Blames Hillary, Obama and Biden for the Epstein Files, which also don’t exist.

I love that he’s getting torched by his own.

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    “revolt” lol.

    There’s mild grumbling from people who overwhelmingly seem to say they’ll remain faithful to the cult until death.

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    No he doesn’t.

    He’s kinda up against the foundational myth of Q-Anon here, so there’s a chunk of true believers who are extremely vocal about this.

    But the vast majority of the people that voted for him are conservative hypocrites to whom this was never more than another narrative, strategically leveraged to claim moral superiority and attack the enemy, in order to distract from their crimes and abuses.

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      Even the most “shocked” right-wing pundits who were screaming “COVER UP!” during the first few hours have now pivoted to “If there are secrets in there that could destroy corporations, we HAVE to trust daddy and protect the identities of the child rapists. We may not like it but preserving economic stability is more important than the lives of children.”

      Not even kidding on this one.

      It’s already over, the dust just hasn’t fully settled as a large segment of the population is now being told all the moral outrage over “pedophilia” was just for when other people do it. If you’re a big businessman or political leader, well that’s just the cost of preserving the system that treats us all so well.

      The party of morals, christianity, small government and individual rights everyone.

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      Yeah there have been many times already where it’s been “they have to get that he’s scamming them now, right?”

      But they always go back and say “please sir, can we have some more?”

      They’re already trying to work out that it’s all Pam Bondi’s fault. Trump is just getting bad advice, etc.

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    It’ll pass in ten minutes. These cultists do not have the same values as people we would consider ‘normal’. This will not sway them any more than the past five dozen fucking times some fundamentally undeniable issue of hypocrisy in ultra-vile evil shite has come up.

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      Not a Republican but a lot of notable right wing figureheads are speaking up about it publicly. People with actual power are making noise. Turning point USA which is basically the nonprofit PAC that the runs their local and national media circus has spoken against it. I think they’re all realizing the idea is bigger than the leadership. They might be ready to cut ties

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    Even reddit’s /r/conservative is up in arms about it, it’s great

    The mods there are working overtime trying to ban everyone who questions the pedodent

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    Wait… wasn’t Drumpf the president when Epstein was charged?!? So why the fuck is this helmet haired douche trying to blame Hilary (always- it’s his scapegoat), Obama, and Biden?!? None of them were in any position at that point to “help the case” so SHOW US THE DAMN CLIENT LIST where Drumpf was named (we have all seen the pics of him and Epstein together so stop denying it! It’s embarrassing!!) and then we can move the fuck on! And realize that Drumpf is the wet toilet paper of trash and the voters of America who voted for him are basic AF and need to open a fucking damn book!! It’s probs because his cult has only one brain cell rolling around up there reminding them to breathe! 😂😂 stupid MAGATS!

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      The underlying purpose of the whole Qanon movement was basically to give Trump supporters a way to explain why he wasn’t delivering on his promises during his first term.

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      So why the fuck is this helmet haired douche trying to blame Hilary, Obama, and Biden?!?

      Because he’s never accepted responsibility for anything he’s ever done in his entire life?

      Because deflecting the blame to others is his go to move when called out?

      Because a large number of his base will believe that his deflections are true?

      Because he is a spineless, gutless, nutless, mushroom-dicked, pedophile asshole, and blaming others for his failings is the only thing he can do short of owning it?

      All of the above?

      Edit:

      “Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden administration.” -Trump

      So that if the files somehow get leaked, he’s already “discredited” them. I guess the FBI took a nap during his first term in office, which isn’t suspicious in any way whatsoever.

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    Imagine being so stupid as to think the RAPIST was going to do something about sex trafficking pedos?

    🤣 🤣

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    I tried to engage with a devout trumper about his. They REFUSED to admit that trump was in any way involved with Epstein, despite photographic & video evidence. They ALWAYS furnished some excuse or deflection. Mostly involving Biden “sniffing little girls hair.”

    Seriously. These people are deranged. There’s no breaking them from the cult.

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      That’s because they only have one brain cell up there and it’s telling them to keep breathing! They have nothing else up there but cobwebs and space!

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      To be fair, just being in a picture with someone doesn’t make you “involved” at any level. At best, it’s circumstantial evidence of nothing much.

      Speaking of evidence

      https://youtu.be/hh0PBr6ZUN0

      Still gonna put that in quotes next time, or is your cult forbidden from that?

      See, it’s just a video, doesn’t mean anything, right?

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          shrug. You’re the ones lobbing the accusations of cult-like behavior while behaving exactly the same way.

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            <Attenborough>

            Here we find the conservative doubling down by immediately repeating that no, they do in fact know that you are, but plead: “what, then, am I? Tell me!”

            Oh what a lovely surprise! They have just tripled down in the very same sentence! You see, part of their hive’s rules is that all outsiders must be treated as cooperating members of a single enemy conspiracy.

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              Have you ever considered that if you need to resort to such word salad, you have nothing?

              This “conservative” who lives in Canada and voted liberal… “hive mind” indeed.

              But keep it coming, the cringe is funny.

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                Next you should pretend I wrote that first reply of yours where you linked to a random Australian video about the previous elderly president and then said they were in a cult. How would you critique me?

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                  Try more dressing with that word salad. I recommend creamy cucumber. It’s refreshing this time of year.

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        Wait? It,s the left that’s in a cult now? You know that’s how children argue, right? “I know you are, but what am i?” Is a bad look for you.

        Tell me, in this cult the left is in, who is the leader? Who is at the head, feeding the masses the mantras?

        Seems like there hasnt been a leader that the left has fully trusted in many years, even decades. Likely evidence that they are thinking for themselves and not just following the bullshit of some pedophile dementia patient.

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          The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

          As a Canadian, interacting with you rabid lunatics online is the only safe way to study how you went from putting a man on the Moon with the help of Nazis, to becoming them.

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            Wow, and I though American idiots were special!

            You heard it here first folks, trying to hold a fascist dictator accountable makes you the real Nazi! 🤣

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            It’s actually wild to hear you calling the leftists the Nazis, when trump is literally following the Nazi playbook.

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          I think you need an executive summary of what the hell that torrent of screenshots was supposed to mean.

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            I have come across these links recently. I think their are people doing research on it. The executive summary would be that these forums are like a trading post for child abuse and human slavery operations. The posts appear to indicate involvement from members of the Trump administration and Heritage Foundation, among many others.

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      Funny, but no.

      We are trapped in our own cultivated echo-chambers. You are a victim of the same cognitive control mechanisms as the right if you think there is at all a large enough wave of regret and “realization” going through the general conservative or even median voting population to effectively produce change.

      This is still not enough. If you want to understand why, spend a day watching FOX or even CNN or MSNBC. Right-wing news is already moving onto other bullshit topics like trade and trans athletes and immigration successes. The other networks are using this latest drama to squeeze the last traces of pus from the emotional pimple from a population that wants to read a feel-good, satisfying “We got 'em!” story so they can get back to their comfortable lives.

      The only way this will turn into anything with actual political action is if enough people actively serving in politics right now organize and use this to affect actual political decisions. Investigations, evidence, articles and coalitions. We were led to believe that the Democratic establishment was supposed to be doing this, as there really isn’t any other sizeable organization working in politics who can, but the sad truth is that most dems are just working as cover for the fact that the entire establishment, republican and democrat, has been bought or is actively being attacked and dragged out of the picture for not being bought. (See: Mamdani)

      You want this to mean something? Go get involved in your local political groups and work on getting rid of the foundation of this pyramid of slime that supports our congress and senate.

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        Couldn’t agree more. The things I see online are completely different from what I see in real life.

        In real life, the vast majority of people aren’t paying attention to any of this drama at all. They have no idea what’s going on. (And if they do, they surely aren’t talking about it.) The Republican party is going to be fine, thanks to apathy.

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          Yeah, and this is especially so in the important voting bloc of white middle class people --the ones who probably own their home (with mortgage obviously) and are still making ends meet. The good ones are horrified to see what’s going on in the world, and the troubled ones may still think they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires with the whole master race thing going for them, but other than inflation their day to day life has not changed.

          I’m a white dude living in the swing state of Pennsyltucky, in a very white republican suburb a good distance from the city. My town is growing and some good companies have large offices here (access to infrastructure plus the tax benefit of being in the next county over), so it’s attracted residents from just about every ethnic background. But to get an accurate mental image, you have to sprinkle that diverse mix over a base layer of 80% white people, lol.

          Just mentally going through our family, close friends, social acquaintances, and various local parents we run into (I have a kid in elementary school, and we’re active in the school district), it is almost all white families living in single-family homes or sometimes townhouses. Many are two-income families, some are one-income families (working professionals in a reasonable COL area, not exactly CEOs). I know everybody has their own problems including the ones they don’t share with me, but for most of these people life just looks normal. If you followed me around all day and could not see the awful news on the screen when I sat down at my PC, you would be hard pressed to tell which decade we are in. You would need a clue like peeking at my phone model or seeing an old covid mask on a shelf.

          There ARE exceptions. People who are not white have absolutely been fucked with by ICE. Thank goodness the best Mexican restaurant in town got raided so that my fellow whites aren’t tempted by amazing food from non-white sources. And I do know of one white family where both parents are civilians that work for the government. Both remotely, before Trump 2. They are amazing people raising three great kids (the kindest people we know are usually single child) and they got all kinds of unnecessary stress and fuckery in their real lives thanks to all the chaos and ill considered return-to-office mandates.

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    I’ll believe that when I see it. Till then, all MAGAt morons are pro- pedofilia and they’ll fall back into line once Faux News Entertainment tells them to.

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      It’s amazing how they are pro-pedophilia (due to their continued support and blindness towards all the real pedophiles around them) but screech about looking for pedophiles everywhere, or at least they were a few years ago! How can anyone trust these people when they support the thing they purport to loathe. When will this all blow up?

      Add in the criminality of Trump and Co, and these guys are looking in all the wrong places!

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        It’s the party of projection. Everything they talk about is solely because that’s what they are doing/would do if given the opportunity.

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        Republicans have repeatedly tried to stop child marriage and mandatory reporting laws for decades now. It seems obvious at this point that the GOP is perfectly fine with kids getting raped as long as its one of their own doing the raping.

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          Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.

          Republican Mike Moon

          And John Rose met his wife judging a 4H contest.

          (Fun fact: you can’t file for divorce as a minor)

          Also as a mandatory reporter in the state of Oklahoma… hahhahahahahahah. I just wrote an affidavit about how seriously CPS takes shit.

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        It’s the art of war 101, accuse your enemy of what your you yourself are already doing. In this case, it’s the rape of children, the president is a rapist, president rapist JFC

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      A trump supporter I know, always brings up politics, which I avoid when talking to them.

      The past month or so, they have not brought it up at all. So, I think I’m starting to see it.

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        Oh I finally called my sister out for voting for him once my dad admitted he did and she went all in on the “well he didn’t even need to win our state so my vote didn’t matter.” I said bitch you flew the flag which influenced others and bought his shit so it financed him, what you did mattered! So yeah I think she is feeling guilty so I made sure to make it worse.

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      I honestly believe that they could release the files with his name still in them & the majority of his cult would still make excuses for him.

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    My guess, he’s got people typing out documents that say

    EPSTEIN FILES

    1. Hillary
    2. Obama
    3. DEFINITELY NOT TRUMP!!

    They’ll release it in a couple days.

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    “I think that these people — and I don’t know, for whatever reason, there could be reasons — but I don’t think they’re telling us the truth about Epstein,” podcaster Brandon Tatum told the assembled crowd at the Tampa Convention Center.

    The reason is that the Glorious Leader is a pedophile and well know serial sexual harasser and rapist and releasing the Epstein files would conform what everyone other than the MAGAzi fascist bootlickers already know.

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    One of his followers did try to shoot him for it. Strange, the shooter’s reasons were not well publicized.