Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump’s claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in …

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    8 months ago

    Everything about this is just awful. The fact that someone so criminal and so thuggish is exactly who about 30% of this country thinks should be President - and they might get their way due to our broken election system (electoral college means a minority get to choose the leader of the free world).

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    8 months ago

    That… certainly is a tactic… I bet it’s info about his son everyone is already aware of.

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    8 months ago

    Biden should tell him he’ll pardon him if he drops out and then not pardon him.

    Biden would probably get charged with murder because that would surely cause the inevitable aneurysm.

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        You said when I went to make popcorn that you didn’t want any, so I only made enough for myself. I’ll go make more though 🍿🍿.

        You want cheese powder on it?

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            Wait…you can do that? I thought that was a chips-only-condiment-combo. Blowing my fucking mind right now chief.

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              The best popcorn is the popcorn you add weird toppings to.

              Garlic and onion is my favorite, but you can use basically any seasoning shaker. I use a spray bottle of distilled water, spray on, add flavor shaker, done.

              Super low calorie option that still tastes great. You can use oil if you want but it really doesn’t add much when you have actual flavors.

              You can do the same thing with sweet flavors if you want, cinnamon sugar or drink powder mixed with sugar make for great sweet popcorns.

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              8 months ago

              Keep the requests coming, I want to learn more popcorn secrets. I’m a butter and salt person. I grind my salt in my coffee grinder to a fine powder though and use that, I get better coverage.

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                I usually just have it however it comes out of the bag, but I’ll occasionally add a seasoning blend I have in the kitchen.

                Two favorites have both been from Trader Joe’s, their Umami mushroom powder and their “everything but the leftovers” blend.

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                While nicely frugal, I just buy a small shaker of popcorn salt for $2. A shaker lasts roughly one human lifetime if not accidentally spilled all over the counter.

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          Nutritional yeast, tamari, and red chili powder for me, please. I thought I didn’t want any but it smells so good, and this is getting entertaining.

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    That’s going to be really hard to do while you are rotting in Federal custody, Donnie.

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        I said custody and not prison for a reason.

        He’ll be on house arrest in a shitty barrack on a military base somewhere, just like Nixon’s lawyer.

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            I feel like the absolute harshest punishment I can reasonably see him ever facing is nothing more than a ban from holding public office.

            That’s it.

            Maaaaaybe a few months of house arrest at Mar a Lago. Maybe punitive fines.

            No prison time. Nothing that will affect his wealth. Nothing that will deplatform him as the grotesque figurehead of American conservatism until he dies.

            I’m confident he will play kingmaker for that half of the American political landscape until he’s dead.

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              Nah, the feds know where those missing top-secret files ended up at by now. The DoJ doesn’t spend this amount of time, money & manpower to hand out a slap on the wrist.

              Nothing that will affect his wealth.

              New York is quite literally about to make Trump insolvent.

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    8 months ago

    Good. Get unhinged you fuck.

    Realize this, fatty donnie, you have a cap of voters. A cap which, you can’t even guarantee that you’ll meet by the general election should your ass somehow squeak by being on the ballot in every state. You’re going to lose because you’re a loser in denial, in life, in election and as a human being.

    Oh and I bet Donnie has shit through several diapers too throughout this trial. Yeah, imagine that, electing a diaper-shitting president. Good on ya, republitards.

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      I wish I shared your optimism, but I’ve read way too many YouTube comments. There is no shortage of knuckle-dragging soldiers waiting to do Trump’s bidding. It is beyond scary how many of them there are, and I don’t see the problem just magically disappearing if/when old Adolf Shitler finally sees some consequences. Now that there is a permanent strategic unification between Evangelicals, Fascists, and Capitalists they will continue to use their uneducated, quickly reproducing, white-trash, zombie army to do their collective bidding.

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        They’ll turn on each other the moment they can. Just look at the Minnesota GOP. They literally cannot resist dividing because they’re beliefs are so fucking specific and niche and everyone who doesn’t fall in line with them is a ‘rino’

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          At this point yes, but it is a relatively modern development for there to be so much organized mobilization of these factional groups. The most dangerous thing that Trump accomplished was getting them all to identify as one big in-group, so there really is no functional difference anymore.

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        They are about 3 minutes from eating their own. They are just barely holding their party together and I really don’t think Donny can bring them together this time, what with being so busy trying not to go broke and go to jail.

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    8 months ago

    “do what I say or get blackmailed” so is that blackmailing with threating to blackmail someone? Did he technically just publicly blackmail POTUS? I have a feeling that’s not fully legal.

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    8 months ago

    Ah yes, the age old “if you are facing felonies, threaten to blackmail the US President trick.”

    I’m sure that will work.

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    8 months ago

    Perfectly reasonable thing to do for someone that clearly never did anything wrong, right?

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        GETTING a Pardon is an admission of guilt, but not only would said pardon absolve the guilty of any punishment for the crime, asking for a pardon is not an admission of guilt.

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          Small clarification.

          Accepting the pardon is accepting the guilt for the crime for which you were pardoned.

          You could always choose not to accept the pardon and fight the charges in court.

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          I don’t see how asking for permission to admit guilt is not in itself an admition of guilt, unless it were stated as a hypothetical “if I were offered a pardon, then I might accept it”