Politics The Trump Crazy Train!

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I mean, according to Trump, the president can't be prosecuted for crimes while in office.

Somehow, I doubt that my social media will allow me to serve on a Trump trial.

 

Oil company executives are busy writing executive orders for Trump to issue to end environmental gains.

Also, late in Project 2025 is a plan for mass executions. It calls for immediate execution of all federal death row prisoners, appeals be damned, and massive expansion of federal death penalty.

They also plan to rename Department of Health and Human Services Department of Life. It will focus primarily on forcing women and pubescent girls to give birth. Because they are so pro life. Until birth.

 

At his New Jersey rally yesterday Trump praised "the late great Hannibal Lecter" as a "wonderful man", referred to former president Jimmy Connnors, mixed up China and Taiwan, talked about ships circling Beijing, which is landlocked, and falsely claimed a bigger crowd than Springsteen.

 

The man is a walking Nigerian Prince scam. All the errors ensure his followers are the kind who don’t know better

 

So if Trump wins, where did it go wrong? Seriously.

 

Money in politics. The system is corrupt and people are not well enough educated to understand how to fix it.

So the parties are able to play people against each other to maximize profits.

 

Lincoln, for allowing slavery as part of a prison sentence. Every president after him for not ending that barbaric practice.

Nixon for starting the war on drugs to jail hippies and black people (turning them into ready slaves). Reagan for making people hate the government, for union busting, cutting taxes on the super wealthy, expanding the war on drugs while using the FBI to put crack in black neighborhoods, and courting the moral majority. Bush, Clinton, and Bush stoking fear of immigrants and people of color in general and goosing the economy through pure consumerism.

Racism fuels the current populism, but the driver of the populism is a stagnant minimum wage, decaying infrastructure, and a growing disconnect between the economy and the quality of life for US residents. Our standard of living has been going down steadily for decades, and the government policy has been focused solely on making sure the dollar is still the de facto currency, which means they threw us in the fire to burn as fuel. No money for education, no money for social security or social services. Running the country like a business. Using the threat of homelessness and the cruelty of how the homeless are treated to coerce people into working more for less.

All of this is bad policy that leads to suffering and dissatisfaction, making the populace desperate and easy to manipulate. Corporations love desperate employees, and so do politicians.

UBI would have ended that really quick but businesses wouldn’t be able to lowball candidates so we can’t have that.

(I’m trying really hard not to just say “it’s capitalism lol” because I know it’s not useful — I do think a socialist policy would help morale enough that maybe people wouldn’t be so desperate to find a scapegoat for their sadness and anxiety)

 

Im for a good mix/balance. Social programs are necessary and I agree that a UBI would be helpful. Im not against a capitalistic approach offset with means of assisting people.

 

As long as life necessities aren’t placed in the hands of corporations because they’ve proven themselves unworthy of the responsibility. (Also, no prison sentences for non-violent crimes might be nice as a start towards a rehabilitative approach to justice)

 

This all sounds good. But what do you do for the Madoffs, Enrons, etc of the world?

Gotta still be prison sentences, right? Or for ripping off charities and stuff... That's where I get hung up on the "no prison sentences except for violence"

 

I’m not a criminal justice lawyer, and I expect every case to be judged uniquely, but in the spirit of offering different options:

Options might include setting them up with a job in a soup kitchen or similar charity with a case worker to monitor their progress, probably some form of house arrest and UBI for a certain amount of time, a shit ton of therapy with heroic doses of psilocybin to give them opportunities to gain context and empathy for those they swindled, and change their life path. Job placement after the sentence with a focus on preventing fraud. There are options, even if these might not sound perfect.

I feel like a lot of the resistance to rehabilitative justice is worry that it won’t be perfect right off the bat but prison is not a good solution, and most countries have moved beyond the need for a massive prison complex. There will be growing pains but if we commit to it, we can do it. Americans are not worse than any other humans.

 

If it prevents the corruption I'm all for it. I'm just not aware how well that works or what other countries do to these kinds of criminals. I really just don't know.

 

That huge Trump rally in New Jersey with 80,000 to 100,000 people?

Not quite.

Roger Stone used old crowd shots from a Rod Stewart concert.

There were maybe 10,000 people, decent size but hardly rivaling Springsteen.

When challenged Stone did what all Trumpers do, lie and change the subject.