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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 7 hours ago

i pretty sure kash patel cant look straight ahead since the evidence is in front of him, just look at his eyes.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 12 hours ago

"Nothing to see here! Move along, move along! Nothing to see here!"

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
H.L. Mencken

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago

Other than the overwhelming preponderance of evidence, there's little reason to suspect him.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

Federal Bureau of Ingratiation

These people have no choice now, they'll do anything to protect him because they know it's all over when he goes down.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 126 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Powerful men have decided he wasn't doing things for powerful men. Nothing to see here folks, everyone should just go home.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

He was just running it for himself, and powerful men happened to benefit and use it. But it was FOR himself. Problem solved right? Great job FBI!

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 18 hours ago

The billionaires just fell into Jeffrey's consenting adult time machine, and they tripped over the levers on the way in, it was an accident all along

[–] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 19 hours ago

Nothing inspires trust like fbi boss crazyeyes. Once he got done with raiding fulton county election offices on completely not false election rigging allegations at the behest of the person that was not himself the one trying to rig it. Trust.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

Fuck the FBI

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago

"We have investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing"

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Also, mid 2019, colourised:

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 122 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

So who was he running a sex trafficking ring for?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 43 points 18 hours ago

Apparently just Donald Trump.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 52 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

What do those two things have in common

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 14 hours ago

It's America with three K for the American one. What's the trick for that one?

[–] BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org 4 points 16 hours ago

Js intelligence..

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 81 points 20 hours ago
[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 11 points 14 hours ago

Strictly speaking he was running a blackmail ring to gather Kompromat

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 40 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

FBI continually doing more than any foreign power to undermine the credibility of the FBI.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Just a normal US thing. Nothing to see here.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 53 points 20 hours ago

Case closed, finally. Seems like a legit apolitical finding. /s

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 14 hours ago

So they’re shitty at investigations, but we already knew that.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 37 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That’s because technically there were powerful women involved too.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Other than all of the obvious horrible takeaways from the Epstein files, it's really incredible to see how overwhelmingly stupid all of these powerful rich shits are. This dude's out here acting all philosophical about trans people while fundamentally misunderstanding multiple aspects of how hormones actually affect people. Also, there is plenty of trans men porn, you just aren't seeing it because you have a fetish for trans women, not because it doesn't exist. Idiot freaks.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-trivers-b46b722a

If you'd like to join me in sending hate filled messages...

His and my mutual contact is a manosphere anti woman victim

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If I didn't know the source I would think this was taken from some seedy porn forum.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 14 points 18 hours ago

This is the shit you would read on /b/ at 2am on a Thursday in 2007 while two users have what they think is a "deep" conversation in the middle of one-handed browsing.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

So if Epstein hadn't killed himself, would they have even had enough evidence to convict Epstein himself?

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

He would probably be living with his pedo-pal Ghislaine in the cozy prison she's in.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago

FBI Sees No Clear Link to Russia

[–] hector@lemmy.today 11 points 19 hours ago

Right, good one guys! I had to double check this wasn't the onion. It's stuff like this that makes satire hard to sell nowadays.

Nothing inspires faith like the conspiracy podcaster crazy eyes fbi boss. Totally legit conclusion they came to right after they raided the election office in Fulton County Georgia to rehash the president's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that he failed at stealing.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

Why is it that all the referenced interviews and investigations occurred in 2019 or 2025 but nowhere in between?

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Does this just mean that he wasn't doing it on behalf of anyone? But everything else is still the same?

He it was still sex trafficking and powerful men bought them. But Epstein didn't have a boss or anything?