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The fact that government putting on their do gooder shoes and making a service go immediately too expensive for most people to pay for and lessening the take home pay of the driver. All lose. And this was the case. The month before the new law took effect, the drivers take home pay was roughly twice what it was the next month when the law went into effect. And that because the consumer of the service found it too expensive. https://komonews.com/news/local/seattles-new-gig-worker-wage-law-sparks-concerns-amid-dwindling-business-profits-food-delivery-drivers-customers-app-based-fees-uber-door-dash-consumers-lose-money "As required by Seattle law, Dashers now earn at least $26.40, before tips and additional pay for mileage, on any order that originates or concludes in the City of Seattle. As a result of these increased costs, a $4.99 regulatory response fee has been implemented on orders that start or finish in the city," the spokesperson wrote. The company, which has been outspoken against the ordinance, goes on to say that since the law was enacted, Seattle customers have placed 30,000 fewer orders on DoorDash Marketplace, that Seattle businesses missed out on more than $1 million in revenue, and Dashers are getting far fewer trips. mspart

WR, it is a coincidence that all this has happened to one man. His current situation will be appealed. Period. His issue in GA is a joke of a RICO prosecution. Most likely brought on to enrich herself and her paramour with 600k that they vacationed on and the like, knowing this would take some time to get moving. He made out like a bandit at the least. She was sharing in those spoils. Corruption right there, and they should be off the case. In NY, what is normally a misdemeanor is being tried as a felony in a another one of a kind case. And federally, the classified documents case is a sham as we now know. Hillary got no prosecution with hard evidence against her. Biden just got a waiver because he is too old and feeble. But Trump, we got to get him. And then the federal election interference case. He hasn't lost these cases yet. But you can bet they will be appealed if he does. The American people generally are seeing through all this as a campaign to get rid of a political rival. It is seen as corruption and hopefully that message is sent to those in power. mspar

https://vpc.org/more-than-2200-non-self-defense-deaths-involving-concealed-carry-killers-since-2007-latest-violence-policy-center-research-shows/ More Than 2,200 Non-Self Defense Deaths Involving Concealed Carry Killers Since 2007, Latest Violence Policy Center Research Shows For Release: Thursday, April 21, 2022 Overall, Concealed Carry Killers documents 1,981 fatal, non-self defense incidents since May 2007 in 40 states and the District of Columbia, resulting in the deaths of 2,240 people. Thirty-seven of the incidents were fatal mass shootings as defined by federal law (three or more victims killed), resulting in the deaths of 183 victims. At least 24 law enforcement officers have died at the hands of concealed carry killers since May 2007. This is a website that is a proponent of no concealed carry. They cite over 2000 deaths since May 2007. Of those, over 1200 are suicide, so that is not really a consideration. They could have done that without a permit so now there are much less. Of the rest, about 500 have been convicted, and as you can see the numbers go way down from there. So 800 homicides in 15 years, that's a rate of 53.3 homicides a year by people with concealed permits. Putting this into perspective, Chicago had over 700 gun deaths per year since 2020. 2 a day. Think of that. Per https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ , In 2021, 21000 murders with guns were perpetrated. Perhaps 53 of those by people with concealed permits. It would seem that there is plenty of reason to go after everyone else but concealed carry permit holders. 53 to 20947 which is a ratio of 1 to 395. How many of the murders in 2021 were with illegal guns? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States A 2000 study showed a strong association between the availability of illegal guns and violent crime rates, but not between legal gun availability and violent crime rates.[212] And there you have it. Legal guns are not associated with violent crime rates whereas illegal guns or illegally held guns are. mspart

The DA, the judge, and the governor were happy too until...... Oh no, we just screwed ourselves. Quick Kathy, go out and tell everyone they are not Trump so they won't be treated this way. Quick, Go!!! The law of unintended consequences is a thing to behold. 1. Pass law giving gig workers minimum wage. Gig workers make half as much as they did. 2. Pass law decriminalizing drug use. Drug use runs rampant and overdose deaths ensue. General lawlessness prevails in an effort to the next hit. 3. Stop prosecuting shoplifting. Oh my, shoplifting rates go through the roof and Walmart leaves Portland en toto due to theft. Walgreens closes down in poor neighborhoods because they can't take the losses. And these companies are racist because of this. How about stop stealing!! 4. Reducing charges for use of a gun in a felony. Oh, why oh why are we seeing more armed crime in our city? 5. No border enforcement. Oh my, our wonderful sanctuary cities and states are overrun and we can't handle anymore. They are taking our tax base and we can't provide for our own people. Ohhhhhhh. 6. Reduce funding for police. Oh wow. How is it that crime has gone up so tremendously? Oh wait, we just won't report it anymore and therefore crime rates have gone down. Statistically this may work. Realistically it is obvious it does not work. 7. Pass judgement on a political enemy of gargantuan and unprecedented proportions. Oh my get the governor out there to say not to worry, no one else will be so pursued. It was only because he was an enemy of the current regime. You are not such an enemy (until you are determined to be so). Wow, why is no one investing in our state anymore? The people bring this upon themselves and it only takes a correct vote to change this. But as seen in Seattle, it takes years for people to realize they have screwed themselves finally, and do something about it. So now after 10 years we supposedly have a sane City Council. But I haven't seen or heard of much changing yet. mspart

Here in WA, gas tax is 49.4 cents/gallon, fed tax is 18.4 cents/gallon, and the CO2 tax is 46 cents/gallon. That's total of 113.8 cents/gallon. WA gets 95.4 cents/gallon. Greedy government. they make way more than the gas companies. mspart

Nice try. Predetermined by the way they treated Trump and his team. Please name those that were harmed. Probably some were? That doesn't hold up in court. Name names. Have dates and data. Probably doesn't cut it except in this monkey trial. It was a civil trial because the DA couldn't make it a criminal trial because she couldn't prove anything. Civil just is 51-49 and you win. Much easier. Again nice try. I have no evidence of predetermined outcome other than what I saw, read, and heard. You have no evidence there was harm, even though everyone associated is whole, but you suppose it. Of course it is my opinion, just like yours is yours. But a $355 Million judgement plus interest is excessive and shows the bias of the judge. Period. I think that is pretty cut and dried. You may not. But there is no precedent for this kind of ruling. mspart

What you say is very interesting. You have a government that has control because they have the arms and the civilians don't and they can't make a change. Sounds familiar. But they can be ratted out. mspart

There are way to do it UB. You just have to exercise that old brain of yours and you could figure it out and pass it along to them. Just off the top of my head, give the IDF directions of where each is. Pretty soon, the well trained terror group is no more. mspart

Or better yet, kill them and bring their bodies out for inspection. Somehow I think many know where they are and could do this. mspart

It sounds like the good people of Gaza should round up the Hamas folks and turn them over. That would end it right now. mspart

No. Wrong. You are crazy if you think a bank would fork over that much money in a loan when they knew everything was a lie. What happens when it all goes bad? They lose out. Banks don't take those chances. They knew Trump was good for it based on their own investigation of his holdings. They said as much. mspart

He was not prosecuted for a crime TPT. Get it straight. This was a civil litigation because they could not prove he committed an actual crime. It was not a criminal trial. Therefore no crime. He was found liable which is all that can be found in a civil litigation. Just like he was found civilly liable for sexually assaulting a woman who couldn't remember when it happened but by golly it happened. You can't have justice when the result is predetermined. How in the world can you be held liable for doing something when the complainant can't even remember which year this supposed thing happened? You are happy this is happening to Trump and refuse to see and understand what this means for the justice system in the USA. mspart

The bank vetted him and found the loan passed muster. There was no fraud. If you don't seen this as a corrupt prosecution, you can't be helped. Again, when the system goes after one side, the natural result is when the winds shift, the other side will be gotten. This is not how this country is supposed to run. Blind lady justice and all that. mspart

Yes a judge can determine what evidence is admitted. For sure, that is how the system works. When the judge is corrupt with a predetermined result in mind, then that is not a fair use of his judgement. That is where your reasoning fails. But the judge said it. Well, the judge predetermined the result. Like the hanging judges of old. mspart

This is not about liking Trump. This is about the abrogation of the judicial system to get predetermined results based on fallacious claims. This is no different than Biden getting a pass for keeping secret document he had no business having in the first place (he was never president because he is too old and doddering and with a horrible memory, or Hillary who Comey determined that no reasonable prosecutor would take her case. Remember she had her own server upon which resided State Department documents, some classified some not. She also tried to obstruct justice by bleachbitting the server hard drive, hammered the cell phones and destroyed subpoened evidence. But no reasonable person would prosecute. So what do you have to do with classified and government property to be prosecuted. Be Trump. That's the lesson here. mspart

Here another: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/al_gore_trips_on_artic_ice_mis.html Yes this is from the vaunted NPR: Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: "These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years." However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast. "It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," Dr Maslowski said. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this." Mr Gore's office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore... ...Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. "This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics," Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. So lies are told to convince us of something that has not been predicted. mspart

Gore predictions: 1. “Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro,” he said to the audience in An Inconvenient Truth. This occurred moments before he makes his prediction for Glacier National Park. Result: Alluding poorly to the title of the Ernest Hemmingway short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gore was trying to claim that Africa’s tallest mountain, with a peak that stands higher than 19,000 feet, would no longer have measurable snow cover on or before 2016. As of November 2022, Snow-forecast.com, a webpage for skiers, reported that an average of 93 combined inches of snowfall (almost 8 feet) hits just the middle altitudes of Kilimanjaro during November and December. And 9 inches of combined snowfall is the average expected for the middle elevations for July and August, the lightest two-month period for snowfall on the middle part of the mountain. The upper altitudes of Kilimanjaro supposedly get pummeled with an average of 171 inches (more than 14 feet) of snow during November and December. Another 127 inches (10 more feet) is expected during April and May. The expectation for September and October is 59 inches. According to Snow-forecast, every two-month period on Kilimanjaro’s higher elevations is expected to feature well over a foot of snowfall. 2. In his history lecture on the hurricanes of 2005, Gore claimed the lesson to learn was that we had been ignoring “warnings that hurricanes would get stronger” because of human-inflicted climate change. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hosts a regularly updated webpage titled “Global Warming and Hurricanes: An Overview of Current Research Results.” The update as of October 2022 has this to say: We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes. The NOAA lists six named hurricanes making landfall on the continental United States in 2005, including four major ones. What Gore knew (or should have known) but did not mention when he claimed there had been “a lot of big hurricanes” was that the four “major” storms of 2005 were all measured at Category 3 intensity when they made landfall. This includes the star of Gore’s presentation, the obviously devastating Hurricane Katrina that ravaged New Orleans in August 2005. Category 3 is the lowest category that still qualifies as a “major” hurricane by the NOAA’s definition. In 2006 not a single hurricane of any kind made landfall in the continental United States. And then, over the next 10 years through 2016, not a single major hurricane hit the USA. During seven of those years (2009–2015) just four total hurricanes of any kind made landfall, three of them Category 1 and one a Category 2. No comparable era of docile hurricanes appears in the NOAA records going back more than a century. This period of unprecedented calm following immediately on the heels of Gore’s hurricane hyperbole really was—to borrow his analysis— “one for the books.” If Gore proved anything at all, it was that Mother Nature might be real, with a wicked sense of humor, and she decided to spend 11 years making a mockery of his movie. Gore is a self acknowledged climatologist. Apparently he got it wrong. mspart

He did not. He valued his properties to get a loan. Any bank worth their salt will look into these valuations and determine if they are proper or not. If proper, then the loan can go through. If not, then the conditions of the loan will change or the loan will not be made. The bank testified for Trump. They made money and wanted to make more by working with Trump again. Does that sound like fraud to you? Who was defrauded? The banks made money, Trump used the loan money for purposes he had and benefitted. Win win, except it was win lose. How can you claim there was fraud when the entity supposedly defrauded claims they were not and want to do more business with that company? That there tells you the case was already decided when it was brought to trial. In fact, if he committed fraud, that is against criminal code. This was a civil case. That should also tell you something. Is there any doubt that this fine will be vastly reduced or eliminated upon appeal? No doubt. The victim in this case is the State of NY who have just lost any business investment opportunities because of the mania to get Trump. New Yorkers need to vote differently to get a different result for themselves. mspart

I do not want Trump to be President. Does that mean I shouldn't call out corrupt government/judicial operations when I see it? I am off base for calling out corruption. The judicial system is supposed to be fair and unbiased. There was no way this was fair and unbiased and it is easy to see if you will see. I'm not off base. mspart

Actually she went to tell everyone the state wouldn't go after them because they were not Trump. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4474774-hochul-tells-ny-businesses-not-to-fear-about-trump-verdict-nothing-to-worry-about/ “I think that this is really an extraordinary, unusual circumstance that the law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are business people have nothing to worry about, because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior,” Hochul responded. Outwardly saying what everyone knew. They were out to get Trump and Trump only. But the precedent has been set. https://thehill.com/business/4477608-kevin-oleary-says-he-will-no-longer-invest-in-loser-new-york-after-trump-verdict/ “This award, I mean, just leaving the whole Trump thing out of it and seeing what occurred here … And I’m no different than any other investor, I’m shocked at this,” O’Leary said in an interview Monday with Fox Business. “I can’t even understand or fathom the decision at all. There’s no rationale for it.” ...“We’re very worried, every investor is worried because where is the victim? Who lost the money? This is some arbitrary decision a judge made,” O’Leary responded. “This policy … what does this say about the bar? About the legal bar in New York? Aren’t they going to question this judge? What is this?” “I’m sorry her words fall on deaf ears to everybody,” he added. “There’s nothing she can say to justify this decision. And this has nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with Trump. Forget about Trump, this is not a Trump situation, this is a New York problem.” And this is why Hochul felt the need to go out and say no one should be concerned. We were just after Trump because he is Trump and we hate Trump, so we railroaded him and extracted/extorted $355 million from him. We won't do that to you. You are not Trump. mspart

Well at least in Seattle, it has been ruined for the drivers because their service has been made too expensive by the Seattle law requiring a minimum wage. That's why it was called gig work. You get paid by the job. Now that job is too expensive for many that used to use it. So sales are down. It was predictable and was predicted when the Seattle City Council was considering this. Well, those mean people who have a basic understanding of economics were correct. Now the gig workers are making less. mspart

Why was someone filming that by the way? is that a joke or was that a real death we witness there? mspart

https://www.kptv.com/2024/02/19/oregon-sees-highest-fentanyl-overdose-death-increase-nation/ Oregon sees highest fentanyl overdose death increase in the nation PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A new report shows that Oregon’s fentanyl overdose rate has grown 1,500% since before the pandemic, the highest rate of increase in the U.S. The data comes from records held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Every state that reported fentanyl deaths saw an increase. But, Oregon’s increase of about 1,530% topped the charts, with 1,268 deaths between September 2019 and September 2023. Gee, what changed? Now Oregon is a low population state with much of it concentrated on the west side. Portland, Salem, and Eugene as the biggest cities. 4.2 million total in Oregon. Most of it is very rural and hostile climate wise. So not a lot of population outside of the big cities. For a small state to lead the nation in growth of fentanyl deaths is really something. And those researchers can't figure out why. Let's let it stay static for another 10 years and then maybe those researchers can tell a difference after thousand and thousands of people die of drug overdose. mspart

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-drug-decriminalization-law-3f851183d45e9c29609360b09e996d04 SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. The bill would recriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as a low-level misdemeanor, enabling police to confiscate them and crack down on their use on sidewalks and in parks, its authors said. It also aims to make it easier to prosecute dealers, to access addiction treatment medication, and to obtain and keep housing without facing discrimination for using that medication. “It’s the compromise path, but also the best policy that we can come up with to make sure that we are continuing to keep communities safe and save lives,” state Sen. Kate Lieber, a Portland Democrat, told The Associated Press. Voters passed the pioneering decriminalization law, Measure 110, with 58% support in 2020. But Democratic legislators who championed it as a way to treat addiction as a public health matter, not a crime, are now contending with one of the nation’s largest spikes in overdose deaths, along with intensifying pressure from Republicans and growing calls from a well-funded campaign group to overhaul it. Researchers say it’s too soon to determine whether the law has contributed to the state’s deadly overdose surge, and supporters of the measure say the decades long approach of arresting people for possessing and using drugs didn’t work. That last paragraph cracks me up. It's too soon? Har har har. https://www.opb.org/article/2024/01/28/data-show-overdoses-deaths-rising-in-oregon/ In 2019, 280 people died of a drug overdose in Oregon. Fatalities rose every year after, more than tripling by 2022, when 956 died. And last year, even more people died, according to preliminary data. Each month the number has been higher than the previous year, reaching 628 in June. The state is still compiling data for 2023, but if the trends continue, the total would reach 1,250 deaths from an overdose. Looks to me like the researchers aren't looking hard enough. 2019 drugs were illegal and deaths were at 280. 2020, drugs were legalized and each year from 2020-2023, the number of deaths rose dramatically. 956 died in 2022, and projected 1250 in 2023. "Seems like something happened in 2020 but we just aren't sure what that might have been" they are saying. These are not researchers, they are sycophants for the drug decriminalization cabal. Portland, the city of Roses, the most livable city some years ago is now a cesspool. As bad as Seattle and San Francisco. Just sickening what these politicos have done to once vibrant and beautiful cities. mspart mspart

Tough to say he isn't good. mspart