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‘If you still support Trump, look in the mirror’: The 13-year-old Texas boy who has gone viral for criticizing the president on social media (english.elpais.com)
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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 hours 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

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

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

—————————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-year-old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax.  Here is Katie’s 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 had the same lawyer, Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz says he’s building a ‘legal dream team’ to defend Israel in court and on the 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 Jeffrey Epstein’s pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Feel free to do your part and spread them around like a meme, sharing the info so it is never “lost”.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 40 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] witten@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

You're nothing if not consistent!

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 184 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

“And don’t tell me I don’t love my country. I love it enough to hold it to account.” — This kid knows the difference between love and infatuation, between patriotism and nationalism.

[–] dcpDarkMatter@kbin.earth 83 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.” -- Al Franken

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 53 minutes ago

Al Franken should be president.

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 9 hours ago

I suppose following this metaphor the actual left, like anarchists, are the people who realize that sometimes people don’t get over their toxic behavior and for those people you have to set strong boundaries and or cut them out of your life. It’s scary leaving someone you’ve known forever but sometimes it really is for the best

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

"when you're messing up, and no one is calling you out for it, then you're in a very bad place" -- Randy pausch, last lecture

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I hope nothing bad happens to this kid

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Tik Tok has thousands of young content creators explaining how much they love Trump.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There are so many bot accounts GLAZING him. It’s actually crazy

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Hm.. I hope glazing doesn't mean what I think it means

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 61 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Good for him, but MAGA has no shame, and no ability to self-reflect or question motives. They would literally look in the mirror and love what they see. They outright refuse to consider that anyone kidnapped by ICE has no criminal record. Anything that goes against their view is "fake news".

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Don't need a criminal record if your skin is any shade of brown. They'll even photoshop some gang tatts in for you!

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

MAGA looks in the mirror all the time and they quiet happy with what they see.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 11 points 8 hours ago

Pedophiles and pedophile protectors

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Who is still supporting Trump? All the americans i've spoke to online and irl agree that he's an idiot. The majority of people who voted for him did because they deemed him the lesser evil candidate not because they actually support him.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 50 minutes ago

My next door neighbors are nice people, but I know they are unrepentant Trump supporters.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 11 points 5 hours ago

Step outside your social bubble and you'll see

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with most of his points, but there is something about his delivery that I find a little obnoxious. I’m not sure he is going to effectively change people’s minds as much as he just appeals to the intellectual liberal crowd.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You found the delivery from the 13-year old boy to be obnoxious? Have you met children before?

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago

I try to avoid them as much as possible, usually.

I’m not saying he’s unusual for a 13 year old, just that writing articles about him like he’s a progressive silver bullet seems to be off the mark.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, but that was the "problem" with greta thunberg as well. And even if the person delivering the message is perfect and can't be downplayed for any aspect of their appearance or delivery, maga just has to talk in a high pitched sarcastic voice that 'LibEraLs aLwaYs wAnt SucH StUpid THings!"

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

In my opinion, part of that attitude is a valid criticism. Republicans are good at constructing messages that appeal to the emotional and instinctual parts of the brain. A lot of democrats have been stuck in a pattern of indignation and admonishing, which is what I detect in this kids videos.

If you look at the last two promising progressive campaigns, they were ones that also figured out how to appeal to emotionality. Obama overcame a major establishment competitor with Hope, Change, and pop art. Bernie did better than any leftist has ever done by focusing on a battle against the elites that must be waged before it is too late.

It seems like the rallying cry is more effective for swing voters and nonvoters than intellectual outrage is.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep. The highest point of harris' campaign was when walz got the 'weird' bit going. We (humanity) has to face the fact that we are mostly dumb, panicky animals that logic touches but doesn't often guide.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What Republicans are good at is having a propaganda outlet lying to everyone that watches it for 30 years and is treated even by opponents as if it is a news source.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 46 minutes ago

The Conservative Propaganda Machine.

It's not just Fox News, it's an entire network of interconnected Conservative media outlets, from radio, to print, to Internet, to TV.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ok but a big part of how that works is by convincing people that their emotional arguments are rational and that their opponents' rational arguments are condescension and moral arguments are emotional

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe -4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Color me not impressed. It's just a bunch of surface level opinions I could rip off an hour of scrolling Lemmy comments, delivered in whiny kid voice. Clearly, anyone can spout off opinions.

The real magic happens when you have opinions, backed up with research, facts, & sources, you hear the other side, and you can defend your opinions logically & well.

Whatever this is...it isn't that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe the next generation isn’t totally screwed if humanity has people like this kid.

[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 0 points 8 hours ago

They don’t though. It’s just one. Humanity is fucked. Good riddance.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago

Put this boy in office 🇺🇸

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Sauce?

[–] Napdyn@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Just on my chips thanks

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Linked at the top of the article...?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 9 hours ago

The quote in the headline does not appear in that video.