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  1. Yep. Processes vary from city to city, but like Rebound I have no contact with the assessor or input into the assessment.
  2. No one has said that selling ones property for any particularly amount is fraud. But lying about the value on legal documents certainly is. I suspect you understand the difference, but will pretend not to.
  3. It could also be an incomplete incomplete document (sounds like the apartment was a duplex). Or it could be totally legit. How long did he own the property? What triggers assessments there? How much was it improved? Did the neighborhood gentrify or trend? Are there caps on property tax increases in that area, as in some other places? Not really relevant in any case. It's simply not a case similar actions or behaviors. Apples and watermelons. And I don't think you have to worry about a guy making $15 million per year (or whatever) committing fraud to save 50k (or whatever). It just doesn't make a difference to that person. I'd be surprised if Stewart even knows what he paid in property taxes. That's a line item for his business manager.
  4. He did the same thing as Trump... except he didn't "do" anything and it's in no way the same!🤦‍♂️ The NY post, America's oldest tabloid, makes it's money selling shit news to people who can't tell the difference. No idea if that document is legitimate or not, but in any case, Stewart has no control over the assessed value or the market price. He didn't make up either of them. Whereas Trump's lies (fraud) was brazen and blatant. For example, he tripled the size of his penthouse residence on his paperwork. That's indefensible. Fraud by any standard. Trump tried to value a business as if could be sold as a private residence. Indefensible. Yet one thing we can count on here is Trump cultists eager to defend the indefensible.
  5. Yes, if Floyd had cooperated with the police, he'd be alive now. He paid too high a price for that failure. And if the police hadn't murdered him for basic resistance, he'd be alive now. His murderers are paying the price for their part as well. Two to tango. We expect more from our police officers. And in this case that includes the rapid escalation of the initial encounter. Floyd was involved in a non-violent, non-emergent potential crime, passing a counterfeit bill that he may or may not have known was counterfeit. Yet the police response was to immediately point a gun at his face. It's not that weird that Floyd freaked out. People do funny things when you put a gun in their face--especially if they are high. He thought he was going to be killed. That's the cycle we're in at this point. Black Americans are so afraid of the police killing them that they react fearfully in ways that make it more likely that they will be killed.
  6. Jeebus, that's an AWUFL LOT of text to finally get around to the point that they evaluated the option but didn't try to do anything. House leadership didn't support Senate leadership didn't support Biden didn't support No vote was taken The idea was explored, nothing was "tried" The Republicans have played the dirtiest pool with the SCOTUS seats, but the Democrats exercised restraint instead of revenge. Was probably pretty tempting though.
  7. You don't have to be sure about the medical issues. We have people for that. Two medical examiners in separate evaluations concluded that Floyd died as a result of Chauvin's actions. Homicide. I don't know that Chauvin explicitly planned to murder Floyd, but his level of total indifference to the life or health of Floyd and the entirely predictable outcome--the outcome he had been warned about in training and the outcomes that the other officers tried to remind him of--certainly rises to the level of murder. Sort of like shooting someone. You might be thinking about stopping someone rather than killing them, but it's a highly probable outcome of the action.
  8. No, you don't have it straight. There was no "knee on chest" position in play. Floyd was face down in the street while Chauvin kneeled on the back of his neck. It's well established that this position is only used to gain control of a subject and that as soon as that is achieved the subject should be moved to a "recovery position" so that you don't kill them. Apply some common sense. It's like a choke hold (which is now outlawed in many jurisdictions because it's so easy to go wrong). If you choke someone to gain control it might be a viable tactic. But if you choke them for 9+ minutes it's just lethal force. Note that any resistance on Floyd's part was over VERY early in this process. Squirming gave way to begging and then drooling and then nothing... Hell, the police declared that he was non-responsive at 5:43 into the hold. Other officers were suggesting a change to recovery position, and Chauvin just kept going, and going and going. It had nothing to do with control or restraint at that point. At a minimum, it was utter indifference to the life or death of the subject, but imagine kneeling on someone's neck for 9+ minutes -- much of it to a visibly unconscious or dead subject -- and it's hard to escape the notion that there's some malice. The bodycam footage was not "hidden" from the public. Like most of the state-controlled evidence in the case, it simply wasn't released during the trial. It was shown to the jury. It was even available to the press for viewing, but not public release. That's pretty common, and even more likely when a piece of evidence is likely to further enflame social tensions. And the bodycam footage is incendiary, to say the least.
  9. You're like a volcano of bullshit. Lol "The Dems" did not try to add seats to the SCOTUS. A few people might have wanted to balance this crazy court, but there was no popular support, no legislation up for a vote, no executive support from the Biden administration. It's not demonstrably true. It's demonstrably false. Yet you keep repeating it. Because lying is your only recourse.
  10. My opinion is that you're a fever swamp conspiracy loon and there isn't an ounce of truth, reason or evidence to any of what you say here. Thanks for asking.
  11. It's always been on video, dummy. A half dozen bystanders were filming the murder. That's why he was charged in the first place. You can hear bystanders calling out for mercy because the man isn't even resisting. You can hear people calling out that Chauvin was killing him. You can hear the other officers asking is they should move Floyd to recovery (because he stopped resisting). Chauvin kept kneeling long after Floyd was dead. Again, the timing of the "leaked" bodycam footage (completely damning) is in no way aligned to the end of the "riots." You are peddling lies. And the plea deal is what it is because the facts were already established and Chauvin was already convicted by the state. Again, it's on video for all to see. Chauvin just admitted what we could all see for ourselves. Despite what people like you think, skin color is not a measure of the value of a human being. Nobody in the US is even the least bit concerned with your conspiracy bullshit. You are Canada's problem and embarrassment.
  12. You are shameless. What you say is patiently false. It's on video. Literally anyone can watch it. You think people don't know your lying? Jeebus. Chauvin's admission in plea: The defendant also knew there was no legal justification to continue his use of force because he was aware that Mr. Floyd not only stopped resisting, but also stopped talking, stopped moving, stopped breathing, and lost consciousness and a pulse. The defendant chose to continue applying force even though he knew Mr. Floyd's condition progressively worsened. The defendant also heard Mr. Floyd repeatedly explain that he could not breathe, was in pain, and wanted help. Likewise, the defendant knew that what he was doing was wrong-{hat continued force was no longer appropriate and that it posed significant risks to Mr. Floyd's life based on what he observed and heard about Mr. Floyd. The defendant was aware that civilian bystanders repeatedly asked him to check for a pulse, stated that Mr. Floyd was unresponsive and not breathing, and asked him to get off of Mr. Floyd. The defendant also heard Officer Kueng, who checked Mr. Floyd at least twice for a pulse, twice say that he could not find one. ^^You weaving your web of lies won't change the facts on video, or the facts to which Chauvin and witnesses and other defendants all agree. It won't change that Chauvin it's a murderer who will rot in prison for his crimes. Once again we have you lying about things that we can do see in video, and that all contemporaneous witnesses confirm. But our resident pathological liar will claim night is day and the sky is green. Gross.
  13. I'm sure all the other little deplorables gather around you, slack jawed and eager for story time, but outside of your incestuous little clique people want, you know, evidence. Too bad for you that you don't ever have anything to back up your conspiracy theory bullshit.
  14. A. Trump has a TON of failed businesses. Just because he does something doesn't mean it was smart or profitable. B. He didn't buy Mar-a-lago as a business. He bought it as a residence and then couldn't afford the upkeep because his businesses were failing (see point A), so he converted it to a business and brought the resale limitations on himself.
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