Posted on 05/07/2024 11:11:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Heads up, this is no time to check out,” the MSNBC prime time host says
Discussing the latest events from Donald Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial, Rachel Maddow used it to look ahead to this year’s election, offering viewers some optimism about things, despite warnings that “this is no time to check out.”
Maddow argued that Trump has signaled he is part of the worldwide anti-democracy, pro-authoritarian movement, but that “should put some steel in our spine,” because it’s giving people a clear picture of where things are headed in the United States. Maddow also said, based on events in court, that Trump will “inevitably” end up in jail, and that people need to prepare for a “freakout” when that happens.
What prompted this line of questioning is that on Monday, Judge Juan Merchan one again held Trump in contempt of court, this time for defaming jurors in an April 25 interview on the right wing cable channel Real America’s Voice. This “raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones,” Merchan said in part.
Explaining that Trump’s actions are “a direct attack on the rule of law,” Merchan fined him $1,000 (the pathetic maximum amount allowed under the state’s law). But the judge also suggested if Trump continues to violate court orders he may order the disgraced ex-president to be jailed. “The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, but at the end of the day, I have a job to do,” Merchan said.
It’s unclear if Merchan will actually make good on this threat. Observers have often pointed out how Trump keeps getting away with behavior anyone else would have been jailed for long ago. But Maddow told viewers she believes it’s very likely that will happen soon.
“There is a reason why the damage to the rule of law in our country the damage to democracy in our country, which we have already started living with. There’s a reason why it is coinciding with a rise in authoritarianism around the world. And it’s because we as a country are not immune to the same, you know, pro-authoritarian, anti-democratic winds that blow through Europe and all over the rest of the world right now,” Maddow said.
“Our democracy is mortal to just like every other democracy in history has ever been,” Maddow said. But, she added, “Being real about the harm that has been done to us already. Being clear eyed about the fact that we can see some of the same dynamics at work in other countries. Tuning into the fact that the right, under Donald Trump, is admiring of and openly emulating the way other countries have destroyed their democracies. Recognizing they are willingly part of this project. That to me is energizing. I feel like that at least should put some steel in our spine.”
“Because it should tell us the part that we have to play. Right?” Maddow continued. “It should at least give us real grounded practical expectations of where this is all going to go next and where our efforts are most needed to stand up for who we are. It should give us a clearer sense of what we’re going to need to defend and protect very soon, when the leader of our country’s branch of this movement sometime very soon, almost inevitably, is going to break that court order again and is, now we know today, going to be ordered into a jail cell.”
“He inevitably, very soon, is going to be ordered into jail,” Maddow declared. “Because we are on the precipice of that happening. And all the freakout that’s going to attend it is something that we should expect. We need to be ready we are on the precipice of that next step and what has already been a very difficult time for us as a country. So heads up, this is no time to check out.”
Rachel Maddow? Is he still on the air?
The Walls Are Closing In
Did Rachel Maddow complete his transition to being a guy or is it still a halfway kind of thing?
“We got him now…”
Be careful what you wish for, Rachel. It’s not going to be pretty.
The highly creative and talented Frank Zappa popularized the already existing term freakout and his classic satirical album as under that title.
She is a freak (pretending to be a male to attract same sex partners as well as being ugly, which was not her fault).
RE: Rachel. It’s not going to be pretty.
She is wayyyyyyyyyy ahead of us on that.👹
Well, Rachele, that would actually be MAGAfreakout. So, get ready.
Will it compare with when DEMOCRATS screamed into the air, rioted and pillaged, merely because the people didn’t choose a Democrat??
Ditto
I would urge Maddow to prepare for the breakout- when Trump takes the oath of office
We’d take it sit-in’ down. They got the guns.
It will not surprise me to see Trump spend a night in jail.
One of the best videos is that of her face the night Trump declared winner.
There is no precedent for putting a Former President in jail. Given the security challenges the Secret Service would have a big say in this.
I remember back to the TV show 24 when fictional President Charles Logan did all sorts of crimes and was convicted. He was sentenced to Home Detention on his ranch and guarded by the SS.
This is what would happen to Trump, Home detention, probably at a location of his and the SS choice. It’s the only possible solution. Otherwise you could expect a huge court battle on this, probably only on the circumstances of detention.
There is no way he would be in Rikers or Federal Detention in Manhattan. Then here we are in the middle of a Presidential Election. This is not the same as a minor candidate like Lyndon LaRouche running from in Jail, this is the Republican Candidate for President and a Former President.
As much as the Left would’ve to see this, it just is not in the cards. The Judge is bluffing and blowing smoke on putting Trump in Jail. If he did there would be a backlash, how big I don’t know. If this were say a country in Europe people would be in the streets protesting and going on a General Strike, we just don’t have that type of reaction here on many things.
She really does show that some folks have a real education, whilst others have an ‘eddika-shun’. Oh well, she is perfectly trained for entertaining both folks who watch her on her clown network.
The freakout is going to be by the Dems when Trump wins huge because of this persecution.
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