262 points

“Florida Man With 91 Felony Charges Worried He Might Serve Prison Time.”

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“Several millions of Americans worried he won’t”

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I hope it’s a few more than several…

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To be fair, we’re also worried that, if he does, his followers will go violent again. Not that this is a reason to excuse him him prison. It just means that it might not be all rainbows and puppies if Trump goes to prison. Our celebrations might be interrupted by home grown right wing terrorist attacks.

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9 points

They won’t go away if we pussy-foot around them.

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23 points

Only 91? Shit. AZ state and NJ federal indictments need to get here soon.

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14 points

Is the NJ federal case about him stealing documents as well?

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13 points

The audio recording of him allegedly showing off classified docs and admitting he hadn’t declassified them took place in New Jersey.

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132 points

Many of us fret he won’t.

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I’d be okay with him going into exile in North Korea.

yeah. let him torture Kim for a while.

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The realistic conclusion to that would be Trump spilling Top Secret info to North Korea. If not willingly, then via torture. But let’s be honest: It would probably be willingly.

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Honestly, I don’t think he has the awareness or attention span to be an accurate mole if he’s limited to working from memory.

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7 points

He’d probably remember half the secrets incorrectly and get North Korea to blow itself up.

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6 points

He’s such a narcissist all they would have to do is stroke his ego

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This actually highlights one of the problems (as a strategy, ignoring humanitarian concerns) with torture- whether or not someone will break has nothing to do with whether they have real, useful information. Once they break, they will say whatever they think their captors want to hear.

The primary (strategic) alternative is to befriend them; convince them you’re on their side. A tactic that has been shown to be extremely effective on Trump. He’ll gladly spill whatever he thinks he knows as soon as they say something nice about him.

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Good point. We should maybe abduct both of them, and turn it into a reality tv show. Like The Truman Show. but real.

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I think Guantanamo would be more appropriate.

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Probably. But, like. just hear me out. They’d hate each other’s guts. It’d be like Grumpy Old Men, except they’re not fighting over a woman, and they were never actually friends.

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I was solidly in that boat for a while too, but seeing how many of his co-conspirators are tripping over themselves to testify against him lately gives me hope.
That’s the problem with surrounding yourself with shady people who only have their own interests in mind. They’re not loyal to him, he only kept them around because they told him what he wanted to hear, and they only told him what he wanted to hear because it helped them advance their own personal interests.

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68 points

I’ll believe it when I see it. We will never see him behind bars. Two tiered justice system.

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Absolute best case is house arrest imo, and I’m sure his lawyers will make sure it includes the entirety of his resort, so basically nothing will change

I’d love to be wrong, but I don’t think I will

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This is my hope as well. At least he can’t hold hitler style rallies if he’s confined to the resort though.

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There’s a lot of space at that resort for guests. I’d bet he’d set up stadium seating and sell tickets to his regular “Rallies” which MAGA types would absolutely flock too like it’s the new Disneyland. Gross.

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I totally agree.

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He won’t go and both sides don’t want him to go. It sets a presidence that they the rich ruling class is weak to the rules.

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Nah, if you think, say, AOC or Bernie Sanders wouldn’t love to see the door slam behind 45, I think you’re mistaken.

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Not say there aren’t people in power who wouldn’t be ok with, I’m saying the majority don’t… otherwise more ruling class would have been in jail and Epstein wouldn’t have been murdered in his cell.

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My hope is that he lives for another 5 or 10 years in solitary confinement.

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he probably wouldn’t last a year in solitary.

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Solitary confinement isn’t really solitary most of the time. It’s far less pitch black rooms with a slat you slide a tray of slop into, and more of a lights always on, talking to your neighbor through the vents/shouting chess moves at each other.

Not that it isn’t inhumane in its own way, but many people seem to think that you’re basically sensory deprived and that’s just not the case.

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I mean, what would like to see- which probably is cruel an unusual, but I can be like that sometimes- is trump given a news feed and maybe social media, but he can’t respond/post. he just gets to passively watch as the world moves on and forgets about him.

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4 points

We can still hope

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“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” Trump said, miming the physical motion of an officer shielding a suspect’s head to keep it from bumping against the squad car. “Like, don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,” Trump continued. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”

I hope the prison guards remember this, it’s only fair.

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I don’t understand the implication O:

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