Politics megathread

I’m sure you’ve all heard the latest Trump-Epstein news. Friend of mine linked this from Facebook:

Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving together. In 2017. While Trump was President of the United States.

That’s not a rumor — that’s from the newly released emails obtained by House Democrats this week from Epstein’s estate. One email chain, dated November 23, 2017 — Thanksgiving Day — lists the names of guests Epstein expected to see that weekend. Among them: “david fizel, hanson, trump.”

At that time, Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club and the same place where Epstein’s trafficking ring first recruited underage girls.

Let that sit for a second.

For years, Trump claimed he “banned” Epstein from Mar-a-Lago decades ago. But these emails — alongside thousands of other documents — tell a different story. Epstein and Trump were still FRIENDS while Trump occupied the White House.

And there’s more.

In a 2011 message to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein wrote that a young woman “didn’t want to come early to find Trump in your house.”

In another, Epstein said: “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.”

If that’s the assessment of a serial pedo rapist, it’s hard to imagine how dark this might get.

The public deserves answers about why a sitting president was having Thanksgiving with a convicted sex trafficker… Although, anyone with half a brain can connect the dots.

If the emails are genuine — and no one’s denying they are — then we’re looking at direct contradictions of Trump’s own public statements, and possibly, the moral collapse of an entire political culture. .

This moment demands more than outrage. It demands accountability.

No more cover-ups. No more “hoax” talk. No more pretending this is partisan.

Because when a predator’s network reaches the Oval Office, it’s not politics anymore — it’s a national reckoning.

And history won’t forget who tried to look away.

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Sorry to say but this message looks incredibly AI generated. “That’s not X, it’s Y”, lists of threes, em dashes.

Not to distract from the fact that the President of the United States is an evil pedophile rapist.

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Yes, probably AI.

Major news media are reporting what appears to be confirmations of what have been mere rumors till now (with previously no great way to verify.) But I have not been able to find the full texts of emails online from that Wednesday release. I only found three of the emails from that dump.

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Probably true that someone has used AI to either write, or correct/polish up the post, but as far as I can ascertain the quotes from the emails are also reflected in other news sources (Fox News among them, which I’m pretty sure wouldn’t quote them if they thought they were fake since the quotes don’t do Trump any favors).

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Who would have thought that a convicted felon and self-confessed serial sexual predator would be found to have had a close personal association with Epstein? The mind boggles.

(Meanwhile, on another forum I just now recycled and revised one of my lamest jokes about tourist trap T-shirts: “I got the Faecal Microbiome kicked out of me in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan!” )

(Yes, I’m tired and wired after three hours of intensive study of my metabolic pathway associations with odd genetic variants.)

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Yeah I also double checked the sources after I noticed it was AI.

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You’ve probably heard about the very real furor over a satirical social media post claiming Mayor Mandani of New York City was insisting upon the teaching of Arabic numerals in the schools.

Meanwhile, the old tale of Sleeping Beauty has been banned in some red states because by the end of the story she was “woke.”

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The US is actively working to undermine Europe and is on the side of Russia:

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I’d suggest razing the White House again, but they’re doing it for us.

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Had a close call today. I was at a restaurant and nearly ordered a burrito before I caught myself.

(Too much risk of getting loaded into an unmarked van.)

I was already under scrutiny for failing to bow twice to the framed-photo on the wall of “Dear Leader” before taking my seat.

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Man, someone really needs to do a compilation video of the praise-rituals from Trump’s innumerable press conferences and rallies. You know, those that ALWAYS begin with the coterie of simpering minions praising and thanking him.

Just do one big compilation of them one by one, standing there saying their praises. Cut out the introductions of each individual to condense it for time, so we just get these back-to-back clips of the arselicking and brown-nosing non-stop for hours. Beginning all the way back with Mike Pence essentially praying to Trump during their press briefings in Trump’s 1st term.

Who wouldn’t just love to see this ritual just go on and on and on and on as one sycophant after another fall over themselves and each other for their turn at the opportunity to thank and praise this chosen one. The Saint and Prophet and seller of Trump coins, Trump steaks, Trump Sneakers, Trump watches and who even knows what other miracles he has blessed the world with?

Then interspersed with the thanks and prayers to the GOO (Great Orange One) we get short clips of Trump’s condescending face as he evaluates the style and intensity of the praise.

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My favorite Christian Post headline this morning:

“Chick-Fil-A waffles on wokeness with same-sex marriage post and DEI focus”

I didn’t know that Chick-Fil-A served waffles nor that those waffles had opinions on wokeness—let alone the ability to post online and focus.

(Yeah. Slow news day.)

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I had to double check that this was real and I wasn’t dreaming. The Tangerine Toddler has added plaques below photos of earlier presidents, in the white house, giving his opinions on each:

There’s many more. Somehow no matter which president, he finds a way to make it about himself.

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Just when you think he can’t get any worse…

Well, actually, I didn’t think that, so I am, if anything, vindicated.

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I seriously considered writing that we’ve hit peak dumb. But I know the Don is capable of open-ended devolution.

It’s approaching Caligula level depravity.

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I would have to say that Making RFK Jr. a cabinet member is quite similar to making your horse Consul.

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Though my understanding is he never actually did that. He wanted to, but the Senate blocked him. So let’s allow that to sink in.

What, the Senate can block things the emperor wants to do? What a notion.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the texts are “eloquently written descriptions of each president” and that “many were written directly by the president himself.”

Ya think?

(Glad to see our tax dollars are going to a good use.)

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