Man the Epstein files must be really really bad
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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lol this is getting old. They don’t gaf about the Epstein files. He owns the DOJ. They’re not doing all this evil shit to distract from them. This evil shit has been their plan in the making for decades. Did nobody read project 2025? The original plan had a different name and was leaked well over a decade ago.
I’m tired of this brain dead parroting. It does nothing about the evil shit that is coming. The Epstein files are not the silver bullet that will stop this.
You're right that they're doing this because it's their genuine agenda, not a distraction.
You're wrong that it's not worth continuing to hammer on the Epstein files. Like Tim Walz calling them "weird," it's one of the few things that seems to move the needle on some of his support.
Why does it have to be an either-or situation? I could be evil shit+Epstein distraction.
What was the original name for P2025?
He might be referring to the Russian playbook to destroy western stranglehold on global politics. I doubt it though… I can’t remember the specifics, but that one is pretty old, I think.
Epstein crimes and US expansionism are two separate very bad things. It’s a “yes and” not a “yes but”.
Everyone parroting it acting like this is a yes but and it's fucking annoying.
So this idiot wants to start wars with 4-5 countries simultaneously and gets no blowback because the consequences will take too long to ever affect him...
PS: as usual, first they tease to shift what is acceptable and manufacture consent https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-suggests-open-launch-missiles-mexico-kill-drug-cartels-deadly-force-authorized
The next democratic president will be blamed as always, clean up the mess, and the subsequent republican president will get the credit.
He’s openly talking about just suspending the midterms. So if he does that, I expect he’d suspend 2028 too. At this point, I don’t think they’re expecting to let go of power at all, ever.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."
Why would they? The biggest consequenses would involve a few democrats writing some very serious signs and maybe even write a stern tweet.
I personally think it doesn't really matter if the Democrats win (I am not American, but I lived there for multiple years and have travelled extensively).
I can't imagine the Democrats doing anything substantive to address criminality and corruption (which is arguably the root cause of Trump's rise).
This is true of both party leadership (that always avoid prosecution of criminal elements) and much of the party's electorate who are too well off to risk rocking the boat and generally do not see real anti-corruption reform as a priority.
Consider the fact that Meta was found to have gained $16 B (10% of their 2024 revenue) via a premeditated policy of gaining commissions from fraud on their platform. They even developed a "playbook" to manage this process; so they knew what they were doing.
It is comical to suggest that the Democrats will do anything beyond a nominal fine and asking Zuckerburg to promise to not get caught the next time he runs a scheme (if even that)
When a genuine desire to fight criminality would require Zuckerbeg and all senior employees being locked up for multiple decades while having all their asset seized (Zuckerburg directly profited from this mass scale fraud scheme via his ownership stake in Meta).
One can look at Obama's inaction against financial oligarchy in the late 2000s to predict the behaviour of the US centre-right should they win elections. Funnily enough Obama is once again pushing his shallow and meaningless "What’s needed now is courage" rhetoric.
For everyone in the world that believes in liberal democracy, human rights and opposes corruption, it is reasonable to assume that corruption and criminality in the US will not be addressed any time soon. I hope I am wrong though, but I wouldn't count on it.
I personally don't see why people think we will have elections again when the people in charge have said over and over that we won't
Because we always have? Because of tradition?
How has that ideal been working out lately?
clean up the mess
There are things that, once broke, can't be mended. I doubt that a new "moderate" US president would be capable of undoing half the mess the Big Orange Turd commited.
Wow! Those Epstein files must really burn.
Decades of child rape needs a lot of distraction!!
He knows there is too much of him in those files. He knows what he did. Narcisist know what thye do is wrong but they feel like they are allowed. That doesn't mean they don't know others will not see it that way.
So much for 'Pax'. Bellum Americana is the new order, it appears. Either you give the Americans whatever they demand, or they take it by force. International law and national sovereignty superseded by the worst sort of might-makes-right dog-eat-dog anarchy. I guess Trump saw Putin's model, and decided it was good. Especially as he now had the biggest gun in the room.
I've got to wonder how the US military feels about being reduced to lawless dishonorable raiders and thuggish fascist enforcers, plundering for the benefits of their Robber Baron in Chief.
Always been that way, just in the shadows. Also anarchy isn't chaos. The military has always been thuggish enforcers of global capital, they have always been a force for imperialism.
He only attacks much weaker countries. It's typical bully behavior.
I was going to say that. Mexico is to the United States approximately what Ukraine is to Russia - weaker, but capable of sustaining a long conflict.
Whom the rest of the continent would support and equip, I leave for everyone to guess. Europe can be checked for reference.
Doubt. The resource they want from Mexico is cheap labour. That's much more difficult to seize with a few strikes than Venezuelan oil. They need to take Morena down from power and install a right wing puppet to depress wages.
it is the fourth largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere
Might have something to do with it.
The ones that haven't paid him*
Weirdly if its actually just drug cartel assets (I doubt) this seems like smart way to increase Latino support? Most don't have much good to say about the cartels (many leaving due to them). There own country seems to be bought out by them so Trump being this almost knight in shining armor seems like an interesting idea? Its actual effectiveness does not matter, perceptions rule all.
I think the upper middleclass-rich Democrats who lead the think tanks really haven't internalized how conservative (I think this past decade they have slowly realized) alot of immigrant groups are, my family is full of people who honestly are more aligned conservative but the idea of republicans being a "white" party is what stops them. Trump essentially has to square the circle of a party of conservative immigrants, billionaires, libertarians, and neo-nazis
Just after they're done paying for the wall
Trump's just trying to juice the betting markets on whether we'll bomb Iran or Mexico next.