And they thought we were divided before

I don't have the time or patience to go through old threads, but I'm pretty sure I told all of you that he was inevitably going to prison.  From the time he walked down that escalator and made his opening speech in 2015, he was marked for death.  Well, here we are.  He will 100% be sentenced to prison on July 11th, though of course he'll remain free during the appeals process. 

As I've also said many times, he brought this on himself.  He threatened The System, then went to Washington and tried to make friends with it.  Hired Bill Barr as his AG.  John Freaking Bolton as National Security Advisor, a guy who has spent the last 40 years trying to start wars around the world.  He put his son-in-law, a flaming liberal, in charge of his administration.  Broke all of his promises.  He didn't lock the bitch up, he didn't build a wall, and when presented with a strain of the flu with a 99.99% survival rate, he allowed his political opponents to crash the economy and lock us down in an election year, while printing $6 trillion.  Oh, and of course we had to see race riots while sitting in our homes.  Then he lost an obviously stolen election, and decided to half-ass it.  Instead of standing firm and calling on his supporters to march on Washington, he made a BS speech, implied that they should do something about it, and a bunch of his supporters who peacefully walked through the Capitol are now sitting in jail. 

Well, good.  If he has any brains at all, he knows that if he loses this election, he's going to spend the rest of his life in jail.  They'll in all likelihood bankrupt his entire family.  Perhaps his sons, daughter, and son-in-law go to jail too.  They'll probably spare Barron and Melania, but who knows?  And the amount of blatant cheating we're going to see in this election will make 2020 look like a church bingo game.  And even if, somehow, he overcomes all of that massive cheating and wins, then he has 4 years to clean house.  It won't be easy.  Because, rest assured, if he doesn't "drain the swamp," once his term is over he's still going to jail for the rest of his life.

It's crunch time Donny!  Do or die.  Literally.      

Side note: unless I'm missing something, they put the first debate in late June to give them a pretext to replace Biden at the convention.  Of course they don't want to run him again.  But then, wouldn't Biden have to voluntarily leave?  As far as that decrepit old corpse is concerned, he's killing it.  And he's still making money for his family by laundering it through Ukraine.  He certainly won't go voluntarily, even if he only knows where he is for 30 minutes each day.  

The party has to nominate him of course, but he can still run as an Independent.  Sure they can bribe/threaten/off him, and that might work.  I just don't think people understand how absolutely corrupt to the core this guy is.  He thinks he's doing a hell of a job, and deserves another 4 years.  And he's making money for his family.  It'll be interesting to see what they do.

One positive is that, once again, the Libertarian Party (the herpes of the political world as I call them) has a chance to make serious inroads with the general voting public.  And thankfully, once again, they have instead decided to advertise to the world what a complete and utter joke they are by nominating the biggest degenerate scumbag they can find.  Google Chase Oliver and get back to me.  He will take literally ZERO votes from Trump, only from Biden.    

I think there are other possibilities.

First of all, your option #1 - Republicans should absolutely prosecute real crimes perpetrated by Democrats, starting with those who maliciously prosecuted Trump on political pretexts.  This behavior must have consequences, else it will continue.  They should *NOT* "send bogus trials in favorable venues" like the Democrats have done.  

2 - I hope he's grown past that.  I'll note that "Hope is delayed disappointment" - so we'll see.

3 - God forbid.  I'll seriously consider leaving the country.  New  Zealand?  Belize?

When DJT took office in 2017, many Republicans in Congress were skeptical of him, and were even believing the Democrat lies about "Russia Russia Russia."  So they hung back and weren't enthusiastic about his agenda and didn't advance the ball even given their control of both houses.  I'm hopeful that this time will be different, now that everyone knows the dirty tricks the Dems are willing to play.  I wish we had a different standard bearer.  But I guess you go to war with the candidate you've got.

I can't disagree with a word of that.

Biden will get the nomination even if he campaigns and debates with a drool towel because he hasn't been the president and he won't be if he's fraudulently elected again.   It's his absence of any mental acuity that makes him the right choice.  Promises of wealth and protection secure the strings to his puppet master.  

No matter how the election unfolds, no matter which bad choice wins, the America before Y2k is gone and we'll more closely resemble a third world keg of dynamite.  If it's Trump, his first term will look like a dress rehearsal with what the corrupt media, administration state, and leftist dark warriors will do.  It will be a civil war, the only question is how severe.  And if Biden et al claims victory again we'll likely witness guerilla action from the right.  The only way the country doesn't explode is if Trump is in office, replaces the Obama military leaders and declares martial law when the left produces George Floyd Part Deux.

I don't know, maybe I'm overreacting, but this trial wasn't the game breaker for me, that happened years ago.  I don't remember exactly what it was, but whatever, it was a kick in the gut like I've never felt before.  There's no legitimate opposition to what the Democrats are doing.  Maybe Trump because he's been so relentlessly attacked and abused.  I don't defend him, I blame his political existence on the weak-kneed Republicans (aka Uniparty) and the absurdly ignorant populace.  If anyone believes the Republicans will fight for the people they'll believe a Republican super majority in Congress will do as promised and repeal Obamacare.

Rhetorical: why don't the people demand better candidates and why do we continue to vote for the mendacious scum we allow to use us to gain wealth and immunity?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali breaks it down 

I'm in Pennsylvania and I'm not registered with either party - Republican or Democrat.  Consequently, I'm not permitted to vote in primary elections.  Stolen, fixed, fraudulent, whatever.