Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.
Can we all just stop for a second and appreciate what a crazy fucking time it is to be alive in this country?
I’ll recognize it, but I’d rather not appreciate it. I’d appreciate it if half the country had never been infatuated with an historically proven con-man with delusions of grandeur. Legitimately one of the must frustrating realities for someone who believes in democracy to grapple with is that half the population MUST be less than average intelligence (and even some of greater intelligence will choose willful ignorance).
Oh no, it’s not that they’re stupid. It’s that they’re evil. What Trump stands for and what that stupid-ass cult values is entirely something they’re fully cognizant of and want. Right down to the genocide.
They just learned to hide it very well. Even mastering sophistry to do it.
I second this. Its horrible and sad that so many people are evil, or more to the point, can be led to an evil position which they’ll embrace and defend with all their intellect.
One of the scariest things about this shift is a realization that this is how countries do horrible things. A mob of excited people can make group decisions, and will follow horrible leaders because, well, because people can driven by emotions and group-think and localized social norms.
If the current Republican Party maintains its cohesion and membership I think what has been a generational lapse into authoritarian insanity could be a permanent shift in the American psyche. Thats even more terrifying than seeing so many people vote for Trump.
Now throw in some financial collapse due to climate change and you’ve really got an apocalypse stew going
Appreciate has two different meanings.
to value or admire highly
understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.
It’s can be awkward because they are really divergent meanings with almost apposed connotations.
You’re correct. I was being intentionally obtuse to agree about the sentiment, but also further the lament. Kind of a “being funny to myself (and maybe no one else)” moment, but publicly expressed.
For real. Can anyone say that they guessed this would actually be a headline 7 years ago?
I could’ve guessed a coup would happen as a result of his presidency and that he should be in prison yea. He’s a lifelong crook and criminal and we had suspicions of outside involvement in the 2016 election cycle from the instant the_donald blew up
He said ahead of the 2016 election that he wouldn’t accept the results if he lost.
Yeah, that was the moment I knew shit was gonna get weird.
@gravitas_deficiency
And yet he still gets to walk around and promise to pay for people’s meals, then skip as if nothing is happening. It’s annoying
He didn’t even accept that he won*.
*“Won” in America means “gamed the system the best” not “got the most votes.”
Watching from this side of the pond is entertaining in a sad kind of way.
Trump is a figurehead of something above and below him that is a serious danger to democracy.
The same ideology that pushed Trump is the same ideology that created Brexit and is trying to break the NHS.
We’re all in a very dangerous boat right now.
This timeline can’t get any weirder
WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS THOUGHT INTO THE UNIVERSE AS A CHALLENGE
If we’re going though planet scale catastrohpic events, at least sprinkle some comedy in there haha
I like you. You’re pretty alright.
Don’t say that!
David Grusch: Hold my beer
Just wait.
There’s a looming existential crisis headed humanity’s way that most are sleeping on at the moment because they are so caught up in the present and not looking enough at the implications of the future.
As we catch up to that future, the relationship between odd behaviors inherent to the universe we find ourselves in and the universes we are progressively building is going to get harder to ignore.
I think a lot of people are going to have a really hard time coming around to what that’s going to mean.
I’m having trouble locating a clip, but Patton Oswalt had a bit about a decade ago about the anomie the country felt when Nixon resigned and then got on TV and flew away in a helicopter.
I feel like Trump finally getting booked will be a similar feeling.
TILAW: AN·o·mie
noun: anomie; noun: anomy
In societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.
“the theory that high-rise architecture leads to anomie in the residents”
Best definition I ever heard was the sociology professor that introduced me to the word.
This teacher, knowing her demographic of “Americans born in the late 80s/early 90s” simply defined it as:
“You know how you all felt on Sept 12th? That was anomie.”
Crazy if you like ultimate inequality and hate for all people especially homeless that can’t afford $3,000 in rent each month.
Its even crazier when you realize many of those that struggle are the ones that vote for people that promise to make their lives even more shitty.
Not sure if appreciate is the right word but yeah what a crazy decade.
I’m halfway across the world and it’s been a crazy ride watching a country disgrace itself while also tearing itself to pieces.
It hasn’t been since 2016? Or 2001?
I feel like it all kinda went sideways starting around 2014ish (2016 certainly kicked it up a gear). Maybe I died then and it’s all some sort of 6th sense bullshit
It started when the Supreme Court handed the presidency to W despite him losing the election. Once that mask was fully off, so were all the rules.