Yes!!! Finally, the day has come. You, I, anyone and everyone on the planet, from this time forward, can openly and plainly, without fear of admonishment or legal reprisal in any way, shape, form, manner, or capacity whatsoever, call Donald Trump what we always knew him to be but was never officially labeled as: a criminal!
Fuck, this is a great day. And there’s still much more left to unfold.
I live in New York. There will be parties tonight!
I am old and will not attend. Hehe.
I respectfully disagree. I think it should be by firing squad, which Trump himself revived while in office. Would be the perfect karma. Or, at least the most poetic.
Firing squad is fast and painless. It’s one of the better deaths, like guillotine. Strangely, these are execution methods which have gotten gruesome reputations over the centuries, but which are in fact relatively humane. Guillotine, quick and painless— the impact is in the audience seeing the aftermath.
Meanwhile, the electric chair and lethal injection have been propagandized as “civilized” execution, but they’re actually quite horrid. The savagery of the chair is certainly more recognized, as the writhing and suffering is more visible. But lethal injection, while not as obvious, is pretty gnarly and tortuous.
Firing squad is too good for this POS. I have many other suggestions. I will not share them at this time. 
I only want to add this little nugget of information.
While yes the US Legal System did good today, this doesn’t change the fact that Trump is still running for office.
Article ll of the U.S Constitution only gives three criteria to qualify for office.
And no adjustments were made to prevent criminals from running outside of Section 3 of the 14th amendment but those are insurrection charges in which Trump hasnt been charged with. Since that’s the only way Trump wouldn’t be able to run/hold a public office.
the truth to the matter is while yes Trump is guilty on all accounts this isn’t the end of this charade.
His sentencing is one thing, he could be in jail for four years, he could be in jail for none. He could have probation, he could just pay a fine.
So all I ask is keep your expectations in check because this is just the beginning of a very tumultuous Election Year.
They’re nominating a convicted criminal. Yes, his base won’t believe it and will still support him, but his base doesn’t matter. Undecided voters, ironically, decide elections, in addition to moderate party members. And enough republicans who aren’t MAGA cultists have stated that if Trump is convicted, they will not vote for him. The sheer number of republicans showing up to vote for Nikki Hailey in primaries when she hasn’t been a factor for months, and all they have to do is not show up and vote at all, but are instead deliberately casting votes that don’t matter in pure defiance of Trump, lends credence to the claim of those who say they won’t vote for him if he’s found to be a criminal. Even one percent of republicans not voting for him costs him the election. Add in his worsening dementia and poor health, and how weak that makes him look, and it’s all over.
Sometimes. If they turn up and vote. I believe the impact of undecided voters is overstated. Trump’s conviction and the inevitable appeals will galvanise his base. It may bring more non-voters into the fold, which is how he won in 2016.
The non-MAGA side of the GOP barely registers; they couldn’t even win the New Hampshire primary. The majority will vote for Trump as the lesser evil over Biden, including Haley.
Nah, Trump’s base has been shrinking for years and the ones who aren’t MAGA but still vote for him have been looking for any excuse to not vote for him. People are tired of him. He’s not even cracking 80% in primaries where he’s running unopposed, and when Ron DeSantis was polling even with Trump before the primaries started, and then he started losing support, Trump’s support did not increase. They abandoned the main rival but didn’t go for the second option. MAGA isn’t a majority in the party. Yeah, the whole party got on board with their movement for the sake of winning, but the rarity of Trump-backed candidates winning, and the non-MAGA members who want to just move on from Trump’s era, even if they believe him about everything being rigged against him, they don’t want to deal with his baggage anymore. Combined with his increasingly obvious frailty anytime he’s on camera, and he’s seen as a losing bet from those who still have their faculties. Unless Biden does something really stupid (very possible considering his horrible foreign policy decisions), and this outcome will hurt Trump more than help him. In fact, it would be better if in this particular case, Trump does not get jail time, because all the non-MAGA voting public will see yet another person convicted of crimes not receiving adequate punishment, and that may actually galvanize voters even more against him.
It blows my mind that a fucking rapist was elected president, but his supporters will only turn their back on him if he’s convicted in a financial trial. I don’t trust fucking anyone in modern society.
That’s because they could justify it to themselves that he wasn’t guilty of rape, because he was never criminally convicted. This one they can’t convince themselves for those same reasons, so ones who aren’t fully into the cult have to accept he’s guilty now, officially.
President Biden has delivered remarks on the Middle East. He said today Israel has offered a ceasefire deal. The proposal would include multiple phases for which most importantly includes a roadmap for making the ceasefire a permanent one possibly ending the war.
The first phase would include a 6 week ceasefire. A full withdrawal of Israeli forces from populated areas of Gaza. The release of some hostages/prisoners and returning of remains of those who were killed. Palestinians would be allowed to return to northern Gaza and the amount of humanitarian aid to significantly increase.
Near the end of the first phase Israel & Hamas would begin negotiations for a permanent end to hostilities. Another part of the deal includes that as long as negotiations are continuing the ceasefire will remain in place even if the 6 weeks pass. Upon the start of the 2nd phase all remaining living hostages would be released and Israel would fully withdraw from all of the Gaza Strip.
Phase 3 would begin the reconstruction phase of Gaza and the final remains of hostages would be returned. The reconstruction effort would be focused on rebuilding homes, hospitals, and other critical infrastructure. Hamas would also not be allowed to rearm itself.
Another important part is this is heavily dependent on two things. Will Hamas accept this deal and if they do will they follow through with it. Part of this deal says if Hamas doesn’t follow the commitments Israel would be allowed to resume military operations in Gaza. Biden was also quoted at the end saying “It’s time for this war to end.”.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?536079-1/president-biden-delivers-remarks-war-gaza
I always like be cautiously optimistic but still see multiple ways this could fall through. Hopefully thing can work out and peace returns.
Still to early to say if the war is going to end but Hamas responded postively to three-phase permanent ceasefire. In a statement the group said the below.
“Hamas confirms its readiness to deal positively and in a constructive manner with any proposal that is based on the permanent ceasefire and the full withdrawal [of Israeli forces] from the Gaza Strip, the reconstruction [of Gaza], and the return of the displaced to their places, along with the fulfilment of a genuine prisoner swap deal if the occupation clearly announces commitment to such deal,”
Obviously many more talks between Israel & Hamas will need to take place before anything is finalized but this seems like multiple steps in the right direction.
IDF wouldn’t have touched Rafah in spite of its main allies discouraging it if they intended to agree with such plans. Hoping for a cease fire, with Hamas at the very least, doesn’t seem much likely.
It was the Israeli government who gave the green light to present the plan to Hamas. Obviously more talks still need to occur or it could just fall apart. But from they were the ones who proposed it they might be looking for an off ramp to end the war. Especially now with Benny Gantz threatning to withdraw from the coalition government by June 8th if a new war plan wasn’t adopted it’s possible Netanyahu changed his original plans with Rafah.
I decided to look it up. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Benny Gantz probably put enough pressure on the government. If his National Unity party withdrew Netanyahu’s cabinet would of held 56 seats to the oppositions 56. In that scenario his government could fall forcing early elections. Something Netanyahu probably wants to avoid considering his own approval and Likud’s support has collapse since the war began.
Biden called the second phase “a permanent end to hostilities.”
good points there, though Biden’s statement doesn’t make much sense for a region facing wars every decade since a millennium ago. And it’s not even about Hamas. Khamenei still has other forces in the region.
(and with their latest actions IRGC is a direct threat as well)
Well new developments over the proposal. Not sure what Netanyahu will decide to do but Yair Lapid the leader of Yesh Atid said he would support Netanyahu in implementing the proposal if they decide to leave his coalition. If the National Religious Party-Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit decided to leave the government that would bring Netanyahu down 13 seats causing his government to fall in the minority. But Yesh Atid has 24 seats so who knows what Netanyahu will decide.
It’d be best if Netanyahu decided to go hang himself, but I doubt we can look forward to that.
