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New York heiress Belle Burden recounts the voicemail that torched her husband’s double life: memoir
Heiress Belle Burden shares her heartbreaking story of divorce after her husband left their family at their Martha’s Vineyard home following affair revelation in 2020.
LA Times gets obliterated online for scolding people wanting to leave high-tax California
A Los Angeles Times columnist is getting ridiculed online for trying to guilt Californians into maintaining their residence despite a new tax proposal by Democrats.
The main proponent of the new tax on high-earners is the SEIU, which says the tax is needed to help fund more social programs. But some wealthy Californians have indicated that they would simply move out of the state and take their tax revenue with them.
‘The nerve of the goon who wrote this slop.’
According to news and culture critic Lorraine Ali, those wealthy Californians owe their success to the state.
“California helped make them among the richest people in the world. Now they’re fleeing because California wants a little something back,” she wrote for the Times.
Ali argues that the new tax is necessary to offset the losses to the state treasury from the tax relief signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Arguments aside, it’s disturbing to think that some of the richest people in the nation would rather pick up and move than put a small fraction of their vast California-made — or in the case of the burger chain, inherited — fortunes toward helping others who need a financial boost.
The article was excoriated by many who found the argument disturbingly statist in nature.
“California didn’t make them rich — their ideas and hard work made them rich. California limited them — they could have done more,” U.S. special envoy Richard Grenell responded. “[Lorraine Ali] is a TV critic and wacky left wing activist. She doesn’t know finance or math.”
“I want to thank the @latimes,” Duke economist Michael Munger replied. “People often ask for examples, believing that the MSM cannot be as asinine as I claim. This is very helpful. Unbelievably dumb, but helpful.”
“The nerve of the goon who wrote this slop,” comedian Kirk Wilcox responded. “California already has a progressive income tax system, meaning that the rich pay higher rates. And the writer talks as if they don’t pay anything!”
“This is one of the most predictable disasters in recent memory,” Billy Binion of Reason replied. “Wealth taxes never work. People just … move their money elsewhere. These people made the state rich — not the other way around. Economically-illiterate nonsense.”
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“If California can just magically make an arbitrary person rich, why doesn’t it just make some other people rich and fleece them instead?” another critic suggested.
Although the tax proposal is backed by the service industry union, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom vehemently opposes the policy on the basis that it would be damaging to the state to have high-earners leave.
“The evidence is in. The impacts are very real — not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts,” he said about the tax. “I think it will be defeated, because I think people understand what it does versus what it promotes to do.”
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‘Subhuman ghouls’: People, WaPo trash Scott Adams hours after his death
On Tuesday, Scott Adams, the creator of the beloved comic strip “Dilbert,” died after a prolonged battle with metastatic prostate cancer. However, some of his opponents in media wasted no time before criticizing Adams and his accomplishments.
Hours after it was announced that Adams had died, People magazine published an article titled “Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68.”
‘You are the scum of the earth.’
The author then claimed in the very first paragraph that Adams “degraded Black people in a 2023 rant.”
People updated the article at 12:33 p.m. ET, including changing the author of the piece. The updated version says it was written by “People Staff.”
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However, an earlier, archived version of the article timestamped at 10:47 a.m. ET shows that it was written by Victoria Edel, as many X users, including Eric Daugherty, made sure to emphasize.
Several prominent X users did not try to hide their disgust over the tasteless headline.
“Subhuman ghouls,” BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre said in a reply to People’s post.
“You are the scum of the earth,” Raw Egg Nationalist wrote.
People’s original X post promoting the article also appears to have been deleted.
Other news outlets couldn’t resist the opportunity to drag Adams through the mud either.
An archived article originally published from the Washington Post and apparently shared later by the Boston Globe bore the headline, “Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ creator who veered into racist, far-right commentary, dies.”
Just like the People article, this article wasted no time attacking Adams’ right-wing views. The first paragraph reads: “Scott Adams, who became a hero to millions of cubicle-dwelling office workers as the creator of the satirical comic strip ‘Dilbert,’ only to rebrand himself as a digital provocateur — at home in the Trump era’s right-wing mediasphere — with inflammatory comments about race, politics and identity, died Jan. 13.”
For evidence, critics point to a February 22, 2023, stream of Adams’ show, “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.” The “rant” that they are referring to involves Adams’ discussion of a Rasmussen poll of black Americans responding to the statement “it’s okay to be white.” Fifty-three percent agreed, 26% disagreed, and 21% were not sure about the statement.
Adams took issue with the fact that nearly half of black Americans did not agree with that statement. He said in part, “If nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people … that’s a hate group. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people … because there is no fixing this.”
Adams’ critics failed to mention that he went on to encourage his viewers to be “friendly” to everyone and that he was not trying to “start a war” with anyone.
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Iran state TV acknowledges ‘a lot of martyrs’ as death toll surpasses 3,000: report
Iran state TV reportedly acknowledges ‘martyrs’ as death toll from ongoing anti-government protests reaches over 2,000, according to activist groups.
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Several monkeys still on the loose in St Louis as officials call off search for roaming animals
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World Cup fans banned from US travel may be unable to root for teams in person
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College basketball player gunned down on Nashville freeway, police hunting for suspects
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Trump rips into GOP defectors as ‘real losers’ as Senate readies for final vote
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