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Blue State Blues: Democrats Beware, the Trump Mugshot Has Rallied the Opposition
Breitbart ^ | 25 Aug 2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 08/26/2023 9:57:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

The mugshot of President Donald Trump has rallied the opposition behind him. And it will give the former president a mandate, should he win the election, to sweep away the rot in our government, without compromise.

Now that Democrats have shown how far they will go, Republicans will feel it necessary to prevent them from ever doing it again.

Note the half-hearted attempts by celebrities and talking heads to claim that Trump is getting what he deserves. They know the Georgia indictment is a joke — that a thousand Democratic politicians, including the prosecutor herself, could just as easily be indicted for the non-crime of claiming that elections have been stolen.

Democrats relished the idea of this moment — for years — before it happened. Yet now that it is a reality, what they should really fear is what Republicans will do in response.

Big changes will be made, and justifiably so. Secret archives will be opened. Mass pardons will be offered. Whole government departments will be dismantled or relocated. There will be no kangaroo courts — none of the perversions Democrats have committed — but the Democrats behind the “Russia collusion” hoax, including Hillary Clinton, should call their lawyers.

There will be no mercy for those who have attacked the rights and values of our constitution and then claimed to be acting in defense of democracy — a democracy they abhor when it provides leaders that do not serve their own corrupt interests.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bluestates; demonicrats; desantis; fakenewsblogpimp; republicans; trump; trumpmugshot; trumppersecution
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The indictments of Donald Trump, capped by this final, vindictive effort at humiliation, are an attack on the rule of law and the foundation of our society. On social media, people mentioned the attack on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. And the analogy is valid, because there, too, the rebels held the advantage until the nation could regroup, and respond decisively.
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And it no longer matters whether this is all part of a clever Democratic plan to ensure that Republican voters nominate a supposedly “unelectable” candidate. It doesn’t even really matter if Trump loses this election. Few Republicans will consider that result credible. And the fight will continue, long after Trump, until the immense wrong of this moment — of six years of torment — has been remedied.

I was fearful of what a Trump mugshot might feel like. Not because of what might mean for the next election, but what it might mean for the country. I feared a sense of degradation. I feared that Democrats would not stop with Trump: the fact that the Georgia indictment — like the parallel federal indictment — criminalizes political speech really does mean they are coming for all of us.

But I found, to my surprise, once I saw the mugshot, that I felt excited, almost elated. Trump’s glowering face did not show pain or shame. It did not even show anger. It was a look of righteous indignation, the glare of a man who may be a prisoner now, but is actually in control. It was the expression he wore a thousand times on episodes of “The Apprentice.” It was how he looked when he said, “You’re Fired.”

They will all be fired, if he wins. And half the country is prepared to do whatever it takes to give him the chance.


1 posted on 08/26/2023 9:57:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s not a mug shot… It’s a “lemme see yer war face” moment.


2 posted on 08/26/2023 9:58:38 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SoConPubbie
The mugshot of President Donald Trump has rallied the opposition behind him. And it will give the former president a mandate, should he win the election, to sweep away the rot in our government, without compromise.

The mugshot for America!!


3 posted on 08/26/2023 10:00:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Covid acts of terrorism by officials, who were hired to protect us will harm our people for decades!)
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To: SoConPubbie

“Republicans will feel it necessary to prevent them from ever doing it again.”

Noy sure I believe that. Not about the current bunch anyway many of them are in this whole thing to keep Trump out of office.


4 posted on 08/26/2023 10:01:08 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: NFHale

“sweep away the rot in our government, without compromise.”

NO, should be “sweep away the rot WITHOUT MERCY.”


5 posted on 08/26/2023 10:01:42 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Grampa Dave

Trump’s mugshot is the stuff of Warhol: Instantly iconic Americana that will be reproduced and repurposed for decades to come.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/08/25/19/74732931-12446351-image-a-13_1692989336751.jpg

First U.S. president to submit to a mugshot? Be careful what you wish for.

https://d35ligi1n5bgzc.cloudfront.net/products/images/000/708/817/medium/SA619_5060_Black.jpg

To laugh at this mugshot is to misunderstand it. Georgia has just crystallized Trump’s campaign message with a copyright-free image that will win him the nomination.

Fani Willis, Georgia’s district attorney, surely felt quite self-satisfied these past two weeks. We all saw her smug press conference announcing Trump’s indictment.

But the mugshot — wholly unnecessary, avoided in Trump’s three other indictments, meant to humiliate and degrade — has opened up a brand new revenue stream and re-energized Trump’s already fanatical base.

As has Fulton County’s explanation?

https://d35ligi1n5bgzc.cloudfront.net/products/images/000/708/856/medium/SA625_Poster_v3.jpg


6 posted on 08/26/2023 10:02:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Covid acts of terrorism by officials, who were hired to protect us will harm our people for decades!)
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Democrats behind the “Russia collusion” hoax, including Hillary Clinton, should call their lawyers...
as should whoring cokehead and influence peddler Hunter Biden, and his partner in crime, his father.


7 posted on 08/26/2023 10:03:08 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: SoConPubbie

Bkmk


8 posted on 08/26/2023 10:03:47 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: NFHale

I want a t-shirt with Trump’s mug pic on it along with the caption, “This Mug’s for you.”


9 posted on 08/26/2023 10:03:54 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Its not even a mugshot, its totally gangsta and an exact replica of the photo on the cover of his book, I think he practiced that shot for days..he totally played these fools totally played them..they wanted a sad lil man staring at the camera and instead they got a defiant man just look at the eyes, they can see right through you he wants revenge and its gonna be SWEET


10 posted on 08/26/2023 10:04:19 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Yes they have.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1695236516241400289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1695236516241400289%7Ctwgr%5E9d3118d219a4d23d69a099af3a4722b88e773a0b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Faugust-26th-2023-presidential-politics-resistance-day-942%2F

Language alert, but wow.


11 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:12 AM PDT by dforest
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To: SoConPubbie

It rallies his base. We will see if the independents care.


12 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: SoConPubbie

Being attacked by the corrupt evil who’ve hijacked government is truly a badge of honor.

Considering ONLY Trump has been subjected to this is more than revealing. This de facto makes Trump possibly the greatest president in American history and clearly the #1 arch enemy of the corrupt evil ruling class.


13 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SoConPubbie

A lot of Dems and even Republicans don’t understand how this has the possibility of making him a much more sympathetic figure to minorities.

He’s not an untouchable white man anymore.


14 posted on 08/26/2023 10:11:31 AM PDT by struggle
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To: SoConPubbie

Trump was coming out of a bankruptcy hearing

a reporter asked if he was going to give up

Trump said, “Do I ever?”

he does not back down


15 posted on 08/26/2023 10:13:20 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Brilliant
It rallies his base. We will see if the independents care.

They mostly don't. Same goes for a vast majority of women.

16 posted on 08/26/2023 10:13:24 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Biden gets to use Trump as the “bogeyman” to motivate his base to vote for the Democrats.


17 posted on 08/26/2023 10:14:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: dforest

Loving that video clip. Thanks for posting. I hope it goes viral.


18 posted on 08/26/2023 10:18:10 AM PDT by JayGalt (A proud slave must be broken before the contagion spreads. Ever was it thus.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

...an exact replica of the photo on the cover of his book...
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That’s a good observation and I agree he probably practiced it. He totally nailed it.


19 posted on 08/26/2023 10:19:38 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: All

Democrats relished this moment — for years. Yet, what they should really fear is
what Republicans will do in response. Big changes will be made, and justifiably so.
<><>Secret Biden archives will be opened.
<><>Mass pardons will be offered to those incarcerated for Democrats’ invented crimes.
<><> Whole government departments will be dismantled or relocated.
<><>There will be no kangaroo courts.
<><>there’ll be none of the perversions Democrats have committed.
<><>There’ll be no mercy for those who have attacked the rights and values of our constitution
<><>no mercy for those claiming to be acting “in defense of democracy”
<><>no mercy for those who abhor democracy
<><>no mercy for govt officials who serve the left’s corrupt interests.


Democrats smugly claim that Trump is getting what he deserves. They know the Georgia indictment is a joke — that a thousand Democratic politicians, (including the Ga prosecutor herself), by their words and actions, could easily be indicted for the non-crime of claiming that elections have been “stolen.”


20 posted on 08/26/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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