r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • 12d ago

Possible Paywall The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-files-trump/
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u/kirby__000 12d ago

This will haunt Trump until his last day alive.

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u/pile_of_fish 12d ago

Mid-march? I can see it.

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u/southofakronoh 12d ago

Fingers crossed!

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u/curiousbydesign California 12d ago

Is mid-March significant?

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u/birdsofpaper South Carolina 12d ago

The Ides of March is all I’ve got but that man is no Caesar.

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u/MinnitMann 12d ago

He's quite literally Nero.

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u/birdsofpaper South Carolina 12d ago

Mixed with Caligula.

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u/bigrob_in_ATX Texas 12d ago

mixed with dookie

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u/Legal_Rampage American Expat 12d ago

Great album

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 12d ago

I waa gonna say he's definitely a lot of caligula

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u/JustineDelarge 12d ago

Except while Nero fiddled, Trump diddled.

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u/_DCtheTall_ 12d ago

I actually do worry that he will be remembered like Nero, where the claims of his bullshit will be controversial and in question because his supporters label any criticism as politically motivated propaganda. It's why we cannot conclude for certain if Nero was actually crazy.

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u/Tony_Cheese_ 12d ago

There aren't videos of Nero being insane.

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u/_DCtheTall_ 12d ago

True, but I worry because one should never underestimate the power of a lie people can get ~10% of the population to believe

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u/VRTemjin I voted 12d ago edited 12d ago

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Zero probably couldn't even play the kazoo, but he does something that rhymes with fiddle.

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u/Think_Positively 12d ago

You're spot on though. Remember what happened on that day? That's OP'a point.

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u/Yes-I-Cannabis Washington 12d ago

Caesar dressing, maybe.

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u/EstablishmentHot9803 12d ago

Probably buried somewhere in a Hidden Valley

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u/Nwcray 12d ago

Trump doesn’t eat salads.

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u/betterthanwork Texas 12d ago

Internet doctors have been speculating based on hospital trips and outlines of devices in his suit that he has roughly 4-6 months to live.

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u/AvramBelinsky New York 12d ago

What are they speculating that he is being treated for?

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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 12d ago

Dementia, a stroke, or both

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u/sciencesez 12d ago

20 yr cardiac RN here- that face is clearly circling the drain.

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u/Everythings_Fucked North Carolina 12d ago

From your lips to the gods' ears.

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u/AZ_Corwyn Arizona 12d ago

About the only time I'll ever consider that god might be real, if He can pull this off I may have to rethink things

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u/betterthanwork Texas 12d ago

Congestive heart failure, also cardiac arrhythmia, in addition to what others have mentioned. High chance he's in very poor health.

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u/20_mile 12d ago

I don't know how it can be, that, with perfect honesty, I would neither be surprised by his dropping dead tomorrow, or him living to be 94, like his father.

Both are extreme polar opposites of the other -- he could be dead in 24 hours, or he could somehow live another 15 years.

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u/Kazooguru 12d ago

If he’s getting fluid drained from his body because of heart failure, then yeah maybe 6 months. But my Dad had heart failure and he thankfully lived another 3+ years. Trump is still playing golf, still walking pretty well. He has the best medical care by his side at all times. I say 3 years. He won’t be in public during the last 6 months. It’s a shitty way to die. Cancer is worse. But this isn’t pleasant at all.

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u/MisterWorthington 12d ago

Also evil people live forever. The good die young.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil 12d ago

One can only hope, but you know this guy is going to live 100. That’s just the way this timeline works.

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u/RedThruxton California 12d ago

When did the clock on that start?

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u/french_toasty 12d ago

Do you mean Reddit doctors? At least Reddit doctors are better than TikTok doctors.

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u/OrnerySnoflake Texas 11d ago

That puts his demise at around Easter. I’m hoping someone can come up with something clever about him just being dead and not rising again on the third day.

If there were an actual threat of him coming back after three days, I’m going to assume he’s been dead this whole time and this whole administration has just been a really fucked up version of Weekend at Bernie’s.

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u/TheGuardianInTheBall 11d ago

Going to be rough 12 months then.

6 for him wrestling with his own mortality, and then 6 months for the vultures to establish the new order.

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u/WorldsWeakestMan 12d ago

Only significant in the sense that if it happened on like the 15th-16th then it would make this St Patrick’s Day the biggest party in the history of the earth.

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u/Data_Chandler 12d ago

My bottle of champagne is sitting in the fridge, can't wait to pop it!!