Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Trump bid to shut down Fulton County probe | CNN Politics
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The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a long shot legal bid from former President Donald Trump to essentially shut down the Fulton County criminal probe into his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.
  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    326·
    11 months ago

    I get the feeling Trump will win this election even if he loses 80-20.

    • bloopernova@programming.dev
      10·
      11 months ago

      I don’t understand why the republicans want to be in power. Climate change disasters are arriving faster and faster now, who the fuck would want to be responsible for governing during that mess?!?

      • RocksForBrains
        20·
        11 months ago

        They aren’t interested in governing. They want to cash each other out using your tax dollars.

        • clutchmatic@lemmy.world
          7·
          11 months ago

          Yes. 100% this. To the public, they blame and demonize “the opposition” and pass laws that help get votes. To the insiders within the GOP, they modify laws to make it easier to reroute government money to their inner circle of politicians and businessmen

      • einlander@lemmy.world
        8·
        11 months ago

        Easy, just do what they have always done. Just say the previous admin/party failed to prevent/account for this issue proceed to do nothing about it; put in legislation to make it harder for people to vote against them; stymie any attempts to fix it by saying the other party is trying to sabotage the country; and if they lose their positions of power, say the current admin caused and aren’t fixing the problems your party ignored.

          • clutchmatic@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            And the description on the parent comment explains the behavior of populist governments in Latin America as well - polarize the discourse, demonize the opposition, governing politicians live off special privileges and money and they run down the economy, repeating everything to stay in power longer.

      • CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        They will (some already do) claim that climate change is real but not man-made, it’s natural and inevitable. So rather than spending money on green initiatives they need to spend money on weapons/the military to defend resources they have and take resources they don’t. They’ll make cash making and selling weapons and their base will eat it all up as long as it’s other people doing most of the dying. Maybe even if not.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        The trick is to not believe in it. And if you do, find a way to profit off of it, bonus points for hurting minorities, women, and the poor.

  • TransplantedSconie
    21·
    11 months ago

    I still don’t know how the fat fuck hasn’t had a massive heart attack with all the shit being piled on his plate. The dude must truly live in an alternative reality in the mush that is his brain.

      • TransplantedSconie
        2·
        11 months ago

        I can’t read his quotes without seeing his raised index finger scrunching up and down as his voice reaches his thundering scream at the end. His pod cast is one of my favorites.

    • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      He’s incapable of shame or guilt. So why would he be bothered by anything? Dude lives in a la-la land of his own creation where he is impervious to any moral code.

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        Eh, it’s more the type of crazies that might attempt it. A left winger will throw a paint bomb or deface a building. Right wing crazies are the ones that go shooting spree, or think they’re gonna sniper the lizard king.

        For the most part at least. There’s always the really damn deranged cross over asshole. They’re way less common fortunately.

        In the end it’s just a numbers game with similar odds to the lottery, since the vast majority of people have no interest in wasting their life. You just have to wait for that special spark of fucking nuts.

  • bloopernova@programming.dev
    222·
    11 months 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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      11 months 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.

      • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
        9·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • Grumble@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months 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.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          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!

      • bloopernova@programming.dev
        5·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 months ago

      The case is rock solid. But in 12 people there’s probably a nut case cultist. That said, there’s no way the feds let him get to Russia. Trump will count on a pardon. And he’ll probably get it, if he doesn’t die first.

      • evatronicEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Only the governor of the state can issue a pardon for state crimes. It doesn’t look like the current governor is going to do that.

        • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          11 months ago

          NY? The NY the violations in this that indictment has no recommendations for jail time.

          The only indictment with jail time in the sentencing guidelines are the federal indictments. Sentencing guidelines call for a 10-20 years on those charges.

            • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              11 months ago

              The comments you are replying to aren’t about hypothetical charges in Georgia that don’t exist. They’re about all and any charges.

              • evatronic
                2·
                11 months ago

                You’re the only person in this thread talking about New York, it seems. But okay, if you say so.

                • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  People you are replying to in this thread are about the indictments in general. They discussing whether the charged stick, etc. Then you brought up state charges. The only state charges that exist are in NY, that’s why I mentioned them in response. There’s no charges in GA, and there might never be.

                  Also, a sitting president is 100% insulated from state authorities while in office. So unless the trial takes less than a years time, which it won’t, and never does, it won’t matter if he wins. At least not until Jan 22 of 2029. By then the damage will be done.

      • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        I thought that it was a meme by now. I get it. I stayed pissed for 4 years. I’m glad they’re still pissed before the next election. Better to be pissed than complacent. You can downvote me all you want, as long as you vote.