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[–] 144 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Poor Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for sex trafficking to nobody.

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

    Dude, seriously? This is the biggest whoosh I've seen one a good while. How the fuck did you not realise they were making a joke?

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  • [+] -42 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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    [–] 59 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I'm struggling to reconcile this with the previous reason given for not releasing the files, that they were a national security risk. So, releasing no evidence would have been a risk to national security after Epstein was dead?

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

    The government lies.

    It doesn't matter when or where you read this, it's always true.

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

    Yes and no. It depends on the part of the government in question.

    Take the Government Accountability Office. I pretty much trust anything they put out. The same goes for NASA, and until this year, NOAA.

    OSHA also tends to get a pass.

    Homeland Security or the FBI? My sodium intake becomes dangerously high.

    And that's even before Trump returned to power.

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

    sodium intake becomes dangerously high

    Perhaps switch to black salt?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The expression is, take it with a grain of salt.

    https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-with-a-grain-of-salt.html

    The subtext being that the FBI and Homeland Security lie so much, that if you take everything they say with a grain of salt, you'll be at risk of dying from too much salt.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    They say "Take it with a grain of salt." and not "Take it with a grain of Sea Salt.".
    So I am just saying - Use black salt for the grains and you get less Na per grain.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Its crazy how Pam Bondi the Attorney General says there was no epstein files client list when a few months ago she said on live tv that she was currently reviewing the epstein files client list

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    She tried to walk back the comments about the file being on her desk, except she made those comments multiple times on different shows. She promised results within days, then nothing. Suddenly there is no list, and right wing news shows are now even saying Epstein wasn’t a bad guy and was set up

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

    It will be technically correct. As in, no one has put all Epstein's client's names together in one group, so there has never been a (master) list.

    We know that Prince Andrew is somewhere so there can't be zero clients.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There may never have been a full list, but there was a little black book from 2008 or so. It's a list of names and phone numbers. Donald Trump has four numbers listed.

    The problem is, there were also arguably innocent people in that book as well. Epstein was a piece of shit, but he was a piece of shit who liked to give money to charity. He also liked to hang out with smart people, like actual scientists and such.

    Just saying that by itself, the black book is fairly weak. Combined with other evidence, and it could be a client list.

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    That's how investigations normally work.

    You take one piece of evidence, combine it with more evidence, and eventually you have a full case.

    The Feds have the back book (and so does the internet, because it was leaked online). The feds also have a lot of video that I personally don't want to see, but it should be enough to connect at least a few names.

    The fact that they refuse to connect any names means that Trump is in too many of those videos.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The FBI raided his estate and seized all CCTV video footage. Release the video!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Not exactly true. The FBI opened the safe then left the Manhattan property. Epstein's lawyer then recovered the contents of the safe and delivered it to the FBI a few days later.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not exactly true, on the news, I personally saw videos of FBI agents walking out with clear bags of video recording equipment and videos.

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    Oh, I was referring to the St James island residence, not NY.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It would be fun to turn this into a gaussian splat

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago

    Trump is a pedo...

    Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Well thats why alex acosta is so highly regarded in conservative circles. Getting epstein to take a deal with zero evidence against him is mind flayer level lawyering.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    As soon as Epstein died, it was clear that the public statements about the circumstances surrounding his death was absolutely sketchy. One of the most high-profile people to be held in prison, and they completely botched it? It was absolutely a coverup. Would not be surprised if the info he would give up would put any presidential hopefuls at the time at risk of winning the election either.

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

    It would have caused international scandals too. I think they had to cover it up… anything to save face of the leadership/the .01%

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

    The leaderships face is not being saved. Epstein was an intelligence honeypot.

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

    It's known that he and Maxwell would traffic minors to get incriminating video on people so they would become assets of multiple intelligence agencies.

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

    That is suspected. Can you link to anything that increases the certainty?

    Not because I'm being a dick, but because evidence would be interesting and useful.

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  • I fear this is becoming a joke, because it is hard to cope with the concept that the leaders of this country (from both parties) as well as very powerful and influential people are literal pedofiles who raped children.

    there's a "yes minister" sketch about how to be a politician you can't have a clean criminal record, you must have done corruption case to show you have experience in the system. nowadays that sketch should be about how normalised pedophilia is in the government.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    @cm0002 hah!(#alttext: socmed post @TheOldManIsHereI can't believe Epstein killed himself right before he was about to be acquitted due to a complete lack of evidence.)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Trump is blackmailing at least one other person on the client list. It's the only way I can make sense of the way they said they were going to release it and then didn't.

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