[Fasces]

A Manhattan jury has found that Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, and awarded $5 million in damages. Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her during a chance encounter at a Manhattan department store. He has denied her allegations, calling her a liar. Carroll sued him last year for battery and defamation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... l-verdict/

[Fasces]

At this point in 2023, you either think the guy is a scumbag, or you worship the ground he walks on, there really isn't any middle ground. Proving what we already knew (that he sexually assaults women) isn't going to move the needle for anyone at this point.

Good for Jean, though.

[Beren]

So Mr. Grab-'em-by-the-pussy is a molester. Wow. I'm sure there are people who admire him explicitly for this. 'Grab 'em by the pussy, Trump! Definitely my president!'

[Unthinking Majority]

I don't defend Trump and I don't like him and I hope he is jailed, buuuut it's also interesting that this kind of "witchhunt" wouldn't be occurring with an establishment former-POTUS, whether in the media or in the courts. I remember CNN didn't say much of a peep in criticizing George W Bush and his admin during their 8 years. At least MSNBC did at the time.

[Fasces]

This "witchhunt" also wouldn't be occurring if Trump didn't sexually assault people.

[annatar1914]

In failing States, towards the ending phases of an Oligarchical society, a politician cannot leave office, ever, for fear of imprisonment, execution, or even assassination.

So towards the end even the densest of them stay in office by an astute combination of force and fraud, more on force, and fight savage civil wars to secure their lives, their wealth and their power. Theirs and their families and friends and posterity, until there is a hereditary monarchy and nobility, and the people are but a passive object of their government.

Go ahead idiots, put the man in jail. Find a way to keep him there indefinitely or even until the ending of the mortal course of his life. Sabotage the elections. Cheat. Kill. Someday you'll find yourself next to a former enemy in a fucking trench in the woods. You idiots talk politics, with that art there is only power.

Remember that there can only be one Emperor at a time, and the road of kings is a bloody one.

You will force someone sometime to learn the lesson you'll teach, to go on the path Julius Caesar took, a hard man who had to seize the purple not only out of ambition but to save his very life. If not his soul.

[Beren]

This "witchhunt" also wouldn't be occurring if Trump didn't sexually assault people.

It's not his fault, though, it naturally comes with being such a big star as he is.

[Politics_Observer]

Trump is a piece of shit and a great dishonor to the United States. Not only has he been successfully sued for sexual assault and been indicted on 30 criminal charges, but he will probably be soon indicted on additional charges in Georgia and perhaps DC on top of that. Trump is getting what he deserves.

[annatar1914]

Trump is a piece of shit and a great dishonor to the United States. Not only has he been successfully sued for sexual assault and been indicted on 30 criminal charges, but he will probably be soon indicted on additional charges in Georgia and perhaps DC on top of that. Trump is getting what he deserves.

Completely and utterly besides the point, regardless of what you think about the man. This is the end of the American Republic.

[wat0n]

If something would end the Republic would be a failure to enforce the law equally, even if it's a former POTUS.

[Politics_Observer]

@annatar1914

The only thing that will end the republic is if Donald Trump and people like Trump are not punished criminally and civilly for their criminal actions. Nobody is above the law. Not even a rich white man who is a former U.S. President. And the only thing that will ensure the security of democracies globally, is the military defeat of Putin's Russia in Ukraine and ensuring Taiwan's democracy is safeguarded from a forceful takeover by authoritarian China.

[Fasces]

The only thing that will end the republic is if Donald Trump and people like Trump are not punished criminally and civilly for their criminal actions. Nobody is above the law. Not even a rich white man who is a former U.S. President. And the only thing that will ensure the security of democracies globally, is the military defeat of Putin's Russia in Ukraine and ensuring Taiwan's democracy is safeguarded from a forceful takeover by authoritarian China.

Carthāgō dēlenda est

[annatar1914]

@annatar1914

The only thing that will end the republic is if Donald Trump and people like Trump are not punished criminally and civilly for their criminal actions. Nobody is above the law. Not even a rich white man who is a former U.S. President. And the only thing that will ensure the security of democracies globally, is the military defeat of Putin's Russia in Ukraine and ensuring Taiwan's democracy is safeguarded from a forceful takeover by authoritarian China.

@Politics_Observer :

Everything you say, even were it true, is beside the point that political partisans bent on destruction of their political enemies force all politicians to double down on corruption and lies and add personal armies and civil wars to the mix, for complete power. All because of Oligarchical infighting.

[Beren]

It's not the end of the republic if its legal institutions Trump's abused numerous times with the help of a myriad of lawyers finally turn on him, that's rather how it always should have been, the end of the republic would have been if he could have dismantled it with his allies and populist agenda. It actually should be a good example or a good start if Trump's usual practices to abuse the legal system for his own benefit regularly failed from now.

[annatar1914]

It's not the end of the republic if its legal institutions Trump's abused numerous times with the help of a myriad of lawyers finally turn on him, that's rather how it always should have been, the end of the republic would have been if he could have dismantled it with his allies and populist agenda. It actually should be a good example or a good start if Trump's usual practices to abuse the legal system for his own benefit regularly failed from now.

@Beren :

Liberal Westerners never understand a damn thing, it's got to be the function of a bad conscience that has heads firmly up asses . Being this way means never having to say you're sorry, no accountability.

It's all the Orange Golem's fault, got it . Amazing how that brilliant fool got into all your heads

[Beren]

@Beren :

Liberal Westerners never understand a damn thing, it's got to be the function of a bad conscience that has heads firmly up asses . Being this way means never having to say you're sorry, no accountability.

It's all the Orange Golem's fault, got it . Amazing how that brilliant fool got into all your heads

Whatever you mean to say you must be right and it must be the end of the republic indeed that he can't be fooling around anymore.

[annatar1914]

Whatever you mean to say you must be right and it must be the end of the republic indeed that he can't be fooling around anymore.

@Beren ,

It doesn't matter, he doesn't matter. Every politician in the land with a functioning brain at all is now going to rightfully think that the only way to avoid jail or worse from now on is to destroy their opponents before they destroy them.

[Fasces]

Every politician in the land with a functioning brain at all is now going to rightfully think that the only way to avoid jail or worse from now on is to destroy their opponents before they destroy them.

1. They could just not sexually assault people.

2. Donnie isn't going to jail for this.

[wat0n]

@Politics_Observer :

Everything you say, even were it true, is beside the point that political partisans bent on destruction of their political enemies force all politicians to double down on corruption and lies and add personal armies and civil wars to the mix, for complete power. All because of Oligarchical infighting.

You're describing how any even half modern state works.

[annatar1914]

1. They could just not sexually assault people.

2. Donnie isn't going to jail for this.

@Fasces :

1. No, but unfortunately the powerful get away with evils in this life.

2. Trump is going to jail, this is just the warmup. They're not going to let him return to the White House even were he to win the elections. Jail, Assassination, Exile, Rigging the election: whatever it takes.