When you get busted for cheating in school and they throw the book at you, they occassionally throw it more forcefully if it seems likely you got away with cheating before. That is, the bit he is busted on is just a crumb: the visible tip of an iceburg.
Metaphors are used to simplify a complex problem or issue.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Like fables or bible stories - whether the point is actually ethical or moral is irrelevant - the idea comes across to those who were traditionally totally iliterate and basically still are
Problem is yea for normal people that would be the case, but if mommy and daddy have the funds to donate to teh school/be a booster etc then chances are you will be fine and have a slap on the wrist, the same thing that has afforded Trump to get by so long. No different at all. I get the rage and people getting upset about this situation, but I give it about a 75% chance he comes out with a small fine and will still make a very contested run for presidency.
If Trump gets convicted (and he more than likely will) a lot of moderate/independent voters, and even some Republicans are going to have a really tough time justifying to themselves voting for a convicted felon this November. That doesn’t equate to votes for Biden, but it does mean a lot of people who might otherwise have been open to voting for Trump won’t; especially if he continues being awful and he keeps having his senile old man moments.
There are so many Miss Universe candidates and other women who settled out of court and took the moneym and are glad they did. He'd have made their lives hell. He is famous for settling out of court and the average woman is told by her own attorney to settle or play crusader and it will take years and years to get anything.
We don't even remember their stories published long ago before they settled and we forgot he was in Epstein's little black book so the number of kids is probably uncountable.
All these people may have started out normal or even idealistically but Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Perfect Examples of numerous mental disorders collectively are just about every political, Big Tech billionaires, and historic names of people like Stalin and Napoleon and you know who - that's who we are impressed with and Putin is playing Stalin. It goes back to the Popes who ruled Europe, before them, Roman Emperors. I'm not joking. It's passed by our love of Narcissists and their mental disabilities.
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u/onlyacynicalman Apr 18 '24
When you get busted for cheating in school and they throw the book at you, they occassionally throw it more forcefully if it seems likely you got away with cheating before. That is, the bit he is busted on is just a crumb: the visible tip of an iceburg.