It wouldn’t be fair to have your felony conviction negatively impact your opportunities. This is how justice works right?

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    2 months ago

    This is for the best, there would have been even no end of trouble if he wasn’t able to run for election because he was sent to jail or whatever.

    It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail. It’ll make November even more fun.

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      2 months ago

      It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election

      Hilary was actually leading by roughly the same amount in 2016 by this point in the election campaign…

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        2 months ago

        Hilary was actually leading by roughly the same amount in 2016 by this point in the election campaign…

        Harris is doing much better if your metric is performance in battleground states…

        Maybe popular nationwide polls are similar, I wouldn’t know, those are pointless so I don’t look at them.

        Like, Hillary kept acting like she was going to win, but the numbers always showed the battlegrounds were too close, and while trump campaigned there, she kept doing fundraisers and victory laps in Cali.

        Didnt take a genius to realize if one side stops running in a close race, the slower runner could win.

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      2 months ago

      if he wasn’t able to run for election because he was sent to jail

      That wouldn’t legally prevent him from running—Eugene Debs ran for president while in prison for protesting WWI.

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      2 months ago

      It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail. they’ll overturn the results and refuse to certify in important states that they already have control over.

      Fixed a slight mistake. :(

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      It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail.

      Ankle bracelet at worst, more likely an easy for him to pay fine. Trump is never going to spend a day in prison, mark my words. And if I’m wrong I’ll celebrate along with everyone else about it.

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      2 months ago

      As much as I don’t want to agree, I partially do agree with your first statement and hope (regardless of how little faith I have in the justice system) that they are intentionally doing this so they can let the can of worms open if he loses and then take every single person they can down with him when they try to derail the results and attempt a 2nd coup.

      It would be the icing on the cake, like you lost and you made a second attempt at it, there’s no fucking back tracking and now we have even more people that came out of the woods to help you and we are going to take you all down.

      They could put him in jail now, but corruption is rampant, but maybe (sliver of hope) there is some quiet digging of graves for these people to fall into.

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      2 months ago

      A jail sentence would make him a martyr and boost his fundraising.

      EDIT: I’m not making excuses, only stating likely outcomes as I see them.

      This fucking echo chamber…

      Hate orange man! Will say nothing that might favor him (even if I don’t agree)! Give upvotes! Orange BAD!!

      And that works every time with you easily manipulated children. Yes, I’m talking down to you. Big people say, “condescending”. Can you say condescending? It 's a BIG word! Try it yourself!

      Often thought about making two up/down vote gathering accounts and posting results. There wouldn’t even be a shit storm, results would be ignored or banned.

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        2 months ago

        Just an excuse to avoid actually holding him accountable for anything.

        Putting his ass in jail might harden his base but turn off those who were only party loyal out of tradition and might throw away their vote to a 3rd party. Hell, it might motivate more people to overcome voter suppression and vote for Dems if the system actually does something to hold him accountable. Increased turnout is more important than how hard conservatives mash the Trump button.