The Department of Justice attempted to do damage control after conservative political activist James O'Keefe released a video of a staffer claiming the government would "redact every Republican" from files about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a Thursday post on X, O'Keefe shared a video that he cla...

Not a big fan of O’Keefe, but I like this!

  • TuffNutzes@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 个月前

    I can’t wait to see the pages of redactions. It’s going to be a stack of like 20 pages with three or four enemies of Trump’s on it. The rest are all redacted.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 个月前

    Isn’t this something that even most Republicans suspected this corrupted government would do?

    All normal Americans suspected this because, well, duh. And Republicans that suspected the government under Taco would do this because that’s their idea of “justice”, and they expect him and his staff to deliver it.

    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 个月前

      It won’t stop them from bleating, “See?! That’s why the left never released them - because they’re the only ones on it!” when they finally come.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    37·
    3 个月前

    Dude they are never releasing the full files. This is all just a fucking tease and while they’re busy pretending to be bringing the hammer of justice down all the pedophiles they just chose to protect (once again) are casually helping set up and cement the authoritarian regime in cities across America.

    Like when we reach the point that there is military patrolling every major city, elections are cancelled indefinitely for our own good, and they feel safe enough to just admit they’re not releasing anything else, what do we even do?

    This is like somebody who you caught robbing you, then giving you some of your stuff back to get you to shut up and not draw so much attention. Then reassuring you that you’ll get the rest back soon, they just didn’t feel comfortable giving it all back to you yet? What possible reason would you have to trust or believe that they’ll do anything once the heat and focus has died down enough?

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 个月前

      Dude they are never releasing the full files

      whilst i think every reasonable person wants everyone on a hypothetical epstein list (only saying hypothetical because we don’t honestly know what’s actually there to be released: doubtful it’s as simple as a list) to be brought to justice, the point at this stage is just to speak their language: MAGA can’t be trusted, and it seems the only way they realise that is with things like this… constantly point out, on common ground, that this is all hypocritical lying bullshit

      • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 个月前

        They don’t care though. They know that they are hypocritical lying bullshit peddlers. To them, that is a virtue.

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 个月前

          The core, ie the qanon cult, absolutely care. Their only reason for engaging in politics in the first place is to fight the demonic pedophile ring infesting the government. They just didn’t realize they were voting for its leader.

        • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          3 个月前

          there’s definitely some of them that do… at the very least, there’s been a bunch of the MAGA influencers that have been pissy about it… i think that’s a useful thing to push on

    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Yeah, I honestly don’t understand what all the fuss is about.

      The Trump admin isn’t going to release a trove of documents detailing Trump’s escapades.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    3 个月前

    Hopefully they leave in all the black redactions and not just delete them.

    That way we can see how many republicans were redacted.

    However I fear they’re also fabricating and just adding as many enemies they need to it for a large night of long knives. Like their version of Project Insight.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      3 个月前

      Nah, they’ll just put in the names of everyone they don’t like. The only name I’d be certain was already there is Bill Clinton’s.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      21·
      3 个月前

      Disagree. The list will be shorter, but it’s not necessarily a short list. Being a Democrat doesn’t stop someone from being a PoS.

      A few years ago someone posted a list of reported sex crimes by politically affiliated people. It was about 60/40 Republicans.

  • Alteon@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 个月前

    My concern is that neither side has released a list because its going to be insanely ugly. Like the most powerful people in the US…and the fallout is going to be anarchy.

    I have to believe that Biden’s team looked at what the fallout would look like, and their reaction was “Oh…my…god. What they did was fuckjng horrific, but the country will literally implode if we release this.”

    I’m all for releasing it, we need a bit of a hard reset/wake up call.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      3 个月前

      My concern is that neither side has released a list because its going to be insanely ugly. Like the most powerful people in the US…and the fallout is going to be anarchy.

      Yeah, sure. Anarchy. Let’s say everybody Epstein ever hung out with is rounded up and executed. Even if that does mean that 95% of US billionaires are executed, you think that’s going to result in anarchy? It’s just going to finally give a chance to people who aren’t rich. The only possible “anarchy” would be from these rich people refusing to go quietly. But, the rich never go quietly. They’d refuse to go quietly if it was a 2% wealth tax, and not an execution.

      Also, don’t forget that after his first arrest, Epstein was more or less radioactive. That was in 2008, 17 years ago. Prince Andrew did meet with him in 2010 and it was a huge news story because he obviously should have known better.

      So, let’s say that anybody who was 18 or younger in 2008 is safe from suspicion. Anybody younger than 18 in 2008 was possibly a victim, but was presumably too young to be preying on these underage girls. How old are those 18 year olds now? They’re 35. They’re old enough to run for president in 2028.

      I say fuck the gerontocracy. The only people who are 100% above suspicion are the ones too young to have been involved with Epstein. Let them run things.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      Well what you’re deciding to believe about that is just wrong. Members of the Biden administration did assist (D) senator Wyden’s investigation into wire transfers of billions of dollars to Epstein, which is still ongoing and he has published a list of dozens of names that he found records of financial involvement with Epstein. That investigation which Biden staff cooperated with is being blocked by Trump’s staff currently.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
      71·
      3 个月前

      The country won’t explode, it will destroy the pedophiles legacy and future though, which is death to them. Nearly everything biden does is do gaslight people into thinking he was a great person.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      3 个月前

      Releasing the list is damage control.

      The Epstein list is really just a focusing lens of much greater rage at billionaires and the elites that cover for them. They either throw some meat to satiate the wolves at their door or the wolves will want to come for them all. Americans are too American to admit their rage is all really about wealth inequality.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 个月前

        I wish that were true, but it isn’t. A majority of Americans are too propagandized to be mad at the rich. They believe in capitalism deep in their souls, because schools have been teaching that capitalism is the best system in the world since at least the end of WWII, never mind that the US isn’t even a true capitalist state.

        A majority of Americans believe capitalism is a meritocracy, and that everybody who wins at capitalism is a superior person who got there on their own merits, because that’s what they’ve been taught their entire lives. Fortunately or unfortunately, a large minority of Americans have also been completely failed by their education system and their news system, so they have all kinds of other magical beliefs, like that there’s a cabal of rich and powerful who are draining children of adrenochrome. It’s a really stupid conspiracy theory, but it just happens to end up pointing them at the right targets for the wrong reasons.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 个月前

      people need to treat not releasing the info as though the files have the worst possible contents

      hard reset is definitely needed

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      68·
      3 个月前

      It’s almost like the Republicans are using the Epstein files as a way to distract everyone from them taking cudgel to the foundation of democracy and the Democrats are playing right into it. What if the files were released today, would any representative or senator really see any consequences? Would any of them sit before a judge? Will it be something else for them to yell at each other instead of addressing the real elephant in the room, the governments abject failure at governing. Cause you know, we could just believe the survivors. I trust them over anything the government releases at this point.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        3 个月前

        The genocide plus child rape will surely be the catalyst we need to stop voting for representatives who support FPTP.

    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
      50·
      3 个月前

      If there IS a hypothetical former Biden official with the full unredacted documents who doesn’t have the courage to leak them, this hypothetical person needs to be hung from the nearest hypothetical tree.

        • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
          12·
          3 个月前

          Yeah, sure would be nice if they actually had political beliefs or principles they weren’t willing to discard when it made their garbage worldview inconvenient.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 个月前

      I did love the outright contradictions about COVID vaccines. But my cat snores like he breathes when he’s awake. Dude is not well. But we knew that.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      3 个月前

      Hear me out, if we focus on actually keeping kids safe, we can pay attention to BOTH Epstein’s protectors AND the eugenesist maniac in charge of the CDC.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 个月前

        This isn’t Epstein. This is effectively attention for OKeefe and the equivalent of a Reddit comment.

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    3 个月前

    It wouldn’t surprise me if this is at least partially true, but James O’Keefe has exactly zero credibility. He has made it his life’s work to produce poorly-made works of fiction, and he has the audacity to call it investigative reporting.

    Still, giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt on, well, anything feels deeply immoral.

    • thallamabond@lemmy.worldOP
      141·
      3 个月前

      The worst person you know is still a person. I posted another story about Thomas Massie accusing a Billionaire GOP mega donor of being on Epsteins client list.

      This is a big deal. GOP congressman from Kentucky, calling out HIS OWN BIG MONEY DONOR, and as far as I can tell he is standing alone on the republican side trying to get Epstein stuff public. I don’t like the guy, but I can believe this endeavor is moral.