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And naturally, he claimed that Trump doing the same was not "victimless":

Comedian Jon Stewart ranted this week that Donald Trump’s civil real-estate case overvaluing his properties was “not victimless,” yet when it came to his own home, Stewart benefited from a similar inflation.

On Monday night, Stewart, 61, unpacked Trump’s $454 million appeal bond, calling out experts framing the former president’s New York civil case as not causing direct harm to any individual.

“The Daily Show” host rolled a clip of CNN’s Laura Coates interviewing “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary, who commented that the ruling didn’t “go over well” with the real estate industry that was now fretting over the possibility of becoming the next target.

Coates responds to O’Leary by highlighting that Trump was found liable for falsifying business records in the second degree, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud and conspiracy, all due to asset inflation.

“Everything that you just listed off is done by every real estate developer everywhere on Earth in every city. This has never been prosecuted,” O’Leary replied.

In response, Stewart asked: “How is he not this mad about overvaluations in the real world?”

“Because they are not victimless crimes,” he said.

To further his point, Stewart argued that “money isn’t infinite. A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation. So the system becomes incentivized for corruption.”

Stewart also contended that failing to declare a higher market value on a property, while paying taxes based on a lower assessed value, constitutes fraudulent behavior.

“The attorney general of New York knew that Trump’s property values were inflated because when it came time to pay taxes, Trump undervalued the very same properties,” Stewart added. “It was all part of a very specific real estate practice known as lying.”

But it didn’t take long for internet sleuths to look into Stewart’s own property history, which shows his New York City penthouse sold for 829% more than its assessed value, records confirmed by The Post reveal.

In 2014, Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million.

The property’s asking price at that time is not available in listing records.

But according to 2013-2014 assessor records obtained by The Post, the property had the estimated market-value at only $1.882 million.

The actual assessor valuation was even lower, at $847,174.

Records also show that Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price — precisely what he called Trump out for doing in his Monday monologue.

Pande, who purchased the penthouse from Stewart, then resold the property at a nearly 26% loss, according to the Real Deal — at just over $13 million — in 2021.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/jon-stewart-found-overvalued-nyc-162326036.html
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The DUmpster / VIDEO: Remember When Liberals HATED Joe Lieberman?
« Last post by pjcomix on Today at 09:57:11 AM »
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Amid all the praises by Democrats for Joe Lieberman who just passed away, we should remember that liberals actually HATED him. Why? Among several reasons is that many liberals blamed Lieberman for causing Al Gore to lose the 2000 election as you can see in these scenes from the film "Recount" about the 2000 Florida recount which ultimately ALL subsequent recounts still showed Gore losing. Oh, and notice how Democrats back then insisted on verifying the validity of mail-in ballots? They also insisted on the use of paper over electronic ballots in the wake of that election. My how times have changed!

p.s. And 20 years ago, questioning election results as "Recount" did was NOT considered a criminal activity.

https://rumble.com/v4m26en-remember-when-liberals-hated-joe-lieberman.html
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The HCQ/Ivermectin kerfuffle started in spring or summer 2020. How do you get around the anachronism with an event that happened two years afterward? Your conspiracy theory simply cannot work. Time machines are a century-old H. G. Wells fiction, not a bogey-Pfizer invention.

So how does Politico have a story dated in 2022 about Biden having a COVID rebound AFTER taking Paxlovid?
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The DUmpster / The time is moving too quickly for Trump...
« Last post by CC27 on Today at 07:46:26 AM »
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kentuck (110,950 posts)

The time is moving too quickly for Trump...
Just 18 days until his jury appointment. It will be here too soon for him.

On top of that, his $175 million bond is rapidly approaching.

How can he delay his trial this time? Call in sick? He is about to run out of delays and connections.

For a grifter of his stature, selling Bibles would be embarrassing to most con-men, but wherever he can scrape up a dollar is alright with him.

They say "April is the cruelest month". The Grifter is about to find out.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218816548


Rent free in your head 24/7... Never stops
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How bad did she have to be for this DOJ to come down on her?
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Shouldn't the DUmmies be thanking us Bush voters for keeping him out of the Whitehouse?
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General Discussion / Re: STEPHEN MOORE: The Real Story Of The Two Americas
« Last post by Ptarmigan on March 27, 2024, 09:26:01 PM »
Shocking Rasmussen Poll Of The 1%
https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf

Who the elites are:
73% are Democrats
67% are 35 to 54 years old
86% are White
47% support Sanders-like policies

What stood out:
47% say there are too much freedom
55% who went to Dirty Dozen Colleges elites say there are too much freedom
69% politically obsessed elites say there are too much freedom

Dirty Dozen Colleges
Harvard
Yale
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Columbia
Stanford
UC Berkeley
Princeton
Cornell
MIT
UChicago
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"There's A Lot More Chainsaw": Argentine President Milei To Fire 70,000 Government Workers
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/theres-lot-more-chainsaw-argentine-president-milei-fire-70000-government-workers

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Argentina's libertarian president Javier Milei, perhaps best known for his shotgun approach to government jobs...

Bloomberg reports that Argentina's President Javier Milei is planning to fire 70,000 government workers
pic.twitter.com/GL4TMOpehA

— Business Blurb™ (@BusinessBlurbUS) March 27, 2024
... plans to fire 70,000 government workers in the coming months, in what Bloomberg called "one of the clearest signs yet of how the libertarian’s chainsaw-style approach intends to slash the swollen state."

Beyond the job cuts, Milei also boasted at an event on Tuesday that he has frozen public works, cut off some funding to provincial governments and terminated more than 200,000 social welfare plans, which he labeled as corrupt, all as part of his strategy to reach a fiscal balance at any cost this year.

A good start. Argentina's government is severely bloated.
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NSF paid universities to develop AI censorship tools for social media, House report alleges
https://www.thecollegefix.com/nsf-paid-universities-to-develop-ai-censorship-tools-for-social-media-house-report-alleges/

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‘Used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others’: report

The National Science Foundation is paying universities using taxpayer money to create AI tools that can be used to censor Americans on various social media platforms, according to members of the House.

University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MIT are among the universities cited in the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government interim report.

It details the foundation’s “funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools, and its repeated efforts to hide its actions and avoid political and media scrutiny.”

“NSF has been issuing multi-million-dollar grants to university and non-profit research teams” for the purpose of developing AI-powered technologies “that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others,” states the report, released last month.

The NSF funded censorship, a blatant violation of the First Amendment. Colleges were involved, including MIT, which has a serious problem with antisemitsm.
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Just put on another mask...that will cure everything.
A trip to Canada to be euthanized also works 100% of the time for curing asthma, COPD and liberalism.
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