No Stupid Questions

Does it even matter? Even if you remove everything about Epstein and Iran from the conversation, he is still objectively a shitty person and one of the most incompetent and self serving people to hold high office in a country that elects its leaders.

You would probably have to go back 100 years to find someone that is the head of state in a country that is a major player on the world stage to find someone that is as unfit for the job as Trump.

If Donald Trump isn't an actual pedophile in the Epstein files, he is absolutely being blackmailed by pedophiles who are in the Epstein files.

The only other explanation is that he is so fantastically stupid that he is behaving like he is being blackmailed by pedophiles without actually being blackmailed by pedophiles. And while I wouldn't put it past him to be that stupid, I'm pretty sure he's either a pedophile and/or being blackmailed by pedophiles.

What are you going to blackmail him with? Being a foreign asset? Grifting and embezzling the fuck out of the country? Raping and trafficking children?

He already publicly does/did all those things. He isn't being blackmailed, he's just a run-of-the-mill rich dumbass.

He absolutely is beyond a shadow of a doubt in my mind. I would say the majority of the politicians in the west are. Thiel and palantir are a new Epstein/ghisine Mossad blackmail operation

Maxwell is living it up at what amounts to a college dorm room instead of where she should be, which is front and center on the gallows.

Almost all politicians are. And Epstein wasn't the only operator. Today's politicians act like they are, and Epstine's operation was too far in the past for most of them.

Blackmail mills blackmail a lot people. If you had political finance money, would you finance the campaign of someone who says they are aligned with you, or someone you know will stay aligned with you? Power isn't given to un-blackmailed people. And people who want power know this. So there is a long list of people willing to get blackmailed to get into power. They may even enjoy the part that gets them blackmailed.

Probably, but given that there are reams of files telling us the sort of things he's done, and nobody does a damn thing about it, you have to ask yourself why would he care?

No. I think he's just the most visible psychopath in the room.

The true horror of Trump is not just the things he's done. Its that everyone now knows what he's done - and seemingly quite a lot of people don't really care.

Blackmailed yes, stupid yes, a pedophile yes, a Russian spy yes.

Why does Epstein look like he is photoshopped

Absolutely no doubt about it he is or was being blackmailed to some degree. But now he's acting like he isn't. It's entirely possible that counter intelligence retrieved the blackmail that israel had on trump? Which would be easy to do ~~under the~~ ~~cover~~ with the chaos of iran war.

During the earlier portion of this conflict trump did several off again on again, changing his mind rapidly, kind of things. I find this very indicative of being blackmailed or coerced

No, that’s giving Trump too much credit. He’s shown us over and over that he’s interested in personal gain, easily manipulated, and is fine with outright bribery. Blackmail seems like the hard way of getting things done

Likely not. However, if Trump is being blackmailed, it would explain why Vance is leading the Iranian peace negotiations.

The way blackmailing works is, the blakmailer threatens the blackmailee to reveal their secrets.

Trump's secrets are already out there: he's a convicted rapist and his name appears more than a million times in the unredacted Epstein files - i.e. if he's not a fucking pedo, I'm the King of England. No blackmailer has anything on him that everybody doesn't already know.

So no.

What makes you think he's being blackmailed? War is a business, they don't care about people, they are fine with what israel is doing and supporting it, being able to blame someone for it is a bonus point.

Absolutely.

His ego is way too big to be putting up with Israel's antics with Iran and Lebanon otherwise. Israel is making him look like a clown and he normally wouldn't stand it without at least 1 massive meltdown on social media about it.

Looks like israel has compromising material. Also russia. Also that absurd iran deal? Likely they bought intel on him. Probably costed about 300m.

I thought at first that he was likely being blackmailed by Israel - it's near certain that the Israeli government has at least as much evidence of his serial child rape as the US government does.

Mostly based on the way the whole war played out though, I tend more toward a different theory now.

I think Bibi convinced him that overthrowing Iran would be a cake walk - that just like Venezuela, they could go in fast and bomb the shit out of things and get rid of the Ayatollah and take over, and then Trump could get Narges Mohammadi out of prison and she'd be so thankful that she'd give him her Nobel medal, and then he'd be the bestest President ever in the history of ever because he'd have two Nobels (well - technically, he'd only have two Nobel medals, and claiming that he has a Nobel because he has a medal is sort of like claiming he's a Super Bowl champion because he has a ring, but he's too stupid to realize that).

And everything played out just as intended, right up to the point that Iran didn't collapse and instead just calmly set about replacing the Ayatollah and systematically bombing American bases and property all around the Middle East while closing down the Strait of Hormuz. And he's been desperately flailing around and throwing tantrums ever since, because that wasn't what Bibi promised.

I mean I have no idea. But I find the idea funny because you know he would hate that. Narcissists definitely hate people having anything over them in any way.

I've always hoped for him to go out in the absolute most painful, humiliating, and public way, with multiple good camera angles catching it.

And this possibility would add to the humiliation potential of that scenario.

I think he's being blackmailed and has been blackmaled.

It depends how you use the word, i see it as people being forced to do something they don't want to do, you don't say "I blackmailed you into buying a better product", in same way i don't say "Trump was blackmailed to be corrupt and make a fortune out of market manipulation"

I mean, does it even matter? If Americans havent banded together and gotten rid of him by now with everything that has happened with this and outside of this - then its just a drop of water in the ocean