Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie has said the war ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away’.

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    19 hours ago

    It isn’t about the files FFS. Nobody is prosecuting him. Nobody. Just another distraction focusing everyone’s attention away from trump doing his best to seize permanent power.

    Oh, an they might lift oil sanctions on Russia. Way to go, rewarding the country helping Iran send bombs to US bases.

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    Interest went down sure, but it’s not going away. Trump will dream the files are done but no fucking way they are

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      “And if you look at searches on Google for the Epstein files, they’ve plummeted since this started. So, at least temporarily, it’s succeeding. It’s taking up Congress’ time and it’s taking up the media’s time,” he added.

      Which part of that is a lie, exactly?

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        I should rebrand/phrase. I meant the ones trying on a new reason every five minutes for why we’re at war. They are lying to us on the daily to take the focus from the Epstein files. Deceiving & fibbing to divert interest in the files. That’s a paddlin.

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      There are almost definitely greater than 0 human skeletons buried at his golf courses.

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      When the United States fakes an attack on US soil by Iran, Trump will be able to declare martial law without pushback. Once he has that kind of control he will destroy the Epstein files permanently. He will also never give up martial law and will become a dictator that will pass on to other dictators for the next hundred years. This is the future of the United States of America unless the man is taken care of.

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        Nah, he’ll just run as VP and have Baron Trump run for president and have the special forces do any rigging needed. Fascism in America is disappointing on so many levels.

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        If that happens palantir will have ice come and collect dissidents and we will be enslaved and killed in core civic concentration camps

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        The worst of it is already gone if I had to guess. When the FBI got hacked it lost 100TB of data relating to the investigation. 100TB ain’t gonna be emails, that’s media.

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          People don’t lose data from being hacked. The FBI has backups of backups. Even I can’t “lose a file” if I tried because everything I do has very basic consumer level backups. If they “lost” something, it was destroyed internally… and even still there’s probably a copy.

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        That’s why it is important to make everyone you know expect it. If enough people don’t get fooled, then this won’t work.

        I’m actually worried about 4th of July. Fascists love dates and numbers and it is 250 anniversary of US.

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        Not saying he wouldn’t, but isn’t Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn’t be justification enough for an action of internal oppression. Again, I’m talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.

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          The United States government knew about Pearl Harbor, and they let it happen to get Into World War II. This led to Japanese internment camps inside the United States, which I would argue Is internal oppression. There is good evidence, that you can go find yourself, that The United States let 9/11 happen. This led to the patriot act, and an entire war.

          Martial law is not part of the insurrection act. That is a different thing, with similar talking points.

          Declaring martial law or using anything in the insurrection act to take over the local governments would not be marketed as oppression. And if no one says oppression, then it can’t be oppression (According to the government).

          I think that if Donald Trump is willing to bypass Congress to go to war, he’s willing to break any rule in the book. The rules no longer apply and the only reason he hasn’t tried to take over local governments is because no one is standing up to him yet. He gets away with everything. He may be a few cards short of a full deck, but he’s not dumb. He knows if you don’t have a problem, don’t make one. The United States citizens are not a problem for him.

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                It’s called being born into wealth.

                You just get good at using your wealth to avoid accountability. It doesn’t take intelligence to not pay contractors cause you keep getting away with it your whole life.

                There is strong evidence that he basically got saved by Russian money.

                So yes, being so lucky to be born into wealth and also sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes like betraying your own country.

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                  Being intelligent and being not dumb are not the same thing.

                  He knows he doesn’t need to roll tanks down Main Street USA, because people in the USA refuse to stand up to the government in any meaningful way.

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      I don’t think this is even true. It is more that media (owned by the same elites) can temporarily escape to Iran so they report it.

      Meanwhile the records about victim’s interview that they were hiding were released and they look quite bad.

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      It’s about Netty-bo yanking on Trump’s leash.

      this isn’t our war. it’s Netanyahu’s. (and maybe the Saudis, too.)

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    My interest hasn’t plummeted, I just haven’t been reading as many news articles about it because there hasn’t been as many.

    Please tell me this report isn’t that fucking stupid

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      The Iran War, [what would famously be known as the Epstein War,] began at the most convenient time possible for the PedophileOTUS. The name fits, arguably better than Microslop.

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        Among the first things I saw on local news this morning was the story about the released files. It sat right above the post about the US preparing for a “surge” in Iran and I can’t help but think that some editor knew what they were doing.

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      Yes the fuck it has, and really it was the inevitable result. This is not just a spontaneous development, this is the result of decades of moral and financial corruption. We would like to absolve ourselves of complicity but the reality is that each American, in their own small way, has contributed to the systemic corruption we all suffer from. It’s a difficult thing. Many of us, most of us suffer disproportionately to the aristocracy, yet we carry on, and we let them continue with their schemes. We could easily topple them, wrestle the levers of power from their wretched, traitorous hands, but we don’t.

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          It’s just the normal course of empire. Rise and fall, Solve et coagula. Parasites and infections take over their host if not treated. Superficially changing political parties every few years does nothing, because it’s treating the symptoms and not the disease.

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        It’s honestly kinda gross to see people blink past the bombing of schools, hospitals, and water treatment plants - the outright massacre of thousands of people - as though it’s a distraction from your domestic pedo politics.

        Americans can’t even prosecute Woody Allen for this shit. It’s an absolute joke to think “Release The Epstein Files” is going to come to anything. Much less that it would preclude anyone from talking about the carpet bombing of Tehran.

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          Prosecute Woody Allen? He’s gross by he hasn’t broken any laws. You’re deluded if you think everyone is “blinking past” the atrocities being committed in Gaza and Iran