• b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Epstein! Epstein! Epstein! These people are obsessed by the fact that the President is a pedophile who rapes children. Can’t we get back to the business of kidnapping and murdering innocent people?

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      I bet everyone is looking to Miller for talking points and he just tells Don to go on Fox and say, “hey, I fuck kids. Lots of them. But only white kids.”

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    The country falling apart, people getting kidnapped by masked police, unidentified government officers arresting people, ignoring citizens in natural disasters, government breaking down … all those things didn’t cause alarm bells?

    Now they’re accusing one another of sex crimes again and government is grinding to a halt?

    The US is turning into the most expensive laughing stock in the world!

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      It’s very generous of you to say that we’re “turning into” the most expensive laughing stock in the world.

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      The country falling apart, people getting kidnapped by masked police, unidentified government officers arresting people, ignoring citizens in natural disasters, government breaking down … all those things didn’t cause alarm bells?

      That is not “falling apart” in the minds of Republicans, that is “working as designed”.

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      I mean… “one political party’s figurehead literally raped children” isn’t the worst reason for a crisis and things to grind to a halt.

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      Because his base isn’t upset about those as much as they are about Epstein. He’s underwater in polling on all those other things now, but his core base wasn’t upset about it

      Right wing media talked about Epstein a lot over the past many years. Claimed that Trump would give them all the truth. It became an ingrained belief. Then he abruptly and very suddenly contradicted all that at once and can’t keep to a consistent narrative

      He also directly insult his base in the back and forth. Calling them “weaklings”, stupid, etc. for caring which he normally avoids doing. Normally he pretends to care about their concerns when coming up with a BS excuse

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      The Qanon crowd largely thought Trump was going to expose a vast network of pedophiles in government and in power. They didn’t really get that he was part of the pedophile ring.

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      I know people think the bad shit ends with the One Big Beautiful Obituary. But JD’s handlers are competent people. And he’s such a jellyfish that he might as well be an actual sock puppet.

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        The bad shit doesn’t end, but it does get upended. They’ve built the whole thing up around Trump. He will not be easy to replace while maintaining the support of the cultists. Vance doesn’t even remotely have what it takes to be a cult leader. The question is, will the cultists’ support be needed at that point?

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      For sure. It is clear that none in the Republican top likes each other, and they all loathe Trump and hate having to kiss his ass all the time. But they can’t make a move as long as he has the Republican voterbase in his pocket.

      For a short while it did seriously look like it caused a dent between Trump and his voters, but now it seems like they have already moved on, when they found out that the Epstein case didn’t so much implicate Democrats as it did Trump.

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    I’d say that’s what they get for electing a pedophile, but I’m honestly not sure it’s possible for the Republican party to pick somebody that isn’t a pedophile.

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    Well, duh, we have politicians actively defending pedophiles out in plain sight, and they’re doubling down to make matters worse.

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    Shit, I’ll take it. This is one they’re not even wrong to be mad about. Would have been great if this happened sometime between 2016 and 2024 but whatever, momentum is momentum.

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    Side note, how have the complete files not been leaked by now? This administration is one of the leakier ones, and anyone who sees any of this information has got to know how many people want it to see the light of day

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      Because there is no benefit to the leaker.

      Not to both sides the systematic rape of children but… both sides have major figures who rape children. So a career bureaucrat who gets caught leaking this (and they would) would have poor odds of a pardon and/or promotion by future politicians.

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      Files are only held by DOJ, which actually has decent data leak protection in place because they needed it long before the current admin.

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    Give the people what they want. I smell blood in the water. Then, what happens? You guessed it, more blood in the water and repeat ad infinitum. They will eat themselves. The destruction of their own doing is imminent. However, that doesn’t provide much in the way of having solid counter platform. Dems need Mojo. And I umm, kinda done with that no progress party. Corporate shills nonetheless. They aren’t as hateful and have done a great job marketing a super kind & humanitarian & empathic way of being. Well, I say bullshit. Not that those aren’t wonderful ideals to hold close on a personal level. I am offended by the fact that these were illusionary terms meant to simply grab a vote. In no way was there to be an honest follow through with that.