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criss_cross@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 days ago

‘POTUS is clearly furious’: White House is frustrated by all-consuming Epstein coverage

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    committed suicide nearly six years ago

    No the fuck he did not

    “When you’re working 12 to 15 hours a day to solve real problems and you turn on the TV and see people talking about Jeffrey Epstein, that’s frustrating. That’s where the president’s mindset is,” the senior White House official said.

    Lmfao there is absolutely no fucking way orangeboi works for more than 1.2 to 1.5 hours a day.

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      You guys remember when some people were pushing the whole “but it’s just a meme” thing?

      I do. I remember thinking “his own bodyguard said he had to have help to do that. No fucking way was it suicide.”

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      Also, define “work”. I submit that this guy has never done any real work in his life.

      Him doing chopper-talk or talking to his gaggle of tiktok/youtube influencers called a “press pool” in front of the fireplace doesn’t really constitute “work”. That’s just him soaking up the spotlight, which a narcissist like him feeds off of.

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        Getting off your ass and to the bathroom so you don’t shit your diaper from all the medication you take is one of the most difficult and demanding things you could do in your day… How can you expect anyone to get anything done afterwards?

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        Didn’t he serve fries once?

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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          LOL, good point. I stand corrected. I guess he did indeed do some real work the one time…and now that you mention it, he did that photo-op with the garbage truck, too, where he nearly missed the door.

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          No, but he did stand near a fryer long enough to get his photo taken once.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.worldOP
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      I think it’s more his staff that’s working 12-15 hour days. Trump himself just golfs.

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        Really, just Marco Rubio. He’s the only kinda competent person around; he’s not that smart, but if he walks into a room in the White House, chances are good he’s the smartest one there. That’s why they keep giving him new jobs to do.

        Except you can’t manage people like that. Dude is going to burn out, and then what?

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          Lol what? Is this Marco Rubio’s publicist? Anyone who still believes Rubio is competent at this point hasn’t been paying attention at all.

          Let’s dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t know shit about what he’s doing.

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            Try reading again. I didn’t say he was smart. I said he was the smartest in the room. Which he is. It’s not that hard to be the smartest when you’re surrounded by idiots.

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              Yup, it’s just an indication of how low the bar is in the Whitehouse that fucking Marco Rubio is the most competent person there right now.

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      If reading and shitposting on Twitter counts, I might be able to believe 6 hours tops.

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      Working hard on getting sports teams back to racist names and making Coke use sugar instead of HFCS.

      Such important work.

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      Lmfao there is absolutely no fucking way orangeboi works for more than 1.2 to 1.5 hours a day.

      you all are saying this but i’d rather have that he works zero hours a day and lets actually competent people make the decisions.

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        You’re assuming there’s competent people around him.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      He can just put the whole thing to rest by releasing his birth certificate.

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      He works an hour tops

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    Where’s the fucking list?

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      That phrase works in more ways than just one

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        Yeah… Like two ways.

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          “Where’s the fucking, list?”

          List: “I don’t know! Stop yelling at me! Who are you!?”

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      Seen this one floating around. Pay attention to the circled items.

      https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/mode/1up

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    Keep hammering him

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      This can’t go away. I’m so sick of this monster avoiding consequences at the expense of the country.

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    Maybe don’t fuck kids then?

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      He didn’t just do that, he trafficked them too

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      But some of his supporters say it’s just human nature and nothing to be concerned over.

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        “Locker room behavior”

    • t_berium@lemmy.world
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      Too late!

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    Maybe he shouldn’t have raped those kids if he didn’t want to keep hearing about it

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    Just keep it up, he has trouble controlling himself when he’s angry and might just accidentally let something slip

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      i agree.

      but that something is called a nuclear weapon

      so just be prepared for him to bomb the US

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        I see no downsides here

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    The best thing we can do is talk about it unrelentingly. Every question at press conferences should center around their friendship and weird letters to each other. Make him so mad that he has a stroke.

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    Paedo
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    Is fuhrerius, you say?

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    Talk about privilege. This asshole is upset that people are discussing his crimes. Not that he’s faced one fucking IOTA of consequences in his entire miserable life.

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    All you had to do was release the list like you said you would, Donny.

    Be prepared to be hounded every fucking day until we see it.

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      he’s gonna declassify area 51 before he releases an unaltered list

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    I just got THE BEST idea for a special episode of “To Catch a Predator”. I would pay an obscene amount of money to watch Chris Hansen tell DTJ “to take a seat over there”.

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      They caught the wrong guy. This guy’s name is John Barron.

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    He can rest in a cell.

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    “When he said grab em by the pussy, I thought he meant adults!”

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      Shittty day shitty times but that gave me a chuckle.

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    Many are saying that the list is out there and trump is on it.

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      All the most smartest science people say so!

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    It’s really easy to not be a fascist paedophile, it’s one of the easiest things ever. if ya don’t like the coverage maybe you should’ve thought before deciding to be a Gross Old Paedo 😂

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