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The world of politics. Newsom blames REPUBLICANS for homelessness, despite the Dems being in control in CA for…well, ever. Homelessness has risen 13% during his term as governor.
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He seems like a particularly troubled, particularly odd oddball from a very early age, to wit:
- Tested IQ of 167.
- He skipped 6th and 11th grades. Just a coincidence, but both my father-in-law and I skipped an early grade, and we both point back to it as the one occurrence in our lives that we could change if we could. It put us a year behind the other kids, particularly male students. TK skipped two grades. He stated that skipping sixth grade was a pivotal event, and that prior to skipping, he had socialized with peers and was somewhat of a leader, but that the older children bullied him.
- He was known as a very odd child. Son of second generation Polish Catholics. Played Trombone in school band, collected coins.
- He built bombs in high school, with batteries, wire leads, potassium nitrate and other items.
- Supposedly had really poor hygiene, was lonely and thin, his room smelled of spoiled milk and rotten food.
- Participated in an infamous science experiment at Harvard (one of 22 people) that subjected volunteer students to hours of extreme verbal and emotional abuse to measure how people handled stress. The subjects wrote a paper, then the content of the paper was used to belittle them. The experiment lasted three years and TK participated for more than 200 hours. He may have used LSD, and the program was thought to be part of the CIA’s Project MKUltra. The professor had worked for the OSS and wrote a paper on Adolf Hitler’s personality and brainwashing.
- He self-isolated from a very early age, buying 6,600 square yards in Montana and building a tar paper shack. He vandalized construction sites in the area when he realized that development was encroaching on his wilderness.
- He worked at a foam rubber products manufacturer outside Chicago with his father and brother.
- He dated a female supervisor who dumped him after two dates, then he started to harass her and his brother fired him.
- First bomb, 1978.
- It’s well-known that his brother turned him in. Less well-known is that his sister-in-law, Linda Patrik, suspected TK and convinced her husband David K. to read the manifesto at the library.
- David had asked that his role in his brother’s capture be kept secret, but someone at the FBI leaked the information to Dan Rather at CBS.
- They argued for two months, then took some of TK’s letters to a private investigator that Patrik knew, who passed the letters to FBI behavioural science expert Clint Van Zandt. He said that whoever wrote those letters probably wrote the Unabomber’s manifesto.
- Investigation and prosecution was overseen by the current Attorney General, Merrick Garland
- TK tried to fire his attorneys who wanted to present an insanity defense.
- Not surprisingly, TK literally turned his back on his brother at the court hearings and referred to him as Judas Iscariot.
- TK sent an alumni status update to Harvard listing his occupation as “prisoner”…which they published in the alumni book. He also listed his published manifesto as his achievement and under awards listed “Eight life sentences issued by U.S.D.C. / Eastern district of California.”
- Harvard ultimately apologized for including the update.
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It might have to be attacks on Trump by committee, so to speak. DeSantis (and his wife) have been vociferous in their anti-Trump approach. Chris Christie is going after Ivanka and Jared (“the grift from this family is breathtaking”) and “That’s your money he stole – and gave it to his family. You know what that makes us? A banana republic. That’s what it makes us.”
Chris Christie Goes After Ivanka and Jared Kushner (mediaite.com)
Then you have his former VP, Mike Pence — who is not remotely presidential, by the way, maybe more than Kamala Harris, but not much more — who is more even-keeled, but still contrasts with Trump.
Pence kicks off 2024 run, beginning extraordinary showdown with Trump (msn.com)
Meanwhile, RFK, Jr. is doing well in Dem polls, and concerning Dems. He is running against Biden:
RFK Jr.’s rising profile sparks Democratic jitters | The Hill
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Excellent article on Christie, by Peggy Noonan. Basic thesis is that if Trump gets the nomination, the Republican party as a political force is over. She thinks DeSantis is too limited. She’s very much interested in Christie’s candidacy and notes two positives and two negatives:
- He was a very good governor from a Republican standpoint. Capped property tax, limited spending, increased school funding but got more charter schools, won public employee pension reform with big Democratic majorities in both state legislative chambers and reformed Camden’s approach to policing.
- He’s politically gifted. He won re-election in 2013 by 22 points.
- Challenge: He hit his peak 10 years ago.
- Scandals: Bridgegate.
- National level politics: He led Hillary clinton in 2016, but only got 7% in New Hampshire
Chris Christie and the Republican Party’s Peril – WSJ
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Hopefully they have a generous option plan for mid managers and that Mick Jr. is fully vested. 😉
He’s very well taken care of, indeed.
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I don’t pretend any special insights. So this is just my personal opinion based upon my experiences at three AmLaw 100 firms and one AmLaw 200 firm (that gets the lion’s share of lawyers from UMichigan).
- Law firms, in general, are to the left of the political spectrum. At the same time, they are highly risk-averse. So the student who spoke at CUNY will not be hired — in any event, that person is likely headed to a non-profit, perhaps the ACLU.
- My sense is that law firms don’t focus much on the acts of individuals — who are unlikely to end up in law firms, in any event. They are more likely to work with law schools that show a strong interest in and sense for the real world. Last time I looked — and it was a few years ago — Stanford’s Law School had over 20 interesting and innovative real world programs, projects, initiatives, boards and the like. Law firms tend to favor law students who have something to offer their clients besides strong legal skills.
- Chesa Boudin is an oddball sideshow, and there’s a fair number of those in the legal profession. Remember, Boudin was a smart man, a Yale Law grad, and Rhodes Scholar, but was a lifelong Marxist. Shortly after he won the elction, he had a 71% disapproval rate (53% strongly disapproving). Essentially, San Francisco was lawless under his watch. His first official act was to fire seven prosecutors who deigned to do their jobs. He wouldn’t hook on with a regular firm in any event. The fact that he reached power at all reflects SF’s electorate, not the law firms.
- His reign of terror as District Attorney can only be described as a shit show. It was much, much worse than most people understand. A very interesting separate question is the deterioration of San Francisco and its likely result.
- All of the firms I’ve been employed by have a high percentage of Jewish lawyers. They are appropriately sensitive to anti-Semitism. My current firm was founded because the founders couldn’t get jobs with the firms of the day who had anti-Semitic policies.
Incidentally, some of the most conservative people — and lawyers — I know matriculated at UC-Berkeley. They shrug their collective shoulders at UCB’s leftist overreaches.
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Mick Jr. has a mid-management position at Nvidia…he’s fairly optimistic about the economy.
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Just talked with a friend of mine who regularly polls about 400 general counsels at large-scale companies. He says, with almost no exceptions, that they all have directed their law firms to directly address outstanding legal issues — cost be damned. In other words, cost is no object, and the clients are not negotiating fees. They all think the economy is doing well.
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We were flat in the first quarter of the year, then had a very good April, and an explosive May. I don’t know about other industries, but the legal profession appears to be doing pretty well. Human nature hasn’t changed much…
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Several weeks after the Bud Light trans marketing debacle, Bud Light sales are down 30%. Who could have ever predicted that?
Bud Light Sales Down Nearly 30% In Latest Data – OutKick
Going Woke Means Going Broke TM
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High tech types aren’t just leaving the SF Bay Area for domestic options, they’re moving to London as well:
The US tech chiefs waving goodbye to San Francisco to set up home in London | Daily Mail Online
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Economic terrorism by Republicans. Spend money then refuse to pay the bills.
Here’s the chart comparing Bush’s addition to the U. S. National Debt with that of six of the first eight years of Obama’s addition to the USND. I’ll add the remaining two years.
Bush added $4,350.7 trillion to the national debt. Obama added $9,548.3 trillion. So…I think you misspelled “D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-S” as the driver of borrow-and-spend economic terrorism.
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The Mercury reported on changing Bay Area demographics this morning. Latino population stayed stable as a percentage of the overall demographic between 2010 and 2020 censuses, about 23%.
– 38% increase in 65 and older population
- 12% decrease in 5 and under population
- Caucasians and African-American populations declined about 20%.
- Asians, now the largest demographic group, grew about 25%.
San Jose has shed 50,000 residents since July, 2019. San Francisco has lost 73,000 people since 2019.
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I can only hope these relos aren’t Cali demtards taking their same F ed up libtard politics and voting patterns with them to whenever they move.
I think most Californians understand that the west coast in general and California in particular is an oasis for lefty thinkers, and once they leave, their protections vanish, so to speak.
A college friend of mine left Orange County for Southlake, TX and now considers himself a Texan, down to the cowboy hat and boots. Another good friend was 75 pounds overweight, hating life, and left Silicon Valley for Denver, Colorado. He dropped the weight quickly, and really enjoys Colorado. And to be frank…as much as I hated the weather, I really enjoyed my time in Detroit and Washington, DC. Thinking about moving back, tbh.
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This is the second time Biden has removed the people involved investigating Hunter. The first time was in Ukraine where as VP, he basically blackmailed the government to fire the guy, or they won’t get the funding he was promising. He then bragged about it afterwards…
I remember that. I was flat out stunned that Biden’s blatant blackmail, though made publicly on television, wasn’t called out by the mainstream press.
What am I saying? Of course the mainstream press gave him a free pass.
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