Elections; 2024
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This guy should be president because at least he pays taxes, unlike Trump
Why Cornel West is broke
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimadenham/2023/12/01/why-cornel-west-i
s-broke/?sh=59df9dec55aa
Cornel West has been a fixture of American society for more than three decades, publishing books, teaching at Ivy League institutions, commenting on cable news, collaborating on music with Prince—even popping up in sequels to the Matrix. Ubiquity provided liquidity, with West earning an estimated $15 million or so over the last 30 years. But oddly, as he mounts an independent run for president, his net worth resembles that of a first-year adjunct professor. “I live paycheck to paycheck,” says West.
A review of federal filings and property records confirms that West’s net worth is near zero. Other outlets have previously reported on his troubles paying taxes over the years. But no one so far has explained how someone so successful became so broke. With West in position to affect who becomes America’s next president, Forbes set out to answer that question, digging into heaps of legal and tax documents filed in various jurisdictions over six decades. Turns out much of the damage was self-inflicted.
West burst onto the national scene in the 1990s with Race Matters, a compilation of essays that sold more than 500,000 copies. He traveled the country to deliver speeches, hauling in more than $500,000 a year. Much of the money flowed to him with no taxes deducted. West blew it—on many things, especially women—leaving little left for Uncle Sam by the time tax season arrived. The liens piled up: $144,000 in 1998, $105,000 in 2000, $205,000 in 2001 and so on. “Almost like a reptile biting its tail,” he says now.
West lived in a Four Seasons condo in Boston, which he later admitted he could not afford, and rode around in a Mercedes or Cadillac. One of his four ex-wives accused West of maintaining a covert apartment in Boston for $5,000 a month to use as a love den. She also alleged that, despite not having any health conditions, he later took a medical leave from his job at Harvard to live a “secret life” with another woman in New Mexico.
In court documents filed in 2002 and 2003, West did not deny burning money on affairs, at least one of which produced a child. (He acknowledged he had an 18-month-old daughter at the time.) And in his 2009 memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, West confirms some of the less-salacious details. But when asked in November to respond to claims he’d “hid or wasted” close to a million dollars, at least some of which went to support extramarital affairs, West offered via email that “The allegations were too ridiculous to attend to–then and now, my brother!” He did not respond to a follow-up inquiry that detailed his ex-wife’s specific allegations.
In 2002, he blamed his financial troubles on other factors, such as his soon-to-be ex-wife’s propensity to spend money on Chanel clothing, upscale dining and antique furniture. More recently, after news about his tax liens surfaced, West elaborated on the genesis of his debt problems, suggesting the student loans he incurred as an undergraduate put him in a “black hole” that he could never escape.
That’s nonsense. After three decades in the public eye, West has earned more than enough money to repay his student loans. Without enormous earnings, West would not owe the federal government so much in unpaid taxes (he still has about $483,000 in outstanding tax liens today). The real explanation for West’s financial problems: recklessness. Despite his professorial appearance — West is famous for his toothy smile and W. E. B. Du Bois-inspired, three-piece suits — he has spent and lived wildly, impregnating and abandoning multiple women, leaving him with significant divorce and child-support payments, some of which he failed to pay. If government leadership is largely about managing money and maintaining relationships, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in the field who is less prepared for the job than Cornel West. Trump
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This guy should be president because at least he pays taxes, unlike Trump
Not really though...
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Without enormous earnings, West would not owe the federal government so much in unpaid taxes (he still has about $483,000 in outstanding tax liens today).
He owes almost twice in taxes than I've actually earned in my lifetime.
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Why Cornel West is broke
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimadenham/2023/12/01/why-cornel-west-i
s-broke/?sh=59df9dec55aa
Cornel West has been a fixture of American society for more than three decades, publishing books, teaching at Ivy League institutions, commenting on cable news, collaborating on music with Prince—even popping up in sequels to the Matrix. Ubiquity provided liquidity, with West earning an estimated $15 million or so over the last 30 years. But oddly, as he mounts an independent run for president, his net worth resembles that of a first-year adjunct professor. “I live paycheck to paycheck,” says West.
I've grossed little over $250k my entire life. I haven't had any income for 4 1/2 years. I don't live paycheck to paycheck.
Reason #1: No wife (wives).
Reason #2: No ex-wife (ex-wives).
Reason #3: No kids.
Reason #4: Paid cash for house.
Reason #5: 25+ year old car that I bought for $2k cash back in 2008 and kept running until the government is going to make me sell it next year when it can't pass an emissions test.
But really West... It's the women man. I'm sure you had some fun times, but holy shit bro. I could have lived like a king off of the interest you could have been making until the sun burned out.
You couldn't get that shit out of your system by your late 20's?
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“People complaining about my anti-Trump tweets need to understand: I love my country and I feel it’s my duty to oppose this demented sociopath with every fiber of my being.”
- MARK HAMILL
Mark Hamill is back on Twitter again, huh?
Dude is a crack addict. He keeps quitting but he always comes back.
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Republican Senator Rebuked in Home State Newspaper Column: 'Embarrassment'
Kennedy asked Dr. Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, about gun violence in Chicago, a city conservatives frequently say has a high crime rate due to progressive prosecutorial policies. However, when Ranney explained that Kennedy's home state has a higher firearms death rate than Chicago, Kennedy dismissed her response as "word salad."
According to a study conducted by the Violence Policy Center, Louisiana had a gun rate death of 28.42 in 2022. Chicago had a gun rate death of roughly 25.82 for that same year, according to a Newsweek analysis of the city's 2022 crime data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-rebuked-in-
home-state-newspaper-column-embarrassment/ar-AA1kVVFx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=d9f00b976c4240d8bb858fea065bc425&ei=99
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-rebuked-in-
home-state-newspaper-column-embarrassment/ar-AA1kVVFx?
Too funny. Hey Jack, are you paying attention? Jack likes to do the same thing here Kennedy likes to do.
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Republican Senator Rebuked in Home State Newspaper Column: 'Embarrassment'
Kennedy asked Dr. Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, about gun violence in Chicago, a city conservatives frequently say has a high crime rate due to progressive prosecutorial policies. However, when Ranney explained that Kennedy's home state has a higher firearms death rate than Chicago, Kennedy dismissed her response as "word salad."
According to a study conducted by the Violence Policy Center, Louisiana had a gun rate death of 28.42 in 2022. Chicago had a gun rate death of roughly 25.82 for that same year, according to a Newsweek analysis of the city's 2022 crime data.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-rebuked-in-
home-state-newspaper-column-embarrassment/ar-AA1kVVFx?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEXST&cvid=d9f00b976c4240d8bb858fea065bc425&ei=99
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-rebuked-in-
home-state-newspaper-column-embarrassment/ar-AA1kVVFx?
THUGR: Too funny. Hey Jack, are you paying attention? Jack likes to do the same thing here Kennedy likes to do.
WHY IS LOUISIANA MURDER RATE SO HIGH??
LET'S LOOK AT THE THREE LARGEST CITIES ...
NEW ORLEANS
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In the following months, violence continued raging in the city, clocking in 280 homicides for calendar year 2022 and a homicide rate of 70 per 100,000 people, WDSU reported.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-orleans-closes-2022-sky-high-homicide-r
ate-decades-horrific
As already described, New Orleans is headed by a black female Dem Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, following a long line of Dems
BATON ROUGE
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Baton Rouge also registered one of the highest murder rates in the country..
39.61 per 100,000 people.
https://vanlifewanderer.com/2022/01/24/is-baton-rouge-safe-everything-
you-need-to-know-crime-stats-maps-and-tips/
Mayor Sharon Weston Broome, a black female Dem in a long line of Dems
SHREVEPORT
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The rate of murder in Shreveport is 0.1272 per 1,000 [127 per 100,000] residents during a standard year.
https://crimegrade.org/murder-shreveport-la/
Mayor Tom Arceneaux, 2022, a black Republican in a city primarily Dem since 1880.
Comparing STATEWIDE murder rates to CITYWIDE murder rates is indeed word salad.
YOU'RE funny, THUGR.
So I would be careful about calling others funny.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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I mean, really...
Manipulating Ted with bogus statistics is like shooting fish in a barrel with a gatling gun.
Seriously, Ted.
Don't come at me, bro. You'll only embarrass yourself.
I didn't even need to debunk this one, since Sigs lowered herself and took time out of her busy day to take care of that for me.
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It's not just Biden
Matthew Yglesias | Dec 4, 2023
https://www.slowboring.com/p/its-not-just-biden
Joe Biden’s current polling is bad, and there are a lot of theories as to why.
I have some theories of my own, but relevant context for any theory is that Justin Trudeau’s polling in Canada is much worse. That could support a story about how political currents in the Anglophone world are tilting sharply against progressives, perhaps a backlash to wokeness and the welfare state. But a Conservative Party is in office in the UK, and their polling is, if anything, even worse than Trudeau’s. Back in October, New Zealand turned out their governing center-left party and the right scored a big win. But in the spring of 2022, Australian voters kicked out a conservative incumbent government and brought the center-left to power.
Which is to say incumbents have been losing across the English-speaking world.
The partisan politics of Ireland are a little hard to characterize, but right now the country is governed by an unusual coalition of the two main parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. The grand coalition is currently polling at a combined 37 percent, and if an election were held tomorrow (which it won’t be — it’s not scheduled until 2025), there would probably be an unprecedented Sinn Fein government as a result.
I’ve been tempted, based on this kind of casual empiricism, to assert that Biden’s bad numbers are a part of a nearly universal pattern in which every incumbent government is either unpopular or else already lost an election since the big inflation wave of 2021-2022. A more systematic review of the evidence (done with help from Maya) shows that’s not exactly correct. But it is approximately true. And I think it supports the view that the global fundamentals are just ugly for incumbents.
Voters wanted the end of the pandemic to mean immediate restoration of 2019 economic conditions, but that was not possible. And even in places where the rate of inflation has come down, people are still bitter about what transpired.
I think it’s useful to look at who has won re-election in 2022 and 2023:
Viktor Orban was re-elected in April 2022.
About a week later, Emanuel Macron was re-elected in France, but it was the best-ever result for the opposition National Front, and Macron’s party lost its majority in parliament.
In Portugal, a center-left minority government faced a crisis because left-wing parties wouldn’t back its budget proposal, and this led to an election in which a lot of left voters defected to the center-left, giving them a majority.
Pedro Sanchez’s center-left government in Spain lost its majority in July of 2023, but after months of talks, he was able to stay in power by making a deal with small separatist parties.
In Denmark, Mette Fredericksen’s coalition of progressive parties lost power, but she stayed on as prime minister by forming a grand coalition with some center-right parties.
The key thing is that out of these five, really only Hungary and Portugal represented strong results for the incumbent governments. By contrast, we’ve had clear turnovers of power in Australia, the Czech Republic, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Poland, Estonia, and Finland. And though coalition talks have not yet finished, things in the Netherlands seem to be headed in the same direction.
In addition to the aforementioned unpopular incumbents in Canada and the UK, Fumio Kishida’s approval rating is underwater (32-35), and Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are currently polling in third place in Germany.
All of which is to say that while there is a bit of a global trend toward anti-immigrant parties, the dominant global trend seems more toward incumbents being unpopular and losing.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yup. We're done with globalism.
We're done with you.
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Quote:Trump said “I think if you had a real election and Jesus came down and God came down and said, ‘I’m gonna be the scorekeeper here,’ I think we’d win [in California], I think we’d win in Illinois, and I think we’d win in New York.”
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Yup. We're done with globalism.
We're done with you.
Even Fox News couldn’t air Donald Trump’s election lies in full
By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling | December 4, 2023
https://newrepublic.com/post/177281/fox-news-forced-fact-check-trump-e
lection-lies
During a couple of back-to-back campaign stops in Iowa, Trump reiterated claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and even went so far as to claim he wanted to “redo the election” and encourage his followers in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta to “watch those votes when they come in” in 2024.
Fox News took note.
“Well, the former president finally got around to some campaign promises amid lots of cheering, as you heard,” said Fox host Arthel Neville. “Many untruths; the 2020 election was not rigged, it was not stolen.”
The live react could be part of a turning tide for Fox, which earlier this year settled a historic lawsuit for failing to dispute similar election lies, paying a whopping $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems. The network is still in the throes of another, $2.7 billion lawsuit by Smartmatic, another voting machine company allegedly defamed by Fox’s conduct.
Still, it’s not the first time Trump and Neville have clashed—in 2019, the former president tweeted that Neville and fellow hosts Leland Vittert and Shepard Smith should quit Fox in favor of CNN.
That wasn’t the only headline Trump was after on Saturday. In the same tour, Trump claimed that he invented the term “caravan” and unironically claimed that he was God-chosen in the 2020 election.
“I think if you had a real election and Jesus came down and God came down and said, ‘I’m gonna be the scorekeeper here,’ I think we’d win [in California], I think we’d win in Illinois, and I think we’d win in New York,” Trump said.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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