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Rocknation
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Rocknation's Journal
January 29, 2024
But what Trump supporters really support is the fantasy that it's the socio-economic classes BELOW them who are draining their ability to join the classes above. So they passionately cling to the conservative promise of admission to the "economic elites" once they have have obtained enough absolute financial and political power to wipe the lower classes out.
What is actually "continuing to rise" is the number of voters who are now looking UP the socio-economic ladder and discovering the root of their problems. More Americans have voted AGAINST Trump than for him TWICE -- and by TWICE a margin of victory the second time. If he does make it to November of this year, I'd be willing to bet that Trump scores a popular vote trifecta.
Rocknation
There is no CONTINUED rise of Trump, other than of his vigorously-crafted media illusion that there is one.
I certainly agree that:
...(T)he more the economic elites grab, the more everyone else must lose. Someone must be blamed for the ensuing disappointment: in a culture that...valorizes...winners, it can’t be them.
But what Trump supporters really support is the fantasy that it's the socio-economic classes BELOW them who are draining their ability to join the classes above. So they passionately cling to the conservative promise of admission to the "economic elites" once they have have obtained enough absolute financial and political power to wipe the lower classes out.
What is actually "continuing to rise" is the number of voters who are now looking UP the socio-economic ladder and discovering the root of their problems. More Americans have voted AGAINST Trump than for him TWICE -- and by TWICE a margin of victory the second time. If he does make it to November of this year, I'd be willing to bet that Trump scores a popular vote trifecta.
Rocknation
January 15, 2024
I suspect that it was something in Damper's toolbox that made her nine years of probation possible -- her ability to snitch.
Rocknation
2024 Update: After six months, Damper released on "shock" probation
ABC13.com, 6/2020: Cassandra Damper was sentenced to serve 10 years for an aggravated assault count and five years for a tampering with evidence charge.
She pleaded guilty...after the April 2018 shooting of Devyn Holmes...(who) survived, but has had to undergo rigorous rehab since then...A judge ruled in favor of granting (Damper) "shock" probation...(after serving)...six months...(and) will lay out the conditions of her probation for the next nine and a half years.
Damper's attorney...praised the judge's decision..."I don't consider this a 'get out of jail free' card...(T)his is a judge...using all the tools in his box to apply justice in this case...(by) coming up with other means...of just incarceration..."
She pleaded guilty...after the April 2018 shooting of Devyn Holmes...(who) survived, but has had to undergo rigorous rehab since then...A judge ruled in favor of granting (Damper) "shock" probation...(after serving)...six months...(and) will lay out the conditions of her probation for the next nine and a half years.
Damper's attorney...praised the judge's decision..."I don't consider this a 'get out of jail free' card...(T)his is a judge...using all the tools in his box to apply justice in this case...(by) coming up with other means...of just incarceration..."
I suspect that it was something in Damper's toolbox that made her nine years of probation possible -- her ability to snitch.
Rocknation
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