The New York Post has a newer article. Apparently it's not about whether she was domiciled in New York but has to do with saying that it was something related to mortgage applications and how primary residences have different (looser) mortgage requirements than secondary residences.
So it's just a civil thing, not a criminal thing.
Does messing up on finance paperwork really matter that much?
Because early signals are strong that Trump 2.0’s deportation policies are courting a similar backlash
That's not my read on it.
There are a thousand things to be upset about regarding Trump. There are as many who are upset that Trump isn't fulfilling his promises on deportation who are upset that there is an error rate to what ICE is doing.
When an American Citizen gets murdered by an undocumented visitor, we agree that that's *BAD*, but law enforcement can get involved and we can punish the person who, through no fault of their own, were involved in the kinetic event that resulted in the loss of life of a person.
When an asylee gets deported, that's a Never Event.
You wanna see how long that equilibrium will hold?
In the real world, writing this comment would have taken longer than that equilibrium would have held.
Oh no! Not a slippery slope! We all know that those are fallacious!
Anyway, one of the problems with the appeal to Law and Order is the whole perceived "but we're not orderly" problem.
When individuals are harmed by undocumented visitors? Well, that's part of the tradeoffs involved with having a country that's moral, isn't it? That's part of the tradeoffs involved with having law and order. Enjoy the food. It's better than what your grandparents had to eat.
When an election is won/lost on the perceived lack of order and undocumented visitors start getting deported and we find stuff like "this guy was here for more than a decade?", the appeals to the importance of law and order will ring hollow.
"The order was not there when (bad thing happened). Now you appeal to it?"
Your words will be heard as empty. Your moral authority is illegible.
Your assessment of partisans will be interesting to people who agree that you have moral authority. Not so much to others.
You use the term "fault" but I'd say "they spent their political capital, which was limited, and by the time they needed some more, they hadn't rebuilt enough".
The good news: It looks like Trump is going to destroy the economy so the democrats won't have to do much to look like the better option by comparison!
"Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year."
You want to take down Trump? You can't do it with the people who are in there now.
Apparently, back in 2023, she changed her primary residence to Norfolk, Virginia.
And, apparently, New York State Law says: "When an officeholder removes his residence from the territorial limits required by statute, the office is rendered vacant."
I hear the sirens and understand why they're so tempting.
I know that they lie and Uncle Milty explained the way the world works back on PBS in "Free to Choose" and all of this was explained by Adam Smith a billion years ago.
But that's not the same thing as having my ears stuffed with beeswax.
We're a year and a half away and god only knows how bad the recession is going to be but the populist energy is still free floating around and the only people who seem to be able to attract it are Trump, Bernie, and AOC.
I'm not saying that Trump won't be able to create a bigger mess that even Democrats won't look worse than. Of course that is well within his capabilities.
So far, however, I'm mostly watching Newsom and Whitmer doing what they can to... be Newsom and Whitmer.
I do not believe that that form of argumentation will work because it assumes moral authority on your part that is not particularly legible.
They will fall back on "he shouldn't have been here in the first place and the deportation was rectifying an error".
"But he followed the rules!"
"The rules Biden twisted in order to allow millions of immigrants entry. He wouldn't have been here under the old rules that we agreed on in the first place."
"WHAT ABOUT LAW AND ORDER?!?!?"
Here is the problem with the whole appeal to the "process of law".
You will be arguing against people who believe that the starting point is that Garcia should never have been here in the first place. From there, the deportation is rectifying an error.
"But we should have a process of law!"
"The process failed by allowing him here in the first place."
It presents pretty closely to an isolated demand for rigor. Those will be received poorly by partisans and by people on the fence.
Say what you will about that insurance CEO, but his wound was not self-inflicted.
And, technically, people have already tried to assassinate Trump, though I understand that some explain that it was a set-up and the blood was something that Trump learned from his time in the WWF.
Be careful what you normalize, lest we start having more essays open with "You’d think our many many law and order supporters on OT would be up in arms about this."
"What? I thought you guys were opposed to setting mansions on fire!"
There's a bunch of people explaining that *REAL* Gucci or Hermes or whatever are made in Europe and that may be true, but the point is that China is saying "you can buy our replicas of the luxury items that cost a couple of orders of magnitude more elsewhere".
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I agree that they don't care about American citizens being murdered. It's just, you know, the cost of doing business.
That's part of why Trump got elected.
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The New York Post has a newer article. Apparently it's not about whether she was domiciled in New York but has to do with saying that it was something related to mortgage applications and how primary residences have different (looser) mortgage requirements than secondary residences.
So it's just a civil thing, not a criminal thing.
Does messing up on finance paperwork really matter that much?
"
Variety reports that Snow White has been banned in Lebanon.
But it's okay because it's about Gal Gadot and not because of how the movie is bad.
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Because early signals are strong that Trump 2.0’s deportation policies are courting a similar backlash
That's not my read on it.
There are a thousand things to be upset about regarding Trump. There are as many who are upset that Trump isn't fulfilling his promises on deportation who are upset that there is an error rate to what ICE is doing.
The backlash will be about the economy.
"
Eh, I see what he's going for. If you've got a Principal-Agent Problem, one of the solutions is to hire much more reliable agents.
It's how we got Trump, after all.
"
When an American Citizen gets murdered by an undocumented visitor, we agree that that's *BAD*, but law enforcement can get involved and we can punish the person who, through no fault of their own, were involved in the kinetic event that resulted in the loss of life of a person.
When an asylee gets deported, that's a Never Event.
You wanna see how long that equilibrium will hold?
In the real world, writing this comment would have taken longer than that equilibrium would have held.
"
Oh, the Establishment Republicans were feckless af.
One thing I still haven't seen is why "what have you conserved?" isn't a devastating takedown of the Establishment.
And the Establishment Republicans were... well, MAGAed.
"The courts are not able to save us from every bad result of an election and it was foolishness to think they could."
We're not in a place where everybody agrees that every bad result is a bad result.
What's an acceptable error rate? We gonna go with "every single error is a never event?"
Because that's going to go somewhere bad, too.
"
Oh no! Not a slippery slope! We all know that those are fallacious!
Anyway, one of the problems with the appeal to Law and Order is the whole perceived "but we're not orderly" problem.
When individuals are harmed by undocumented visitors? Well, that's part of the tradeoffs involved with having a country that's moral, isn't it? That's part of the tradeoffs involved with having law and order. Enjoy the food. It's better than what your grandparents had to eat.
When an election is won/lost on the perceived lack of order and undocumented visitors start getting deported and we find stuff like "this guy was here for more than a decade?", the appeals to the importance of law and order will ring hollow.
"The order was not there when (bad thing happened). Now you appeal to it?"
Your words will be heard as empty. Your moral authority is illegible.
Your assessment of partisans will be interesting to people who agree that you have moral authority. Not so much to others.
"
You use the term "fault" but I'd say "they spent their political capital, which was limited, and by the time they needed some more, they hadn't rebuilt enough".
The good news: It looks like Trump is going to destroy the economy so the democrats won't have to do much to look like the better option by comparison!
"
From wikipedia: Preference Falsification
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Good news: David Hogg is on the case. A Top Democratic Official Plots to Take Down Party Incumbents.
"Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year."
You want to take down Trump? You can't do it with the people who are in there now.
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Newsweek is reporting that Letitia James may have a residence problem.
Apparently, back in 2023, she changed her primary residence to Norfolk, Virginia.
And, apparently, New York State Law says: "When an officeholder removes his residence from the territorial limits required by statute, the office is rendered vacant."
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I hear the sirens and understand why they're so tempting.
I know that they lie and Uncle Milty explained the way the world works back on PBS in "Free to Choose" and all of this was explained by Adam Smith a billion years ago.
But that's not the same thing as having my ears stuffed with beeswax.
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Somebody dug up that his grandmother's house was repo'ed and sold in a sheriff's auction a couple years back, after her death.
If that was his residence until eviction/sale, it could be something as simple as hating the government.
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We're a year and a half away and god only knows how bad the recession is going to be but the populist energy is still free floating around and the only people who seem to be able to attract it are Trump, Bernie, and AOC.
I'm not saying that Trump won't be able to create a bigger mess that even Democrats won't look worse than. Of course that is well within his capabilities.
So far, however, I'm mostly watching Newsom and Whitmer doing what they can to... be Newsom and Whitmer.
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It depends on how badly we want the magnets, I guess.
If we can get by with vibes, we can get by with vibes.
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I guess I can accept that reframing. It's a dry joke that comes across a lot dryer after allegedly lighting tinder.
He seems to have anarchist sympathies, but who doesn't?
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I do not believe that that form of argumentation will work because it assumes moral authority on your part that is not particularly legible.
They will fall back on "he shouldn't have been here in the first place and the deportation was rectifying an error".
"But he followed the rules!"
"The rules Biden twisted in order to allow millions of immigrants entry. He wouldn't have been here under the old rules that we agreed on in the first place."
"WHAT ABOUT LAW AND ORDER?!?!?"
"
Here is the problem with the whole appeal to the "process of law".
You will be arguing against people who believe that the starting point is that Garcia should never have been here in the first place. From there, the deportation is rectifying an error.
"But we should have a process of law!"
"The process failed by allowing him here in the first place."
It presents pretty closely to an isolated demand for rigor. Those will be received poorly by partisans and by people on the fence.
"
Say what you will about that insurance CEO, but his wound was not self-inflicted.
And, technically, people have already tried to assassinate Trump, though I understand that some explain that it was a set-up and the blood was something that Trump learned from his time in the WWF.
"
Oh, okay. Maybe it'll work itself out. Muddling through and whatnot.
"
Be careful what you normalize, lest we start having more essays open with "You’d think our many many law and order supporters on OT would be up in arms about this."
"What? I thought you guys were opposed to setting mansions on fire!"
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Now would be a pretty good time to revisit the EPA regulations on rare earth processing.
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The dems just have to hold it together until then.
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China is now doing what it can to undercut loudly rather than quietly.
There's a bunch of people explaining that *REAL* Gucci or Hermes or whatever are made in Europe and that may be true, but the point is that China is saying "you can buy our replicas of the luxury items that cost a couple of orders of magnitude more elsewhere".