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"Hi. Donald Trump sure is acting weird about his old friend Jeffrey Epstein, isn't he? Why would he be acting this way? Let's look into that."
And here is the promised episode about Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy child sex trafficker with connections to powerful and high profile individuals including multiple presidents of the United States.
Man, my middle fingers were already tired from all the times Trump appeared on screen, but when they played those Bill O'Reilly clips from NewsNation where he was trying, in all seriousness, to claim that Epstein was tried and convicted under Biden and the host was like "Slow your roll, dawg, that's complete bullshit" (which, in fact, it was, obviously, because Epstein was convicted and fucking died under SCROTUS IMPOTUS Trump the First), my middle fingers had to go into overtime gesturing at the right side of my computer monitor. Seriously, how does Bill O'Reilly still have a job, at all? And that was around only the halfway point of the video.
"I don't know, it's just that for years people love to say that this time, Trump's base is finally going to turn on him, that this will be the final straw, but it's really hard to believe that when... he's been this way the entire time. Since the very start, he's been so clearly a grifter and a liar. And yet, there's still this chunk of people that seems unable to realize that very, very, very obvious thing about him. He's actually bewitched people. It's infuriating and a little frightening. For most sensible people, we see it. He's this sweaty used car salesman type with a bad fake tan and a long history of failures and lies. And not good lies. Every credible scandal involving him has been deflected simply by saying 'fAkE nEwS!1!1!' like a toddler or calling it a Democrat hoax. Everything is just one big hoax and conspiracy against him specifically. Stuff that existed decades before he was even running for president. And his base just accepted that lazy bullshit with total faith. Either because they like who he angers and hurts, or have completely deluded themselves. Maybe probably both. I don't know. So it really seems like this will just be rolled into the Russia Hoax and Comey stuff and all the other flimsy excuses he has given from the start."
And then I had to throw up the middle fingers again because they played another clip of Trump essentially saying exactly that, that it's just the "Jeffrey Epstein hoax," same as all the other "hoaxes" about him. He's is so (un)believably, banally full of shit that it's just wrath-inducing. The sooner this man is dead and gone, the better this world will be. There's just nothing else that can be said about Trump at this point. He needs to be gone, simple as that. At this point, I don't care how.
"Again, we all really want to think about this as a house of cards that will eventually topple, but I'm not so sure. Considering all the lazy lies he's gotten away with already, it's hard to think that anything will do it, because if Trump's rise has taught us anything, it's that America is a country of conspiracy theorists. We love them. The Internet no doubt made our love even stronger, but we've always been into it. UFOs, moon landing, JFK, X-Files stuff. This fundamental belief that there's some larger and more complex system behind the world around us. It really speaks to people. It makes our lives feel less chaotic. I don't mean to sound all Ricky Gervais, but I imagine it's similar to religion for people. And Trump has directly tapped into the most ravenous conspiracy freaks of them all. And in fact, his political success depends on them.
"See, here's the thing about conspiracy people. They don't really care about policy. They don't care about tariffs or immigration or healthcare. When you think lizard people exist, the nuance of the economy doesn't really thrill you. If you were to ask the more hardcore Dale Gribble type why they would vote for Trump, they're just going to say that it's because he'll expose the deep state. And sure, it's a spectrum. Not everyone is a hardcore conspiracy weirdo, and I bet there are people who are concerned about the deep state and policy. But for so many MAGA supporters, it appears to be extremely important to their identity that there is, in fact, a secret cabal of pedophile Democrats. And only Democrats, mind you. Because if there isn't... then why are they doing everything they're doing? How can you justify cutting off your loved ones, going all in on this one man? All the sacrifices you have to make to support Trump? Even in terms of policy, how do you justify cuts to Medicaid and FEMA and all the ways the country is getting worse, if you can't say well... at least he's going after the deep state? For a right wing conspiracy theorist, there's just too much riding on this. If Trump were to produce a grand list of Democrat pedophiles, if they all got hauled off to jail, then everything would have been worth it. Otherwise, they have spent a decade being continuously laughed at for nothing. All of the failures from the Trump administration would have been for nothing. They would have to contend with the idea that they were, in fact, tricked by a conman, while everyone around them told them they were being tricked by a conman. It is so important to them that this is true, that Democrats, and again, only Democrats, are secret Satan-loving pedophiles who have been running a campaign of hoaxes against Donald Trump, the brave hero single-handedly fighting back. That's the only way you can justify something like storming the Capitol, right?"
And... then Cody went into a long-winded metaphor involving one of the final episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that was kind of sort of relevant, but also probably didn't make much sense if you hadn't seen the episodes in question. (For what it's worth, at least Dukat had the excuse of being literally possessed by a demonic, god-like, alien entity at that point in the show [not that Dukat wasn't already an irredeemably evil shitbag even before that, pretty much from the start of the show]. What excuse does Donald fucking Trump have in real life?) And then they showed a clip from a completely different two parter (even though Cody said it was a clip from "that" episode that he'd just talked about, which it wasn't), which is also disturbingly, depressingly relevant to current events, despite being released over 30 years ago. Not that those same issues weren't a thing back then, too, as Cody pointed out. It's just that it progressed from then to the logical conclusion now, is all.
Seriously, the entire latter half of this episode of Some More News is way more about the abject stupidity and gullibility of people who believe unfounded, outlandish, ludicrous conspiracy theories (which often are being used to cover up way darker shit) than it is specifically about the Epstein shit. And it's all, mostly, to explain why Donald Trump is almost assuredly going to get away with this, same as how he's so far de facto gotten away with every other vile, evil thing he's ever done in his life.
Oh, and Cody also goes into a long-winded explanation of The X-Files and how it, too, is relevant to this discussion of the Epstein files and conspiracy bullshit in general.
Hmm... maybe that (i.e. Trump's reliance on conspiracy theory culture) is why Trump seems to be starting to turn against his master, Putin. Trump now seems to think that even whatever heinous kompromat that Putin obviously has on Trump no longer holds whatever power that it once did, because even if Putin were to literally distribute the infamous (and almost assuredly completely real) "pee tape," Trump can just wave his hands, say it's an AI Democrat hoax or whatever, and call it a day, knowing with total confidence that his dupes and sycophants will believe what he says over the evidence of their own eyes. And after that, what power would Putin really have over Trump anymore, at that point, despite Trump having had Putin's arm shoved up his asshole, controlling him for the last entire decade, at the very least, until now? I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that Putin obviously did everything in his considerable power to get Trump elected (both times), or that Trump seems to be increasingly biting the hand that fed him up till now? What's the more horrible reality? A completely Putin-manipulated and Putin-sycophantic Trump? Or a completely unhinged and delusional Trump who possibly feels free to do whatever the fuck he wants now, and Putin, his voter base, America as a whole, and the rest of the world be damned?
"The truth is... it's somewhere. Truth good. Truth is... it's over yonder. The truth is... out there. Yeah, yeah, as in, like, it's, like, gone. Like the truth is way out there. We're never getting that back. *aghast, depressed sigh*"
So, that was a 1:12:26 long video that takes all that time to basically say that Trump is, indeed, almost certainly, assuredly a pedophile rapist who shouldn't be POTUS right now, but who will very likely get away with being a pedophile rapist and will remain being the POTUS. It's another one of those "the people willing to watch this already knew that, of course, and the people who really need to watch this and be convinced by this won't watch this or be convinced by this, because they'll just dismiss the whole thing out of hand as LIEbrul BS, because they've been primed and conditioned by the GQP lie-spewing machinery for the past three or four decades to do just that" type things.
Yeah, I want everyone involved in the Epstein shit behind bars (to be charitably merciful). Not just Trump. And certainly not everyone but Trump. My expectation that that will ever actually happen realistically hovers around nil, zilch, nada, and zero.
Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and to everyone who still believes even a single foul lie that spews forth from his
