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[–] 52 points 9 months ago (1 child)

So more than 1/3 of all Epstein files?

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago

    Probably the pages where his name was mentioned tended to have more than one mention.

    And then there's that one page they found in Donald Trump's handwriting where the same phrase is repeated over and over hundreds of times, "All work and no play makes Donald Trump rape little children." That's a joke. You know it's a joke because Donald Trump has never actually worked in his life.

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  • [–] 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    That's astounding. Was this like his full-time job for decades?

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Nah, his job has always been golfing; like the presidency, child rape was just a hobby. Some under-18 hole after a long day of 18-hole.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I honestly figured that once we saw the Epstein Files, we'd see lots of names more than Trump, but as it turned out, not so much. As usual with Trump, the truth always turns out to be far worst than our worst imaginations, because he's really just that bad.

    Even Epstein said there isn't a good cell in his entire body, and that he was "evil."

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    This would be great, if someone actually did something about it.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
    [–] 38 points 9 months ago (34 children)

    Why didn’t Biden release them before the election?

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Because the entire global ruling class is implicated, and Biden is a loyal capitalist whose material interests lie with protecting the status quo, even if that means allowing his fellow capitalists to rape children with impunity.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I'd love for things to be status quo again right now trying to make things better through strategic primaries then trying to survive Trump's private army.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Well, that's not going to happen. We live in the world we live in, so maybe instead of wasting time wishing that we didn't, we should focus on actions that can actually change the world, like organizing the working class to break free from the chains of the capitalist pedophile class.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Or just voting against the person who’s telling us they will be a dictator next time?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I mean sure, yes, go ahead and vote. It takes almost no energy and is literally the easiest political action one can take. But relying on voting has manifestly failed to prevent a fascist dictator from gaining power. And now that the dictator has power, do you really think elections are going to be fair? When was the last time in history a dictator got voted out of power?

    I think you’re naively living in a world that doesn’t exist anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Biden got more votes than Trump ever did so voting does work if it is done.

    Saying things like the above comment are just voting suppression to keep the fascists in power.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Not to defend this but you know that if he did, MAGA would have the excuse that this was all a big Democrat hoax. They can't claim that now.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I mean the real answer to their question is that Biden believed in an impartial DOJ.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No the hell he didn't. If he did, he wouldn't have rightly pre-pardoned himself and his family members.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    Additionally, as I understand it, it was still in active investigation in 2024. Also, he can't just "release the files", it required an act of Congress to be released.

    Do I think he should have tried? Yes, but I'd be 0% surprised if he's all over them too.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    If Biden is all over them you don’t think Trump would release every mention of him?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    It's much more likely he's in someone's pocket and they're in there. And Trump's just not aware of the connection between the two

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I can see him not releasing information to protect Israel but I’m sceptical he’s bought by an individual.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I can see it either way. But I agree it's more likely the old bastard is protecting Israel like he always has.

    Just saw the aipac warchest is like $80m for the midterms.... But if they pass this new law about requiring passport and/or birth certificate to vote, we're gonna be hosed. Only half of Americans have a passport, and many millions don't have access to their identifying records.

    Edit: fixed dollar amount

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Also, he can't just "release the files", it required an act of Congress to be released.

    I don't think this is true. It only required Congress in this instance, because Trump was never going to do it unilaterally.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Trump was never going to do it unilaterally.

    This was made clearly evident by the fact that even after an act of Congress, they still haven't complied with the law compelling their release.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The rot goes all the way up. I know Biden wanted to do things "the right way" but white houses in the past have leaked information to the people. Biden's administration could have given the unredacted files to the media through a whistleblower. That's what needs to happen now. The only way we are going to know the truth is if the files go public through none government means.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Maybe he reeeeallyy liked hanging out with rapists and child molesters...?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

    I just don't get it... why can't these rich and powerful white dudes just have sex with women who are physiologically/mentally/legally MATURE enough to do so...

    Edit: "physiologically"

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Because then they'd be more likely to say no.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You mean to tell me women might find an obese man who paints himself orange, shits his pants, and has a micropenis shaped like a mushroom unattractive?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Fuck models and prostitutes for a while. Pretty soon you can't get it up for regular models and prostitutes. Then you need world-class, best anywhere models and prostitutes, famous ones. Then that stops working. Then you need the kink to really lay on. Gets old pretty fast. Nothing is getting it up anymore. Then one day, you see your daughter down the hall, and it twitches. But you can't fuck her, she's gonna be around forever and in society where your secret won't be safe. She could tell her therapist, her teachers, her mother, the world-class model prostitute you're married to. Thankfully Uncle Epstein has a bunch of girls who are disposable. It's just that he has an odd tendency to take photos of you. But that's OK, everyone you see here is rich and powerful too, if one of you goes down, you all go down... and that can't possibly happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I bet some of the worst of them are psychopaths who don't directly enjoy it as much as they enjoy proving that they can do it and get away with it. Because they're special. They're better than everybody else. Clearly. /s

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They only release 3m files because trumps implicated in the other 3m

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I like to think that Trump is a guro enthusiast.

    With child rape, the GOP could attempt to pull out the usual suspects. "She was leading me on", "I swear she looked 18", "It wasn't that serious", etc. They might actually win depending on how many corrupt judges they keep on their side.

    But none of that works when guro is in play. Doing certain things to a victim's eye socket could be seen as too far. No amount of "she led me on" can get rid of that.

    Which would be a compelling reason for why Trump wants the Epstein Files to go away, even though he's gotten away with everything else. Such a revelation would put the members of the Epstein Class in a new light, going further than generic authoritarians.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    They were doing Satanic (or Sumerian I guess actually) Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice. You can see hints of it in the files already released and you can find whole stories about it from victims.

    Do most of them believe in Moloch and Baal? No, but that's not what ritual abuse is about. It's a binding mechanism to ensure everyone stays quiet.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I motion to officially change the name of these files to the “Trump files.” Pretty clear who the main character is at this point.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Over a million times?! Let's move on /s

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Breaking Urgent Special Fox News Operation: Raskin SLAMMED in Fact Check! Some Person named Donald Trump Only Mentioned 999,999 Times!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    no smart comment

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It still wouldn't matter. That old bastard is gonna die without suffering any consequences. It's enough to make me wish I was religious so I could believe he was going to hell.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Any smoking guns? Otherwise it's kind of a moot point.

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

    What the fuck? Are you serious?

    Can we stop being fucking idiots one day, everyone? Can we admit 100 times is unspeakable?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    You might want to take a step back and re-read what you replied to. The person isn't saying that THEY won't believe Trump is a pedophile who should be in jail. The person is saying that the past 5 years have shown that nobody with any power to do anything is willing to go after Trump even when there is direct evidence of him admitting to the crime on tape.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    If there's no actionable evidence then he has plausible deniability. I agree having any contact with JE should be completely taboo but that doesn't hold in a court of law.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    How many "coincidences" would be enough to convince you or any reasonable adult? Imagine a guy leaving the scene of 100 different murders - no actionable evidence. Coincidence?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I think the point is that that you don't have to convince a reasonable adult, you have to feasibly be able to prove it in court while staying within the confines of the law. How we feel about information doesn't always correlate with how things fit into the rules and sometimes that can be very unfortunate.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    It's not about convincing a reasonable adult. This wouldn't be a normal court trial. Have you not paid attention the last 5 years?

    This is not only about getting a prosecutor willing to take on a judge appointed by Trump, then convincing entirely unreasonable adults who are Trump supporters, then getting it through the appeals process with judges appointed by Trump, then getting it through the Supreme Court that was mostly appointed by Trump.

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  • I'm not the one that needs to be convinced. I'm already convinced. But I've seen the evidence that is published today and there are many out there who have not or refuse to believe it. What we're talking about is prosecution, the people you need to convince are our lawmakers and judges.

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