One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” and each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!”

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    14 days ago

    The whole Epstein thing has been the greatest nothing in the history of the US. It continues to be nothing but a distraction for the masses still delusional enough to believe in law and order.

    Folks, he’s a pedophile and so many others of power and influence are and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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      I wouldn’t call it a distraction, because there’s nothing material it’s distracting from. It’s a scandal in the same way the Clinton BJ was a scandal. And it’ll have some downstream ramifications (very hard to run as the Anti-Pedophile party this time around) that’ll demoralize base activists when the economy is sliding and people are looking for an excuse to be angry.

      But if we weren’t watching Epstein, we’d still be watching something. It’s not like there’s a BLM or Occupy or Anti-War movement to latch on to. And even if there was… they were hollowed out lightning quick, leaving us with a bunch of Libertarians in flesh suits chanting “End The Fed”.

      Folks, he’s a pedophile and so many others of power and influence are and there’s nothing you can do about it.

      Nothing most people are willing to try to do about it.

      But every now and then, a brave man with a doohickey reminds Shinzo Abe of the price of hubris.

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        13 days ago

        Well until we get past all the Mean Girls Burn Book embarassing bullshit and get to the actually serious incriminating things that have actual ramifications…

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      You say it’s nothing and then explain why it is something, all without realizing you contradicted yourself. That takes skill.

      It matters because there are victims. It matters because Trump is MAGA and some (but not all) of his followers dislike pedo shit. It matters because many of the problems we see nationally are mainly problems created and continued by the ultra rich, as opposed to a single political party, and this issue makes that easy to see.

      And remember how much momentum Trump had six months ago? I do. He lost all of that because of Epstein. The one issue that was so clear to his base, to the conspiracy theorists, that tanked his political momentum. He’ll never recover that power.

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        The fucker is still in power while the masses continue to ask “where are the Epstein files”! He’s still tanking the economy, kidnapping innocents off the street and murdering Venezuelans on boats and you’re in here talking about some meaningless metric that proves to you that he’s hurting now! We KNOW he’s a child fucker and he’s STILL IN POWER! What is having a fully redacted report going to change? We got’em now, boys!