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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 95 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Those Epstein files must be absolutely fucking insane for Donny.

[–] onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

...except Epstein files are the distraction.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Maybe the Epstein files were the friends we made along the way.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s not just insane for him… pretty much all of the political power of the Middle East is also in those files. It has a reach that goes beyond borders of the US so they’re actually scared about what will happen when Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Muhammad bin Nayef, Netanyahu, etc all show up in pictures and financial records.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It’s the entire worlds power more likely.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Ya, you're probably right

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 50 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

We got <1% of the files, heavily redacted and it was still fucking wild. I cannot imagine how batshit fucking crazy the actual files are

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What if Q was someone deeply embedded in the Epstein shit, but also a right-wing fascist so they just spun it all as Democrats doing all the evil shit?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Sounds like you’re describing the whole “every accusation is a confession…” projection shit that the GOP has been doing for 40 years.

We know who Q is. It’s Ron Watkins.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

This is what i think is close to the truth because I was there at the beginning of pizza gate. The story now is completely different. It started with a republican owned pizza place that had a basement and everything. Then all of a sudden it’s comet over here! And look at this! A crazy has shown up to shoot! Oh now you’re the asshole if you bring up that conspiracy!

Fucking convenient that shit was. That was before Q too.

(Oh this was before/during the clear /r/conspiracy shift/takeover of the right wing) ahhhhhh they now you sound crazy if you talk about it. Fuck em.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Probably like even worse than the Sasha Riley accusations.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The orange thing must've raped loads of children to go to these lengths to distract from it all.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 19 points 16 hours ago

There was a tip line call about him being present for the execution of his own bastard newborn and then discarding it into a lake. I mean yeah that’s not evidence but who makes that shit up? Knowing that he was putting girls into those kinds of situations etc and then calls the FBI tip line with it?

Like, you really gonna call them up with a lie about the one of the most prominent people in American society? How do you think that’s gonna go for you?

So, yeah my conclusion is that there is stuff in there that would make rotten.com look tame.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago

The thing is, in the current US i don't see him being affected by it no matter how horrific the contents are

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 17 hours ago

Donald Trump is America's Jimmy Savile.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

so hot they're literally on fire right now.