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[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I.. I have NO words. The words won't form in my head.
>After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”.

What would voting for Epstein's best friend and accomplice achieve in getting "her day in court"?? Why would the biggest liar, cheat, fraud, and moron in the entire world NOT quash anything negative that has his name attached to it? WHAT IS THIS LOGIC? IS THIS LOGIC?

I really don't want to be the person who tells an Epstein survivor they're an incomprehensible idiot... did I just do that? I guess maybe I did? I'm.. sorry? I'm.. NOT sorry? I don't know what I am.

Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would release the files. That he was the only one that could do it. Just like he says lots of bullshit.

As it turns out stupid people are stupid.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Said a lot of shit on the campaign trail. All of it, every word was horseshit. Everyone knew it.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

Everyone with a functioning brain...

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That IS becoming a rarity more these days isn't it

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Well I didn't realise until 2016 that one could even become president without having one.

[-] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 8 points 1 month ago

Probably has to do with the notion of Trump being "anti-establishment" and Epstein being considered part of that "establishment". The idea in certain sphere has long been that there was a conspiracy of evil pedophiles running the deep state and that Trump was their adversary (see Pizzagate).

Some of his closest allies were pretty vocal on the Epstein case before the 2024 election, being convinced the likes of Bill Clinton would be compromised (which he was), but apparently believing Trump was innocent (which, obviously, he wasn't). Trump opposing the release of the file was something many in his camp appeared surprised and disappointed by, as his appearance in them ; tho of course those closest to him will say that was another conspiracy.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Fox News destroyed a lot of people’s brains. Basically turned them into mush. So I’m not surprised a conservative could be this stupid.

I.. uh.. wow. I don’t think I could hold that much cognitive dissonance in my head. That’s fuckin wild.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

They discovered a cheat code. If you don't use the cognition part, you get none of the dissonance.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

"Trump is gonna release the Epstein files and hold all of the pedophiles accountable for their actions!"

  • Morons on their way to vote for Jeffrey Epstein's best friend
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

You know what? Go to the end of the justice line. You'll get yours after everyone else.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I'll get downvotes for this, but this is one case where I can understand her position. She was trafficked, raped and traumatized as a kid, was likely fed drugs as a kid as well. She's lived with that trauma her entire life, spoken up and was dismissed, and she's still angry, frustrated, terrified and traumatized.

And no one does anything. For years, for decades, no one does anything.

And trump comes along and says he'll prosecute the people on the list. Maybe she thinks he's not on the list, maybe she knows he is but if he's not the one who raped her she doesn't cares, she just wants everyone else taken down.

No one else is promising to go after the Epstein list, but trump is. And she's hoping that if she can see some justice get done, that she'll finally be able to put some of her trauma behind her.

She's not racist, she's not a brainwashed Fox News addict, she doesn't want to 'stick it to the libs'. She is legitimately a one-issue voter. She just wants free of her pain, and she casts the one vote that's promising her that.

This is the one vote that I don't think is LAMF material, it's just a tragedy for this poor woman.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Trump was a well-known close associate of Epstein way before 2024 as well as a known rapist. Trauma doesn't excuse being a self-serving idiot.

[-] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

And a tremendous, pervasive liar. Why would you trust his promise to target child rapists? He's a known associate of child sex traffickers and a liar.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Again: if trump never raped her, and he's promising revenge on the people who trafficked her and who did rape her? After years of no justice, no peace, she sees this as a possibility and she grabs it with both hands. Just like someone with cancer and no hope left from traditional medicine might go into alternative treatments, just for the chance - I can see her doing that.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

She might, and it's fucked up and self-serving, as I said. "Fuck everyone who might be harmed by putting this monster into power, he might do something that benefits me!"

[-] Soulg@ani.social -1 points 1 month ago

Just because we know that doesn't mean she knew that. Not every victim of Epstein was raped by Trump.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Anyone who didn't know that Trump is a rapist, racist, etc. by 2024 is being a willful idiot and is nowhere near informed enough to responsibly vote.

[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

you're vastly underestimating the effectiveness of the propaganda bubble. people out there who still don't know Trump was convicted on fraud charges.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Propaganda is not an excuse for being recklessly irresponsible with your vote.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Except Trump definitely did not promise that if you actually listened to what he said and not the chopped up version that ran on Faux News.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Your logic is sound and fair. There's a second layer as well.

Neither Biden nor Harris would have done anything for this woman. They proved it the first time.

To be fair, Trump did too. But still. Neo libs don't give two fucks about Epstein.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

stockholm syndrome? i don't know how this works, but this one borders the sad.

[-] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This settles it for me. Democracy can never work when people as dumb as this can vote. And there are this many of them as it seems. I just can't phantom how you can not have seen through his blatantly obvious lies. Especially in her case.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

You voted for a gleeful rapist, dipshit. What did you expect?

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For me now, is America taking the predators that are here in our country, yes, take them down in every country, but I would like to see some of that, that would give me a little bit more faith and that we’re doing the right thing and that we’re protecting our children.”

OP, stop blaming the victim. She got lied to and betrayed. She isn't voting for the rapist again.

This is a prime example when we, the actual leftists, say: Electoralism is fascist praxis.
Stop demanding justice in First Past the Post Representation.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Lied to by who? Everyone knew Donald and Jeff were bffs.

If she didn’t, she should have done some homework.

Don’t infantilize a grown woman.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To Jena Lisa Jones, the survivor of the child eating raping island, who only sought Trump as the only candidate that platformed releasing the files: Because Kamala Harris wouldn't.

You and I knew Trump was bfffne with Jeffrey, but she never connected the two, or the digressive victimhood of Trump. Only 15% of the 🇺🇲 population had the cognitive skills to connect Trump with her rapists.

When I say, you & I, I mean it: we are a minority.

she should have done some homework

Now you're expecting the abused to be able to read, and research.

Don’t infantilize a grown woman.

Have you ever tried teaching an illiterate person how to read as a late adult‽

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

wait, your reading comprehension is below mines‽

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

You win. There was definitely no way to know Donald was a pedophile rapist in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This isn't about winning you 🤬. If you can't teach the illiterate how to spot liars and rapists, you will get Donald Trumps over and over again.

This is a literacy problem, and you're blaming the illiterate for not knowing how to research.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 month ago

I'd be a bit less mad at neutral voters if they did any direct action. Everyone I know who goes to protests and does arrestable actions also votes. But every non voter I know doesn't do anything of the sort. They think abstaining is the only thing they need to do. The voter abstinence movement is a distraction to keep people from doing direct action.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 1 month ago

You haven't read? It's illegal to do both!

Now how will you directly act against Nazism?

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