• nepenthes@lemmy.world
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      I didn’t know the word cryptid and looked to the root word “crypt”, then at the picture of Trump for context clues. I deduced it must mean something like someone half-dead, foot-in-the grave, etc.

      But I mused that the root could be cryptic, too 🤔

      So I looked it up:

      Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.

      Thanks for a new word! Also, Sasquatch exists!!

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    Pennsylvania to Michigan seems okay on the map I guess. But she was in Philly today (unless I misheard?) Then Michigan and Wisconsin… then North Carolina? Like east coast then north east then slightly wester then back to east coast before going all the way west?

    Don’t get me wrong private flights so who cares and I don’t see any straight line thro those places but dam.

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      I agree that schedule looks pretty random. Somebody in the campaign management is just throwing darts at a map.

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        There is more to schedule when doing large rallies than just the flights, Even just getting venues lined up on what is probably a short notice compared to most events those venues host. It’s probably easier to spend a little extra money and time on flights than try to coordinate all your venues and flights to minimize travel distance.

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      No, I think it’s, maybe, a little bit different. So, I’ve known him a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and he was always of white heritage, and he was only promoting white heritage, I didn’t know he was orange, until a number of years ago when he happened to turn orange, and now he wants to be known as orange. So, I don’t know, is he white or is he orange - but, you know what, I respect either one

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      Not just using their own tactics, but using them better. It’s been so great watching the trolls flail around trying to find something to counter it and coming up with some of the lamest shit.

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      It kinda is, actually. I’m from Montana, and he’s a lock, though we may be going blue with our governor, so maybe that’s more what it’s for? Seems like a pretty big waste of energy for 3 electoral votes.

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    I don’t think he wants to win anymore, like the last time it’s just a con to make money. He never cared or showed any interest in the job, even when he had it. Don the Con

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      No I think he wants to win, he just thinks he shouldn’t have to work for it because everyone should just see how great he (thinks he) is. And if he can scam a few bucks off the top and get the donors to pay his legal bills for him all the better.

      But he very well might go to jail if he’s not the president, and he may well get all the charges dropped if he wins. Gotta think he wants to win.

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        he just thinks he shouldn’t have to work for it

        Pretty bog-standard conservative plutocrat mentality. When you’ve spent your whole life reaching out a hand and finding everything you want in it - money, authority, pussy - why would you ever think you’d need to exert yourself.

        But he very well might go to jail if he’s not the president

        The SCOTUS has functionally ruled that out and the Dems are going to be more than willing to drop all the charges and forget Trump ever happened, assuming the GOP gets washed in the general.

        Dems are loathe to appear threatening to the wealthy class, and letting Trump off will signal its time to get back to business as usual.

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          I don’t think any Democrat is pardoning Trump, if they don’t then it’s up to the jury and the judges whether he goes to jail. The cases have been filed.

          Maybe SCOTUS can rule him immune for the Georgia election interference case but it can’t be pardoned.

          The Hush Money case he’s already guilty and just awaiting sentencing in September.

          The stolen classified documents case he wasn’t president for that so he won’t get SCOTUS, only thing that could be done is a pardon or a failure to continue the prosecution but the appeal of Aileen Cannon’s ruling is happening in this administration.

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            I don’t think any Democrat is pardoning Trump

            They don’t have to. The DOJ can simply drop the charges.

            The Hush Money case he’s already guilty and just awaiting sentencing in September.

            He’s going to get a smallish fine and that’ll be that.

            The stolen classified documents case he wasn’t president for that so he won’t get SCOTUS

            The prosecutors will drop the case as soon as the election is over. These are only tools to tarnish his popularity. There’s no serious desire to see a former President locked up.

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            Maybe SCOTUS can rule him immune for the Georgia election interference case but it can’t be pardoned.

            They could absolve state charges? Georgia is a state law that was broken.

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              The federal interest is that they said the US president is constitutionally immune from prosecution for performing his Constitutional duties. If a state prosecutes a president for performing his Constitutional duties, they have violated the US Constitution and SCOTUS is who has the final decision on that.

              Think of how SCOTUS decision Roe V Wade said there was a Constitutional right of bodily autonomy, and when states passed abortion bans when Roe was the law of the land the laws just didn’t take effect, and the states could not arrest doctors for performing abortions. States can’t violate the US Constitution.

              (In this instance arguing the election interference was Constitutionally protected would be a huge stretch I’m not saying he WILL get off on those charges but if SCOTUS wanted to they could make it so)