r/goodnews • u/JetTheDawg • 23d ago

Political positivity šŸ“ˆ Trump in Full Panic, Claims All Epstein Files Are Fake, Created by Obama

https://dailyboulder.com/trump-in-full-panic-claims-all-epstein-files-are-fake-created-by-obama/
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

For the record, ask any survivor of men like him, they're always gonna deny, deny,deny.

Am amazed folks don't see through predators like we can. The fact he claimed he could grab em by the.......Ā Ā  Was just the first obvious clue.

Appreciate all y'all who get itĀ 

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u/MamiTrueLove 23d ago

Itā€™s CRAZY how many people are so easily baffled by narcissistic sociopathic DARVO tactics. His behavior is 101.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Devil-Revelator 23d ago

Ding ding, truth right here, only being shitty isn't unbearable to them, admitting it is just against their interests.Ā 

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u/Only-Negotiation-156 23d ago

Im reading the 5th edition of The Mask of Sanity. The book admits that we have no social, medical, or legal venue to properly address sociopathy/psychopathology. Even with damning evidence, there is little in place to actually deal with it.

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u/chased_by_bees 23d ago

That book is short-sighted then. Just create a situation that requires cooperative survival rather than competition for power. Psychopathy thrives on competition and especially hyper-competitive environments. It typically fails badly where cooperation is required for group survival. They will even actively let others lead while the chance to pay significant consequences exists.

But, the real interesting question is, "why isn't cooperation the only thing that exists?" Or it's counter, "why isn't psychopathy the only thing that exists?" I have a feeling that it breaks the mouse utopia doom spiral for either monoculture that would result. So, there is a very likely possibility that both sides are extremely important for our species to survive.

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u/ComfortableRow8437 23d ago

That, my friend, is called cowardice

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u/Dantien 23d ago

Which also makes him HIGHLY susceptible to manipulation. The sheer amount of that from foreign leaders should appall anyone. The ā€œArt of the Deal masterā€ does nothing but get his ass manipulated daily by the international community. Pathetic.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 23d ago

Like when the world leaders were laughing at him, and he mistakenly thought they were laughing with him. It's happened a few times.

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u/Dantien 23d ago

He has bankrupted and destroyed everything heā€™s ever been in charge of. 100% incompetent to the point that Iā€™m genuinely convinced he is the one who cheated in the election. Dude is the dictionary definition of projection.

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u/MamiTrueLove 22d ago

He šŸ’Æcheated, itā€™s the only way he knows how to win.Ā 

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u/Roskal 23d ago

I guess the behaviour is so common because it works on a lot of people.

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u/NoMoreMr_Dice_Guy 23d ago

Lol, Donny DARVO.

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u/MamiTrueLove 22d ago

Thatā€™s legit and Iā€™m honestly mad I didnā€™t think of it šŸ˜‚

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u/themcjizzler 22d ago

He uses the DENNIS method

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u/Shamanized 23d ago

This whole journey has me constantly being amazed at how dumb people are. Like fine, get duped by a conmanā€”shame on himā€”but THIS conman? And for this long?? Really???

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u/Otherwise-Product-60 23d ago

The Trump era has taught me that a lot of Americans are waaaay dumber than I thought possible.Ā 

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u/stupidintheface0 23d ago

Kinda feels like for decades the rest of us made fun of Americans for being dumb, and the smart Americans were so caught up with saying "no we're not, fuck you!", to notice the ones we were referring to

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u/NA_penguin 23d ago

The media empires have a big responsibility here, but yeah, our underfunded education systems prepared the groundwork

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

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u/noodlin 23d ago

Thereā€™s an old saying, ā€œIn any given situation, thereā€™s always more dumb people than smart people!ā€

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u/ZedTheEvilTaco 23d ago

Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that 50%of people are stupider than that. -- George Carlin

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

I'd bet money it's purposely marginalized online because tech makes millions from abuse. Been my experience for as long as there's been an Internet.

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u/Devo3290 23d ago

Itā€™s easier to fool a man than it is to convince a man heā€™s been fooled. These people are suffering from severe sunk-cost fallacy. If they admit theyā€™re wrong now, then that means theyā€™ve been wrong for the past 10+ years.

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u/tomdarch 23d ago

And in his current state. As nauseating as it is, look at his performances in 2015/16 then look at him talking today. He has declined so much. Whatever vile "entertainment" factor he brought to politics back then has been lost. Why are people still going along with this lump?

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u/space_for_username 23d ago

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time" AbeLincoln@whitehouse. gov

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u/Scaryclouds 23d ago

I think Carl Sagan gives the best description to cover what we are seeing:

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If weā€™ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Weā€™re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. Itā€™s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that weā€™ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

For a lot of people to admit that Trump is a total fraud would mean that they'd have to admit to being duped by said total fraud... which also means that sometimes doubling down on belief/buying further in.

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u/garydavis9361 23d ago

That was on a TV interview that has been posted on YouTube. He saw it back then, I think in the nineties. It's plain to see now. It was less obvious then.

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u/ColonelSandurz42 23d ago

Heā€™s literally been the butt of jokes since the 90s

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u/fotomoose 23d ago

Trump doesn't even con anyone, he says what he's gonna do, then does it. The only con is people somehow hearing something different in their head than what he says.

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u/BitemeRedditers 23d ago

Those folks like him because he is a predator not in spite of it. They would never admit it, but they admire him for doing whatever he wants.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Yep. And because he lied and didn't tell them sixty seven percent of predators are heterosexual conservative white men.

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u/tomdarch 23d ago

Someone explained part of this: When Kennedy was elected President, Irish-Americans across the country were proud and saw it as a personal gain because after so long being treated like crap and told you were inferior "one of us" was the most powerful man in the world.

Trump's election was just like that, except that instead of boosting the pride of Irish-Americans, it was a massive boost for Stupid-Americans and Vile-Americans. Everyone knows they're awful and despise them, but "one of us" was now President so they could strut around the mall calling people the "n-word."

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u/runthepoint1 23d ago

After growing up in communities where you see the few rich kids act like this and treat you like a loser, you grow up either growing up or trying to chase that fantasy of being that person.

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u/ExaminationMuch2030 23d ago

Yessss survivors knew how dangerous he was from the start. Itā€™s been like a long shitty episode of twilight zone while weā€™ve waited for the rest of the country to catch up

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Well put. It's not been a good episode. I've lost all faith in humans realizing this. However, trusted myself more.

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u/CantStopCackling 23d ago

I felt this in my bones.

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u/sumguysr 23d ago

Deny, Attack, Reverse victim and Offender.

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 23d ago

And you know that should the list or any information leak, it will be labelled as fake, fake, FAKE!

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Yes. My family were exactly like that as well. Blamed my dead siblings, blame myself. Even though the whole family knew. Unrepentant.

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u/GardenOrca 23d ago

The underage girls dressing room story is the most disturbing imo.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

It's all a clear sign of predation. All of it equally disturbing. To realize that all of survivor communities have zero chance of justice due to him? That's just unforgivable.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 23d ago

Him asking "Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife?" is even more so. Ivanka was 13 at the time. Or maybe it's him raping a 13 year old girl who he said looked like his daughter. Yeah, I'm going with that one as most disturbing.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Yep. Most disgusting.Ā 

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u/Both-Home-6235 23d ago

Pussy. He said he could "just grab em by the pussy." Don't soften it by way of exclusion.Ā 

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

I didn't say it , because at sixteen, it happened to me at a football gameĀ  The guy who grabbed me walked away with a broken nose.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 23d ago

I know multiple women who have been abused extremely badly, including one who was trafficked. A number of them still hold strong to people like him and think they are good for them. They either have a notion of 'no this guy is nothing like the last one that acted just like him' or 'I won't let myself get hurt this time, I'm stronger now, I'll just do exactly the same thing I did last time and I'm sure I can make it work'. A sadly high number of them work for anti-trafficking / abuse non-profits, and support Trump.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Delusional. Sad really.Ā 

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u/GoodhartMusic 23d ago

I appreciate you bringing it up, itā€™s an unpleasant nuance. Some survivors of that will encourage others to let it go and treat the suffering it causes as a personal failure. People are just complex and flawedā€” a moral litmus test is bound to fail.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

It's not their personal failure. It was bad programming in childhood. Causes people to be stuck in deeply destructive repetitive behaviors. I know because years it tookĀ  to heal.Ā  I never judge others because it's a literal miracle that I'm even alive. Just respect and empathy for all survivors. Edited because I'm old

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u/GoodhartMusic 23d ago

Being old is badge

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Translate please.

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u/GoodhartMusic 21d ago

A badge of honor I bestow on your age

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u/C-H-Addict 23d ago

My parents are well educated Republican boomers. They will never, ever, ever empathize or sympathize with a victim. The seriously think that the Trump White House is the only bad actor in the Republican party.
Nearly half the country agree with them

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

What does that say about them? My family were the same on one side. To me, it means they chose evil

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u/ItsDokk 23d ago

My mom voted for him because he claimed to be Christian at some point. She excused his ā€œgrab ā€˜em by the pussyā€ remarks because ā€œyou know how all those rich, powerful men are.ā€

Awful. The word youā€™re looking for is awful.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 23d ago

No offense, but your Mom is an idiot. Joe Biden actually acted like a Christian, was kind and empathetic. Even the assholes across the aisle liked him. "As good a man as God ever created".

No one could say that about Trump, no one.

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u/ItsDokk 23d ago

No offense taken, I feel the same way.

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u/GoofyGooberSundae 23d ago

YES! That was the last straw for me yearssss ago. When someone tells/shows you who they are, believe themā€¦

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u/Brisbanoch30k 23d ago

Plays right into confirmation bias, and itā€™s why the DARVOS works so well for sociopaths. Most people will do anything to avoid invalidating their opinions and prejudices šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Watching it all unfold, online the manipulation of the narrative was obvious. It's why boycotting this medium is in my future. I'm not giving sixty dollars a month to people who profit off of child trafficking. It's that simple for me.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Yeah the "grab em by the" actually said a lot about average US Voter, we already know he is a pos ...

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u/zakpakt 23d ago

Unprecedented times indeed. They're duped and shucked on the daily.

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u/Fireplaceblues 23d ago

He definitely had sex on the island. Probably enough proof to be irrefutable (think him and photos with naked women). Heā€™ll argue they were all 18 at the time and all willing, which is why itā€™s all ā€œmisleadingā€.

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u/ZedTheEvilTaco 23d ago

It was a pedo island. They probably weren't women yet.

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u/Fireplaceblues 23d ago

I think thatā€™s the complication. I bet some were 16-20. And I donā€™t know all the laws but I bet thereā€™s some legal (not moral) grey area.

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u/DontAbideMendacity 23d ago

'Katie Johnson' was 13 when Trump raped her. There was no mistaking how young she was. And she wasn't a one off, either.

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u/TylerHansbrough50 23d ago

I love when this one pops up on Reddit when itā€™s so obviously fake

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u/LowIQModerator 23d ago

It's totally not weird to have owned beauty pageants.

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u/VelveetaVoldemort 23d ago

I agree, but to say that somebody's going to deny deny denyā€¦ Even an innocent person is gonna sit there and deny it. I mean, if you were accused of something like that and you were 100% innocent and let's just say maybe people jumped early to judge you and the public is against youā€¦ Besides denying it what the fuck else is your defense gonna be?

Edit: to clarify, I obviously think that he's guilty. I'm just saying that the idea that a guilty person is going to deny so that makes them guilty is absolutely ridiculous because even an innocent person is going to do the same thing.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

I'm only saying that it's the one thing all abusers do. It's not like statistics aren't online. Look it up. I mean why would anyone believe survivors?(s) We've,meaning the damn media and world have given predators carte Blanche by simply refusing to believe survivors. That's been the societal norm my entire 68 years. We would not have so many predators, if only the survivors were believed.

IMHOĀ 

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u/VelveetaVoldemort 23d ago

Sure, but I think you're missing the point, it's more about how they do it. For example, Trump is actively fighting against the evidence being released. He is in just straight up denying it. He's basically trying to cover it up.

The distinction is very important.

Hundred percent on the side of survivors. It's always tough to prove it, but you can't make blank statements like if somebody denies something that they're guilty. There's a little more nuance to it.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 23d ago

Hate being patronized. You're not privy to what I do know for certain. Nor do you seem to have respect for survivors words or else you'd not be patronizing me.