Topic: WE'RE STUFFED!!!

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Man there is a lot going on, and this world needs a break. Hurricanes, wars, and nut jobs trying to take over the planet. We need relief from all this. It's too much.

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Oh dear. Talking to one of my members. Her husband refuses to leave. And all the hotels are full. They are braving out this storm. This is going to be bad folks. Bracing myself how bad this is gonna be.

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Now, OMG. I just hate the internet some days. I am almost finished with my book. I got up to make a tea. Scroll the phone a sec. In a spiritual group, some doofus posts he thinks the hurricanes are man made. “One right after the other? It’s man made.”

I can’t take the stupidity much longer here. I got stacks of CDs. DVDs I want. Now there are folks I care about. I know. But I am so exhausted from the lying. But even more, folks not using some common sense here. Could it just be, the karma called climate change? Look folks, if you shit where you eat, what do you think is going to happen? Then folks be worshipping a golden calf. Now you pray to Jesus to save you? Who have you been crying is your savior for nine years? Why would he?

Man made, is true. You pump shit into the air. Do unnatural things with livestock. Rape the ocean floors. Cut down forests to pop up buildings. Then gotta toss in a conspiracy. No folks. Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades. Who knows what happens next. flowering who knows.

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Hurricane Milton is to hit this evening. Right now, Florida is experiencing tornadoes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/09/hurricane-milton-live-updates-wednesday-florida-landfall/75579293007/

Milton spinning up tornadoes as hurricane surges closer to Florida: Live updates
John Bacon
Trevor Hughes
USA TODAY

TAMPA, Fla. − Highways grew clogged, gas stations were running out of fuel and stores were stripped of necessities as Hurricane Milton roared toward Florida's beleaguered west coast on Wednesday, a "catastrophic" behemoth on a collision course with one of the state's most densely populated areas.

Millions of storm-weary Floridians have been ordered or urged to flee, and time was running out. The center of Milton, now a Category 4 storm driving sustained winds of 145 mph, was forecast to move across the Gulf of Mexico and make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. ET update.

“Historic, catastrophic, life-threatening – all those words summarize the situation,” said Austen Flannery, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Tampa.

Tornadic supercells − dangerous, rotating thunderstorms that can produce tornadoes − were beginning to sweep across the Florida peninsula, the update said. More than 12 million people were under tornado warnings, and the National Weather Service in Miami said on social media it had "up to 4 visually confirmed tornadoes today," with unofficial reports of others.

Milton was on a track to cut across Florida and retain hurricane status as it heads into the Atlantic Ocean later Thursday. The hurricane is targeting Florida less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene blasted ashore on the state's Big Bend coast, a Category 4 storm that left much of Florida battered and vulnerable before devastating the Carolinas.

Tampa, with a metropolitan area that is home to over 3 million people, has not had a direct hit by a major hurricane in more than 100 years. Storm surge from Milton could drive water levels up to 12 feet above ground, the hurricane center said.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking at a briefing Wednesday, said the state is prepared. Hundreds of search and rescue personnel and 180 high-water vehicles have been embedded in likely storm impact sites, he said. Over 6,000 state National Guard members and 3,000 more from other states are at the ready, along with 50,000 linemen who will work on restoring power after the storm.

"We are facing this with the determination that it deserves but also the belief that we will get through this," DeSantis said.

Hurricane Milton tracker:Follow the latest path of the storm

Developments

∎ Early afternoon Wednesday, Milton was 160 miles west-southwest of Fort Myers and 190 miles southwest of Tampa, heading northeast at 17 mph, the hurricane center reported.

∎ Rainfall amounts of 6 to 12 inches, with localized totals up to 18 inches, are expected across central to northern portions of the Florida peninsula through Thursday.

∎ More than two dozen Florida counties have either mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders in place. More than 20 million people in Florida and eastern Georgia are under either hurricane or tropical storm warnings.

∎ About 2.8% of U.S. gross domestic product is in the direct path of Milton, said Ryan Sweet, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics. Airlines, energy firms and a Universal Studios theme park were among the companies beginning to halt their Florida operations as they braced for disruptions.

Seven tornadoes spawned by Milton reported in South Florida
Gusty winds and supercell thunderstorms capable of spawning tornadoes moved over South Florida as Hurricane Milton approached the state Wednesday afternoon. On radar, intense thunderstorms were seen dotting Florida’s west coast and inland over South Florida.

At least seven tornadoes were reported across South Florida, including one in Fort Myers. Two unconfirmed tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service office in Miami, one with damage in Florida City and Homestead and one in Belle Glade.

Tornadoes were confirmed at I-75 and the Miccosukee Service Plaza, I-75 Mile Marker 30, Clewiston SR-80 and in Lakeport.

− Dinah Pulver Voyles

'It’s selfish to stay and make other people put their lives at risk'
Alex Ortiz was on the road for hours, trying to get her mother, her three dogs, her eight cats and herself as far away as possible from Milton. They ended up in Destin, 370 miles north of their Pasco County home. She’d already seen the havoc wrought by Helene, and it cost her: She lost her Toyota Rav4 and a lot of her belongings stored in a ground-level garage.

“I’m exhausted,” the 25-year-old said. She and her mother had originally planned to stay at a motel in Tallahassee but upon arriving, they realized they didn’t feel safe there.

Ortiz, though, was running out of options − her mother is partially disabled because of arthritis and most hotels and shelters either don’t take animals or limit the number people can bring with them.

“I’m exhausted,” said Ortiz, 25. She and her mother had originally planned to stay at a motel in Tallahassee, but didn’t feel safe when they arrived there. They were running out of options. Her mother is partially disabled because of arthritis and most hotels and shelters either don’t take animals or limit their number.

“What am I going to do? Throw some of them out of the car?” Ortiz said. She already had a friend take in her rabbit, but two of her dogs are seniors and prone to seizures. She loves her pets so much, she packed the urns of ones that had died previously into a rented Plymouth Voyager van.

“It’s selfish to stay and make other people put their lives at risk because you put yours at risk,” the lifelong Florida resident said. “Some people here think nothing bad can happen to them, like this is nothing. It’s nothing until it’s something.”

− Phaedra Trethan

Biden denounces Trump's 'onslaught of lies'
Biden said he has spoken with DeSantis and other local and state leaders about Milton preparations and gave them his personal cellphone number to contact him directly if necessary.

The president also called out former President Donald Trump for leading an “onslaught of lies” on FEMA’s recovery efforts regarding Helene.

Biden said these include baseless claims that property is being confiscated, flood victims are limited to $750 in federal relief aid and FEMA is diverting hurricane relief funds to shelter migrants. Trump has pushed each false claim.

“Now the claims are getting even more bizarre,'' Biden said. "Marjorie Taylor Greene − a congresswoman from Georgia − is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather. It's beyond ridiculous. It's got to stop."

− Joey Garrison

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The lies are so bad making national news. Just goes to show how horrific misinformation can go. I cannot tell you how many I saw speaking "cloud seeding" on facebook.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-shoots-marjorie-taylor-greenes-ridiculous-conspiracy-theory-cont-rcna174710

Biden shoots down Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'beyond ridiculous' conspiracy theory about controlling the weather
As Hurricane Milton threatens catastrophic damage in Florida, Greene suggested on X that such storms could be engineered by humans.

Oct. 9, 2024, 10:55 AM PDT
By Rebecca Shabad, Tara Prindiville and Evan Bush
WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning Wednesday about the dangerous hurricane barreling toward Florida, he shot down misinformation about the storm, including one particular conspiracy theory propagated by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

"The claims are getting even more bizarre. Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congressman with Georgia, is now saying the federal government is literally controlling the weather — we're controlling the weather. It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s got to stop," Biden said during a virtual briefing at the White House as he received updates about Hurricane Milton. The storm is expected to make landfall in Florida later Wednesday and could be catastrophic for the region.

Greene said in an Oct. 3 post on X: "Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done."

One of Greene's GOP colleagues, Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida, wrote in response on X Wednesday morning: "Humans cannot create or control hurricanes. Anyone who thinks they can, needs to have their head examined."

Around the same time as Biden's briefing on Wednesday, Greene repeated her claim and suggested that the federal government is aware of it.

"Well some of them are listed on NOAA, as well as most of the ways weather can be modified, because they are required to report it to the Secretary of Commerce by the Weather Modification Act of 1972," she wrote on X. "The NOAA government website has a library catalog of 1,026 entries of weather modifications, but that’s not all of them."

She continued, "If your home or business or property is damaged or a loved one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn’t you be eligible for compensation? After all, did they ask you if you agreed to our weather being modified?"

On Tuesday, she quoted an article from The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website known for spreading conspiracy theories, that said: "Marjorie Taylor Greene was right. Yes, scientists do control the weather."

Biden also said in his briefing Wednesday that Greene's conspiracy theory was among the "reckless, irresponsible and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies" over the last few weeks. The president said that it's undermining rescues in the wake of Hurricane Helene and he accused former President Donald Trump of leading "the onslaught of lies."

"Assertions have been made that property is being confiscated. That’s simply not true," he said. "They’re saying people impacted by these storms will receive $750 in cash and no more. That’s simply not true. They’re saying the money is needed for this crisis is being diverted to migrants. What a ridiculous thing to say — it’s not true."

The Federal Emergency Management Agency set up a website to deal with the influx of rumors spreading about the hurricanes, including the false claim that FEMA is redirecting disaster relief toward migrants.

Weather systems as large as hurricanes cannot be controlled by humans through existing technology. However, there have been efforts to modify the weather in a very limited way with cloud-seeding technologies.

Cloud seeding, which dates back to the 1950s, typically involves spraying silver iodide into clouds to draw water out of the atmosphere and assist the formation of ice crystals that produce snow or rainfall. Cloud seeding programs are more common in western states with dwindling water supplies.

As climate change worsens because of fossil fuel pollution, some scientists have held preliminary discussions about whether broad-scale geoengineering projects could help prevent the harms associated with warming temperatures.

Federal researchers have taken only a few small steps toward studying geoengineering projects’ feasibility, and atmospheric scientists say there is no evidence of any large-scale programs.

NBC News has reached out to Greene’s office and Trump’s campaign for comment.

Another Republican, Rep. Chuck Edwards, of North Carolina, put out a statement Tuesday shooting down the "outrageous rumors" about Hurricane Helene and the federal government's response to it.

“Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock," he said. "Nobody can control the weather.”

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Brian airs this call from a man speaking on his father, and it is crushing. This man calls in. His father lives just outside of Ashville. He lost everything in Hurricane Helene. And because his father is a die-hard Trumper, he is refusing to accept help from FEMA. He believes only Trump and the conspiracy theories. And he is not alone. There are folks who lost it all, but as they don't trust FEMA or Biden, who could provide funds to help them rebuild or relocate, they are so hoodwinked under the strong delusion, to refuse help? Aid, funds food, water even? Apply to rebuild?

This idiot needs to be stopped. His lies have to have consenquences here. Using these disasters to spread lies, and these folks believe his lies and refuse help? It's tragic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WLRnTVO5k

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This is an interesting one, where Cheetolini Cheezehead is being either sued, or had musicians (eve George Harrison's estate and Queen), cease and desist using their music. But the most recent is Leonard Cohen and his iconic song Hallelujah. This weekend, the very odd, flowered in the Head Orange Maniac, told his rally lets listen to music. And he, I guess, swayed his fat, bloated, bronzer ass to some songs, and now Leonard Cohen is after him. Isaac Hayes is probably the most forceful. Yeah flowerface, you got Shaft on your ass now! He can't dance. He looked like a totally, unrhythmic geriatric patient swaying and can barely stand, and nurses stand aside waiting for him to shit his pants. He's a goon, and anyone who votes for this trash human is an idiot.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meuuDsdw6nA

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OMG He's so flowering dumb! All because Kamala said she worked at McDonalds, in college. So The Deluded Melon has to one up her and he worked drive thru of a McDonalds this weekend! In his red tie and oh crap what a scene! What a flowering dumb ass! Probably the most he has ever worked in his life!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76bCZwnF4Q

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Here it is. I told you all. Now the KARMA TRAIN has been choo-chooing down the tracks for the Orange Menace for years and years. But one of the MAIN reasons this energy is coming for him, is the Central Park 5 (they are in my Album of War, so noted). Now, as the Tiny-Handed Wombat has been slandering them on the campaign trail, they are now, rightfully, suing the Orange Idiot for this. It's a long time coming.

Now I find it also noteworthy, The Devi gave honorable mention of the Central Park 5 in the debate as well. So this energy is coming full force. See how this plays out. Only two weeks away from election, and now another October surprise.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/central-park-five-trump-defamation/index.html

‘Central Park Five’ members sue Trump for defamation after his debate comments on 1989 case
Devan Cole
By Devan Cole, CNN
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Updated 1:53 PM EDT, Mon October 21, 2024

Members of the “Central Park Five” sued former President Donald Trump on Monday over “false and defamatory” statements they allege he made about their 1989 case during a presidential debate last month.

The five men claim in a federal lawsuit that Trump knew he was acting with “reckless disregard” for the truth when he said during the September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris that they pleaded guilty to crimes connected to the beating and raping a woman in New York City, and that the five teenagers “badly hurt a person, killed a person” in the attack.

“Defendant Trump’s statements were false and defamatory in numerous respects,” attorneys for the men, now all in their 50s, wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Philadelphia. “Plaintiffs never pled guilty to the Central Park assaults. Plaintiffs all pled not guilty and maintained their innocence throughout their trial and incarceration, as well as after they were released from prison.”

“None of the victims of the Central Park assaults were killed,” the lawyers for Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise wrote.

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called the lawsuit “just another frivolous, Election Interference lawsuit” that he claimed was brought to “distract the American people from Kamala Harris’s dangerously liberal agenda and failing campaign.”

The men are seeking compensatory and punitive damages. The suit also claims that Trump’s comments placed them in a false light and caused them to “suffer severe emotional distress.”

The group was pressured into giving false confessions in the case. They were exonerated in 2002 when DNA evidence linked another person to the crime. The teenagers sued the city, and the case was settled in 2014.

Trump has long been outspoken on the case, which rocked New York in the late 1980s during a time when he was a leading figure in the city’s real estate and celebrity scenes. At the time, Trump took out full-page ads that ran in several New York City newspapers that read in all-caps, “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”

His comments last month came in response to Harris bringing up the ad during a portion of the debate dedicated to race and politics in the US.

“Let’s remember, this is the same individual who took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent, the Central Park Five,” Harris said. “Took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

In this May 2019 photo, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown, Raymond Santana Jr., Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, collectively known as the "Central Park Five", attend the World Premiere of Netflix's "When They See Us" at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images
One of the ads Trump purchased was included as an exhibit in the lawsuit.

The former president has sought to project a tough-on-crime persona during his three White House bids, and the debate comments underscored his willingness to invoke racially and politically charged criminal cases in US history in that pursuit.

Trump has continued to be critical of the case as he’s moved into politics in recent years. In October 2016, then-candidate Trump stood by his actions during the time of the case, telling CNN, “They admitted they were guilty.”

And in 2014, Trump wrote in an op-ed in the New York Daily News that New York City’s $41 million settlement with the five men was “a disgrace.”

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Kate Sullivan contributed to this report.

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Oh HI ELON!  He's about to get in serious trouble. So basically, he has a "sweepstakes" running, to get folks to "sign a petion endorsing the first and second amendment." Then he will give away a million dollars, each day, till election, to someone who signs it. Ahem. Let's give this pause.

Clearly everyone knows he endorses Trump. So as he is doing this, in a round-about-way, he is trying to get more than folks to sign a petition, but to vote for Trump. It's obvious he is bribing folks to do this. So shall be interesting what comes out of this mess.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/20/politics/elon-musk-voter-giveaway-legal-questions/index.html

Elon Musk’s daily $1 million giveaway to registered voters could be illegal, experts say
Marshall Cohen
By Marshall Cohen, CNN
 5 minute read
Updated 12:29 PM EDT, Mon October 21, 2024

While stumping for former President Donald Trump on Saturday, tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he will give away $1 million each day to registered voters in battleground states, immediately drawing scrutiny from election law experts who said the sweepstakes could violate laws against paying people to register.

“We want to try to get over a million, maybe 2 million voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the First and Second Amendment. … We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who have signed the petition, every day, from now until the election,” Musk said at a campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The X owner and Tesla CEO was referring to a petition launched by his political action committee affirming support for the rights to free speech and to bear arms. The website, launched shortly before some registration deadlines, says, “this program is exclusively open to registered voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.”

Musk, the richest man in the world, has given more than $75 million to his pro-Trump super PAC, and said he hopes the sweepstakes will boost registration among Trump voters. He recently hit the campaign trail in Pennsylvania, holding events advocating for Trump, promoting his petition and spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

“This is a one-time ask,” Musk told the crowd shortly after announcing the $1 million prize. “Just go out there and talk to your friends and family and acquaintances and people you meet in the street and … convince them to vote. Obviously you gotta get registered, make sure they’re registered and … make sure they vote.”

The first million-dollar winner was named Saturday, with Musk handing a giant check to a Trump supporter at his event in Harrisburg, saying, “So anyway, you’re welcome.” He announced the second winner Sunday afternoon during an event in Pittsburgh, handing out another check on a stage adorned with big signs reading, “VOTE EARLY.”

In an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Musk’s giveaway was “deeply concerning” and is “something that law enforcement could take a look at.” Shapiro, a Democrat, was previously the state attorney general. In response to Shapiro’s comments, Musk posted on X that it was “concerning that he would say such a thing.”

Federal law makes it a crime for anyone who “pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting.” It’s punishable by up to five years in prison. After legal outcry over the weekend, Musk’s group tweaked some of their language around the sweepstakes.

“When you start limiting prizes or giveaways to only registered voters or only people who have voted, that’s where bribery concerns arise,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at Notre Dame Law School. “By limiting a giveaway only to registered voters, it looks like you’re giving cash for voter registration.”

Offering money to people who were already registered before the cash prize was announced could violate federal law, Muller said, but the offer also “can include people who are not yet registered,” and the potential “inducements for new registrations is far more problematic.”

Most states make it a crime only to pay people to vote, said Muller, who is also a CNN contributor. He said it’s rare for federal prosecutors to bring election bribery cases, and that the Supreme Court has been narrowing the scope of bribery statutes.

Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Elon Musk peddles debunked 2020 election conspiracies at first solo town hall supporting Trump

Regardless of the long odds of a Musk prosecution, other respected election law experts strongly condemned the billionaire’s behavior.

“This isn’t a particularly close case — this is exactly what the statute was designed to criminalize,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department official handling voting rights cases and founder of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research.

Becker said the fact that the prize is available only to registered voters “in one of seven swing states that could affect the outcome of the presidential election” is strong evidence of Musk’s intent to influence the race, which could be legally problematic.

“This offer was made in the last days before some registration deadlines,” Becker said, bolstering the appearance that the cash prizes are designed to drive up registration.

Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the UCLA School of Law and a Trump critic, said in a blog post that Musk’s sweepstakes was “clearly illegal vote-buying.” He pointed out that the Justice Department’s election crimes manual specifically says it’s illegal to offer “lottery chances” that are “intended to induce or reward” actions such as voter registration.

In a social media post late Sunday night, the Musk-backed group reframed the giveaway as a job opportunity, saying winners “will be selected to earn $1M as a spokesperson for America PAC.” The two winners picked over the weekend have appeared in promotional videos on the super PAC’s account on X, formerly Twitter.

Both Muller and Becker said the distinction likely didn’t have much impact on the potential illegality of the program. The fine print on the super PAC’s website hasn’t changed as of Monday morning, and the lottery is still only being offered to registered voters, they pointed out.

Another top Democratic official, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, blasted Musk on Saturday for “spreading dangerous disinformation” about the integrity of the voter rolls after he falsely claimed there were more voters than citizens in the state.

This story has been updated with additional reaction and developments.

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Ok I just got to wonder. Ok, so the Orange Ignoramous, goes to McDonalds, stages it. It was closed. And everyone who came to the window was screened by Secret Service and were MAGA. So then, this happens with McDonalds. Karma? I dunno. But it's just weird this is happening after the "play a minimum wage worker for a day" event.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/mcdonalds-shares-fall-after-cdc-says-e-coli-outbreak-linked-to-quarter-pounders.html

Retail
McDonald’s shares fall after CDC says E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounders
Published Tue, Oct 22 20244:20 PM EDTUpdated 2 Min Ago

Key Points
McDonald’s shares fell in extended trading after the CDC said an E. coli outbreak was linked to the chain’s Quarter Pounder burgers.
The outbreak has led to 10 hospitalizations and one death, the CDC said.
The restaurant chain said initial findings from the investigation show some of the illnesses may be linked to onions that are used in the Quarter Pounder.



McDonald’s
 shares dropped in extended trading Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers has led to 10 hospitalizations and one death.

The agency said 49 cases have been reported in 10 states between Sept. 27 and Oct. 11, with most of the illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska. “Most” sick people reported eating a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, the CDC added.

One of the patients developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. An older adult in Colorado died.

McDonald’s shares dropped about 7% in after-hours trading Tuesday.

In a statement Tuesday, McDonald’s said it is taking “swift and decisive action” following the E. Coli outbreak in certain states.

The company said initial findings from the ongoing investigation show that some of the illnesses may be linked to slivered onions — or fresh onions sliced into thin shapes — that are used in the Quarter Pounder and sourced by a single supplier that serves three distribution centers. McDonald’s has instructed all local restaurants to remove slivered onions from their supply and has paused the distribution of that ingredient in the affected area.



Quarter Pounder hamburgers will be temporarily unavailable in several Western states, including Colorado, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, and portions of other states, McDonald’s said. It added that it was working with suppliers to replenish ingredients.

The majority of states and menu items are not affected by the outbreak, McDonald’s USA President Joe Erlinger said in a video. The company’s other beef products, including the cheeseburger, hamburger, Big Mac, McDouble and the double cheeseburger, are not affected, he added. Those sandwiches use a different type of onion product.

“We are working quickly to return our full menu in these states as soon as possible,” Erlinger said. “I hope these steps demonstrate McDonald’s commitment to food safety.”

Quarter Pounder hamburgers are a core menu item for McDonald’s, raking in billions of dollars each year. In 2018, McDonald’s launched fresh beef for its Quarter Pounders across most of its U.S. stores.

The CDC said the number of people affected by the outbreak is “likely much higher” than what has been reported so far. The agency said that is because many people recover from an E. coli infection without testing for it or receiving medical care. It also typically takes three to four weeks to determine if a sick patient is part of an outbreak, the CDC added.

E. coli refers to a group of bacteria found in the gut of nearly all people and animals. But some strains of the bacteria can cause mild to severe illness if a person eats contaminated food or drinks polluted water.

Symptoms, including stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, usually start three to four days after swallowing the bacteria, according to the CDC. Most people recover without treatment after five to seven days.

There have been several past reported cases of E. coli at McDonald’s restaurants.

In 2022, at least six children developed symptoms consistent with E. coli poisoning after eating McDonald’s’ Chicken McNuggets Happy Meals in Ashland, Alabama. Four of the six children were admitted to a hospital after experiencing severe adverse effects.

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Karma or not.

It's relevance. He makes a lot of people sick. Mostly in the head.

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Oh HI Elon!  We all knew this was going to happen. So Elon, who is the "real VP" of the Don Shitshimself, now has the DOJ knocking at his door. His sweepstakes is to register voters, and he's giving away a cool mil in swing states. We all 🧐 what he is doing, buying votes for the Orange Pinhead. Of course. Why do these people play us for fools here? It's all in face. We don't need some covert, masked deep state here. They are hiding in plain site. Onboarding Mars, he's dark maga, he's karma too but that is another story to be told another time.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/23/elon-musk-election-giveaway-petition-doj/75813730007/

DOJ sends Elon Musk warning over pro-Trump giveaways, petition: reports
Portrait of Josh MeyerJosh Meyer
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON − The Justice Department has warned tech billionaire Elon Musk and his pro-Trump political action committee that its $1 million daily handouts to registered voters in swing states may violate federal election law, media outlets reported Wednesday.

The department’s public integrity section, which investigates potential election-related law violations, sent the letter to Musk’s America PAC "in recent days," according to CNN.

The Justice Department declined to comment in response to requests from USA TODAY. Musk did not respond to a request for comment sent to him on X, his social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

In recent weeks Musk has very publicly thrown his support – and his money – behind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, adding the $1 million daily lottery last weekend.


Musk has defended what he said are random giveaways in a post on X, saying those eligible for the $1 million prizes "do not need to register as Republicans or vote in the Nov. 5 election."

Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team.

But his PAC’s online petition offering the money says that those eligible must pledge to support the Second Amendment, a political shorthand for anti-gun control measures that are favored by Trump and opposed by his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Our goal is to get 1 million registered voters in swing states to sign in support of the Constitution, especially freedom of speech and the right to bear arms,” it says. It also provides links to online voter registration forms in the eligible states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina.

So far, Musk has not publicly addressed the potential legal problem of only opening the lottery to registered voters.

Robert Heberle, the head of the Justice Department’s election crimes branch, sent the "brief warning letter" to America PAC lawyer Chris Gober, saying that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of U.S. law barring payments to sway votes, according to the media outlet 24sight.news.

ABC News, citing a source, also said the letter came from DOJ’s election crimes branch within its public integrity section.

Musk’s online petition said Wednesday that four voters have earned the payout – the first three in Pennsylvania followed by a fourth in North Carolina. The offer expires on Election Day, Nov. 5, the PAC says.

On Monday, 11 former Republican lawmakers, Justice Department officials and advisers asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the billionaire and SpaceX founder for handing out the cash prizes to swing state voters if they sign his political organization’s petition.

The letter argued that the prizes established by Musk violate laws against paying people to register to vote.

“We are aware of nothing like this in modern political history,” wrote the former Republican officials, who no longer work for the U.S. government.

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Oh Jesus I can hardly wait till next week. Anywho, The Deluded Melon held a rally at Madison Square Garden. He can't win NY. But this may be the worst rally yet. Tucker is a human centipede he spoke and was foul. Then we had some comedian say a terrible so-called joke about Puerto Rico. Now big name Puerto Rican entertainers are speaking up. Funny thing, The Devi has a whole economic plan for Puerto Rico on her site and she spoke on it. But comments on this video. Tons of Puerto Ricans saw this thing, and they voting. There is also tons in Florida. Could they flip it? It's possible.

I mean, you pick on women, childless cat ladies, menopausal women, black people, immigrants, Hispanics, veterans even, trans folks, etc. People of Springfield and Haitans. I mean, you create your own enemies here Donny Boy. You done! I just know it. No one escapes karma.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svanGd7koNg

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I got my theories on Little Barron, who is, very tall. But my nickname for him is Little Barron. Apparently, Little Barron is the one who suggested the so-called "comedian" to open up for the Nazi rally the Idiotic Bloated Orange Melonhead had at Madison Square Garden this weekend, whom offended the entire Puerto Rican population. The most humorous thing is, the Puerto Rican community, makes up a hefty percentage in the swing states. Big names like Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin, and JLo condemned the so-called "jokes" at the rally. But ahhhh Little Barron. I do not feel he likes his daddy one bit. How do we get those nifty recordings from Mar A Lago all the time? I wonder if he is the one who had the bright idea to tell the fat bastard, the documents would be safe in mommy's bathroom. Then his suggestion for a comedian...oh I see you Little Barron. Sly little devil you!😈
 
"Trust me daddy. The feds would never think to look for the secret documents in mommy's bathroom" vs telling daddy, get a prepaid card and a storage unit on the wrong side of town but...see how much smarter I am than this Bloated Buffoon? We ALL are smarter. The scoop:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOLqSUK0eBM&t=327s