If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.
It didn't. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support sex offenders.
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The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.
And now they're in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.
Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don't want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.
How people still don't realize this is fucking mind boggling.
There is no "two party state", there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.
That's it.
Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don't skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.
Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war
Given that he was killed during Reconstruction, I'd put that on Andrew Johnson (a Southern Democrat) and the Congress.
tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn't have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.
The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it's not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.
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100% this.
The children of Confederate losers have been stropping their knives for decades, undermining our institutions, and fomenting dissent along every avenue. They are a cancer.
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What's so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled "THE EPSTEIN FILES" and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.
And now they're saying that they don't exist and never existed.
I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are
I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.
It's almost worse than that. I swear, some of them take a perverse pride in being led all around the political landscape like a dog with a shiny red ball. The discussions I've had where people happily and excitedly admit that Trump was completely lying to them and just hungrily accept the new story as undeniable fact is wild and impossible for me to wrap my head around.
Their base hasn't done anything to make me think they're not that stupid.
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conservative podcast dipshits (conpodshits for short) have been bringing up 1984 for years and are short circuiting as their guy does the thing because they think george orwell was talking about communists
I said this elsewhere Orwell applies just as well to any type of ideology because they all ask you to accept the agenda and to walk in lockstep with everyone else in the “movement”. So when right wing podcasters use it they are as correct as when left wingers do. Failure to see this means being completely consumed by ideology.
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Because Trump is a child fucker.
you say Trump but there are many.
do you mean Donald J Trump, the convicted rapist and notorious misogynist? Donald J Trump loves to rape small children? it's possible that Donald J Trump was involved in having sex with children on Epstein island. it's also possible that Donald J Trump did rape children on Epstein's jet as well. I suppose it's even possible that Donald J Trump is still sexually abusing children at Mar-a-lago.
if you're telling me Donald J Trump is a serial child rapist that cannot be trusted around children I'll have to say, that's believable.
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Wow, this sure is some in-depth reporting...
Although Trump appears in at least one video alongside Epstein at a party, the president has denied allegations that his name was in the files or that he had any direct connection to the disgraced financier.
"At least" one video, numerous photos, Trump describing Epstein as a 'Terrific guy who he had known for 15 years' and “He’s a lot of fun to be with, It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Epstein saying he was “Donald’s closest friend for ten years”....
But sure, let's just characterize it as 'They both attended the same party once.'
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Considering neither party seemed to want this info shared I believe we all need to know what was in it.
Two Bills, a Trump, and a prince walk into a beauty pageant dressing room…
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What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.
Even if MAGA forgets, perhaps we shouldn't.
Well pack it in boys. The convicted criminal thats most likely implicated in a high profile child sex trafficking ring says "stop worrying about this list, there is no list and im certainly not on it"
I for one think we should believe this lying, cheating, gas lighting criminal. Biggest "trust me bro" in history
Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he's shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it's been a "radical Left" issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn't matter either way is just full panic.
They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the "evidence" they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.
an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way
It distracts from the one before it and the one after it.
I just want to see reporters hound him with questions beginning with, "So when you raped those kids..."
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Rich pedophiles vs deluded fascists, enabled by ideological genociders. USA 2025.
Rapist tells group of mentally challenged people to forget about list of paedophiles.
Can’t wait for Nuremberg trials #2
Trump is a pedo...
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Guess why?
Conservatives in 2029: I never supported Trump, he is a Soros funded antifa plant.
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I urge them to fuck off and die.
I thought conservatives loved the war on pedophiles. Why isn’t Trump doing anything about that? Send ICE to get pedophiles. Of course we all know the answer is because he and all his friends will go to jail.
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They have full control of them. Why not just take Trump's name out of them, then release? Seems like an easy way to get the Dems and have some GOP fall guys. Then the game is over.
But then you lose the support of the billionaire pedophile ring. That's the real reason why they will never be released.
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I bet he does. The Orange Turd was a regular on the Lolita Express.
PEDOnald will jingle his keys in a week and all the MAGAts will have forgotten about this.
It's funny watching rapey getting ratioed on his own echo chamber platform.
Has anyone from Biden's admin come out and refuted Trump's DoJ's statements? They need to be on every conservative outlet that will give them a second of time talking how the documents existed before.
"These are not the files you are looking for..."
...and definitely don't pay attention to the little man behind the curtain!
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The Donvict is about to pop ninja smoke. Probably this time it will be a civil war.
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