as long as there's a crime happening somewhere in New York City, it needs to take higher priority than anything done by the ex-president
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 31 March 2023 01:27 (one year ago) link
the dumbest possible take
"The law applies to everyone equally" no it doesn't! It never has! This is a terrible time to try to change that! If we're going to start applying the law to everyone equally can we please start with Wall St CEOs or, like, reduce the crack/cocaine sentencing disparity?— Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) March 30, 2023
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 31 March 2023 01:58 (one year ago) link
lol that thread is so bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
how about we start with Donald Trump and then move on to all that
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
thats a big who cares from me, also just clearly not gonna happen
"It's not frivolous bullshit, he broke the law" but in a really stupid way though, does anyone really feel like paying a porn star to shut up with campaign funds is a serious offense? Serious enough to open the door for Republican DAs to indict Obama for anything they can find?— Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) March 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
Remember, if they can belatedly indict The Crime Guy for one of his many, many obvious and highly public crimes, they could do the same thing to you.— David Roth (@david_j_roth) March 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
look its been hinted at above but my understanding is that the actual crime would be more of a misdemeanor and is past the statute of limitations anyway, so the fact that he's being indicted on 34 counts hints there's a bit more going on here
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
yeah why dont we wait and see what hes charged with before deciding if its bullshit
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
but yea the Republican response to this has been pathetic and incredibly dumb given that A) nobody knows what's in the indictment and B) he's almost certain to face several more indictments for much more serious crimes
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
I don't blame Republicans for their response, tbh, they're doing exactly what they have to do politically.
Centrists and supposed libs like the TNR contributor there are just fucking morons.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 31 March 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
that Jedeed thread is impressive in its idiocy
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
"but if we arrest mobsters, they might retaliate!"
Gallows humor aside, this indictment is a disaster obviously. I'm in shock they actually went forward with this— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 31, 2023
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 March 2023 09:28 (one year ago) link
Ah, Matt. On the wrong side of every argument for as long as I can remember.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Friday, 31 March 2023 09:46 (one year ago) link
He must feel very proud when he looks upon the long stream of replies by absolute morons, schmucks, shitheads, bigots, racists, homophobes, gun-fuckers, toadies, wannabe-henchmen, power-worshippers and cowards who agree with him that people who are powerful and have money shouldn't be investigated or punished for crimes.
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Friday, 31 March 2023 09:50 (one year ago) link
What a dope
If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they’ll try even harder to never leave office. This is how autocracies are born. https://t.co/HGM1rAbHA3— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 31, 2023
― Number None, Friday, 31 March 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
lol
Roman History 101— Rob Passarella (@robpas) March 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link
republicans have already tried to criminalize rival politicians. it was trump who led the chants of "lock her up," it was republicans who led the sham benghazi hearings.
― treeship., Friday, 31 March 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
even harder
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 31 March 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
Never forget; "The first Rutles album took 20 minutes to record. The second took even longer ..."— Mark Kermode (@KermodeMovie) February 27, 2012
― Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Trump Executed https://t.co/UcEfuL0C4C pic.twitter.com/W3WNxih4ud— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 31, 2023
― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
Lolol
They had two years to indict Trump before he became the presumptive Republican nominee. He's off limits until the election is over. If the charges are that strong they can indict then if he loses.— Dave Explains (@DaveExplainsWhy) March 31, 2023
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
Man, you can just rob a bank on Monday, declare you're running for President on Tuesday and book, you're immune!
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
The costa thing about there being unreported evidence might be relate for this which broke a couple hours before the indictment and got lost in the shuffle as a result
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/karen-mcdougal-trump-grand-jury/index.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
nice of so many prominent Republican lawmakers and journalists to offer their hot takes before they even know what's in the indictment
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 13:32 (one year ago) link
If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they’ll try even harder to never leave office.
Hopefully we'll never find out what it's like to have a defeated President try hard not to leave office
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
if we arrest the GOP, they might start doing things to subvert democracy and disenfranchise voters!
This take is literally "We can't prosecute Trump because then Presidents will act like Trump."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 31 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
this take is literally "Hi I'm Matt Taibbi give me money and i'll say what u want"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
it's been a Stormy week for Donald Trump haha
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 31 March 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
it really does set a chilling precedent for people who have spent their entire adult lives defrauding the universe— Lousy Smarch Madness (@scratchbomb) March 30, 2023
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 31 March 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
i wonder what @daveexplains thinks when he hears people making fun of mansplainers who say actually too much. it guess it either makes dave bitterly angry or it just doesn't register at all
― treeship
yeah...i don't want to look one up and i definitely don't want to make it up, but a handy rebuttal would just be a 4 hour long compilation of all the times trump and his dipshit fans have chanted "lock her up". nothing else, just that
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 31 March 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link
but of course rebutting or responding at all is playing exactly into their horrible game
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 31 March 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
Didn't someone on Fox recently claim the "lock her up" chant was just a joke or some other BS? True bully asshole excuse, "come on, I was just kidding, lighten up ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 March 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
it really is funny that the entire GOP is treating Trump like he's Nelson Mandela right now when the thing he got busted for is illegally paying off a porn star
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
on the local news they showed pro-Trump protestors on the roads outside Mar-a-Lago. it was a tiny handful of them and it was pretty hilarious. one of them said "hope to see thousands of us out here...hopefully pretty soon"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
they should storm the place, to make sure he's safe.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
yea he's gonna call on people to protest in New York and I bet there will be 3x as many reporters as actual protestors
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
GOP is treating Trump like he's Nelson Mandela
Can't wait for the star-studded benefit concert
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
maybe several sympathetic bands will write a tribute album with all original songs
such as Aaron Lewis with "If Loving Titty is Against the Law (Lock Me Up)"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
The Washington Nationals have the opportunity to do the funniest thing in MLB history during the presidential mascot race on Saturday— The Chiefsaholic Innocence Project (@aryasometimes) March 30, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 31 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
it funny that his primary opponents are defending him it makes no sense how do they hope to win
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
they indict trump and then this happens immediately https://t.co/RGzgsKkOcP— Mr. American Neom (@raaleh) March 31, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 March 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
someone needs to step up and start throwing bows cmon mix it up i want to see some scuffling
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
because the gop is the party of trump and still is. they emulate his language, even, and they know that vehement opposition to trump gets to you where liz cheney is. their only hope is to emulate him and hope that somehow trump can't run because he's in jail and that all of his dogshit supporters will somehow turn to them as the heir apparent. and yes, it makes no sense, and they have no chance of winning. there are no ideas other than cruelty and there haven't been for a long time
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
if they were serious about emulating him they would be sending passive aggressive tweets wishing him well in his serious legal matter that involves a porn star who said horrible things about his weird dick
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
^they lack the lifetime of practise Trump has accrued at that kind of shit
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 31 March 2023 17:58 (one year ago) link
theyre all such fn stiffs its shameful
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 March 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link