>>19655831

>Pentagon official arrested for running pitbull fighting ring for 20 years

>>19656075

>r.i.p doggo's

In describing the details of one particular dogfight, a convicted dogfighter wrote, "Miss Rufus spent most of the rest of the fight on her back and Bandit broke her other front leg high up in the shoulder, as well as one of her back legs, in the knee joint. The only leg she didn’t break, she chewed all to hell. She had literally scalped Miss Rufus, tearing a big chunk of skin off the top of her head alongside one ear."

Dogfighting is a felony offense in all 50 states and it is a felony offense under federal law as well.

https://www.humanesociety.org/dogfighting

The federal Animal Welfare Act makes it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison to fight dogs or to possess, train, sell, buy, deliver, receive or transport dogs intended for use in dog fighting.

6 Jun 2016

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/9-charged-multi-state-dog-fighting-network

Punishable by up to five years x 20 years of running dog fighting ring = at least 100 years in prison?

More money pledged from Michigan for EV battery plant

More money is being pledged in Michigan for the development of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford Motor Co. said it would pause construction until it’s sure it can run the factory competitively.

the state had allocated nearly $1.7 billion in incentives for the project

Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst with Guidehouse Insights, said Ford’s decision might be related to the strike, but more likely reflects opposition to the plant among people in a conservative rural area of southern Michigan.

“They don’t want the factory, they don’t want the traffic, and they don’t want anything associated with a Chinese company,” he said.

https://journalrecord.com/2023/10/02/more-money-pledged-from-michigan-for-ev-battery-plant/

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it mattered little whether striking union autoworkers secured a favorable deal in talks with America's biggest carmakers because the shift to electric vehicles would soon make them obsolete.

"I don't care what you get in the next two weeks or three weeks or five weeks," he said. "They're going to be closing up and they're going to be building those cars in China and other places. It's a hit job in Michigan and on Detroit."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-uaw-talks-dont-matter-because-ev-shift-will-kill-jobs/ar-AA1hnqWL

"Shawn Fain, the respected President of the United Auto Workers, cannot even think about allowing ALL ELECTRIC CARS - THEY WILL ALL BE MADE IN CHINA, and the Auto Industry in America will cease to exist!" Trump wrote. "There is already a giant 'E GLUT,' they don't go far or long, are very expensive, and the consumer must be given a CHOICE."

"Vote for TRUMP, and I will stop this Madness, IMMEDIATELY!" he said. "Mexico & Canada LOVE Biden's idiotic policy. SAVE MICHIGAN and the other Auto States. SAVE THE AMERICAN CONSUMER!!!"

Trump further denounced the move towards EVs in a video released Monday on X, formerly Twitter, calling it a "transition to hell" and insisting that auto workers would be jobless if they did not reject the move and vote for him in 2024.

9 4 23

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-warns-uaw-president-electric-cars-strike-1824482