Anf if I was on it which I don't want I would be super duper high on it and I just missed the cut by a "whisker".
I AM NOT MAD. PLEASE STOP ASKING IF I AM MAD.
I was discussing with a friend how the legal cases against Trump feel like zeno's paradox. With each step, he advances half of the remaining distance to punishment, but never actually gets there. Every time that he's right on the cusp of actual, legally enforced punishment, there's another appeal or ruling that buys him a little more time. Like can I get just one, actual consequence to tide me over for now?
(Disclaimer: Not a doomer- I follow the cases and realize that a couple of them have very serious implications for Trump. It's just amazing that nearly anyone else on earth would have been buried a long time ago from their legal bills alone. This dude is an absolute roach about it.)
I feel like we're a month away from some delivery driver getting him his Mcdonalds (but its cold) and Trump making a long ass post about how the driver was a member of the radical left trying to poison him on behalf of Joe Biden (who he is beating btw by all the numbers in all the polls!)
I'm just imagining what people who are around him daily must hear. He's probably only posting what he thinks would be greatest hits, imagine the batshit insane stuff he keeps to himself or his group of people lol
He can post whatever thoughts he wants online about this as there is only one person on Earth that I trust when it comes to the real facts about his wealth and Forbes - and that is John Barron.
Where is that ever elusive Mr. Barron? He's as hard to photograph as a Sasquatch.
Of course. It's all a single conspiracy, you see, so by definition, every single person and organization (of consequence) who is anti-Trump is working with all the others. You can basically Mad Libs the whole thing.
Is <person/organization A> secretly conspiring with <person/organization B> to make Trump look <insert undesirable characteristic>?
So, is The Fake News Media working with Taylor Swift to make Trump look like he has no rhythm? YES
Is deranged Jack Smith having secret meetings with Forbes to spread rumors that Trump has a bad credit rating? YES
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You know, I was reading the other night about Jesse James, and the parallels to Trump were somewhat striking. Rather, the parallels were in the public's reaction to him.
The James gang was founded in Missouri post-Civil War and was looked at as some kind of Robin Hood lite band of merrymen, taking from US Government and giving to the poor (but mostly just taking). And law enforcement was often not enthusiastic about going after them. In reality, Jesse James murdered at least 16 innocent people during his time and yet somehow that bit of history is always lost in the culture. They were also showmen in a sense, leaving one of their more famous robberies by parading around with their stolen goods and shooting guns off everywhere.
The jury is out on whether Trump meets a similar fate as James (taken out by a once trusted ally).
The James gang was founded in Missouri post-Civil War and was looked at as some kind of Robin Hood lite band of merrymen, taking from US Government and giving to the poor (but mostly just taking). And law enforcement was often not enthusiastic about going after them. In reality, Jesse James murdered at least 16 innocent people during his time and yet somehow that bit of history is always lost in the culture. They were also showmen in a sense, leaving one of their more famous robberies by parading around with their stolen goods and shooting guns off everywhere.
The jury is out on whether Trump meets a similar fate as James (taken out by a once trusted ally).
Yeah, not dooming and glooming either, but for fucks sake everything has just felt like empty promises so far.
I'm increasingly convinced that this particular case is the most that Trump has ever been scared of anything in his life.
View: https://x.com/patriottakes/status/1711524352150130921?s=20
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No right to a jury under any circumstances... other than ticking a box on a form...
I suspect he'd quickly find out how many rights he has, if he were a regular non-wealthy person who had never been Pres, and had committed decades of bank fraud and tax fraud, tried to steal an election, instigated an insurrection, and stole piles of very top secret docs and blabbed about their contents to anyone who paid him a compliment.
I suspect he'd quickly find out how many rights he has, if he were a regular non-wealthy person who had never been Pres, and had committed decades of bank fraud and tax fraud, tried to steal an election, instigated an insurrection, and stole piles of very top secret docs and blabbed about their contents to anyone who paid him a compliment.
It's been literally years and I don't understand how anyone can see anything he writes or listen to anything he says and take him seriously at all let alone think he's some kind of genius let alone even average in intelligence. Shit is fucking frightening anyone is for this fool. I understand there's those that know better as well as those that genuinely fall for it but it doesn't make it any less scary. Hearing the words out of his mouth even a few years ago should have been enough for any sane person to realize what's up but here we are. Wish it was more simple but unfortunately this is where we are at right now. Not really sure how to deprogram folks that buy into this bullshit but it starts by holding him and everyone aiding him accountable.
If there's anything we should all agree on it's that crimes should be punished equally and this is such a cut and dry case of complete horseshit if there ever was one. Gonna be an interesting time as we move forward... Hopefully to a much better place once we're past this. Government should be for improving everyone's lives not whatever they're doing now. Long way to go.
If there's anything we should all agree on it's that crimes should be punished equally and this is such a cut and dry case of complete horseshit if there ever was one. Gonna be an interesting time as we move forward... Hopefully to a much better place once we're past this. Government should be for improving everyone's lives not whatever they're doing now. Long way to go.
Reality has been broken for a lot of conservative leaning folks for at least a decade now. Fox and the other conservative outlets definitely deserve most of the blame because they give them the false window they can stare into all day while blocking out the real world. It's a really serious problem and I'm not sure how or if we can recover from it as a nation.
If he had a jury, he'd be railing against them for being biased New York liberals.
This clown's complaints about "election interference" are pretty rich after the events of January 6.
It's exactly because of January 6th and the reasons behind his two impeachments that he keeps defaulting to this particular terminology. Pressuring foreign powers to generate bad-faith info about your rival, and feeding bad-faith info to his own fans to intentionally stoke a physical and violent disruption of an election process. Election interference is ostensibly what he's been accused of committing, so thanks to his ever-present law of projection, everyone taking any action against him retaking the presidency must be the same thing, because he assumes by default that everyone else cheats at everything the same way he does.
For starters fox needs to be dissolved and we need to either update or better enforce "news" outlets outputting shit that can do that to people. On the TV side at least, not sure how we can handle it for the Internet but gotta start somewhere. However I'm sure even something like that, however needed, would result in some craziness too. But we have to do something, and ground people in reality more.
I think we'll recover but it'll likely take generations. To make far right media and, more importantly, right wing ideology irrelevant you've got to raise generations of people learning to reject it and that's incredibly difficult in a time where the wealthy and powerful will do everything to avoid that, leveraging progressively more sophisticated technology to help them.
Hypothetically if that's how he chose to play it. But he didn't, because he didn't want one.
That's my understanding as well, but it don't get 99. Would $18,000,088 be too on the nose?
I mean, he has a) been found guilty on parts of the accusations and b) his status as super duper billionaire is questioned as part of it.
If only John Barron was a jury member to right this wrong!
That's not what happened it seems according to the Legal Eagle video about this case (and for anyone who hasn't watched it, I highly recommend it). These kind of cases don't normally get a jury but the idea was floated that the judge would consider a jury but the defending lawyers never sent the response stating they would like a jury and when questioned they did say outright they didn't ask for one because it was pointless as they've never seen a jury be granted in that kind of case ever. But the point still remains that the lack of jury has nothing to do with the judge in this case.
A friend of mine was murdered on Valentines day 2020. There was no real doubt about who did it. They were convicted a little over a week ago. Three years for an open and shut murder case.
Unfortunately this shit is slow, and when you are talking about a former President you can't afford to make a single mistake really. So it's very slow.
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Still waiting for any logical reason why Trump nicknamed her "Peekaboo" outside of the obvious.
