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LightSpectra
United States2564 Posts
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KwarK
United States43979 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:04 Razyda wrote: You cant be serious now? How many court cases he faced since he started running for president? You get that he did the things, right? You do understand that, don’t you? Like the court found that he did rape that woman. He is, legally speaking, a rapist. That’s why he was in court for it. It’s not political, he just raped a woman and that’s illegal to do. | ||
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micronesia
United States24772 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:04 Razyda wrote: You cant be serious now? How many court cases he faced since he started running for president? The question isn't how many court cases he faced, rather, which president blatantly weaponized the criminal justice system. And the answer is none (other than the aforementioned Trump). | ||
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Razyda
966 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:16 KwarK wrote: You get that he did the things, right? You do understand that, don’t you? Like the court found that he did rape that woman. He is, legally speaking, a rapist. That’s why he was in court for it. It’s not political, he just raped a woman and that’s illegal to do. "In March 2024, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News repeatedly made false statements that the jury found Trump liable for rape." Edit: link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2564 Posts
On October 19 2025 10:09 Razyda wrote: "In March 2024, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News repeatedly made false statements that the jury found Trump liable for rape." Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll Stephanopoulos' false statement wasn't because the crime didn't happen, but because technically NY law requires PIV penetration to be legally classified as "rape" when that's not what the accusation was. | ||
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Doublemint
Austria8744 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:04 Razyda wrote: You cant be serious now? How many court cases he faced since he started running for president? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump since? | ||
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KwarK
United States43979 Posts
On October 19 2025 11:53 Doublemint wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump since? The fact that his legal issues have nothing to do with his political career and have followed him long before he considered politics is, if you think about it, proof of just how deep the conspiracy goes. | ||
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KwarK
United States43979 Posts
On October 19 2025 10:09 Razyda wrote: "In March 2024, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News repeatedly made false statements that the jury found Trump liable for rape." Edit: link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump Buddy, he raped her. That’s what the court found after hearing all the evidence. | ||
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Doublemint
Austria8744 Posts
Trump, "selfmade" billionaire and the tribune of the plebs shitting in golden toilets. Trump telling it "how it is" by hallucinating things untethered from reality like burning cities and insurrections - while he himself was the closest to instigating one. Law and Order president pardoning criminal cronies and rioters. "family man" Trump sending ICE thugs to terrorize minorities and destroying their families. and increasingly breaking more laws doing it. even US born citizens for simply having the wrong skin colour are getting harassed. Free Speech president going after university Op-ed writers whose opinions he does not like, or social media jokers having one about St. Kirk and his way too early demise. very much undignified and improper - but as St. Kirk himself would have said, very much legal and even necessary if you take the whole 1st amendment and Free Speech à la USA seriously. fixing healthcare by cutting 800+ billion dollars from Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid. explicitly promising to fix the deficit by NOT cutting Social Security. while happily growing the US debt and fixing less than nothing. however very happily extending Tax Cuts for people that do_not_need_them. Interactive FED chart that should be taught and discussed just about everywhere - look at what happened to household wealth during the GFC, especially the bottom 50% Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. and an uninformed/disgusted by the political process populace easy pickings for propaganda and demagoguery. | ||
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oBlade
United States6119 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:12 LightSpectra wrote: Biden didn't promise a revenge tour against his enemies. Biden appointed a Republican to be the Attorney General, 20 Republican Senators voted in favor of his confirmation, and told him to handle it in a nonpartisan way. Where's the weaponization? Biden appointed one AG I know of, Merrick Garland, who was not a Republican. The last cabinet level Republican in a Democrat cabinet was probably when Obama kept Bush's defense secretary. Comey was also a Republican. Otherwise I don't know who you've mistaken Garland for being. Also every Senate Democrat voted to approve Rubio as Secretary of State - they still don't like what he later did and constantly grill him at hearings. That vote is just for getting the job not forever approval. | ||
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Doublemint
Austria8744 Posts
President Trump's tariffs will cost businesses more than $1.2 trillion this year, with most of that cost being passed on to consumers, according to a new study from S&P Global. Why it matters: It's the latest sign that Americans will end up bearing the brunt of Trump's trade war. It also contributes to a picture of a much more difficult economy ahead. Driving the news: In the study published on Thursday, S&P Global found that companies are now expected to pay at least $1.2 trillion more in 2025 expenses than they anticipated on Jan. 1, in what the researchers say is likely a conservative estimate. The researchers project that at least two-thirds of "expense shock" will be passed on to consumers, with the rest absorbed by companies. The Yale Budget Lab estimated in August that Trump's latest tariffs will cost U.S. households $2,400 this year. "who knew | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23933 Posts
Curious that it wasn't mentioned in corporate coverage afaict? Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked if residents in his city were ready to “defend this democracy,” “fight fascism” and “destroy authoritarianism” before leading the crowd in a chant of “No Kings.” www.newsweek.com | ||
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KT_Elwood
Germany1151 Posts
On October 19 2025 09:04 Razyda wrote: You cant be serious now? How many court cases he faced since he started running for president? Sooo... if you are a career criminal like Trump, you can use the DOJ as your personal revenge tool, even if your very own DOJ hasn't found any, not even trace amount of wrongdoing in "cases" like Comey ... because you were in Court a lot, and so "should the other side"? What the fuck? | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22353 Posts
On October 20 2025 00:37 KT_Elwood wrote: Clearly any criminal should start running for office because then they become immune to prosecution for their very real crimes, as it would be political prosecution :pSooo... if you are a career criminal like Trump, you can use the DOJ as your personal revenge tool, even if your very own DOJ hasn't found any, not even trace amount of wrongdoing in "cases" like Comey ... because you were in Court a lot, and so "should the other side"? What the fuck? Surely this can never go wrong. | ||
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Billyboy
1712 Posts
On October 19 2025 03:39 Dan HH wrote: He's sort of right, one-day protests without demands are the least effective. Though I wouldn't call them useless, millions of people showing disapproval is important for the cultural direction of how things evolve even if they don't have immediate tangible results. But like.. go and tell them about it? Go and find the local organizers and have a chat with them and shoot your shot, or grab a megaphone and tell the crowd you'll be there every evening and ask whoever can do that as well to join you. Moaning about a protest not being actiony enough on a Starcraft forum where there's 0 of the organizers and maybe 1 other person from your city is less than what they're doing. Very fertile ground for recruitment, no doubt. From what I was reading it was the biggest protest against a president in the history of the US, even if you get .01% your cause is growing likely exponentially. On October 20 2025 00:40 Gorsameth wrote: Clearly any criminal should start running for office because then they become immune to prosecution for their very real crimes, as it would be political prosecution :p Surely this can never go wrong. Also, get sick (or fake it) with things that require expensive medicine so that when Trump reduces the cost by 1000, 1200, 1500% you will be super rich! | ||
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Vivax
22312 Posts
Europe‘s completely dependent on US internet infrastructure and banking. I mean, if Americans vote Trump in after knowing all about this and that, then you have to simply assume that most Americans simply don‘t give a fuck about the law. I might reach that state of mind too, eventually. Or maybe they just voted Trump in to have someone to roast. Shit‘s contagious, even Austria has become lawless. | ||
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LightSpectra
United States2564 Posts
On October 20 2025 00:37 KT_Elwood wrote: Sooo... if you are a career criminal like Trump, you can use the DOJ as your personal revenge tool, even if your very own DOJ hasn't found any, not even trace amount of wrongdoing in "cases" like Comey ... because you were in Court a lot, and so "should the other side"? What the fuck? The conservative mindset since Trump's first election is the government exists to punish minorities and Democrats. Remember "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"? They're fine dying because of FEMA/NOAA/Medicaid/whatever cuts as long as some minorities die with them. Of course the DOJ should be Trump's personal scepter of vengeance. It's why they have so many feverish conspiracy theories about Obama using the IRS to target conservatives and other misinformation. It's not just to justify them doing it themselves, it's because they fundamentally believe government exists to be weaponized and they can't conceive of a world where that isn't true. | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22353 Posts
On October 20 2025 01:44 LightSpectra wrote: As the saying goes, every accusation is a confession.The conservative mindset since Trump's first election is the government exists to punish minorities and Democrats. Remember "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"? They're fine dying because of FEMA/NOAA/Medicaid/whatever cuts as long as some minorities die with them. Of course the DOJ should be Trump's personal scepter of vengeance. It's why they have so many feverish conspiracy theories about Obama using the IRS to target conservatives and other misinformation. It's not just to justify them doing it themselves, it's because they fundamentally believe government exists to be weaponized and they can't conceive of a world where that isn't true. | ||
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Doublemint
Austria8744 Posts
On October 20 2025 00:50 Vivax wrote: Things start making a lot more sense when you assume the legal and economic systems in western countries have been bullshittified. And there‘s enough evidence for that. Europe‘s completely dependent on US internet infrastructure and banking. I mean, if Americans vote Trump in after knowing all about this and that, then you have to simply assume that most Americans simply don‘t give a fuck about the law. I might reach that state of mind too, eventually. Or maybe they just voted Trump in to have someone to roast. Shit‘s contagious, even Austria has become lawless. lawless? how so? | ||
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Vivax
22312 Posts
Not in the sense that you can always do whatever you want. But they’re among the masters of the undetected cons. Can Trump be worse than what they‘ve been doing here ? Idk. | ||
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