A promise to expose a corrupt elite has turned into a perceived cover up, and the powerful online influencers who helped elect Donald Trump are now in open revolt.

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    Pam Bondi invited influencers to the White House and handed them big binders that

    accusing Bondi’s Justice Department of “covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and murder.

    Time for us to hear from FBI agents.

    Notice the pattern? No one, not one would dare point a finger at where this buck stops: Trump.

    Doing so is engagement suicide. And that’s how they make their living.

    Hence, this headline is total BS. They may be mad, but none, not under any circumstance, would turn on Trump. They literally can’t. They will blame anyone under him first, which is already orthodox.

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      In a monarchy you can criticize the Prime Minister or any other minister in government, but it’s treason to speak out against the King. If the King does something bad it’s because he got bad advice from the PM. Even the opposition party is called the Loyal Opposition, as you’re meant to maintain loyalty to the King even while expressing opposition to the government.

      Nowadays most monarchies are constitutional and the King’s speeches are written by the Prime Minister so it’s actually correct to criticize the PM for the things the King says.

      It’s interesting how the MAGAs are behaving in exactly the same way people behave in a monarchy. Unfortunately the President isn’t constitutionally limited so King Trump can do whatever he wants.

      I really do think that a constitutional monarchy is better than a republic now. We have people in Canada that also believe that you prove your patriotism by being loyal to a guy that surrounds himself with gold. But they can bow to King Charles and it doesn’t matter because he has no political power. Gotta have a King so the subservient part of the population can feel happy without fucking things up by creating a King that has power.

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        In a monarchy you can criticize the Prime Minister or any other minister in government, but it’s treason to speak out against the King.

        What?

        The king can go fuck himself.

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          Yes it’s also serves as a litmus test to determine whether or not someone has any real problems in their life.

          If you’re upset at the PM about policies, there might be a real issue. If you’re upset at the King because of symbolism, you don’t have any real problems.

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            Disliking paedos eating at Pizza Express doesn’t mean that I don’t have legitimate problems with leeches on society.

            As for the quote, you are quite wrong. We criticise the king all the time, and refer to his brother as a nonce.

            You don’t mean king, you mean despots can’t handle criticism.

            Fuck the king.

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      You’re right cause the conservative subreddit doesn’t dare to say the T word, they just say “both parties are the same” and other centrist takes the moment trump does something they don’t like

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    I wonder what those idiots grief about? Did they hope to get their idol exposed as a child-fucker? Like “He stronk, he get away with serious crime”?

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    I feel like at the end of the day most of them only care about exposing the Dems, which is noble and fantastic, but they’re not ready for their heroes to be exposed.

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      He’s barely human. I have trouble believing he has conscious thoughts. He acts on animal instinct at the same level as a toddler. He’s basically one of the most failed humans in history

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        He himself said that he hasn’t changed since either 1st grade or kindergarten. He thought he was bragging. He didn’t realize he was telling the truth.

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      This is more than usual. He got ratioed on one of his posts about this on his own platform - a first for him. The anger has also lasted longer than usual for the MAGA base. I suspect most will probably end up going back to him, but if even say 10-20% don’t that’s significant and weakens his grip within the Republican party. It opens the door to some degree of criticism of Trump within right wing media environments

      Can’t predict the future here, but this is unusual for MAGA so I wouldn’t write it off as nothing

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    Is he? MAGA doesn’t care. I just talked to a MAGA today. It’s press sensationalism and bullshit, to them. I reliably get the parrot of the main byline in play from that MAGA, and that was the word today. They don’t care.

    This reads more like the commondreams, dailybeast, newrepublic, HuffPost headline echo chamber filler that always tell you what you want or expect to hear.

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      How many people are actually maga? MAGA and r’s share some beleifs and the r’s are starting to realize that their pastry has been taken over by the alt right.

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      I think we have seen that MAGA isn’t one body, that there were the tech-bro MAGA Doge edgelords, and the MAGA who opposed them.

      This is the point in every “successful” movements story where they have won the struggle for power, and start receiving the bounty. And realise that the leadership idea of bounty doesn’t match their expectations.

      Just like a soldier who goes hard for the recruiter’s promises of glory and honour, but realises it’s a life of being an utter bastard, and dying in a pool of their own blood and shit and their friends body parts.

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      A sample size of one isn’t something you draw conclusions from. That’s just bad science. Now if you said you work somewhere that everyone is a Trump supporter, 50-200 people, and they’re all saying this, then yeah, I’d believe you. But, a sample size of one, come on man.

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        Fair. But it fits the trend. We’ll see how it goes with others this week.

        I can get no one to admit any iota of criticism towards trump in any conversation. The only thing I’ve heard from the MAGAs is “his social media should be better”, and that’s it. It’s a wall of unity and parroted statements.

        Even the insurrection wasn’t an insurrection, but a few bad players or, my favorite, paid performers, that went too far.

        I’ve yet to hear any MAGA in alignment with these commondreams, newrepublic, dailybeast, HuffPost headlines that try to grab onto what the left wants, or even needs, to hear, since 2016.

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        Read the Tweets the article is quoting. Do you see a single one criticizing Trump directly, not an underling?

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      This reads more like the commondreams, dailybeast, newrepublic, HuffPost headline echo chamber filler that always tell you what you want or expect to hear.

      Gizmodo isn’t bad, but they’re also kinda known for this among the tech press.

      It’s why they’re still alive I guess…

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        The part that makes things feel doomed in a Google search engine enshittification kind of way is when the articles with similar vein headlines read almost verbatim to one another, like everyone is scraping from everyone else instead of doing their own organic work on it.

        But if you only ever doom scroll headlines, which some individuals do, you’ll never catch that pattern.

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    No he’s not. I basically refuse to believe that anyone exists that is capable of walking back their support of Trump.

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    “Trump losing” this and losing that is a bunch of smoke and mirrors. His support will not dip. JFC how many articles, “this time it will be the end of Trump” stfu this is noise, this is not news.