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Teryl S.'s avatar

If nothing else, rump will manufacture something terrible to take everyone’s eye off this ball. The destruction of our democracy is mind blowing. Everyday there is a new assault.

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Jay's avatar

100%

“His fanbase isn’t like others though…for them, nothing – I mean NOTHING – tends to be disqualifying. Not a sexual assault adjudication, not a fraud conviction, not an insurrection. Nothing. It’s hard to believe Epstein will be the thing that does it”

They’ll find a way to rationalize it, not who I’m looking at: 42% of Americans are unmovable no matter what Trump does— the hate is all they need.

In 2024, Inds broke for Harris but by 2 pts nationally 49-47 and still the election ended up worst of the last 3 because many Dems refused to vote at all and there was bleeding among core base voters hardest and men vs prior cycles (Reps have a problem with women over time increasing, but most white women still vote for Trump so they’ve wagered so long as the latter stay firmly in their corner not something to concern themselves with— long term, it’ll come back to bite them, though the way Dems’ issue with men has now done so, a natural byproduct of the establishment wing becoming rich white feminists in the way the new establishment wing of the Rep party is rich white masculinity fascists), so Dems have to win nonpartisan voters by more than 2 percent to beat Reps as well as not freefall among their own base as in 2022-2024 basically.

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Teryl S.'s avatar

I’m a white woman who DIDN’T vote for the rump! I’m also a Democrat who DIDN’T vote for the rump! I’m a feminist who DIDN’T vote for the rump! And I’m certainly NOT rich (does the later disqualify me from your list of women you blame?). Wow! I hope you don’t have so much hate against white womenfolk in particular that you become another abuser. I’d hate that for you.

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Joe Ivory Mattingly's avatar

Trump is delusional. And guilty

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John Taylor's avatar

Yup!

Too dumb to shut up.

Keep digging Donald!

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John Taylor's avatar

Nope!

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Chris (CJ Fitz)'s avatar

He’s already told us what he is going to try. Redactions. He’s going to play the hero who gets the files released but he won’t be in there, perhaps, absurdly, for ‘national security’ reasons. I’m guessing Clinton will oddly make the cut. There will be plenty of him in there. Trump will claim that he was trying to stop the release to protect the office of the presidency, but couldn’t do it any longer so he had to reveal Bill Clinton’s culpability in all of this. Trump won’t be anywhere to be found though.

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Jeff Hall's avatar

Well, you have to remember, he's an old man. He couldn't remember the other day that he was the one that nominated Jerome Powell to be Fed Chair. So how do you expect him to remember all of the bullshit he's ginned up over the years? 🤦‍♂️😉🤣😂

What do you mean when they find out Trump is in the Epstein files? This is information already known by anyone that hasn't been living under a rock for the last two decades. Between the pictures and videos circulating on the interWebs to the pictures of the 'Lolita Express' logs showing Trump's name, it's already knowledge that is public.

Now, that said, did Trump have sex with underaged women? Hundreds of women have come forward and none of them name Trump. That in and of itself makes it hard to believe that we wouldn't have known about that a long time ago if it had happened. They have named all sorts of other famous people such as Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz, so why would they have protected a crude douche like Trump?

Never mind that Trump was deposed over Epstein and never once plead the fifth like he has in other depositions where he knows he is guilty of crimes.

But what is really sad and scary is the fact that he is grasping at straws for anything to distract people from the Epstein story.

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Collin's avatar
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“He can direct Bondi to release it all and risk being implicated”

That suggests he doesn’t know what’s in them. If Bondi, Patel, Bongino, any of them have seen them, at the very least they’ve told him he’s implicated, if not told him precisely what’s in them. Trump knows he’s in them. We already know other’s have seen photographs.

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J Van Fleet's avatar

Rich assholes preying on children....send them all to Alligator Alc atraz!

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Chris Gossard's avatar

Trump is such a piece of shit. That is all.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

President Warren G. Harding was newspaper editor. He was Republican. Today both sides did the deed. You can not raise the dead.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

None of us remember who Nan Britton was. She had an affair with President Warren G.Harding. Well that affair produced a daughter. Her name was Elizabeth. The state of Ohio burned the records. Yep they did. Elizabeth sons took a DNA 🧬 test to prove their mother was a Harding. How about that? Plus tea pot dome, scandal about oil fields.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Do you mean whore monger, President Clinton, the serial cheater. All the rest of those guys who play golf in a picture that Mr.Sykes showed earlier on a substack, with Rick Wilson take look. This may break him as long as we be cool about the whole matter. Adam Kinzinger gave a good interview, with CNN. I find it reprehensible all those men, using their political rhetoric for gaining sex. I hope this does break him for real, the current administrator of this nation. 🤮.

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