{"id":42046,"date":"2015-12-21T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42046"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:42:07","slug":"oh-how-loudly-money-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42046","title":{"rendered":"Oh, how loudly money speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-42047 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/kpdolladolla.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Sometimes, a story comes along, where all integrity just ceases to exist, due to the overwhelming presence of money, introduced into the scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Case in point: the mythical girlfriend pointed me towards\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2015\/12\/16\/saudi-millionaire-tripped-penetrated-teen-girl-cleared-rape-charge\/77416928\/\">this ironically horrible story<\/a>, where the only possible reaction is to laugh incredulously at the absurdity of it, and the subsequent resolution. \u00a0But in short, a Saudi man is accused of rape, whereas he claims he tripped and fell on top of an 18-year old girl sleeping on a couch, and oh yeah, penetrated her and left traces of semen inside of her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Never mind the absurdity of the physical scenario of a grown adult falling on top of a teenager, as well as the off-chance that he just happened to have a stiffy that just so happened to conveniently accidentally enter a vagina. \u00a0And I guess in his panicked attempt to withdraw as soon as possible he just happened to have the stamina of a 13-year old finding Cinemax after 11 pm, and blew his wad in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Anyway, he was found innocent of charges by a jury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Oh yeah, he also happens to be a real estate mogul, and has millions of dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I mean, there&#8217;s pretty much zero doubt that every single juror was paid off; at this point, since the trial is over, if the jurors were told that they wouldn&#8217;t get in trouble for it, they&#8217;d probably all fess up and divulge just how much they were given to say innocent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But the fact that an accused person could actually present such an absurd turn of events, akin to a toddler making shit up on the fly to get away with breaking something, or a\u00a0<em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>\u00a0canon writer; and then actually get away with it goes to show just how powerful the almighty dollar actually is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I wonder just how hard it must be for an accredited writer to write about this and try and maintain journalistic neutrality. \u00a0I mean, this isn&#8217;t an ordinary run-of-the-mill destruction or property or an incident where only inanimate objects were affected, this was a sexual assault case, where someone with a lot of money is conveniently found innocent of rape, in spite of some pretty irrefutable evidence, on grounds of an outlandish story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But seriously, I can&#8217;t imagine it&#8217;s the least bit possible to actually summarize the events of this entire debacle with a straight face, and imagine that there&#8217;s not going to be some degree of fallout and criticism from those who read it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Money speaks, it&#8217;s nothing we don&#8217;t all already know. \u00a0But sometimes we get reminders like this that remind us just how loudly it does.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, a story comes along, where all integrity just ceases to exist, due to the overwhelming presence of money, introduced into the scenario. Case in point: the mythical girlfriend pointed me towards\u00a0this ironically horrible story, where the only possible reaction is to laugh incredulously at the absurdity of it, and the subsequent resolution. \u00a0But in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, how loudly money speaks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,112,45,15],"class_list":["post-42046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42048,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42046\/revisions\/42048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}