– The waterfront needs a lot more connections to the rest of Seattle. So yeah, I dig the new waterfront bridge. Yippee skippy for infrastructure!
– I am not a college student, so this interview with Congresswoman elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wasn’t for me. But I thought it was interesting.
– Overall, I am very happy with extending the outdoor dining rules in Seattle. 2 annoyances as they are doing business in my neighborhood: This time of year, a lot of leaves are getting caught in the structures and making more of a mess than usual when it rains. The only thing is that they can get pretty noisy, including during weekdays. I hope that they decide to be better on their own.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. Goddam miracle and some of you are just ignoring it.
Carl, didn’t you hear DeSantis is petitioning the Florida supreme court to convene a grand jury to prosecute vaccine advocates? You don’t want to be extradited to Florida, do you?
“A panel of judges appointed by former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden has been assigned to hear Steve Bannon’s appeal after he was convicted on contempt of Congress charges. Earlier this year, Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Committee.”
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-appeal/
Republicans are good at forum-shopping for friendly judges, so you gotta wonder if Bannon is trying to commit legal suicide. Or maybe he just relishes prison food.
RNC, meet your next chairman. GOP self-immolation will continue.
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-rnc/
It is reported that the jurors in the Trump Organization case referred to him as “Joe Smith” because they couldn’t stand to hear his name and “hated” his “stupid” defense, finding it insulting to their intelligence. They hated his lawyer, too. Personally.
It is additionally reported that the same jurors agreed on a guilty verdict within a couple minutes and spent their time in the jury room discussing whether they could indict him themselves.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-organization-tax-fraud-trial-2658962400/
And God bless Raw Story!
@4 God Bless Raw Story indeed!
Fuck Bob!
4,
van der Veen is a personal injury attorney who may not know his way around a jury hearing a white collar criminal case. Too much swagger. Too much attitude.
But that’s just what you get when you establish a reputation for not paying your lawyers, and when the client is an unmanageable dip shit.
An unmanageable dip shit destined to win the 2024 GOP nomination.
Core CPI rose by only 0.2% in November. Headline CPI rose only +0.1% in November.Gas prices have fallen to their lowest point in a year.
Pretty much the entire Republican Party was 100% wrong about the economy. Biden Economic Miracle managed to pull the U.S. out of the Trump Great Depression and restore us to a full employment economy while keeping inflationary pressures under control. Had Republicans remained in charge we’d be living in fucking caves, eating insects and tree bark, and attending mandatory re-education classes learning to speak Russian.
But at least your fucked up, alcoholic neighbor would have his very own machine gun. So FREEDUMB!!!
34 different Republican members of Congress took part in text exchanges with Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to openly discuss and coordinate plans to unlawfully retain control of the Executive Branch of government after the constitutionally mandated January 20th transition.
This is all revealed in retained records of text logs of the official White House Chief of Staff phone. It does not include or reveal logs that were unlawfully destroyed by the White House in the final hours in the Trump Bunker. Nor does it reveal any of the covert communications involving unlawful encrypted messaging systems and unauthorized devices.
Republican lawmakers plotted a coup. And they got away with it.
@8 Yeah, I just finished writing up one of them.
In a further desperate effort to stem the tsunami of lost advertising revenues Team Elon has cooked up another stupid Twitter scheme.
This time it involves compelling users to opt-in to share sensitive personal location data in real time to better micro-target advertising.
As you’ll recall, Team Elon’s first scheme involved selling premium subscriptions for $8. It started out at something more like $10, which might even have been a good idea. But nowhere near enough people would take the deal. So they cut it to $8. Problem is that Twitter was already making somewhere between $10 and $15 per month in advertising revenues for each free account. So at $8 if a premium account was ad-free the company would actually lose money. So in dropping to $8 they also plugged back in ads – only promising “fewer” ads. But with no real information on what that would mean.
So now with user pops falling along with monthly ad placement space and advertisers fleeing, the company is looking at ways to enhance rates (or at least slow the free-fall). Better targeting with more invasive data mining is certainly one way to offer that.
Twitter’s solution: require users to opt in to personalized ads and share their location information, or risk losing access to the service. The company is developing plans to prompt existing users to opt in to personalized ads and will make it the default for new users, according to plans shared with Platformer.
But there are problems with this. Biggest and most immediate is probably that the plan as outlined would be a clear violation of binding consent decrees that Twitter has agreed to as part of data privacy breach and antitrust litigation it lost earlier this year.
I’m the last guy to suggest that @jack had his shit together or was running Twitter toward a bright and successful future.
But he was doing a better job than this.
And probably part of how he managed to do that was by partnering with some talented and loyal employees, vendors, and consultants to help navigate and maintain a very large and complicated machine.
Dumbfuck used to tout approval ratings.
Joe Biden 44.0
Donald Trump 35.9
Ron DeSantis 40.8
An animation displaying the evolution of the distribution of tax as a percentage of income across various income levels over time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xs6h4r/tax_rate_for_different_income_groups_over_time/
A few things confound this analysis.
One is the change in workforce participation over the period.
Another is the change in distribution of incomes.
Not accounting for these variables distorts the impression somewhat. But it is still a remarkable transformation that can really only be explained by the enormous influence of money and wealth over our tax policy.
And while there may be plenty to be said about the morality of all this, what should really be emphasized is that it is inefficient. Removing so much income at the higher income levels from taxation does nothing to stimulate economic activity beyond yacht building, lavish “not-for-profit” galas that net less than 1% of what they spend, and tasteless custom jewelry.
And these are not things that contribute to the long term well being of a society or improve its capacity to produce. The portion of economic growth that has been systematically concentrated among the top 99.99th percentile of incomes and that has been removed from taxation is diverted almost entirely into non-productive uses that contribute nothing to society.
11,
Once DeSantis is forced outside of his walled political garden in Florida, and cornered by Trump and MAGA-Murica he will very quickly drop below 40.
In terms of charm, charisma, and human warmth, he’s the Ted Cruz of the 2024 cycle. When Republican primary voters get to know him they’ll have all the reason they need to settle for Trump. His most viable strategy is to continue to hide out in Florida, poke his head up only briefly and opportunistically to score points pwning the Libs if/when he can, and wait for other potential candidates to flame out early. But that leaves the field open for Trump to remain entirely unchallenged for probably the next six months and perhaps even longer.
It’s a beautiful thing.
I’m a defender or free speech.
All information should be set free!
Because I’m a defender of free speech, I just changed Twitter policies to share all of your personal location information with any of my paying advertisers who include among their ranks the Russian military, Chinese spies, and international criminal cartels.
And purely by coincidence, on the very same day I just deleted the account privileges of a guy who shared the location information of the company Gulfstream jet that I use.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Mike Lindell is leading the race to run the RNC, still pretending that Trump won two years ago because of interference from a dead Venezuelan dictator and a secret laser hidden behind the moon.
Kevin McCarthy is circling the drain as Stop the Steal ultra-MAGAs in the House gun for him demanding a suspension of the constitution.
All across the country Trump loons are poised to step into and expand state GOP leadership while spouting equally bizarre nonsense.
Roger Stone is on television telling people about a “demonic portal” opening above the White House.
And Tucker Carlson is appearing on the Tulsi Gabbard tv show to talk about a secret, covert CIA DERP STATE plot to take over America.
Not to blow my own horn, well okay yes, to blow my own horn, I said this would happen. I said they would be unable to disentangle themselves from the idiotic unhinged lunacy once they came to depend upon it for their energy and motivation in place of actual governing ideology. Winning as an end unto itself still requires some purpose if it is to motivate voters, donors, viewers, and volunteers.
This shit is all Republicans have now.
Strange Q anon systems of fantasy blurred and smeared together with great replacement fears, sexual inadequacies, gospel of prosperity wish-casting, stranger-danger, fear of death, and the side effects of mixing alcohol with prescription medications is now what serves to organize and focus the faithful.
When you teach the audience to rely upon fear and sensation to replace hope and community the problem is that over time they gradually become desensitized. Nothing the party accomplishes or ever could accomplish resolves the dissonance. Because none of it is real. So the only means available to them is to numb out – drink, masturbate, shoot guns, go to church, yell at fast food workers, rage, vent, and pray for sleep. Then rise again and start all over. But as Republicans grow numb to the old fears and sensations they need to be fed new ones if they are to continue to be useful to their leaders. So “tan suit” is replaced with “pedophile”. “Exotic” Black President who “might possibly be Muslim” becomes “Satanic Portal”. Fears about “class warfare” get replaced with fears about “cannibal adrenochrome harvesters”.
There won’t be a pivot. Because there can not be a pivot.
For Republicans to hope to return to sanity at this point would require that they accept too much defeat and loss of power.
They can only continue to move steadily forward down this path toward more irrational fear and madness. And as they do so they will continue to look you right straight directly in the eye and claim they haven’t any idea what you are talking about. Ask about the demonic portal and they’ll claim to be “unfamiliar with that statement”. Gaslighting is integral to maintaining the momentum.
I wonder if Elon doesn’t want people to see that his airplane could be headed to pick up underage boys for plane joy rides.
Somebody please do something about this Neanderthal Hetero STD.
https://people.com/crime/wash-dad-allegedly-kills-son-wife-paralyzed-turns-gun-on-self/
This isn’t right. Why is it ignored?
If you want to be a recount observer, you have to undergo training, and then obey the fucking rules. If you don’t obey the fucking rules, you will be ordered to leave. If you don’t leave, you’ll be arrested. That’s why you go to training to learn the fucking rules.
https://www.rawstory.com/state-officials-warn-they-will-not-permit-disruptive-behavior-from-challengers-at-recounts/
Kick them out.
I doubt that our weak troll will be back. One can get only so much milage out of posts about GE and calling men “twats”.
The book burners are winning.
Ashley Hope Pérez: “But for the hundreds of authors whose works have been banned but who haven’t been interviewed on NPR, being banned can be career ending. I mean, losing access to school and library markets can be career ending for authors. And since these bans are overwhelmingly targeting people — authors of color and authors with other marginalized identities, this is a real threat to the modest progress we’ve made in diversifying children’s literature and literature for young adults.”
“And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. ”
The book burners do not want anything where the white or straight or conservative or Christian or male IS NOT the hero of the narrative. They will do their best to burn the books, ban the authors and bankrupt the publishers. You watch.
I think I’ve found the world’s worst investor, and it isn’t doc. At the very least, when “woke” matters more than “making money,” there’s a problem.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/why-did-florida-divest-billions-from-blackrock-a-woke-conspiracy-theory/
I dunno…
After all, multiple slugs in the chest of a dude killed while bull-rushing a cop didn’t prevent Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit from considering him to be a “fleeing felon”.
Read more at: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article270007087.html#storylink=cpy
I had no idea that Pierce County was one-third black.
Mastodon traffic up 588% and continuing to blow up.
Meanwhile speculation grows that Trump is courting Musk as his running mate.
Musk jet last tracked touching down in Miami immediately before Twitter account is suspended, and at the same time that Trump teased big announcement for Thursday.
@ 24
Wow, traffic up in an election month.
Every time another person visits handbill.us Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit can credibly claim another 1/3 jump in readership.
Elmo also sold another $3.5 billion of his stake in TSLA this week.
This is his fourth big dump since April, each about this size. Probably to cover his margin loans that he used to partially fund the purchase of the social media company he’s busy destroying.
TSLA nw trading below 160.
Maybe Musk will bring free speech to Twitter.
I will bring free speech to Twitter by suspending accounts that displease me or make me look stupid.
They were sent via Mastodon.
9 million people received emails that mistakenly said their student loan forgiveness was approved
Hey, as long as we’re gonna talk about billionaires losing business, here’s where Mastodon got its readership:
Jeff Bezos thinks that if he’s screwing Lauren Sanchez AND WaPo, he’s in the middle of a threesome.
TSLA was selling for over $194 at the start of the month.
Can anyone here recall what the price was when a miserable failure of a troll bragged to us about having sold naked puts?
Bonus question: is a 17% price drop a highly profitable outcome for that options strategy?
@ 28
Also, why YLB used to beg Darryl to ban HA commenters:
I will bring free speech to Twitter by suspending accounts that displease me or make me look stupid.
“Why are you here? I asked for you to be banned.”
@ 31
Can anyone here recall what the price was …
Ten bucks more than the closing price today.
The strike price of that option is $125. Quiver, quiver.
“Why are you here?”
This troll is here so that we may all have a “conservative” Trump supporter at the ready to kick when he is down.
And he is always down.
It was also in a scene from Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom.
Sorkin rightly saw it as a problem.
“It’s the price of fame, isn’t it?”
Musk should only have to sell another $7 billion or so worth of TSLA between now and the end of tax loss reporting to cover his margin loans.
That just leaves another $5 billion of TSLA sales to cover additional near term losses and litigation.
Hey, and let’s not forget where Sorkin got the idea:
Sorkin Recreated This 2007 Fight Between Kimmel and Gawker on The Newsroom
So if TSLA has lost 17% of it’s value in the first two weeks of December, and goes on to lose another 17% in the next two weeks, it would be trading at right around 132. With days of selling remaining in the month.
Happy New Year!
35,
@GatesJet still active as of this moment.
Still doxing.
I’m sure somebody is working on it. Weird how the seven Russian oligarchs jets got suspended hours ago tho.
@ 39
@GatesJet still active as of this moment.
Yabbut not as of this moment:
Maybe Elon is an admirer of yours, QoS McHillbilly.
If Mayor Pete had a private jet, and if we had been tracking it, we would have known that Mayor Pete was on vacation in Portugal when he should have been trying desperately to get some paid sick time for unionized rail workers.
Pete Buttigieg was ‘on vacation in PORTUGAL’ during rail worker talks: Report
Instead Mayor Pete flew on taxpayer-funded private jets, which we apparently can’t track even though they’re private.
Well thank God we can all rest comfortably in the certainty that a selected group of billionaires will be safe from eavesdropping this holiday season.
Now if only we could enjoy the same certainty that TSLA will be safe from price dropping this same holiday season. Cheers! And “fingers crossed” too.
https://youtu.be/8MwPl7fjVVo
This the season.
Bonus features: does not burst into flames or grow fur.
@ 43
It’s a Honda Accord.
Not sure. But Dumbfuck knows what my AGI but the horse ate the calculations.
@27 That must be why he blocks anybody who criticizes him, or even jokes about him.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169234/elon-musk-twitter-suspending-liberal-accounts-spam
Hey, Twitter is a private company, no First Amendment there, he can do what he wants. So can the ex-users now exercising their free speech elsewhere.
@29 Yeah, the platform must’ve pushed the “send” button. Couldn’t have been human error at the user end. And they let you be a doctor?
@32 You may recall that I opposed banning you from HA, on the grounds we would have no one to laugh at without you. I even sent $28 to Goldy this month so you can keep posting.
@40 Well you don’t have to worry, because you don’t have a private jet, and so far as I know nobody is tracking horseback riders.
TSLA opened this morning already down another 4%. And the day is just getting started.
It’s the season of joy.
Also, why YLB used to beg Darryl to ban HA commenters:
Why is it here? To make shit up.. Have fantasizes. Stroke itself. yawwwwnnn…
Oh and “liberal tears”.. heh.. Yeah we’ll all have a good cry over a shit show in the McCarthy? MTG? Gym Jordan? kookhaus.
How’s that inflayshun doin’?
Next?
@ 50
TSLA opened this morning already down another 4%. And the day is just getting started.
So far the broader markets are either way down – S&P 500 off nearly 2.5% – or way, way down – NASDAQ off nearly 3%.
The markets are down so much that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is facing a FIVE! FIGURE! paper loss.
Tesla? Up more than a dollar.
On a day when the markets are scared and QoS McHillbilly is desperate to make it about Musk, it turns out the market’s flight to safety is on Air Elon.
Making it about a frantic troll who will be spending his holidays sweating out another risky crypto gamble in his basement while decent, honest, American patriots celebrate with family and friends.
Merry Christmas!
LOOK AT ME!
PAY ATTENTION!
I HAVE A MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
YUGE!
YOU’RE GONNA WANT TO SEE THIS.
I’m selling NFTs for $99 of me as various versions of superhero. The money goes directly to me.
DON’T MISS OUT!
Fudge/Pack 2024
Pete’s campaign in waiting
Oh, goody. They’re going to attempt to normalize G-clown’s psychosis.
I would have been OK with a Mayor Pete nomination in 2020. I do have to say I’m disappointed with his performance since then.
@52
Another $200 and we’ll be right where we were at the start of the year.
I’m putting all my shares into Twitter. Well not all, just $4B of hemorrhaged money so far.
DC bar disciplinary panel has this morning recommended disbarment for Rudy Giuliani.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-15/rudy-giuliani-likely-committed-misconduct-over-2020-election-dc-bar-panel-finds?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Georgia Republicans, suddenly losing runoffs, float nixing runoffs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/15/georgia-runoff-republicans-advantage/
“They never ever ever think, “Huh, maybe we shouldn’t be such detestable assholes. Maybe we shouldn’t run brain-damaged know-nothings with a history of domestic abuse for high office. Maybe we should do more to help people and appeal to them.””
“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”—David Frum
What, praytell, would the future of EV be in a Mayor Pete administration?
Elon knows.
Ron Howard voiceover: He would not.
@ 59
Wait ’til The Even Bigger Fucking Moron learns about Massachusetts Democrats’ history with gubernatorial appointments.
Texas fights federal rule that would outlaw LGBTQ discrimination in state adoptions and foster care
https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2022-12-14/texas-fights-federal-rule-that-would-outlaw-lgbtq-discrimination-in-state-adoptions-and-foster-care
Apparently nothing is more important than denying a child a loving family.
Texas: “Don’t have abortions, choose adoption instead. Also, no adoption.”
Hey that reminds me, have they solved rape yet?
@57,
“Well not all, just $4B of hemorrhaged money so far.”
Slow down there, chief.
Let’s not forget the $15 billion we loaned you secured against the value of your TSLA shares.
It’s always fun to read the greedy racist incel’s justifications. “A democrat, probably black, jaywalked somewhere, some time, so that justifies any and all republican naked power grabs and abandonment of all the principles republican claimed to have.”
“We had to abandon democracy and go full fascist because of that was the only way to counter the threat of that lawless jaywalking liberal.” – Gut Social Security Republicans
@ 64
Let’s not forget that banks have plenty of reserves, and plenty of patience.
Reuters, today:
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit bet on the strength of GE’s dividend. He believed it was real.
The fact that Hetero Neanderthal Disease is uncontrollably killing the Woman and Children really must bother Bob, to really invoke such reaction as above.
And note to Bob – Win the Era was setup long ago…..like 4 years ago, and has been endorsing a select group of candidates since about 2 years ago. You are very late in this news, Dumbfuck.
You are so full of shit. We all know that you wouldn’t have been OK with Mayor Pete nomination……who are you trying to kid?
But we all know that in the past and currently you are perfectly fine with The FuckHump being and becoming your nominee…..you have never said or expressed differently.
Lies, Lies, Lies.
You don’t.
In just two weeks you have burned through a third of yours. And you didn’t have much to start with.
On this week’s Costco investors call Citigroup questioned why the club retailer did not raise prices even higher in response to inflation.
Profit margin at Costco suffered a .5% drop year to year and Wall Street PISSED they aren’t making the little people pay for investor’s yachts and Premiere Grand Cru Bordeaux and the Patek Phillippe they had their eye on for Christmas.
Net Profit at Costco was $610M.
You beat me to it.
The dude is a psychotic projecting all the time. Really is a wonder how if anyone ever thought that his medical background made him a better person than a homeless person. I’m sure the majority of homeless are a better people than him.
Nah. Neanderthal Hetero Disease will never cease, especially with the direction that they are going…..it will get worse, and rape and death of the woman and children will grow exponentially.
Shit heats up when tensions rise.
G-clown the Psychotic Felcher @ 67
Win the Era was setup long ago…..like 4 years ago, and has been endorsing a select group of candidates since about 2 years ago.
It was set up in April 2022. It began endorsing fewer than six months ago.
Other than that, you’re 100% accurate, AIDS Boy.
Hey, at least their jobs didn’t die in darkness. Silence, maybe, but not darkness.
Fuck around and find out, Journos.
Elon Musk doxxes Antifa POS.
Gee, I sure hope that POS thought to use fake plates before stalking Musk’s toddler son.
Confidential to YLB:
I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle
It’s a unique opportunity, girlfriend, for you to strut around in a bikini and heels once worn by Kyrsten Sinema.
I don’t actually know anything about California:
653.2.
(a) Every person who, with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of the other person’s immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person, and for the purpose of imminently causing that other person unwanted physical contact, injury, or harassment, by a third party, electronically distributes, publishes, e-mails, hyperlinks, or makes available for downloading, personal identifying information, including, but not limited to, a digital image of another person, or an electronic message of a harassing nature about another person, which would be likely to incite or produce that unlawful action, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in a county jail, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
I better hope that really is his car, I can prove that he was doing what he says he was doing, and absolutely no one uses DMV records to go chat with him. The civil suit could get expensive.
71,
All over the map, daily reinventing himself as if nobody noticed.
Although like most of you, I can barely bring myself to care anymore beyond the occasion to mock and jeer.
It’s not as if this troll did not completely debase himself and grovel before the racist, violent, un-American majesty of Trump for five straight years, voting for him every chance he got. Like “magic” he thinks he can reinvent himself as a “moderate” libertardian. It’s hilarious. And pathetic to see how the troll now understands the trap he built around himself. Shithole party for shithole people.
Not a single one of them is welcome in civilized, decent human society anymore. They are all permanently consigned to their filthy trailer parks to fight among themselves for the approval of their bridge troll leaders like Marge. Most of them are too dumb to see it. For the troll there is always the cheap beer and bourbon.
75,
The video shared does not show any illegal conduct on the part of the individual being filmed.
The act of sharing that video, and accusing the person of criminal acts, though it also may not be illegal, could very easily establish grounds for a civil suit in the state of California.
As the individual being filmed and identified with his license plate is not a public figure, Mr. Musk has an absolute legal duty to be sure that any potentially defamatory public statements he makes about said individual are true to best extent of his knowledge. There is nothing illegal per se about following other people in public in a car. There is nothing illegal per se about filming people, including minor children, in public places for any non-commercial, or otherwise lawful purpose.
Obviously California has had a lengthy history of effort to establish protections for film and entertainment industry celebrities being followed and photographed by freelance photojournalists. The state probably has some of the most protective laws in the U.S. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has consistently upheld the First Amendment right to film in public and reiterated the principle in the law that no person has any reasonable expectation of privacy in a public place.
646.9 PC states:
(a)Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family is guilty of the crime of stalking, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison.
The statute goes on to clarify:
(e)For the purposes of this section, harasses means engages in a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose.
(f)For the purposes of this section, course of conduct means two or more acts occurring over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of course of conduct.
(g)For the purposes of this section, credible threat means a verbal or written threat, including that performed through the use of an electronic communication device, or a threat implied by a pattern of conduct or a combination of verbal, written, or electronically communicated statements and conduct, made with the intent to place the person that is the target of the threat in reasonable fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her family, and made with the apparent ability to carry out the threat so as to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her safety or the safety of his or her family. It is not necessary to prove that the defendant had the intent to actually carry out the threat. The present incarceration of a person making the threat shall not be a bar to prosecution under this section. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of credible threat.
As the statute is a pains to point out, repeatedly, constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of any of the prohibited activity described. If the individual appearing in Mr. Musk’s video was in fact following him or his family members in public, that activity alone is not sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the criminal law in California. If the purpose of following was in order to observe or video record Mr. Musk or his family in public places that is a Constitutionally protected activity, and is therefor also not included in the statute as prohibited criminal conduct. No threat is evidenced in the video, other than a possible threat toward the individual being identified by Mr. Musk by the person filming.
Mr. Musk needs to pray either that his efforts to identify this individual are unsuccessful, or that additional conclusive evidence can become available to him very soon establishing criminal stalking conduct on the part of this person. It is California after all. There is a Michael Avenati under every rock you turn over. And only a small percentage of them are dumb enough to try to shake down Nike.
I would further add that by repeating the charge of stalking in published form, this phenomenally stupid troll enjoys some of the same legal risks as Musk, only without anything like his financial or legal resources. Something else to celebrate this Christmas!
@52 “The markets are down so much that Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit is facing a FIVE! FIGURE! paper loss.”
I’ll get back to you after I calculate the paper loss I didn’t take on the 3M shares I bought in September for $121.44 and sold two days ago for $128.02 that are now $122.47 last I checked.
@62 Sounds like an argument that we need a functioning Republican Party people can trust and vote for when they get frustrated with the Democrats.
But you’ll have to take that up with Republicans, because only they can get their act together. Democrats can’t do that for them, they can only take victory laps when Republicans faceplant themselves again.
@66 “Let’s not forget that banks have plenty of reserves, and plenty of patience.”
They are not, however, in the business of gifting depositors’ money to reckless billionaires, even in the giving season.
When the value of collateral falls below the loans, they call in the loans, to protect the depositors’ money.
Does anybody know offhand which bank will be Twitter’s next owner?
@68 He would’ve been okay with Tulsi’s nomination, and he’ll be even more okay with it in 2024.
@71 How do we know he wasn’t a homeless person they put through med school on scholarship as a social experiment?
@74 Yeah, who needs news when you have Tucker, Jesse, and Jeanine? Your tribe has no use for journos, and is happy to do away with them.
@74 Doc thinks those guys who wander around with cellphone cameras and call themselves First Amendment Auditors are all the reporters we need.
I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle
Unleashing the IRS on low rent tax cheats like kreepshit while her bigshot wall street donors skate?
And kreepshit calls her “a winner” for its trouble. Kreepshit can then cross dress appropriately while Kyrsten does her dominatrix thing..
It appears to most here that’s what it’s into.. yawwwwwnnn..
86,
Renowned “free speech” hero attempts to get independent journalist murdered.
Very on-brand for a Republican.
Looks like the uncertainty surrounding Kevin’s future means that the 118th will not be able to hit the ground running next year with LOCKER UPS and LAPTOPS.
Not knowing who will be carrying the ball means they can’t nail down budgets, can’t hold elections for committee chairs, or fill slots, or even hire staff.
Republicans have fucked themselves again.
It’s beginning to be the only sex they ever have.
Except of course for the children and animals.
Not guilty on all counts and a unanimous verdict to boot! Suck on it, McKenna, you arrogant twerp!. Suck on it Inslee, you village idiot! Such on it, HA snowflakes!
@90 Now you can go back to harassing the black newspaper deliveryman. Make sure you take out the Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and Uber drivers, too! No black people allowed in your neighborhood!
The Dow was -2.25%, the S&P 500 was -2.49%, and NASDAQ was -3.23% today. My stocks were down only -1.52% today, handily outperforming the averages, but of course that’s still a five-figure paper loss in my seven-figure stock portfolio.
I think we can safely assume a six-figure paper loss in Doctor Dumbfuck’s much larger portfolio, even before factoring in his options trades and crypto holdings, so he wins again on “Biggest Loser” bragging rights points.
This is one time it’s advantageous to have the smaller dick.
This cop didn’t get off with an acquittal. He’s lucky he was only convicted of manslaughter.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/us/aaron-dean-trial-verdict-atatiana-jefferson/index.html
@90,
Oh, hey there!
Final invoice is on your desk awaiting your prompt payment.
Terms are net 30. We do not take traveler’s checks.
Enjoy your holidays. Speak with you soon.
FYI, I will be out of the office beginning this Friday at the end of business until after 8am Monday January 8th at my home in Aruba.
@ 92,
Is right now a very good time to sell?
I’ve sold about 22 million shares of my Tesla stock in 29 separate transactions this week worth roughly $3.6 billion, bringing the total amount of my Tesla stock sales to roughly $23 billion in 2022.
Was I wrong to do that?
@95 In response to your question, yes, dump all your Tesla stock for whatever you can get for it, because it’ll be a better car company without you, and also because you’ll need the proceeds to pay off Twitter’s lenders when they call in their loans.
Just this morning I was thinking about what Ed Troyer’s adventure with the ***black*** newspaper carrier cost him in legal fees. I’m sure that was a very expensive call to dispatch for him personally, but he can afford it on his sheriff’s salary. He probably has a personal kitty for things like this as they come up.
As far as I know, Troyer still has an anti-harassment order against him for stalking the ***black*** newspaper carrier after the original incident. My assumption is the judge who declared him a “danger to the community” will now discharge his $100,000 bail bond, because that was based on the charges of which he was just acquitted. I might be mistaken. The bail was imposed after he repeatedly violated the anti-harassment order, so maybe it’ll remain in place. As far as I know, though, he hasn’t been criminally charged for stalking, even though he may deserve to be. If he is, he could hire Bremner again; she’d probably take that case because he’s been a good customer of her law practice.
Yet to come is the ***black*** newspaper carrier’s $5 million civil trial against Pierce County. Although Troyer’s excellent lawyer, Anne Bremner, successfully shifted blame for the massive police response to a non-existent threat to the 911 dispatcher, that strategy won’t get the county off because the county is liable for the dispatcher also.
Presumably Bremner won’t be representing the county in the tort case.
@ 96,
Thanks for that. I appreciate it.
If I may, as someone who has been a successful investor let me ask you something else.
In the past year I’ve sold $23 billion dollars worth of my Tesla company stock and all I have to show for it is an imploding online debate club and a sleeping bag under my desk.
Am I a good investor?
97,
He probably has a personal kitty for things like this as they come up.
IIRC a church group in a neighboring county had to start a crowd funding campaign. I heard they raised $15,000.
As if. Bremner spends more than that each month on shoes.
When Obama left office he flew to a private tropical island and went kite surfing with Richard Branson.
Jimmy Carter went into private life and helped launch a revolutionary global charity that houses the poor.
I’m selling holiday gift packs of cartoon trading cards on QVC.
@98 That’s a hard question to answer, because spending $44 billion on a hobby isn’t considered investing. All I can say is you have expensive hobbies.
@99 I doubt she charges more than $1,000 an hour. Some years ago, SeattleJew was oppressed with a wholly unjustified citation arising from an entirely civil discussion with an excitable security guard at a passport office, so I sent him to Bremner and she got the matter dismissed with a simple motion for a very reasonable fee. I knew of her from meeting her at a legal seminar many years ago where she was a speaker on the topic of how to sue the police.
Doc better not get busted like this guy was, because he probably can’t afford Bremner, even for a ticket dismissal. The charge against him was Riding A Horse While Black. Strictly speaking, that law doesn’t apply to doc, but he could still be arrested for Riding A Horse While Stupid, so he should avoid public streets to avoid running into an excitable cop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p87D9J5P4CY
Neanderthal Heteros should be ashamed of the STD called Neanderthal Hetero Disease.
Thoughts and Prayers will save Us!
What will the consumers pay in the form of a utility bill for fusion energy? Which companies will take all the profits from that venture? Will it be cheaper than oil?
102,
Troyer’s case was pending in pretrial for more than a year with motion and procedural hearings.
That’s a couple of hours, especially for a misdemeanor defense. I’ll bet he set a record.
Fucked around and found out.
Imagine a plurality of Republican Senators so completely certain of Kevin’s weakness that they would rather give Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi everything they want for a full year than risk relying on Kevin’s abilities as a leader.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/government-funding-shutdown-latest/index.html
Merry Christmas indeed.
I suspended the Twitter accounts of dozens of major media companies and their reporters today without warning and without explanation because by reporting on other pointless account suspensions they were endangering my family.
No really, things are that bad. If the world learns what a miserable fuckup I actually am I could literally go broke and my kids could be in danger of not having enough butlers.
@joinmastodon
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Twitter has just suspended several of our accounts on their private social media platform without explanation or warning.
That is their right, protected by the First Amendment.
Even a news agency owned by the government may not dictate private communication or expression. Although we are disappointed with this sudden and unexplained decision we absolutely support Twitter’s right to make it.
Mastodon is now growing new accounts at a rate of over 3,000 per hour.
Twitter is now blocking the posting of links to Mastodon content in user Tweets.
What could possibly go wrong by giving Musk more personal information?
Former Twitter employee sentenced for selling information to Saudi Arabian officials | Authorities: Saudi Royal Family paid to find dissenters
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/15/former-twitter-employee-sentenced-for-selling-information-to-saudi-arabian-officials/
Maybe musk will sell that twitter data to Texas?
Texas AG Paxton Wants to Build A Registry Of Trans People, But He Won’t Say Why
https://abovethelaw.com/2022/12/texas-ag-paxton-wants-to-build-a-registry-of-trans-people-but-he-wont-say-why/
“Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the DPS head of the drivers license division wrote in a June 30 email. “We won’t need DL/ID numbers at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents.”
The AG didn’t direct the query to DPS’s lawyers or its government relations office, instead going in the back door, as it were, through the drivers license division.
Camps. Texas is 100% preparing camps.
And the imbeciles there will cheer it on because they aren’t Trans and think they are safe.
Funny fact about a cage, it’s never built for just one group. So when that cage is done with them and you’re the next lowest on the totem, well golly gee….
114,
Not sell.
More like trade.
Musk is now in violation of Texas and Florida laws that restrict social media provider’s “de-platforming” decisions.
115)Probably a loophole for Musk.
@ 116,
Elon’s loophole: $$$$$$$$
Shit, you fuckers loved Elon Musk a year ago. After all, he made electric cars. Now, because he believes in free speech, you hate his guts. You people are pathetic!
Does he believe in “free speech”?
Or does he just do whatever he feels like doing and change “the rules” as he goes along to suit that?
@107 Plus the $100,000 bail bond for violating the anti-harassment order … http://handbill.us/2022/07/01/.....r-carrier/
@118 What free speech? I don’t see any free speech. All I see is a megalomaniac throwing a gigantic tantrum. I hope he thinks it was worth $44 billion down the drain.
Musk is in a contest to see if he can be worse than Trump.
Donald Trump’s NFT Collection Sells Out, Raising $4.45M
https://www.cnet.com/culture/donald-trumps-nft-collection-sells-out-raising-4-45m/
Much discussion about if this was money laundering.
TSLA having opened just shy of 160 has fallen during morning trading to around 151.
Merry Christmas!
Donald Trump’s trading cards have sparked a Republican meltdown
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-nft-trading-card-major-announcement-gop-1767627
“I have seen a bunch of right wing people upset about it. It took cards for them to turn on him. It sure wasn’t insurrection or national security. No it was trading cards.
Fox News breaking-news editor Chris Pandolfo tweeted: “Sure, inflation is wrecking the economy, Russia and China are on the move, the culture war wages at home, but at least presidential candidate Donald Trump is offering voters Trump Digital Trading Cards they can buy for $99 each.
123,
Money laundering and campaign finance crime. Trump has announced. He has a campaign now. This is how he intends to finance his primary campaign with money from foreign state actors and criminal orgs.