Except that Republicans are also murderous satanic pedophiles, just like Democrats

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    Also, except that not a single one of them is actually a satanist.

    It’s men being sex pests as usual, except they are powerful enough to get away with literally anything indefinitely instead of just being powerful enough to get away with one or two known cases of SA like average dudes. QAnon chuds do not want to admit that literally 1 out of 7 guys anybody knows (and probably 1 out of 2 guys they know) is a literal r*pist and how this intersects with economic, political and in the case of the Epstein circle academic power. So they have to dig out some satanic panic nonsense from the 1980s to explain abuse networks without adressing the patriarchal elephant in the room.

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      Considering the way that the elites in secret societies such as Skull and Bones are known to behave, I think it’s plausible that some of them would choose to engage in esoteric rituals as a shared bonding experience. That’s a different motivation than imagined by the evangelicals though, of course.

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        It does make a certain twisted amount of sense that it acts as a combination of shared bonding experience as well as a form of mutually assured destruction, ensuring that members of the ruling class have that baseline bond where there are limits to what they can do to each other. At the end of the day they know they’re tied together by more than their class ties, and if one of them “launches the missiles” they all go down

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          I think a lot about that one disabled Republican congressman that blabbed about the 90 year old Congressional orgies and literally the next morning an underage incest sex tape of him and his cousin went viral

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            It’s a fictional example but it makes me think about the Trevor Moore (RIP) sketch about the illuminati forcing him to film blackmail material before he gets a tv deal. Irl they don’t have robed men in dark rooms (probably) but the idea is the same

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      Not an Antoon LaVey type Satanist, but there are ancient practices in the Epstein Files I can’t show without it being a TOS violation.
      As in, back when they used to sacrifice babies to ensure rain from the rain god.

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    Conservatives are good at seeing that there is a rot in the system, but because their worldview is based on idealism, morality plays, and fever dreams, they blame the rot on boogeymen and Others instead of the people running the system.

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      I think there’s more to be said for the likelihood the Epstein class actively promoted the Pizzagate stuff to distract from their own sex scandals and the closer it resembles reality the better.

      Pizzagate wasn’t conservative hallucination, but Ghislaine Maxwell from behind a laptop.

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        Oh yeah, I’m a firm believer in the conspiracy theory conspiracy theory. But the pizzagate narrative wouldn’t resonate with conservatives unless they suspected the elites of repugnant abuse, and that their notion of who the elites are is detached from reality.

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          Well, obviously the conspiracy theory would have been counterproductive if it blamed the likes of Epstein, so they they turned it into a satanist plot to ensure conservatives would eat it up for the next however many years thereby providing cover for actual sex pests.

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          D and R, they’re all dirty. It’s how they keep each other in line. I’ve heard it’s an honor to be invited to a pizza party, it means you’ve really made it in DC!

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      No. Pizzagate wasn’t based on any actual observations. It wasn’t based on perceiving actual rot. It was based this being the worst thing they could come up with and then telling each other campfire stories about it on the internet. There was nothing there.

      • With fascists, every accusation is a confession. And it’s even wilder in this case. Bannon is in the Epstein files, Tim Poole is in the Epstein files, i take it is a given that the entire QAnon thing was a psyop by somebody who is also in the Epstein files. And that means that if the Pizzagate conspiracy was not outright created by somebody from Epstein’s circle, it was at least actively cultivated and amplified.

        This means that whoever is behind Q knew , while working the Pizzagate angle, that Hillary knew that both Trump and Bill Clinton were constantly assaulting underage girls and young women on the private island of a cannibal investor. That’s the neo-fascist idea of humor.

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    My favorite thing about the Russiagate conspiracy was that they (news media) blatantly retconned what the claim was to keep it from falling apart quite as soon. Originally the claim was that Donald Trump specifically colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, and when that wouldn’t stick, they switched to “The Russians tried to influence the election” which was “proven” (I guess) by Russian facebook and twitter posts about the election.

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    it’s funny how pizzagate was literally “what if epstein” and focused on the exact same things but because the media said it was about hillary clinton eating children in a pizzeria basement it’s “not real” (even though the epstein and adjacent cabal of child traffickingremoveds literally is)

    fun fact but did you know the pizzeria has 0 to do with why it’s even "pizza"gate and it’s actually because there was a weird stilted email about a handkerchief “with a pizza-related map” and another weird email about if someone would “have more fun on pizza or on pasta”

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      Pizza with walnut sauce. The adrenal gland is walnut-shaped with an outer shell. Inside is pure adrenochrome, the legendary drug Hunter S. Thompson wrote about. To maximize the amount, traumatize the victim.

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    Pizzagate was when the alt-right was in triumph just after Trump won the first time. All it would take wuld be a search with ground-penetrating radar to find any tunnels and dig them up. But the FBI won’t do that. Nobody mentioned in the Epstein files has even beenarrested.