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    21 days ago

    Signing off every post with “thank you for your attention in this matter” is the most Boomer thing ever

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      It is really possible he could admit those charges and say “yes, I did all the unspeakable stuff, what are you gonna do about it weakling”

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    “It’s all [the Democrats] have. They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates”

    Damn even when his mind is melting he’s still got the Dems 10000% pegged, broken clock etc

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      That’s the thing. He’s not wrong about the first half and everyone knows it except the true believers in Bluemaga.

      It’s interesting watching both parties destroy themselves. I think Matt Christman was just one election off from his comical prediction of a turnout of like 100,000 people nationally. With no trump and a dead democratic party, what would a future election even look like?

      Not that I believe in electoralism, so it really doesn’t matter

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    21 days ago

    I guess we’re seeing play out in real time Trump’s ability to damage control. Can he string along his drooling boob base by blowing smoke up their ass about this being a hoax or will they break off and turn on him? My bet, some are going to get pissed and turn on him but give it another week or two and the rest of these morons will move onto the next culture war slop trough.

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      Anecdotally the Chud in my life believes he’s being threatened with assassination by Mossad, which is why he’s backing down. Also that the GOP will force the truth to come out, which will not, somehow, result in his assassination by said Mossad.

      Also he likes Israel and supports their wars. shrug-outta-hecks

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      I’d say yes on both counts.

      He’s likely going to lose more support over this than any of the other shit he’s pulled so far, but it’s still only going to be a portion of his base, and the rest are going to just pretend they never cared about Epstein and keep the faith.

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        I just checked out r/conservative to gauge their temperature and the whole front page is Epstein with 90% of the posts condemning Trump and speculating on his complicity. This is a sub that has been OVERWHELMINGLY defensive of Trump on every other issue, no matter how nakedly corrupt. The story is only growing by the day and it may very well be what implodes MAGA.

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          I’m also on the “they’re going to forgot about this” train but if there’s anything that could sink him, this would be it.

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          It’s wild though because honestly I think Blue MAGA would absolutely not revolt against the Democrats, if they were in a position like this.

          The right wing knows how to discipline their elected officials.

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            last time around he just ignored it and they had the leeway to convince themselves it was The Deep State preventing the release

            this time around they made too big of a show about “we’re gonna release the logs” and then suddenly did a 180, it’s too obviously a coverup this time

          • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            Because of this “investigation” turning up “nothing” he’s gotta say something about it and since he wants it buried this is where it’s going

            His base hasn’t cared because this is literally why qanon was a thing- it was all about secret agent Trump taking on the narco pedo cabal, or at least making enough people believe that shit about him. Turns out i guess there’s a limit to what credulous morons will reconcile in terms of glaring hypocrisies and Trump saying “yeah the pedo cabal is a left wing conspiracy” is incompatible with this qanon cult Trump fetish that’s been created

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            I imagine the accelerated pace of material conditions worsening even for his base is probably a factor in things that once held now giving. Many of his poorer supporters have lost medicaid, and many of his petit boug supporters are having their businesses ruined by tariffs. Even if they can’t stop cheering for regressive face-eating leopard policies, they feel let down. I guess the failure to spin this episode well was the final straw for many.

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          I really hope you’re right. But I’m running low on hope, so.

          Also, I for one will NEVER forgive them for Trump anyway, so, to hell with all these calls lately for grace and unity for MAGA refugees who seek redemption after having seen the light. Way too late motherfuckers.

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      There is nothing else to shift attention towards, Superman would have made MAGA crazy years ago but the popular reaction seems to be overwhelmingly positive. Its realy only Zionists and Synderbros coping and seething. I’m not sure they can move away from this.

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    these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at - It’s all they have - They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates.

    when he’s right he’s right

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    Classic cult leader behavior. Shed the less-adherent members while punishing them, which either isolates them from fully-adherent members or brings them back into the fold.

    Like all of the most successful cult leaders, I doubt he even knows he’s doing it.

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      Republicans care more about the Epstein files than Dems… it’s why Trump was talking about it all through the campaign

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      That doesn’t sound right. It must have happened while Hillary Clinton was president, surely that’s why everyone pointed fingers at her as opposed to Trump.

  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I really can’t believe they’re doing this to themselves, I genuinely thought the epstein shit was about to get memory hole’d, like a month ago I thought about epstein, and realized I hadn’t heard anything in a while, no big news, no one I know mentioned it for months and months before then

    safe to say I’m pleasantly surprised

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.net
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    The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier, the lying 51 “Intelligence” Agents, the Laptop from Hell, which the Dems swore had come from Russia (No, it came from Hunter Biden’s bathroom!), and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself, a totally fake and made up story used in order to hide Crooked Hillary Clinton’s big loss in the 2016 Presidential Election, these Scams and Hoaxes are all the Democrats are good at - It’s all they have - They are no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates. Also, unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue. Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this “bullshit,” hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our Country’s history, and all these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!