• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    4 days ago

    The line “enigmas never age” remains too strange. The whole card feels built around that line.

    The anagram enigmas = gamines is the only theory that fits. It’s just the kind of basic show of intelligence a slightly less<dementiaed Trump would think is the height of wit.

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      4 days ago

      You really think Trump would enjoy a pun on an anagram of a synonym of indelicacy?

      Even before his brain melted he was considered one of the most uncurious fellows to have even lived.

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        3 days ago

        Epstein’s favorite book was apparently Lolita. That book used the word “gamine.” It’s actually eerily fitting that if Trump and Epstein’s secret was pedophilia, that that’s exactly what “enigma” means.

        Trump isn’t smart but he can parrot back something that sounds smart from someone else.

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        3 days ago

        He might not have come up with the term. Let’s say you’re a supposed “financier” whose real specialty is procuring young girls for ultra-rich clients. You don’t want to use the actual word in case someone overhears it or reads it, so you come up with a term like “enigma” that your clients can use for an added layer of security when discussing your services. One of those dumb-shit clients uses that word in a public letter to you because he thinks nobody could possibly decipher it.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, I would not give this buffoon too much credit. I am not sure he would have ever known what an anagram is. And if he did, he’d probably think of it as some literary nerd shit that’s beneath him.

      That being said, I did pick that line up too, but only because it instantly made me sick to my stomach, seeing that a possible interpretation of it is much, much darker than “only” sexual abuse.

      Evidently, I don’t necessarily believe that that’s what the orange illiterate shit-bag meant. In all likelihood, this probably alludes to raping underage girls of about the same age. But I wouldn’t be surprised either if we are, somehow, underestimating the horrors that took place between him and Epstein (or any other high profile nonce that we don’t know about).