Iran ready for war with Israel, will not halt nuclear programme: Pezeshkian
Iran ready for war with Israel, will not halt nuclear programme: Pezeshkian
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Iran’s president insists Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme will continue.Al Jazeera
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Trump announces Japan trade deal with 15% tariff on imports
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They will probably buy our rice
Rice situation in Japan is pretty dire atm and probably will stay that way through 2026. It’s a staple crop and prices have gone up substantially due to the shortages
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Agree, and using the rice situation as leverage is shitty tbh. It’s a crisis and while Japan is a developed nation with a relatively good standard of living for the most part it’s also one with extremely stagnant wages and economic growth, fairly significant wealth inequality, etc.
many Japanese are struggling to get by more than Americans. Though it’s hard to directly compare. The average salary in Japan in far lower than in America (~30k vs ~39k) and wages for equivalent positions are much lower (like a computer programmer who gets paid $80k for an American company might get $50-60k from a Japanese company), but the cost of living is much lower in many ways, rent costs are substantially lower (even a Tokyo apartment is like $500usd/month unless you want something crazy extravagant), robust public transit network making car ownership truly optional, healthcare system that is not ideal but has much more managed costs than the us, etc
That’s probably in part why sanseitō (think japanese maga: anti immigration (in a country that barely allows it), super nationalist (in a country that’s already crazy nationalist), anti vaccination, etc) is seriously picking up steam and just picked up several seats in the upper house, going from 1 seat to 14 at the expense of the LDP and communist party who lost seats. They ran on rhetoric similar to trump, a “silent invasion” of immigrants is “taking over Japan”. It captured their youth, who are frustrated by a lack of meaningful jobs and the reality of an economy that has been stagnant for many decades at this point (arguably caused by boomer policy and refusal to break from tradition) but instead of looking inward at what could’ve been done wrong domestically they are looking for a boogeyman to easily shift blame to. Sound familiar?
The right wing shift is not limited to America unfortunately. AfD, sanseitō, national rally, Lega, Orban and bolsonaro, etc. many of these are picking up quite a bit of steam
Tell that to yoshinoya, who has been mixing California rice into their rice for the past year with some locations using entirely American rice, or Matsuya, who have switched to American rice at many locations due to cost. Lawson is also starting to prototype bentos with rice blends. Even if the consumer takes a nationalist approach the invisible hand of capitalism will reject that for profit
And with that there’s data to suggest the consumer doesn’t reject imported rice. Aeon sold the 80/20 blend with US rice and that proved popular enough that they are now selling 4kg bags of 100% california rice due to consumer demand. The 80/20 bags were 10% cheaper, the 100% is likely far more
It is a dangerous game. This is how walmart destroyed American small business. Everyone has ideals and principles until a massive vendor with huge advantage shows up and undercuts everyone in town by 10-30%. Doesn’t matter if the product is inferior. People don’t have money
I stand corrected!
I, however will not buy US rice from a shitty experience I had with it, and the fact that I'd rather not support a shithole run by a president who wants to annex Canada.
Understandable
I use us rice because I live here and in terms of global warming unless there is a shortage and I have no other option it makes the most sense to use California rice
That said Japanese rice is more aromatic and has lower arsenic content so in a perfect world I would use that. However, I do not want to both contribute to the emissions of shipping rice across the globe when there is rice that is good enough plus I don’t want to contribute to taking Japanese rice away from Japan. It appears that a big contributor to the rice shortage is again capitalistic scumbaggery - both in terms of middlemen scalping with shortages occurring and the export market valuing Japanese rice as “premium”. I don’t want to contribute to that just like I won’t buy a marked up concert ticket or game console.
Japan, with the best automotive engineering in the world, is going to buy more shitty US made vehicles?
Yeah. Ok.
The best "US made" vehicle I've owned was a 2006 Ford Ranger and it was actually just a rebadged Mazda which, go figure, is Japanese.
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We need to stop all reporting of Trump deals until they are in writing. Anyone notice that Coke never confirmed the sugar thing? The UK tariff framework isn't anything more than a handshake. The healthcare plan is just two weeks away. We have always been to war with Eastasia.
Nothing is real until it is signed. He gets the bump by announcing them and then nothing happens and he isn't held accountable.
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So, if good sense fails me not: japanese goods imported into the US will have a 15% markup at border...
Right.
What makes me morbidly curious is what Japan waved in return of that "agreement".
I'd more quickly turn my back on them and let them levy whatever tariffs on my nation's goods they see fit and enter "negotiations". Yes, it would be painful in the short term for my country but it would be worth it.
My stocks here in Japan shot up the other day, which is weird because we still have tariffs — just less than what he had originally proposed. We'll see how long this "deal" lasts.
I've just been buying the dips and it seems like it's working out. I just hope I receive enough dividends to allow me to keep buying domestic rice.
Jeffrey Epstein's former attorney who secured plea deal found dead
Jeffrey Epstein's Former Attorney Who Secured Plea Deal Dead at 80
Roy Black helped Jeffrey Epstein secure a plea deal in 2008 allowing him to avoid federal charges.Martha McHardy (Newsweek)
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He actually called me last week and said
If he won’t release them I will
so looks def sus to me
Putin kills people all the time. Everybody knows it was him but he's still in power.
It doesn't matter if this keeps the story alive as long as no one faces actual consequences for it.
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The world's elite rulers are credibly accused of molesting children for decades and doing everything possible to deny it, including seemingly the murder of the alleged Israeli spy that has evidence of their crimes. His lawyer who potentially knows way too much conveniently dies when he's granted legal protection to speak up, and we should just accept that 80 year old sick man died?
Maybe, but you'd be very naive to dismiss foul play.
You'd be naive to jump right to that conclusion.
The worldwide pedophile ring of rich people definitely does exist. That doesn't mean we throw out rational skepticism in other ways.
horrible timing
Yeah, 80
/s (don't really know much about this upstanding citizen)
The prosecutor who offered that joke of a deal WAS GIVEN A CABINET POSITION by The Dipshit.
Acosta was the secretary of labor for 2 years. He's still alive.
That's not what the headline says, OP unless it's changed since you posted it.
He was sick and 80. He died. Not "found dead".
Black died on Monday at his home in Coral Gables at the age of 80 after an illness, his law partner Howard Srebnick said.
News like this is all too typical for the US these days. There is really no rule of law here anymore - none whatsoever - I am truly glad that I do not live in this absurd banana republic.
I am keeping my fingers crossed for all reasonable US citizens, of course, but please forgive me if I am not overly hopeful.
My brother in christ. Are you allergic to reading the articles you comment on?
Or are you not aware of how aging works?
always supported and fought for the underdog
I have a hard time imagining a world where Epstein, Bieber, the Kennedys, or any of their ilk could be considered underdogs. Good riddance.
Sir, there is no nuance here.
(Seriously though I don't like so much ragebait on Lemmy either)
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Lea Black, his wife, told the Miami Herald that he always "fought for the underdog and people's civil rights.""He understood that we all have our flaws...He was able to separate people's behavior from their character. He wanted the best for everyone," she said.
I knew love was blind, but this is bordering on black hole levels of blindness.
Actually I respect it. Its easy to view this comment from her to be about Epstein when the article mentions him specifically, but a person's career is more than the 1 bullet point people become known for. I didn't follow his career so I dont really know.
I think everyone deserves representation in court, no matter how heinous they are. If they have a multi million dollar defense and still go to prision... that fucker is guilty. When they are stuck with some overworked public defender, it starts to raise doubts even when it would otherwise be an obvious case.
Interesting how you, a seemingly random commenter, seems to have personal knowledge of the death of a lawyer with ties to Epstine.
How did I do?
Actual headline:
Jeffrey Epstein's Former Attorney Who Secured Plea Deal Dead at 80
Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Attorney Who Secured Plea Deal Dead at 80
damnit, and I like a good conspiracy too... /s
He was also sick before it happened, per Newsweek.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025
A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
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Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025
A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Jul 22, 2025A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave."I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled," Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera.
Famine Expert: Israel's Starvation of Gaza Most 'Minutely Designed and Controlled' Since WWII
"This is preventable starvation," said Alex de Waal. "It is entirely man-made."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Evil. Pure evil. Israel is a satanic creation.
Idgaf if people think that's antisemitic. Fuck Israel and fuck it's apologists
It's a XXI century Holocaust.
This was expectable ever since Israeli leader started openly making statements about Palestinians when were extreme similar to what the Nazis said about the Jews and the Roma, for example calling them "human animals" and "vermin" and talking about having a "Final plan" for Gaza.
The Zionists are the present day version of the Nazis, and they're well on track to doing the same thing, this time around with the help of pro-Nazi governments in the West, especially the US, UK and Germany.
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Updated title is now:
Japan's PM Ishiba denies talk he will quit following election drubbing
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They all do that, even those who intend to resign deny it until the day it happens.
Ishiba doesn’t have any big scandals currently, so I see less public outrage directed at him in the news and it feels more like infighting within the LDP (just my impression). Of course losing so many seats in the election is a cause for resignation but I’m not sure anybody who replaces him will be able to quell the public’s discontent either.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.Samantha Hancox-Li (Liberal Currents)
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we are supposed to form a more perfect union.
maybe next time without all the greed, racism, and I think we can all agree no pedos too..
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Dept of Justice declassified them on Jan 9th this year. He was a little busy that week doing a massive pile of other things, besides Trump had promised to release them, why would he prioritise something no one was asking for ahead of things like student debt relief and pardons for non violent drug offenders ?
There's a clash between the tweet saying jan 2024, and the reddit post saying jan 9th 2025.
Will have to confirm
Biden respected the law, though. The files were sealed by a judge until after Ghoulaine Maxwell's trial. They weren't unsealed until after Jan 2024. Biden couldn't, by law, release them.
Biden didn't run a cult. He allowed the DOJ to operate independently of the executive, unlike Trump who demands loyalty oaths and treats every agency like his personal operatives.
Ok, but right now way more Republicans are for sure on that list(they just can’t seem to leave kids alone) and Biden isn’t in power to release the thing. Also leftists don’t particularly like Biden all that much, and it’s funny when the right thinks they’ve figured out a gotcha because it’s just a projection of how much they’ll let their own guy off the hook for stuff they know is awful.
If most of the Democrats go down then most of their voters would be largely ok with that. And at least the Democrats have made some moves to push this issue forward in the last couple weeks, which for them is refreshing given how little energy they often put into anything at all.
It's weird this conversation sticks to democrats and Republicans. How many leaders from other countries would be implicated in this list? Either way Biden is a bitch for not releasing it, but I'd believe an excuse that he didn't want to potentially fuck up 10 alliances with other countries before I believe he was protecting some pedo dems. I wouldn't accept the excuse, but I'd believe it.
Names should be released regardless of party or country. Let the chips fall
This list is suggestive. Stop telling yourself it's a few bad apples. Stop telling yourself "there are pedophiles in every large enough organization." There are not this many pedophiles in every political party. Both sides are not the same. When Slate went looking for an equivalent list of Democratic pedophiles, they were able to come up with: a random donor, the head of a local Young Democrats, and Anthony Weiner's sexts. Not a speaker of the House, a Chief Justice, and a President.
The article suggests pedos are natural-born conservatives - or vice-versa. My theory is that there are probably as many pedos in the Democratic party, but they're smart enough not to get caught.
So, Let’s Talk About Republicans and Sex Crimes
This seems like an appropriate moment.Jordan Weissmann (Slate)
It’s wild that, despite not having any evidence to supprt your theory, you’re still trying to “both sides” this one.
You need to deal with the fact that conservatism attracts terrible people. Maybe a couple stupid people get fooled by some obvious propaganda but the overwhelming majority are simply excited by the cruelty the ideology offers. It’s entire core value is in assigning different values to people and the range is so large that it’s happy to be as close to slaves and kings as society will allow.
Absolutely I’ll bet there are some shady center-right Democrats that the US believes are leftists. Fact is that most of them are just greedy which is what keeps them as centrists instead of going full fascist. You have to look at the information staring you in the face and accept that the further right one goes the worse company there is to be kept.
The whole conservative ideology harkens back to a time when women and children were viewed akin to property. That's a very appealing setup to people who want free reign to abuse those children.
That does not jive well when your worldview includes everyone bring treated as a person. With rights. Including children.
It’s wild that, despite not having any evidence to supprt your theory, you’re still trying to “both sides” this one.
It's wild that people think that writing a lewd note to a paedophile makes you a paedophile. This is not a discussion where people are going off evidence.
It's wild that people think that writing a lewd note to a paedophile makes you a paedophile.
Were you a child in 2016? Not only is most of the shit "coming out" nearly decade-old news, but the amount of evidence of both: Trump's proclivities regarding young girls, AND his very close relationship with Epstein, is staggering.
If you think this is the only thing linking them, you really need to become better informed.
Loads of people gave a shit.
Doesn't mean loads of people bought into him being a paedo.
It's like the pee tape. There's not actual evidence for it, but people will buy into something like that regardless. Some tongue-in-cheek (because unlike CSA, it's funny) but some seriously, and the tongue-in-cheek repetition of it also keeps it in people's minds until some of them forget that there was never anything substantive.
There's never anything wrong with repeating the scummy things Trump has said, but condensing it into "Trump is a paedo" is drivel.
There's not actual evidence for it
Except there is tons of evidence of it. From the man himself (about his underage daughter, and about barging into teen dressing rooms), to him literally being sued for raping a 14 year old girl (who dropped the charges after his base ruined her life).
That "it's only a few bad apples" would be a reasonable answer if that system gets rid and punishes those bad apples.
But if the system protects and ignores those bad apples, then the whole system is rotten
"..the barrel." Apples don't come in bunches, but at the time the saying was coined they were carted around like that. (Also it only took one, not a few.)
(I suppose the modern version is "one nazi spoils the bar.")
Adding on "The customer is always right".
People often forget the next few words which are "in matters of taste".
In which case, yes, absolutely. If a paying customer wants a well done steak with ketchup, sure. Or if they want some ugly clothing. Hell yeah, as long as they're paying.
It's not an excuse to act like an entitled asshole.
RNC ends first half of 2025 with $65.6 million cash advantage over DNC
RNC ends first half of 2025 with $65.6 million cash advantage over DNC
The gap between the RNC and DNC is wider now than it was at this same stage of the first midterm cycle after Trump's 2016 victory.Hunter Woodall (CBS News)
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The DNC had a fundraising advantage over Trump leading up to the election in 2024. Honestly that whole "Kamala and the DNC has a 1 billion dollar war chest" a few weeks before the election probably hurt them more than it helped.
Money enables things, and financially it's an asset, but culturally, it's a liability - and always should be.
The dnc has become an organization that only cares about raising money and then losing elections.
They could rally around popular policies and advocate for those things with that money. They don’t. They want to push forward a vision for the future that inspires no one and hope that they can get voters to the polls through a combination of “it’s us or Nazis” and “we spent a bunch of money to turn out the vote”
That’s their game plan, and I am joined by a lot of former medium dollar donors (thousands per year to the dnc and their candidates) in not throwing good money after bad.
The dnc as it’s currently constituted is incapable of winning elections and even on the rare occasion it does win an election, incapable of delivering the policies that people want.
They are very capable of blasting my phone and e-mail with dozens of begging pleading messages everyday about all this terrible shit that will happen if I don’t give them enough money. The only other ability they seem to have is allowing that terrible shit to happen and then going “there’s nothing we could have done to stop it, maybe more money?”
Not one more cent. When Biden won in 2020 I said that he would not have the nerve to save the republic and instead would hit the snooze button on fascism, and that’s exactly what happened.
Iran's detainees in 'unbearable' conditions after Israeli strikes on prison
Evin prison: Iran's detainees in 'unbearable' conditions after Israeli strikes
Iranian prisoners transferred to other facilities report overcrowding and unhygienic conditions.Ghoncheh Habibiazad (BBC News)
so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.
Filtered word: nsfw
Tesseract was the only client that had an in-community search input, compared to all the other clients that require re-entering the community name. That shows how functional it was to me.
I'm looking for third-party instances right now (that's how I ended up on this post), found one so far (but outdated) : lemmy.max-p.me/
EDIT : found others
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee will comply with Trump's ban on transgender women in women's sports
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee will comply with Trump's ban on trans women in women's sports
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee updated its policies to say it will comply with President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender women from competing in women's sports.Doha Madani (NBC News)
I don't know why people always bring this point up, like it wouldn't
- cause a ton of dysphoria to trans men
&
- Cause an even bigger backlash by both the government and governing authorities
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The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts | Trump’s social-media habits are different when he can’t control the narrative.
The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts
Trump’s social-media habits are different when he can’t control the narrative.Charlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
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He's been impeached but that didn't seem to do anything.
Just keep on him about Epstein until he has a massive stroke.
Whatever kills him, I really hope it's on tape and preferably broadcast live to help stymie a cover up.
I really wanna watch his life leave this existence.
No, no, no, that's why I want a stroke, not a heart attack. I want him to survive but become feeble. Powerless to do anything but drool and watch every disgusting thing he did unfolded and demolished. Cognizant enough to rage internally but not express himself. That's the justice that he deserves.
To the pain
To quote Hanover Fiste " hanging is too good for him. Burning is too good for him. He should be cut into itsy bitsy pieces and buried ALIVE!"
In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up.
In his 2004 book, “Trump: How To Get Rich,” Trump wrote about taking a call from a man he named “the mysterious Jeffrey.”“As mysterious as Jeffrey is, he’s one of the few people I know who can get by on just a first name. My staff never asks for a last name in his case, which in a way puts him up there with Elvis. Not that Elvis calls in much these days, but you never know,” Trump wrote.
So Epstein was calling Trump so often that his staff never even had to ask for his last name, is what Im gathering
Trump Labor Department Launches 'Barrage of Attacks' on Workers | Common Dreams
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Stephen Prager.
Jul 22, 2025
In one of the most sweeping changes, the department plans to reverse a 2013 rule that extended minimum wage and overtime protections to home healthcare workers.These workers, who care for elderly and other medically frail individuals, already make less than $17 an hour on average.
Trump Labor Department Launches 'Barrage of Attacks' on Workers
"They're showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration," Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation told Common Dreams.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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House Republicans endorse stricter state and federal-led voter roll purges despite dearth of evidence on fraud
House Republicans endorse stricter state and federal-led voter roll purges despite dearth of evidence on fraud
A House hearing on state voter roll purges saw GOP lawmakers claim outdated voter lists enable fraud, but evidence was scant. Experts and voters testified about the real impacts of registration challenges and voter roll maintenance.Derek B. Johnson (CyberScoop)
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The Kennedy's are NOT American Heroes! Jeffrey Epstein is!
-Republicans including RFK Jr!
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He's in the pocket of Israel, Russia, and the Saudis. He also just spent 2 billion on a gestapo expansion while kicking millions off healthcare, destroying public education, broadcasting, weather forecasting, FAA and the FDA.
He is systematically weakening our country and infrastructure in a way that WILL lead to the deaths of millions of Americans. He is guilty of pretty much every conceivable aspect of treason.
One of the only things that can be trusted at this point is that when Trump gets defensive, he starts heavily projecting his own actions and plans onto others.
Every accusation is an admission of guilt. Anyone who supports him at this point is a fucking pedo or a pedo enabling dipshit. Start applying for new ICE postings with shell accounts on a VPN to clog up their system, then if you get a call back, go though the process as far as you can, gather information, names, email addresses, domains, naming conventions, companies they outsource the interview process to, etc
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BREAKING: Barack Obama Fires Back at Trump in Rare Statement
Barack Obama Fires Back at Trump in Rare Statement
Former President Barack Obama's office issued a rare statement on Tuesday responding to the latest flurry of attacks from President Donald Trump.Isaac Schorr (Mediaite)
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Oh wow. The typo is in the Mediate article. Sorry for doubting you, OP.
This article correctly uses "weak". I have to imagine the error was Mediate's part and not present in the original statement Obama's office made.
It's like they'd deliberately need to mess it up,
That or they're transcribing from a secondary source, but why the heck do that when the original source is available?
This is probably the most damaging story about him since the Access Hollywood tape was leaked. He wanted that one gone so badly, he actually owned up to it and issued an apology for it (before then famously downplaying it as "locker room talk") and tried to steer the conversation away from it, which worked for the most part.
But just like with the pussy grabbing tape, I expect his base to fall in line with whatever narrative the Trump team eventually crafts to counteract the stream of negative press surrounding it. It just seems like his normal tactic of fire hosing a bunch of outrageous nonsense isn't working this time.
The alt right movement has been largely built on conspiracy theories - the idea that there is a shadowy cabal of very rich people who traffic and sexually abuse children. Many of them literally believed that Wayfair was selling children online with identification numbers for like chairs and sofas being secret codes for children; that children were being sold in the basement of a pizza shop, that lines in Hillary Clinton emails referring to getting pizza were references to child sex abuse, that there exists a video of Hillary Clinton ripping off a child’s face and eating it for gratification/getting high on “adrenochrome,” that their hero Trump was going to expose all of this. Even the “normal” ones had a belief that “The Left” is after their children - making them gay or trans. Donald Trump was supposed to expose all of this, and a big part of why he “won” is the conspiracy insanity.
Now, it has indeed turned out that there was a shadowy cabal of rich people sexually abusing children - with Trump being a very active participant. This is the equivalent of a doomsday cult reaching the day that the world was supposed to end and it not; the leader being revealed as a fraud the entire time. This exemplifies the way that the MAGA movement is a cult. They are experiencing massive amounts of cognitive dissonance, and choosing to double down in their cultic beliefs. This is terrifying to watch.
The narrative is starting to become that Epstein was an agent of Mossad that was intended to blackmail Trump. Genuine antisemitism (ie, not criticism of Israel for genociding Palestinians, but actual Nazi Jew hating) is common in those spaces, so this ties into their conspiracy theories very well already. (There’s also enough pieces to draw connections there - Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad was possibly murdered by Mossad. He also destroyed scientific publishing, so he can rest in piss regardless.)
We have an extremely dangerous cult that worships Trump based on the idea that he was going to “drain the swamp” and jail the pedophiles. This extremely dangerous cult is in a very desperate spot right now, and while the hope is that it will fall apart due to the clear fact that Donald Trump did rape children on Epstein’s island, cults do not operate on basic reason.
That pos cult are starting to say, “kids should be molested” or “if Donald raped me, I’ll be happy”.
This is why Donald loves the poorly uneducated. They’ll be the first to clean that shitty ass with their tongue.
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This happens all the time.
A couple members of the committee putting on the farcical investigation into Biden's actions in pushing out the corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor... Had previously signed the public congressional letter urging Biden to take that exact action.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said the following about the matter:The witch hunt that you should be talking about is they caught President Obama. What they did to this country in 2016, starting in 2016 but going up to 2020 of the election, they tried to rig the election and they got caught. There should be very severe consequences for that. When we caught Hillary Clinton, I said, you know what, let’s not go too far here. It’s the ex-wife of a president and I thought it was sort of terrible. I let her off the hook and I’m very happy I did. But it’s time to start — after what they did to me and whether it’s the right or wrong — it’s time to go after people. Obama has been caught directly.
Life must be so easy when you just do what the orange man tells you to, and believe what he tells you to believe.
Trump is one step away from his own religion at this point.
Rebranding him as a religious prophet was the plan during the Biden administration. Traitor General Michael Flynn was operating a traveling roadshow of evangelical preachers and conservative celebrities for which the overriding theme was HitlerPig's mission from God.
He was never very fond of his daughter-in-law Lara, until she started speaking on the tour, saying that she speaks directly with God regularly, and he had told her directly that HitlerPig was His chosen emissary to represent Him and lead America into its new White Christian future. HitlerPig was so pleased with this that he made her chairman of the RNC.
They were really cranking up the religious rhetoric at the time, and I fully expected that they'd start attributing miracles to him, when he hooked up with The Goblin, and they rigged the election. Now that he's president again, nobody is bringing up the religious stuff anymore. If he gets kicked out again, he'll pivot back to being a Prophet again.
Basically this, haha.
Obama meets with the GOP from Key and Peele
He's gotta just say it should be kept secret and they'll have to release it.
these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a week attempt at distraction," read the statement attributed to Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesperson for Obama.
Please tell me he actually said "weak" and didn't typo that on an actual press release.
Yup. And God forbid a black man be in the WHITE house, right? And then he dared to wear a TAN suit!
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