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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Decent cops seem to be in very short supply, not just in the US. What pisses me off most about this shit is that Biden sat on this stuff for four years without doing anything.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (8 children)

The investigations were open throughout Biden's term: legally Biden could not release them. Trump closed them himself, probably thinking he could keep them hidden anyway, until some congresspeople with spine crossed the aisle to make sure he couldn't.

So if you wanna get pissed off at someone, remember that Epstein remained a repeat, habitual sexual offender against children after his sentence ended. He never stopped offending. He also never stopped visiting his Florida home in Palm Beach.

Guess who was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019 and COULD have done something about him, whose actual job it was to do something about him, but did not? Pam Bondi. Where is your ire for her?

Or for Alexander Acosta, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida that worked hand in hand with Alan Dershowitz and the rest of Epstein's attorney's to boil all his crimes down into one offense and give immunity to his unnamed co-conspirators? How has he not made it onto your shit list?

These are not secrets. These people are not hidden. Their roles in keeping Epstein out of jail are well known, and there are others too. But you blame Biden? The ONE guy who legally could not release the files without closing all the related investigations?

I will never understand people who claim to be righteously angry at the exact individuals who had nothing to do with what they're angry about. If it's worth expending the energy of rage on, it's worth learning the bare facts of who is actually responsible.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

So why didn't all these investigations lead to any indictments in four years? You can try to sugarcoat it all you want, but the Biden administration had a chance to clean up the whole pigsty and did absolutely fucking nothing.

[–] idyllic@leminal.space -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You do have a fair point actually.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

No, he really doesn't. What he has is a willful and profound ignorance of the separations of US government, our constitution, and how until now, no president took it upon himself to throw out the constitutional divisions of government and try to run all three branches, including the judicial, which includes criminal investigation and prosecution at the federal level. Federal, not state.

Biden literally had nothing to do with any of it, except being president at the time.

Why are you so insistent on blaming Biden, the president of the country, for not interfering in state level investigations?

Why are you so intent on looking away from those who were and are actually guilty of stalling investigations and using their positions to protect pedophiles?

Why are you both working so hard to point fingers anywhere except at those who actually worked to cover these crimes and keep them covered, and still are?

You know, it almost seems like you aren't really interested nearly as much in bringing the real perps to justice as you are in playing a game of squirrel to take the blame off of those who are STILL in power and STILL working to cover and defend these crimes.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

"hey guys, I know we're saying that Trump is an existential threat to the US, but leaking documents to stop him would violate norms. So we won't. We'll just blame the left when we lose."

[–] idyllic@leminal.space 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You misunderstood me. I am not the least blaming Biden government for being complicit and not releasing the files. What I am saying is that they could have expedited the process knowing that there is a looming danger of Trump becoming the president and doing all the fuckery he is doing right about know.

I absolutely know that his hands were tied, and that his regime was too ethical to not interfere in the matter. They could have been less so - so that justice could have been served. But, yes - that would have punched holes in litigating the wrong doers, and probably could have gotten off on technicalities.

I guess - damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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