Bill Ackman asks, “How can someone with 53 prior arrests continue to be on the NYC streets?” It’s a child’s question—or anyone with no knowledge of criminal justice—but here an expert answers it.
The question to asked of this billionaire is: How is it possible that a man who has been convicted by a jury of his peers in a fair trial of 34 felonies even allowed to run for the highest office in our country?
And the Sacklers, who lied about fentanyl, leading to mass deaths to this day, still have billions, were never arrested, never a day in jail.
Or Rick Scott, stole hundreds of millions from the government, insider trading dumped stock before the issue became public, 14 corporate felonies to HCA, but no personal accountability, becomes governor and US Senator, not a day in jail.
Ackman, like Trump, and so many others, including Musk postulate these "easy" questions as if they are nuggets of something to actually ponder with serious reflection or emotionally triggered reactions. They divert.
As if Trump, when looking into the cameras, says to Americans, I wasn't given a trial or I wasn't allowed a jury, he doesn't understand why.
He does understand that those he is speaking to, through the media who will not correct him, don't know.
Most people won't see the box not checked for a jury trial so a bench trial versus a jury trial occurs. This box was checked by his attorney, Habba, the daughter of another corrupt part of Trumpworld.
Most people wouldn't have the slightest idea about a judge ruling pre-trial on the parties filing Summary Judgments.
People, in support of Trump, think expert witness are experts. Many are. But many are paid very handsomely to turn coal into diamonds.
That is the MAGA loving the uneducated who wouldn't;t dare to Google these things instead of Can I Change My Vote.
Ackman's 'tupid question is not only rhetorical, it's oh-so-typical Billionaire Propaganda. Let's acknowledge Ackman's expertise at deflection and misdirection, solely to shade The MAGAns with his self-interested bullbutter.
True, draconian policies serve society poorly. But a great many of our fellow citizens strongly believe in revenge. Even I believe in safe streets in poor neighborhoods, sooner than it would take for any sweeping, multigenerational program of vast, progressive economic development for all to kick in.
Perhaps the first step is for safe streets to become a social justice priority.
Hmm. Maybe if more people knew about the private prisons in the south that charge gobs of money to states who don't want to build the facilities themselves? When you think of republican, always think of who's making money and how can everything anyone touches can be monitized? You can understand EVERY STICK of policy they have ever stood for by understanding who's getting paid. All the lies on fix not news are for entertainment, never "news". Entertainment sells, not news.
Hi from a Prof. Abramson fan (bought a book, follow on eX-Twitter, bsky.app etc.), lodging an OCD chuckle here nonetheless; videlicet ...
... Noting the reference to "answering extremely easy questions" with a 155-word sentence complete with double-hyphen em dashes, the one with the compound term "tough-on-crime" which counts as only one word in style manuals.
It's fun having LLMs like ChatGPT summarize such irony, to see if Seth was being unnecessarily verbose. No matter -- billionaires like Ackman/Musk likely have extremely short attention spans, so, to the extent they might absorb such a detailed legalistic response, the whole endeavor (for them but not others) is like casting pearls before swine.
Sincerely,
Loquitur
(on eX-Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky)
P.S. Again this is anal-retentive, but is there a >155-word sentence somewhere in Abramson's previous output?
I, too, at first thought the reference was to Trump. And how did Bill Ackman, whom I know, get to be far right and someone whose thoughts are referenced in newspapers?
Seth - articles like this remind me of why I subscribe to Proof, but also make me wish for a media landscape in which your fact-based reporting and analysis could be more broadly consumed.
I am especially hopeful that your coverage of Elon Musk gains even broader traction.
The question to asked of this billionaire is: How is it possible that a man who has been convicted by a jury of his peers in a fair trial of 34 felonies even allowed to run for the highest office in our country?
And the Sacklers, who lied about fentanyl, leading to mass deaths to this day, still have billions, were never arrested, never a day in jail.
Or Rick Scott, stole hundreds of millions from the government, insider trading dumped stock before the issue became public, 14 corporate felonies to HCA, but no personal accountability, becomes governor and US Senator, not a day in jail.
Nor do billionaires need to educate themselves because they already know everything that made them billionaires. What else could there be to learn?
The bloviation of billionaires is beyond measure.
Ask the president elect and his cabal
Ackman, like Trump, and so many others, including Musk postulate these "easy" questions as if they are nuggets of something to actually ponder with serious reflection or emotionally triggered reactions. They divert.
As if Trump, when looking into the cameras, says to Americans, I wasn't given a trial or I wasn't allowed a jury, he doesn't understand why.
He does understand that those he is speaking to, through the media who will not correct him, don't know.
Most people won't see the box not checked for a jury trial so a bench trial versus a jury trial occurs. This box was checked by his attorney, Habba, the daughter of another corrupt part of Trumpworld.
Most people wouldn't have the slightest idea about a judge ruling pre-trial on the parties filing Summary Judgments.
People, in support of Trump, think expert witness are experts. Many are. But many are paid very handsomely to turn coal into diamonds.
That is the MAGA loving the uneducated who wouldn't;t dare to Google these things instead of Can I Change My Vote.
It's a known fact in the USofA that a billionaire can't be stupid.
Truly!
Ackman's 'tupid question is not only rhetorical, it's oh-so-typical Billionaire Propaganda. Let's acknowledge Ackman's expertise at deflection and misdirection, solely to shade The MAGAns with his self-interested bullbutter.
"It's ironical"
True, draconian policies serve society poorly. But a great many of our fellow citizens strongly believe in revenge. Even I believe in safe streets in poor neighborhoods, sooner than it would take for any sweeping, multigenerational program of vast, progressive economic development for all to kick in.
Perhaps the first step is for safe streets to become a social justice priority.
Hmm. Maybe if more people knew about the private prisons in the south that charge gobs of money to states who don't want to build the facilities themselves? When you think of republican, always think of who's making money and how can everything anyone touches can be monitized? You can understand EVERY STICK of policy they have ever stood for by understanding who's getting paid. All the lies on fix not news are for entertainment, never "news". Entertainment sells, not news.
Hi from a Prof. Abramson fan (bought a book, follow on eX-Twitter, bsky.app etc.), lodging an OCD chuckle here nonetheless; videlicet ...
... Noting the reference to "answering extremely easy questions" with a 155-word sentence complete with double-hyphen em dashes, the one with the compound term "tough-on-crime" which counts as only one word in style manuals.
It's fun having LLMs like ChatGPT summarize such irony, to see if Seth was being unnecessarily verbose. No matter -- billionaires like Ackman/Musk likely have extremely short attention spans, so, to the extent they might absorb such a detailed legalistic response, the whole endeavor (for them but not others) is like casting pearls before swine.
Sincerely,
Loquitur
(on eX-Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky)
P.S. Again this is anal-retentive, but is there a >155-word sentence somewhere in Abramson's previous output?
I, too, at first thought the reference was to Trump. And how did Bill Ackman, whom I know, get to be far right and someone whose thoughts are referenced in newspapers?
Seth - articles like this remind me of why I subscribe to Proof, but also make me wish for a media landscape in which your fact-based reporting and analysis could be more broadly consumed.
I am especially hopeful that your coverage of Elon Musk gains even broader traction.