• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m not convinced he cares that much about Epstein. As far as not liking anything that makes him look bad, sure. But he’s sending out armed thugs to murder Americans and getting away with it. Why should he care about being outed as a pedophile?

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      18 hours ago

      It’s the only thing that actually threatens his base of support.

      Epstein files is the only thing that shuts the chuds up. They’re cheering about Venezuela and getting off to ICE murders. But they, for whatever reason, only draw the line at pedophilic elitism.

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        16 hours ago

        I don’t think it would shut them up. A few would be peeled off, sure, but in the end they’d just make excuses for it like they always do. They draw the line when it’s not the Dear Leader they worship that’s the subject.

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          13 hours ago

          Well, no it won’t change the true believers minds outright. That is true. But I do know the biggest divisions we’ve seen in public with the GOP has been over the epstein files.

          Anecdotally it’s the only topic the chuds I know don’t want to discuss, be aware of, or have to do the work to justify.

          So if anything it thins their ranks a bit, which is absolutely a worthwhile end. No other wedge issue has been as effective.

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            13 hours ago

            I’ll take anything at all that creates even the tiniest bit of discord among them at this point. I just think we should temper our expectations of how much good it would actually do.

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      21 hours ago

      Of course he doesn’t care. But his base does care about Epstein and he knows he (for now still) needs their support.

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      2 days ago

      There must be something that he considers embarrassing, so obviously not pedophilia.

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          He doesn’t feel embarrassment, but he hates when other people don’t constantly sing his praises. Being a pedo subtracts from the cheering throngs. By a frighteningly small margin.

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            1 day ago

            I think it needs to be something like him getting a blowjob from a man (or boy). That is something much of his base might consider unforgivable.

            But also maybe something like being peed or shat or cummed on.

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        2 days ago

        I heard something about his involvement in the case of a “disappeared” associate in Moscow, with that being Putins kompromat on him.