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I'd much rather throw him in prison.
And give him livestreams of things like his ballroom being ripped down, the pool being properly restored, all those tacky gold gewgaws that he glued to the walls of the WH scraped off, Biden's picture restored instead of that bullshit about an "autopen" and the most unflattering picture of donnie put up there with a description of how he's a rapist, a pedophile, a traitor and a war criminal, the Rose Garden restored, Obama's picture put on the passports, currency with Hillary's picture on it, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario being restored on all maps, and on and on. Maybe fake feeds in some cases, others not. Concoct fake feeds about how Obama got 5 more Nobel Peace Prizes....
And he gets no other entertainment, and definitely no Internet access. No cameras on him, either.
I don't know about that last part. The idea of his torture finally getting him the views he craves feels somehow poetic.
I agree with everything except the money and passport thing. No living person is supposed to be on our money. Also partisan passports seem tacky.
Yes. But I'd be willing to make an exception just in this case. Would not have to be on there very long.
Also, he could just be given fake news feeds about those situations.
Or we can move past the American Empire which has protected the Epstein class, and not just protected but bent over backwards for. Which has raped the world of its resources, poisoned its own citizens by way of greed, and enslaved the global south (but also the North too, just slightly less hard). We can move past a white supremacist, capital worshipping society intent of backing up its INCREDIBLY short sighted goals and obsession for the status quo, with the largest military the world has seen.
I can keep going, but I hope you get the point.
We can dream, explore, imagine, and wade through the muck of this dying and deadly system, to make something new that works for us all. We need to, it's not an option. The return to "normalcy" that you paint out is far less intolerable for him (even in a jail cell), than it is for the working class, the dying species, the collapsing oceans, and the generations not born yet.
I don't know about other people but I'm shooting for a world way past a return to imperial neoliberalism, which ironically wouldn't even last long with the collapsing environment and societies around us.