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Hackers Target Political Super PAC Money & Microsoft Blocked From Mega-Merger
Politicians are experiencing an increase in theft from their campaign funds, with cyber criminals targeting these massive campaign accounts. Plus, the US government has filed a lawsuit to stop Microsoft from becoming an even bigger monopoly. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
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Politicians are experiencing an increase in theft from their campaign funds with cyber criminals targeting these massive campaign accounts. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about it. Lot of money sitting there, huh? I mean, these big massive campaign accounts, it's just kind of a new target. I mean, I expect, I expect this to get a lot worse.
Yeah. And that's what the cybersecurity experts are telling us right now, because we have already seen a huge uptick in the amount of, or the number of politicians, I should say, that are reporting to the FEC, Hey, I don't have receipts for these expenses because my account got hacked. Or they stole our checks. And it's been increasing pretty much every single year for about a decade now. And the reason for that, I mean, it almost ties directly in with Citizens United, with McCutcheon.
No question.
Because we have these huge super PACs that are, are literally some of them sitting on tens of millions of dollars. And the way it's structured is you don't have somebody sitting there every day watching expenses to know, wait a minute, this is a fraudulent $500 payment. This thousand dollars shouldn't have gone here. And these cyber criminals have finally realized, this is the Wild West. Nobody's looking over our shoulders. We can take what we want.
It's called blind stupid money. I mean, that's what it is. It's called blind. There's so much money there, nobody's really keeping up with it. In this story, they talk about, they talk about Matt Gaetz's program, the National Association for Manufacturers. You remember the whole things with Black Life Matters, all that money disappeared because it's impossible to keep up with it, I guess, or there's no system to keep up with it. It's kinda like that whole GoFundMe thing, which serves a really good purpose. It does a lot of good. But when you're talking about money at this scale where you got people writing checks for a hundred thousand dollars and it's just like fun money.
Yeah.
Right?
Well, yeah. And another part of it too is just the amount of money that comes in on a daily basis. You know, I mean, if we were talking about accounts where they had a set amount of money and they knew for six months, nothing more comes in. So we know where our balance is at.
Mm-hmm.
Typically, you know, think of the average person's bank account. You know how much money you have sitting in your checking account, you know how much comes in and how much goes out. With these accounts, we're talking about transactions of thousands of dollars every single day of the week, whether it's money coming in, or money going out, plane tickets, electronics, liquor stores. And those are all things that cyber criminals will steal your money and buy so it doesn't raise suspicion. And they figured it out.
Well, one thing. Yeah. One thing they're doing is they're copying, they're forging checks.
Yeah.
They're doing prints of checks. They'll take a legitimate check, run it through a machine, it looks exactly like the check. And so they're forging these images. That's, that's one of the real popular ones because these checks, you know, checkbooks are laying around. It's just the disorganization is almost overwhelming.
The US government's filed a lawsuit to stop Microsoft from becoming an even bigger monopoly. About time, would you say?
It, it's long overdue. And, and ironically what it took was Microsoft trying to buy the video game, video game company, Activision Blizzard.
Yeah.
And, and of course we see the monopoly problems with that. It's, it's almost shocking that Microsoft even had the audacity to say, we're gonna do this because who's gonna stop us?
We're gonna do this because we can.
Yeah.
Basically there's, we don't have a, we don't have a government entity.
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Politicians are experiencing an increase in theft from their campaign funds with cyber criminals targeting these massive campaign accounts. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about it. Lot of money sitting there, huh? I mean, these big massive campaign accounts, it's just kind of a new target. I mean, I expect, I expect this to get a lot worse.
Yeah. And that's what the cybersecurity experts are telling us right now, because we have already seen a huge uptick in the amount of, or the number of politicians, I should say, that are reporting to the FEC, Hey, I don't have receipts for these expenses because my account got hacked. Or they stole our checks. And it's been increasing pretty much every single year for about a decade now. And the reason for that, I mean, it almost ties directly in with Citizens United, with McCutcheon.
No question.
Because we have these huge super PACs that are, are literally some of them sitting on tens of millions of dollars. And the way it's structured is you don't have somebody sitting there every day watching expenses to know, wait a minute, this is a fraudulent $500 payment. This thousand dollars shouldn't have gone here. And these cyber criminals have finally realized, this is the Wild West. Nobody's looking over our shoulders. We can take what we want.
It's called blind stupid money. I mean, that's what it is. It's called blind. There's so much money there, nobody's really keeping up with it. In this story, they talk about, they talk about Matt Gaetz's program, the National Association for Manufacturers. You remember the whole things with Black Life Matters, all that money disappeared because it's impossible to keep up with it, I guess, or there's no system to keep up with it. It's kinda like that whole GoFundMe thing, which serves a really good purpose. It does a lot of good. But when you're talking about money at this scale where you got people writing checks for a hundred thousand dollars and it's just like fun money.
Yeah.
Right?
Well, yeah. And another part of it too is just the amount of money that comes in on a daily basis. You know, I mean, if we were talking about accounts where they had a set amount of money and they knew for six months, nothing more comes in. So we know where our balance is at.
Mm-hmm.
Typically, you know, think of the average person's bank account. You know how much money you have sitting in your checking account, you know how much comes in and how much goes out. With these accounts, we're talking about transactions of thousands of dollars every single day of the week, whether it's money coming in, or money going out, plane tickets, electronics, liquor stores. And those are all things that cyber criminals will steal your money and buy so it doesn't raise suspicion. And they figured it out.
Well, one thing. Yeah. One thing they're doing is they're copying, they're forging checks.
Yeah.
They're doing prints of checks. They'll take a legitimate check, run it through a machine, it looks exactly like the check. And so they're forging these images. That's, that's one of the real popular ones because these checks, you know, checkbooks are laying around. It's just the disorganization is almost overwhelming.
The US government's filed a lawsuit to stop Microsoft from becoming an even bigger monopoly. About time, would you say?
It, it's long overdue. And, and ironically what it took was Microsoft trying to buy the video game, video game company, Activision Blizzard.
Yeah.
And, and of course we see the monopoly problems with that. It's, it's almost shocking that Microsoft even had the audacity to say, we're gonna do this because who's gonna stop us?
We're gonna do this because we can.
Yeah.
Basically there's, we don't have a, we don't have a government entity.
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This week, Donald Trump Jr. Following in the very recent footsteps of his, uh, sister Ivanka actually sat down with the January 6th select committee for what they described as several hours. The committee was seeking testimony, rum Trump Jr. About his father's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Now, out of all the Trump kids, obviously junior was probably the most involved with this, even though Ivanka was working in the white house, she had kind of disappeared, right? Like after the capital riot, she didn't want anything to do with it. She actually threw a big party, a dinner party the night after the capital riot, where nobody mentioned the events of January 6th. So she kind of disappeared. But Trump Jr of course, was based on what we know with text messages and whatnot, involved to a degree with the attempts to overturn the election or at least had knowledge a job them, I guess we should say now here's the unfortunate part.
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So a fun story from the New York Times came out yesterday telling us that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are apparently in a bitter feud over the asylum seeker flights that Ron DeSantis paid for. So here's what is happening. According to this report, Greg Abbott over in Texas had spent months and millions of dollars rounding up about 11,000 migrants, immigrants and asylum seekers. And what Greg Abbott was planning on doing was sending these people to Washington, dc, New York City and Chicago. He was gonna do exactly what Ron DeSantis did, except he was gonna do it to a much larger degree. Ron DeSantis shipped 48 people. Greg Abbott was gonna ship 11,000 people all over the country. Well, apparently, again, according to this report, before Abbott was able to do that, Ron DeSantis got word of this. So Ron DeSantis got angry and said, This SOB stole my idea because Ron DeSantis had mused earlier this past year that I'm gonna ship these migrants up to, uh, Delaware to President Biden's house.
And he thought Greg Abbot was ripping him off. So before Greg Abbott could pull his stunt, Ron DeSantis goes over to Texas, pays to have those migrants shipped from Texas to Martha's Vineyard so that he could get the credit for it before Greg Abbott was able to do it. And now Greg Abbott's allies throughout the state of Texas are off at Ron DeSantis, although none of this has been said publicly. Now, to throw an extra wrench into the gear here, let's bring up Donald Trump because Donald Trump in private, according to reports last week, has been blasting Ron DeSantis for actually copying Trump's idea to ship migrants to liberal cities across the country. Donald Trump did in fact bring that up. I believe it was 2018 or 2019, he had the Department of Homeland Security actually look into the legality of it to see if he was legally able to gather up these asylum seekers and just send them to liberal controlled cities. Of course, as a former, uh, administration official admitted he didn't just wanna send the migrants, he wanted people to identify the rapists and murderers and send those people to the liberal cities. So Donald Trump is accusing Ron DeSantis of stealing his idea. Then DeSantis, forgetting that he stole the idea from Trump, accused Greg Abbott of stealing his idea and Abbott's because he doesn't get to do anything about anything other than his little political stunt that he has down at the border. That has also cost the state of Texas taxpayers millions and millions of dollars.
Oh, and by the way, all of those extra guards, um, Operation Lone Star that they've put along the southern border, those that have been interviewed, said they have no idea why they're there, because there's nothing to do. So that's what's happening, that's what's happening along our southern border. That's what's happening between these little wannabe fascist dictators. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbot. Apparently they're at each other's throats. But here's the fun part. If Greg Abbott is actually angry at Ron DeSantis and wants to punish him, then that would actually give the Abbott administration a little bit of an edge to help out that Bayer County sheriff who's launched the criminal investigation into Ron DeSantis.
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If Joe Biden decides to not run in 2024, who should run in his place? Farron Cousins dives into this and suggests Katie Porter as the perfect replacement.
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Besides Biden, who do you think would be the best democratic candidate for 2024? And do you think Trump's fascist clone, DeSantis seriously stand, seriously stands a chance against the off, fighting mad democracy, loving people like us. Uh, Jackie, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go ahead and say here I'm a little disappointed in you. I'm very disappointed that you would ask me who I would want to see run for president in 2024, because I know there's people listening, there's people watching this on YouTube who already know the answer. I don't have to say it because those folks already know. Uh, Jackie, I'm just messing with you. But yes, I have said it time and time and time again. I have said it here on Ring of Fire. I've said it on our YouTube channel. I've said it on the Young Turks when I've done interviews with them.
I've said it on Twitter, my pick for 2024. And if it's not 2024, then 2028, if it's not 20 28, 20 32, beyond Katie Fricking Porter, I love Katie Porter. Katie Porter is a fighter. Katie Porter is smart, smarter than near everybody else in, in, in those chambers, a better fighter than everybody else in those chambers. She is not afraid to take on corporate power. CEOs, corruption. She has done it better than I think I have ever seen. So Katie Porter is my pick as for a running mate, Jeff Merley is my pick for that. I think Jeff Merley is a good progressive. I think Jeff Merley is, is once again smart. I think he takes on corporate power. You pair him with Katie Porter, you've got a little bit, uh, uh, more experience on his side. He's been there a lot longer. And so I do think that is a good option.
I think the two of them together, again, if it's not 20 24, 20 28, then uh, definitely my two favorite people right now. And I know that probably may come as a shock to a lot of people. A lot of people know I'm a, I'm a big Bernie Sanders supporter and I still support Bernie Sanders. I think his time has passed and I think he thinks his time has passed, uh, to run for president. He is still doing, you know, great work. But I just, I, I don't see a third presidential run fr from Bernie Sanders. I don't see it happening. I, I think the writing is kind of on the wall with the public. Um, I, I think there's still such a large faction of the Democratic Party that doesn't like him, that blames him for 2016 and always will blame him for 2016. And I think there's far too many people like that to allow him to have a viable presidential run. It's disappointing. I hate that that's what's happening, but that's what I think is happening. So, um, even, even if he decides to throw his hat into the ring, if Katie Porter also did, I'm gonna go with Katie Porter. I'm
Sorry. I like her. I love her policies and she's not, here's the thing about Katie Porter too, and I do feel like it's the Katie Porter show now, but Katie Porter is also, this was actually pointed out by Joshua Holland on Twitter months ago. She's not so progressive that she turns off the, the corporate democrats either. Now they don't like her because she takes on the corporate power, but she's also not, you know, hasn't been branded with the socialist label, which terrifies the corporate Democrats when it comes to elections. She can appeal to the far left and the center left Broad appeal is something the Democratic Party has not had in a candidate, a nominee in a long time. So that's another, uh, feather in the cap for Katie Porter, I believe.
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Via America’s Lawyer: New filings show there is not enough to go around when it comes to compensating those who lost everything in the Surfside condo collapse. Attorney Rachael Gilmer who is working this case joins Mike Papantonio to explain the Justice Department’s history of keeping tabs on members of the U.S. media, plus a list exceptions to the new rule.
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New filings show there's not enough to go around when it comes to compensating those people who've lost everything in the Surfside condo collapse. I want to welcome attorney Rachael Gilmer who's following this case, as a matter of fact, working on this, trying to help these people. What did the defendants know, Rachel? What did they know when this collapse took place? If we're to go back and look at the book, what is it?
I think that's just it. We don't know what they knew.
Okay.
Now there's multiple different defendants and different defendants may have had access to different information. The homeowners association board and the company that did the original inspection in 2018 had a lot of information, but they didn't have information that said the building is about to collapse. They had information that said you have major problems, major structural problems back in 2018. But by 2021, we see there really had been no major action on that report.
Well, what I'm wondering is it, it didn't shout out and say, hey, the buildings are going to collapse, but it talked about the fact that we have structural problems. We have rebar that's failing. We have concrete that's failing. What, what would those things be?
Well, and those are things
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