And I was told political violence isn’t right.
I mean we all knew this i thought
36% of us wouldnt know it if it smacked us in the face.
No, they do, they just think it’s aspirational.
Nice country to be proud living in! Run by a child molester and gang of criminals……….no wonder the whole world wants NOTHING to do with you!
honestly, i think that might be the only way the US gets back on its feet. stop buying US products, make the corporations suffer so much they finally turn against orange mussolini.
Until this hits Fox, it’s going to be ignored.
they just flaunt all this shit at us cuz theres nothing we actively can do. they just laugh at us, look at howard nutlick.
He and his wife were so shocked and horrified by Jeff that Howard kept doing stuff with him for another decade plus after the supposed interaction in 2005 that had them so verklempt:
Lutnick said he and his wife left and decided that he would never be in a room with Epstein again. He further said that he was never with Epstein socially, for business, or through philanthropy.
Oh, what’s this?
Records released in 2026 contradicted the ordinary meaning of that account. They documented attempts to communicate after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, an in person meeting in 2011, a social visit to Little Saint James in 2012, shared participation in an investment, philanthropic and fundraising intersections, and direct correspondence in 2018.
The conservatives made another oopsie-doodle! No big deal, the Murc’s Law Media should probably pivot to some bOtHsIdEs story, for balance, stat…
they just flaunt all this shit at us cuz theres nothing we actively do. they just laugh at us, look at howard nutlick.
Be me. Try to do the right thing. Do what society tells me. Work hard. Get hit in the face by the rock of life and am stumbling hard.
Be them. Worst of the worst, crimes against absolutely everyone and everything. Reach the pinnacle of success.
I really think the Germans need to come up with a new word for the contrast I’ve stated.
No single words, and nothing that seems too interesting in German, but there’s a good Cantonese phrase that encompasses that sentiment:
殺人放火金腰帶，修橋補路無屍骸
shā rén fàng huǒ jīn yāo dài, xiū qiáo bǔ lù wú shī hái
Roughly, “murder and arson earn a gold belt; doing good deeds (lit. building bridges and repairing roads) leaves no corpse (i.e. no one can find your body to bury properly).
Love it.
And yet society is built by the people who make and repair roads and bridges.
The gold belt I assume is a phrase for wealth and power.
As a kid I got the idea of job hopping, switching companies every few years for more money. My dad said, ‘if you try to climb too fast you’ll break your neck’.
Turns out… No, the most successful people are absolutely the ones who are so completely full of shit and talk from both sides of their mouth and do what they condemn for everyone else with great gusto.
I’ve been in IT for many years. At least when markets are not like they are right now, moving to another job was absolutely the way to get market wages.
Being the “nice guy” and sticking around for “loyalty to the company” (lol) just fucks over the worker. It’s not unethical to vote with your feet.
I’ve been in situations where people try to manipulate good people into thinking that it is.
My problem is also that I am autistic and have a plethora of other issues. My greatest problem was always in finding decent work. Right now I have a job that is very good and pays well and I consider it my first ever ‘real’ job. I got it at 40. So that’s how long it took me to do it.
The guys who job hop right after college and are directors by their late 30s are not something I can imitate, sadly. Not out of lack of trying. It is just that fucking hard for me.
We already have a good one in English: capitalism.
assaulted at least five women
Do you mean CHILDREN?
assaulted
Do they mean RAPED?
There is a legal difference between sexual assault and rape. Obviously they did both, but just so you know.
I’m not a lawyer and see all of it as rape.
Lemmy be like:
“gossip site, Radar, that validates my bias?! Hell yah.
Snopes, The Guardian or other reputable sources? nah fuck off, I can’t be bothered to read more than a headline”
I didn’t see anyone else putting it in the headline, but you can find the same text in the report itself.
I can’t believe Americans (all institutions, and half of voters) are fine with this. This is fucked up.
Trump’s approval rating is 18 points underwater, which is his lowest ever and like 16 points below where Bush was after Hurricane Katrina. He has fallen fast. Will be interesting to see whether our institutions can start to right themselves with Trump’s political power so diminished
The horror of realizing this many people are ok with it is really hard to deal with. I never want to be around other people again.
Shit like this is why I’m afraid to try dating. There are so many rapists, abusers, and potential murderers out there
Finding a good one is like winning the lottery. :( I hope you find your person eventually.
Thanks
Every eligible voter who decided that not voting was better than voting for Harris has blood on their hands too.
We’ve been through this. It was centrist pushing genocide that lost the election. You keep putting out this fascist trope.
Yes we have been through this and what you said was horse shit, still is.
The more dumb things Trump does the dumber this argument becomes.
Uh no. But just please stay out of elections or politics so we don’t lose again. Just take the back seat and let those of us who are capable of winning elections lead. We’ll carry you, in-spite of your insistence that you damage everyone through your behavior.
Uh no. But just please stay out of elections or politics so we don’t lose again. Just take the back seat and let those of us who are capable of winning elections lead. We’ll carry you, in-spite of your insistence that you damage everyone through your behavior.
You aren’t capable of doing the math on a 2 party, 1st past the post election but you’re “capable of winning elections” and you’re gonna “carry” folks? Get the fuck out of here with that delusional bullshit.
You aren’t capable of doing the math on a 2 party,
This is why I keep whipping out the perjoratives. There are single celled creatures showing more reading comprehension then this cult. You lost the fucking election relying on a false assumption of voter behavior and all you are doing is enforcing the demonstrated observation that you dont get how elections work.
You donʻt understand how elections work. Just shut the fuck up and stay the fuck out. This shit is too complicated for you.
I didn’t lose shit. I’m not a rah-rah DNC supporter and I didn’t have shit to do with all the brain dead decisions by the DNC that helped get us to this point. You don’t know me and you can fuck right off with that noise.
Once we have a choice between center right, status quo candidate and far right, authoritarian, racist, rapist, felonious, pedophile, the choice is clear to anyone who isn’t a toddler throwing a tantrum. I hate that the DNC refused to take a moral stand against Palestinean genocide but I’d bet everything I own that there would be more Palestineans alive today under President Harris. Do you think we are better off now that one of our few unequivically anti genocide representatives is being threatend with deportation?
The world is a terrible messy moral minefield and the US political system is absolute shit but reasonable, responsible adults accept reality and try to navigate towards the best possible outcomes. Stop acting like a sullen child. I hope you don’t live in a swing state.
Yeah I bet you’re super involved in politics.
Yes. People actually involved in politics understand these things. Recognize your betters.
Wishing you the same
This is a truly unhinged take.
If you find reality unhinged, perhaps it’s you that needs hinging.
If Trump and Harris were threatening the same genocide, but Trump had more targets than just Palestine, wouldn’t Harris be the harm reduction choice?
Its fucking irrelevant because Biden and Harris DID sponsor a genocide. Voters don’t fucking vote based on what you decide harm reduction to be. They see two pieces of shit doing a genocide and they say “No.”, which is what they did. The concept of “harm reduction” is fucking astrology for lincoln republicans. Voters don’t fucking vote that way, if you even accept that Harris was “harm reduction” (She was literally in the seat of power and did nothing, so miss me that Harris or Biden were “harm reduction”).
Harm reduction is fucking irrelevant because its not how voters vote. They saw one genocide supporting candidate, rejected them, and the party establishment handed them a second one. That strategy, which depended a, frankly, white supremacist vision of “harm reduction”, lost the fucking election.
So no. The only option was to get the candidate to change their position. There was no other path.
How is Trump not a pro genocide candidate? How does this make sense?
Who was President and vice President, and politically immovable while Israel was flattening Gaza with 2000lb bombs?
Like, I’m going to say this, you won’t understand it, but it is true, and someday you might. So this is for your future self:
You live in a fiction of your own creation. The version of reality you inhabit is a fantasy.
Thanks Neo… So are the bombs dropped any different now?
after everything Trump has done, you’re still holding on to this? lmao bro
go into Palestine and tell them harm reduction would have been worse and you helped vote trump in
Yeah cus we never needed to lose to them. Losing to them was a fucking choice by people who were I bothered by a genocide.
wake up to the reality we have
you don’t have to like it
struggle all you want to try to make it better
but don’t fucking lie to yoursels
That right-wing/russian/tankie propaganda really did a number to leftist’s critical thinking skills and turned you into single issue (non)voters.
It’s sad to see.
No it’s understanding the very basic mechanics of how elections work, something you can count on those who will reliably caucus with fascists to perpetually misunderstand because white supremacist requires them to not understand.
When leftists fail to have a single viable candidate again and the choices are between Tucker Carlson and Gavin Newsom you guys are going to scream both sides are the same again and throw the election to Tucker.
By calling liberals fascist you’re doing the real fascists a favor by normalizing it.
The only things you’ll be remembered for will be defending a genocide to such an extent you were willing to sacrifice an election for it.
Yeah anyone who doesn’t bow down to your particular version of reality is a genocidal pedophile rapist transphobe. We’ve heard it before, you’re just MAGA in a rainbow colored keffiyeh, it’s not about politics, it’s about you, your narcissism, and a pathological need to project moral superiority. You’re just as much of a threat to democracy as MAGA is, it’s the same mechanism, it’s the same fundamental fascism, you just happened to hop on another bus.
Better than tanking a smart woman of color’s chance to make the world a better place because I fell for some right-wing/russian/tankie propaganda.
She was a fucking cop who supported Israeli genocide. She literally would have been better than trump, for sure. Don’t get me wrong. But what the fuck man. You’re gonna blame people who couldn’t vote for genocide cop for the fact that pedo realtor is president?
Absolutely, funny how you remove genocide from Trump’s title he’s been rather enthusiastic about it.
And sure you can call a district attorney a cop if you want to, but what do you call the man that’s set up his own secret police force to brutalize the populace?
Yes.
An ahistorical presentation of events.
Only to those with their heads so far up their asses that they’re staring at their own tonsils.
Nonsense
Leftists need to spend some time studying reality along with their theory.
The left has been usurped by adolescent culture warriors who don’t give a shit about anything except being outraged about their flavor of the month identities not being taken seriously. It’s vile, it doesn’t belong to us, they just latched on and now we can’t get rid of them. If I was conspiratorial I’d say it’s a psyop because they’ve done nothing but harm to the real left, to the workers, to the proletariat, to actual humanitarian change, it’s all performative purity testing bullshit.
It’s like a little club they made for themselves, more like being part of a band fanclub or console fanboys than having anything to do with actual politics and creating an equitable society for all. It’s fucking ridiculous.
My stomach turns just reading that headline. Beyond disgusting.
But not enough to actually do anything in the USA.
As much as I want to go full Luigi unfortunately I have mouths to feed and they won’t make it without me
There’s a reason that historically revolutions were started by young men with no children
Sadly, that’s like 99% of us not in the Epstein class. Where are all those real crazies, the organized psychos, when an actual evil pedophile elite is right there?
Cheering them on unfortunately
Well it’s a tabloid writing about a ‘chilling accusation!’ about something 30 years ago
What would you do?
Are you under the impression this is the sole piece of evidence that Trump is a nonce?
Umm… for starters, not vote for parties led by rapist pedophiles?
What if the candidate you support gets accused in such a way?
What are you even trying to say? Democratic candidates are routinely sidelined by accusations of sexual impropriety.
We aren’t but we are slaves in a police state
80 million sick fucks as well as all the people registered to vote that refuse to all because they think that women shouldn’t be leaders… in addition to all the filthy scum who think that compromise is treason when in reality aiding nazi filth is treason. whether that aid is refusing to vote, voting for republikkkans, or wasting votes on independents who can’t even make a name let alone getting votes… it’s all aiding nazi filth.
Yeah, but she is BROWN. THE WORST CRIME IMAGINABLE!
/s of course
second worst… I think they hate transgender women more than they hate brown people (they basically ignore the existence of transgender men except in passing).
We’re Americans. We own guns.
The problem is there are no meaningful citizen’s militias that aren’t themselves Nazis.
The left allowed itself to be disarmed for the purpose of purity signaling and the result is a gross lack of tribal knowledge with regards to engaging in protracted violence.
What left? There is no left here.
aw shit i guess i don’t exist anymore because someone on lemmy thinks all american leftists are just liberals so they can get more updoots by performatively conflating a leftist demographic with leftist politicians currently in government in response to someone who doesn’t know the difference between a leftist and a liberal.
Half of voters are not fine with this.
Most think the same as you. Trump’s campaign promises were no war and releasing the Epstein files after Biden did absolutely nothing and sat on them for four years.
We’ve been betrayed by bOtH pArTiEs over the last eight years (and before that, for that matter)… because they’re BoTh all over the Epstein files.
We don’t have a “No Epstein” party in the USA, that is not allowed. We just have two corrupt shit parties.
(I’m not making random claims, either. We do have some information, like flight logs. Democrats and Republicans found common ground somehow and fucking loved that plane and the young girls on it).
Biden didn’t release them because there was an ongoing investigation keeping them sealed. Trump ended the investigation as part of his coverup. Good job preempting the fUnNy tExT though.
Lits the democrats that argued over who gets t rape a 13 year old.
Honestly, probably a non zero amount, but I can assure you that the dem voters would actually care if it came out.
The Weiner scandal was actually a scandal and he served time. I’m not willing to go to bat for dem politicians (though I’d pick a random D over a random R politician any day), but I’ll definitely back dem voters on the whole for actually having some degree of standards or morals, which does generally lead to accountability.
I think that’s the main difference, because even if Rs and I disagreed, if they actually had morals we would not have found ourselves here. A bunch of Rs referred to Trump as a Hitler-like fascist and then bent the knee because the R voters didn’t care. It’s not that our politicians are somehow morally superior, though on the whole they definitely are, it’s that the actual base cares about the things they say they care about.
I’m not saying this is true or isn’t true.
But the article does credit Katie Johnson as the source and there is reasonable doubt as to whether she even exists. The only person who claims to have spoken to her is a Jerry Springer Story Producer.
What We Know About Origins of Trump Child Rape Allegations
The reason why I say this is I think it’s important to be factual even when making allegations against scum like Trump. Any false rumor we spread is another victory for MAGA and the right. It’s a way for them to convince more people that the left is evil.
Well … ?
I didn’t want to laugh but you made me.
We got him!
If I had a dime for every time I heard that over the years, I’d have about tree fiddy.
“The walls are closing in” video on YouTube… a mash up of all the pundits repeatedly insisting his goose was FINALLY cooked, would be hilarious were it not so unsettling and apropos.
EDIT: I went and found it because I had to. Don’t watch this if you still want to feel they finally “got him!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ab6uxg908
“explosive report”. World’s slowest moving most inept explosion.
Fr. This was found months ago by sleuths. What an awful world we live in that it’s now news.
I mean, it should have stayed in the news the first time until it was followed by the story of how his child molesting ass was removed from office and dealt with. But know the media just skipped right along to the next bullshit that should have resulted in the same thing but didn’t. Just endlessly cycling through horrible shit.
Fucking sick. Millions of people voted for this sick fuck and they are probably voting for him again right now knowing he did this
they are probably voting for him again right now
He’s not up for re-election and not on the ballot. Only a subset of Congress is. A Democratic majority in Congress would not mean we get a new president, nor does it make it possible to impeach and remove the current one. Also, neither snap elections nor no-confidence votes are a thing here.
It seems a lot of non-US people watching from a distance have higher hopes than they should about the significance of this midterm election, due to not really understanding how the US system works and/or thinking it’s a parlimentary system like a normal modern democracy.
Which is why the European / Canadian “OMG dO sOmEtHiNg you pussies!!! No…? Guess you’re all fine with fascism then…!” commenters are especially irritating because there’s really only one way he doesn’t stay in office until Jan 2029, and that’s already been tried unsuccessfully, and just gets you president Vance anyway. Or president Johnson, if you managed a two-for one. A different president before 2029 is not a possible outcome of protesting- any amount of protesting. Those “No Kings” events are just cargo-cult civil disobedience for liberal boomers to virtue signal at. They have no demands to make, no credible threat of escalation if the demands are ignored, and no reason for the regime to take them seriously.
Voting republican in this election is voting for Trump in spirit, it is showing continued support. Everyone knows this is what people mean when they talk about voting for or against Trump in this election. The only exception I would allow is if they’re voting for a really good local republican candidate who isn’t aligned with Trump
“The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was clearly heard referring to Defendant, Jeffrey E. Epstein, as a ‘Jew B----rd’ as he yelled at Defendant Epstein, that clearly, he, Defendant Trump, should be the lucky one to ‘pop the cherry’ of Plaintiff Johnson.”
That’s the headline. I mean, that’s what it should be.
I swear this exact story from this exact victim has been out for years. Down to the refusing to wear a condom and trowing money to “get a fucking abortion”
Obviously we should continue to repeat it but what changed since then? Why is the news only reporting on it now?
This is not a bomshell but a gaping crator of a bombshell that fell years ago.
