• Rhoeri@piefed.world
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    3 months ago

    Wait… there’s people that are surprised by this? Where have these people been for the last year or so?

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    3 months ago

    It’s pretty interesting to see them do that given the fact that you just know that these files aren’t gone.

    The official source is gone but a few thousand people probably downloaded that PDF.

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    3 months ago

    The fact that they keep saying nothing in the files incriminates Trump is beyond SUS. They were already ordered to redact everything incriminating so I guess they are technically right.

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    So… can someone please explain to me what people hope will happen here? We have known the names of people partying with Epstein for years now. We know that Trump was a pedo just like Epstain, that he was surrounding himself with young girls, bragging about assaulting women. He was convicted of rape in civil court! We know that Melania was Epstein’s girlfriend before he handed her to Trump.

    Despite this the only thing that happened is that Andrew lost his royal title. No charges, no real punishment. No one else faced any consequences. We know that the deal with Epstein prevents DOJ from charging anyone else in this case. For fuck sake, we knew all this before the elections and Trump still won!

    So… once all the papers are out and once we discover who parties with Epstein AGAIN, what do people think will happen?

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      The hope that enough people are aghast at what happened and stop supporting him leading to shithead Republicans doing their job (only for the purpose of saving their own cowardly hides) and dumping him. This doesn’t assume it is standalone- combine rampant pedophilia with a terrible economy. Whatever it takes for the awful, awful people who prop up the Republican party to finally say enough.

      Whether that happens…

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    You think that they’re just using the press as a free research arm?

    DOJ: “Here’s the latest batch of the Epstein files!”

    Press: “And here’s all of the documents that mention Trump.”

    DOJ: “Cool. They’re gone now.”

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      It’s so much worse than that too. He likely was either supplying or competing with Epstein. As well a lot of cultural and economic bullshit apparently has Epstein’s name on it. The man was pure evil concentrated.

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    3 months ago

    I feel like this is too much of a pattern to be a coincidence. Dump a huge amount of files, there’s a few juicy things in there, people crawl all over them. The administration does a poor job covering them, etc. Then we do the same thing a month later. Why not release all of them at once in a flood that takes forever to sift through? Or why not just refuse to release them at all? Why keep doing these little splurges?

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      Sheer incompetence? Gives them the chance to propaganda away all the separate instances one at a time, rather than having a single huge pile of evidence once?

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    Someone will have downloaded the doc. Time to spread it wide and far. Trump, meet Streisand, Streisand, Trump…