Spyke
sh.itjust.works

I've been waiting for this day for so long, seeing this wannabe dictator commit crime after crime with no consequences and hearing so many people saying this would never happen, but here we are. Cheers my American neighbors! This is a good day for democracy!

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demletreply
lemmy.world

I agree, but also a tragic day. This does nothing to reduce the polarization or convince his misguided followers of anything. Trump might go away but his voters won't. We have decades of this to look forward to. It's a step in the right direction at least...

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teuastreply
lemmy.ca

I wholeheartedly disagree that it's a tragic day. The tragedies happened when he committed his crimes and got away with them for years. This is just the beginning of resolution.

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Exactly right. Saying this mugshot is a tragedy is like saying it’s a tragedy when somebody with cancer finally qualifies for the surgery to remove the tumor.

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I am going to disagree with you here. This is a long process. This teachers our kids about consequence. There is a lot more gears spinning than just punishing the big Cheeto.

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Oh well, if he was allowed to get off without any consequences, it would be far, far worse.

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It may be dark going forward, but we need to savor every bit of victory we can get like cold water on a searing summer day.

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labrat55reply
lemmy.world

The consequences of national polarization may, in the long term, make Trump's actions look small.

This arrest certainly pushes us closer to the edge. Whether that will lead us back to normalcy or over and down is yet to be seen.

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teuastreply
lemmy.ca

And it would be better for national unity if one party was allowed to get away with committing crimes without facing consequences?

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I've been thinking lately that if Nixon hadn't been pardoned, we never would have been here today.

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kamenladyreply
lemmy.world

But that's not the point. Him getting away with it or not, is one thing. The people standing in front of the Jail since 10 am, waiting for him to show up. Eager and sincerely wanting to show him their support. Firm in their belief that he cares or needs the support.

Half of the nation really wants someone like him to be president.

And they stand even stronger by his side, after these last weeks.

This is the tragic message and important lesson from this.

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We keep saying "half of the nation" but he's never won a popular vote. It's a cognitive distortion

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Half of the nation really wants someone like him to be president.

Not even half of likely voters.

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jtkreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Isn't this like the 3rd mug shot over the past few months, or did we not get to see those? I've lost track.

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m4xiereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Those places forwent the mugshot. Georgia stated they would treat him as any other defendant, so this is his first.

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sh.itjust.works

I'd forgotten about "forwent," I'm going to have to keep it in my mental cheek pouches for crosswords and other word games.

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Fraylorreply
lemm.ee

"Mental cheek pouches" is a genius term. Stolen.

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In hindsight, that should have been obvious from today's uproar.

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lemmy.world

To be fair, the mugshot is for identification and it's not like you need a photo of the Cheeto to identify him. What I want is a prison ID photo after being hosted down and de-loused (I know that's just a movie trope, but I still want it)

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The delousing is real. No hose-down though. They do make you scrub up in ice cold shower water though.

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Delousing in jails is not just a movie trope.

Hosing down? Got me there.

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sh.itjust.works

how long did he study this expression in front of the mirror, i wonder

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watsonreply
sopuli.xyz

He somehow managed to make himself look even more like a dipshit than usual.

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jtkreply
lemmy.sdf.org

To catch the dipshits, you have to think like a dipshit. This is exactly what every one of his voters would look like in a mug shot. Even the ones that have never been booked are voluntarily showing that to the world today.

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Yeah it’d be unbelievable as a story. Sometimes truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

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lemm.ee

“I’m not gonna poop I’m not gonna poop I’m not gonnapoop I’m notgonnapoop I’mnotgonnapooooooop….”

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See I'm getting more of a "why the fuck can't I poop" vibe from it. Anger and rage and pain

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He must have based it off that Goebbels picture when he realized the photographer was Jewish

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Merde oui

La meilleure pic de 2023.

Better than putin on time magazine

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ghostBonesreply
lemmy.world

If you really think about it, he has never looked away from the image of himself in the mirror.

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You know it's bad when you're using your combover to block your neckgina.

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It does look weirdly practised. Do you think he asked them to see it before he left? Or asked them to retake it.

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Is that what he's doing?? I was trying to figure out what's going on in this pose lmao.

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lemmy.world

You can bet he spent time practicing that pose in front of a mirror at Mar-a-Lago beforehand. That’s supposed to be his ‘If you fuck with me, I’ll fuck with you ‘ look, but it’s more like ‘mommy, I think I did doo doos’.

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midwest.social

Guliani made an almost identical pose. Maybe they worked on it together after a smush sesh.

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Idk about Shafer, but maybe Ellis is smiling because she's only got 2 counts, not 13.

Her face says "I'll turn for a plea deal."

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People trying to show fellow sociopaths how tough they are in the face of consequences.

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Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to hide the characteristics of a coward hiding behind a facade.

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lemmy.zip

What is it with all these mug shots having a similar scowl going on?

And looking like they were photographed with a webcam from 2004?

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How do you afford quality cameras when your budget goes to militarization of the force?

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Madison420reply
lemmy.world

Have you ever been booked? It's because it is almost certainly a webcam and a very old one at that.

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demletreply
lemmy.world

He's trying to look defiant and outraged. Guy knows how to work his marks. I guarantee you every Republican looking at that photo is getting a massive boner over it.

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demletreply
lemmy.world

Ha, fair. I was using the term "massive" in a relative sense.

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Yeah, but even Giuliani is making the same scowl, and that guys a total dope.

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The tee shirts are probably rolling off the press minutes after the photo was released.

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Cops are the only photographers in the world better at setting up the lighting for black people.

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Meldrocreply
lemmy.world

Camera angle... The camera looks like it's set up high, so arrestees have to tilt their heads up when getting their mugshots. Tends to give people a Kubrick Stare.

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Certainly odd camera angle, plus bad lighting and maybe an atypical focal length (for what the avg person is used to seeing)?

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lemmy.world

Here's hoping this is the last time in my life I have to gaze upon this grotesque misshapen oompa loompa.

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Llewellynreply
lemm.ee

His appearance is irrelevant. There's plenty of us ugly guys here. But not everyone is such a jerk.

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Oh I agree wholeheartedly. But every time I see his ghoulish rictus of a face it reminds me that for four miserable years the democratically elected* leader of the largest economy in the world was a philandering child rapist. One who is only now facing the slightest possibility of consequence for a tiny fraction of his crimes because he engaged in honest to god high treason. Nothing against ugly dudes. You're cool.

*kind of

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A cautionary tale of when the ugliness unside morphs the flesh into a lumpy miscolored mass of dangling skin

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Justagamerreply
lemmy.world

On a side note politicians love these comments as they joke about it too at rallies and increases support.

Makes me wonder what politicians can into jokes of culture popularized the people who died as a result of their actions.

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Uranhjortreply
lemmy.world

And had I not made the comment it would have been the work of minutes for someone to generate a thousand like it to drum up support.

Let's not pretend anonymous internet comments have any actual bearing here. I'm just having fun coming up with new terms for this festering troglodyte.

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That fine, but I just want to see how a politician turns a history of suffering into jokes at a rally. Oddly enough I think Trump could do it and his congregation would eat it up.

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lemmy.world

Trump had agreed to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions, including not using social media to intimidate co-defendants or witnesses in the case.

Just gotta point this thing out. Seems soft to me idk. Maybe they just want to give him more rope to see how much he will hang himself with it this time, but really a ban from all social media would make the most sense considering how much harm his posts on there have caused.

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weedazzreply
lemmy.world

To me it seems like the trump team had them retake te photo several times. It's off center, it's a non standard angle, and they're letting him make a face unseen in most mug shots.

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I honestly think the glare is on Trump's "hair," it hangs over quite a bit too blocking light and he's got so much fake tan/makeup on that it doesn't reflect as much light as everyone else who didn't pretty up their faces for a mug shot lol

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dingusreply
lemmy.world

Why are mugshot photos so shit quality? It's like they are taking them on a webcam from 2003? That one is so hilariously blown out that it's like you're looking at a solar flare instead of a human.

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We don't have any money! After we pay for the automatic rifles, the grenades, the body armour, the armoured vehicles and the fuel for the tank there really isn't $100 left to go to Best Buy and get a new camera.

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lemmy.world

Lol I agree but not sure if you responded to the wrong message? I'm talking about the restrictions the court put on him.

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lol it was so jarring reading your comment and then theirs

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I'm starting to default to think they're playing the rope angle really hard. He absolutely will not be able to conform to those terms. Though they should not have limited it to "social media", he has access to all the communication channels the world has to offer to put a hit out.

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He's still wearing the same suit with the red tie? The man's like Bart Simpson.

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kbin.social

Is that his f*cking blue steel look? Wonder how long he spent practicing that expression in the mirror this week.

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lemmynsfw.com

This is…. Exactly what I hoped it would be lol.

I wonder if he’ll make a new nft trading card based on it 🤔

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I can only hope that "The guy on that one T-shirt" never becomes this picture instead of Che

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Sadly this will be an excellent fundraising opportunity for him.

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lemmy.world

And apparently he's listed as 6'3" weighing 215 lbs. That is not the face of a 215 lb person over 6 feet.

Edit:

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He is 5'6 if we're been generous. Just look at pictures of him at the podium and compare them to pictures of other presidents. No way he is 6 foot.

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The correctional officer saying to Trump in his cell: "Who are you going to call?"

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sopuli.xyz

God, is this a joke? This is the actual mugshot? I thought you'd be required to keep a straight face for that. Where's the side view?

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That's probably as straight as he can stand in those stupid heel lifts.

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lemm.ee

Kim kardashian wore less makeup in her mugshot.

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I can't find a Kim Kardashian mugshot, did that happen? If so, DDG is covering it up.

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lemmy.world

He has been looking a lot thinner lately. I was thinking about that last video I seen.

He old. He can’t stay fat and alive.

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I think he's been stressing all these indictments. That's why he dropping weight.

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I've been wondering, didn't mug shots use to have front and side views, with height lines on the wall behind? And why did they take his word on height and weight? Because unless he's been on Ozempic he's nowhere near 215. And 6'3"? Maybe in platform lifts.

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Corkyskogreply
sh.itjust.works

It should also be noted that it's likely no one, including Trump made bail. If the phrasing is correct they were all either bonded out or probably in Trump and some others cases self-bonded.

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My God.... Seeing the photos and reading the charges..... Scissor me timbers!

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lemmy.world

That feeling when you're trying to hold back a shit, but you're currently being photographed for a mug shot.

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That is definitely the face of “I tried hard, but it slipped through the crack.”

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Wow, what a tough guy! LOoooool.

Oh and the sore loser had to lie about his height and weight, too. Sheesh.

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jballsreply
lemmy.world

Jesus Christ that lineup looks like a collection of old folks dressed up after Sunday church about to make some IHOP waitress's last few hours of her shift a literal hell on Earth.

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By mugshot standards Jenna Ellis looks damn good. Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, David Shafer, Cathy Latham, and Harrison Floyd look like pretty respectable mug shots also. I mean Ray Smith has what I would expect most mug shots to look like. I don’t understand the critique with these. Especially Jenna, that shit looks better than any other government photo I’ve ever had taken and none of mine have been mug shots. I mean I’m ugly but still. I have a hard time believing it wouldn’t go into a top 100 list of best mug shots, the “photographer” and web cam showed up for that one just as much as she did.

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lemmy.world

When will the dart boards with that face be available? Or will they be Biden's main campaign giveaway?

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It's 100% legal to create shooting targets based off of real people. First amendment protected

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Nothing will fundamentally be changed by this but I am waiting for the photoshop battles with giddy anticipation

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akd
lemm.ee

I need this on a t-shirt

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lemmy.world

I just bought one. Dont care if it goes towards his defense, its fucking hilarious.

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jtkreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Not going to be able to wear it without everyone thinking it's "in solidarity". Though I've been thinking lately that we should start immediately adopting any symbol they love as a symbol for something they hate. e.g. swastika as the new pride symbol, and they don't ever get it back, just like they do with every symbol that is supposed to represent being against all the terrible traits they embody. And I'm not talking about putting rainbow colors on it, we take the original. Everyone would have to get onboard of course, I'm not putting on a Gadsden flag shirt unless it's going to start repelling incels, instead of inviting them to talk to me about crypto.

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Tbh I wouldn't know what to make of someone wearing a rainbow swastika

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That's definitely a higher resolution version floating around.

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sfgifzreply
lemmy.world

With so much money spent on the police, you'd expect at least a HD photo for the mugshots

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Yup. pats the old camera softly It should've been retired 5-10 years ago. Instead, it will work until death, like most things in "the richest country on Earth'". Sad.

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It's like that face one makes as like a 12 year old when you're mad and desperately trying to look intimidating, but just look silly because you're blatantly overdoing it and don't look very intimidating anyway.

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Looks like someone's punched his left eye, and then given him pinkeye in both eyes.. look how bloodshot they are!

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Hahahahaha he looks like a toddler who poopied his diapers

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Big Unsolved Mysteries vibes from this pic. Like he's the guy that disappeared that everyone had a reason to hate.

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lemm.ee

Trying to determine if this is AI generated or not lol

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dingusreply
lemmy.world

There's something really funky going on with his eyes in particular even outside his normally goofy look

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Looks like his buttplug got accidentally dislodged but he can't fix it right at that moment

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Great! This means I can expect memes by tomorrow morning. Get to work people; "Do that vudu that you do so well!"

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I think you were going for "body double" but you accidentally said something much less stupid. Double body indeed, no way is he 215.

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sh.itjust.works

I have not a single idea of what's going on, anyone has a video or something explaining this?

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havocpantsreply
lemm.ee

if only a platform existed where we could search the sum of humanity's knowledge in seconds as well as communicate with strangers about the news.

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m_freply
midwest.social

Ignoring the downvotes, what do you mean? I can't parse what you're trying to say. Is it a joke of some sort?

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