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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

Handyman said:
They pulled one dude from his van as he pulled up and walked him fully surrounded. It was disturbing.
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On similar note:

I've seen a couple TikTok videos that said the cleaned up look and stance Luigi took while being walked was heavily coded in prison language. Seems even the inmates are taking care of Luigi since he had an eyebrow trim, a fade haircut, and walked with head held high and confidant.

The fellow inmates are protecting him.

One video said that it's also a message to the cops and corrections officers that they need to protect Luigi, because if a CO gets a little too handsy and fiesty with Luigi, there are a bunch of lifers with nothing to lose who can make the COs lives miserable.




As for the Amazon strike breakers, who knew the Pinkertons doubled as NYPD?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Funny thing is, I see this as a MUCH bigger issue than TikTok. I don't actually trust TP-Link and refuse to buy their networking equipment.
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Funny, I have one of their plug-n-play Bluetooth receivers (the built-in ones aren't good/strong enough for my needs). It does not play nicely with Win11. Every system update M$ pushes out, I have to reinstall the dam drivers to get it working again. :mad:

Gonna switch to another brand before Jan 20.
 
aparch said:
On similar note:

I've seen a couple TikTok videos that said the cleaned up look and stance Luigi took while being walked was heavily coded in prison language. Seems even the inmates are taking care of Luigi since he had an eyebrow trim, a fade haircut, and walked with head held high and confidant.

The fellow inmates are protecting him.

One video said that it's also a message to the cops and corrections officers that they need to protect Luigi, because if a CO gets a little too handsy and fiesty with Luigi, there are a bunch of lifers with nothing to lose who can make the COs lives miserable.




As for the Amazon strike breakers, who knew the Pinkertons doubled as NYPD?
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NYPD = New York Pinkerton Doubles? Man, TV has been leading me wrong all these years.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Funny, I have one of their plug-n-play Bluetooth receivers (the built-in ones aren't good/strong enough for my needs). It does not play nicely with Win11. Every system update M$ pushes out, I have to reinstall the dam drivers to get it working again. :mad:

Gonna switch to another brand before Jan 20.
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It isn't coded...the inmates are making it pretty well known they back Luigi and are protecting him. I saw a clip where a News Nation guy was outside the prison, knew the prisoners had News Nation on so he had the anchor ask questions on the air and you could hear them respond yelling through the camera. If anything happens to Luigi there will be hell to pay.
 
Handyman said:
I'm not downloading tik tock...care to quote?
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https://newrepublic.com/post/189647/...alk-photoshoot

“I’m very concerned about my client’s right to a fair trial in this case,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s lawyer. “He’s being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials.”

“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest staged perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career,” Friedman Agnilio said. “It was absolutely unnecessary.”

She argued that it was also illegal, given that a perp walk is unconstitutional if not used for a “legitimate law enforcement objective,” citing a Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling, Lauro v. Charles.

“And what was the NYC mayor doing at this press conference? That just made it utterly political,” Friedman Agnifilo said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who was indicted on federal corruption charges in October, inexplicably loomed behind Mangione.

“There was absolutely no need for that whatsoever, and frankly, your Honor, the mayor should know more than anyone of the presumption of innocence that he too is afforded when he [is] dealing with his own issues,” Friedman Agnifilo said. “And frankly, I submit that he was just trying to detract from those issues by making a spectacle of Mr. Mangione.”

Agnifilo pointed out that Adams was missing a crucial “allegedly” in there. “Your Honor, he’s not a symbol. He is somebody who is afforded the right to a fair trial, he’s innocent until proven guilty.”


She also pointed out that the prosecutors can't get their stories straight; is he being charged with state crimes or are they federal? And why are both parties charges not the same? Why is there conflicting issues with the state and federal cases?


Oh, and the pre-trial judge is married to a former executive for Pfizer.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Jesus. So that's what money buys you.
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She's just getting started.

A poor person murders a rich person; he goes to prison for life.

A rich person murders a poor person; he walks.

So, what happens when a rich person murders a rich person?

Bernie Madoff was a rich person who ripped off rich people, and he went to prison for life.
 
Of course he was perp-walked in spectacular fashion.

Let me ask you guys this. How many people are shot in cold blood on the streets of NYC in any given year, or on the streets of any major metropolitan city, for that matter. Quite a few I'm thinking.

And on how many of those have the feds decided to step in to go after the defendant themselves. Not a whole lot, probably. Shooting deaths are typically handled locally.

They are going to try to make an example of Luigi. The State of NY and the Federal government are going to bring the entirety of their resources to bear on crushing him like a bug, to make an example of him.

Who does he have to thank for all of that? Every social media turd who made that boy their hero. Top notch work.
 
SJHovey said:
Of course he was perp-walked in spectacular fashion.

Let me ask you guys this. How many people are shot in cold blood on the streets of NYC in any given year, or on the streets of any major metropolitan city, for that matter. Quite a few I'm thinking.

And on how many of those have the feds decided to step in to go after the defendant themselves. Not a whole lot, probably. Shooting deaths are typically handled locally.

They are going to try to make an example of Luigi. The State of NY and the Federal government are going to bring the entirety of their resources to bear on crushing him like a bug, to make an example of him.

Who does he have to thank for all of that? Every social media turd who made that boy their hero. Top notch work.
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Social media godmaking doesn't mean he has his constitutionally protected rights waved.
 
Visualizing a default.

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Attempts at political reform (and attendant reform of the derelict system of public finance) by the Patriots were thwarted by the suppression of their revolt by the Prussian intervention in the quarrel with Stadtholder William V in 1787. This meant that no further attempts at reform were made until the overthrow of the old Republic and its replacement by the Batavian Republic in 1795.[SUP][45][/SUP] That puppet state of the French Republic was unable to get the freedom of movement from its "sister republic", that would have been necessary to bring about effective reforms, even though the Patriots now had the chance to force them through. An enormous new tax burden to finance transfer payments to France (a war indemnity of 100 million guilders and annual maintenance costs of 12 million guilders of an army of occupation), amounting to 230 million guilders total, broke the back of the fiscal system. Eventually, the public debt was forced into default (though only when the Netherlands were annexed to imperial France in 1810).

More importantly, the Dutch trading system was remorselessly ground away between a British blockade and the French enforced boycott of British goods in the Continental System. This was not compensated by adequate access to the French market, because even when the Netherlands were incorporated in the French empire the old protectionist barriers remained in place. For a while, the Dutch were therefore unable to trade legally anywhere (which left smuggling as the only alternative).[SUP][46][/SUP] In the period of the annexation, 1810–1813, the ports were bereft of shipping and the remnants of industry collapsed.

These external factors were reinforced by internal ones. The necessary reforms of the Dutch system of public finance (as embodied in the Tax Reform Plan of Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel)[SUP][47][/SUP] were blocked for a long time by federalist opposition, and only enacted in the final year of the Republic, just before its transformation to the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. By then it was too little too late.
In the long period of crisis, disinvestments from the commercial and industrial sectors (in the face of unprofitability, high risks, taxation, and forced lending) and the destruction of asset value through foreign and domestic default undermined the remaining international stature of the commercial and financial sectors. Domestically, the disruption of institutions and the irregular access to markets plunged the once-protected sectors of employment ... into a crisis that tore at the venerable structure of the labor market and overwhelmed the Republic's charitable system. This crisis hit hardest in the cities of Holland and Zeeland, which lost 10 percent of their population between 1795 and 1815 ...Deurbanization, re-agriculturalization, and pauperization dominated the final days of this economy.[SUP][[/SUP]
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SJHovey said:
Who does he have to thank for all of that? Every social media turd who made that boy their hero.
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That is a factor, but it's not the main driver of either the attention or the politician scramble to be in on the kill. He executed a member of the ruling class, with an explicit political message. That will get you broken on the wheel in a public ceremony in every age.

Power most fears and punishes direct attacks on itself as power.
 
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