• Tm12@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I think she’s distancing herself from anything Epstein while she still can.

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      3 days ago

      Right. I think she’s putting her money on Trump failing so she can run for president and say “see, I stood up”

      Which is a brilliant move, if project 2025 fails.

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          3 days ago

          I cannot actually imagine him doing very well in an election either way.

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            I bet you would have said the same thing about Trump in 2016 and yet here we are. Attempting to understand the thought process of inherently irrational people is a losing battle.

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                  Trump started saying on main the vile, despicable stuff American people had wanted to say since the civil rights movement. He can LARP as a successful person (a poor person’s idea of a rich person etc etc). Vance is as appealing as lukewarm cottage cheese.

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              Nah, when Trump won the nomination in 2016 I knew we were cooked. Vance doesn’t have the same appeal. He’s got the “owning libs” part down but his humor lacks a broader appeal, unlike Trump.

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                Yes, but mere months before winning the nom the very idea of Trump winning it was unthinkable. And frankly it still is, and only makes sense when you understand the movement original detached from Trump that pushed him. They’re who won the nom, Trump was just the easiest person to enact their agenda through. We all should have been paying way more attention to the unsavory shit happening online like gamergate, because the masterminds behind that are the ones holding the real power today, imo.

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              Sorry bud, I knew he was gonna win because Hillary was gonna lose. I did not think he was going to lose in 2020 though—and honestly I wish he won just so we would be done with it all by now. But that revenge project 2025, mixed with 4 years of him aging just killed the whole country.

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          2 days ago

          Vance is not running in 2028, it will be Donald Trump Jr. They won’t even need to change the hats.

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      I’ve said this a few time on here, but I’m originally from spitting distance from her district, and based on my experience with so many other folks just like her; protecting children, specifically from conspiratorial trafficking and SA, is her number 1 priority, she’s usually really fucking bad at identifying ways to productively do so because she’s very poorly educated and indoctrinated, but if she has 100% confirmation Trump raped a child, which isn’t unlikely, she would almost certainly turn on him like it seems she has.

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        Yeah, at least the voters actually do care about “protecting the children.” They’ve just been lied to a lot and are told it’s trans people and illegal immigrants who they need to protect them from. Once they see the truth, that it’s the ultra-wealthy elite who are the real evil people, they may do the right thing. You just have to break them out of their bubble, which is really hard.

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      I think she was a true believer who finally woke up to the fact that Trump and his lackeys are doing everything they can to prevent disclosure of the Epstein files. And that was like her main issue.