever.”
The Trump campaign has circulated a press release promoting a story from the Washington Free Beacon, which reported that the vice president did not mention McDonald’s on her CV when applying for a job as a law clerk in the Alameda County district attorney’s office in 1987.
Ms Harris did not refer to the job in either of her memoirs, published in 2010 and 2019, and appears to have first revealed the job during a rally in Las Vegas in 2019.
Neither Ms Harris nor Trump have offered proof of their claims about her job at the fast food restaurant.
Trump attempts to troll Harris by serving french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald's
Trump worked the fry machine and served pre-selected customers as he continued to cast doubt, without evidence, on Harris' summer job years ago.
FEASTERVILLE, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump served up french fries Sunday at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Vice President Kamala Harris.
The franchise in Feasterville was closed for normal business during Sunday’s photo op. The customers who went through the drive thru were pre-selected by the franchise and the local Trump campaign team, according to a person familiar with the event. The cars were also screened and searched, and the people in them were wanded down, according to the source.
The campaign visit in the critical battleground state just over two weeks from Election Day was designed to troll Harris, who has talked about working at one of the fast-food chain’s restaurants when she was younger. Without evidence, Trump has accused Harris of lying about the experience as a way to improve her working-class credibility.
Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims Sunday.
“It was a big part of her resume that she worked at McDonald’s — how tough a job it was,” Trump said at the restaurant in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. “She … made the french fries, and she talked about the heat: ‘It was so tough.’ She’s never worked at McDonald’s.”
Harris spokesperson Ian Sams shot back in a statement to NBC News.
“When Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie,” Sams said. “He can’t understand what it’s like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it.”
Harris, according to her campaign, worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, California, during the summer of 1983. She was a student at Howard University at the time and worked the register, as well as the french fry and ice cream machines.
In a statement, the location’s owner and operator, Derek Giacomantonio, said that he decided to participate in the Trump campaign event because “it is a fundamental value of my organization that we proudly open our doors to everyone who visits the Feasterville community.”
Trump’s own love of fast food is well documented. During a government shutdown in 2019, he famously served McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Domino’s pizza on silver platters to welcome and celebrate the national college football champion Clemson Tigers during their White House visit.
During his half-hour shift Sunday, Trump traded his suit jacket for an apron and received a brief tutorial from a fry cook. He then took a turn at the deep fryer himself, dropping two batches of potatoes into hot oil and waiting for them to cook. He mostly followed instructions, though he forgot to fully drain the oil from one batch and appeared to be more generous with the salt.
Trump marveled repeatedly about how the fries are packaged, with the aid of a scooper-like device.
“Never touched by a human hand,” he said at one point. “Nice and clean.”
Trump then turned his attention to the drive-thru window, filling several orders and chatting with customers as they came by in their cars.
“This is not a normal situation, is it?” he remarked, before assuring customers they would not have to pay for their food and bragging that he had made their fries himself.
“There will be no charge,” he said. “Trump is paying for it. … This is all on Trump, am I allowed to do that?”
Several customers called out Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan as they came through the line.
“I wouldn’t mind this job,” Trump said. “I like this job. I would come back and do it again.”
Trump also served up fries to and took questions from gathered reporters. He dodged directly answering whether the federal minimum wage should be raised.
“Oh, you’re very stingy with the product,” he said to an employee filling bags with fries. “Look at that. She’s a good worker. That’s the kind of people you want to have. She gave them one french fry for 30 reporters.”
Toward the end of his appearance, Trump was informed it was Harris' 60th birthday.
“I think I’ll get her some flowers,” he said. “Maybe I’ll get her some fries.”
There are campaign finance laws in the United States that limit the amount of money that a person can donate to a campaign. However, people develop all kinds of methods to get around the laws. They create political action committees (PAC) and donate via those committees, some CEOs encourage their workers to individually donate to a campaign, etc.
America (the organisation that runs the petition) is a political action committee that was set up by Mr Musk and others and he has pledged to donate $45 million a month to it.
Mr Musk is not directly donating to Donald Trump's campaign, instead, he is paying people to sign a petition. In his previous announcement he said that he will only pay people who refer voters, but in this announcement he has said that he will pay voters directly. Pennsylvania is a swing state (that is, it is not fully republican or democrat) and swing states usually determine the results of presidential elections.
The graphic below is from the website of the Federal Electoral Commission (FEC). It shows the donation limits.
Elon Musk is offering $1 million a day to sign his PAC petition. Is that legal?
Updated on: October 22, 2024
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX who's gone all-in on Republican Donald Trump's candidacy for the White House, is pledging to give away $1 million a day to voters for signing his political action committee's petition backing the Constitution. The offer is sparking questions among election experts about the plan's legality.
Some experts say it is a violation of the law to link a cash handout to signing a petition that also requires a person to be registered to vote. The Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
A source familiar with Musk's America PAC said, "The PAC is confident in the legality of this initiative and the predictable media meltdown is only helping AmericaPAC's efforts to support President Trump."
Musk, the wealthiest person in the world with a fortune of $242 billion, has already committed at least $70 million to reelect the former president and is now ramping up his efforts to get voters in swing states to support Trump. The X owner had previously offered supporters $47 for each registered voter in seven battleground states that they could get to sign his petition, a nod to the fact that the winner of the November 5 election will be the nation's 47th president.
"The actions that we're seeing ... it violates federal law pretty clearly. Actually, I don't think it's a particularly close call," Adav Noti, executive director of the Campaign Legal Center, told CBS News.
"Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal," wrote Rick Hasen, a UCLA Law School political science professor, at the Election Law Blog, about the $1 million per-day giveaway.
He pointed to a law that prohibits paying people for registering to vote or for voting.
"The problem is that the only people eligible to participate in this giveaway are the people who are registered to vote. And that makes it illegal," Hasen said in a telephone interview.
Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the state's former attorney general, expressed concern about Musk's $1 million give-away plan on Sunday.
"I think there are real questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing, not just into Pennsylvania, but apparently now into the pockets of Pennsylvanians. That is deeply concerning," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Elon Musk's PAC petition
Musk promised on Saturday that he would give away $1 million a day, until the Nov. 5 election, for people signing his PAC's petition supporting the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and the Second Amendment, with its right "to keep and bear arms."
He awarded a check during an event Saturday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to a man identified as John Dreher. A message left with a number listed for Dreher was not returned Sunday. Musk gave out another check Sunday.
Musk's America PAC has launched a tour of Pennsylvania, a critical election battleground. He's aiming to register voters in support of Trump, whom Musk has endorsed. The PAC is also pushing to persuade voters in other key states.
Trump, who was campaigning Sunday in Pennsylvania, was asked about Musk's giveaway, and said, "I haven't followed that." Trump said he "speaks to Elon a lot. He's a friend of mine" and called him great for the country.
Musk, meanwhile, since January this year, has used X, the social media platform he owns, to amass nearly 3.3 billion views by fueling doubts about election security issues, a CBS News investigation has found. About 55% of Musk's posts about election security contain misleading or false statements, or amplify posts that do, the CBS analysis found.
Legal issues with Musk's $1 million giveaway
Among the election law experts who are raising red flags about the giveaway is Brendan Fischer, a campaign finance lawyer, who noted the latest iteration of Musk's giveaway approaches a legal boundary.
That's because the PAC is requiring registration as a prerequisite to become eligible for the $1 million check. "There would be few doubts about the legality if every Pennsylvania-based petition signer were eligible, but conditioning the payments on registration arguably violates the law," Fischer said in an email.
Michael Kang, an election law professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, said the context of the giveaway so close to Election Day makes it harder to make the case that the effort is anything but a incentivizing people to register to vote.
"It's not quite the same as paying someone to vote, but you're getting close enough that we worry about its legality," Kang said.
Typically coordination between campaigns and so-called super PACs had been forbidden. But a recent opinion by the Federal Election Commissioner, which regulates federal campaigns, permitted candidates and these groups to work together in certain cases, including getting out the vote efforts.
Justice Department Says It Has Received Complaints About Elon Musk’s $1 Million Payments to Voters
By Lucas Ropek Published October 22, 2024
Is the tech billionaire breaking the law? We may soon find out.
Despite the fact that, in the U.S., it is illegal to pay someone to vote, not vote, or register to vote, Elon Musk has been making it rain on the American electorate. It all started approximately two weeks ago when the billionaire began offering registered voters in swing states payments of $47. What for? To recruit other voters to sign a vague petition “to support the Constitution.” Nothing wrong with that, right? Well, except for the fact that we’re in the middle of a fraught presidential election and Musk has been doing everything in his power to get one candidate (Donald Trump) elected. Getting elected requires voters and, to vote, you need to be registered to vote. Given this context, some might argue (and have argued) that Musk is financially incentivizing voter registration in swing states.
Not long after his initial $47 offering, Musk upped the payment to $100. Then, several days ago, Musk escalated things drastically. He announced that, every single day until the election, he will give away a million dollars to a registered voter who signs his petition. As of this writing, Musk has already doled out two $1 million payments to individual voters.
Critics have maintained that Musk is basically trying to buy votes for Trump, or is running a paid voter registration drive, both of which would be against the law. One political science scholar, UCLA’s Rick Hasen, claims Musk’s activities constitute “clearly illegal vote-buying.” Now, Justice Department officials confirm they have received complaints about Musk’s lottery-style giveaways, though it’s unclear whether they plan to do anything about it.
On Monday, the Washington Post reported that a number of former Republican officials sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, asking the Justice Department to look into Musk’s payments to voters. The letter was signed by a number of former highly-placed officials, including former governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman, former special adviser to Vice President Olivia Troye, and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission Trevor Potter, among others. The letter was also addressed to numerous district attorneys in Pennsylvania.
“We are aware of nothing like this in modern political history,” the letter states, in reference to Musk’s payments. “We urge you to investigate whether America PAC’s payments are prohibited payments for voter registration. We recognize that they are framed as payments for signing a petition, or for referring voters who sign. But many of the payments are restricted to registered voters, so anyone who wishes to get paid must first register.” Were Musk found guilty of such a crime, he could spend up to five years in prison.
Gizmodo reached out to Musk via Tesla. We also reached out to the Justice Department. A source familiar with Musk’s America PAC told CBS news: “The PAC is confident in the legality of this initiative and the predictable media meltdown is only helping AmericaPAC’s efforts to support President Trump.” Musk has previously claimed that anyone (irregardless of political affiliation) can win his daily $1 million prize, so long as they sign his petition.
Musk’s payments to voters obviously puts the Justice Department in a difficult position. We are a mere two weeks out from the election, which means that any effort to investigate or stop Musk could have a politicized effect. Should the government pursue action against Musk, it could easily be spun by Musk and other rightwing trolls as an attack on registered voters, who obviously stand to gain from the billionaire’s handouts.
Musk, who has been running Trump’s canvassing operations in major swing states, has poured tens of millions of dollars into a campaign that is increasingly inventive and bizarre. On Tuesday, a new report claimed that Musk’s political action group, America PAC, had been buying ads for Donald Trump on Musk’s own web platform, X (formerly Twitter). Previously, America PAC has been criticized for a number of other issues and purported irregularities. All of that said, the jury is still out on whether Musk is actually helping Trump win. Some high-level officials within the GOP have voiced concerns that Musk’s efforts aren’t actually all that effective. Previous reporting has suggested that the canvassing operations being manned by Musk-funded PACs are not making a dent.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Donald Trump Trolls Kamala Harris By Working At McDonald's by naptu2(op): 6:53pm On Oct 24, 2024
