Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict
www.nytimes.com
Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction.

With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    64·
    6 months ago

    I remember when, if a former president and current major party nominee for the next presidential election was a convicted felon, that person’s political career would be over.

    • psvrh@lemmy.ca
      43·
      6 months ago

      I mean, Howard Dean talked into an unadjusted microphone one time. That’s totes just as bad.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Also, the “liberal media” seemed to really play that up. IIRC, there are some questions about just how loud his whoop really was.

        Also, though: he is a Democratic candidate. None of this applies to the cons. The way things are conducted by the liberal media are that everyone affiliated with the Democratic Party must be as pure as the driven snow, not look silly, make zero gaffes, and so on (and even then - what was said of Hillary was that she was “overprepared” - wtaf - so even when Democrats don’t violate the rules, they’ll make up a new set of criteria that Democrats have supposedly violated to play the 'both sides" card). Republicans can do just whatever the fuck they want; it’s expected that they’ll be off the rails; cons will be cons and all that.

    • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
      163·
      6 months ago

      We’ve fallen so far. We’ve created an environment where people can create their own realities and make up things they want to believe, and ignore the facts that are presented to them as “rigged”. There is no Truth anymore

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        242·
        6 months ago

        There is no Truth anymore

        The fuck there isn’t. There’s just a whole lot of people who are willfully ignoring it.

        • slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
          5·
          6 months ago

          I probably should have made it more explicit, there are no more consensus Truths. For example, we actually have people who think the world is flat

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      210·
      6 months ago

      You mean like when one president got a blowjob? Not even PIV(unprotected and forced I might add).

      Definitely picking our best people and holding them accountable. /s