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Leading contender in Portland mayor race asked, “Are you Antifa?” Look how she answers. (Spoiler: YES) pic.twitter.com/YMDxbiAFLA
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) October 9, 2020
Reposting this here.
Could be worse.
Leading contender in Portland mayor race asked, “Are you Antifa?” Look how she answers. (Spoiler: YES) pic.twitter.com/YMDxbiAFLA
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) October 9, 2020
Ted Wheeler is trailing in the mayoral race to this woman, who not only wore a skirt with communist leaders on it, but basically said antifa isn’t bad, so she’s going to crack down on the police if there are riots.
It appears that the media, (and law professors with TDS who could walk over to their tax colleagues’ offices) who have been 1099’d or W-2 earners their entire careers, are now pivoting to the loans and the amount of loans. 1) Trump is in real estate, so he will have loans; 2) the tax system is structured to encourage developers and lenders to take on these risks and lever up.
Folks in the media are claiming that bc Trump has more than $400MM in loans maturing over the next few years, he is facing massive defaults and will consequently be desperate to cut a deal.
One the the deals journalists have been referencing is a $100MM loan on Trump Tower (1/) https://t.co/qHSrzsOOna
— Molly Prince 🍂 (@mollyfprince) September 28, 2020
Another thread from a woman who was formerly in commercial real estate. I, too, thought the interest rates on the loans was kind of low for the types of bridge and development loans that are standard for real estate developments.
This is red meat for the socialists / people who have never been in real estate. Just like the Amazon doesn’t pay taxes crowd, I’m looking forward to the takes from people who have never filled out anything other than a 1040EZ. I’m assuming this is an attempt to drive a wedge between Trump and his populist base, but it won’t work.
https://twitter.com/mollyfprince has a good analysis thread here. In summary, Trump has really good tax lawyers. Businesses take losses on taxable assets to reduce their tax burden. Shocking, I know.
I tried posting this yesterday, along with a bunch of tweets analyzing the texts, but it wasn’t approved. In short, the media will ignore this because they were part of it, laundering the information (or should I say disinformation) to allow the case to be opened and continued. To the person trying to make a point about citing left-wing media, this is why they don’t carry as much weight as they used to… because they abandoned actual journalism for partisanship. Say what you will about right-leaning sources, lately they’ve been more likely to cite evidence and try to dig up facts.
Huh? In her career before she became a judge, she litigated and argued some of the ground-breaking cases for gender-equality, including the case that was the basis for “On the Basis of Sex,” involving a tax deduction that was exclusively for widows, but not widowers. Before that, there was a case involving military benefits. Once she established equal protection for gender as a legal principle, she used it to get laws to be gender neutral.
PLEASE, give her death 24 hours before bringing politics into this. Ruth Bader Ginsberg was an extraordinary advocate, litigated some of the most historical and difficult cases, and was a delightful woman. Even if I disagreed with her on legal issues, I respected her intellect and her skills. Justice Scalia and Justice Ginsberg modeled how people who disagreed with each other vehemently in court could hold a lifelong friendship.
I know the infighting and discord has already begun, but I, for one, would like to be able to admire and remember her for at least a day without thinking about the political polarization that will follow. People (especially female lawyers) are hurting, and grieving, and we should let them have their grief without plunging ourselves into yet another polarizing debate. If they choose to go to that place, so be it, but I would rather we give her grace for at least a day.
Thank you, in advance.
Jay Inslee to Kate Brown, Jenny Durkan, and Ted Wheeler: “Hold my beer.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/inslee-broke-law-by-bringing-apples-to-fire-ravaged-areas/
I know his (and his wife’s) heart was in the right place, but quality control, please.
If I understand correctly, the holdup for the Pac-12 is that Gavin Newsom and Kate Brown have essentially banned football, except for the pros. The pros have testing protocols in place, which allow them to play. With the approval of the saliva test, I think cheap, quick testing is now available and should clear college football to resume.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who also serves as police commissioner, has released a video saying he has ordered police officers to stop using tear gas for crowd control. pic.twitter.com/UM8xVAyD1x
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) September 10, 2020
Ted Wheeler just banned the use of tear gas except for in life threatening situations. Follows Jenny Durkan in Seattle.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/01/sarah-iannarone-portland-antifa-ted-wheeler/
The great thing about democracy is that we get the leadership we deserve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Portland,_Oregon_mayoral_election
Look at the candidates that didn’t make the top two (after ranked choice like San Francisco). An anti-police brutality activist, a perennial candidate who hosts a show on PBS, and an architect / sustainability consultant.
There’s no balance in Portland, so they get the choices they want… Ted Wheeler or a woman who says “I am antifa” openly, and suggests that peaceful protests aren’t effective at delivering the message.
I did some math. If the northeastern states (and Louisiana, Michigan and DC) had the US average number of deaths as of Monday (548 deaths per million, NOT adjusted for the inflated deaths in those states), our total death numbers would be over 43,000 lower (43,038). Strangely, Pennsylvania issued one of the orders, but managed to contain its outbreak in March-June much better than NY / NJ. Maybe because it was revealed that the health officer pulled their own parent out of a nursing home just before the order was issued. The uproar may have saved lives.
In the OANN defamation suit (Maddow called them “Russian propaganda), Maddow’s lawyers argued that her show is not a show about facts. The Court dismissed the defamation suit on an anti-SLAPP motion because Maddow’s show is one of “opinion and rhetorical hyperbole,” and Maddow engages in an “exaggeration of the facts.”
Hahaha. Is Lorraine Ali comparing a virtual convention with pre-taped speeches to… say scripted television or heavily edited reality shows? And she’s a “television critic?”
This is why I’m so down on so-called journalists and media people. They try to tell people what to think (as our moral and intellectual superiors), but they’re essentially just putting their biases on display (and likely so out of touch with reality that their biases are based on lazy tropes). Other than linking to her criticism of the DNC (comparing it to a telethon), there’s no analysis. No discussion of real people’s reactions (the actual audience, not the media or the twittersphere). It’s easy to snipe at a bunch of political speeches, delivered to an empty room in a vacuum, but her main critique (“branding disaster”) doesn’t even make sense. We’ll see on an objective level what the effects of these conventions are, but I wouldn’t give this “critic’s” opinion any thought, other than to diminish my opinion of her and her writing.
*during* the Democratic National Convention. We’ll see if there’s any convention bump this year. I have not watched any of it so far, but I can’t imagine that the Republicans will do a worse job than the Democrats. If there’s one thing Trump knows, it’s entertainment.
Running on an actual record is a powerful thing. (A glaring example was trotting out John Kerry to say Trump’s foreign policy is a mess after the UAE-Israel normalization of relations agreement). You want to run on COVID (zero deaths)? Only the most partisan believe that some alternative reality president would have achieved zero cases and zero deaths, and trotting out Andrew Cuomo to tell us shoving COVID cases into nursing homes was a good idea won’t play outside of New England.
The media can scoff all it wants, but the game is up, and nobody should care what the media thinks anymore. Also, Twitter is not real life. Stirring up postal conspiracies in the media among celebrities and the already susceptible / weak-minded / low information / willing to hang onto any thread Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers isn’t going to move the needle.
