curious_straight_ca
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curious_straight_ca
5d ago
If there's nothing substantial to be gleaned, why is there still so much being actively hidden? Does the Trump admin just engage in coverups for the fun of it?
Yes! They would definitely do that! Many of these people aren't very smart, many of them are very smart but put all their skill ranks in Bluff and not Knowledge, and either way their demonstrated competence over the past year implies they probably aren't going to be intelligently planning what to cover up and not. Consider the documents case, where for a while they could've just, like, returned the documents, but instead they had to make false statements and obstruct the investigation and such.
curious_straight_ca
5d ago
Idk. The term and concept of 'sex trafficking' is an ongoing exaggerated moral panic. The conflation of pedophilia (bringing to mind 12-14 year olds) with sex with mostly-consenting 17 year olds is another. But the emails do seem to demonstrate Epstein was acting as a pimp providing women, some of whom were under 18, to powerful men, which is still rather distasteful.
curious_straight_ca
5d ago
I don't think it's valid to assume that the 64% that are only about 'lack of sufficient supervision' are because the parents let their kids walk outside alone. The bottom 1% of parents are very bad parents, where lack of supervision probably means 'not parenting them at all, letting them do drugs' than 'letting kids walk around unsupervised'. Even in a world where CPS is terrorizing parents who let their kids walk to the grocery store by themselves, the good or even meh parents will stop doing that after the first or second CPS visit, so that statistic wouldn't be evidence.
More likely imo Trump wants to get away from the Epstein thing because they were buds in the past and that just looks bad, and he communicated that to his people in the usual Trump way, and there's lots of internal dysfunction and drama and poor communication in the Trump admin as there has been elsewhere, and you see the result. It's possible that actually Trump and Epstein did unspeakable things together on the island and he wants to cover that up, sure, but I think nothing looks different in those two scenarios.
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