r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Peteostro • Nov 26 '24

Trump Pledges 25% Tariffs on Mexico, Canada and 10% on China Trump

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-pledges-tariffs-on-mexico-canada-and-china-3c62b1f7
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u/Edogawa1983 Nov 26 '24

Didn't he had that Epstein fellow

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u/buttered_scone Nov 26 '24

He thought Epstein was his friend, but Epstein didn't like him, he was just convenient and completely corrupt. And a pervert.

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u/MoonageDayscream Nov 26 '24

We have all read about how the squabbled over raping order, but I think it was a real estate deal that ended their association. Epstein was bidding against him for a Florida property. Unforgivable.

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u/buttered_scone Nov 26 '24

Epstein was a lot more socially savvy than Trump, he understood exactly what kind of monster Trump was and he saw opportunity there. The man had his fingers in beauty pageants after all. Until their supposed falling out, I think Trump was a convenient pervert with connections, and Epstein supplied him with women and children. By the time they had their falling out, the writing was on the wall for Epstein, as he was already under investigation publicly.

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u/Adult_school Nov 26 '24

Trump is not cool in any sense of the word. Influential? Yes. Rich? Yes. He is even popular. But among any social circle that doesn’t value pocket book size he’s a total fucking dork. Non-drinker narcissist with influence who can be funny (shock jock funny, more Howard stern than George Carlin). In any other city he’d be a failed real estate nobody. He was New York rich. Semi Old money. In Cali he’s a nobody, in Texas he’s a nobody, in Chicago he’s a nobody, Miami, nobody, Philly, nobody. He’s a dork with a chip on his shoulder with some power and something to prove like so many bad apple cops, you just pray he doesn’t focus his nerd rage on you.

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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Nov 26 '24

It's pretty well known that Trump always wanted to fit in with the NY high society, but people knew him as the doofus son of a slumlord. He was a gaudy, classless idiot who tried to buy his way in and be flashy, but everyone knew he was a jackass.

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u/Lythaera Nov 26 '24

yeah and the destruction of our society is the best way he could think of to prove that he's better than them. So fucking stupid that this is happening.

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u/StolenBandaid Nov 27 '24

You're giving him too much credit. That was just an add on. The loot is the root

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u/smashteapot Nov 26 '24

He thought a gold toilet would fix that? Bizarre.

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u/Majestic-Marcus Nov 26 '24

So Trump is the hero in every teen movie? Bullied by the cool kids, but grows up to be in a position of power of then and exact his revenge?

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u/madcoins Nov 26 '24

Isn’t it enacts his revenge? I honestly don’t know

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u/Majestic-Marcus Nov 26 '24

Yes it is. Typo

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u/NewldGuy77 Nov 26 '24

Correction: In some parts of Cali (Orange County/San Diego, Central Valley) there’d are people lining up to get on their knees and do a Laura Loomer on the guy. Not exactly his friends, but next best thing.

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u/Lady_of_Shalottt Nov 26 '24

Don’t forget inland empire…

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u/NewldGuy77 Nov 26 '24

Ah! My bad, thank you.

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u/Lythaera Nov 26 '24

this is the best summary of Trump that I've ever seen. It almost feels like his entire presidental campaign is just to prove to all the people who weren't impressed by him how he can manipulate the masses or something. It's fucking pathetic. Honestly, the fact that a man like him convinced the stupidest among us so easily to give up democracy is just the biggest self-own in our species' history. It's fucking comedic that this is the way our society collapses.

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u/KalmiaKamui Nov 26 '24

His ability to manipulate the masses hasn't made me think any more highly of him, but it has made me think significantly less of the average American.

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u/Lythaera Nov 26 '24

same here. I'm actually having a really hard time with it.

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u/reechwuzhere Nov 26 '24

The only saving grace is that they out themselves more often than not and then you can just walk away. They don’t have to know why.

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u/madcoins Nov 26 '24

And they’re generally inept

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u/Lucky_Theory_31 Nov 26 '24

I suspect his ability to manipulate has been enhanced by outside influences.

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u/buttered_scone Nov 26 '24

Who TF said he was cool?!! Not me.

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u/Adult_school Nov 26 '24

I was expanding on your statement not contradicting.

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u/ctlfreak Nov 26 '24

Unfortunately the election results seem to say he's more popular than we thought.

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u/Gabi_Benan Nov 26 '24

Interesting thing when you take a hard look at the numbers of this election. Both Trump and Harris lost to apathy. I think the numbers I saw said that only 50% of registered voters actually voted. So 25% of Americans like Trump. And 24% like Harris.And 50% said, “fuck both of those assholes”.

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u/madcoins Nov 26 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

Yeah it breaks down to 22% of all Americans voted for the clown. Important to remember that. The “screw this dog and pony show of choice, I opt out vote” kicked everyone else’s buttocks in the election. Please don’t respond by saying it’s so and sos fault, non voters or otherwise

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u/Gabi_Benan Nov 28 '24

It is indeed a multifaceted issue.

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u/jerseyanarchist Nov 26 '24

new York rich, funny way to say full of shit. when one lies about assets to secure larger funding, that not rich, thats fraud and full of shit

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Nov 26 '24

fingers in beauty pageants after all.

Fingers in beauty pageant contestants* to be fair. They were minors to boot.

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u/chuckDTW Nov 26 '24

Story I heard was that when Epstein was first brought in for questioning, Trump went in voluntarily to tell the police everything he knew. To me that’s always said two things: 1) he knew stuff but kept it to himself until the law got involved; wow, upstanding citizen there! And 2) it always struck me as someone getting out in front of a situation, like Trump goes in as if to say “I want nothing to do with this guy!” and then if something comes out later suggesting he was involved he could say, no— I came forward with all I knew!

If someone you knew was raping kids and you knew enough about it to go talk to the police but waited until after the police were already onto him to do so, it seems likely to me that you were somehow involved.

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u/Saucermote Nov 26 '24

Ignoring his crimes for a moment, people seemed to like Epstein, even those that didn't visit his island or engage with the girls with him. He might have actually been a likeable person. Not saying he wasn't a monster in other respects. Not that I'm defending him in any real way. More that I'm putting down trump as a person.

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u/buttered_scone Nov 26 '24

Definitely a monster, but he earned, conned, and exploited his way into where he was, from a fairly average background. Trump was born rich, with every advantage in the world, and he still would be richer today if he just put his father's money in an index fund, instead of rubbing it on his taint for 4 decades and counting.

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u/Saucermote Nov 26 '24

Trump has one of those personalities that is largely unlikable, unless you currently want something from him.

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u/arthasya-sapien Nov 26 '24

The man had his fingers in beauty pageants after all.

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u/notislant Nov 26 '24

They squabbled over raping order?

I heard the woman talk who said he dressed her up like his daughter and raped her and another young girl on eptsteins island.

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u/kingtacticool Nov 26 '24

Amd lived about a thousand feet away on Palm Beach.

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u/buttered_scone Nov 26 '24

One can never overvalue convenience.

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u/pingpongtits Nov 26 '24

Epstein said that Trump had "no moral compass."

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u/erinkp36 Nov 26 '24

Yup. Thats the thing with this circle of criminals. Even if they consider someone a friend, they can’t trust them. Therefore, they don’t have any friends. Epstein had a tape of him. Apparently. A damning one.

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u/HighTopsLowStandards Nov 26 '24

It was the hypocrisy. 

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u/Malaix Nov 26 '24

Epstein understood he was the closest thing to a best friend Trump ever had.

He also said Trump was functionally illiterate and very stupid. So the feeling probably wasn't mutual. But hey. Money for child prostitutes is money for child prostitutes.

Just imagine though. If Epstein was never brought in or died the King of Pedophiles would have SOOOO much blackmail on the president of the US. I mean I suppose someone out there probably still does...

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 Nov 26 '24

Didn’t a recording come out recently of Epstein saying Trump gave even a soulless monster like himself the creeps?

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u/CalendarAggressive11 Nov 26 '24

Yes and conveniently, it was not covered before the election by anyone other than The Daiky Beast

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u/XAfricaSaltX Nov 26 '24

Legacy media disasterclass

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u/ihadagoodone Nov 26 '24

it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

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u/Ecoaardvark Nov 26 '24

His supporters know he is a terrible person and it suits them because most of them are also terrible people.

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u/ihadagoodone Nov 26 '24

I think it's more that they believe everyone in politics are terrible people, Trump just happens to say the things they want to hear from the terrible people in power. Or it could be that because Trump is by all accounts not very smart and talks like someone who's not very smart he's more relatable and is not seen as talking down to the masses.

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u/reechwuzhere Nov 26 '24

I think we need to stop trying to explain why people do dumb things. A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals. Yes, I stole that from men in black but, it’s a perfect statement.

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u/madcoins Nov 26 '24

I don’t think they would accept most of the claims against him. They know he’s selfish and greedy they might accept that but not pedo and sex trafficker even though it’s clear to anyone with eyes and half a human brain he was those things as well

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u/SquirellyMofo Nov 26 '24

Do you really think it would have made a difference?

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u/DarkVandals Nov 26 '24

Trump isnt here to save America he is here to destroy it... and to rebuild it in his image

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u/Appropriate-Low-9582 Nov 26 '24

Birds of the same feather flock together

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u/Crabhahapatty Nov 26 '24

Birds of the same feather flock together

accurate, weird reddit is hiding your response.

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u/Agreeable-Menu Nov 26 '24

Mix upvoting and downvoting. Who is downvoting? I assume birds who resent the comment.

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u/pobbitbreaker Nov 26 '24

Everyone knows birds arent real.

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u/OpenSauceMods Nov 26 '24

Birds are preparing a rebuttle centred around cuckoos. The cuckoos are preparing a counter rebuttle that cuckoo being used as slang for "insane" does not make a proper cuckoo, and they do not claim Trump.

For Trump to be a proper cuckoo, he would need to have his biological children raised by a separate parental figure, to the detriment of other children arou - fuck

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u/Drewcifer81 Nov 26 '24

Or resemble it.

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC Nov 26 '24

I thought comments from people who aren’t members of the sub come pre-collapsed

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u/SuspiciousSack Nov 26 '24

Not sure why this is collapsed.

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u/Romeo9594 Nov 26 '24

Wouldn't want the uneducated masses exposed to anything that might rupture the dichotomy of their beliefs

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u/rconn1469 Nov 26 '24

Birds of a shit feather Randy

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u/Kopites_Roar Nov 26 '24

He was more of a supplier than a friend.

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u/Ozzel Nov 26 '24

Yeah, what ever happened to him?

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u/PaintyGuys Nov 26 '24

Ya know, just hanging around

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u/killrtaco Nov 26 '24

I think he was good friends with P. Diddy too

Huh, wonder what he's up to these days?

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '24

They got in a fight over a girl. And by girl, I mean girl.

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u/RocknRoll_Grandma Nov 26 '24

You don't kill your friends.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- Nov 26 '24

He would if he's afraid he'll talk, and supposedly he was going to dish just before he died. Meeting was scheduled for it

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u/RocknRoll_Grandma Nov 26 '24

I think he did it too, just cracking a joke that Trump doesn't know how to treat friends.

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u/TheBoondoggleSaints Nov 26 '24

Jeff Epstein? The financier?

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u/flimspringfield Nov 26 '24

Now it's Epshtyn

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u/ecstatic_charlatan Nov 26 '24

Ya and he charged him 25% for all the kiddies to rape

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Nov 26 '24

Vince McMahon is his best friend.

Maybe they shit on the heads of women they raped together.

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u/Refflet Nov 26 '24

He had that lawyer who taught him everything he knows, then he ditched him when he got AIDS and it was discovered that he was gay.

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u/Jungle_gym11 Nov 26 '24

Don't forget his ol' pal Diddy

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u/CottMain Nov 26 '24

He’s flying around in Epstein’s old plane

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u/Ab47203 Nov 26 '24

Don't mistake your dealer for a friend.

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u/Miserable_Natural 29d ago

No Epstein didn’t consider Trump a friend. Epstein was a lot smarter than Trump and just considered him his useful idiot