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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 107 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This needs to involve some time in prison for the guilty.

And Pam is most certainly guilty given her little performances in Congress.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

BUT THE DOW IS ~~OVER~~ ^almost^ 50,000 DOL... 50,000 POINTS!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not any more. We can care about raping kids now.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Congress:

The DOJ must provide all the documents, not withold information for sake of saving embarrassment or protecting politicians, and let us see all redactions or they're breaking the law!

Hey DOJ, the DOJ broke the law! Arrest yourself!

We're so smart!

Me:

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 18 points 2 weeks ago

No, absolutely no one.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

It's remarkable that they curated it and the files still show that a large portion of the modern far right was somewhere between acquaintances with and funded by and taking orders from a convicted child sex trafficker.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Process this: If you think that the stuff you've seen in the Epstein Files is outrageous, and people should be tossed in dungeons over it, understand the very worst stuff has been quarantined. If you this stuff is bad, wait until we find out what they're hiding.

Epstein dealt with a lot of evil people and evil deeds, and he said that Trump was the most evil person he'd ever known. I'm hearing stories of murdered babies and such, and as crazy as they sound, so far the stuff I've heard from the Epstein Files has turned out to be true, so I'm assuming the rumors are true as well.

[–] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Your last source hints at it, but keep digging. I've seen some fucked up stuff, but I didn't save the sources, so I won't repeat them. I think I might start.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I will never understand how the women in this administration cover for the men who raped girls.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...because gender doesn't dictate if someone is ethical or empathetic.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Power hunger and greed come to mind as reasons.

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

I think there's a complicated kind of fig leaf which is very clearly unethical but it allows these people to retain some dignity.

I'm sure there's a word for it but in criminal justice everyone needs a lawyer to defend them, even someone accused of awful crimes with very strong positive evidence of their crimes. I've heard defense lawyers say that even if they dislike their client, they need to do their very best to defend them or else their lack of defense might be the grounds for an appeal later. That does kinda make sense to me.

The extension of this concept is that everyone gets to make their best argument. Even in business / contractual disputes, both sides have an opportunity to make their best argument, their best version of the truth. "Best version" in this context means, emphasising your best actions and minimising your worst.

I guess this can kind of be corrupted in a way to be "well if I don't spin this for then someone else will", which is where ethics goes out the window really. As in, someone accused of a crime might be entitled to appropriate defense, but someone who's been abusing women their entire life is not entitled to have a government official cover up their behavior by obfuscating details or documents. In the same way, often in a professional role your only recourse if you object to something is to resign.

In summary, Bondi is an awful human but this is how I imagine she justifies that.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

She doesn't even try to justify it, beyond "Because I can, and fuck you."

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Because sociopaths are sociopaths, even if they're women.

Though I do wonder who shat in Bondi's cornflakes to make her such a concentrated ball of corruption and spite. She seems like she hates the whole world, but lacks the nerve to leave it.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So since they wouldn't release over half of the documents. We can assume those all have trump and his buddies in them. Millions of documents on those people specifically.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And yet the orange turdsack's name still appeared more times than the rest of the big names combined... quite telling, ain't it?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

More times than Harry Potter's name appears in all the Harry Potter books.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 15 points 2 weeks ago

Trump called in every favour that was owed, used every asset he could to get a second term in the white house, ffs he staged the shooting at that rally so he would win so he could keep those files hidden and considering how much effort there is invested in diversions just to keep everyone's mind of the files.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

The story is not news. Last year we heard that the fbi had 100,000 man hours on people making redactions of trumps involvement; the files aren’t even half of them, and there has been NO video released, blurred or otherwise

The wall st journal is a Murdoch shit rag, we cannot trust ANY US media - NYT, Wapo, WSJ, cnn, msnbc, Fox, they are ALL complicit in the coverup, and actively aiding the fascist takeover of the US government

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, we know

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, what?!

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

No way they would do somethings ng that self serving and I just. More lies... /S

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)