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      Is that Donald j Trump, current president of the United States, and Jeffrey r Epstein, Best friend and fellow child rapist?

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      the russian mods suppress any news critical of trump, or any that does not adhere to russian backed propaganda, like they did with luigi, and remember when trump was railing on putin, and putin retaliated by using his propaganda machine to post all epstein related news against him.

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        There was a lot of anger about Epstein files a few months ago but how they just post anti-immigration propaganda

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    He was quite obviously a trafficker and a child rapist. How do these people get through a day?

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      They get through the day because they think the other side is lying about everything. Just like your side thinks they are lying about everything. The real issue is that everyone hates each other so fucking much, that Trump and cunts like him, are able to get away with so much. If you all stopped the “youre a cunt” stuff, you might all see the real villains that surround us all.

      Something, something, something, divide and something…

      Youd all rather downvote me, than admit that you fell into the culture war trap… Thats just sad. Youre being shown to your face, how Trump and those like him get away with it and all you can do is double down because you are terrified of being wrong. You are them, they are you, and the elites of the world are fucking laughing at you all.

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    So they are just getting up to speed on what the rest of us have known for years now. Cool. Do something about it.

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    We know it’s bad. All we had to do is notice how desperate Trump has been to keep this buried.

    It’s going to be fun finding out what it is that he did exactly.

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      He’s already been proved in court to have committed rape, and very credibly accused of having raped a 13-year-old.

      I’m not saying that what’s in the files is not even worse. But what’s already in the public record is already enough and then some.

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      Spoiler - he was actively involved in trafficking kids, not just raping them. To such a degree it might as well have been called the Trump Files. A lot of the trafficking went through Mara Lago, and a lot of the girls were picked from the international beauty pageants he used to run, by Trump himself.

      There ya go, do with this information what you will. Think it will budge the evangelical Christian support? I don’t.

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      My favorite conspiracy is that he & Epstein have been trafficking girls, young women, and even boys, and using the product to blackmail GOP leadership into “supporting” him. How many times since 2015 have you asked yourself, “What does Trump have on [X]?” after a private meeting and abrupt policy flip? Blackmail material is useless once it’s public.

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        There is without a doubt a giant black mail ring that encompasses a bunch of politically powerful people.

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        That’s like… one of my least favorite conspiracies. You have odd preferences.

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          Yeah, my favorite is that Jim Morrison agreed to fake his death to get the US government off his back for how his music fueled counter culture at the time. He laid low for a little, and then re-emerged as his new persona, Glen Danzig, the leader of the horror punk band, The Misfits.

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            I mean I’ve never seen Jim Morrison and Glen Danzig in the same place at the same time, that probably checks out

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              I always imagined the Business Plot going down like…

              this war hero who gave his entire life towards serving his country walks into congress exclaiming “by god you all need to hear this, these unscrupulous businessmen came to me trying to get me to pull a coup…”

              congress goes - …slow blink… no need for a coup, they already own us. the war hero leaving with his entire reality shattered as he knows noone (no common man, atleast) would believe his story, especially not after the story is spun by the media conglomerates that were a part of the plot

              then in a followup phonecall congress exclaims… “godfuckingdamnit JPM, do you really have to pull this prank on every other innocent (in the conscious sense) war hero we got? doesn’t that ever get old?”

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              Enron is a pretty good one too

              My favorite conspiracy theory is that the NBA draft lottery is rigged. People always say “oh no it couldn’t possibly be rigged because it’s overseen by the accounting firm Ernst & Young”. It used to be overseen by the accounting firm Arthur Andersen until they got busted aiding and abetting the Enron scam.

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                When I was an accountant my shred box had “Arthur Andersen Audits, 2000-2004” on the front of it. Big laughs every time someone saw it

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      He was one of the most prolific child sex traffickers in history. Not only did he rape them himself, on hundreds of occasions, he bought and sold them as sex slaves. And the vast majority of his victims were white, American, Christian children.

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      I doubt we will until after he and his fellow shitheads that are in it, are dead. His taxes were never formally released. He’s in a lose-lose situation if he releases them, because they’re going to be very bad.

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        Bad like diddles kids bad, or bad like trafficks kids bad, or bad like is actively part of the blackmail scheme the trafficking and diddling kids enables bad? The last one is the only part that explains the “loyalty” his party (and to lesser extent the opposition party leadership, certain media enterprises, etc) has been providing him.

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      Im willing to go so far as to suggest that he might not have been directly involved but that he’s now protecting someone like a Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or the now deceased Prince Philip.

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        Lol you think Trump would protect anyone but himself? The guy famous for refusing to pay people who do work for him? The guy who has betrayed everyone he felt like he could benefit from betraying, even a little tiny bit? He doesn’t give a fuck who else would be implicated. He would probably murder Melania on live television to get out of it if he thought it would work.

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          Yes, I believe he would protect other pedos whom might have evidence of his roles in other crimes such as supplying Epstein with children to traffic.

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    Meanwhile, Shuster says “more than 100+ Republicans” are preparing to side with Democrats on a bipartisan discharge petition led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). The petition, which would force a vote to release the Epstein documents, is just one signature away from success.

    So we might even get to see it.

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      I’ve said before- the best damage control they could possibly do, is to throw fueher trump under the bus. Because they’re seeing now- the results of their decision to circle the wagons.

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        they cant afford to side against trump or his magats will do death threats and primary the gop from congress with more magats.

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        they cant afford to side against trump or his magats will do death threats and primary the gop from congress with more magats.

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        Yeeaaaahhh, doesn’t matter. I still want to see each and everyone that profited from trumps crimes in anyway locked up.

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        IIRC it mentions right in the article nobody else can really cleanly replace him. There’s tons of different subfactions with different ideas and the personality cult is the main thing holding them together.

        I suppose if Vance could get enough signatures to declare Trump unfit for office, he’d have a decent opening to consolidate power. If.

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          Yeah, how many people in his movement change their mind, how many decide it’s all fake news, and how many decide it’s just the cost of doing business is a real question.

          People outside the MAGA movement have already been sidelined, of course.

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            it’s so obvious what’s about to go down, when trump finally croaks (or in the unlikely event R’s grow a pair of testicles and finally turn on trump).

            those old guard ghouls of the previous establishment republicans will crawl out of the woodworks, with many establishment neolib dem hands helping them along the way. like those of their billionaire buddies Newsom and Pritzer, who have had so much media success “keeping it real” vs. trump (all while ICE rips into their poor communities unfettered).

            establishment R and establishment D will come out in force to impose order, attempt to reign in that conservative propaganda machine, placate progressives away from true reform etc. in the vain hope of trying to return to that unsustainable constant ratfuckery

            and the worse part is it’ll probably work

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      These will never be seen. This is the kind of stuff people get assassinated over … Likely people already have been assassinated over it.

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    I’d rather LOSE ALL MY HEALTHCARE AND FOOD then to Allow Trump to be found GUILTY of RAPING LITTLE CHILDREN!

    -Literally EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTER!

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      I’d rather LOSE ALL MY EVERYONE’S HEALTHCARE AND FOOD then than to Allow Trump to be found GUILTY of RAPING LITTLE CHILDREN!

      Fixed it for you.

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        “then” is incredibly accurate for the spelling and grammar level of MAGA peons though.

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    How can it be worse than we all thought?

    Did they honestly think he was only in the files thousands of times (I assume it’s that high since they had that many agents redacting his name) just for being best friends with the pedophile running a massive human trafficking ring?

    If they’re drinking their own koolaid they’re fucked.

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      It could be because it was his business venture to begin with and Epstein was just the manager.

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    This is Trump’s DOJ and reps from Trump’s party reporting this?

    MAGA is all about fire hoses of horror and disinformation. If conservative-owned, left-leaning mainstream media is reporting on this and info is being attributed to assumed loyalists, then there is something WAY worse going on or about to happen that isn’t being reported, isn’t there?

    At this point, I can’t tell if I need to take off my tin-foil hat or if Rowdy Roddy just nut-smashed some glasses on me. Good lord, I need a nap.

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      No need for tin foil hats, it’s really bad in those files.

      “A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls,” Shuster wrote.

      That comment points to an earlier interview with Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who told the Daily Beast in October that he had personally seen “about a dozen Polaroid snapshots” of Trump and Epstein. Wolff said the photos showed Trump with “several topless young women on his lap,” and that Epstein “pulled the photos out of a safe and spread them out like a deck of cards” while Wolff was visiting. According to the author, Epstein wanted him to write a book about his life.

      If that sounds incriminating, Shuster’s report suggests the DOJ’s files could be even worse.

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        Yes, but the fact that every time we hear about something unimaginably horrible and shocking, it turns out that something even more horrible and shocking was happening in the background.

        Which is why I say with paranoia, “tin foil hat’s saying there’s something worse than the thing that’s worse than Polaroids of Trump with naked children.”

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      The DOJ is under Trump, so that’s a non-starter. Speaker Johnson is keeping the House closed down so our new Congresswoman from Arizona can’t get sworn in and cast the deciding vote to force release.

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    Is there another article about this? The Daily Boulder doesn’t have the best credibility