The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.
Donald Trump is reportedly getting more and more fed up with his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein drama that has consumed headlines for weeks.
Trump is frustrated that the scandal has overshadowed his agenda and dominated the news, two people familiar with his thinking told The Washington Post in a Sunday report.
Nearly a dozen sources close to the situation spoke to the Post about the issue, painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash—particularly from Trump’s own base. Many officials had reportedly hoped that Americans would move on from the unreleased Epstein files, underestimating the sustained outrage.
The news cycle usually does move on as quickly as Trump itches to rape a new child.
So the news cycle will never move on since he says he never molested any child
painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash
I read this same thing - almost word for word - at least a dozen times in Trumpworld I. It all still ended up with a coup attempt, corporate news still at the service of republiQans, and half the voters still complete fucking morons.
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.
“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.
The stage was now set for QAnon’s perverse fabricated tale that a pedophile ring of Democratic politicians and Hollywood celebrities is engaged in satanic sacrifices culminating in slurping the blood of massacred children.
There’s a joke that was going around a while ago about a conspiracy theorist who (somehow) made it to heaven:
When he arrives at the Pearly Gates, God is there to receive him. “Welcome. You are permitted to ask me one question, which I will answer truthfully.”
Without hesitating, the conspiracy theorist asks, “Who really shot Kennedy?”
God replies, “Lee Harvey Oswald shot him from sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. There were no accomplices. He acted alone”
The conspiracy theorist pauses, thinks to himself, then says “Shit! This goes higher up than I thought…”
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.
If he didn’t want to be called out on all the raping of women and kids then he shouldn’t have raped all those women and kids.
Guys, this is bullshit. He may be slightly annoyed, but he is totally protected, he and his administration have zero concerns about any consequences. They are untouchable. Particularly so due to the fact that both parties and their wealthy benefactors are implicated.
Idk, pissing off conservatives did get him shot at
To add, I think opposition to raping children is a pillar propping up mega as a movement.
But this also means that they have a bit less control over the news. That there’s an actual discussion instead of just “president did this, president did that”
They don’t give a shit what we’re discussing. It’s all speculation, nothing is actionable.
Dude is acting guilty as hell. Of course I believe his victims. Far too many of them for it to be nothing.
it was so avoidable, all he had to do is not rape children.
it isn’t so hard, I never raped children and I aint even trying to avoid it. it’s crazy how easy it is not to rape children.
I’ve coincidentally also never raped children, but seeing a child rapist become so incredibly successful, why wouldn’t these MAGA retards start raping children? Maybe that’s why they’re not billionaires, because they don’t rape children. It raises some interesting questions.
i mean there’s some correlation. not every child rapist becomes a billionaire, but if you’re a billionaire chances are pretty high that you’re a child rapist because good people don’t become billionaires. the amount of lying, cheating, stealing and exploiting you need to do to become so rich that millionaires are poor by comparison, does make it likely that you’re the kind of person who would rape a child.
Trump is the kind of person who doesn’t take responsibility for his actions. I don’t think it occurs to that sort of person that they could just not do the bad thing. They think they’re a victim when punished for doing a bad thing. The idea of just not doing the bad thing never registers as an option.
Fucking good, keep this fire burning.
Put the child rapist in prison. He deserves to never see the light of day.
I won’t hold my breath.
The best we can hope for is the stress will take its toll on the morbidly obese 79-year-old with circulation problems and bruised skin.
He thinks it will die down if he pardons the pedo pimp Maxwell? I wanna see him do it just to watch the fireworks
I mean I’m glad that something is sticking in the news cycle…
Trump and the Republicans are ruining the economy while also exploding the deficit, kidnapping random people and smuggling them to random third countries. He’s preparing to silence dissent toward him in the media, on the street. He’s also set up and filling inhumane concentration camps. He’s done very little this month to end wars as he promised he’d do in a day, and really just inflamed tensions with Iran with a unilateral strike.
worse. he appears weak to other leaders, especially putin who played him for the fool he is
He’s almost always in a “rage” of his own shit
“two people familiar with his thinking”. What a farce. Is there any fact based news anymore?
Is there any fact based news anymore?
Nobody reads facts anymore. Nobody even opens an article anymore, people skim headlines because we long-since gave up expecting informative news programming.
I am well-versed in science and technology, but never read mainstream news stories about developments or discoveries because they’re complete dogshit. I read an actual news story and my eye twitches and I want to hurl myself off a bridge. I have to de-program friends and acquaintances who are so tuned out of science developments that literally everyone I know believes we’ve officially discovered life on Mars, contacted aliens, and that there are ancient ruins and pyramids in antarctica, among hosts of other batshit nonsense that spreads from MSNBC and FOX headlines.
So if it’s that bad about science, the thing I know something about… what about the things I don’t know something about? I have to assume they’re just as bad about politics, economics, social issues and even basic news reporting on current events.
This is worse than people believing wrong trivia facts; when people aren’t sure what to believe about the world, they start doubting actual science or news and that’s how we end up with millions of unnecessary deaths from pandemics or nazis being elected to the highest offices.
When Kellyanne Conway said, “alternate facts” you had to know this was going to be a dark ride.
We can go back further.
When Reagan’s economic policies were described as “trickle down economics” and they didn’t get laughed off the political stage and like, cast into the sea, we should have predicted where this was heading. And some smart people did, but nobody listened.
Well said.
And I didn’t even get into the “mermaids” thing that I have nearly lost friendships over.
At this point I doubt MAGA crowd will draw the line at paedophilia. The only thing consistent in their belief is idol worship.
The MAGA crowd just wants to see prominent Dems thrown in prison.
TBH it’s kind of fucked up that it’s taken this long for them to get riled up and for the media to really dig into this. I suspect some prominent republicans and donors are trying to engineer this as a means of replacing trump. I mean, we’ve known for a while now about Epstein’s crimes. We’ve known about the girls who were trafficked, and for some time authorities have had the list of names. Obviously anyone who committed crimes against children should be prosecuted regardless of their political affiliation. This seems to be being used as a weapon against trump - fine, the fucker has it coming. It’s still political skulduggery tho.
A person guilty of a crime is in rage mode because people wanting to convict that person won’t let it go.
Just get rid of the judiciary system them, right? Pedophilia is ok now apparently, so are the rest of Trump his crimes. There should be a new law that says being rich exempts you from the law and being poor and being non-white is a crime. Oh wait, that’s what diaper Donny is already working towards. Fucking dystopia we live in. Supporting genocide and apartheid, breaking down the judiciary system, creating an even bigger gap in wealth and power enslaving the general public.
