JD Heel
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 74
"Acting."
Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread
- Thread starter nycfan
- Start date
- Replies: 12K
- Views: 324K
- Politics
"Acting."
Doubtful.
DiehardHeelFan
Distinguished Member
- Messages
- 269
Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.
SnoopRob
Iconic Member
- Messages
- 2,367
I'm often unable to see posts on X unless I sign in (which I can't as I don't have an account).Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.www.wired.com
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.
Unless X has a way to exempt amber alert posts, I can easily see this happening.
gtyellowjacket
Iconic Member
- Messages
- 1,600
Guy sent his manifesto to some podcast. Vegas PD said they believe its legit. Sounds like he had a severe mental break.
They’re really good on “messaging.”
MAGA will continue to believe whatever Trump and his Trumplicans say.
Unfortunately, “independent” soccer Moms and “moderate” “I vote for the man and not the party” Dads across suburbia and exurbia will believe these lies……and they’ll vote for MAGA.
This shows the New Orleans attack and the Vegas truck incident were connected.Guy sent his manifesto to some podcast. Vegas PD said they believe its legit. Sounds like he had a severe mental break.
The connection? Both perpetrators had mental health issues (tied in part to military service) and went down the DEEP rabbit hole of the internet. If only these sick people could have interfaced IRL with real people on a daily basis and not spent so much time by themselves online.
evrheel
Distinguished Member
- Messages
- 255
So he wants to be the sheriff but not police
A lot easier for sheriff’s to grift on a large scale than police.
lawtig02
Inconceivable Member
- Messages
- 2,762
- Messages
- 566
Theres a very fine line b/t sanity and insanity...whatever those terms mean
- Messages
- 15,225
BBC:
“Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted 10 breaches of a High Court order made in 2021, during a hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.
Lawyers for the solicitor general accused the 41-year-old of "undermining" the rule of law.
Passing sentence, Judge Mr Justice Johnson said the breaches of the injunction, which prevented Yaxley-Lennon from repeating the allegations, were not “accidental, negligent or merely reckless” and the custodial threshold was "amply crossed”.
…The hearing on Monday was the culmination of events that date back to October 2018.
That month, a video went viral showing how Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian in West Yorkshire, had been attacked by another teenager at school.
Yaxley-Lennon then posted his own response to one million Facebook followers alleging that his investigation had established that Mr Hijazi was a violent thug, a claim that was untrue.
The Yaxley-Lennon video spread widely and the Syrian teenager and his family received death threats.
Three years later, Mr Hijazi won £100,000 in damages when the High Court ruled Yaxley-Lennon’s claims against him had amounted to defamation.
The court imposed an injunction on Yaxley-Lennon, banning him from making the false claims again.
In February 2023, Yaxley-Lennon, who founded the long-defunct English Defence League (EDL), began repeating the claims and went on to post online a film claiming he had been “silenced” by the state. …”
- Messages
- 15,225
(Cont’d)
“… That film may have been viewed at least 47 million times.
Eventually, this July, the anti-Islam activist showed the film to thousands of his supporters in London's Trafalgar Square, saying he would not be silenced. The following day he left the country.
Aidan Eardley KC, for Solicitor General Sarah Sackman, told the court that Yaxley-Lennon had intended to repeat the false allegations, despite the injunction, and then take “evasive” measures.
… Sasha Wass KC, for Yaxley-Lennon, said he was a journalist who had been following his principles and was a passionate believer in free speech.
“This defendant has been neither sly nor dishonest nor seeking gain for himself,” she said.
She said that he was such a controversial figure he may be placed in solitary confinement by prison governors, as had occurred the last time he had been jailed, and there was medical evidence he had previously suffered trauma, panic attacks and nightmares.
Jailing Yaxley-Lennon for 18 months, Mr Justice Johnson said: “In a democratic society underpinned by the rule of law, court orders must be obeyed.
“Nobody is above the law. Nobody can pick or choose which laws or which injunctions they obey, or which they do not. …”
“… That film may have been viewed at least 47 million times.
Eventually, this July, the anti-Islam activist showed the film to thousands of his supporters in London's Trafalgar Square, saying he would not be silenced. The following day he left the country.
Aidan Eardley KC, for Solicitor General Sarah Sackman, told the court that Yaxley-Lennon had intended to repeat the false allegations, despite the injunction, and then take “evasive” measures.
… Sasha Wass KC, for Yaxley-Lennon, said he was a journalist who had been following his principles and was a passionate believer in free speech.
“This defendant has been neither sly nor dishonest nor seeking gain for himself,” she said.
She said that he was such a controversial figure he may be placed in solitary confinement by prison governors, as had occurred the last time he had been jailed, and there was medical evidence he had previously suffered trauma, panic attacks and nightmares.
Jailing Yaxley-Lennon for 18 months, Mr Justice Johnson said: “In a democratic society underpinned by the rule of law, court orders must be obeyed.
“Nobody is above the law. Nobody can pick or choose which laws or which injunctions they obey, or which they do not. …”
- Messages
- 15,225
Musk 'misinformed' on grooming gangs, says Streeting
Elon Musk 'misinformed' on grooming gangs, says Wes Streeting - BBC News
The Conservatives have also criticised the billionaire for "sharing things that are factually inaccurate".
www.bbc.com
“Elon Musk's attack on the government's handling of grooming gangs is "misjudged and certainly misinformed", Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said.
Tech multi-billionaire Musk has posted a series of messages on his social media site X, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute gangs that systematically groomed and raped young girls, and calling for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to be jailed.
Asked about his comments, Streeting said "this government takes the issue of child sexual exploitation incredibly seriously".
… The Tories have also criticised Musk for "sharing things that are factually inaccurate".
…
He told reporters: "Some of the criticisms Elon Musk has made I think are misjudged and certainly misinformed.
"But we're willing to work with Elon Musk who I think has got a big role to play with his social media platform to help us and other countries tackle these serious issues.
"If he wants to work with us and roll his sleeves up, we'd welcome that."
Musk, a key adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, has accused Sir Keir of failing to properly prosecute rape gangs while director of public prosecutions (DPP), and has repeatedly retweeted Reform UK and Conservative MPs calling for a national inquiry.
He also suggested safeguarding minister Jess Phillips "deserves to be in prison" after she rejected a request for the Home Office to order a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham. She said the council should commission a local inquiry instead, as happened in Rotherham and Telford.
The decision was criticised by several senior Tories, despite the previous Conservative government turning down a similar request in 2022. …”
—-
A key advisor to the incoming POTUS is using misinformation and distortion to stir up an investigation of the UK government and a basis for demanding new elections. He is platforming a lot of UK extremists and fringe figures from a position as a presidential advisor in waiting.
- Messages
- 15,225
(Continued)
“… Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has called for a full national public inquiry into what she called the UK's "rape gangs scandal".
But the party has also criticised Musk for "sharing things that are factually inaccurate" and distanced itself from his call for Phillips to be jailed.
Alicia Kearns – who shadows Phillips as the Conservative spokesperson on safeguarding – told BBC Radio 5 Live Musk had "fallen prone" to sharing things on his X platform "without critically assessing them".
She accused Musk of "drawing away attention from the survivors and from the victims" of rape gangs, and "lionising people like [far-right activist] Tommy Robinson - which is frankly dangerous".
Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage praised Musk as "an absolute hero figure" and "very helpful to our cause" on Friday. The two men met at Trump's Florida retreat last month.
He told the BBC that Musk had not donated to his party, but that "he's fully in support of us, he wants us to win the next election". He said that Musk "has said he's minded to give us some money if there's a legal way to do it".
… There have been numerous investigations into the systematic rape of girls and young women by organised gangs, including in Rotherham, Cornwall, Derbyshire and Bristol.
Inquiries into Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) handling of historical child sex abuse cases in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale have also been carried out.
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said tackling grooming gangs was "not something to be politicised".
"We've done this when others were looking in a different direction," Burnham added.
… "There comes a point where we don't need more inquiries, and had Elon Musk really paid attention to what's been going on in this country, he might have recognised that there have already been inquiries," he said.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), which published its final report in 2022, described the sexual abuse of children as an "epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake".
It knitted several previous inquiries together alongside its own investigations.
Professor Jay said in November she felt "frustrated" that none of her report's 20 recommendations to tackle abuse had been implemented more than two years later. …”
“… Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has called for a full national public inquiry into what she called the UK's "rape gangs scandal".
But the party has also criticised Musk for "sharing things that are factually inaccurate" and distanced itself from his call for Phillips to be jailed.
Alicia Kearns – who shadows Phillips as the Conservative spokesperson on safeguarding – told BBC Radio 5 Live Musk had "fallen prone" to sharing things on his X platform "without critically assessing them".
She accused Musk of "drawing away attention from the survivors and from the victims" of rape gangs, and "lionising people like [far-right activist] Tommy Robinson - which is frankly dangerous".
Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage praised Musk as "an absolute hero figure" and "very helpful to our cause" on Friday. The two men met at Trump's Florida retreat last month.
He told the BBC that Musk had not donated to his party, but that "he's fully in support of us, he wants us to win the next election". He said that Musk "has said he's minded to give us some money if there's a legal way to do it".
… There have been numerous investigations into the systematic rape of girls and young women by organised gangs, including in Rotherham, Cornwall, Derbyshire and Bristol.
Inquiries into Greater Manchester Police's (GMP) handling of historical child sex abuse cases in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale have also been carried out.
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said tackling grooming gangs was "not something to be politicised".
"We've done this when others were looking in a different direction," Burnham added.
… "There comes a point where we don't need more inquiries, and had Elon Musk really paid attention to what's been going on in this country, he might have recognised that there have already been inquiries," he said.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA), which published its final report in 2022, described the sexual abuse of children as an "epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake".
It knitted several previous inquiries together alongside its own investigations.
Professor Jay said in November she felt "frustrated" that none of her report's 20 recommendations to tackle abuse had been implemented more than two years later. …”
