Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.
Can we all just stop for a second and appreciate what a crazy fucking time it is to be alive in this country?
For real. Can anyone say that they guessed this would actually be a headline 7 years ago?
Watching from this side of the pond is entertaining in a sad kind of way.
Trump is a figurehead of something above and below him that is a serious danger to democracy.
I’m having trouble locating a clip, but Patton Oswalt had a bit about a decade ago about the anomie the country felt when Nixon resigned and then got on TV and flew away in a helicopter.
I feel like Trump finally getting booked will be a similar feeling.
anomie
TILAW: an·o·mie
noun: anomie; noun: anomy
In societies or individuals, a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals.
“the theory that high-rise architecture leads to anomie in the residents”
Best definition I ever heard was the sociology professor that introduced me to the word.
This teacher, knowing her demographic of "Americans born in the late 80s/early 90s simply defined it as:
“You know how you all felt on Sept 12th? That was anomie.”
This timeline can’t get any weirder
Don’t say that!
Just wait.
There’s a looming existential crisis headed humanity’s way that most are sleeping on at the moment because they are so caught up in the present and not looking enough at the implications of the future.
As we catch up to that future, the relationship between odd behaviors inherent to the universe we find ourselves in and the universes we are progressively building is going to get harder to ignore.
I think a lot of people are going to have a really hard time coming around to what that’s going to mean.
Crazy if you like ultimate inequality and hate for all people especially homeless that can’t afford $3,000 in rent each month.
Its even crazier when you realize many of those that struggle are the ones that vote for people that promise to make their lives even more shitty.
Not sure if appreciate is the right word but yeah what a crazy decade.
I’m halfway across the world and it’s been a crazy ride watching a country disgrace itself while also tearing itself to pieces.
It hasn’t been since 2016? Or 2001?
I feel like it all kinda went sideways starting around 2014ish (2016 certainly kicked it up a gear). Maybe I died then and it’s all some sort of 6th sense bullshit
I’ll believe it when I see it, but god damn is that a sexy headline.
I swear to god if I have another BBQ where I invite everyone, hire caterers and get a custom cake and this fucking turd slips out of his jail cell again I’m gonna flip my shit.
Yeah don’t have a BBQ. He will have a bond agreement in place before surrendering so likely he will bond out immediately.
If you read a headline that he got convicted in court and sentenced to prison time, then schedule the BBQ
Hell, I’m going to schedule a parade and fireworks.
Stop on over!
he’s going to “surrender to jail” because that’s what this step of the process is called. he’s not actually going to be locked up
So do you like bratwurst or burgers?
Both.
I prefer syrup
Yo can I come to the BBQ? I can bring drinks or something.
I’ll believe it when I see the mugshot.
That will be so wild.
Haha I remember a couple months ago at his first arraignment, Trump’s team actually wanted a mugshot for the merch, and photoshopped one up when NY DA didn’t oblige.
What does surrender mean? Will he actually spend any time in a cell?
No. He’ll be arrested, fingerprinted, photographed, and released.
Wait, do I understand correctly that he has to drop in to jail now (to register himself?) and then he’s free for another 6 months before the hearings commence?
Yup.
It’ll probably be years before he’s actually in prison, and then it’ll probably be “house arrest” because secret service doesn’t want to just cut bait.
They really should cut bait. Protecting a traitor is a worse look than the traitor getting shanked in jail
The Mar-a-lago Federal Super-Maximum Security Prison.
Has a nice ring to it.
Colombia tried this in Medellin some time ago and if I remember correctly it went well.
Lmao
Yea, but the trial wont start in 6 months. Legal analysts are saying it will be 2-3 years before the trial starts, because the prosecutor is trying all 19 people at once, they each get to make their own motions and requests to delay and all the legal procedural stuff that happens before a trial, but 19 times, and each one has to be heard by the judge and ruled on.
It’s believed his federal cases will be tried and ruled on before the jury is even seated in this Georgia case.
Fuck so he’s basically going to die and never see justice huh?
The American system doesn’t actually work and needs to be modded, that’s what it shows, and people need to be willing to change their moral outlook to make it happen. That doesn’t mean accepting torture or the other stupid horrific shit people decided was okay back in the 00’s. It means come up with and try a newer, better system based on today’s technology and values.
This is nested so deep in such an old thread no one will see it, but I thought I’d chime in anyway.
This system in NL - indeed much of the EU/UK - is almost this slow too. Part of it (in the EU) is we do not use common law system like N America and the UK but rather the civil law system. But that only accounts for a part of it. Here we really do have the innocent before proven guilty thing happening. Most countries do not allow suspects full name to appear in the paper. Dave Smith would be “D Smith” in a newspaper article.
It can really suck here too, and frankly we get people offending while awaiting trial far more often than we should. I think the main difference is that in general we do not have the same level of violent (physical or economical) crime that the States does.
Anyway as a former American I shit on American systems a lot and in many cases rightfully so. But not in this case, as much as I desperately wish the Georgia trial would start the next day after he surrenders.
Might be faster if the people with no money to defend themselves turn state’s evidence
That sounds so painfully slow
Well that’s disappointing. I understand why this is not the headline. Not click-baity enough.
He will finally get his wall.
Four of them at 6 by 8 feet.
What is this, a prison for African-Americans? Tangerine turd if convicted will almost certainly be sentenced to a Club Fed, assigned the Vlad V. Putin suite, daily Bingo at 2pm, dinner at 4, and country kitchen buffet Fridays.
this guy is definitely fleeing the country
He can’t. He’s minded by Secret Service agents
Wasn’t there a rumor making the rounds that the Secret Service is actually permeated by right-wing sympathizers? To the extent that they conveniently erased all archived text/digital communications between agents back in Jan 6? Story here
Given that backdrop I wouldn’t be surprised if they will be complicit in his escape.
Whenever a conservative bitches about The Deep State I roll my eyes. It has been around for decades and it’s on their side. There’s a reason Biden changed his security detail.
They are just bragging.
The very best agents too
He’ll try it regardless
Fleecing*
Oh wait both fit…
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No way amigo, it’s already established by Rs that he can run the country as a convict. By extension he could run the country equally effective from mother Russia. There’s still 70 million people that’d vote for that.
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Do you really think he’s going to fly to Russia now? He’s got so much cash sitting in supporters pockets left and maybe a few years left to take it.
Now if he’s found guilty, yeah, I can see him running then rather than go to jail. But not yet.
Ah, if only he was a flight risk … I’d set the bail low to encourage him … But no
Trump expected to surrender
See, this is where you’re a bit mistaken…
He farts when you expect him to shit, and he shits when you expect him to fart. That’s the fart of the deal.
Well he could try to run I suppose. It would be pretty weird to have a presidential candidate running while in hiding in another country.
What would the Secret Service’s protocol in this scenario?
“this is unprecedented” as they stand around laughing and waving trump flags
They are getting paid. Who cares right?
he’s going to be “processed” then released on bail.
everything about his criminal proceedings have been basically the truck hitting bollard gif
https://67.media.tumblr.com/13cab760bc3b62c6408034017db27846/tumblr_o96e4q9rNV1qezukdo1_1280.gif
Outstanding analogy and follow up gif
Why must you impose this cursed gif on us
because I saw yet another thread about how trump is being punished, when nothing has happened to him for the past 4 years. Double impeachment? Big whoop. wake me up when he gets brought down a peg.
Is that one of those rich people jails, where you are basically in a vacation?
Nah, it’s pretty famous for being a shithole. You can see for yourself in the Johnny Cash concert footage.
Wasn’t that Folsom, not Fulton?
Yes, but Fulton is still a well known shithole. Like, inmates keep dying there.
It’s a place where he’ll be booked, printed, (mugshot?) And then released. He won’t be inside a cell.
“One of those rich people jails” ahh yes the rich people COUNTY JAIL.
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I’ll believe it when I see it but boy howdy, do I want to see it!
He’ll die of old age before setting foot in an actual cell.
I hope to be wrong but I doubt it.
Yeah guarantee that fat fuck will pull a Milosevic or Ken Lay* and die before we can get any sense of closure.
*I read a somewhat credible conspiracy theory that Lay faked his death, wouldn’t surprise me. I’m not worried about trump doing that though because he’d never be able to lay low with his mouth shut lol
Old fat guys have a way of just dying before consequences catch up with them. Look at madoff
I can’t wait to see his actual height and weight. This lop of dumps mugshot is gonna be hilarious
It’s a “photo op” to him. I’m calling it.
Don’t forget the louse powder and the fire hose.
I feel sorry for the guy who has to search his ass for contraband.
They can keep him and throw the key away…
I’ll take “headlines that never would have surprised me” for 200.
