Thread by @SteveDeaceShow

Although it'll probably fall on mostly deaf ears here, where too many are emotionally/financially invested in an outcome so they can't/won't be able to, since I like how Twitter is increasingly democratized let's try to have an adult conversation about #TrumpIndictment. THREAD:

It looks like this DOJ case is only about the Mar-A-Lago raid and the classified documents allegedly found. Hence, Trump being indicted in Miami. However, that jury pool won't be as biased against him as the one in Manhattan. Trump received 46% of the vote in Miami-Dade in 2020.

And yes, in this era of political persecution, evidence doesn't matter nearly as much as the political loyalties of the prospective jury pool. Trump is toast in Manhattan, where he received only 12% of the 2020 vote. He will likely be convicted of felonies there.

But in Miami he has a much better chance at a fair trial, on a sliding scale, of course. However, since this case seems isolated to only the documents issue, that means another DOJ indictment pertaining to January 6th likely looms later.

And in that indictment, Trump will be subjected to the same DC star chamber that has incarcerated hundreds of his supporters for non-violent protests. You know, the people Republicans in DC -- who are now pretending to be outraged at Trump's treatment -- have totally ignored.

At what point will we care as much about what has unfairly happened to Trump supporters as we do Trump himself? What kind of populist movement cares only for fearless leader, while the true believers are left to rot?

Back to the Miami indictment, it is so brazenly partisan and hacktastic you can only describe it as "late Republic nonsense." (h/t @davereaboi). But again, we are not a nation of laws, and never have been. We are a nation of political will, and always will be.

To that end, The political persecutions will continue until stopped. Only way to stop them is to win the 2024 election, otherwise they will continue and escalate all the more. The social compact is (perhaps irrevocably) broken. Thus, elections are only about acquiring power now.

Which brings us to some political realities. A reality that will be difficult to hear for those on this platform who are compensated to direct us to a particular outcome, or are emotionally invested in that same particular outcome.

However, while Twitter is growing, and under its current leadership I'm all for that, it still isn't America. The talking points/narratives we exchange here are irrelevant to people in places like Iowa, where I live.

In those places, the number one issue for those that aren't Regime compliant wannabe Marxists is winning the 2024 election. So to that end, let's get real here. An incarcerated individual, either in a jail cell or house arrest, isn't winning the presidency -- period.

If we're being adults, and set our meal tickets and devotion aside and think critically, we have to realize this is true. If for no other reason that if you can brazenly steal an election from a sitting president, how much easier is it to steal one from a convicted felon?

Think of all the false narratives they could justify perpetuating against President Trump. Multiply that by a factor of infinity for Felon Trump. There literally isn't a suburban voter in America who voted against Trump twice who will now think otherwise.

And we all know this, and it sucks, and it doesn't profit to say it -- but it is likely true nevertheless. And there are lots of people here bellowing otherwise who would admit this if they were compelled by Wonder Woman's lasso of truth.

Show me the suburban voter who says, "You know, I voted for a dementia patient in 2020 over the guy that pre-Covid gave me the best economy so far this century. But now that he's a convicted felon, I'm totally seeing the guy in a different light."

Come on, man.

Democrats know this, too. That's, um, why they're doing this. I don't see any way Trump is not a convicted felon by Election Day 24. And maybe a multi-felon convict for that matter. All shams, yes, but in the America we have today it doesn't matter. Because almost nothing does.

But one thing that does is winning that election next year, by hook or by crook. For if we don't, a lot more of us will be targeted next. This is no joke. This is no time for an emotional protest vote. This is a time to soberly ask ourselves who can actually win to give us power?

Without power/agency/standing, your beliefs are culturally irrelevant now. By the end of this decade there may be more Christians in China than anywhere in the world. But they will be largely underground and culturally irrelevant.

That is where this is headed, and where the people doing this to Trump and the January 6thers absolutely want this to go. So we need to see this here with a wide-angle lens. For example...

What power do your elected Republicans in DC or even your own states have now they can use, because the soonest a GOP president can wield any is 595 days from now? A lot of persecution can happen between now and then!

Do those rabidly tweeting now "that's why we have to vote Trump" at literally everything have a plan for what we can do for the next 595 days? Do people who currently hold elected office who are running for president, like DeSantis, have one?

However, 595 days from now we will either inaugurate someone who will make these persecutions stop, or we won't. There is no in-between. And if we don't inaugurate someone who will make them stop, all of the existential tweeting we have done here until then is null and void.

And, therefore, so will be much of what is left of America. Democrats have cornered us. They either get to jail Trump and he's gone, or they get to oppose a felon Trump and win. This sucks, I know. But it is time to set aside our vanity/anger/paychecks and see this clearly.

The only way out is to win.

There is no substitute for winning.

Win. Or go home.