agip: I didn't understand this until now - the Trump Organization will have its own criminal trial in October. It will be accused of the same felonies that Weisselberg pled guilty to. And Weisselberg will be a witness for the prosecution. So the Trump Org has no chance to win. So the case will settle before trial. No sense going to trial if the outcome is so obvious.
Although maybe there are different crimes also on the docket. Lord knows the trump org has committed tons of crimes.
Not sure what a criminal case against a corporation means....is it just about dollars? Will the Trump Org just have to disgorge the hundreds of millions of dollars it stole plus penalties? That's less satisfying than putting guilty people in jail, but on the other hand, the only thing trump cares about is money and this will cost him a ton of it. He will be throwing ketchup onto the wall, no doubt.
New Orleans mayor looks like she may be guilty of the same exact thing they accused Weisselberg of. What is the likelihood she is claiming the apartment on her taxes.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell may be living rent-free in the city-owned Upper Pontalba Building in Jackson Square, which has a fair market value of nearly $3,000 a month.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
Well I think that your racism gets your facts very wrong. More often the person committing violent crime is an American.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
Don’t dig yourself a deeper hole. Most people with Hispanic names in those states are there completely legally. In New Mexico one is more likely to have a Hispanic name than not. All of those states used to be part of Mexico. Texas was until 1832 (they fought a war because Mexico was tired of Anglo-Americans illegally crossing the Louisiana border into their country). New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and parts of Colorado and Wyoming were added after the Mexican American War and the Gadsden Purchase. It’s all stolen land.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
Wow. That's putting it out there.
I've actually lived in all three states, and "illegals" commit crimes at lower rates than "legals," precisely because they know what can happen to them. They tend to drive very carefully, too. Same reason.
I don't even have to say this, I know, but you have no evidence whatever to support "when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person." In fact the reality, the "facts," are the opposite.
And you've carefully avoided his question about Democrats, I see. For which you also have no evidence whatever.
Now, it's certainly possible that the dead man was an illegal immigrant and that he was a Democrat, but you had no evidence to back either up. So he was right: It was just racist stereotyping on your part.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
I highly doubt that. Who told you that? That makes no sense. Whoever told you that was using some weird definition of Hispanic or illegal or crime. That assertion defies common sense, population statistics and normal perceptions of reality.
James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki New study of almost 600,000 deaths in Ohio and Florida shows that registered Republicans had far higher excess-death rates than registered Democrats during the pandemic, with almost all of the gap coming after vaccines were available.
CDC Excess Deaths data
State Year Observed Deaths Expected Deaths Excess Deaths Percentage
CA 2020 315,430 286,146 32,965 11.52%
FL 2020 240,765 213,987 26,778 12.51%
CA 2021 336,802 276,980 59,924 21.63%
FL 2021 264,848 221,941 42,958 19.36%
CA 2022YTD 215,712 191,388 25,700 13.43%
FL 2022YTD 169,496 152,074 17,845 11.73%
CA 2020-pres 867,944 754,514 118,589 13.66%
FL 2020-pres 675,109 588,002 87,581 12.97%
So, California, with its science / lockdowns-based approach had a higher excess death rate than Florida from 2020-present.
the study I posted sorted out on a person by person, individual level who is a D and who is an R and how that affected their odds of death by COVID.
Your study is far, far cruder...just state by state. Just miles cruder.
No idea why you try to obfuscate truth. Oh wait you are a 'conservative' and that's what you do all day and twice on Sunday. My bad.
the study I posted sorted out on a person by person, individual level who is a D and who is an R and how that affected their odds of death by COVID.
Your study is far, far cruder...just state by state. Just miles cruder.
You just described the "Blue states pay more taxes than they get" nonsense you guys are always repeating.
eh apples to oranges
vaccination decisions are made on a person by person level for the most part. At least for adults.
I don't think that's the same thing as red states taking charity from blue states to keep up their standards of living. I mean agg and energy subsidies alone are bloody enormous. That's not decided on an individual level like vaccinations are.
You just described the "Blue states pay more taxes than they get" nonsense you guys are always repeating.
eh apples to oranges
vaccination decisions are made on a person by person level for the most part. At least for adults.
I don't think that's the same thing as red states taking charity from blue states to keep up their standards of living. I mean agg and energy subsidies alone are bloody enormous. That's not decided on an individual level like vaccinations are.
it's a spectrum though, of course.
but sure, would be interesting to sort out how much federal aid goes to Rs vs Ds in the states. Counted on an individual level.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
Wow. That's putting it out there.
I've actually lived in all three states, and "illegals" commit crimes at lower rates than "legals," precisely because they know what can happen to them. They tend to drive very carefully, too. Same reason.
I don't even have to say this, I know, but you have no evidence whatever to support "when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person." In fact the reality, the "facts," are the opposite.
And you've carefully avoided his question about Democrats, I see. For which you also have no evidence whatever.
Now, it's certainly possible that the dead man was an illegal immigrant and that he was a Democrat, but you had no evidence to back either up. So he was right: It was just racist stereotyping on your part.
Reminds me of how "lucky" the morans are that things are, apparently, so gerrymandered and that they have so many fellow morans.
Because if it WEREN'T, and we lived in the country I wished we lived in, a lot more people would be saying, "You know, before Trumpism, it was fairly bothersome that we have so many illegal aliens in this country. And now, I'm way, way (did I mention way?) more concerned that X anti-democratic Trumpers live in my community than Y illegal farm/restaurant workers. And one group has a vote, and one group doesn't."
Put another way, the Trumpers have lost virtually every decent, carefully thinking moderate in this country. And yet they can STILL win elections. And incredibly sad commentary.
State Year Observed Deaths Expected Deaths Excess Deaths Percentage
CA 2020 315,430 286,146 32,965 11.52%
FL 2020 240,765 213,987 26,778 12.51%
CA 2021 336,802 276,980 59,924 21.63%
FL 2021 264,848 221,941 42,958 19.36%
CA 2022YTD 215,712 191,388 25,700 13.43%
FL 2022YTD 169,496 152,074 17,845 11.73%
CA 2020-pres 867,944 754,514 118,589 13.66%
FL 2020-pres 675,109 588,002 87,581 12.97%
So, California, with its science / lockdowns-based approach had a higher excess death rate than Florida from 2020-present.
the study I posted sorted out on a person by person, individual level who is a D and who is an R and how that affected their odds of death by COVID.
Your study is far, far cruder...just state by state. Just miles cruder.
No idea why you try to obfuscate truth. Oh wait you are a 'conservative' and that's what you do all day and twice on Sunday. My bad.
Yeah, but by now, haven't a ton of doctors and scientists and public health officials come out to ADMIT that the vaccines and the recommendations to use them were crap? I mean, they weren't worth anything, right? And the encouragement/persuasion to use them was just the theft of "liberty" by evil (but somehow also very weak) radical leftist libs, right?
OR, was it that a stupid, bad man told a lot of dumb/malleable people something, they believed it, and died?
the study I posted sorted out on a person by person, individual level who is a D and who is an R and how that affected their odds of death by COVID.
Your study is far, far cruder...just state by state. Just miles cruder.
No idea why you try to obfuscate truth. Oh wait you are a 'conservative' and that's what you do all day and twice on Sunday. My bad.
Yeah, but by now, haven't a ton of doctors and scientists and public health officials come out to ADMIT that the vaccines and the recommendations to use them were crap? I mean, they weren't worth anything, right? And the encouragement/persuasion to use them was just the theft of "liberty" by evil (but somehow also very weak) radical leftist libs, right?
OR, was it that a stupid, bad man told a lot of dumb/malleable people something, they believed it, and died?
And preemptively, for the morans, YES, I know that Trump was, by his incredibly low standards, fairly light (but far from zero) on stupid comments about vaccination. But it also remains an undeniable truth that if Trump were erased from the scene at the beginning of the pandemic, millions more Trumpers would have been vaccinated, and tens of thousands less of them would be dead. While anti-vax clearly predated Trumpism, it no doubt got a BIG gust in its sails from Trump and Trumpism.
vaccination decisions are made on a person by person level for the most part. At least for adults.
I don't think that's the same thing as red states taking charity from blue states to keep up their standards of living. I mean agg and energy subsidies alone are bloody enormous. That's not decided on an individual level like vaccinations are.
it's a spectrum though, of course.
Energy subsidies for fossil fuels are insignificant compared to subsidies for renewable energy, which are significant. You still live under the illusion that oil and gas companies receive significant government funding, which is a lie propagated by the left.
I go by past history - when a hispanic named person who lives in Az, Tx. or NM, and commit a violent crime, most often they are an illegal person. You can hide under the covers but I deal in facts.
I highly doubt that. Who told you that? That makes no sense. Whoever told you that was using some weird definition of Hispanic or illegal or crime. That assertion defies common sense, population statistics and normal perceptions of reality.
I mean, Jesus goddam Christ. Basic knowledge of the population in those states would let you know you're assertion is whacko.
The Hispanic population of Arizona is around 2,750,000, New Mexico is around 1,000,000 and Texas is around 11,400,000. That's 15,150,000 census-counted Hispanics in those three states. The total illegal count, assuming they are all Hispanic, in those three states is 1,935,000 or 11% of the total Hispanic population. Even assuming your term "most often" means greater than 50%, it would be a massive statistical improbability, in dire need of investigation and a reasonable explanation, for it to be true that 11% of the population is committing 50% of the viol . . . . wait a minute. Never mind. Forget all that. I said forget it okay? Just move on.
I didn't make a differentiated argument about gerrymandering. I have little or no idea whom it hurts/helps more. What I do know that, given the current state of the R party, every gerrymandered district that favors Rs is a threat to this country. That's simply not true on the D side.
I didn't make a differentiated argument about gerrymandering. I have little or no idea whom it hurts/helps more. What I do know that, given the current state of the R party, every gerrymandered district that favors Rs is a threat to this country. That's simply not true on the D side.
And just to recap for the straight-up morans, AND those who also tend to roll their eyes at what they view as "extreme" comments about the R party:
1) Almost 2 years later, no proof whatsoever that the election was "stolen" from Donald Trump.
2) And yet if, as an R, you state this fact - i.e., you don't tell a clear lie - you stand a 100% chance of being viciously attacked by Trump, fellow R politicians, and tens of millions of Trumpers. And depending on your district/state, likely a much, much diminished chance of being re-elected.
Simple facts. Unthinkable as recently as 2016. This is where that party has gone. Wanna tell yourself that this compares to tolerance for transgenderism, or (possibly) marginal differences in crime or illegal immigration, or student loan forgiveness, or....
