Epstein Files => Trump Impeachment & Conviction?

Politics & Elections
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So there’s an email in the recently released batch of Epstein emails where Mark Epstein asks his brother Jeffrey if Putin “has the photos of Trump blowing bubba.”

“Bubba” being the nickname of our 42nd president, Bill Clinton.

Now, I’m 97% sure this douchebag is joking around, but the fact that I’m not 100% sure just goes to show how fucked up this timeline really is. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t be all that surprised if a photo of Trump blowing Clinton did leak tomorrow. Sickened beyond words? Yes. Surprised? Not at all.

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Magas would prefer that to him doing Hillary

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Ahhh, so this is how it will go. Trump was actually more of a Democrat all along! THAT’S the ticket! Yahhhh!

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In the 80’s, Trump was a RINO.

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Time for one of my periodic reminders that

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I hope this dogs him for the rest of his presidency.

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He’s a bigot, a xenophobe, an unpunished criminal, traitorous, corrupt, a narcissist, probably a psychopath, ignorant, irrational, and a rapist. Those are core Republican values. Every flaw of his is something the Republicans consider a virtue.

Trump is practically the Republican party manifested in physical form. Everything vile about America, condensed into a single, incredibly disgusting human being.

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Let me get this straight

  • actively stripping union rights is worker protectionism
  • there’s no such thing as a right-wing populist
  • talking and preparing to invade half a dozen countries and threatening to wipe Gaza off the map is not getting involved in foreign affairs
  • throwing every federal law enforcement branch against Americans is “skepticism”
  • Democrats are the ones complaining about tearing down Confederate statues and renaming military bases
  • celebrating Andrew Jackson because he was a Democrat, not because he (at times forcefully) deported brown people from living near “true Americans”

Never mind, now I see it:

So, a Republican.

Republicans aren’t going to do shit about Trump fucking kids. If they were, they wouldn’t now be trying to hide behind the pedophilia/ephebophilia distinction like other sick people.

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Stalin was a Communist with his own palace and limo driver.

If you demand that we label a person’s political affiliation by what they do, rather than what image they sell to the people, then we basically need to go back and change the politics of pretty much every 20th and 21st century leader.

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You are ignoring the extremely important and well known fact that the Democrats largely switched both membership and positions in the intervening time, in order to nonsensically claim Trump isn’t acting like a Republican. Back then the fascists ran the Democrats; now they run the Republicans. That is what matters, not obsolete labels.

Trump is acting like the perfect embodiment of the modern Republican party, not like a Democrat.

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I dunno. This feels like the Mueller Report all over again … we’re waiting breathlessly for the smoking gun, and it turns out to be a popgun with a little flag that says “BANG!”.

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What lame ass kind of dodge is it to say, “Democrats had four years to release the files and they didn’t do it.” They pull that one out every once in a while, but it’s so pitiful that they don’t even expect a reply.

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“every once in a while”?

Consider yourself lucky. I need to get the fk off Facebook, because I see that as their “go to” about once every 15 - 20 minutes.

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Democrats on the House Oversight Committee initially released three emails where Epstein mentioned President Donald Trump. Republicans on the committee responded by disclosing the bigger trove of documents and accused the Democrats of cherry-picking a few messages out of context in an effort to make Trump look bad.

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Whereas, to date, the White House has done the exact opposite: flooding the zone with (almost) everything else in a desperate attempt to dilute the stink.

I remember after Jan6 – particularly after Tucker Carlson aired much of the video footage from that day – when the red hats accused … well … basically, the entirety of the sane, rational world of cherry-picking.

I wrote:

“If person A shows you videotape of four men enjoying Grand Slam Breakfasts at Denny’s at 8:00am, and person B shows you videotape of the same four men, three hours later, robbing a bank, what will you conclude? Think hard about this one. Don’t hurt yourself, though.”

As always, it really isn’t their friends, their neighbors, their colleagues, or the Democrats who are looking down on Trump supporters, laughing at them behind their backs, and calling them stupid.

It’s the places where they get their news, the people for whom they keep voting, and those to whom they keep writing checks.

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The post-2016 party is just Trump so, yes, obviously that’s true.

But we we’re talking about the people in the Senate. These aren’t (in majority) people who take up their political positions on the basis of popular fads going around as a background position in their life, like whether to listen to rap or country and build an identity that matches some predefined template.

Most people don’t understand nor truly care about policy. The same people that cheered for Bush to torture terrorists and supported the CIA and NSA through all complaints were quite happy to totally turn on those agencies and any questionable activities once Trump told them that they should. They forgot that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was Bush’s idea, not Obama and Hilary Clinton’s. They forgot that they’d objected to Obama doing nothing about Russia’s takeover of Crimea much past kicking them out of NATO. Most people don’t recall that Russia was a part of NATO.

But the Senators remember all of that. For them, it wasn’t background noise of little consequence past something to chat about as small talk so you sounded like a person who was knowledgeable.

The Senators know Robert Mueller and Chris Wray. They know the generals of the military, the national security implications of things like the President saying that he’d be willing to work with foreign intelligence agencies to win the presidency.

Maybe back, 20, 30, or 40 years ago when they got into all of this, they didn’t have any true or well-grounded opinion on what policy should look like over the long run. But, I’d expect that within a few years that all solidified and has stayed relatively static since that point.

They’re all people who’ve developed an understanding of playing politics - saying one thing and doing another, hyping one scandal to hide another, etc. These sorts of shell games might fool the people but it’s not going to impress your average Senator. Like a magician watching another magician, they’ll see and track every move.

The Republicans in the Senate are, in majority, Republicans of the sort who know what a Republic is and understand that populism is the exact opposite. Making the Republican party the populist party makes as much sense as creating a Communist party founded on the ideas of the Mises Institute.

Unless someone wants to change the name, anti-populists will always push to get under the banner and try to push the populists out. Long term, Trump is taking on a name that is simply too far removed from what it can shoulder.

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Which Senate are you watching?

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Most people don’t recall that Russia was a part of NATO because Russia has, in fact, never been a member of NATO.

Russia was a member of the so-called Partnership for Peace, which was a program that worked at creating trust and cooperation between NATO member states and former Soviet states, including Russia. This was not the same thing as being a member of NATO. Russia was suspended from the Partnership for Peace in 2014 after its annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists in the Donbas region.

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Hid off-topic post

But they were a “part”. Like, my wife isn’t a subsection of my physical body, but she’s certainly a significant and official part of my life. Specifically, Russia was a semi-joint-owner through the NRC (NATO-Russia Council), with right to veto membership and were the most actively involved country affiliated with NATO, working on anti-terror operations through the Middle East with us.

Under an alternate history, where there wasn’t a Crimean takeover and Putin was interested in preserving the sanctity of borders, we might have seen something like NATO and the CSTO merge into a single entity, rather than Russia or more former Soviet states coming in through the application for membership process.

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They are psychopathic bigots who care about personal power and hurting people, and very little else if anything. 200 years ago they’d be running plantations and gleefully torturing slaves to death and raping the women. They want a fascist dictatorship or an outright return to feudalism, not a republic.

And the Right has always loved populism. They love whipping up mobs of thugs to kill and terrorize their opponents. The slavers of the Old South were populists, leading on the lower classes into war with the hope of owning their very own slaves.

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So when IBM & Microsoft worked together in developing the PC, Microsoft was a part of IBM?