Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.

  • LifeInOregon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ll recognize it, but I’d rather not appreciate it. I’d appreciate it if half the country had never been infatuated with an historically proven con-man with delusions of grandeur. Legitimately one of the must frustrating realities for someone who believes in democracy to grapple with is that half the population MUST be less than average intelligence (and even some of greater intelligence will choose willful ignorance).

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      Appreciate has two different meanings.

      1. to value or admire highly

      2. understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.

      It’s can be awkward because they are really divergent meanings with almost apposed connotations.

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        1 year ago

        You’re correct. I was being intentionally obtuse to agree about the sentiment, but also further the lament. Kind of a “being funny to myself (and maybe no one else)” moment, but publicly expressed.

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      Oh no, it’s not that they’re stupid. It’s that they’re evil. What Trump stands for and what that stupid-ass cult values is entirely something they’re fully cognizant of and want. Right down to the genocide.

      They just learned to hide it very well. Even mastering sophistry to do it.

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        I second this. Its horrible and sad that so many people are evil, or more to the point, can be led to an evil position which they’ll embrace and defend with all their intellect.

        One of the scariest things about this shift is a realization that this is how countries do horrible things. A mob of excited people can make group decisions, and will follow horrible leaders because, well, because people can driven by emotions and group-think and localized social norms.

        If the current Republican Party maintains its cohesion and membership I think what has been a generational lapse into authoritarian insanity could be a permanent shift in the American psyche. Thats even more terrifying than seeing so many people vote for Trump.