re: I voted for Trump, BUT

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I don't recall this at all

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Kash Patel, now FBI director, told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson in 2023 that the list was being kept secret "because of who’s on that list."

"Put on your big boy pants and let us know who the pedophiles are," Patel said at the time.

Dan Bongino, former conservative podcaster who Trump named deputy FBI director, said in a May 2023 podcast, "That Jeffrey Epstein story is a big deal. Please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on it."

In January 2024, Pam Bondi, now U.S. attorney general, criticized a federal judge’s release of unsealed court documents about Epstein. "It should have come out a long time ago," Bondi told Fox News host Sean Hannity. "If people in that report are still fighting to keep their names private, Sean, they have no legal basis to do so unless they're a child, a victim or a cooperating defendant."

Then-vice presidential candidate JD Vance also added to the chorus on Theo Von’s podcast, in October 2024: "We need to release the Epstein list," he said. Trump shared multiple times during the 2024 campaign that he would "probably" declassify Epstein files if elected.

you probably recognize some of the names above... let's not act like he didn't know what these people were saying... he put them in his fricking Cabinet! c'mon man... just accept the fact that this man sat here and had his proxies riling eveyrone up with promises of going after "the elite" with the "Epstein list, KNOWING he couldn't deliver on that no matter what... he sold you a fake bill of goods, but to act like now, all of a sudden, this wasn't anything that mattered to the base, when it CLEARLY was a big part of the messaging during the campaign (yeah, you followed real close, i can tell), it's just very intellectually dishonest...

and look, if i were in the position some of his supporters are trying to take, i'd probably be doing the same thing, but i'm just saying that the rest of us see it for what it is... it's a bad position to have to be in, but do realize if you are in that position, you have put yourself there, and you do have the power to get let yourself out....

I voted for Trump but I am disappointed that we have not deported more illegals than we have.

We need to get those numbers up.

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ahhh... but with this you are also saying he's better than anything the Republicans had to offer, as well.. is this your assertion? out of ALL the Republicans, no one else could have fit the bill?

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1000%

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I voted for Trump but I am disappointed that we have not deported more illegals than we have.

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Hell yes, this is more important to me than anything else (politically) right now. Deporting a million people a year isn't even going to be noticed

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Ever hear the story of the Pot and Kettle?

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I never said anything close to wising you dead. And even if I had… it’s not an excuse for your actions.

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I certainly will. I'm winning and I'm not tired of winning....

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Given that all
Trump has “won” is more debt, more spending, and covering for the swamp… we have very different definitions s of “winning”. You have to some actual “winning” before you can become tired of it.

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Insult Trump and the cult comes after you.

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I didn’t t even insult Trump. But i get it. Personal ad hominems is all they’ve got. Would you want to defend more spending, more debt, and whitewashing for pedos? If they weren’t so rude, I’d feel sorry for them.

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Joe's cut & run from Kabul

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Not even close to the same ballpark as this Epstein scandal.

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Not even close to the same ballpark as this Epstein scandal.

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Right, just like I said. The Epstein stuff is Pony league compared to what went down in Kabul.

Per Grok:

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According to a 2022 Department of Defense report to Congress, approximately $7.12 billion worth of military equipment transferred to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021 remained in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal. This figure represents equipment provided to the Afghan government, not U.S. military equipment, and includes:Aircraft: 78 aircraft worth $923.3 million, including 45 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and 23 A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft, though most were demilitarized (rendered inoperable) before the U.S. left Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.

Vehicles: Over 40,000 of 96,000 military vehicles, including 12,000 Humvees, with an unknown operational condition.

Weapons: More than 300,000 of 427,300 weapons, including assault rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers.

Ammunition: 9,524 air-to-ground munitions valued at $6.54 million and less than 1.537 million specialty and small arms ammunition worth $48 million.

Other Equipment: Nearly all communications equipment, night vision, surveillance, biometric, and explosive detection gear, totaling about 42,000 pieces.

The $7.12 billion figure is widely cited as the most credible estimate, supported by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and other sources. However, claims of higher amounts, such as $80–85 billion, have been circulated, notably by former President Donald Trump and some Republican figures. These figures are misleading, as they reflect the total U.S. spending on the Afghan Security Forces Fund since 2001, which includes training, salaries, and infrastructure, not just equipment left behind. Only about $18.6 billion of the $82.9 billion total was spent on equipment from 2005 to 2021, and much of it was either used up, destroyed, or rendered inoperable.

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Right, just like I said. The Epstein stuff is Pony league compared to what went down in Kabul.

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The difference being that no one cares about that in 2025.

Such as who? How about just examples from this board. You have to be aware of some, otherwise you wouldn’t have made the claim, it would seem.