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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

"New Epstein evidence shows lighter side of child rape"

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I know why "appear to reveal" is used here, but the hed totally waters down the story, which already has enough "but then again" view-from-nowhere bullshit bothsidesism.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Interesting timing, released after Dems cave, which will lead to hundreds of not thousands of deaths.

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    [–] 92 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    "I think you should let him hang himself," Wolff wrote. "If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt."

    First of all, ironic.

    Second, why the fuck was Michael Wolff advising Jeffrey Epstein on PR?

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    New days continue to reveal the sky is blue.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Don't leave us hanging. Is water still wet?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "No joe and the dirty dems are out to get me once again, they turned the frogs gay and our ruining our economy. The radical leftists are trying to make a smear campaign to discredit me, water is not wet. I consulted RFK, and he said "you know don i think you have dementia" So water isnt wet"

    --the orange man

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But it does get other things wet

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Another email Epstein sent in 2011 to Ghislane Maxwell, his associate who was also convicted on trafficking charges, called Trump the "dog that hasn't barked" and says Trump spent "hours at my house" with one of the alleged sex trafficking victims.

    Discussing philosophy, one assumes.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What’s that phrase mean? “dog that hasn’t barked”

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I noted that too. I don’t think it means ratted them out; my guess is it means he didn’t give them the intel/money/people/thing they wanted from him yet.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That's the way I've heard it used. This person knows/is complicit/is involved in a thing but they ain't said shit yet. It would be the opposite of the old cliche phrase about a stool pigeon singing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's from an Arthur Conan Doyle story; Sherlock solved the case of the horse stolen at night by noting that the dog didn't bark, ergo, the dog was a direct familiar of the person who stole the horse, because it would have barked at a stranger. It's a statement about guilt, and how silence is itself a powerful accusation in the right context, like when you'd expect a dog to bark (or a noise to be made in a way it usually is) but strangely nothing happens, all remains silent.

    The way the phrase is used in the email is a bit off because the guilty party is neither a barking or non-barking dog, but look at the date of the email: April, 2011, after Epstein's first conviction and around the time that victims started filing serious lawsuits, especially Virginia Giuffre, and going after the powerful men who not only abused them but then defamed them.

    At the time this was written, the previously reliable walls of wealth, connection, and privilege were already unraveling, Epstein was getting sued, the media kept poking around, his own moneyed friends were already starting to distance themselves . . . so in this email Epstein is essentially pointing to the unspoken guilt surrounding the ONE person in the middle of all his troubles for whom the dog hasn't barked.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released three new emails from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Trump, raising new questions about the extent of their relationship.

    If they can release these, they can RELEASE EVERYTHING. Stop fucking around, is all I'm saying.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    How do you know they can release everything....? I'm assuming you mean the Democrats, when you say "they".

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because they have in their possession as evidenced by the fact that they've released unreleased emails. There's also that whole stretch between 2019 when Epstein was arrested to January '25 when Trump took office that they were in control of the FBI and DOJ but chose not to release any of this material for some inexplicable reason.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They got Maxwell in 2022. So they were gettin convictions. The real bad DOJ is the one in Florida under Acosta. They could've actually saved girls if Acosta didn't back off on Epstein in 2008.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The fact that this administration is going to the ends of the earth to bury this coupled with them moving an actual pedophile, in actual prison, to a lower security prison and giving her a bunch of perks after she agreed to state she never saw Trump fuck a child is enough for me to believe that we currently have a sitting president who raped children.

    The President of The United States of America raped children.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    If you have a person living in your house who is obviously molesting children, and you choose to defend and support them, then you are a pedophile, too.

    Bottom line: Anyone who still defends and supports Trump is a pedophile.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With all due respect to the spirit of your argument, I have to point out that pedophilia is actually about child rape, and that teenagers are not, strictly speaking, children. Pedophilia, as a psychiatric disorder, is about sexual attraction to prepubescent humans. What Trump and the others on the Epstein list are actually guilty of is human trafficking.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    All I’m saying is that the good guys don’t normally split hairs on “age brackets” for pedophiles.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    And my point is that they should. Pedophilia is a very serious condition, and it shouldn’t be lumped together with adults who have sex with adolescent non-adults. Both are bad things, but one is a very serious psychiatric abnormality, while the other is simply a social ill.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Starting to look like trump might have been their #1 human trafficking customer.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    MAGA hand waving away evidence.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Who’s still talking about Jeffery? Let’s talk about my ballroom! 🫲🍊🫱

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget the man who died in jail Who gave that right to me And I'd gladly stand up next to pedophiles And defend Her (Maxwell) still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love little boys and girls in the butt God Bless the U.S.A.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I get there are new things against Trump.
    Well, there's no need.
    There are plenty, and new everyday, straight from the source.
    But the US citizen and politics are allowing Trump to do what he's doing, so no new scandals will do the work, people should.
    If they don't - so sad to write - the majority somehow agrees.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're right, I should just run up on the White House and get murdered 10 times before I even see the motherfucker. Surely "doing the right thing" will be some solace to my child.

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