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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

oldie but a goodie (relevant once again in light of him magically not having to pay the $450 million)

Do you have a source for him not having to pay?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The source is here hasn't paid yet. Normally i would dismiss that as a piss poor argument but until i see a headline saying he paid anything, I'm sticking to that. His legacy is literally not paying. Bills, consequences, fines ,Congressionally approved funds... you name it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I thought it was about the bond being cut not the actual penalty, or did is miss(understand) something?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do they also cut the bond on normal people because they don't want to pay?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If it is a poor then New York will hold them without trial for three years on suspicion of stealing a backpack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The NYPD is awful, New York spent millions of dollars funding police to stop turn stile jumpers on the NYC metro…which was costing the metro a mere fraction of what the NYPD spent to try to stop it.

This is what success looks like in a neoliberal hellscape where people pretend to be progressive while letting conservatives move the goalposts wherever the hell they want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, if you argue it successfully.

The people mad about this are almost certainly ignorant of the legal system.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This allows him to keep it dragging it out in the courts for years without having to pay the full penalty.

And he only really needs 6 months for the Russian and Saudi money to buy out his shares of Truth Social stock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Only eight months left for him to win the election and he pardons himself from everything