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This first excerpt in the thread is long. My apologies for that. What J. Filipovic has to say here seems so important that it's hard to choose short pieces to share:

"The Trump administration is a regime of restoring male power. That includes being a pedophile protection racket covering for men who sexually abuse girls."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny
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in reply to William Lindsey

"This is an administration that has built its identity on white male power unfettered by 'political correctness' or basic decency, unimpeded by the law or old norms, and unchallenged by the women or racial minorities who were increasingly competing with white men for power."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny
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in reply to William Lindsey

"Most of us probably believed that child sex abuse — engaging in or covering for — was a red line for just about everyone. But why should Trump, whose appeal is that he doesn’t play by any rules, have to abide by this one?

Today’s Republican Party, though, is avowedly misogynist; it is a party that has built itself into a temple of white male grievance, and that promises not just to help white men get good jobs back, but to get impunity back —"

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #impunity
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in reply to William Lindsey

"the freedom to behave as abhorrently as they wish, to treat women however they wish, to take the jobs that women and people of color rightfully earned simply because there is a presumption of white male deservedness. Some of the highest-ranking members of the Trump administration not only attend churches where the pastors say women shouldn’t be allowed to vote and must submit to male authority, but share videos making those same arguments."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #impunity
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The young people staffing Republican politicians and organizing young conservative groups are a notoriously noxious bunch, with racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism simply part of the waters they’re all swimming in. Speaker Mike Johnson is a religious fundamentalist who worked to keep gay sex criminal, opposes no-fault divorce, and is himself in a 'covenant marriage,' which Moira Donegan at the Guardian aptly describes" (continued in /6)

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #impunity
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in reply to William Lindsey

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"as 'a religious arrangement that formalizes men’s superiority and constricts women’s freedom to leave, designed for conservative straight couples who feel that no-fault divorce and gay marriage rights somehow degrade their own unions.' Men who see women as subservient, who believe that men have ultimate authority, and who intentionally set up systems of total male power and impunity —"

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #misogyny
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in reply to William Lindsey

"of course these are men who will cover for sexual predators. Of course some of these men are sexual predators.

You simply cannot create a culture or a party of wholesale male entitlement and not wind up with women and girls paying the price — being the ones who bodies, livelihoods, and lives those men feel entitled to."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny #impunity
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The White House is virtually paralyzed this morning, gripped by turmoil as the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files sends shockwaves through the West Wing. Donald Trump has remained conspicuously silent on Truth Social for more than 17 hours, and during a late-night Oval Office appearance—held to sign the government funding bill—"

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"he abruptly refused to take questions about the disclosures, a rare and telling break from this Administration’s usual posture. The political fallout is intensifying by the hour, and it comes as even more explosive documents are expected to surface."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

“'No, I didn’t know,' Trump said.

On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee released emails, obtained from Epstein’s estate, that directly contradict Trump’s denials."

~ Judd Legum

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

“You know the funniest thing about this story — is Trump’s all over the Epstein files and I wonder if they’re going to release that after the big bombshell! I didn’t see anything about that on Fox News today,” said [Stephanie] Miller [to Sean Hannity on Fox News].

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The Epstein revelations matter because they’re symptomatic of a larger ecosystem of secrecy and impunity that Trump — and many of the rightwing billionaires associated with him — have relied on for decades. An ecosystem that destroys democracies. ...

The crisis is that such a network exists at all. That Trump has rebuilt government in a way to protect that morbidly rich network."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #impunity
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in reply to William Lindsey

"These latest releases remind us that when powerful men — including those claiming to be in the press — operate in spaces where wealth and social status shield them from scrutiny, abuses become routine and accountability vanishes for decades or evaporates entirely."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

"Let me be crystal clear, we now have an email from Jeffrey Epstein that says Trump knew about what Epstein was up to and that he spent time with one of the victims.

This isn’t a smoking gun; it’s the gun still in his hand. ...

These new emails show that this is not some minor brouhaha. It’s one of the biggest political scandals in American history."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will

- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders

This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi met with Rep. Lauren Boebert in the White House Situation Room in an attempt to persuade her to remove her name from the discharge petition that would force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The Situation Room is one of the most secure facilities in the most secure building in Washington, D.C. Holding a meeting in the Situation Room implies that sensitive information is being shared that raises national security concerns of the highest order.

Why?"

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in reply to William Lindsey

"Let’s be honest for a moment: if those files actually exonerated Donald Trump and incriminated a bunch of Democrats, Trump would be the first to release them. Instead, he’s putting the weight of his entire government into one of the most blatant cover-up attempts in American history."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"We shouldn’t lose sight of one more thing: Trump, at least, seems very much to believe there are still more damaging revelations to come. He wouldn’t have cranked up the pressure on Boebert and company yesterday if he thought the stuff we’d already seen was the worst of it. Whatever the high-water mark of this scandal is, we likely haven’t hit it yet."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The Epstein emails released yesterday are not the files the White House is fighting so hard to keep from coming out. The only reasonable conclusion is that they must be even worse for Trump than what we’ve seen so far. And so far has been pretty bad."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #pedophiles #coverup #SexualAbuse
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in reply to William Lindsey

“The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.”

~ Ed Burmila

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

True, but the “us and them” mentality isn’t restricted to wealthy elite. Witness what the MAGA folks are writing as well.
in reply to William Lindsey

"For MAGA, the Epstein scandal captured something big, right? Something essential about the wickedness of global elites. But in their schema, they kind of had a very clear idea of who these elites were—Democrats and liberals, George Soros, the Clintons, and so forth."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny #impunity #EconomicElites #MAGA
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in reply to William Lindsey

"Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite.

But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is actually part of that global elite.

Expect him to lash out as the walls close in."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny #impunity #EconomicElites #MAGA
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in reply to William Lindsey

> But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is actually part of that global elite.

HOW WAS THAT NOT OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE!!! I don't have words for how frustrating that is.

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in reply to William Lindsey

"Nazi and chief propagandist, Karoline Leavitt, falsely claimed during a press conference yesterday that the Trump regime is the most transparent in American history. Why then did Attorney General Pam Bondi order FBI employees to scrub through the Epstein files for any mention of Donald’s name and then redact them?:

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

"Why did Donald summon Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) to the situation room (one of the most secure SCIFs [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] on the planet) in an attempt to pressure her into removing her name from a petition calling for the DOJ to release the full Epstein file?"

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

"And, most obviously, why has Donald enlisted his entire administration to block all attempts to release the files?

So, we know that Donald’s name is in the files, we just don’t know the context because, for whatever reason, Donald and his DOJ don’t want us to know."

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

I'm assuming ALL these questions are rhetorical.
From the moment President Trump was exposed BRAGGING about his ability to demean women by grabbing them, his need for power over women became obvious. His culpability in sexual abuse is equally as obvious and longstanding. He was elected, twice, by electors knowing the kind of person he is.
Why not just call it what it is
Why not just call him what he is …?

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in reply to William Lindsey

"'I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump,' Epstein wrote in 2017 to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. 'Not one decent cell in his body.'"

~ Stephen Fowler and Saige Miller

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in reply to William Lindsey

"We are now on the brink of witnessing the largest internal rebuke of Donald Trump by his own party in history: more than 100 House Republicans are preparing to vote in favor of releasing the Epstein files."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

"This has always been a mob story, this story has always been about human trafficking, the worst men in the world are trying to prevent consequences for a lifetime of criminal actions. Nothing short of neutralizing the Trump and Putin criminal regimes, and all those who enabled them, will do."

~ Heidi Siegmund Coda

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites #Putin
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in reply to William Lindsey

"So many Democrats want to believe that if Trump is on a list somewhere, if we could just publish that list, it will bring him down. They want the emails to change the tide.

It won’t. At least not with his base.

Trump would never have been elected if so many Americans cared about sexual assault."

~ Jess Piper

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites #MAGA
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in reply to William Lindsey

"In addition to Trump, other men have been implicated recently, including Andrew, who lost his royal title ahead of the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir. In fact, Giuffre’s ghost and testimony continue to haunt these men who have escaped accountability for years.

We’re just at the tip of the iceberg, according to journalist Vicky Ward, who has been covering Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for nearly two decades."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Epstein #coverup
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in reply to William Lindsey

"The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for his own dark purposes. They also show that Donald Trump was an instrumental part in his schemes."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #impunity #EconomicElites
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in reply to William Lindsey

In addition, the real estate fraud, money laundering, and possibly narcotics trafficking that #Trump and #Epstein and a number of politicians and elites globally are no doubt guilty of.
in reply to William Lindsey

If Epstein trafficked 1000s of children for sex work, there must ge more than one rich white guy that was raping them. He didn’t traffic them all to the same person
in reply to William Lindsey

Having decided that constantly predicting defeat and predicting Trump winning is part of Trumps defense, all and any posts saying "Trump will avoid justice" will be blocked.
in reply to William Lindsey

a large number of Americans don’t care about sexual assault because they don’t believe in it. Based on their biblical screed they view women and children as property. In their world view women and children are property. You can’t sexually assault a female child in the same way you can’t sexually assault a couch for instance. I’m sure those same people envy Trump for his possessions, amongst them adolescent girls.
in reply to William Lindsey

I have zero doubt the Clintons are in there, and also that they are Small Potatoes.
in reply to draNgNon

@draNgNon It would not at all surprise me to find Bill Clinton there. But if he were the only or most prominent name, then Trump would have plastered these files all over the media years ago.
in reply to William Lindsey

Exactly - Trump acts like an mediaevil or absolutist tyrant who literally tramples on people. And his decadent court tramples along with him.
in reply to William Lindsey

if recent history tells us anything the red line of 'unacceptable' always shifts.

Expecting the GOP t-shirts that say 'proud to be a sex offender' on them. There is no floor.

in reply to William Lindsey

The biggest scandal, other than anything Trump has done, is that a lot of people KNOW what Trump has done and have been protecting him, many even helping to elevate him.

(I'm only talking in regard to Trump here, not the probable implication of a global elite all entwined in this scandal)

in reply to William Lindsey

""Let me be crystal clear, we now have an email from Jeffrey Epstein that says Trump knew about what Epstein was up to and that he spent time with one of the victims."

#DonaldTrump: baby-sitting advisor to teen girls

in reply to William Lindsey

where was Merrick Garland on all of this for 4 yrs? He had the ability to release all of this information, too. Not doing so was a huge help to Trump. WTF??
in reply to William Lindsey

i'm not seeing a crisis here. if raping children created widespread condemnation by the general public, every catholic church on earth would have been burned to the ground by now, and pedophile priests burned at the stake.

the ruling powers are treated as if they are 'gods,' and not to be held accountable for the atrocities they commit, like 'common riff-raff."

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@roblosricos You may want also to investigate the track record of white evangelical churches in the US on matters of sexual abuse of minors, especially since some 80% of white evangelicals cast their votes for Trump in 2024, and constitute the solid core of his base.
in reply to William Lindsey

This article cites Thomas Jefferson as if he didn't keep a teenage girl prisoner so he could rape her.

This rot goes back to the very beginning of this country among the white wealthy "elite" men who kept others as property. It was their privilege to do so. Those who didn't rape their "property" looked away and kept quiet as others in their circles did.

This isn't new. But it's way past time we stopped ignoring it and exposed every last bit of it to the daylight.

in reply to William Lindsey

"You simply cannot create a culture or a party of wholesale male entitlement and not wind up with women and girls paying the price — being the ones who bodies, livelihoods, and lives those men feel entitled to.""

Also see:

"Your body, my choice"

in reply to William Lindsey

@FinchHaven

this, intermingled with a dour, miserable form of theocratic conservatism that many men seem to be getting into would also explain why comparatively young men are looking up to old men who are even less cool than their dad (such as Trump or Nigel Farage)

in reply to William Lindsey

Alas, women and racial minorities voted for this administration. Trump wouldn't have won just with votes of white old machos.
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@Mons1serrata Yes, though the percentage of votes by white males was considerably higher, and in the recent elections, we saw racial minorities moving out of any Republican columns — with white men continuing to constitute the chief supporters of the Republican party (and Trump). The statistics about this are clear and damning.
in reply to William Lindsey

When this is all over (I'm thinking Kennedy assassination here. Is that over, yet?) I'm thinking that there will be a link between Epstein and Trump's adventure in Russia that gave rise to the pee video rumor.
in reply to William Lindsey

looking from the outside, the shutdown, the tariff shit show, rounding people up, demolishing the building and institutions sure looks like a collapse