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debsy

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1. Nobody will ever convince me...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 03:19 PM

Sunday

… that Epstein and Trump weren’t working together. IMO, they both kept kompromat on each other as well as on all their “clients”. Donnie dumpster probably learned his lesson on kompromat after his first visit to Russia in 1987. From there, the sex trafficking and blackmail business took off. Since then, dumpster (and before his death, Epstein) have used it to bully everyone he/they have kompromat on into doing his/their bidding.

Of course, this is just my opinion but - to me - it is also the simplest explanation for how he got where he is today.

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"when people accumulate mass wealth and power, they begin to believe the rules no longer apply to them, and their [View all] applegrove Sunday OP

Nobody will ever convince me... debsy Sunday #1

They're not beginning to think it, they already know it! It's how they got wealthy in the first place, because the rules msfiddlestix Sunday #2

Look at the smug, entitled faces in that picture. Boomerproud Sunday #3

I'm so sick of that picture. I'm getting tired of being grossed out. applegrove Sunday #4

We've relearned the age-old truth of that. We didn't give it enough weight in the p-grabbing tape, UTUSN Sunday #5

And this has to change. No more kids gloves for any of them. chowder66 Sunday #6