George calls his dad:
His lawyers said in a statement that Papadopoulos decided not to appeal Mossâ decision for âpractical reasonsâ and that âhe will serve his sentence, and hopes to move on with his life.â
Lawyers can be expensive.
Am I to understand that the prisoner-to-be is responsible for arranging and paying for their own trip? Iâm sort of curious about the procedural side of things.
Thatâs up there with having to pay Uncle Sam to put a stamp on your taxes. Sad!
I expect weâll learn he wasnât paying for them, that instead he had a JDA with someone (who could this possibly be?) with the understanding that his lawyers would get paid as long as they passed along every tidbit they learned about Muellerâs investigations. Seems to be an inifite pool of money out there to fund stupid lawyer tricks in this regard.
If one is fortunate enough to be able to self-surrender, one bears the expenses of doing so.
For two weeks he can just leave the rental car in the jail parking lot.
Not only that â this is a burden that uniquely falls on those who are sufficiently lawyered-up, privileged, and, uh, generally white, so that they arenât spending the time before trial, during trial, and awaiting sentencing already as a âguest of the stateâ.
Very sad, the way well-connected white men are being so terribly oppressed these days.
They couldnât afford to let Papadopoulos report at a later date, as the barista at the coffee lounge is on furlow
You sure got a purdy mouth on you, boy.
Did he cry? Iâll bet he cried, the little shit, over two weeks in a minimum-security center. What a self-important little coffee boy.
PICTURES! I want pictures, goddammit!
Shakespearian comedies have minor characters to liven things up â Bottom in âA Midsummer Nightâs Dreamâ who may have invented the Dunning-Kruger effect or at least be considered its first exemplar, or Malvolio in âTwelfth Night,â pretentious and self-important and the butt of joke after joke â but Papadopoulos seems so out of his depth Iâm not sure even Shakespeare could make him believable, at least at the level he was playing: heâs seems more of a Sad Sack really; a bumbling enlisted man.
Come to think of it though Iâm not sure any playwright, however gifted, could make any of the characters playing at the presidential level the past two years believable: it would wind up something like a cross between âWaiting for Godotâ and âDr Strangegloveâ I would imagine.
The thing that really whipsaws is how incredibly serious things are and simultaneously how ludicrously ridiculous they are. RWNJâs may have their cognitive dissonance but we it seems have this; this insane spectacle that makes us weep and laugh at the same time, aye, and gnash our teeth to boot!
A Wisconsin prison full of pissed-off Packerâs fansâŚ
PricelessâŚ
I hope he doesnât get beat up too badlyâŚ
\sarc
White collar crime need to be criminalized. Not all, but the egregious behavior. If the consequences are prison time, perhaps things will change. Probably not, whom am I kidding?
Mueller should have revoked the short sentence he recommended.
And even the most expensive ones cannot really perform miracles (no matter what they might say).
I wonder, if heâs living in Los Angeles (for example), could he have simply presented himself to federal marshals at the federal building and said, âHere I am.â ??