I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the [Nuremberg] defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

G. M. Gilbert

Not to give excuses for people but it's also perfectly reasonable to express concern for something that directly affects one's daily life, ~~rather than~~ before an abstract system of domination.

Moral evaluation is overridden when one's purchasing power and thus livelihood is threatened. The Yellow Vests in France started because of a gas price hike, and then transformed into a political movement. The Boston Tea Party into the American Revolution. Police Corruption in Tunisia into the Arab Spring... It always starts with concrete issues and then expands in critic of the system.

That's modern day slavery. Almost as if it never left, and we should have killed the traitorous Confederate bastards and left their bodies to hang as a reminder.

That's a movie villain

Rape is a form of sexual abuse.

What I hate is when people say Trump fucks children.

Consenting adults fuck. An adult raping a child is not fucking.

Monarchy was abandoned. Now we have a lot of little kings and queens.

The dollar generally went further than the four years after he left office and that was his entire campaign selling point for the vast majority of Americans. "Remember when things were affordable right before the pandemic? And then Joe Biden took office and things were more expensive?"

But obviously the affordability of day to day life had very little to do with Biden's policy and more to do with global trajectory and many of Biden's policies did slow the approach to today's economy. And Trump really just strapped a rocket engine to the economy in the direction of late stage capitalism once he was back in office.

Almost like he just sorta, lied to them... Like he always has....

Fox News lied a lot. Is what happened during his first term that made them feel that way. They were told shit was delicious and believed it.

Republicans are the more religious of the bunch, and their "youth pastors" have a long track record of child abuse and these people make pedophiles their leaders religious and political, so there is that.

Donald lost basically every election in 2025 and 2026

:-/

I gotta double check, but I'm pretty sure Donald wasn't on the ballot in '25 and '26. I think you're underselling the rest of the GOP field, which has actually under-performed Trump himself even in the good years and is now outright shitting itself in the bad ones.

But that's not really the gist of the meme. Might be worth noting that Epstein was as deeply embedded with Dems as Repubs, having allied with liberal luminaries like Larry Summers, Kathy Ruemmler, and - of course - Bill Clinton. Meanwhile, roll the calendar back a couple years to the Biden Era DOJ and you find zero shits given about Epstein when Dems had control of both Congress and the Executive Branch.

Then you've got "Kids In Cages", which was a very big deal right before the '16, '20, and '24 election cycles, but suddenly stopped mattering the day after. Actual concern for real human children does not seem to move the needle on public support/opposition to a politician. It's just a rhetorical cudgel to swing.

If anything, the sadism inherent in immigration politics seems to get a certain sector of the voting base off.

And, everyone on this thread just pretending the meme is true

Slapping a sticker with a President's face on it next to a gas station price tag has been common practice since the Bush Era. Very common for apparatchiks to hem and haw over the cost of a gallon.

But when it comes to child sexual abuse? crickets