Former Twitter Security Head Tells Senate That Twitter Has a Chinese Intelligence Agent On Their Payroll, But Doesn't Seem to Care

Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies -- which had been suspected, but was confirmed today in the Senate.

Twitter executives put profit ahead of security, opening the platform to infiltration by foreign agents and hackers, the company's former head of security told Congress on Tuesday.
"Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors," Peiter "Mudge" Zatko told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "The company's cybersecurity failures make it vulnerable to exploitation, causing real harm to real people."
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Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed at Tuesday's hearing that the FBI had warned Twitter that a Chinese agent was on its payroll, a previously undisclosed detail from Zatko's complaint.
Zatko said Twitter struggled to identify potential infiltration by foreign agents and typically was only able to do so when notified by outside agencies. The company was "unwilling to put the effort in" to hunt down bad actors, he said.
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He quoted writer Upton Sinclair, saying: "It is difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding something."

Thomas Brewster
@iblametom
Wow from @dotMudge [the former security chief "Mudge"] - "I'm reminded of one conversation with an executive when I said, 'I am confident that we have a foreign agent,' and their response was, 'Well, since we already have one, What does it matter if we have more? Let's keep growing the office."

NEW - Indian, Chinese and Saudi Arabian spies allegedly made it onto Twitter's workforce and, according to @dotmudge testimony, Twitter barely cared.

Mudge told them that the security was so poor at Twitter that any employee there could take over any Senator's account.

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko described the company as a Wild West of unsecured data whose management consistently chose revenue and subscriber growth over security and privacy.
"Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs. And if foreign assets work for Twitter, those foreign assets can also access the data," he alleged in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "An employee could take over the accounts of all of the Senators in this room."
Last month, a former Twitter employee was found guilty of spying on Saudi dissidents using the social media platform to pass their personal information to an aide of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Zatko, known as "Mudge", a hacker who served as Twitter's head of security until he was fired in early 2022,, said some Twitter employees were also concerned that the Chinese government could collect user data.
When he first arrived at Twitter, "There were thousands of failed attempts to access systems per week that no one was noticing" and that surprised management. Overall poor tracking of who logs in, or tries to, "is a remnant of [Twitter] being so far [behind] on their engineering."

Twitter's CEO Parag Agarwal refused to testify, claiming he could not, due to Twitter's lawsuit against Elon Musk.

Mudge called the company a "ticking bomb of security liabilities." Which seems like a tailor-made line for Elon Musk's lawsuit.

Twitter Inc.'s security lapses were so grave that they threatened national security and far outpaced US regulators' ability to police them, the company's former head of security-turned-whistle-blower told senators on Tuesday.

Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Peiter Zatko, also known by his hacker name "Mudge," said Twitter was a decade behind necessary security upgrades, which he described as a "ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities." He detailed several cases in which Twitter prioritized profit over addressing the risks on its influential platform.
"Twitter's unsafe handling of the data of its users and its inability or unwillingness to truthfully represent issues to its board of directors and regulators have created real risk to tens of millions of Americans, the American democratic process, and America's national security," Zatko said in the hearing.
He also said the company's leadership "repeatedly covered up its security failures by duping regulators and lying to users and investors."

Ooof. That will be of tremendous use to Musk.

Sitting alone at a table facing the dais of senators, Zatko painted a picture of a company that collected vast amounts of user data but only understood how about 20% of it was used and allowed many employees a dangerous level of access to that information. Even though Twitter was under a 2011 consent decree from the Federal Trade Commission to address security lapses, Zatko said US regulators -- and the one-time fees they use as deterrents -- are ineffective compared to their foreign peers like France's data protection agency.
"The FTC is in a little bit over their head" policing powerful companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter, Zatko said. "They're left letting companies grade their own homework."

But AEI and the CATO Institute and the Koch Foundation say that mega-corporation monopolies that coordinate with the government to squelch their competition are the Free Market Operating at Peak Levels, You Guys!!!

Meanwhile, firms are offering huge sums of money for dirt on Mudge -- in order to damage his reputation, so that his allegations against Twitter will have less sting.

On August 23rd, a Slack chat for former employees of the payments company Stripe began filling with accounts of strange queries about an ex-colleague. "I'm getting inundated with paid interview requests," one of the former employees, Dan Foster, wrote. Another, Marty Wasserman, later posted that he'd received a similar message via e-mail. "Hi Marty, Hope you're having a great week!" the message read. "I'm currently working on a project regarding leadership in tech, and my client is hoping to speak to an experienced professional about a particular individual you may have worked with." The message requested a "45-60 minute compensated phone consultation." Wasserman was suspicious of the timing. "Preeeettyy sure this is regarding Mudge," he wrote, pasting it in the Slack chat with his former colleagues. "Hard pass."
Hours earlier, CNN and the Washington Post had reported that Twitter's former head of security, Peiter (Mudge) Zatko, had filed a whistle-blower disclosure to federal agencies, accusing the social-media platform of reckless security practices. Zatko's sweeping claims, if proven, could aid Elon Musk in his attempt to terminate his forty-four-billion-dollar agreement to acquire Twitter, a legal fight with implications of billions of dollars for investors. The dozens of e-mails and LinkedIn messages received by people in Zatko's professional orbit appeared to be mostly from research-and-advisory companies, part of a burgeoning industry whose clients include investment firms and individuals jockeying for financial advantage through information. At least six research outfits--Gerson Lehrman Group (G.L.G.), AlphaSights, Mosaic Research Management, Ridgetop Research, Coleman Research Group, and Guidepoint--approached former colleagues of Zatko's at Stripe, Google, and the Pentagon research agency darpa. All offered to pay for information, sometimes noting that the compensation would be high or apparently unrestricted. At least two investment firms, Farallon Capital Management L.L.C. and Pentwater Capital Management L.P., also sought information from individuals close to Zatko.
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The consultant told Provos that its analysts were assessing Zatko's "personality professionally and socially," his "strengths and weaknesses," "motives for his whistle-blower complaint and any similar past complaints," his "need for attention," and whether he was a "zealot or ideologue," "conspiratorial," or "vengeful." She also said they were interested in Zatko's "view of Elon Musk and Musk's bid for Twitter." G.L.G. included links to detailed sets of questions discussing Zatko and Twitter's C.E.O., Parag Agrawal. "In regards to Peiter Zatko, can you discuss thoughts on recent news with Peiter, what he did, why he was fired from TWTR?" read one of G.L.G.'s questions.
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One of the messages from G.L.G. suggested that the information was intended for an investment firm, Davidson Kempner Capital Management L.P. (A source close to G.L.G. told me that it represents multiple clients with an interest in Zatko but has no connection to Twitter and added that compensation for experts is standard.) Farallon, an investment firm rather than an expert network, identified itself in its inquiries. The other companies declined to identify their clients, though at least one told recipients that they were working on behalf of an unnamed hedge fund.
As the inquiries proliferated, the group of ex-Stripe employees began to believe, Wasserman told me, "that multiple different sources, multiple different people, multiple different companies, were all basically trying to dig up dirt on Mudge, all seemingly at the same time." The firms, Provos surmised, were "trying to get information that could further discredit Mudge," an effort that "seemed incredibly shady." Jonathan Kaltwasser, Stripe's former chief information security officer and a member of the Slack group, quickly alerted Zatko.

A lot of people will lose a lot of money if Elon Musk wins his lawsuit against Twitter, and Mudge's testimony will be a great help to Musk in doing that. So there's a large financial incentive to prove that Mudge is a Subversive and White Supremacist and Pervert and Whatever.

There might also be some foreign intelligence services shopping for dirt on him.

In a strange bit of happenstance -- or was this planned? -- Twitter's shareholders voted to formally accept Elon Musk's $44 billion bid for their piece-of-shit spy-ridden security shithole, even though Musk has withdrawn the offer.

Reuters
@Reuters
BREAKING: Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover offer at a special shareholder meeting https://reut.rs/3eJElMA

Former Twitter security executive Peiter "Mudge" Zatko says that he broached the topic of a foreign asset working at Twitter to another executive, who brushed off Mr. Zatko's concern. pic.twitter.com/8lAbsXPPMB
— CSPAN (@cspan) September 13, 2022

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1 First?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 13, 2022 03:16 PM (OgrpQ)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 13, 2022 03:16 PM (TgHYU)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

4 The stock market has increased a lot today.. just like our chocolate ration!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:17 PM (u4CEu)

5 Top Ten?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at September 13, 2022 03:17 PM (J9dmE)

6 In a strange bit of happenstance -- or was this planned? -- Twitter's shareholders voted to formally accept Elon Musk's $44 billion bid for their piece-of-shit spy-ridden security shithole, even though Musk has withdrawn the offer.

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"That was a misprint. We'll take $44 at this point."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (LvTSG)

7 It's a bonus to have Chinese spies on the payroll

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (k8B25)

8 "All your tw@tt are belong to us"

roundeye

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (dCxaZ)

9 Well, this guy turned out more interesting than the "Facebook whistleblower" at least.

Posted by: Catherine at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (ZSsrh)

10 [Giggles in Mandarin]

Posted by: Fang Fang at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (SixgR)

11 Fantasy scenario: Republicans take the House, and set up a special committee to investigate Twatter, modeled on the Jan 6 committee. So they arrest then entire board, and hold them without trial for two years or more. Anyone who objects, arrest him too.

I said it was a fantasy.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (TgBWG)

12 Sorry. Not related to this thread topic, but important:

FBI Arrests Republican Board of Elections Commissioner in Rensselaer County, NY

https://bit.ly/3RXacaY

I guess the FBI is concerned about voter fraud, but only when Republicans do it.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (lf83v)

13 "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs.

I remember when ace jumped off Big Tw@tt because they wanted his phone number. That was a good move there tesoro.

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (dCxaZ)

14 Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed at Tuesday's hearing that the FBI had warned Twitter that a Chinese agent was on its payroll

Warned Twitter to leave him alone?

Posted by: Hands at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (786Ro)

15 AoSHQ is being monitored by spies from the Dutchy of Grand Fenwick.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (44ww/)

16 Twatter mkt cap at $32 B. I'd vote for accepting Musk's offer too.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (u4CEu)

17 Finestine had a Chinese spy as a driver, worked out well for decades until he had to, um, go back for a ailing mother or something.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (k8B25)

18 How do you get a nickname like Mudge?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (NpAcC)

19 The enemy from within is the real problem!

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (krQz2)

20 [bluecheck]

It was Barzini all along.

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Posted by: DaveA at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (FhXTo)

21 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (lf83v)

who says the commissioner is guilty?

This is going to be an intimidation campaign as long as the demorats have the DOJ.

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (dCxaZ)

22 >>>"That was a misprint. We'll take $44 at this point."

lol

I think I could come up with $44 if that's the going rate

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (B3oWe)

23 Burn the twatters.

Salt it.

Profit!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

24 Can anyone actually force Musk to pay up on an offer that was accepted after he withdrew it?

It's not the kind of thing that would work at a yard sale, but I don't know if it's different with these high dollar business deals.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (ktuJZ)

25 Next you'll be telling me that the Chinese have infiltrated the Clinton, Gore, Obama & Biden campaigns, the Deep State, universities nationwide, the Progda MDM-MSM, the current White House, as well as powerful Legislators from both parties ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (ym/gI)

26 Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies -- which had been suspected, but was confirmed today in the Senate.

I was just talking to a former Twitter employee (software engineer) this morning about the company.

Short version: from a developers', investors' and privacy advocates' perspective - it is systemic FUBAR.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (3hSHB)

27 How many Chinese H1Bs are *not* reporting to CCP intel, whether or not they appear on some official payroll?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (llON8)

28 "Mudge" ado about nothing....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (906pl)

29 some Twitter employees were also concerned that the Chinese government could collect user data.

But only that government, amiright?

Posted by: Hands at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (786Ro)

30 "Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko described the company as a Wild West of unsecured data "

Outrageous! Who's to blame?

"Zatko, known as "Mudge", a hacker who served as Twitter's head of security until he was fired in early 2022,"

Oh. Never mind.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (24fqN)

31 Boy, are those unconcerned about Chinese spies going to be surprised when their acquiescence to China doesn't stop them from being lined up against the wall. They're mistaking politeness with kindness. History says otherwise.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (QSPZM)

32 Afternoon.

Fuck Twitter.

Posted by: Robert at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (lUu0p)

33 "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs. And if foreign assets work for Twitter, those foreign assets can also access the data," he alleged in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "An employee could take over the accounts of all of the Senators in this room."
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That's the real problem. If you tell me I have a janitor who might be a foreign agent working for me, I will replace him as soon as I can and then show him the door. That is okay, probably, because it's a low-access position and I am not very exposed to risk until I can replace him.

But with poor access control - and what's described here is something that *no* company should ever permit - a foreign agent is a much bigger deal. If the agent has access, you show him the door immediately and worry about replacing him later.

I wonder if Twitter would have been so blase about this if it had been an *industrial* spy instead of a national spy. I bet they'd have acted quickly if the spy was working for Microsoft or Google.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (t0OGg)

34 I'm reasonably sure that Musk no longer has any interest in taking over this snake pit. What sane person would? I think he'll get out of the deal without paying the penalty, either - the dirt in that company is worse than even we thought possible. According to other info from that whistleblower, the traffic may be 50% bots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (trdmm)

35 This is the equivalent of Muslims seeking unusual flight instruction, everyone power knows what's what, but nobody really gives a shit and are taking a, let's see what happens approach.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (etnWI)

36 22 lol

I think I could come up with $44 if that's the going rate
Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (B3oWe)

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https://tinyurl.com/3sxsjy2w

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (LvTSG)

37 Finestine had a Chinese spy as a driver, worked out well for decades until he had to, um, go back for a ailing mother or something.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:20 PM (k8B25)
===

You are wrong Feinstein didn't have a Chinese spy as a driver. Feinstein had a Chinese HANDLER as a driver. Feinstein was the actual Chinese spy.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (u4CEu)

38 Burn the twatters.

Salt it.

Profit!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Twitter is already brimful of salty twats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (6FeV1)

39 >>>Can anyone actually force Musk to pay up on an offer that was accepted after he withdrew it?

yes, he made an offer and the offer was accepted. that's a contract. Musk's defense is that Twitter defrauded him in its representations about the company, lying to investors and the SEC, etc., which makes the contract null and void. Mudge will be helpful in trying to prove that.

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (B3oWe)

40
It's not the kind of thing that would work at a yard sale, but I don't know if it's different with these high dollar business deals.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Musk had conditions that Twitter had to meet. They did not.

Now it all goes to court.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (pNxlR)

41 How do you get a nickname like Mudge?
Posted by: redridinghood

It's Silicon Valley for "Chuy"

Posted by: Hands at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (786Ro)

42 "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs.

Access often includes the ability to edit/delete. Think that one through.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (3hSHB)

43 Better to be a Mudge, than a mudgepacker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

44 The most egregious sin is means tweeting!

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (QSPZM)

45 ...the Dutchy of Grand Fenwick.

LOL! Excellent

Posted by: Lola at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (NIYa7)

46 spy. I bet they'd have acted quickly if the spy was working for Microsoft or Google.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (t0OGg)

Or Hungary.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:23 PM (6FeV1)

47 >>>I'm reasonably sure that Musk no longer has any interest in taking over this snake pit.

I think he might be interested if the price was brought down to $30 billion or $28 billion

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:24 PM (B3oWe)

48 Senate hearing, I assume? I wonder what the Dem senators are doing - piling on the whistleblower, expelling smoke screens, or faking interest?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 13, 2022 03:24 PM (fs1hN)

49 I bet the Chinese spy is the one who banned me from Twitter for saying LeBron James is a pansy.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 13, 2022 03:24 PM (sI15f)

50
"Zatko", son of "Mudge", the first of his line ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2022 03:24 PM (pNxlR)

51 I wonder if Twitter would have been so blase about this if it had been an *industrial* spy instead of a national spy. I bet they'd have acted quickly if the spy was working for Microsoft or Google.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (t0OGg)

I'm sure twitter is blase about it because there's a whole lot of FBI and CIA assets inside the company, and they love being able to keep tabs on all of their enemies. (people like us) They probably like watching what the Chinese are doing, too - not to stop them, just to pick some tips on things they should try.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (trdmm)

52 Jukin I stand corrected

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (k8B25)

53 I don't think Musk's plan was ever to buy twitter. I think he wanted to ruin them, and I think it is working.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (QSjkU)

54 That was a misprint. We'll take $44 at this point."

All I got is a $1 off Dunkin Donuts coffee three dimes a nickel and some pocket lint.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (u4CEu)

55 "that multiple different sources, multiple different people, multiple different companies, were all basically trying to dig up dirt on Mudge, all seemingly at the same time."

Yes, this is the way

Posted by: Fauci at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (786Ro)

56 Twitter's having more fun today.

Hollywood is filming a live-action version of The Little Mermaid, and of course cast a black actress in the lead role.

Somebody took a brief video clip from a trailer or something, and used CGI to transform the Little Mermaid into a fair-skinned, blue-eyed, redhead. (Some wag noted that this is how China will be processing all Hollywood movies in a few years.)

The guy who did it posted a few seconds showing a side-by-side comparison of the original clip and the CGI version. Clearly fair use, but the wokesters are going nuts at such evident "racism", and Twitter is immediately suspending the accounts of anyone posting the brief video.

The guy responsible says that he'll process the whole movie in a similar fashion when it comes out.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (I2/tG)

57 >>> 21 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 03:19 PM (lf83v)

who says the commissioner is guilty?

This is going to be an intimidation campaign as long as the demorats have the DOJ.
Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:21 PM (dCxaZ)

I'm sure the DoJ will tell us the commissioner is guilty of insurrection-reeee or voter intimidation (in the form of tossing registrations of dead people) or posting FJB videos on twatter. Perhaps all of the above.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (llON8)

58 What a mess.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (IW8z9)

59 Twitter:
50% Bots
35% Foreign Agents
10% Feds
5% Users (90% of Users = Journolistas)

Posted by: DaisyB at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (AbL8c)

60 That's the real problem. If you tell me I have a janitor who might be a foreign agent working for me, I will replace him as soon as I can and then show him the door. That is okay, probably, because it's a low-access position and I am not very exposed to risk until I can replace him.

Are you sure about that? The janitor has keys to every room and can work throughout the night without any oversight.

As a young dufus, I used to play security guard and had unfettered access to EVERYTHING. I would take naps in the president's office.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (3hSHB)

61 All I got is a $1 off Dunkin Donuts coffee three dimes a nickel and some pocket lint.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (u4CEu)

Beats my high bid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (6FeV1)

62 Twitter is for losers.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (A7urr)

63 That was a misprint. We'll take $44 at this point."

All I got is a $1 off Dunkin Donuts coffee three dimes a nickel and some pocket lint.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (u4CEu)]

"We'll pay CASH!"

*plops down $5.99*

- - Those Two Douchebags from the Denny's Commercial

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)

64 "Peiter"? He plays soccer doesn't he? I bet he doesn't even own a weedwhacker.

Posted by: Mishdog at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (G04SS)

65 42 "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs.

Ditto, civil servants & government contractors.

Posted by: Lola at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (NIYa7)

66 Has anyone in Big Tech not sold their soul?

Posted by: Colonel Travis at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (RG7Wy)

67 If Trump was really going to sell classified information to foreign governments, I think they would still set their hair on fire and prosecute him even if it was China.

Because they "have him on something", and he's not a Clinton (who sold state secrets to China).

[ I think that all documents at Mar-a-Lago were de facto "declassified". And I think the accusation that Trump was going to sell secrets to "our enemies" is no less claptrap than all the FIB follies before.]

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (krQz2)

68 >>>All I got is a $1 off Dunkin Donuts coffee three dimes a nickel and some pocket lint.

I'll give you $15 billion for that lint.

Posted by: Elon Musk, drunkbidding again at September 13, 2022 03:27 PM (B3oWe)

69
The walls are closing in!...oh wait. They actually are closing in, on twitter.

Posted by: portlandon at September 13, 2022 03:27 PM (+oR7L)

70 so once Elon proves the number of bots and phantom users, he can then lower the value of his offer?

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:27 PM (dCxaZ)

71 Sitting alone at a table facing the dais of senators, Zatko painted a picture of a company that collected vast amounts of user data

I saw Dais Of Senators open for Parliament / Funkadelic in SF in '76

Posted by: Hands at September 13, 2022 03:27 PM (786Ro)

72 >>> 56 Twitter's having more fun today.

Hollywood is filming a live-action version of The Little Mermaid, and of course cast a black actress in the lead role.

Somebody took a brief video clip from a trailer or something, and used CGI to transform the Little Mermaid into a fair-skinned, blue-eyed, redhead. (Some wag noted that this is how China will be processing all Hollywood movies in a few years.)

The guy who did it posted a few seconds showing a side-by-side comparison of the original clip and the CGI version. Clearly fair use, but the wokesters are going nuts at such evident "racism", and Twitter is immediately suspending the accounts of anyone posting the brief video.

The guy responsible says that he'll process the whole movie in a similar fashion when it comes out.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (I2/tG)

He should twat out a picture of the Star Wars promo poster that GroomerDisney used in CHYna.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 03:27 PM (llON8)

73 yes, he made an offer and the offer was accepted. that's a contract. Musk's defense is that Twitter defrauded him in its representations about the company, lying to investors and the SEC, etc., which makes the contract null and void. Mudge will be helpful in trying to prove that.
Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (B3oWe)

Exactly. The only weakness in Musk's case is that he waived some of his rights in a purchase at the outset, in the interest of time, BUT if he can show actual Fraud on the part of Twitter's board that should easily nullify any agreement. (ie, the Law will not enforce an illegal contract, one that was made due to a fraud)

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (trdmm)

74 64 "Peiter"? He plays soccer doesn't he? I bet he doesn't even own a weedwhacker.

Posted by: Mishdog at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM

To Peiter, a weedwhacker is the guy who harvests the marijuana.

Posted by: portlandon at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (+oR7L)

75 @47

>>I think he might be interested if the price was brought down to $30 billion or $28 billion.

It's not worth it at any price, there is no practical way to monetize twitter, if there was it would have been monetized already.

Twitter is a collection poo flinging monkeys, "journalists" masturbating each other all day, Russian and Chinese bots and whore's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (etnWI)

76 "That was a misprint. We'll take $44 at this point."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (LvTSG)
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They'll be lucky if they can get 44 cents. Some of them might be criminally liable and might get 44 years instead...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (YIVH2)

77 MR. MUDGE GOES TO WASHINGTON
starring Jimmy Stewart

Posted by: Hands at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (786Ro)

78 I think Musk is one of "them"

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (sI15f)

79 Not my wheelhouse, but it would seem that Musk has more than enough ammo to sink the buy-out thing via the lawsuit. Just the bot issue should have sufficed. This tale of disaster and idiocy (exactly what I expect from these advertising companies run by clueless, politically and socially freakish younger people) should just make the rubble bounce. I would think.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (OTzUX)

80 In a strange bit of happenstance -- or was this planned? -- Twitter's shareholders voted to formally accept Elon Musk's $44 billion bid for their piece-of-shit spy-ridden security shithole, even though Musk has withdrawn the offer.
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I strongly suspect that is not the point. Twitter is interesting for what it is and what it does, but it is but one megacorp in the tech space. The entire reaction around Musk's Twitter bid had been interesting, and I think it has more implications than just message control. Twitter is a valuable message-control mechanism, but it could be replaced. If it stops being useful, they can kill it off. But that alone, even if it is really a danger in the wrong hands, doesn't explain the response.

As more and more leaks out about Twitter, I think the *real* thing they're fighting is spread. Twitter has way too many bots. Twitter has poor security. Twitter is riddled with spies. Twitter is fake. How many others are there? Is Uber like this? Instacart? Facebook? Is Twitter the norm or the exception?

My fear is that Twitter is the norm, which is why the reaction to an outsider looking into things has been so insane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (t0OGg)

81 Damn. Now where are my contributions going to come from?

Posted by: Jim Jordan's Magic Google Underwear at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (A7urr)

82 >>>70 so once Elon proves the number of bots and phantom users, he can then lower the value of his offer?

no. once Elon Musk appears to be in a position where it seems likely a court will find, or might find, that Twitter is guilty of fraud, Twitter will either release him from the contract or negotiate down the price in a settled resolution.

he doesn't just gain a discount. He gains the ability to walk away from the contract -- or seems likely to do so -- and then Twitter, sensing that, negotiates for a glass-half-full settlement.

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (B3oWe)

83 They are trying to go after DJT for selling secrets to the Russians because they are to the Chinese so assume he is as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (k8B25)

84 72 >>> 56 Twitter's having more fun today.

Hollywood is filming a live-action version of The Little Mermaid, and of course cast a black actress in the lead role.

Instead of the Little Mermaid, why not go all the way and make it the Big Fat Catfish? A certain gubernatorial candidate would be perfect for the role.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (trdmm)

85 >>> 60 That's the real problem. If you tell me I have a janitor who might be a foreign agent working for me, I will replace him as soon as I can and then show him the door. That is okay, probably, because it's a low-access position and I am not very exposed to risk until I can replace him.

Are you sure about that? The janitor has keys to every room and can work throughout the night without any oversight.

As a young dufus, I used to play security guard and had unfettered access to EVERYTHING. I would take naps in the president's office.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (3hSHB)

istr something about *physical* security for servers being important... when you played security guard, did you wear one of those day-glo vests?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (llON8)

86 Ace is right. Offer, acceptance, consideration. That's the formula. He did, however likely set conditions precedent to the offer. Twitter says they met them. He says they didn't. They say his standard of proof is incorrect. Courts will work it out or they'll settle for a lower price.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (xDian)

87 "Thousands of Twitter employees can access user data they don't need access to to do their jobs.

Ditto, civil servants & government contractors.

Relax. They have policies in place to discourage sifting through people's data.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (3hSHB)

88 Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (B3oWe)

I hope this happens

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (dCxaZ)

89 Twitter is a collection...Chinese...whore's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (etnWI)

Go on.

Posted by: Robert at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (wejvP)

90 All I know is this: Everyday I open Twitter, there is at least one "follow" from a Euro-trash girl, who is following 84 people, and followed by 5. It's almost always accompanied a provocative photo set, and often not the same chick in the photos. Musk is correct. It's all bots.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (lGrs1)

91 yes, he made an offer and the offer was accepted. that's a contract. Musk's defense is that Twitter defrauded him in its representations about the company, lying to investors and the SEC, etc., which makes the contract null and void.

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (B3oWe)
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I'm quite sure his offer was always contingent upon a proper assessment of value.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (krQz2)

92 Are you sure about that? The janitor has keys to every room and can work throughout the night without any oversight.

As a young dufus, I used to play security guard and had unfettered access to EVERYTHING. I would take naps in the president's office.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:26 PM (3hSHB)
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I was envisioning a day-shift janitor who keeps the break room tidy, not somebody with access beyond that. But the point is as you say.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (t0OGg)

93 I'm guessing the response from most of the senators was "Is that wrong? Are you not supposed to have Chinese spies on your payroll?"

Posted by: Rbastid at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (4jhOQ)

94 89 Twitter is a collection...Chinese...whore's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (etnWI)

Go on.

...

I'm not *not* listening.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (B3oWe)

95 A certain gubernatorial candidate would be perfect for the role.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (trdmm)

I'm still drawing a dick on the box.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (6FeV1)

96 31 Boy, are those unconcerned about Chinese spies going to be surprised when their acquiescence to China doesn't stop them from being lined up against the wall. They're mistaking politeness with kindness. History says otherwise.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 13, 2022 03:22 PM (QSPZM)

Everybody in the USA on China's payroll thinks they'll be richly rewarded for their loyalty and good service if the Chinese take over. Wrong. They are simply employees, nothing more. I doubt the CCP has ever heard of employee rights.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2022 03:31 PM (AMIL/)

97 I think twitters recent spate of even more immediate and egregious censorship is an effort to nudge us to their side vis the Elon deal.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:32 PM (xDian)

98 Who are you going to believe with the Stock Market and Inflation Report ? ...... Your racist, lying, MAGA, Homophobic Eyes or me.

Remember I flew the Enola Gay and that Loser Tibbet's was my Co Pilot !!!!!!! I named that A/C in honor of Gay and Lesbian's serving in Star Fleet Command .....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:32 PM (4eN6q)

99 I don't think Musk's plan was ever to buy twitter. I think he wanted to ruin them, and I think it is working.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 03:25 PM (QSjkU)

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Yeah, that would be some Master Level Rat-Fucking right there ... I hope you're right, I hope he does so, and I hope one day he publicly says so.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 03:32 PM (ym/gI)

100 It's not worth it at any price, there is no practical way to monetize twitter, if there was it would have been monetized already.

Twitter is a collection poo flinging monkeys, "journalists" masturbating each other all day, Russian and Chinese bots and whore's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (etnWI)

Twitter's financial plan never made any objective sense, but they made it look good. Now we know it was all a front based on borrowed money and likely surreptitious payments from intelligence services, ours included. There's not a dimes actual profit in it, never has been.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (trdmm)

101 Remember that all the $$$ here on Earth is worthless in Heaven........... If you make it there.....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (4eN6q)

102 I have twitter account so I can access the Ace Cafe videos and post things to see if I can get banned.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (/qNGG)

103 From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

Posted by: motionview, a MAGA Republican (who supports DeSantis) at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (OYhYW)

104 There was a headline a while back about twatter being infested with Chinese malware. Stir in some Indian and Saudi Arabian spies as well and the compeeting malware is likely to crash the system.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (3AD8C)

105 It makes perfect sense that they would be unconcerned that their company was filled with government spies. They are an arm of authoritarian governments, so why should they worry about it. It's like having partners in the office!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (XIJ/X)

106 I think Musk is one of "them"
Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (sI15f)

I don't trust him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

107 This is the service that coordinates with the US government to prohibit first amendment rights of users, right?

Huh.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (JxSjf)

108 Can’t wait to see the harshly worded letters from the gop this generates.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (IrNVV)

109 Twitter says they met them. He says they didn't. They say his standard of proof is incorrect. Courts will work it out or they'll settle for a lower price.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (xDian)
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From what I remember reading, Twitter slow-walked everything and even refused to give him information which is why he backed out.

Of course Twitter, having observed the Democrats for years, know that they have to have "a side" to tell. So they are telling their "side". But I'm pretty sure Musk's dissatisfaction with disclosure was what prompted the withdrawal.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (krQz2)

110 and then Twitter, sensing that, negotiates for a glass-half-full settlement.
Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:29 PM (B3oWe)

Opens Twitter up to shareholder fraud suits, which further lowers the value...twitters has literally hundreds of users, all who are going to cry when it's shut down for re-structuring in the face of suing shareholder revolt.

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (+Cgut)

111 "In a strange bit of happenstance -- or was this planned? -- Twitter's shareholders voted to formally accept Elon Musk's $44 billion bid for their piece-of-shit spy-ridden security shithole, even though Musk has withdrawn the offer."

That was probably a scheduled vote based upon the board's approval of it. The shareholders were always gonna have to vote to approve the deal, and that vote usually comes x days after board approval.

And I don't think legally the offer was "withdrawn." Once the board accepted Musk's offer, it can't then be withdrawn. A legally binding obligation for Musk to proceed was created. That's the reason why Musk sought to get out of the deal by claiming they lied about the bots. If the offer could just be withdrawn, then he would have done that and it would be over with.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

112 Previously, I jokingly said that Danchenko was the CHS on the Trump Mar-A-Lago documents.

Posted by: motionview, a MAGA Republican (who supports DeSantis) at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (OYhYW)

113 "An employee could take over the accounts of all of the Senators in this room."

***

"Amateur hour."
- Dianne Feinstein's limo driver

Posted by: Azathoth at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (wb1YC)

114 >>> 108 Can’t wait to see the harshly worded letters from the gop this generates.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:33 PM (IrNVV)

Just you wait! They're going to *strenuously* object.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (llON8)

115 They say his standard of proof is incorrect. Courts will work it out or they'll settle for a lower price.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:30 PM (xDian)

The significance of this whistleblower is that he's blowing every claim made by Twitter management out of the water. And he has the documentation to prove it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (trdmm)

116 I get positive attention from everyone I follow (EG getting a LOL from Michael Malice), but I only have 14 followers.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (44ww/)

117 To be fair, the Indian 'spies' are just looking for people who need telephone service upgrades, insurance and/or air-duct cleaning.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (yikp0)

118 "Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies -- which had been suspected, but was confirmed today in the Senate."

Lol and don't forget the agency. It's been said that many of the bots are being placed by domestic sources. Who might that be?

Posted by: Mr Nobody at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Ax9b3)

119 Hands up if you came to this post and your stupid eyeballs told your brain it said "Indian spices"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (6FeV1)

120 It's not worth it at any price, there is no practical way to monetize twitter, if there was it would have been monetized already.

Twitter is a collection poo flinging monkeys, "journalists" masturbating each other all day, Russian and Chinese bots and whore's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:28 PM (etnWI)
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Musk wasn't planning on leaving Twitter the way it was. It was not just going to be a IM-ing platform. I think he was talking about tweeting a pizza order, for example.

He was definitely thinking of securing the platform for credit exchanges.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (krQz2)

121 >>> 117 To be fair, the Indian 'spies' are just looking for people who need telephone service upgrades, insurance and/or air-duct cleaning.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (yikp0)

Hey, what about me?

Posted by: "Sam" calling about your car's extended warranty at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (llON8)

122 The significance of this whistleblower is that he's blowing every claim made by Twitter management out of the water. And he has the documentation to prove it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 03:35 PM (trdmm)

And?
- Wray, Garland, Hawaiian Judges

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (IrNVV)

123 What you need to realize is that Twitter WANTS Chinese spies. They are leftists who support a Chinese world takeover.

Posted by: Ken at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (RXE8a)

124 A legally binding obligation for Musk to proceed was created. That's the reason why Musk sought to get out of the deal by claiming they lied about the bots. If the offer could just be withdrawn, then he would have done that and it would be over with.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

That depends entirely on "conditions to close" - I suspect Musk had a lot of them. You as shareholders can vote to close, but if these conditions haven't been met, and Musk successfully sues that they haven't been met...welp, too bad.

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (+Cgut)

125 If this keeps up, Musk is going to buy Twitter for a couple of million dollars and a box of SpaceX sporks from the break room.

Posted by: Azathoth at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (wb1YC)

126 Hands up if you came to this post and your stupid eyeballs told your brain it said "Indian spices"....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (6FeV1)

It is dee white man and his love of dee spices that makes me fat!

- - Fat Indian Broad Who's Never Even Been to India

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

127 Twitter is full of scumbags to be sure, but Elon Musk is worse. Conservatives got conned by this huckster.

And the Delaware Court of Chancery is going to make that crystal clear in October, when he'll have to pony up that $4 billion. A deal is a deal Elon, you can't pull your normal fuckery on this one.

Posted by: Jim Parks at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (v2iao)

128
Are you sure about that? The janitor has keys to every room and can work throughout the night without any oversight.

Forget not Carl, the janitor in "The Breakfast Club", who put some knowledge to the detainees regarding how much he knew about the goings on in their high school.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (pNxlR)

129 Musk buy tic tok next. That'll be fun

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (ytSiK)

130 "Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies -- which had been suspected, but was confirmed today in the Senate."
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Why *wouldn't* Twitter be infested with spies from every nefarious intelligence agency in the world?

Free access to details that people willingly disclose to gain attention and notoriety...

For all we know, there's maybe 5% "real" users, 45% intelligence assets, and 50% bots...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (YIVH2)

131 List of Russian municipal deputies calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says

Revised Headline: List of Russian municipal deputies that recently committed suicide after calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (4eN6q)

132 I thought yiu could order a pizza with Twatter. Didn’t Pizza Hut or Domminos set that up a while ago? I swear I remember it being a thing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (IrNVV)

133 I hope every Senator in that hearing pissed their pants because Mudge saying you could be really sounded like you have been. Government by twitter was one of the stupidest moves ever conceived.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (an3PP)

134 Hello my fallen anerico, Toyota, I coat to you with the vegetable of the Inflation Reduction Act. While fascist repumplicrats dinot votalate for it.

In short, inflation is up. Interest rates are up and markets are down. America has clever been in a butter ecologican position.

Thank you and democratcy for me. May gosh bleed you all. Harvey shake my hand and let's get a puddin cup.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (u4CEu)

135 My fear is that Twitter is the norm, which is why the reaction to an outsider looking into things has been so insane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I suspect you're right. Twitter was a means to influence the "right" people, so they had to create the illusion of an overwhelming crowd of voices...thus the bots. Similar tricks are being used where the "common folk" are. Curate these posts, a few fakes or planted comments, a couple hundred thousand phantom followers...amplify a desirable message, crush an undesirable one.

It's a rear guard action since the MSM lost its following. But they're trying to secure a house of cards protected by a sand castle. It's falling apart faster than they can patch it up.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (OUMaO)

136
To be fair, the Indian 'spies' are just looking for people who need telephone service upgrades, insurance and/or air-duct cleaning.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0)

Former Nigerian princes are PISSED!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (pNxlR)

137 If intel agencies go to some trouble to get into Twitter, imagine the infiltration of Facebook.

Posted by: motionview, a MAGA Republican (who supports DeSantis) at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (OYhYW)

138 "Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies"

Sounds like a regular ginger fueled potluck. I imagine their cafeteria has quite the buffet table.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (+Odgf)

139 124 A legally binding obligation for Musk to proceed was created. That's the reason why Musk sought to get out of the deal by claiming they lied about the bots. If the offer could just be withdrawn, then he would have done that and it would be over with.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

That depends entirely on "conditions to close" - I suspect Musk had a lot of them. You as shareholders can vote to close, but if these conditions haven't been met, and Musk successfully sues that they haven't been met...welp, too bad.
Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (+Cgut)
________________________

I agree. That's what the lawsuit is about. But Musk has to win the lawsuit. I don't know enough about what he was told, or what the sale agreements say, to have an opinion on how strong his case is. I know he's facing a court known to be protective of corporations and their management.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

140 Twitter is a collection poo flinging monkeys, "journalists" masturbating each other all day, Russian and Chinese bots and whore's.

this is true, however it is a powerful collection of the aforementioned miscreants. Tw@tt-mobs have influenced the policy of governments, schools and corporations.

establishment type folks are afraid of getting called out on twitter

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:39 PM (dCxaZ)

141 istr something about *physical* security for servers being important

Data centers are pretty well fortified. Once someone gets in the room it is next to impossible without detailed location to identify where the SSDs for a particular company are stored - and even then often it encrypted or fragmented across multiple drives.

Hollywood makes it look as simple as pulling a can of soup out of the pantry, when in reality it is many thousands of identical soup cans identified only by a barcode

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (3hSHB)

142 Musk buy tic tok next. That'll be fun

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN

CCP owned, and they ain't sellin'.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (OUMaO)

143 Justice Kagan Expects SCOTUS Leak Investigation Update by End of Month.

FBI raids Trump's home again searching for documents in relation to SCOTUS leaks.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (4eN6q)

144 The old 3 bullets in the back of the head suicide?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (IrNVV)

145 Funny, we can take Trump Social off Google, but no one can eliminate Twitter. What is the point of these useless hearings if the GOP does nothing?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (d2bW3)

146 Musk ottered his best friends wife. Guys a dirtbag and not to be trusted.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (A7urr)

147 I thought yiu could order a pizza with Twatter. Didn’t Pizza Hut or Domminos set that up a while ago? I swear I remember it being a thing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (IrNVV)

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Amazon Drone Delivery to Your Worst Neighbor FTW!

* Load shotgun

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (ym/gI)

148 After all the spin from the WH today I am going to be dizzy.
Greg Price
@greg_price11

Jean-Pierre: "We are doing a lot more [than the Trump administration] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction."

https://tinyurl.com/2p8wd5dj

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (NpAcC)

149 141 istr something about *physical* security for servers being important

Data centers are pretty well fortified. Once someone gets in the room it is next to impossible without detailed location to identify where the SSDs for a particular company are stored - and even then often it encrypted or fragmented across multiple drives.

Hollywood makes it look as simple as pulling a can of soup out of the pantry, when in reality it is many thousands of identical soup cans identified only by a barcode
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (3hSHB)
_______________________

All these big data "hacks" are inside jobs

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

150 They'll wind up giving him the company just to put a shirt on.

Posted by: DaveA at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (FhXTo)

151 Hands up if you came to this post and your stupid eyeballs told your brain it said "Indian spices"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 03:36 PM (6FeV1)
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Did that tikka you off?

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (krQz2)

152 >>> 131 List of Russian municipal deputies calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says

Revised Headline: List of Russian municipal deputies that recently committed suicide after calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (4eN6q)

These municipal deputies had evidence that would have led to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Vlad Putin at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (llON8)

153 Twitter is run by Carnies .........You know, they have small hands..

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (4eN6q)

154 @140

>>however it is a powerful collection of the aforementioned miscreants.

Agreed, it just didn't make financial sense for Musk to buy it, now if he was ultimately doing it for altruistic reasons then fine, but he was never going to be able to make that into a money maker.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (etnWI)

155
Jean-Pierre: "We are doing a lot more [than the Trump administration] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction."

You have all the control, stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

156 "All your tw@tt are belong to us"

roundeye
Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:18 PM (dCxaZ)

can't believe this just got tossed out there and left to bask...

Posted by: SturmToddler (KdUK5) at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (WhsXQ)

157 Mudge told them that the security was so poor at Twitter that any employee there could take over any Senator's account.

So the Iran deal fell apart because the Saudi spies threatened to change Adam Schiff's profile picture to just a giant googly eye?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (ZGrMX)

158 >>>Jean-Pierre: "We are doing a lot more [than the Trump administration] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction."

Posted by: redridinghood

Sure you are, KJP. Maybe cut back on the ganja, you twat.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (d2bW3)

159 And the Delaware Court of Chancery is going to make that crystal clear in October, when he'll have to pony up that $4 billion. A deal is a deal Elon, you can't pull your normal fuckery on this one.
Posted by: Jim Parks at September 13, 2022 03:37 PM (v2iao)

Not sure Conservatives have as much invested in Musk as Jim "$2 Park's Your Car" here thinks we do. He's just a businessman looking for a deal. Guess Twitter should have thought about the conditions they'd have to meet and the shareholders horror when they weren't before they accepted....

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (+Cgut)

160 Back when I was teaching Chinese students at the university where I don't teach anymore, except for beer money, in the second year of the program they sent a "supervisor." Apparently the students buying a car and driving across America wasn't part of their program of instruction.
Yeah. More of a cop than an agent.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (RjWOi)

161 >>Justice Kagan Expects SCOTUS Leak Investigation Update by End of Month.

I read that one of Roberts long time staffers went up and resigned abruptly the other day. Sayin'

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (A7urr)

162 Revised Headline: List of Russian municipal deputies that recently committed suicide after calling for Putin’s resignation grows to nearly 50, local official says
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:38 PM (4eN6q)

all 5O fell out of the same window

Posted by: Kim Kardassian at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (M+Lyo)

163 I don't see the problem.

Posted by: Dianne Feinstein at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (0JZ11)

164 >>From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZLI7S)

165 >>> 149 141 istr something about *physical* security for servers being important

Data centers are pretty well fortified. Once someone gets in the room it is next to impossible without detailed location to identify where the SSDs for a particular company are stored - and even then often it encrypted or fragmented across multiple drives.

Hollywood makes it look as simple as pulling a can of soup out of the pantry, when in reality it is many thousands of identical soup cans identified only by a barcode
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (3hSHB)
_______________________

All these big data "hacks" are inside jobs
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

Crazy talk!!!

Posted by: Office of Personnel Management at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (llON8)

166 Musk has the yen to buy Mt Fuji

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (us2H3)

167 Jean-Pierre be jamming Mon !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (4eN6q)

168 "Former Twitter Security Head Tells Senate That Twitter Has a Chinese Intelligence Agent On Their Payroll, But Doesn't Seem to Care"

America has them in their government... and also doesn't seem to care...

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (53oGX)

169
Jean-Pierre: "We are doing a lot more [than the Trump administration] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction."

Name ONE THING this administration has done to slow the influx of illegals at the southern border.

I'll wait.

*hair grays*

*starves*

*dead*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

170 Yeah, they said something like, here's our formula to estimate bots, and we estimate under 5%. Musk said your formula is not acceptable. I need you to open up the system *or whatever, for me, so I can do a real count. They said no, he said bye, they said "breach" I think they're likely to lose and will offer a bargain. Initial high offer by Musk was a gambit to force yes or shareholders derivative suit since it was over stock sales price. I think Musk is pretty savvy here and has them fucked.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (xDian)

171 Funny, we can take Trump Social off Google, but no one can eliminate Twitter. What is the point of these useless hearings if the GOP does nothing?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:40 PM (d2bW3)

——

Nothing?? Sir, we write harshly worded letters to deputy assistant under secretaries at least once a week.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:44 PM (IrNVV)

172 they must be hanging every ornament in DC on the new Ukrainian Chriatmas tree that is soon to be passed

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:44 PM (us2H3)

173 "Twitter Security" is funny. Internet mall cops.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 03:44 PM (6eRlp)

174 From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

That's...not surprising for some reason, now is it?

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:45 PM (+Cgut)

175 >>>Name ONE THING this administration has done to slow the influx of illegals at the southern border.

Well, she did claim they were finishing a wall in Texas because they had to. So, that's kind of action

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:45 PM (d2bW3)

176 Initial high offer by Musk was a gambit to force yes or shareholders derivative suit since it was over stock sales price. I think Musk is pretty savvy here and has them fucked.

I don't know if he was playing 4D chess or not, but they are 100% fucked.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 03:45 PM (ZGrMX)

177

My ani, they burn with the dry-ravishing of a million ProgTards!

Posted by: The Man with Seven Ani at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (KQMzI)

178 "Twitter Security" is funny. Internet mall cops.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 03:44 PM (6eRlp)

*Paul Blart drives Segway Into a Fountain*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Jean-Pierre be jamming Mon !!!!!!!!!!!

I love Chef Jean-Pierre! His YT channel is how you say...formidable

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (dCxaZ)

180 Is KJP a midget and stands on a beer case to reach the podium ???

She, it, them, her, us, you is a very weird looking biological entity....... Too much Soylent Green in it's diet ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (4eN6q)

181 >>>From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

Fairly certain the FBI has many confidential sources, and most of them are from countries who hate us.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (d2bW3)

182 This pairs nicely with the story that woke Patreon fired their entire cyber-security team a few days ago. Patreon's entire business is handling money, so either the management is catastrophically stupid or they're planning to do their own skim and leave the country.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 03:46 PM (ZGrMX)

183 >>From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

You don't say.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZLI7S)

Isn't he being charged ?

Posted by: Kim Kardassian at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (M+Lyo)

184 my guess is KJP days are numbered
she will never be able to handle the questions next year when the investigations start

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (us2H3)

185 Yeah, they said something like, here's our formula to estimate bots, and we estimate under 5%. Musk said your formula is not acceptable. I need you to open up the system *or whatever, for me, so I can do a real count. They said no, he said bye, they said "breach" I think they're likely to lose and will offer a bargain. Initial high offer by Musk was a gambit to force yes or shareholders derivative suit since it was over stock sales price. I think Musk is pretty savvy here and has them fucked.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (xDian)
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That's a good way of summing it up.

Until further notice, only under a Hawaiian judge could Musk lose this battle.

Buyer: "I'm going to buy this company. I need to see the books"

Underlings: "No!"

Now, they are insisting he be their boss. When they wouldn't cooperate with him in the first place.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (krQz2)

186 I always thought a lawless country like ours would resemble Mad Max more.

Where is hockey mask guy?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (mZ3xv)

187 I love the spices in Indian food.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (AJHCB)

188 >>>my guess is KJP days are numbered
she will never be able to handle the questions next year when the investigations start

Posted by: REDACTED

Bongino says this often, and it's true. KJP has no idea what she's doing, and she's a lousy liar.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:48 PM (d2bW3)

189 KJP- the border is secure but we are doing everything we can to secure the already secured border. Bitch is drinking out of the same glass as kumala.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2022 03:48 PM (an3PP)

190 >>Isn't he being charged ?

Huber will charge him, for a cruise on his yacht in the Caymans.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:48 PM (A7urr)

191 my guess is KJP days are numbered
she will never be able to handle the questions next year when the investigations start
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (us2H3)
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Um.

They open the door and let Joe wander out into the bright lights from time to time. These elites aren't interested in your questions and observations.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:48 PM (krQz2)

192 Dont say you werent warned.

https://tinyurl.com/5a9wxcp2

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 03:49 PM (ShQCR)

193 @176

>>I don't know if he was playing 4D chess or not, but they are 100% fucked.

He wasn't playing 4D chess, his mouth wrote a check that... well, no, his a** could cover it, but, it was done in a fit of pique that his favorite satirical website was deplatformed.

It's really as simple as that, he's been trying to get out of the deal by hook or by crook and trying to bring down twitter along the way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:49 PM (etnWI)

194 >>>I always thought a lawless country like ours would resemble Mad Max more.

Where is hockey mask guy?

Posted by: AlaBAMA

With all the junk food here? The Humongous was YUGE because he ate rats and wallabies.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:49 PM (d2bW3)

195 >>186 I always thought a lawless country like ours would resemble Mad Max more.

Where is hockey mask guy?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

I like flare guns. More flare guns.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:49 PM (A7urr)

196 Odd timing and a fact that probably every agency of our federal government uses Twitter.

Posted by: Lola at September 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NIYa7)

197 Who cares? Why is a CCP agent any worse than a US agent, which is basically all twatter is.

Posted by: espinostifer at September 13, 2022 03:50 PM (CbdM6)

198 Is KJP a member of the Rastafari movement ???? Anyone seen a picture of Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in press briefings yet ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:50 PM (4eN6q)

199 Sure you are, KJP. Maybe cut back on the ganja, you imbecilic twat.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (d2bW3

FIFY

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:50 PM (mZ3xv)

200 my guess is KJP days are numbered
she will never be able to handle the questions next year when the investigations start
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (us2H3)
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You're thinking of the old way of doing things.

KJP's job could be just just to stall and serve as a means to call you racist if you dislike the stalling.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:50 PM (krQz2)

201 180 Is KJP a midget and stands on a beer case to reach the podium ???

She, it, them, her, us, you is a very weird looking biological entity....... Too much Soylent Green in it's diet ???

She looks like Mattel or Hasbro put out a black female Chuckie doll in some sort of weird child-terror diversity outreach program, and she then did what comes natural to child killers: went into Dem politics.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (ppBhU)

202 I think Musk is pretty savvy here and has them fucked.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (xDian)

A very typical "condition to close" is you have to prove to the buyer's satisfaction that sales (in this case ad sales based on real users, not robot fakes) are accurate - not accurate to your own satisfaction. A condition was probably set that more than 95% of all Twitter users had to be proven to be real in a fashion that would satisfy the buyer (in a reasonable man scenario) - they couldn't make that happen, so pretty doubtful that any court is going to weigh in and say, hey, they sure did.

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (+Cgut)

203 >>Fairly certain the FBI has many confidential sources, and most of them are from countries who hate us.

They don't have many that they previously investigated as a Russian spy who then became the primary sub source for the Steele dossier which he admitted to the FBI in January 2017 was made up "bar talk" that they then turn around and hire as a CHS for the entirety of the Mueller investigation.

This is kind of a big deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (ZLI7S)

204 Bret Baier and FOX are pretending that Tim Ryan has a chance in OH

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (us2H3)

205 can't believe this just got tossed out there and left to bask...

Posted by: SturmToddler (KdUK5) at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (WhsXQ)

I'm glad you appreciate my humour

/not canuck

Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (dCxaZ)

206 Think of all the lawsuits in last decade for Equality yet Twitter and Facebook can discriminate Conservatives and al, you hear is make your own Twitter.
Never make your own Trannie group

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM (k8B25)

207 >>>Who cares? Why is a CCP agent any worse than a US agent, which is basically all twatter is.

Posted by: espinostifer

I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore? I mena, there are plenty who will just say, "Innocent," and then that's it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM (d2bW3)

208 Twitter being infiltrated by CCP agents is totes okay because congress is bought and paid for by CCP agents.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM (mZ3xv)

209 I think KJP is very sexy when she scrambles in turning those pages in her cute little book. I bet she wiggles her little ass in a way that would even give Joe a Woody with some Sildenafil in a nice smoothie ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (4eN6q)

210 The lawsuit over the Twitter sale will end up settling. Musk will pay a reduced break-up fee. The sales almost certainly had mountains of disclaimers that Musk did his own due diligence and wasn't relying on anything Twitter said. So the argument that Twitter later refused to provide additional insight into the "bot algorithm" issue is a red herring that Musk is using to try to get out of a deal he probably never really intended to get into. Once a deal is struck and the lawyers are done with the contracts, it's VERY difficult to get out of them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

211 Stop picking on Diversity Talking Tabitha!

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (krQz2)

212 Bret Baier and FOX are pretending that Tim Ryan has a chance in OH
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (us2H3)

So, he supports the murder of wrong thinking Americans, then?

Cuz Tim Ryan called for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

213 192 Dont say you werent warned.

https://tinyurl.com/5a9wxcp2
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Wow they really are pushing hard. When no one takes the bait they will false flag.

Posted by: Haywood at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (/xLeD)

214 Bret Baier and FOX are pretending that Tim Ryan has a chance in OH
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (us2H3)

Polls are even more worthless than ever before.

2016 : "Shy Republican voter"

2022: "Terrorized Republican voter"

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 03:54 PM (6eRlp)

215 >>Isn't he being charged ?

Yes. That's what today's filing is all about. Danchenko recently made a motion to have his case dismissed and today Durham responded. He is being charged with multiple counts of lying to the FBI but the real bombshell here is what the FBI knew, when they knew it and what they did.

Wouldn't surprise me if this is why they raided Mar A Lago.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

216 They've got a 5 year union electrical apprentice speaking at Joe's podium. 5 year!

I earned my journeyman card in 2 years and was a single man crew for 3 years.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 03:54 PM (w2Z7l)

217 The press secretary is DC inside baseball stuff. Nobody but political junkies have any clue what she says or even who she is. And this goes for all press secretaries.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:54 PM (IrNVV)

218 >>They don't have many that they previously investigated as a Russian spy who then became the primary sub source for the Steele dossier which he admitted to the FBI in January 2017 was made up "bar talk" that they then turn around and hire as a CHS for the entirety of the Mueller investigation.

This is kind of a big deal.

Posted by: JackStraw

The FBI honestly needs to be disbanded, or at the very least, a complete overhaul of every supervisor.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:55 PM (d2bW3)

219 Their case is, essentially, our bot count algorithm is an effective tool used in good faith to accurately measure the issue in question to an appropriate degree of accuracy. Musk's request goes beyond a good faith acceptance of proof for meeting his condition precedent. Our tool does and we have, so rule the sake must close. Musk's counterargument is: everything those guys just said is bullshit. Mudge's testimony today is evidence that Musk is correct.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xDian)

220 I must get 5 to 10 calls a day from these pollsters. I never even answer. I love Caller ID ........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:55 PM (4eN6q)

221 Brandon says he's glad his mom is dead

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (us2H3)

222 If I can walk out on a $300k purchase if a house doesn't pass inspection, I can't imagine the richest man in the world paid a bunch of lawyers to screw up a billion dollar deal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (zLzBY)

223 Ferd, I wonder if those are what my iPhone tells me are "Scam Likely" calls. They probably let them thru for those that would answer correctly . . .

Posted by: Catherine at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (ZSsrh)

224 >>>127 Twitter is full of scumbags to be sure, but Elon Musk is worse. Conservatives got conned by this huckster.
And the Delaware Court of Chancery is going to make that crystal clear in October, when he'll have to pony up that $4 billion. A deal is a deal Elon, you can't pull your normal fuckery on this one.
Posted by: Jim Parks

Thank you Random Paid Astroturf Poster.

Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (B3oWe)

225 >>The FBI honestly needs to be disbanded, or at the very least, a complete overhaul of every supervisor.

Yep. Top to bottom.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (ZLI7S)

226 @221

>>Brandon says he's glad his mom is dead

He is one sad and twisted dude.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (etnWI)

227 >>From TechnoFog: Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 through October 2020.

You don't say.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZLI7S)

---------

Devin Nunes was on Gorka's radio show earlier discussing this. He said they put him on the payroll to protect him as a "Confidential Informant" once they realized he was exposed.

He believes there's a special, political, dirty tricks unit within the Counterintelligence unit within the National Security Division of the FBI -- because the exact same people keep showing up in the Hillary treasonous server "investigation", Russia hoax psyop/"investigation", Mueller "investigation" (in which all participants new was a hoax on Day One), the Hunter Biden laptop suppression & claims of Russia Disinformation, the 2nd Ukraine "impeachment", the J6 false flag & kangaroo court, the raid on MAL, et. al.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (ym/gI)

228 >>>Wow they really are pushing hard. When no one takes the bait they will false flag.

Posted by: Haywood

Wonder if Ohio will vote for Tim Ryan after suggesting people kill Republicans? My guess is absolutely.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (d2bW3)

229 I would love to be on a federal jury. Not guilty. Period. Don’t give a ruck if the Eff Bee Eye has a full confession corroborated by video evidence of the crime . Not guilty.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (IrNVV)

230 I'm seeing Daddario basically wore a see through dress at the Emmys.

She's pretty proud of her sweater puppies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (mZ3xv)

231 that's a lot of gub workers that got the afternoon off to be yelled at

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (us2H3)

232 DOW -1338

Where a hardhat if you're down in Wall St. area. The bodies will be falling like a heavy rain.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (A7urr)

233 The FBI honestly needs to be disbanded, or at the very least, a complete overhaul of every supervisor.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:55 PM (d2bW3)
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And everybody need to be scrubbed down with lye soap and a horsebrush.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (krQz2)

234 Only 8.5% Inflation. It could be worse. It could be 618.5% like it is in Cuba...... So shut up and sit down you panty wastes ........

Joe is working hard to bring down Inflation in Cuba...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (4eN6q)

235 >>>I would love to be on a federal jury. Not guilty. Period. Don’t give a ruck if the Eff Bee Eye has a full confession corroborated by video evidence of the crime . Not guilty.

Posted by: Joe XiDen

Same. Guy could be guilty as sin, and no way I vote to convict.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:58 PM (d2bW3)

236 I attended a Facist Bureau Investigation cyber security lecture some 10 years ago. Back then they were saying foreign and criminal spies were infiltrating all sorts of industries.

These organizations would pay for the mole's schooling, stipend, training about the industry to were to be placed in, often by an already mole.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 13, 2022 03:58 PM (3p4cr)

237 I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore? I mena, there are plenty who will just say, "Innocent," and then that's it.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM (d2bW3)

Juries will be the next to go. There will be no need for a jury of your peers in a communist state.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (sI15f)

238 230 I'm seeing Daddario basically wore a see through dress at the Emmys.

She's pretty proud of her sweater puppies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (mZ3xv)

========

The Daily Daddario surely doesn't know what you mean:

https://tinyurl.com/7h62xsjt

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

239 Shoot! I'm busted!

Posted by: Wang, the Chinese Intel Guy Who Works in his Underwear in His Living Room at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (qHxjP)

240 @228

>>Wonder if Ohio will vote for Tim Ryan after suggesting people kill Republicans? My guess is absolutely.

Ohio is a Dominion Client State, just sayin'.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (etnWI)

241 230 I'm seeing Daddario basically wore a see through dress at the Emmys.

She's pretty proud of her sweater puppies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (mZ3xv)

You know the rule around here.....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (906pl)

242 Where a hardhat if you're down in Wall St. area. The bodies will be falling like a heavy rain.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 03:57 PM (A7urr)
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When Black Tuesday comes
I'll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (krQz2)

243 Bongino was ripping the fibbie ham-n-eggers to shreds today.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (an3PP)

244 222 If I can walk out on a $300k purchase if a house doesn't pass inspection, I can't imagine the richest man in the world paid a bunch of lawyers to screw up a billion dollar deal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (zLzBY)
________________

If the house sale contract includes an inspection provision, then you can rely on that provision to get out of the deal. Same with a mortgage contingency. But not all house sales include these provisions. Sellers hate them because they allow the buyer to walk. Sales of companies are like the latter. They usually disclaim all reliance on seller reps and do not include "inspection" or due diligence periods. The buyer is supposed to do his due diligence BEFORE making his offer.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

245 You know the rule around here.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (906pl)
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TheJamesMadison sure does...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (YIVH2)

246 Hey Joe, how's those inflation numbers ? LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (bs+z0)

247 If I can walk out on a $300k purchase if a house doesn't pass inspection, I can't imagine the richest man in the world paid a bunch of lawyers to screw up a billion dollar deal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM (zLzBY)

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Exactly. Every corporate sale or acquisition is conditional and contingent -- and why scores of lawyers make the big bucks.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (ym/gI)

248 @232

>>DOW -1338

Profits, take them now while you can or alternatively, buy on the dip, YMMV.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (etnWI)

249 You are all worthless and weak. Drop and give me 1000 push ups now. I can do 1000 push-ups in 10 minutes you mud sucking MAGA shit bird !!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (4eN6q)

250 counts of lying to the FBI but the real bombshell here is what the FBI knew, when they knew it and what they did.

Wouldn't surprise me if this is why they raided Mar A Lago.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

Thanks. What a fucking shit show they are trying to cover up. I think Trump def has some bad shit on the actors. Remember when he said " I caught them all" ? Makes me wonder

Posted by: Kim Kardassian at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (M+Lyo)

251 Two things

The Emmys were on? Had no idea.

Two damn that is a nice dress.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (IrNVV)

252 Good news, everyone!

Townhall.com@townhallcom
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

253 Well yes, why would Twitter fear consequences for hiring spies? They're protected by the leftists from consequences as long as they stay in their pocket.
This is what happens when the opposition completely abdicates their job. If Grassley wants to convince anyone he cares, he should gather like minded senators and go tell McConnell he will be ousted unless he does something substantial to block everything coming to the senate.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (yvHe0)

254 If I can walk out on a $300k purchase if a house doesn't pass inspection, I can't imagine the richest man in the world paid a bunch of lawyers to screw up a billion dollar deal.
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...The buyer is supposed to do his due diligence BEFORE making his offer.

*

Yeah, that was sort of my point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - America First, America Always, China can kiss our Durham, NC at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (Zjer5)

255 >>>Juries will be the next to go. There will be no need for a jury of your peers in a communist state.

Posted by: Miss Issippi

Probably right. By then, we'll all be in the gulags anyway.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (d2bW3)

256 Musk will pay a reduced break-up fee.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 13, 2022 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

Certainly, there are walk-away clauses that require penalties - these are typically not inconsequential if you really have no case for walking away. I don't see that here, as any court is going to have trouble determining if Twitter really inflated or didn't inflate their sales based on non-existent users - and like baseball, ties go to the buyer. I have had buyers and sellers float away based on walk-aways. But you are getting yourself into costly legal and shareholder hassles that probably aren't gonna go your way when you avail yourself of them...best to let Musk go, live for another day. But Twitter's board seems to be made up mostly up of pre-pubescent chumps.

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (+Cgut)

257
Townhall.com@townhallcom
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

Lying sack of shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

258 You know the rule around here.....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (906pl)
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TheJamesMadison sure does...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (YIVH2)
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He only thinks about mentioning Prometheus.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (krQz2)

259 It's really as simple as that, he's been trying to get out of the deal by hook or by crook and trying to bring down twitter along the way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

I don't care why he's doing it, I'm just enjoying the slow motion train wreck he's set in motion.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at September 13, 2022 04:02 PM (OUMaO)

260 246 Hey Joe, how's those inflation numbers ? LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:00 PM (bs+z0)

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"When adjusted for inflation, my IQ has risen from 80 to 60 the past year ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 04:02 PM (ym/gI)

261 I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore? I mean, there are plenty who will just say, "Innocent," and then that's it.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM

Most (over 95%) of federal cases are plea bargained. It will take a long time, if ever, for "hey, the juries don't believe the FBI agents anymore" to trickle down.

Posted by: Chuck C at September 13, 2022 04:02 PM (xttsV)

262 >>He believes there's a special, political, dirty tricks unit within the Counterintelligence unit within the National Security Division of the FBI -- because the exact same people keep showing up in the Hillary treasonous server "investigation", Russia hoax psyop/"investigation", Mueller "investigation" (in which all participants new was a hoax on Day One), the Hunter Biden laptop suppression & claims of Russia Disinformation, the 2nd Ukraine "impeachment", the J6 false flag & kangaroo court, the raid on MAL, et. al.

Exactly. It's the same small group of people from FBI HQ running all of these corrupt ops. That was something instituted at the FBI under Mueller and it was kept in place by Comey.

That's a big reason I think the Mar A Lago raid was over Russia collusion documents the DOJ/FBI and the Obama/Biden teams want kept secret.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

263 >>>KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

At least Psuckup was kinda good at lying. This clown is really awful at it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (d2bW3)

264
Townhall.com@townhallcom
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

Het Latrine jean Pierre.... I have seen the same item go up 1 dollar in one week.... So.. Nothings flat except your brain

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (bs+z0)

265 Bunch of lazy so and soes

Here's her in her full sheer nipply goodness.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9epkaf

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (mZ3xv)

266 Quick we need a $6T Inflation Reduction Bill passed before that Clown Powell raises interest rates again before the elections to make Democrats look good on MSNBC and CNN.......

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (4eN6q)

267 They are all lining up to declare war on Conservatives to take over the country

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (k8B25)

268 there we twice as many republican voters in the OH primaries as there were dims

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (us2H3)

269 If inflation stays at 8.5% forever, then inflation will be 0% forever too, according to the left. Because apparently if the rate of change doesn’t change then there is no inflation in leftardville.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (IrNVV)

270 I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore?
**

Go read about color revolutions and how they work if you haven't.

[x] lose faith in elections
[x] massive monetary loss via spending and inflation
[x] lose faith in government and institutions
[x] lose faith in law enforcement

The exact same people that pulled this sh*t off in Venezuala, Ukraine, etc. pulled it off here in 2020. We're on schedule.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - America First, America Always, China can kiss our Durham, NC at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (Zjer5)

271 Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation.

Posted by: Anthony Kiedis at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (h5TKJ)

272 263 >>>KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

Yea, flat as the Grand Tetons on Pam Anderson during her good years...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (4eN6q)

273 130 "Twitter employs not just Indian spies, which had already been disclosed, but Chinese spies -- which had been suspected, but was confirmed today in the Senate."
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Some of the telephone spam call centers are Pakistani.

Posted by: Ciampino - the dangers are all in the East at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (qfLjt)

274 I'll consider it zero at the start of Biden's junta.

Since then, it's not zero. Fucktards.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (mZ3xv)

275 If inflation stays at 8.5% forever, then inflation will be 0% forever too, according to the left. Because apparently if the rate of change doesn’t change then there is no inflation in leftardville.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 13, 2022 04:04 PM (IrNVV)
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And the deceleration kills ya.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (krQz2)

276 >>>there we twice as many republican voters in the OH primaries as there were dims

Posted by: REDACTED

Here's hoping. Ryan is a POS.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (d2bW3)

277 270 I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore?

They still found those 2 schmucks in MI guilty of the alleged kidnap case of the Gov.

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:05 PM (bs+z0)

278 Dadarrio is rather stupid if she didn't know she was showing her nipply goodness. Of course, she knew. It was some little acting routine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (vH/6k)

279 How insulting... I am more smarter then her on a bad day on the bottom of Joe Biden Toilet.....

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

Lying sack of shit.

Posted by: A Sack of Shit at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (4eN6q)

280 Like senators should have ANY sensitive data on Twitter.

If they do, they are true idiots.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (ufFY8)

281 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

At least Psuckup was kinda good at lying. This clown is really awful at it.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM

kinda makes you miss Robert Gibbs...

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (ENBF0)

282 Thank you Random Paid Astroturf Poster.
Posted by: ace at September 13, 2022 03:56 PM

This goes out to you, Mister Random Paid Astroturf Poster
(Mister Random Paid Astroturf Poster)
...

Posted by: Real Men of Genius at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (xttsV)

283 Odd how these "American" tech companies run by Brahmans don't have any loyalty to the United States or "grok" freedom.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 13, 2022 04:07 PM (pJWtt)

284 278 Dadarrio is rather stupid if she didn't know she was showing her nipply goodness. Of course, she knew. It was some little acting routine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (vH/6k

Of course. She scrutinized every inch of that dress before attending. Someone told her to wear some chicken cutlets and she said nope. Full nipple for the win.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:07 PM (mZ3xv)

285 280 Like senators should have ANY sensitive data on Twitter.

If they do, they are true idiots.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (ufFY

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DM-ing madames who get them underaged illegal immigrants for dates isn't sensitive, is it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

286 Lying sack of shit.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at September 13, 2022 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)

287 You cannot spin 8%+ inflation. So your only choice is to lie about it, comrade.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 04:08 PM (QSjkU)

288 Mata Hari McConnell has not a shit to give about who works at Twitter just so long as his filthy wife's cargo ships get port priority.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (A7urr)

289 Bunch of lazy so and soes

Here's her in her full sheer nipply goodness.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9epkaf

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (mZ3xv)

Daddario and Sydney Sweeney are on the same show? The mind boggles.

Posted by: spindrift at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (h5TKJ)

290 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
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Which is why it's a rate.

It will probably be a while until Dollar Tree feels they have to snap their minimum price above $1.25, where it is now. If may be quite a while before McDonald peddles their fountain drinks they used to peddle for $1 at more than $1.39, where it is now.

But those were jumps.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (krQz2)

291 can't believe this just got tossed out there and left to bask...

Posted by: SturmToddler (KdUK5) at September 13, 2022 03:42 PM (WhsXQ)

I'm glad you appreciate my humour

/not canuck
Posted by: kallisto at September 13, 2022 03:51 PM (dCxaZ)

not going to pass up a hanging curve ball like that...

Posted by: SturmToddler at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (WhsXQ)

292
kinda makes you miss Robert Gibbs...
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (ENBF0)

*tips hat to James Carney*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)

293 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

Ah, the economically illiterate lefty Dem...a species that never seems to die off, but ought to given their complete inability to understand how supply and demand works and any understanding of what their role is in the food chain of survival. Inflation goes up at an 8 plus pct clip each and every month, and all lefties crow that the inflation rate isn't going up, so give me free food!

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2022 04:10 PM (+Cgut)

294 Oh Sarah, you slut.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

295 "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I think the Government is also trying to get the 2023 Social Security/Federal retiree COLA lower than was tracked a few months ago. Federal worker, SNAP Colas, etc. are already fixed for 2023.

Posted by: Lola at September 13, 2022 04:11 PM (NIYa7)

296 OT but I was reminded again today that Woodstock was held during the Hong Kong flu pandemic.

Where are the hippies at when you really need them.

Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:11 PM (y60WL)

297 Come on Sarah! Jessica offered a better deal!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:11 PM (mZ3xv)

298 Interesting, Sarah has a new site. I wonder what happened to salarycash ...

Posted by: spindrift at September 13, 2022 04:12 PM (h5TKJ)

299 Sarah, what do you charge for anal? Is there a sur charge for anything over 6 inches?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 04:12 PM (QSjkU)

300 Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Tiktoker claims the reason she’s fat and can’t lose weight is because of white people

https://bit.ly/3L9cGAZ

So finally the teuth comes out! Yt pipo made me fat!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:12 PM (FVME7)

301 300 Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Tiktoker claims the reason she’s fat and can’t lose weight is because of white people

https://bit.ly/3L9cGAZ

So finally the teuth comes out! Yt pipo made me fat!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:12 PM (FVME7)

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Repeating this person's public claims is literal violence against her. LibsofTikTok should be banned forever from everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

302 Sundowner ever make his TV announcement?

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 04:13 PM (k8B25)

303 Musk is going to get Twitter for $2

Not per share.

$2

Posted by: TexasDan at September 13, 2022 04:13 PM (XSHW+)

304 SILVER ALERT: A crazy old coot with the US nuclear codes is screaming on the White House lawn about oil on the windshield of his mother's car, when there was a frost or something, back in the time before rocks formed in the Earth's Crust.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2022 04:13 PM (AMIL/)

305 Joe is a lunatic with those glasses and his toughguy persona. He took of his jacket and he's going to throw down!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:14 PM (w2Z7l)

306 305 Joe is a lunatic with those glasses and his toughguy persona. He took of his jacket and he's going to throw down!
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:14 PM (w2Z7l)

Let me guess MAGA white supremacist domestic terrorists ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:14 PM (bs+z0)

307 “Treachery AND incompetence? You’re soaking in it.” The trouble is that “The Center” can’t tell where one left off and the other began, haters.

Posted by: Holy Crap at September 13, 2022 04:15 PM (glGDV)

308 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 13, 2022 04:01 PM (FVME7)

Fun fact, went to buy creatine the other day. Was surprised to find that it was the same price as the month before.

Unfun fact, the creatine I purchased the month before was a larger size than the one I purchased this month. GAINZ meet shrinkflation.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 13, 2022 04:15 PM (KbCG3)

309
kinda makes you miss Robert Gibbs...
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 04:06 PM (ENBF0)
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I'd prefer Barry Gibbs...

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:15 PM (krQz2)

310 Woah. Igor Danchenko, of pee-tape fame, was a paid informant of the FBI.

https://tinyurl.com/ymvev7we

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 13, 2022 04:15 PM (sWM8x)

311 So Joe's speaking ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:17 PM (bs+z0)

312
Why should they care?

If the US government served Twitter a warrant for records, they'd turn them over. If it asked nicely for the FBI to have a man on scene, they'd do it. Any American firm would.

The Chinese own our government, and them sending in their factors to monitor their businesses in their colony is a perfectly legitimate thing for a nation-state to do. There is no effective difference between their government and our own.

I mean, really... Mark Milley recently and clearly stated that our military answers to Beijing - and not our nominal CiC. The GOP and Dems have also made it abundantly clear that Chinese interests are paramount, to the point where they delivered a slow-rolling coup d'etat on Xi's behalf.

With that being the case, what happens at Twitter is of no particular concern.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2022 04:18 PM (oINRc)

313 311 So Joe's speaking ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:17 PM (bs+z0)

No, he's screaming.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2022 04:18 PM (AMIL/)

314 Raggity Karine is waste of time, nothing she says is true

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 04:18 PM (k8B25)

315 Thank you Random Paid Astroturf Poster.
Posted by: ace

Have we heard from his volunteer buddy.
In Mom's basement long 13.7 shares.

Posted by: DaveA at September 13, 2022 04:18 PM (FhXTo)

316 A hobo from the senate is raving on the White House lawn. He's about to fall down.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:19 PM (w2Z7l)

317 What happened.
Have we switched to a 90 min feeding schedule?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at September 13, 2022 04:19 PM (09d3a)

318 We are living in the oddest of times. Will this weirdness just keep going or are we truly going to end up with something cataclysmic? I don’t have anxiety but I sure as shootin’ feel anxious more than I care to admit.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2022 04:20 PM (4XQoo)

319 Twitter's security flaws are by design, not a failure, a feature.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

320 So remember Weiner DM underage girls on Twitter?

Yeah. Any twitter employee could take over any senators account. So they have access to all the DMs. Chinese spy, Indian - its absurd to think that our degenerate "elite" political class, aren't completely compromised. Of course they are. Why in the world would anyone think otherwise. The entire system is based on extortion. See hunter biden laptop. O wait. You can't because the FBI sort of lost it/or is keeping "safe". And by safe I mean as leverage.

Posted by: there are no words for this evil at September 13, 2022 04:20 PM (CZykd)

321 319 Twitter's security flaws are by design, not a failure, a feature.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

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It's not like they'd have the authority to create fake PMs or anything...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

322 All this talk of Chinese spies has me harder than titanium.

Posted by: Eric Fartwell at September 13, 2022 04:22 PM (W7Wi6)

323 No, he's screaming.
Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2022 04:18 PM (AMIL/)

Is he screaming about the great 8 % inflation or about MAGA extremists again, or both?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2022 04:22 PM (vH/6k)

324 322 All this talk of Chinese spies has me harder than titanium.
Posted by: Eric Fartwell at September 13, 2022 04:22 PM (W7Wi6)

I've milled and lathed titanium Eric. It ain't hard.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 13, 2022 04:23 PM (QSjkU)

325 Twitter's security flaws are by design, not a failure, a feature.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

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It's not like they'd have the authority to create fake PMs or anything...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

That's just crazy talk.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:23 PM (XvPQV)

326 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."
____________

So, ZERO percent inflation again!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 04:23 PM (lf83v)

327 303 Musk is going to get Twitter for $2

Not per share.

$2
Posted by: TexasDan at September 13, 2022 04:13 PM (XSHW+)

So Twitter is only 2x the value of Newsweek?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 13, 2022 04:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

328 325 It's not like they'd have the authority to create fake PMs or anything...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

That's just crazy talk.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:23 PM (XvPQV)

==========

"Governor, we have seen the leak of your DMs, and you asserted that several of them were fakes. Like this one where you describe your great love of Nickelback..."

"No, that one is real."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

329 >>>Is he screaming about the great 8 % inflation or about MAGA extremists again, or both?

>Dude is all over the map. MAGA, assault rifles, medicaid, medicare, social security. He's nuts.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:25 PM (w2Z7l)

330 So now everyone whos said something stupid on Twitter and later claims "Ive been hacked!" Has been validated?

Posted by: Regular joe at September 13, 2022 04:25 PM (nnp+f)

331 "If they do, they are true idiots."

I think I see the problem here.

Posted by: Bosk at September 13, 2022 04:25 PM (v4L7Y)

332 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

Yep, still costs $60 to fill my car.

Posted by: Roland THTG at September 13, 2022 04:26 PM (j40lz)

333 Did Biden really have James Taylor singing Fire and Ice during his victory party today? Does he know that's a song about suicide?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

334 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "Prices have been essentially flat in our country these last two months."

The value of her press briefings has held steady.

Posted by: Wally at September 13, 2022 04:26 PM (FJYfm)

335 >>> 237 I wonder what this will do to Federal juries. How many people trust the FBI anymore? I mena, there are plenty who will just say, "Innocent," and then that's it.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2022 03:52 PM (d2bW3)

Juries will be the next to go. There will be no need for a jury of your peers in a communist state.
Posted by: Miss Issippi at September 13, 2022 03:59 PM (sI15f)

I could be wrong but I thought juries had been declared racist, possibly during or just after the "White Hispanic" Zimmerman trial. Not like it's a risky guess though since the commies think everything they don't like is racist.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2022 04:26 PM (llON8)

336 Bunch of lazy so and soes

Here's her in her full sheer nipply goodness.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9epkaf

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 13, 2022 04:03 PM (mZ3xv)

Daddario and Sydney Sweeney are on the same show? The mind boggles.
Posted by: spindrift at September 13, 2022 04:09 PM (h5TKJ)

That is a REALLY good look for her.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:27 PM (XvPQV)

337 Will this weirdness just keep going or are we truly going to end up with something cataclysmic?
==
power of "and"

Its going to be both. The times will be cut short otherwise even the elect will not be able to withstand it.

Posted by: there are no words for this evil at September 13, 2022 04:27 PM (CZykd)

338 333 Did Biden really have James Taylor singing Fire and Ice during his victory party today? Does he know that's a song about suicide?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

Victory party ? Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:27 PM (bs+z0)

339 The aviators make Joe mean just like Walter White's black hat.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2022 04:27 PM (44ww/)

340 And I kinda like Nickelback, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:28 PM (XvPQV)

341
1. Elon Musk buys Twitter
2. Disgruntled employee reveals 10 billion bot accounts
3. Twitter stock becomes worthless to advertisers
4. ???

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:28 PM (y3pKJ)

342 Good job Durham. You might get a conviction of a non-US citizen on lying to the FBI. Excellent work as you make the case that the FBI was duped.

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at September 13, 2022 04:28 PM (EpDzw)

343

lulz @ DJIA -4% today

Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 13, 2022 04:28 PM (nIpaw)

344 289
Titillating.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (yvHe0)

345 Sorry i missed Joe's rant.. Hope Tucker has it tonight

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (bs+z0)

346 >>Victory party ? Seriously ?

Absolutely. Didn't you hear? Joe says he whooped inflation just like he whooped Corn Pop and he had a celebration at the White House today.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

347 lulz @ DJIA -4% today
Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September

This is not a joke.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (Y+l9t)

348 Biden just threatened Dow Jones to a push-up contest.

Posted by: Azathoth at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (wb1YC)

349 I don't hate Nickleback.

Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (y60WL)

350
Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (y3pKJ)

351 "In a strange bit of happenstance -- or was this planned? -- Twitter's shareholders voted to formally accept Elon Musk's $44 billion bid for their piece-of-shit spy-ridden security shithole, even though Musk has withdrawn the offer."

Damn right it was planned. With the information Musk has now, thanks to the whistleblower, he can come back to Twitter with a seriously lowball offer. Shareholders probably don't want that.

Posted by: NeverBiden at September 13, 2022 04:31 PM (eIGHH)

352 350
Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (y3pKJ)

I believe so

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:31 PM (bs+z0)

353

Nickelfucker > Nickelback > a roll of nickels up your pee hole

Posted by: Apu He/Him/Fuck/You at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM (KQMzI)

354 >>Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?

Yea, brain fart.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM (ZLI7S)

355 Oh hey, Happy Patch Tuesday!

Posted by: gp On Heavy Drugs at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM (24fqN)

356 I do think there are some good bargains in the market right now. You just have to mirror the trades of various people in Congress the next couple of days to determine which ones they are.

Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM (y60WL)

357 Huh, it's almost as if Jackson, MS has a dysfunctional government.

Hinds County DA pulls a gun: https://bit.ly/3RFz7Qw

Posted by: Bert G at September 13, 2022 04:33 PM (aCgRi)

358 347 lulz @ DJIA -4% today
Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September

This is not a joke.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (Y+l9t)

No, but it was probably traders with inside info convincing their clients to buy in b/c inflation was gonna be low, knowing that it wasn't, so they could short their own clients...or maybe I'm just talking about the congressmen.

I mean, it ended right about where it was last Monday. Of course, it's likely to keep going down, but that was baked into the cake before the run up last week...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 04:33 PM (exHjb)

359 354 >>Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?

Yea, brain fart.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM (ZLI7S)

Too much pondering Prometheus will do that to you.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 04:33 PM (906pl)

360
Too much pondering Prometheus will do that to you.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 04:33 PM (906pl)

Never seen that movie, is it that bad ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (bs+z0)

361 Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?
_________

Nah. That's a California weather forecast.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (lf83v)

362 Waited two weeks for a fragrance/perfume discovery set to show up from Oman. Tried out the fragrances and one of them smells like fresh horseshit on the opening then the dry down is smokey, like forrest fire smokey and it burns your throat and sinuses. Amouage Silver Oud is some potent stuff. Wow. Definitely had to scrub that one off my arm.

Posted by: JROD at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (0jZnq)

363 Never seen that movie, is it that bad ?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (bs+z0)

It's really bad, especially if you liked Alien or Aliens.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

364 349 I don't hate Nickleback.
Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (y60WL)

Someone told me that if you play a Nickleback song backwards, you'll hear messages from the devil. But, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback, so it's a wash.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (trdmm)

365 361 Isn't the song "Fire and Rain"?
_________

Nah. That's a California weather forecast.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 04:34 PM (lf83v)

Leave out the "and"

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (bs+z0)

366
I've seen oil, and I've seen rain
I've seen cancer that I caught again and again

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (krQz2)

367 LOL

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (lf83v)

368 >>Too much pondering Prometheus will do that to you.

Too much multi-tasking trying to get the full impact of the Durham filing today. The FBI is completely out of control.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

369 368 The FBI is completely out of control.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

=========

News from 1908?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

370
You just have to mirror the trades of various people in Congress the next couple of days to determine which ones they are.

Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:32 PM

Obama: 'Put that bill on my desk and I'll sign it." (After State of Union address with nation watching)

What happened: The insider trading bill was signed into law BUT discarded six months later. Suckers!!!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:36 PM (y3pKJ)

371 Too much multi-tasking trying to get the full impact of the Durham filing today. The FBI is completely out of control.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

On that I'm pretty sure we can all agree

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2022 04:36 PM (bs+z0)

372 If you like Nickelback, you'll love Joe Biden's greatest hits:

https://tinyurl.com/jf85tw3k

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 13, 2022 04:36 PM (fxCK2)

373 Daddario, Sweeney AND Connie Britton.

That is one stacked lineup.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 13, 2022 04:36 PM (KbCG3)

374 349 I don't hate Nickleback.
Posted by: polynikes at September 13, 2022 04:30 PM (y60WL)
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I've never understood the hate they get...They may not be the greatest band in the world, but surely they are better than Yoko Ono...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:37 PM (YIVH2)

375 The aviators make Joe mean just like Walter White's black hat.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2022 04:27 PM (44ww/)

---------

Out: Heisenberg.
In: Schicklgruber.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 13, 2022 04:38 PM (ym/gI)

376 Prometheus is visually stunning; I saw a piece on the net where some guy showed that if you showed the visual track as is, but threw away every single line of dialogue and rewrote an absolutely new script for the scenes, one where the characters actually had rational reasons for doing the things they did, then you could have a decent movie. But there's still some things that just can't be fixed, like the heroine running away from the giant rolling toilet seat in a straight line.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 04:38 PM (trdmm)

377 Reuters
@Reuters
BREAKING: Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover offer at a special shareholder meeting https://reut.rs/3eJElMA

I thought musk pulled his offer pending a review of bots on twatter.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 04:38 PM (bVYXr)

378 I've never understood the hate they get...They may not be the greatest band in the world, but surely they are better than Yoko Ono...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:37 PM (YIVH2)
++++
Much better. The criticism, as far as I know, comes from the similarity of all their big songs. I've heard it put as, "Nickleback did really well with that song they have."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 04:39 PM (t0OGg)

379 My EV has been on this charger for 5 hours and every time I come out to check it the smart breaker is tripped.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:40 PM (w2Z7l)

380 377 Reuters
@Reuters
BREAKING: Twitter shareholders vote in favor of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover offer at a special shareholder meeting https://reut.rs/3eJElMA

I thought musk pulled his offer pending a review of bots on twatter.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 04:38 PM (bVYXr)

A court has to let him do that...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 04:40 PM (exHjb)

381 I thought musk pulled his offer pending a review of bots on twatter.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 04:38 PM (bVYXr)

At first they didn't want him. Now they're trying to force him to buy them whether he wants to or not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 04:40 PM (trdmm)

382 After the "Victory Party", Taylor and Biden exchanged oatmeal recipes.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 04:41 PM (6eRlp)

383 ++++
Much better. The criticism, as far as I know, comes from the similarity of all their big songs. I've heard it put as, "Nickleback did really well with that song they have."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 04:39 PM (t0OGg)

There's actually an old joke about Vivaldi along the same lines - 500-odd concerti to his name but he really only wrote two, only he wrote each one 250 times.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 04:41 PM (906pl)

384 Twitter is a cesspool
Facebook is an outhouse
TikTok is a junior high girls restroom

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (v0R5T)

385 333 Did Biden really have James Taylor singing Fire and Ice during his victory party today? Does he know that's a song about suicide?
Posted by: JackStraw

Heh! I hope they followed that song with Billy Joel's 'Captain Jack'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

386
The "shareholders" held that sham "vote" to pad their frivolous lawsuit against Musk.

Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (nIpaw)

387 "every time I come out to check it the smart breaker is tripped."

I need some breaks.

Posted by: Smartass breaker at September 13, 2022 04:43 PM (sn5EN)

388 At first they didn't want him. Now they're trying to force him to buy them whether he wants to or not.

How far are is Musk away from finding a boiled rabbit in his kitchen?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 13, 2022 04:43 PM (3hSHB)

389 KJP will never be able to handle the questions next year when the investigations start
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 03:47 PM (us2H3)

"No comment. "

Even she ain't that stupid.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 13, 2022 04:43 PM (NW9xb)

390 Anybody notice that monkeypox dropped entirely off the media radar after Beto O'Rourke developed his "mystery illness"?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 13, 2022 04:44 PM (I2/tG)

391 My EV has been on this charger for 5 hours and every time I come out to check it the smart breaker is tripped.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:40 PM (w2Z7l)
........

check the wiper coolant.

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

392 Here's a dumb question: How does Twitter make money, enough to be worth billions??

It can't be from selling ads.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 13, 2022 04:44 PM (Zf0+a)

393 Heh! I hope they followed that song with Billy Joel's 'Captain Jack'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM

I hope it is Ode to Pedo Joe and he jumps off the Tallahatchie bridge.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 13, 2022 04:45 PM (3p4cr)

394
After the "Victory Party", Taylor and Biden exchanged oatmeal recipes.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 04:41 PM

However Hunter Biden and James Taylor compared their drug experiences with Hunter saying, “People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. Otherwise we wouldn't do it. After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid.”

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:45 PM (y3pKJ)

395
Twitter is trying to make it look like the only thing stopping Musk from finalizing the purchase is Musk.

Twitter is trying to force the Sale or at least get some sort huge settlement payoff from Musk for "damages" for backing out of the deal. The lawsuit is Bullshit. But maybe a "judge" will rule in favor of Twitter just to spite Musk...which is likely.

Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 13, 2022 04:45 PM (nIpaw)

396 Heh! I hope they followed that song with Billy Joel's 'Captain Jack'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

And close the set with "Hey Man, Nice Shot."

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 04:45 PM (trdmm)

397 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 13, 2022 04:46 PM (T4tVD)

398 My EV has been on this charger for 5 hours and every time I come out to check it the smart breaker is tripped.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 04:40 PM

Buy a Smarter Breaker........... Duh.......... Duh..... I did not charge my Vette at all today and started right up........ I even forgot to plug it in for the last week.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:47 PM (4eN6q)

399 392 Here's a dumb question: How does Twitter make money, enough to be worth billions??

It's a front for deep state homosexual necrophilic bestialic apostate Muslims...

Posted by: Apu He/Him/Fuck/You at September 13, 2022 04:47 PM (KQMzI)

400 392 Here's a dumb question: How does Twitter make money, enough to be worth billions??

It can't be from selling ads.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 13, 2022 04:44 PM (Zf0+a)

That's the key to Musk's case against them - it doesn't, and the stock price is a massive fraud on every shareholder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 04:47 PM (trdmm)

401 Much better. The criticism, as far as I know, comes from the similarity of all their big songs. I've heard it put as, "Nickleback did really well with that song they have."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 04:39 PM (t0OGg)
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Eh, they are hardly the only ones guilty of that. Considering the "sameness" of pop music, much of which is written by a couple of dudes or corporatized, it's all basically white noise to me these days.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:48 PM (YIVH2)

402 384 Twitter is a cesspool
Facebook is an outhouse
TikTok is a junior high girls restroom
Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (v0R5T)

Social media is the communal shitter at a rural lumber mill at 8am on any given Monday, right down to the sights and smells.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 13, 2022 04:49 PM (aGGj6)

403 Social media is the communal shitter at a rural lumber mill at 8am on any given Monday, right down to the sights and smells.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 13, 2022 04:49 PM (aGGj6)

Outhouse at an Asparagus Farm

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 13, 2022 04:50 PM (OgrpQ)

404 Joe next time use this song instead ....Skeeter Davis ~ The End of The World (1962)

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 04:50 PM (4eN6q)

405 Social media is the communal shitter at a rural lumber mill at 8am on any given Monday, right down to the sights and smells.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 13, 2022 04:49 PM (aGGj6)

A construction port-a-john in August the day after Taco Tuesday.

Posted by: David Lee Roth at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (Oa1Nr)

406 Here's a dumb question: How does Twitter make money, enough to be worth billions??

It can't be from selling ads.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 13, 2022 04:44 PM (Zf0+a)
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What's the ROI of buying ads on Twitter? In other words, if I spend $1000 to buy advertising on Twitter, how much does that increase sales of my product? (Extend this to social media in general)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

407 And close the set with "Hey Man, Nice Shot."

Posted by: Tom Servo

Fitting as it is on the Short Bus album.

I like Hey Man, Nice Shot.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (u4CEu)

408 406 What's the ROI of buying ads on Twitter? In other words, if I spend $1000 to buy advertising on Twitter, how much does that increase sales of my product? (Extend this to social media in general)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

=========

Extend it to all advertising.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

409 Social media is the communal shitter at a rural lumber mill at 8am on any given Monday, right down to the sights and smells.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at September 13, 2022 04:49 PM (aGGj6)

A construction port-a-john in August the day after Taco Tuesday.
Posted by: David Lee Roth at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (Oa1Nr)

You say that like its a bad thing.

Posted by: Captain Splatter at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (v0R5T)

410 So what if the DOW dropped 1400 points today. My Press Secretary is a Gay, Midget, Black Chick with a small round ass I love to sniff when Jill is not around. Get over it Losers and go solar, wind, and cosmic ray power...........

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (4eN6q)

411 I like Hey Man, Nice Shot.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at September 13, 2022 04:51 PM (u4CEu)
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So do I.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (krQz2)

412 Get over it Losers and go solar, wind, and cosmic ray power...........
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (4eN6q)
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"cosmic ray powers?" Does that mean we're all going to become superheroes? I think I read a book series about this...it doesn't end well for humanity as a whole...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:54 PM (YIVH2)

413 Off lead singer sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 04:54 PM (Oa1Nr)

414 All you twits berong us.

Posted by: Chinese Twit Master at September 13, 2022 04:55 PM (gmo/4)

415 412 Get over it Losers and go solar, wind, and cosmic ray power...........
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:52 PM (4eN6q)
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"cosmic ray powers?" Does that mean we're all going to become superheroes? I think I read a book series about this...it doesn't end well for humanity as a whole...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:54 PM (YIVH2)

=========

The 9th Ray, from John Carter.

If it can save Barsoom, it can save Earth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

416 Hey man on Star Trek they used DiLithium Crystals. I have proposed a new bill today mine more DiLithium Crystals. Problem Solved and now it's ice cream time !!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (4eN6q)

417 Twitter is trying to make it look like the only thing stopping Musk from finalizing the purchase is Musk.

Twitter is trying to force the Sale or at least get some sort huge settlement payoff from Musk for "damages" for backing out of the deal. The lawsuit is Bullshit. But maybe a "judge" will rule in favor of Twitter just to spite Musk...which is likely.
Posted by: Soothsayer'lc at September 13, 2022 04:45 PM (nIpaw)
---
It is literally illegal for a union to hold private property hostage and refuse to negotiate. Hence unions always put out the message that "Management is refusing to negotiate."

They always do.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (krQz2)

418 Anything from the Oval Office is better read if the Puppeteers aren't cleaning it up afterwards

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (k8B25)

419 416 Hey man on Star Trek they used DiLithium Crystals. I have proposed a new bill today mine more DiLithium Crystals. Problem Solved and now it's ice cream time !!!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (4eN6q)

========

Dilithium crystal mining requires slave labor from holograms that look like Robert Picardo.

Joe Biden is pro slave.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (LvTSG)

420
I better correct the record because no one is calling me out for the obvious 'Trainspotting' dialogue I attributed to Hunter Biden. It may not be true, but it sure could be.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 04:57 PM (y3pKJ)

421 Off lead singer sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 04:54 PM (Oa1Nr)
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Anthony Kedis, is that you?

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 04:57 PM (krQz2)

422 416 Hey man on Star Trek they used DiLithium Crystals. I have proposed a new bill today mine more DiLithium Crystals. Problem Solved and now it's ice cream time !!!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (4eN6q)
========
Dilithium crystal mining requires slave labor from holograms that look like Robert Picardo.

Joe Biden is pro slave.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
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It's also what they mined on the penal colony of Rura Penthe in Klingon space, I believe...So that's where the camps will be...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:58 PM (YIVH2)

423 Ken Starr passed away, RIP.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 13, 2022 04:58 PM (riDli)

424 Bad news day for Ole Joe. Time to do a Cruise Missile Strike on a Condom Factory in some African Shithole.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 04:58 PM (4eN6q)

425 422 It's also what they mined on the penal colony of Rura Penthe in Klingon space, I believe...So that's where the camps will be...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 04:58 PM (YIVH2)

========

Funding the private prison industrial complex?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

426 Hey man on Star Trek they used DiLithium Crystals. I have proposed a new bill today mine more DiLithium Crystals. Problem Solved and now it's ice cream time !!!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 04:56 PM (4eN6q)

I have a nice supply of brides for the miners

Posted by: Harcore Fenton Mudd at September 13, 2022 04:59 PM (gmo/4)

427 I'm curious to see what transpires with Musk's offer and the apparent legal wrangling that will surely ensue. I'm hopeful that Twitter has it's corporate ass handed to itself. They apparently have friends in congress so my hope is significantly tempered by reality.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2022 04:59 PM (BFigT)

428 I have proposed a new bill today mine more DiLithium Crystals.
........

In Ukraine?

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 05:00 PM (v0R5T)

429 Even those beauty crystals that Mudd on Star Trek had could not make Mayor Beetlejuice of Chicago even look remotely as good as my dog's ass !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 05:01 PM (4eN6q)

430
Ken Starr passed away, RIP.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 13, 2022 04:58 PM

No one could hide a reference to oral/anal ('tossed salad' you reprobates) relations in an asterisk on page 986 quite like the man.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 05:02 PM (y3pKJ)

431 Kenneth Starr, whose probe of Clintons exposed Monica Lewinsky affair, dead at 76

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 05:02 PM (A7urr)

432 Google app store and Apple app store both cited "security reasons" for banning Truth Social app...

Seems like this would be a good time to sue the shit out of both of them

Posted by: GetchaPull at September 13, 2022 05:02 PM (O6Vpx)

433 Of course, I wanted to increase diversity and asked could we at least have bi-lithium crystals.

And they don't make trans-lithium crystals neither.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at September 13, 2022 05:03 PM (krQz2)

434 Must have been Covid.

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 05:03 PM (v0R5T)

435 The 9th Ray, from John Carter.

If it can save Barsoom, it can save Earth.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

The 9th Ray, from John Carter, vs the 9th Gate, from Johnny Depp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 05:03 PM (trdmm)

436 Kenneth Starr, whose probe of Clintons exposed Monica Lewinsky affair, dead at 76

Anybody seen where Hillary is today? Just asking ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at September 13, 2022 05:04 PM (4eN6q)

437 Per TGP: Mr Mudpants signs some kind of Transhumanism EO yesterday.

Read most of it. Fucking frightening. These people are monsters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 05:04 PM (Oa1Nr)

438 Unless they're 2:00am "beauty crystals".

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 05:05 PM (v0R5T)

439 >>>Social media is the communal shitter at a rural lumber mill at 8am on any given Monday, right down to the sights and smells.

Posted by: Erik In Texas

I used to pull in for a breakfast burrito in the morning and shit at the truck stop.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2022 05:05 PM (w2Z7l)

440 Kenneth Starr, whose probe of Clintons exposed Monica Lewinsky affair, dead at 76
Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2022 05:02 PM (A7urr)
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Really.

It exposed that President Clinton perjured himself in the Paula Jones testimony.

It showed us that Clinton didn't take legal oaths seriously if he thought he could get away with it.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 05:05 PM (krQz2)

441 The 9th Ray, from John Carter, vs the 9th Gate, from Johnny Depp.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 05:03 PM (trdmm)

vs. the 9 iron, from Elin Woods

Posted by: Wally at September 13, 2022 05:05 PM (FJYfm)

442 I've never understood the hate they get.

Me neither. I mean they are okay, not my favorite band but damn.. there are plenty of other crap bands out there.

Posted by: jewells45 at September 13, 2022 05:06 PM (nxdel)

443 384 Twitter is a cesspool
Facebook is an outhouse
TikTok is a junior high girls restroom
Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (v0R5T)

I stay on facebook so I can keep in touch with some old sword fighting friends...

Lately? I'm suddenly seeing a bunch of Hilary Clinton stuff... and really Left memes.

So, someone is paying them to throw that data my way... and since it just either amuses me, or pisses me off... they are wasting their money.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 13, 2022 05:06 PM (oHd/0)

444 "Trainspotting" was filmed in Scotland, right? Hunter Biden speakin' with an Edinburgh (sp?) accent would be something. Have you met Lazerpig, DBZ?

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 05:07 PM (6eRlp)

445 Surreal day. Inflation 8.3%. Stock market implodes. Joe Biden has a big celebration over the Green New Deal Lite Bill aka Inflation Reduction Act. Plus, James Taylor.

“Forget it, Joey, you’re out of your element!” - Walter from the Big Lebowski

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 13, 2022 05:08 PM (/qNGG)

446 What is the combined weight of The Dispatch staff?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 13, 2022 05:08 PM (eGTCV)

447 The 9th Ray, from John Carter, vs the 9th Gate, from Johnny Depp.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 05:03 PM (trdmm)

vs the 9th Inning, from Gary Carter

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 13, 2022 05:09 PM (OgrpQ)

448 What is the combined weight of The Dispatch staff?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 13, 2022 05:08 PM (eGTCV)

"Gonna WRECK that buffet line!"

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 05:10 PM (6eRlp)

449 I've never understood the hate they get.

Me neither. I mean they are okay, not my favorite band but damn.. there are plenty of other crap bands out there.
Posted by: jewells45 at September 13, 2022 05:06 PM (nxdel)

The Culture version of Virtue Signaling. It's cool to show that you hate things hoi polloi like. Olive Garden was the restaurant equivalent for a while, Two and a Half Men for TV. Not saying any of those are great, but there was always an unseemly snottiness when people used those as shorthand for "I'm cultured and I know it."

Posted by: Wally at September 13, 2022 05:11 PM (FJYfm)

450
Kenneth Starr, whose probe of Clintons exposed Monica Lewinsky affair, dead at 76

OR rewritten to reflect reality:

Bill Clinton, who probed Monica Lewinsky and was investigated by Kenneth Starr, dead at 76.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 05:12 PM (y3pKJ)

451 Twitter is a cesspool
Facebook is an outhouse

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2022 04:42 PM (v0R5T)
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So, you only need one.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 05:14 PM (krQz2)

452
"Trainspotting" was filmed in Scotland, right? Hunter Biden speakin' with an Edinburgh (sp?) accent would be something. Have you met Lazerpig, DBZ?

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 05:07 PM

Funny thing is - according to my sisters DNA report - I'm some high percentage Scot. Maybe that's why not one word of 'Trainspotting' did I find hard to understand.

But Lazerpig? Clueless. Put some hair around it, maybe.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 05:16 PM (y3pKJ)

453 We also know from Lewinski's late admission that the President of the United States was suborning perjury through her. Clinton put her up to pressuring "her friend" Linda Tripp to not tell the whole truth for the Paula Jones trial.

So, when people tell you that "we've never have a President do anything near what Trump is accused of doing", there's that.

Posted by: Axeman at September 13, 2022 05:17 PM (krQz2)

454 Nickelback is the Two and a Half Men of Olive Gardens.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at September 13, 2022 05:18 PM (Vu7A1)

455 Ken Starr showed us the Bill Clinton only thought with his little head.

Posted by: Archer at September 13, 2022 05:20 PM (gmo/4)

456 Lazerpig is a YT channel. The T-34 takedown is EPIC.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2022 05:26 PM (6eRlp)

457 At first I thought musck was trying to change culture, and I thought that was a bad idea, but when he started playing tippy toe, I HOPED that what he was doing was exactly this. He was engaging in an action that made it impossible for twitter to lie anymore, so they could be exposed and destroy the company. Either in value so he could buy it cheap, or just destroy it outright.

He's on record not liking the way social media is managed, while appreciating it's value in connecting people, but he hates it in execution. Twitter is the worst of them and he can destroy twitter, simply by making them tell the truth. I hope my assumption was right and with all of these "leaks" that I'm sure Elon already knew, I wouldn't be surprised if my 3rd guess is right. He just wants to destroy them through disclosure.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 13, 2022 06:08 PM (+DpUe)

458 Fun Fact: SCOTUS has ruled in a case in which they ruled that if a private company is acting at the behest of the government, like say FBI telling Facebook to suppress reports on Hunter's laptop, then that company is a de facto government agent and therefore the 1st Amendment applies.

Any violations of free speech by that private company is a violation of the user's Constitutional Rights under the 1st Amendment.

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