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Jon Stewart calls it the roadrunner effect, every time you think you have him, he goes "meep meep" and flies off into the distance. It is pretty impressive from a sociological perspective, if horrifying from political and humanistic points of view. And it definitely made me reexamine the simulation hypothesis.

If Trump and Epstein’s relationship were the 2015/16 October surprise, could have worked. Like the emails, the photos, the rumors of Trump’s coordination via his beauty pageants, … all of that.

I think part of the problem is that the damning evidence comes right after slightly less damning evidence in every case. It’s like walking his follows up a steady staircase until they’re all full on fascist and can no longer recognize themselves (nor care to).

The conservative subreddit is already saying the emails show he was actually trying to stop it. The fact that he spent 5 hours with a girl but "didn't bark" means he is the only saint in the files. The files that "didn't exist" a few months ago.

I'm pretty sure he could grope children on live tv and his base would still find a way around it.

Probably right to be cynical, given we've seen him stoke an insurrection in public, while plotting a coup at the same time, and he paid zero penalty for it.

Meanwhile, on this, we see Megyn Kelly starting to do that skeevy hairsplitting on what is technically pedophilia vs. abusing underage adolescents. I'm not really sure if GOP wants to really die on the "yeah, but the underage trafficking was for ephebophiles!" hill, but I guess we'll see.

I think he’d honestly go to war before actually facing consequences. Bread and circuses.

Do you really think this will be the end? He survived everything and got elected with people knowing full well he had ties with Epstein.

:-/

The discharge petition is just discharging a resolution that amends the Epstein stuff as a rider onto a regular bill.

So even if everything passes the House, the Epstein provision still has to complete the rest of the Schoolhouse Rock process:

• Pass in the Senate
• Survive conference committee
• Re-pass both chambers
• Trump veto
• Veto override on 2/3 votes in both chambers

The DOJ is never going to release the files. God himself could come down from the clouds to tell Trump live on television to show the files and Trump would still refuse. And the sad thing is, his supporters would still try to explain away why Trump was right to disobey.

I'm just being realistic. The man has never faced real consequences for any of the blatantly illegal and immoral things he's done for his entire life. To the contrary, he's been rewarded for it. He was convicted of 34 felonies and his punishment was...absolutely nothing. Definitely continue to treat him as if he were susceptible to consequences like a normal person, because it has to be done, but to expect consequences to actually happen is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I didn't realize my opinion was so powerful

Public shaming is better than nothing.

Pussy

Doesn't fucking matter because he's a fucking pedophile and needs to be outed as one.

But stuff keeps leaking. If they somehow manage to block the release of the files, eventually most of (if not all) the files will be leaked I think. There's not much happening in the white house that doesn't leak at this point.