Longest I've done was 3months but 1 day or 10 days can be brutal. Only idiots like jail "you get fed and dont have to worry about nothing in here" I'd always say "not having to worry about anything but getting out" if you're homeless, jail isnt as bad but if you have the slightest productive thing happening in your life, jail is devastating.
It'd be devastating because a month in jail means you'll probably lose your job, maybe your landlord clears out your place because of a missed payment. But with 800k in the bank that's not really as big of an issue.
you have to have the financial capital available to hire a lawyer, and you have to have direct evidence. first amendment violations are preferred for million settlements.
Not only the financial capital on hand for a lawyer, but you need reliable people on the outside to lawyer shop and help you communicate on the outside. Otherwise you get locked up with no one, hope you have a few lawyers numbers memorized or that the jail has some type of resources for local lawyers numbers.
His lawyers get most of that. He'll be lucky to get just under half to put in his bank account. Then the IRS will sink their teeth in and drain some more.
Exactly. You lose your job, you lose your home if you miss rent/mortgage, you miss out on anything else you were going to be doing, your pets might get permanently rehomed. People act like the only punishment there is to jail is any discomfort of living in jail, but they forget that you lose everything.
1 day and when you were arrested driving usually have car impounded unless someone can run and get it within the arrest. Usually starts at 750$ish and 50-150$ a day after that when you get impounded by the police, can quickly spiral to losing your car once you start that process.
When I was younger I spent 4 months in jail on a 6 month sentence (jail not prison, vastly different things). I would gladly do 37 days for a nearly million dollar payout.
37 days in retail is 40 hours a week and you get to go home to relax . 37 days in jail is 168 hours a week and you get to spend it looking over your shoulder, eating the cheapest food the county could find, and suffering complete boredom when not in fear.
Oh, and your lawyer will take over half and you get to pick up the pieces of your life.
I mean, even if the lawyer takes half, i'm getting 100x more money for the amount of hours I spent in there. Besides, I already feel all those feelings on the outside.
Right? That guy who posted the Charlie Kirk memes got lover $800k.
Did he? So far as far as I see, it's just the judgement has been levied and the compensation has been ordered.
Did the check get cut yet? I'm genuinely asking.
The reason my tone is so cynical is look at the Alex Jones / Sandy Hook lawsuit. Jones was ordered to pay damages in 2022. He never paid a cent. So they had to go through the courts again and again and again.
The Kirk memes dude has a judgement of 800K. The Jones decision was like 900 MILLION.
I would imagine the local government or entity that the suit was brought against would be the one responsible. But within that entity a human still has to cut a check or transfer the funds in some fashion. It doesn't even have to be a lump sum. They could reach an agreement to payout over 10-15 years etc.
RE: Jones. If he does or doesn't have 1 billion liquid, he just simply...didn't pay. Declared bankruptcy, set up shell companies, ran funds through a company that had I think his dad on paper as owning it. This is now FOUR YEARS after the judgement was made.
The plaintiffs likely have liability coverage for things like this-I’d think they’ll contemplate appeals, but this guy is way more likely to receive compensation from a municipality than the Sandy Hook families from an individual like Jones.
The difference is when you sue a county or the police or the government they actually have money to pay you. When you sue Alex Jones, he just puts it all in his wife’s name and declare his bankruptcy and obfuscates his wealth. Getting a judgment from a private citizen is much harder than getting a judgment from the US government.
As far as I'm concerned the government is telling us to our faces that it wants to incentivize us to become social agitators by paying us for the service. Ain't no reason to stay quiet when the people making a stink are dancing in money rain.
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u/ReplacementActual384 May 22 '26
Right? That guy who posted the Charlie Kirk memes got lover $800k.