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criss_cross@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

'An Absolute Joke': Trump DOJ Partially Releases Epstein Files, Many Heavily Redacted | Common Dreams

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'An Absolute Joke': Trump DOJ Partially Releases Epstein Files, Many Heavily Redacted | Common Dreams

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criss_cross@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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“Trump’s failure to release the Epstein files is an insult to survivors and a further stain on an administration that continuously bends over backwards to protect abusers," said one critic.
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    An example of a redaction: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 3/EFTA00005586.pdf

    119 pages of just black boxes. Fucking horseshit.

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      “Access Denied”

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      That is fucking ridiculous. This is NOT national security shit it is a pedophile ring of rich people who used airplanes and islands to molest children without getting caught.

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        It kind of is national security shit, if the people whose mentions were redacted have any bearing on national security. Keeping them redacted means they are vulnerable to extortion.

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          You can’t extort someone if the knowledge is public. You are aware of this right?

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            That’s the point, friend.

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      At first, I thought you meant so many black boxes on a page, that there was little information. Each entire page is a black box. There’s no information at all. It’s like they’re mocking Congress and daring them to do something.

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        And they will do…exactly nothing! The fuck is the point in having laws? The fuck is the point in having a system of governance? How long until Emperor Trump dissolves congress?

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          Now laws? Looks like the purge is on boys

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      I wish so badly it was one of those times they just changed the font background color thinking that would do the trick and we could all really see what they were hiding

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        It’s happened before. We can hope it happens here.

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      They are bundling all of the trump documents into these single file pdfs and just completely blacking out the whole page. There’s just too much shit to figure out what’s incriminating and redact line by line.

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    A joke is supposed to be funny. They can be insulting, or plain mean and horrible but still funny. This isn’t funny. This was predictable and nauseating.

    What is funny -mainly because I’m not american- is that unless fundamental changes happen then this is the precedent that’s set for future your presidents. When the orange kiddie fiddler dies it may get a bit better initially but at some point in the future a more competently evil cunt will reign your kingdom and you’ll look back to king Donvict Drumpf and think “shit, we should have done something”.

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    I boggles my mind that so many in people in government are okay with children being raped.

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      They deserve to be overthrown

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    Hey! Exactly what we expect!

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    No shit!

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    NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I DEMAND CONSEQUENCES!

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