I get how people can become so movie-brained that they're incapable to see politics as anything but the most conventional, simplistic drama production, but even then, this is just the equivalent of believing that Team Rocket will finally steal Ash's Pikachu this week. If you live in a society of the spectacle, at least be genre-savvy.
My friend sends me up to the minute updates whenever he's in court and it's fucking exhausting. I don't have the heart to tell her that it's highly unlikely that even if he is convicted for refusing to hand over classified documents that he'll actually face real consequences.
Politics is sexual pathology and seeing the villain of the weak brought low by the forces of Law and Order is the only thing that gets their bits moving anymore.
I love when company reviews are all either negative or written entirely in HR-speak lol
you can't review your company non anonymously and not expect to get in trouble for a bad review that's just stupid
I don't want to pull a "Let's see Donny Trump wriggle etc," but these last two indictments are actually pretty serious. I'm not saying he's definitely going down, but it's possible.
The indictment over the classified documents is much stronger than this new 1/6 one. The former is pretty straightforward, he took documents he wasn’t supposed to and didn’t give them back when requested. Whereas the 1/6 accusation is a lot more subjective, a lot easier to make first amendment defenses, i.e. if the prosecution’s argument is based primarily on Trump spreading “misinformation” that’s not going to hold water.
the nothing will ever happen to Trump people move the goal posts so far that “literally getting indicted on 100 felonies” somehow doesn’t count. Like geez, he lost the election as an incumbent and is now facing a life sentence, seems like his wriggling streak came to end to me 🤷🏽♂️
"Nothing will ever happen to Trump" = "Trump will not spend a day in general population." No one except for credulous libs gives a shit whether he's convicted of a crime if he doesn't actually serve the time. Trump being found guilty but being able to dodge jail time because of his old age or due to some weird administrative kerfuffle that only ends when Trump dies choking on a Big Mac still counts as wiggling out of this jam.
If nothing else, his Secret Service detail will just say "uh we can't do our job to protect President Trump if he's locked up in this facility, but we can do our job if he's locked up here" and it turns out "here" is just one of his mansions. The SS is firmly on Team Trump. Some of them were even involved in 1/6 and I suspect the constant leaks of Biden's dogs biting the SS is them showing their displeasure in Biden, who apparently doesn't even trust some of them.
Trump will not spend a day in general population. He will continue to wiggle out of jams.
They aren't sending a former president and billionaire to jail. That just doesn't happen.
now facing a life sentence
I will believe it when I see it.
they're gonna lock him in the back of that truck that's always hurtling towards a bollard about to hit it
Didn't Hunter just skip out of a felony firearms charge wtih probation or something?
Libs in a few weeks and every few weeks until the end of time: Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once.
Thats not even true. He can be convicted a bunch and basically face no lasting consequences because he's rich.
That's the most uneventful and boring and depressing Thunderdome ever. SAD!
I don't think they understand the premise of Thunderdome bc Trump is still alive but so is Mueller, and I'm not sure either of those men have the vigor to swing a burning chainsaw.
What if Eugene Debbs was evil, very un-smart, and won his election from prison, and had a gold 🚽, and the entire government was powerless to stop him instead of ruthlessly crushing him for principled resistance to a nihilistic bourgeoisie war?
The Trump stuff surrounding a real actual living persons economic situation is telling. r/Antiwork isn’t the leftist vanguard by any means but they are actually promoting class consciousness on the liberal website and then it gets silenced by dumb Trump stuff.
That’s fair, not tryna get any dunk points on you. You good
. Just thought it was an interesting dichotomy.
Cry wolf situation -- maybe it's a big deal, maybe it isn't -- but I'm fried from hearing this same line for the last half-decade-plus. My general take on Trump is still that if he doesn't die or isn't legally forbidden from appearing on the ballots, Trump will be easily winning the republican primary and heading into the general election against Joe Biden (who will likewise definitely be the dem's candidate unless he passes away beforehand), where he stands some chance of winning a second term (I do think Biden could beat him again).
