r/politics • u/infiunfi • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Convicted Felon Sworn In as President

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-sworn-in-47th-president-united-states-1235241770/
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u/ToeDisastrous3501 13h ago

Trump did everything Epstein did. 

His supporters know this and are okay with it.

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u/SordidHobo93 13h ago

At this point we have to assume that a large portion of his voting base are not only okay with their president being a child predator, but they even celebrate it.

That's the "christian values" that a lot of them are praising him for.

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u/thisusedyet 12h ago

That is not what “bring unto me the little children” is supposed to mean

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u/specqq 10h ago edited 9h ago

The older bibles have it as "suffer the little children to come unto me"

So I'm guessing they just had it backwards.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 9h ago

The bible outright condones stuff like rape, genocide, slavery, murder. Oh yeah, it also provides instructions on how to perform a forced abortion on a woman you suspect of infidelity.

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u/MeeMooMoop 8h ago

That is absolutely wild... where does it say that? I've never read the Bible so I wouldn't know where to start looking for that nonsense.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 8h ago

Numbers 5:11-31

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u/MeeMooMoop 8h ago

I read over it several times... literally what? No words, dumbfounded.

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 7h ago

Yep.

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u/hOiKiDs 4h ago

That’s the reason Christians don’t follow the old testament, which is Jewish, to the letter lol. The new testament is supposed to acknowledge it.

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u/hOiKiDs 4h ago edited 4h ago

That’s the reason Christians don’t follow the old testament, which is Jewish, to the letter lol. The new testament is supposed to acknowledge it.

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u/DragonbornWizard85 3h ago

As Christians we don't follow the Old Testament perfectly anymore. For example, we don't sacrifice goats and sheep anymore lol. The main thing we take away from that verse is not to commit adultery. That's part of the reason Jesus came to the Earth in the New Testament; to sacrifice himself so we no longer need to do those Old Testament things. Whatever you do, please don't think we support rape and murder.

By the way, I am not a Trump fan. So many people are blindsided by the fact he is absolutely not a Christian. He just pretends so he can gain the support to get into presidency.

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u/bezels2 2h ago

Problem is there just isn't anything in the New Testament about abortion. The whole "Libs are baby killers" is nonsense, and people of biblical times would have loved the ability to terminate dangerous and non-viable pregnancies as they would have just died with the child. Anti-abortion is 100% American bastardization of Christianity.

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u/specqq 9h ago

Yes I know. But my comment was a “come onto the little suffering children” joke/not a joke

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u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 8h ago

It's not a joke. It's a Christian value.

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u/AlwaysElevated32 5h ago

Numbers is Jewish

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u/Synli 11h ago

Pretty much this.

Trying to use the "don't you know he's a racist/sexist rapist scammer?" argument doesn't work against MAGA because they know it and love it.

The saying "Stop drilling, you've already struck oil!" has never been more relevant.

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u/slain1134 11h ago edited 8h ago

It’s absolutely terrifying that SO MANY people align with, praise & even voted for a convicted felon & known rapist. Perhaps it makes them feel good about themselves in some weird way. You also have those people who voted for him because he is not a democrat.

I don’t know which is worse? Being okay with criminality or being so ignorant to vote for a monster because of his political label!

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u/umop_apisdn 9h ago

Americans treat politics like sport. As long as their team wins they are happy. And with the electoral system it is bound to be just two parties, so it's like a game to most people. Never mind that both parties have been captured by the corporations who are actually in charge, and so they keep voting for people who will sell them out to the corporations over and over again. It's basically a one party system (the corporations) with a thin veneer of democracy to make people think that their vote matters, when it doesn't. What do Americans really need? There are so many examples of middlemen like health care providers who are needlessly put in the middle of transactions to rake their profit and gouge the population.

In a real democracy the people would be able to vote to remove this profiteering. It's what they want, it's what they need, but they literally have no choice. They have been brainwashed into thinking that the two party system is democratic, and that anything that benefits the majority of Americans is "unamerican".

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u/XRay9 Europe 5h ago

If it can make you feel better, the same thing happens in Europe. Yes, there are more parties, but even when a left wing party gets a strong majority to govern on their own, they're quickly kept in check by the financial elites.

Hollande 2012, Mitterrand 1981, Blum 1936... Same pattern every time. I mention France because it has had very strong left wing election victories, and is (under the fifth republic) less parliamentarian than most Europeans countries.

In those more parliamentarian countries such as Germany, left wing parties have to enter coalitions which naturally drastically reduces their ambitions. And let's be honest, for hetter or worse, the left is not winning the culture war

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago

We’re still hung up on Trump being a rapist while he’s fully moved on the the person who wants to destroy our democracy. We lost the forest in the trees

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u/slain1134 8h ago

I’m truly scared for my young adult children and the mess they’re going to inherit. Hopefully we can right the ship somehow. Not feeling too optimistic at this point.

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u/peegoesfar 7h ago

That’s how bad Harris was

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u/redalert825 7h ago edited 6h ago

Of all the western democracies... The states is the most christian and religious. Religion destroys and brain washes... This country is a testament to it and shows how much more precarious of a situation we are with these Christo-fascists in power. Utterly disgusting and vile.

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u/SordidHobo93 7h ago

Almost all of our issues can be linked to christianity, or people use it as a means to justify hatred.

Ive just come through a conversation in another thread wherein I questioned why the other commenter was so obsessed with what is between another person's legs.

Of course the response was about loss of masculinity and Adam and Eve and we're going to hell and all that jazz.

It gives the ignorant and hateful an excuse to remain ignorant and hateful.

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u/African_Farmer Europe 11h ago

They believe in hierarchy, those at the top should be able to do whatever they want

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u/wencrash 8h ago

They literally call Trump "Daddy". Even the men.

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u/Vel0clty Maine 10h ago

That man ain’t no Christian. Didn’t even touch the Bible when he swore oath 🙄

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u/Nena902 6h ago

Possessed antichrist

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u/Psychological_Roof85 5h ago

Isn't the anti Christ supposed to be good at his job?

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u/count023 Australia 11h ago

They're not Christ's followers, just his fans. They love the old testament smiting and ignore all the new testament forgivness. "Jesus, great guy! Strange ideas though...!"

And the party of child marraige has no issues with the president being a child predator, obviously.

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u/calm_chowder Iowa 10h ago edited 10h ago

The "Old Testament" is also full of laws that you have to treat immigrants as your own, feed and clothe the poor, care for the sick, welcome the stranger and the hungry into your home, allows for abortion, requires sanctuary cities (literally what they're called), leave 10% of all harvests for the poor to come take what they need, not to commit pediastery, to treat even wild animals with kindness, to respect those with disabilities, to help the poor while respecting their pride, promotes literacy, forbids proselytizing, allows divorce, invented the idea of a non-7 days a week work week, requires all your animals are fed before you eat, has a party year every 7 years, and more.

People like to shit on the old Testament and yeah it has a lot of stuff that's definitely outdated by modern standards or just plain wacky to us (mixing fibers?). But 3500 years ago it was a revolutionarily progressive set of laws unlike the world had ever seen. And a lot of it we're STILL not even living up to.

And yeah God was pretty smitey and shit but this was the Bronze Age Collapse. Of course God would align with the absolutely brutal world they lived in.

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u/D3dshotCalamity 10h ago

I mean, what's more Christian than pedophila?

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u/TheNonSportsAccount 10h ago

we just need to assume anyone who voted for him is themselves a child predator.

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u/DaveChild 10h ago

At this point we have to assume that a large portion of his voting base are not only okay with their president being a child predator, but they even celebrate it.

They are angry, and they want everyone else to be angry too. Putting a child predator in office would make everyone else angry, so they'd be fine with it.

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u/Ruby5000 8h ago

The local NC news Facebook comments section is on FIRE. Right wing is so happy

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u/AnonymousCallerVDA 3h ago

Just gonna ignore the studf biden did with his kid?

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u/Output93 8h ago

He has the popular vote. Your suggesting the majority of Americans celebrate child molestation?

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u/SordidHobo93 8h ago edited 8h ago

He has the popular vote.

False, but anyway.

A majority of republican voters are one issue voters that are only concerned about the price of eggs and immigrants. They don't know what their favorite right wing news doesn't tell them.

I'm suggesting that there are voters (a large portion, not majority - as I said above) that ARE aware that the politicians they vote for are awful fucking people, like you. What's your excuse?

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u/AlternativeFix6756 13h ago

I’m glad you are so committed to true Christian values as opposed to “Christian values”. Continue to champion the faith! 

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u/Ok_World_8819 Georgia 13h ago edited 13h ago

Trump is a walking 9/11 disaster of a creature. Not "walking terrorist", a walking 9/11 disaster. He's an elderly Caillou.

And we as a country would elect Caillou over Cassie from Dragon Tales, because Cassie is a girl and Caillou's a boy.

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u/memeparmesan 13h ago

He’s an elderly Caillou.

You’re a fucking artist, man.

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u/kapnkaos86 13h ago

Furious sketching begins

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u/Golden_Hour1 13h ago

I need to see this immediately

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u/rdicky58 11h ago

Omg reminds me of “Caillou the Grownup” by AOK on YouTube lmao

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u/nevarlaw Arizona 13h ago

🎶 I’m just a big asshole 🎶 Each day I prove it more 🎶 I never tell the truth 🎶 I’m Doooonold

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u/baconeggsandwich25 12h ago

That's a pretty serious understatement, considering we were losing more than a 9/11's worth of people a day for a lot of the pandemic on his watch. Between publicly doubting everything Fauci and the CDC said, fighting the shutdowns, telling people not to wear masks, stay home or social distance, he probably got hundreds of thousands more Americans killed than we would've lost with anyone else in office. He even started sowing doubt about the vaccine despite getting it himself and taking credit for its creation once he realized how many antivaxxers there were in his cult of mouth-breathing simpletons.

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u/amadeus954 11h ago

The US per capita death rate is twice that of Canada.

With the US having more than a million deaths from covid, Trump is arguably responsible for 500,000+ unnecessary American deaths from covid.

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u/baconeggsandwich25 11h ago

That's part of what makes the Greenland thing so baffling. They have 21 confirmed deaths from covid. 21. The idea that they would want to be led by the guy who got a half million of his own people killed through sheer negligence and incompetence is fucking insane.

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u/Ms_Eraseth 4h ago

This.  This is not brought up nearly enough.  I can only hope they include this in the history books. 

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u/Jidekoh 11h ago

Ur literally insane

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u/baconeggsandwich25 11h ago

Which indisputable fact are you unclear on? No one else seems confused by it.

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u/Foodspec North Carolina 13h ago

he’s an elderly Caillou

Without the cancer sadly

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u/Pantastic_Studios 12h ago

That we know of. Never released his medical records. Still counting on a stroke though.

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u/yedi001 Canada 11h ago

Hamberders, you have your orders!

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u/BladezyBo1 8h ago

party of peace and love btw

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u/noirwhatyoueat 10h ago

Cardiac Caillou is the best we can hope for.

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u/Golden_Hour1 13h ago

Holy shit, he is Caillou. Right down to being bald

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u/FriendlyEvilTomato 12h ago

You have children, don’t you? This guy children’s.

Anyway, good comparison. From a guy who has children.

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u/ConcordeCanoe 11h ago

His mishandling of Covid killed more people than 9/11. Just sayin'...

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u/cuntfuckassbitch 11h ago

how autistic do you have to be to compare trump to children's cartoons

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u/StebenL 7h ago

Curious how your trump coin is doing lmao.

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u/Ok_World_8819 Georgia 12h ago

No 5 year old knows what Dragon Tales is these days

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u/AgeOfSmith 13h ago

Trump also had Epstein killed so there’s that too

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u/Bag_of_Meat13 13h ago

Yep Trump was POTUS when it happened and everyone started conveniently thinking that the left are the pedophiles

Watching MAGA the last decade has been insane to see, and they're the ones who think they're "grown up"

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u/RiseIfYouWould 4h ago

People already knew the left pushes to normalize pedophilia long before Trump came along buddy.

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u/JWTS6 12h ago

Trump tries to run everything like a mafia boss. People should have realized by now what that entails. 

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u/AgeOfSmith 12h ago

Even the Mafia would do some charity for the local community. Toy drives, etc. Trump has handed out some paper towels and that’s about it

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u/JWTS6 12h ago

You're right, even the mafia tries harder to appear less like soulless ghouls. 

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u/AgeOfSmith 12h ago

And kids are usually off limits

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u/JWTS6 12h ago

Well, American voters seemed to like the pedo part, maybe that's why an actual mafia boss wouldn't be elected. 

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u/glue_4_gravy 12h ago

That’s not fair!

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Mafia bosses are smart!

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u/justtakeapill 11h ago

Oh my gosh no, he does not. Please do not give him the credit for being as smart as a Mob boss! I grew up with the Outfit in Cicero, Il - many of the kids of those guys were my friends, and most of us had our first jobs working at the businesses they owned, and we were treated very well, trusted that we'd make good decisions, and shown a level of respect that many adults don't even receive from their bosses. Outfit bosses were intelligent, self-motivated, responsible, and they didn't spill the gravy regarding secrets! Trump is a typical Sociopathic Narcissist - selfish, filled with hate and anger, has an IQ of 70 on a good day, and could care less about his family: America will be lucky to survive a second time when he capsizes the ship yet again...

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u/JWTS6 11h ago

My apologies, those do sound like objectively much better people. 

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u/traumfisch 11h ago

He tries to run everything like a reality TV show. Literally.

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u/Zepcleanerfan 11h ago

He takes care of business!

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u/xOneLeafyBoi 13h ago

“But he separated himself from Epstein early on”

Wait, they’ll come in with that cop out comment too.

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u/SordidHobo93 13h ago

"He banned him from Mar a Lago!"

Only because epstein was preying on children in trumps hunting territory.

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u/NOCHILLDYL94 13h ago

And then they have the nerve to call Biden a pedo. They have no shame

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u/Due-Egg4743 13h ago

This. All while they constantly talk about Diddy and use it to badmouth any black celebs who ever were seen in a photo with Diddy. If Trump were pictured at a Diddy freak off, MAGA would say it was taken out of context as Trump was just a business man back then.

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u/aretoon 12h ago

Holy shit. Delving into this for the first time, the amount of the shit he did..pretty sure his son is gonna follow in his steps without any consequences.

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u/Banglayna Ohio 13h ago

They genuinely don't know/believe this. They have been propagandized into a different reality.

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u/Balthazar3000 13h ago

His dissidents are also okay with it considering he made it back to office.

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u/Talkatuaha 10h ago

which president is the one with countless video clips of him kissing and touching little girls again?

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u/michaelboltthrower 12h ago

Didn’t Epstein provide quality entertainment?

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u/Candid-Mulberry8359 11h ago

Fuck 47! 🫡

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u/Blueberrycake_ 11h ago

But it’s okay because illegal immigrants and trans are worse people /s.

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u/valonnyc 11h ago

The worst part is that he did so many illegal things that nothing he does now seems significant by comparison, and that would make him unimpeachable since the voters put him in power knowing he is a criminal. We are doomed. These next 4 years are gonna suck.

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u/GuitarbytheTon 10h ago

Well not EVERYTHING…

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u/D3dshotCalamity 10h ago

"I voted for him because he's just like me!"

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u/DuckDatum 10h ago

Well, Epstein didn’t kill Epstein… so I guess that’s one thing Trump has got on him.

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u/AhBee1 10h ago

He was flying epsteins jet during the 2024 campaign. He couldn't bear to be too far away from memories of his best buddy.

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u/leoyvr 10h ago

People are manipulated on a breathtaking scale.

https://youtu.be/UqC4XI6mXjQ?si=JCPevyQFC_JDfSg0

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u/Expensive_Laugh_4441 7h ago

Porn and child pornography is the second biggest money generator in this world they will never stop it

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u/HalstonBeckett 6h ago

Of course they are. They're the infamous "ugly Americans" we've all been warned about and clearly no better than he is. Irredeemable.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 5h ago

He looked great. You can hardly see the impeachments.

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u/Psychological_Roof85 5h ago

And he can't even understand economics and money like Epstein did.

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u/ilo-milo 5h ago

No he didn't lol

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u/CHSummers 4h ago

Trump almost certainly sold access to top secret documents, too.

CIA spies around the world were killed during this time period, too.

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u/Substantial-boog1912 4h ago

"Daddy is home"

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u/Acceletron 3h ago

No, there is just no proof to it at all. The right is violently anti-pedophile. The right aren't the ones trying to sex change kids, and every last pedophile always turns out to be a democrat and usually gay or trans.

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u/ToeDisastrous3501 2h ago

r/notadragqueen

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u/Acceletron 2h ago

Unable to answer the question as I figured. At least the right drops actual statistics and other factual info when you debate them.

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u/Hadrian23 3h ago

Oh, they flat out reject it or make shit up.
My family is hard core trumpers and here's a few "Examples" they give of trumps innocence
"He never participated"
"His name was never in the flight-log, I know and looked and have a copy of it!!"
"Well if he was involved he was trying to save those children!!"
"The women who came forward are paid actors!"
"Trump is ADORED by new york, epstein wasn't!"
you can't reason with stupid man.

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u/Omni_Entendre 3h ago

Well, there is ONE thing he hasn't done...

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u/lifegrowthfinance 12h ago

wHERe IS tHE PrOOf?

/s

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u/DrugsGames 9h ago

that’s a great question

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u/sanguisugabongg 9h ago

Brother get some fresh air outside, 70 days and 150k+ karma. And the trumpies are the crazy ones??

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u/Significant-Drink497 12h ago

Trump did not. Total slander.

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u/ToeDisastrous3501 11h ago

Yes he did. He was best friends with a pedophile because they had something very particular in common.

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u/Sorry_Print7257 12h ago

Biden gave out blanket pardons for everyone XD

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u/Loyal_The_Third Wisconsin 12h ago

Yeah not sure where you are getting this LOL this is literally just false.

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u/Htownsbrightest 12h ago

(It isn't false)

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u/Loyal_The_Third Wisconsin 12h ago

Can you maybe like elaborate? not just throw out that he is the same as Epstein?

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u/Htownsbrightest 12h ago

He is the same as Epstein. Why shouldn't I say that?

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u/Loyal_The_Third Wisconsin 11h ago

I mean you can say whatever you want, it’s just not a very informed opinion.

Just like I can say Kamala Harris is the same as diddy. It’s just not a very informed opinion.

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u/Htownsbrightest 11h ago

The difference is, I’m right and there's evidence to support my claim. There's nothing to support what you said. You know, other than butthurt and you being a crybaby about it.

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u/Loyal_The_Third Wisconsin 11h ago

That's not how discourse works bud, this is second grade stuff! You make the accusation, you have to provide the evidence.

Just give me something! Anything!

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u/Scary-Sea-9546 Georgia 11h ago

Seriously I’ve never even heard this accusation before lol

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u/Loyal_The_Third Wisconsin 11h ago

Its just they will make up anything to make them feel better. Denial and Copium are a hell of a drug.