Good Law

In this page I will discuss politics and current events.

[Good Law @Goodlaw86]

@CB7Jon @foxnewspolitics They are not different things. Some may feel that way, but that is a minority. Statehood would actually reanimate the economy as it better integrates to the U.S. economy.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm tired of this BS. Charlie Kirk hated Muslims & mocked the deaths of Muslims, cracking jokes about innocent Palestinians having their homes destroyed & referring to "stupid Muslims." His murder was inexcusable & horrific, obviously, but he was undeniably a hate-filled bigot.

[Good Law @Goodlaw86]

@ldejesusreyes Ha! La mitad de los jóvenes de habrán ido en los próximos 10 años.

[Good Law @Goodlaw86]

@CB7Jon @foxnewspolitics They voted for Statehood twice.

[... @MonchitoPelu]

LMAOOO

Hasta aca llega la peste fupista de El Batey

[Nate The Lawyer @NatetheLawyer]

Okay, I know this isn’t going to go over well, but after further review:

If I were a juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, I would vote NOT GUILTY by reason of lack of criminal responsibility due to mental disease or defect.

[Good Law @Goodlaw86]

Yeah, because a girl with a nose ring named “Boo” totally represents how most Puerto Ricans feel!

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly reject statehood in Fox News Digital interviews, citing fears of economic collapse, higher taxes, and the erosion of their cultural identity.

Residents on the island and in the mainland U.S. pushed back hard on the idea of becoming the 51st state — even as Puerto Rico's pro-statehood governor continues to champion the cause alongside President Trump. One woman compared the potential outcome to what happened to Hawaii. Alejandra from San Juan said locals are "already been struggling for a while now" and statehood would "make stuff even worse."

The concerns went deeper than economics. Residents pointed to a fear of losing what makes Puerto Rico uniquely Puerto Rican. "It will lose the heart and soul," one resident said.

[Good Law @Goodlaw86]

@foxnewspolitics Yeah, because a girl with a nose ring named “Boo” totally represents how most Puerto Ricans feel!

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A day at sea takes a wild turn when a feisty octopus latches onto a fisherman's face and won't let go.

The fisherman desperately tugs at its tentacles as the creature keeps its grip, turning the encounter into an unexpected wrestling match.

After a tense back-and-forth, he finally manages to break free and pull the octopus away.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

54% of Republican voters and 62% of independents approve of government setting price caps on certain products to limit how expensive they get.

👉🏻 https://t.co/LM77hqSma7

[JΛKΣ @USMCLiberal]

Motherfucker — you campaigned for Bernie.

Here’s a picture of you and I, back in 2016, standing outside a Bernie rally in Philly for fucks sake.

The Democratic Party isn’t becoming socialist. You are just getting too comfy with the genocidal fascists.

[Patrick De Haan @GasBuddyGuy]

The national average has risen 7.7c/gal in the last week and has again crossed the $4/gal mark for the third time this year to $4.02, while diesel has jumped 14.3 cents to $5.42/gal according to GasBuddy data.

[CNN @CNN]

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirmed to CNN. She was 36 years old. The circumstances surrounding her death are unknown. https://t.co/mhnpiWVpNu

[P A N D A @panda6967]

Politicians are now tit-mogging

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

The midterm elections boil down to one simple fact: Republicans have had full control of the federal government for the past 19 months.

Unless you are wealthy or a corporation, you were taxed more, not less, because you paid the tariffs.

An illegal war was started in Iran that continues six months later despite being sold as a short four week excursion.

Gas is over $4 a gallon. Groceries are expensive.

Paychecks are shrinking because wage gains are the lowest in five years and inflation is high due to the war and tariffs.

Jobs are disappearing. Millions are losing their health insurance. The national debt is soaring.

Meanwhile, the top 1% now holds as much wealth as the bottom 90% and the president has enriched himself with billions while in The White House.

Voting for Republicans in November means voting for two more years of a weak economy that's making your life harder, while the corrupt and greedy few get even richer.

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - How do you feel financially since Trump came in

😣 Worse off 53%
😀 Better off 21%

Focaldata #B - RV - 8/10

[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

A lot of people on X are new to the markets. So I'll make this as simple and harsh as possible.

The economy is not going up. It is not going down. It is doing both at the same time. This is called a "K-shaped
economy" and almost nobody talking about affordability on your timeline understands what it actually means.

If you own assets, stocks and real estate, you are on the upper arm of the K. Your wealth has compounded aggressively since 2020. The S&P is at all-time highs. Home prices are up 50% since the pandemic. Your 401k is the best it has ever been.

If you do NOT own assets, you are on the lower arm. Rent is higher. Groceries cost more. A home that cost 2.2x the median income in 1960 now costs 5 to 7x. You are working harder and falling further behind, and it is not your imagination.

The top 10% of Americans own 93% of all stocks. The bottom 50% own 1%. The top 10% hold 68% of total wealth. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%. This is not an opinion. This is Federal Reserve data.

When the S&P goes up 25% in a year, the people who own stocks get 25% wealthier. The people who don't own stocks get nothing. That is the K. Same economy.

Two completely different outcomes based on one thing: whether you owned assets before the run started.

This is why your timeline is split in half. Half the people saying the economy has never been better. The other half saying they can't afford to live. Both are telling the truth. They are just on different arms of the K.

How long does this last?
The honest answer is that it has been going on for decades. The Richmond Fed traced this pattern back 30 years. It happened after 2001. It happened after 2008. It happened after COVID. Each time the gap widened and never fully closed before the next shock hit.

The last time wealth concentration looked like this was the Gilded Age, 1870 to 1900. That lasted 30 years before structural reform changed anything.

What does this mean for you?
The K-shaped economy is not a reason to panic. It is a reason to understand where you sit and what you can control.

The people on the upper arm did not get lucky. They owned assets. That is the entire difference.

Change your life and start small. No matter how small your account balance is. I only started with $10K, twenty years ago. This is your time to retire your whole family. They are counting on you.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

More Americans are delinquent on their credit card payments now than at any other point since the Great Recession.

About 13% of all credit card balances are currently overdue by 90 days or more.

https://t.co/ojN54yLp6p

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The left’s answer is “we’ll protect your reproductive freedom” and that’s all it needs to win them over for life.

[Neama Rahmani @NeamaRahmani]

Here is my (long) explanation of why the DOJ botched the Mangione prosecution: If you don’t want to read all this, just watch my interview with @CNN.

Normally, parallel and state prosecutions for the same crime don't violate double jeopardy, because they're dual sovereigns.  We saw this with Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd and the police officers who beat Rodney King, for instance.

But New York is unique.  New York has a specific state law that prohibits dual prosecutions for the “same criminal act or occurrence.”  The defense immediately filed a motion arguing that the stalking and murder were all part of the same criminal act and by pleading guilty in federal court, that prevents Mangione from being prosecuted in state court.

The stalking charges in federal court carry a potential life sentence.  But Mangione's guideline range under the United States Sentencing Guidelines is closer to 25 to 30 years.  If the federal judge sentences Mangione to something in that range and he avoids state murder charges because of New York’s double jeopardy law, that would be a great result for the defense. Instead of being on death row, Mangione does easier federal time and is out in his 50s.

If the state charges get dismissed, this will go down as one of the biggest unforced errors in SDNY (and maybe even DOJ) history.  The feds filed to execute Mangione (maybe in violation of their own DOJ Petite policy), but the death penalty was struck, and the federal murder and firearms charges were dismissed, and all that remained were two stalking charges.  The DOJ should have either appealed to the 2nd Circuit to buy more time or should have dismissed their case without prejudice and allowed the Manhattan DA to proceed first. The bottom line is there is no double jeopardy defense if the state goes first and the Feds second.

AG Todd Blanche is very aware of this double jeopardy issue because he used this same law to successfully defended former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and have his New York state charges dismissed after Manafort was convicted in a previous federal case.  He should have known better and told SDNY to stand down.