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I am also willing for you to go to jail.

And I'm guessing the judge also plays racquetball or something.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe he should start the chant “lock me up”! At his events.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

At this point, his people would count it as a win. "He was in jail, just like Martin Luther King!"

Four legs good, two legs better!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guaranteed his supporters would compare him to Mandela

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This reminds me of those mini Christian comics that always ended with some horrific cartoon of hell or people suffering damnation. I used to read those as a Christian kid, before I grew our of religion. they were made to get you afraid of god, and remind you that god loves you, but will annihilate you and toss you in a torture dungeon if you disobey him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, the jack chick tracts. Nothing like a good, puritanical hell raising inside of a child's head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read quite a few of them and the only sentence I gained from them was "the standard is good behavior, not other people". That's it. All the works of that professional writer/moralizer over his entire life and I think he had only one single idea worth remembering. Which makes me think he probably plagiarized it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an absurd comparison! Trump unfortunately exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion with all the creators of the top political TV dramas. Veep, House Of Cards, The West Wing, Scandal, and others. All the participants said the same thing; if they'd had a character who'd said that he didn't think POWs deserved respect the networks and sponsors would have demanded that he be reviled and hated by all Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You just coined the next "come and take it". MAGAs everywhere about to start flying "Lock Me Up" flags.

Ok, somebody go out there and make your millions off these rubes.