Mike Waltz faces grilling over Signal chat at Senate hearing for UN ambassador role
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Epstein wildfire engulfing MAGA just continues apace.
This is a bit hard to make sense of for what we might call normal people. ...
if you look with any clarity at the Epstein meta-story, it’s crystal clear that it’s PizzaGate. It’s like PizzaGate was an original treatment for the show that became 'Epstein.”'
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Ok, Welp … Epstein/Wolff Edition
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"From Epstein to chemtrails, they're learning it was all a scam. ...
It’s dawning on at least some of them that they were lied to by Dear Leader, when they’ve been trained to believe that only Democrats lie.
That’s the problem with basing a political movement on conspiracy-mongering and lies."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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MAGA crack-up over Epstein shows how flimsy Republican coalition is
Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"When Trump got in the position where he could prove all the crap he’s been feeding them was true, he couldn’t. ...
The MAGA movement is kept alive with a steady diet of lies and grievance and conspiracies that feed their need to believe that God is on their side and everyone who doesn’t believe as they do is evil."
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Epstein matter is so crucial to Trump’s base, and the excuse offered is so flimsy, that the about-face has raised questions within perhaps the most gullible movement in American history. ...
The Epstein saga also seems to hold a load-bearing place in the populist mythology, explaining why the 'deep state' is out to get Trump."
~ Jonathan Chait
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Why Trump Can't Make the Epstein Story Go Away
Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Casually retconning the narrative, so that the Epstein files cease to be the secret document that will expose Trump’s enemies but rather become a libel written by those enemies, is too wrenching a shift for even them to accept."
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"While you were asleep, House Republicans voted against a Democratic amendment that would have required the Department of Justice to release all Jeffrey Epstein-related files."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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BREAKING: House Republicans Block Measure to Release Epstein Files as Trump Pivots on Ukraine
Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Trump's MAGA base has been salivating over the release of the 'Epstein files' for years. To have a Republican-controlled Committee in the House block the release will only heighten suspicion."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Democratic failure of imagination
Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Like so many other Trump scandals, maybe it will all dissipate. But we’ve never seen one like this before: A Judas kiss that went straight to the heart and shattered their deepest convictions."
~ Heather Digby Parton
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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MAGA continues to reel from Trump's Epstein betrayal
Heather Digby Parton (Salon.com)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It's not just Epstein. MAGA is angry about a lot of things. Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration’s failure to fulfill its promises."
~ David Gilbert
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It would be the irony to end all ironies if Donald Trump’s ultimate undoing came not from a criminal conviction or impeachment but a revolt of the voters who elected him: the MAGA faithful. ...
Trump’s poll numbers have long been headed downward. But increasing numbers of people are beginning to see what inexperience, incompetence, and intolerance can do to our beloved country."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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MAGA Turns on Trump
Dan Rather (Steady)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"What are these Republicans so afraid of that they won’t even let the full house vote on this? Direct some coffee to the conspiracy-theory part of your brain, and go wild! …
Whatever are they so scared of, especially if, like Pamela Jo Bondi just said last week, these files do not actually exist?"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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House Republicans Must Be REALLY Scared Of What's In Those Epstein Files!
Marcie Jones (Wonkette)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The desperation of Trump to keep these files from us is jaw-dropping. It’s a cover up out in the open. And for good reason. …
The Trump-Epstein files have now transcended a political story. These are about potential crimes committed by Trump involving sex with children. At the very least, we may see images that Trump knew years ago that Epstein was running a child sex ring but did nothing to stop it."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #pedophiles
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Trump and GOP elite tell MAGA base to Shut the FU over the Trump-Epstein files!
Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Epstein stuff is so important because it’s so emotionally charged and it’s so deeply connected to all of these other conspiracies. It is the core conspiracy: If this is true then obviously all of the other conspiracies are true. …
[T]his Epstein conspiracy is just so important to the right, because it is the Rosetta Stone of all of their other conspiracies and ideas about the state."
~ Nicole Hemmer
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Transcript: Tucker Carlson’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Rattles MAGA
The New RepublicWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Noting that 211 Republicans voted against releasing the Epstein files, Malcom Ferguson says,
"Republicans have decided that protecting the president and his friends is more important than fulfilling promises they made to their most loyal voters, and the American people at large. The House GOP had a real chance to take a stand and demand that the Epstein files be released to the public. They chose not to."
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #pedophiles
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211 House Republicans Vote to Block Release of Epstein Files
The New RepublicWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •As Robert McCoy reports, asked by a reporter if Attorney General Bondi has told him his name is in the Epstein files, Trump "spiraled" and refused to answer the question while once again attempting to feed the public wild conspiracy theories about the Epstein files:
"This new tack—that a MAGA cause célèbre was, in reality, a left-wing conspiracy all along—seems unlikely to dissuade the countless people…."
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Trump Spirals After Being Asked if His Name Is in Epstein Files
The New RepublicWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"If you were gambling that this kerfuffle might cause the most automatonish MAGAbots to grow a brain and heart, just a like a real boy, and the movement might implode around Trump, I’d hold onto those chips. For look no further than MAGA’s reliable rectal thermometer, Charlie Kirk. Always good for taking the temperature of how hard the cultists will keep on culting."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump #Epstein #MAGA #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #pedophiles
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Here, Kitty!
Matt Labash (Slack Tide by Matt Labash)Peter Cavanagh
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Ulrich_the_Elder, 🇨🇦,🇺🇦
in reply to William Lindsey • • •TC Won't Give In To Lies
in reply to William Lindsey • • •The common factor across all elements of Trump's broad voter base is anger.
They're always kept angry because they are told they are:
- victimized
- or unheard
- or someone else is getting better treated
And these people will NEVER break with Trump because no one is better at offering up enemies than Trump (and no one has as many propaganda allies as Trump to get the messages out).
The Trump cult will never collapse until the propaganda is stopped
#ThisIsAmericaNow
James2.0
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"One thing Trump is genuinely good at is ... he'll look the camera dead center and say he'll have the marines kill Glonzo."
-William B. Fuckley (see image below)
Live by the Politics of Glonzo...
Die by the Politics of Glonzo.
(In this case, Glonzo is the Epstein Files.)
#Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #MAGA #Glonzo #GOP #USPol #Politics #Glonzo #US #USA
Darwin Woodka
in reply to William Lindsey • • •