“There’s no posse and there’s no retinue and there’s no family,” says Chris Hayes on Trump’s arraignment. “The guy is alone. He is solo rolling with the lawyers who hope his checks clear.”
He’s still the frontrunner for the Republican nomination by a wide margin, there is no one who is showing like they will compete, even after this most recent indictment. Republicans will still rally behind him if he gets the nomination. Unless his trials are ahead of the election, which they likely aren’t, nothing will change.
Maybe I’m just a cynical old man, but likely nothing is going to happen to him.
PS: I was alive for Watergate. Ford pardoned Nixon.
Bye fel-cheeto!
Sad that he can’t Grab Them By The Posse!!!
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Lol well done.
I couldn’t believe when that came out and had no effect. Like when George W would just misspeak or Clinton admitted smoking weed in college or whatever, it always seemed like there were huge political consequences.
Remember Howard Dean lost the nomination because of the way he said “wooo”?
An excited scream specifically when he was up on stage, at his own campaign rally, in front of a crowd cheering the hell out of him.
I truly believe that scream is no less than any single one of us would let fly if we found ourselves in front of a crowd that size, all waving signs with our name on them and cheering to our success.
Yeah, that was news editors cutting the background noise and the crowd scenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_scream#Media_coverage
Always worth remembering that the news editors likewise played a part in the rise of Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign#Media_coverage
I don’t know if you’re looking at the same thumbnail I was looking at, but it’s the pic of Trump under an umbrella, looking like he’s about to cry!
The fascists aren’t stupid. They see the writing on the wall so they’re moving on. Completely expected and even if Trump gets the death penalty the threat is by no means gone. Trump is a symptom, not the disease itself.
Beard has a great quote from her book SPQR
“If the assassination of Julius Caesar became a model for the effective removal of a tyrant, it was also a powerful reminder that getting rid of a tyrant did not necessarily dispose of tyranny.”
An analogy I like: If you have a toxic, dangerous plant in your garden, like the Gympie Gympie maybe, do you remove it by snipping off the leaf bud at the very top, or do you pull it out roots and all?
This is a major problem with the right wing, there is no principles or loyalty or anything. It’s not the major problem, it’s just one.
Additionally, a leader is just a tool used by a collective. The collective is in power, not the leader. Trump is no longer useful to them so he is being replaced, just like how a medieval king who fails to please his court of nobles is overthrown for a king that can.
Whether you can overthrow a leader simply depends on if you’re part of the collective they serve or not. The reason the general public can’t get rid of corrupt politicians or near universally hated people like Bezos or Elon, is because the collective that appoints them is not the public, but much like the medieval king, they only have to answer to a small group of modern day nobles (AKA the corporations, investors, and ultra rich in general).
It’s the ruling class, not the individual ruler, that calls the shots. Always. Because a single person can never enforce their rule alone, it requires a group that collectively has sufficient power to enforce their collective rule.
Absolutely. I was talking to a friend the other day and he suggested hiring a hitman through crowdfunding to shoot Macron. I told him, Macron is just a symptom. This hydra has a bunch of other heads ready to sprout, you’ll get life for nothing
Never assume the enemy is stupid. That’s how you lose. If they were truly stupid they wouldn’t have gotten this far and wouldn’t even be a threat.
