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[–] Steve@startrek.website 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Donal Trump fucked children with his small penis.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

*raped is a bit more rhetorically significant and accurate

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 minutes ago

Can we split the difference and just say he fucking raped children?

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well, he has a tiny dick, so it's the only way for him to feel anything . . .

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Meaning the penis of a child or a penis the size of a child?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

A penis sized just right for fucking children

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

I hate that sentence so very much.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Q: [...What] does Tiffany have of yours and what does Tiffany have of Marla's?

DJT: Well I think that she's got a lot of Marla, and she's [a] really beautiful baby and she's got Marla's legs; we don't know whether or not she's got [motions to his chest] this part yet, but time will tell.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Know how the Bible depicts God committing mass murder and genocide but Christians somehow justify it? They think if God did it, it is automatically good. Yeah, Trump's supporters literally think he's God. Moral rules don't apply to him.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Bingo. The main body of the cult truly bought into the idea that Trump is either God's handpicked man, a prophet, or Jesus Christ Himself. Morality doesn't apply to the Selected.

[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

Bad people always look for ways to make their bad actions feel like they are still the good guys. God is an easy crutch because he’s made up so can’t argue to the contrary.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Non paywalled link?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Complete sick sack of shit.

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 63 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

"Resurfaced", ie, we knew about this shit, but chose to basically completely ignore it, and instead laser-focus on another President's age and mental faculties.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of people, Fox News and Truth Social people, just never saw this shit in the first place. The bubble is very strong. Now we're doing Trump the Pedo King's Greatest Hits as a whole new group of fans tunes in.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

No one likes an early season clip show.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I've heard a few sketchy things in regards to his comments about his daughter, but this particular one is new to me (though not particularly surprising)

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours ago

But don't worry once people relearn he is in the Epstein files, facism will crumble. Trust me bro.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago

This was known long before the 2024 election.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 38 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

"No that's not creepy at all talking about your baby daughter's legs and bust and "waiting to see" if she has the same as her mom while interviewing on TV. Not at all. Not like a normal father would just say "she's got her mom's eyes and nose" . No sir no pedo-creepiness there" - republicans that voted for him past and present.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 95 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This was all public in 2016 and Republicans voted for Trump anyway.

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

They were too busy talking about Podesta the molesta.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 106 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

“He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump said of Epstein in a 2002 New York Magazine interview.

“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

🤢

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 69 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

and many of them are on the younger side

It’s that very last part. It was completely unprompted and had he kept it to himself, it wouldn’t have raised such a flag.

But his dumb ass probably thought it was a flex and felt compelled to say it to look more… shit, I can’t even come up with a reason.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly I think rubbing his privilege in people's face like that is part of the fun, in an obviously evil narcissistic way. He can allude to the horrors he uses to entertain himself, then he and his criminal buddies can laugh that nothing will happen. It's a feature.

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[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 160 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The president is a pedophile

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

POTUS
Paedophile of the united states.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 117 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

If it's true - and it increasingly looks like it is - then I'm really glad that people get all worked up about the prez being a fucking pedo.

But I'm utterly dismayed that they aren't at least ten times more worked up that he's a fucking Nazi actively trying to destroy the republic and install himself as a dictator.

People have a strange set of priorities...

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll take what I can get at this point.

The thing that scares me is Vance. He’s not going to be distracted by jangling keys.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

The thing that scares me is Vance

Yes, Vance is a much more dangerous Nazi than Trump, because he's intelligent.

But Vance has the charisma of a wet mop, and at the moment, the Trump regime isn't quite entrenched enough to survive on fear alone - which is the only way Vance could take over and stay in power. For the moment, the regime still needs Trumps' populism, whatever remains of it.

If Trump falls tomorrow, there's a very good chance that the entire fascist shitshow will collapse and Vance will be flushed with it. But it won't take long for the regime to be in a position to survive without Trump. So hopefully the Epstein thing will be his undoing sooner rather than later.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Saying he’s intelligent is giving him a lot of credit for simply not being nearly as fucking dumb as trump.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Right, Vance is a charisma black hole.

What he has going for him is that he can be an off-ramp for Trump supporters. He could fill the void left by Trump and Trump supporters won’t have to do any introspection, change sides to democrats.

And he has the backing of the billionaires.

And, you know, he’s VP, so inertia’s on his side.

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 49 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

As a rational human being capable of independent thought I agree with you. Unfortunately, the average American doesn't fall under this category, and there's an alarmingly significant portion of our populace who are very much okay with the Nazi shit. They voted for the Nazi shit.

For whatever reason, pedophilia (yet not rape, misogyny, or non-sexual child abuse of any other flavor) appears to be the line for these people. So, yes, he's very much all the other things you mentioned, but for the good of public discourse, it's my patriotic duty to shout as loudly as I can for all to hear:

The president is a pedophile

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

For whatever reason, pedophilia (yet not rape,

She was asking for it

misogyny,

It's not like they're good for anything but babies

or non-sexual child abuse of any other flavor)

Spare the rod, spoil the child

appears to be the line for these people.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If it’s true!? This shit has been known and ignored for the past 2 decades. Nothing is gonna change shit for that shit bag. We are stuck with a multi felon pedophile president for the next 3 years and he has the backing to do whatever he wants. We are fucked. Not apocalyptic fucked, but it will take a decade or two to fix fucked. The next 10 years are not gonna be glorious, think of the Great Depression…. More like that.

[–] Lukaro@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm afraid I'll die long before republicans even start to think about trying to redeem themselves, not that they could.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

We still haven't fixed Reagan, and this is far worse.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 86 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Father of 4 daughters here. If someone would ask me this question, there is no way I would go to physical sexual characteristics.

A normal parent has zero sexual thoughts about their own child. Even in comparing their mother and body characteristics.

MAGA should know this, but I suspect most have had these thoughts. I mean, they ate fine with their priests doing it, their uncles, boyfriends, and of course their political leaders.

[–] zarniwoop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Pedocon theory states it’s an inevitable outcome of conservative ideology and thought patterns. See patriarchal systems, purity culture, blind obedience, obsessions with the “innocence” of youth, valuing youth for the purposes of breeding. It’s basically a foregone conclusion that these political sects end up full of pedophiles.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 15 points 11 hours ago

Normal people who aren't pedophiles will comment on the facial features and say something like "she has her mom's nose".

[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 20 points 14 hours ago

It is so insane to watch an idiot/misogynist/pedo try to ‘think fast’ to the question of what characteristics a 1-year old baby has of its parents.

Idiot: bEtTeR tALk fAsT—sMurt pEoPLE tALk fAsT…

Misogynist: What did the baby get from her? What do women even have??? They don’t have personalities or any sort of mental capacity—the only worth they have is derived from physical qualities, like ‘legs and tits’. I’ll talk about that.

Pedo: sexy baby…

[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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