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Sam Ray's avatar

With mass resignations, trump is running low on malignant lawyers willing to do his bidding.

Dannys's avatar

Fellow Americans, this is what you need to focus on:

EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN ACLU

Get it?

Mitchell Zimmerman's avatar

Actually, it is Epstein that is the distraction. Are Trump’s partly admitted sexual adventures really more important than his trying to destroy democracy and ethnically cleanse America?

Dannys's avatar
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Except that Epstein is about more than pedophilia. You don’t get it yet. Americans, all the “white” ones think they live in a beautiful world created 249 years ago by men in wigs.

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

You are right. It's all connected. How about, was it Bill Gates talking with Epstein about whether poor or disabled people DESERVE TO LIVE! Our govt, capitalism, the rich and famous, voting rights, DEI--its ALL part of the system!

Alec's avatar

It's not. It's really not. Trump knows that there's enough evidence about him in Epstein files for him to spend his last few years in prison. The ethnic cleansing is, sadly, being driven mostly by the knockoff Muppet that is Steven Miller whispering in his ears and everyone else being whimpering spineless sycophants jockeying for the position of the Next MAGA Leader.

But even they know that their rabid fanbase will NOT side with them if they don't bury the files in every way they can. Luckily they're all incompetant and some very brave, very quiet people at the FBI are performing malicious compliance in their redactions so that anyone with half a brain and some Photoshop experience can undo it.

TCinLA's avatar

Except nobody is unredacting any of the recent files.

Alec's avatar

Coffeezilla is one of the people working on unredacting them, actually. They haven't made much progress yet because three MILLION files is a lot for a tiny-ass team, but it IS being worked on.

ynot1965's avatar

Also Aaron Parnas. The Parnas Perspective on Substack

Mitchell Zimmerman's avatar

"Trump knows that there's enough evidence about him in Epstein files for him to spend his last few years in prison." How could you possibly know this?

I fully appreciate that Epstein file and Pizzagate and all that craziness is important to a big bloc Trump's followers, so I'm happy that facts are perhaps emerging. Nonetheless, the repeated claim that everything else -- Venezuela, Greenland, ICE -- are "distractions" is more than I can accept.

Alec's avatar

It's pattern recognition and knowing how dictators function. Every time the files get big in the news again, he does or says something completely insane. Something he wanted to do anyway, mind, because his brain is actively decaying and whatever impulse control he had in his first term is pretty much gone, but something that will drag attention away from them.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Nothing is "the distraction." It all matters.

Andrea Wolper's avatar

I’m with you, Anastasia. Though we could just as easily say everything is a distraction, as in a shell game. Except this is no game, and either way the conclusion is the same: all the crimes matter, as they are all aspects of the mad king and his court’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.

Mitchell Zimmerman's avatar

"this is what you need to focus on: EPSTEIN"

This is what I'm responding to. If this is meant tactically, I think it's wrong. Millions of Americans need to take to the streets to defend democracy, not demand more Epstein files.

US Blues's avatar

Donnycon’s “sexual adventures” very likely revolve around raping and trafficking children. So yeah that’s as important as democracy and ethnic cleansing.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Epstein was the unifying cause for many MAGAe. Revealing the Dumpty cult's lying and cover are exactly to the point.

It's AS important. As important as evidence of a gun in a homicide.

In fact, hassling over what's important is itself a distraction.

Carol Taylor Boyd's avatar

Respectfully, NO. Those files are the proof of who financed and used their influence to put the orange blight into office. He's Putin's puppet for a reason. The orange blight's depravity is a great security risk for this country. He can and is being blackmailed for his secrets.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

And not just the child abuse crimes in the files. That abuse endangered the children. There are crimes and connections in those files that endangered ALL of us.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Trump: "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"

"Ghislaine Maxwell in horrible jail confirms trump was always a perfect gentleman. And is moved to much nicer jail, with potential for pardon."

Are we now going to see:

"Nicolas Maduro in horrible jail confirms 2020 election was rigged by Venezuela. And is moved to much nicer jail, with potential for pardon"?

Janet Eubanks's avatar

I’m afraid that’s the game plan.

Tina Gavin's avatar

Oh my God!!! Who are we? How did this happen? This is insanity

Jay Kuo's avatar

It’s a very sad state of affairs

TCinLA's avatar

The same bunch of shitheads America has always had - review the dark underbelly of what is real American history.

Janice Rihn's avatar

In addition to having your same thoughts, I am consistently sick to my stomach, and crying, as I read, daily, to keep up.

Doc Blase''s avatar

A normalcy bias riding on a bale of cowardice with a touch of denial.

Chris Ortolano's avatar

Let's not forget the letter sent out to state election officals inviting them to a "briefing" on "preparations" for the 2026 Midterm Elections. Kellie Hardiman, who sent out the letter, is claiming to be the "FBI Election Executive." Whatever the fuck that is.

We better be prepared, because whatever we've imagined they might do probably pales in comparison to what they are planning.

Steven Savage's avatar

I see another gamble here. Trying to blatantly steal 2026 when the playing field is different, you're unpopular, AND associated with attacks on an American city? Much harder. You're pretty much broadcasting your strategy and intent, not dog whistling.

(It also means more and more people assuming any GOP win is illegitimate.)

Judy Shaffer's avatar

Interesting take. The more the regime pushes, the more resistance grows...and that may well trigger HUGE voter turnout in November.

Larry Lesick's avatar

So none of the nutty three are in jail for election fraud, yet Alex Pretti and Renee Good are murdered for exercising their first amendment rights. No justice in America.

TJ's avatar

Thank you Jay.

Jen Psaki had Senator Warner on last evening about Gabbard and whistleblower accusations, Puerto Rico voting machines, Venezuela, Fulton County and some bizarre satellite beams when it comes to the 2020 batsh*t crazy lie of his. The 79-year old Felon said the quiet part outloud at the National Prayer event yesterday. His ego just can’t take loosing, which is quite pathetic.

The “Kraken” ate Giuliani, Powell, Lindell’s as well as anyone else brains and died of malnutrition.

Going with what Senator Warner said, “This is Bonkers!”

Is Donald Trump laying the groundwork to interfere in the 2026 midterms?

https://youtu.be/0qxy5aKctSw?si=G369hSCplTOEAuFe

Robin's avatar
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You bet he is!

If I was a duck's avatar

If any election eas rigged, it was 2024. And because Drumpf's obsessed with 2020, requesting recounts or investigations was pointless.

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

First, Jay, I love the photo of Giuliani! I haven't had such a good laugh since SKEETS last Saturday!!!!!!

Have you heard of SWAY? I read about it on a post by Qasim Rashid. There has to be some way--with technology--to record our votes in a safe place in addition to our ballots. As a backup check on voting results. No one in state or federal govt is taking these threats to our election seriously. Same old same old. After the election results come out--it is too damn late.

Thanks for all you do for us, Jay.

D Epp's avatar

I've suggested before that anyone using mail-in voting should take photos of their ballots before the ballots are mailed or delivered in person.

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

You're right. NOW I plan to do that!

C Virtue's avatar
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This particular instance does seem to be a complete fabrication. However, there are statisticians that have deep mistrust and peculiar data configurations about some of the tabulators from swing districts in the most recent election.

Whatever has happened in the past, we need to insist on hand recounts in swing districts in the next election.

Janet Eubanks's avatar

Has anyone asked Trump why Maduro supposedly swung the election to Biden in 2020, but let Trump win (by a “landslide” according to him) in 2024? I hope more comes out about this whistleblower complaint on Tulsi Gabbard that was kept under wraps, then heavily redacted. I have a feeling it’s related to what’s going on with the voting machines.

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

I worry that with what they have planned recounts will guaranteed bring the same results. That's why I think ADVANCE safeguards are important.

Maria's avatar
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Seriously, I feel deeply insulted and put out that the Universe feels we need to spend more time giving these people our time and attention. It’s like having to eat the crappy leftovers from a really bad school cafeteria from 1981. Just gross.

James Riley's avatar

Follow the money

Debbie's avatar

Somehow the Venezuelan leader who was kidnapped will tie into all of this IMHO. Bet Maduro “confesses” that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 election (just like Powell always proclaimed) and watch his get released after his confession. Hope im wrong but sounds like the MAGA MO

Lee's avatar

Have to have details about how that was done. A court is not just going to take his word for it. Proof!

D Epp's avatar

Trump will still insist on keeping Venezuela's oil, though.

Charles Bastille's avatar

Another thing is that The Crazy makes it harder to sort out the legitimate fraud issues surrounding Trump,including the stuff talked about by the This Will Hold folks, which, honestly, is so full of detail that I just can't really sort through it all and know what to think. Some of it looks compelling, but a big part of me is too furious with voters who let a few thousand people decide an election for me to dig deeper. The last election should not have been close enough for fraud in a few states to matter.

Mitchell Zimmerman's avatar

“Sidney Powell” is actually an alien from the planet Xerschel who is attempting to destroy America through internal division. If she were stripped we’d see the her tail and the extra limbs at her waist.

I cannot provide photographic evidence of this at this time. But it’s obvious.

Mitchell Zimmerman's avatar

Oh, and her special gifts enable the empowerment of Chavez from his alleged grave.