So Trump has been convicted of ... what? Seriously, I have no idea what the crimes were. Falsifying records in his payoff to his mistress is a misdemeanor in NY and the statute of limitations for that is 2 years. If it was in pursuit of a Federal election law, NY has no standing to rule on that and the DoJ didn't lift a finger. So what was the crime?
Oh, who cares? This is all great fun. It will allow us to do what we do best, scream at each other like demented toddlers. On the right, people are howling that the Rubicon has now been well and truly crossed. Well, that's partially true. Like the late-stage Roman emperors who killed the families of their rivals when they took power, all elections will now be bloody, at least in a legal sense. As much as I despise Trump, I now truly hope he wins so we get an absolute courtroom pogrom against the Democrats. It would be glorious to watch.
In the meantime, our national debt is a catastrophic $35T, we're pouring billions into the doomed UKR, our elite universities have gone insane with racial hatred, we're butchering and poisoning little girls by the thousands, our birth rate is about 1.65, our young people aren't getting married and even if they did, they can't afford houses, mayors and DAs of major cities are letting violent criminals run wild, we've got 100K+ dying a year of drug ODs, homelessness is rampant in blue cities, black kids are coming out of high school illiterate and on and on and on.
Trump's conviction isn't the Rubicon, or if it is, we've been crossing back and forth over it again and again.
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| I have no idea where we are on this map of our Rubiconery. |
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As far as I can tell, the maximum penalty he's likely to get is a few tens of thousands of dollars in fines and maybe a couple months of probation. Possibly a stint of "house arrest" that might last less time than the trial did. In principle he could go to jail, but in practice I doubt it. To get noticeable prison time, he's going to have to put in an effort, actively insult the judge, and maybe assault somebody. It looks like he wants some prison time (not too much, but some), so he can use it in his "oh, look how persecuted I am!" act, so he might actually do that.
Honestly, making him sit through the trial for the last month is probably already the most severe part of his punishment. Sitting in a courtroom all day might be somewhat preferable to sitting in jail, but it is a long way from being a fun time.
And meanwhile, win or lose, he will continue to be a distraction that will prevent anything being done about your list of issues that need addressing. Maybe especially if he wins. He certainly didn't do much to deal with any of those things the last time he was president.
I saw a stat that only 1 in 10 convicted of this are sentenced to jail.
The President made a statement saying "no one is above the law." Except, of course, for his son.
So our choices this November
A star chamber with a senile old guy standing in front of its door
A convicted mega-egotist
A wack-a-do guy with a famous liberal family name (whose political history would be considered right extremist by today's ruling liberals).
Maybe, its time to move to a free thinking country like, err ....
I want to see Trump win just to witness the narcissism-fueled ragefest. Trump 2: This Time It's Personal.
You know, all the Democrats had to do was usher Biden out the door and run Newsom. They didn't need to go the kangaroo court route at all. Newsom-Trump would have been a massacre. Now it looks like they're stuck with the senile bat and they're going to lose.
As for your comment, Tim, I agree. It's why I was all in on DeSantis. Oh well. DeSantis was a candidate for an election, not a candidate for primal scream therapy.
MN - One more point. I've asked this on Twitter a couple of times and I never get an answer.
Take a map of the world. Draw an outline around the region where you will make a stand. Where is it?
Maybe it's time to get the 1861 band back together with a few more players.
;-)
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