251 points

Must be nice to be able to have a tantrum in court, yell at the judge, and then just be able to walk out.

I encourage everyone to try it sometime.

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68 points

I encourage everyone to try it sometime.

Do fries come with that Contempt?

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Freedom to be in jail fries.

*jail depends on tax bracket

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Terms and conditions: Offer valid only for white or orange. Participant must be a republican or identify themselves as a republican. Offer not valid for women, children, and people of color other than orange, and poor. Don’t be poor.

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13 points

He might be one of half a dozen people who could get away with that in a US federal court.

I wonder if Elon could get away with it.

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15 points

Florida man tackled by bailiff?

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-58 points

Injustice Engoron says different rules for you plebs.

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66 points

The judge is trying to prevent any pretext to getting the case thrown out on appeals. It’s bullshit but having all this hard work go up in smoke because a brainless judge higher up found a tiny fault in an unprecedented case would be horrid.

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49 points

What a piece of shit system that cannot treat people equally… Fucking farce of a country.

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3 points

Jokes on us: like police do all the time, if a judge wants to “find” such a fault - maybe by citing precedence from a thousand years ago? - then they will. Ofc there is no reason to make it easy on them.

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If Trump launched his fatass onto the bench like that guy in Vegas Engoron would apologize to him.

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Justice Engoron, in a plea to Trump’s attorney, Chris Kise, implored, “Mr. Kise, please control your client.” However, the attempt to rein in Trump proved futile as he continued his tirade, even bringing up the prosecutor’s alleged political motives, including what he called her “failed” run for Governor.

Should have charged him with contempt.

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10 points

Then some asshole judge in East Bumblefuck will charge Biden with contempt, for reasons

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102 points

So? If you let fear of fascist reprisal stop you from upholding the rule of law, then they’ve won.

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29 points

Joe Biden isn’t on trial for anything.

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You think that will stop them?

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11 points
  1. So what?

  2. Biden is not on trial. This would be an apparently senile judge yelling at the wind.

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9 points

This happened in Illinois, some downstate dipshit judge was going to hold the governor in contempt because of emergency declarations during COVID times. It was a political stunt by this jackass named Daren Bailey who then ran for governor and lost. Him and this other dumbass named Dan Proft are funded by the Uihleins who own Uline and are constantly trying to cause problems.

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2 points

Wait a minute. Judges can’t make the right calls because other judges might make the wrong call?

So the answer is for the first judges in question to make the wrong call?

This is what happens when you engage in mental gymnastics. Things just stop making sense unless you’re an idiot.

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Disobeyed Judges orders so hes gonna be held in contempt right? Were not going to keep reinforcing to this child that he doesn’t get any consequences right? . . . right? The US Justice system is doing this to itself, and every day it proves itself inadequate to contain this threat.

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I agree that they’re doing it to themselves, but it’s not that it’s inadequate. It’s that they aren’t treating him like a mob boss. They are presuming he has a shred of human decency and isn’t a psychopathic narcissist ready to burn it all down out of pettiness and spite.

They’ve prosecuted mob bosses before, so they simply need to change their paradigm.

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No, they’re treating him like the mob boss of a mob of millions of armed people ready to kill for him because that’s what he is.

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So the threat of political violence has tangible results on the rules of justice? You know that only encourages more political violence right? It’s “Might makes right” with like one extra step. No one willing to die for Trump is going to care if he goes to jail now or next year they will do what they will do. But changing procedure because of them means their threats are working, which means the US Justice System, is not.

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Let it happen. If they couldn’t do it on Jan. 6th, they’re not going to be able to do shit now. They’re all goddamn cowards and anybody that commits violence in his name can get locked up right alongside him.

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That’s a very good point I’ve only just really let sink in. Trump not passing go and going directly to jail will mean chaos and collateral damage, perhaps globally. Things have to be done delicately for all our sakes unfortunately.

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12 points

A normal person would’ve been tackled by the bailiff by now.

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96 points

He should have been arrested, cuffed, and hauled off to be locked up like anyone else.

Instead everyone will continue to coddle him, emboldening his jackass followers as if this course is somehow favorable to consequences.

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31 points

Why is this a thing?? I don’t get it. It’s so stupid. Anybody else would get their ass handed back to them but he’s the exception for some reason I can’t fathom. Like, even if he has a lot of followers, so what?

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30 points

In this case, to give absolutely zero room for mistrial complaints that the judge was biased against him.

And guess what? He has zero room for complaints. The judge has handled this pretty much perfectly.

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to give absolutely zero room for mistrial complaints

My man standing up on the desk, pulling down his pants, shitting all over the place, then waddling out with his pants around his ankles and the judge turns to the bailiff saying “No no no, let him do his thing, I don’t want to risk a mistrial”.

He has zero room for complaints.

He’s been indicted 91 times since he left office and we’ve yet to see any of them resolve into some kind of legal punishment. Everything is supposedly coming to a head between March and May of this year, but… In the middle of a heated election season, I’m not holding my breath on that shit getting deferred or extended or whatever.

And then if he makes it to November and wins (hardly unlikely, given the direction of the current polling) he’s back to being Unitary Executive and immune to prosecution. And then we’ll get four more years. And if the country doesn’t collapse on itself after that, we get to restart the whole process and hope another four years of pretending to indict a former President now pushing into his mid-80s will mean anything.

Guy is going to die of poor health long before he sees the inside of a jail cell. The US justice system simply is not built to punish people like him.

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6 points

Yeah I think this is a case of “go ahead cry, you lost, game over”

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I mean he was the President. As much as I hate the guy and think he is an awful leader he still has privilege above ours. Life has politics EVERYWHERE. His boss. His family. His community. There are certain things this judge has to balance in every decision.

I don’t know the judge or the details of the case. But you ask why he is hauled off? Because MOST white old guys that fuck up are just slapped on the wrist, pay a fine, and do community service unless he actually was violent. Did he perpetuate violence? Absolutely. Has that been proven in a court yet? No. It’s not so black and white.

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2 points

Lock him up, lock him up, lock him up

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96 points

Baby Hands is such a snowflake

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Snowflakes are actually cool. He’s a fucking chud.

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A chudflake, if you will.

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snowflakes. so chill.

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TinyHands McMushroomDick

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