• Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 days ago

    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.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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      8 days ago

      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.