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I’m googling “Trump rule 34” but can’t find anything related to his trial. Can you link some relevant article?
Now watch the Republican Party of “Law and Order”nominate a convicted felon to be the next president
You have to understand that this isn’t ironic to them. To them, this was not a legitimate trial and trumped up charges, if you’ll pardon the pun.
The guy behind me that watches fox news all day because “he needs something to help him focus” immediately started spouting fox talking points as soon as the verdict was read. My younger coworkers were like, “no way, that’s crazy” to all his bs. I just had to say, “no that’s not true. I read the jury instructions and they don’t say that.” He moved onto insisting there was no evidence and Cohen perjured himself and at that point I was already on my way out the door.
He’s Gen x, a landlord, new York exile, classic gabagool. Ugh.
Gen Xer here that does not share your co-worker’s moronic view. Lock him up!
Gen X here too, Lock him up!
I think most of GenX were just crushed by the boomers, you just have to listen to GenX music to see how fatalistic and powerless they were. When Millenials came around, they started to have enough distance to the boomers to do their own thing. And i really have the highest of hopes for GenZ and beyond.
Gen X came right after the Baby Boomers, just as Millennials didn’t run society for Zoomers, neither did Boomers run it for X’ers.
So no, you weren’t overshadowed and made helpless by them, many of you outright relate with them just the same as I would a Zoomer.
Gen X was the last generation to get a chance at the dream life of a family, a house, and a career. They’re institutionalised.
Please don’t try to tell me about my life. You couldn’t be more wrong.
You’re right, 30 year old boomers were ruining your life at the time, not the 70 year old politicians etc.
I’ll tell you about my life, every Gen X I’ve ever met is closer to a Boomer than a Millenial in their mindset. Even the lefter ones who went and volunteered in some developing country and did all pretend make the world better shit.
Boomer here raising a toast to the jurors!
Hey, aside from the moral question practically we can’t afford to lock up every moron.
I’m sure there is a broom closet at Rikers he could fit in
I’d complain to HR that that guy is making the workplace hostile, if not outright tell him to shut the fuck up, but I get that that’s not a safe option at a lot of workplaces
Wrong. Talk to him every day. Hang out on some weekends, and become friends. Plant subtle notions of egalitarianism through your friendship and generosity. Ask him thought questions about his beliefs, but not in an accusatory manner. Teach him to actually think for himself, to keep an open mind, to seek evidence rather than faith to form convictions. Slowly show him by example what it means to be a good person who cares for their fellow human beings.
Then you plant some drugs on him while at work, and call HR with your suspicions.
You really had me there for a minute!
He’s a job hopper and I don’t expect him to be there more than a year or so longer. He mostly keeps his dumb shit to himself but I guess if you’re gonna spout off then the day your orange turd gets convicted of felonies is a logical one.
Last week I had to remind my parents that FBI agents are cops and pretty much always are authorized to use deadly force…
I asked my right wing mother if she had heard the news. She asked me if I thought the gop was finally going to pick another candidate. I like my mother.
I’m Gen X, former New Yorker…and well, he probably is a gabagool. He is representative of all of us…too many, but not all.
That’s because his supporters worship him as a new messiah and cannot conceive of him having actually committed a crime. Or they don’t care if he did or not.
They don’t care if he did. I’d argue most of his supporters in the party (Mike Johnson for example) know that he is a horrible person but will support him because he has energized a dormant portion of the voting population that can help them to gain and hold power. Trump himself isn’t even that bad, he’s a useful idiot who gives immense power to far right organizations like the heritage foundation.
They view him as an imperfect tool of the lord
That is a chill-inducing phrase.
I know these people, I was one before I learned better, should they gain the authority they seek it will be worse than you think
AKA false prophet
He’s a tool alright
dormant portion of the voting population
The South shall rise again against the War of Northern aggression!!!
Can we use fire again to put down the rebellion, pretty please?
Yeah. If the messiah did it then it must be ok so it’s the court that’s wrong.
To his supporters there isn’t a legitimate trial.
Right, there can’t be a legitimate trial because everything is “politicized” and “a witch hunt”.
Weird how they can’t get DAs to bring charges against Hillary or Hunter though.
Maybe the phrase “trumped up charges” will have new meaning after today
It’s like when you’re guilty of 34 felonies but still pretend you’re innocent to scam idiots
An image for your enjoyment
You could say his lawyers really trumped the case.
All the other kids with the trumped up charges better run better run faster than my verdicts
I’m hoping the “playing the trump card” will morph into meaning you’re a lying, cheating piece of trash that should be taken outside and tarred and feathered.
“playing the trump card”
Yet another thing the big orange loser has ruined.
How did this saying even come about in the first place? Is it because of something Trump did a long time ago or is it some non-Trump related reason?
It comes from the word “triumph”, which means victory. That word itself comes from Latin “triumphus” and the Roman celebration thrown for a victorious military leader.
It was shortened to “trump” while being used in card games, usually to indicate one suit having precedence over another. Then eventually it worked its way back into general language with the same meaning as “triumph”.
Edit: that’s in the context of “trump” the verb that indicates victory. For “trumped up charges”, it might come from an old English verb, “trumpen”, which means to deceive or cheat, or “trumpery”, which is pretty much a noun version of “trumpen” in meaning, though apparently it comes from a French word, “tromper”, which means to deceive (and could also be the root of “trumpen”).
Huh, I thought it came from music, because we’re always telling the trumpet players to blow it out their ass. Love those dudes.
There are card games such as Forty-Fives where a particular suit is classified as the “trumps” and cards of that suit are worth more than other cards.
‘trump’ is a term used in card games. it’s a card (usually an entire suit) that ranks higher than the rest in that game (or in some games… just an individual hand of a game).
You could also use it in many gaming contexts.
Yes, Pokemon A is faster than Pokemon B, but A is paralyzed, so B trumps the speed stat difference and goes first.
Yes, you used your ultimate combo in blah blah fighting game, but it connected while my character was in an i-frame (invincibility frame), so that trumps it.
Its basically any time something either totally negates, or overpowers some other effect or attack or system.
Its often associated with a last ditch saving move reserved until its needed, but it does not have to be.
Trumped up charges, meaning lots and lots of verifiable and provable charges.
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Getting out the vote for Brandon is our best hope.
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And that crusade is utterly futile if Brandon wins the swing states. The traitor cunts will riot either way, what matters is whether there is any traction beyond the their inbred degenerate base.
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Heh, pardon.
pardon
heh
Don’t forget their party of “family values” and “religious morals” candidate who slept with a porn star while his wife was recovering from giving birth to their child
And by having sex with a pornstar he was cheating on the playboy model he was cheating on his wife with.
*third wife
And he raw dogged.
They were locker room felonies.
You know, on balance though, I think I’m glad that being a convicted felon doesn’t preclude one from being elected president. I’ve gone back and forth on it a lot, but I think it is for the best.
Absolutely it is, see Nelson Mandela for instance
Can you elaborate? My knee-jerk reaction is to be against it, but I haven’t thought about it a whole lot and I’d be interested to know why you have decided on the opposite.
In this case it seems easy to be against it because a widely unpopular candidate is the one being prosecuted.
However, allowing felons to run for office precludes the ability for the government to silence political dissidents by making up laws/falsifying evidence that they can be imprisoned for.
The risk of a Trump presidency is still on the table, but the US can avoid situations like what happened to Navalny in Russia as well.
In the 1920 election, Eugene Debs campaigned as the socialist nominee for president from prison, having been imprisoned for advocating draft dodging. That is the sort of candidate I would still support, even from behind bars.
It means if there was an actual politically motivated prosecution, that wouldn’t stop someone from winning. ie. If Trump had managed to make some fake charge against Biden stick in 2020, if the people still wanted Biden to be president, he could be.
I think it’s a powerful statement that - despite all the structural checks & balances and systems of appeal - we consider political charges and kangaroo courts a realistic possibility. It’s not just Alito’s flags - this is a long simmering loss of faith.
Having been a plaintiff in a civil case, with thankfully only money on the line, it was a real eye opener for me of how little the jurors actually get to see, and how much power a single judge has (read: a LOT). It really made me reflect on how absolutely awful and terrifying it must be to have your freedom on the line, and to witness something like I did that felt horrifyingly unfair, and know you could go to jail for it. And I know it happens, a lot, and disproportionately to black and brown folk no less.
I wonder if that is part of it. As the country has gotten less white, we hear (or maybe care) more about bias-induced injustice, and it’s harder for the declining majority to be complacent when “blame the Black guy” gets a court to give you what you want. Local, elected judges have always been a partisan nightmare, but I feel like it’s really the last 10 years, since they eliminated the filibuster for federal judges, and especially since 2017 for SCOTUS, that national courts have lost credibility.
if there was an actual politically motivated prosecution
Which is, of course, the unsubstantiated claim that Trump has been making.
Despite this entire trial not being under the jurisdiction or control of his political rival.
Let us know how you get from “politically motivated prosecution” to 12 jurors (some of which are Trump supporters) finding guilt. Convicted felons by jury trial should not be public servants and most state Constitutions clearly state that (Florida for example).
Just because you’re a felon doesn’t mean you’re not a citizen and part of the country. As such, you should be able to partake in democracy in all possible ways as well.
I really dislike this punitive mindset of completely ruining someone’s life for being convicted of a crime. People make mistakes, but we don’t want to exclude them from society, we want to reform them and bring them back in. So yeah, I think, even excluding all this political bs, that no person should have their right to vote or run taken from them.
Oh yeah, I agree with you. I certainly think felons should have a vote. Hadn’t really occurred to me to include running for office in the same category.
he should be confined to the soup kitchen and forced to look at poor people
When the GOP sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are convicted felons.
That’s just not true
The GOP is sending their best
chef’s kiss
perfect
I get the sense that you’ve had this one in the chamber for a while
No need to load the chamber, they’ll do it for you
Couldn’t that be said of Biden? I’m not trying to make this partisan but only trying to posit a hypothesis. Democratic processes do not select qualified people.
Wait, Biden is a convicted felon? No? Well there’s your answer. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
When was Biden convicted of 34 felonies?
The GOP tried real hard to find Biden guilty of literally anything. But when there no evidence whatsoever and the news keeps finding out that the “evidence” you’ve cooked up is actually just made up bullshit, it’s becomes quite hard to accomplish.
It’s not meant to be taken literally. It’s just a modification of the quote Trump said about illegal aliens crossing the border.
They coordinated to kneecap Bernie, so clearly the case.
People downvote you, but this is how we got Trump in the first place.
Question begger… Amazing.
To find out what rules he broke for each guilty verdict, search “trump rule 34”
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the “SHAM trial” on X. “You don’t see this level of corruption in a banana republic”, she wrote, directing people to a Trump fundraiser.
I don’t know I’ve seen such a direct example of, " I’m saying this so that you will give us money", as this in a while.
Why are people so happy to be part of a scam? What do they expect their money will do? Is it a metric republicans use to compare to each other? 🤷
Holy crap… Did you guys read the bottom bit about Georgia voters?
"Another man Bob, playing with his bluegrass band outside a café, was more sure. He wanted a positive outcome for Donald Trump and said a conviction would not change his mind. What would?
“If he was convicted of murder, I’d be like that’s not a guy I want to go for!” "
Not surprised, tbh, but I still find it ridiculous to read.
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YAY!!! AGAIN! AGAIN! AGAIN!!
Again? Sure
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Just one more time… I want it, no, NEED it one more time
I got you.
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Yo sorry I got distracted thinking about that orange fuckface being found guilty, could you start over?
I love it
It flows so nicely wouldn’t you say?
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Which count of guilty is your favorite?
I’m sorry can I get it once more, I was watering my sofa
One for Martin, two for Martin.
That’s beautiful.
I’m so close.
I’m almost there…
This is going to pop into my head every time I think about the conviction. I hope you understand that. You are part of my life now.
Always have been…
i love this comment
This is only going to be considered by the swing voters come the election.
Die hard Trumpers will double down. Die hard Republicans would never vote for a Democrat, so better a felon than a Liberal. Die hard Democrats would never have voted for him anyway.
People who flip between the two parties now have another thing to consider when casting their votes, and only their internal compass will direct them to Trump or Biden
An earlier article said the Trump team was hoping for a hung jury.
Guilty all 34 counts.
Certainly was a hung jury. Hung like a horse!
Anyone expecting much more than a small fine that he won’t pay anyway, followed by him pardoning himself in January?
This is a state crime, not federal, so he can’t pardon himself as president. I think he could if he was governor of New York, which seems like a long shot.
And New York’s AG has seemed pretty keen on seizing his property if he wouldn’t pay before. Idk if they can do that for these types of fines but I’m sure they will if they can.
100%
Him serving jail time… lol before election? Oooweee how the nation would react.
How a small but violent subset of the nation would react. A significant number of people would be just fine with him going to jail and forget about him.
And we should probably find the people who will act on their bluster somehow…
I can’t imagine the RNC trying to scramble to get another candidate this close to the election. More likely as not he either pays a small fine. I doubt he’ll get jailtimr. Knowing this country and how weird things have gotten he’ll go to jail and his supporters will come out in droves to the ballot box and then win the presidency and we’ll be in a really tough spot.
Nikki Haley is the backup, she’s already got a few delegates to make it official.
Too bad that even if he died, a significant part of his supporters would probably vote for him anyways thinking he’s secretly alive
He probably gets more than the fine is from his donations due to this.
Which, if he’s making appeals based off the verdict (thus profiting off a crime), those funds could be seized as well, I believe. (your mileage may vary, check with local jurisdictions for details)
Political campaign donations cannot pay for the Trump Organization’s lawsuit fines and I don’t think they can pay for his personal criminal legal fees.
Political campaign donations cannot legally pay for …
Kicking the can a little further down the road. He’ll be dead before he sees any real consequences.
I FELL TO MY KNEES IN THE BASS PRO SHOP PARKING LOT!
So you’re emotionally invested?
I came.
Good now that he’s a convicted felon he can’t run for president just like you can’t vote, right? …right? Fuck this system.
Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Get fucked you piece of shit
