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Blue Owl

(58,626 posts)
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 06:50 PM Feb 2

Given the seriousness and depravity of the crimes in the Epstein Docs...

In comparison to the general level of outrage I am seeing across the M$M, social media platforms, and even here on DU -- it's like tRump was caught jaywalking across Pennsylvania Avenue or something.

Call me old fashioned, but I remember the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal and the Thomas/Hill scandals that dominated the front pages of the M$M for weeks at a time. It was the leading story on every newscast. The Christian Right was writhing in agony over the sins of Bill Clinton non-stop for weeks, months, and years following it. It was all FOX news could talk about.

These allegations are so, so, so, SO much more heinous and serious, and it seems like nary a peep is being said. Is pedophilia, rape, sex trafficking, murder, cannibalism OK now??? When did I miss that this was the new "norm"???

WHAT. THE. FUCK???



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malaise

(294,321 posts)
1. Seriously
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 06:56 PM
Feb 2

Resignations and arrests should be competing with one another.
To use a popular line here - what can go so?

kacekwl

(8,999 posts)
4. Back in the good old days that the loons
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:19 PM
Feb 2

want to take us back to trump would have been tossed to the curb after the Access Hollywood tape by his own party and probably his wife and kids. Now everyone from the MAGA dopes all the way to the Supreme Court covers for his vile actions.

Bev54

(13,345 posts)
5. How many of the owners of the media outlets may be in the Epstein files.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 08:43 PM
Feb 2

We are learning about some of the big law firms that capitulated to Trump and provide free legal service, such as Paul Weiss, whose chairman Brad Karp is in the files and it is not good.

edit:
It is as if Trump received kompromat information from Putin or he was a partner of Epstein and knew about them all.

BattleRow

(2,149 posts)
8. Well can they all be sued..discovery is an amazing tool..
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 09:23 PM
Feb 2

Even if you really don't expect to win a suit..it is a tool that can be extraordinarily effective in unintended ways.

JI7

(93,380 posts)
7. I am angry, disgusted, feel hatred but can't say I'm outraged
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 08:47 PM
Feb 2

becsuse it is something I already knew about him.

The problem is those that support him.

evolves

(5,781 posts)
9. THEY ARE PART OF IT.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 09:26 PM
Feb 2

THIS is why the MSM is largely silent. How many owners and editorial board members are tangle up in epstein?
Quite a few, I would imagine....

OGBuzz

(100 posts)
11. It's the religious right that really has me flummoxed.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 09:42 PM
Feb 2

I guess all that family values bullshit was exactly that, bullshit. Trump embodies every one of the seven deadly sins and they still voted for him. If Trump announced tomorrow that he is the antichrist he wouldn't lose a single one of his flock.

Tree Lady

(13,114 posts)
17. They either don't believe it's true
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 11:29 PM
Feb 2

Or they have forgiven him his sinful past.

Both are wrong, it is true and it’s not just the past he has never stopped doing crimes since he was a child in school.

Joinfortmill

(20,533 posts)
12. Completely agree. He has diminished our country
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 09:54 PM
Feb 2

It will be a very long time before we recover from this abomination of a human being. All the Epstein files need to be made public. It's going to get much worse before it gets better. Be prepared to be horrified. Also, for what it's worth, I don't think Epstein committed suicide.

Melon

(1,191 posts)
14. I think it's the lack of actionable firm evidence that has been presented.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 10:17 PM
Feb 2

The events are all 20+ years old. Plenty of juicy emails but no real evidence of anything. Just embarrassing messages thus far. Trump has proven that he’ll sue if he perceives slander, so the news stations are keeping things at arms length. Hopefully better documented and pictured crimes are coming.

Kid Berwyn

(23,722 posts)
15. Absolutely different set of rules.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 10:43 PM
Feb 2

Corporate McPravda long ago bent the knee to the NAZI GOP. We’re past Year 10 of the Trump Shit Show 24/7 without accountability.

Thank Al Gore for the Internet, as we a share all this stuff, redacted now unredacted later, with the abusers’ faces and names intact, with the victims protected, and all 6.5 and growing million Epstein documents showing the evil gangster bastards for the murderous traitors they are.

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