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Everybody keeps blaming the Marx brothers, but they are dead, aren’t they?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)- II I truly can’t wait to watch Biden in the debates. Trump will be trump, but it is 50/50 whether Biden will just start into a mashup of talking points that have been drilled into his head.
I can’t wait for him to give the “trust science, listen to experts, raise taxes for working people, you ain’t black, shut down the economy again” mashup.
by the way, I fully believe that Biden’s speech had higher viewership because at least in part a lot of people were waiting for him to self destruct with another “170 million people dead” confabulation.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Moore has a pretty good feel about these kinds of things.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Freeeeeedoooooooommmm!
congrats on the retirement! Onward.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think Tim Scott said it best when he said to watch what they do, not what they say.
Attacking Melania probably pays off with the Democrat base who don’t understand the irony of decrying xenophobia while at the same time denigrating a successful immigrant who just happens to be married to a guy whose politics you disagree with. Other than that, it makes them look small.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You may be right about the image, but there is a high bar to prove second degree murder, and it isn’t clear that the restraint used was outside of police department policy.
The reality of all this is that only the true believers and psychos will become cops. There’s a reason for qualified immunity, it’s so that the mob can’t sue the cops into ineffectiveness. But, here we are, sowing the wind.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)BD, usually I cast it the other way around: how many happen when the victim is compliant. The answer is almost zero…but it isn’t zero. Philando Castille is rightfully the easy retort for this. He was doing absolutely nothing wrong and was killed trying to comply. That was a true tragedy.
The vast majority of killings of “unarmed” black men happen after massive non compliance with officer commands. I put “unarmed” in scare quotes because, as I think I have posted before, the word “unarmed” has been surreptitiously used to imply “nonviolent” which is almost never the case. George Floyd was unarmed but not nonviolent. Rayshard Brooks, the same. Words matter.
But we are in a bizarre world where the Democrats fall over themselves to “believe” science when it comes to COVID, and to ignore science when it comes to social ills. Inability to comply with police commands is a social ill that is scientifically identifiable and directly correctable, but yet we have leaders who like to imply that noncompliance and violence are justifiable. Who cares if a few people die?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. This has been circulating for a while now. Seeing this memo really brings it home. George Floyd OD’d. Now it looks like the prosecution had reason to cover it up.
But like it or not, Floyd is a martyr of the first order. He is literally right there with Emmett Till, and that, if anything, is a testament to the media frenzy.
The wrongful termination case is going to be epic. As will the riots when the case against the cops is either dropped or they are acquitted. Chauvin looks like a bad actor, but Floyd “hooped” his stash and it killed him.
I write this as someone who viewed the Floyd case as a murder for the first month or so. Then the toxicology started to get some pub. A June post on medium really got me thinking about it (I didn’t see it until much later).
The sad truth to all this is it will be a scary topic to bring up for risk of being called a racist. The usual retort to asking about these instances is “yeah, so you’re saying he deserved to die for [resisting, running, reaching into his glove box], you racist!” Now, the question will be “what you don’t think the cops should have gotten him care? They are killers no matter how you look at it. You racist!”
You can’t have an objective conversation about this case these days.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Man, that’s juicy…and just a bit to complex to make the mainstream.
Steele was working for russians for years before writing about Donald Trump’s work with Russians?
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I assume this was written before the actual event, huh?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)My hunch is the commentaries are already written by at least 75 percent of the media. It’s like mad libs out there. Just fill in the blanks on your favorite trump criticism no matter what he says.
I’m Still wondering why Biden hasn’t given the country instant testing for Covid. He said he could right there in his speech. Why is he holding out while people go untested?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wouldn’t surprise me if she suffered an odd fatal accident at home sometime soon. That’s some serious talk.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I just want to know what they would have campaigned on if not for covid and George Floyd. Would it have been 100 percent Trump?
Trump gets more mentions than any Democrat platform planks.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Pretty cool. But…I find it more amazing how precise orbits are than the fact that one can be changing by inches in a year. The universe is an amazing thing.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The wealth tax concept makes sense in concept, and really should be put into play, but in practice it will be a problem. It would cause an immediate shock to valuations and would create an incentive for capital flight and/or valuation fraud.
That said, it makes sense. We want capital to be circulating and not stagnant. We don’t want intergenerational “dynasty” wealth.
But those aren’t the issues in California. They are just grubbing for money. And that’s a bad reason to experiment with a wealth tax.
I still think the best wealth tax is one that occurs during generational asset transfers. A yearly “property” tax on capital is actually double jeopardy, as the capital value of an asset is comprised of the estimated value of each year’s cash flows, and so taxing the same capitalized cash flows every year strikes me as bad policy. It would seriously imperil long term investing, for instance.
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