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Not really silent so much as waiting for the new talking points.
"You're asking ME for my opinion? I don't know! Fox news hasn't told me what to think yet! You know I don't do that on my own....."
I bet you could do like a network analysis of post times to see this effect as it spreads from fox to big figures to influencers to magats
Waiting for marching orders. They're still downloading.
"multiple" = over 600 in just recent copy/paste trick. There will be more mentions. This is basically trumps pedophile sex trafficker ring, epstein was just the fall guy.
No way Trump was running the show.
He's the guy who bankrupted two casinos and lost a billion trying to buy the Plaza Hotel.
Moreover, look at Trump's record. He hasn't got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ] Trump wouldn't have had any one at his side.
Trump was Epstien's client.
Trump ran his own trafficking ring. Trump Model Management.
Epstein ran a separate trafficking ring. MC2 Model Management. (in partnership with a French pedo named Jean-Luc Brunel, founded almost 6 years after Trump's agency.)
They then traded trafficked girls back and forth, while hosting sex parties that they invited rich and famous people to.
Epstein most likely collected blackmail for Israel, while Trump likely collected for Russia.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-trumps-teenybopper-model
His best client though. Probably the only time he ever paid for services received
He paid by trading girls.
Also, Trump may have invested in Epstein's trafficking/extortion business.
He hasn’t got any long time associates besides Michael Cohen [who got arrested. ]
Allen Weisselberg was even longer-term and probably more essential to Trump Org operations and its various frauds.
I saw a commenter suggest Trumps properties were finding, grooming, and storing potential victims.
Trump Model Management.
He ran his own trafficking ring, and yes, he stored girls at his properties. Mostly from Eastern Europe, and in the US on immigration fraud (forcing them to work on tourist visas)
Epstein copied Trump's agency with MC2 modeling a few years after Trump founded his own.
The hotel and casinos were almost for sure money laundering and skipping out on paying vendors/contractors etc
Epstein was actually smart. Unfortunately he used his brains for worse things than just run of the mill financial gain. Trump just tries to associate with people who know what they’re doing, just preferentially chooses people good at shitty things.
you can be very successful financially in bankrupting businesses, especially ones that are very easy to get millions upon millions in dirty money and laundering rackets... like casinos.
Silent?
They are just waiting on their orders on what to believe in.
President’s name was mentioned in some documents part of Tuesday’s release but did not implicate him in any crimes.
He was present while they drowned a baby.
They're waiting to be told what to say by the think tanks.
they didn't stop slurping his incontinent asshole after "grab'em by the pussy," nor after "suckers and losers," or "covid is a hoax"-- in fact they became more rabidly obsessed with heaping praise and pasting his head onto rambo
something tells me this latest embarrassment for the human species will be no different
"He tells it like it is".
Cunts
every time he speaks he spews laughably absurd lies from his face anus like explosive diarrhea, and his cult followers scramble over each other to lick up and swallow every last chunk
remember "mexico's gonna pay for the wall," and then when--fucking obviously--mexico didn't pay for the wall, you had these fucking lemmings volunteering to drive to the border and work on building the wall for free
"cunts" isn't nearly a strong enough word. i don't know that one exists
People say Republicans/MAGA will "look the other way" on the bigotry and hate; but you highlighted the unspoken. They'd pay, their own time and money, for the chance to feel powerful by depriving the needy.
When I think of the MAGA base I always envision a disgruntled working-class white man who is certain there will never be a better future, and just wants to beat down marginalized populations. Maybe he does it so there's more for him; maybe because he's misdirected and hate hurts less than disappointment.
Forgive me for not believing that there will be some ground-breaking reaction to this reminder that Trump and the powerful elites are actually self-serving predators. They were voted in to be ruthless predators. DOGE was about destroying the government employees. ICE is about terrorizing brown and black people, and the "libs" that back them. Sure, some of Epstein's victims were white girls... some of the "woke feminists" MAGA mocks incessantly are white women. The attacks on SNAP and criminalization of the homeless are going to destroy all skin tones alike. Banning abortion sure screwed white women (and that one happened pre-reelection).
These people don't vote MAGA to protect kids ; most vote MAGA because they want to feel like KKKlansmen tyrants with as little effort as it takes to cast a ballot; and the rest are just plain gullible.
Rubes. Suckers. Marks.
"All men are attracted to young women, it's genetic."
I've heard that one, from a person who's both a Trump and Tate fan.
Eurgh.
I'm 42, nearly 43. Whilst I can objectively appreciate the beauty of a 20 something, I dont find myself attracted to women that young anymore.
Does that mean I'm not a real man?
Also, "You can't take him literally, but you have to take him seriously."
Also, "That's just locker room talk."
These statements are often made in the same breath.
If facts mattered to them, they wouldn't be MAGA. It's about rooting for the home team, not about reason. Endless tribal loyalty displays. They want to be told what to think and do. They have no ideas of their own.
The only people who struggle to craft a semi-coherent narrative are their propagandists. The rest would follow their Dear Leader to catch a ride on a passing comet if he told them to.
I don't know. Pedo shit hits people on a different level. He's not bringing everyone along for this ride.
Numerous? It mention over 800 times. That a lot more than the vague title suggests.
Just catching their breath before gobbling orange chode again
They’re just waiting for new programming instructions. Don’t worry.
They go into hiatus to somehow find a way to defend pedophilia. Because it can't be bad if Trump does it.
Well, they've already started with the "it's only light pedophilia: ackshually it's epebophilia." And even if that mattered, avoid the subject of the trafficking, the rape and the extortion.
Good lord.....I am not looking forward to being called a woke libtard for my refusal to rape kids....
Nah. They busy crying fake news and trying to say Clinton is in them.
He might be. I don't know. I haven't read them.
But if he IS in there, that's not the gotcha moment they think it is.
Trump is in the files.
throws trump in the fire
Fuck trump.
Now, if Clinton is in there too as a guilty party?
throws clinton in the fire
Fuck clinton.
Any other questions?
Like anyone would shed a tear if Clinton were implicated. That's just a "yeah, so? Now back to the subject of Trump's involvement. How many mentions of each name?"
You will wear that for the rest of your lives you fascist pukes.
It was fun when conservatives had to bear the stigma of Watergate ... for all of six years until a retired B-list actor with literal Alzheimer's let them goose-step with pride once again.
I have right skewing family and they can't be swayed. their only source is a news station, and they refuse to listen to anything else. They'll just act surprised when anything hits the news. This is like "ignorance is bliss' but ruins it for everyone else.
It's willful ignorance because they never listen when you try to inform them. They don't want to know, because deep down they know he's absolute scum.
Go silent? Lol right. They’re not silent. Right now they’re simply in full-on denial.
It’s like that scene from “What about Bob.”
Me: “You think they’re gone?! They’re not gone! That’s the whole point! They’re never gone!”
opens comments on news story about Epstein
MAGA Influencers: “is this some kind of radical new fake news?”
Me: “SEE?!”
Unfortunately, they won't stay silent.
So now Trump will be investigated and prosecuted for his crimes, right? .......right?
Narrator: He won't.
That's why I've been confused about the push for the files release. What did people think was going to happen?
Sane people would be outraged, republicans world cry fake news, and there would be no change in the status quo. No investigation, no consequences, and no reduction in support for trump. Possibly even an increase as they claim the left is releasing fake news to make their god/king look bad.