While the intake report memorialized allegations that multiple girls were murdered and buried at a Trump golf course, newly released Epstein records suggest federal investigators ultimately viewed the source skeptically. Other FBI summaries released by the Justice Department indicate complainants making similar allegations were “deemed not credible,” and no publicly released records show that authorities excavated any Trump golf course or uncovered evidence supporting the claims.

Guess the rich only ever saw consequences once: France in 1792

What would America’s Storming the Bastille moment even look like? Storming the child-rape mansion that is Mar-a-Lago? Who’s head would get carried away on a pike? Miller’s? Theil’s? Musk’s?

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    Our federal government is no longer relevant, get rid of all of them. It’s rotten to the core.

    State governments already duplicate much of what the feds do already, we’ll be fine.

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      What do you think the odds are of that happening, this year or next or whatever?

      Keep in mind, this thing in Iran won’t end. It might get hot and cold with ceasefires Israel routinely, if not daily, violates.

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        After a successful op in Venezuela, he thought he could boost his rep with another one, and then blew it in Iran.

        Now he’ll want an easy win to redeem himself, and he’ll go all in on Cuba, with troops and everything, figuring it will be a walk in the park since it’s right off the coast.

        But he’ll fuck it up, and kill lots of American troops, and innocent Cubans, and even the American Cubans will get pissed off, and he’ll be in an even worse situation than before.

        Never underestimate his ability to totally fuck up EVERYTHING.

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        The Iran situation is going to end the same way as Afghanistan. USA will declare job done and just leave, leaving the mess for others to sort out. Oil production will ramp up elsewhere where it’s suddenly profitable to extract because of the higher prices which will eventually find a new balance. Israel will kill a lot of people domestically and play the victim.

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        What do you think the odds are of that happening, this year or next or whatever?

        Feels like an October Surprise moment, especially if Republicans are worried about losing in Florida.

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          Republicans aren’t worried about losing Florida it’s on lock as I understand it.

          But yeah, right before the elections is not a bad guess. I think it would hurt them more than help, but if they manufactured a pretext and did something right before the election before it became clear this was more hamfisted leadership it might not hurt.

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            Imagine being so fucking stupid you believe a republican would do anything positive for anyone but themselves.

            You’re already mentally brain dead if you think a democrat would ever help you, you’ve got to be literal rotting zombie flesh puppeted by the propaganda of pedophiles to believe a word a republican says.

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              believe a word a republican says

              “Increase the federal minimum wage to $15 across the country and eliminate the minimum tipped wage.” ~Joe Biden

              not even one standalone bill. they only needed a majority. They skip super majority requirements all of the time with a majority vote, they’ve done it hundreds of times (it’s a parliamentary rule only and not the law).

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            Republicans aren’t worried about losing Florida

            Their approval rating has been underwater for months, even in that cursed state.

            But yeah, right before the elections is not a bad guess. I think it would hurt them more than help, but if they manufactured a pretext and did something right before the election before it became clear this was more hamfisted leadership it might not hurt.

            The US media does a great job of taking everything Trump says at face value and in the best possible framing for about three weeks after he says it, and then running a bunch of “Can’t believe y’all let Lucy trick you with that football again” articles once the latest fuckery is in the rearview mirror.

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              Their approval rating has been underwater for months, even in that cursed state.

              He made gains with Hispanics then proceeded to sic ICE on them. Now many are conservative as hell and have their own issues with colorism and racism, but I am curious to see how this plays out in 2028.

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        As an armchair general I would guess before midterms if they are set to lose (and if losing means they won’t be able to start a new invasion), and after if not. But in any case Cuba isn’t much of a challenge compared to Iran, so it won’t be hard to invade, militarily speaking

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    Underage… So… Children!

    Not to forget rape.

    So child rape parties.

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      While harassing and terrorizing drag queens for being gRoOmErS, and not shutting up about the liberal Hollywood elite for, well, doing the same thing.

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        Hollywood is not now nor have they ever been very progressive in our lifetimes. They do support like lgbtq, and some social issues. The rich don’t actually care about that, they care about the money, they are just using people on this to get what they want.

        They also mostly suck at their jobs. And it’s about to get magnitudes worse on every score with this paramount bullshit. 3 studios will control like 75% of movie studios. Sony another several percent.

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    The Epstein files must say even worse things. That’s why we are at war with Iran. What a waste all around for everybody and everything.

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      You know what they say, a picture says a thousand words, and a video of a member of the ruling class fucking a child is worth a lot more.

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      Trump gets some random asshole hoping a train with a pee-shooter to try and Rambo the Rose Garden every six months or so.

      We’ve had city-wide marches, election waves favoring anti-Trump candidates, and open riots in defiance of ICE incursions.

      Military enlistment is hitting lows not seen since the depths of the Iraq War and moral is so low in the US Navy that people are sabotaging their own boats (ie, the “laundry fire” that took the state-of-the-art $18B USS Gerald Ford out of commission).

      We’ve seen strike waves in Midwestern states. We’ve seen mass protests against data centers and detention centers. We’ve seen a fresh new wave of alt-media journalists getting propped up by millions of people who are desperate for reliable and useful information. We’ve seen an Arab Socialist take over the Mayorship of the wealthiest city in the country.

      Americans are clearly doing shit.

      But we’ve also seen a Tech Oligarch rampage. Mass evictions. Mass arrests. Mass firings. Tens of thousands of unemployed gooners joining the most brutal and repressive state police agencies. We’ve seen white nationalists parading around downtown districts. We’ve seen Zionist mobs lead by war criminals parade down Lower Manhattan with the support of both major parties. Scammers are conning and looting their neighbors at unprecedented rates. People are pickling their brains on social media, radicalizing, and shooting up neighborhoods. The LGBTQ community is at once congealing into a kind of activism we haven’t seen since the 1970s and suffering wave after wave of criminal prosecution and vigilante assault.

      Americans are going abroad to fight as mercenaries in foreign wars and going abroad to flee the fascism at home. Americans are building up mutual aid groups in their own backyard and narcing on those aid groups to the cops in order to tear them down. Americans are rallying around the Cross and the Flag, fully intent on doing a pogrom against the infidels. And Americans are rallying around the Cross and the Flag, fully intent on defending liberty, overthrowing the corrupt oligarchy, and returning to civil governance.

      Americans are doing a lot of shit. We’re at each others’ throats. We are holding each other’s hands. But this idea that nothing is happening is built on the false narrative that liberals only lose when they’re apathetic, rather than when they’re getting overpowered.

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        Ya know what…for the first time in a long time, I’ve got a little hope for our country after reading this. It’s easy to lose sight of everything that’s been happening when seemingly no meaningful change has been made.

        I’ve had this thought for a while anytime the “why isn’t America doing anything” thought comes up and I think it’s because the country is SO large and comprised of SO many states and governments and whatnot that it makes it difficult to see when change is actually happening on the small scale. It’s like a pebble being thrown into a lake when we expect it to be a boulder, not realizing that there’s thousands of pebbles being thrown.

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      Sure they will. They’ll invade Greenland or Cuba in order to keep distracting from the Trump-Epstein Files.

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    I bet they are at a golf course and I bet he claims the course is a cemetery so he doesn’t have to pay property taxes.

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    “As you know I represent the Rothschild’s”

    • Jeffery Epstein

    You think it’s a coincidence Ivanka Trump “discovered” an Island they wanted to develop as a luxury resort for billionaires while on (in kushner’s own words) Nat Rothschild’s yacht? You think it’s a coincidence Don Jr married Epstein s bankers daughter? The Trumps have been trafficking and most likely murdering children for decades.

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      No no no. The Q people have been telling me it has to be the Democrats doing this. Hillary was masterminding it all from the basement of a pizza parlor with no basement, I’m told.

      Now excuse me, I gotta wait for the next Q drop to explain it all…

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        Storming the pizza parlor makes about as much sense as storming the golf courses based on non-credible allegations.

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          Given that was an inside job it does actually lend credibility to the overarching story that’s being proven true with each release.

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      It"s very clear that the trumps are building a personal empire and what is even more clear is that they are getting away with it as well. Like, how is it so easy? Is there no one just enough to standup to that? No one?

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        It’s easy because money buys protection. If you’re making a ton of money, you’re probably doing shitty things or associated with doing skeptical things for shitty people which means there’s blackmail.

        Basically, they keep each other in line and protect their wealth which can be used against anyone that comes after them because those people don’t have wealth.

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          Yeah but you’d think that at some point you’d reach diminishing returns where you’d get resistance but everyone in the american sphere of influence is either playing it low waiting for opportunities or are straight complicit.

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      Epstein’s banker daughter? What? Epstein didn’t have any public kids and don jr married two models…

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    “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

    Too bad America seems to be fresh out of patriotic blood so tyrants run rampant.