The August 2019 US Politics Thread is dumb (stupid}

lol i have literally read about two sentences about the plot, don't mind me :)

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

it's very hard for me to believe that someone who spent his life cultivating powerful connections and getting away with crimes would think, even at this point, that his situation was hopeless and there was no way to wriggle out of serious consequences.

narcissists don't, as a general rule, kill themselves

lol trump retweeted this, let's gooo https://t.co/idYqVN4VKG

— ordinary guy (@icedteacommie) August 10, 2019

Trump's desire to see the clintons hang is so strong he keeps shining a light on a case in which he is a fixture. kind of amazing

Speaking as a person who has been on the receiving end of MANY eyerolls at social functions when mentioning conspiracy theories of any kind, it’s a pretty wild goddamn time to be alive.

— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) August 10, 2019

yeah, this might be the most immediately widely disbelieved official story of my adult life.

i believe the murderer of epstein, in a strange twist, was david icke

https://media.giphy.com/media/zCT9KnlY1JNhS/giphy.gif

yeah, this might be the most immediately widely disbelieved official story of my adult life.

weapons of mass destruction?

hence "immediately" and "might be". iirc it took a little while for everyone to come around to calling bullshit on that one

F u morbs

2015

In a Public Mind poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University released Wednesday, more than half of Republicans — 51 percent — and half of those who watch Fox News — 52 percent — say that they believe it to be “definitely true” or “probably true” that American forces found an active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq.

Trump's desire to see the clintons hang is so strong he keeps shining a light on a case in which he is a fixture. kind of amazing

My thoughts exactly when I saw that tweet. I do not--not even close--have a conspiracy mindset. But it is very difficult not to at least lean in that direction in the immediate aftermath of this. Or at least, not that there's necessarily a conspiracy, but that it wasn't suicide. It's just too puzzling and too perfect on three different fronts: that he managed to do it, that it happened just before trial, and that it's the day after all those other names surfaced. Trump's tweet would seem to be exactly the kind of clumsy and clueless and panicked preemptive distraction I would expect of him.

Retweet, not tweet.

(Me waving the wait flag--I've officially sunk to such clarifications.)

white flag...

WMDs is a good example but necessarily took longer to be "widely disbelieved" bc of the lack of social media. and to Sanpaku's point, many still believe WMDs were found. if anything, Epstein's death has united people across partisan lines more than anything else in the modern era.

Have fun with yr tin foil dudes

when Rod Dreher and AOC both think the official line stinks...

Let’s go shoot some pumpkins together

Oh and I guess a white supremacist bomb plot was foiled today

Like literally fuck everybody

Epstein's death has united people across partisan lines more than anything else in the modern era.

When does the modern era begin?

Have fun with yr tin foil dudes

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes)

we know the FBI tried to get MLK to kill himself, we know about Iran-Contra, we know about WMDs, we know about COINTELPRO, the MOVE bombing - why is it necessarily "tin foil" to question official stories?

lol Tom I meant to say the Trump era xp

anyone who's been following the case with any level of attention has said aloud at least once "they won't let him testify / this trial get very far"

i was “i cant imagine how this plays out,” but tbh i did and i truly wish this was not how.

Republican and Democrat lawmakers reach bipartisan consensus that Jeffrey Epstein was “a troubled man” and “that’s why he shot himself seventeen times in the back”

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) July 7, 2019

^ July 6

Lol wow billionaire can’t imagine himself spending rest of life in prison wtf mkultra

might be time for a separate poll thread / safe space for the tin foil crowd (incl me)

anyone who's been following the case with any level of attention has said aloud at least once "they won't let him testify / this trial get very far"

― Simon H.

Exactly

Time for some wars against info

CSM

Lol wow billionaire can’t imagine himself spending rest of life in prison wtf mkultra

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, August 10, 2019 6:57 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

*goes to the Dallas book depository* I could've made that shot

Alex Jones did not invent questioning of official government stories

let's keep it in here:

the jefferey epstein memorial poll and conspiracy-mongering thread

Xpost lol

Basically anyone peddling this Epstein stuff is getting written off by me whatever

We need answers. Lots of them.https://t.co/4DMckiZnVB

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 10, 2019

Do we?

Epghazi

Yes, when an inmate tries to commit suicide, is put on suicide watch, is then taken off suicide watch, then commits suicide, something has gone scandalously wrong.

Do we?

so you would prefer no investigation? ooook

Lol one girl was leaving and came to me to say we have to get on the kill robot fight train

Whoops wrong thread

matt groening makes an... unsettling appearance in the epstein docs pic.twitter.com/7uSXF2Mu1t

— Don Biggles (@DonBeeggles) August 9, 2019

Lol wow billionaire can’t imagine himself spending rest of life in prison wtf mkultra

worst Tarantino movie ever. xpost

xpost Don't scare us with that Groening tease, it was actually kind of charming.

Another one

A 26-year-old white supremacist in Florida has been arrested for posting a threatening message on Facebook: "3 more days of probation left then I get my AR-15 back. Don't go to Walmart next week." https://t.co/28gYWVVCjk

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 11, 2019