mrdelawguy.bsky.social
The manwhich, the mythwhich, the legendwhich.
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Ah yes, “crimes can’t be new” philosophy.
“It’s not an exact analogue to something that was punished before. Therefore, the law is powerless to conclude that it is wrong.”
How is a politician supposed to predict which bribes they can accept if we keep inventing new crimes? We need predictability!
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Let’s think about this for two seconds: what about “implicit” quids pro quo?
Would you honestly not view it as corrupt for your neighborhood crime boss to have a bunch of cops “on the payroll”, because he wasn’t paying for explicit and defined services from those officers?
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Nerd alert.
I bet you’re the kind of dweeb that checks the rules for how you’re supposed to cite to the rules.
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I notice you didn’t mention how you rushed down to Dover late at night to sign SB 21 the second it squeezed out of the house.
Kinda seems like you know it’s a wildly unpopular bill. Did your bosses give you a deadline or something?
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“Chancery Court” sounds wrong to those who actually know it. It’s the Court of Chancery.
Not like you respect it anyway, SB 21 hardly provides “clarity” or “predictability.” The only thing predictable is you bending over backwards to appease Musk, Zuckerberg, and Phil fucking Shawe.
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Sure sounds like keeping powerful Billionaires happy with SB 21 is your priority.
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One Friday evening, not long ago, Meta told the WSJ they were “thinking about” leaving Delaware.
You set up a meeting with law firms who represent Musk and Zuckerberg the very next day, a Saturday. That Sunday Meta’s in-house lawyers were meeting directly with you.
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Education is great, but what about working class pensions, retirement savings, and college savings accounts that hold stock?
SB 21 is a license for Billionaires to steal working class savings.
What’s the point of education if you’ll let Musk and Zuckerberg steal everything we manage to save?
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Clearing your weekend to chat with Musk and Zuckerberg’s lawyers when they complain about Delaware law is as clear a summary of your priorities as one can find.
Do you not see how SB 21 is empowering this administration and its key allies? If you’re opposed to them, then why support SB 21?
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I’d take this a lot more seriously if you didn’t have a “customer service” mindset towards serving Musk and Zuckerberg with SB 21.
If Meta and WalMart call a weekend meeting with you to say they’ll leave Delaware unless you back off Trump, what would you do?
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Does the ethics training extend to the attorneys who drafted your SB 21 bill?
To this day, not one of them has publicly acknowledged their conflicts of interest.
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I’ve heard of Defense Lawyers in Wilmington who play Polo with their own stables of horses. If you didn’t know, as I didn’t, one rides many, many horses in a single round of polo.
I think it’s not “nobody should be paid that much,” it’s “the wrong people are being paid, on my friend’s dime.”
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The rich can pay millions for fancy lawyers, who get paid more the more they drag out a case and delay justice (if any is to be had).
Plaintiffs (generally) seek to hold wealthy and powerful folks accountable.
If you only talk to defense lawyers, you’re only hearing from the friends of the rich.
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“Actually, since this gold was stolen from the Nazis, the mere fact that I possess it actually hurts them.
It’s hard to communicate that to people, though, when they notice that I am trying to sell them a swastika stamped ingot.”
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I need to point out—you’re complaining about disinformation on social media while repeating disinformation on social media.
We have more corporations than ever, and only a tiny handful of whiners are saying they’re “thinking about” leaving. The Franchise is strong if you’ll let it be.
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Please stop threatening everyday Delawareans with financial ruin if you don’t get your way on this bill.
It’s now abundantly clear that the only threat to Delaware Corporate Law IS SB 21.
Why all this effort to lure back the 8 companies that left in 2024? Is Musk that special to you?
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Broke: Delaware law bad
Woke: You’re backing SB 21 because you’re scared of Elon Musk lashing out because Chancery (correctly) took away his pay package.
All of the experts (who don’t get paid by Billionaire controllers) agree that this bill will destroy Delaware law.
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You cut out the best part, your “Elon who?” joke. youtu.be/odbAsJ_jtEc?...
A microcosm of your approach to this bill—just pretend you’re not doing Musk a huge favor, and hope we don’t notice.
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I’ve come to think that most of them know that climate change is real, currently happening, and caused by human activities.
Denying it is just a signal of political loyalty, and for some of them, a way to make more money.
None of them are testing counter-hypotheses, they’re just emotional.
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The subtext I keep gleaning is “just go along with this, if we piss off Elon, who knows what he’ll do now that he’s in the White House. We have to do something or he’ll start harassing us personally, just like Shawe.”
Weak justifications, propping up a truly spineless agenda.
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I choose to believe it’s solidarity with that guy who got bench slapped by Slights for being underdressed on covid zoom court, then lied about having a medical exemption from neckties.
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Mr. WalMart himself told me that if they don’t pass this bill then they’re gonna die.
Please, my children will only eat WalMart “great value” Franchise Fees. We must keep them at any cost or my family will be destroyed.
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will have a negative impact on Delaware’s economy.
And why won’t you discuss the issue in public? There is tons of reporting that you were the organizer of SB 21, and yet no public communication has officially come from your office one way or the other. Take a stance on your own bill Governor.
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You also spent your first months in office spearheading an effort to rewrite 50+ years of Delaware corporate law to appease Elon Musk (a man who is no longer doing business in our state) and other wealthy corporate controllers.
Surely selling out our corporate law to external hostile interests
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of the US economy and our stock markets depend on. If you have a 401k (and don’t control your very own S&P 500 corporation) this bill is a threat to your financial future. www.stopsb21.com
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to get it jammed through and passed before anyone can carefully consider the consequences of undoing 50+ years of corporate law that made Delaware the corporate powerhouse it is today.
In sum: it’s a shortsighted handout to billionaires, that will destabilize the corporate system that huge swathes
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This legislation did not go through the normal channels. Governor Meyers and a secret cohort of corporate defense lawyers that have represented (among others) Elon Musk, drafted it in secret, and sprung it on the DE general assembly about two weeks ago. Since then, they’ve been doing their damndest
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of Delaware’s “envy-of-the-world” corporate law.
In doing so, they are forgetting that the decision to incorporate in a state is more than just where managers feel safe—you also need to have a regime that protects minority investors, or nobody will invest in a corporation from that state.
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The premise of SB21 is a lie. Delaware corporations simply aren’t fleeing Delaware en masse. It’s just Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, and a couple of other billionaire controlled companies.
In response to this oligarch temper tantrum, the DE legislature is apparently poised to sign off on a radical rewrite
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If the “rubber stamp” process wasn’t lax enough to use here—what does that tell you of their intentions for the effects of the bill? My guess is they intended things that are wildly unpopular.
Remember, the legislature is awaiting the DSBA Corp. counsel weighing in on fees, so it’s not saving time.
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Kind of makes you think that maybe the Governor did have something to do with drafting the bill. The DE legislature has all kinds of FOIA exemptions—but the Governor’s office doesn’t.
If I were a DE Governor who wanted to cover my tracks, I’d pretend this was all legislative.
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Surely, Governor Meyer, celebrating what makes Delaware special involves not passing a bill to give Billionaires their very own rewrite of Delaware Corporate law. Are you going to announce a veto of SB21 at 302 day?
Or were you just referring to blue chickens and horseshoe crabs?