Oh look, the actual distraction, posted like 30 times as well. We committed a war crime in international waters yesterday.
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Please link whatever you are referring to. I ain't seen shit today.
We, unprovoked, dropped bombs on a civilian craft in international waters yesterday, killing 11.
I understand the frustration, but having imagery or any irrefutable proof that the current president is a child molester, is one of the best attack vectors we have. It’s one both sides of politics are agreeing on.
Unfortunately for these 11 ppl, their death will be forgotten in the media cycle, while the Epstein saga is hanging around his neck and slowing him down and not going anywhere.
Without impeachment or the SC holding him to account, the Epstein files (and him being in it) and the Musk aided election fraud are two attack vectors with the highest probability to bring him down.
That’s why I’m doing this and why I don’t think Epstein is a distraction, rather is what he wants distraction from.
Not one piece of information released was not already released. They don’t fucking care and won’t stop supporting him over this. If there were any evidence of wrongdoing by Trunp in those files, then the republicans would not be releasing them. Representative Luna even spilled the beans when she tweeted that with this release they will avoid having the vote on obtaining other materials. It’s all a con job.
If you can to one single piece of information that is released in these 33,000 pages that is new, I would love to see it. If anything, the release of these files is going to get the republicans to say ‘see no Trump, but here is a flight log with Bill Clinton on it.’ Like we didn’t already fucking know.
This entire charade is obvious, and is designed to get the ‘surely this time there will be consequences’ crowd to think they are making progress, which they are not.
I haven’t looked through all 30k+ pages, and you’re probably right there’s nothing new. But they were forced to do this con move, or they would not have. And the choice of the con move is also adding to the mounting suspicion that this is a very well guarded piece of information and therefore must be damning.
I would not describe myself as an optimist, but the GOP being forced to keep this story alive is a win. Not a big one, but they are not managing to burry this.
Also note: we don’t need the official release. We just need one patriotic or just human with a moral compass who has seen the files and being sick of not being able to sleep for weeks since seeing it, to become a whistleblower and leak it.
The problem is that none of those pages contain novel content.
They were pretty much all already available from various sources. This is 100% a distraction. As I posted elsewhere recently, this is an extremely common legal defense tactic employed by rich people and corporations: inundate the plaintiff’s counsel with metric fuckloads of bullshit. It serves to confuse the matter, delay discovery of important data, and also makes it a lot more difficult to quickly determine that critical data may be missing.
See my other comments in the other thread