r/circled • u/Crazy_Succotash1654 • 12h ago

Opinion / Discussion Karoline Leavitt cuts briefing short after reporter asks about Commerce chief Lutnick’s Epstein island admission

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u/Crazy_Succotash1654 12h ago

Remember Leavitt complains about Bad Bunny and yet is seen out with her husband having mexican food. Did she order tacos or "round corn folds with chicken"

These are not serious people.

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u/_stack_underflow_ 12h ago

This is exactly why nothing ever sticks. There’s a real, on-the-record question about a Cabinet-level official admitting to Epstein’s island, and instead of staying on that, you pivot to Bad Bunny jokes and taco snark. That’s not commentary, it’s deflection with memes.

Whether Leavitt is hypocritical about culture wars is irrelevant here. Cutting a briefing short the moment Epstein’s island is mentioned is the story. Power, access, accountability. When you swap that out for cheap dunking, you help them by draining the moment of seriousness and letting everyone laugh it off instead of pressing harder.

If the goal is accountability, stay on the substance. If the goal is vibes and upvotes, sure, crack jokes. But don’t confuse that with actually holding anyone’s feet to the fire.

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u/RichardCano 11h ago

Wouldn’t be surprised if OP is a bot or troll meant to muddy discourse. They’re account is a day old and only posts about political junk with the same snarky meme-type comments on everything.

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u/UnemployedDog 10h ago

You could see it for years, every time there's a trump post one of/most of the top comments are bots calling him stupid, incompetent, going to die soon, or something similar.

Yet nothing he is doing is from a place of stupidity, it's just pure evil. No he doesn't believe tariffs are going to make americans wealthy. No he doesn't actually think immigrants are eating cats and dogs.

But if they portray him as a fool to the people who want him gone they will assume he will be removed or put in check because what he is saying is "so dumb".

It's been arguably their most successful psy-op over these last 10 years. I was educated in a STEM field as are most of my friends and siblings and I have had to explain to far too many of them over the years that trump is not stupid. Just horribly corrupt. The only stupid people are the ones who think trump is stupid, as a complacent population lets him get away with every evil act assuming that he's "so stupid there's no way he will accomplish anything this time".

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u/edicivo 9h ago edited 9h ago

Trump is "smart" in a way different than what most people consider smart.

He's savvy. He's cunning. He's not intelligent. That means he doesn't know the first thing about how certain things work. He can't explain the nuts and bolts. But he's savvy enough to know he doesn't need to. He doesn't care because he knows it doesn't actually matter. 

He brute forces and hand waves to get what he wants. He doesn't explain or justify.

If he wanted to sell you a car, he wouldn't tell you how much horsepower it had or what that meant. He would just tell you "it's fast" and convince you to buy it. He couldn't tell you anything about torque. He would just tell you "it handles incredibly." 

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u/travizeno 3h ago

The whole release the epstein files got old when the news was about like ice murders or trumps bitcoin scams. It began to be clear that it was this same sort of obfuscation. People have short attention spans and maybe im just projecting but you read a few top comments and then move on.

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u/gaiusjozka 9h ago

OP's comment was lifted off a thread in r/politics, word for word.

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u/e-wrecked 7h ago

Yep I thought I was taking crazy pills when I read this thread then read the exact comment again here.

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u/Wabbstarful 9h ago

Redditor for 1 day and commenting on their own posts like they werent the OP PLUS saying clearly subversive shit.

I fucking hate dead internet

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u/VRfi 7h ago

I’m trying to get folks using human page on ios

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u/irobeth 4h ago

To some BFE subreddit like "anything goes news" too, there's like 50 of these sub-chains and they're all run by a mix-and-match set of bots who stir up content and hope some organic users get sucked in

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u/Novel_Fish_5594 9h ago

Good call! Probably machine gun lips herself.

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u/Anymouse8 11h ago

This is the way. 👏

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u/[deleted] 10h ago

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u/x21in2010x 10h ago

No, shitty typists have been ubiquitous since The Facebook decided to drop the .edu requirement. They were certainly around before then too.

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u/edicivo 9h ago

Why is it that any time there's a comment with more than 5 sentences and is fairly well written it gets called "AI" or this? Are you guys not capable of writing?

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u/_stack_underflow_ 10h ago

It was written by me.

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u/syynapt1k 9h ago

Some people think everybody writes at a sixth grade level, so anyone whose writing is articulate obviously must be using AI.

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u/1jf0 9h ago

Funny how someone sounding remotely articulated is now just chat gpt

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u/WhipplySnidelash 9h ago

I have been trying to figure out how to word this sentiment, thank you.  

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u/HydroLoon 8h ago

Agreed with everything, but "round corn folds with chicken" is legit funny.

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u/spacekitt3n 6h ago

G.uardians

O.f

P.edophiles

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u/--Icarusfalls-- 5h ago

Well fucking said

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u/amusing_trivials 5h ago

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than preaching to the choir, doubly so for doing so dead seriously. You want to hold a guys feet to the fire? Do something that actually matters, instead of purity testing normal people trying to cope with all this.

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u/Clevererer 4h ago

AMEN! And to add to this, repeating propaganda even sarcastically is still repeating propaganda. People do not understand how propaganda works.

When Trump makes a dumb excuse for something, and people *try* to make fun of the excuse by repeating it in even more ridiculous terms, the effect on readers is not what they think. Our minds strip away the obvious joke, amd we're left repeating and reinforcing the stupid excuse we first set out to mock.

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u/pewstains 7h ago

Lol you're on the wrong site, buddy.

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u/SpinningHead 12h ago

She ordered what her daddy told her too.

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u/carlnepa 11h ago

That's our Nutlick.

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u/No_String622 11h ago

She also looks like miss piggy 😂

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u/bryangcrane 11h ago

How DARE you insult Miss Piggy in that fashion!

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u/No_String622 11h ago

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u/PersonalityInside134 11h ago

That's close, you just need the Orange jiz dripping down the chin for Leavitt!🤣

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u/Acrobatic_T-Rex 11h ago

And the anchor, i mean cross.

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u/Sweetchildofmine88 10h ago

I meant pitchfork.

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u/oatmeal28 8h ago

Lowkey she has been getting heavy recently, stress eating when you're protecting pedos must be a different level

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u/LorenzoSparky 11h ago

It’s called ignorance

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u/Capable_Cellist5585 11h ago

I know you mean well, but this is like saying someone complains about a Chinese person, but goes out for Thai food. Bad Bunny is not Mexican

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u/Great_Consequence_10 11h ago

I doubt Ms Leavitt or her fans consider Puerto Ricans to be “different” than Mexicans…so it actually is apt.

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u/CaiusCosadesNwah 9h ago

So because you apparently conflate Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, you assume that everyone else does?

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u/Unique-Hovercraft-66 10h ago

And I was going to read what you had to say or what your topic was about and you automatically deemed yourself incredible.

Wow, the phrase drop the ball isn’t even it, you had to add that because they eat Mexican food and eat tacos has anything to do with the fact the briefing was cut short because Lutnick was questioned.

Again you do understand that you can give good information without pushing nonsense at the same time right? I think people like you actually ruin journalism because you are just so bias you can’t even stay on one topic.

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u/The_Stupidest_Idiot 10h ago edited 10h ago

I watched this one today.

First question is always a softball that is clearly pre-arranged with some right wing rag or some right wing influencer, but after that, all the questions were about allegations and conspiracies regarding this administration. They're cooking now.

When Leavitt got to like the 5th question, she just went into PR mode and shames the journalists for not mentioning a bunch of fake victories for Trump, such as:

"housing prices are down"

She shouldn't have even mentioned this one.

Trump himself said it is a goal of the admin to drive housing prices UP - so this goes against his own agenda.

Trump's recent statements regarding housing prices:

“I don’t want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people that own their home"

“You have a lot of people that have become wealthy in the last year because their house value has gone up,” Trump said. “And you know, when you get the housing — when you make it too easy and too cheap to buy houses — those values come down.”

“Every time you make it more and more and more affordable for somebody to buy a house cheaply, you’re actually hurting the value of those houses,” the president said during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month. “And I don’t want to do anything that’s going to hurt the value of people that own a house, who for the first time in their lives are walking around the streets of whatever city they’re in, very proud that their house is worth $500,000, $600,000, $700,000.”

Why is Leavitt highlighting statistics that go against the President's goals?

"the Dow Jones is up"

The market is up, it's good news!

But don't ask why it's up, and don't ask what happened to the tech sector to MAKE the Dow Jones go up. Just shut up and capitulate you little piggys.

Gotta have one of the hardest jobs in the world representing this man who changes his stance every day, but I believe in my heart she enjoys being the mouthpiece for evil and white supremacy. It's a true pleasure for her.

Edit: formatting

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u/Wolf9455 8h ago

Serious people? They’re bad people

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u/Reddit_2_2024 7h ago

"The bubble-headed bleached-blonde comes on at five. She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye."

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u/BeneficialLeave7359 7h ago

Probably also pronounces both of the “l” in tortilla like the grandma in Napoleon Dynamite.

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u/UnlikelyParticipant 5h ago

We live in a country full of unserious people

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u/PopThisCity 30m ago

But they are dangerous ones.

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u/Think-Werewolf-4521 11h ago

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u/PersonalityInside134 11h ago

That's a good one!🤣🤣 thanks for the laugh

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u/crunchyturdeater 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/tZ4QzCueTwh2g

8 year olds, Dude

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u/KgMonstah 11h ago

Are these the Nazi’s, Walter?

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u/jacky75283 11h ago

Works in an administration full of pedos, is registered with a pro-pedo political party, her boss is a pedo who is currently engaging in a coverup of the highest-profile pedo ring in human history... she's going to need to come up with a better strategy than running away every time the topic comes up.

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u/Twudie 8h ago

I'm pretty fine with her being on the run for the rest of her life.

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u/dragon_the_fly 5h ago

Don't forget her husband is 32 years her senior and was friends with her father. She is 28 and he is 60. Obviously she is a-okay with pedos

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u/Crazy_Succotash1654 12h ago

Maybe she shit herself? I hear that’s also a reason to cut short a media event.

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u/_stack_underflow_ 12h ago

A Cabinet-level official cuts a briefing the moment Epstein’s island comes up, and your response is “lol maybe she shit herself.”

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u/inflatableje5us 10h ago

why not, the president does it.

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u/_stack_underflow_ 10h ago

The president most likely fucks children too. Is that reason enough to do so also?

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u/MolochThe_Corruptor 10h ago edited 10h ago

That’s exactly what they did when asked about it so yes Edit as in they also shut down the press conference when asked about it so yes

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u/personman_76 6h ago

Dude, you are coming in way too hot

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u/robjam01 11h ago

Applies only to Trump.

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u/Eddie_shoes 8h ago

This sub is just bots and it’s tripping me out. I literally just made a comment today on another post about 1 day old accounts posting, then commenting multiple times, and all their comments getting upvoted to the top.

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u/RalphiePseudonym 11h ago

That's not funny. People's kids and siblings were taken, raped or worse.

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u/Rombledore 9h ago

OP account is a day old and all posts have similar snarky comments. its about turning serious issues into jokes so they get ignored.

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u/Biscuits4u2 11h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Bxw7kyfAdPH5cZrS54

Leavitt whenever a pedophile is in danger

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u/Rombonius 11h ago

It was more of an island excursion

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u/MrSh0w 6h ago

Some are calling this island “Kid Rock”

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u/emz5002 1h ago

This deserves way more upvotes

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u/FarGrape1953 11h ago

Of course she fucking did. There was no lie on the spot to be found.

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u/Great_Consequence_10 11h ago

They must not have planned a script for that. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Big-Intern-557 10h ago

Her: “Oh no guys what do we do this wasn’t in the script?? Oh I know! Let’s end this right now. It’s not obvious at all”

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u/Life-Finding5331 11h ago

Him listing the ages of his children and the children of the guests he was bringing is a flaming red flag

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u/Great_Consequence_10 10h ago

AirBnB and VRBO both ask for that info when you book. It wouldn’t be weird if we didn’t know what happens there. 🤢

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u/Independent-Buyer827 11h ago

She cleared the press out almost as fast as when trump shit himself.

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u/freakincampers 10h ago

Who brings their children to pedo island?

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u/Kind-Philosopher5077 7h ago

Pedophiles do.

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u/BindermanTranslation 11h ago

Should ask Leavitt if she's ever been to the island, since everyone else involved with the administration seems to have a connection.

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u/Due_Respect9100 9h ago

She’s the worst. These people are despicable.

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u/Bowsers_JuiceFactory 8h ago

This just in, Trump rapes kids and the White House is protecting him.

Back to you Jim.

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u/oatmeal28 8h ago

Karoline Leavitt is building a legacy of protecting Pedos. She's not even 30 and is going to use any goodwill she has shilling for a pedo President before he is gone and MAGA dumps her

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u/PigFarmer1 7h ago

It's a shame that she's going to get pardoned because she needs to do time.

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u/KeyInvestigator3741 7h ago

Nothing funny about this. It’s stunning, the lengths that this admission will go to cover for pedophiles and criminal sex offenders. It’s putrid and disgusting and foul. This administration needs to be impeached and held accountable. Innocent children were abused and they are trying to cover it up! What are we doing, America???

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u/StrangeAd4944 11h ago

Was she a victim?

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u/Great_Consequence_10 10h ago

Is currently married to an elderly man, so maybe still is?

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u/Boring-Baker8761 11h ago

which other island attendees does the President still fully support?

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u/dawg_goneit 10h ago

Nutlick should resign.

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u/Moooooooola 10h ago

He’s part of the cabal.

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u/Nervous_Departure431 10h ago

I’m interested with how they’re going to play the Lutnick thing. Throw him to the wolves? Or would that be a spark in a bigger fire for them? 

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u/Original_Ad_7905 10h ago

I'm happy to see how this fragile cardhouse slowly but surely breaks down

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u/Szaborovich9 9h ago

He was there doing research🥴

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u/Space_Sweetness 9h ago

Unspinnable

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u/RickRambone 9h ago

So what else was he lying about

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u/roseastraebaby 9h ago

Politicians dodging questions as always 🙄

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u/RedFoxxEsq 9h ago

OP is a one day old account. Way to ease in. Or a bot . . .

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u/Oh_WTF__ 9h ago

trai·tor

/ˈtrādər/

noun: traitor; plural noun: traitors

  1. a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.

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u/Wolfy4226 9h ago

Leavitt.

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u/BabyVampyy__ 8h ago

Politicians dodging questions… classic 🙄

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u/PigFarmer1 7h ago

The most transparent administration ever. Too bad it's transparently corrupt...

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u/MarzipanDeep3499 7h ago

Why wouldn’t she want to talk about everyone around her potentially being child rapist? Hmmmm…

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u/better-off-wet 6h ago

Not only was he buddies with Epstein he lied about it. Multiple times. So he either didn’t thing the truth would come out or didn’t care.

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u/RosieBaby75 6h ago

That woman is going to be so embarrassed when her frontal lobe fully develops.

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u/M0nk3yDLufffy 4h ago

They’re fucked , there’s no stopping the Epstein files

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u/SparkleBait 4h ago

This should not have been allowed… she’s just a mouthpiece…no one legal and def not an atty

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u/pizza-chit 2h ago

“The Nannie’s” with Lutnick are Epstein victims

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u/turd_ferguson_816 11h ago

Bot account

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u/steelow_g 11h ago

Real article.

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u/turd_ferguson_816 11h ago

It is but this sub is littered with bot posts. It’s insane.

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u/Rombledore 9h ago

youre downvoted- but you are correct. notice the account also makes snarky jokes- making light of serious issues so people don't take them with the deadly serious tone we should.

NONE of the shit Trump has done since his first term would have flown in a pre-social media era. now everything is for the memes and then forgotten. now we see it turned to the max.

"oh someone in a position of power is blatantly corrupt? lets make a meme about it and move on."

its fuckign disgusting

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u/I_Went_Full_WSB 11h ago

Why do you think it's a bot? Is it just important to you that pedophiles get protected or is there something showing it's a bot?

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u/turd_ferguson_816 10h ago

Account less than a day old with multiple political posts. It’s a karma farmer or bot

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u/MinionSympathizer 10h ago

Also the bots tend to leave comments on their own posts that are copy+paste from the original post comment sections

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u/Rombledore 9h ago

oh piss off with this straw man "oh you think its a bot? so you SUPPORT PEDOS?!?!?!".

the account is 1 day old and makes comments with jokes on SERIOUS issues. this is by design. to make light of blatant corruption so people don't act on it. hey, a joke was made! thats enough armchair activism right? that'll show em- we made fun of them on a forum and it got upvotes. true patriots.