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(61,912 posts)Nimble_Idea
(2,849 posts)Hopefully you are not in DC and away somewhere nice and safe. There are people out there roaming the streets, running cover for pedophiles.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,296 posts)We know the majority of those maga fucks really dont care either way
Moostache
(11,297 posts)GONE.
Women? You no longer have the right to control your own bodily autonomy.
Minorities? You no longer have the protection of the Voting RIghts Act to ensure equal voice at the ballot.
LBGTQ? You no longer have the right to serve openly as a volunteer to defend your nation without conditions or to even receive the basic dignity of acknowledgement of your actual existence.
Poor? Character flaw...
Sick? Die faster...
Powerless? Get back to the oars slave...
So where are the phantom files? Who gives a fuck? Reality is thus - our government has been broken and looted, our future is bleak and getting worse by the day and while the world warms, our allies cool and the truth dies in darkness...people keep on at the fictional idea that somehow the Epstein affair will bring down the man who staged an attempted coup once, stole from charities, contarctors and the public, raped women and girls, and is generally about as hideous an example of the worst in humanity as you could dream up.
Epstein is the classic pitch in the dirt, the distraction to allow all manner of criminality and theft in the darkness while the spotlight chases the goddamn squirrel and the press again refuses to hold itself (or Trump) actually accountable for the horrors of his decisions and actions.
The phantom files may say bad things about Donnie and Mel, they probably do appear in testimony and interviews with victims a lot... but there won't be any real consequences because of it. And while we all remain distracted and dazzled by the bullshit, the government falls further into fascism, the services millions need to survive creep closer to insolvency and failure and the world burns around us figuratively and literally.
So where are the files? Should probably ask "why are they being used so effectively to hide everything else?"
Nimble_Idea
(2,849 posts)unless they are gutter trash like maggats
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Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,486 posts)That strongly suggests there are more parts. So, yeah, WTF are they?
AntiFascist
(13,756 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,486 posts)full of info on the Epstein Scandal!!!
I've seen a lot of the leaked files. They're all over Redditt, for instance. But Ghislaine has been promised more favors for telling us all that Donnie was a good boy. Just like she was a good girl. Ugh!!!
Can we call it EpsteinGate? Not very catchy, but maybe we can workshop that.
AntiFascist
(13,756 posts)The very first article on Page 12 of Part 1 starts out:
"A part-time Palm Beacher who has socialized with Donald Trump...was jailed early Sunday..."
https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein/Jeffrey%20Epstein%20Part%2001/view
Click on the pages tab to see all pages.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,486 posts)What we need, though, IMHO, is for journalists to go through what's available and put the most incriminating of it out there as prominantly aggressively as possible and build on the public's demands that all be revealed.
Problem being, as usual, the M$M is largely corporate & pro-fascist as long as they can profit from it. It's what got us here--too many people get their news from pro-Trump propaganda sources and believe those are the only sources telling them the truth.
It's maddening that most people who voted for & support the Felon in Chief have no clue about what he actually has done and is doing. And they cling tightly to their belligerent ignorance.
And the many horrible things they know he's done dont diminish their cultist devotion.
I just wonder if there will ever be enough Americans who see the destruction of our democracy and financial security being destroyed by this regime and rise up to stop it.
AntiFascist
(13,756 posts)I agree that the cultist devotion is maddening, but keep in mind that when Trump had to go to court for sexual abuse and other charges, the pro-Trump protestors did not show up the way he wanted them to.
H2O Man
(79,257 posts)Thank you! We need to keep our eyes on the prize, and not be distracted.
I'd like to know how many Epstein files were among those the felon stole, and tried to secure at mar-a-lago?
Nimble_Idea
(2,849 posts)you might be on to something! smell a dirty rat in florida. and it is not just rhonda!
H2O Man
(79,257 posts)has told the Attorney General to release the Epstein files and part 2 of Jack Smith's report, which has to do with the stolen documents. Part 1 was already released. Let's see part 2, to see if any of those were related to Epstein & Maxwell.
Greg_In_SF
(1,312 posts)denied the Department of Justices (DOJ) request to unseal the grand jury material in Ghislaine Maxwells case Monday.
H2O Man
(79,257 posts)meaningless in the context of the files. The grand jury testimony is almost as worthless as anything Maxwell has to say. Those are merely attempts to distract. There are thousands of actual documents that need to be released.
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