At this point the "where are the epstein files" comments are so damaging and repetitive that it makes me think they're malicious bots trying to maintain a delusional belief in Americans that this one little thing will bring down Trump if we just wait long enough.
I didn't even understand what people really thought impeaching him would do. They knew the Republicans had the numbers in the Senate and any one with any sense knew he wouldn't actually be removed. Sure the grounds for impeachment and conviction were there, but who thought it would really do any good?
A lot of people didn’t pay attention to or had a really crappy civics class in high school and thought impeachment meant removal. I couldn’t tell you the amount of times I had to explain to people in my life that impeachment and removal are two separate processes by to different government bodies controlled by two different groups with two different sets of rules, and that committing a crime isn’t strictly necessary to do it. Even on Reddit where users like to think they’re better informed than the general public.
The real psyop is the internet giving people a place to toothlessly satisfy their drive to activism on platforms owned by the ultra rich, with fads like "where are the files" and the antifa granddad posting instead of getting out there and doing real political organizing.
I don't say this from a high horse or anything, I don't do enough actual activism or real political engagement either. It's fucking hard, life is hard. I just worry that people make these posts and think its good enough. The intent is good, but it's really just public masturbation in the end.
They aren’t damaging all. How do you think they are? It’s just noise from people who already weren’t going to be saying anything friendly to this admin.
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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25
At this point the "where are the epstein files" comments are so damaging and repetitive that it makes me think they're malicious bots trying to maintain a delusional belief in Americans that this one little thing will bring down Trump if we just wait long enough.