• Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Transcript as it’s hard to read on the picture:

    Voice over:

    There must be more to life than having everything

    Donald

    Yes, there is but I won’t tell you what it is.

    Jeffrey

    Nor will I, since I also know what it is.

    Donald

    We have certain things in common, Jeffrey.

    Jeffrey

    Yes, we do, come to think of it.

    Donald

    Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

    Jeffrey

    As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you

    Donald

    A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.

    Donald J. Trump [Trump’s signature]

    If it weren’t someone as unsubtle as Trump writing it, I’d say it was fake, a normal person wouldn’t be so on the nose with it. But Donald-golden-toilet-Trump isn’t a normal person is he?

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          I don’t know, why would this be the way to twist his arm though? If they wanted him gone they’d release something more incriminating, obviously there’s the Epstein tapes and who knows what else. So whatever factions of the bourgeoisie who aren’t aligned with the administration and the Palantir types, have enough access to get their hands on the blackmail, and are trying to manipulate him into backing down now?

          • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            No clue I don’t play 4D chess. My guess is just trying to build enough pressure so that crossing over on a removal vote doesn’t become political suicide. I’m surprised we haven’t seen Vance make a move yet.

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              My guess is just trying to build enough pressure so that crossing over on a removal vote doesn’t become political suicide.

              Yeah, that’s a salient point. You face serious reprisal if you try to remove him without firmly establishing your accusations against Trump and manufacturing consent. Not saying consent is being manufactured by the ‘powers that be’ that Trump is a pedophile but my guess is if they were trying to remove him, they’d do it carefully.

              But the WSJ could very well be trying to manufacture consent from the other direction, by releasing shit like this and normalizing it with the chud audience. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not explicitly incriminating, it can be waived off by some as him being a womanizer who thought Epstein shared his like for sex with fully grown, consenting women.

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        My guess is running the headline “Damning Correspondence Proves Trump-Epstein Link” gets them clicks and views. They know they aren’t adding anything everyone already knows, but it’ll get them a couple extra bucks.