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George II

(67,782 posts)
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 12:20 PM Nov 2020

Lawrence Tribe nails it on Twitter:

“Donald Trump will spend this day in a secure room, inside a large federal facility, surrounded by a fence, inside an “unscalable” wall, backed by another fence, and ringed by 1,000 prison guards. So … just think of this as a dry run for the next decade.”


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Lawrence Tribe nails it on Twitter: (Original Post) George II Nov 2020 OP
Perfect! Nevilledog Nov 2020 #1
I Like That, Sir The Magistrate Nov 2020 #2
And here is was hoping for Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #3
Shakespearian lindysalsagal Nov 2020 #4
Guess who's hiding in the basement? octoberlib Nov 2020 #5
That was great! DeeDeeNY Nov 2020 #20
Randy Rainbow rewrote the words to an unused song from the Wizard of Oz.Love him! octoberlib Nov 2020 #21
and he bdamomma Nov 2020 #22
OMg James48 Nov 2020 #34
I guess he turned himself in lame54 Nov 2020 #6
Unscalable fences Traildogbob Nov 2020 #7
But what side are the "unscalable fences" on? MyOwnPeace Nov 2020 #9
Both Traildogbob Nov 2020 #17
We can always ask the Canadian army to come back. marie999 Nov 2020 #30
Lol! nt ecstatic Nov 2020 #31
you hit the nail on the head . its our house not his . AllaN01Bear Nov 2020 #42
✌🏼 Traildogbob Nov 2020 #43
OH YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!!! calimary Nov 2020 #8
Better outcome! Dakota Flint Nov 2020 #11
He's a TOTAL coward. calimary Nov 2020 #13
BunkerBoy knows that! MyOwnPeace Nov 2020 #25
White House now looks like Mar-A-Gitmo. lagomorph777 Nov 2020 #10
Oooh, I like that, lagomorph777! calimary Nov 2020 #14
Freak him out and cut the cable world wide wally Nov 2020 #12
cut his twitter. bdamomma Nov 2020 #24
Why this is important StClone Nov 2020 #15
Damn Traildogbob Nov 2020 #18
Especially if..... MyOwnPeace Nov 2020 #26
K&R n/t Kitchari Nov 2020 #16
At last, we know the next ratings blockbuster! "Escape from the White House" muriel_volestrangler Nov 2020 #19
LOL! lunatica Nov 2020 #45
The best humour always has an element of truth in it. BobTheSubgenius Nov 2020 #23
Monster shade thrown at bunkerboy. NoMoreRepugs Nov 2020 #27
Yes. KewlKat Nov 2020 #28
He really loves triggering us ecstatic Nov 2020 #29
He's like that nightmare houseguest that refuses to leave Mr. Ected Nov 2020 #32
My only wish is that I could visit the facility where he's held to witness him rotting. ffr Nov 2020 #33
With one major difference... FakeNoose Nov 2020 #35
Rt for Laurence Tribe! TY.. WTH Cha Nov 2020 #36
That one fence even has bars that resemble a jail. Dry run indeed. Marie Marie Nov 2020 #37
While delightfully humorous misanthrope Nov 2020 #38
That would be a difficult thing to do, and would have to be a sweeping pardon. Gerald Ford... George II Nov 2020 #39
Not actually Tribe's comment krkaufman Nov 2020 #40
That is sheer poetry & an excellent final act for a Shakespearean play Hekate Nov 2020 #41
Does it come with a white jacket where the arms wrap around? TigressDem Nov 2020 #44

Traildogbob

(8,709 posts)
7. Unscalable fences
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 12:48 PM
Nov 2020

Did not stop Navy Seals from dragging Osama’s dead ass out. Plus the lawn has a helo area. And, can you imagine a operation’s room with Biden, Kamala, Obama, Hilary and all Generals watching video of real time Seals mission taking him and his family’s asses out of our house? And, a burial at sea so we can’t all piss on the graves or give MAGATs a place to gather and worship.

Traildogbob

(8,709 posts)
17. Both
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 01:39 PM
Nov 2020

He promised a wall. Promises made, promises kept.
Bill is on the way Mexico. Put-in a mote with sharks, cut the power, and net, no food going in. 400 of our finest citizens will be in there tonight. LOCK em up. In 4 weeks herd thinning will be complete. Probably need a new house after this shit show anyway. Nothing will clean that up.

 

Dakota Flint

(219 posts)
11. Better outcome!
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 01:19 PM
Nov 2020

Death in how Adolf Hitler offed himself. But suppose "IT the thing" is too cowardly for that!

StClone

(11,683 posts)
15. Why this is important
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 01:28 PM
Nov 2020

Trump is a flight risk for the crimes he has committed. With the secrets he has about the USA he would without a doubt split open is his guts to Russia, China, or even N. Korea for protection from extradition. Trump would sell America out for cash, a few gold gilded trinkets, a few moments of freedom or out of spite.

Traildogbob

(8,709 posts)
18. Damn
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 01:42 PM
Nov 2020

You are on to something there. Did not think of that. Has his weak ass brain retained anything though?

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
26. Especially if.....
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 02:01 PM
Nov 2020

the National Security people have already decided not to "tell him everything" anyhow.....

muriel_volestrangler

(101,295 posts)
19. At last, we know the next ratings blockbuster! "Escape from the White House"
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 01:47 PM
Nov 2020

In the near future, a crime-ridden Republican administration has been isolated in the White House, converted to a maximum-security prison. As more Republicans on the lam are caught, they are thrown over the wall, along with the slops they are given for food. A desperate ex-president hatches a plan to escape, by making the USA pay for ladders to scale the walls. But he realises too late that he doesn't know shit about walls. Or making people pay for things.

ecstatic

(32,679 posts)
29. He really loves triggering us
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 02:10 PM
Nov 2020

More rallies? 2024?

He came up with the perfect turds to toss into our collective lemonade, but let us stay focused: He WILL lose tonight, and he will be locked up (or dead) in 2024.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
32. He's like that nightmare houseguest that refuses to leave
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 02:15 PM
Nov 2020

The party is over, Don. Please leave the People's House immediately. This is our last request.

FakeNoose

(32,620 posts)
35. With one major difference...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 03:14 PM
Nov 2020

... when he goes into federal prison he has to give up his cellphone, and his makeup kit.



misanthrope

(7,411 posts)
38. While delightfully humorous
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:13 PM
Nov 2020

there's a few assumptions at the heart of this that might undercut it's reality.

There are good indications that Trump won't be prosecuted by the feds. Should he lose, he could use the ploy of resigning quickly to be pardoned by Pence. There's also Biden's embrace of the norms that have sustained peaceful transfer of power for two and a half centuries and one of those is the reluctance to prosecute former heads of state. Trump would most likely have to be prosecuted at state level.

Then there's his status as a great flight risk. His access to American state intelligence and secrets could be used as a bargaining chip for a nation to shelter him from extradition.

Lastly, there's the proposition that if he were locked up, Trump wouldn't make it 10 years in prison. I don't think his health would hold out.

Funny bit though.

George II

(67,782 posts)
39. That would be a difficult thing to do, and would have to be a sweeping pardon. Gerald Ford...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:21 PM
Nov 2020

....was explicit in his pardon of Nixon, specifying the dates for acts during which the pardon applied:

Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

TigressDem

(5,125 posts)
44. Does it come with a white jacket where the arms wrap around?
Wed Nov 4, 2020, 07:30 AM
Nov 2020

SO that he can HUG himself perpetually and bang his head on the padding repeatedly wailing WHY? WHY? WHY?

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