It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
I saw this was trending and had to google it
"The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."
Very Serious People can't resolve the cognitive dissonance involved in the knowledge that Trump was involved with Epstein's pedo ring and so pretend its a conspiracy theory or didn't happen. Trump inexplicably gave the guy who let Epstein skate a cabinet post! All out in the open!
I honestly think a huge element of Q-An*n's resonance with conservative voters is that its a way to resolve the pain caused by so many of their own leaders being child abusers and so many of their base voters being victims of abuse bsky.app/profile/madh...
when I think about this, and the fact that the whole QAnon thing is "end child sex trafficking" and all the QAnon people vociferously support Trump...well, right before my brain starts oozing out my ears, I'm forced to conclude there is a LOT of deeply dark shit we don't know about yet
It’s the endpoint of a mental gymnastics routine to explain why Trump doesn’t do all the cool politics they project onto him and just does the narcissism
Churches are often microcosms of this, where known child abusers remain in good standing because they're "trying to change," and all the pain and resentment resulting from the injustice gets aimed outward at non-churchgoers who they imagine must be doing the same things except in an evil way.
Considering Trump sterling record for projecting his own foibles onto those who oppose him (the only sterling record he owns), I guarantee there's a lot to unpack we don't know about.
Insisting that Tom Hanks is a pedophile is a hell of a lot less stressful than admitting that your local cop, priest, hockey coach or *presidential candidate* is a pedophile 😬
makes me wonder how much of it may be twisted guilt trip projection because they too have had an impure thot that involves kids or animals or inanimate objects.
To discount how much of our national angst is tied up in sexual guilt is a fools game it seems.
well look at the evangelical extremely close Venn there, and how much of Trump's base it makes up.
then take a good long look at their theory and practice of child rearing. all trigger warnings ever.
Alice Miller was right, dammit.
when I think about this, and the fact that the whole QAnon thing is "end child sex trafficking" and all the QAnon people vociferously support Trump...well, right before my brain starts oozing out my ears, I'm forced to conclude there is a LOT of deeply dark shit we don't know about yet
The bottom line is that qanon has never been that serious about actual sex trafficking, and much more into making lurid accusations of a bunch of politicians they don’t like.
I honestly think a huge element of Q-An*n's resonance with conservative voters is that its a way to resolve the pain caused by so many of their own leaders being child abusers and so many of their base voters being victims of abuse bsky.app/profile/madh...
My theory is that they intentionally flooded the zone with all the Q/pizzagate/adrenochrome nonsense so that anyone who makes accusations about pedophile rings automatically gets labeled a crank.
And then Epstein died mysteriously in prison while he appointed an AG with connections to him as well.
Everything points to trump ordering his death or at least having no problem with it happening to save him.
GEE WHAT AN AMAZING FRONT PAGE STORY THIS WOULD BE SO MANY POTENTIAL EYEBALLS AND CLICKS IT IS JUICY BUT ALSO VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE DEMOCRACY and oh wait
NEVER MIND. THIS JUST IN: JOE BIDEN IS OLD.
ALSO, CLINTON DID A THING WITH EMAILS.
DO YOU LIKE MY FONT, I AM LEGACY MEDIA
Only in the broadest possible terms. Their kind is all weird satanic rites and underground tunnels and windowless vans and blindfolds and kidnapping and stranger danger, and not rich Republican guys offering young aspiring models and actresses seemingly lucrative gigs, only there’s a hitch, see…?
Sure it’s more that they’re picking up on something awful in the zeitgeist and then filtering it through the fucking blood libel of all the fucking things
Remember when we found out that the MIT Professor who was also accused of plagiarism also worked with Epstein and the Times thought that was also sort of a minor detail?
I suggest it is the same reason that Biden will not immediately release the documents related to the New York Epstein case, even though he had unlimited declassification power prior to that gonzo ruling, and it would likely destroy Trump completely. Power protects itself.
Our next question should be: Who is quoting anything coming out of the NYT anymore like it’s not complete trash propaganda for the oligarchs and kleptocracy?
This is what I've been saying for years. The NYT was shitty back in the 90s, then proved it wasn't really a journalism outfit with their coverage of the 2000 election and the run up to the Iraq War. I don't know why people are surprised with 2024 NYT when this is who they've been the whole time.
Today, editors of major American newspapers will struggle to select the most newsworthy headline:
1) Americans have Picnics to Celebrate Nation’s Founding
2) Biden is One Day Older than he was Yesterday
3) New Evidence Emerges that Trump Regularly Raped Children
This is the first mainstream US news source I've seen report this. It has been all over reddit for days and I was wondering if it was possible to breakthrough. It seems pretty explosive to me.
It took me a sec to realize this was the same Jane Doe case that got put in a pile (and ignored) with all the other Trump rape accusations during the 2015 campaign, and then further swept under the rug when she pulled out of a press conference over death threats from MAGA cultists.
But yes, the usual outlets found a reason to intentionally bury the story back in the day. Their excuses even had a certain logic to them...until Epstein died in custody and Trump started being suspiciously polite when asked about Ghislaine Maxwell. Almost as if he knew she still had the negatives.
It is interesting until we also realize that there are folks in both parties that were tied to Jeffrey Epstein and I'm not sure they want to dredge up that spectre just for the "Trump's an awful person" angle since...that's about as surprising as the "grab them by the pussy" bit.
If I was in professional media, I'd honestly be concermed about being black bagged in feb if I ran too much anti Trump Stuff. Or at least being Blacklisted.
I remember this. I never forgot. I'm still so angry at the media for just shrugging it off, never drawing any lines between data points, and I've seen them continue to pretend that they're serious news people while they peddle misleading stories and launder outright lies on Rs behalf.
The NYTs has become “Cops,” only for liberal political anxieties. Its audience knows who Trump is, so they can’t drum up any more anxiety about him than already exists.
So they lean into worries about the dems ability to prevent Trump’s takeover - paradoxically making it much more likely.
I genuinely think it's in part because the powerbrokers in major mass media have Epstein skeletons in their own closets. It's not the only reason but it definitely feels like part of the story.
Apparently the most damning thing was that whistleblowers revealed receipts of Trump's payments to Jeffrey Epstein for shows with prostitutes... and we are all aware of the type of prostitutes Epstein deals with... it's so god damn cursed... corporate media is so corrupt for refusing to cover it.
It's amazing how they're not just being willfully blind to the nightmare that all authoritarian regimes put the press in - its beyond baffling that they act in a way that actually wants it. Have these supergeniuses even looked at Putin's Russia or Xi's China? THATES what they want???
