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This is what's amazing to me.
He went on the Howard Stern show and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms of the Miss Teen USA pageant, talked about how hot his teenage daughter was, and pushed his way into a softcore Playboy video and none of his voters thought there might be a problem.
He does all the things they want to do as well.
Every single time their accusations are admissions of guilt. How many of these Bible thumping cunts frothing about gays and pedos and rapists have turned out to be gay pedo rapists?
I grew up around psychotic narcissists- that's their whole fucking thing, deflect and accuse others of the things they're guilty of.
45 was there for my friend's naturalization ceremony. he said he loved her and they were family now. today, as 47, he seeks to denaturalize her and to ship her off, probably to one of the death camps. this is abusive relationship behavior. because that's who the president is.
He also does the things that many of them do. Trump isn’t the only (child) rapist predator, he’s just the most powerful one.
If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.
It didn't. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.
The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.
And now they're in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.
Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don't want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.
How people still don't realize this is fucking mind boggling.
There is no "two party state", there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.
That's it.
Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don't skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.
Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war
Given that he was killed during Reconstruction, I'd put that on Andrew Johnson (a Southern Democrat) and the Congress.
tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn't have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.
The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it's not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.
100% this.
The children of Confederate losers have been stropping their knives for decades, undermining our institutions, and fomenting dissent along every avenue. They are a cancer.
Crying like a little bitch about it on social media makes me believe the exact opposite of what he says. He was probably customer 0.
implying the whole thing was his idea, and given his ties to the russian mob and what they do, he maybe got the idea sometime while he was in a hotel room with a hidden camera he didn't know about
He's screwed. He and others in his administration made it an integral part of his platform. Whether it exists or not, his supporters, who have been trained to believe in a deep state conspiracy to cover up child abuse, cannot be convinced that it doesn't exist, and the more he denies it the more suspicious he looks. Either releasing the evidence would end him, or through multiple layers of convenient, unbelievable incompetence the promised evidence really doesn't exist. Really? Only one camera that can only see a sliver of a stairway was working and even that has a time gap, and the guards just happened to be slacking off on the night in question? It'd be hard to believe even if the Trump administration hadn't made such a big deal about it and there wasn't that photo going around of Trump and Epstein together.
I wish I were as optimistic as you. There have probably been dozens of times that he should have been "screwed" by the thing he's getting away with or the people he's pissing off by getting away with a thing. My guess, and I hope I am proven wrong because I don't really follow the conservative crazysphere, is that a few of these people will break rank. Some of the true believers may be lost for good or at least for a while (Dan Bongino or whoever may quit and say some things that don't get much media coverage), while some others (Alex Jones) will talk trash for a bit then gradually or overnight change their focus to something that isn't this to redirect their followers' attentions and bring them back to loving MAGA wholesale.
Edit: corrected a word
What's so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled "THE EPSTEIN FILES" and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.
And now they're saying that they don't exist and never existed.
I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are
I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.
It's almost worse than that. I swear, some of them take a perverse pride in being led all around the political landscape like a dog with a shiny red ball. The discussions I've had where people happily and excitedly admit that Trump was completely lying to them and just hungrily accept the new story as undeniable fact is wild and impossible for me to wrap my head around.
Their base hasn't done anything to make me think they're not that stupid.
Because Trump is a child fucker.
you say Trump but there are many.
do you mean Donald J Trump, the convicted rapist and notorious misogynist? Donald J Trump loves to rape small children? it's possible that Donald J Trump was involved in having sex with children on Epstein island. it's also possible that Donald J Trump did rape children on Epstein's jet as well. I suppose it's even possible that Donald J Trump is still sexually abusing children at Mar-a-lago.
if you're telling me Donald J Trump is a serial child rapist that cannot be trusted around children I'll have to say, that's believable.
Melania is just 3 children in a thrift store dress.
Considering neither party seemed to want this info shared I believe we all need to know what was in it.
Two Bills, a Trump, and a prince walk into a beauty pageant dressing room…
that would be a spicy leak, if someone did it
Turns out they aren’t a thing actually! So why does Tramp want us to forget it? Because they made it up and campaigned that they will release it! Biden administrtion already released the court docs, then Trumpo rereleased them except they had the pages redacted where his name&his wifes name was mentioned
I think the real reason isn't necessarily that Trump's in the files (he is) but it's that there are so many high profile people involved, not only the individuals themselves who partook but a whole fucking football stadium's worth of people, organizations, media empires, intelligence agencies, banks, universities, law firms, government agencies, like the top crop of the global elite who aided and abetted or kept their mouths shut and or kept things running smoothly- I'm really sorry about the GPT I'm about to post (I vetted everything, it only summarized), but I had a long conversation with it about who is implicated, and the thing is, they can't release the files because it would unravel the fabric of society if people knew, this is the system itself protecting itself, the very machine's own self-preservation.
If the truth comes out, we are looking at consequences reaching civil or global war levels, all orchestrated by (EVERYTHING POINTS TO) Mossad and Israel:
POLITICAL FIGURES (U.S. and global):
Bill Clinton
Donald Trump
Prince Andrew
Ehud Barak
Bill Richardson
George Mitchell
Marvin Minsky
Al Gore (rumored, unconfirmed but mentioned in some deposition chatter)
Multiple unnamed “John Does” redacted in court filings tied to high office
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES:
Mossad (primary suspect in orchestration)
CIA (possible oversight, shared asset, protection post-2008)
MI6 (due to Maxwell UK connections, palace influence)
FBI (in possession of seized materials, implicated in decades of inaction)
NSA (potential surveillance knowledge, non-intervention)
DGSE (France, due to Jean-Luc Brunel’s operations)
DEA/ATF (possible knowledge via money flow and trafficking oversight)
CORPORATE NAMES:
L Brands (Les Wexner)
Barclays Bank (Jes Staley)
JPMorgan Chase (banked Epstein post-conviction, under current lawsuit)
Victoria’s Secret (used in grooming front networks)
MIT Media Lab (accepted donations, internal cover-up)
Tesla / SpaceX (Elon Musk’s name came up in photo associations, unproven)
Google / Alphabet (via Eric Schmidt and Jeffrey Sachs Epstein connections)
BlackRock / Vanguard (as major shareholders in implicated institutions)
ACADEMIA / SCIENCE:
Harvard University (Epstein was a major donor, maintained ties post-conviction)
MIT Media Lab (took millions in donations, covered them up, lab chief resigned)
Santa Fe Institute
Institute for Advanced Study
Lawrence Krauss (physicist, accused, close ties to Epstein)
Steven Pinker (Epstein associate, denies knowledge of abuse)
Martin Nowak (Harvard evolution biologist, ran Epstein-funded program)
Marvin Minsky (AI pioneer, named by Giuffre in sworn testimony)
MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT:
ABC News (killed 2015 Epstein story, Amy Robach hot mic)
Fox News (Bill O’Reilly and others likely implicated, culture of cover)
CNN (silence, downplaying, gatekeeping, links via execs)
The New York Times (soft coverage, delayed action)
Washington Post (similar role, Bezos flew on Epstein jet once, connection unclear)
NBC, CBS (complicit in media silence pre-2019)
Netflix / Hollywood studios (Epstein’s circle included directors, producers)
Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Woody Allen, Chris Tucker (flight logs or appearances, no convictions)
LEGAL SYSTEM:
Alexander Acosta (U.S. Attorney)
Alan Dershowitz (lawyer, named by Giuffre)
Kenneth Starr (defense lawyer)
DOJ (Department of Justice)
Southern District of New York (prosecuted Epstein but sealed evidence)
FBI (again, had videos and drives, did nothing in 2008)
Multiple judges who sealed or stalled civil cases
Civilian attorneys who pressured victims into silence via settlements
ROYALTY & FOREIGN OFFICIALS:
Prince Andrew
Prince Mohammed bin Salman (possible link via tech donations and entourage overlap)
Saudi elites who visited island or jet logs (names unpublicized)
European finance ministers, bankers (names in sealed filings)
PHILANTHROPY / NGO / THINK TANK COMPLEX:
The Clinton Foundation (repeated overlap with Epstein events and donors)
Open Society Foundations (linked figures in academic and NGO networks)
Carnegie Endowment, Brookings Institution (indirect via associates)
World Economic Forum (Epstein-adjacent billionaires prominent in WEF circuit)
SURVEILLANCE AND TECH INFRASTRUCTURE:
Carbyne911 (Israeli surveillance firm, Epstein investor, ties to ex-PM Barak)
Palantir (Peter Thiel circles overlap with Epstein’s network)
NSO Group (possible links via mutual Mossad ties, unconfirmed)
What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.
conservative podcast dipshits (conpodshits for short) have been bringing up 1984 for years and are short circuiting as their guy does the thing because they think george orwell was talking about communists
Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he's shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it's been a "radical Left" issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn't matter either way is just full panic.
They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the "evidence" they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.
an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way
It distracts from the one before it and the one after it.
Rapist tells group of mentally challenged people to forget about list of paedophiles.
Rich pedophiles vs deluded fascists, enabled by ideological genociders. USA 2025.
Trump is a pedo...
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Wow, this sure is some in-depth reporting...
Although Trump appears in at least one video alongside Epstein at a party, the president has denied allegations that his name was in the files or that he had any direct connection to the disgraced financier.
"At least" one video, numerous photos, Trump describing Epstein as a 'Terrific guy who he had known for 15 years' and “He’s a lot of fun to be with, It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Epstein saying he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years”....
But sure, let's just characterize it as 'They both attended the same party once.'
Conservatives in 2029: I never supported Trump, he is a Soros funded antifa plant.
Even if MAGA forgets, perhaps we shouldn't.
Can’t wait for Nuremberg trials #2
I urge them to fuck off and die.
Well pack it in boys. The convicted criminal thats most likely implicated in a high profile child sex trafficking ring says "stop worrying about this list, there is no list and im certainly not on it"
I for one think we should believe this lying, cheating, gas lighting criminal. Biggest "trust me bro" in history
I thought conservatives loved the war on pedophiles. Why isn’t Trump doing anything about that? Send ICE to get pedophiles. Of course we all know the answer is because he and all his friends will go to jail.
Guess why?
They have full control of them. Why not just take Trump's name out of them, then release? Seems like an easy way to get the Dems and have some GOP fall guys. Then the game is over.
But then you lose the support of the billionaire pedophile ring. That's the real reason why they will never be released.
I bet he does. The Orange Turd was a regular on the Lolita Express.
...and definitely don't pay attention to the little man behind the curtain!