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[–] 117 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The country falling apart, people getting kidnapped by masked police, unidentified government officers arresting people, ignoring citizens in natural disasters, government breaking down ..... all those things didn't cause alarm bells?

Now they're accusing one another of sex crimes again and government is grinding to a halt?

The US is turning into the most expensive laughing stock in the world!

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Because his base isn't upset about those as much as they are about Epstein. He's underwater in polling on all those other things now, but his core base wasn't upset about it

    Right wing media talked about Epstein a lot over the past many years. Claimed that Trump would give them all the truth. It became an ingrained belief. Then he abruptly and very suddenly contradicted all that at once and can't keep to a consistent narrative

    He also directly insult his base in the back and forth. Calling them "weaklings", stupid, etc. for caring which he normally avoids doing. Normally he pretends to care about their concerns when coming up with a BS excuse

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The country falling apart, people getting kidnapped by masked police, unidentified government officers arresting people, ignoring citizens in natural disasters, government breaking down … all those things didn’t cause alarm bells?

    That is not "falling apart" in the minds of Republicans, that is "working as designed".

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