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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 181 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can we say the obvious for a second?

Good decision. Everyone needs to be able to see this. It's important, especially in this climate.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does this heat have to do with it?

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[–] ATQ@lemm.ee 130 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Anyone a big enough drunk to take a shot every time Trump, himself, tries to object?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you want to give everyone alcohol poisoning?!

[–] ExRedditor1928@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

I think drinking that many shot glasses of water would kill you, honestly

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 31 points 1 year ago

What if you take a drink every time he tries to object to his own defense? I'm pretty sure taking a shot when he objects to anything would kill even the most experienced alcoholic.

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"ERECTIONJECTION YOUR JUDGESHIP! somethingsomethingorangewordsalad" - Trump

/sigh

Wait, does that even count?

[–] goforliftoff@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read this as “Erection Ejection” and for some reason that shit alone cracked me up, then thinking of Trump saying, “Erection Ejection!” cracked me up more. Well done, I needed the laugh.

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[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They should add some twitch integration too, 10,000 bits and the defendant has to floss.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fawx News: "Now back to continuing coverage of paint drying. Make sure to stay tuned because we have Hunter Bidens dick pics as well! Laptop! Biden Crime Family! NO! DO NOT TOUCH THAT DIAL! NOOOOOOOO!!!"

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

BENGHAAAAAAAZI! EEEEEEEEMAIL!

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[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m wholeheartedly behind the WGA & SGA, but god bless Georgia for coming in clutch with content over the next year plus.

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's a brilliant way to look at this

[–] Svengarlic@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sadly this will only be watched as justice porn for the left, the right won't even care.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me it will be 1/3 Justice porn and 2/3 I’m living through history titillation.

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Out-fucking-standing. I am absolutely going to watch this. It’ll be the first Trump footage I’ve voluntarily watched in quite a while.

[–] varjen@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he suddenly goes all sovereign citizen and handles his own defense.

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[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This should 100% be televised. This affects us all. This was the attempted overthrow of our democracy and justice should not be hidden.

There is way more benefit then problem with this IMHO.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder what sponsors they’ll have… Will the judge ask us to smash the like button?

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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

So we're clear, this is not the revolution

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I am not going to watch any of that.

When he was on the NPR news cycle five times a day I started yelling and cursing uncontrollable to the point where I was diving at the radio to turn it off or change the station so that I would not freak the fuck out.

It doesn't matter where Trump is. I don't want to be there. It is a defilement to view him.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Practice stoicism my friend. Ppl on the left freaking out is exactly what they want. Treat trump and the gop the same way you treat clowns...laugh at them.
It's the thing they fear the most...loss of narrative.

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[–] TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Me either. However, I look forward to Legal Eagle breaking down the highlights.

[–] burgers@toast.ooo 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's crazy that trump has basically trained us all to be able to understand him because he's basically incoherent. in speeches he alternates between pre-written sections that he is clearly struggling to read, and completely thoughtless ad-libs like "many people are saying this" which he will say about literally anything. and in more spontaneous formats he's just all over the fucking place, he just leaves a trail of sentence fragments behind him until he's decided he's talked for an appropriate amount of time. and his voice, i mean, he sounds like mark hamill's joker after dental anesthesia. they should play his speeches on speakers mounted to the underside of cargo ships to repel whales

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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I get it. I always try to tune in for these kinds of things though, the somewhat boring dense slow trials, because I want to be better informed to counteract any right wing rhetoric I encounter. In particular IRL.

plus it's more mundane factual shit so I'm here for that, but if he treats it like the debates idk if I could all the interrupting to make no point just to get sound bites and derail the other person.

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think him in a courtroom will be different, perhaps startlingly so. He won't be able to just say whatever he wants, he'll have to actually try to make a logical coherent case. Which, being impossible for him personally, means that I think we will not hear much from him. His legal team will do most of the talking, if he has any brains at all.

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[–] polyploy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This is going to backfire in a big way. Whole lot of people seem to think this will be justice porn or somehow convince his base of his criminality but it is going to do no such thing. According to one poll, the majority (77%) of likely GOP primary voters are already convinced the trial is "politically motivated", with only 8% more concerned about him attempting to overturn an election. You can take a look at some polling here, there are other even more troublesome results as well: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-poll-indictments-2023-08-20/

No matter how awful, contradictory, and ridiculous he will be in that court room, this is likely going to be a massive boon for Trump, and his followers are going to see it as the realization of their own fears of persecution. This man is an ascendant fascist leader, not the sad sack finally facing consequences that liberals so desperately want him to be, and the effect this will have on mobilizing his base to continue to escalate will be immense. These people do not give a single fuck about """law and order""" no matter how much they pretend they do, stop assuming they will just accept things when he is found guilty. They won't.

I'm just trying to help people realize how dangerous and precarious this whole situation is. People were laughing and making jokes when he first announced his candidacy, and kept on doing it right up to the point that he won the election. Don't make the same mistake again, because while yall are cracking jokes, him and his ghouls are hurting people. They are passing discriminatory laws, they are in the supreme court setting dangerous precedents and overturning inconvenient ones, and they are patrolling the streets looking for people to brutalize and throw in jail. They are committing hate crimes and becoming increasingly radicalized and mobilized.

Stop pretending this is entertainment or business as usual, it's not. I'm begging you to understand that the fascists are already here, and the longer they're underestimated the better their chances of seizing control.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

This is going to backfire.

First of all, never try to get inside a conservative's head if you are going to come out with a loser defeatism attitude. 2nd, Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump will not have any control of the trial at all.

of likely GOP primary voters are already convinced the trial is "politically motivated"

That is the most important reason why the trial needs to be televised.

Stop pretending this is entertainment or business as usual, it's not.

Another reason why it is absolutely critical to have the trial televised. I can remember the Watergate TV hearings and the entire country was riveted by the seriousness of the proceedings. The Jan 6 House committee televised hearing were also riveting for everybody who watched them in full. It will be like that only with everyone watching. The very reason for televising the proceedings is so that everybody understands the seriousness.

[–] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember that Onion headline "man would die fighting to defend what he imagines the Constitution to be"?

Many modern conservatives are like that. They will bleat all day about laws, and yet have never spent 2 minutes even reading a Wikipedia page about them.

They'll believe whatever pundits tell them to believe.

Witch hunt? Unconstitutional? Politically motivated? Kangaroo court?

Not for one minute will any of those law and order loving, institution-protecting, facts not feelings, crowd consider that Trump is there because of real actual crimes he really did commit.

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[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You are completely wrong. Why focus on idiots who won't change their mind no matter what? The important voter base are moderates and independents. If you are staunchly Democrat your vote does not matter. If you're Republican no matter what your vote does not matter. Sad but true. The people you're so worried about simply don't matter. If televising the trial convinces people who are on the fence then it's the right choice. They're just a small number of people.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Try a clown, expect a circus

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can they actually get jurors for this?

If the facts require the jurors to convict, there is no chance that this won't ruin their lives (if not significantly shorten them). Even before then, it's going to be a problem. His supporters have already declared and demonstrated that they are willing to use violence.

Thank you, but I'd sit in jail as long as necessary to not be on any of these juries.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How do you even find an impartial jury? I might be wrong but I was almost certain that an impartial jury is required to convict, which is why they always ask you about potential conflicts of interest when you attend jury duty. How many impartial jurors can there be at this point? Tbh, I'm not even sure I would trust an impartial jury with this case. To me, if you're claiming to be impartial then you're either lying, or you give zero fucks about politics and the people around you. Being impartial in this context has some really concerning implications about you.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I biased? Fucking absolutely and I hope he's found guilty.

Can I set aside my bias and only consider the evidence as presented? Also fucking absolutely.

There are plenty of people who care enough about the rule of law that would let a man they hate walk free. If you can, perhaps you should be more concerned with yourself than the implications you ascribe to others who don't deserve it.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

My concern is that there's a certain type of person who would have zero issues with lying about how impartial they are. Here's a hint, they're not like us.

[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Being impartial doesn’t mean that you are midway between prosecution and defendant.

Impartial means that you will take the facts presented to you at face value and derive logical conclusions from those facts.

[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I loath trump... but if I was on the jury I would do my job and set aside my personal feelings and listen to the evidence presented by both side and make a decision within the confines of the law... if the prosecution gave charges they couldn't fully prove or over reached I hate to say it I'd have to find him not guilty even though I know morally he fucked up but it's the states job to have competent prosecutors that do their job well. I truly hope the prosecution does a stellar job and gets a conviction and I hope those in the jury take it seriously and set aside personal feelings and listen to the facts.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Advertising revenue will clear the national debt

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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] esadatari@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

INVEST BIG TIME IN POPCORN MARKET, PROFIT MARGINS ARE GOING TO POP POP POP.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I hope the writers are not on strike by then. Late night careers will be made from this.

[–] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this a new trend? like Johnny depp and Amber heard !? twitch ttv would melt if they added a 'court room' tab

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[–] aeternum@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

will the secret service have to guard him if he's in prison? Questions that keep me up at night lol

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[–] StinkySnork@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly didn't think there was ever going to be a trial more closely watched than OJ's. Guess he'll get the ratings he's always friggin obsessed with.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how do they prevent disclosure of the jury?

[–] bjfar@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just don't point the camera at the jury?

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