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Meh, Trump wants someone as loyal and willing to spy on us as he thinks this guy was for China. I love how the right detests regulation but is okay with arbitrarily monkeying directly in the management of a company like this with no rules around it. No company is safe under this guy.

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Correction: The right detests regulation on the things they like at that given moment.

If it doesn't affect them directly, or they can't perceive how it will affect them directly, they simply do not care.

The MAGA right has demonstrated they have no principles other than whatever Trump wants at that given moment. We'll see whether the Epstein files is truly an exception to that.

47% of Republicans would still vote for Trump even if he were implicated in Epstein's crimes:

https://leger360.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/U.S-Politics...

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It can be very difficult for some people to separate their personal feelings about Trump from whether he’s on the right side of an issue.

It's nearly impossible for people to reason objectively about any political issue given the type of rhetoric that's fed to them 24/7.

Here's a fun experiment. Take someone you know who's super passionate about a political figure, doesn't matter which one.

Then tell them "everything you think you know about this person has been told to you by someone else".

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