Apparently they’re scrambling in the wild house, meeting with lauren bobert in the situation room etc.

I think it just has become far more likely that trump himself had Epstein killed…

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    Let’s see…

    Dodged not one but two impeachments which should’ve done it for him. Is an active felon, hasn’t served jail-time. Allowed over 350,000 Americans to die to a pandemic that was horribly mishandled because of him.

    If neither of those things have done him in, which should have for anyone else, the rotten piece of shit is going to die comfortably. He’ll be able to leave office peacefully, if that’s assured, without serving any repercussions for anything he’s done during his first term and second term.

    What a fucking pathetic world and country.

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    The issue is that anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex has known he’s a pedophile since at least 2016, when it was released that he would regularly walk into the changing rooms at the child beauty pageants he would sponsor.

    This whole controversy has really just been about desperately hoping the MAGA crowd would accept a single fact in their life if maybe it didn’t come from mainstream media. The issue that I see is that the right-wing propaganda machine has completely given up on getting the Epstein files released. They’re not gonna cover it, they’ll call it a fake news attack by the Democrats, and that’s the last thought the MAGA crowd will have on it. There was a very brief moment where they did care earlier this year, but Trump and specifically Mike Johnson have successfully delayed long enough.

    the other issue is even if somehow it did break through and galvanized the MAGA base against Trump… so what? Trump has already made it abundantly clear he doesn’t give a fuck about his base, the law, rules and norms, or really anything beyond consolidating his power and acting like a king. Would that base actually go so far as to vote Democrat in the midterm elections a year from now? Would they vote Democrat in 2028, assuming we even have free and fair elections by then? would they even still remember? at the end of the day, I think they hate the mythical idea of “The Left” that they’ve been sold too much to ever actually fight alongside us, so hoping the J6 crowd would try to actually save democracy this time is absurd.

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    the slow drip of leaks is proving to be an effective strategy. Normally they flood the zone after a bombshell and the scandal gets buried. This time, whomever is conspiring against him is doing a much better job at keeping things tightly wrapped and leaking it slowly to keep the conversation relevant.

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    No. I think it will get far less coverage than it should, will get pushed out of the news cycle early, and Trump won’t be held accountable. The only way anything happens is that someone who’s pissed off makes another assassination attempt and lands the shot this time.

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    The only thing that will take him down is a blob of cholesterol being dislodged during a particularly violent fart. He is surrounded by boot lickers who will excuse him literally anything, including raping children if necessary.

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    Videos of him doing the deed with children would still make bo difference at all.

    Nobody will move a finger to touch his orange hair.

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      Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve gotten to that point.

      They’d claim it’s AI generated and move on to ‘more important thigns’ like the money wasted on foodstamps

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    No. Nothing matters. He said it himself.

    I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?

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    He’s like teflon … Nothing sticks.

    But once there is a minor scratch, it will become completely worthless in no time at all. Now it’s not IF but WHEN that scratch happens

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      I’d say he’s the opposite of teflon - he’s so fundamentally dirty that it’s impossible to make him worse than he already is. If who he is doesn’t move the needle then nothing else will make the difference.

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      Theres been more than scratches. Seems like multiple times a day theres a new thing, just one of which would have been enough to sink someone’s entire career 20 years ago.

      Im not sure if its due to constant access to unlimited news, a sign of the times we live in, or simply him being untouchable.

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      We can hope. But everyday I lose more and more faith in my fellow humans…

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    Where did these emails come from again? I swear to god if it’s klippenstein again