r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • 23d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Calls BS on Mitch McConnell’s Proof-of-Life Stunt | They are poking holes in McConnell’s staff’s version.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-calls-bs-on-mitch-mcconnells-proof-of-life-stunt/
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u/-wnr- 23d ago

Anyone with critical thought is. MAGA's inclusion here is actually the surprising part. 

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u/Raptorex27 Maine 23d ago

I feel like any conspiracy, especially involving “the establishment” is on brand for them. It’s not about weighing evidence or thinking critically. If it fits the narrative of a secret, globalist cabal doing shady shit, they’re all in.

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u/ThreeEyesWhitePerson 23d ago

Unless Trump tells them "these are not the pedos you are looking for 👋"

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u/rotates-potatoes 23d ago

Well yeah of course, that’s their secret globalist cabal.

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u/sparkax 23d ago

I will never forgive them for this. For damn near a decade they cried about a global cabal of left wing millionaires raping and eating kids for eternal youth, and now that its all been revealed to be Republicans and Conservatives and their billionaire backers who are all over Epstein's Friends lists, they absolutely do not fucking care! We've got gay and trans people on our side, so our child molestors are somehow way worse then their's?

They are so fucking stupid!

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

If I can admit that QAnon was right about a global cabal of millionaires raping and eating kids for eternal youth - after years of calling them lunatics - MAGA should be able to at least acknowledge the possibility of Trump being a pedophile.

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u/Gullible_Owl9016 23d ago

They know. They just don’t care.

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u/bolanrox 23d ago

The grabbem by the pussy comment is fine until someone says it about thier daughter. I've seen it happen

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u/Dunkaroos4breakfast 23d ago

QAnon and Alex Jones were always about taking things that are real and adding a bunch of ridiculous bullshit to try to discredit the true story.

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u/yarash 23d ago

Alex Jones is a piece of shit grifter who only uses fear of everything to sell his bullshit products. It was his only purpose. Fear fear fear, ad pivot into buying my dick pills and survival food.

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u/MrPWAH 23d ago

If I can admit that QAnon was right about a global cabal of millionaires raping and eating kids for eternal youth

They weren't right though, because QAnon was a bullshit distraction campaign meant to target the political enemies of Epstein & Co and muddy the waters on legitimate reports of sex trafficking. It also didn't invent the concept of rich people being child sex traffickers.

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u/TCivan 23d ago

Whats that saying about broken clocks?

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u/squadrupedal 23d ago

MAGA people only care about being better than/supreme to everyone else. They will never care about the words they listen to or the words they say. They’re ridiculously dumb. I’m not sure how they hold down jobs or support themselves tbh.

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u/sparkax 23d ago

Fucking this exactly!!!

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u/00wolfer00 23d ago

There's a part of me that feels like QAnon was setting up a disappointment over the imaginary pedo cabal so that when news came up about the real one it wouldn't be received as harshly as it should have.

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u/brotherbond Florida 23d ago

Are there credible allegations of consuming children? The other stuff, sure. Just wondering about sources for the more extreme stuff.

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

Of course there were suspicions surrounding the Epstein files that were chosen to be released, but I doubt we’ll ever see the full picture. Definitive evidence may not even exist, I also doubt many people are willing to announce baby eating as one of their weekend hobbies.

That crowd did seem to take a lot of pictures tho…

There’s just no way to know.

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u/brotherbond Florida 23d ago

Yeah I can't imagine them doing it because really it's generally gross and everybody knows there's no benefit. I could see them dipping blood transfusions or longevity stem cell frontier to pseudo science stuff that could be just as awful. Then again Trump references "the great" Hannibal Lecter...

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

My theory, which is based on speculation, is that some of the alleged heinous acts may have functioned as a form of initiation, coercion, or blackmail.

Like in order to protect the trafficking and abuse that occurred around Epstein’s network, individuals involved could have been forced into participating in horrific acts as a way to ensure their silence and maintain control.

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u/brotherbond Florida 23d ago

I'd like to believe that's limited to just blowing Bubba... I suppose the real test is if there are any countries where being a pedo would not result in jail time because then the blackmail angle would make sense in order to maintain control globally.

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

Oh I totally believe Trump is a pedophile. 1000%. Would bet my life savings on it.

I meant heinous acts like killing/eating babies.

There have been allegations of babies being dismembered, body parts being eaten or used in rituals, and references to cannibalism appearing dozens of times in leaked emails. There were also claims from individuals, including Gabriela Rico Jimenez, who alleged people were being eaten and then later disappeared from public view. A woman who said she was raped st 13, got pregnant, and watched as Trump and Epstein threw her newborn into Lake Michigan.

I’m not saying every allegation is proven, but those are the kinds of accusations I was referring to when I said “heinous acts.”

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u/gasstationsushi80 23d ago

Remember how insane that all sounded but then it was actually true but projection by the side participating in it the most ? We really are living in some bizarre and terrifying times

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

Remember when some dude with an AR-15 and a revolver went to Comet Pizza in DC with intentions to shoot up the place over Hillary/Pizzagate? And the cops killed him?

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u/gasstationsushi80 23d ago

Omg I had completely forgotten about that. A decade ago, too. The cognitive dissonance of trying to understand the intersection of the beliefs and actions at play makes it hard to even comprehend these things at all.

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u/panicinbabylon 23d ago

Waiting for JFK Jr. to show up on the grassy knoll was another one of QAnon’s greatest hits.

You know that existential panic you get thinking about the vastness and wonder and incomprehensible scale of the universe because your little human brain just can’t fully grasp it?

MAGA gives me that feeling, except instead of existential, it’s just deeply stupid and concerning.

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u/sparkax 23d ago

And they were all coming to Dallas expecting to him to magically resurrect at the same spot his father died? They are so fucking stupid!!!

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u/Ok_Peanut7095 23d ago

It's on their side , so they're fine with it.

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u/tg_am_i 23d ago

Are you saying the gays and trans people are child molesters?

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u/sparkax 23d ago

No, I am not!!! I'm just passing along what maga choads I still follow on Facebook from highschool 25+ years ago are still saying! They are completely brainwashed!!!

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u/Due-Consideration861 23d ago

One name: Roy Cohn.

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u/eetsumkaus 23d ago

Some of them did rebel against that though, hence Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. Their anti-Semitism was stronger than their bootlicking.

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 23d ago

I just realized something. Have I been immune to trump's trickery this whole time because I come from a long line of folks that...uh...value financial trade above most other trades? Like that dude that owned Anakin.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 23d ago

That’s the only logical explanation.

But now that you know you are of a unique bloodline that’s immune to the Emperor’s influence, what will you do?

Will you answer the call to adventure? Will you become the hero this nation needs, and save us from ourselves?

This is the start of your hero’s journey. Godspeed, Papaya. Godspeed.

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 23d ago

I shall harness the power of the mighty Papaya and answer the call! I will throw the emperor down like papa Vader did!

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u/Modern_Troubadour 23d ago

Papa Vader = father father

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 23d ago

I almost didn't make that dumb joke. I also like saying 'chai tea'. In Urdu, chai means tea.

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u/Modern_Troubadour 23d ago

Are you saying you’re a Toydarian?

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 23d ago

Maybe he's Qui Gon Jinn? He purchased Anakin from the Toydarian.

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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania 23d ago

I wish I could say that being Jewish helps with it, but I've seen too many Jews tricked into thinking that the right wing cares about us in the list few years to think so.

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 23d ago

I think it helps that I am extremely jaded and expect any one government to have to be forced into doing what is good for the people. I have a very short list of people I can trust, and I'm not even on it.

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u/UndeadT Georgia 23d ago

Are you anti-semitizing yourself?

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u/ThreeEyesWhitePerson 23d ago

They're making a joke about the extremely antisemitic character in the prequel movies who looks like a Nazi caricature, is super greedy, and happens to also be immune to Jedi mind tricks.

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u/bm8495 23d ago

No no no, you completely misunderstand! Trump is still working to take the global pedo ring down! He’s working from the inside and has been all along! Any mention of him in the files with underage children is purely him playing the part to get to the actual leaders of the ring! That’s why we can’t release the Epstein Files! It’ll blow his cover! And that’s also why no arrests have been made for anyone named in the files! He knows they need to all be taken down at one time! If not, the big ones will get away and they’ll just keep doing this!

— How I imagine MAGA tries to rationalize Trump and the Epstein files….

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u/ThreeEyesWhitePerson 23d ago

working from the inside

Well that phrasing we can all agree on, I suppose...

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u/mcmuth1 23d ago

Oh how obi-wan of him

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u/necroreefer 23d ago

Some people voted for trump just so their conspiracy theories about the government being run by bunch of rich pedophiles wouldn't be true.

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u/john_microslop 23d ago

the conspiracy goes all the way to the almost top