Tim Chambers
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Rep Swalwell⚡predicted Wed that dozens of #Republicans may ultimately support leg requiring the DOJ to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey #Epstein.
“It’s coming to an end guys.⚡I’ve spoken to a lot of House Rs this week & they’ve confided that Trump’s mvt/support: fading. As one told me, ‘this Epstein bomb is about to drop & no [one] wants to defend a pedo-protector. It’s just a matter of time,’” Swalwell said in a thread on X.
There's hope.
#USPol
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5545649-swalwell-gop-epstein-vote/
ghouls for commensality 🧿
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Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT. Only at The Onion on Youtube.
#Felon47 #Epstein #PedophilePresident
https://youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU
Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT. Only at The Onion on Youtube.
#Felon47 #Epstein #PedophilePresident
https://youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU
Alex Akselrod
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How about we call it the #TrumpEpsteinShutdown?
“The House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Mike Johnson doesn't want that to be the news." – Republican Thomas Massie
How about we call it the #TrumpEpsteinShutdown?
“The House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Mike Johnson doesn't want that to be the news." – Republican Thomas Massie
Chris Espinosa
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Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick accused convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein of being “the greatest blackmailer ever” in a new interview, diverging from the #Trump Admin’s efforts to downplay concerns over the #Epstein case.
#CoverUp
https://time.com/7322750/epstein-blackmail-lutnick-allegations/
Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick accused convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein of being “the greatest blackmailer ever” in a new interview, diverging from the #Trump Admin’s efforts to downplay concerns over the #Epstein case.
#CoverUp
https://time.com/7322750/epstein-blackmail-lutnick-allegations/
Speaking with the New York Post’s #MirandaDevine for a podcast episode, #HowardLutnick, the commerce secretary alleged that #Epstein could have given federal authorities video footage of his associates receiving massages from young women in return for a controversial 2008 plea deal, though Lutnick admitted that he had “no knowledge” of the situation & didn’t provide any evidence to back up his claim.
Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick accused convicted #SexOffender #JeffreyEpstein of being “the greatest blackmailer ever” in a new interview, diverging from the #Trump Admin’s efforts to downplay concerns over the #Epstein case.
#CoverUp
https://time.com/7322750/epstein-blackmail-lutnick-allegations/
bhaugen
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"Far from being a hyperbolic exaggeration, the systematic steps taken—from the militarization of domestic law enforcement to the explicit targeting of political dissent—mirror the alarming blueprints used by 20th-century dictators to consolidate absolute power."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/22
bhaugen
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"Two days before next year’s midterm election will be the 50th anniversary of the New York Times’ first profile of Donald Trump.
In retrospect, it was quite an embarrassment, and it set the stage for many more embarrassments to come as lazy journalists depicted Trump as a colorful character instead of the business scammer, sex predator, and pathological liar that he is."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #media #PoliticsofDistraction
/19
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-medias-kissing-up-to-trump-started
bhaugen
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"Trump is desperate, as he grows more unpopular, his government fails and his powers ebb, to find ways to make him feel STRONG and POWERFUL and MANLY. It is almost impossible to imagine something more authoritarian, more illiberal, more mad - & more dangerous - than the use of the military on our streets to fight a fictional enemy in an imaginary war."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/13
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-keep-the-military-off-our
"The fact is, of course, that Trump is completely, ludicrously wrong about what’s going on in Portland. He has been for nearly a month, ever since he watched a deceptively edited Fox News segment that depicted the city as a war zone. And his advisers have apparently been complicit in his hoodwinking."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/24
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/trump-am-i-watching-things-on-television
"The word is fascism. Use it to describe Trump’s regime. If it behaves like a fascist, talks like a fascist, & relies on the strategies and talking points of fascists, then it probably is the Trump Administration increasingly going fascist to stay in power."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/25
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-word-is-fascism-use-it-to-describe
der.hans
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Why are these stories on the cover? Wouldn't a story about Prince Andrew be more relevant now? #Epstein
"The strategy to crush opposition and unify power relies on a chillingly familiar playbook, one that historically leverages manufactured crises and the dehumanization of enemies. …
The evidence—from the open talk of mass detention centers for dissenters to the aggressive targeting of states and cities that oppose federal policy—compels the use of the term fascism."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/23
"The fact is, of course, that Trump is completely, ludicrously wrong about what’s going on in Portland. He has been for nearly a month, ever since he watched a deceptively edited Fox News segment that depicted the city as a war zone. And his advisers have apparently been complicit in his hoodwinking."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/24
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/trump-am-i-watching-things-on-television
"Far from being a hyperbolic exaggeration, the systematic steps taken—from the militarization of domestic law enforcement to the explicit targeting of political dissent—mirror the alarming blueprints used by 20th-century dictators to consolidate absolute power."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/22
"The strategy to crush opposition and unify power relies on a chillingly familiar playbook, one that historically leverages manufactured crises and the dehumanization of enemies. …
The evidence—from the open talk of mass detention centers for dissenters to the aggressive targeting of states and cities that oppose federal policy—compels the use of the term fascism."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/23
"Far from being a hyperbolic exaggeration, the systematic steps taken—from the militarization of domestic law enforcement to the explicit targeting of political dissent—mirror the alarming blueprints used by 20th-century dictators to consolidate absolute power."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/22
"Trump is lying about antifa to justify his authoritarian crackdown. Too easily dismissed as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is being used as a weapon to destroy domestic opposition."
~ Jeet Heer
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/20
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-antifa-portland-lies/
"The actions and rhetoric of the administration have prompted a dire comparison to the mechanisms of historical fascist regimes, leading many to sound the alarm on a precipitous slide toward authoritarianism."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/21
https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/escalating-authoritarianism
"Two days before next year’s midterm election will be the 50th anniversary of the New York Times’ first profile of Donald Trump.
In retrospect, it was quite an embarrassment, and it set the stage for many more embarrassments to come as lazy journalists depicted Trump as a colorful character instead of the business scammer, sex predator, and pathological liar that he is."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #media #PoliticsofDistraction
/19
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-medias-kissing-up-to-trump-started
"Trump is lying about antifa to justify his authoritarian crackdown. Too easily dismissed as hyperbole, the Antifa myth is being used as a weapon to destroy domestic opposition."
~ Jeet Heer
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
/20
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-antifa-portland-lies/