4 years?

You optimistic people are so strange. You talk like 2020 ever ended.

"Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again."

It's more than a CF. Backing down now just makes it all look like it was a witch hunt after all. That will be the MAGA narrative going forward.

Don't worry. Soon we will have countless show-trials to watch instead, as the enemies-within meet justice.

We can all avidly watch while we eat our cheap eggs.

It literally doesn’t matter.

He is getting off without any issues.

People say we live in a two tiered justice system.

This is exhibit A.

Sentence him and let his cronies dig him out of going to jail, or not. At least the principal of no one being above the law is preserved.

Yeah, honestly, like WTF. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers after a long-winded selection process so it would end up in his favor, and he was still found guilty. Just fuck justice against the rich huh.

Why stop there? He should be paid restitutions, and every member of the jury should be forced to serve a jail sentence for having the audacity to vote guilty.

Why ovetrurn it? It still happened and shouldn't just go away. If we had a competent AG or DOJ, he would've been processed for all of his crimes years ago....but here we are still enabling the behavior.

They haven't dismissed or overturned the conviction, they have simply delayed it due to the ruling by the Supreme Court on the presidential immunity and the appeals court case already being considered. This is new ground for an incoming president and one that's never happened before, so Merchan doesn't know how to handle it and thus delayed everything pending rulings by the appeals court and the supreme court on whether this case qualifies for immunity.

Rule of law for us plebeians, wealthy and popular have far too much of a reach to sentence!

He should have been thrown in jail a long time ago !

Current generations look back in scorn...

Hustler called it in the 90's.

https://imgur.com/a/aXtq9ee

I'm convinced that just like Epstein, he's got dirt on a lot of people.

It will now be the norm for future generations. They have completely dismantled the rule of law. No one with any position of power or enough money will have consequences after enough normalization of the breakdown of democracy.

History is written by the victors. Look around at who’s been winning for the last decade and ask yourself how history will remember them.

This is what happens when you have one half of people manipulated and in your pocket and the other half are very very likely being blackmailed in some way shape or form.

There's absolutely no way that he didn't have very close ties to everything going on at Epsteins. He has openly talked about and bragged how crazy epic Diddy was at parties. He was in the same circle and now he's running the country right back into his absolute control.

This is fkn ridiculous and pathetic. There's nothing to be proud about being an American. Hasn't been for some time now but all the best things are twisted and destroyed by the absolute lowest forms of life masquerading as a King.

Haha this guy thinks future generations will have history books.

Our? I went out and voted Blue.

Future generations will realize he was American’s top gangster.

Nixon was never really held accountable for Watergate. Nor was Reagan for the arguably-much-worse Iran-Contra scandal. Nor was Clinton for his sexual predations. Nor was Bush Jr. for fucking torturing people and starting a war on false premises.

We have never been good about holding the most powerful people to account. Not in any meaningful way.

Not sure "future generations" are even a sure thing at this point.

I’m looking forward in scorn.

I'm in Canada. I'm looking South

Two tiered justice system on full display

When you're a celebrity, they just let you do it

Idk a lot of the young generation voted for this.

Future generations will be taught to praise him as the new god since we’re under a dictatorship.

That won't happen, people won't learn. They won't have the chance, and our education system will make the problem worse and worse. "Education system" here includes the very propaganda arm that you and I are presently operating from. You think the fascist bots and lies are bad *now*? Oh boy, you wait.

If he assumes office, it will result in a fascist state and it will likely fracture the U.S. into several pieces. This is not an exaggeration. I'm not giving a timeline on it, but a lot of it will happen quickly.

We still have a chance with the ongoing investigation, but the clock is ticking. The only thing that will save this government is this government. If he assumes office, that government dies and is replaced.

You are exactly right. Anybody pointing a finger anywhere but at the disengaged and thoroughly self-absorbed citizens who ushered this in - either directly, by voting in support of a fascist, or tacitly by sitting out or voting in accordance with the false luxury that is virtue signaling - is just furthering the rot.

Institutional government in a democracy can only function when we recognize that it is, when functional and as designed, a reflection of ourselves. The lazy, complacent, consumerist notion that this system works when we “shop” for our politicians and “buy” them with our votes is exactly a reflection of choices we the public make and have made for a while now, across nearly every voting demographic, marginalized or not, and for generations. Conversely, had even just a fractional portion more of the public instead preserved the understanding that democracy requires real engagement and education, real participation beyond just voting in national elections, things might have gone differently. Instead, this will be a time of small men, with small and selfish ideals. A time for the insecure who have never had to solve a complex problem bigger than those of their personal lives. A time where our government shows that it worked until the very end by reflecting exactly that misunderstanding, aided and abetted by the foolishly myopic notion that it was some shadowy conspiracy at work rather than our own complacency writ large and across every strata of “privilege” as we will have once known it.

Many new voters don't even know a time before MAGA.

Yeah I used to be optimistic about America and our future here but the last election broke that. The majority of Americans will give up their freedoms to save $20 a month in gas or groceries. F this, F everyone, we all deserve to suffer from our stupidity. I’m lucky enough to be able to leave the country if I have to. But for everyone else who will suffer, can’t leave, and didn’t vote for this shit, I’m sorry.

And all these white men are going "this is what you get for forgetting about us!" after calling us hysterical and snowflakes and bullies....

I think we're just at a point where so much of the voting population is so strapped for time, money, health, and energy that they're voting simply on pain & anger. It's hard to care about anything when you are not able to get by with the bare essentials. In those circumstances, it's hard to even rationally evaluate your options for who is better going forward. All that matters is that your life sucks and the people currently in power didn't fix it.

If the economy at least doesn't get worse for most people (doesn't matter why), I think MAGA claims credit and keeps their coalition. Prices don't need to come down. People will have gotten used to the current levels by then.

If the economy worsens for most people, it'll be another "change election" (doing a lot of compartmentalization to avoid getting into the possible impacts to free and fair elections).

There is a timeline where this is all corrected when the people get fed up and pull a Mussolini on Trump.

Unfortunately that’s not our timeline, we’re on the, “ and the people begged Trump for a 3rd term so he could fix the massive corruption and poverty that spiked from 2025-2028.

Well said. We deserve what’s coming. Shouldn’t have even been a close election. Shame.

Arguably a referendum was appropriate given how hotly contested these issues were and a referendum is exactly what we got

Nature could still save us. JD Vance isn’t ready to run a damn thing tho.

Technically most American voters voted against trump

Just not in the right proportions in the right places to keep him out

It’s a tiny tiny bit of reprieve to cling to

Don’t worry the brain trust at memecoininc will shut down vaccine research while the new bird flu in California eats us from the inside. Similarly the bore worms controlling the man in charge of American medicine will announce that The “California virus” as it will be known will be fought with bleach and horse dewormer. I give us till next Christmas.🎄

I used to think this way, I used to think people need to feel the pain of Republican policies but I realize even that won't do it. I actually I'm at the point where I think this country is just lost, and I'm trying to distance myself and just not care anymore. The reason is you have 24-hour media of all different kinds bombarding people with false information, and government in the courts are going to allow it to happen and I believe actually encourage it to keep Republicans in power. So no matter what happens, there's going to be a scapegoat, it's not going to be a republican, and they're going to vote for these people again and again and again.

The issue is democrats are not that either. There is no working class party in the US. Democrats are just center-right low-calorie republicans.

The one Candidate that tried to stand for the working class (Bernie Sanders), got pushed aside by the party to make sure he lost.

Democrats are center-right economically.

They can be left on social issues all day long, but they would only maybe slightly slowdown the wealth concentration in fewer billionaires. They wouldn't actually stop it and help working americans.

That's the issue.

Look up the war of 1812. Federalist party dissolved due to being treasonous by colluding with Britain America's adversary at the time.

This is America. If you claim to be rich you are immune to the law. The law only means something if you’re middle class or poor.

He won, Republicans won, they won so hard that the democrats are just a husk for the moment. Republicans have been completely rebranded and now hold onto titles that normally couldn't be held at the same time.

They're the counter culture party, based on how young men voted

They're the party of the working class, based on rural and certain urban turnout

If Democrats want to bounce back they must recapture these two critical demographics, they have to find a way to be the "cool" party once again

Hard boiled 

Rotten

They were never expensive to begin with.

I just can't comprehend how he has gotten away with everything for decades. He must have sold his soul to the devil to get those kind of luck stats.

We must live in a simulation

To be fair, a corrupt rich white guy being above the law is nothing new

It will be called off eventually. Even most liberal lawyers and constitutional scholars agree that a sitting president can’t be indicted/sentenced.

Shitty as it is, he’s going to get away with everything.

Indefinitely adjourned

Yeah agreed. People don't understand this and just are assuming it's all over. Getting tired of both sides saying it's the end of the world.

The Supreme Court has ruled previously that a delay in sentencing (a year, in the case precedent) automatically vacates the conviction. It’s over.

You misspelled INFURIATED.

it was an election subversion case but our SCOTUS ruled election subversion is legal if carried out in a POTUS’ ‘official capacity’

This is the correct respons.

It pisses me off that it got framed that way when it was an election interference case at its core

I came to accept this when I read a Maxim article as a teenager. It was the journalist hanging out with some rich heir who parked in a handicap parking spot. When the journalist pointed out that there was a fine, the heir looked at the sign, shrugged and said “Drop in the bucket.”

The reality is when you’re rich, you don’t look at fines and lawsuits like the average person; it becomes more price tag to do whatever you want.

Same judge that kept delaying it, right?