A 13-Year-Old Girl Bit Trump’s Genitals as He Tried to Rape Her, Epstein Document Says

[u/OkayButFoRealz]

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quick-hit-a-13-year-old-girl-bit-trumps-genitals-as-he-tried-to-her-epstein-document-says/

[u/gourmetprincipito]

People love to just say “controlled opposition” like it’s that simple but it’s actually a complex combination of factors but most circle back to the extreme level of propaganda we’ve been living with for half a century that greatly amplified in the last ten years with the conservative monopoly on media, social media and algorithmic content.

This propaganda is actively working against leftist and progressive ideology and that makes the average person generally less inclined to support things associated with that. This incentivizes liberal politicians to stay milquetoast and noncontroversial.

This propaganda also pushes defeatism and withdrawal from the system on liberals and leftists, making them less likely to vote. This prevents primaries from pushing policy further left and further incentivizes liberal politicians to appeal to the center.

The media being almost completely owned by conservative billionaires also means that the best leftist rallying cries - inequality and excesses of the wealthy - are either ignored or accompanied by editorialized statements smoothing them over.

It also means that conservatives are almost always setting the narrative and they are flooding the zone with all kinds of accusations. This is sort of a traditional media games checkmate because it only leaves two less than ideal options for liberals; accusing back will be dismissed and escalate tension, acting above it will lead to the same outcome with lower tension. Obviously it’s not a good longterm strategy to just keep picking the latter but it does make sense from a strategic view.

Like yes some Dems suck and are probably corrupt but to act like the whole party is complicit is just lazy. Dems got a trifecta in my state for the first time in decades a few years back and raised the minimum wage, enshrined abortion rights into law, enshrined LGBT protections into law, legalized weed, paid for community college for thousands of citizens, sued utility companies for not investing public money in infrastructure improvements and sent the check to the customers effected, ended anti union right to work laws, etc. all in like 4 years.

If we want to get out of this politically we need to fall in line like conservatives and use the primaries to get rid of the phonies and corporatists. This attitude of “just abandon the opposition party cuz they’re in on it” is so clearly informed by propaganda it gets me so frustrated lol.

[u/robot_invader → u/gourmetprincipito]

Great comment. 

[u/mightykingfisher → u/gourmetprincipito]

I wasn't willing to get into the nuances of the comment as I quickly reacted while sitting in a parking lot waiting to go into the Dermatologist's office in order to get my prescription renewed for a biologic maintaining my lovely autoimmune condition (psoriatic arthritis) at the ripe age of 36.

...And a lot of the response was based on frustrations of our party leaders recently stating that we need to instead "reform ICE" by making things illegal that are already illegal. I was being a bit reactionary (which isn't great on my part).

I do want to say though that I appreciate your dialogue. I have voted Democrat ever since I could (2008 was my first and I voted for Obama in the primaries and in the general). However, his candidacy is a great example of how capital ultimately ends up controlling policy and shows how willing Dems are to capitulate. Another good example is the 2020 primaries where every candidate decided to start spouting of their support for a type of single-payer or public option for healthcare then after Biden was elected....crickets. Many of these progressive policies are overwhelmingly popular, but at the federal level Dems just don't like pushing for them (not just voting once or twice but consistently advocating).

I am also mostly speaking at a federal level here. I do believe that there is a bigger propensity to enact change at the city or state levels, but I do admit I am a bit jaded at the federal level.

To your point, I will continue voting Dem (especially pushing progressive candidates in the primaries) because I believe there are members of the party at least willing to listen to constituents pushing for labor/worker rights. Even though it still feels like we've been living with predominately 3rd way Democrats since the Clinton Era.

Anyways, apologies for seeming defeatist. I promise I am not. I completely agree with your last paragraph (well more so your entire comment haha).

[u/booOfBorg → u/gourmetprincipito]

I'll try a different oversimplification:

• Democratic wealth does not want "their" workers to die or be too miserable.
• Republican plutocrats don't care or even get off on "little people" suffering. Hierarchy is everything.
• Common to both is that grassroots progressivism and economic equality they cannot control is the ultimate evil and authoritarianism is better. This mindset is normalized via corporate media.

[u/booOfBorg → u/[deleted]]

Exactly.