Trump administration officials are perplexed, as many people are, by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused and trafficked scores of underage girls. The president and Epstein had a well-documented friendship.

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    One wonders what the unfolding series of events pertaining to Trump/Epstein will be dubbed by future historians (assuming this debacle ultimately have any survivors to study what went wrong). The Moronic Saga? The Idiotic Epic? The Tragedy of Trump the Kiddie-Diddler?

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      Not to be a bummer, but history is written by the victors, and we’re losing…

      I think it very well may do a 180, but it’s just an educated hope.

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        That at least used to be true when publishing was centralized. These days you’d need access to a lot of servers in a lot of countries to be thoroughly historically revisionistic.

        Or just introduce a social credit score system and even more mass surveillance so you can punish everyone with the temerity to attempt to educate themselves. So, I guess that’ll be coming soon.

        Hey, who doesn’t like at good ol’ fashioned blackbagging and a free drive in the party van at 3am? If you’re lucky, they might even throw in a rubber-hosing. Your neighbors ‘didn’t see nuthin’.

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        You know… Appointing six babies to the Supreme Court sounds considerably better than what actually happened.

        Oh. Now I’m sad. Sadder. Maybe even saddest.

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      You’re ignoring the Ghislane Maxwell’s dad did this shit before handing it off to her and Epstein…

      People still want to treat this as a couple evil people doing really evil things…

      It’s state sponsored rape of children so that country gets 110% loyalty from western governments even 2 years deep into an explicit genocide.

      Which is also why no.one ever really gets held accountable. The absolute worst thing to happen to that country is for the high ranking government politicians they own to be prosecuted.

      That’s why even if trump just prosecutes the Dems it’s a huge win. Because it’s gets all those genocide friendly pedos out of at least one of the parties.

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        That’s why even if trump just prosecutes the Dems it’s a huge win. Because it’s gets all those genocide friendly pedos out of at least one of the parties.

        It is very naive to think that any prosecutions by Trump would go after the people you want him to go after in the Democratic party. Assume for the moment that you are correct, and there are a large number of pedophiles in both parties who along with Trump are under the thumb of a foreign power. Why would Trump prosecute those Democrats that, like him, are serving that foreign power? That makes no sense. If anything, he would use trumped-up evidence to go after the innocent ones who get in his way, not his fellow pedophiles.

        You even spell it out in the prior sentence.

        The absolute worst thing to happen to that country is for the high ranking government politicians they own to be prosecuted.

        Any members on either party that get prosecuted will be the ones that are not under that country’s power.

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        That’s why even if trump just prosecutes the Dems it’s a huge win.

        Yeah, except there’s no assurance that the Dems will be guilty. He could just clumsily frame a few of them and get some corrupt judges to rule his way.

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          He could do that without a list about any crime to any person…

          So not sure why you’re defending actual child rapists

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        Is ignoring all other pedophiles in the world throughout all time what I’m doing when writing a comment specifically about Trump? You might as well accuse me for “ignoring pederasty in ancient Greece” because I failed to touch upon that in my comment too then.

        But that quibble aside, I’m not going to complain about you bringing up important facts that bear repeating.

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          Hi. I noticed your comment didn’t specifically condemn pedophilia among the Martian population in the late 1600s. What’s it like being a monster?

          /s for the one person out there who takes this seriously.

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          If you were nicer and just asked for clarification, I could have explained what you misunderstood…

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            Why would I ask for clarification I don’t need? You were perfectly clear. Look, just own it buddy. It’s not like I’m going to hold it against you. We’ve all made this kind of mistake at one point or another, and few of us meant to.

            But knock off the gaslighting.