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kentuck

(114,430 posts)
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:21 AM Monday

The Epstein files are just an excuse for the MAGA leaders in the social media...

They insist it is the straw that broke the camel's back but it is really all the other straws that they realize were bullshit. And now they want to get off the camel.

The Epstein files is just an excuse for them to retreat, in my opinion.

Too many inexcusable things have happened to suddenly turn on their leader over this matter. These social media "influencers" may be deceitful, or even cruel, but they are not stupid.

They see the tariffs being pushed thru. They see the economy on the horizon. They see all the lies coming to fruition. And they just need to get off the crazy train.

That's why they have chosen the Epstein files as the vehicle to jump.

Just my opinion.

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EYESORE 9001

(28,585 posts)
1. I think it goes deeper than a convenient excuse
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:42 AM
Monday

They feel betrayed in a deep, biting way. They were gonna be-bop & scat all over those democrats which would come to light. Perhaps that was the orange menace’s plan, but all his minions couldn’t extricate their bloated tick without implicating him. Too deeply involved in Epstein’s little cottage industry, it appears. Lots of those propellerheads take that Qanon stuff seriously, and dearie me what will they do if dear leader has been co-opted by the deep state? Is he even real? A doppelgänger? Clone? Robot? Their speculation will be endless. Stoopid, but there’ll be so much of it.

underpants

(191,534 posts)
8. Can't find it now but I saw a tweet earlier today with the pics of them together
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:13 PM
Monday

with Trumps eyes covered with black strips. Someone actually replied “That’s not Trump” and everyone laughed at them

Eliot Rosewater

(33,184 posts)
2. And yet, I can't help but believe the vast majority of the Maga scum
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:45 AM
Monday

Are still really fine and OK with anything the piece of shit does.

Not that it really matters, the piece of shit will not allow any elections and if elections, they will be rigged like 2024 was.

Although it was musk and his team that rigged it and apparently he opposes piece of shit now, so who knows.

allegorical oracle

(5,376 posts)
7. This whole Epstein gambit strikes me as a planned deflection to get all eyes
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:05 PM
Monday

re-focused from the indiscriminate deportations of innocent people, concentration camps, and the upcoming fall-out over the havoc that will result from the BUB (big ugly bill).

Must always keep in mind that djt is ignorant, inept, and shameless. He will do anything to retain power.

usonian

(19,155 posts)
4. How about they are sure the files incriminate Democrats with kid sex and blood-drinking,
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:57 AM
Monday

and it's a traitorous and cowardly act to cover it up.

unblock

(55,400 posts)
5. Meh. They clamor for what they want, they complain when they don't get it, but they always fall in line eventually.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:59 AM
Monday

They will not abandon Donnie over this, nor will they really start to doubt him.

Donnie will give them a partial list or a small portion of new information, or a better conspiracy theory, and they'll accept it and move on.

kentuck

(114,430 posts)
9. Definitely within the bounds of possibilities.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:25 PM
Monday

Why should they leave him now? He'll find a new lie. They will have a new conspiracy to cling to.

Jit423

(1,568 posts)
6. Trump knows he is named in some of those files that have not been destroyed yet. He is afraid of what his cult may find
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 11:59 AM
Monday

out about him.

Johnny2X2X

(23,078 posts)
10. Trump raping children is not a dealbreaker to most of his supporters
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:29 PM
Monday

First they'd want to know how that 12 year old girl that Trump tied to a bed and raped at Epstein's apartment was dressed. And what's a 12 year old girl doing out partying with full grown men anyway? Where were her parents?

The Epstein files were important to them because of revenge, they were certain their release would prove that most prominent are pedos, this is what they've been being told non stop for years. They've spent years convincing themselves that the Epstein files would finally lead to them hanging Dems from their necks up and down the National Mall.

waterwatcher123

(384 posts)
11. It might be related to the QAnon conspiracy theories about Democrats preying on children.
Mon Jul 14, 2025, 01:28 PM
Monday

"QAnon is a decentralized, far-right political movement rooted in a baseless conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against the “Deep State,” a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who control the world and run a global child sex trafficking ring, murdering children in ritual Satanic sacrifices in order to harvest a supposedly life-extending chemical from their blood known as adrenochrome. QAnon theories, which are popular among far-right extremists and some Trump supporters, are an amalgam of novel and well-established conspiracy theories, with marked undertones of antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and anti-immigrant bias.

According to QAnon lore, nearly every recent president has been a puppet put in place by the so-called Deep State, but Donald Trump was recruited by top military generals to run for president in 2016. Trump’s mission: to expose and take down the Deep State, which will take place during “the Storm,” a violent day of reckoning in which Deep State actors and their collaborators will be arrested en masse and sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they will face military tribunals and be executed for their various supposed crimes against humanity."

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/qanon

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