Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

love the implication that there are hordes of moderates/Dem voters who think Trump is a normal and reasonable guy who is being persecuted for political reasons. funny how that logic only applies to Trump and not Hillary or Biden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68iBVqJwO-E

xpost Trump's primary legacy will be the ease with which he dropped a nuke into the very heart of epistemology. Constituent reality and reasoned argument are going to be nursing their wounds for decades to come and may never fully return to their pre-2006 state.

^^^ yeah from faked moon landings, to flat-earthers, to JFK Jr.'s return, to Biden really being an imposter in a rubber mask (friend of mine's brother fully believes that last one) truth has taken a hard hit.

very funny to use lazy conspiratorial thinking for something that you know the actual facts

https://i.imgur.com/P1t9pZt.png

He's actually calling himself the "former President of the United States" now? Progress!

"former President of the United States, me"
https://s43095.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/burton2.gif

congratulations to all the tshirt sellers meme posters and so forth your time is now

BREAKING: Former President Trump will have his mugshot taken when he’s arraigned in Fulton County Georgia, per Sheriff Pat Labat.

— Reda (@RedaMor_) August 15, 2023

Trump will probably sell his own mugshot T-shirts saying FRAMED or something. If anyone's going to make money off his face surely he'll want a cut.

no doubt

He's going to sell "framed" copies of his mugshot, and if he doesn't, someone should.

Wait, Sheriff Pat Labat? That's awesome.

I can reveal that Sheriff Pat owns two rescue pups named Rico Hugo & Finesse.

We’ve been here before and just in the last decade, w/r/t smiling politician and mugshots

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/political-mugshots-edwards-perry-delay.jpg

https://time.com/6268215/politicians-mug-shots-smiling/

Tom Cruise, Willian DaFoe, Nathan Lane

lol

just catching up on news, just saw that 18 others were charged. fuck yes. fuck all of these people.

are there any other ga-style investigations going on in other states? there is 0% chance that trump and gang of total idiots didn't try to do the same thing in several states

I wonder how many of those 18 are gonna take deals to testify... probably more than a few, now that they know just where this is going

And Trump can't even promise them pardons to dissuade them. (Which is probably a good thing for him, because he definitely would and it would definitely leak and then he'd get charged with bribery on top of everything else.)

the only similar case I know of is the one in which fake electors were charged in Michigan

All of whom have, I believe, pleaded not guilty

So pleased to see charges against the piece of shit asshole lawyer with the leather fedora

I beg your pardon, m'lady.

I am not a lawyer, but I imagine it's rare for many people to plead guilty right off the bat. You start with
"not guilty" and then you have some I guess in a sense negative leverage. That is, you can offer a guilty plea in return for deals/perks/giving the prosecutor an automatic win while saving them the time and resources. Plead guilty from the start and you don't get jack.

Trump said Tuesday that he plans to reveal his “large, complex, detailed, but irrefutable” report at a press conference in Bedminster, N.J., next Monday, noting this report should result in the charges dropped against him and 18 others in (Georgia)...

Haha... hopefully written by Devin Nunes

xp - I think that would be normal advice from any defense lawyer.

“large, complex, detailed, but irrefutable” report

irl lol. Do none of his lawyers already have this information? He's going to drop his huge top secret bombshell at a press conference and charges will be dropped?

How many exclamation points in this report?

One could legitimately argue that releasing this 'bombshell' of a report is a furtherance of the very conspiracy he's just been indicted for - this time trying to sway potential jurors

Down in a hole, yet he keeps digging

I didn't need any further evidence that Lindsey Graham is an irredeemable piece of shit but

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/lindsey-graham-don-t-indict-trump-or-impeach-him-or-vote-against-him/ar-AA1fj3Wu?ocid=iehp&cvid=29f2dfc9b02048ee82a4c43371c6fe64&ei=12#comments

Everyone who purchases the damning, bombshell report gets a free pillow at no extra cost

I haven't changed my dn in ages, so in celebration of Georgia indictment day...

I am not a lawyer, but I imagine it's rare for many people to plead guilty right off the bat.

Far and away, the usual course is to take a deal to plead to a lesser offense.

according to paperwork signed on camera.

erm, in camera innit?

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, August 14, 2023 6:43 PM

"In camera" means out of the view of the press and public. So this is a rare case when "on camera" is correct.

Anyway, yay indictments

I hope the press conference is being held at a landscaping company

Jesus, Trump is a whiny little bitch.

at a press conference in Bedminster, N.J.

"have you seen the condition of ivana's grave? are you responsible for that?" *points* "it's just over there, everyone check this shit out, it's wild!"

don't think I've ever heard "in camera" before

Yeah, it means in chambers.

Which is a fancy term for the judge's office.

the judges office is a camera? taking a picture of society... much to think about

The judge's eye is an all-seeing camera.

fucking christ how deep does this go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiUiKjH2IWE

http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/incamera.jpg

In ancient Mexico, judges met in an Aztec Camera

The losing side had offer themselves up for human sacrifice after paying the winner's attorney fees.

(at the risk of coming off like a dick)
"camera" just means "room" - the original "camera obscura" was a dark room with a pinhole which allowed the image of a scene to be thrown on a canvas hung on the opposite wall upside down, so the proportions and perspective could be traced directly; then they used a lens to improve the pinhole image, then some clever chemist figured how to use a photosensitive plate instead of a canvas, and then they became portable cameras.
(oh no the risk was too great)

whatever professor

there used to be a coo camera obscura out by the beach in San Francisco, no idea if it's still there