• PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    6 months ago

    There’s a whole group of unreconstructed 2017 liberals who have been holding out like those Japanese soldiers on the Pacific islands after WWII

    They are reading the Steele Dossier and talking about Carter Page. They have memorized every Tweet that Louise Mensch ever posted. They know that Putin is gearing up to steal another election. They are breathlessly sharing EPIC CLAPBACKS by Nancy Pelosi. They are replying to r/politics posts by u/PoppinKREAM. They are analyzing the attire of world leaders in obsessive detail in case there might be a snarky broach. They are awaiting this verdict with bated breath. The fate of democracy, no, the world is literally at stake

    These people are as detached from reality as the most Q-pilled uncle, but they are at least much less likely to own a gun, and plunking them down in front of CNN or NPR can have a soothing effect if they get too agitated and start thinking about doing anything that might have an actual impact on the world

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    70·
    6 months ago

    Can someone write and shoot a porno where this trial was about the Stormy Daniels thing, and they make a big show about how her description of his penis is so distinct and unique that it must really be true, then juror number 8 slams down a dildo on the table that fits the description perfectly?

    IDK just putting it out there.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    6 months ago

    I caught a bit of some ghouls on MSNBC who were really digging into what they imagine the perception is of the trial among the average American

    I laughed out loud and said “normal americans do not give a shit about this” and made the MSNBC watcher angry

    • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      6 months ago

      When John Edwards ran in 2008 and paid hush money to prevent word of him cheating on his wife who had cancer, he was able to get away with not calling that an illegal campaign expense because he argued it would hurt his reputation regardless of if he was running or not.

      I saw a poll that there are non-maga republicans who would not vote for Trump if he is found guilty. Who fucking cares about campaign finance law when it comes to the candidate paying for an NDA instead of getting bribed by lobbyists, and who cares about hiding it as a business expense (which it kind-of is because Trump businesses heavily rely on his personal branding).

      All these prosecutors clearly want to be the first to get Trump’s ass for their later political careers, Trump does what everyone else does but less competently with worse lawyers.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      44·
      6 months ago

      It comes from the aggressive cracker privilege of being able to treat the empire as a great spectacle where the most horrifying thing to ever happen is how Donald J. Trump used a butter knife the wrong way as he ordered the murder of non-whites across the globe. Once this attempt falls through, they’ll try going after him for not being fascist enough and daring to pretend to be nice to the inscrutable orientals North Koreans and Russians, which, to be fair, is the one angle that has a non-zero of actually succeeding (though, obviously, the difference is so small that it is practically zero.)

  • MinekPo1English
    32·
    6 months ago

    bruh jury deliberation can take days , no need to check up on them every few minutes

      • theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.netEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        There’s nothing remotely suspicious about Hunter Biden getting a do nothing job at an oil corporation in a political hotbed, just as said oil company was being investigated for corruption charges that mysteriously went away after pressure from the US government. Those are all coincidences. You conspiracy theorist. The fact that the state department admitted the US pressured Ukraine to fire the prosecutor to make the corruption investigations go away is irrelevant, they were doing that because he wasn’t doing enough about corruption.

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    This is really his first criminal trial? Dudes been doing illegal shit since birth.

    Tax fraud, housing discrimination, wage theft, collaborating with jefferey fucking epstien. You can really get away with anything if you’re born rich in this country.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      24·
      6 months ago

      Epstein was assassinated and the libs entirely forgot all about him within so many weeks or so - I don’t remember exactly. And the Qanon people had already been ignoring Epstein so they didn’t care. And least the Qanon people have an excuse for their delusions and myopia. They’re crazy.

      You can really get away with anything if you’re born rich in this country.

      That’s the most important thing but - of course - the libs will entirely ignore it. 99.99999+% of Americans would have gone immediately to jail (in pre-trail detention) if they had 1/100th of the files Trump kept in Mar-a-Lago. And then they would have been convicted and sentenced to decades in jail. But Trump’s handpicked judge will make sure his case don’t go to trial before the election. And if he loses the election - she’ll surely kill it.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      They’ve slow walked the entire thing so as to cross every t and dot every i and preserve faith in our institutions and all its done is make the case that the institutions are fucking broken as all hell and the powerful do not face consequences.