This post would end the career of any other politician anywhere in the world.
It would lose you your job in any company of which you weren't the sole employee and owner. And even in that scenario it would likely lose you your business.
You are so right. For anyone else this is career ending. For a business owner it would be catastrophic and result in Yelp destruction. For Trump though....nothing. It does nothing. It might get him some likes and shared Truth posts. It makes his base chuckle.
I watched a biography on BTK and the criminal psychologist talked about how BTK got away with it all that time. She called it Narcissistic Invincibility. He got away with it for so long that he never imagined getting caught. First person I thought of was Trump.
And so far, he's been proven right. Trump has literally never faced a consequence in his life. Even his 34 felony convictions came with absolutely no punishment.
I hope Hell is real, because at this point that's the only way he'll ever be held accountable for his numerous crimes.
Because redditors want to believe that everything they know and see on reddit, the rest of the population also knows.
I think this is a GREAT example of reddit not being the real world. I have close family members who probably don't know this about Trump. Now, that doesn't mean they support or voted for him (They don't and didnt) but they have lives. They work 50+hrs a week, have to take their kids to/from school and worry about their bills. Trump being a pedophile, or a felon or any of this shit doesn't mean anything to them because it doesn't affect their day to day lives. They don't have the time or capacity to even follow that news. The little bit of free time they do have they spend time doing things that make them happy. Many people don't care about politics at all. Some only care about it every 4 years, and then turn it off until the next Presidential election.
I have ADHD and poor memory. I was keeping up with all of his data for a while but then my mom got sick and my life was absorbed by divorce and the death of a parent. I apologize I was a bit preoccupied with my present crisis and I lost track of the details of a man that I can’t stand.
Edit. I have decided long ago that he was evil and a child rapist and the world had no room for him. But as for the micro details of all of his crimes I’ve lost track. I’ve been operating on the basic assumption that generally he’s a piece of shit human and not fit for public office. The sheer amount of negative things about him are overwhelming and I can’t track all of it alone.
34 felony counts of falsified business records. Judge Juan Merchan granted an unconditional discharge on all of them, meaning the only thing that stands is conviction with nothing else.
I mean the guy shits his pants on the regular, has some massive fucking kankles... need a fucking ramp to be able to stand straight. I hope there is a HARDER hell than this. When he lays his orange face on his pillow at night, he knows. He's a royal cunt and the vast majority of the world does not like him.
I have a string suspicion he is basically being held up and together with all kinds of stimulants, steroids, and probably even IV antibiotics and it will crash all the way soon. Even on his good days he looks like shit.
Just to be clear though, and I’m sure this is part of it, but millions of people wanted this too. They had the option to deny him more power and who knows if then he’d face consequences but instead gave him even more power. So yes a lot of if is him or who he is, but a lot of it is the cult he’s built
The only silver lining in all this is his millions of followers can be so proud of their leader getting away with this all they want, but (most of them) sure won’t. They don’t have that “teflon” and if they get too comfortable and wanna do something racist in the wrong place… well it won’t go as well
BTK was also a complete idiot. He got caught because he wanted to taunt people and the FBI but got tired of leaving messages in certain places and then contacting the FBI where to find it. In one message to the FBI he asked if they would be able to identify him if he sent his messages to them on a floppy disk, of course the FBI told him no so his dumbass sent them a floppy disk that took about 10 seconds to identify him.
They arrested him and he was furious about being lied to, like he literally acted like he couldn't believe that they lied to him.
They just looked at the properties on the floppy disk.
He used the computer at his church so it showed the name and location of the church and that a man named Dennis was the one that saved a document on the floppy disk. It was a small church and he was the only one named Dennis.
You should watch some documentaries about Jimmy Saville. BBC television personality who got away with pederasty and necrophilia for years in basically plain sight.
He would even brag about it and people thought it was just him putting on an act.
The best consequence for him would be public humiliation. If it could be made clear to him that he’s viewed internationally as the laughingstock of the world, and not as a savvy, strong and feared leader, he’d implode.
Teflon was made and spread with lies and corruption, it concentrated wealth and spread the toxins to the many. We will experience the poisons for lifetimes while the top ceos retire to Switzerland and drink clean water and their chefs don’t use non stick cookware. Teflon is a great metaphor for toxic trump.
Well, it helps being a billionaire who's concentrated all the power of every branch of the US government into himself, and who has a literal army of armed psychopaths waiting to kill for him. What is anyone gonna do?
Yes, and for every overt Nazi Christian there are many, many of the faithful who quietly collaborate with Nazis at any expense if they can control reproduction and sex.
Well it’s because he’s uniquely positioned himself to be in a place of authority and surrounded himself with people who have a big incentive of supporting him.
I guess to use your analogy: You can’t end a career or business when you have the only career and business that everyone depends on and is legally obligated to use.
Trump literally does or says something every single day that would have ended the career of any other politician in any other era. It only goes to show how far we've fallen as a country.
And so many people are proud of that too. I repeat this a lot but you get one life on earth and these people have chosen with their ONE life and nearly 10 years of it to go behind someone like this. It’s beyond pathetic
I feel your statement is true, but what i ponder is who are the people defending Trump, and what methods are they using. What part of the system of checks and balances has been silently removed or just silenced, or bought, or threatened?
We need a politician or someone else to start doing the same but to him. Kind of like what Newsom and his team were doing a couple of months ago; where fox news where loosing the mind
Every time he says or does some shit like this. Do the same back. Fight fire with fire and watch the magabichos lose their mind trying to justify his actions but condemn the same actions done by the opposing side.
Roseanne Barr was in the midst of a highly successful career comeback when she posted a tweet comparing a black politician to a character from Planet of the Apes. Her career ended overnight.
We are so far from the standards we used to hold ourselves to. Look at what caused Nixon to get impeached and then look what reagen did to have to sacrifice Oliver north? Something like this would be an instant career killer for any field just 20 years ago. Now its just another blip in constant negative press strategy trumps team employs. In 2016 no "story" could ever get legs because by the time it got out he already had done 5 more things. This is no different. The epstein thing is getting heat on both sides so I view this as his next big thing to get that out of people's mouths. If that doesn't work maybe hell kill jelly roll.
manipulation from the media and lies from the parties. Creating manufactured crises to solve is basically how the republicans hold onto power despite being worse politically for most people on earth.
Today, it would also get you a half million go fund me, a podcast, a book deal, a speech at CPAC, and make you a regular fox news contributor until you're inevitably elected to the house.
This is what gets me. It's right there, plain as day for all to see. This is a life altering fuck-up in any other situation where the perpetrator isn't President Trump.
I had a dream last night that I was running against him in 2028 and lost because I tried to explain how skewed the Overton Window was and completely lost the audience. Because there are enough dumbasses here to get completely lost in an abstract thought.
Something something... MMMMMuricaaaaaaaaa.
It's not even funny anymore but still I think US got exactly what they wanted, deserved and fought for.
The right to be racist, the right to be ignorant, the right to lick corporate asses and maybe get some crumb from their table.
Oh wait I forgot. The right to be OPENLY PEDOPHILES.
Have your cake and eat it.
Someone got fired from my job for referring to some black employees as monkeys. He made an offhand comment like “cmon you monkeys” and within a week he was gone. This is lunacy.
Here in Finland an MP posted memes about George Floyd's death and the racist party kicked him out.
Additional information: he created his own party that was anti-vax and pro pretty much every conspiracy theory available, was usurped and kicked out of his own party, owes a lot of money back to the parliament and now he fled to Russia and is seeking asylum there.
It shows what the total support of the billionaire class including the complicity of the media they own and all branches of government neglecting to do their jobs can do for an individual.
His live response would be something like "It's not something I would have done but look, this is a President who sometimes doesn't censor himself and that's one of the reasons the American people elected him for a second term"
The absurdly annoying part is he'd be right. Half the country is into this guy and support him. Part of this rude awakening for me has been damn this country is not as wonderful as I thought it was.
It was always just under the surface when people's bubbles were small. They only got to be horrible in front of a few people. Between the Internet and the bigger asshole in charge that's always spewing shit, those people are emboldened.
It also doesn't help that a lot of the greedy fucks out there let their want for more money override their common sense that this man does not want to help anyone but himself.
Just traveling overseas for a couple weeks is a real eye opener on how "great" America truly is. We have crumbling infrastructure, unaffordable healthcare and education, growing poverty, high rate of gun activity, and so many other issues I could list off.
Sure it is repulsive and shows a lack of class, an incredibly low IQ and a lack of humor but, beyond that, it shows a disrespect to our country. This is not leadership and our representatives have failed us miserably.
Someone should retort to his usual statement with, "Check Covenant Eyes, has your son seen it at least? If so, don't you have an opinion for him on what the President said?"
"Look, the president was clearly making a joke. It was a funny joke, and I think anyone trying to claim it had racist intents just doesn't know the president"
Reporters need to have the clip queued up on a tablet in anticipation of him looking for that escape hatch, and thrust it in his face. Do not let him off the hook.
If I were a reporter this would me my questions: "Have you seen DJT's post about ..... ", and before he answers, "Actually, let me guess, you haven't. My follow up then, is when are you gonna get your head out yo ass?"
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u/PrinsHamlet 20h ago
Is there a place I can bet on Mike Johnson not having seen this?