[uspol][cw quinn being curmudgeonly]

I'm glad that things are ostensibly happening to trump

I'm particularly fond of his lawyers basically going "pweeeease don't law us"

but god I wish just

the process of making consequences happen to trump didn't have six trillion individual steps, all of which have indistinguishable names

each of which was individually newsworthy

he's been accused! he's been investigated! he's been indicted! he's been prosecuted! he's been charged!

it never ends and every time it sure sounds like maybe trump's gonna go to jail but then it's like no, that was only in jurisdiction 1 of 7

step 3 of 15

it's frustrating because it's training me to not be excited about news about trump being in trouble

because it's never anything

i agree that our law system is incredibly byzantine and slow-moving and that it invariably benefits the kind of people who didn't do massive newsworthy crimes (read: murder) because it means it's very easy for that to get either buried or reported on so heavily viewers tune it out

It doesn't help that there's just so much of it in Trump's case

like it's not that big of an actual bad thing

I'm glad we have a process and it's being used

it's just so frustrating as a news observer

its draining

I’ll get hype when I see the headline “Trump going to jail for 50 years on July 4th”

unfortunately, for the same reasons, the REALLY stupid people keep seeing the news, then going "But he's not in jail, so... THEREFORE HE WAS FOUND INNOCENT"

Also one thing I know about this kind of reporting that's good to know. Never pay attention to a headline that says "X could get a maximum of Z years in prison"

It'll never be the Maximum.

Especially for somebody who is, on paper, a first time offender.

I mean if the LATEST thing is true, I doubt that'll matter,

yeah, if it's actually the maximum they won't say "could", they will say "are getting"