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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 26 points 5 days ago

The man who LET RICH PEOPLE BUY THE ABILITY TO RAPE TODDLERS is a Hero!

-MAGA!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 92 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Reposting a comment I made on a similar post about the 180 mental gymnastics MAGA are displaying.

What you're witnessing here is described in When Prophecy Fails, a study on cults and how they justify continued belief after experiencing events that should disprove their belief.

Cult members will simply invent new reasons to continue their belief and remove the cognitive dissonance they may feel, which oddly results in a further entrenched belief, instead of a weakened one.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

QAnon was a public exhibition of how this happens with MAGAts. I doubt it does but none of this should surprise anyone

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 days ago

From the beginning too. remember the deep state bullshit?

They really believe AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the like are the deep state not the born rich New York scum bag who literally befriends everyone powerful

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Found the pedophile.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trump really painted himself into a corner by promising the QAnons all of the dirt on Epstien, and I'm very curious to see if a narrative like this can dig him out. They'll usually twist reality into knots to keep their narrative alive, but, "Epstien was a white hat," might he a bridge too far, even for them.

[–] hansolo 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter.

Remember that "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave" line? Turns out he meant "I could rape a child," and these people would STILL love him.

This is their loyalty test now. This is how low this sleeze will take them this week.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that's true for some MAGAs, but the QAnons have invested deeply in the child-trafficking conspiracy. I think if he created a narrative of, "Yes, I'm on the client list, but it was a double agent for the deep state," they would swallow it (most of them already believe some version of that), but telling them that their is no conspiracy and they need to move on will not go over well. (Of course, claiming to be an Epstien double-agent is gonna make him look crazy to anyone not Q-pilled, so he can't do that).

[–] hansolo 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think that's already where Newsmax is going (per 1 random post I saw 2 days ago and can't find anymore) calling Epstein possibly an amazing patriot as a CIA/Mossad agent getting intel about... I dunno, the Clintons?

The retcon fantasy is framed up for the Q nuts. I expect they'll find a way to stumble into it on their own.

Edit: found it

https://lemmy.today/post/33293629

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So Pizzagate is real, but the Epstein files aren't?

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

there was no topping list

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 43 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cult. Endless denial. Forever rejecting reality. What more would it take to have these people given straight jackets?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Straitjacket. I don't get it either but that's what it is.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yep, you're right. Straight**_**Jacket is a song :)

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Animal Farm and 1984 covered this

[–] oppy1984@lemdro.id 3 points 5 days ago

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

[–] nthavoc 10 points 5 days ago

The word patriot has lost all meaning. It is a word used to excuse the scum of this country from the most heinous of acts. This moron somehow spun Epstein into a patriot as if he was doing some grand operation to get "dirt on US adversaries" . "Who else gets this prison deal?" Every fucking criminal billionaire including Trump! They all deserve the chair along with anyone that believes their bullshit.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] III@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is no list... After the Trump administration removed all of his rich peers from the list, no names were left...so no list.

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What if the Epstein files are incredibly damaging to Trump so they say they don't exist so that when the democrats release them they can say that they are fake?

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[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago

Time to Luigi this guy

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

For fuck’s sake.

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 17 points 6 days ago

the amount of mental gymnastics here.

there's a huge gap being skipped from being skipped.

epstein would be complicit and still part of the gang if he's doing what he was told.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Epstein was CIA under deep cover. He was infiltrating the pedophile ring and he got too close. What a patriot.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

In a bare minimum rational world, Mr. Kelly would never see the broadcast side of a teleprompter ever again.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does anyone know where the goal posts went? They keep moving around.

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 14 points 6 days ago

If the conspiracy heads fall for this... Man, they're going to eat this up huh?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago
[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

KELLY: It's totally crazy.

Well I agree with him on that part.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

American suicide bombers and guerilla militias...

It's only a matter of time. It's already happening.. but they call them lone wolf and mentally ill... But it will probably grow... Then they will be called a terrorist group just like every other group that fought for humanity.

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