On the contrary, the plan is to distract us from the Epstein files.
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I think the plan is “do whatever it takes to remain in power and escape consequences for all of the heinous things that he’s done”. I firmly believe that he couldn’t care less about any real issues, since he has no ability to think critically about them or empathize with the people they affect.
I tend to agree. Nothing seems to touch trump…on top of that there’s no move to prosecute him for anything. He has no fear of prosecution thanks to the captured judicial branch and spineless authorities. So this whole “war to distract from the files” idea really falls flat. War to keep escalating and look for reasons to not step down as president or cancel midterms? Absolutely.
But Epstein…? Probably not even on the radar. His family dgaf, his supporters barely twitched, and trump just keeps going.
Trump is just swinging blindly like those dementia-afflicted old people that are angry and lash out at everything who see conspiracies everywhere. The imagined “The nurse’s aid in the care home stole my socks” is now “The Iranians are threatening my ego” or some other imagined momentary fit of pique.
Yeah honestly I'm gonna go further, holy fuck y'all shut the fuck up about Epstein already! They don't care! Of course Trump is a pedophile and he should be in jail forever but I cannot imagine there is a single person on the planet who doesn't already know about the connection. If they're stupid enough to still be calling it fake news, they're not gonna care about the 8,000,000th fed thread talking about it!
I should not have to think about this worthless pedo so often. Fuckface died, he's not the problem anymore, call Trump a pedo and if someone asks why, please explain, but also please please please understand that Iran has absolutely fucking nothing to do with Epstein! Trump needs to manufacture as many emergencies as quickly as possible (without boiling the pot) so he can get away with declaring some sort of state of emergency where he gets to control the election. There may be more to it than that, but that IS the big idea, and it's what we need to deal with, and it's what no one seems to be talking about.
If this is a plan to distract from the Epstein files I would consider that a successful plan because what is happening is fucking insane. This distraction would literally be hiding child rapists by killing children.
this needs to be how this is communicated: "Trump starts war to hide child rape"
"Trump kills children to hide trafficking and raping children."
We can go even shorter "Trump kills children to distract from raping them".
Btw... all of the names released to date? We doing anything about any of them?
Is Brett Ratner going to jail? No? He's making Rush Hour 4 now?
Nobody will be prosecuted as a result of the Epstein Files. The chain of custody has been irretrievably compromised. Nothing in them can be trusted as evidence in court, and any lawyer can get the evidence tossed, or at least mistrusted enough by the jury to not convict. This is all just salacious gossip.
The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails. It's boring, but the evidence is much stronger, and will hold up in court.
The chain of custody has been irretrievably compromised.
I mean, I don't think that's the reason why.
The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails.
But that also won't happen, for obvious reasons. Nobody is going to prosecute Jamie fucking Dimon for anything, even though he's closer to the center of this web than even Epstein himself.
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Next week, they'll trickle out another bunch of Epstein Files, to distract from whatever atrocities they're committing in Iran.
Exactly, no one said it was a good plan
Yo! Isn't he the peace president?
Only when he's wearing the FIFA Peace medal
Yeah, people in pieces
Not "peace", it's "piece". As in the piece of shit president
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At this point the US president exists to take the blame for the will of Israel
🎶 I've been through the desert
with a man with no plan
La, la, la, la, la, la 🎶
And these dumb motherfuckes just do it. They just follow the pedophile
They do what they're told or they get fired and replaced with those who will.
Incidentally, last year the U.S. Army Made Four Tech Executives Lieutenant Colonels
Let that sink in
This is going to spiral out of control. The whole Middle East is going to suffer from this. How is Russia going to react? What are the domestic repercussions going to be during an election year?
No love for the Ayatollah's regime but this is a disaster. This admin has such limited forethought they will make the Bush admin look like geniuses in retrospect
Definitely. From what I've read, the CIA and military brass advised against this move because someone more aligned with the IRGC could be installed. Who knows what that will look like, but the Khamenei government was offering to honor the 2015 nuclear agreement. Next regime probably won't be so cooperative.
Also wondering how this will change the plans and behavior of other big global players like China and India in the longer term. Preamble to WW3 or just a new era of heightened millitarism worldwide?
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How is Russia going to react?
Long term, no idea. But Putin thrives on creating chaos, and much of his international strategy involves taking stable democracies and doing everything in his power to destabilize them. Just today a report came out in regard to likely Russian interference in Denmark's upcoming elections, but check out the sub-header:
US threats to seize Greenland have created ‘new international fault lines’ that can be used to spread disinformation, Danish intelligence agencies say
Putin did it in the UK with Brexit, he's done it (and is still doing it) here in the US, and now he's taking it further. Don't think for two seconds that Putin is threatened by this at all.
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Cheney very much had a plan. It was G W Bush's job to play the ass-clown, since admitting to that plan would have been electoral suicide.
"We'll use 9/11 as an excuse to attack a country that had no connection to 9/11 and that has been killing any Al-Qaida supporters in their own country, in order for us to steer tons of money into contracts for Halliburton to rebuild the oil infrastructure we'll destroy. And of course the defense contractors will get rich too. And meanwhile the oil price will be higher because Iraq will be offline. And Blair will help us lie about reasons for the war."
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Like the holy, esteemed FIFA Peace Price means nothing!!
I just can't even
This cat....
Told me the plan is to setup the USA for a National Emergency™. To skip the mid terms. He also suggested a false flag bombing in NY will happen. Trump is desperate because without his Presidency, he will be jailed.
Also to increase oil prices
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Fucked Up Beyond All Repair...
From what I understand, the global economy can survive 2 to 3 weeks without Persian Gulf oil supplies and then it's recession time. All thanks to the MAGA dipshits.
If you are in the US or Israeli military, you are a baby killing piece of shit, and you should be shunned by your neighbors. Fuck veterans. Take their rights.
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I think his plan is to die and be remembered as the guy that started the war with Iran.
He's just gonna give that mess to his successor, and he's fine with that.
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