I tried to buy Twitter instead of Elon Musk, but they wouldn't take my word that I'd be rich next week. Assholes. I'm gonna ask Russ for legal advice, because they only turned me down because I'm crazy and broke, and that's discrimination!
I knew I screwed up somewhere! brb, filing new lawsuit pro se to ask the judge for advice.
Hey me first, you non-lifting Chad loser! There's only so many In forma pauperis slots in the small claims court and I need to bang together a 50-page inventory of plights (all captioned "page 6" to make them explain to the bias judge later on) to get the ball rolling.
Hey, I have a college degree and work in an office! Where are your fruits?!
Was going to say this but I'd also like to include the East German Trabant as a contender:
He's wearing a suit. What are you wearing?
No offense but I didn't think prostitute could deny paid-for services like .....sex? That defeats the purpose of their job.
I cannot in any way see how the purpose of the job of a prostitute is to be forced into sex acts. Like, seriously dude? Really?
That's normal for any service. A taxi can refuse to drive you if the distance is not worth it. A pizza place will not deliver if you live too far away. Actors that make custom videos can refuse if they disagree with the content. Etc etc.
If I'm understanding things correctly (and I might not be, I admit), legal sex workers in Nevada can refuse clients for any and all reasons, including for reasons that are normally forbidden by anti-discrimination law (like some sex workers won't take black men as clients). A sex worker could refuse Russ because she's repelled by his face, and there wouldn't be a damn thing he could do about it except screech on social media about how she hates the disabled. I suspect most sex workers wouldn't actually say that as a reason, they'd just name a price that's deliberately too high for him to afford, and say she and Russ couldn't agree on price, and he could go see someone else or leave. I suspect he's been charged the asshole/weirdo tax a lot and didn't realize it because he's an obtuse moron.
Russ might even think that's actually what happened because he's such a delusional nutjob that anything a normal, sane person says to him gets translated into Full Retardonics before hitting his brain.
They were such epic shitpiles that you're impressed at the mechanical skill it would take to keep one of these functioning for 50+ years. Some of these things are still on the road as the automotive equivalent of a Ship of Theseus with little to nothing of the original vehicle remaining.
Imagine having to pretend not to be utterly repulsed by this greasy, seething little gourd-headed hate goblin.
A court would never compel specific performance of a contract like that even where the actual transaction is legal, but if you made a habit of scamming people by just taking their money and doing nothing, it would probably be some form of unjust enrichment and if the profits hadn't already gone up her nose by then you might even collect.
Can't believe this didn't work
I think the brothel system as it exists in Nevada is horrible. Much better to decriminalize prostitution and let the sex workers organize their own working conditions and work for themselves instead of the owner of a brothel. Of course, if that system took off, hookers could refuse clients like Russ with no repercussions other than having to make up the money with another client, which would be preferable than having to pretend to like God's Favorite Idiot. In such a scenario, FOSTA/SESTA would probably be repealed and sex workers could set up sites to warn each other about problem clients like they could before those idiotic laws were passed. Someone from here tracked down a "rate-a-john" site where an sex worker reviewed Russ and said he tried to get a discount and was a time waster.
Probably. He might still think that if that motion is not granted, he can somehow still make it to ATG.
I mean, technically as per the requirements of standing in Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555 (1992), he would not have standing even then, as the third part of the criteria requires that "it must be likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision". I do not believe that whatever favorable decision he may get would allow him to be put in a show, as I don't believe the court has power to force that, bar there being a signed contract saying that Russ has to be let in.
Probably sue.
I can see that happening.
Even in those circumstances, courts are often reluctant to grant specific performance as a remedy when it would be difficult to impossible to enforce. Suppose they "let him on" but then immediately edit his part out of future airings? How is the court supposed to measure performance? It's sort of like if you force an opera singer to give a contracted-for performance and she gives a hideously bad performance on purpose, or a rock musician with a three album contract he's not happy with generating a triple album comprised of absolute shit, also on purpose.
Or, what's to stop NBC from putting a message on the screen that Russ is only on the show because a court ordered them to let him perform. The court would not have any basis to restrict them from doing so, as doing such would violate NBC's First Amendment rights. Russ couldn't sue over that (well he could, but it would get kicked quickly). NBC could argue that they were within in their rights to explain why they let someone so obviously untalented on AGT in order to protect their reputation. NBC would not be responsible for the ensuing torrent of abuse Russ would receive from trying to sue his way to fame. He thinks get a few nasty messages is bad, wait until the whole goddamn internet finds out what a creep he is. He'll be unemployable. He'll be hounded wherever he posts. He'll get what wants in the most horrific monkey's paw way imaginable.
That's good because Ralph Nader is still alive.
Oh, he expects his "audition" to air, he's just really bad at anticipating other people's actions, so it hasn't occurred to him they might do that. He'd sue of course. He'd sue for anything short of being declared the winner and Heidi Klum being ordered to fuck him right there.
