60 Minutes has been such a fucking propaganda outlet since CBS got bought by Trump's billionaire buddy, Larry Ellison, and EVEN STILL, it's not enough for him.
Literally the most soft-ball interview imaginable, the interviewer read a short excerpt from the alleged shooter's manifesto about fighting pedophiles - it didn't even directly accuse him!!! - and he freaked out, started saying "I'm not a pedophile" and whinging about how disgusting and disgraceful the interviewer is for bringing it up.
The worst imo is still the question asked during lockdowns that basically just asked him to say anything comforting to scared citizens, and he went off the handle accusing the reporter of being rude and mean, etc. Pretty much the easiest question for a sitting leader to just bullshit through for some easy PR and he couldn't help but make it about himself.
Pretty much the easiest question for a sitting leader to just bullshit through
Right, but he was never a leader. He's a boss. And the type of boss who expects people to just do what he says, without any questions. Simply asking a question is a sign of disloyalty!
I mean if you're constantly being accused of something you're sure of is false it's understandable you get ticked off if journalists keep throwing it in your face.
That being said, his response was completely out of line and I agree very telling. You'll notice everytime the guy is pushed into a corner he'll start attacking anyone in his vicinity. He always tries to discredit while himself spouting the most wacko unsupported claims.
How anyone can listen to the guy for more than 5 minutes and still think he's capable of running a country is beyond me.
There isn't much media that isn't a propaganda mouthpiece for billionaires, corporations and the politician's the former owns. There are still independent sources and reputable journalists that would make it important enough.
The more information people have the more accurately people can make their decisions. An ignorant populous is an easily controlled populous.
Yes, there is no path to resolve the problem of the USA that does not go through all-out civil war. Half the country is completely convinced of an entirely fictional reality and are more than willing to die and to kill to defend it. They are well past the point that evidence of any kind can affect them.
The day will come when their god-emperor tells them to kill and die, and they will.
Very true. They'll be standing on the gallows arguing which part of their precious Constitution makes their own execution that is currently happening illegal.
That is white collar crime if I'm correct. And it's not "probably" but "certainly". Kushner, some of his sons and himself have bought and sold stocks right before he publically announced something which buffed or tanked the value, then to sell or buy again before publically changing his mind on the subject normalizing the stock prices again. This isn't hidden, this is publically available data but he got immunity from the supreme court and he will pardon anyone else.
The Epstein Files aside, I have long ago stopped being surprised at the level of depravity he will stoop to. No matter how outlandish something is, he will surpass it, every time.
So when they start talking about dead babies and such, my Critical Thinking Skills no longer say "That's too crazy to believe," they say "Well, he's turned out to be guilty of every other outlandish thing that he's been accused of, so why shouldn't we believe this?"
O’Donnell then asked the president about his reaction to Allen’s rationalization that he was “no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” the president replied. “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
“Oh, do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell asked, before Trump interrupted.
If you're not a pedophile then remove all redactions of your name from the Trump/Epstein files and release them all. After all, the saying is "the Truth shall set you free" right?
I honestly don't know if he said outright at any point that he went to kill trump...
There was one person he explicitly wasn't targeting:
“Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest,” Allen allegedly wrote, referring to FBI Director Kash Patel.
Man ... I don't care how many times someone is in there. Him fuckin in there at all is a massive problem. Yet, people are still okay with this God fellow.
Just ask yourself what the Russians or mossad have on him? They must have something real juicey, that he is willing to sacrifice 1000's of lives to protect his reputation. Although, for most, his reputation is already disgusting and corrupt.
I don't think he sees it as sacrificing lives he just sees the money and that's all that matters. He doesn't have enough of a conscience to care about anything else.
I'm assuming it's very incriminating Epstein related videos. It seems plainly obvious that Epstein was running a honeypot for somebody, specifically to get blackmail on the rich and powerful. (At least, IMO)
He feels safe enough to utter that shit. If only the left had a fraction of the right-wing propaganda apparatus. There should be three times the January 6 crowd taking him straight to the scaffold. Yet here we are watching a fascist dystopia installing itself, in slow motion.
I don't know how true this is (citations needed), but from hearing folks that lived through a fascist takeovers of democracy in other countries, we've really fast-tracked the process in many ways.
Indeed, the rate of democratic backsliding is considered to be fast, compared to other countries. Below I include some links and quotes. What I really wanted to say is that the resistance is too mild, and too slow. Also, you know that book "On Tyranny"? Very relevant under the circumstances.
We are sliding towards an illiberal democracy. The phrase, first popularized in the 1990s, took on new urgency in the United States as major figures in Donald Trump’s orbit came to view Viktor Orbán as a leadership role model. As Bill Kristol posted, “ABC’s settlement with Trump feels like it could be an inflection point in the Orbanization of our politics.”
To be clear, the United States is not yet an illiberal democracy, but the movement towards it has accelerated in the weeks since the election. What is most disturbing is that Trump has not yet even taken power.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-are-on-our-own/ (2024-12-22)
The scary thing is that I've watched a Trump/Musk style takeover of the government in my home country of Hungary a long time ago and it went great for them. Turns out the general population accepted every institution being gutted and stripped in obviously corrupt ways. They were simply distracted by a constant stream of culture war shit which normal people cared more about than institutional change, and those who did look thought "the boys are fixing the system" or "it was corrupt anyway".
https://mas.to/@Techaltar/113943270068786481 (2025-02-04)
In the last few days alone, Trump has smashed past several new milestones.
He's just called his predecessor's pardons void and vacated. He gave a bitterly partisan speech at the Department of Justice, demanding the prosecution of the media and certain adversaries. He threatened numerous universities with sanctions. He invoked a 227-year-old war measures law during peacetime — for the first time ever — to deport accused gang members without due process. And, most importantly, when that deportation plan wound up in court, he may have — although it's still in dispute — defied a court order, cracking the ultimate constitutional safeguard.
It's not just the scope of what Trump's done that has Lindberg envisioning the once-unthinkable: removing the U.S. from the democratic list and shifting it to the second-lowest tier among five, to a so-called electoral autocracy. It's also the speed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317 (2025-03-18)
By the time we left in late 2004, Moscow had been transformed. People who had happily talked with us at the start were now afraid to return our calls. “Now I have this fear all the time,” one told us at the time.
There is a similar chill now in Washington. Every day someone who used to feel free to speak publicly against Mr. Trump says they will no longer let journalists quote them by name for fear of repercussions, both Democrats and Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-putin-russia.html (2025-02-26)
Yet another report out Thursday from Freedom House, a Washington, D.C.-based democracy think-tank, said that among free countries, the U.S. joined Bulgaria and Italy in registering the largest declines in political rights and civil liberties last year.
"The developments in the United States are moving towards dictatorship, what the founders wanted to avoid," said Staffan Lindberg, the V-Dem Institute's founding director, who spent seven years in the U.S. "It's the most rapid decline ever in the history of the United States and one of the most rapid in the world."
V-Dem stands for Varieties of Democracy. More than 4,000 scholars contributed data to the report, which is the largest of its kind.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5754021/trump-democracy-autocracy-dictatorship-reports
And this complementary piece, for no reason whatsoever.
Well to him he’s not. These people don’t view girls who have started getting their period as a kid anymore. That’s their bar. Epstein told this to Virginia in her book. None of them think they did anything wrong.
Oooooooooooooo. That's why he didn't throw a temper tantrum about the radical Left. Remember how hardcore all these clowns were after Kirk? It said fascism on a bullet! That's us! Time for civil war!
“I’m not a pedophile. Excuse me. Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that c--- from some sick person? I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, ‘You know, I’ll do this interview and they’ll probably’— I read the manifesto. You know, he’s a sick person. But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I’m not any of those things.”
“You shouldn’t be reading that on 60 Minutes. You’re a disgrace. But go ahead. Let’s finish the interview,” he continued, adding, “You’re disgraceful.”
Por que no los dos... He's definitely compulsively lying, but when I read this, I can't help but think, "If a whiny, soiled-diaper, cranky, colicky, ill-tempered baby was kept up way past its bedtime, could articulate full sentences and was accused of pedophilia, it would sound pretty much identical to this."
Ah. Probably depends on what sort order you use. If you use New, obviously the shooting has been shoved way down. I'd assume Active or Hot would probably show those posts from around 9-12 pm US East Coast when they flooded my feed (usually sorted by New). But at the same time, I can also see Lemmy users not really caring all that much about discussing the actual shooting because what's there to say?
But you don't.
Because the distinction doesn't need to be made.
Because raping a child at any age is deplorable.
We don't need to get granular with it.
Worth watching because he realized he fucked up here:
“I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people,” the president replied. “Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody.”
“Oh, do you think he was referring to you?” O’Donnell asked, before Trump interrupted.
I'm not a pedophile. (i just like raping little girls and occasionally eating one of them). Only says part of it out loud. Doesn't look convincing either. Looks like a shady mobster lying his ass off in a courtroom. Head mobster. Watch him but turn the sound all the way down - just watch him talk. A bad guy is what you'll see without hearing the con man's words.
It's a big word, he just doesn't understand. they need to explain it means he likes to have sex with 13 yr old girls who are in the early stage of puberty. like the one he raped already. I'm sure if they tell him what the word means, he'll be all "oh yeah, I do that."
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bearboiblake@pawb.social · 298 pts · 117d
60 Minutes has been such a fucking propaganda outlet since CBS got bought by Trump's billionaire buddy, Larry Ellison, and EVEN STILL, it's not enough for him.
Literally the most soft-ball interview imaginable, the interviewer read a short excerpt from the alleged shooter's manifesto about fighting pedophiles - it didn't even directly accuse him!!! - and he freaked out, started saying "I'm not a pedophile" and whinging about how disgusting and disgraceful the interviewer is for bringing it up.
It's the most self-reporting behavior imaginable.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 149 pts · 117d
He also said he's not a rapist but there is trial that says otherwise.
ech@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 117d
The worst imo is still the question asked during lockdowns that basically just asked him to say anything comforting to scared citizens, and he went off the handle accusing the reporter of being rude and mean, etc. Pretty much the easiest question for a sitting leader to just bullshit through for some easy PR and he couldn't help but make it about himself.
dhork@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 117d
Right, but he was never a leader. He's a boss. And the type of boss who expects people to just do what he says, without any questions. Simply asking a question is a sign of disloyalty!
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 9 pts · 117d
Not just disloyalty, insubordination.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 115d
He doesn’t hide who he is because he’s never needed to.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 117d
A hit dog will holler
scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 117d
Isn't this how most people get caught? You say something in general then the accuser defends themselves. If he's not a pedo then release the files
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 117d
I mean if you're constantly being accused of something you're sure of is false it's understandable you get ticked off if journalists keep throwing it in your face.
That being said, his response was completely out of line and I agree very telling. You'll notice everytime the guy is pushed into a corner he'll start attacking anyone in his vicinity. He always tries to discredit while himself spouting the most wacko unsupported claims.
How anyone can listen to the guy for more than 5 minutes and still think he's capable of running a country is beyond me.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 117d
No YOU illegally grow tobacco for the counterfeit cigarette black market!
Maiq@piefed.social · 242 pts · 117d
If only someone could release the Epstein files in their entirety with a wave of a pen, this whole thing could be sorted and put to rest.
artyom@piefed.social · 75 pts · 117d
Wouldn't even need a pen, it would just require complying with the law.
TheMadCodger@piefed.social · 42 pts · 117d
Doesn't need a pen. He can declassify them by just thinking it.
robocall@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 117d
He needs the auto pen because there's so much to sign
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · -25 pts · 117d
Which would also out all of his victims in the most public manner possible.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
Many of the victims have already publicly banded together and are calling for a sweeping release.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -29 pts · 117d
What do you think is going to be revealed that:
Will stop MAGA trash from making excuses for him
Will be enough for the media to stay focused on it
Will enable the “opposition” (such as it is) to enact any meaningful consequences
Will have any effect at all on the culture that created Trump in the first place
You’re absolutely delusional if you think there’s some hard evidence hidden away somewhere that would be sufficient to change a single American mind
Maiq@piefed.social · 30 pts · 117d
Don't give a flying fuck what MAGA excuses.
There isn't much media that isn't a propaganda mouthpiece for billionaires, corporations and the politician's the former owns. There are still independent sources and reputable journalists that would make it important enough.
The more information people have the more accurately people can make their decisions. An ignorant populous is an easily controlled populous.
I think it could.
Wow, nice troll! Tagged.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 117d
You can tag people?
Maiq@piefed.social · 3 pts · 117d
Both the mobile apps I use on the regular have that option. Interstellar and Summit. Both are great apps!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -9 pts · 117d
Great, saving this comment. Let’s watch.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 117d
Then why are they still hiding shit?
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 117d
I'll tell you what: that they are being defeated, charged and punished, and that they see nowhere they can run. Until then, it's all bullshit.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 117d
Huh?
DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 117d
Yes, there is no path to resolve the problem of the USA that does not go through all-out civil war. Half the country is completely convinced of an entirely fictional reality and are more than willing to die and to kill to defend it. They are well past the point that evidence of any kind can affect them.
The day will come when their god-emperor tells them to kill and die, and they will.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 117d
It won’t be a civil war.
Literally nothing will get the other half off their sofas to fight back. They’ll just take whatever MAGA gives them.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
Have we determined which side the latest shooter was on?
DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 116d
Very true. They'll be standing on the gallows arguing which part of their precious Constitution makes their own execution that is currently happening illegal.
PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf · -8 pts · 117d
Yep! If there were, the Democrats would have released it during Biden's administration. Ain't no Democrat gonna resist releasing dirt like that.
rottenmummy@piefed.social · 147 pts · 117d
Narrator: He was in fact a pedophile
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 120 pts · 117d
Not only a pedophile. He’s also a rapist of children.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 46 pts · 117d
And don't forget all his other crimes. War crimes, crimes against humanity, white collar crimes, extortion, corruption, etc.
prodaccess@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 117d
Probably massive insider trading too
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 116d
That is white collar crime if I'm correct. And it's not "probably" but "certainly". Kushner, some of his sons and himself have bought and sold stocks right before he publically announced something which buffed or tanked the value, then to sell or buy again before publically changing his mind on the subject normalizing the stock prices again. This isn't hidden, this is publically available data but he got immunity from the supreme court and he will pardon anyone else.
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 117d
And quite possibly an infant murderer, according to some reports. And possibly much more.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 117d
The Epstein Files aside, I have long ago stopped being surprised at the level of depravity he will stoop to. No matter how outlandish something is, he will surpass it, every time.
So when they start talking about dead babies and such, my Critical Thinking Skills no longer say "That's too crazy to believe," they say "Well, he's turned out to be guilty of every other outlandish thing that he's been accused of, so why shouldn't we believe this?"
M137@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 117d
certainly* much more.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 117d
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 117d
Bubba is the name of Ghislane's horse...
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 117d
I have found zero proof that's true.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 116d
That he fucked an animal or that the horse name was Bubba?
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 116d
That she had a horse named Bubba.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 117d
And supplier for trafficking
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 117d
Nixon: “I am not a crook!”
Was a crook, after all.
trump: “I am not a pedophile!”
…multiple, repeated allegations and testimony.
Hmmm…
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 117d
Best mate was arguably the world's most notorious pedophile.....
justaman123@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 117d
Defining moment of this presidency
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 116d
Yup, all generations that didn't grow up with nixon in office only know "I am not a crook" and whatever futurama says :)
runiq@feddit.org · 106 pts · 117d
lmao gottem
dan1101@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 117d
At least he is aware of his reputation as a pedophile. Sometimes I wonder how out of touch with reality he is.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
He didn't even defend himself in the traitor bit.
runiq@feddit.org · 1 pts · 113d
Or in the pedophile bit, for that matter.
Freud would have had a field day with this fella
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 117d
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
"Oh my." - Lady G
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social · 91 pts · 117d
But they said he was several times.
He never sued once ? Captain litigious can deny all he want but he hasn’t sued anyone who called him a pedophile.
That’s weird
yakko@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 117d
The word is "discovery"
MrSelfDestruct25@fedinsfw.app · 87 pts · 117d
PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 117d
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 116d
If you're not a pedophile then remove all redactions of your name from the Trump/Epstein files and release them all. After all, the saying is "the Truth shall set you free" right?
Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org · 11 pts · 116d
Isn't it MAGA that always says "If you don't have anything to hide then you don't have to worry" and "Just comply" ?
Weird that their cult leader NEVER does those things.
kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 117d
Donald Trump is a violent child rapist.
Zier@fedia.io · 13 pts · 117d
Donald Trump is a violent child, and a rapist.
LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca · 67 pts · 117d
Geez, I wonder why would anyone want to kill such a nice old gentleman.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 33 pts · 117d
It’s like when I walk into every room and inform everyone that I’m not a murderer. There’s always some asshole who thinks that means I am a murderer.
Like, dude, I just told you I wasn’t.
smh@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 116d
Maybe you should put "not a murderer" on a t-shirt, to clarify the situation.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 117d
I honestly don't know if he said outright at any point that he went to kill trump...
There was one person he explicitly wasn't targeting:
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 39 pts · 117d
I believe he believes he’s not a pedo or a rapist.
Does what he believes matter? Not one bit.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
Are you saying he's so senile he forgot all his pedophile rape adventures so he thinks he isnt now?
diablomnky@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
Possibly, although we do know that he's that much of a narcissist to believe that he can do no wrong.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
In that case though his argument would be there's nothing wrong with pedophilia, not I'm not a pedophile.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
No, just too delusional to accept that forcing a 14-year old girl to suck your weird mushroom dick is actually rape and pedophilia.
I'm uncertain of the specifics, 14 may be shooting high idk.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 116d
Taleya@aussie.zone · 38 pts · 117d
Mm. Medically a pedophile is someone attracted to prepubescent children. Usually due to underlying brain malfunction.
What trump is is a child raping abuser who does it for the thrill and power.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 38 pts · 117d
He could NOT have made it MORE Clear that he's Not a Pedophile so GET OVER IT LIBTARDS!
-The man who shows up MORE then GOD in the Epstein Files!
jason@piefed.world · 12 pts · 117d
Man ... I don't care how many times someone is in there. Him fuckin in there at all is a massive problem. Yet, people are still okay with this God fellow.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 117d
Eh, there are innocuous people in there too. They just happen to be rare. Trump is in there more than any other name though.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d
I’m fairly sure we’re (theoretically) capable of electing a president who appears zero times in the Epstein files
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 117d
Like Patton Oswalt. A bunch of pedophiles went to see a movie he was in and he gets mentioned. So… he is technically in there.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 117d
And John Stewart, because Epstein said they should get "someone like John Stewart" to do some PR shit for them.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 116d
Or Rebecca Watson
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 117d
New bot account? I blocked your old one, must have swapped servers?
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 117d
I think you missed the sarcasm
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 117d
That’s the bots whole shtick.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 116d
Totally what a pedophile would say.
Also rapes adults. As determined by a court of law.
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 116d
I'm surprised he didn't pull a "Well actuallyyyy, it's ephebophilia"
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 117d
Just ask yourself what the Russians or mossad have on him? They must have something real juicey, that he is willing to sacrifice 1000's of lives to protect his reputation. Although, for most, his reputation is already disgusting and corrupt.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 117d
I don't think he sees it as sacrificing lives he just sees the money and that's all that matters. He doesn't have enough of a conscience to care about anything else.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
I think he’s sadistic and enjoys harming as many people as possible.
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 116d
I'm assuming it's very incriminating Epstein related videos. It seems plainly obvious that Epstein was running a honeypot for somebody, specifically to get blackmail on the rich and powerful. (At least, IMO)
__Goblin@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 117d
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 117d
SCP
runiq@feddit.org · 19 pts · 117d
SCP-4547
cheeseburger@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 117d
🤯
theblurstoftimes@leminal.space · 31 pts · 117d
What about my ballroom??!!!?!?!
This mother fucker probably wants a ball pit from the McDonald’s Playland.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 117d
Well sure. That would attract kids.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 28 pts · 117d
"...because a paedophile likes pre-pubescent children." he continued.
whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 117d
He feels safe enough to utter that shit. If only the left had a fraction of the right-wing propaganda apparatus. There should be three times the January 6 crowd taking him straight to the scaffold. Yet here we are watching a fascist dystopia installing itself, in slow motion.
jimerson@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
I don't know how true this is (citations needed), but from hearing folks that lived through a fascist takeovers of democracy in other countries, we've really fast-tracked the process in many ways.
whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 116d
Indeed, the rate of democratic backsliding is considered to be fast, compared to other countries. Below I include some links and quotes. What I really wanted to say is that the resistance is too mild, and too slow. Also, you know that book "On Tyranny"? Very relevant under the circumstances.
And this complementary piece, for no reason whatsoever.
jimerson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Thanks for sharing the resources!
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 116d
..so... The pubic hair is the determining criteria? Explains why you used your signature to illustrate.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
"There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?"
APinkOrange@piefed.social · 27 pts · 117d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
No clue why one should get another impression...
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 117d
I mean, if you have to deny it...
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 117d
Trump: “I am not a pedophile. Those girls looked very mature and wore make-up, beautiful make-up.”
Reporter: “Next up, the new winner of the Beauty Pageant contest Princess of America, Claudette, 4, and why everybody wants to meet her”
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 117d
...that's what a pedophile says
ceenote@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 117d
You know he gets so pissed about it because he can't brag about all the
young womengirls he fucked.Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 117d
Raped. You almost had it.
peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 117d
Well not since his best friend "hung" himself.
64bithero@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 117d
You know who would respond with that ? A pedophile !
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 117d
Sure, right. And I have some nice oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 116d
MrPlow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 116d
That's The Pedophile Oath. You put your right hand in the air, your left hand in your pants and say that.
runiq@feddit.org · 19 pts · 117d
PSA: You can read Daily Beast articles without an account if you use Firefox reader mode.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 117d
But why would you want to.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 116d
I mean, he just admitted he is a pedophile on national TV, finally.
Everyone knows he works in opposites, so he did admit it on TV.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 117d
Obligatory mention of: "R Kelly is not a pedophile, technically speaking"
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 117d
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 116d
Well to him he’s not. These people don’t view girls who have started getting their period as a kid anymore. That’s their bar. Epstein told this to Virginia in her book. None of them think they did anything wrong.
jason@piefed.world · 16 pts · 117d
Oooooooooooooo. That's why he didn't throw a temper tantrum about the radical Left. Remember how hardcore all these clowns were after Kirk? It said fascism on a bullet! That's us! Time for civil war!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 116d
You know who never has to say that?
People who aren't pedophiles.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 117d
Is this to distract from the assassination?
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 117d
I think it's to distract from the war he started to distract everyone from the Epstein files
santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
…attempt
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 12 pts · 117d
"You news people are monsters! For thinking I might talk about the news, here on the news talk show."
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 117d
Was he doing some pedophilia right at that moment? No?! Case closed
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 116d
Another lie from a pedophile.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 117d
Truth hurts.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 117d
...I only fuck children when I'm reallllly drunk
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 117d
The Toddler-in-Chief handed the mic over to the Compulsive-Liar-in Chief
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 117d
Por que no los dos... He's definitely compulsively lying, but when I read this, I can't help but think, "If a whiny, soiled-diaper, cranky, colicky, ill-tempered baby was kept up way past its bedtime, could articulate full sentences and was accused of pedophilia, it would sound pretty much identical to this."
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
It's the same picture.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 117d
This was in response to the question "how was your flight" so the whole interview was weird
BillCheddar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
Trump sang, "I'm not a pedo but I grope a lot"
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
"I'm not a pedo, no, no"
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 117d
How is that on the frontpage we have a news about trump saying he's not a pedophile but not news about yesterday shooting?
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 10 pts · 117d
What "frontpage"?
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 116d
Lemmy all frontpage
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 0 pts · 116d
Ah. Probably depends on what sort order you use. If you use New, obviously the shooting has been shoved way down. I'd assume Active or Hot would probably show those posts from around 9-12 pm US East Coast when they flooded my feed (usually sorted by New). But at the same time, I can also see Lemmy users not really caring all that much about discussing the actual shooting because what's there to say?
piskertariot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 117d
One of these things wasn't expected.
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 116d
Isn't there a rule against fake news?
winks at the camera
WandowsVista@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 117d
"I'm not tired!"
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 116d
The pedophile protector is saying what?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 116d
You know another word for Pedophile Protector?
Pedophile.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 117d
Well technically, he's an ephebophile, so...
( Edit, for those who didn't already know...this is sarcasm )
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 117d
A distinction without a difference.
Ariselas@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 117d
the 13year old makes him a pedo
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 117d
Good point.
homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 117d
The only difference this makes is what table they sit at in the prison cafeteria
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d
You knowing this makes you problematic.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 117d
Not so much. I know there's a word for it, but I still have to look it up every time.
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 117d
But you don't. Because the distinction doesn't need to be made. Because raping a child at any age is deplorable. We don't need to get granular with it.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
I didn't realize I needed to put an /s on the end of that. My bad.
pyromaster55@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d
Sounds like what a pedophile would say.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
Go home Donny you're drunk. What about those 14 year olds? Oh!? 😱 Okay Donny....like I said...
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
says the pedophile
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 117d
Worth watching because he realized he fucked up here:
kamayatu24@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
Are we supposed to take his word for it?
daddycool@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
Has he ever lied before?
fira@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 116d
Donald Trump is a child rapist megalomaniacal dementia-ridden pedo king
mattyroses@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 116d
" my t-shirt
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 115d
I wonder if there would be any consequences if he physically assaulted the interviewer
santa@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 117d
Says Epstein’s best friend.
Im guessing he didn’t say he isn’t a rapist, since he was convicted of it.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
Denial is s classic guilt tactic
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 116d
I mean, it's also a classic innocence tactic... But in this case, he's guilty as charged
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Well medically, he's a hebephile. Still a criminal and predator.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
The only people who give a shit about the difference between pedophilia and hebephilia are psychologists and pedophiles.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 117d
Login-walled. Please provide an alternative.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 117d
Every publication and historical document should now refer to him as “President Donald J. Trump (not a pedophile)”
saigot@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
Here's what is really meant: youtube.com/video/gYhtHCqsAHw/edit
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 115d
I'm not a pedophile. (i just like raping little girls and occasionally eating one of them). Only says part of it out loud. Doesn't look convincing either. Looks like a shady mobster lying his ass off in a courtroom. Head mobster. Watch him but turn the sound all the way down - just watch him talk. A bad guy is what you'll see without hearing the con man's words.
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
At least he is an equal opportunity rapist. Wait, does that make him woke?
Snowclone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
It's a big word, he just doesn't understand. they need to explain it means he likes to have sex with 13 yr old girls who are in the early stage of puberty. like the one he raped already. I'm sure if they tell him what the word means, he'll be all "oh yeah, I do that."
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
1000 to 1 the Epstein files say otherwise.
BlueZen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 117d
santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
Was this another staging?
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d
The lady doth protest too much. Because he's hoping to distract from the fact that he's a pedophile.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 115d
"erupted" and "exploded"? Did I watch the same clip as the writer?