A new Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress survey also finds likely American voters are split on whether Trump is more responsive to the American people or to Israel.

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    Hard to prove, because there’s always at least one horrifying scandal ongoing, and there’s always at least six USA “preemptive strikes” happening at any one time.

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    At this point, why would they even care about the epstein files? No one’s actually doing anything about it. If pedo’s were getting [redacted] and they were afraid for their lives, this whole “distraction” narrative might make sense, but I have not seen an instance of someone suffering real consequences for being in the files. I would love to be wrong on that bit.

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        He held a rally today where instead of signs about deportation, the audience was holding “bigger paychecks” signs

        OH suddenly we’re running on affordability? I thought that was a Democrat hoax!

        Also, destroying the world’s economy and killing innocent schoolgirls is a choice.

        Although it’s odd how he had to be like “I hurt American girls but look I hurt Iranian girls MORE so you love me again” and they all sucked his fucked up little knob

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        The idiot was calling himself the “peace president” and anyone dumb enough to buy that is probably not thrilled about another war. And anyone smart enough to see through his nonsense wasn’t going to vote for him anyway.

        There are some spectacularly incompetent morons in this administration, but I think even they could figure out that starting a war with Iran wasn’t going to win people over.

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    Operation Epstein’s Fury. We all know it, prez is a blackmailed cuck of israel.

    Fucking pathetic.

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    “is Trump more responsive to the American people or Israel” why the fuck is that even a question!! Trump would gladly massacre every American if it would please his master and you better fucking believe it, the only reason they haven’t is because they need meat to throw at Iran, Palestine, Venezuela and everyone else that dares to get in their way!

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          I do not understand why those would be the masters.

          Sounds like some bullshit a la “Jews control the world in the back”.

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            A more measured and less antisemitic way of stating it is that the Likud-led Israeli apartheid state has far more influence over American politics that is appropriate for a county of its size. Especially when it is committing crimes against humanity.

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    Okay. Hear me out.

    It might be because that’s exactly the case.

    Turns out an old man raping kids really sticks in people’s minds.

    Not GOP people, but normal people who are moral.

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    I mean Lindsay Ladybug Graham just stated yesterday that he’s stands with Israel above all else. Well done voters, well fucking done.

    These fucking weak minded yanks are absolutely beyond fucked at this point.

    Good luck spreading your military across the planet you child raping pieces of shit. This is how your empire will fall, but enjoy sending your sons and daughters to a modern day hamburger hill because you think being American is the best thing and will follow whatever your pedo pres and bourbon drinking sec of war tell you to do. Anything to protect their innocence I guess. Your life is a willing sacrifice. Maybe he’ll wear a ball cap at your kids transfer ceremony.

    I look forward to hearing the death of Trump and hopefully the rest of the cabinet.

    Every. Single. Fucking. One. Of. Them.

    America is Israel’s little bitch, and to the mod of this sub, criticizing Israel isn’t antisemitic! You need to learn that meaning before you delete comments based on your lack of understanding.

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    a bar chart from the linked article, showing a partisan split on whether Trump attacked Iran to distract from the Epstein files

    Also, this:

    Overwhelmingly, voters believe the war will make their lives worse. The survey was in the field before the wild volatility in the oil market, but even then, 49% of voters said the war “will make my life more difficult” compared to just 10% who said they’d see an improvement. One third said it would have no impact.

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      And of course the Magats suddenly stop believing the conspiracy theories when it’s their fuhrer that is the in the middle of it all. Truly the R stands for retard.

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    Key word here is partially.

    Was it a factor? Absolutely.

    Was it the main consideration? Could be, but that’s far less certain.

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      Who knows which of the voices drives the orange shitgibbon at any given moment? And frankly: who cares any more? We know the voice of reason is not among them.

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      Do you think he sang “Take Me Out” to the prison warden? It seems more likely that it was done without him asking.

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    Well obviously, but what I want to know is if the USA being the BFG-9000 of Israel was a planned goal of the whole Epstein “honeypot for powerful psychopaths” operation or if it was just convenient timing.

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      Epstein had extensive ties to the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, primarily through his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert and his mentor, the father of Trump’s first AG Bob Barr, Donald.

      This whole thing is the culmination of the political intrigues that brought the Soviet Union down 40 years ago. Trump’s people are just mopping up what’s left of the anti-colonial resistance governments.

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    I mean it’s pretty obvious.

    An innocent public figure being accused of raping children would have immediately released a statement that he supports the release of the Epstein files to exonnerate himself and bring pedophiles to justice.

    Trump did the opposite and went to the ends of the Earth to prevent their release.

    So logic states he’s either a pedophile in the Epstein files or being blackmailed by pedophiles in the Epstein files. And you can’t be a functional president if you’re either.

    And even a dipshit like Donald Trump knows that conservative voters don’t give a flying fuck about anything other than gas prices, so fucking around with a war that will guarantee raise gas prices is something you would only do if you REALLY needed a distraction.

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    Duh. They called it Operation Epic Fury.

    Doesn’t that sound weird as fuck to anyone else? They know what it stands for.