Not a big fan of O’Keefe, but I like this!

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          When MTG is the voice of reason in that party recently. You know something is wrong.

          She legitimately the only person I can believe wasn’t connected to Epstein. And she’s too stupid to realize that a real investigation leads to Trump and her in denial doing a 180.

          I’m watching her with popcorn in hand.

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            She’s only doing it to keep her seat. Should still be replaced. While she’s weirdly actually doing her doing her actual job and listening to her constituents, it’s just a stop-gap until she’s reelected, then she’ll go back to shouting “Jewish space lasers” or whatever the hell and pandering to whatever Republican president is in office.

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      Republicans: “SEE! BILL CLINTON IS THE ONLY NAME ON THE LIST!!!”

  • They won’t release it.

    Because if they release a list with only Dem names on it, surely there will be a former Biden Admin official with a copy of the full unredacted list, and they could just release that as retaliation.

    Neither party would want to release it, because its M.A.D. at this point.

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      If there IS a hypothetical former Biden official with the full unredacted documents who doesn’t have the courage to leak them, this hypothetical person needs to be hung from the nearest hypothetical tree.

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      It’s almost like the Republicans are using the Epstein files as a way to distract everyone from them taking cudgel to the foundation of democracy and the Democrats are playing right into it. What if the files were released today, would any representative or senator really see any consequences? Would any of them sit before a judge? Will it be something else for them to yell at each other instead of addressing the real elephant in the room, the governments abject failure at governing. Cause you know, we could just believe the survivors. I trust them over anything the government releases at this point.

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        The genocide plus child rape will surely be the catalyst we need to stop voting for representatives who support FPTP.

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    Good! The LAST thing we Would want is for Republican Child Rapists to be CAUGHT! PROTECT THE REPUBLICAN CHILD RAPISTS!

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    Hopefully they leave in all the black redactions and not just delete them.

    That way we can see how many republicans were redacted.

    However I fear they’re also fabricating and just adding as many enemies they need to it for a large night of long knives. Like their version of Project Insight.

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    An easy solution is to not redact anything.

    This is ONLY a problem if the guilty are in charge.

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      Technically there are still anonymous victims in the documents, but yes. You can usually tell from context that the only redacted names are victims if this is done right.

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    Dude they are never releasing the full files. This is all just a fucking tease and while they’re busy pretending to be bringing the hammer of justice down all the pedophiles they just chose to protect (once again) are casually helping set up and cement the authoritarian regime in cities across America.

    Like when we reach the point that there is military patrolling every major city, elections are cancelled indefinitely for our own good, and they feel safe enough to just admit they’re not releasing anything else, what do we even do?

    This is like somebody who you caught robbing you, then giving you some of your stuff back to get you to shut up and not draw so much attention. Then reassuring you that you’ll get the rest back soon, they just didn’t feel comfortable giving it all back to you yet? What possible reason would you have to trust or believe that they’ll do anything once the heat and focus has died down enough?

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      Dude they are never releasing the full files

      whilst i think every reasonable person wants everyone on a hypothetical epstein list (only saying hypothetical because we don’t honestly know what’s actually there to be released: doubtful it’s as simple as a list) to be brought to justice, the point at this stage is just to speak their language: MAGA can’t be trusted, and it seems the only way they realise that is with things like this… constantly point out, on common ground, that this is all hypocritical lying bullshit

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        They don’t care though. They know that they are hypocritical lying bullshit peddlers. To them, that is a virtue.

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          The core, ie the qanon cult, absolutely care. Their only reason for engaging in politics in the first place is to fight the demonic pedophile ring infesting the government. They just didn’t realize they were voting for its leader.

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          there’s definitely some of them that do… at the very least, there’s been a bunch of the MAGA influencers that have been pissy about it… i think that’s a useful thing to push on

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      Yeah, I honestly don’t understand what all the fuss is about.

      The Trump admin isn’t going to release a trove of documents detailing Trump’s escapades.

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      Nah, they’ll just put in the names of everyone they don’t like. The only name I’d be certain was already there is Bill Clinton’s.

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    Isn’t this something that even most Republicans suspected this corrupted government would do?

    All normal Americans suspected this because, well, duh. And Republicans that suspected the government under Taco would do this because that’s their idea of “justice”, and they expect him and his staff to deliver it.

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      It won’t stop them from bleating, “See?! That’s why the left never released them - because they’re the only ones on it!” when they finally come.

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    It wouldn’t surprise me if this is at least partially true, but James O’Keefe has exactly zero credibility. He has made it his life’s work to produce poorly-made works of fiction, and he has the audacity to call it investigative reporting.

    Still, giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt on, well, anything feels deeply immoral.

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      The worst person you know is still a person. I posted another story about Thomas Massie accusing a Billionaire GOP mega donor of being on Epsteins client list.

      This is a big deal. GOP congressman from Kentucky, calling out HIS OWN BIG MONEY DONOR, and as far as I can tell he is standing alone on the republican side trying to get Epstein stuff public. I don’t like the guy, but I can believe this endeavor is moral.

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    As a Democrat, I say don’t redact any of them! If there’s Democrats in there, everyone needs to know. Everyone needs to know all the people involved!

    Stop being pussies and use this as a proper stepping stone to remove your rivals in the GOP! That’s how villain organizations are supposed to work!

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    FIrst off, O’Keefe lol. But secondly, if the guy on the video is actually a deputy chief like O’Keefe claims then ‘staffer’ is kind of underselling it.

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    I’m going to make a prediction if they are going to release a list of some sort with names on it:

    1. They will redact names by using black highlight using computer software and then destroying the underlying text information by printing it out and scanning it, or something similar. This would prevent the most obvious form of getting around the redaction (which is extracting text information from underneath the highlight).
    2. They will make the rookie mistake of using a proportional font like Times New Roman for the names, which is a font wherein each letter has a different length, instead of a monospace font like this one where all characters are the same width.
    3. An investigative journalist will notice that one of the redacted names is exactly the same length as “DONALD JOHN TRUMP” typed in the document’s font, and then applied black highlight over it.
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    I don’t trust James Okeefe as far I could throw him. But I find it hilarious that their own snake is trying to bite them now! 🤣

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      Kinda, I really don’t like O’Keefe, but to me this shows some moral fortitude. Sure he’s far right, but it seems protecting kid diddlers is too much.

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        You’re assuming he’s doing it for moral reasons rather than trying to produce a “shocking exposé” around an emotionally and politically charged set of current events for maximum engagement.

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          Maybe your right, maybe its profit, maybe its fame. TBH I like what he is saying because it benefits my political team in this moment. BUT this guys whole shtick is protect the children, AND he is going against his people. So maybe.

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      Yeah this is kind of the perfect shit storm for Republicans. Any non-republican knows that O’Keefe is full of shit and makes intentionally dishonest videos through the use of heavy editing.

      But now that he’s targeting them, Republicans have to admit that O’Keefe makes videos that are complete BS. Therefore acknowledging that… actually never mind. The cognitive dissonance is so strong with Republicans that this will change nothing.

      They’ll have no problem believing everything he’s put out about abortion is true, but this video about a Republican cover up is false.