I’m so, so sorry. My only love was killed by a Troll, and I guess after years of drinking and vowing revenge, it’s clouded my judgment, and I’m quick with the troll accusations.
You’re obviously an honest interlocker, My apologies.
Baloney.
Holy Swiss cheese, Batman.
Beck, sweetie, maybe slow your roll?
Someone saying:
does NOT equal calling anyone - including you - a troll.
Nobody called you any bad names, as far as I can tell.
Absolutely concur.
What’s even better is that if you said/typed that, say, fifty years ago, people would cock their heads sideways, look at you like you just grew three heads, and probably lock you away in a little padded room.
Now?
Makes perfect sense.
I didn’t know it. But, now I do.
How it feels to be called names.
They were responding to my post.
Who else were they referring to? Mr. Nobody?
If they meant whoosh they should have said that.
Troll means something.
You know it. I know it. The whole board knows it.
Heck, the whole world knows it.
And I’m not talking about scary beasts who live under bridges.
Whether you’re a troll in the classic sense or not your blithley clueless “Oh woe is me” crap you come up whenever you can selectively misinterpret anything aimed at you is exhaustively annoying.
And you know it as you’ve been told a zillion times.
What’s the point of the constant doom and gloom predictions? Don’t you tire of being wrong all the time?
Appreciate your feedback but we don’t have to listen to British people about the state of US politics. We had a whole war about that.
I’m confused, are we all just blindly ignoring he stacked the Supreme Court for a reason? How can y’all be celebrating a conviction which will most assuredly be overturned by his personal shills on the court.
Like, why is everyone ignoring the blatantly obvious? Is it, ‘Just let us pretend our justice system is working for a few minutes please!’ Is that it?
I’ve been observing a curiously prickly group emerge in the aftermath of various trials. Anti-Trump folks who, for whatever personal combination of reasons, confidently predicted that he would never be convicted or found liable of anything.
And then they found themselves in the uncomfortable position of receiving good news that they were wrong about. They can’t be (or can’t acknowledge being) annoyed at the good news, so they move the goalposts to “he’ll never face real consequences from this trial”, because then the trial doesn’t count, so they weren’t really wrong. And whatever consequences he does face, they’ll downplay, or they’ll move the goalposts again, looking for a comfortable spot where they can be “right”.
(Mind you, I think this is only part of chappachula’s shtick. They’ve been doomsaying for as long as I can recall.)
Hey, didn’tcha ever read Winnie the Pooh stories as a kid? My favorite character was Eeyore. 
You like to accuse me of being a pessimist on two issues, and so far I’ve been right…on one of 'em for sure, and maybe also on the second: Ukraine.
and Trump.
Two years ago, I predicted that Russia would fight forever and outlast Ukraine. And that’s coming true, unfortunately.
On Trump, I thought he would beat Biden, and I’m glad that I was wrong last time. But this time, I’m not joining in the celebrations over his guilty verdict. Trump is still going strong.
For the average voter, Trump’s crime isn’t a huge issue. It’s just a technical thing about campaign funding. After all, everybody knows that all politicians take money and then hide the source. If this case hadn’t involved porno, the public wouldn’t care about $130,000. Lobbyists, big business, companies like Haliburton, etc move money around Washington all the time.
And Biden is going to lose the election for a reason not related to Trump: the extremists in his own party.
There are liberals who care more about Palestinians than they do about Americans. They will make a lot of noise at the Dem. convention, with tent camps and riots in the streets of Chicago outside the convention hall.
Biden will lose 1 or 2 % due to these purists (like 8 years ago, when Hillary lost Bernie supporters). And, among the vitally important swing voters, the Dems will lose an additional 1 or 2 %, because the riots will scare them away, and make the Democrats look like the party of chaos. Result: subtract 3-4% from Biden’s poll numbers, and Trump is back in the White House.
(note to mods, and everybody else: this thread is about Trump’s conviction, not Gaza, so let’s end the hijack before it starts. But, relevant to this thread, I do think Trump is likely to win re-election, so the guilty verdict is,as the title says, no big deal. )
You’re still wrong about Russia, and who knows if you’re wrong about Trump. You were definitely wrong about Trump in 2020, and you were just as confident then as you are today. Your justifications now for your doom saying are no better than that were then.
Just make me down
Make me down
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Make me a pallet on the floor
—Mississippi John Hurt
As far as minimum security prisons being “cushy”, my son (who works in the prison system) told me inmates in minimum security prisons are still inmates, and have their prison wallets checked periodically.
I just glad that it shows that he CAN face consequences. Just like the half billion he will owe.
Now, if we can only keep this ball rolling for the other trials. Though I think the one with judge Cannon will probably die on the vine.
I disagree with you about Russia.
But as for Trump: okay, I kinda hope you are right.
And let’s see if on one specific point, my prediction is right: the Democratic convention in Chicago. I predict chaos and violence. Let’s hope I’m wrong about that too.
But at least it’s a measurable data point, and we can come back here on August 22 and one of us gets to say “ha ha, I told you so!”
The harshness (or lack of), of the prison conditions is missing the point.
The most important thing is what this means for America, and the rule of law stood up, for this case anyway. Trump’s conviction should turn a few independents away from Trump; and “a few independents” is how elections are won and lost.
The lesser important thing is the effect on Trump, and the effect is that this will have hurt him a lot; not just the conviction but the trial itself. I’m not sure that Trump is capable of reflection but anyway this is a decent come-uppance, we just now need him to lose the election and have the other trials complete.
What does the OP want to happen? Trump goes to a maximum security prison and gets raped while the secret service are trying to buy smokes in the yard? Anything less than this is not a “big honking deal”?
Disagree about Russia, fine. Just stop saying they’ve already won. The war is far from over.
“Conjugal visits? Not that I know of. Y’know, minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone’s ass the first day, or become someone’s bitch. Then everything will be all right.”
Imma fix the punctuation of the thread title:
So, he was convicted! Big honking deal!
The important thing is preventing trump from retaking the White House, and eventually discrediting the entire legacy of trumpism. Yes, there’s still a long way to go with that, but it’s a start. This merkin agrees with p_t:
That’s really the crux of it.
I’d love to have him humiliated and behind bars, but it’s likely never going to happen. But what matters most is that he be defeated again and kept out of the White House. If he could be silenced in some way that would be even better (NO, I am not calling for his death here) because his cult will still be causing an uproar, but they can do a bit less damage without him at the helm and sinking the ship.
If you are male.