Says the man who is the 2nd man on the ticket of the man borrowing Epsdein’s plane.

Somebody, please, make it make sense…

116 points

I would throw all the money at just one reporter who asks JD Vance point blank “Sir, isn’t the man you’re campaigning with actually borrowing Mr. Epstein’s plane right now?” live on the air. The squirming would be glorious.

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They never will. They want to protect their access to the candidates and don’t want the death threats. I guarantee none of these milquetoast reporters are willing to do that.

Maybe someone like Robert Evens would do it, but he’s probably on a “kick out on sight” list for such things.

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Edited just in case it wasn’t clear enough:

The plane was liquidated, bought by some random charter plane company, and then Trump hired a charter plane. It’s as much news as if I hired a taxi, and the physical car that came over was previously owned by Epstein (bought by that taxi company in a liquidation).

That’s what this particular plane issue is. It’s nothing. Attack Trump’s actual connection to Epstein. Hiring a charter plane that was previously owned by someone else is not that.

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If that was the only issue… sure. But Trump was literally friends with the sex trafficker, and there’s photos of them together to prove it!

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That. Is. Not. This. Plane. Issue.

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No idea why you’re in the negatives. Not only that, but it was just one of J.E.'s private planes, of which there are a finite supply of in the country. It’s a nothingburger other than the fact that it maybe illustrates just how big of a guy Epstein was

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It also proves that Trump’s team just doesn’t look into anything that the media might consider an issue and use to attack him. Given his drama-laden reactions to some things, I don’t think that’s a conscious choice but rather incompetence. They just don’t consider what might be used to attack him which is also why they always react liktheyve been caught with their pants down, because they are. All the time.

It isn’t a real issue, but a lot of media doesn’t give a shit about real issues, they make whatever they can an issue because that brings in viewers which in turn means advertising revenue. It used to be that the staff and campaigns would vet suppliers for this type of thing, no matter how tangential, because it could be used against them.

If there’s anything the Republicans have mastered over the last 50+ years, it’s how to make something that literally isn’t an issue to anyone, an issue to their base. One would think with that mastery they would try to limit that exposure themselves.

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If you think that’s a coincidence, I have beachfront property on Mars you may be interested in.

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Dude the plane was liquidated, bought by some random charter company, and Trump hired a charter plane. It’s as much news as if I hired a taxi, and the taxi car that came over was previously owned by Epstein (bought by that taxi company in a liquidation). That’s what this particular plane issue is.

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Fuck that even the dude HUNG THE FUCK OUT WITH HIM

I might use Hitler’s headphones cause he dead now and they mine, don’t mean we friends. Trump literally was this dudes good ass fuckin friend

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I can’t wait for you to see how headphone technology has improved in the last 80 years

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Now I’d like to see some diesel-powered metal headphones with flames from Castle Wolfenstein to compare ;)

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2 points

Yeah, they’ve got batteries that can die and they constantly lose signal now. Plus all the lag.

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35 points

Weird how every time they win it’s fair, every time those lose it’s fake.

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33 points

Not quite, even when Trump won in 2016, he insisted there was election fraud and that he should’ve won by a larger margin.

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Yeah, that’s a good point

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Republicans aren’t sending their best.

Wait…

Yes.

Yes they are.

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Couch it in terms we can understand, JD.

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