• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    People forgot that major news outlets are now owned by a handful of oligarchs. So, it’s in their every interest to put the story under the rug.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    Because the actual House Judiciary Committee report debunks his lies in the middle of an election – and brings the receipts.

    There are a lot of people even on Lemmy that are acting bored, “Why is this news?” and the like, but honestly anyone who is interested should read it for themselves: the REAL news is not in the headlines, or even in the articles that follow. The real news is in the redactions that have been uncovered in the report, what they hid, and the ability to view it as a whole instead of the usual media trickle truthing.

    Every time someone posts a link, there’s at least one or two people going, “We already knew this!” No. What you knew were the broad strokes. See page 25, for example: everyone knows Katie Johnson sued him for rape and then withdrew her suit, but you missed that Trump and Epstein have been linked to each other by the FBI in the context of child rape for almost twenty years.

    If you want the quick overview of what I personally have noticed so far, look at my post history. From the day it came out I have been throwing it out there. But honestly, just skim the report. Or even just the press release, which is a shittily formatted but fairly good synopsis.

    And when you do read further, keep in mind that this House report was never intended to be a fully-argued prosecution: rather, it is a specific, and incredibly damning, rebuttal against the current DoJ claims that there is not enough evidence to investigate known facts further. DoJ insists that there is no further evidence, no reason to investigate any further because no investigations = no prosecutions. This report is the Dem answer to that. It lays that purpose out up front, it says that throughout, and it wraps up with that in the end.

    For every single person who brays, “No one will investigate!” that’s just a lie. The MAGA Republicans currently in control of the US government refuse to investigate. This report is the Dem answer to that obvious lie. And they bring the proof.

    No media article I have seen so far even got that little bit right. By design, I suspect.

    That’s what we get for relying on the media. If you want to know why it’s news, read it yourself.

    Also, you should know that Trump isn’t alone in this. Vladimir Putin has a known predilection for little boys: that is the suspected reason for the fact that a man fluent in German and rising in KGB ranks never got posted abroad but was kept home, and why his official records are full of strange lacunae. It’s not just Putin’s “statecraft” that makes Trump love him like a daddy. Let’s talk about that too.

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    Wore it out. We’ve heard nothing but trump=pedo forever now, people are fatigued with that information.

    It doesn’t generate clicks anymore. So the news doesn’t care.

    However, that mental 14 year old shitlord trump trash talking Talarico? They love covering that drivel.

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      Close. The answer is they are owned by wealthy elites that are covering for pedophiles.

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      Racism and bigotry never wear out, but pedos are socially accepted now so move on.

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    The media is owned by billionaires with an agenda. They shape the narrative for all of us, for the most part.

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    Because anyone with half a brain has known this for ages. Trump and Epstein were business partners in the international child sex trafficking ring.

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    Legacy media loves Trump. They created him and they will never betray him. Legacy media are all nazi cockroaches who should be treated as such.

    Support independent media.

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      Yep. It’s telling that the ONLY time they played hard ball with Trump is when he attacked their industry to limit access. Everything else he does? Easy pass.

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    For the same reason they ignored the stunning old Trump-Epstein Allegations:

    Because their owners on the surrounding pages doing the exact same thing.

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    Why is the Media Ignoring the […] allegations?

    Because Americans ignored similar allegations last time and voted the shithead into power. If they didn’t care then, why should they care now? Trump was a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist when they elected him. New allegations are just resume padding.

    Edit: I meant rapist, not racist (though Trump is both)

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      I agree with you, but I try not to be like this.

      And that’s because me being blasé or nonchalant about it all is exactly what the fat orange child rapist wants.
      That disgusting human shaped thing knows everyone knows about the rapes of children and women but can not change that, however what can be changed is our tiredness and ‘acceptance’ of it all.

      So now when I’m in the ‘hmmm, I know he’s a paedo’ mode I change it to ‘THAT FAT CUNT IS A FUCKING PAEDO. DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!’ mode.

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        You’re right, but I guess I am always in the ‘THAT FAT CUNT IS A FUCKING PAEDO. DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!’ mode, but that doesn’t mean that him being fat, a cunt or a PAEDO is news worthy for me.

        For me, I want to see him on death row, and I want the names of all those who are on his team, then the names of all those who support his ideologies, then the names of those who need re-education. That’s the news I want.

        I won’t click on anything that says “yet another person accuses orange cunt man of rape”. I’ve heard enough evidence, I want action now

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      Calling it old news when the media barely covered the crime any previous time (including interviewing witnesses with information) is a typical billionaire-owned media claim.

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    Because Trump will sic FCC chair Brendan Carr on them, if they mention anything “bad” about Dear Leader.

    Mainstream media’s been cucked by a NY conman grifter with a penchant for lawsuits.

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      They’re all cowards. The movie trope of the hero newspaper journalist and their faithful editor is a fucking joke.

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    It’s truly a puzzler. Almost like the media is bought and sold by the rich. But that can’t be it. Right? Right?!

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      And that media is absolutely saturated with scandals, one after another, it never ends. Zone flooded AF.

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    New Details of Trump Rape Allegation Revealed in Democrats’ Epstein Report https://share.google/PsDrRYcwQP6FoqGfb

    Judiciary Democrats’ Report Details Mounting Evidence Linking Trump to Epstein’s Criminal Activities and DOJ’s Cover-Up; Specific Accounts Involving 11 Women Provide More Evidence of Potential Sex Crimes | U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democrats https://share.google/RjqBFxkQh1bMmLFE2

    Trump-Epstein ties covered up, House Democrats allege | Miami Herald https://share.google/4bnWhgvwaR8o29UVV

    Why Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations? https://share.google/CMwPJxojm3eeNMc8q

    Trump Rape Allegation Detailed in New House Epstein Report | Law Commentary https://share.google/3GblADMDGq1wkngnt

    They’re not.

    If you mean why don’t CNN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, and whatever other mainstream cable 24-hour news aggregator consistently report on it… They’re not really news agencies. They work and live on ratings. So they report whatever makes them money and should not be treated as news.

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    “Flood the zone” is quite literally the most effective political strategy in the past 100 years.

    None of the new allegations are surprising at all. Anyone with two eyes who saw that video of Trump and Epstein at that party knows exactly what was happening.

    But let’s be real…what batshit crazy news could come out tomorrow that would really shock you? Right now, a few days before election day, we’re all expecting what, troops at the polls? Martial law? Another Jan. 6? Do you really think the Trump ballroom or The Kennedy Center are real issues, or were they just looking for crazy shit to distract everyone? Lake America? Gulf of America?

    Every day it’s just more on top of more. New Epstein allegations are just noise on top of the already existing noise at this point.

    I don’t know how we can go back from this after how well “flood the zone” worked…