Then the war is against those who profit most from inflicting climate change.
As with pretty much any human caused problem in human history, you need only follow the money.
Thatâs the core problem, the perpetrators of climate change have become effectively untouchable, leaving us nibbling around the edges so as not to inconvenience our owners.
No amount of peasants sorting recycling or putting up private solar panels will even begin to address this cataclysm. The enemies are big oil, big manufacturing, and big livestock. Unless we magically become willing to slap the profiteers/significant shareholders of those industries back down to Earth, sharply reduce them without concern for their continued profits as we should, and change our lifestyles to adapt to less ridiculous levels of consumption, weâre all fucked.
We are all just fucked. The proven unsustainable, unending Capitalistic growth/metastasis needs to stop for the sake of civilization, and our civilization has proven we would literally rather burn then reign our capitalists in and say ânoâ to their insatiable, sociopathic greed. After all, they are our glorious, benevolent job creators.
How do we convince millions of true believer capitalism worshipping peasants whoâve been propagandized since birth to labor and consume as their sacred duty that what our species needs to do is abandon the idea of growing the footprint and consumption of our species without end and seek homeostasis/equilibrium with this world instead?
Seditious conspiracy comes with a max 20 years sentence (for one charge). Most people that day were caught up in the events as they unfolded without thinking through their actions and understanding what they were doing, to various degrees. They didnât wake up that day to start a coup but they did follow along with it, thus they were guilty but given leniency and their sentences were greatly reduced to reflect that. Those people got their 1-3 years for partaking.
Unlike those individuals this guy didnât just wake up knowing a coup would happen that day, he actually organized it. Through his direction actions and that of his co-conspirators the events of January 6th unfolded thanks to his efforts. Him and his co-conspirators who organized and created this coup are indirectly responsible for the violence that followed that day. So his sentencing wasnât lenient because of his leadership role coupled with the violence that occured he was given a stronger sentence.
In the off chance you know - The fucker who planted shitty bombs in the important rooms - is he considered an opportunist or part of the group? Is the insanity of almost-bombing the entirety of Congress considered part of the âcoup attemptâ?
I donât remember most details. I only remember bombs were found, but they werenât very good bombs.
I imagine they would have to be part of the conspiracy to have planted them when they did otherwise it would be a really big coincidence. Also I am not 100% sure of everything that happened but it looks like they were planted at the DNC and RNC HQâs so I donât think they would have affected Congress. Also, from looking at some information from the FBI it looks like these devices were never intended to go off but instead possibly used for diversions.
Itâs also possible they just never had a chance to use them as things didnât go according to their plans that day.
So⊠do you think he has the objectivity to regret all of his actions yet? Not regret as in that he did anything morally wrong because heâs far too much a narcissist to think that. But rather regret that he put himself in the crosshairs to be actually held to account for the first time when heâs previously been able to mostly get away with criminal shit his whole life.
If he hadnât run for office, he could have continued to be just another sleazeball rich gangster wannabe in New York and probably lived out the rest of his life without any real consequences for being a piece of shit. Heâd have been insulated by low expectations and mostly being a forgettable joke of a man. But now that he poses a real and ongoing danger to the public and democracy itself, people are motivated to hold him liable for his dozens of crimes in several major high profile cases.
Do you think he wishes heâd have just stayed in Manhattan and continued screwing people over in his property deals and business schemes? I bet it keeps him up at night, and it should.
Remember the look on his face when he won? He was horrified! Same when he first met with Obama and they had a joint press conference. His body language was like, "oh fuck, what am I even doing here."
I think regret is hard for him though, because to regret something means you have to feel, in some way, you could have done something better or differently. You have to take ownership of bad feelings and in your part of bad outcomes. I just don't think his brain will let that happen. Everything bad is always someone else's fault.
But yeah...maybe in some dark, cobweb encrusted corner of his mind, he wishes he was just a NY scam artist and fake "tycoon." It served him well enough, as you noted.
Heâs incapable of all those feelings. His personality disorders wonât allow him to feel regret or remorse. On another note his personality disorder absolutely will not allow him to not respond to this decision by defaming Ms Carroll again.
I agree with the people saying he didnât really plan or expect to win, but I think you have to at least balance that with the fact that becoming president brought him more fame, more power, the adoration of millions of (disgusting) people, new avenues for bilking people out of their money, etc. No matter what the price thatâs gone along with it, I donât see any possibility that he regrets running/winning. As always, he just blames other people for anything bad that came from it
His ego is more important than his instincts of self-preservation. He ran on spite because he fucking hated Obama for some reasons, maybe for dunking on him on that special dinner. Anyway, heâs too busy being in constant war mode to ever self-reflect. He thinks all he ever did is perfect, itâs all Bidenâs fault you know.
IIRC he had to put the money in trust to appeal the first verdict, so she probably already has it her her bank account. He has way too much property to be judgement-proof.
That's great! I hope so. If it's not in a trust, even without being judgement-proof it can be difficult to get people to pay anything, like you have to pay people to physically seize their property or file additional lawsuits.
I know all of this is important, but I canât get past the mention of something called âolive oil infused coffeeâ without being too thoroughly disgusted with humanity to continue.
I donât know civil case law well, but I have to think a jury being handed a summary judgement of fact to purely determine damages⊠canât be good.
They already found him guilty in the 2022 defamation case. The 2019 case is for the same thing (at a different time, he did it more than once) so the judgement effectively covers both cases. Heâs already been found guilty, now itâs just time to determine damages. Again.
And if he keeps repeating the same lies, theyâll keep charging him. Now itâs just a game of âwill he stfu or go broke first?â My chips are on âbrokeâ.
Not a Trump hater, nor a fan of most of the prosecutions against him, but we all should have seen this coming, given both his notorious sexual past alongside the earlier ruling that sided with E. Jean Carroll regarding this matter:
Not parent commentor, but I hate to see prosecutions feed the news cycle for visibility and outrage. Plus, it fires up the base. Def a dual edged sword.
I was the only one in my subway car with a mask on this morning. Itâs going to spread like wild fire again. Hopefully there will be less hospitalizations.
His lawyers are almost undoubtedly requiring retainer fees to cover everything. Thereâs no way theyâd be stupid enough to work on contingency or expect to collect payment after the fact. Heâs probably having to write them new checks for every single week that they continue working on his case, and I can guarantee that theyâre getting the bank to verify those checks before they actually accept them.
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