The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.
Donald Trump is reportedly getting more and more fed up with his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein drama that has consumed headlines for weeks.
Trump is frustrated that the scandal has overshadowed his agenda and dominated the news, two people familiar with his thinking told The Washington Post in a Sunday report.
Nearly a dozen sources close to the situation spoke to the Post about the issue, painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash—particularly from Trump’s own base. Many officials had reportedly hoped that Americans would move on from the unreleased Epstein files, underestimating the sustained outrage.
it was so avoidable, all he had to do is not rape children.
it isn’t so hard, I never raped children and I aint even trying to avoid it. it’s crazy how easy it is not to rape children.
Trump is the kind of person who doesn’t take responsibility for his actions. I don’t think it occurs to that sort of person that they could just not do the bad thing. They think they’re a victim when punished for doing a bad thing. The idea of just not doing the bad thing never registers as an option.
I’ve coincidentally also never raped children, but seeing a child rapist become so incredibly successful, why wouldn’t these MAGA retards start raping children? Maybe that’s why they’re not billionaires, because they don’t rape children. It raises some interesting questions.
i mean there’s some correlation. not every child rapist becomes a billionaire, but if you’re a billionaire chances are pretty high that you’re a child rapist because good people don’t become billionaires. the amount of lying, cheating, stealing and exploiting you need to do to become so rich that millionaires are poor by comparison, does make it likely that you’re the kind of person who would rape a child.
O come, holy aneurysm!
At this point I doubt MAGA crowd will draw the line at paedophilia. The only thing consistent in their belief is idol worship.
The MAGA crowd just wants to see prominent Dems thrown in prison.
TBH it’s kind of fucked up that it’s taken this long for them to get riled up and for the media to really dig into this. I suspect some prominent republicans and donors are trying to engineer this as a means of replacing trump. I mean, we’ve known for a while now about Epstein’s crimes. We’ve known about the girls who were trafficked, and for some time authorities have had the list of names. Obviously anyone who committed crimes against children should be prosecuted regardless of their political affiliation. This seems to be being used as a weapon against trump - fine, the fucker has it coming. It’s still political skulduggery tho.
Vance has been more active lately. Coincidence?
Just make every question about the files.
Trump: We just passed another bill that’ll be great for America.
Press: And how does that bill affect the Epstein files?
Trump: There was a mass shooter in New York.
Press: Do the Epstein files contain info about Epstein talking about mass shootings?
Trump: I’m flying to Russia to suck Putin’s dick.
Press: Do the Epstein files indicate that he sucked Putin’s dick with you?
Put the child rapist in prison. He deserves to never see the light of day.
I won’t hold my breath.
The best we can hope for is the stress will take its toll on the morbidly obese 79-year-old with circulation problems and bruised skin.
A person guilty of a crime is in rage mode because people wanting to convict that person won’t let it go.
Just get rid of the judiciary system them, right? Pedophilia is ok now apparently, so are the rest of Trump his crimes. There should be a new law that says being rich exempts you from the law and being poor and being non-white is a crime. Oh wait, that’s what diaper Donny is already working towards. Fucking dystopia we live in. Supporting genocide and apartheid, breaking down the judiciary system, creating an even bigger gap in wealth and power enslaving the general public.
being rich exempts you from the law and being poor and being non-white is a crime. Oh wait, that’s what diaper Donny is already working towards. Fucking dystopia we live in. Supporting genocide and apartheid, breaking down the judiciary system, creating an even bigger gap in wealth and power enslaving the general public.
With the possible exception of the judiciary system, literally all of that has been true for a long time now.
Even in cases where the rich can’t just pay someone off (rare), In the cases where the rich are actually charged (also rare) if the ‘punishment’ is a fine, it’s not really going to inconvenience a rich person. Typically the types of crime the wealthy get away with (Wage Theft, Corporate malfeasance etc) are punished by fines. This is by design.
There are numerous ways the being poor is criminalized, perhaps the worst example are ‘vagrancy’ laws, where being poor and/or unemployed is literally a crime.
“Non-White” people (with the exception of Asian people) are incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people.
Trump supports genocide, Harris supported genocide, Biden supported genocide, Hillary supported genocide, Obama, Bush Jr, Bill Clinton, Bush Sr, Regan…
The wealth gap has been widening since before I was born, and I’m 51 years old.
We never got rid of slavery. The 13th didn’t eliminate slavery. I would even count Wage Slavery as a type of slavery.
Trump isn’t some radical departure from ‘American’ values. Trump is American values turned up to 11.
I would like to think that the Trump administration will wake people up to the fact that the vision of America we were fed as children is a lie. We NEVER treated all people as if they were created equal. As long as Capitalism rules the day the Rich will always be the ruling class. There will always be different rules for them. The workers will always be exploited to make them rich.
The truth is so many people refuse to question the propaganda, that it will take a miracle to wake people up. So many people think if only we had elected the right people things would be different. It’s not who we elect, it’s the whole damn system that needs to change.
May the system come crashing down soon
I guess he should go back in time and not fuck children then.
Dude is acting guilty as hell. Of course I believe his victims. Far too many of them for it to be nothing.
Can’t broadcast his FUD agendas when people are asking real questions in the media. Keep it up.
He’s almost always in a “rage” of his own shit
Good. May he rage himself into a coronary.
He probably thinks that means he’ll get crowned.
Could you imagine the queue to do that civic duty?
Either that or he will think someones wishes him to get corona virus.
Mosquitoes can remember that term. He cannot.
“two people familiar with his thinking”. What a farce. Is there any fact based news anymore?
Is there any fact based news anymore?
Nobody reads facts anymore. Nobody even opens an article anymore, people skim headlines because we long-since gave up expecting informative news programming.
I am well-versed in science and technology, but never read mainstream news stories about developments or discoveries because they’re complete dogshit. I read an actual news story and my eye twitches and I want to hurl myself off a bridge. I have to de-program friends and acquaintances who are so tuned out of science developments that literally everyone I know believes we’ve officially discovered life on Mars, contacted aliens, and that there are ancient ruins and pyramids in antarctica, among hosts of other batshit nonsense that spreads from MSNBC and FOX headlines.
So if it’s that bad about science, the thing I know something about… what about the things I don’t know something about? I have to assume they’re just as bad about politics, economics, social issues and even basic news reporting on current events.
This is worse than people believing wrong trivia facts; when people aren’t sure what to believe about the world, they start doubting actual science or news and that’s how we end up with millions of unnecessary deaths from pandemics or nazis being elected to the highest offices.
Well said.
And I didn’t even get into the “mermaids” thing that I have nearly lost friendships over.
When Kellyanne Conway said, “alternate facts” you had to know this was going to be a dark ride.
We can go back further.
When Reagan’s economic policies were described as “trickle down economics” and they didn’t get laughed off the political stage and like, cast into the sea, we should have predicted where this was heading. And some smart people did, but nobody listened.
Good. Maybe he’ll give himself a stroke or a heart attack.
Wouldn’t that be great? Though I don’t think Vance would be any better.
Though I don’t think Vance would be any better.
This comes up a lot, and yes Vance has far, far darker connections being funded by Peter Thiel and his cohorts of the apocalypse…
But I need to always remind everyone, Vance doesn’t have the wealth to be remotely as impactful as Trump has been, and I don’t mean monetary.
Trump gets away with murder and rape and pillaging our treasury because he has political capital, he has very real power in the form of a comparatively small but passionate following who are ride-or-die with Trump to the end of life itself, and the suckerfish and bottom-feeders who follow this contingent around, the pundits and loyalist cults of personality who are all feeding from this rolling snowball of stupidity, narcissism and hate.
Vance has none of that. He is not going to be able to push bills through congress and senate. He is not going to be able to influence judges or secure the loyalty of people hoping to get pardoned for whatever crimes they’re trying to get away with. He will not be able to hold his own against people like Newsom or even pushy reporters. He will be a few years of lame-duckerism while the rest of the stooges clear out as much cash as they can from taxpayers, finishing as much of Trump’s raid as they can. Yes, he will probably write some really sinister executive orders, give huge favors to tech companies and the like, but the overall momentum of this weird fucking social phenomenon that is MAGA will be truly over. There is nobody else who can inspire the hate and brainless fear of the right with that particular kind of “charisma” that they connect with.
(Until someone smart figures out the formula and finds a new narrative to spin up the machine again.)
I hope you are right, but my highest fear is that Trump isn’t pusshing bills through congress.
by that, I ean the congress is in control and want to pass such bills without loss of face.
Then who better than trump (or whatever president) to autopen everything thatwas handled by a middle man, then make a show of “How Trump is bad and bullying us! Bwaaahhh!!!” and then just let the bill pass because that was the plan from the begining.
But again, I really hope that I am wrong and spurting some tin-foil hat nonsense.
Oh he is definitely being used as a tool, but he’s only a useful tool for these purposes because of that political capital. He doesn’t design the bills, he’s dumber than shit and doesn’t even care about politics or the country. But he DOES care about being the “bossman” in charge, and he loves to use that feeling to flex over congress and other political stages, and he can simply because people are scared of his base and perceived mandate, and how unstable he is with his doling out of punishments and massive changes seemingly without any consequence, he strikes fear into agencies that he will just close them down if he doesn’t like them, conversely they also know that he gives rewards with equal unhinged, consequence-less fervor and will make people heads of agencies just for saying something nice about him, so he’s lit washington on fire with Chaos and that’s what his admin has wanted all along.
Look at it this way. The new immigration policy, if you want to call it that, that’s not something Trump designed and planned. It’s entirely Stephen “The Slime Prince” Miller. But Miller would NEVER have gotten that through without Trump backing it. Nobody likes Miller, even the people who share his values or lack thereof. Since he’s so unlikable, he needs that mandate force behind Trump to get his way.
Without Trump, the right and republicans can still do massive harm to our country, but opposition forces would have a lot more power against him, and everyone on both sides of aisle would have no idea what to do without him. They look around at each other and have no clue who is a real believer and who has just been going along with the flow. Without Trump the government will go back into standstill mode like it usually is, for better or worse. (Anything is better than the direction we’re going now.)
At least the people would have something to celebrate
His grave would need 24 hour security for eternity to keep away the hoards of people wanting a crap.
painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash
I read this same thing - almost word for word - at least a dozen times in Trumpworld I. It all still ended up with a coup attempt, corporate news still at the service of republiQans, and half the voters still complete fucking morons.
I think that in a lot of ways, it’s less about the Epstein files, and more about how deeply complicit in the elite culture that he claimed to be in opposition against.
Epstein is just an acceptable outlet among his base to air their uncertainty and unease they’re feeling. Because his ties with Epstein have been well publicized and well known about for a while, but from a right wing populist perspective, that was kind of written off and discredited because it didn’t fit the feeling, the “vibe”, that he was upsetting and visibly angering elites and thus he must be acting against their interests in some meaningful way, now though, it’s very clear he’s cosying up to the tech elite and taking huge obvious bribes from other elite groups and actually gutting social programs they use everyday, rather than that just being a threat made by the “woke” media they don’t trust.
So suddenly the Epstein being associated with him is believable to right wing populists because of how visibly elite aligned he’s being from their perspective.
