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What I don't get is why Trump even cares. Clearly his "Grab 'em by the pussy" remark is telling you all you need to know about him and just as clearly, MAGA doesn't care.
Maybe it just really is the fact that his supporters have hyped up all those who are on that list not just as rapists, which they seem to have no problem with, but as the demonspawn in flesh. So Trump isn't concerned that he may be labeled as rapist, as that label didn't stick before, but as incomprehensible evil, or Clinton for short.
This is my concern once it officially comes out. Like every other silver bullet we've had, people will think this is what finally takes him down, but once he says "She told me she was 18!" they'll be all "That happens to me all the time too! Damn lying women!" and that will be the last we hear about it unless they use it against Democrats. I can't honestly believe anyone would be shocked his name was on the list.
"That happens to me all the time too! Damn lying women!"
— 43-year-old man still living at home
Don’t most of us live at home?
Honestly the creepiest stories I've ever heard are those where someone has been living in someone's house without them knowing.
Dude!
How am I supposed to get to sleep now?
Booze?
Edit: well, whatever booze the homeless guy living in your walls left you, anyway.
I live in my home except when I travel. I suppose there are more and more people without homes every day.
So every time you leave your house, do you no longer live there? Do you always live exactly where you are at that moment? Like if you are traveling and someone asks you where do you live, you say “right here.”
Nah but if I'm away from home for a week or a month then I'm living somewhere else.
I haven't been homeless for a long time though. That sucks and I see the number off people living in cars and tents growing. :(
This is a good point. It's almost better that it hasn't been released since the MAGA revolt appears to be from the idiot section that buys into conspiracy theories, not as much the conscious soul-selling for power section (i.e. the people who were to dumb to already know he was a creep vs the people who 100% knew and just didn't care so they could win).
I want those people who were hurt by Epstein to get justice, but with the current situation basically being the president is protected from anything, having it come out now seems the worst outcome. Having the unknown eat away at them is likely the best realistic thing right now, unfortunately.
If this comes out and just "goes away" after a couple days, I'm worried what that could do to the present handling of similar crimes. If society at large decides trafficking is no biggie, I think that could be really bad.
Considering what happened with J6, the Mueller Report, and the dozens of other red lines that have been crossed and just shrugged off in a few news cycles, this would just be adding to the list of things that our society has tacitly played😭. Hope for justice and accountability, but I have doubts now.
"Demonspawn in the flesh" is definitely the case for some of them.
It's not that they're just molesting kids, there are theories that they're "[harvesting adrenachrome[(https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience/qanons-adrenochrome-quackery)" from them.
There's a joke that was going around a while ago about a conspiracy theorist who (somehow) made it to heaven:
See, the thing is that these conspiracy theorists will never believe the truth, whatever the truth is. They'll always think the conspiracy goes even deeper.
So, even if maybe he could survive being linked to having sex with teens, the problem is that his base believes that the "sex with teens" is just a cover for something much worse. All he'd be doing by admitting to sex with teens is to admit he was part of the satanist cabal. So, his only solution is to deny and deflect. But, denials just make it seem like he's hiding something. And, while deflecting normally works for him, this is a foundational conspiracy of the MAGA base. This isn't just some odd side-conspiracy like Obama conspiring against Trump, or Twitter suppressing news about Hunter Biden's laptop. If there is any one central conspiracy uniting the right, it's the child sex trafficking stuff.
Lol what. I'm sorry, I ain't MAGA but truely the majority of his supporters are absolutely furious. They do care
They are furious, but not because Trump is a child diddler. They are only outraged because Trump is not releasing the files.
It'll be easy to see just how mad they are next year around this time when they've all moved on to the next outrage of the day.