no it's completely ridiculous how many things they will misuse in exactly this way.. there is strange magic afoot, friends.. keep your wits about you..
Or maybe everything in life has nuance and can't be simply boiled down to "winning" and "losing".
Trump is not only mega rich, but he's also the head of an actual cult of personality. Those are feathers in his cap no doubt. On the other hand, not only has he lost multiple elections, he's a twice impeached criminal with 91 very serious charges (and counting) against him and a pile of hard evidence to back it all up. The odds of him spending what few remaining years he has left behind bars are non-zero, and no matter what happens he will incur massive financial costs one way or another.
In an alternate reality he could have sat out 2016 and spent the last decade of his life golfing and stuffing his fat fucking face, and he would have still been rich enough to live however he wanted. But instead he has put the world's biggest magnifying glass up his own corrupt asshole, and it's all not looking so great.
He definitely helped destroy the GOP currently. They split their voter base between typical conservatives and Trump (tm) voters. And with with desaints falling flat in Florida recently i doubt there will be enough support for him as a mainline conservative
I just do not understand how this Zoolander mugshot can motivate people for anything but laughter. But apparently they even give money after seeing it.
IDK about most iconic. Raising flag over Iwo Jima photo? 9/11 photos? JFK portrait photo? Just off the top of my head.
Trump doing a mini fundraiser over the whole "look how mad I am for the true Americans" B.S. expression he put on. Dems basically just saying "look at this dumbass" and ready to forget it within a week.
To be fair, that mug shot was going to be printed on Tshirts and sold for millions to both sides of the spectrum regardless of who was selling it. It somehow really is an awesome mugshot.
The Trump campaign doesn’t own it, so Trump shouldn’t profit from it unless you buy directly from their merch shop. Best thing to do is sell T shirts and donate the profits
This confirms the narrative his machine has been pushing. It can't help but mobilize his base.
Morally and legally it's the right thing to do. Politically, I'm not sure - I don't know what would be better, but this will likely help him in the short/medium term.
Before I write this, I want one thing to be clear. I find Trump to an absolutely repugnant person, and elevating him to the Presidency has debased the office. I found him unfit for office in 2016, and I don’t believe he should be eligible for 2024.
For better or worse, however, there are a couple of truths about this whole mess as it currently stands. A former President is being prosecuted by the Justice Department of a political rival’s administration. It’s the right thing to do, but it does create a certain precedent that could be disastrous for our democracy. I think Biden saw that, and I think that’s why the Justice Department has waited this long to do anything about it. If his polling numbers were garbage, and he was unlikely to get the Republican nomination, I doubt he’d be getting prosecuted to avoid the appearance of political persecution.
Luckily though, I don’t think Trump is popular enough among independent voters to win the office. Until more polling comes out to tell me otherwise, I don’t think he can beat Biden. He’ll take the Republican primaries in a landslide, but once he needs the independent vote, I doubt he’ll perform nearly as well.
It’ll be a real mess if he catches a conviction too. The man is a walking constitutional crisis.
the absence of prosecution is very much as political as the prosecution.
Not prosecuting what is, in reality, a failed attempt at a coup.... is what would be disastrous for our democracy. not that there's a lot of that left, given the sheer number of dumb-asses that think it was "justified".
I hate that you feel that you have to preface this with a disclaimer so people don't dogpile you.
I think Brazil is a nice little preview of what will happen next here in America. Bolsonaro used the Justice system to imprison a political rival, Lula. Lula of course was corrupt, but the fact of whether he's guilty or not doesn't matter. He was prosecuted because he was polling well.
He ended up going to jail but then shortly after was released. What happened next? Lula is now president of Brazil and now his administration is trying to prosecute Bolsonaro and throw him in jail.
No matter how you slice it, this prosecution of Trump is bad news. We are in for a rough time and an unclear future. They may ultimately only be helping Trump take over the country.
If there was a god, Trump would die from a heart attack in the near future. The only way to prevent further damage is for the sack of shit to die asap.
But if Trump taught us anything, there is no God or justice in the universe. He's done more to damage our country than almost any single person, and has made a mockery of the concept of equality under the law. It's truly pathetic