• Reygle@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Cult. Endless denial. Forever rejecting reality. What more would it take to have these people given straight jackets?

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    In a bare minimum rational world, Mr. Kelly would never see the broadcast side of a teleprompter ever again.

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    Trump really painted himself into a corner by promising the QAnons all of the dirt on Epstien, and I’m very curious to see if a narrative like this can dig him out. They’ll usually twist reality into knots to keep their narrative alive, but, “Epstien was a white hat,” might he a bridge too far, even for them.

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      Doesn’t matter.

      Remember that “I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave” line? Turns out he meant “I could rape a child,” and these people would STILL love him.

      This is their loyalty test now. This is how low this sleeze will take them this week.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    Epstein was CIA under deep cover. He was infiltrating the pedophile ring and he got too close. What a patriot.

    • III@lemmy.world
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      There is no list… After the Trump administration removed all of his rich peers from the list, no names were left…so no list.

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    Classic propaganda tactic. Speculating about alternative answers after you already know the answer or when everyone knows where the answer is.

    He speculates why did all these rich and powerful people not abandon him? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you liar, it’s because they were his clients so he could blackmail them if he wanted to.

    He speculates why did he get favorable terms from previous trials? Because he was secretly a good guy? No, you propagandist liar, it’s because he was ultra wealthy and well connected.

    If he was secretly a good guy, he wouldn’t have offed himself in prison, so there’d be a giant investigation over that.

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    the amount of mental gymnastics here.

    there’s a huge gap being skipped from being skipped.

    epstein would be complicit and still part of the gang if he’s doing what he was told.

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      13 hours ago

      This is just one of the Republican insiders being honest for once in their life, claiming Epstein for one of their own like he always was.

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    12 hours ago

    Why are Democrats not going on the news and taking every opportunity to call the Republicans pedo protectors?

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    Wow, what a nut job. He starts by trying to say maybe Epstein worked for the CIA and was trying to get blackmail on foreign officials for our government. Sir, even if that were true, you should want every member of the CIA using children as rape bait for blackmail in prison. (And the people showing up to use said services… you know… the guy your trying to defend)

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      I mean, he’s not pulling that out of his ass entirely. The prosecutor who gave Epstien a slap on the wrist in 2007 claimed he only let him off easy because he was told Epstien, “belonged to intelligence.” That may be entirely bullshit, or it may he that the intelligence got wind of his sex-trafficking and offered to keep him out of prison if he set up a few honeypots. I would guess that it’s at least partially true, since the authorities seem to he withholding a lot of information from the public, but in any case, there’s no way he was a CIA agent or, “Patriot.”