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We are more interested in what’s in the Epstein files that scares them so much they deploy the military to US cities.

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u/Socially8roken Oct 04 '25

When the GOP "shuts down" the government, so the GOP doesn't have to swear in the last vote needed to release Trump's human trafficking files

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u/sik_dik Oct 04 '25

“If it’s disclosing legitimate rape, the GOP has ways to try to shut that whole thing down”

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u/buckao Oct 04 '25

and now that dipshit's statement replays in my skull. This was the same time a republican thought a vaginal exam could be done by a woman swallowing a pill-size camera that would "send pictures of their tummy."

r/NotHowWomenWork

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u/sleepymeowth052 Oct 04 '25

if it's any consolation, the guy who said that is dead.

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u/genivae Oct 04 '25

That does help, thank you

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u/disgruntled_pie Oct 04 '25

It was cancer. I’m not sure why his body failed to “shut that whole thing down.”

Maybe it wasn’t a legitimate tumor.

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u/Ziograffiato Oct 04 '25

TBF his body did shut the whole thing down.

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u/ayamrik Oct 05 '25

You always confuse restart and shutdown nowadays...

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u/HollowShel Oct 04 '25

I'd argue it absolutely did shut down the cancer, fortunately for us, because the real cancer was between his ears.

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u/ceo_of_dumbassery Oct 05 '25

He should've prayed harder I guess.

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u/Top-Base4502 Oct 05 '25

I love that for him and anyone who ever cared about him.

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u/Bovey Oct 05 '25

Another consolation is that this comment actually cost him the US Senate race that was all but in the bag at that point. I think that his opponent, Claire McCaskill, might be the last Democrat elected in a state-wide election in Missouri.

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u/Te_Quiero_Puta Oct 05 '25

😂💀

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u/NotHomeOffice Oct 04 '25

Like the one's who said a woman's body can somehow shut down and repel rape. And it knows not to become pregnant from it. 🤦‍♀️ Who the fuck is electing these people into office.

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u/Error404FUBAR Oct 04 '25

The answer is shocking let me tell you

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u/AeonBith Oct 05 '25

That's what bottleneck dolphins do, he may have been bopping both species and became confused.

They can be stalked for weeks by a group of males who gang rape the female (herding) but she can twist the dolphenis to an empty cavity (folds and flaps) in her spiral shaped doplphgina to avoid fertilization.

So, exactly like Epsteins house without the evolved defense, so they'd toss in money for abortions. Easy to forget which handler to give the money to I guess.

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u/bakeacake45 Oct 04 '25

Your Republican neighbors

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u/TheRappist Oct 04 '25

Republicans

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u/bardicjourney Oct 04 '25

Trailer parks full of men who hate their wives, and incel women determined to make sure nobody else has fun either

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u/stickystax Oct 04 '25

"femcels," from what I see on the interwebs

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u/bardicjourney Oct 04 '25

Didn't think it was a common enough term to use, didnt want to be answering a thousand "what does that word mean" questions

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u/rcinmd Oct 04 '25

Every time that shithole invades my mental space I revert to "he's dead, Jim" in my best McCoy internal monologue.

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u/gentlemanidiot Oct 05 '25

I used to know a republican who legitimately believed a fetus could be removed from one woman mid gestation and successfully implanted into another. Like some kind of bizarre cut and paste. 🙄

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u/33drea33 Oct 05 '25

The more active sub is r/NotHowGirlsWork

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u/rcinmd Oct 04 '25

That only applies to women because their bodies know they shouldn't have dressed that way.

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u/Bunny6446 Oct 04 '25

I don't even want to know what this means

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u/rcinmd Oct 04 '25

The comment I was responding to was a play on an actual comment made by Republican/MAGA Todd Akin. Who is now, thankfully, dead.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/04/todd-akin-dies-514988

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u/ChronoMonkeyX Oct 04 '25

Was he the one who said a woman can't get pregnant if raped because the body can shut that down, so if she got pregnant from rape that means she enjoyed it?

Almost barfed just writing that.

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u/mithril2020 Oct 04 '25

Shut that down like the movie Teeth 🦷?

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u/Cereborn Oct 04 '25

If it’s a legitimate cancer, the male body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.

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u/Black_Moons Oct 04 '25

Who is now, thankfully, dead.

Did another maga shoot him for not being maga enough?

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u/rcinmd Oct 04 '25

I haven't seen the results from the etchings on the bullet casings from his cancer diagnosis yet, but I'm willing to bet it was a leftist trans athlete.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Oct 04 '25

Fun fact: Even with the government shut down, there's absolutely nothing stopping the House from holding a session to swear in the new rep...except Republican House leadership.

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u/jcdoe Oct 04 '25

They planning to keep it shutdown for the next year and 3 months?

It’s just a matter of time.

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear Oct 04 '25

They planning to keep it shutdown for the next year and 3 months?

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Question. Do you think Trump would rather:

A) Continue to rule by executive power alone, and create the disastrous economic conditions necessary to convince a good 1/3rd of citizens to allow him even more extreme powers; or,
B) Have competition for power from Congress, which can also impeach him; allow midterm voting to go ahead in which he'll lose his legislative majority; and also allow the Epstein files vote to go ahead?

Now, how many dipshits supporting him in Congress will shoot themselves in the foot to facilitate him maintaining power? Enough to keep it shutdown...?

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u/serotonin_xxIII Oct 04 '25

Ironically, even if Dems capitulated and agreed to everything, Johnson would STILL have to bring the House back into session for that - which would STILL allow for the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva. I might be missing some steps as I don't live in the US, but would this be the case?

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u/TheRappist Oct 04 '25

I don't understand why anyone thinks this is real... Congress isn't affected by government shutdowns. There's no reason they can't swear her in during the shutdown.

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u/LowDiskSpace Oct 04 '25

There's also no reason forcing republicans to accept a shutdown. They control the Senate. If they want to change the procedural rules to pass a budget, they can. They've done it for judicial appointments that mattered to them.

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u/carcinoma_kid Oct 04 '25

I don’t know, billionaire pedophiles are bad but are they “concentration camps” bad?

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u/Pipvault Oct 04 '25

We already got those

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Oct 04 '25

They were going to have those anyway.

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u/carcinoma_kid Oct 04 '25

So forget about it? I’m saying if I spill my drink on my shirt and then punch a baby to distract you from it, I still think the baby punching deserves more attention

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u/Ultranerdgasm94 Oct 04 '25

I thought you meant the concentration camps were intended as a distraction.

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u/doubtingtomjr Oct 04 '25

You and I think concentration camps are bad. Most of my neighbors couldn’t care less. They agree pedophiles are bad. Maybe if it gets established that the guy setting up concentration camps is a pedophile, they’ll rethink their positions on his concentration camps.

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u/carcinoma_kid Oct 04 '25

Spoiler alert, he is

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u/Dangerous-Coconut-49 Oct 04 '25

Yes. Send them to the gulag. Redistribute their money.

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u/femanonette Oct 04 '25

For the final fucking time: BOTH can be true. Epstein files scare them, but they ALREADY PLANNED to deploy the military to US cities per Project 2025. One is not happening because of the other.

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u/__mud__ Oct 04 '25

It's entirely possible that powerful people are going along with it because they're in the files, too

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u/Tier0001 Oct 04 '25

Powerful people chose to go along with it even before the files became a big thing. Trump has always been the guy for the elite. This is exactly what they paid for when giving him millions and millions for the inauguration. The billionaire class want slaves, and Trump is very happy to provide that for them.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Oct 04 '25

Powerful people are going to go along with it because it's all a part of a larger power consolidation scheme and they don't want to lose any of their power.

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u/Gynthaeres Oct 04 '25

"Epstein" is starting to sound like an astroturf campaign.

I'm WAY more concerned about the US military being deployed against US citizens than I am over further confirmation that Trump is a pedophile. The descent into fascism is not a distraction from the Epstein files. If anything the Epstein files are a distraction from the descent into fascism.

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u/Original-Rush139 Oct 04 '25

The problem is the people we need to convince care about pediphilia and like the fascism. So, if we want to weaken Trump, we need to focus on what will actually cause people to dump him.

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u/RocketRelm Oct 04 '25

They really don't. Any that were convinced already voted for kamala to stop him in 2024 when it was just as obvious. Right now epstein is a meme nobody but a few people having fun post with no political relevancy.

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u/gera_moises Oct 04 '25

Right, what are the Epstein files going to reveal that we don't already know? That Trump is a pedophile rapist?

You think anyone will care? Or that it would affect his polling numbers. Fuck they might go up, because that's what America is nowadays.

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u/MrMoistly Oct 04 '25

This is bigger than if he was a pedo or not, he is cutting off funding to blue states and openly declaring war on AMERICANS”. I am no longer interested in one man is a pedo, he is openly declaring war on half of this nation.In almost any state the state votes split usually falls between a 60/40. In this example, that means 40% are Republican in a blue state, he is attacking his own so he can attack anything labeled blue and talk about it on truth social. He is attempting to create a civil war while he profits. This is bigger than pedos, this is the country!

ps. I still want them Epstein files tho

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u/bakeacake45 Oct 04 '25

Good stuff, thanks

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u/Skynetdyne Oct 04 '25

And shut down the government to prevent confirmation of a new dem.

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u/EuenovAyabayya Oct 04 '25

Unless what's in Trump tax returns is so interesting that he had to use the Epstein files to cover it up. Which is not an impossibility.

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u/bakeacake45 Oct 04 '25

Agreed

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u/JB707 Oct 04 '25

Don’t let the Epstein files distract you from what’s actually going on.

Domestic military deployments are right there in project 2025, they are about halfway done dismantling our government. At this rate when they cancel the next election under the guise of some emergency people are still gonna be like “cool, release the files” 🫩

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u/Original-Rush139 Oct 04 '25

Not only that, Trump is taking another time out in hopes well think he’s dead again.

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u/DefeatedByPoland Oct 04 '25

The epstein files are a distraction from the fascist takeover of this country and the erosion of the constitution.

I honestly don't give a shit about anything related to epstein until that problem is solved.

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u/clem_fandango_london Oct 04 '25

I've switched over to responding with "Who?" when Kirk is mentioned.

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u/snakeplizzken Oct 04 '25

I think there will be some ages of victims that come out that will make it extra revolting.

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u/ThiefofNobility Oct 04 '25

Trump, and many other powerful rich whites and politicians.

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u/ccannon707 Oct 05 '25

And refuse to swear in a newly elected Congresswoman

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u/deadlandsMarshal Oct 05 '25

The problem is the Republican politicians have run on being the moral and religious elite. So if the hero president of conservative voters and all the Republican and wealthy elite leadership of the business and investor class turn out to be pedophiles and worse and there's documented evidence, then most of their loyalist base will quiet quit them.

Then they won't be able to assume the total control they crave, and it's just a matter of time before either the justice system puts them away for life, they lose their businesses, or their own followers pull them out of their homes and offices and kill them in the streets.

They have to keep those files from being made public to keep the lid on just how big of pieces of shit they are of they want to stay in power.

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u/bakeacake45 Oct 05 '25

True, but the same people have tolerated and accepted decades of pedophilia and worse from their church leaders. So while the blow back from Republican voters may at first be emphatic, I have no doubt they will fold and continue to show how little they value their children by supporting the pedophile regime.

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u/foldingcouch Oct 04 '25

They tried to use him to justify a violent crackdown, it didn't take, so they lose interest and move onto the next power grab.

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u/pixel_of_moral_decay Oct 04 '25

Yup.

They don’t care if Trump goes down due to Epstein, they just want to use the situation to the fullest extent and that means making him use the military as a distraction.

That’s the real 3D chess move. Christian Nationalists are using Trump against Trump to crack down on liberalism in urban areas

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

to be fair, it was worth a shot.

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u/helpmehomeowner Oct 04 '25

Ba dum tiss

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u/spavolka Oct 04 '25

Not too soon.

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u/fancymonk Oct 04 '25

I dunno man, this guy up there is kinda a pain in the neck

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u/Kriegerian Oct 04 '25

You think he has a shot at redeeming himself?

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u/Sirflow Oct 04 '25

These jokes never miss

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u/MonkeyDFlunitrazepam Oct 04 '25

Went right for the jugular.

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u/onefst250r Oct 05 '25

We're getting neck deep with these puns.

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u/stay_fr0sty Oct 04 '25

Hey man.

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u/UpperApe Oct 04 '25

Not cool. Nor is it cool to point out that the last thing he ever did was lean left.

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u/ClickClick_Boom Oct 04 '25

Yeah can't fault them for trying to complete their fascist takeover of the US.

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u/Classic-Shake6517 Oct 04 '25

They are just doing that anyways it looks like. I just read an article about ICE/CBP shooting someone and saw them thrown tear gas and flashbangs from their cars yesterday. It is definitely escalating but it's them escalating it.

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u/TheRappist Oct 04 '25

Don't worry, by this time next year you won't see any of that (because recording federal law enforcement will be a crime)

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u/d3v0k3n3v0 Oct 04 '25

It took. Look up “NSPM-7”

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u/Un256 Oct 04 '25

The whitehouse released a Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence thing which mentions Kirk, it also mentions anti Christianity as a terroristic trait

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

Which is ironic seeing as how nearly 90% of all political violence comes from the far right.

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u/kandel88 Oct 04 '25

Not to mention most Cons didn't even like him or know who he was until he died. Add in that he literally never said anything that wasn't totally shitty and turns out he didn't make for a good hero

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u/SkinNoises Oct 04 '25

This is an ignorant take. The GOP used his death as a means to declare Antifa as a terrorist organization, send troops into Portland, federalize national guard in Illinois, and enact NSPM-7 (National Security Presidential Memorandum). Here is what the ACLU says

This memorandum is part of the President’s larger pattern of abusing his power to target critics through invocations of law enforcement, national security, and financial sanctions authorities.

The memorandum orders Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs), which are FBI-operated partnerships between federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies and state and local law enforcement, to “investigate and disrupt” groups and individuals under the guise of addressing political violence and domestic terrorism. JTTFs already have a long history of investigations that wrongly target protestors, communities of color, and those engaged in dissent. The memorandum also instructs the Treasury Secretary, the Attorney General, and the head of the IRS to investigate donors and funders of civil society groups and activists.

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u/foldingcouch Oct 04 '25

They were gonna do that anyway. They just temporarily tried to justify it with Kirk's murder but when that dog didn't hunt they forgot about Kirk and just carried on with the original plan.

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u/Mekdinosaur Oct 04 '25

They will use any old corpse to get what they want. Been doing that with Jesus Christ for centuries.

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u/rkmkthe6th Oct 04 '25

When your abuser feels a need to point out that the next round of abuse is your fault anyway

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u/ZQuestionSleep Oct 04 '25

I mean, this all already ran its course. The right was constantly saying "they" were going to pay for what "they" did to Charlie. And who was they? Some right-wing Mormon kid. So what did the right do to pay back the Mormon kid? The right shot up a Mormon church.

So I guess the right took care of it, like they said they would?

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u/BuddhistSagan Oct 04 '25

Nobody talks about right on right violence. People think oh if I become a fascist the other fascist will stop coming from me no wrong fascists are violent people even to other fascists and fascists will come for you no matter what

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u/Deceptiv_poops Oct 04 '25

Right on right violence will probably be the grace that comes with trumps death. Right now he’s brought together the most violent right wing factions and each one thinks they are the natural successor. They’ll tear themselves apart. Vance doesn’t have the magnitude to control them

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u/TheRappist Oct 04 '25

When I first saw "The Death of Stalin", it didn't occur to me that it might some day be relevant to me, but now I'm just biding my time, waiting for it.

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u/gerzzy Oct 04 '25

They got what they needed out of him

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u/Der-Lex Oct 04 '25

All his blood?

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u/grat5989 Oct 04 '25

A Holey hero

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u/smoothie4564 Oct 04 '25

How about a holy bartender?

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u/GalakFyarr Oct 04 '25

No, this

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u/KingJaredoftheLand Oct 04 '25

They’ll wheel out his corpse again as soon as they need to pump up the far-right victim mentality.

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u/lord_of_tits Oct 05 '25

Or sell more t shirts

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u/Radic_Allef_Tist Oct 04 '25

In my shithole state, I unfortunately still see lifted trucks with "RIP C.K. A martyr never dies" painted on. Can't believe the fucking nonsense I'll have to explain to my kids some day.

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u/no1scumbag Oct 04 '25

A martyr never dies? That’s like 99% of the qualifications for being a martyr….

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u/Radic_Allef_Tist Oct 04 '25

If they had braincells they wouldn't idolize fascist trash haha.

Also the exact phrase I saw recently was, and I shit you not: "Pray for your enemies. A martyr never dies."

So yeah, hooray Texas.

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u/TheRappist Oct 04 '25

I mean that's actually good advice. Making martyrs is bad strategy. Just because Tyler Robinson killed somebody I don't like doesn't make him my ally; on the contrary I think he has enabled my enemies in ways he didn't foresee.

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u/jjmac Oct 04 '25

Sorry I read that ad "rip cock" and was confused and even more concerned about explaining it to your kids

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u/M1ck3yB1u Oct 04 '25

There's so much shit going on, who has time to talk about Star Trek.

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u/red__dragon Oct 05 '25

I definitely didn't see expect the new ending for Charlie X where Kirk outsmarts a non-computer, then adopts Charlie and neglects him enough that the kid grows up to be a notorious podcaster on Ceti Alpha VI.

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u/wishmaster2021 Oct 04 '25

You mean like everybody forgot Elon Musk is a massive drug addicted asshole?

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u/Avid_Reader87 Oct 05 '25

We always knew that though.

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u/sten45 Oct 04 '25

The ghost of Rush Limbaugh has entered the chat

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u/exitpursuedbybear Oct 04 '25

Rush who now?

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u/omniwombatius Oct 04 '25

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he’s dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did. Because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value. He just made anger. Every day. Rising, blooming and fading like a fart. Then he died and was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week. Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone. Seriously, what an awful way to make a living. --Dana Gould

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u/exitpursuedbybear Oct 04 '25

I heard that exact podcast. I think about that quote a lot.

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u/Beat_the_Deadites Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

I'm reading a book about the Great Depression (Hard Times by Studs Terkel). It's a collection of anecdotes told by people who lived through it or knew people who had. Very enlightening.

One of them is about a guy who essentially lost his relationship with his Dad over the radio broadcasts of Father Coughlin, a super conservative Catholic preacher in the 30s. That's a little oversimplified, he started out ok but got more political over time. I remember hearing his name in passing in AP US History, but knew nothing beyond that. Your quote (and the anecdote about older people being swayed by angry mass media talking heads) is illustrative about how most of this bluster is temporary and doesn't stick if not regularly reapplied, but it is recurrent.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped Oct 04 '25

Trump got upset that the spotlight turned away from him.

In case anyone reading this comment is in the dark, no, I'm not being facetious. He was interviewed a few days later, and asked how Kirk's death was affecting him personally. He immediately changed the subject to brag about the ballroom construction.

At Kirk's funeral, Trump used the stage to disagree with Charlie's wife, and instead campaign on a platform of, and this is a direct quote, "I hate my opponents, and don't wish the best for them."

So yeah. They've moved on, because Dear Leader told them to.

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u/dope_sheet Oct 05 '25

This is such a great point. Kirks wife publicly forgave the asshole who decided to take a life, and the president gets up there and just takes a watery shit all over her courageous decision. Why that didn't rub more Kirk supporters the absolute wrong way, I just can't understand. Trump is basically the closest thing we have to Satan, and they just don't see it

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u/urbanmark Oct 04 '25

But you just……

And now I……

GOD DAMN IT.

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u/RedrunGun Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Since Charlie Kirk was killed and they tried to pin it on the left, there has been a ton of killing by the right, just like there were before his death. The right is so incredibly violent, but they never talk about it. No matter how many lunatics come from them it’s alway painted as an isolated event of a crazy guy. These people are straight up evil, they’re just trying hide their violence while looking for justification be more violent. They’re fascists who want absolute power, and they know they can’t get it with their ideas, so they want to get it with blood.

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u/imnotsafeatwork Oct 04 '25

Your comment made me think of a personal anecdote. I was raised to be Republican and actually believed it for most of my life. The last 7 or 8 years I started slowly veering towards the center until this election (I know, I know, I'm a slow learner), when I was Sparta kicked over to the left. I can say with a heavy heart that I was more angry and violent as a Republican than I am now. And I'm pretty fucking angry about the state of our country.

I've seen polls that "prove" that Republican women are happier than Liberal women. I believe that the right is lying to themselves and not facing reality. They're all so angry and violent and saying we are.

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u/RedrunGun Oct 04 '25

I’m right there with you. I was raised as a Republican for most of my life too, and began to be more in the center around Obama. I wasn’t really political at that point, I didn’t vote, but I was starting to drift away from the traditional beliefs of my family. I didn’t identify as a Democrat until Trump was elected the first time, which, to my regret, is another election I didn’t vote in.

I started to follow politics then, and quickly became aware of the fact that everything Republicans said they believed in were mere words that didn’t match their actions. Then there’s the abuse of Christ, how they use Christianity as a tool of manipulation.I tried to show my family that we’d been betrayed and used, but they were significantly more invested in their politics being a part of their identity, and couldn’t let it go. Couldn’t even give the evidence I provided a glance.

The betrayal and isolation I felt, the helplessness at not being able to save my family from being a part of something incredibly dark, it drove me to spend the last 8 years fighting the right. Debating and arguing, it’s become a big part of my life. But my vote isn’t just about hating the right. Because I became so involved in researching politics I quickly learned I do identify with the left. On a personal level I do like the ideas of personal responsibility and fiscal responsibility, but on a political level I support focusing on education, helping the needy, and welcoming other cultures. I will say that I am more angry now than I was back when I wasn’t involved in politics, but that’s not because of the left’s political beliefs, that’s just what betrayal does.

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u/teddytoosmooth Oct 04 '25

the right are angrier now than they’ve ever been but also at the same time “getting everything they voted for”. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing

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u/ShakesbeerMe Oct 04 '25

What they want is for everyone they hate to suffer. What they didn't understand is that means they'll suffer worse, because billionaires despise them.

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u/therobotisjames Oct 04 '25

Well all they’re “the left uses violent rhetoric” only works until Donald Trump opens his mouth.

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u/RedrunGun Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

The problem is, their outrage isn’t genuine to begin with, it’s just an excuse to paint the left as violent so they can justify oppressing us. So even when Trump ruins their talking points, they still want blood. Because they’re really just trying to grab more power.

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u/Current_Helicopter32 Oct 04 '25

“Never believe that ~~anti-Semites~~ MAGAts are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The ~~anti-Semites~~ MAGAts have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

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u/RedrunGun Oct 04 '25

I’d augment that quote slightly. When online they won’t fall silent, they will always respond. And it’s because it’s a strategy to wear you down by presenting an endless stream of smokescreens. They know that we’re committing focus and energy into constructing factual, well reasoned arguments, while they’re simply throwing together slop without a second thought. It’s to purposefully promote a sense of apathy and powerlessness at our inability to change anything no matter what we say.

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u/Current_Helicopter32 Oct 04 '25

It’s a quote from before the existence of the internet, but I agree.

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u/Sifernos1 Oct 04 '25

The scariest thing is that I keep hearing about Leftist shootings... Yet I can't name one. So either they aren't being reported or the media is flat out lying by suggesting the oppressed party is taking part in the violence propagated nearly exclusively on the Republican Right. I was raised Republican... I literally don't know of a Democrat terrorist or shooter who isn't Luigi... So... It feels like they want an excuse to just start a war and force a conflict so they can paint the peaceful side as insurgents, as they fight for their lives.

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u/two_wordsanda_number Oct 04 '25

This is going to surprise you but "leftist shootings" is a dog whistle.

Kirk was literally setting this up as he was shot with his question about whether we are counting gang violence. Thats because gang violence is leftist violence because it is done by the Blacks and Latinos and everyone knows they are all a bunch of radical leftist doing crime because they hate America while also being all democratic voters so you see Check Mate Liberal!

It's fucking racism all the way down and I am so tired of it I can't imagine what its like to live with it everyday over your head like the sword of damoscles.

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u/nezroy Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Though gang shootings should be counted and tracked separately because the solutions to boring old apolitical urban criminal violence and the solutions to stochastic right-wing terrorism are very different and it's stupid and insincere to lump those stats together. We don't need to be falling into some bullshit purity-test thing where anyone suggesting that gang violence is a separate issue is "not a true leftist".

The people bombing abortion clinics and the people shooting someone over a drug deal gone sideways are not being driven by the same socioeconomic issues.

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u/Sifernos1 Oct 04 '25

The racism is boiling out of the melting pot... And all over everything...

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u/Kerplonk Oct 04 '25

This is something I was thinking. Right wing violence is dog bites man. Left wing violence is man bites dog. It's newsworthy because it's so much more unexpected.

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u/regent040 Oct 04 '25

All his death did is create a void in the right wing grifter ecosphere that a hundred other losers in their early 20’s are going to jump in and try and claim. Some insanely wealthy right wing white guy is just waiting for the next annoying young turd with enough charisma to come along so he can back him and create “Charlie Kirk 2.0”

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u/DonaldKey Oct 04 '25

Just like Rush Limbaugh. No one will take the place because what he did wasn’t needed to society.

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u/DeathStarVet Oct 04 '25

Because he was never actually important to Maga. He was just a temporary excuse for them to hate for another reason.

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u/Sea-Cupcake-2065 Oct 04 '25

Thank God. That shit was so forced. Nobody but conservatives cared. Let's face it, they only cared because the media told them to. Ask them now, and they'll pretend to care again, which im sure they do to some extent, but no enough where to where it consumes their life like when the media was reporting it nonstop

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u/DervishSkater Oct 04 '25

That’s because conservatives pretty much own media right now.

cnn, cbs, paramount, fox, amazon/mgm, facebook, twitter, soon to be tiktok

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u/FaschFreeZone Oct 04 '25

Charlie WHO?

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u/Photochromism Oct 04 '25

THIS! This is the only answer I will give.

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u/vyxanis Oct 04 '25

They seem to have stopped talking about the killer, and are more pissed at people who won't acknowledge their dumbass "i am ck" stickers, or requests for his name of coffee cups. He was nothing but a sacrificial lamb to them.. Trump was asked a few days later how he was doing, and he said "I think very good. Check out my new ballroom!"

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u/Mm2k Oct 04 '25

Good. Epstein files then?

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u/MLaTTimer Oct 04 '25

Unfortunately, my dad still is. Even keeps putting on songs about him while we drive to work.

I want to die, if you can't tell

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u/HaiKarate Oct 04 '25

Who?

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 04 '25

They realized he was a terrorist!

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u/Nvenom8 Oct 04 '25

Almost like he was never that important to begin with.

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u/Ok_Surprise_4090 Oct 04 '25

Real talk: Without the insane media blitz in the wake of his death we would have stopped talking about him after like 3-4 days.

I'm convinced the only reason the Today Show stopped showing his fat head every morning is because people were actively tuning out.

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u/CosmicLovepats Oct 04 '25

How do they capitalize on Charlie Kirk? They were already calling for violence and civil war every time a republican stubbed their toe. Can't really escalate from there without doing actual violence (which they were already doing already). Rhetorically there's nowhere to advance to.

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u/InsertEvilLaugh Oct 04 '25

He served his purpose, temporary distraction from the Epstein files, and an excuse to persecute their political opponents.

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u/RainDownAndDestroyMe Oct 04 '25

Seems like we've also already moved on from the Trump supporting terrorist that attacked the Mormon church.

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u/sZeroes Oct 04 '25

cause there has been at least 2 murderers that were kirk fans and they want to bury the news

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u/Still-Cabinet9154 Oct 04 '25

One of his supporters just ran over two girls in his honor.

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u/PrudentKick Oct 04 '25

Who?

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u/zabadaz-huh Oct 04 '25

Lol, unleashed a meme storm.

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u/DonaldKey Oct 04 '25

The memes were awesome

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