Perhaps Bibi has something on him?..

  • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 hour ago

    No. I think he’s just the most visible psychopath in the room.

    The true horror of Trump is not just the things he’s done. Its that everyone now knows what he’s done - and seemingly quite a lot of people don’t really care.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    Epstein was literally on the payroll of Israeli intelligence.

    That’s one reason why Trump (and a bunch of others in the US government) always do exactly what Israel wants.

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    How do you blackmail a person who feels no shame? Could only be about his money. And I don’t see any angle, say, the Russians or the Israeli government has there to make him worried. So even if they are sitting on solid evidence of him eating babies on the island that won’t be nearly enough to put pressure on him. Unless it’s scientific evidence that his hands are too small. And he’ll just fake-news-stonewall that until he’ll cover the Lincoln Memorial in gold or something, just to move the media cycle along.

    47 thinks he’s smart but he is at best NYC realtor smart. With a touch of the mob, maybe. He’s severely undereducated as a president. More so than W by a factor of 1000. But he Peter principled himself into positions where he is unimpeachable or people are afraid to tell him when he’s wrong. He shows a persistent pattern of parroting the opinion of the last man he spoke with. He is larping the Emperor’s New Clothes fairy tale with an ego that needs constant praise, his own in a pinch. You don’t need to blackmail a person like that. Praise him, flatter him, promise him money and good headlines and he happily will kill a minimum of two of his children.

    Netanyahu sent him down the garden path on Iran. And now he’ll get a deal that’s worse than the Obama one he derided. Which I’m sure he never read. Because he only absorbs about one page of content if it’s nicely spaced and contains pictures. Per week.

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    I thought at first that he was likely being blackmailed by Israel - it’s near certain that the Israeli government has at least as much evidence of his serial child rape as the US government does.

    Mostly based on the way the whole war played out though, I tend more toward a different theory now.

    I think Bibi convinced him that overthrowing Iran would be a cake walk - that just like Venezuela, they could go in fast and bomb the shit out of things and get rid of the Ayatollah and take over, and then Trump could get Narges Mohammadi out of prison and she’d be so thankful that she’d give him her Nobel medal, and then he’d be the bestest President ever in the history of ever because he’d have two Nobels (well - technically, he’d only have two Nobel medals, and claiming that he has a Nobel because he has a medal is sort of like claiming he’s a Super Bowl champion because he has a ring, but he’s too stupid to realize that).

    And everything played out just as intended, right up to the point that Iran didn’t collapse and instead just calmly set about replacing the Ayatollah and systematically bombing American bases and property all around the Middle East while closing down the Strait of Hormuz. And he’s been desperately flailing around and throwing tantrums ever since, because that wasn’t what Bibi promised.

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      Both of these possibilities could be true, of course.

      The latter theory also is how I believe Trump was persuaded to start military action against Iran. But I think it is also highly likely that the Israelis have dirt on Trump via Epstein, who had ties with Mossad and frequently fraternized with top-ranking Israeli officials.

      However, to leak this information publicly could cause some major blowback, particulaly given how unpredictable a cornered Trump would be. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine him going on a live newsfeed and start throwing all kinds of people under the busof he thought he had nothing left to lose.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    The way blackmailing works is, the blakmailer threatens the blackmailee to reveal their secrets.

    Trump’s secrets are already out there: he’s a convicted rapist and his name appears more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files - i.e. if he’s not a fucking pedo, I’m the King of England. No blackmailer has anything on him that everybody doesn’t already know.

    So no.

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      Trump’s secrets are already out there: he’s a convicted rapist and his name appears more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files

      They have pictures and videos of him raping and torturing small children. Possibly even eating them, if some rumors are true.

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      Not many people with first hand knowledge and nobody prominent has revealed incontrovertible facts though. Anyone with half a brain who isn’t obsessed with his pumpkin-painted dumb face knows he is guilty, of course, considering he said he was “best friends” with JE during JE’s most unrestrained period. But still millions of people think there’s no evidence, and the admin is still suppressing over 3 million documents and redacted the rest to hell.

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        Well, like I said previously, since it’s just about impossible for ordinary folks to get the Epstein files released in full, we should all default to assuming all those mentioned in it are guilty - and since all those fuckers are rich and powerful and they can get the files released, if they want their names cleared, they can jolly well demand the release of the exculpatory evidence themselves.

        And what’s blindingly obvious, starting with the one pedo who’s most mentioned in the files, is that they’re not exactly rushing to demand the truth set free…

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      I think he might be too narcissistic (and stupid) for blackmail. First off, he’d lie to the blackmailers and regardless, he’d tell somebody else about it. He is the proverbial chess pigeon.

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    I mean, does it even matter? If Americans havent banded together and gotten rid of him by now with everything that has happened with this and outside of this - then its just a drop of water in the ocean

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    Pray tell, what would you actually blackmail him for? Combining his crimes as a private citizen with his crimes committed as the President of AmeriKKKa (e.g. enabling the Gaza genocide), he’s basically done at least a little bit of every crime. Like there is literally nothing his followers won’t look past, and there is literally nothing the Demonrats in power are willing to hold him accountable for because if he went to prison, every other POTUS would have to go to prison too.