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Trump Is Losing His Army of Internet Alpha Males Over the Epstein Files (gizmodo.com)

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A promise to expose a corrupt elite has turned into a perceived cover up, and the powerful online influencers who helped elect Donald Trump are now in open revolt.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 59 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Pam Bondi invited influencers to the White House and handed them big binders that

accusing Bondi’s Justice Department of “covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and murder.

Time for us to hear from FBI agents.

Notice the pattern? No one, not one would dare point a finger at where this buck stops: Trump.

Doing so is engagement suicide. And that’s how they make their living.

Hence, this headline is total BS. They may be mad, but none, not under any circumstance, would turn on Trump. They literally can’t. They will blame anyone under him first, which is already orthodox.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In a monarchy you can criticize the Prime Minister or any other minister in government, but it's treason to speak out against the King. If the King does something bad it's because he got bad advice from the PM. Even the opposition party is called the Loyal Opposition, as you're meant to maintain loyalty to the King even while expressing opposition to the government.

Nowadays most monarchies are constitutional and the King's speeches are written by the Prime Minister so it's actually correct to criticize the PM for the things the King says.

It's interesting how the MAGAs are behaving in exactly the same way people behave in a monarchy. Unfortunately the President isn't constitutionally limited so King Trump can do whatever he wants.

I really do think that a constitutional monarchy is better than a republic now. We have people in Canada that also believe that you prove your patriotism by being loyal to a guy that surrounds himself with gold. But they can bow to King Charles and it doesn't matter because he has no political power. Gotta have a King so the subservient part of the population can feel happy without fucking things up by creating a King that has power.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

In a monarchy you can criticize the Prime Minister or any other minister in government, but it's treason to speak out against the King.

What?

The king can go fuck himself.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Well obvs but we’re talking The Stupid Cult here

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

You're right cause the conservative subreddit doesn't dare to say the T word, they just say "both parties are the same" and other centrist takes the moment trump does something they don't like