It’s so funny how he took a massive dump on the legal system and got away with murder and the libs are like “damn, how could this happen?!” gee wiz I really don’t know, oh well!

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    I know i’m preaching to the choir here but I seriously want to ask the libs: How is this anything but a complete and unconditional surrender of the legal system? You broke the law. You were convicted of a serious crime. Your sentence is that you’re free to go sir, “god speed”.

    Like that’s fucking it. If the laws ever did matter they sure as fuck don’t anymore. He is materially above it and free from all consequences. So what are you gonna fucking do about it?

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    I’m sorry, not to give any respect to due process for prosecution but

    Prosecutors had recommended the sentence, saying in court Friday, “we must be respectful of the office of the presidency” and Trump’s pending inauguration.

    That’s insane. So I could commit a crime and just win an election in order to get out of punishment? Winning an election doesn’t negate a crime…

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      I mean, this was basically why the Supreme Court handed Bush the presidency. “It’d be really sad if the president had his feefees hurt by people thinking he wasn’t legitimate 🥺”

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      Yeah it does, evidently.

      The thing is that criminal head of state has been the go to to paint other countries in a negative light for ages. If an important person gets convicted of anything it obviously means that country and their system is shit, because otherwise criminals wouldn’t hold offices.

      Well, the guy won the vote and I don’t think it’s in the power or mission statement of that court to change any of that, hence the only other option is to give him special privileges as to not be punished.

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      The pitfalls of directly electing presidents. You make them politically irreplaceable. At least in parliamentary systems the ruling party can relatively easily change the PM.

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    Someone’s going to shoot trump dead and people will be like “oh no you have to use the legal system that’s how things need to be”

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    But he will have to live with the shame of being a felon while being the most powerful person in the world and living on a tropical resort with a gold toilet.

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      It’s pathetic, really. Like if you have the opportunity to be the most powerful person in the world, who cares about an asterisk.

      liberalism types are the only ones who describe that as a defeat.

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    A few years ago, a Hungarian friend was educating me on the incredible corruption of the Orban regime. IIRC, he showed me a photo of the Hungarian equivalent of a supreme court justice shaking Orbans hand and apologizing - apologizing for having sentenced Fidesz (Orban’s party) to a totally symbolic fine for breaking some rules about campaign ads or something.

    This seems a lot like that. Yet the same libs who would talk about how awful the Hungarian system is will surely keep telling me that the US is, despite its flaws, a beacon of democracy.