• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What “the base” wants is blood in the water. We missed that opportunity as soon as Biden handed the keys to the DOJ over, back in January.

    If Trump really does show up with “The List” (which isn’t really a list, but a compilation of various other documents that people keep pretending is a big binder called “Names of People Who Fucked Kids” that we’re going to get a copy of) and his name is emblazoned across it a thousand times… what happens next? Does Thomas Massie not vote on the next “Gut The EPA Act of 2025”? Will Trump’s next court nominee fail confirmation? Do we recall our Navy from the coast of Venezuela? Is the genocide in Gaza going to end? Is it finally Mueller Time?

    I’ve seen “Release the Epstein List!” in a thousand fundraising emails. I’ve heard it in speeches. I’ve got spam texts about it from Roganites and Third Way and Communist Party USA.

    Nobody seems to be doing anything else but this. Nothing appears to be improving.

    Just keep pushing and don’t stop.

    Pushing what? Don’t stop what?

    Are you writing your Congresscritters about this on the reg? Are you in contact with your state’s District Attorney? Did you show up at the Epstein Victims Rally, after shoving your way through all the National Guard and ICE goons patrolling DC?

    Or do you just mean “Don’t stop posting”?

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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      15 hours ago

      It is expedient for dividing their power & turning them against each other, something Democrats & progressives should keenly understand from so much self-infliction.

      If Trump really does show up with “The List” (which isn’t really a list, but a compilation of various other documents that people keep pretending is a big binder called “Names of People Who Fucked Kids” that we’re going to get a copy of) and his name is emblazoned across it a thousand times… what happens next?

      Funny you mention that: how do we know any of it actually exists outside Qanon conspiracy theories the press has reported for years? While I don’t deny the expediency of myths for ruining enemies, are people outside right-wing conspiracy theory communities seriously subscribing to the idea this wasn’t pulled out of some right-winger’s ass?