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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI wonder how much most people really care about the Epstein files.
Epstein is dead; Maxwell is probably going to spend the rest of her life in jail. Trump was elected even though many voters viewed him as a person with character issues. The grab her by the pussy video is already out there. People are just trying to make ends meet. What is going to hurt Trump and the Republicans is inflation and cuts in health care. If they came up with concrete evidence that he abused an underage girl, that might change things.

CTyankee
(66,599 posts)There will be some who don't care of course, but having this be one of the most egregious of symbols of this administration just makes it look ugly and awful day after day and THAT is not a bad thing! Make it look cheap and dirty, because it is.THIS is the face of your administration??? THIS is what you guys do all day?
JustAnotherGen
(35,788 posts)It's a cultural issue. We've seen time and again white folks vote against their own in interests on cultural issues.
We have a bludgeon - use it.
"Yeah, I support SNAP, Medicaid, and school lunches but at least I'm not a pedo lover".
Posted that to someone on threads that decided to respond to something - and they crashed out.
Break their brains, then double back and crush their souls.
no_hypocrisy
(52,359 posts)It's more than relentless licentiousness and middle-aged men acting like satyrs upon juvenile females.
It's about financial and political corruption.
It's more than about one man.
Walleye
(41,475 posts)Scrivener7
(56,514 posts)A) sex sells
B) republicans and Q have held up Epstein as proof their imagined cabal of lizard people pedophiles, and proof that cabal really is sacrificing babies so they can eat the adrenochrome that keeps them all immortal. (Yep, seriously, they believe that.)
C) Taco was sold to them as the savior who would expose all that and end it.
D) Many republicans and Q followers have constructed their whole identities around being the ones "in the know" about this while the rest of us are in the dark.
E) Taco's deep and abiding friendship with Epstein makes the whole thing collapse. It forces them to begin to face the fact they have been wrong - and have been lied to - about everything all along.
Traildogbob
(11,534 posts)Of rich old men raping and trafficking and selling little girls, then forcing them to give birth, with all the costs and that even means death at that age to many, and they do not care, but wave the Bible as the Chosen ones.
You would think people with daughters would give a damn. Guessing not in what will call society today.
God Bless American and In God We Trust.
And he will forgive it all cause we post the 10 commandments everywhere and will teach only Bible in schools.
And we give cash to mega church pastors to be multi millionaires. For Jesus
Moses Mike is doing Gods work.
Protecting child rapers.
Ocelot II
(126,132 posts)There's sex, pedophilia, billionaires, celebrities and politicians, secret islands, money laundering, suicide, missing video, maybe even murder. And it's all real. This won't go away, and Trump has been making it bigger and worse every day by constantly talking about it, and now he's suing Murdoch and WSJ. He just lit an exploding cigar.
tavernier
(13,817 posts)
That just tickled my funny bone as my mind saw it happening.
TnDem
(1,087 posts)All of Trump's shit is baked in....That's why it's useless to keep living the same wish over and over that somehow he is going to be removed from office... He won't be. he's been impeached twice, shot by a would be assassin, hammered by the press, covid, and a score of formerly elected officials... He has vanquished them all. He knows it but many people cannot figure that out.
Forget about him. He is not going anywhere until his term ends or something unforeseen.
Focus on the midterms and cut his political balls off that way. Everything else is useless political and emotional handwringing.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,563 posts)For all the pain he is causing, lt is better to let him stay in office, we dont want to make him a martyr. MAGA is furious, maybe they just wont vote and thats good. The dems are trying to get them on record saying they wont release the list and many republicans are leaving town early so they wont have to side with Trump.
It doesnt matter to you but it does matter to certain republicans. Lets peel away some of the brain dead and win in close districts. Please stop pretending these people are rational, what resonates with you does not matter to them.
TnDem
(1,087 posts)I guess you didn't read the post on here the other day from the magat that posted on X that she didn't care whether Trump was in the Epstein files, if raped her daughter or anything else....You can't reason with that.
Trump understand this and has since 2015...Frankly since he was probably a teenager.
I think the quote was something like: "I could murder someone in broad daylight in Times square and still get elected"
Keepthesoulalive
(1,563 posts)Or having one of their get togethers and wanting to talk about it. Demanding the influencers talk about it. The White House has tried to redirect Rosie, hoax , cankles, suing . If it wasnt a big deal he wouldnt be telling his influencers not to talk about it. There will always be people who go down with the cult, but we need the others to stay home. He is rattled and it is his base that is rattling him. Democrats are not the ones pissed about this, we knew he was on the disappearing hoax list. We need to stop trying to move on. We need to step away and let his base have at him.
TnDem
(1,087 posts)He can't run for re-election, so he doesn't give a shit....Back him in a corner and he really won't give a shit. He already said that if maga's don't shut up about the Epstein crap, they need to get off the maga bus.
The midterms is the only thing that matters now. Everything else is emotional drivel.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,563 posts)Because something does not resonate with you does not mean its meaningless. I know what a stupid ridiculous man trump is but to his minions hes god and when they start to lose faith it weakens the entire party. Of all the things to get worked up about, this seems unimportant but their identity is tied up with this monster and his downfall is to our advantage in the midterms and some local elections this year. We should cheer every misstep in this administration and fight like hell to neuter this administration. I am on many different platforms and this is a big deal maga feels betrayed.
emulatorloo
(46,043 posts)Trump was secretly fighting to expose and imprison the Deep State Pedophiles. They are his hard core base. They are big mad at Trump and Bondi now because of the cover-up. When they realize Trump IS a pedophile they will explode.
Keepthesoulalive
(1,563 posts)If they did they would not vote for republicans. They do understand that their masters told them democrats were trafficking children. Trump and republicans said there was a list and they were going to release it day one. There are a lot of pictures of Trump and Epstein and there is no list. They feel they have been lied to and used many of them are angry , they will not get see democrats in jail and their lord and savior daddy Trump is probably on that list that keeps appearing and disappearing.
ForgedCrank
(2,773 posts)climate in political news is considered a trash heap by most people. There has been so much outright BS piled on, no one believes any of it anymore. Hell, Trump's approval ratings just keep going up as a result. But no one seems willing to read the room; they just keep spreading tabloid level bullcrap. All it does is degrade credibility all around.
milestogo
(21,348 posts)Kidnapping? Rapes? Murder? Trafficking?
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...the story is constantly all over the corporate media and social media, so poeple obviously do care.
You see, "character issues" is not the same as child sex exploitation.
usonian
(19,225 posts)Covering up or hiding it means (to them) that dems are being protected by their lord and king, who promised (subtly or blatantly) to prosecute THOSE pedos.
It doesn't advance much past pizzagate. Child trafficking and blood drinking, or whatever they were assured was going on by the "libs".
It's when a lie comes back to bite you.