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With even more to come...Republicans are ethically and morally reprehensible for continuing to support Trump and his crime spree.  Voters are misled and deceived by FoxFakeNews and the GOP propaganda that claims Trump is a victim when he’s not.  

Trump is gonna turn himself in, but it's gonna be on his own terms. He'll fly to New York in a private jet and be escorted to the courthouse in a motorcade flanked by secret service, rhen have his PR people set up a podium outside so he can deliver a campaign speech after he's released later that day. They won't hold him for any length of time, not even overnight, just catch and release.

Ron Desantis is making a big deal about how Florida will refuse to extradite him to New York, but that's just because he knows it'll never come to that and he doesn't want to lay a hand against the leader of his party. He's absolutely not going to run for president in 2024 because he knows he'll lose the nomination in a landslide, and if he says anything bad about Trump the party will crucify him (10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump in 2021, all but 2 lost re-election in 2022; 2 of the 7 senators who voted to convict chose not to run for re-election at all because they didn't think they could win their primaries, and 1 resigned).

Desantis is biding his time to run in 2028 once Trump is out of the picture, either term limited or disgraced for having cost R's the White House again. His refusal to extradite is pointless because Trump doesn't want to be arrested. He doesn't want there to be a standoff, he doesn't want the feds to get involved, he doesn't want to be dragged away in handcuffs for resisting. If he turns himself in, he controls the narrative. If he resists and Desantis helps him, the hammer will come down even harder and he'll embarass himself.

I mean, either way he's gonna act like a martyr, but it would hurt his strongman image if he was manhandled by feds on camera. Like that photo of General MacArthur and the Emperor of Japan, or the video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face, being arrested would make Trump look weak. His base consists of about a third of the country, maybe 40%, but that's not enough to win in 2024 anymore than it was in 2020, especially not after all of his handpicked Secretary of State stooges lost in 2022. If he's arrested, he'll be seen as an even bigger national laughingstock than he already is, and the the other 60% of voters will flock away from him and towards Biden's Big Tent coalition. Republicans will probably sweep the Senate because of an unfavorable map, but the White House is theirs to lose.

TLDR: Trump will go quietly to save face, then get his ass kicked in 2024 because his base isn't growing

Silently mispronouncing "indict" whenever I see it.

Indict? Indon't

I try to avoid news that will make me grind my teeth into a fine powder, but all this stuff popping up in my feeds leads me to give this VERY VALID opinion:

We should change the word "indict." I don't care about its phonetic villain origin story. Either we say it like "in-dikt" or change the spelling back to "endite." The world should hold a vote. Teamwork makes the dream work folks

hey ronginators. serious message here. For those who will listen, pls stay. to those who won't, SCREW OFF!!!!!!

This man is cruel. WHY IS HE KING. he is so dfumb he doesnt know his stupid lefts from rights. all he does is whine and complain. he in no the king. the player is the king. because the player actually knows whats going on. hes clueles.s. its dumb. he expects others to do work for him even though he is capapble. he is LAZY. does he contribute to his own economy? probably not. he probaly doesnt even know what econmy is. can he even sound out the work economy? e-con-ih-mee. no. he cant cause hes the sore thumb sticking out of his royal advisory. does he even have one of those? were they all sent to the guillotines because he thinks he can manage without them,? why is he always stuck and in need of help. i feel so bad for his citizens. They are probably famished and poor. they probably only know one material: dirt. they live work and sleep in dirt while he hogs the books, the crowns, the gems, the knowledge. he keeps his poior poor citizens dependent on his sorry bum which he sits on all day long. and he does NOTHIGN to stimulate his economy further. You wanna know what he does? He indoctrinates our young-ones to be selfish and except nice deeds to come to them instead of WORKING for it. he probably doesnt pay taxes, ibet. INDICT THIS MAN, hes probably done worse than trump tbh. Listen to my frank voice: INDICT THIS CRIMINAL.

I hope you can understand where I come from on this topic.

Just learned that his name is robert. fits him tbh. STAND AGAINST THIS TYRANT.

US grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

US grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

The decision comes despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham’s unpublished memoir. For Ollie Gordon, one of Till’s cousins, the renewed attention on the Till case has been a reminder of the social progress it helped spark. (AFP) A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of…

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SCOTUS Hearing on Presidential Immunity - 04/26/2024

Presidential immunity is something that I haven't previously given much thought to, probably because it's something that hasn't surfaced much as an issue until recently. Yesterday at Trump's hearing on presidential immunity, US Supreme court justice Samuel Alito questioned whether prosecuting former presidents would harm the country's governance. Trump's lawyers argued that former presidents should have absolute immunity for official acts they made during their tenure as president. They said if they didn't, then prosecuting former presidents would become routine and would undermine future presidents from being able to execute difficult decisions without worrying about future legal repercussions. After all, our country's presidents are commonly put in difficult positions wherein the right thing to do would be considered illegal if performed by any other citizen outside of the executive office.

While speaking to Michael Dreeban, an attorney for special counsel Jack Smith's team who are persecuting Trump in two other cases, the Bush-appointed justice (Samuel Alito) asked him this. “I’m sure you would agree with me that a stable, democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully, if that candidate is the incumbent?” “Of course,” replied Dreeban. Alito further posited this, “if an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election, knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?” Dreeban replied that he believes there are “lawful mechanisms to contest the results in an election and outside the record” but claimed that President Trump and others “filed dozens of electoral challenges and my understanding is they lost all but one” in the courts following the 2020 election. He continued, “There was an appropriate way to challenge things through the courts with evidence, if you lose, if you accept the results, that has been the nation’s experience. I think the court is well familiar with that.”

Alito rebutted those assertions on whether there are enough legal safeguards to handle prosecutors acting politically. Dreeban and Jack Smith's team have said that prosecutors must go to grand juries for securing indictments as a check against prosecutions that are politically motivated. The justice responded by saying, "prosecutors could convince a jury to indict a ham sandwich."

Trump's lawyers also argued that their client was merely performing his duties as president while looking to uncover voting fraud during the 2020 election.

This week in New York, the former President, in reference to the Supreme Court case, told reporters the following. “If you don’t have immunity, you’re not going to do anything. You’re going to become a ceremonial president, you’re not going to be taking any of the risks, both good and bad.”

Chief Justice John Roberts, along with at least four other justices didn't seem to support the claim that absolute immunity would stop Trump from being prosecuted on charges of supposedly conspiring to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Roberts was also with several of the other justices who indicated that the case might need to go back to the lower courts previous to the start date of any trial.

Roberts also showed his dismay with the reasoning brought by the Washington appeals court who gave the ruling against President Trump. During the hearing, the chief justice said this. “You know how easy it is in many cases for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to bring an indictment and reliance on the good faith of the prosecutor may not be enough in some cases.”

So, it appears to me that it's likely they will uphold limited presidential immunity, not absolute immunity. As such there's a good chance that it will go back to the lower courts to determine if he was actually performing his official duties while he was questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. If it's determined that he was, then immunity would apply, if not then it won't.

I was trying to make a destiel breaking news meme about trump’s mugshot, but I fell asleep mid sentence

There's a Homestar Runner quote that always makes me laugh

Hey, and get this; they say I'm a flight risk! That sounds like something you'd see on a trophy, doesn't it? Coach Z, 1st Place Flight Risk! Two hundred thousand dollar bail!

I've been thinking about it a lot this last week. I can just imagine a certain spray-tanned idiot bragging about being a flight risk and trying to wear it as a badge of honor even before they approach him with handcuffs.

Do we think an indictment will come before or after the midterms? Standard procedure would be to announce it as an October Surprise, but Merrick Garland doesn't seem like the kind of person who wants to maximize dramatic potential; he's too "professional," whether you want to read that as "unwilling to cause a stir" or "unconcerned about timing because he knows the outcome will be the same."

The worst thing that could happen is the DOJ choosing not to indict, at which point they might as well roll out the red carpet and preemptively give the keys to the White House back to the Gonad Lump. They have him dead to rights; they can't let him slip through their fingers. They can't let him get away with murder! They need to put him down.

Me: In November, either Trump or Biden will win. There is no third outcome, so we should vote accordingly for the option that will mitigate the most harm.

The people in my notes: Oh, so you think direct action is bad? You think voting is literally the only thing we can do? You hate activism? You love Biden and endorse everything he does and think nobody should criticize him ever? You think voting will just magically solve all our problems? You think protesting is wrong? You love the status quo and think everything is fine?

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