Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dispatches from Clown World: Actual NY Times Headline Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 17:34:41 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 87 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:34:42 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="45eba1fe4077fd0dfd24686d40ef07e0"; logging-data="2868164"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/I030QLCd7uM0fEfMB34Ws" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PvKuPvFTRnlVVbYuWNk1CijGUCc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5115 On 4/1/24 4:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 3/31/24 4:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/30/24 4:13 PM, trotsky wrote: >>>>> On 3/30/24 11:28 AM, FPP wrote: >>>>>> On 3/29/24 1:48 PM, trotsky wrote: >>>>>>> On 3/29/24 9:07 AM, FPP wrote: >>>>>>>> On 3/28/24 3:44 PM, shawn wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:41:20 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Mar 26, 2024 at 4:04:09 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 3/25/24 8:43 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Wait a minute. Trump's civil fraud verdict was based on the >>>>>>>>>>>> notion he systematically gave an incorrect valuation to his >>>>>>>>>>>> properties in order to deceive lenders (even though all lenders >>>>>>>>>>>> were repaid and none of them ever made complaints against him and >>>>>>>>>>>> all said they'd do business with him again). Now, the New York >>>>>>>>>>>> Times admits that reaching a proper valuation for Trump's >>>>>>>>>>>> buildings is a "guessing game". >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Bullshit. He lied. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> For loans, he inflated his valuations. For taxes, he lowered his >>>>>>>>>>> valuations. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> So when Trump takes out a loan and pays it back with interest, >>>>>>>>>> that's a crime. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As Jon Stewart pointed out in his video Trump did pay the loan back >>>>>>>>> with interest but much less than he would have if he had given the >>>>>>>>> properties the proper valuation. Which amounted to a lot due to the >>>>>>>>> sums involved. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> And he made the people of New York pick up the tab to make up for >>>>>>>> what he shorted the state. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Shorted on taxes, cheated banks out of their profits... profits that >>>>>>>> COULD have been lent out to other New Yorkers, who didn't lie and >>>>>>>> cheat. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Trump cheated and made those that didn't cheat pick up the slack. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is there a reason it took this long to bring him to justice? >>>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah.  Not a good reason... but the reason is Merrick the Mild doesn't >>>>>> want to ruffle any feathers. >>>>>> >>>>>> He's part of the plan... >>>>> >>>>> I don't think Garland was ever cut out for this, he belonged on SCOTUS >>>>> but McConnell screwed him by committing an act of sedition. >>>>> >>>> Do you know Garland's background? If you did, you wouldn't even ask... >>> >>>>> In October 2021, Donald Trump praised Garland as "a good man" and said he >>>>> was glad Garland was Attorney General. >>>> >>>> Garland is a stooge. >>> >>> And yet back in the 2010s you wanted this stooge on the nation's highest >>> court. >>> >> Obama wanted him > > And so did you. We have many, many Usenet posts attesting to it. > I wanted the normal process. You know... the one where all the other justices were nominated, given a hearing and voted on in committee. Mitch and the Republicans decided the first black president was too uppity to get what every other president got. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0