• Andy@slrpnk.net
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    Ok, but what do you think is going to happen?

    Everyone already knows that he’s guilty.

    He was already found guilty of raping E. Jean Caroll. He’s joked for years about how much he loves molesting teenage girls. He was famously caught on tape admitting that he absolutely loves sexually assaulting women.

    And he was well known to be a close friend and sexpal of famed pervert Jeffrey Epstein! This was the thing he and Jeffrey Epstein were known for for years! There is no revelation, it’s just known facts!

    The only reason this is news is because it pisses Trump off when people make fun of him for it. Other than that, these are all minute details on a story that we already know: Donald Trump is already a notorious child rapist! Both his friends and enemies know this! I’m sorry to point this out, but there is no point when he’s going to get caught and be held accountable for this, because he has already been caught for this.

    You can’t even say he was caught. He literally built his whole public identity on doing these crimes and then bragging about them to Howard Stern and writing books about it.

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      Pedo? No, the emails were a lot worse. They provide evidence that he engaged in a harmless sexual act with another consenting adult man.

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      there’s a big difference between being 90% sure the president “likes em young” (I mean come on who doesn’t like em young am i right nudge shoulder wink wink /s if not clear), and being 100% sure that not only is he an actual pedo but he sucked off bill clinton (not only gay, but the antichrist, for the “conservative” voting base of this country).

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        I don’t think you understand the situation we’re in.

        Someone could literally release a photo of Trump having intercourse with french poodle. And he would not be impeached or removed from office.

        It’s frustrating that anyone doesn’t realize this by now.

        1. Trump is a vector for power. He is like Santa Claus. He goes around giving people wonderful gifts: a few billion here, a crucial bailout there, an ambassadorship, a pardon, or just license to enact fascism… He gives people things they want or in some cases desperately need.

        2. Popular will only matters on election day, and even then only in a few specific places. Every other day, the only check on Trump’s power is people who rely on him for their power, and most of those people have no red line where something is too awful for them to tolerate in exchange for power.

        The good news is that Trump isn’t invincible: his weakness is that his power and that of the many people who support him are susceptible to collapse of opposed by a mass movement demanding justice and social welfare broadly. But the Epstein thing is just for fun. It doesn’t actually matter.

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        Ok, but again, what happens now? Absolutely nothing.

        Dude is kidnapping people off the street to human traffick them. Dude was convicted of sexual assault with the judge flat out stating that he is a rapist. He hamstrung our response to covid resulting in about a million needless deaths. He is confirmed to have engaged in treason of the highest calibur. He supports a genocide, and is therefore a war criminal.

        Theres SO MUCH SHIT stuck to this guy, and people havent cared until now. It is LAUGHABLE that you think he will see any consequence of sucking a dudes cock when he is literally out there raping, murdering, and enslaving. Dude will never see consequence until the day he dies, and the only thing we can hope for on that front is that right wingers start taking classes on firearm safety and handling.

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          fair enough, i’ll be honest…kinda just letting myself hope for the best here…because i too understand just how quickly and how bad shit is going to get if things don’t “return to normal” when he croaks.

          all you can do is plan for both eventualities and, once you’ve done what you can, hope for the best. at a certain point worrying about things not under your control just robs you of agency for the things you can control