Banks are already collapsing these days. Is this a plan to blame Trump for when it all comes falling down? Let's wait and find out. EDIT: People are already blaming him.
Trump's people admitted they don't know if or when Trump would be arrested. Take Tuesday with a huge grain of salt.
I doubt it happens. But if it does it's a great excuse to blame Trump for more problems he didn't have a hand in. I give it a 1% chance of occurring because people are passive now and his hardened base will be busy working.
I love these clueless folks who refuse to acknowledge what trump did. Trump DEREGULATED the banking industry specially for banks the size of SVB and you folks pretend it's some democratic talking point. Are you sincerely this stupid? What the do you folks think will happen when you give corporate America more and more power and remove regulations. I don't understand why right wingers are so dumb regarding simple economics. Especially now that higher income folks actually tend to be more democratic now.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/19/gop-trump-indictment-threat-00087765 I don't think I've ever seen a better quote in my life that represents the GOP.
The people dumb enough to actually go through with that will have 0 effect on the economy. *a fat dwarf star
january 6, 2021 was a wednesday. look at all these gainfully employed, respectable, productive members of society!
it’s cute how they think they’re some silent majority lost to Hillary by 3 million votes lost to Biden by 7 million votes the vaunted red wave in 2022 never happened the actual majority just laughs at these loser clowns
I wanted to respond to this when I had the time, so sorry it's taken me a couple of days. I agree with you that the Manhattan DA might be committing a mistake here by pursuing an indictment on light charges. What Trump did doesn't seem to be in dispute (had an affair with Stormy Daniels, paid her off to stay quiet, and lied about the payoff on his books to keep it quiet before an election) and pursuing accountability for that action is, at the end of the day, up to the DA. But, of all Trump's potential legal issues, it seems like a miscalculation to pursue this one over, say, the election tampering in Georgia. However, the "warning" shot here is what has stuck in my mind. Trump's rise (and continued presence in our body politic) unleashed a new level of shamelessness on our society. People have learned that you can succeed to the highest levels while being the worst version of yourself - unapologetically dishonest, crass, insulting, proudly ignorant, etc. - and still be embraced by a gaggle of shitheads who cheer on the boorishness because they, too, want to succeed without any checks on their worst impulses. The swing from President Obama - who implored people to look to their better angels and had a didactic air about him - to President Trump (who did the exact opposite) caused a massive inner whiplash among Americans. We went from having a professorial president who could inspire (and/or come across as aloof to his critics) with his rhetoric to a president who told his supporters they were fine as they were and could be ugly just like him. Holding Trump accountable for something, anything, could eventually put the brakes on this continued descent. Informal guardrails on our institutions and the acquiescence of the GOP to Trump and his base meant that he learned he could continually push the envelope and pay no price for it. It's how he conspired to commit election fraud in Georgia, lied about a free and fair election, led a hair-brained scheme to overturn the results, cost the GOP the Senate (twice!) and remains the frontrunner for the 2024 nomination. The GOP had a chance to rid themselves of this cancer during the second impeachment trial, but senators like Mitch failed to do what was necessary. Now the arsonist is back and explicitly threatening to blow it all up should he get a second chance. To your point about Mitch and his "be careful what you wish for" warning: it's frustrating when one side identifies and exploits these informal guardrails for their own ends (the debt ceiling, the filibuster for routine executive appointments, the "Biden rule," etc.) and insists that if any action is taken to stop the strategic misuse of government they'll do something even worse in the future. But only side unleashed Trump on this country and seems incapable, for a laundry list of reasons we all know and don't need to re-hash here, of ridding themselves of his noxious influence. To suggest that holding him accountable for crimes is simply a partisan exercise devoid of substance that opens the door for retribution is a false equivalence because there is nobody else, in either party, that has this much of a pernicious effect on our society as Donald Trump. It amounts to a threat: "don't go after the bad man because it will only make him (and us since he's with us thanks to the magic (R) next to his name) angry." I'd counter that Trump's continual free pass from the GOP is what is making him worse and would make a potential second term an irrevocable nightmare on the world. Does Trump deserve his comeuppance? Yes. Is this the case to do it? I'm not sure.
