Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

I fault the judicial system here. The law you cited, Trump should easily fall under it for his stealing of confidential documents and for famously tweeting info from his secret intelligence briefing. Trump has not been locked up for this dangerous breach of law - should be, but hasn't. A systemic problem with the judicial system.

You did not see the insurrection unfolding in front of you

(But -on your reading, Obama would be liable, too! What a can of worms...)

(But -on your reading, Obama would be liable, too! What a can of worms...)

I did see a riot of sorts; although nothing like the Antifa/BLM riots throughout the previous year!

Your use of the term "insurrection" indicates -to me- either  an uncritical reliance on propaganda from the MSM or a Woke  vocabulary perverting your common sense...

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has vowed to stop bots from posting on X—the social media platform formerly known as Twitter—by charging new users a dollar a year to post on the service.

Anyway, X is turning out pretty unusable, so I too have jumped over to Bluesky. Twitter was kind of ridiculous, but had two major selling points, data and news. News are not really there (yet), but there is a growing group of data producers interacting.

The SEC alleged that Musk violated federal securities laws when he amassed more than $500 million in shares of Twitter -- later renamed X -- without properly disclosing his stake in the company, allowing him to purchase the social media company at "artificially low prices," the lawsuit stated.

Musk underpaid by more than $150 million by failing to disclose his stake in Twitter, the SEC alleged.

In response to a post on X regarding the SEC's lawsuit, Musk called the agency a "totally broken organization."

"They spend their time on s--- like this when there are so many actual crimes that go unpunished," he said.

"Yet they purchased" or "yet they sold" holds no bearing on whether something is fraud.

the gross amount of pecuniary gain to such defendant as a result of the
violation, if the violation described in subparagraph (A) involved fraud, deceit,
manipulation, or deliberate or reckless disregard of a regulatory requirement.

I haven't looked at the SEC filing, and I doubt I'd understand it anyway.

But -as with Chevron Deference- things could change.

Did it not strike you as odd that the word "fraud" was used, and a fine of a mere $22M on a $44B deal was assigned?

Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy

While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”

Empathy, he said, has been “weaponized.”

It’s an important thing to remember as Musk turns his crusade toward the US government. While President Donald Trump has said cuts will not touch safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, except to root out fraud, Musk made clear during the interview that he believes that the concept of Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme.”

Lithuanian MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis is facing a parliamentary probe after being tricked into believing he was invited to meet Elon Musk in the United States. The parliament’s ethics watchdogs are asked to review the incident.

Critics claim Žemaitaitis may have broken procedural rules by not disclosing the nature of his planned trip and failing to declare first-class plane tickets as a high-value gift. Parliament members are required to inform the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, about foreign trips.

"500M Europeans Are Begging 300M Americans for Protection from 140M Russians Who Have Been Unable to Overcome 50M Ukrainians for Three Years"
A nice line from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (Politico.Eu). I have no well-informed view on the proper role of… The post "500M Europeans Are Begging 300M Americans for Protection from 140M Russians Who Have Been Unable to Overcome 50M Ukrainians for Three Years" appeared first on Reason.com.

By Eugene Volokh

A nice line from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (Politico.Eu). I have no well-informed view on the proper role of the U.S. in the defense of Europe (though my intuitions are in favor of strong U.S. support for NATO, I can't speak with confidence about the subject). But I thought this was a well-put call for action, from a country that is estimated to have spent 4.12% of its GDP on defense in 2024, compared to a 2.02% average for European NATO members and Canada, and 3.38% for the U.S. "The Polish military is now about 200,000, which makes it the third-largest in NATO after the U.S. and Turkey and the largest among the alliance's EU members."

Tusk added,

By the end of the year, we want to have a model ready so that every adult male in Poland is trained for war, and so that this reserve is adequate for possible threats…. Every healthy man should want to train to be able to defend the homeland in case of need. We will prepare it in such a way that it will not be a burden on people.

By the way, the only other NATO member that spent a higher fraction of its GDP than the U.S. is Estonia, at 3.43%. Latvia and Lithuania are also high, at 3.15% and 2.85%, well above everyone else except Greece at 3.08%. The one behind Lithuania (though closer to the middle of the pack) is Finland, at 2.41%. See a pattern?

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When you start with an obvious lie, then do you really have anything to say? Let's get some facts straight.

Kyiv has agreed to enter into a 30-day cease-fire with Moscow as a means of kickstarting further talks to end the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war.

Delegations from Washington and Kyiv shared a joint statement on March 11 announcing the proposed 30-day pause in the fighting, after concluding a lengthy round of discussions in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
(source)