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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

String that cunt up with the pedos she's covering for, then

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 7 points 2 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.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 35 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Confirmed Trump is in several hundred thousand Epstein docs?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

They're not the Epstein files. They're the Trump pedo-files.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 54 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Is that not breaking the law?

[–] Applesause@mander.xyz 40 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

A law without a mechanism of enforcement is just a suggestion.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I hear states are preparing a lawsuit demanding a “pretty please” be added no later than 2028.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 47 minutes ago

At least one Democrat will performatively blast them.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

It's cool. It'll only take Americans 5-10 years to realize they've been in a corporate oligarch dictatorship this entire time.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago

Someone needs to tell the justice department that the justice department is in violation of the law and should dispense justice.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

laws don't matter anymore, remember?

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 47 minutes ago

They matter against us but not them.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago

Who will charge them? Bondi?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Laws are irrelevant if nobody is enforcing them

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

There it is

We need to fucking riot

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago

You needed to fucking riot eons ago

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago

best we can do is No Kings 3: We Totally Mean It This Time For Real. get your poster board ready

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

You needed to fucking riot eons ago

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -2 points 4 hours ago

Who's "we"?

The time for accountability was November 2024. Most of America said they either like this, or were fine with it.

Why would they suddenly start rioting?

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 9 points 5 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.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] 0ndead 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Who’s got the dirt on Bondi?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Epstein clearly.

Being a high level person in the administration probably means you're in the files.