Sir Gobbersworth

NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking

NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz

I still can't get over the NYT reporters demanding to be treated like Landon Thomas was fired for cause while using the phrase "parted ways" or "suspended" and then getting indignant when this is called a conspiracy. You're describing a coverup! People coordinated their actions!

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

No, I actually think the emails themselves are pretty newsworthy for their contents too and I find it *really* fucking weird that you apparently don't.

a lot of people regretting the 'this shoulda been an email' advice rn lol

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

I choose to believe there is an afterlife and that said afterlife will show him not only how much we despise him but how much we think he's a total dipshit loser.

I have become worse not just because he has made me worse but because he has convinced me that this was the right decision all along.

The worst part is that I frankly do not regret feeling this way because I have become convinced that someone like Donald Trump, and his allies, deserves to be viewed in this manner and, in fact, MUST be approached like this.

Honestly that second part might be *too* opaque for how these dipshits talked

Anyway, though all this seems bad for Trump, I think we have to consider the gains he will make in the modern Libertarian Party

Oh for sure. It always helps. For basketball, I just adopt a lot of players (Curry, Giannis, Maxey, LeBron when he would decide to clown the Raptors) that I love watching to give me a mild rooting interest in random games.

Basketball is arguably the best major sport for that approach hah

One thing that was nice about us falling off and then them falling out of title contention before we got back was knowing that "Steph just hit two straight 3s" wasn't gonna ruin my night anymore, so I could just enjoy it again.

As a long time Thunder fan, I can confirm. I've rarely known music to feel physically heavy upon me but that sure always was.

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein

why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

You just feel how much he lusts for both chairs in the picture and it is deeply uncomfortable

Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

They gaslit you about Russiagate and they hid Trump’s relationship with Epstein from you.

To be clear, even if I thought there was absolutely zero chance the files come out, forcing the issue is useful: Americans deserve to know which of their politicians are actively running cover for *the trafficking and rape of children.*

Like half of them only caring about The Birthday Note for a couple days is a real data point that makes me wonder if this sticks better without becoming explicit.

On the other hand, this looks so bad it might just steamroll his magic.

Yeah. And that implication plus the bits we do know might lead not just us but everyone, and especially the nutjobs, to invent even worse shit than is actually there. Whereas any specific letter, no matter how horrifying, can be rationalized away by an alarming amount of people it turns out.

There's a degree to which this is also a "i just do not trust anyone to consistently care about information once its actually out" whereas "what could he be hiding" keeps it rolling around in the imagination.

The way its worse for him specifically is if vetoing it helps infect his particular base of conspiratorialists, but I do agree its more likely cope.

Honestly, Trump vetoing it might be worse for him than letting it actually get out.

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out

Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.