you don't go well.

@Typo-MAGAshiv

It does look that way.

Something the overwhelming majority of voters miss is strategy.

It’s like them trying to sense the air with their eyes. they cannot see it so it doesn’t exist. No disrespect intended.

the games that are played at that level have SO many moving parts - what’s popular, what is legal, where is the gray area, how to communicate the message, do we have the votes in the House/Senate, who hates me, what might be the opponent’s response.., and so on.

Most people look at such things and think:

A) Orange man bad because Jimmy Kimmel told me so

B) MAGA forever baby!

C) I don’t care about politics or future generations. Fuck all that. Where’s my money.

There are others, but about 75% of the US population is like this. And they vote accordingly.

And THAT my friends, is why we’re here.

@deeplydisturbed

Imagine Trump wants to dump the Epstein files. He threatens cajoles etc. The House Dems oppose. Some of his donors oppose. But he wants to do it. But to do so might kill his efforts permanently.

How to proceed?

One way is to start a rumor that he is in there. Leak it to an idiot or a traitor who cannot help themselves.

Then the rank and file Dems who have no idea what’s in those files and want to crush Trump suddenly start demanding it. This way it is NOT Trump calling for it. His donors calm down, some freak out. Some of them are ON the list themselves. But he is not complicit -at least on the face of it.

Israeli intelligence and the Jewish lobby in the US may see what he is doing, but it is now impossible to pin it on him.

I think you're right. He just signed a bill that passed in the House 427-1 and passed in the Senate unanimously, but as President, he could have just ordered the release at any time.

I think he played the Dems on this one, big time.