• A joint DOJ–FBI memo reaffirmed that no “client list” of high-profile individuals existed and found no evidence Epstein blackmailed anyone.
  • MAGA hardliners (e.g., Alex Jones) and some Trump allies lash out at AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding disclosures.
  • President Trump urged supporters to stop attacking his team over “Epstein Files,” calling Epstein “somebody nobody cares about” and insisting his administration is “PERFECT.”
  • Internal friction reportedly flared between Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino (who threatened to quit) and Bondi, though Trump insists DOJ/FBI are united.
  • Trump wants the FBI to refocus on his unproven 2020 election–fraud claims rather than “the same old…documents on Jeffrey Epstein.”
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    What maga people don’t understand is that, when you’re rich, they just let you do it. That is literally the ethos of their patron saint on every level, for his entire life.

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    Rich pedophiles vs deluded fascists, enabled by ideological genociders. USA 2025.

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    Love that as soon as his name got attached to Epstein, that he’s shifted to damage control and trying to push this narrative that it’s been a “radical Left” issue this whole time. And trying to get all his conspiracy people to move on to an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way is just full panic.

    They filled lawsuits all over the country that they had to withdraw because they had no evidence, yet continue to claim to be ready to release all the “evidence” they have anytime now for years. I think even his Supreme Court is going to find it hard to invent constitution law to back up their conspiracy theories. I would love to see them try though, make it televised, since they are just pissing away tax dollars anyway.

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    I thought conservatives loved the war on pedophiles. Why isn’t Trump doing anything about that? Send ICE to get pedophiles. Of course we all know the answer is because he and all his friends will go to jail.

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      Fun fact: that event (Hitler’s 1934 purge of Ernst Roehm and the brownshirts) got the name “Night of the Long Knives” because Hitler used the expression (which dates to the middle ages) in a subsequent speech to describe what he alleged Roehm had been planning against Hitler and the Nazi leadership. Unexpectedly, journalists and historians used the expression to label Hitler’s actions.

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    What’s so funny about this is that Pam Bondi and Trump paraded conservative influencers all around and made them hold up pieces of paper labeled “THE EPSTEIN FILES” and had them all go on their social medias and claim that they read it.

    And now they’re saying that they don’t exist and never existed.

    I actually feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are

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      I would feel bad for their base for how stupid the Trump admin thinks they are if the admin were actually wrong about that. So far the base has proven them right over and over and over again- they truly are as stupid as the admin thinks they are.

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        It’s almost worse than that. I swear, some of them take a perverse pride in being led all around the political landscape like a dog with a shiny red ball. The discussions I’ve had where people happily and excitedly admit that Trump was completely lying to them and just hungrily accept the new story as undeniable fact is wild and impossible for me to wrap my head around.

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    Rapist tells group of mentally challenged people to forget about list of paedophiles.

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      At this point, even if we just get the same shit from a different asshole (which we would), I’d be happy to see conservatives turn on trump. It would just be so satisfying.

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      No they will be convinced Trump was replaced or something about Elon and his brain chip

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      you say Trump but there are many.

      do you mean Donald J Trump, the convicted rapist and notorious misogynist? Donald J Trump loves to rape small children? it’s possible that Donald J Trump was involved in having sex with children on Epstein island. it’s also possible that Donald J Trump did rape children on Epstein’s jet as well. I suppose it’s even possible that Donald J Trump is still sexually abusing children at Mar-a-lago.

      if you’re telling me Donald J Trump is a serial child rapist that cannot be trusted around children I’ll have to say, that’s believable.

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    If conservatives gave a damn about kids and sex crimes, these lists should have caused enough public rage to burn the party to the ground.

    It didn’t. So republican are unassailably the party of sex offenders and those who support elsex offenders.

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      The civil war never ended. The South just kept waging it through other means.

      And now they’re in control of the government and do what they always wanted- destroy it. That has been the outspoken agenda of the right wing conservatives for the better part of a century.

      Starve the beast, small government, all that shit is them saying: we don’t want democracy, we want to rule as colonial lords, own slaves, and to hell with elections.

      How people still don’t realize this is fucking mind boggling.

      There is no “two party state”, there is only one party that believes in democracy and rule of law at all, the other is a christofascist-anarchist terrorist cell hellbent on unraveling society where might is right, so that they can rule with impunity like feudal lords.

      That’s it.

      Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war. You don’t skip the last dose of penicillin or you might as well not have taken it at all.

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        100% this.

        The children of Confederate losers have been stropping their knives for decades, undermining our institutions, and fomenting dissent along every avenue. They are a cancer.

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        tbf, Grant was pretty ruthless in his post-war pursuit of Confederate holdouts. He didn’t have them shot, though, they were mostly hung.

        The problem is that it is very hard to eradicate an idea violently. It just goes into hiding and bides its time, unless you just want to do a full genocide or something. I mean, it’s not like people stand up and volunteer for their own execution when they know certain folks are being executed.

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        Lincoln should have had every single one of them rounded up and shot after the war

        Given that he was killed during Reconstruction, I’d put that on Andrew Johnson (a Southern Democrat) and the Congress.

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        As an aside, there’s growing evidence that not taking the full course of antibiotics if the infection is already resolved is the best course of action.

        I believe the theory is that by continuing to take the antibiotics, you kill off the bacteria that isn’t drug resistant and just leave the drug resistant bacteria behind.

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      Two Bills, a Trump, and a prince walk into a beauty pageant dressing room…