• Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    What does a big thing even mean to someone enacting the American Nazi agenda? Invade Poland?

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    Ha, when you’ve already pulled so many crazy stories that it’s not working anymore. Nice.

    Also Epstein did not kill himself.

    Release the Epstein files.

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    Consider linking the original source instead:

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-plotting-this-desperate-move-to-distract-from-epstein-wolff/

    And putting the repost in the comment? It’s more direct and includes, among other things, official responses:

    House. In response to questions from the Daily Beast Tuesday about Wolff’s reporting that Trump was willing to sacrifice Ukraine to distract from his Epstein crisis, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the Daily Beast: “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s— and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

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      Quotes I highlighted from Wolff’s book on trump’s first term, most of them quotes from trump or people in his orbit that came up in interviews for the book.

      “I don’t get it,” Trump said.

      Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump’s mind.

      “I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years. That doesn’t mean they’re right,”

      It was clear Trump had no clue what that was or who Porter was.

      As far as Porter was concerned Navarro was a member of the Flat Earth Society on trade deficits, like the president himself.

      No answers were forthcoming. But Trump soon forgot his questions.

      “I don’t want to hear that,” Trump replied. “It’s all bullshit.”

      Trump seemed not to comprehend the value and the necessity.

      The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire.

      “He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.

      Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards.

      It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views

      "I can’t sit around and listen to this from the president. He’s just a moron.”

      It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said. He and the NSC and intelligence experts had concluded that. But the president had picked it up and shot it out.

      Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.

      “The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.”

      Trump had no understanding of how government functioned.

      Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things,

      The president thought special assistant sounded a lot better, not realizing it was an even lower position.

      Kelly said of the president, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown."

      “Can we change the libel laws?” Trump asked

      He had told the West Wing staff and even some on the Hill that the president didn’t understand what DACA was, that he was ignorant of both the policy and the mechanics.

      The president can’t do this on his own, he’d told West Wing colleagues, because if he does it on his own, he’s going to screw it up.

      “He’s a professional liar.”

      “Mr. President, I cannot, as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, sit next to you and have you answer these questions when I full well know that you’re not really capable.”

      He could not say what he knew was true: “You’re a fucking liar.” That was the problem.

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      God, every time I hear Steven Cheung open his mouth, I think of Baghdad Bob or a North Korean news broadcast. I know that’s the point - he’s just poisoning the well - but I don’t get how anyone can listen to that response and think “Ok, that’s a legitimate response from an adult.”

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        One time I looked up Steven Cheung to see what he looked like and oh man that is a face…not even a mother would love. I once heard Margaret Cho say that he’s so ugly, old Asian people would say he is bad luck. That got me good.

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        No one who’d really care would see it. It’s either MAGA chum, or heard by those who would never support Trump anyway.

        Strategically, it makes sense.

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          A decade ago I would have thought this would turn off the “independents,” those news-allergic rascals who make decisions on the future of our country and everyone in it based on how they feel election day after polling their Facebook feed. But I agree with you, knowing what I know now about fellow Americans.

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      The “official response” sounds like official confirmation of Wolff’s reporting.

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      Not sure that’s the red meat swap his base is looking for. They tend to be pro Russia but it’s less of a focus now.

      It would make sense to me that Russia has extra leverage with their hack of the federal court system that may have brought trump to the decision to fold on Ukraine. Total speculation. It also may have been the plan all along to give vlad his concessions and all the previous breaks with putin were choreographed to fein independence from the Kremlin.

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      Trump’s been trying to loot and scoot Ukraine since his first day in office. Far too late to pin this policy on Epstein.

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    If the Epstein stuff is what finally brings down Trump, it would be peak irony. Its a low bar, but at least some of these MAGA ding dongs draw a line at diddling children.

    I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point.

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      It was what started the revival and rise of political Trump, QANON was all about stopping diddling children. Or so many of its believers were told.

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      I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point

      Don’t assume there is a line. Most of those MAGA numbskulls are armed to the teeth, yet neither Trump nor any of his less-well-protected henchmen are dead yet. So I guess kiddie stuff is mildly okay for the MAGA dumdums - or at least not really anything to get truly worked up over…

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        You realize there’s been several attempts on Trump and his staff, right? After the first one, they’ve been downplaying it. People have resigned in fear over the Epstein files

        And with pizza gate, there was supposedly a dungeon with children about to be raped and killed. Releasing the files is more abstract and less immediate

        Time will tell, but I don’t think this is going away

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      If the Epstein stuff is what finally brings down Trump, it would be peak irony. Its a low bar, but at least some of these MAGA ding dongs draw a line at diddling children.

      I have kind of tuned out of this iteration of the Epstein scandal. Why would it bring him down now? Is there really any new information? Everyone with a brain knew he was friends with Epstein and on the list. Americans voted him in twice anyways. Why does it suddenly matter now?

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        That…and the other 53% of Republicans have no idea who Epstein is, or they are also implicated in the Epstein files.

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        Forty-seven percent of Republican respondents said such a revelation would not affect their vote, though based on other polling data this appears to reflect voter loyalty more than approval of the alleged actions.

        Hate to tell ya MAGA, but voting for pedophiles is the same thing as approving of their actions.

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      The “good” news is that the reason most stuff never sticks is because most of his base (and the people as a whole…) never know about it. Yes, it is hard to miss if you at all pay attention to the news. How many people respond to a thread to complain about the paywall and ignore the article? Or actively reply without ever having read the article in the first place? Let alone the crowd who “prioritize their mental health” by ignoring everything anyway.

      What makes the epstein shit special is that it has been the rallying cry of qanon, and much of the alt-right, for the better part of a decade. In a lot of ways, they are single issue voters with said issue being “god emperor trump is going to kill all the cheese pizza pedophiles in the epstein list”.

      And when your very identity is built around salivating over a list of who raped those kids and continue to receive irrefutable evidence that the man you put your faith in got his dick wet with those same child tears for decades?