Right? Headline should really read "Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it."

Few weeks back the GOP led house oversight committee voted to subpoena the Epstein files. DNC members won the vote with GOP members who had publicly demanded the files release. The POS GOP chairman tried his slimiest to ignore the rest of the committe but was eventually brow beaten into submission -like the pathetic worm he is.

This week they received the first batch of files and are reviewing them.

They appear file-like.

It's a matter of interpretation.

I was helping at a restaurant when I asked "What does C.C. mean on this order?"

The waitress said, "Coca-Cola."

The hostess said, “Credit Card.”

The cook said, "Chocolate cake."

The bartender said, Canadian Club."

The accountant said, "Carbon Copy."

I always thought it meant cubic centimeters.

Yeah Mr. Prez... Let's prove that!

Didn't Ghislane just say there aren't any files in her deposition?!

You can't make this shit up man 😂

If i did mean to rape children, it's all of your faults their fault for "dressing that way" or whatever

FTFY. 100% think he'll go the "asking for it" route like most rapists.

Perfect!

It isn't a poem. Its the narcissist prayer. by Dayna Craig

A democratic hoax to throw bill under the bus

It's a busy era for "Not The Onion".

Man, way to dust off that old meme. Love it.

...if only we had a criminal justice system.

Yea, we've just got a criminal system.

You mean a Luigi? That's the only justice system you have for the powerful right now.

Is MAGA buying this?

Yes, completely. He’s going to walk and people in power will use the legal system to put down any pushback.

All of this was obvious from the get-go. He was running to keep himself out of prison and to enrich himself. The country fell for it, and we have no idea how bad it’s going to get.

As always, I hope I am completely insane and a stark raving conspiracist.

They've been manipulated and have allowed it to be made a part of their core identity - so yes, from sunk cost fallacy, to stockholm syndrome, to abusive relationship, to personality cult, to just plain ignorance and proud of it, profiled by Big Data and fed and cordoned off to their particular slaughterhouse of a social network bubble, they will be increasingly easy to manipulate the more distance there is between reality and their perception of it.

As someone who is in a Discord with some MAGA tards ... Yes, yes they are. They're cucked so hard by Trump it's sad.

MAGA is all low IQ brainwashed imbeciles….they believe what they are told to believe

"Wait, no, no list. Well there is an Epstein list but it's a hoax list. A huge tremendous hoax by the crooked evil Demogorgons. No, the democrats.
I watched stranger things.
My uncle, who was a script writer at Yale, great guy, best scripts, he said the strangest thing was to trust anything that a democrat would say.
No hoax, no Epstein. No list. There is a hoax. Fake news. MAGA. Thank you for your attention to this muttered!!"

It's actually ridiculous how transparent he is, and that people still don't see through it. Like how much more obvious could he get?

"The Epstein files mention many great people who definitely never raped children, many innocent great billionaires and politicians are in there. Even some presidents have been unfairly and wrongly mentioned in the files, I'm told. I'm not in there myself, of course, but I've seen that even the great and innocent sitting president is in the Epstein files, which is all the proof you need to know the files are meaningless if they exist, which of course they don't, but if they did exist they would have SOME people's names in them, not sure who, it could be anyone...even people we all know and love...many people whose names start with T and end with rump, for instance, luckily not myself, but many people..."

People didn't used to wear that willingly though. We've come a long way to today's self identifying idiots.

Other communities are temp banning you until you find a new schtick.

Nobody on Lemmy has any power to do ANYTHING about the Pedo-Files. You can stop harping on it.

When you consider that includes the Fourteen Words, he's only got 23.5 words left which include hoax, witchhunt, and bigly.

No, they haven't. Until it's law they're cowards - they don't legally bind the in-group and protect them. They do legally bind the out group and don't protect them.

If they didn't think anything was wrong with it, they'd put everything in law. The fact they don't means they know they're fucked up, but we all have to live with the damage.

These chucklefucks will be first in line at the brothel when Trump decriminalizes prostitution over age 13, and everyone knows it.

Probably in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago

That hat might literally be the most joke-tier, unbelievable, ridiculous thing ever in political history. Just the sheer blatant stupidity of it is hard to even comprehend. Like. Literally no country in Earth has their leader doing something that ridiculous. I remember back when the world used to laugh at the bizarro propaganda and behavior in North Korea. But even Kim Jong Un is doing nothing so ridiculous as wearing a hat like that. Can you imagine it? Him in some hat saying "I'm right about everything all the time hahaha losers". Even in NK they know that's ridiculous, they know it looks stupid. A population full of people born and raised in multiple generations of propaganda, almost entirely isolated from the world, and even the hard-core kool-aid drinkers would see that and feel their respect for their leader falter. Not all Americans are dumb, but the dumb subset of Americans may really be the dumbest of any group on Earth right now. Like I get that the hat is a "joke" and he's "trolling", which makes it slightly less stupid than if it was meant in earnest, but the thing is, like any multi-layer irony, it simultaneously is and isn't what it pretends to be. I cannot imagine a real human being looking at that hat and thinking anything positive about it. Yet my fellow Americans continue to move my bar for stupidity deeper and deeper to the core of the Earth. Trump has done sooooooo much stupid shit yet somehow this hat manages to take the crown. It's not the worst thing he's done, but my god, it's so stupid. You couldn't even write a more farcical joke to make fun of it if you tried. How could you parody that hat? It's already reached the apex.

/Rant

He genuinely believes that everyone that he associates with are inherently "good" people who occasionally do bad things.

Anyone who is dissimilar to him and others in the ruling class are inherently "bad" people who may do good things but also of course usually do bad things.

Bad people must be punished, or at least subjugated so they can earn the right to participate in a society supporting the good people. Good people shouldn't get caught up in the occasional bad things they do.

The fact that he’s gotten away with every single one tells me we need to redefine the “worst” in history. He’s extremely fucking good at lying, it’s his only reliable metric.

Considering what comes out of it...

Bro what does your butthole look like

You're just confused by the stuff coming of it.

Honestly, I'll take it either way, I just want the fallout.

Nah, I don't think Putin is that stupid.

I mean I'm sure Putin is a scum bag just like the rest of them, but he's not going to fly to a Kompromat farm controlled by his nation's enemies.

Probably one of the few people I'd expect not to be on the list. I wouldn't be surprised he's a child abusing pedo, but he doesn't need to go halfway across the world to find vulnerable children the entire post soviet bloc is filled with them.

They are sneaking something into his big macs that is causing him to live forever. Otherwise, he would have had massive heart failure by now. Of course, he might just have no heart. That is probably more probable.

How about Epstein Files Are Phony so we can shorten to EFAP?