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Epstein files are currently being released. DOJ link HERE. Epstein Files Transparency Act PDF HERE.
Some notes from picking a random place to start and going through them one-by-one:
Lots of questionable redactions.
Funniest one so far.Cumstained porno mag. Looks like they decided to redact only her tits. Can they do that under the law? NSFW Link.
There is at least one male whose face is being consistantly redacted. Were there any male "victims"? Not sure what the legal basis for a redaction could be. Doesn't look like Trump to me.
Jeffery is definitely a boob guy.
Some of the ass pics that are in there are unredacted. Interesting choice.
A second redacted male figure. Looks like Epstein himself tbh. Maybe an accident?
Quote from a victim's interview notes: "What doing? Why bringing me dark girl?" "Bringing young girl." "Yeah but not dark."
They are definitely redacting the portions of interviews where they describe what Jeffery did sexually. Understandable, but not sure if legal under the Act.
"Tell girls don't wear heels, just wear casual everyday clothes." Really makes you think.
I'm glad I didn't do a direct download.
Now I'm getting big binders full of thumbnail pics. I hope the corresponding full-size photos are somewhere else in the files.
Lots of pictures of clouds. I think the guy just liked photos.
Did we really need to redact the photos of the other guys in the police photo lineups? Are they victims? Not super relevant but gives you an idea what the culture was in the office when they were putting these together.
Very ominous scrapbook page titled "Looking For a Way Out", with redacted pictures of a girl.
The mainstream conspiracy narrative is so ridiculous. If the government is under control of foreign blackmail, none of what it releases can be trusted anyway (it's at best selectively-released, if not outright fabricated). If the government is a trustworthy source of information, then it's not under the control of a blackmail cabal in the first place. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Also, this whole redaction thing is such a troll. If you want to release 50 pages and hide 50 pages, you don't release 50 unedited pages and 50 pages of black boxes; you just release the 50 clean pages and don't mention the other pages you left out (and yes, I do deem the government capable of re-numbering a list, especially with the help of ChatGPT).
Actually, you can. The most straightforward explanation isn't that the entire government is completely controlled and co-opted, but that there are multiple competing power blocs. The foreign blackmail operation has leverage and control over several important people, but their control isn't total - the public can influence those portions of the government exposed to the will of the people enough to shift the balance of power between competing groups in the government. This actually explains the behavior of the government better than both the stupid version of the conspiracy theory you're arguing against and the conventional, no conspiracy at all view.
There are multiple competing power blocs, but not in the way you're saying. It's just various groups of rich people fighting over gerrymandering and PAC lobbying.
What the plebes want is not even a relevant factor in the equation, because the plebes refuse to exercise any discretionary funding over anything or hire any good lobbyists. You can literally put tattooed porn stars and Indians praying to Hindu gods up at the conservative party convention and they'll just march out and vote anyway. What they think does not matter at all.
The Epstein Files fiasco is just a big clown show, much like WWE Smackdown (which, incidentally, was also represented at the conservative convention!). This is not serious politics: it's reality TV.
This by itself is a serious issue and one of the major contributing factors to the rise of politicians like Trump, who made it into the office on the basis of broken promises to rein in this corruption.
Au contraire - the Epstein files reveal a major scandal with incredibly far reaching consequences. If you don't think that these files contain information that's extremely relevant to modern politics I don't believe you're actually interested in politics in any real way beyond cheering for your favorite sports team.
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