This country is such a fucking joke.
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Why the fuck did they even try him if there's no consequence for a conviction? A waste of everyone's time and money.
Ice been incredibly furious about this all day. This fucking criminal flaunts his lawlessness in everyone's faces and walks away without so much as a fucking fine! Fuck, Luigi had the right ide!
There MIGHT have been if he hadn't won re-election. I guess we'll never know.
I am so fucking angry about this. It's just going to embolden the orange duck to commit more, worse crimes. He won't ever leave the White House. This country is so fucked.
Judge wussied out; Lady Justice confirmed absent from the US.
Buckle up, folks. We're in for a wild ride.
Chris Smither - Happier Blue:
https://youtu.be/lxTl72XVWso#t=40s
Justice is a lady
Blind, with a scale
And a big letter-opener
She's been readin' my mail
I don't know why this should shame me
But it does, somehow
I don't care what you say
She don't look like a lady now
I don't care what you say
She don't look like a lady now
You know, this makes me think of Luigi and how his sentencing will go. I assume: he will be sentenced to public execution, and be used as a martyr for the rich to send a message for us peasants,"this is what happens when you want to play hero"
The only way they get the death penalty is convicting on 1st degree murder w/ terrorism and that's looking like too high a bar. Too many prospective jurors going "Well, I wasn't terrorized..."
As an example, Jeffy Epstein got the death penalty for a lesser charge
I'd love to believe you, but apparently, what's legal matters less than a loud, wet fart into a diaper.
It'll be fucking hilarious if their overzealousness causes him to be found not guilty.
This is an instance where jury nullification would be extremely just though I stand by my original statement - the optimal outcome for everyone after the murder would have been if no one was arrested and it remained unsolved.
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So .. his sentence is literally nothing?
"Hello, how nice of you to show up. Prosecution has proven you did a bad thing. The law says this bad thing is punishable, but since you think it is not proven we defer to your opinion and will not bother you with repercussions for your actions. Sorry to have wasted your time and have a nice day"
As a convicted felon, he has the same restrictions felons have, but that's it.
Surely this means the party of law and order won't support him, right?
Right?
...right?
Across the street from my development is a retired cop who has a nursery/lawn care business staffed with Mexicans and had a giant, "I'm voting for the felon."
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Yeah and they set the stage with the charges that were all not subject to mandatory sentencing. This is what they were looking for the entire time.
No, they set the stage when they took a zillion years to bring up charges in the first place. They could have brought these charges up in 2020 when he left office but they decided to sit on the case forever.
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Completely unserious legal system. It's no wonder people try to hard cancel healthcare executives when the law is this powerless to stop evil. When the next vigilante murder happens, I want the country to remember that no one feels protected by the law when the law continually demonstrates itself to be powerless at stopping the ownership class.
Someti,es, things get so bad that someone has to take direct action. When the law is flauted by those in power, what other recourse do we have?
It's difficult to accept any laws now. There's no reason to follow any if the shining example of what this country has to offer is a multiple convicted rapist felon two time impeached orange orangutan who gets rewarded with being president. Again.
You can't simultaneously say "follow the rules" when the guy saying it is a rule breaker extraordinaire.
Rules for thee and not for me.
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You may think that the punishment is nothing, but this level of punishment if he was an immigrant would be enough to deport him under Laken Riley Act. And if you think "Oh, they won't pass that, the democrats are filibustering it, well..."
On Friday, Justice Juan M. Merchan sentenced Donald J. Trump to an unconditional discharge, a rare and lenient sentence in New York state courts that still cements Mr. Trump’s status as a felon before his inauguration.
“You’ve been sentenced to.. continue doing what you’ve been doing.”
Nice sentence, no sentence.
Seems our institutions are promoting barbarism at this point. As Luigi put it: it's just power games at this point.
Plot twist: Sentence - Death.
(I can dream)
Anything short of "you're free to go" could give him a stroke...
Don’t get my hopes up
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Trump is shuffling in his chair as prosecutor speaks
Donald Trump is shuffling in his chair while prosecutor John Steinglass speaks. He appears to be leaning forward to look at the screen.
Thank you CNN for the riveting updates
Listen really closely, and you'll hear the gentle whisper of the slight disturbance of the air as he gets his gentle, barely-touch-skin wrist slapping.
Followed by six months of him whining about it
The only way Trump whines about this for just six months is if he dies in six months.
Please don’t get my hopes up
Trump can eat my unconditional discharge.
Fucking stupid country.
I had that unconditional discharge once, shot of penicillin cleaned it right up! ;)
Not surprised the result is nothing but does this have no knock on legal effects? Like is there a chance this gets used as precedence in some way?
So does this mean he’s not allowed to carry a firearm but can still use the nuclear codes?
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Biggest effect is he's a felon, so no gun ownership. It's possible it will constrain foreign travel if certain countries don't allow felons to enter, that kind of thing.
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My hopes are zero and with how thoroughly this reality has let Trump off the hook, I'm still not sure if I'm prepared enough. I'm predicting at this point the court will sentence him to be president for life, just to be sure they don't appear biased.
Edit: Unconditional discharge. Ok. Sure. Who needs justice to apply to all people equally under the law anyway?
Would be a great Onion article.
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