Posted on 06/18/2024 8:42:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember when New York's governor, Kathy Hochul oozily assured businessmen, some of whom were thinking of fleeing the state, that there was "nothing to worry about" regarding the state's lawfare targeting President Trump that could possibly affect other businessmen?
In February, The Guardian reported this:
The New York governor has told business owners in her state that there is “nothing to worry about” after Donald Trump was fined $355m and temporarily banned from engaging in commerce in the state when he lost his civil fraud trial on Friday.
In an interview on the New York radio show the Cats Roundtable with the supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis, Kathy Hochul sought to quell fears in some quarters that the penalties handed to Trump for engaging in fraudulent business practices could chill the state’s commercial climate.
Asked if businesspeople should be worried that if prosecutors could “do that to the former president, they can do that to anybody”, Hochul said: “Law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are businesspeople have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior.”
The SEC has spent the past couple of years investigating Musk's purchase of Twitter — and the way he disclosed, and didn't disclose, the fact that he was buying up Twitter shares before buying it in 2022.
Now The Wall Street Journal suggests that the agency is getting closer to making a formal case, and floats the notion that it could cost Musk his role as the CEO of Tesla, as well as the chief technical officer at Twitter/X:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think we are already seeing Galt’s Gulch, the Red States are booming while the blue States are going bankrupt, in 5-10 years, it will only get worse, California will be the test case for the watching Atlas Shrugged play out in real life.
IMO, the parallels between the book and real life are many now, when men can supposedly be women and you can kill your baby for any reason, you know you have crossed the Rubicon.
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