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It's frustrating how the rich and powerful end up not having to leave their cushy mansions even when doing prison time.
Maybe Americans should explore not voting the rich and powerful into permanent roles. There are real limitations of what you can do with a president after their time in office and it makes sense that you’d want security details and special rights for past presidents.
The right thing to do would have been not to elect Trump as a meme. We shat the bed, now we see the consequences. Let’s see if people are still as stupid as ever.
Never forget: they mostly didn't.
First, the majority of people voted for not-Trump, though lmfao b/c we don't care about "majority" here... :-P
Second, the majority of electoral college votes were for not-Clinton. Including protest votes to third-party candidates.
And before that, the majority of votes in the Republican primary election were for not-Cruz.
And before that, the media gave him tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars worth of free advertising. Then afterwards they gave even more, b/c you "gotta be fair" after all!:-D
He very much is the product of "The System", which shat him out and just as easily can produce another exactly like him. Kanye 2028?
Democrats too. Democrats pumped alot of money and energy into elevating trump, and continue to pump money into far right candidates.
"Certainly not many people would be dumb enough to..." -> Almost half the nation proceeds to prove them wrong.:-(
"Well what else were we to do, leave the only other option be BERNIE SANDERS!?"
Republicans are not "conservatives" nor are Democrats "liberals", I now realize.:-(
Right. Sweet poetry would be placing him in Epstein's very cell.
Or perhaps for the safety of the inmate he is placed in solitary.
Hell he can still have his Secret Service; they can just assume the role of corrections officer.
The rich and powerful generally go to prison for at least some time. The hangup with Trump is the lifetime protection from the secret service. There's no way that the secret service could consent to just watching on video or something, and having armed guards next to other prisoners is even more dangerous.
We need to stop the "lifetime secret service protection" thing. Is completely stupid.
I think the idea is that since the president learns all kinds of classified information while in office, it's in the public's best interest to protect them from foreign agents after they are out of office.
How does that work when they're openly selling said secrets out of a closet in Florida
So we should require retiring presidents to enter the witness protection program?
Yes I'm sure that's exactly what he was trying to say 🙄
Once in a while, though even then generally to minimum security, but house arrest is pretty common for wealthy convicts even without the secret service issue.