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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

There it is

We need to fucking riot

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

best we can do is No Kings 3: We Totally Mean It This Time For Real. get your poster board ready

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

You needed to fucking riot eons ago

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

You needed to fucking riot eons ago

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol -1 points 1 week ago

Who's "we"?

The time for accountability was November 2024. Most of America said they either like this, or were fine with it.

Why would they suddenly start rioting?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Is that not breaking the law?

[–] Applesause@mander.xyz 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A law without a mechanism of enforcement is just a suggestion.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It's cool. It'll only take Americans 5-10 years to realize they've been in a corporate oligarch dictatorship this entire time.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hear states are preparing a lawsuit demanding a “pretty please” be added no later than 2028.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least one Democrat will performatively blast them.

[–] Applesause@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We're past blasting, so 2018. Now we're on flaying.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Someone needs to tell the justice department that the justice department is in violation of the law and should dispense justice.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

laws don't matter anymore, remember?

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

They matter against us but not them.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Who will charge them? Bondi?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Laws are irrelevant if nobody is enforcing them

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Confirmed Trump is in several hundred thousand Epstein docs?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

They're not the Epstein files. They're the Trump pedo-files.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Everyone knows what Trump is. This cover up is for his owners.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Predictable, honestly.

I've discussed this with a few people in the last week. What's going to happen with the release on Friday. The only sensible answer is, all the things we've seen from the Trump admin on everything:

  • re-interpret court orders
  • play for time
  • blame others
  • deny wrong doing
  • distraction

This release was always going to be unsatisfying. They'll never release something that incriminates Trump.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But by all means, please, let’s keep forcing their hand on this issue. This one issue works… the longer they hold out, the longer we can continue to occupy their prefrontal cortex, the less bandwidth they have for other heinous shit.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree. They've done loads of heinous shit while everyone is focused on the files.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As is the goal for flooding the zone. Don’t let them convince you that your efforts have no impact.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seriously?

The goal of flooding the zone is to do heinous shit while you're distracted.

In this case, distracted by something which is ultimately not actionable.

You've been carrying on about this for the last 6 months and have forced them to release a photo of Clinton in the hot tub. Well done. Really holding their feet to the fire here.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think this still fails to see the bigger picture. They released something they hadn’t before, which shows that progress was made. Had Trump held all the power, that wouldn’t have happened. Now, what are your ideas and how much progress have they made so far?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's my point though, what has this recent release achieved? You can't claim its progress if no progress has been made. If anything its counter productive because predictably, the released files and photos have exposed key figures from the left.

My idea is to not be as stupid as Americans seem to be. Working out pretty well so far.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Like I said, we now have more than we did before. You can look at that from multiple angles: (1) we have more recency to his most heinous activities. This stuff gets to some of his supporters. (2) we have more legal leverage over him now, for what it’s worth now and in the coming years. (3) we have more documents from the Epstein case now. (4) we have ever so slightly forced his hand and thus demonstrated it is possible to do so, even if it wasn’t exactly the outcome we immediately demanded.

Your argument to me feels like it tries to invalidate the only demonstrable progress that has actually occurred, for its size alone. It’s to say no progress is better than little progress, which I whole heartedly disagree with. This is slight positional progress, and I’d ask again: how much progress have your ideas made in resolving the kind of situation America faces? Because “to not be as stupid as Americans seem to be” isn’t actually doing anything except admitting you don’t face the problem yourself and likely have no solutions to offer.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

String that cunt up with the pedos she's covering for, then

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Never forget she was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, with the power to take action against Epstein herself. She never did, though she held the proof. NY had to do it instead.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Time for the Dems to pull something out of the secret stash of creepy estate photos.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was promised all the documents. I was promised they couldn't hold any back just to avoid embarrassing someone

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It's really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They've gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don't want them protected, and republicans don't generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it's quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

So yeah, anyway.... it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

[–] 0ndead@infosec.pub 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who’s got the dirt on Bondi?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Epstein clearly.

Being a high level person in the administration probably means you're in the files.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, we know the next move. The goal now is to slowly disperse heat from Trump. They’re going to release the names of political enemies first—which will tire some folk. If backlash ensues, maybe they’ll release the names of some low ranking followers or foreign leaders. The very last thing they’ll release, if so, will be anything implicating Trump. If that happens, the goal will be to have diluted any possible impact by then. To tire the rioters, to normalize the prior crimes, to get the news cycles following other events (like a potential war with Venezuela). They’re trying to ice us, like in sport.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Ok, americans, when the fat orange cunt dies will you go after her, and people like her, for what she's done to protect him, and other paedos?

Or will you let these people get away with it also?