I’ve been waiting for this day for so long, seeing this wannabe dictator commit crime after crime with no consequences and hearing so many people saying this would never happen, but here we are. Cheers my American neighbors! This is a good day for democracy!
I agree, but also a tragic day. This does nothing to reduce the polarization or convince his misguided followers of anything. Trump might go away but his voters won’t. We have decades of this to look forward to. It’s a step in the right direction at least…
The alternative is worse.
I am going to disagree with you here. This is a long process. This teachers our kids about consequence. There is a lot more gears spinning than just punishing the big Cheeto.
It may be dark going forward, but we need to savor every bit of victory we can get like cold water on a searing summer day.
I wholeheartedly disagree that it’s a tragic day. The tragedies happened when he committed his crimes and got away with them for years. This is just the beginning of resolution.
Exactly right. Saying this mugshot is a tragedy is like saying it’s a tragedy when somebody with cancer finally qualifies for the surgery to remove the tumor.
The consequences of national polarization may, in the long term, make Trump’s actions look small.
This arrest certainly pushes us closer to the edge. Whether that will lead us back to normalcy or over and down is yet to be seen.
And it would be better for national unity if one party was allowed to get away with committing crimes without facing consequences?
But that’s not the point. Him getting away with it or not, is one thing. The people standing in front of the Jail since 10 am, waiting for him to show up. Eager and sincerely wanting to show him their support. Firm in their belief that he cares or needs the support.
Half of the nation really wants someone like him to be president.
And they stand even stronger by his side, after these last weeks.
This is the tragic message and important lesson from this.
Half of the nation really wants someone like him to be president.
Not even half of likely voters.
We keep saying “half of the nation” but he’s never won a popular vote. It’s a cognitive distortion
I’ve been thinking lately that if Nixon hadn’t been pardoned, we never would have been here today.
Oh well, if he was allowed to get off without any consequences, it would be far, far worse.
Isn’t this like the 3rd mug shot over the past few months, or did we not get to see those? I’ve lost track.
The other ones didn’t take mugshots
Those places forwent the mugshot. Georgia stated they would treat him as any other defendant, so this is his first.
In hindsight, that should have been obvious from today’s uproar.
I’d forgotten about “forwent,” I’m going to have to keep it in my mental cheek pouches for crosswords and other word games.
“Mental cheek pouches” is a genius term. Stolen.
Stolen
You mean stashed in your mental cheek pouches.
To be fair, the mugshot is for identification and it’s not like you need a photo of the Cheeto to identify him. What I want is a prison ID photo after being hosted down and de-loused (I know that’s just a movie trope, but I still want it)
Delousing in jails is not just a movie trope.
Hosing down? Got me there.
The delousing is real. No hose-down though. They do make you scrub up in ice cold shower water though.
I agree, but is this a consequence tho
That’s what op is saying.
how long did he study this expression in front of the mirror, i wonder
He should of worked on it more, it’s no Blue Steel
Should have*
. You’re right. Reminded me of this. No malious, just laughsmalice*
I know when I’m beet. In my defense, English is my first language.
Oh he’s got an inch and a half of blue steel going on.
Eww 🤢
Orange Smudge
He somehow managed to make himself look even more like a dipshit than usual.
To catch the dipshits, you have to think like a dipshit. This is exactly what every one of his voters would look like in a mug shot. Even the ones that have never been booked are voluntarily showing that to the world today.
Yeah it’d be unbelievable as a story. Sometimes truth is definitely stranger than fiction.
It’s 100% a toddler version of angry face. I’ve seen it many times but only from toddlers or as a joke.
Study?! Has he ever?
Not sure but I’ve seen it before.
Edit: here
these look like he has difficulty seeing: now where is the camera
Merde oui
La meilleure pic de 2023.
Better than putin on time magazine
“I’m not gonna poop I’m not gonna poop I’m not gonnapoop I’m notgonnapoop I’mnotgonnapooooooop….”
See I’m getting more of a “why the fuck can’t I poop” vibe from it. Anger and rage and pain
He must have based it off that Goebbels picture when he realized the photographer was Jewish
I call this one, Red Rain
Red Rain
If you really think about it, he has never looked away from the image of himself in the mirror.
indeed
thanks for the reminder
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Ugly looking fucker, ain’t he?
It’s already a meme lol
U mad bro?
He’s so beautiful. I just wish he was left wing.
Ignoring the downvotes, what do you mean? I can’t parse what you’re trying to say. Is it a joke of some sort?
I just, I think I could fix him.
Such antidisestablishmentarianism
The same face every grampa makes when kids are on his lawn…
Blue steel
That feeling when you’re trying to hold back a shit, but you’re currently being photographed for a mug shot.
Tried to hold back a shit…
That is definitely the face of “I tried hard, but it slipped through the crack.”
Nothing will fundamentally be changed by this but I am waiting for the photoshop battles with giddy anticipation
Not very frightening at all
It’s like that face one makes as like a 12 year old when you’re mad and desperately trying to look intimidating, but just look silly because you’re blatantly overdoing it and don’t look very intimidating anyway.
Goddamn he looks mad. Civil war ?
Nah, this is the second time the confederates surrendered
What is it with all these mug shots having a similar scowl going on?
And looking like they were photographed with a webcam from 2004?
He’s trying to look defiant and outraged. Guy knows how to work his marks. I guarantee you every Republican looking at that photo is getting a massive boner over it.
Yeah, but even Giuliani is making the same scowl, and that guys a total dope.
The tee shirts are probably rolling off the press minutes after the photo was released.
Sad but true
Sad!
massive boner
or a little chubby.
Ha, fair. I was using the term “massive” in a relative sense.
Camera angle… The camera looks like it’s set up high, so arrestees have to tilt their heads up when getting their mugshots. Tends to give people a Kubrick Stare.
Certainly odd camera angle, plus bad lighting and maybe an atypical focal length (for what the avg person is used to seeing)?
Have you ever been booked? It’s because it is almost certainly a webcam and a very old one at that.
This guy jails
Been the jailed never the jailer.
Nuh uh! Mine was at least taken with a webcam from 2010
Can confirm
Sadly can also confirm
How do you afford quality cameras when your budget goes to militarization of the force?
Cops are the only photographers in the world better at setting up the lighting for black people.
Police officers and cameras don’t seem to get along very well.
