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Conan O’Brien shocks Oscars crowd with Epstein joke in opening monologue
(www.independent.co.uk)
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The fuck he hasn't. He hasn't been indicted for criminal wrong doing related to the files, but he's a felon and he most certainly has been accused in the files.
At this point I’d be surprised if he didn’t rape kids.
He has the entire executive branch of the US govt running cover for this. He fucking started a war partially to get the news cycle off Epstein. A war that no one wanted that they have already fucked up.
I don’t care if he’s convicted or whatever other legal term you want to throw on it. Trump is a pedophile.
IIUC, pedophilia is a mental affliction that one should seek help for. It doesn’t mean you rape kids. Trump is a child rapist.
And raping kids doesn't mean you're a paedophile. Generally, people do it because they're easy targets, not because they're especially attracted to them.
Agreed. On top of everything else, there simply couldn't be a way to act more guilty than he has acted.
Oh, the war in Iran has been a goal of project 2025 ilk for a while. It just happens to get two birds with one stone.
At this point? What the fuck? How about 8 years ago?
All the people freaking out over him molesting kids really makes me wonder where you guys were about ten years ago when he was bragging about molesting kids, raping women, wanting to pimp his daughter, wanting to fuck his daughter, when he led the party of projection against the "pedophile left", when he was caught during the Moscow tower incident where it was revealed that he is owned by Russia, during the Panama papers, when he bragged about watching girls at a beauty pageant change clothing, or when he brought a bald eagle into the white house and it attacked him.
The Epstein files being revealed was a net negative imo. No consequences are going to come from it, so it's not like any good was done. It's just another case of the rich actively showing us they can literally rape and murder our children and we'll still cater to them. If they did release the Epstein files, and Trump's name was front and center with him balls deep in a toddler shooting a minority, what do you think would happen? Would people riot? Would people try and assassinate him? As far as I can tell, the only people who might try something are psychotic right wingers, and if the future of this country rests on their shoulders then we're better off with trump.
Growing up they tried to instill American pride and nationalism in me, just like everyone else. They said Americans fight for freedom and justice. Turns out, there's not a single back bone in the entire US, ignoring the one guy who's spine broke so he decided to actually do something about the problem because it was personal for him. Not dissing Luigi, but he didn't do anything significant before it became a problem for him personally. Humans just aren't wired to be good people.
That's bullshit. People are plenty wired to do good. It's power that corrupts. And it also corrupts the system, which corrupts even more people. You can say that people are easily corrupted, but that's also not fair to say in a corrupt system.
People aren't wired to be vigilantes. The last time a goalpost travelled that far they were building Stonehenge.
They’re responding to the last sentence, which literally says that humans aren’t wired to be good people.
It's unclear to me who asked or why anyone's annoyed with my comment. Maybe I've blocked someone. Throw me a bone?
It reads to me like you’re saying the above commenter has moved the goalposts, but they were answering their parent commenter directly. I didn’t downvote you, fwiw
I'm not British, is the independent a fucking trash rag?
It's not that bad. It means he hasn't been charged, and context makes it clear that the sentence is about the Epstein files, not anything else. It's possible to read it and understanding something false, but virtually no-one is ever going to do that.