Did you watch it? I don't have the stomach. Reading about the prosecution not being able to use the word "victim" (at least, not about the people who were actually killed) pushed my contempt threshold. But - in addition to using the Brett Kavanaugh Method of demonstrating wildly obtuse "remorse" with "crying" - I heard they actually tried arguing that he only went in the first place to provide medical assistance? (...with a machine gun, and only a machine gun?)
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I watched up tp the point I heard the judges phone ringtone was God Bless The USA. Not only will this kid be acquitted (as will his mom if she is charged and tried), he's going to get millions for being wrongfully prosecuted and at some point this kid will have a podcast and a Fox News spot and be a leader in the white nationalist/American Fascist party - he's been groomed for it since he killed those people. Not to mention that nationalist and all around fash friendly commenter JD Vance amplifying every frame of this trial. Does anyone wonder why it's televised to begin with?
And if his personality isn't strong enough for any of those things, there's always GOP Congress seats to fall back on where. (Their hate might lack the panache to inspire exponential returns, like Tucker or Rush, but at least they can herd in the echo chamber).
My issue is that the media puts his story forward - not the people he fucking murdered. The next time you read a reporter blathering after some shooting or other tragic event - we won't event mention that terrorists name, we will focus on the victims - remember this bullshit trial.
Maybe informal "norms" are not enough.
Ya think?
I don't see any reality in which Donald Trump doesn't decide to run; his own ego won't allow him NOT to do so, even if he essentially only runs to spite both Ron DeSantis and the Republican establishment, which is now severing ties with him while also rebranding his rhetoric into a much more palatable form for suburban voters (Younkin is merely the preview for what the next era of Republican candidates).
ehhhhh. people said stuff like this the first time he ran, too. Remember how he was going to "destroy the Republican party"? I think the wisest course is to assume the dumbest possible thing will happen. The bonus is that you can be pleasantly surprised when you are wrong.
