the powerful: “throwing him in jail might cause a revolution carrying him to a golden throne on a river of populist outrage”
very offline normie libs: “someone should shoot that motherfucker”
a recurring theme in the trump years have been powerful people being reluctant to describe him plainly, react appropriately to the threat he represents, and hold him accountable, all while saying doing so would alienate regular people. and then regular people having no problem with any of that
Translation: "If he faces consequences for his gross and illegal conduct, it's a slippery slope until I have to face consequences for my gross but perhaps not illegal conduct."
The degree to which elite solidarity has shielded this absolute piece of shit is maddening.
I’m not kidding! like, I have conversations with people who are usually very much Trust The System, The Arc Of History Bends Towards Justice
and they mostly just want someone to shoot the man, the hell with due process
Cancel the Secret Service and stick him on Rikers Island with the general population, someone will shive him. Then of course the reporting could be that someone made him their bitch.
And that was my grandad! He was far more liberal than when he was younger but still VERY much a by-the-book guy. But he genuinely wanted Trump to die legally or not.
My 86 year old Southern Belle of a mother says this daily. Second thing she says is “and people want to vote for this?!?” Usually followed by an exasperated sigh.
It makes sense. The judicial system is supposed to be a superior replacement for vigilante justice.
If the judicial system decides certain people are exempt from consequences, people's need for justice doesn't just disappear. So they go back to the oldies.
Martyring him would definitely cause some civil unrest. Not a good idea. However, him having apoplexy in the courtroom (brought on by the very mundane and normal behavior of the judge) would be epic! 😅
Shoot in the head, cover in 10 gallons of gasoline, burn to ash, then put the ash in 4 different dump trucks and drive it to 4 different rivers to dump in.
I'm not sure I have conversations with offline normies anymore, but the fact that it ends up sounding like me in my most radical moments bullshitting with friends on IRC a decade ago is really surreal.
While I do think bringing up Hitler is not being fair to what Steven Universe as a show is passionately arguing for (even setting aside this comic I've seen haters try to use this example), that last panel is objectively funny, peak comedy, and literally perfect. I have no notes, this is Art
i suspect the cartoonist @hausofdecline.bsky.social probably likes steven universe (and i do too), as you note though it is just funny to imagine steven running up against hitler and being like welp i guess it's murder time
Oh yea I wasn't for a second thinking HoD was legit trying to criticize SU (even if she's not a fan of the show, that's cool!), I just couldn't not share my conflicting feeling with that comic lmao
you are also allowed to run for president from jail because otherwise it would incentivize the US government to incarcerate its political enemies.
i mean the US government still does that anyways, but it would make it even more common.
historical deets on an incarcerated presidential candidate:
so like yeah, Trump could get sent to prison, but it won’t prevent him from running for office 🤷♀️
the Dems need to get their shit together, stop supporting genocide, and actually offer coherent improvements to working people.
Trump is still wildly unpopular. this is Biden’s election to lose.
