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The heat is on... President Trump.
Better than wondering if your butt hole is going to FREEZE shut!!!! 
Biden push for $10B electric mail delivery fleet flops with just 250 trucks built in two years
By Josh Christenson and Kendall White Published July 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. ET
(Just a small example of Biden's "successful" presidency. And now the USPS has the nerve to raise the rates.)
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration plan to create a “green” fleet of postal vehicles has churned out a mere 250 electric mail trucks in just over two years — after shelling out taxpayer funds meant to build thousands — leaving Republicans raging at the multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.”
The nearly $10 billion project — which called for more than 35,000 battery-powered US Postal Service (USPS) vehicles to be completed by September 2028 — was funded in part by $3 billion in funding from former President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
As of this month, the project is well behind schedule despite taxpayers forking over $1.7 billion — prompting Capitol Hill Republicans to try to rescind the remaining nearly $1.3 billion earmarked from the IRA.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told The Post.
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people. The rescissions package is a great start, but Congress must keep its foot on the pedal and make DOGE a lifestyle by stamping out waste like this on a regular basis.”
The move comes after former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy stepped down earlier this year, passing off the agency’s EV embarrassment to his successor, David Steiner, whose new job became official Monday.
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh, a defense contractor, agreed to be paid $2.6 billion by the USPS to provide the 35,000 vehicles — but the Washington Post reported late last year that just 93 battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) were ready by November 2024, even though 3,000 were expected by that date.
Oshkosh’s mail truck production has struggled to clear a number of engineering hurdles, including issues with airbag calibration and during leak testing, which resulted in “water [pouring] out as if [the vehicles’] oversize windows had been left open in a storm.”
A senior executive at Oshkosh attempted to alert USPS about the production problems in 2022, but was blocked by their superiors.
“This is the bottom line: We don’t know how to make a damn truck,” one person involved with the manufacturing process told the Washington Post.
Michigan-based Morgan Olson, a previous contractual partner of USPS, had tried and failed to win the bid to produce the BEVs in February 2024.
During a meeting of DeJoy, postal officials and Morgan Olson executives, the postmaster general lamented the status of “a production plant in South Carolina,” apparently referring to the Oshkosh truck manufacturing facility, a source who attended the meeting revealed to The Post.
But DeJoy later added that he was “in the parcel delivery business, not the vehicle manufacturing business,” the source continued.
At the time, Oshkosh’s Spartanburg factory could produce just one mail truck per day, with company records showing that it had expected to be producing upward of 80 vehicles on a daily basis.
The cost per truck to the defense contractor was pegged at $77.692 for 28,195 electric vehicles, according to the Washington Post.
In December 2023, USPS put out a call for vehicle suppliers that could provide “at least 12,000 battery-electric” mail trucks by October 2025, along with “at least 1,500 internal combustion engine” trucks starting in October 2024.
A rep for Oshkosh referred comments to USPS but confirmed the manufacturer still has an active contract with the agency for electric vehicles.
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A rep for Oshkosh referred questions to USPS but confirmed the manufacturer still has an active contract with the agency for electric vehicles.
“Modernization of the Postal Service’s delivery fleet is part of the organization’s $40 billion investment strategy to upgrade and improve the USPS processing, transportation, and delivery networks,” a USPS spokesperson said.
“The Postal Service has placed orders for 51,500 next generation delivery vehicles (NGDVs), of which 35,000 are Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV). More than 1,000 NGDVs have been received to date, of which more than 250 are BEV,” the rep added.
“Additionally, the Postal Service has ordered 9,250 Ford E-Transit electric vehicles, of which nearly 8,000 have been received. Deployment continues to expand to sites across the country in accordance with the rollout of our new delivery network.”
The Biden administration had been committed to USPS acquiring “100% electric” postal vehicles starting in 2026, but it remains to be seen whether Republicans will withdraw the funding for the green fleet project.
The transition of USPS vehicles to electric power from gas vehicles — a central pillar of Biden’s environmental agenda — has been stalled almost from the outset.
Expert estimates project that the broader set of environmental provisions included in the Inflation Reduction Act could cost taxpayers upward of $1 trillion during the decade following the bill’s passage.
The new, predominantly electric vehicles are meant to replace the antiquated fleet of Grumman Long Life Vehicles, which date to 1987 and are expensive to maintain, loud, fuel-inefficient, and have been known at times to burst into flame.
The miniscule number of vehicles that have been produced by Oshkosh are also a small fraction of the 60,000 total “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” powered by a mix of battery-electric and other energy sources, that USPS is set to purchase from the firm.
The miniscule number of vehicles that have been produced by Oshkosh are also a small fraction of the 60,000 total “Next Generation Delivery Vehicles,” powered by a mix of battery-electric and other energy sources, that USPS is set to purchase from the firm.
The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan taxpayer accountability agency, identified USPS in a February 2025 report as having “high risk” financial viability because the agency “still cannot fully fund its current level of services and financial obligations.”
In recent months, Trump has floated the possibility of merging USPS with the Department of Commerce, citing USPS losses of an astonishing $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024.
“[USPS has] been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” the president told reporters in February.
“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that, and will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.”
With the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States Post Office by the Second Continental Congress approaching on July 26, the newly appointed Steiner will inherit the tall task of modernizing USPS while its EV program continues to tread water.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/biden-push-for-10b-electric-mail-delivery-fleet-flops-with-just-250-trucks-built-in-two-years/
From the Any Good Jokes board.
Cheater's failure!
Busted in Minnesota: Duo Pleads Guilty After Flooding Election Offices With Fake Voter Registrations—Scheme Mirrors Michigan GBI Strategies Voter Fraud Investigation With ZERO Convictions
by Patty McMurray Jul. 15, 2025 5:00 pm
In October 2020, only one month before the general election, GBI Strategies, a Democrat-funded group, was caught by the Muskegon and Michigan State Police Departments submitting potentially thousands of false voter registration applications to the Muskegon Clerk’s office.
The offices of Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel each had investigators working with the Michigan State Police on the statewide investigation. According to the key suspect in the investigation, GBI Strategies focused on "canvassing" in urban areas of the state. The Michigan State Police report identifies U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D) and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden as the two campaigns funding the fraudulent voter registration group's work in the key swing state.
In Minnesota, the FBI investigated a similar voter registration fraud scam involving two individuals and an unnamed "voter registration" group that paid them for each registration they submitted. The voter fraud crimes took place between 2021 and 2022. Unlike Michigan, the perpetrators in this case were charged.
Two Nevada residents have pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter registration forms with false information and then submitting them to 10 Minnesota election offices during the 2022 election. The former West St. Paul, Minnesota residents, 57-year-old Lorraine Lee Combs and 58-year-old Ronnie Williams, who are described as longtime romantic partners, were charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. The couple was caught and charged with conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in Minnesota. They were both charged through a judicial process called information, which indicates to the court their intention to plead guilty.
According to court documents, an unnamed voter registration group paid both individuals to create the fake registrations and submit them to 10 different counties in Minnesota. The counties have not been named, but the Carver County Sheriff's Department is mentioned in the U.S. Attorney's press release. Carver County, MN, is a swing county with Republicans holding a slight edge over Democratic voters. Creating large numbers of new voters out of thin air could significantly impact the outcome of their elections.
The U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota, had this to say about the charges that resulted from a 2-year investigation in the voter fraud scam: “Election fraud strikes at the heart of our democracy,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “Thankfully, the FBI stopped this fraud in its tracks before anyone successfully cast a fraudulent ballot. But we will stay vigilant. Whether it's jury bribery, witness tampering, or now election fraud—crimes that threaten our democracy have no place in Minnesota.”
“Nothing is more central to our democracy than fair and impartially conducted elections,” said Special Agent in Charge Alvin M. Winston Sr. of the FBI Minneapolis. "Through their actions, Combs and Williams attempted to deprive the citizens of Minnesota of a secure and reliable election process. Along with our partners, the FBI will stop at nothing to identify and bring to justice anyone who threatens the security of our electoral system.”
According to court documents, Williams then provided the completed voter registration forms to Foundation 1, an entity seeking to register voters in Minnesota, which submitted the false voter registration applications to county election offices across Minnesota. Foundation 1 paid Williams for the registrations, and Williams split the proceeds with Combs.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon claimed he worked to identify the false registrations and report them to law enforcement.
According to Alpha News, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon stated that his office also partnered with local election officials, who utilized verification tools to identify inconsistencies and report them to law enforcement and Simon’s office. “The extensive checks in Minnesota’s voter registration process ensured that the fraudulent applications were immediately flagged, and no ineligible votes were cast,” Simon added.
In Michigan, when it was discovered that GBI Strategies (a Democrat-funded voter registration group) was sending packages filled with fake voter registrations from a hotel in Auburn Hills, MI, to clerks' offices across the state of Michigan, Corey Ames, an investigator working for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, was assigned to the case. Curiously, Ms.Benson, a Democrat who is now running for governor of the state, kept the investigation hidden from the public. Moreover, MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the investigation hidden from the clerks, who were never told to be on the lookout for the fraudulent voter applications.
Unlike the Minnesota Secretary of State, who was transparent about their findings, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kept the statewide investigation into GBI Strategies a secret from Michigan clerks tasked with determining whether the voter registrations they received in the mail were legitimate or fraudulent. Michigan clerks used Facebook to compare notes when they received what they considered suspicious activity. fcomplain about the large volume of fake voter registrations they were receiving from the Democrat-funded group, which never faced any criminal charges for its actions.
The image below is a screenshot taken by The Gateway Pundit from a Michigan Clerk's Facebook page, which we were given access to through a whistleblower. The post shared by a clerk on the west side of the state, reveals a photo of the box of phony voter registrations she received from GBI Strategies, aka Empower Michigan (EM), from a hotel on the other side of the state.
Although Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is also a Democrat, is very vocal about using lawfare to punish her political enemies, she also chose to keep the statewide voter registration fraud investigation hidden from the public. In the video below, Stephen Morse, an investigator working for Dana Nessel's office, can be seen interviewing the key suspect, who was employed by GBI Strategies and was caught turning in a massive quantity of fake registrations.
The key GBI Strategies suspect tells MI AG Nessel Investigator Stephen Morse she doesn’t know who pays GBI to do the work they were doing. She also said they had several offices in MI, Miami, Philly, N. Carolina and Iowa.
Morse tells the GBI Strategies employee who allegedly… pic.twitter.com/OxTXHVxmru
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) March 31, 2025
Unlike the two suspects who just pleaded guilty to creating and turning in over 500 fraudulent voter registrations in Minnesota, not one person, including the key suspect in the GBI Strategies voter fraud case, was ever charged for their role in the Democrat-funded voter fraud scheme.
Although FOIA requests related to GBI Strategies' work in Michigan and other states have been submitted, they have reportedly all been rejected due to an "ongoing investigation."
So far, the voter registration group involved in the Minnesota voter registration fraud investigation has not been named. The Minnesota voter registration group that paid Williams and Lee-Combs is listed as "Foundation 1" in the court documents.
Many of these groups, like GBI Strategies and Black Fork Strategies which operates in Ohio and have also been accused of mass voter registration fraud, are funded by left-leaning organizations or PACs.
Here We Go Again: Ohio Board of Elections Asks SOS To Investigate Black Fork Strategies For Alleged Registration Fraud…”This is fraud! This is outright fraudulent behavior!”
One of the top funders of GBI Strategies (which now appears to be defunct or has reorganized under a new acronym) was the DSCC (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee). Curiously, U.S. Senator Gary Peters, whose campaign funded their work in Michigan, has served as chairman for the past two election cycles. Peters shocked Michigan residents when he abruptly announced his retirement at the end of his term in 2024.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/busted-minnesota-duo-pleads-guilty-after-flooding-election/
Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’
By Richard Pollina Published July 16, 2025, 1:41 a.m. ET
A South Carolina Burger King employee is being praised for her commitment to providing for her three children after she was forced to run an entire store by herself when her co-worker quit on her.
Nykia Hamilton, 25, hustled from station to station alone inside the Columbia, SC, fast-food joint to ensure hungry customers were fed amid the staffing shortage, according to a viral TikTok video posted on July 6.
“One of my employees just quit on me, and they didn’t have anyone else to come in, so I had to work by myself, and close by myself,” Hamilton told WACH News.
“Had to do the dishes, do prep, do the floor, do the front counter, drive-thru.”
Nykia Hamilton, 25, was seen in a viral TikTok video hustling from station to station alone at Burger King.
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In the video, the customer said Hamilton was “doing the fries, the burger, the chicken sandwiches. She’s doing everything by herself.”
Hamilton usually works more than 12 hours in a shift at Burger King to support her three children, and said her duty as a parent to provide for them didn’t stop just because she was left alone.
“I be missing out on my kids’ lives when I work so much,” Hamilton said, fighting back tears. “I have to provide for them, but I really don’t have time to spend with them, and it hurts me a lot.”
The super-mom said she had help the following day, but her Burger King was still understaffed and she ended up running solo on another closing shift.
“I closed again by myself last night. I finally got help today. Eleven o’clock and will stay until close at 11,” she said. “We just don’t have any employees. Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Hamilton usually works more than 12 hours in a shift at Burger King to support her three children, and said that just because she was left alone that day didn’t mean her duties as a parent to provide for them stopped.
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Hamilton said she’s deeply grateful for the opportunity to work and provide for her kids since turning over a new leaf in life.
“I wouldn’t have no job because I do have a record, and it is hard to find a job with a record,” she said.
“And by grace of God, she gave me a job. So that’s the only reason why I stayed for her,” Hamilton added, referencing her manager.
The customer who recorded Hamilton, who goes by Dejlatae on TikTok, praised the “beautiful” worker for “busting her behind” despite having zero help.
“She’s doing everything she needs to do to make sure everybody is okay in here,” the customer said.
The customer also slammed management for leaving her alone — a viewpoint that was echoed by many in the comments of the video, which has garnered over 100,000 views as of July 16
“This is unfair to her. She shouldn’t have to do this and run a whole business – restaurant – alone. Thank you for showing up and showing out, though. Thank you,” commented one TikTok user.
“Bless this beautiful queen! She deserves a raise and help! She doing the job of at least 5-6 people,” wrote another.
“This is shameful on that business. Bless her but whether it’s a franchise or what she shouldn’t have to be working that hard! Another reason I won’t eat fast food anymore, they don’t care about their employees or customers,” another commented.
Many users also urged Hamilton to start a GoFundMe page to help cover her children’s expenses, which she did — sharing that she works two jobs to provide for her family.
Following the praise for Hamilton’s work ethic and criticism over Burger King leaving her to work shifts alone, the fast food chain released a comment saying that her working solo is against company policy.
“At Burger King, it is our policy that all company and franchise owned restaurants require more than one Team Member to be working per shift,” Burger King said in a press release to WACH News.
“We are working with the Franchisee of this location to understand what happened and take any necessary action.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/burger-king-worker-mom-of-3-nykia-hamilton-forced-to-run-south-carolina-store-by-herself-when-co-worker-quits/
Polite black bear stuns New Hampshire homeowners after ringing doorbell before exploring hot tub: video
By Caitlin McCormack Published July 16, 2025, 1:22 a.m. ET
(There's a short video at the link. I've never heard a bear "speak" before.)
A curious black bear sauntered right on up to a New Hampshire home and rang the doorbell before wandering over to explore a nearby hot tub in adorable surveillance footage released by the homeowners.
The bear looked around the patio in the yard before poking its snout at the Ring doorbell, sniffing it appraisingly.
Then, the cub stood up on its hind legs and pressed its clawed paw against the doorbell, peering inside the nearby window as if expecting the residents to answer.
The bear staggered backwards when the doorbell rang, eyeing it for a moment before pivoting back around to explore the rest of the patio.
It stood up straight again once it spotted the hot tub and placed its paws right on the cover, jabbing it with its snout.
When the cover didn’t budge, the bear seemingly surrendered and wandered deeper into the vast yard.
“At least he was polite enough to ring the doorbell to see if we were home,” resident Jay Lievens wrote on Facebook.
Black bears are extremely common in New Hampshire, with an estimated population of around 5,000, according to the state’s Fish and Game Department.
The curious black bear sauntered right on up to a New Hampshire home and rang the doorbell before wandering over to explore a nearby hot tub in adorable surveillance footage released by the homeowners.
Local NH Facebook
Black bears are extremely common in New Hampshire, with an estimated population of around 5,000. (Ringing the bell.)
Local NH Facebook
They are largely docile creatures, and not a single person has been killed by one in New Hampshire since 1784, according to the department. They are still, of course, dangerous predators with razor sharp teeth, so people are still advised to keep their distance.
In April, similar home security footage captured a playful bear exploring a child’s playground and taking a ride down the slide in Connecticut.
In North Carolina, one man scared off a bear poking around his front yard by donning a shoddy bear costume of his own.
Meanwhile, a bear cub in New Jersey scaled a second-floor balcony while his friends were digging through a nearby dumpster, when the resident accidentally let their dog out. The ferocious protector of the home rushed forward and started to bark at the cub, who rushed back down to the ground in record time before scampering away into the woods.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/polite-black-bear-stuns-new-hampshire-homeowners-after-ringing-doorbell-before-exploring-hot-tub-video/
Justice Roberts Gives KBJ A Magna Doodle To Keep Her Busy During Oral Arguments
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To avoid further controversy over her unorthodox lines of questioning and uninformed opinions on Supreme Court cases, Chief Justice John Roberts reportedly gave Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a Magnadoodle to keep her busy during oral arguments.
The Biden-appointed judge had received such strong criticism following a string of questionable statements and opinions recently, leading the chief justice to find some fun activity to keep her occupied while the real judges did their work.
"Bunny! I drew a bunny!" Jackson reportedly shouted at one point during oral arguments, according to a source within the courtroom, after which Chief Justice Roberts allegedly said, "That's very good Ketanji! Remember to use your inside voice and play quietly while we're doing Supreme Court things."
Another witness said that Jackson proceeded to walk around the room, showing her drawing to everyone in attendance while they provided her with affirmation. "She seemed really proud of herself," the witness said. "You could tell she had worked hard on it. She said she was going to draw a house with a doggie sitting outside next. Bless her heart."
A SCOTUS insider said that Roberts had consulted with the other justices to come up with the best way to keep Jackson busy. "There were different ideas — a Slinky, magnetic alphabet letters, and those large Duplo blocks you give kids who might choke on regular Legos," the source said. "Anything to just keep her out of the way."
At publishing time, a recess was called during oral arguments so the justices could charge Jackson's iPad enough to let her watch Peppa Pig videos on YouTube during the afternoon session.
https://babylonbee.com/news/justice-roberts-gives-kbj-a-magna-doodle-to-keep-her-busy-during-oral-arguments
Socialist vs. the Capitalists...
I'm starting to really, really loathe this guy. Is he the best the Dimocrats have to offer?
Hail to the Turbaned Torpedo. May he rest peacefully in runner's heaven with his wife and fifth son.
Singh became the oldest man to run a full marathon in 2011 at the age of 100 in Toronto.
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The year prior, he became the oldest runner to complete a full marathon at the age of 100, finishing the 2011 Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 8 hours and 11 minutes.
After running his first full marathon at the age of 89 in 2000, Singh went on to run eight more across London, Toronto and New York City.
His personal best time was in the 2003 Toronto Waterfront Marathon when he finished five hours and 40 minutes in the ‘over 90’ category.
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