Now we understand why Trump didn’t want [the Epstein files] released.

Just a week before the midterm elections, which are already shaping up to be a bloodbath for the GOP, Democrats have dropped a bombshell. “A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s,” states a just-released report from the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee.

Additionally, they claim that Trump has leveraged his FBI and DOJ to cover up the evidence, and have now called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate any potential wrongdoing.

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      This is one of the more frustrating things. I’m talking to MAGA SA survivors and they act like Trump would never. As though he is not the exact type of person that would, has actively spoken about doing it, and has been convicted of that.

      There is a level of delusion that I truly cannot understand. It is legitimately scary that they have been 1/3 of American society this whole time. Maybe not seamlessly blending in, but not these completely brainwashed fools. They weren’t suggesting the moon was made of cheese or anything. They had families, went to work, did their groceries, and they had this in them the whole time. Horrifying. It sounds stupid, but in earnest it’s frightening. Not to sound alarmist but I feel like I’m living in the rise of Nazi Germany part 2 and we’re watching people get loaded on the trains and they’re not even trying to hide it. I’m screaming at these people like “look! Look at the trains! It’s exactly like what’s in this history book that we all read and agreed on who the bad guy was!” And they’re standing there dumbfounded as if I’m the one who’s unwell and imagining things.

      Sorry for the rant, but I feel like nothing has quite captured the horror of living amongst these people. It’s horror/psychological thriller movie type stuff. I really hope some media attempts to depict this era some day, because it really feels unbelievable. I feel like had I not personally lived through it I wouldn’t be able to understand it.

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      No. Not a single soul is surprised by this, including the people who voted for him anyway. They knew. Some didn’t care. Some considered it a selling point.

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    LOL we have known for a long time. Anyone saying otherwise is just lying…

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    If anything were not news in 2026, this is it.

    Anyone who can’t already see this won’t be convinced.

    Stupid article.

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      They’ll just never see it. They only listen to fox news, newsmax etc. Brainwashed sheep destroying the world.

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      In 2009, in my first year of university, I was watching the news and it said that scientists just found out what killed the dinosaurs, they built it up like a shocking revelation, only to reaffirm the already prominent theory that it was an asteroid

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      On one hand, any discussion about this is better than none.

      On the other, Slate has for a long time been extremely wordy/academic-style essays regurgitating obvious positions and news. I am usually in agreement with their positions, but it’s 300 words of argument and conclusion, packaged in 5,000 or 10,000 words of academic, disorganized writing style. Maybe they’re paid by the word.

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    No, he doesn’t give a fuck if we know about his crimes, he probably just doesn’t want us to know the files say he has a small dick

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      I’m thinking the play to distract will be if they find him saying a word like “pussy” in which case the Murc’s Law Media will commence to have a “national conversation” about “locker room talk”.

      Instead of talking about the criminal behavior…

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    Is it basically the same reason this asshole howls and whines about “the Russia hoax”? Or the same reason that he claims to have really won the 2020 election?

    Basically that he’s a lying sack of shit committing crimes?

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    Republican lies work so well because they pander to Magats - the most uneducated, stupid, and uniformed voters, and they repeat the exact same lies again and again. Just because people here are generally informed does not mean Bubba in BumFuck, Tennessee is.

    Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

    The same thing goes for repeating the truth. “Trump Rapes Children!” should be shouted each and every time his name is mentioned.

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    Had no idea until now. Personally I thought the secrets to the pyramids were in there and no one wants us knowing about that. This revelation was shocking.