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falsem , to Politics in Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison

Trump’s attorneys like Alina Habba have amplified that bravado. Habba told Fox News’ Shannon Bream last month that the former president was so confident he would be vindicated that he’s not even preparing for his various trials. “If it was a normal person, honestly Shannon, I could understand the concern,” she said, adding that “You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong.”

Never heard a bigger lie about our justice system.

originalucifer ,
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? “You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong.”

this is generally how the rich feel and behave. when you can throw lawyers at every problem, youve already been acquitted on multiple felonies because of your fancy lawyers, of course he thinks hes bulletproof.

he doesnt understand that there might be a limit to the corruption he is using to escape justice.

falsem ,

Yeah, that's the part I was referring to. It obviously requires a huge amount of prep to defend yourself in a criminal case even with lawyers. Most prosecuters aren't in the habit of pursuing cases they don't think they can win.

jeebus , to Politics in Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison
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And the only thing that could stop that is the Democratic party and their incompetence. They think they have this election in the bag, but that is very far from fact. Just like in 2016.

Vode_An , to Politics in Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison

I’m going joker mode if he wins from prison.

dingus ,
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You’ll turn your bones brittle?

walden , to Politics in Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Keep Ditching Him

But, but,… it works so well for Donald!

tacosanonymous , to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'

I wish people would stop giving these unapologetic, anti-democratic assholes a platform.

RaincoatsGeorge , to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'

Don’t get me wrong I’m glad all these traitors are speaking up about king traitor but I can’t help but feel like they all should be held accountable and not celebrated. It’s not like trump was some saint going into his presidency and we suddenly found out it was all a ruse. He literally has just been himself from day one. So these people willingly signed up to back a wannabe dictator and we are to believe they had a ‘ crisis of conscience’ and are now speaking out? Fuck that. These bottom feeders hitched their wagon to a losing party and now that it suits them they’re going full like we aren’t aware they supported and enabled all of it.

Fuck her, fuck trump, they all need to be behind bars for getting us here. Send a clear message that Hitler wasn’t the only Nazi and just because they took off their Hugo boss uniforms and stopped goose stepping doesn’t mean they’re forgiven for their crimes.

They’re just angling for the next con, trying to find a slightly more intelligent fascist to hitch their wagon to while they destroy the country. All of them should pay.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Kinda. She chose that job. She ignored all the red flags. And now she’s going to do entertainment tours because nobody is hiring people who worked in Trump’s govt and boo fucking hoo, her bosses treated her badly.

Crampon , to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'

What shit article is this? It’s a non issue for the sake of the state.

The issue is the coup attempt and stealing classified documents which he kept in his house.

This woman is trying to save her ass by spewing some unimportant gossip. If she wanted to be on the good side she would defend the democracy when her boss tried to overthrow it. Not sharing stories about the week nights in the White House.

agent_flounder ,
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B-but trump likes small condiment bottles! /s

Seriously. Fuck her. Fuck Trump. Fuck Kimmel. Fuck her publisher. Fuck all the bigoted assholes who support that shitstain.

e_t_ Admin , to Politics in Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Keep Ditching Him

Who would have imagined that lawyers like to get paid?

geekworking , to Politics in Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Keep Ditching Him

It turns out that lawyers aren’t keen on going along with schemes that will jeopardize their license while not being paid.

fleabomber , to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'

It took personal legal peril for her to come clean. Fuck your book sales.

fiat_lux , (edited ) to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'

Archive.today version - but it's also just copy pasted quotes and the YouTube link from book promoter's media release posing as journalism. Please don't give the Kimmel video or this article clicks.

Fuck Jimmy Kimmel too for platforming and enabling amoral grifters.

The Rolling Stone should also reconsider posting PR media releases as articles. I'm sure the delta on the media release vs. final version would be... minimal. They're amoral grifters just as much as Trump, Hutchinson and Kimmel for the same enabler reasons.

But given how toxic the Kimmel work-environment is, it's not surprising Kimmel is buddying up to a piece of shit. Scum collects on the surface like that.

Chaos, Comedy, and ‘Crying Rooms’: Inside Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ - Rolling Stone, 7th September 2023, the same magazine just under 1 month ago.

Edit: formatting Edit 2: there are too many new-york-based late night tv hosts named Jimmy for me to remember properly. Serves me right.

Drusas ,

You say fuck Jimmy Kimmel, and then you provide a link that's about Jimmy Fallon.

fiat_lux ,

Ah shit, my brain just totally glossed over which late night tv host named Jimmy from New York around 50 who always wears a suit it was. Thanks, I appreciate the call out.

RunningInRVA , to Politics in Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Keep Ditching Him

Waiting for the day Giuliani is using public defender.

spittingimage , to Politics in Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week'
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What’s with all the paywalled articles? Is this some kind of stealth advertising? It’s like paywalled is the default format for links.

btaf45 OP ,

I didn’t even know it was paywalled. Maybe because I have javascript disabled.

Sludgehammer , to Politics in Jan. 6 Rioter Tackled by Feds While Attempting to Flee Court
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Okay… maybe gonna display out of touch geezer-ness here, but when did Orc become a trendy insult?

remotelove ,

It has been used frequently by Ukrainians describing Russians in recent times. I have to admit, the description is fitting for an invader from the perspective of a Ukrainian.

orc - a member of an imaginary race of humanlike creatures, characterized as ugly, warlike, and malevolent.

ArugulaZ ,
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Joke's on them! Russians may be ugly, warlike, and malevolent, but they're sure not imaginary!

echodot ,

Only their air force is imaginary

Jessvj93 ,

The old USSR coming back is imaginary.

Maestro ,
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I think it's a really bad term. Orcs are born evil. They can't really help themselves. Russians are humans. They choose to be evil. That's worse IMHO

P1r4nha ,

Agreed, any kind of dehumanization like this is not okay, but I get why you would call an invader that.

Corkyskog ,

Are orcs actually evil? I thought they were only evil when they congregated into a horde. Alone they kind of just hunt and do basic survival things. Maybe I am misremembering.

Maestro ,
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Probably depends on the setting. LotR, Warhammer, D&D, etc.

Omega_Haxors ,

Originally it was but when someone pointed out how racist it was, they realized it was fucked up and went back on it.

Sterile_Technique ,
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Orcs are generally depicted as being overwhelming in number, but individually kind of worthless. Wave after wave is sent into the meat grinder until the meat grinder breaks.

Kinda perfect for Russia’s approach to invading Ukraine.

Send more meat grinder parts.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

I think it’s also worth noting that Tolkien’s orcs were individually cowardly and undisciplined, who could only be motivated into a horde by being more afraid of the consequences of refusal.

CADmonkey ,

How very USSR of them.

Floon ,

I think you’re thinking of zergs. Orcs are just ugly, evil brutes. Zergs are endless and individually worthless.

Sterile_Technique ,
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The only zerg I’m familiar with are StarCraft’s. Zerglings match what you’re describing, but the zerg as a whole vary a ton.

And zerglings are pretty much the orcs of the StarCraft universe, so kinda interchangeable if we’re comparing to large groups irl idiots like the J6 crowd, or invaders like Putin’s cannon fodder

jordanlund , to Politics in Jan. 6 Rioter Tackled by Feds While Attempting to Flee Court
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Surprised this hasn’t happened more often.

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