even Obama’s campaign healthcare plan was more conservative than FDRs.

LOL, you mean the healthcare plan that FDR never passed?

single economic issue you think they’re more progressive than FDR on.

LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Act. What did FDR do to ensure equal pay for women?

Why are we comparing apples to apples? How about we compare apples to oranges, since apples aren’t the only fruit (I know we gotta remind you guys sometimes.)

A person’s guilt is established at the original trial.

An appeal is an attempt to prove that the original trial committed an error. Until an error is proven, the person is treated as every other guilty person.

No, the same agreement that prevents selling shares also prevents using them as collateral.

In general, the trial judge is presumed to have determined the right punishment.

There are plenty of people in jail who are appealing their punishment. If they win, they will still never get back the time they already served. That harm has been done.

You seem to be suggesting that every defendant is entitled to exhaust all their appeals before any “harm” is done, but such a system is unworkable.

If you say I often get speeding tickets, that’s the same as saying that I’ve gotten speeding tickets and you think I’ve gotten too many.

The first part is false only if I’ve never gotten one. The second is an opinion.

I would be surprised if any judge never had any part of any decision changed on appeal. Appeals courts exist to modify what judges do, it just goes with the territory. Engoron is no different this regard, in fact Trump himself was partly successful in appealing one of his orders.

“Often” is an opinion about something that has happened. Just like “a lot”.

Suppose I said “Boeing aircraft often fail” and you haven’t kept up with the news. You can conclude that they have failed, but you won’t know how many times unless you ask more questions.

“Rigged” is an opinion.

I don’t think it was rigged, but people routinely claim that due to the way the Electoral College works, all presidential elections are “rigged” in favor of the GOP. Similar claims have been made of recent Democratic primaries. Or that elections are rigged in favor of wealthy candidates, or incumbents.

Courts aren’t going to decide whether it’s true that something is “rigged”, they need something more concrete.

Right, because Judge Engoron intentionally left himself and the prosecutor out of his gag order.

Wisely so, because otherwise it would have been overturned. Everyone has a 1st Amendment right to criticize public officials like judges and prosecutors, but staff not so much.

Contempt of court only applies to behavior in the courtroom, or when the judge has issued a specific order.

Trump isn’t in the courtroom and was never banned from criticizing the judge or prosecutor, so there is no basis for contempt of court.

Courts generally consider broad statements like “rigged” and “corrupt” to be opinions, which by themselves are not grounds for libel. Libel requires stating specific false facts.

For example, “The election was rigged” is an opinion. But “Two Georgia election workers threw away GOP ballots” is libel.

The Sims comedy hour was a separate event from the other two, it was a 2022 attempt to frame Ukraine for terrorism.

Let me save you a click. The US is still considered a liberal democracy.

Let me save you another click. Israel is now in the same category as Portugal, Austria, and Greece.

Liquid means something can be sold quickly for its market value. In other words there are lots and lots of potential buyers bidding for it, so low-balling won’t work, so you will get a fair price. Whereas an illiquid investment, like real estate, has few potential buyers. If you are in a hurry to sell real estate, buyers can lowball you.

Liquidity has nothing to do with whether it is wise to sell right now.

Depending on what maturity rate

T-bills are constantly bought and sold on the secondary market before maturity, the maturity value is built into the market price. If your T-bill matured in 10 years you could sell it tomorrow if you wanted, and you would get a fair price.

You can find quotes here. Want a T-bill that matures on Mar 31? You can easily buy it. Or sell it.

Not super liquid if you are considering taxes

Taxes depend on if your investment was profitable, not liquidity. Something can be illiquid but subject to no taxes (if you lost money on it) or very liquid but subject to high taxes (if you made a lot of money).

Of course, it’s possible that selling an investment today wouldn’t synergize with your particular tax avoidance strategy. But that’s not a liquidity problem, that’s a you problem.

T-bills are highly liquid.

Better yet, if he kept it in the SP500 then it would be liquid and a better investment than whatever Trump Org is doing.

You left out Trump International Hotel in Chicago.

And “for the country”.

Except he doubled down and also said there would be a bloodbath for the country. Other headlines found this to be more important.

Median income has, in fact, increased for decades.

Standard of living has generally improved over the past few decades. The percentage of people in poverty is decreasing over time. The percentage of families that are food-insecure is also decreasing. These changes have gone hand-in-hand with increased spending per capita on social programs targeted towards the disadvantaged.

I already said that Democrats need to do more than just increase median income. They need additional spending targeted towards below median incomes.

The fact that you’re against this tells me you wouldn’t qualify, and that you want to take money intended for those less fortunate than you.