Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud

If you forget the details of this ten billion dollar theft, Sam Bankman-Fried ran a fraud/embezzlement/money-laundering operation. Clients bought various cyber-coins and left them in his care with his company FTX, like a bank.

Bankman-Fried wasn't just a banker, though. He was also an investor through his other company, Alameda.

And when he began racking up huge losses in Alameda's investments, he simply stole coins that had been left on deposit with him to make up the losses. Oh, he put in some nigh-worthless coins in their place, which, through chicanery, he has faked up to have some kind of on-paper value, but he was essentially replacing his clients' real wealth with fake pieces of paper that said "I will gladly buy you a hamburger on Tuesday, but not this coming Tuesday, one of the Tuesdays in Nevember, the month that never comes."

He is charged with eight counts, including fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud, and money-laundering.

Earlier in the trial, Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in his own defense. Because Bankman-Fried inarguably took coins from his clients and replaced them with worthless fake coins, his only possible salvation lay in convincing the jury that he did not knowingly know what he doingly did. The old Hillary Clinton Classic defense.

"You're honor, I'm a fucking moron. I didn't know all the crimes I was committing were crimes and I didn't know what I was doing and I don't even know where I am right now. Are you my mommy? Me hungry, me want hamburgey. Please let me go now and tell James Comey thanks for the solid."

But his attempt to perpetrate yet another fraud, this one on the jury,
was a disaster. Observers wondered if Bankman-Fried had a terrible lawyer, or if his lawyer had a terrible client who insisted on testifying despite being an evasive lawyer with a soft, doughy, and yet rat-like face that posts on Craiglist's FSF (Face Seeking Fist) section.

But, as this writer asks: What choice did they have? Bankman-Fried did all the things the prosecutors say he did. He can only plead the Costanza Defense of, "Was that wrong? Because I tell you, when I started working here, if anyone had told me that was wrong, I would have avoided it."

The Humiliating Cross-Examination of Sam Bankman-Fried

By Joe Nocera

Do you know anyone who gets sexually aroused by watching someone else's public humiliation?

If so send them this link.

There are two big problems with SBF's defense. The first is that Ellison had made a persuasive case during her time on the stand that he was well aware of the problems, had directed most of what she did, and had lied about Alameda's increasingly difficult financial situation. "He directed me to commit these crimes," she testified.
The second problem was that, to put it bluntly, SBF is a terrible witness. He looked visibly nervous most of the time he was in the witness box. He often had his hands tucked between his legs. He rarely blinked. His voice rose as he spoke, making his answers sound like questions. He used a curt yep when a yes was called for, and nope instead of no. No one found his occasional efforts at humor funny. Whenever he tried to expand upon an answer, Judge Kaplan cut him down.
...
The assistant U.S. attorney leading the prosecution, Sassoon relies on a well-honed staccato to hit defendants with a relentless barrage of questions. That's what SBF was now facing, and what we were all here to see:
"Do you recall saying that FTX was safe?"
"Didn't you say in interviews that FTX had protection for customers?"
"Did you own 90 percent of Alameda?"
"Did you say in private, 'Fuck regulators?' "
"Did you call some customers 'dumb motherfuckers?' "
"Did you fly to the Super Bowl in a private plane?"
"Most FTX customers did not have a line of credit, correct?"
"Do you deny that Alameda had a $65 billion line of credit?"
And on, and on, and on.
Under the circumstances, SBF's wisest course would have been to just say yes--or yep--to her questions. And sometimes he did that. But just as often, he chose to dance around the question, to quibble about the phrasing, or say that he couldn't remember the details.

Wow, he was pleading "I don't recall"?

Maybe the DOJ should hire him.

And every time he did that--every single time--Sassoon projected an email or video or a spreadsheet onto the screen, showing that he had done exactly what she was accusing him of doing. Which then gave the jurors another look at the evidence while reminding them that SBF was being something less than forthright. You'd think this MIT graduate would wise up, but he never did.
(He even equivocated on whether he had taken a private plane to the Super Bowl--to which Sassoon responded by presenting a photograph of SBF fast asleep in the embrace of a comfy chair on a private jet. In the overflow room, we burst into laughter.)
...
The trial is likely to go on another few days before the jury begins deliberating. But I'd seen enough. It was clear to almost everyone watching his testimony that Sam Bankman-Fried is a dead man walking.

Indeed, he was found guilty of $10 billion worth of fraud.

The AP:

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry -- a journey that included his testimony before Congress, a Super Bowl advertisement and dreams of a future run for president -- hit a new bottom Thursday when a New York jury convicted him of fraud in a scheme that cheated customers and investors of at least $10 billion.

Why shouldn't he run for President? Hillary and Joe Biden and Baracky Jibrama all did, and they're all criminals.

After the monthlong trial, jurors rejected Bankman-Fried's claim during four days on the witness stand in Manhattan federal court that he never committed fraud or meant to cheat customers before FTX, once the world's second-largest crypto exchange, collapsed into bankruptcy a year ago.
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In a closing argument, defense lawyer Mark Cohen said prosecutors were trying to turn "Sam into some sort of villain, some sort of monster."

"It's both wrong and unfair, and I hope and believe that you have seen that it's simply not true," he said. "According to the government, everything Sam ever touched and said was fraudulent."

He faces up to 115 years in prison.

Thanks to his extensive donations to the Democrat Party, I'm wondering if he'll be sentenced to more than five years.

He's such a good boy. He gives to all the right people!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:09 PM

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1 first?

Posted by: JimAaaay at November 03, 2023 01:09 PM (ILyuC)

2 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:09 PM (Jf477)

3 Bold

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:09 PM (Jf477)

4 Dark

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:09 PM (Jf477)

5 I can haz dark, too?

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at November 03, 2023 01:10 PM (AD14M)

6 Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off!

Posted by: The_Hoser at November 03, 2023 01:11 PM (N66D6)

7 foolishness

Posted by: ace at November 03, 2023 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

8 I nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:12 PM (Jf477)

9 Only politicians and FBI employees get to say they don't recall.

Posted by: huerfano at November 03, 2023 01:12 PM (Q4KYm)

10 Not a shred of evidence of widespread fraud from this guy.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2023 01:12 PM (gWtZI)

11 Didn't kill himself next week.

Posted by: BignJames at November 03, 2023 01:13 PM (AwYPR)

12 I love the one sketch artist who made SBF look like a chad. I want that guy doing my portrait.

Posted by: The_Hoser at November 03, 2023 01:13 PM (N66D6)

13 His skeezy girlfriend flipped on him, didn't she? That hadda hurt.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at November 03, 2023 01:13 PM (a9CYf)

14 He'll be out on parole by Christmas.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 03, 2023 01:13 PM (YIVH2)

15 They will keep the money and give a hearty "fuck you" to the public.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:13 PM (Jf477)

16 Well the politicians who accepted donations from him have to give them back?

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 03, 2023 01:14 PM (5rsL9)

17 What about all the other people at the company that knew what was going on? And the recipients of the stolen money used for political purposes?

Posted by: fd at November 03, 2023 01:15 PM (vFG9F)

18 You're not going to believe this, but we deleted his file and all of the evidence. You're free to go, and here's $3M for your trouble.
- The FBI

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:15 PM (kIrFD)

19 Sam Bankman-Fried Didn't Kill Himself Next Week.

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:15 PM (gor3D)

20 Our diligent and nonbiased media will surely ask Biden if he intend to pardon SBF. They'll do this in November, the month that never comes.

Posted by: spongeworthy at November 03, 2023 01:15 PM (DWqKI)

21 What about all the other people at the company that knew what was going on? And the recipients of the stolen money used for political purposes?
Posted by: fd

You ask too many questions.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:15 PM (Jf477)

22 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?

I do.

https://youtu.be/5HGM_c2F1Qk?t=111

Posted by: bonhomme at November 03, 2023 01:16 PM (0N1h0)

23 This is not my area of expertise, but he sure looked pretty damn guilty to me.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 03, 2023 01:16 PM (pVWRI)

24 OK, so when does Sam Bankman-Fried ("Freed") become Sam Bankman-Fried ("Fried" like food)?

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2023 01:16 PM (UnA8+)

25 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

26 I'm surprised at this. I expected this to be swept under the rug because SBF was yuge \sugar daddy to leftwing THOTs. Certainly every other leftwing sugar daddy got off easy or completely.

So what's up? I can think of a few reasons. One, SBF did himself no favors by giving those interviews and appearances where he looked like a slimy thieving rat. That and his creepy lifestyle and weirdo persona -- and repulsive girlfriend -- made him persona non grata and thus expendable.

Two, the money was already successfully laundered and ended up with the right people, so it was time to close the book on the whole sorry sordid thing. Sure, some "investors" got fucked, but sure not the "right" investors/launderers.

Three, someone wanted a leftwing scalp to pretend that justice really is blind. SBF was a creepy weirdo, guilty AF, and thus a good sacrificial lamb.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

27 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?

Yech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (JrojV)

28 For failing to escape a Deep State Ambush in Charlottesville some guy got three life sentences with 90 years tacked on cuz a fat AntiFa chick had a heart attack while trying to kill him. Let's see how things go for Sam.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (XetL6)

29 This is a case where I made no predictions because it was obvious the media was not on his side.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (vFG9F)

30 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck

If you play your cards right...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (JrojV)

31 OK, so when does Sam Bankman-Fried ("Freed") become Sam Bankman-Fried ("Fried" like food)?
Posted by: XTC

He became Sam Bankaccount-Fraud the second he sent his first email.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (G8h7g)

32 Just who are/were he, and his little gremlin girlfriend fronts for?

This shit just doesn’t happen without help.

Posted by: browndog had no dog in this silly fight at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (CCSxw)

33 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

PASS

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (pVWRI)

34 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

Not even with a stolen dick

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (Jf477)

35
OT:

Pretty decent version of the guitar solo from Michael Jackson's tune "Dirty Diana".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qj6vOY1QvJ4

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (n+4am)

36 > His skeezy girlfriend flipped on him, didn't she? That hadda hurt.

She must have been a super-freak in bed. She had several nerds on a tether and she looks like a LoTR character.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (0N1h0)

37 Well, I'm off for a bit. Got a virtual interview at 2 and I gotta get dressed for it. Later.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (JrojV)

38 ??"Was that wrong? Because I tell you, when I started working here, if anyone had told me that was wrong, I would have avoided it."

... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.

Posted by: John Corzine averts eyes at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (GwFH4)

39 He faces up to 115 years in prison.
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Six months' probation and a pinky-swear never to do it again!

Posted by: Judge Humuhumunukunukuapuaa at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (ScR16)

40
Have you no decency at last? How this poor beleaguered champion of the little investor has already suffered. He has been mocked and scourged for the sake of us and our bank accounts. Set him free!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (MoZTd)

41 These days 15 billion don't get you much. You gotta go back, Jack, and do it again.

Posted by: Eromero at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (o2ZRX)

42 31 He became Sam Bankaccount-Fraud the second he sent his first email.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 03, 2023 01:18 PM (G8h7g)

Yes, but now I have to explain that he should get the electric chair.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (UnA8+)

43 "And he donated to Republicans who hate the Republican base, which means that this is a bipartisan problem, and we should take no lessons from this at all."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

44 Oh, he put in some nigh-worthless coins in their place, which, through chicanery, he has faked up to have some kind of on-paper value, but he was essentially replacing his clients' real wealth with fake pieces of paper that said "I will gladly buy you a hamburger on Tuesday, but not this coming Tuesday, one of the Tuesdays in Nevember, the month that never comes."

Hey, Ace, do the lockbox Social Security thing next! I'm pretty sure Democrats had something to do with that, too.

Posted by: mrp at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (rj6Yv)

45 I've never understood crypto.
You give someone or something actual USD and you get what in return?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (MeG8a)

46 He gave over $100 million to democrats to swing the 2020 election. How does that get rectified?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (lTGtQ)

47 $1000 says that if old Sammy boy was black this would be a hung jury and most likely never have come to trial.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (17s+e)

48 Man... I will admit that I'm surprised he was pinched.
Wondering what really happened, maybe his quids were getting to pro quo... or it could just be as simple as he too too dang much and even the Dems couldn't hide it.

Posted by: Inogame at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (53oGX)

49 Who?
- msm

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (bWsRe)

50 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?
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Fortunately I do not.

Posted by: runner at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (XR5V0)

51 26 I'm surprised at this. I expected this to be swept under the rug because SBF was yuge \sugar daddy to leftwing THOTs. Certainly every other leftwing sugar daddy got off easy or completely.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

He ripped off a lot of fellow travelers.

Also, his money has been spent. He's now useless. For the politicians, "It worked, didn't it?"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (KbCG3)

52 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)
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Is that the one who looks like a 12-year-old meth head?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (ScR16)

53 I know people are reveling in this, but please don't forget, this guy was a construct, created by the same people who run everything else, and his going down does nothing to stop them from perpetrating massively consequential financial frauds all over the place.

At worst this guy was an incompetent, who let his own greed get in the way of a much larger grift.

The real criminals are still out there, doing their thing. Putting this chump in prison does nothing to change that.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (dGCAG)

54
Scam Bankman-Fraud

(I'm probably not 1st with this)

Posted by: DB - at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (geLO8)

55 Dog has a simple response to the question, "What were you thinking!?!"

https://is.gd/HWrLoL

Posted by: bonhomme at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (0N1h0)

56 Wow

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (2Nkaw)

57 The big guy got his cut so SBF knows he will be protected.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (RIvkX)

58 Sammy boy couldn't carry my jock strap!

In the joint, he woulda been doing my laundry and being my bitch.

Posted by: Zombie Bernie Madoff, Shot Caller at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (R/m4+)

59
They'll double the sentence on the GF.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (MoZTd)

60 It appears to me that this guy's parents used him as a cut-out in this scam.

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (BdYc2)

61 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 17h
BREAKING: The FBI is investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2021 election campaign for corruption on whether they conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal donations.
Adams was just minutes away from meeting with White House officials in D.C. when his top fundraiser had her home raided by the FBI.
Adams abruptly cancelled his meeting and flew back to New York City.
According to the New York Times, Adams' 2021 campaign is now under investigation.
"Investigators also sought to learn more about the potential involvement of a Brooklyn construction company with ties to Turkey, as well as a small university in Washington, D.C., that also has ties to the country and to Mr. Adams." (NYT)
Agents seized multiple iPhones and two laptops as well as “manila folder labeled Eric Adams” and seven “contribution card binders.”
It is unclear if Adams is personally targeted in this investigation.
Adams posted this video on social media right before he was set to meet at the White House.
What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (krqg6)

62 So, who's the new money man?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

63 Who was that NJ Gov who walked off with a Billion and no prison time?

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (BdYc2)

64 25 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

I am reminded of Mr. Metokur's description of her. From memory:

"She looks like a chipmunk. I'll be she can shove a lot of nuts into those cheeks."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (DTX3h)

65 60 It appears to me that this guy's parents used him as a cut-out in this scam.
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It does appear that way. They both are important people at Stanford.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (XetL6)

66 61 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg 17h
BREAKING: The FBI is investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2021 election campaign for corruption on whether they conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal donations.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (krqg6)

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How about Chinese donations? Can the DOJ investigate that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

67 The real criminals are still out there, doing their thing. Putting this chump in prison does nothing to change that.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Yeah, I assume it there was a "look, you'll do three years in a Martha Stewart prison, or maybe a year of house arrest and some community service, and after you take the fall you'll be a wealthy man."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (kIrFD)

68 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (krqg6)

Didn't accept all of the illegals with the vim and vigor he should've.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (KbCG3)

69
Who was that NJ Gov who walked off with a Billion and no prison time?
Posted by: garrett

_________

John Corzine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (MoZTd)

70 >>It does appear that way. They both are important people at Stanford.

"Thanks Mom!"

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (BdYc2)

71 >>>Is that the one who looks like a 12-year-old meth head?

I was going to say Smegol in the midst of transitioning to Gollum, but that works as well.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (CwhoI)

72 I've never understood crypto.
You give someone or something actual USD and you get what in return?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 03, 2023 01:20 PM (MeG8a)

A hearty "Hurry Back !"

Posted by: JT at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (T4tVD)

73 If you play your cards right...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Woohoo!

Coke-bottle glasses!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (krqg6)

74 >>John Corzine.

That's him.

I predict SBF does 10x the Prison time John Corzine did.

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (BdYc2)

75 Corzine?

Posted by: runner at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (XR5V0)

76 Pudinhead @ 28-
Guy drove a Charger. Shoulda been an OshKosh.

Posted by: Eromero at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (o2ZRX)

77 Ginger or Mary Ann or Carolyn Ellison?

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (gf7Ez)

78 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

I saw a photo of her recently, she looks like an eastern European old maid. The kind whose husband died in the war, decades ago, and she's just been getting frumpier and frumpier, with each passing year, with skin tags all over her face, and teeth so rotted her breath always smells of cabbage and dead fish.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (dGCAG)

79 Here's the video of the aftermath of Hamas killing Gazans who decided they didn't want to be human shields anymore. Hamas tried to claim these people were killed by airstrikes. It's extremely clear from the video these were not airstrikes.

https://is.gd/z4TVIT

Posted by: bonhomme at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (0N1h0)

80 He was just trying to turn his life around. Can he blame it on a severe crack and underage h0oker problem? That seems to let hunter break all laws with impunity

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (DPR4W)

81 Who was that NJ Gov who walked off with a Billion and no prison time?
Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (BdYc2)
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Chris Christie walked off with a billion calories.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (ScR16)

82 I've never understood crypto.
You give someone or something actual USD and you get what in return?

I haven't dived into it either, but it's my understanding that you get a pseudorandom string of numbers with a checksum that can calculated and that result compared with a database somewhere for verification.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (Bd6X8)

83 67 The real criminals are still out there, doing their thing. Putting this chump in prison does nothing to change that.
Posted by: BurtTC
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrmKW7-cAjQ

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (gpUSD)

84 He will get 6 months, serve 45 days and do some bs community service. Meanwhile J6 people are serving 10 years for trespassing.

America is a 3rd world shithole banana republic.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (bWsRe)

85
Then there's DeBlasio's soon-to-be-ex, who disappeared $800 million.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:25 PM (MoZTd)

86 53 I know people are reveling in this, but please don't forget, this guy was a construct, created by the same people who run everything else, and his going down does nothing to stop them from perpetrating massively consequential financial frauds all over the place.

At worst this guy was an incompetent, who let his own greed get in the way of a much larger grift.

The real criminals are still out there, doing their thing. Putting this chump in prison does nothing to change that.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (dGCAG)

You mean his parents.
Let's not forget they were BIG time Dem money folks, from their law professor gigs at stanford.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but they are untouched by any of this and I think they had some involvement in tieir son's companies.

Posted by: Inogame at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (53oGX)

87 Adams was just minutes away from meeting with White House officials in D.C. when his top fundraiser had her home raided by the FBI.
Adams abruptly cancelled his meeting and flew back to New York City.
According to the New York Times, Adams' 2021 campaign is now under investigation.

This is called "how the US government works now". Each member is a criminal, and when someone complains about a policy, their criminal acts are revealed by other criminals.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (lTGtQ)

88 82 I've never understood crypto.
You give someone or something actual USD and you get what in return?
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Digital bits or bytes, your choice.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (gpUSD)

89 76 Pudinhead @ 28-
Guy drove a Charger. Shoulda been an OshKosh.
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An MRAP is what was needed. Amazing what happens at UVA between semesters. Its like its not a college for Virginians but a Chucky Cheese Playground for Deep State IC guys.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (XetL6)

90 FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry ...

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If he had funded Republican candidates & causes the AP would have written:

FAR-RIGHT WING NUTJOB, PUTIN PUPPET-AGENT, ULTRA-MAGAT DEPLORABLE, LISTLESS -VESSEL, WHITE-SUPREMACIST TOXIC-MASCULINITY, NAZI FRIEND-OF-TRUMP, REPUBLICAN MEGA-DONOR & ELECTION THIEF and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (HP2Cz)

91 >>Let's not forget they were BIG time Dem money folks, from their law professor gigs at stanford

I believe his Mother is the True The Vote (or some other Dem Turnout Charity) bitch.

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (BdYc2)

92 What did she use that 800 million for, I wonder..,,

Posted by: runner at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (XR5V0)

93 Yeah, I assume it there was a "look, you'll do three years in a Martha Stewart prison, or maybe a year of house arrest and some community service, and after you take the fall you'll be a wealthy man."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:23 PM (kIrFD)

Yeah, that or they'll Jeffrey Epstein him.

Which means they'll fake his death, and hide him away somewhere he can bask in his luxuries, indulging his fetishes.

Which I guess is basically the same thing, the only question being, will the do it in front of us, or hide it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (dGCAG)

94 I've never understood crypto.
You give someone or something actual USD and you get what in return

—

What’s a dollar? It has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth something because other people think it has value. Crypto’s no different.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (bWsRe)

95 90 If he had funded Republican candidates & causes the AP would have written:

FAR-RIGHT WING NUTJOB, PUTIN PUPPET-AGENT, ULTRA-MAGAT DEPLORABLE, LISTLESS -VESSEL, WHITE-SUPREMACIST TOXIC-MASCULINITY, NAZI FRIEND-OF-TRUMP, REPUBLICAN MEGA-DONOR & ELECTION THIEF and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (HP2Cz)

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He did fund some Republicans. He definitely donated to Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

96
What did she use that 800 million for, I wonder..,,
Posted by: runner

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Not cosmetics

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (MoZTd)

97 81 Who was that NJ Gov who walked off with a Billion and no prison time?
Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (BdYc2)
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Chris Christie walked off with a billion calories.

Posted by: Captain Obvious,
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Corzine, he loves him some segregated funds.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 01:27 PM (gpUSD)

98 Ha. And if the power goes out neither has any worth.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (kIrFD)

99 They will keep the money and give a hearty "fuck you" to the public.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 01:13

From the same FBI playbook about stealing coins and gold from bank deposit boxes and then claiming they "lost" them.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (TDQgG)

100 Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:21 PM (dGCAG)

You mean his parents.
Let's not forget they were BIG time Dem money folks, from their law professor gigs at stanford.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but they are untouched by any of this and I think they had some involvement in tieir son's companies.
Posted by: Inogame at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (53oGX)

No, again, his parents are small fish too.

It's all money laundering and grift, all the way down, and the same people who run the rest of the world, run these people.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (dGCAG)

101 36 > His skeezy girlfriend flipped on him, didn't she? That hadda hurt.

She must have been a super-freak in bed. She had several nerds on a tether and she looks like a LoTR character.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Polyamory contrary to pron usually involve not so goodlooking people.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (J89nh)

102 Ginger or Mary Ann or Carolyn Ellison?
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at November 03, 2023 01:24 PM (gf7Ez)
........

Will Carolyn put on a coconut bra?

Posted by: wth at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (v0R5T)

103 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Complained about the illegals would be my guess.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (Bd6X8)

104
"Indicted" and "D-NJ" are two terms never found far apart.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:29 PM (MoZTd)

105 From the same FBI playbook about stealing coins and gold from bank deposit boxes and then claiming they "lost" them.
Posted by: Beartooth

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That's becoming a thing, apparently. I hadn't heard about it before, but that FFL dealer who got raided and all of his guns confiscated got an offer from the feds to buy each of them for $50.

Ever heard of a criminal having his illegal property purchased from him after the raid?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:29 PM (kIrFD)

106 >>>What’s a dollar? It has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth something because other people think it has value. Crypto’s no different.

I'm a fan of quatloos myself.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 03, 2023 01:29 PM (CwhoI)

107 You mean his parents.
Let's not forget they were BIG time Dem money folks, from their law professor gigs at stanford.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but they are untouched by any of this and I think they had some involvement in tieir son's companies.
Posted by: Inogame
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They did.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:29 PM (J89nh)

108 This is called "how the US government works now". Each member is a criminal, and when someone complains about a policy, their criminal acts are revealed by other criminals.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (lTGtQ)

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The sequel to the film The Death of Stalin -- The Death of Biden -- writes itself ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (HP2Cz)

109 In other news about thieving leftists

VOX: Retailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it.

If you thought that is parody from the Babylon Bee you would be wrong. So much more pain must come to our effete liberal ruling class before our country can be fixed.

Posted by: Ripley at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (JojsZ)

110 103 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Complained about the illegals would be my guess.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (Bd6X

========

Or the different nationalities that fund our politicians are using the apparatuses that they have taken over in the federal government to squeeze out rival national funding.

Essentially, China flexing its muscle to become the sole dominant power within the federal government?

I don't think it's terribly out there as a theory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

111 I'm guessing it's racist as heck to fight shoplifting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (kIrFD)

112 Will Carolyn put on a coconut bra?
Posted by: wth at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (v0R5T)
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For her, walnuts would probably serve.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (ScR16)

113 97 81 Who was that NJ Gov who walked off with a Billion and no prison time?
Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (BdYc2)
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Chris Christie walked off with a billion calories.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,
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Corzine, he loves him some segregated funds.
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NJ is in the clear with that Irish guy Murphy after they found a thumb drive in Newark and restored 'Their Democracy.'

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (XetL6)

114 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)
........

How much money did she make off with and how long do I have to stay married to her to get half?

Posted by: wth - not that picky at November 03, 2023 01:31 PM (v0R5T)

115 103 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Complained about the illegals would be my guess.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 03, 2023 01:28 PM (Bd6X

Absolutely. The narrative is illegals are just hard working people and future brain surgeons. Only racist literal Nazi Republicans say otherwise.

Adams broke the narrative bigly. This is his first and probably only warning by the left wing mafia in charge.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:31 PM (bWsRe)

116 Hell, let's just make SBF the Sec. Treasury. The man knows how to build wealth using worthless currency.

Posted by: PabloD at November 03, 2023 01:31 PM (8FrB3)

117 So they will claw back the $billion+ of stolen funds he gave to Democrats? He was second only to Soros in giving (bribing) iirc.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 03, 2023 01:31 PM (Cus5s)

118 BREAKING: The FBI is investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2021 election campaign for corruption on whether they conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal donations.
Adams was just minutes away from meeting with White House officials in D.C. when his top fundraiser had her home raided by the FBI.

ROFL!

same kind of story as Hamas now gunning down their own people on the road for not being Loyal enough.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (i9ffA)

119 109 VOX: Retailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it.

If you thought that is parody from the Babylon Bee you would be wrong. So much more pain must come to our effete liberal ruling class before our country can be fixed.

Posted by: Ripley at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (JojsZ)

=========

I suggest retail stores put every good behind the counter, summarily execute any thief that tries to stick up the place, and just call it restorative justice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

120 With Adams having been scolded by his betters, now would be the time to swarm NYC with thousands of illegals from the border.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (XetL6)

121 >>>VOX: Retailers would rather complain about shoplifting than invest in fighting it.

Ha ha. That reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield's "hey, you left out a bunch of stuff" during the lecture on business expenses in "Back To School".

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (CwhoI)

122 Ever heard of a criminal having his illegal property purchased from him after the raid?
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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One of the reasons that King John of England was so despised. He let his minions do that shit to even nobles in order to fund a lost cause retrieval of French lands belonging to William the Conquerer.

John would also take payoffs from both sides before rendering 'justice' and then rule as he felt like it. Not even an honest politician as he did not stay bought.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (J89nh)

123 Now prosecute his disgusting & enabling CommieFuck parents ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (HP2Cz)

124 She must have been a super-freak in bed. She had several nerds on a tether and she looks like a LoTR character.
Posted by: bonhomme

She let them use their action figures on her.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (G8h7g)

125 He faces up to 115 years in prison.

Thanks to his extensive donations to the Democrat Party, I'm wondering if he'll be sentenced to more than five years.

He's such a good boy. He gives to all the right people!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:09 PM

Sequoia Capital, among other Bright Things in the VC marketplace, invested billions in FTX. Sequoia published a hagiographic article on the guy, which - surprise, surprise - got nuked from the interwebs.

This never gets old. From the archives:

https://is.gd/ws96XJ

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (L9xfV)

126 For her, walnuts would probably serve.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knigh
.........

wrinkly little brown things, sounds about right

Posted by: wth at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (v0R5T)

127 "What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

Posted by: andycanuck"

Bitch and complain about illegals in public.

Posted by: Ripley at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (JojsZ)

128 I thought the charges had mostly been dismissed earlier. Or was that for something else? Still, he probably won't actually do any time in a prison.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (Q4IgG)

129 Didn't see that coming.

- No one ever

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (aQy7p)

130 If Biden wins, he'll get the Nov 2024 pardon.
If Biden loses, he'll get the Jan 19 2025 pardon.

So, maybe 12 months, tops?

Posted by: Nova Local at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (exHjb)

131 One of the reasons that King John of England was so despised. He let his minions do that shit to even nobles in order to fund a lost cause retrieval of French lands belonging to William the Conquerer.

John would also take payoffs from both sides before rendering 'justice' and then rule as he felt like it. Not even an honest politician as he did not stay bought.
Posted by: whig

So he was the proto-GOPe?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (G8h7g)

132 >>She let them use their action figures on her.

On Her?

Or...In Her?

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:33 PM (BdYc2)

133 Shoplifting doesn’t exist

Ok it exists but it’s small and not a big deal

Ok it’s a big deal but it only hurts evil corporations so fuck ‘em they deserve it

Ok maybe it hurts regular people too but so what? Equity means some pain.

Ok maybe it hurts everyone but it’s the retailers fault for not doing something about it

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:34 PM (bWsRe)

134 116 Hell, let's just make SBF the Sec. Treasury. The man knows how to build wealth using worthless currency.
Posted by: PabloD
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There is past precedence. Look up key financier Robert Morris and the Bank of North America during the Articles of Confederation era.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:34 PM (J89nh)

135 #79 Translation
Sensitive content warning Horrific scenes now on Al-Rasheed Street, west of Gaza, after the occupation bombarded the displaced people in the middle of the street! The photographer cries and says please Oh God protect our people 😭😭 Even the displaced Zionists killed them ☹️😒 Unab
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He's lying that it was an IDF bombardment.
Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25
Breaking News: Just now, #Hamas snipers have reportedly killed dozens of children and women on the streets, targeting those attempting to travel from north to south #Gaza and those displaying white flags as a sign of peace. Similar acts have previously been attributed to Palestinian and #Hezbollah terrorists in Syria. They do not want civilians to leave; they want to use them as human shields and kill anyone who attempts to leave. Hamas terrorists in Gaza will, as usual, blame #Israel because it is easy and there is media that accepts this propaganda.

The video source had sensitive content, which is why I didn't upload it. As you can see from the post, the usual one to blame. They said, "airstrikes"? Does this look like airstrikes?

https://tinyurl.com/msh7j76h
23 seconds; many dead bodies

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:34 PM (krqg6)

136 117 So they will claw back the $billion+ of stolen funds he gave to Democrats? He was second only to Soros in giving (bribing) iirc.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 03, 2023 01:31 PM (Cus5s)

Oh, he also gave to the GOPe - specifically in McConnell's efforts in beating back the hordes that could potentially threaten his rice bowl.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 03, 2023 01:34 PM (L9xfV)

137 This kid should have pled guilty from the onset. As a result of him drawing out the inevitable and highlighting his selfish, self-centered and dishonest tendencies in his own testimony, he took away the potential of getting a slap on the wrist..

And, he may very well have opened up the door to getting his father on the hotseat. He was intimately involved in trying to stave off the collapse, and even met with regulators down in the Bahamas well before law enforcement was involved. Mom's off the hook, though. She was the driving force behind the donations to democrat campaigns.

Posted by: Orson at November 03, 2023 01:34 PM (dIske)

138 This guy is an optimist. His dog, not so much.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/WrLZAtDvTd4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (FVME7)

139 62 So, who's the new money man?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 01:22 PM (GBKbO)

Take that midnight train to Memphis
Lord leave if you can

Posted by: Blackfoot at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (6VAZZ)

140 Love to see him get the Max but I doubt he will...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (bs+z0)

141 Or the different nationalities that fund our politicians are using the apparatuses that they have taken over in the federal government to squeeze out rival national funding.

Essentially, China flexing its muscle to become the sole dominant power within the federal government?

I don't think it's terribly out there as a theory.

At one time I would have mocked that as a conspiracy theory worth the tinfoil hat crowd. Today I'll just note it as a possible spoiler for the news six months from now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (Bd6X8)

142 She let them use their action figures on her.
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Snort.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (XetL6)

143
And yet Trump still runs around free.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (MoZTd)

144 True the vote is voting integrity organization, the head of which is Catherine Engelbrecht. She is not Bankman-Fried's mother, nor does his mother have anything to do with the organization

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (RSbhh)

145 >>>She let them use their action figures on her.

Their favorite was recreating the scene where an X-wing flies down the Death Star's trench to launch a plasma blob into a garbage chute.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (CwhoI)

146 Remember today’s conspiracy is tomorrow’s front page headline.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (bWsRe)

147 106 >>>What’s a dollar? It has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth something because other people think it has value. Crypto’s no different.

I'm a fan of quatloos myself.

Posted by: Citizen Cake
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Gotta' Yen for that?

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (gpUSD)

148 >>True the vote is voting integrity organization, the head of which is Catherine Engelbrecht. She is not Bankman-Fried's mother, nor does his mother have anything to do with the organization

Try Rock the Vote, Queer the Vote or some other Charity.

You will find her. She's a big time Dem Donor.

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (BdYc2)

149 So he was the proto-GOPe?
Posted by: rickb223
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Pretty much. Human nature doesn't change much which is why the blank slate doesn't apply. Throughout every society and time, people have the same emotions and behavior.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (J89nh)

150 143
And yet Trump still runs around free.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2023 01:35 PM (MoZTd)

They're working on it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (eYoxG)

151 "Ok maybe it hurts everyone but it’s the retailers fault for not doing something about it

Posted by: Montec"

They are failing to invest wisely in locked display cabinets and extra personnel to get your toothpaste from it. The return would be huge. Better than crypto

Posted by: Ripley at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (JojsZ)

152 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

He (correctly) blamed Biden for NYC's immigration problems. Dissent against the junta cannot be tolerated, even from black Democrats.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (2ocoG)

153 I predict that this guy gets an unfortunate accident before someone scares him into spilling the beans on his powerful friends.

Posted by: CppThis at November 03, 2023 01:37 PM (PZvjL)

154 >> "Ok maybe it hurts everyone but it’s the retailers fault for not doing something about it

They just write it off, Jerry!

Posted by: Kramer at November 03, 2023 01:37 PM (BdYc2)

155 148 >>True the vote is voting integrity organization, the head of which is Catherine Engelbrecht. She is not Bankman-Fried's mother, nor does his mother have anything to do with the organization

Try Rock the Vote, Queer the Vote or some other Charity.

You will find her. She's a big time Dem Donor.
Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (BdYc2)

Google first returns "Mind the Gap" as a pro-D super pac she co-founded.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 03, 2023 01:37 PM (eYoxG)

156 >>Google first returns "Mind the Gap" as a pro-D super pac she co-founded.

There ya go.
I don't think it is the first one she was involved with, either.

Posted by: Kramer at November 03, 2023 01:37 PM (BdYc2)

157 In re: the sidebar comments on the dismal performance of Loki's second season - doesn't Bob Isenberg read Ace of Spades? Why hasn't Kennedy been fed to an alligator in one of those ponds in Disney World?

Posted by: Paco at November 03, 2023 01:38 PM (njExo)

158 Adams' campaign manager takes the fall; if he doesn't shut up about policy, he will be the target himself.

This is how the US government works now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:38 PM (lTGtQ)

159 How much dirt does he have in Hillary? This will determine if he lives or dies.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:38 PM (bWsRe)

160 Bankman-Fried defrauded Big People. If he had defrauded little people...

Posted by: davidt at November 03, 2023 01:38 PM (SYTee)

161 Google first returns "Mind the Gap" as a pro-D super pac she co-founded.

A Super PAC dedicated to people looking at her, uhh, gap? Isn't that just OnlyFans with extra steps?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 01:38 PM (2ocoG)

162 The sequel to the film The Death of Stalin -- The Death of Biden -- writes itself ...
Posted by: ShainS
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Not so much fun for people living through the actual events though.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (J89nh)

163 Nasrallah has a message to hamas, you are on your own. " Nasrallah says Israel-Hamas war '100% Palestinian, not regional'"

Posted by: runner at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (XR5V0)

164 And yet Trump still runs around free.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG 19h
Today, we heard testimony from Donald Trump's sons and co-defendants, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

They pretend that they were not involved in their family's fraudulent business.

But the facts tell a very different story. ⤵️ [andy: not bothering linking the series of Xtwats]

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 5h
WTF? Not even pretending this is a real trial.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (krqg6)

165 160 Bankman-Fried defrauded Big People. If he had defrauded little people...
Posted by: davidt
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That is the difference between him and Corzine perhaps.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (J89nh)

166 With Adams having been scolded by his betters, now would be the time to swarm NYC with thousands of illegals from the border.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM (XetL6)

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Texas & Arizona should have started building a literal pipeline for illegals straight to DC, NYC, and Martha's Vineyard years ago.

/How long would it take Elon to build a HyperLoop?

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (HP2Cz)

167 The moral of Bankman-Fried is that anyone can be a bamboozler, and anyone can be bamboozled , given the right set of circumstances.

Posted by: Paco at November 03, 2023 01:40 PM (njExo)

168 I doubt the memories of all that money will hold him over in prison. And I can guarantee you there are plenty of politicians that are involved that should join him.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 03, 2023 01:40 PM (ytSiK)

169 Oh I'm sure the sex will be better.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 03, 2023 01:40 PM (ytSiK)

170 SBF is a spammer/ hacker times a 1000 and I want to give hackers the death penalty.

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 01:41 PM (MNhXM)

171 37 Well, I'm off for a bit. Got a virtual interview at 2 and I gotta get dressed for it. Later.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (JrojV)
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Are you going to wear pants?

Posted by: Ciampino - Does a thieving magpie use a crow bar? at November 03, 2023 01:41 PM (qfLjt)

172 157 In re: the sidebar comments on the dismal performance of Loki's second season - doesn't Bob Isenberg read Ace of Spades? Why hasn't Kennedy been fed to an alligator in one of those ponds in Disney World?
Posted by: Paco
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I suspect Kathleen has evidence of bigwigs diddling kiddies including the bosses she used to work for.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:41 PM (J89nh)

173 Dude, where's my hamburger?!

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy at November 03, 2023 01:41 PM (DZrNt)

174 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?

I do.
Posted by: bonhomme
-----------------------------------------

DAT'S RACIST1!!1!111!!

EM' BANNANA CREAM PI FOADDY-FI!1!!!11!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at November 03, 2023 01:42 PM (X4yCj)

175 WTF? Not even pretending this is a real trial.

No need. The J6 trials righted the minds of anyone who might still have been considering effective solutions against the junta. Hold the red star proudly high in hand.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 01:42 PM (2ocoG)

176 Their favorite was recreating the scene where an X-wing flies down the Death Star's trench to launch a plasma blob into a garbage chute.
Posted by: Citizen Cake
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Rusty Death Starfish?

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:43 PM (J89nh)

177 Sammy,

Don't worry, cameras in prison are there to protect you...! Swearsies.

Posted by: Zombie J. Epstein at November 03, 2023 01:43 PM (hoLCx)

178 Wow, he was pleading "I don't recall"?

Maybe the DOJ should hire him.

Sheesh Ace, don't give them ideas, even in jest.
Man, some people never learn ....!

/s

Posted by: Ciampino - Does a thieving magpie use a crow bar?? at November 03, 2023 01:43 PM (qfLjt)

179 Seen on Insty: a bunch of students at Columbia staged a pro-Hamas disruption at a Hillary Clinton speech.

Afterwards Hillary was seen with a mobile phone saying "Hello? Suicide hotline? Do you take bulk orders?"

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 01:44 PM (2ocoG)

180 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?

-
I thought there was a prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 03, 2023 01:44 PM (FVME7)

181 Unsurprisingly, the charges for illegal campaign contributions were already dropped.

Posted by: ryukyu at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (hR0kJ)

182 >>>At one time I would have mocked that as a conspiracy theory worth the tinfoil hat crowd. Today I'll just note it as a possible spoiler for the news six months from now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura
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Tech in your hospitals, colleges, and any other institution that information can be gathered.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (gpUSD)

183 She let them use their action figures on her.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 03, 2023 01:32 PM

That's hot.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (aQy7p)

184 Luckily, as a VIP with USSS protection I won't have to go thru the metal detectors, when I bring my good friend Sammy some fresh baked cookies in prison.

Posted by: Hilly RC at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (hoLCx)

185 Sam Bankman - Fried was also deeply involved with money laundering from Ukraine (remember those guys?) who got TONS of money from the US Government, and then laundered back to the ....Democrat Party to finance their "activities".
He would get money from Ukraine, convert to crypto currencies and then put this into the Democrat PAC's.

And this, I honestly think, is the reason that Sam Bankman-Fried actually existed and the rest of the stuff he was convicted for was just a side, diversionary scam.

Sam Bankman - Fried did not kill himself in jail. Oh, that hasn't happened yet, has it?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (vcOmj)

186 >>Unsurprisingly, the charges for illegal campaign contributions were already dropped.

Part of the Extradition Terms as I recall.

'Ooopsie! that was our bad.' - State Department

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:46 PM (BdYc2)

187 The USD may not have as much value as it once did, but I can still fill up my gas tank with enough of them.
I've never seen a gas station that accepts crypto.
They might exist, nonetheless.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 03, 2023 01:47 PM (MeG8a)

188 So I guess this means his girlfriend is available.

Is she still a billionaire? I denounce myself.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 03, 2023 01:47 PM (v5yAW)

189 Did they address any of his big political contributions at the trial when he knew he was using others monies to do it?

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 01:48 PM (MNhXM)

190 I'm guessing it's racist as heck to fight shoplifting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (kIrFD)

One of the things I learned about recently, is rap "songs" that are made by teenaged gangbangers, reciting the nicknames of all the fellas they've "smoked."

Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.

Artistic like.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:48 PM (dGCAG)

191 Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 03, 2023 01:39 PM (krqg6)

They are out to destroy the entire Trump Family... Meanwhile the Biden cabal gets a pass

Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 01:49 PM (bs+z0)

192 I suspect Kathleen has evidence of bigwigs diddling kiddies including the bosses she used to work for.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:41 PM (J89nh)

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The insanity of the past eight years all makes sense when viewed through this lens.

I dub thee "whig's razor" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:49 PM (gor3D)

193 I need a nap.
Wake me if someone pops a nuke.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2023 01:51 PM (uSHSS)

194 This verdict is very dissappointing !!!!!!!!!

Where is Trump's involvement ?????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at November 03, 2023 01:51 PM (Qfk4E)

195 But, as this writer asks: What choice did they have? Bankman-Fried did all the things the prosecutors say he did. He can only plead the Costanza Defense of, "Was that wrong? Because I tell you, when I started working here, if anyone had told me that was wrong, I would have avoided it."
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LOL. Pretty much.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 01:52 PM (ELpxa)

196 I'm guessing it's racist as heck to fight shoplifting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hamas is using American weapons to murder Jews at November 03, 2023 01:30 PM (kIrFD)

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"You will be made to pay reparations, one way or another, white devil!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:52 PM (osuIs)

197 I dub thee "whig's razor" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:49 PM (gor3D)

"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be attributed to blackmail"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2023 01:52 PM (9UlRk)

198 One of the things I learned about recently, is rap "songs" that are made by teenaged gangbangers, reciting the nicknames of all the fellas they've "smoked."

-
Vivaldi did much the same. He drove by the Seasons gang headquarters, smoked 'em, and has been living on his reputation ever since.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (FVME7)

199 I'm guessing it's racist as heck to fight shoplifting.

just repeat the mantra "Diversity is our strength" as you're looking over the bare shelves

Posted by: brak at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (WxvBY)

200 Unsurprisingly, the charges for illegal campaign contributions were already dropped.
Posted by: ryukyu at November 03, 2023 01:45 PM (hR0kJ)

Illegal campaign contributions?

What's that?

-- Dinesh D'Sousa

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (dGCAG)

201 193 I need a nap.
Wake me if someone pops a nuke.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2023 01:51 PM (uSHSS)

Is that even worth getting out of bed for?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (eYoxG)

202 I had a $200 medical bill that was wrongly processed by insurance. I tried talking to two separate Shaniqua reps. Neither could understand what I was explaining.

I gave up. $200 sent to provider.

This has to be their business model. Hire imbeciles who make it so hard to get anything done you give up and pay yourself.

Posted by: Montec at November 03, 2023 01:54 PM (bWsRe)

203 He faces up to 115 years in prison.

Thanks to his extensive donations to the Democrat Party, I'm wondering if he'll be sentenced to more than five years.
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He will be. I suspect the sentence is going to be very, very stiff - probably in excess of 50 years, maybe 100. They're going to throw the book at him in sentencing. It's politically very valuable, in the same way that the Party capping Menendez is valuable. They will claim "Democrat Financier doesn't mean immune to the law. We are honest."

Then he'll be shipped off to Club Fed for a few years - I'd guess 3-5, but maybe 7 on the outside - before he's paroled out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 01:54 PM (ELpxa)

204 Has there ever been just a nice suburban black kid attending college with no rap sheet that has been negligently killed by cops? Im guessing there may be a rare exception but I know there are a number of white victims of this scenario.

Perception is stronger than the truth for useful idiots and propagandists.

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 01:54 PM (MNhXM)

205 168 I doubt the memories of all that money will hold him over in prison.
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Oh, we'll hold him over all right...

Posted by: Big Bubba at November 03, 2023 01:54 PM (sWM8x)

206 just repeat the mantra "Diversity is our strength" as you're looking over the bare shelves
Posted by: brak at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (WxvBY)

Or all the stuff in the locked cases, locked trees, big plastic boxes for small items, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 03, 2023 01:54 PM (Gbphe)

207 This busty, patriotic bikini blonde doesn't like sleazy, creepy, megalomaniac con men like Sam Bank-Fraud and his pals:
https://is.gd/dL5ZBd

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 01:55 PM (ELpxa)

208 The USD may not have as much value as it once did, but I can still fill up my gas tank with enough of them.
I've never seen a gas station that accepts crypto.
They might exist, nonetheless.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 03, 2023 01:47 PM (MeG8a)

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When, not if, the economy and society collapse -- you will at least be able to eat your Digital Wallet and Tesla.

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:55 PM (osuIs)

209 >>>She must have been a super-freak in bed. She had several nerds on a tether and she looks like a LoTR character.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 03, 2023 01:19 PM (0N1h0)

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Some guys like the Wormtongue.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 03, 2023 01:55 PM (wzAuc)

210 Like the CIA and the FBI, the SEC is just another expensive and self-important alphabet agency that doesn't do its job.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 01:55 PM (lf83v)

211 >.Has there ever been just a nice suburban black kid attending college with no rap sheet that has been negligently killed by cops?

Back in 89 or so, there was one NY College kid who was killed by cops.
I forget his name, but iirc, no rap sheet. Just a college kid in the wrong Park with the wrong people and at the wrong time.

Posted by: garrett at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (BdYc2)

212 with no rap sheet that has been negligently killed by cops? Im guessing there may be a rare exception but I know there are a number of white victims of this scenario.
Posted by: Drive

Uh, negligence is withholding care or aid in a life and death situation. Not sure what you mean.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (IG4Id)

213 "Never attribute to stupidity that which can be attributed to blackmail"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2023 01:52 PM (9UlRk)

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Heh. Nailed it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (osuIs)

214 One of the things I learned about recently, is rap "songs" that are made by teenaged gangbangers, reciting the nicknames of all the fellas they've "smoked."

---
Vivaldi did much the same. He drove by the Seasons gang headquarters, smoked 'em, and has been living on his reputation ever since.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 03, 2023 01:53 PM (FVME7)

J.S. Bach made a song called the "The Well-Tampered Clavicle," in which he brags about his exploits, breaking bones with a mace.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (dGCAG)

215 Paige Spirinaic?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (Gbphe)

216 This is called "how the US government works now". Each member is a criminal, and when someone complains about a policy, their criminal acts are revealed by other criminals.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (lTGtQ)
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The United States government is a vast mutual blackmail society.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (ELpxa)

217 Today the Racists and Islamaphobic Israeli forces destroyed a Hamas Children Transgender Health Clinic that was hiding mostly peacefull Hamas Terrorists. PINO Joe Biden as a result is asking Bibi for complete and unconditional surrender to hamas to rectumify this.......

HUMAN DISASTER !!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at November 03, 2023 01:57 PM (Qfk4E)

218 216 This is called "how the US government works now". Each member is a criminal, and when someone complains about a policy, their criminal acts are revealed by other criminals.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 03, 2023 01:26 PM (lTGtQ)
++++

The DOJ is the Biden cabals personal enforcer

Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 01:57 PM (bs+z0)

219 The insanity of the past eight years all makes sense when viewed through this lens.

I dub thee "whig's razor" ...
Posted by: ShainS
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There is a reason that Hollywood loves its pedos like Roman Polanski. The script discussion for Indiana Jones and the character of Marian between Lucas and Spielberg is pretty awful. There is also the mysterious death of the young actress that is associated with a film run by Spielberg.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:57 PM (J89nh)

220 Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.
---
But they disallow videos showing how to put an optic on a pistol because that's "altering a firearm."

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (sWM8x)

221
This busty, patriotic bikini blonde doesn't like sleazy, creepy, megalomaniac con men like Sam Bank-Fraud and his pals:

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 01:55 PM

Not a big fan of using parts of the American flag as clothing. I'd have to insist she take it off. In front of me.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (enJYY)

222 I guess I will have to watch Eyes Wide Shut now.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (XetL6)

223 On the Hysterical sidebar - Ace is selling the Hudson Brothers short. Is the movie terrible? Yes. But one of the brothers was nailing prime Goldie Hawn. If you're scamming people out of their money, parlay that into sex with Goldie Hawn, not sex with Caroline Ellison.

Posted by: Wally at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (hqVaF)

224 212 with no rap sheet that has been negligently killed by cops? Im guessing there may be a rare exception but I know there are a number of white victims of this scenario.
Posted by: Drive

Uh, negligence is withholding care or aid in a life and death situation. Not sure what you mean.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (IG4Id)

Negligence also applies to carelessly creating hazards. Slip and falls involve negligence.

What he's getting at is more like involuntary manslaughter though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 03, 2023 01:59 PM (eYoxG)

225 210 Like the CIA and the FBI, the SEC is just another expensive and self-important alphabet agency that doesn't do its job.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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They do their actual job for our ruling classes pretty well; it is their publicly stated missions that they suck at.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:59 PM (J89nh)

226 His folks are just as much crooks as he was. If the regime DOJ locks him up and throws away the keys know it's because his parents have decided to sacrifice him, not unlike to moloch.

I think a lot of what happens will depend on fear of someone spilling kompromat to cause internecine ruling class regime warfare. They obviously do not care if any aspect of the fraud going to government shenanigans gets aired publicly because everyone knows this is an evil crap government. But they do care about the various ghoul clans fighting each other.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 03, 2023 01:59 PM (Y6IkP)

227 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?

He (correctly) blamed Biden for NYC's immigration problems. Dissent against the junta cannot be tolerated, even from black Democrats.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (2ocoG)
.......

Den he axe fo mo money, mo money.

Posted by: wth at November 03, 2023 02:00 PM (v0R5T)

228 Uh, negligence is withholding care or aid in a life and death situation. Not sure what you mean.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (IG4Id)

I think it’s pretty clear and your definition of negligence is not accurate.

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 02:00 PM (MNhXM)

229 Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.
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But they disallow videos showing how to put an optic on a pistol because that's "altering a firearm."
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (sWM8x)

Well yeah. Now, try to be an immunologist, who questions the narrative on the Covids.

Words are violence, people. Actual violence? Just kids having fun. You have to understand their culture.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 02:00 PM (dGCAG)

230 Remember when Maxine Waters blew kisses at SBF after he testified before congress?
_________

Like the Michael Corleone "I Knew It Was You Fredo" kisses.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 02:00 PM (lf83v)

231 The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (bs+z0)

232 Paige Spirinaic?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 03, 2023 01:56 PM (Gbphe)
.......

Boobs?

Posted by: wth at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (v0R5T)

233 The United States government is a vast mutual blackmail society.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Damn right. I've thought this for a while now.

Posted by: Oprahpottamus at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (R4t5M)

234 @214

>>J.S. Bach made a song called the "The Well-Tampered Clavicle," in which he brags about his exploits, breaking bones with a mace.

Marry Bennet's nickname was Piano Forte, and it wasn't because she played a mean one, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (rc3Z7)

235 197 I dub thee "whig's razor" ...
Posted by: ShainS

"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be attributed to blackmail"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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In the old days, it was homosexuality and adultery with floozies that were used as blackmail. Now that the general public shrugs that off, the intel and law enforcers have to use pedo and human sacrifice as leverage is my guess.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (J89nh)

236 He faces up to 115 years in prison.

Minuses: His "girlfriends" in prison won't be girls

Pluses: They'll still be better looking then Ellison

Posted by: Just saying at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (XqcwY)

237 >>>
Then he'll be shipped off to Club Fed for a few years - I'd guess 3-5, but maybe 7 on the outside - before he's paroled out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Or Biden pardons him.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 02:02 PM (gpUSD)

238 >>> I guess I will have to watch Eyes Wide Shut now.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 01:58 PM (XetL6)

Someone could AI up a version with Sam & Caroline. I mean theoretically. No one would be insane enough to do that right? ... Right?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 03, 2023 02:02 PM (Y6IkP)

239 Like the CIA and the FBI, the SEC is just another expensive and self-important alphabet agency that doesn't do its job.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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They do their actual job for our ruling classes pretty well; it is their publicly stated missions that they suck at.
Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:59 PM (J89nh)

Yeah, I sound like a crazy person with a message board on the street corner, every time I say "the CIA is actually VERY good at doing their job, it's just not the job you think they're supposed to be doing."

Too wordy, or something.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 02:02 PM (dGCAG)

240 Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.

What surprises me is the extent to which non-blacks have internalized the African "disrespect = death" thing. You see it all the time now in road rage videos.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (2ocoG)

241 I had so many arguments about this asshat a few years ago.

"The Crypto industry WANTS regulations! Look at SBF demanding Congress pass regulations on the industry!"

"Yeah but the devils in the details. He most likely wants regulations to protect his company and fuck over any start ups"

"NO! He's an altruistic capitalist! Bigot!"

Or when he was publicly making noise about going in on Twitter with Elon and all the SBF fanbois were saying having a "good" billionaire there to offset Elon's craziness was necessary?

I bit of a Schadenboner watching this asshat fall.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (mj0Qp)

242 The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution....
Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (bs+z0)
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Why? I mean, if he's found guilty, why not just sentence him?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (ELpxa)

243 @231

>>>The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution

Well an insane bullshit state theory will simply become a bullshit federal theory.

Trump is The White Whale, they shall never give him up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (rc3Z7)

244 106 >>>What’s a dollar? It has no intrinsic value. It’s only worth something because other people think it has value. Crypto’s no different.

I'm a fan of quatloos myself.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 03, 2023 01:29 PM (CwhoI)
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Is that like squatloos but with the brown removed?

Posted by: Ciampino - Does a thieving magpie use a crow bar?!? at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (qfLjt)

245 ++++
Why? I mean, if he's found guilty, why not just sentence him?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (ELpxa)

It's a civil case I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (bs+z0)

246 Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.

Key and Peele have a skit where a cop arrests a rapper for murder because the rapper listed the exact means in which he killed the victim in his song...but the police officer is constantly told by his superior that doesn't count as evidence because its just a song...its pretty funny.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

247 What did Adams do to anger the Biden Regime?
_________

He took a position against Biden on immigration, therefore, he is declared to be "uppity."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (lf83v)

248 ...IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (rc3Z7)

I wish I did, but must confess, I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (dGCAG)

249 243 @231

>>>The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution

Well an insane bullshit state theory will simply become a bullshit federal theory.

Trump is The White Whale, they shall never give him up.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (rc3Z7)

=======

Ahab died. Moby Dick lived.

The crew of the Pequod all went down with the ship, except for Ishmael, left to tell the tale of obsession that had consumed the entire crew.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

250 The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution

And yet not a single Republican AG/DA from a red state has charged Biden, Obama or either Clinton.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

251 Key and Peele have a skit where a cop arrests a rapper for murder because the rapper listed the exact means in which he killed the victim in his song...but the police officer is constantly told by his superior that doesn't count as evidence because its just a song...its pretty funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

It is, technically, hearsay, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (9UlRk)

252 If you're scamming people out of their money, parlay that into sex with Goldie Hawn, not sex with Caroline Ellison.

In 2008, Goldie looked like Madonna does now. Not defending SBF, but I think turning that down is perfectly acceptable.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

253 >>>When, not if, the economy and society collapse -- you will at least be able to eat your Digital Wallet and Tesla.

Posted by: ShainS --
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Either, that's where digital will be.

TANGIBLE ASSETS

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (gpUSD)

254 The best part is that the jury returned a verdict in just four and a half hours. That's just insulting (to him, I mean).

Posted by: Bitblt at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (DlCas)

255 altering a firearm

Like a dia de Los muertos altar for the guns in that canoe accident?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (scY5G)

256 The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution
__________

DOJ already declined prosecution of the case. She's nuts.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (lf83v)

257 China like Three Stooges mafia, stupid and evil.

The National Zoo's three giant pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — are set to return to China in early December with no public signs that the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue.

With diplomatic tensions running high between Beijing and a number of Western governments, China appears to be gradually pulling back its pandas from multiple Western zoos as their agreements expire.

Posted by: Charlie Chan at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (FVME7)

258 Don't forget, Sam Bank-Fraud installed his brother (Gabe Bank-Fraud) at the FTX Foundation to launder money for "Effective Altruists" and one of the things they wanted was to buy a sovereign nation in the Pacific to serve as the ultimate bugout bunker and to have a place committed to the manufacture of genetic supermen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (ELpxa)

259 256 The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution
__________

DOJ already declined prosecution of the case. She's nuts.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (lf83v)

========

It's why NY elected her. She made a promise to the electorate, and she's just following through.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

260 Yootoob lets those videos sit out there, because of course they do, racking up millions of views, while these thugs brag about their "nines" and putting someone in the ground, and whatnot.
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Key and Peele have a skit where a cop arrests a rapper for murder because the rapper listed the exact means in which he killed the victim in his song...but the police officer is constantly told by his superior that doesn't count as evidence because its just a song...its pretty funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

Evidently it's a real thing though. Life imitating art and all that.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (dGCAG)

261 "There's no evidence of that!"

Posted by: The View, tomorrow at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (HjfVN)

262 Pretty much. Human nature doesn't change much which is why the blank slate doesn't apply. Throughout every society and time, people have the same emotions and behavior.
Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 01:36 PM (J89nh)

Perhaps the most permanent difference between people of a conservative outlook and "progressives" (or whatever they want to call themselves at any given time) is that the progressives always think "Oh what a Brave New World! We are so much Better and Smarter and Wiser than anyone who came before us, we will never make those old mistakes again!:

While conservatives look at the record and say "Yep, History is just the story of the Same People doing the Same Old Shit over and over again, although their toys get to be a bit fancier over time."

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (i9ffA)

263 Key and Peele have a skit where a cop arrests a rapper for murder because the rapper listed the exact means in which he killed the victim in his song...but the police officer is constantly told by his superior that doesn't count as evidence because its just a song...its pretty funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

The funniest skit is where the cop is giving demands to the perp and the perp progressively ignores each command until he takes the cop’s gun away from him.

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (MNhXM)

264 DOJ already declined prosecution of the case. She's nuts.

Her parents named her LeTitsNow, so that was always preordained.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (2ocoG)

265 258 Don't forget, Sam Bank-Fraud installed his brother (Gabe Bank-Fraud) at the FTX Foundation to launder money for "Effective Altruists" and one of the things they wanted was to buy a sovereign nation in the Pacific to serve as the ultimate bugout bunker and to have a place committed to the manufacture of genetic supermen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:06 PM (ELpxa)

=========

"Do you sometimes get the sense that we're Bond villains?"
-Sam

*stews quietly and plots to have his brother indicted for 115 years*
-Gabe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

266 Yeah, I sound like a crazy person with a message board on the street corner, every time I say "the CIA is actually VERY good at doing their job, it's just not the job you think they're supposed to be doing."

Too wordy, or something.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Government does not work for you; it works for the elites. Government by the elites and for the elites and they are trying to make damn sure that the elites do not perish from this earth.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:07 PM (J89nh)

267 In 2008, Goldie looked like Madonna does now. Not defending SBF, but I think turning that down is perfectly acceptable.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

Yeah, it's rather unfortunate, all the former hotties, who aren't necessarily that old even, who got work done, and now look like beluga whales.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 03, 2023 02:07 PM (dGCAG)

268 @249

>>The crew of the Pequod all went down with the ship, except for Ishmael, left to tell the tale of obsession that had consumed the entire crew.

It's simply a metaphor for Nemesis, Wrath, Hate and Spite.

They will never forgive him for being an outsider, beating their anointed gal and showing them how easy it is to do what's right and succeed against a Panopticon.

If Trump somehow wins the Presidency it will be through Providence and sheer will.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (rc3Z7)

269 Who knows, Caroline taught him the tricks.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (gpUSD)

270 Perhaps the most permanent difference between people of a conservative outlook and "progressives" (or whatever they want to call themselves at any given time) is that the progressives always think "Oh what a Brave New World! We are so much Better and Smarter and Wiser than anyone who came before us, we will never make those old mistakes again!

Hence Obama saying in 2008 "We are the ones we have been waiting for".

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (2ocoG)

271 249 243 @231

>>>The "AG" in NY says if, and we know it's when, Trump is found guilty she is gonna refer the case to the DOJ for prosecution

Well an insane bullshit state theory will simply become a bullshit federal theory.

Trump is The White Whale, they shall never give him up.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:03 PM (rc3Z7)

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Ahab died. Moby Dick lived.

The crew of the Pequod all went down with the ship, except for Ishmael, left to tell the tale of obsession that had consumed the entire crew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

Well here's hoping.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (eYoxG)

272 If pilfering $10 billion is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

Posted by: Hillary! at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (HjfVN)

273 Pandas are worse than river otters. Chyna can have those slothful bamboo-eating barren godless commie bastards.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (ufFY8)

274 Nemesis, Wrath, Hate and Spite
__________

One of my favorite law firms.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (lf83v)

275 and one of the things they wanted was to buy a sovereign nation in the Pacific to serve as the ultimate bugout bunker and to have a place committed to the manufacture of genetic supermen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Echoes of Epstein and his New Mexico ranch. Heinlein's short story with Kettle Belly Baldwin as a character comes to mind.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:09 PM (J89nh)

276 Re: Hysterical in the sidebar . . . No, I have to say I don't remember this movie, or the Hudson Brothers, at all. I watched teh first few minutes. Did we all really have so much hair back then? Not long as in the Woodstock days, but thick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 03, 2023 02:09 PM (J2vNu)

277 The crew of the Pequod all went down with the ship, except for Ishmael, left to tell the tale of obsession that had consumed the entire crew.
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Years ago on Nat Review I warned Jonah about his obsession with the Orange Whale. Oddly, he did not take my advise. Now he will die tied to his seedy couch grasping his bag of Cheetos in his stained fingers.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 03, 2023 02:09 PM (XetL6)

278 268 If Trump somehow wins the Presidency it will be through Providence and sheer will.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:08 PM (rc3Z7)

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I'm really just hoping that the PA Secretary of State gets onto TV that night, announces that they will refuse to count any votes from precincts not in Philly or Pittsburgh, and the people of PA finally (FINALLY) decide that that's enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

279 Hey, I said prime Goldie. Of course she looks old now. She's 78. But do you think Ellison is going to get better looking as she gets older?

Posted by: Wally at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (hqVaF)

280 251 Key and Peele have a skit where a cop arrests a rapper for murder because the rapper listed the exact means in which he killed the victim in his song...but the police officer is constantly told by his superior that doesn't count as evidence because its just a song...its pretty funny.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:04 PM (XqcwY)

It is, technically, hearsay, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2023 02:05 PM (9UlRk)

Admission exception

Posted by: Evidence rules. Or should I say RULEZ!!! at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (6VAZZ)

281 Did we all really have so much hair back then? Not long as in the Woodstock days, but thick.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 03, 2023 02:09 PM (J2vNu)

Yup.

Posted by: The Hole In The Ozone Layer at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (9UlRk)

282 Are Sam's greedy Stanford Law professor parents going to be forced to disgorge their gains?

Posted by: mr tmz at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (rJ48h)

283 Hey, I said prime Goldie. Of course she looks old now. She's 78. But do you think Ellison is going to get better looking as she gets older?
Posted by: Wally at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (hqVaF)
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No, but comparing the prime state to the end state will probably show a smaller relative decline in Ellison's case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

284 Had to laugh at your last line: He's such a good boy. He gives to all the right people!

I was sequestered with my parents a month or so ago when an SBF story was covered on 60 Minutes (their choice of viewing, not mine.) Some famous writer was being interviewed, as he was given tons of time by SBF to write a story about him and the FTX phenomenon.

60 Minutes did its best to distance SBF from democrats, while highlighting the donations he made to anti-Trump republicans. In the end, the writer still spoke in a manner that showed he was somewhat saddened by SBF's failure -- that the idea of "effective altruism" really was a winner to push forth a "benevolent" democrat agenda. You could almost hear him saying, "Evil for the sake of the right things is good, right?"

Posted by: red speck at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (0Id0S)

285 Hey, I said prime Goldie. Of course she looks old now. She's 78. But do you think Ellison is going to get better looking as she gets older?[i/]

But unless SBF has Ace's time machine, his choices were Ellison or current really unfortunate looking Goldie.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (2ocoG)

286 Are Sam's greedy Stanford Law professor parents going to be forced to disgorge their gains?
Posted by: mr tmz at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (rJ48h)
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LOL.

No. Zero chance. They are in deep with the Party apparatus.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

287 I'm really just hoping that the PA Secretary of State gets onto TV that night, announces that they will refuse to count any votes from precincts not in Philly or Pittsburgh, and the people of PA finally (FINALLY) decide that that's enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

My sides hurt. You gotta stop.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (R4t5M)

288 @250

>>And yet not a single Republican AG/DA from a red state has charged Biden, Obama or either Clinton.

True, but these people are smart enough to operate in friendly jurisdictions.

What do you think they are, The NRA who maintained their incorporation in NYS?

In order to investigate someone, you need a hook or at the very least, a gossamer basis to go after someone.

What is the AG of Oklahoma or even Texas, going to go after Hillary Clinton for?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (rc3Z7)

289 Out: Toothy beejers from a girl that looks like a young Hillary Clinton

In: Toothy beejers for a man that looks like Mr Clean

Posted by: Sam Bank-Fraud's Future at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (XqcwY)

290 No, but comparing the prime state to the end state will probably show a smaller relative decline in Ellison's case.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

"... now she looks like a slightly older dead wet marmot."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (9UlRk)

291 60 Minutes did its best to distance SBF from democrats, while highlighting the donations he made to anti-Trump republicans. In the end, the writer still spoke in a manner that showed he was somewhat saddened by SBF's failure -- that the idea of "effective altruism" really was a winner to push forth a "benevolent" democrat agenda. You could almost hear him saying, "Evil for the sake of the right things is good, right?"
Posted by: red speck at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (0Id0S)
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The entire "EA" movement is nothing but a framework for plutocrats to live out their dreams of being Bond villains.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (ELpxa)

292 Goldie was scorching on Laugh In.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (R4t5M)

293 Wow, he was pleading "I don't recall"?

"like with a cloth?" > "i don't recall"

Posted by: anachronda at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (oY6Yp)

294 Genetic Superman? I'm tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Brian Stelter at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (PiwSw)

295 You could almost hear him saying, "Evil for the sake of the right things is good, right?"
Posted by: red speck at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (0Id0S)

That’s the Left’s mantra

The Ends Always Justifies The Means.

Posted by: Drive by at November 03, 2023 02:12 PM (MNhXM)

296 287 My sides hurt. You gotta stop.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 03, 2023 02:11 PM (R4t5M)

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When the powers deny suffrage to people who think they have it, then degrade the overall state of the body politic in which they rule, the people will eventually react in ways that aren't, "we should vote harder."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

297 Nood Comer vs. Biden

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 03, 2023 02:13 PM (J2vNu)

298 I did a rant on the genetic supermen thing the Bankman-Fried kids wanted. Regular warning about old threads:
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=405477

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2023 02:13 PM (ELpxa)

299 Sorry, late to the thread. Could someone, anyone, punish his ugly as sin itself girl-friend simply for being a spoiled, ugly, lying, ugly, cheating, ugly, obsequious, ugly, thieving, hosebag of a beast?

Did I mention ugly?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 03, 2023 02:13 PM (qoGsy)

300 What is the AG of Oklahoma or even Texas, going to go after Hillary Clinton for?

The CGI had an office in Arkansas for. And the state had a "severely conservative" AG for the last 8 years or so.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:13 PM (XqcwY)

301 Evidently it's a real thing though. Life imitating art and all that.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Scotus sidestepped on a Maryland case where a 'rap' artist was making specific threats in his 'rap' music toward a victim. Court at that time did not want to define what a true threat was. They have now done so in Coulterman v. Colorado in 2023.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:14 PM (J89nh)

302 O/T observation:

Since I drive a lot of miles for work the past 10 years as an independent contractor, I keep track of all my expenses to see how profitable I am each year.

In 2013 IIRC, the average price I paid for gas was pretty high for back then: $3.31/gallon. It declined each year through 2016, when I paid an average of $1.96/gallon. It stayed in the $2-$3 range the next 5 years (lowest in 2016), then soared to $3.97 last year (approaching $5/gallon in June/July) and this year being a little less than that thus far.

Anyway, I thought it was probably not a coincidence that the two lowest years in the past decade for gas prices have been election years (2016 & 2020).

I bring this up because I noticed gas prices have gone down quite a bit (maybe around 50 cents per gallon) in just the past month here (Northern AZ) -- and I wondered if maybe it's because it's election time (even though off-year)?

Especially in the wake of a possible World War breaking out in the Middle East and with our National Strategic Petroleum Reserves drained by oatmeal brains ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 03, 2023 02:14 PM (w7x3J)

303 I love the skit where a cop chases down an old woman with dementia wandering by the side of the road, grabs her, slams her into the ground, puts her in cuffs, slams her against the patrol car, breaks her bones, takes her to the station, then watches the body cam footage with a fellow officer and laugh when they hear the snap of her shoulder, all because she allegedly wandered out of a Walmart with a few dollars worth of merchandise she forgot to pay for.

Posted by: No wait, that wasn't a skit at all at November 03, 2023 02:14 PM (6VAZZ)

304 Colbert: His (Mike Johnson's) record on LGBTQ issues is, what's the word, awful! So how do you work with a guy who argued that same-sex relations were "the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic"?

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You don't argue with him. You gaze in wonder at his insight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 03, 2023 02:15 PM (FVME7)

305 The CGI had an office in Arkansas for. And the state had a "severely conservative" AG for the last 8 years or so.
Posted by: 18-1

She is now Lt. Gov. but of the Hutchinson-WalMart faction. Sarah Huckabee was beating the AG in the gop primary for governor and so the AG switched to the Lt Gov race.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:15 PM (J89nh)

306 She is now Lt. Gov. but of the Hutchinson-WalMart faction. Sarah Huckabee was beating the AG in the gop primary for governor and so the AG switched to the Lt Gov race.

Is the new AG a joke as well or more like Sanders?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 03, 2023 02:16 PM (XqcwY)

307 236 He faces up to 115 years in prison.

Minuses: His "girlfriends" in prison won't be girls

Pluses: They'll still be better looking then Ellison

Posted by: Just saying at November 03, 2023 02:01 PM (XqcwY)

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As pretty as this?
https://tinyurl.com/2p8daxnt

(Thanks Gref at November 03, 2023 09:03 AM (5fDan) )

Posted by: Ciampino - A thieving magpie uses a crow bar at November 03, 2023 02:16 PM (qfLjt)

308 You don't argue with him. You gaze in wonder at his insight.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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The Lord gives plenty of insight in a book called the Bible and even illustrates why a lot of human behavior has very bad consequences if you give into sinning.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:17 PM (J89nh)

309 Is the new AG a joke as well or more like Sanders?
Posted by: 18-1
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Good question and it remains to be seen--sounded like a conservative but the proof is in the pudding.

Don't have as much contact with Arkansas politics as I used to but I get reports now and again. Basically the people of Arkansas are populists but the money men and corporate class of NW Arkansas like open borders, open federal checkbook, and China.

Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:19 PM (J89nh)

310 278 I'm really just hoping that the PA Secretary of State gets onto TV that night, announces that they will refuse to count any votes from precincts not in Philly or Pittsburgh, and the people of PA finally (FINALLY) decide that that's enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at November 03, 2023 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

There are a lot of guns in PA, but not one will be fired in response to that.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2023 02:20 PM (UnA8+)

311 308 The Lord gives plenty of insight in a book called the Bible and even illustrates why a lot of human behavior has very bad consequences if you give into sinning.
Posted by: whig at November 03, 2023 02:17 PM (J89nh)

"I am your Father, and if you don't do what I say, I am going to set you on fire for the rest of eternity" is the only reason anyone needs.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2023 02:22 PM (UnA8+)

312 True equal justice is a thing of the past. SBT will be free as a bird within five years.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 03, 2023 02:24 PM (BdMk6)

313 Hard to imagine Caroline Ellison as a sex toy, harder still to imagine her as CEO of FTX. I wonder what deal she has cut with the prosecutors?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 03, 2023 02:24 PM (XeU6L)

314 SBF

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 03, 2023 02:24 PM (BdMk6)

315 OMG!

Maxine Waters' Hair is BACK!

Posted by: jmel at November 03, 2023 02:26 PM (RWHIh)

316 I feel bad for my friend, Mark. He took the case against the advice of myself and my wife, and his client (ie basically his parents) refused the plea deal he arranged early on. This happened while every rat that took the money and lived the high life on investors dough took the deal and jumped on board as the train was leaving the station. SBF is your typical autistic person that was always going to be a difficult client to defend - he and his friends made money thru fraud and all thought it was fine - his friends skated out and he could not understand that he was caught holding the short hairs - and given his parents insistence that he go the whole nine yards - I am absolutely sure this was against Mark's wishes.

It was a bad case, but I guess everyone deserves a defense. Sad, but it went the way we suggested it would go.

Posted by: Boswell at November 03, 2023 05:14 PM (K+UlC)

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