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"why are republicans covering for donald trump and not releasing the esptein files? (Original Post) orleans Aug 2025 OP
Bingo. Raven123 Aug 2025 #1
Exactly. Let's just get it over with. ReRe Aug 2025 #2
G.O.P. hiding the truth, and VIOLATING the Ten Commandments. Again. BoRaGard Aug 2025 #3
When the flood gates open and they will malaise Aug 2025 #4
All those FBI agents who pored through the files looking for Krasnov's name... Easterncedar Aug 2025 #5
I wonder about that, too. tanyev Aug 2025 #7
I've been fairly successful in avoiding conversations of this nature EYESORE 9001 Aug 2025 #6

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
2. Exactly. Let's just get it over with.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 05:54 AM
Aug 2025

It happened. It's world history. I don't care if GOD Himself was mixed up in the apparent kompromat racket.
Character is not just a person in a novel.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
3. G.O.P. hiding the truth, and VIOLATING the Ten Commandments. Again.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:52 AM
Aug 2025

The GOP's systematic violation of the ninth commandment should send a loud and clear message to people about who they really are, and what their web of lies is creating.

Easterncedar

(6,474 posts)
5. All those FBI agents who pored through the files looking for Krasnov's name...
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 07:38 AM
Aug 2025

And there won’t be a leak? Especially given the news that thousands of agents are going to be fired?

Here’s hoping!

EYESORE 9001

(29,889 posts)
6. I've been fairly successful in avoiding conversations of this nature
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 08:16 AM
Aug 2025

But next time it happens, I’ll remember this. Random encounters are occurring less frequently, and I see fewer clothing items or other outward displays of MAMAtry. In my present situation, most of those with whom I work were likely rump voters. Even before the election, some felt free to open up and betray their MAGAt mentality, going so far as to solicit my opinion. My reply tended to shut down further inquiry.:

Me: There are three things I don’t talk about at work:
(1) politics
(2) religion
(3) the torture chamber in my basement where I skinned all those hillbilly child rapists while still alive

Pause.

Better make that four things I don’t talk about at work.

Smile broadly, chuckle jauntily’

It sometimes serves as an opening for debunking whatever propaganda was making the rounds, but mostly they just STFU around me, and that’s alright.

I’ve actually exercised a good deal of restraint in my attitude since the election. Sure, I scatter schadenfreude in my wake when some horrific pronouncement comes lumbering down the pike, but I haven’t commented as leopards eat individual faces. That’s a recipe for generating full-on hatred - against the smartass who uttered it.

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