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      At this point with the amount of distraction and deflection I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t the entire Epstein files.

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    Trump is on the list. Anything he says or does from here on out is just an attempt to distract and switch the narrative.

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    The most deranged and bloodcurdling statement came, predictably, from White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Trump’s most openly fascistic aide, who claimed Thursday that Washington, D.C. “is more violent than Baghdad, it is more violent than parts of Ethiopia, and parts of many of the most dangerous places in the world.” The clear implication is that Washington, like Baghdad, should be the target of US military violence on a massive scale.

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      This is what you get with “evidence be damned” people

      Just claim, no evidence required

      Is there evidence against your claim? Just completely ignore it, act as if it doesn’t exist and ridicule those that remind you there is evidence, and you’re golden!

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        Quality of evidence matters, too. There was a study popped up on Lemmy yesterday and I looked at who paid for it and the methodology, and it was quite questionable, but people commenting acted like they’d put fingers in the nail wounds of the risen Christ. Confirmation bias is real.

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      It could be true:

      • District of Columbia: 22.3 per 100,000 people

      • Iraq (not specifically the capital): 9.14 per 100,000 people

      However St. Louis has a murder rate of 65 per 100,000 so the national guard should be starting there, not outside the president’s bedroom.

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        One of the biggest, anyway. POTUS rightly recognized he has no friends or loyalty around him, only opportunists, and has done nothing to mitigate the threat. Not that competent advisors wouldn’t be opportunists, but they could at least somewhat salvage his presidential reputation.

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      Epstein smokescreen, but one that brings him closer to his goal of authoritarianism, all because 19 year old Big Balls got attacked by a couple of 15 year olds.

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      Big Balls (the DOGE kid musk hired) got beat up in DC while supposedly saving a woman from being carjacked or something by 10 people. Somehow that’s an adequate reason to take over the city.

      We’re living in a joke.

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      Two 15-year-olds tried to carjack a former doge employee, at least that’s the excuse. It’s an attention-splitter: either the press raise outrage on the DC takeover, or they raise outrage over the Epstein files. Either way, he’s wins.