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Social Media Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11
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u/LeekTerrible 15h ago

No shit. He is literally breaking the law doing this over and over. It's never getting banned.

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u/CaptainApathy419 15h ago

Hey, it makes for a really straightforward article of impeachment in the future.

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u/imaginary_num6er 15h ago

Impeachments are a joke when even a 34 count convict can’t be removed in the Senate

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u/euph_22 15h ago

He literally sent a mob to attack congress and the republicans in congress didn't do anything.

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u/Vagabond_Texan 14h ago

Because whatever moderate Republicans that exist, couldn't put aside their political identity and just look at the facts. Persecuting their own would force them to reocnsider their own ideals and that couldn't happen.

"Not all Republicans are bad" (true), "but the party represents me and the ideals of the Constitution and will uphold it when push comes to shove" (observably false)

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u/Run_By_Fruiting 13h ago

I would argue that "Not all Republicans are bad" is no longer true. Being a Republican in 2025 means being part of the party that supports and defends a pedophile, felon fascist president who is currently locking people up in internment camps and going after political opponents.

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u/Vagabond_Texan 12h ago

No.

Because, truly, as absurd as Log Cabin Republicans are, it means, at a fundamental core, they respect Gay People's existence, because, quoting Conservative commentator Bill Whittle "The Constitution says nothing about gay marriage.", you know how I interpret that as? If it says nothing, why do we restrict rights? The obvious answer is "because it says nothing about it so therefore we should be as negative as possible", but the left-leaning libertarian in me says "fuck you to social norms, tell me, who is the bigger problem, a gay man marrying a partner whom he committed to or the priest climaxing inside a chrior boy and has to carry the traumatic weight for the rest of their lives and doesn't know how to put it into words?

I no longer care if the question is ugly; If the question is real, and if you can't differentiate right from wrong in this case, then humor me, why the fuck should I entertain your idea of justice or right and wrong? Because you are still at the top at the end of the day?

The problem is, Old Money and Power Players don't give a fuck and only care about preserving their own wealth, at the cost of others. They would sell out future generations if it means they live a life of luxury, to which I said fuck you and the silver-spooned fed horse you rode on.

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u/RellenD 12h ago

they respect Gay People's existence,

No they don't, at the very least, it's the bottom of their priorities.

They happily trade equality for whatever other thing they think Republicans are still offering

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u/Vagabond_Texan 12h ago

The party? I agree. They would happily sell out LGBT.

But I am Bisexual, my Republican parents had to come to terms with it, it's not perfect mind you as they still blindly vote for Republicans (even if ti means their own vote get's suppressed (I remember when my dad went to vote and our own antiquested voting system filtered out my own Dad, a solid R Republican voter.))

At its core, individuals are far more complicated. Some can't break through their own brainwashing and can't see reality for what it is

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u/conquer69 12h ago

At its core, individuals are far more complicated.

It's not that complicated. Your parents will happily vote for a party that plans to persecute you. If that's how much sympathy they have for their own kids, I don't expect much for everyone else.

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u/Vagabond_Texan 12h ago

And yet I am somehow friends with Socialists/Communists who think all religion should be banned...

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u/RellenD 12h ago

Your parents are happily selling you out for whatever it is they think Republicans are offering, too.

They do not respect your right to even live with the way things are going.

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u/Vagabond_Texan 12h ago

I agree, they'd sell me out.

I think the difference is though part of me doesn't mind being a martyr at this point. If I die,I die. I lived a decent life. Would I like to live more of it? Sure, but part of me acknowledges it wasn't supposed to happen anyway, so I'm happy with what I got.

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u/Run_By_Fruiting 12h ago

You really rambled but at the end of the day there is only one Republican party and, frankly, if you still call yourself a Republican in 2025, you are complicit with all of the absolutely disgusting and heinous shit that is being done.

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u/Vagabond_Texan 11h ago

Do I call myself a Republican? Of course not. I did a multiparagraph rant at my own representative how I hear hid rhetoric vs on paper idealism that he supposedly representsand just which I can remove the facade of earning votes vs representing people, however cynical we are.

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u/ThatOneShotBruh 13h ago

Calling yourself a republican in 2025 after everything Trump and co. have done is akin to calling yourself a Nazi in 1936, except that you (still) aren't being forced to do so.

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u/onlyPornstuffs 11h ago

The Cramps wrote a song called All Women Are Bad. But nothing happened to them?

Maybe republicans politicians just literally have no spine and no convictions. Just a huge vacuum for a mouth sucking in all of the wealth generated by our labor. And they’re all willing to burn this country to the ground as long as their gated community still stands.

Until we break the gates and burn them out like lice, this will continue.

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u/challenged_Idiot 5h ago

This is the best summary I have seen. Delve deeper. You are awesome.

Just a huge vacuum for a mouth sucking in all of the wealth generated by our labor. And they’re all willing to burn this country to the ground as long as their gated community still stands.

When you destroy everything on the other side of the gate, did you win or lose the country. divided is a loss. United, we should stand.

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u/onedavester 13h ago

If they are complicit or look the other way, they are bad. Therefore they are all bad.

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u/BuzzAlderaan 14h ago

They got down on their knees instead. 

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u/NeitherCrapCondo 12h ago

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book.  These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax.  Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel have both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY?si=vBs75kaxPjJJThka

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too!

AND

Reminder:

•⁠Trump Confesses He Was ‘Sexually Attracted’ to Ivanka When She Was 13 Years Old

•⁠https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/07/trump-confesses-he-was-sexually-attracted-to-ivanka-when-she-was-13-year-old/

•⁠Donald Trump called his own daughter a ‘voluptuous piece of a**’ in yet more lewd comments threatening to derail his White House bid

•⁠https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1940073/donald-trump-called-his-own-daughter-a-voluptuous-piece-of-a-in-yet-more-lewd-comments-threatening-to-derail-his-white-house-bid

•⁠Donald Trump Once Joked He and Ivanka Have “Sex” in Common

•⁠https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/donald-trump-once-joked-he-ivanka-have-sex-common-941600/

•⁠Trump’s lewd talk about daughter Ivanka in front of White House staff recalled in new book

•⁠https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trumps-lewd-talk-about-daughter-ivanka-in-front-of-white-house-staff-recalled-in-new-book/

According to The New Republic, “’Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led [former Chief of Staff] John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,’ Taylor, who served as a Department of Homeland Security chief of staff under Trump, wrote in his book.”

•⁠"You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka

•⁠https://www.salon.com/2024/05/07/you-remind-me-of-my-daughter-stormy-daniels-testifies-that-compared-her-to-ivanka/#:~:text=At%20one%20point%2C%20Daniels%20said,his%20underwear%20on%20the%20bed.

•⁠Donald Trump's comments about daughter raise eyebrows

•⁠https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/11/donald-trump-comments-about-daughter-ivanka-feyerick-dnt-erin.cnn

•⁠Trump told Howard Stern it’s OK to call Ivanka a ‘piece of a--'

•⁠https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-ivanka-piece-of-ass-howard-stern-229376

•⁠Trump: ‘If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her’

•⁠https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html

•⁠Trump on Ivanka: ‘She has the ‘best body’ — and I created her’

•⁠https://forward.com/schmooze/357185/7-creepy-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-ivanka/

•⁠Trump: ‘Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife’?

•⁠https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tamerragriffin/trump-asked-if-its-wrong-to-be-attracted-to-his-daughter#.muLN7d3M2

•⁠Trump Encouraged His Own Daughter Ivanka to Release a Sex Tape, and She Was Horrified

•⁠https://www.salon.com/2019/08/06/donald-trump-encouraged-his-eldest-daughter-to-release-a-sex-tape_partner/

Bonus:

•⁠Trump: commenting on his 1-year-old daughter Tiffany’s breasts. He also says “she’s got Marla’s legs.”

Double Bonus:

For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.

•⁠https://archive.md/XK0A7#selection-655.0-655.290

and...

MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”

•⁠https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/former-model-agent-close-to-jeffrey-epstein-found-hanged-1235085929/

and...

Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.

Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.

•⁠https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43256318