Post AlnDIihqOO0uZDDCS0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AlnBhjmFLc2NDh4Yme by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T11:43:27Z
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Judge Merchan has postponed sentencing Trump for violating campaign financing laws by hiding his manipulation of media through secret payments before the 2016 election. The consensus has emerged that this may be a 'good thing' politically speaking for those who care about laws applying to everyone including the powerful.Any sentence that he choose would dominate the news cycle and cause controversy and chaos. No one is looking forward to it. 1/
(DIR) Post #AlnC0L71H8kKE0evjs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T11:46:49Z
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Moreover, with the election over and the inauguration months away there will be time for sentencing no matter the outcome. But, I think that all of this consensus is a kind of mass rationalization of our fears and sympathy for Merchan. He was placed in an impossible position. So, many are finding reasons to accept this... as we must.However, the more I think about it the more I think this is exactly the sort of rule-bending that has brought us to this ugly place.2/
(DIR) Post #AlnCLTa2zCLQZOJbrE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T11:50:37Z
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Let us set politics aside. (try) Suddenly this decision is just another case of fearing ripping the band aid off. Fearing stating what we know to be true: our laws can and ought to be able to deny the freedom of the most powerful men in the world. But, this is just a vaperous lofty notion as long as we do not do it. As long as no one is willing to say "you are guilty and now you will pay and if you resist we seize you bodily and you will pay by force." 3/3
(DIR) Post #AlnCxfMRdOUK6wABPs by rgulick@social.coop
2024-09-08T11:57:24Z
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@futurebird If you or I were facing the same sentencing, would it have been delayed?I don't think so.
(DIR) Post #AlnDIihqOO0uZDDCS0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T12:01:20Z
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@rgulick My brother we would be *finishing* our year long prison sentence... or even done with it like Michel Cohen. That's how much rule bending and hand wringing this clown has manufactured. Anyway. Trump is going to have a very bad month in November.
(DIR) Post #AlnDQ6ALZHM3Lx3upE by theogrin@chaosfem.tw
2024-09-08T12:02:16Z
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@futurebird I think it runs even deeper than that -- the idea that there can be, should be, meaningful consequences for the rich, is contrary to the way in which so many people are raised. We as a whole think of the rich as some apex of humanity, as though being rich is, itself, some moral virtue which supersedes such lesser sins. However demonstrably untrue that is -- heard this quote about camels, once -- it's still an indoctrination which has to be fought every day if we're to prevail against it.To have Trump, a name unjustly (and yet perennially) synonymous with wealth, reduced to a felon inmate, would be another very large brick knocked from that wall, and whatever Merchan's leanings, The Powers That Be have no interest in abiding such a result... because, to engage in Enhanced Interrogation against a metaphor, they've stacked the deck and they know which way the cards would fall.
(DIR) Post #AlnDi8OA2ghVSY7jZg by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-09-08T12:05:44Z
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@futurebird Check out what happens to poors who have one single top secret document lying around at home, which they do not have clearance to see, much less take home.Like, held pending trial, contact with lawyer only.What happened to the guy who had oodles of docs in close proximity to an office copier?They're "investigating" it.He's already benefiting enormously from double standards.
(DIR) Post #AlnEHHpouiY6tKp5hw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T12:12:16Z
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@theogrin There is also the notion that whoever can control the freedom of a powerful man must be, somehow the *more* powerful man. This is why having a jury is a good practice. I do have some sympathy for it falling all on one person. I don't know if I could have done better than him, if only because I do not want people trying to murder my family.
(DIR) Post #AlnERrxdS8aHpXWaxs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T12:14:12Z
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@theogrin But ultimately I think we need to recognize that this is a failure. Another in a long line of choices that exposes the weakness in our justice system. It's pragmatic. But, it's not correct.
(DIR) Post #AlnEi9zgAsLMOMFUNE by Joshfrai@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T12:17:05Z
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@futurebird @theogrin What a grim reality about this country that this man has fully exposed to the light. And we still refuse to see.
(DIR) Post #AlnHGFKp1Tq2i8WGY4 by Mazzo@chaos.social
2024-09-08T12:45:38Z
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@futurebird @rgulick already generated a song months ago for that moment, cant wait to release it into the wild.. a hilariously catchy tune called "Snooze criminal" :awesome:
(DIR) Post #AlnKOw24SSDTJXaEhE by tersenurse@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T13:20:51Z
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@futurebird I would just really really like him to face some sort of consequence for bad behavior before he strokes out or descends fully into dementia
(DIR) Post #AlnNuw0eNW3CN8rwyO by Incognitim@mastodon.social
2024-09-08T14:00:12Z
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@futurebird I think a lot of it had to do with the #scotus of it all, too. They've *completely* done away with even the faintest lofty notion that "no one is above the law," especially when it comes to tfg.And they worded their decision so that hicks' testimony could be ruled inadmissable. So I think Merchan chose to keep the case under his control, instead of letting it get to the purview of the #supremeCourtesans, where they could toss it completely & 'vindicate' trump
(DIR) Post #AlnZh2Exc9lL5nhXm4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-09-08T16:12:12Z
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@LaNaehForaday @kimlockhartga This is f-ing terrifying good lord