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  1. On 3/22/2024 at 2:34 PM, grandjean87 said:

    Hope things are well for yours. Being a parent continues to the end.  I know that well. 

    Thanks for the well wishes. All is great with the kid. Attending UNLV and loving it. Has a steady poorly paying job and looking to fly the coop soon. Definitely much happier than high school.

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  2. On 3/21/2024 at 8:47 AM, grandjean87 said:

    That was spiritual. 

    My dna report keeps moving slightly to Irish from Scandinavian, but still 58% (mostly) Sweden then Norway, and the small slices of the others.  I'm happy.  I'm also in the American age group that is happier, relatively.

    Speaking of that, relative deprivation seems to be somewhat at work for our society's dip and the drag by the younger folks.  Maybe 2023 saw an important swing in the perception that things are going to be tougher economically for a long while?  The long secular trends of political polarization, social fragmentation, and economic inequality are also drags on our feelings of contentment. 

    Growing up facing an increase of the likelihood of multiple doomsday scenarios being highly promoted nonstop, from global warming and climate change to gun violence to the rise of authoritarianism and throw in a Pandemic, has to drag on their generational happiness. Not to mention more than some question regarding America's ability or appetite to remain a superpower, the attack on individual rights and highly polarized politics.

    I can't think of a shittier time to grow up in America than maybe the Silent generation preceeding the "greatest generation." But even they enjoyed the roaring 20's before the Depression and between wars. Maybe you'd have to go back to the civil war to find a young generation who had it tougher? Sure they enjoy the fruits of a modern, technologically advanced society, but there are significant mental and emotional stressors that can't be easy for young minds to deal with in a healthy way. Seems to me like the bad really outweighs the good for that generation. They likely have a lot of hopelessness. 

  3. On 3/21/2024 at 7:38 PM, grandjean87 said:

    On why was it so publicly known, that is the central, distillation of the history of Donald Trump.  Self-promotion and celebrity is at his core.  Trump had become nationally known via his self-promotion strategy years before 1988 when my disdain for him began. 

    I think the 2nd essay/rebuttal I posted -- which is not a very anti-Trumpish -- makes some good points on the victimless crime angle.  It also points out the duty of the AG "to bring an action in equity against businesses that "engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the carrying on, conducting or transaction of business."   That repeated and persistent part jumps out.  The noting of three other equitable enforcement actions under §63 (12) in 2023 by AG James, albeit different circumstances, seems also to resonate.  

    Yes, it's political.  James went political long before the '24 election.  It's a lot more.  Trump is still dirty as he has been since the days of having "C" marked on applications for apartment rentals.  In New York.  

    Agreed to a degree, but his self promotion and celebrity were largely ignored outside of NYC and birthers until 2016.

    So I do think there is validity to born's argument that this case would not be litigated if not for his presidential run.

    And I am definitely in favor of litigating it.

  4. On 3/21/2024 at 6:32 AM, toonkee said:

    In America, our "happiness" seems to be mainly about how we feel about our status, if we're winning, getting ahead, etc. That's why we're not happy. 

     

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    I'm a big fan of orgasms myself

     

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  5. On 3/21/2024 at 6:00 PM, grandjean87 said:

    I'd smoke a joint with those two around a camp fire.  Anytime, but only low THC strains. 

    Just for fun, here are two short arguments/essays/whatever by law profs on an obscure site w/two differing views.  The first one born might climax over.  The rebuttal, oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, yes...
     

    https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/18/president-trumps-kafkaesque-civil-trial-in-new-york-state/
     

    https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/19/thoughts-on-judge-engorons-opinion-a-response-to-calabresi/

     

    I'm not a fan of the "victimless crime" argument, nor do I support the notion that all is hunky dory because the bank still loaned him the money. Dude repeatedly, and intentionally, perpetrated fraud. His business model depended on fraudulent claims. Still does.

    That said, of course this case is politically motivated. Your point of this repeated fraud being publicly known is important to that. Why is it so publicly known when other fraudulent actions by others are not? Politics.

    So, yes, Donald can claim witch hunt on this. As long as he admits he is, actually, a witch.

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  6. On 3/21/2024 at 3:13 PM, grandjean87 said:

    As for the political angle, I never said there wasn't one.  However, unless you can find and name a comparable case where some "Democrat" is guilty of all the same stuff where it is publicly known, there is no direct comparison.  

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