Incredible play to release these after capitulating totally on the shutdown. If I didn’t know better, I’d almost say the democrats feigned helplessness in order to destroy the ACA and then put this story out to distract from their supposed incompetence. But they wouldn’t do something like that, they’re the true party of the American working class.
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Capitalist politicians using cheap distractions to focus the attention of the working class away from their continued dismantlement of social safety nets and welfare?
Nahhhhh
Yeah millions of people had their lives thrown into the dryer on the Permanent Press setting but hey here’s the fig leaf of bullshit to tide them over
Less fig leaf, more jangly keys imo but yeah
This tweet will outlive YKS
Whats yks?
It's the airport hub that services a big chunk of eastern Russia. It's built near the capital of Sakha, Yakutsk.
Not much, what's yks with you?
yks Steve Jobs FUKKEN GOTTEM LMAO
The podcast, Your Kickstarter Sucks. JF is one of the hosts
damn.
not much open to interpretation here.
i keep thinking there must be some massive trove of blackmail material, given the connection to the intelligence apparatus and all the kid glove treatment of epstein right up until near the end.
i wonder if the incompetence and imperial decay will result in more coming out, like just from how so many decision makers are bunglers.
That third email is motivation enough to put trump on trial for his murder lol
The third email is sent by Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein in 2015. While the phrase "let him hang himself" caught my eye, I believe it is a metaphor and not literally. The email chain is about Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign. Michael Wolff is asking Epstein about whether he will clear Trump's name.
Wolff suggesting that Epstein blackmail Trump for political favor. That's the part which will allow Trump to shrug this off like everything else. He will say Wolff (and the Democrats) were trying to blackmail him. Since the libs welcomed Wolff to the resistance in 2018, it'll be easy.
We have great ammo but now it's tainted because libs can't help but to praise and welcome any corrupt fucker that criticizes Trump, making the criticisms look weak.
I'm imagining one of the alphabet agencies came to Trump and showed him these emails specifically to trigger him into giving the order to kill epstein
He said he's going to hang me, well I know how to do hanging, too
So the whole reason everyone knows about Epstein now is because of the pedo-pedo split? Did Trump stop procuring children for him when he started his whole political shindig or something? That’s what this reads like.
That's always been my assumption, so I'm biased, but yeah that's what it looks like.
I don't like the narrative that we're using for Epstein anymore. Like yeah, Trump is a pedophile BUT
stay with me now
but if memory serves the original framing was how bizarre it was that all of the political and cultural elite were in cahoots for this international pedophile ring. Why was everyone in the pedophile ring?
To focus on Trump's Epstein connection is to minimize the scope and fucked upednednss of the sophisticated operation in my mind. Do you know what I mean? It's profound that Velveeta Voldemort is a straight up predator, but why is there a big pedophile cult all the way down?
Trump is the sin-eater much like Hitler was. All the crimes of the regime will be blamed on him and a relatively small number of cronies while the majority of people who participated get off scott free
Now what are they doing to take down Trump?
Nothing because the emails are directly from Hillary’s private server…
The unfolding of this is such a doomer/bloomer thing for me because I don't know how it shakes out. The right has spent the better part of a decade accusing everyone from health educators, public school teachers, LGBT activists, to random civilians of being Satanic child abusing groomers. And now it becomes increasingly documented that Trump was close personal friends with Jeffrey Epstein, and not to mention that Epstein was working for the Israeli government. Obviously most RWers will be able to write this off because Trump is their guy, but there has to be at least a portion of those experiencing cognitive dissonance that will come out the other end disillusioned.
The schisms within the RW and the schisms within the liberal base as they wake up to the fecklessness of their Democrat electeds give me reason to think that the status quo of politics will have to shift, opening up the possibility for a better governance, but because This is America I have to stay open to the better than even chance that what replaces it is more open fascism.
I still posit they can have him dead to rights diddling a kid and the chuds will just be like "um, child m*lestation is good, actually".
m'lest
i'm tempted to flag this as an effort post of the week
