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@1,

Is there a commenting glitch or something? I'd expect biped to be ranting furiously about all the stickers affixed to the various poles and other miscellaneous objects in the header pic that are so obviously a clear metaphor for the downfall and degradation of civilized society.

@2...
I'm thinking (hoping) "The Rapture".
I'm so waiting for it just to get these assholes off this earth.

So I guess Slog AM isn't going to include the arrest of Stranger darling Kshama Sawant's husband for assaulting a young woman at a town hall event?

https://komonews.com/newsletter-daily/kshama-sawant-husband-accused-assault-washington-congressman-adam-smith-staffer-public-event-renton-technical-college-politics

"America is a very sad place"

Oh really, we're nowhere near the speech policing and imprisoning and dystopian Islamic control sweeping the United Kingdom. It's ultra sad. London isn't worth visiting. Blast King Charles for being so mum about it.

You just know Biped was furious that he couldn't comment on those "trashy stickers" all morning... probably worked himself up into a frenzy and had to go find some brown people to call the cops on.

@3: the latest Rapture was just another TikTok craze.

@4 "Calvin Priest, 54, was arrested and booked into jail on Aug. 4 after Renton police alleged he assaulted a 22-year-old woman at a town hall for Congressman Adam Smith."

Is today August 4th?!

re: 4. Not only is the alleged assault old news, it wasn't even an assault. It was alleged that Ms. Sawant's husband shoved an Adam Smith staffer as she attempted to block his entrance to one of Mr. Smith's press conference. I'm going to bet that these "assault charges" never went anywhere because blocking another individual's free movement can be considered harassment under law. The putative assault claims merely demonstrate how desperate the Smith campaign is deflect any spotlight from their support for genocide in the developing world.

I am so thrilled that we made it through the summer and the decent weather is back! Now I can finally relax and enjoy windows and outside again!

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@9: You didn’t cite any sources for your version of events. The KOMO story clearly stated Priest was arrested for trespassing, which would seem to contradict your claim of his innocence. Also,

‘I'm going to bet that these "assault charges" never went anywhere because blocking another individual's free movement can be considered harassment under law.’

Well, then, you’re going to lose, as he avoided charges by improving his behavior:

‘…Priest agreed to a stipulated order of continuance that “means the City will defer pursuing the charges if conditions are met over a certain period of time. If conditions are not met, the defendant agrees to allow the judge to render a verdict using the contents of the police report.”

‘That can also mean a defendant agrees to community service in exchange for avoiding charges or further jail time. Priest was credited for time served, according to a transcript of the court proceedings.’

But you’re still free to claim otherwise, of course. (Good luck with that.)

@2: Yeah they got banned again. And I really wanted to ask them if they might consider that TS was putting up pictures of stickers and graffiti specifically to troll them, cuz it was kind of starting to feel that way.

@5. Careful, I saw a man facing Mecca and saying a prayer! Oh my sweet Jesus, save us! Muslims, in my freedom of religion loving country? Next thing you know they will be putting copies of the Quran in school!

Re: Since the version of events you cite is consistent with "agreed to a bogus probation to avoid dealing with bogus charges" - something that occurs constantly in our legal system - I'm still going to claim that the alleged assault wasn't an assault. If it were, it would have gone a lot further than the scenario you describe. The reasons Mr. Priest would do so are obvious - the campaign resources need to go to the campaign, not fighting trumped up assault charges.

Also - blocking someone's free movement is harassment. Again, it's obvious why Mr. Priest wouldn't choose to file counter-charges.

Progressive activists are constantly under threat from false arrest and imprisonment. It goes with the territory of speaking truth to power. The Smith campaign is desperate, and it knows it - Mr. Smith's support for genocide, like yours, is under constant attack these days.

So, your "rebuttal" doesn't change much, although I appreciate the update in the story - despite all your genocide-cucking, you do present with useful info every now and then.

https://youtube.com/shorts/8St7AI37F7Q?si=aXzCAyyTtEagBHpw

https://youtu.be/sb6luYan_hk?si=P_Cz3XqfkO8qo-y7

@15: "I'm still going to claim that the alleged assault wasn't an assault. If it were, it would have gone a lot further than the scenario you describe."

You're the one stumbling over the details now. 😄 Unless the bruising on the staffer's arm was so severe as to constitute a "substantial disfigurement," shoving the staffer would not rise above the level of misdemeanor assault. Further reason to believe this was a misdemeanor assault is that Sawant's husband was charged by the Renton city attorney, who does not have the power to charge felonies. For a first-time offender who expresses contrition and has good community support, probation would be an appropriate sentence for misdemeanor assault. Contrary to what you may think, there is no reason it "would have gone a lot further" than that.

But Sawant's husband wasn't even sentenced to probation! Instead, he entered a stipulated continuance, which is a pretrial disposition, not a criminal sentence like probation. He probably does check in with a probation officer, since I doubt Renton has separate departments for pre-trial and post-trial community supervision, but he is not actually "on probation." It just looks that way from the outside. Confusing, I know! 😃 But these details will matter a lot later in life, when he may be asked questions such as "Have you ever been convicted of a crime? Have you ever been sentenced to confinement or probation?" and so forth. 😁

One other little thing you're getting wrong is calling people "cuck." 😆 That came out of the gamergate/manosphere world. Don't be that dude. 🤣 I know, I know, you're like very ironic, but guess what, so are they! 😅

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@19: But if I said "dystopian Christian control sweeping the United States" your response would be laudatory.

@20: If that was your bumper sticker I'd honk anyway.

@8 The original incident apparently occurred Aug 4th, but the news report on the incident and subsequent adjudication didn't show up until yesterday.

@9, 15 According to the report, it wasn't a "press conference", it was an invitation only event that Mr Priest and his band of screaming goons had no invitations to. And the woman he assaulted had bruises on her arm. I don't know how you get those if it never really happened. The notion that Priest is somehow the real victim is ridiculous.

@23: It was "an invitation only event" for a politician using our national budget to give handouts to genocidal maniacs. The notion that he wasn't a target for malicious, anti-left charges is ridiculous.

@21 no i would ask if you need to see a dr because your what-abouting doesn’t make any sense, you’re supposed to deflect not restate the problem

@25: I forgot what we were arguing about. Oh well.

@24: Ha ha ha, I highly doubt that the Renton city attorney, of all office-holders, is running around filing "malicious, anti-left charges" on the basis of the offender's politics. 😂 Your boy got charged with misdemeanor assault because he low-key assaulted someone! And he got a pre-trial diversion because he knew he messed up! What kind of kooky world do you live in, man! 😅

Oh god, thumpus is back. Well, what must be, must be. Mr. Thumpus is entitled to his opinion - but I'd appreciate some corrections that would lead me to change my mind. The fact that a known war criminal who uses public funds to create the wars & enrich himself was in a "private only" venue is all the more reason to stage some civil disobedience at that site. And why wouldn't the city attorney file charges? Civil disobedience means breaking the law. Hence, people who engage in it get arrested & charged.

Rule of thumb: progressives use civil disobedience, right-wing hooligans use vandalism and violence. That's not a putdown: those are the techniques which work to get them what they want.

And we have plenty of reason already to suspect that anyone connected with Adam Smith would file malicious charges against anti-genocide protestors. Functional looks weird to the dysfunctional, I get it - but mr. thumpus & I have been through that before. It ended with him posting a crying-face emoji over the prospect of a world without Zionism.

@28: "Rule of thumb: progressives use civil disobedience, right-wing hooligans use vandalism and violence."

Well, you're half right. This progressive's "civil disobedience" put bruises on a 22-year-old woman's arm! 😃

also @28: "And we have plenty of reason already to suspect that anyone connected with Adam Smith would file malicious charges against anti-genocide protestors."

lol, the only "connection" that the Renton city attorney has with Adam Smith is that they both have offices in Renton. Too much lefty conspiracy theorizing has scrambled your brains, you're jumping at shadows! 🤪

Re: 29. Adam Smith was hosting the event at which the alleged assault took place. He's intimately connected to this event. But I realize that putting the dots together looks like conspiracy theorizing - to the ignorant.👻

@30: Wait you think a US congressman has the power to file criminal charges in Renton?! Ha ha ha you’re even more far gone than I realized! This is approaching NotMyopic levels of confusion when it comes to civics! 😆

@27 "he got a pre-trial diversion because he knew he messed up"

People get an SOC when the prosecutor knows the charge isn't worth pursuing. They take a plea when they know they "messed up"

@28 "Oh god, thumpus is back"

UW is back in session so our resident College Republican is back on his bullshit

@32: lol no, not even close. They get their charges dismissed when the prosecutor knows the charges aren’t worth pursuing. They take deferred prosecution agreements when they’re basically decent people who fucked up once in a minor way. They take a plea deal when they are habitual fuckups. Next time Sawant’s husband decides to “civil disobedience” a college girl, for example, he’ll be taking a plea deal! 😁 (And also eating the stipulated police report from this first incident! 😂 “Deferred prosecution,” not “no prosecution!”)

@33: Well what did you do this summer? Work? 🤣

@29: "Rule of thumb: progressives use civil disobedience, right-wing hooligans use vandalism and violence."

Of course! If Calvin Priest been a right-winger (like, say, if he was happily married to a known Trump supporter), then his attempt to force his way into the meeting, and bruising her arm, would've been "vandalism and violence." But (as he's in no way, shape or form married to a known Trump supporter) he's a progressive, and so the very same actions were "civil disobedience." Simple as that, really.

Now, for your proper edification on the use of non-violent civil disobedience, please see Libretto68's favorite Civil Rights text, "Letter 'Cos I Be Beatin' Bitches in Birmingham."

;-)

@34 "They get their charges dismissed when the prosecutor knows the charges aren’t worth pursuing"

Right, like happens at the end of an SOC. Just because you got one yourself after you got too drunk at a frat party but your IR prof wrote you a letter of support doesn't make you an expert.

@37: Sorry, that’s still a no. 😄 If someone completed an SOC, then the charges they faced were very much worth the prosecutor’s time to pursue, and the person remained in serious legal jeopardy during the term of the SOC. I think you have confused “no prosecution” with “deferred prosecution.” They are actually more different than they are similar.

Libretto @15 confused pre-trial supervision with post-conviction supervision (as Professor Thumpus helpfully explained @18), but you are actually making a bigger and stupider mistake than he was, so congratulations on that accomplishment! 😄

Dang... They're back.
I was really hoping for the rapture.

@38 "the person remained in serious legal jeopardy during the term of the SOC"

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@40: If Sawant’s husband messes up the terms of his SOC, he’ll be going to trial where the police account of his assaulting that young woman will be a stipulated fact. He can’t win that trial, no one can. Dude needs to stay on the straight and narrow for the duration, or he’ll be going to jail. 😃

The legal jeopardy from these SOCs is real, dude, you only reveal your ignorance when you scoff at it. In fact, the official progressive line on deferred prosecutions is that they are just another trap set by The System to ensnare defendants, because they leave defendants with no defense when they inevitably screw up the terms of the SOC. Sawant’s husband is probably a stable enough dude that he won’t fall into that trap, but it’s there if he wants it, lol! Hopefully no other college girl will sass him until after he’s out of the danger zone! 😆

@9: ‘Not only is the alleged assault old news, it wasn't even an assault… I'm going to bet that these "assault charges" never went anywhere because blocking another individual's free movement can be considered harassment under law.‘

What did you bet, with whom, and by when must you pay up? Just curious.

@42 you clearly actually know what you're talking about and didn't just read the first google result about SOCs 🤪

@46: Sorry but someone who wrote "People get an SOC when the prosecutor knows the charge isn't worth pursuing" does not get to accuse anyone else of not knowing what they're talking about! 😂

@47 remember when you wrote a person on an SOC "probably does check in with a probation officer" 😆

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@48: Um, yes? Who do you imagine monitors the defendants' compliance with the conditions of their SOCs? The honor system? 😄

Larger jurisdictions will have different officers to monitor the pre-trial and post-conviction defendants, but in a small system like Renton, I can almost guarantee you it's the same officers. So, no, Sawant's husband is not on probation, but yes, he probably does check in with a probation officer. Super confusing, I know! 😄

I think you are somehow, even now, even after all my help, still failing to grasp the distinction between "no prosecution" and "deferred prosecution." Deferred prosecution is not a get-out-of-jail free card! They make you check in and take classes and everything! If you screw up, you get mainstreamed! It's a whole thing, dude! 😂 Come on now, progressives are supposed to be all over this criminal justice stuff, you're making the team look bad! 😉

@50 "Who do you imagine monitors the defendants' compliance with the conditions of their SOCs? The honor system?"

It's funny that you think this is funny, but please keep going with the aggressive ignorance it's making my day

@51: You're the first progressive in history to imagine that the criminal justice system is SOFTER than it actually is! I'm kicking you out of the black bloc for this! 😂