My name is Craig Warren I.m 71 years old father of nine grandpa to.a bunch. I grew up on a farm learned to work hard. Have spent most of my life in management in several different arenas, from retail to Construction. Have a lot of experience in a wide range of businesses and I have a lot of opinions. So what else do you need for a podcast. I like to talk about a lot of different things, I really like Politics but I am not political. I mean I have never been a member of a political party and never will. I read George Washingtons farewell address to Congress when I was young. Now I know for certain he was right. He warned us but we didn't't Listen.
I also like sports, I like to make fun of Celebrities and Politicians. I like hunting and the outdoors.
Actually I can talk about most anything, especially if it annoys me. COME ALONG JOIN THE FUN.
We're Black People Really as Invisible to our Founders as Some Would Have You Believe?
Who Started the Slave Trade in North America?
The United States did not exist when the transatlantic slave trade came to North America.
The Timeline: The first recorded enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 aboard a Dutch pirate ship, though Spanish and Portuguese empires had been trafficking enslaved people to the Americas and the Caribbean since the early 1500s.
The Imperial Engine: For over 150 years before the Declaration of Independence, the American colonies operated under British imperial law, which aggressively expanded and legally institutionalized chattel slavery to maximize colonial output.
The economic system of the colonies is called mercantilism. Under this system, the colonies were strictly designed to be a giant resource-extraction farm for the British Crown.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson is the ultimate embodiment of the American paradox. He authored the words "all men are created equal" while owning more than 600 enslaved people over his lifetime.
What he wrote: In his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781), he expressed terror over the eventual consequences of slavery: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever."
The deleted clause: In his original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson explicitly blamed King George III for the slave trade, calling it a "cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty." The Continental Congress struck this section out to appease South Carolina and Georgia.
The founders didn't ignore slavery because Black people were invisible to them; they protected them because the Union was fragile. The Northern delegates detested the compromises, but they believed a flawed union was better than no union at all. They made a wager with history, hoping that if they locked the system down for the moment, slavery would naturally die out on its own. Instead, it took a civil war 74 years later to untangle it.
11 Jun 2026
Is Your state selling your personal information from voter registration files?
The short answer is yes, voter registration data from across the country is actively bought, sold, and traded on the dark web. Constella Intelligence
The biggest irony of voter roll data is that threat actors don't always have to "hack" the government to get it. In the vast majority of states, voter rolls are legally considered public records.
While everyday citizens can't just browse them for fun, political campaigns, PACs, and commercial data brokers can legally buy the statewide voter file directly from state governments. The prices vary wildly by state—ranging from free to upwards of $37,000.
Once a political campaign or a third-party data firm buys that master list, they upload it to their own private servers to build voter-targeting models. Because these private political consulting firms rarely have the same level of cybersecurity as a military base or a major bank, they get hacked all the time.
While everyday citizens can't just browse them for fun, political campaigns, PACs, and commercial data brokers can legally buy the statewide voter file directly from state governments. The prices vary wildly by state—ranging from free to upwards of $37,000.
Once a political campaign or a third-party data firm buys that master list, they upload it to their own private servers to build voter-targeting models. Because these private political consulting firms rarely have the same level of cybersecurity as a military base or a major bank, they get hacked all the time.
Cybercriminals break into the servers of these middleman political firms, steal the clean spreadsheets of voter data, and flip them for a quick profit on dark web marketplaces like Russian Market or BidenCash.
9 Jun 2026
Is our mail In Ballot System As Safe and Accurate as They Say It Is
This last week When I checked my Mail, I have a PO Box, which I have had for 12-15 years. I was expecting some mail in ballots for me and my wife, Because Utah mails them out to everyone on the voter roles. There was on e ballot in my box, I thought that’s weird they always show up together. On closer inspection I find that the ballot had the correct address info. But it was not us and we live in a small town, I didn’t recognize the name.
As if that wasn’t enough to get me thinking about this, I heard on the news that Toole County here in Utah had some serious screw ups with mail in ballots. You see in a primary election you have 3 separate ballots you know Dems Republicans and unaffiliated. Well the printing company who also mails them apparently got wrong info or they screwed up, you had dems getting republican ballots and vice/versa and then unaffiliated were getting party ballots. So now they are working hard to get right ballots to the right places.
Los Angeles County, California (Just Days Ago): On June 2, 2026, election officials launched an investigation after an outdoor ballot drop box at a Department of Public Social Services building in downtown Los Angeles was set on fire.Because it happened between scheduled pickups, only a "limited number" of ballots sustained fire damage, and the county is currently using security logs and tracking data to contact affected voters and issue replacements. CBS News
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