The Georgia trial of Donald Trump on charges he conspired to overturn the 2020 election will be televised and livestreamed, according to the Fulton County Judge.
When he was on the NPR news cycle five times a day I started yelling and cursing uncontrollably to the point where I was diving at the radio to turn it off or change the station so that I would not freak the fuck out.
It doesn't matter where Trump is. I don't want to be there. It is a defilement to view him.
Practice stoicism my friend.
Ppl on the left freaking out is exactly what they want.
Treat trump and the gop the same way you treat clowns...laugh at them.
It's the thing they fear the most...loss of narrative.
Best I can do is exude the overwhelming smugness of a 17th century Scottish trader who just gonvinced some Englishmen to buy goods for way over market price.
it's crazy that trump has basically trained us all to be able to understand him because he's basically incoherent. in speeches he alternates between pre-written sections that he is clearly struggling to read, and completely thoughtless ad-libs like "many people are saying this" which he will say about literally anything. and in more spontaneous formats he's just all over the fucking place, he just leaves a trail of sentence fragments behind him until he's decided he's talked for an appropriate amount of time. and his voice, i mean, he sounds like mark hamill's joker after dental anesthesia. they should play his speeches on speakers mounted to the underside of cargo ships to repel whales
I get it. I always try to tune in for these kinds of things though, the somewhat boring dense slow trials, because I want to be better informed to counteract any right wing rhetoric I encounter. In particular IRL.
plus it's more mundane factual shit so I'm here for that, but if he treats it like the debates idk if I could all the interrupting to make no point just to get sound bites and derail the other person.
I think him in a courtroom will be different, perhaps startlingly so. He won't be able to just say whatever he wants, he'll have to actually try to make a logical coherent case. Which, being impossible for him personally, means that I think we will not hear much from him. His legal team will do most of the talking, if he has any brains at all.
He won't be at the center of the action. He'll be sitting and shutting up and letting his lawyers talk for him. And of course trying not to look guilty when the prosecution details his crimes.
I too have avoided listening or watching him. This might be a really different thing.