• bloopernova@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I bet $20 that trump won’t get convicted of anything. But I also bet $20 that he flees to russia if he does.

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      1 year ago

      But I also bet $20 that he flees to russia

      Man, I’ve been expecting him to do that since before Biden’s inauguration day.

      Frankly, I’m amazed that so little has happened since Jan 6. By this amount of time after the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler had already been arrested, tried, convicted, wrote his manifesto, and released.

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        Yeah, I fully expected him to be on a plane to Russia as Biden was being sworn in, so he could start calling himself President-in-Exile.

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          Given what he knows, who he could hurt, and how bad he is at keeping his mouth shut, I would havw thought somebody would have slipped him some polonium tea by now.

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            1 year ago

            Putin is distracted. Much cheaper, should it come to that, to pay one of the Trump fail-children to smother daddy with a pillow.

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          Exactly! That would’ve been the smart thing to do both in terms of protecting himself from prosecution and from playing up the persecuted martyr angle to push the “Biden is illegitimate” narrative and gain even more support from his base, I think.

          I still can’t decide if the fact that he failed to do that is because he was making a mistake, or because his apparent confidence that he wouldn’t actually be held accountable was a more correct assessment of America than mine. The longer all this drags on without an arrest, the more worried I am that it’s the latter!

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        I thought most of his protection detail were true believer conservatives? I think they’d either applaud and go with him, or he’d give them the slip. Via the application of brown envelopes full of cash.