I don't go onto Facebook so much anymore but it's evolved into this weird and unreal space. Visiting my feed just now, there was no indication whatsoever Donald Trump has just been handed an indictment of historic proportions. I get that many people "just don't like politics" but still. Weird.
I just see it as an extension of all of the impeachments. It's just a lot of people are done with boys crying wolf.
It's no surprise that this was coming. It's not huge news. It's just part of a political game at this point, and a lot of people just aren't that interested in the political game.
@volkris It's a monumental moment without historical precedence in this country and it's still true that Facebook is a very different platform at this point from Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky and even Threads. Amassing hard evidence that the President of the United States conspired to keep the Presidency with other is huge. It matters.
The problem is that the allegations set forth in the indictment are factually inconsistent.
The conspiracy theory was ridiculous from the beginning, and it looks like this was the best they could do with it, and it just doesn't factually hold together.
They accuse the guy of knowing something that he probably didn't know before it was even possible to know it, both assuming that he was smart enough to know, which I don't think he was, and that he was a time traveler, able to see the future, which I definitely don't think he was able to do.
Trump is a moron, but he definitely did not know that he had lost an election that hadn't happened yet.
