'judge refuses to delay slap on wrist'
fucking waste of everyones time. too rich to punish... its the american way
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If he pronounces no sentence except for sticking the felon branding, then it isn't even a slap on the wrist. It doesn't affect him in any way whatsoever, even after his term is over.
Well, he can't legally vote in many states ... so there's that at least.
Seems like McDonald's has tougher job requirements than our highest position.
Tougher job requirements and easier to punish you when you fuck up. Hell, you don’t even have to fuck up that bad and this idiot’s about to tank the entire country even worse and lose nothing.
Hey, you dropped this:
,again
Except he can in Florida where he lives and where voting rights are restored upon fulfilling all terms of your sentence... so nothing.
It's not even a slap on the wrist, they're just closing out the trial and letting him walk.
“Yeah they found you guilty, but don’t worry, we’re not gonna do anything”
Yeah, the moment he postponed July sentencing it was clear that the whole thing was a mockery of our judicial system.
Guess which of these sentences aren't in the article.
"The current schedule is entirely a function of defendant’s repeated requests to adjourn"
"Merchan said in his ruling Friday that he did not plan to jail Trump and that he was likely to sentence him to an unconditional discharge, meaning he would remain a convicted felon but would have no other punishment"
"We are not to blame for flushing democracy down a shit riddled toilet"
How the fuck can we ever take our courts seriously again?
There is some twisted logic to this. Your'e right, the system is broken, but this decision potentially avoids the constitutional crisis of whether a president can pardon themself. It may also make an appeal less likely. In short, it may be the best way to make the conviction stick. Now, what good is a conviction if there's no punishment? The only thing I can think of that would have any impact on Trump is civil liability stemming from a criminal conviction.
Without punishment or rehabilitation, it doesn't matter like you said. It's the most in our faces it could possibly get, different rules apply. I forgot where I read or heard it, and it'll be paraphrased:
The Constitution is just a piece of paper. It doesn't mean a fucking thing if people do not back up it's intent. And the people who are supposed to be are willingly neglecting their duty/oath to do so.
We were already an oligarchy in a trenchcoat pretending to be a democracy, we're well beyond that now. Shit will get grim.
I wish I could commit felonies with impunity too.
Although, come to think of it, I don't really want to commit felonies, because I'm not a criminal.
I admit I do get away with committing a lot of felonies.
Well, one specific felony a lot of times.
Glad I was able to go to a state where that felony is legal to purchase before the big snowstorm hit.
How much weed can one man smoke?
Is that a challenge?
I wouldn't mind robbing a bank., I'll just keep a 10% finders fee and return the rest to the people it was stolen from.
(Okay, it really depends on the bank you rob and how you rob it. looting nazis acounts from UBS? Oh yeah, there's oodles there.)
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Have you tried? Maybe you're immune to and you just don't know.
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Itd be nice if he got to sentencing, said "PSYCHE! JAIL FOR YOU! FOUR YEARS! NO PAROLE!" and then had some cuffs slapped on him and dragged him directly to prison. It's not going to happen, but it'd be nice.
Rikers Island becoming the new seat of the American government wasn't something I had on my bingo card
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You're all missing the main point here: If you live a clean life, stay true to your faith, commit 34 felonies and be a sexual predator, you too could grow up to be the next president of the USA!!
...twice!
...so far!
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“Sentencing”
Right.
They’ve already said there will be no punishment, so why does this even matte? It’s almost like the news wants us to be angry.
I wonder why that is….
Are you not angry?
I still don’t understand how a convicted felon loses the right to vote for president but can still be eligible to run for that office.
Simple: the Founding Fathers never envisaged that a convicted felon would ever have the balls to run for president, much less that anybody would be stupid enough to vote for one, because it's fucking insane.
Or that, in true democratic fashion, they belived that the populace knows best. Allowing it or remaining silent could have been intentional. When forming a new government to escape from corruption, you wouldn't want to create a situation that would outright exclude anyone that the corrupt government labels a felon.
They could never have imagined such vast distribution of misinformation and all three branches being so thouroughly compromised.
I doubt very much that the Founding Fathers had any illusion about the judgment capacity of the populace. If they had, the electoral college wouldn't exist.
But they did believe that letting the citizens decide, however bad the decision, was the least worst option. And - more relevant to the Trump problem - I'm convinced they believed there was a level of stupidity and lack of morals below which even the most uneducated, most foolish citizenry could never stoop. That's why didn't put guardrails against the unthinkable.
Of course, Trump and the magards proved them wrong: there is no bottom rung on that particular ladder.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- unknown
Turns out all you need is racism, stupidity, and a massive propaganda machine. I'd like to thank the 150 million idiots who made this possible. I'll be thinking of you all when the 2nd Great Depression pops off with some sprinkles of pandemic 2.0 on top.
Because if felons were unable to be elected the Republicans would try to pre-emptively jail their opponent in every single election. It's one of few checks against corruption that I believe is still working properly.
You wouldn't really want being a felon to prevent someone from running for president, because if they couldn't there'd be a significant incentive to weaponize the DOJ against political rivals.
Sir, this is Lemmy.world. We only do emotional outbursts against republicans and capitalism here. Not rational thought! Please take that somewhere else. /s
Lock him up before he takes office
lol, good one
Clown country
Why does Trump even give a shit at this point?
He always wants to come out on top even if it doesn't matter. He can't help it: It's pathological in people who seek power.
In other words, you don’t have to be an ax-wielding murderer to possess some of the classic psychopathic traits: lack of remorse and empathy, a sense of grandiosity, superficial charm, conning and manipulative behavior and refusal to take responsibility for one’s actions.
Trump fits the description of a psychopath pretty well.
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