Despite a law requiring the release of the Epstein files by Friday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche insisted that the Department of Justice would not release "several hundred thousand" of the documents."So today is the 30 days when I expect that we're going to release several hundred thousand d...
  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Ok, americans, when the fat orange cunt dies will you go after her, and people like her, for what she’s done to protect him, and other paedos?

    Or will you let these people get away with it also?

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Never forget she was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, with the power to take action against Epstein herself. She never did, though she held the proof. NY had to do it instead.

  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Well, we know the next move. The goal now is to slowly disperse heat from Trump. They’re going to release the names of political enemies first—which will tire some folk. If backlash ensues, maybe they’ll release the names of some low ranking followers or foreign leaders. The very last thing they’ll release, if so, will be anything implicating Trump. If that happens, the goal will be to have diluted any possible impact by then. To tire the rioters, to normalize the prior crimes, to get the news cycles following other events (like a potential war with Venezuela). They’re trying to ice us, like in sport.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    20·
    12 hours ago

    Predictable, honestly.

    I’ve discussed this with a few people in the last week. What’s going to happen with the release on Friday. The only sensible answer is, all the things we’ve seen from the Trump admin on everything:

    • re-interpret court orders
    • play for time
    • blame others
    • deny wrong doing
    • distraction

    This release was always going to be unsatisfying. They’ll never release something that incriminates Trump.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
      4·
      9 hours ago

      But by all means, please, let’s keep forcing their hand on this issue. This one issue works… the longer they hold out, the longer we can continue to occupy their prefrontal cortex, the less bandwidth they have for other heinous shit.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        I disagree. They’ve done loads of heinous shit while everyone is focused on the files.

          • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Seriously?

            The goal of flooding the zone is to do heinous shit while you’re distracted.

            In this case, distracted by something which is ultimately not actionable.

            You’ve been carrying on about this for the last 6 months and have forced them to release a photo of Clinton in the hot tub. Well done. Really holding their feet to the fire here.

            • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
              1·
              5 hours ago

              I think this still fails to see the bigger picture. They released something they hadn’t before, which shows that progress was made. Had Trump held all the power, that wouldn’t have happened. Now, what are your ideas and how much progress have they made so far?

              • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
                1·
                5 hours ago

                That’s my point though, what has this recent release achieved? You can’t claim its progress if no progress has been made. If anything its counter productive because predictably, the released files and photos have exposed key figures from the left.

                My idea is to not be as stupid as Americans seem to be. Working out pretty well so far.

                • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
                  11·
                  4 hours ago

                  Like I said, we now have more than we did before. You can look at that from multiple angles: (1) we have more recency to his most heinous activities. This stuff gets to some of his supporters. (2) we have more legal leverage over him now, for what it’s worth now and in the coming years. (3) we have more documents from the Epstein case now. (4) we have ever so slightly forced his hand and thus demonstrated it is possible to do so, even if it wasn’t exactly the outcome we immediately demanded.

                  Your argument to me feels like it tries to invalidate the only demonstrable progress that has actually occurred, for its size alone. It’s to say no progress is better than little progress, which I whole heartedly disagree with. This is slight positional progress, and I’d ask again: how much progress have your ideas made in resolving the kind of situation America faces? Because “to not be as stupid as Americans seem to be” isn’t actually doing anything except admitting you don’t face the problem yourself and likely have no solutions to offer.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
    14·
    14 hours ago

    I was promised all the documents. I was promised they couldn’t hold any back just to avoid embarrassing someone

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
    17·
    16 hours ago

    Time for the Dems to pull something out of the secret stash of creepy estate photos.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 hours ago

    It’s really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They’ve gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don’t want them protected, and republicans don’t generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it’s quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

    So yeah, anyway… it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.