gAlienLifeform

gAlienLifeform, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

The auditing firm for Trump Media and the auditor’s owner were charged Friday with “massive fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission for work that affected more than 1,500 SEC filings, the federal regulator announced.

The auditor, BF Borgers CPA and its owner Benjamin Borgers have agreed to be permanently suspended from practicing as accountants before the SEC, and also agreed to pay a combined $14 million in civil penalties, without* admitting or denying the allegations, the SEC said.

So we didn’t find out that the SEC thought this auditor committed criminal conduct until the SEC had already negotiated this settlement where they don’t have to admit any wrongdoing? Bang up job enforcing the laws there guys, that will definitely deter this kind of conduct from other bad actors in the accounting industry /s

*The article actually says “with” there, but the SEC post it links to says “without,” so I’m fairly certain that was a typo in the news article

e; It really should go without saying, but since the conversations on this website have effectively reduced my whole personality to “why aren’t more people talking about how this Democratic administration’s handling of the federal government is falling short of what that party says they stand for,” I feel like I should say I doubt we’d see even this pittance of enforcement out of a Republican government, so, yeah, I sincerely hope these pathetic losers get another four years to keep disappointing me because the alternative is still a hell of a lot worse

gAlienLifeform, 24 days ago

I mean, I’m not surprised that border patrol are being power tripping assholes to a Democratic governor and the Biden administration isn’t lifting a finger to stop them, but usually when I predict things like this people get upset with me

Either way, it’s a great example of why rescheduling weed isn’t sufficient and Biden needs to deschedule it immediately. Fuck it, he can say he’s “returning the issue of marijuana to the states,” Haley moderate Republicans voters should like that.

e; actually she apparently supported a national abortion ban, guess I misremembered that one

gAlienLifeform, 24 days ago

The best means I’ve found of fighting against that impulse is remembering what the Internet was like for me in early 2017 - completely demented Hillary supporters all over the place blaming everyone and everything besides their godawful candidate for what had just happened

The moderate Democratic party members who could and should learn a lesson from seeing their crappy candidate and crappy ideology lose a totally winnable election will not learn a damn thing (actually, they’ll probably double down even harder on all their idiotic crap and try to run like Michael Bloomberg or Joe Manchin or someone even worse), and everything will only get worse for the people we care about

gAlienLifeform, 24 days ago

It really can’t be overstated how completely fucking brainwormed moderates have gotten in the past eight years or so

I almost feel bad for them, because it’s obviously coming at least in part from the trauma of having lived through the Trump administration, but then I read one of them calling other people selfish without the slightest trace of irony and really want to say they haven’t suffered nearly enough

Unfortunately, there’s no realistic way to rap them on the knuckles without vulnerable communities getting their hands cut off (metaphorically speaking)

gAlienLifeform, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

Congress has absolutely dropped the ball by refusing to confront nativist bullshit and give us an immigration system that isn’t an incoherent mess, but our current system gives the executive branch and all its agencies a ton of discretion in how they implement (or don’t implement) those stupid laws, and every President we’ve had in the last fifteen years or so has tried to make our stupid impossible system keep grinding forward by compromising migrants’ rights and humane treatment

Like, absolutely screw Congress, but Obama Trump and Biden all have blood on their hands for this shit too

e; some recent examples of the Biden administration attacking migrants and asylum seekers,

“US asylum app strands migrants and aids organised crime, rights group says”

“U.S. is rejecting asylum seekers at much higher rates under new Biden policy”

“Biden and Mexico’s President Vow Combined Action on Illegal Immigration” (y’know, Mexico, the country whose negligence and wanton indifference led to the dozens of people dying in a fire a year ago that the OP story is about, Biden is more than happy to say just a couple of days ago that we will keep working with them because he doesn’t give a shit about the lives of poor brown people)