Our resident war chicken will tell you all about how his napkin math says there are no working nukes in Russia, and hes prepared to gamble our world on it.
For most of humanity, if you venture out at night, you will be eaten by wolves or die of pneumonia or something. So going out at night is obviously pretty terrible.
Alright, since you have attached to the word optics as a deflection, let's outright state 'how things are'. This scenario is an erratic president who says wild things which undermine international trust in the US, who is guilty of fraud.
That is 'how things are' if he is elected. If you can't...
"Why would I care about the optics on both domestic and international politics of having an openly corrupt leader of the US"
Yes yes, all politicians are corrupt, but if you can't see the distinction between rumour and 'we all know' vs actually convicted...you're a dumb shit.
My tiktok just shows me cosplay, e-girls, games and cat videos. Maybe take some ownership of the fact it runs of an algorithm that caters to your interests and engagement.
Because you personally, don't think it's a big deal. That's it, that's your entire metric for it not being a big deal.
The fact you're willing to ignore the global optics of (potentially) a president who just got convicted of fraud is all about the fact you don't foresee anything bad happening...
You think people are following this news because of who they plan to vote for???
People are following this story because it's a pretty big deal for a potential president to be on the hook for 350mil in fraud charges. Both because he may try and stall long enough to pardon himself, and because...
Look the whole "I don't even care about trump, you guys let him take up headspace for nothing" bit may have made you feel clever and cool a year or two ago...
But now its just you clowning on yourself declaring how in an election year you don't care that one of the primary candidates has been...
Question. If this was a different person, convicted with fraud on a large scale, would it also be deranged to want them to put the money in a bond before appealing? Especially when there is a clear concern they will dodge the penalty???
This seems pretty reasonable expectation all things...
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