• CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Posting the article because the site angered me with popups

    According to a report from Page Six, the avalanche of indictments and civil suits is taking its toll on Donald Trump as he prepares to turn himself in at an Atlanta jail on Thursday.

    Facing two federal indictments, one in Florida and one in Washington, D.C., a tax fraud trial in Manhattan and a racketeering indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, a Trump insider claimed the former president is “showing signs that it’s wearing on him.”

    As Page Six’s Mara Siegler wrote, the Georgia indictment has become a tipping point for the embattled ex-president despite all of his bravado.

    “An insider tells us that the Georgia indictment has ‘brought about a change,’ adding, ‘he’s not so confident anymore. He’s not acting so cocky anymore. He’s not lashing out so much. The arrogance is gone,’” the report states.

    That same insider also claimed Trump is leery about the loyalties of his 18 co-defendants in Georgia, many of whom are in no position to wage a costly and likely long-running legal battle.

    “Our source says that Trump is ‘nervous,’ because ‘there are so many defendants, he believes that a bunch of them are going to make deals and flip on him.’”

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      Posting the article because the site angered me with popups

      Lol wow, I’ve forgotten what popups look like nowadays. My router-level ad blocking and uBlock origin extensions ensure that I see essentially zero ads online. Anywhere.

      I never saw a single one of those “he gets us” ads, and only know they exist because I’ve heard so many people complain about them.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        Lol same - literally just flipped over from an old google wifi I had been using for ages to my 2.5g homelab infra I’ve built out and tested over the last few months :)

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          I don’t visit those websites lol. Or I find workarounds using archive websites, cached versions on google search, etc. Sometimes for news article websites I simply copy/paste the headline into search and find another site scraping the same content.

          I’ve even found that sometimes hitting print fast enough when a website loads lets me see the page in the print-preview before the popup loads.

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    When you do the right thing, you don’t have to worry about people “flipping on you”…because we know that flipping means lying for you. Trump showed his cards too early in telling these people that he won’t financially support their legal fees. What did he expect?

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      Last I heard he doesnt financially support his own legal fees, not sure why they thought he would cover theirs in the first place.

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      And the ones to whom he did provide legal support are beginning to find out that their counsel is giving them advice to protect Trump…and potentially land them in jail for decades.

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    The judge finally gets Trump to put his phone down and take a look around him at how much he done fucked up…