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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago

People will be going to jail…

Starting with trump, right? Right?

[–] pappabosley@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago

Surely this is just the preparation for false allegations against their opponents? Why put your crony as the FBI director if you're not going to get him to lie and cheat for you. Part one, re-release what's already out there, to show you're exposing the "truth", this gives legitimacy to whatever shit you come out with next.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

people will be going to jail for what they have done

Except Trump.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah because that's how prosecutions start...by dumping troves of documents into the public domain so that we can do a citizen's arrest!

These breathing MAGA bots moonlight as fucking clowns.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 165 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

How do MAGA folks ignore Trump's DEEEEEEEP ties to Epstein so completely???

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 91 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They don't ignore it, they don't care.

They think elites should be able to do what they want— reactionary ideology was founded as a monarchical counterrevolutionary movement, and that's the ideal they're working backwards to achieve.

Note that this obviously doesn't apply to elites who aren't aligned with their movement.

They use rhetoric to divide the opposition and to rally their base; they don't actually care about coherence.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 46 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They think elites should be able to do what they want

Recently, one of my moms was ranting about how corrupt Biden was for pardoning his son (she didn't even know what he was charged for - I got her to look it up and then her response was basically "well, he deserved it anyways because of corruption). Later the same day, we were talking about how Musk was abusing his position to fire people investigating his companies and my moms responses were "that's smart".

There's so much "as long as my team does it, it's good and no matter what the other team does, it's bad"

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 9 points 20 hours ago

Yep. It works exactly like cheating in sport. I know football fans who will want the harshest penalties for cheating in the opposite team, while just laughing and shrugging if someone in their team does the same thing or even worse. .

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In this case, I kind suspect its an issue of saving face. They don't want to admit that the team they supported are doing bad things, because it would admit being wrong. But until it starts to serious hurt them directly, they won't care. Of course the current administration is actively trying to harm them, but I can't imagine them admitting it until well after it happens...

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

They literally don’t think too hard about it. Just feed them the next conspiracy line and they’ll latch on, no matter how hard it goes against the last one. “He was there because he was trying to stop it” was the approximate excuse I heard a few years ago.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

They just grab the nearest pussy, of-age or non, and don’t think about it.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 46 points 23 hours ago

Trump all over this. MAGA won't care

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Unredacted flight logs or it isn't released.

Any other specific documents we need?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Epstein’s client list is what will legally incriminate his ‘customers.’ Flight logs are good evidence, but not enough for a case alone.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The client list is only a starting point for investigating.

It would take getting ahold of Epstein's blackmail on people to actually get convictions.

Even if someone was in his client list and had multiple trips to his island, that still isn't enough proof. You could easily assume the individual went to the island for illegal activity because illegal activity was known to go on there, but that does not mean that they did anything illegal.

Innocent until proven guilty, the blackmail is the evidence of guilt. It is likely that Maxwell has access to the blackmail, but that much dirt is very valuable as a leverage tool that nobody would want to give up. She probably won't give up the blackmail to avoid being Epstein'd.

We will never get the outcome we want because the blackmail is missing.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The "DECLASSIFIED" watermark on the cover is just the cherry in top.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Real declassified documents will have a "secret" or "top secret" mark on the cover and on every page that is struck out, redacted, or otherwise obliterated.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

it depends, recent documents will have a date of classification and expiration. it also depends on which agency did the classification because ODNI is toothless.

ive never seen a FOIA request answered with crossed out portion marks.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago

Probably spoon-fed to them by the blyats.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is there anything new in this release that we didn't know years ago from the last one?

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He's already said that he will not release this information. I'm not sure why this is surprising anyone. They're releasing stuff that was already out there. None of this is new and there won't be anything new at least until the next administration if ever.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Oh I'm not surprised at all, I just wanted to call it out.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

Mark my words, there will be absolutely nothing that implicates anyone in power. At least not for the next four years.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 9 points 22 hours ago

So far, not a single thing.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

is that not the same person? i can hear the over exaggerated drawl from here.