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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:28:13 GMT -8
Butterflies just aren’t what they used to be.
This Happened Two Miles From My House. Too Much Hate.
A Jewish man in California has died following a clash between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
Witnesses told Ventura County police that Paul Kessler, 69, was involved in a dispute with counter-protesters.
"During the altercation, Kessler fell backwards and struck his head on the ground," a police statement said. He died in hospital on Monday.
The county medical examiner ruled the cause of death was blunt force trauma "and the manner of death homicide".
Authorities called the incident isolated but said they have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles said that Kessler was hit by a megaphone wielded by a pro-Palestinian protester on Sunday afternoon.
That has not been confirmed by police.
What Do You Get If You Combine Hate and Stupid?
An Indianapolis woman was arrested on Friday after allegedly crashing her car into a school she mistakenly believed was a Jewish school with ties to Israel, police said.
Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, was arrested on a charge of criminal recklessness after allegedly telling officers she purposefully crashed into the building, which displayed a sign out front reading, “Israelite School of UPK,” a representative with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told HuffPost. She reportedly told responding officers that she’d been “watching the news and couldn’t breathe anymore,” and targeted the building because she thought it was an “Israel school,” the police statement reads.
Extremism experts noted that the building was actually home to the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, which multiple watchdogs describe as a radical and antisemitic sect of Hebrew Israelites.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:29:54 GMT -8
Virginia is For Voters
With Republicans and Democrats splitting control of a narrowly divided General Assembly, the outcome on Election Day will shape both Youngkin’s trajectory as a presidential hopeful and Virginia’s status as a relatively liberal outlier among Southern states.
Democrats have so far blocked him from pushing a conservative agenda with their two-seat majority in the state Senate. But if Republicans flip that chamber and hold the House of Delegates, Youngkin will have the allies he needs to enact GOP priorities such as a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, with some exceptions.
This year’s “midterm elections” are also likely to serve as a referendum on the political novice’s two years in office. An increasingly blue Virginia seemed to boomerang back toward the center with Youngkin’s victory two years ago — and the midterms will offer a test for both where the commonwealth and the country may be headed politically.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:36:00 GMT -8
Don't Panic 1
You might be asking then: Why not panic? There are a few reasons. First, President Barack Obama faced high disapproval ratings the year before the 2012 election (although not as high as Biden’s). And a number of early national polls suggested a close race between Obama and Mitt Romney, who would go on to be the GOP’s presidential nominee. While Obama led in some surveys at the time, a CNN/ORC poll in November 2011 found Romney with a 4-point edge.
Articles at the time suggested possible doom for Obama, including The New York Times analysis “Is Obama Toast?,” PBS’ “Poll Finds Young People Skeptical of Obama’s Re-election Prospects” and the left-leaning Brookings Institution’s “One Year to Go: President Barack Obama’s Uphill Battle for Reelection in 2012.” [...]
What happened? Obama won in 2012 by nearly 5 million votes and dominated the Electoral College 332 to 206 votes. And he did so by winning many of the key battleground states that are the focus of The New York Times/Siena College surveys.
We all get that Obama and Biden are not the same candidates. But what is instructive is that Obama won in large part by way of a superior ground game in terms of ensuring that voters who supported him actually did cast a ballot. Biden — who was Obama’s vice president — is obviously well aware of this. And given Biden’s ability so far to outraise Trump in terms of campaign donations, his campaign has more resources to invest robustly in this key part of the campaign.
The Rest of the NYT Story
Story #1 11/5
Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Voters in battleground states said they trusted Donald J. Trump over President Biden on the economy, foreign policy and immigration, as Mr. Biden’s multiracial base shows signs of fraying.
Story #2: 11/6
Trump indictments Haven’t Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might
If the former President is convicted and sentenced…around 6 percent of voters across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin say they would switch their votes to Mr. Biden.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:38:24 GMT -8
Randy Rainbow Interviews Porn Monitor Mike
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:41:15 GMT -8
The Big News from Previous Guy's Testimony Was Not That He Was a Rambling A-Hole. That isn't News. The New is That He Did So Much Damage to His Own Case.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said Donald Trump managed to utter “the stupidest possible thing he could say” while on the witness stand in his civil fraud trial in New York.
“Because Donald Trump is one of the very stupidest people to be charged with business fraud, and because his demonstrably ineffectual lawyers obviously do not have the skills to prepare their client for even the simplest and most obvious questions, Donald Trump incriminated himself and his children with the only one-word answer that he gave all day,” O’Donnell said on Monday night.
The word came in response to a question about who in the Trump Organization was responsible for preventing and detecting fraud.
“Everybody,” Trump said.
“And there, Donald Trump destroyed any shred of defense in the case for himself and his co-defendants, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,” O’Donnell said. “You can spend weeks trying to think of a stupider answer than that, and you cannot come up with one.”
O’Donnell pointed out that Judge Arthur Engoron has already determined that Trump committed fraud for years. The main question now is how much of a penalty they will face, potentially up to $250 million.
As a witness, Trump’s job was to make the judge think the fraud wasn’t his fault or the fault of his sons and blame his accountants, which could potentially soften the penalty.
Instead, Trump “incriminated himself and his kids,” O’Donnell said.
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Amid a contentious back-and-forth with the judge presiding over his civil fraud trial in New York City on Monday, Donald Trump acknowledged that he’d influenced the valuation of several of his properties.
“Did you ever think that the values were off in your statement of financial condition?” Assistant Attorney General Kevin Wallace asked the former president.
“Yes, on occasion,” Trump responded. “Both high and low.”
Asked in particular about a 2017 statement regarding the value of Trump’s penthouse apartment in Trump Tower in Manhattan, Trump said it “probably” came at his direction.
“Probably, I said I thought it was too high,” Trump said. “I don’t know what’s too high anymore, because I’m seeing things sold at numbers that are very high.”
In earlier financial statements, Trump falsely claimed the apartment was more than 30,000 square feet, a significant exaggeration that had to be walked back after a Forbes magazine investigation found the property was actually less than 11,000 square feet.
In a separate line of questioning Monday, Trump distanced himself from a statement of financial condition from 2021, claiming he was busy at the time “keeping our country safe” from the likes of China and Russia.
“I was so busy in the White House,” Trump said. “My threshold was China, Russia and keeping our country safe.”
“Just for the record,” Wallace replied, “you weren’t president in 2021?”
“No, I wasn’t,” Trump acknowledged.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:42:22 GMT -8
The Perfect Combinaiton of Crazy and Boring
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:44:46 GMT -8
Once Again, Financial "Geniuses" Invested Billions in a Stupid Idea.
WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, marking a stunning fall for the office sharing company once seen as a Wall Street darling that promised to upend the way people went to work around the world.
In a late Monday announcement, WeWork said it entered into a restructuring support agreement with the majority of its stakeholders to “drastically reduce” the company’s debt while further evaluating WeWork’s commercial office lease portfolio.
WeWork is also requesting the “ability to reject the leases of certain locations,” which the company says are largely non-operational, as part of the filing. Specific estimates of total impacted locations were not disclosed Monday, but all affected members have received advanced notice, the company said.
If You Have Apple TV+ and Haven't Watched We Crashed, It's An Excellent Show.
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Post by mhbruin on Nov 7, 2023 9:46:53 GMT -8
What About Henry VIII?
It's a terrible time to be a HENRY
It's a bad time to be almost rich — no, really.
That's because the rollercoaster recovery from the pandemic-induced recession has left people who are high-earning, but not rich yet — known as HENRYs — with higher costs and slower wage growth, compared with their lower-income peers.
Plus, HENRYs are more likely to be in the industries affected by a spate of layoffs, and labor market softening has left higher earners more vulnerable. At the same time, there's still a red-hot labor market for hourly roles, and blue-collar jobs are booming.
Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at Glassdoor, told Insider the economy is entering "the anti-2000s."
"If the early 2000s were this economy where there were booming white-collar jobs and a lot of headwinds to blue-collar jobs, it feels like all of those wins have almost reversed, and we're seeing the opposite of what we saw in the early 2000s," he said.
In response to recession fears and inflation, HENRYs are adjusting their overall spending habits. They have substantial discretionary income, but feel financially insecure, with many living below their means to ensure future financial independence.
It's a Lot Worse to Be Poor.
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