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Corrected headline: Trump complains he cannot baselessly slander and instigate violence against innocent people connected to his court cases.
Meanwhile he is still allowed to do it against everybody else.
Conservative voices are being silenced
😂 Her character was an absolute spot on portrayal (I have a hard time calling it a parody)
I wasn’t expecting that from Lisa Kudrow but she’s really good 😂
Her scenes in Death to 2020 just couldn't have hit the nail on the head any better. I kept getting riled up and had to remind myself it's satire.
The big news here is that we have finally found a line that Donald Trump will not cross. He continued to defame Carroll after massive judgements for defaming her, but that was just money after all. Being in contempt of this court might send him to Rikers, though, and no amount of money will fix that.
I've always said he wants to be thrown in jail, because he thinks it will play into his followers' persecution complex and lead to lots more fundraising. But Rikers is notorious, I bet he would do anything to avoid going there.
Speaking of: what's the deadline of the collection on that one?
I used to think he was intentionally coming up with the wildest shit ever because deep down it's his way of being a loudmouth jerk to convince people not to vote for him, while still showing he's a strongman/ 'speak his mind' because otherwise he'll look like a pussy for backing down. But now I just think he's just a gigantic asshole.
Make no mistake about it he’s a loudmouth jerk, gigantic asshole AND the world’s biggest pussy. The trifecta of douchebaggery.
The big problem for him if he goes to jail is that he isn't literate enough to write the modern "Mein Kampf"
Eh, Steven Miller will ghost write it for him.
He probably won't go to jail no matter what he does. House arrest is most likely.
With our luck, he'll be sentenced to live in public housing in DC for 4 more years
I mean Trump in gen pop in a prison is a gang war waiting to happen.
He wouldn't be in the general population at Rikers. They put his CFO in an isolation ward originally built for contagious prisoners. Still, all the facilities there are decrepit, and NYC is actively looking close it down and replace it.
I've always said he wants to be thrown in jail, because he thinks it will play into his followers' persecution complex and lead to lots more fundraising.
This scares the shit outta me. It's literally straight out of the Hitler playbook. As much as I want to see him get his comeuppance, any persecution he faces is also going to cement him as a martyr and embolden his supporters. Sending him to jail is a lose-lose.
This is also why, IMO, judges bend over backwards to be lenient to him. Any petty criminal who continually circumvented a judge's directions would have been held in contempt long ago.
Then what? We keep treating him with kid gloves and getting away with it? It needs to happen and the sooner the better so we can move past it. The more we try to place nice and given him passes the worse it’ll get. Its not just gonna go away on its own.
Lol, free speech doesn't mean he is free from the consequences. The gag order is there to protect him from breaking the law as much as its there to protect the jurors from intimidation by him. Is free to break the gag order I'd he wants, he'll just have to pay the consequences if he chooses that option.
Speech is free. Lies and slander is expensive.
Captain Snowflake is always whining about something, and always has. Ever since at least the 80s. The fact that so many people think he's the ideal of manhood is laughable.
Rights are granted to you as long as you follow the law that grants you them. Once you break the law certain rights can and will be taken away from you because you are no longer following the contract that allows you to have them.
There are certain inalienable human rights that every person should have. Slandering people and rallying up your cultists to attack those people is NOT one of them.
they've taken away my right to threateny opponents and send my cronies after their families
Oh yes, what a loss. Fuck Trump
Oh no :(
Anyway
Didn't he say we'd never see this level of whining, ever?
Maybe just don't use your platform to spread misinformation, lies and thinly veiled threats to everyone you disagree with, then frame it under freedom of speech? Didn't don poorleone here just threaten 3 past presidents in a recent rant?
When he was still on shitter, I replied to him "shut up" six times in one hour. My account has been restricted ever since (I can't post). I stopped using it anyway, probably I should delete it
Have you considered that maybe your voice is being silenced?
My account was banned for telling him I hope he dies in jail
I legit wondered why you were replying to him while he was on the shitter for a hot minute....
So anything that can be spoken is legal? Death threats? Insider trading? Collusion? Conspiracy? Bribery? Stolen valor? Classified info? Voter info?
Oh, boy, have I got news for you on Stolen Valor...
It was updated and still illegal but only if you make the statement with the intent to gain some tangible benefit. I actually wasn't aware they would prosecute you for simply saying it, regardless of context.
Someone should take a shit down his throat because he’s been shitting in everyone’s ears for a decade
Oh no, his right to verbally attack people involved in the court case he is the defendant of has been taken away!
Trump being forced to have to sit quietly in company of people who aren't yes-men and stooges is the tiniest bit of relief I get from 8 years of having to put up with this guy in our news.
That family is so pro free speech, untill you use that free speech to ask one of them who gets the first line of coke at the family get together? Or is it a trough like situation where you all get to go?
It's more like the human centipede but they snort it off each other's assholes. Trump somehow always ends up behind Ivanka.
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- A flock of geese.
- A cluster or group.
- A flock of wild geese, especially when on the ground.
Well done.
I thought this was going to be a "not the onion" post.
The loser, Crying 45, can continue to cry.
You DO have the right to speak.
What you lack is the capacity. At least for productive thoughtful speech.
Awww, the broke bitch baby snowflake is crying that he has to follow the law.... Fuck this asswipe, and any dirt bag that votes for him.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump claimed on Friday that he has been stripped of his constitutional right to speak to the press … while ranting to a giant gaggle of reporters.
The former president rails about the case to the press multiple times a day when entering and exiting the courtroom, and has also been posting his thoughts on the trial with his characteristic barrages of commentary on Truth Social.
On Friday, Trump spent the morning ranting on Truth Social about why he deserved widespread presidential immunity from alleged crimes committed while president — a proposal the Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments on next week and which could have profound effects on the various criminal cases against Trump.
What Trump is not allowed to do is use his public statements to attempt to influence, intimidate, or attack those involved in the trial — a standard ask of criminal defendants.
Trump’s actions during the ongoing jury selection process have even led to a reprimand from Judge Juan Merchan.
On Tuesday, Merchan sharply admonished Trump and his team after the former president was heard muttering commentary during the questioning of potential jurors.
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If only they would.
If only
Sir, this is a society.