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It's still so wild to me that after all these years of seeing Trump lie, cheat, bully, grift, and bloviate that anyone looks at him and says, yes this is the man I want to lead our country.
Just listening to him rant for like five minutes should be enough for anyone to realize that he's an incompetent asshole wholly unworthy of respect, much less public office. And yet, here we are with like 40% of the country saying he's their guy.
Propaganda is stronger than people realize
Some people see incompetence as defiant strength.
But he's lying about, cheating and bullying those people they hate.
They've been being fed the propaganda for decades that the foreigners are going to come and take their jobs and rape their women and steal their cars. They know that they're behind on votes, so the only way to get the job done is what he's doing. And the white Dems standing in their way, supporting all these foreigners he just pisses them off so much, which tickles them to no end.
While I agree with the overall point, these courtroom examples are highlighting for me how thoroughly different the justice system experience is if you are the right sort of person moreso than fanning the flames of my Trump hatred.
A regular person pulling even ONE of his courtroom stunts would be admitted to a holding cell till the end of the trial
Is this the two-tiered justice system we keep hearing about?
Yes.
at the end of the trial day
Considering that guy received 100 years in jail I don't think this is a good example of someone getting away with it.
Trump and the Republican party’s behavior is the best campaign advertising the democrats have.
I mean unironically yeah. They can basically ignore a significant part of the electorate with the threat of the Republicans coming into power if those voters don't capitulate on their interests and vote Democrat. It's a hostage situation.
You’re not describing anything new. This has been the only reason to actually vote democratic my entire life. I mean, it’s also the Republican messaging. Hats not exactly any way to elect the best government.
Yeah, giving him tons of free airtime is a great way to keep him out of office. It worked so well in 2016.
It's the cheating I'm more worried about, they're not afraid to coup, cheat or mob boss threaten.
The fact that this guy has a good chance of winning is why I'm leaving society to go live as a potato farmer in the woods.
I don't mean to be a buzzkill, but you'll probably have more success if you grow your potatoes in a field instead of the woods.
They sell these bags that you grow them in. They look like garbage bags that stand upright, and you unzip them to get to the potatoes
That's actually kinda neat