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"The kangaroo is a funny animal. When attacked, it defends itself." ~ Neville Cardus "This is what I observe or expect to happen" isn't the same as "This is what I want to happen." Not even remotely close. "Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excel in it if you can; but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will" ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chester

Driving Tony Manero and Miss Daisy to the discotheque.

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The loan appears to have never been paid back. That makes it a gift, which is taxable income. Thomas has a habit of not reporting things, so I’d wager that he didn’t report the gift to the IRS. That’s tax fraud, which is a crime.

I’m no expert, and I have to speculate because Thomas and his friend won’t come clean. But this is what it looks like to me.

If someone makes a $270K transaction and doesn’t document it…

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Without the amount of money loaned being known, that may not be the case. The RV was worth that much, the loan... unknown.

Sugar daddy might have bought the RV and let Clarence just drive it. The lien holder NYT found was the sugar daddy.

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Born too late. John Wayne's racist generation predates you.

But Denzel was cheated when Al "hoo haaa" Pacino won for "Scent of a Woman."

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If you don’t know or can’t see it then nothing I say will convince you otherwise. Adding I have voted in every election since I was old enough to vote. Democrats neglect to send their candidates to smaller, currently so-called red states (lack of interest) and wonder why they don’t win. Absent EC, my vote is one of 300,000,000. Basically no value/no chance to make a difference. No reason to continue voting.

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Fair enough. You seem to prefer that a minority of voters get a bigger voice in a democracy.

Absent EC, your vote is one of 300,000,000.

You know what mine will be? One of 300,000,000

Might be interesting to compare what it is now.

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If you don’t know or can’t see it then nothing I say will convince you otherwise. Adding I have voted in every election since I was old enough to vote. Democrats neglect to send their candidates to smaller, currently so-called red states (lack of interest) and wonder why they don’t win. Absent EC, my vote is one of 300,000,000. Basically no value/no chance to make a difference. No reason to continue voting.

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The best I make out that insinuates wrong-doing is the lack of documentation of a loan that exceeds $10k. That non-reporting is against the rules for the court.

Like the other times this was discovered with him and other justices

A rule that has no penalty is...a suggestion.

Or did I miss what you saw as illegal in the article?

It *should* be illegal, but is it?

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Adding. Real life example. Small town asked the state for and was granted money to build the first and only swimming pool for their school. Money was shifted away at the last minute to build another very large pool for kids in the big city to specifically canoe in or something other than swimming.

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Do you live in a large city or a state with large population? Different perspective if you live in a small town or a state with a smaller population. Even after money is targeted to remediate the money/advantage gap it frequently gets diverted away from them to big cities/states with larger populations where big donors and a large voting pool exist. Electoral college was meant to be a political correction for lack of power.

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Regardless of which city I live in, or my perspective, I am drawing attention to the fact that the electoral college inflicts a disproportionate voter representation. Which is being attempted in other ways in red states.

But, I'll answer your question: I live in California in a city that has ~100k people.

"Electoral college was meant to be a political correction for lack of power."

A pity then, that it has not done that.

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#basketball #Indiana #IndianaPacers #NationalBasketballAssociation #NBA #NBAEasternConference #NBAEasternConferenceCentralDivision #Pacers

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My favorite clutch player and trash-talker of all time.

Played on far less talented teams, had crabby technique, and did amazing things.

I remember that 8 points in 9 seconds sequence (not the one in the photo).

The Reddit protests failed

The Israel protests failed

Next up: the SAG/ASTRA strike

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nostr:npub1ddpukxz4rkcadch7gu5hqre42lju5spyg2ph747yvgysathy4ulqye2tax Whenever I tell people this sort of stuff they have aneurysms. They think that The Constitution protects differently abled, POC, and women. The propaganda and propagation of ignorance is so good these days.

nostr:npub1s9cj2f5g7k5wwsrndfj65rfs8par8e6m068k8xnwfzhzfwk92e3s8uhg5j I would wager that many of them are the same people who will utter "Those who do not learn from History, are doomed to repeat it."

I have been banned from at least one social media platform for referring to the founders derisively as "slave-bangers."

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DeSantis showed the way when a ballot initiative restored the voting rights of felons who had served their time. He undid that easily.

Until anti-abortion legislators are replaced, abortion will remain banned or more restricted with time.

Initiatives are only temporary hurdles.