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.
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to value or admire highly
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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.
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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.
anomie
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.
I’ll believe it when I see it, but god damn is that a sexy headline.
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Yeah don’t have a BBQ. He will have a bond agreement in place before surrendering so likely he will bond out immediately.
If you read a headline that he got convicted in court and sentenced to prison time, then schedule the BBQ
Hell, I’m going to schedule a parade and fireworks.
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he’s going to “surrender to jail” because that’s what this step of the process is called. he’s not actually going to be locked up
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I prefer syrup
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Both.
Yo can I come to the BBQ? I can bring drinks or something.
I’ll believe it when I see the mugshot.
That will be so wild.
Haha I remember a couple months ago at his first arraignment, Trump’s team actually wanted a mugshot for the merch, and photoshopped one up when NY DA didn’t oblige.
He will finally get his wall.
Four of them at 6 by 8 feet.
What is this, a prison for African-Americans? Tangerine turd if convicted will almost certainly be sentenced to a Club Fed, assigned the Vlad V. Putin suite, daily Bingo at 2pm, dinner at 4, and country kitchen buffet Fridays.
What does surrender mean? Will he actually spend any time in a cell?
No. He’ll be arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, and released.
Well that’s disappointing. I understand why this is not the headline. Not click-baity enough.
this guy is definitely fleeing the country
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Wasn’t there a rumor making the rounds that the Secret Service is actually permeated by right-wing sympathizers? To the extent that they conveniently erased all archived text/digital communications between agents back in Jan 6? Story here
Given that backdrop I wouldn’t be surprised if they will be complicit in his escape.
Whenever a conservative removed about The Deep State I roll my eyes. It has been around for decades and it’s on their side. There’s a reason Biden changed his security detail.
They are just bragging.
They’re gonna find him stuck halfway through his bathroom window on the 24th
The very best agents too
He’ll try it regardless
Fleecing*
Oh wait both fit…
Hmm… that’s going to hurt his chances of getting elected again.
No way amigo, it’s already established by Rs that he can run the country as a convict. By extension he could run the country equally effective from mother Russia. There’s still 70 million people that’d vote for that.
There’s still 70 million people that’d vote for that.
I don’t think so.
Do you really think he’s going to fly to Russia now? He’s got so much cash sitting in supporters pockets left and maybe a few years left to take it.
Now if he’s found guilty, yeah, I can see him running then rather than go to jail. But not yet.
Ah, if only he was a flight risk … I’d set the bail low to encourage him … But no
he’s going to be “processed” then released on bail.
everything about his criminal proceedings have been basically the truck hitting bollard gif
https://67.media.tumblr.com/13cab760bc3b62c6408034017db27846/tumblr_o96e4q9rNV1qezukdo1_1280.gif
Outstanding analogy and follow up gif
Why must you impose this cursed gif on us
because I saw yet another thread about how trump is being punished, when nothing has happened to him for the past 4 years. Double impeachment? Big whoop. wake me up when he gets brought down a peg.
Trump expected to surrender
See, this is where you’re a bit mistaken…
He farts when you expect him to shit, and he shits when you expect him to fart. That’s the fart of the deal.
Well he could try to run I suppose. It would be pretty weird to have a presidential candidate running while in hiding in another country.
What would the Secret Service’s protocol in this scenario?
“this is unprecedented” as they stand around laughing and waving trump flags
They are getting paid. Who cares right?
Is that one of those rich people jails, where you are basically in a vacation?
It’s a place where he’ll be booked, printed, (mugshot?) And then released. He won’t be inside a cell.
Nah, it’s pretty famous for being a shithole. You can see for yourself in the Johnny Cash concert footage.
Wasn’t that Folsom, not Fulton?
Yes, but Fulton is still a well known shithole. Like, inmates keep dying there.
“One of those rich people jails” ahh yes the rich people COUNTY JAIL.
More like one of those federal, pound-me-in-the-ass prisons
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I’ll believe it when I see it but boy howdy, do I want to see it!
He’ll die of old age before setting foot in an actual cell.
I hope to be wrong but I doubt it.
Yeah guarantee that fat fuck will pull a Milosevic or Ken Lay* and die before we can get any sense of closure.
*I read a somewhat credible conspiracy theory that Lay faked his death, wouldn’t surprise me. I’m not worried about trump doing that though because he’d never be able to lay low with his mouth shut lol
Old fat guys have a way of just dying before consequences catch up with them. Look at madoff
they won’t put him in jail
No probably not yet anyways. He is just going to get his mug shot and finger prints and to hear the charges against him I think. Maybe some other stuff. But then he will go home and come back for his trial.
I’m not a legal expert it’s just already happened to this same man 3 times lol
he will not go through processing. he will not be put in handcuffs, will not have his mugshot taken or his fingerprints made.
Seems like he will be.
“The statement from the Fulton County sheriff’s office addressed the key question of where the former president would be arrested and processed as a criminal defendant.”
from here https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/fulton-county-jail-trump/index.html
yeah I understand and I’ve done it myself. I just don’t see it happening to him. a former president with a lifetime secret service escort is hard to put in a jail. id love to see it.
I doubt he’ll be arrested, but he will be fingerprinted and have a mugshot done.
That, in and of itself, is a good thing. Wish I could be a fly on the wall there to see it.
Don’t forget the louse powder and the fire hose.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to search his ass for contraband.
I can’t wait to see his actual height and weight. This lop of dumps mugshot is gonna be hilarious
It’s a “photo op” to him. I’m calling it.
He’s definitely gonna try to skip town. Either that or he’s gonna just ignore it until cops physically drag his Cheeto ass there.
I’ll make popcorn for that day.
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