Also relevant is the court filing from Katie Johnson that contains the explicit details of her allegation that Trump and Epstein raped her when she was 13 years old and threatened harm to her family if she told anyone.

While it's likely that you will dismiss this out of hand it's an important counterpoint for others to weigh regarding the relationship between Trump and Epstein.

Your attitude of disbelief of any Trump association with wrongdoing and allegations of conspiracy to slime Trump are so comical that if I squint a little it might be brilliant satire, you're really on game as a carbon copy of a Trump innocence evangelist and the over the top dramatic flair at the end really leaves me guessing.

Perhaps with your approach you could rehabilitate the reputations of historic scoundrels and monsters. Maybe you could argue that Charles Manson was just a kind hearted musician and was naive to the evil nature of some of the people who gathered around him for the nurturing of their souls. How DARE we impugn his character and that he had any part in the atrocities of the strangers that were his fans. There was a whole industry trying to pin this stuff on Manson. That swastika on his forehead was a Hindu symbol too, if he knew it was a banner of genocide he certainly wouldn't have put it there, how dare we even consider that!

Seriously Tiqui, your post is gold.

Anyway, lets look at this rape allegation against Trump and Epstein by a then 13 yo girl. Read it in all its detail and look at it along with other examples of Trump's behavior and attitude towards women. Make your own decision as to whether it's credible.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/310...

I found this thread enlightening.

It's about 120-ish years of white supremacist / fascist "global control" conspiracy theories starting with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was a forgery plagiarized from a satire play about Napoleon and the machinations that white people go through to maintain power.

In a pattern that should be recognizable to us, the creators of the forgery changed the target to the Jews and claimed it was an internal document written by a cabal of Jews discussing how to control the world. This particular conspiracy theory was used as a tool for Third Reich along with many other problematic white supremacist movements across this timeline.

The pattern is to engage in plans to establish white supremacist dominance through the systematic removal of democratic institutions and civil liberties and the perpetration of violence against the opposition, while simultaneously justifying such behavior by claiming the opposition is engaged in this kind of thing and that they are an existential threat that demands extreme measures to counter.

As we expect moral integrity and logical consistency of behavior from our political opposition, the hypocrisy of the words and behavior of white supremacists is glaringly obvious. This is a feature, not a bug. The group that is deliberate, strategic and methodical in their actions to create the false perception of a counter-threat that justifies the destruction of legal and moral frameworks to gain power always has the advantage over the falsely accused which has no such organization or war footing to fight back.

This is all happening as part of a bigger picture that has been going on for over a century. We did not end white supremacy in the bombed out rubble of Nazi Germany, and we will need to fight them again because they are fighting us and we are failing to adequately defend ourselves at this time.

https://twitter.com/JYSexton/s...

If restrictions on speech are unconstitutional to the point that anyone with enough money can drown out opposing viewpoints in an election, how the hell do they justify allowing a district in central Florida to censor the internet?

It is very likely that corporate advertising that lies and tries to scare people into voting a certain way offends the standards of more than a few communities- say, Berkeley, for one. Under this precedent, Berkeley should start suing the folks who air those highly offensive anti-healthcare reform ads. I guarantee you that they'll have a sympathetic jury if all it takes is a local community standard.

I'm hearing a lot about this story from the perspective of Imus being singled out for saying "nappy headed ho", whereas others (insert random Hip Hop artist here) are not "fired" for saying similar things. This meme appears to be diverting much attention and energy from the both the actual cause of the outrage, and, conveniently for those politicians concerned, from an steaming pile of accumulating scandals in the US executive branch.

IMHO, the actual cause of the outrage is that Imus made an unprovoked derogatory slur on national media against a -specific- group of women, simply because they were female and black. This was basically a public sucker punch against an innocent group of actual, real life young women with parents, relatives and friends.

Can anyone here reasonably say that if a popular, well known personality, on national TV and radio, called your wife or daughter or good friend a (insert race specific stereotype) (insert culture specific derogatory slang for whore), you wouldn't want to defend them at least by complaining to their employer? What if this crap was directed against your team, business, or place of worship?

Somehow this is getting played into making folks look like they're supporting censorship, and it appears to be some sort of insidious dividing tactic that splits folks into the false dichotomy of "if you don't support commercialized hate speech, you support big brother censorship". Man, we are so getting played here.