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    I wonder who’s drip feeding this info about Epstein and Trump? They’re certainly having fun.

    I mean, they probably could’ve dropped it in 2016, 2020 or 2024, so why now?

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      Trump has done a huge amount of damage and his job is done. Whoever is burning him probably has no further use for him or recognizes the lost cause.

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          Why bother with a succession plan if you already got everything you wanted and nobody’s gonna roll it back?

          It’s not like the Dems will reverse much if any of the tax cuts and the like if free and fair (by post-60s US standards, at least) elections are ever allowed again. The ratchet effect doesn’t have an exception for fascism or other absurdly extreme policy.

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            Nah, they have infiltrated elections enough that they think they will control them from now on. JD is Thiel’s puppet, Musks party doesn’t exist, and the Dems are guilty of letting it happen, but aren’t a threat since they won’t ever be back in power if the MAGATs plan works out.

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              It’s so fucking weird that the moonbat right wing lost their fucking minds over something like the Georgia Guidestones and other apparent signs of the “New World Order”, and yet, throw in with the likes of Thiel and Curtis Yarvin…

              I mean, you just cannot make this shit up. Curtis Fucking Yarvin, Thiel, Musk, as well as the likes of Alex Jones and a mob of qanon nutbars…support Taco. Because the conspiracy theorists like lil’ Alex and qanon/pizzagaters/birthers think he’ll do battle with the world elites?

              🤣

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              It’s been the plan from the start. Get HitlerPig elected, let him fuck around in his inimitable style until everyone gets fully fed up, then replace him with Vance. Theil holds Vance’s leash, so it will be just a foreign Sociopathic Oligarch running America from the shadows.

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      It doesn’t have to be a conspiracy. It can just be that the editors know that people are likely to click on Trump - Epstein stories now.

      Any journalist who had a story turned down at some point in the past because there were bigger stories is going to be pulling it out and trying to get it to run again. Archivists are going to go through every Trump - Epstein story that already did run once and trying to run it again.

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        B/c they are becoming just too embarrassed? I mean, c’mon. Not really having a good look lately, ya know?

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          To be embarrassed, its a prerequisite that you have shame.

          No. Now because their support is beyond paper thin. They’re committing an atrocity that will be remembered at the level of the holocaust and they couldn’t be doing it without Trumps/ the US’s backing. And among MAGA? They’re split on supporting Israel. The ones who went to MAGA because they’re racist and thought it was good sport, they support Israel. Those who were genuine “America First” MAGA? They don’t want us spending money on Israel either.

          There is a very real moment happening right now that if the appropriate pressures can be placed, MAGA might be able to be cleaved, at least in part, from supporting Trump. Look at MTG’s vote in the house. Even a small percentage getting pulled away would be more than enough. There is a real chance to stop Trumpism in this moment.

          And Israel can’t have Trump cutting them off in an effort to salvage his coalition. It would be red-meat for the America firsters.

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            I like this talk. Can we please have some more dialogue regarding this matter? I would like to believe that we can. Anyone else have any feedback? I’m all ears until bedtime.

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      I watched a couple interviews with Michael Wolff on youtube. He said Epstein tried to hire him to write his biography and showed him photos of DJT with young looking women that could have been underage teenagers. (Or just young looking, he didn’t know) He also said he tried to take the story to journalists/news orgs multiple times over the years, but none of them would touch it. Until now. So yeah, people tried, like Katie Johnson, and the stories got squashed. Or like the Access Hollywood tape, it was widely reported and he still won the election in 2016. Teflon don, indeed.

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      CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s.

      Trump’s wedding was a media event, lots of cameras were there. They just sifted through their own tapes.