Donald Trump’s Truth Social post defending Pam Bondi has seen more than 36,000 replies so far, many from people unhappy with the president’s remarks.

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    13 days ago

    I’ll admit I’m surprised. I really thought hard evidence of him being a pedo could come out and there’d suddenly be a wave of explanations justifying why fucking kids isn’t so bad. The backlash starting without the evidence coming out yet gives me a tiny sliver of hope.

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      There are lots of people who truly, legitimately, believe that they need to protect kids from sex. They mistakenly believe that includes pressing gay people, banning books on sexuality or teaching about sex at school. They think acknowledging the existence of gay and Trans people is a threat to those children. So they vote for abhorrent policies.

      But for all they get wrong, they’re consistently about protecting children from “sex predators”, and that child rapists are the worst of the worst.

      This one might stick.

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        Lol, no. They just use it as an excuse to hate. If it was really about protecting kids, we wouldn’t have child poverty.

        We wouldn’t have kids in foster care for years.

        We wouldn’t have people voting for trump in the first place.

        I don’t doubt that they believe they are helping kids, but it’s still brainwashed sheep following cult behaviour.

        But, let’s welcome them to reality.

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      I hate to tell you, it’s not actually “backlash,” until it’s on Fox News and they’re saying “sex with children,” otherwise it’s just this week’s thing—like that shooting someone on fifth avenue comment, or the pussy grab rape confession. They actually love it.

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        12 days ago

        Jimmy Kimmel, apparently, had Stormy Daniels come on and point to the most accurate one of a selection of dildos, if you want to get the information without needing gory details.

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    12 days ago

    right wing grifters/ media is already telling people to forget about talking about epstein files, they already reorientated to instruct the masses to “they dont care about it”

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    And a week will pass and they’ll forgot, they’ll be on to attacking someone new. They’re so easily manipulated.