• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlM
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    1 day ago

    Trump is a felon, so I am not sure “lawful” is the best fit.

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      1 day ago

      The lawful/chaotic axis represents a person’s willingness to follow an external set of rules against their own instincts or opinions. Having a pocket judge or a pocket president to legitimize one’s actions does not make that person lawful.

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        21 hours ago

        Also a convicted rapist found responsible in a civil rape trial.

        Pedants.

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          22 hours ago

          Because calling him a proven-in-court-but-technically-not-convicted-because-it-was-a-civil-trial rapist takes too long.

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          23 hours ago

          In the interest of accuracy, none of Trump’s 34 convictions were for rape.

          He was found to be a rapist as a statement of fact in a civil lawsuit, but that’s not a conviction.

          So while he is a convicted felon 34 times over, and a rapist, he’s not a convicted rapist.

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            20 hours ago

            So you’re saying he has felonies that he hasn’t been convicted for yet…?

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              19 hours ago

              Far too many for me to count. But I’m sure there is someone counting.

              Bare in mind that this is just the crimes Trump has committed in public. It will take possibly decades of investigations to figure out.

              Not that I think those investigations will come. Trump will likely die in office, either this term or the next ten, because he’s won.

              But just because he won doesn’t mean that the people can’t hasten that death in office. Sadly it’s not quite time for that yet. Things need to get worse before they can break cleanly.