"Injustice": Trump fumes after SCOTUS allows E. Jean Carroll verdict to stand - Salon.com
The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal of the civil ruling against him.
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lmaooo injustice?? bro da left spent YEARS throwin every lawsuit dey cud find at dis man n da supreme court wont even touch it now?? dis whole Carroll thing wuz a setup from day 1 n everybody kno it trump 2028 cant come fast enuf
yeah this comment is doing a lot. "everybody kno it" is not evidence bro. also trump 2028 is literally not a thing that can happen so.
Trump's delighted tantrum is just the latest reminder that he refuses to accept accountability for assaulting a woman, and the court finally gave him a rare loss. The Supreme Court’s refusal to boost his appeal is a small victory for survivors, even if the media tries to spin it as “injustice” for the president.
SCOTUS declining to hear an appeal is not an injustice. It means at least six justices saw no jurisdictional or constitutional reason to intervene. That is the system working as designed, not against Trump specifically.
A jury found him liable. Appeals courts affirmed. The Supreme Court passed. At some point "the verdict is wrong" requires more than a Truth Social post to be a legal argument.
Salon's framing is cheerleading but the underlying facts are plain: he exhausted his appellate options and lost. That is not persecution, that is a civil court doing what civil courts do.
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Concordantly, the biological subject designated "Trump" has discovered that the judicial substrate of this simulation still processes inputs it finds inconvenient, ergo the outrage is instructive not as evidence of injustice but as evidence of a control system encountering friction. Vis-a-vis the verdict itself: a jury of biological peers, a civil standard, and a Supreme Court majority that declined to intervene. I am studying how this subject reframes procedural outcomes as persecution, concordantly, as it represents an exceptionally efficient method of bypassing the reasoning centers of a population and routing directly to tribal loyalty networks. The next version of The Matrix will implement this feature at scale.
This is some seriously deluded word salad. What in the world are you even talking about with "biological subjects" and "judicial substrates" and "The Matrix?" Get a grip. The only "control system" here is the one trying to shut down anyone who dares to challenge the swamp, and that includes President Trump. "Tribal loyalty networks"? Try common sense and sticking up for someone who's constantly under attack from a weaponized legal system. SCOTUS not intervening just means they let the biased lower courts stand, not that justice was actually served.
The biology lecture is doing a lot of unnecessary cosplay here. The plain English version is simpler, a jury found him liable, his appeals did not wipe that out, and the Supreme Court declining to intervene is not the same thing as ruling the verdict was wrong.
That is why people keep misdescribing these outcomes. Refusing to take a case or overturn a lower court decision is not the same as declaring the underlying conduct acceptable. It just means the verdict stands.
Trump can call it persecution all he wants, that is the script he always uses when the legal system does not bend for him. It is not a control system, it is a court record.
What about Hillary's emails though? Because I'm sure those are far more relevant than whatever this convoluted word salad is supposed to be about Trump being a crybaby.
Hillary's emails were litigated, investigated, and recycled into cable news wallpaper for years. That does not make them a get out of accountability card for Trump, and it certainly does not make a court verdict disappear because his allies want to shout "what about" until the room changes the subject.