Donald Trump said he would accept home confinement or jail time after his historic conviction by a New York jury last week but that it would be tough for the public to accept.
“I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” the Republican presidential candidate told Fox News in an interview that aired on Sunday. “I think it’d be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point, there’s a breaking point.”
Trump did not elaborate on what he thought might happen if that point is reached. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 11, four days before Republicans gather to formally choose their presidential nominee to face Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s election.
Asked what Trump supporters should do if he were jailed, Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump told CNN: “Well, they’re gonna do what they’ve done from the beginning, which is remain calm and protest at the ballot box on November 5th. There’s nothing to do other than make your voices heard loud and clear and speak out against this.”
How the fuck is stochastic terrorism not illegal?
Because we have free speech, and people have free will. Direct calls to violence are illegal, but if you say “won’t someone rid me of this troublesome Vice President”, then you’re not directing someone to do anything; any actions taken are on their own initiative. There isn’t even a “just following orders” defense.
And it would be ridiculous to think that being a former president, especially a media lolcow like Trump, doesn’t land you a guaranteed platform anywhere, at any time.
As long as everything, everywhere is commercialized including our news, every outrageous character and outrageous political outcome and outrageous tragedy will be another billboard, another rope to pull in viewers and raise a bottom line. We need independent media, but we need them to also be independent from the Wrestlemania spectacle the current batch feeds on and nurtures and grows and makes worse every day.
It’s specifically because of this dumbass perspective on freedom of speech that this is happening. That exact logic is why we’re here. If you say nazi shit you should face dire consequences. We sentence people for smoking fucking weed but you can run around calling for civil war, calling for genocide of queer people, calling for the enslavement of women and minorities, and you’re telling me nothing should happen to you? You’re telling me saying “Hey, sure would be nice if someone bombed this children’s hospital that treats trans kids.” to your 15 million rabidly violent followers should not cause any consequences for you?
Fuck that. I’m so done with this concept of “free speech”. It’s why we’re here. It’s why fascism was able to make it this far in the first place. This idea that “anything goes the free market of ideas will sort itself out” isn’t just entirely wrong in every way it’s God damn dangerous. Letting antisemites/white supremacists/misogynists/queerphobes spread their ideology openly without consequences is evil. It’s evil.
“Free speech” seems to assume that words are neutral, that saying things affects nothing. A single spoken sentence can cause mass murder. A single tweet can cause someone to shoot up a hospital, or a school, or a family. A pattern of speech, a pattern of ideology, can create a genocide. At the Nuremberg trials we literally proved that in international law. Inciting a genocide was proven to be a crime against humanity, and those who promoted genocidal ideology in german media were found accountable for their crimes. Yes, even people who never lifted a gun and never told anyone to commit acts of mass violence.
How you gonna wrap a law around it? Hell, even with something as “obvious” as this quote? Trump said nothing that “incites violence”. He’s playing the mob boss thing, again.
If 01/06 wasn’t enough for our government to take action, nothing will be. And again, what would that action even look like?
I’ve preached many, many times on here and reddit that libs need to get armed, educated and practiced. Is that terrorism? Fuck me. I’m just saying that the conservatives are ready to kill us and we should be prepared to defend ourselves.
You are aware that Trump was indicted for Jan 6 right? The trial is on hold while the Supreme Court decides if he is totally immune to legal consequences.
Which is just a delay tactic. They aren’t seriously considering it. If they did somehow declare president’s immune for any action, biden could drop a hellfire missile on Trump and the Supreme Court and probably get away with it.
Hold it off until after Trump is inaugurated and he could do whatever he wants.
I know a lot of people talk about civil war but if that happened I think that would actually pop off a civil war.
They do fine for, oh, the Panthers, black wall street, occupy wall street, war protesters, hippies…
It is but only for leftists. Thanks, McCarthy.