Well I think we can all agree not to lower the flag when he inevitably passes, so at least there’s some common ground there, right?
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Judge sets Trump’s sentencing in hush money case—but signals no jail time
Friday, January 03, 2025 at 1:10:18p PST
In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House — but promised not to jail him.
Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial, signaled in a written decision that he’d sentence the former and future president to what’s known as a conditional discharge, in which a case gets dismissed if a defendant avoids rearrest. …
(were it for “public service” you just know it’ll be the secret service that would have had to pick up the road-side litter -sigh-)
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I drive by that specific Great America rather often. It’s both between my home and Chicago and between my work and the home of one of the people I’m dating.
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At some point during his first term I realized that we would be paying “tribute” to this asshole in such a way one day and initially I was kind of mad about that fact. After thinking on it a while, I realized that actually I was rather looking forward to seeing the flag at half mast in honor of him, considering the reason and all that.
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We’re going to have a hell of a time making all the flagpoles 50% taller.
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He’ll never be better than Jimmy Carter. That man accomplished so much good in his life.
I said it at TOS, but I’ll repeat it here:
Whenever I feel especially dark and contemptuous about Christianity, I just remember that Jimmy Carter is a Christian.
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Lower the flag? Hell, I’ll drive up to PA to buy some illegal fireworks to shoot off in celebration.
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Carter had Habitat for Humanity.
Trump has Habitat for the 1%.
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That’s our Donnie!
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I think a few flags were already at half mast when LBJ was inaugurated.
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Tim Apple kisses the ring (again), pays to play/win:
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I can’t decide if that suddenly customary $1 million inauguration donation is becoming like a poker ante or a protection payment. Maybe it’s both?
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You don’t need to travel that far to find a word for this though. It’s very simply tribute. Europeans used to give presents to new kings going back for millennia.
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Yep, not like despotism is alien to the western world, after all… 
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It isn’t the greatest song in the world, that’s for sure.
I wonder who had the job of informing all the CEOs about the introductory rate of one million dollars. Trying to picture Stephen Miller work-shopping his Dr.Evil impression. And now I’m regretting picturing him at all.
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That’s just Stephen Miller, you could picture him tripping and falling into a live volcano, and your only thought would be “I hope the lava is alright”
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