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> I'm liberal as all get out, but it seems clear Epstein was an equal-opportunity cultivator of powerful figures in both parties. > Trump's being dumb enough t

> I'm liberal as all get out, but it seems clear Epstein was an equal-opportunity cultivator of powerful figures in both parties. > Trump's being dumb enough to publicly brag about the association is very on-brand, of course. Trump is playing the main street media like a violin. If you are thinking he is doing something because he seems stupid, it's just part of the plan. Trump did say back in 2012 that the pedophiles had to go. [1] And, since his inauguration, the massive crackdown on them has largely gone unreported. 1. https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/255294883680632833?lang=en https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/2552948836...

ceejayoz 7y ago
Trump also said he wouldn't take vacations like Obama (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/270609412480192513 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/27060941248019251...) and that he'd stand up for the LGBT community (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/742771576039460864 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/74277157603946086...). His Twitter pronouncements are so commonly contradictory to his actual actions or subsequent tweets that there's an entire subreddit of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  Yeah well he's been rounding up those pedos up so I can forgive him some inconsistencies. [1] 1. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500-pedophiles-media-keeps-silent https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500...
  - ceejayoz 7y ago
    My favorite part of that article is definitely "The MSM refuses to report on President Trump's war on pedophiles and on child sex-trafficking rings in spite of the recent avalanche of arrests which include the following:" where "the following" is a list of links to MSM articles. Debunking yourself in your own story is... special. edit: Here's a thorough debunking of the core claim. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-trafficking/ https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t...
    - Fjolsvith 7y ago
      > edit: Here's a thorough debunking of the core claim. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t.. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t.... My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited. Edit: plus, I wouldn't consider local TV stations, Breitbart and Townhall.com to be part of the MSM.
      - ceejayoz 7y ago
        > My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited. It's a debunking of the claim. Church Militant's silly article was not the first to make the claim, nor was it the last. I can write a "the Earth is flat" article today with claims that've already been debunked for centuries.
        Fjolsvith 7y ago
        Ah, well. At any rate it will be interesting to see what the FBI does with all those blackmail videos they recovered from Epstein's paradise island. I seem to recall there's no statute of limitations with crimes against children...
hvoiiita 7y ago
Any person who looks at Trump holistically can't trust his tweets at all. They are consistently contradictory.
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  Trump uses tweets for two purposes. First is to inform the public. Second is to further his strategies. An example is how the Squad of 4 started to attack Pelosi. Trump slammed the 4 on Twitter and caused Pelosi to jump in and start defending them. This had the effect of making these left extremist Dems the face of the Democrat party. How does that benefit Trump? It makes the Dem party unpalatable to a majority of Americans, which turns 2020 into a cakewalk for him.

ceejayoz 7y ago

Trump also said he wouldn't take vacations like Obama (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/270609412480192513 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/27060941248019251...) and that he'd stand up for the LGBT community (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/742771576039460864 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/74277157603946086...). His Twitter pronouncements are so commonly contradictory to his actual actions or subsequent tweets that there's an entire subreddit of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump

Fjolsvith 7y ago
Yeah well he's been rounding up those pedos up so I can forgive him some inconsistencies. [1] 1. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500-pedophiles-media-keeps-silent https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trump-busts-1500...
- ceejayoz 7y ago
  My favorite part of that article is definitely "The MSM refuses to report on President Trump's war on pedophiles and on child sex-trafficking rings in spite of the recent avalanche of arrests which include the following:" where "the following" is a list of links to MSM articles. Debunking yourself in your own story is... special. edit: Here's a thorough debunking of the core claim. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-trafficking/ https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t...
  - Fjolsvith 7y ago
    > edit: Here's a thorough debunking of the core claim. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t.. https://reason.com/2017/02/27/trumps-fake-crackdown-on-sex-t.... My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited. Edit: plus, I wouldn't consider local TV stations, Breitbart and Townhall.com to be part of the MSM.
    - ceejayoz 7y ago
      > My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited. It's a debunking of the claim. Church Militant's silly article was not the first to make the claim, nor was it the last. I can write a "the Earth is flat" article today with claims that've already been debunked for centuries.
      - Fjolsvith 7y ago
        Ah, well. At any rate it will be interesting to see what the FBI does with all those blackmail videos they recovered from Epstein's paradise island. I seem to recall there's no statute of limitations with crimes against children...

hvoiiita 7y ago

Any person who looks at Trump holistically can't trust his tweets at all. They are consistently contradictory.

Fjolsvith 7y ago
Trump uses tweets for two purposes. First is to inform the public. Second is to further his strategies. An example is how the Squad of 4 started to attack Pelosi. Trump slammed the 4 on Twitter and caused Pelosi to jump in and start defending them. This had the effect of making these left extremist Dems the face of the Democrat party. How does that benefit Trump? It makes the Dem party unpalatable to a majority of Americans, which turns 2020 into a cakewalk for him.