107 points

Brave, brave Sir Robin.

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Bravely ran away away

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63 points

I’ll proudly watch him go to jail.

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Had to edit this comment. There’s more!

Edit number 2 below!

Edit number 3 below!

Here’s the arrest list so far:

Cathy Latham, 5’2" 155 lbs

Scott Hall, 6’0" 235 lbs

John Eastman, 5’7" 160 lbs

David Shafer, 5’5" 150 lbs

Kenneth Chesebro, 5’11" 185 lbs

Ray Stallings Smith III, 5’11" 195 lbs

Rudolph Giuliani, 5’11" 230 lbs

Sidney Powell, 6’0" 170 lbs

11 12 13 more traitors to go, less than 3 days left.

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19 points

Can someone convert these to Courics? That’s the natural unit for pieces of shit anyway

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3 points

I don’t think Bono has anything to do with this

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3 points

Couric? Couric who?

Surely not very thin ice Couric?

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14 points

Omg actual height and weight data on Trump tomorrow?

With or without the lifts and diaper?

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1 point

They won’t make him take off his stilts.

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5 points

Hah everyone has been so fixated on getting his weight that I forgot that we also get his true height without the shoe lifts. What a day.

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4 points

Somebody said that they go off your id but I’m not sure if that’s true or not.

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2 points

Dave Shafer at 5’ 5" and 150 lbs? How is that even remotely close?

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1 point

Damn, Kraken woman is tall.

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1 point

RIP Razor Ramon 😭

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0 points

Who’s out there with the Scott Hall bod?

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47 points

So what’s the Secret Service procedure on having someone they’re protecting be booked in a State Court system?

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I doubt it ever happened before, so whatever the policy will be, it’s going to be brand new

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They would go with him. Statute is clear, it’s for life.

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7 points

Is it clear how close they have to be to an ex-President at all times? Is the law written that they need to be in visual contact at all times? I have no idea.

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4 points

Does that give them authority over the jails on procedures?

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20 points

As long as he hates it, I’ll love it.

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11 points

Honestly, him never being president again and having to stay alone for a few years in a cheap motel with free HBO with the Secret Service guarding outside would be enough for me.

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3 points

Or he’ll be in ADX Florence with other traitors.

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10 points

They enter a cognitively dissonant state until their heads explode.

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6 points

Oh man I feel bad for the sucker whose job it is to watch over trump in prison.

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4 points

Not law enforcement. I’d assume that they’d come to some arraignment with the Correction Officers before hand.

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6 points

come to some arraignment

Not sure if that was intentional but it works well either way haha

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46 points

I still think he’s going to pull some stunt. He’s incapable of just simply obeying something like this.

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The stunt is going to be after the booking, when he holds a press conference and says stupid shit which would revoke anyone else’s bail agreement, but he will continue to get a pass because his followers are a dangerous cult.

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I think you’re right. As much as it galls me, he’ll suffer no consequences because he has millions of armed angry followers. One speech from him might actually start a civil war.

Fuck rupert murdoch and fox news for ratcheting up the rhetoric over the years to keep their viewers scared, angry, and glued to their TVs. And fuck right wing talk radio for doing the same thing.

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8 points

He tried to rally his followers before and got like 5 people showing up. That ship has sailed, he’s not an unassailable lord and it harms Democracy to pretend he is.

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8 points

I blame Rush for being the true catalyst for all the hatred.

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I know it would be a terrible thing but it would be the most one-sided civil war in the history of ever.

His followers are massively gung ho but they really only care about themselves. Once actual consequences, such as returning fire, make themselves felt I suspect a lot of them will slink off back to Alabama or whatever.

There will be a lot of grumbling and accusations from them, but they won’t do anything very much because they don’t dare. Having guns won’t protect you from the US military if the US military doesn’t like you, and they’ll soon work that one out.

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3 points

The court has some reasons that benefit justice, and not trump, to lean hard toward “push ahead and avoid extra drama.” Trump wants to delay everything and make himself the victim. Letting him push the envelope here and there deprives him of what he ultimately wants.

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God damn it. This is one of those comments that makes me rage to read but I have to concede that you’re right.

Any drama at this point is just fodder for the inevitable appeals.

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46 points

Turning himself in the day after the GOP debate is the stunt.

They’ll just process and release him. He’s out on bond in several places at this point.

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Yep.

No matter what happens at the debate, all the news will be talking about the next morning is trump turning himself in.

If he waited till the last day like he said, they’d have a day in the news cycle

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8 points

He’s playing this up like he’s the victim.

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8 points

After Covid he planned on wearing a Superman logo. He’s definitely thinking of a way to show off. Maybe arrive in prison stripes and claim the prosecutor demanded it?

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Some of the other clowns in the circus might pull a stunt like that, but Trump is the Whiteface, the clown that emphasizes pride and arrogance.

He would never allow himself to do something that he thinks will look bad. Not to say his bungling incompetence doesn’t do that for him, it’s just that he won’t do it as a conscious choice.

Clowns are somewhat interesting.the Whiteface is the know-it-all straight man, and the Auguste is the bumbling doofus who is the butt of every joke. The Auguste is the first to get a pie in the face. You laugh at the Auguste.

The Whiteface on the other hand is the person telling you who to laugh at. They tell the mean jokes to get the audience to laugh at others. This makes it so much more satisfying when the Auguste finally hits the Whiteface with the pie.

Anyway Trump couldn’t tell a joke if his life depended on it, but he still fills the role of Whiteface in this circus. He’ll pull stunts, but only if he thinks it will make someone else look bad.

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I think you just explained why I always hated clown shows.

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This is a very unique take and I’m here for it.

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OJ complex

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Any attempt to flee and a pair of fully armed F-22s will bring them back. Trump’s plane is being tracked.

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