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Delta Air Lines Is Changing How Passengers Can Earn Status.

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Delta Air Lines Is Changing How Passengers Can Earn Status.

By Jessica Poitevien

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Is Delta Airlines Pricing Out Middle Class Passengers?

Earning status on a major airline is one of the best ways to get upgrades, free checked luggage, and other perks that improve your flight experience. Airline loyalty programs typically allow passengers to earn status based on the miles they fly or the number of flights they take.

Delta Air Lines is officially moving to a new model, and most travelers are unhappy with the new model.
Starting Jan. 1, 2024, Delta passengers will only be able to reach medallion status by accumulating Medallion Qualification Dollars (MQDs).

They can earn these in various ways, such as booking flights with Delta or Delta partner airlines and using the airline’s website to reserve hotels, car rentals, or Delta vacation packages.

Passengers can earn medallion status by accumulating MQDs, Medallion Qualification Segments (think, number of flights), and Medallion Qualification Miles. That means starting next year, two of the three methods for earning status will be eliminated. The other problem? One dollar equals one MQD, so travelers must spend more than ever to earn status.

Delta Air Lines also recently announced that in 2025, the amount of spending required to earn status will increase to the following amounts:
• Silver Medallion – 6,000 MQDs
• Gold Medallion – 12,000 MQDs
• Platinum Medallion – 18,000 MQDs
• Diamond Medallion – 35,000 MQDs

There is some hope for travelers with a Delta-branded credit card, as spending on those cards, even for non-travel purposes, will count as MDQs.

For example, Delta SkyMiles American ExpressCard travelers can earn one MDQ for every $10 spent. Meanwhile, cardholders with the Delta SkyMiles Reserve or Reserve Business American Express cards and the Platinum Business American Express Card can earn one MQD for every $20 spent.

To add more insult to injury, Delta is also changing its policy on accessing the airline’s Delta Sky Club lounges in airports worldwide.
Currently, all Delta card members may have unlimited access to any club lounge without spending minimums. But starting Feb. 1, 2025, Delta Sky Miles Reserve and Reserve Business cardholders will be limited to only 10 Club visits per calendar year, while it will limit those with an American Express Platinum card to six lounge visits a year.

If cardholders spend $75,000 or more on their Delta credit card, they will be allowed unlimited visits. Also, even if you’re a cardholder, you won’t be allowed to use the lounge if you fly with a Basic Economy fare.
Critics of the changes say that Delta Air Lines is effectively pricing out middle-class passengers from achieving higher status. Time will tell if other airlines follow Delta’s model.

Laphonza Butler 3rd Openly Gay Person, Joins U.S. Senate.

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Laphonza Butler 3rd Openly Gay Person, Joins U.S. Senate.

Las Angeles, CA

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Gay And Proud.

On Sunday, California Gov Gavin Newsom made a highly strategic and calculated move when he selected vote generator Laphonza Butler to go to Washington as the third openly gay U.S. Senator.

It forced the California Presidential hopeful to walk the line with his selection of Laphonza to fill the seat of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein. There are three candidates already running for Finstein’s seat.

In the highly contested, Representative Barbara Lee and her supporters demanded that Gov Newsom tilt the scale and choose her for the job above her competitors: Democrat Rep Adam Schiff and Kate Porter (D) CA.

Newly Selected California Senator Laphonza Butler And Her Family

Butler’s selection brings to three the number of openly gay United States Senators. She joins the only two openly gay Senators, Tammy Baldwin (D) from Wisconsin and Kyrsten Sinema (R) from Arizona. Recently, some have questioned Vice Presidential hopeful Senator Tim Scott’s sexuality.

So far, Scott and Senator Lindsey Graham have yet to come out of the closet out of fear of a backlash from bigoted South Carolinians. Senator Tim Scott talks about an invisible girlfriend that no one has ever seen. Is it possible that Scott has an Ai girlfriend? For Senator Graham, mum is the word as he keeps his mouth firmly affixed to former President Donald Trump’s ass and continuously spews 2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories.

In 2021, Newsom shortchanged the Black community when he selected Alex Padilla to fill Kamala Harris’ seat after they selected her as Biden’s Vice President.

Butler will be the 3rd Black female to serve in the U.S. Senate, following in the footsteps of Carol Moseley Braun (1988 to 1992) and Kamala Harris, who served from January 3, 2017, to January 18, 2021. The selection of Laphonza Butler by Gov Newsom Newsom hopes will garner votes from the radical left for his upcoming presidential bid. Butler served as the president of EMILY’s List.

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Leaving The Trump Cult: The Cassidy Hutchinson Story.

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Leaving The Trump Cult: The Cassidy Hutchinson Story.

Capitol Hill

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Taking A Bullet For Trump.

Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson, Chief of Staff to
Former President Trump’s lead organizer (crime boss), Mark Meadows, has left the cult. Hutchinson has written a book titled ENOUGH. She’s making the rounds on network television to sell her book.

The 27-year-old Hutchinson has a compelling story to tell. And she’s telling anyone on television who will listen to it. She is soft-spoken and reflective. 

Before the Republican operative Cassidy Hutchinson wrote her tell-all book, she testified for the Democrats on the January 6th Committee after being a Trump loyalist on January 7 after the J6 insurrection. Hearing her tell her story about working for Trump and other “powerful” men behind the scenes was almost spellbinding.

Ms. Hutchinson described moments of hazing to test her loyalty to Trump. What’s an exciting movie without sex? Sex sells. Ms. Hutchinson, in salacious details, told how, during the plot to overrun the government, Rudy Giuliani ran his hand up her blouse and under her skirt — old Rudy was checking for loyalty.

(L) Cassidy Hutchinson Testifying Before Congress (Pleasingly Plump Face / (R) Hutchinson On Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell/MSNBC Sporting A More Chiseled Hollywood Face.

Did she flinch? They asked Ms. Hutchinson if she would take a bullet for the then-President Donald Trump — make sure the shot is in her leg. She agreed to take a bullet for Trump.

She sought assurance to make sure it was in my leg. Hutchinson failed the test; she should say she will kill for Trump like the January 6 insurrectionists. If you want me to, you, “I would Die For You.” After the failed coup in Washington, Donald Trump provided her an attorney but abandoned her on the Jersey Shore. She became a persona non grata at Mar-a-Lago. She founded a new religion, a new church called the J6 Committee.

Like most cult members, after leaving a cult, Hutchinson developed anxiety. She needed another ex-cult member to guide her back to reality, so she called on Alyssa Farah Griffin. Scared of going to prison after the J6 fiasco, Ms. Farah Griffin broke away from the Trump cult to find refuge at CNN’s new channel.

CNN has a love-hate relationship with Donald Trump. he’s good for ratings, but he’s no fan of CNN’s (UNN) love-child Ukraine and crooked Vladimir Zelensky. 

Ms. Cassidy Hutchinson (no relationship to Gov. Asa Hutchinson) has become the Democrat’s love child and media darling on the left.

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The Republican Primary Debate 2, Seven Losers Debating Themselves.

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The Republican Primary Debate 2, Seven Losers Debating Themselves.

Simi Valley, CA

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A Shit Show

The RNC Displays Seven Defiled Brides Waiting For Their Missing Husband: Donald Trump.

The compass of the Republican Party’s former President Donald Trump skipped the second Republican primary debate, just as he did the first.

Standing on stage bickering among themselves were the seven biggest losers of the race for the White House: Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Doug Burgum, and Mike Pence. Ronna McDaniels, chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), forced former Gov. of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson out of the second primary debate.

They held the debate inside the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. One cannot think of Simi Valley and not recall the Rodney King 1992 verdict delivered by a jury of neo-Nazis. Today, the Simi Valley African-American community remains at 1.5 percent, the highest it’s ever been.

The best way to describe the second Republican Primary debate is as a substanceless shit show. The usual Indian demagogues, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy (a Black Indian) and Italian Ron DeSantis executed their typical attack on CRT and DEI.

Republican 2 Debate Hosts

Presidential Republican Candidate Doug Burgum, (Left) Fox Hosts On The Right

That trio of circus clowns (Ramaswamy, Haley, and DeSantis) have nothing to say about sound judgment. Ramaswamy was the first to be on the stage to prove himself, fighting a culture war aimed mainly against Black People. All seven candidates attacked the UAW Union bosses while embracing the striking workers. Why not bash five or six union heads? There are more workers to vote than bosses.

Lurking On The Southern Border.

Former New Jersey Gov Chris Christie continued his relentless attack on Donald Trump.Christie claims Trump was “hiding behind his golf clubs.” Ron DeSantis was the second person on the stage to attack former President Trump.

Nikki Haley delivered one of the well-rehearsed one-liners referencing the invisible Southern Border. “Instead of catch and release, it should be caught and deported,” Haley said. Ron DeSantis said, “I will use the military to go after the Mexican drug cartels.”

Sen Tim Scott reminds Ramaswamy that they designed the 14th Amendment for the formerly enslaved African people, not Vivek and his family. Vivek, the culture warrior, stated, “Transgenderism is a mental health disorder,” he said, “It is not compassionate to affirm a kid’s confusion; that is cruelty. “I will ban genital mutilation and chemical castration,” the 38-year-old Indian said.

This time, Gov Doug Burgum appeared lass lackluster, even as host Martha MacCallum threatened to cut off his microphone when he attempted to speak on tech issues. Burgum was the only tech-savvy person on the stage. He sold the tech company he built to Microsoft for 1.1 billion dollars.

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Joe Biden Took His Campaign To The Picket Lines In A General Motors Vehicle.

Clinton Franklin
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Joe Biden Took His Campaign To The Picket Lines In A General Motors Vehicle.

Poli-Tricking.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden showed up on the picket lines (where workers are on strike against General Motors) in Michigan; Biden drove General Motors (GM) most expensive car — the $16,000,000 vehicle known as The Beast. Biden met with striking UAW workers, pretending to care about their struggle. What a slap in the face.

Biden’s visit beat former President Donald Trump to Michigan after Trump announced he would meet with UAW strikers on Wednesday, the day of the second Republican Primary debate. So on Tuesday afternoon, President Biden shuffled his way to the picket lines in Michigan, on one of his central campaign stops.

The Greatest Trick A Politician (Joe Biden) Ever Pulled Is To Convince The People He’s Not A Politician.

All major reputable polls show that Americans would rather have an alternative to Joe Biden as President. While some detest the former Senator, some are concerned about his age and incompetence. Biden’s fragility and incompetence drove him to hide out, perhaps in his basement, and refuse to debate his opponents.

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Jeannie Mai, Jeezy’s Wife, Got Twisted Out By Mario Lopez?

Clinton Franklin
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Jeannie Mai, Jeezy’s Wife, Got Twisted Out By Mario Lopez?

Hollywood, CA

By Clinton Franklin

If A Picture Paints A Thousand Words, This One Speaks Volumes. Jeezy and Wife Jeannie Mai together. This Pic says She’s Embarrassed. She’s Looking Down: Wondering, Why Is This “Well Dressed” Negro Wearing In A $500 Walmart Suit Wearing Slippers. God Forbid Something Jumps Off — Can He Protect Me Wearing Grandma’s Slippers?

The photo shows Mai cupping Jeezy’s hand. She’s the dominant one in the relationship. He’s a bitch-boy. This is one of the moments when Jeannie Mai decided she was going to punish Jeezy for embarrassing her in a public space. So the went out and found Chico The Man/Mario Lopez for some masculine energy.

Rapper Jeezy (Jay Wayne Jenkins), a Black man known for dressing up in fancy suits while wearing grandma-style female slippers, lost his wife on the dark end of the street? On September 14, 2023, Jeezy filed for divorce from his wife of two years, Jeannie Mai, of the television talk show The Real. The couple has a one-year-old daughter.

The heartbroken rapper pushed aside his pride and tried to hold on to his marriage, despite speculation of Jeannie Mai doing the bump and grind with the star of the 1989 sitcom Saved by the Bell and Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Mario Lopez.

“I prefer White men, but like to have a dark (meat)man on the side,” Mai broadcasts on her talk show The Real. After fulfilling her fetish for some dark meat on the side, she sought her sexual preference with Mario Lopez. Mai said her needs weren’t being fulfilled by the female slippers-wearing rapper. What’s the bottom line?

Mai just wanted to punish Jeezy for being a weak and feckless male. While she’s on stage laughing it up with him in his white Tuxedo and grandma slippers, in her subconscious mind, she is planning how to punish him for dressing like a clown.

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Miami: A Defiant Corrupted City On A Hill.

Clinton Franklin
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Miami: A Defiant Corrupted City On A Hill.

Miami, FL

By Clinton Franklin

Miami's Vice.

Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portila, Fenced In, Charged With Corruption. Former Chief Acevedo Warned The City Of His Corruption.

“The City of Miami was conceived in sin and born in corruption….” All the President’s Men. 

Suddenly, many people in sister cities acted surprised when, on Thursday, September 14, 2023, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) officers moved in on the City of Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portila and walked him out in handcuffs on criminal charges of money laundering, bribery, and corruption.

Do you know who wasn’t surprised? The residents of Miami. Corruption is the order of the day for The City of Miami Commission Built on an Ant Hill.

The commission runs the Miami Police Department, and most of its officers like its personal guard dogs — waiting at the ready to sic on anyone who would challenge them to do right. On April 05, 2021, the City of Miami Police Department hired Art Acevedo to replace outgoing MPD Chief Jorge Colina, who retired in February.

Acevedo stepped down from his job as chief in Houston, where he leads 5200 officers to run Miami’s 1200-person police force. Unaware of the level of corruption in Miami politics, Acevedo attempted to make changes.

The Piling On Effect

Soon, Chief Art Acevedo found out they hired him to serve the Miami Commissioners rather than the people of Miami. At the behest of the Commissioners, city manager Manuel Noriega, in so many words, labeled Acevedo a troublemaker after someone photographed him standing with a group of “Black Lives Matter” supporters.

By October 14, 2021 — six months of playing Eliot Ness — Miami Commissioners voted unanimously to fire the newly minted Chief they initially called the Michael Jordan and Tom Brady of 21st-century policing.

Both Papiers have since returned to the department (with back pay) after city manager Noriega, Mayor Suarez and the Commissioners fired Chief Art Acevedo for firing them.

Acevedo fired a Miami PD power couple, Ronald Papier (Deputy Chief and his wife Nerly, a Commander in Little Havana, for covering up a crash in a city vehicle. Soon after Chief Acevedo terminated the Papiers city manager, Noriega broadcasted, “Chief Acevedo is not the right fit for this organization,” Noriega told news outlets at a Commissioner’s meeting that Acevedo did not attend.

Commissioner Alex De la Portila chastized the Chief for not coming for another public lashing. “He should have the courage to stand up here and address this commission, the courage or the guts to do it. He does not have,” Alex Diaz de la Portila said.

Acevedo pushed back by raising concerns about commissioners using a select few corrupt City of Miami Police officers as code enforcement at certain bars and restaurants owed by political opponents — William Fuller and his business partner Martin Pinilla. In June 2023, Fuller and Pinilla won a $63 million judgment against Miami and Commissioner Joker Carollo for using the police to harass political opponents. 

While former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portila awaits trial on charges of corruption and bribery, former Miami PD Chief Art Acevedo is currently working as Interim Chief of Police in Aurora, Colorado. 

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Double Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Recaptured — Fears Assuage.

Clinton Franklin
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Double Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Recaptured — Fears Assuage.

CHESTER COUNTY, Pa.

By Clinton Franklin

It is the duty of every man in bondage to escape his captors. For 336 hours, a vicious, cold-blooded killer (Danelo Cavalcante) went missing after escaping the Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania. The two-time killer evaded capture for two weeks by walking along tree lines in the forest, eating wild watermelons, and burying his poop.

Residents in the surrounding community held their collective breath while approximately 500 law enforcement personnel working about 12,000 work hours searched for the escapee who had walked across the Southern Borders into America — as a guest of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Brazilian authorities accused 34-year-old Cavalcante of killing his male friend in Brazil in 2017. In 2018 Cavalcante arrived in the U.S.

The Primal Fear of Dylann Roof Shooting Worshipers In Mother Emmanuel Church In South Carolina

Soon, he started dating Deborah Brandao while working on a farm. In April 2021, when 33-year-old Brandao found out about his murderous past in Brazil, she confronted him with the information.

Cavalcante stabbed her 38 times with a kitchen knife, killing her in front of her young children. Cavalcante’s mother, according to the New York Post, Iracema, blamed Cavalcante’s victim, Deborah Brandao, for her death.

Iracema said he had to kill her because of the stranglehold she had on him. The mango didn’t fall far from the tree.

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The U.S. Senate Has Gone Hood — John Fetterman.

Clinton Franklin
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The U.S. Senate Has Gone Hood — John Fetterman.

OPINION

By Clinton Franklin

"Team Reflects Leadership"

“There are more important things to worry about other than me dressing like a slob.” — says Senator John Fetterman when asked about his blatant attempt to denigrate the Senate’s dress code.

When John Fetterman, a United States Senate candidate, suffered a stroke during his campaign, most decent human beings had one of their primal instincts kicked in, and they sympathized with his plight.

Many watched him struggle to articulate his thoughts debating Dr. Oz, his primary challenger. And then he won his bid to go to Washington. The U.S. Senate has 100 men and women where, regardless of their political bent and shenanigans, they all dress as professionals–except John Fetterman.

Of course, Senators don’t need to wear a suit and tie to advocate for their constituents or pass laws that work for the American people. But continuously ignoring the dress code of the institution that employs you is grounds for dismal.

Unfortunately, the people of Pennsylvania sent the slob to represent them in Washington for six years, so they’ll have to wait until November 2026 to send the 6’8″ Eminem impersonator packing.

Until then, the balls-less Senate so-called leader Chuck Schumer (who lacks quality and values) should draft rules allowing suspension in two-week increments until the slob complies with the dress code. “Team Reflects Leadership,” and the U.S. Senate has no leadership right now.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called out the nasty-looking Senator for his lack of decorum, Feterman responded, “I dress like DeSantis when he’s on the campaign trail.” Will someone tell the oversized buffoon he’s no longer on the campaign trail? There is a time and place for everything.

When President Obama wore a beige suit during his Presidency, they called him out for diminishing the Presidency. He must get with the program unless Fetterman’s Shrink prescribed shorts and a hoodie as a comfort for emotional support to battle his anxiety (HIPAA). The Senate’s official clothes police — will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor. So says Chuck Schumer.

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The Clock Struck Midnight, and So Did UAW Workers.

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The Clock Struck Midnight, and So Did UAW Workers.

Bidenomics.

Morning Has Broken. UAW Workers Struck, Marched For Better Benefits, More Pay and Less Working Hours.

This morning, Bidenomics did not get out of bed to go to work, nor did 12,700 United Auto Workers union (UAW) employees of three major plants in the United States. The UAW strategically asked almost 13,000 members to stand down at 12:01 (on September 15) after it disagreed with executives of the Big Three automakers. Union President Shawn Fain is asking for an annual pay increase of 11.5 percent over four years for workers.

Fain is asking for a 32-hour work week — in line with what man tech employees working from home get. It’s a part of the new culture; everybody wants to get paid, but no one wants to show up to work.

While it’s hard to reasonably argue that most average UAW employees are grossly underpaid, earning on average an hourly salary of $19, an amount that lags the average “U.S. average Hourly Earnings, which is at a current level of 33.82, up from 33.74 last month and up from 32.43 one year ago,” according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average hourly salary for an American police “officer” is $26.60.
Leaders of the Big Three (Toyota not included) have been sandbagging the UAW over the past four years.

Last year, the CEO of General Motors (GM), Mary Barra, made $29 million in 2022, while Stellantis/Chrysler’s CEO Carlos Tavares had a total compensation of $24.8 million, and Ford’s CEO Jim Farley rounded off the number with $21 million in 2022.

To most Americans, it is unconscionable for the UAW to come to the table demanding more pay for a 32-hour work week. This demand would give them a status of one step above part-time workers—Less than 40 weekly working hours.

When does overtime begin at 32 hours weekly work less than 40 weekly hours? Would it be after six hours, eight hours daily, or 32 hours? The Three Big parasites of the Big Three car manufacturers should step up to the negotiation table and do what is fair and correct for these Safety Sensitive employees.

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