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Everybody knows that this will go absolutely nowhere despite what everyone wants to think. Trump is in the club, and the duopoly will never charge one of their own.
He was found guilty of 37 felonies. Pretty hard to keep the "it's a conspiracy they'll never find him guilty" point when "they" (the justice system) already did.
Yeah but I sold myself on both sides being the same side and I've been pushing it so hard for so long that I'm absolutely married to the idea and no amount of evidence will convince me otherwise.
And he has faced consequences for those felony convictions, right?
...Right?
Yet he's free as a bird, almost as if it's all political theater
Theater is absolutely the wrong word.
Ineffective due to corruption? Maybe. But people are genuinely chasing these prosecutions with the intent of justice; it's not just "for show"
This is not a both sides moment.
When you've convinced yourself of "muh both sides" everything that happens just further confirms it. Like if Trump were to end up behind bars. . .do you think this poster would all of a sudden realize that both sides are not the same? Nope. They would just convince themselves that Trump was actually an outsider. . .and then probably pretend that they maintained this position the whole time.
Exactly. What they are really saying is that neither party particularly addresses the needs that THEY personally care for. They can't see how one is toxic towards minorities while the other offers lukewarm support, as just one example.
Neither side is implementing state capitalism with hundreds of billionaires, so of course lemmy.ml finds them both equally distasteful.
Yes it is. Both sides are about to be super pissed at Trump
Trump has spent his entire life trying to get into "the club". The specific "club" he was trying to get into was the Hollywood one for many years. The Apprentice got him close, but the "reality TV" club isn't quite the same as the "Hollywood club". Luckily, for Trump, it was enough to get him into the political club. I'm still not quite sure how, but it was. How it got him into the presidential club is even further baffling, but he did that too. Don't get me wrong, I understand how he got elected. But I don't understand how he survived the primaries. (I mean I do, but I'm just sad about it.)
But Trump, assuming he loses the upcoming election, is on his way out.
You're probably right that he'll never be in jail. He'll never serve a day in prison. But he'll be in court. He'll be in court until the day he dies. It's not perfect. It's not what he deserves. But it's what'll happen, and I'll take that.
There was an article around here a few days ago about the creation of the Apprentice. And it basically all came from that. Without that show trump likely would have disappeared forgotten to history or lost to Russian debtors. This all started there with those producers.
I'm guessing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/donald-trump-apprentice.html
and overall I agree.
I've never watched The Apprentice. Not because I'm "too cool" for it or anything. I remember watching the first season of two of Survivor. It was a fun enough show, but eventually I just got bored of it. I know I'm somewhat in the minority as reality TV really took off. Tons of reality TV exists today for a wide variety of shows and there are tons of success.
However I look at many of the folks (older adults) who are Trump supporters now and I'm confident they got their start watching him on The Apprentice.
And those are people who should be prosecuted, and they won't be, because they're in the club.
Wait, are you arguing that the people who put Trump on a reality are only avoiding criminal prosecution because they are in some club?
After the election all the talk of trump being charged will fade away like yesterday's news. Much the way all the Republican talk of Hunter Biden fizzled to nothing after Biden backed out.
Had Hillary never pushed her piped piper strategy he would have never been elected. Over $1b in free advertising did that