I took this screenshot myself from the government release page.

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    They’ve been sitting on this for years. They knew and just let the info rot and the pedos were left to keep running the world

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      I don’t disagree that this shit needs to be addressed, but you do realize that anyone can call the FBI and make claims, and those claims do have to be recorded. Sure, these claims seem on brand, but they are just that. Unsubstantiated claims.

      So like, yes, fuck the pedo elite, but don’t start feeling too vindicated when you see something like this, that has no evidentiary weight to it that we know of.

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      The first case against Epstein was “resolved” under the Bush Admin and the second, where Maxwell received her sentence, was under the Trump admin before being sealed by the courts until late 2023.

      I think more importantly is that WE knew. We all knew. “TrafficKing: The Jeffrey Epstein Case” Book by Conchita Sarnoff we published in 2015, we knew all of this and the American public still elected this piece of shit Donald Trump, who we knew was his friend, president.

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        The electoral college. The rest of us could pick a pickle named Jeff and nobody would care.

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          I care because anybody who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 is a dumb asshole and responsible for all of this. People’s vote mattered and millions of people who voted for Biden were absent for Harris.

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            But now Trump is going to gerrymander every state until our vote is ten times smaller than it ever was. It doesn’t matter how we vote if they can just manipulate how much our vote contributes to the final electoral college. And then they just have to pay some more electors off.

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              Redistricting is usually handled by State congresses not Federal. Trump’s major contribution was to have his supreme court nominees sign off on the unfair redistricting.

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        If we had a functional democracy, then the opposition party would have made Epstein a major figure in the presidential elections.

        The Democratic Party had three opportunities - 2016, 2020, 2024 - when they should have been shouting “Epstein” from every podium, instead they brushed it under the rug.

        The reality is we didn’t “all” know. Ask any random person on the street, they’ve never heard of TrafficKing or Julie K Brown or even Virginia Giuffre. It is easy to blame individual voters for their ignorance, but it makes much more sense to view this as an institutional failure.

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          Democratic politicians have this pathological need to be polite to their opponents, even as their opponents are calling them the worst criminals to ever occupy the White House. Instead of answering that charge, or countering with irrefutable FBI evidence of decades of raping children, they just ignore the whole thing, and “take the high road”…to defeat.

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          I’d argue if you had a functioning democracy then the Dems wouldn’t have needed to do anything about this, much less need it as a campaign tactic. The criminals would go to jail and probably the conservative party would dissolve.

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          Indeed, instead they pretended he wasn’t running in four years, and when they did run against him, it was to court Republican voters (the majority of her campaign).

          This was in spite of the well-known mathematical fact that an Independent issue must be campaigned on to win an election. Instead, they were “hoping” (officially) Rs would change their mind.

          Can’t argue with the money they made to do this though, a billion dollars is a new record, especially when she just had a few months. It took Trump FOUR YEARS to raise 900 million or so, she did it in about four months. Amazing, unheard amounts of Super-PAC money made this happen, she did what she was paid to do.

          This is all public information, they don’t even bother to hide it any longer, it’s now LEGAL (because as you know, corporations are people and money is free speech).

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            This was in spite of the well-known mathematical fact that an Independent issue must be campaigned on to win an election. Instead, they were “hoping” (officially) Rs would change their mind.

            I have been an Unafilliated Independent since the day I first registered to vote in 1977. The Independent voting base is larger than either the Democratic or MAGA voting base. Literally EVERY single national political race in America is decided by the Independent voter.

            Neither side can count on my vote. They have to earn it, every time.

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              I have also been Independent for many years; the Ds and Rs still act like they are the majority for some reason. I guess they never bother to check such things (or much of anything else).

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              The fact that you would ever even consider a Republican isn’t comforting in the least. They haven’t taken a sudden turn for the worse, they’ve been the party of gutting social programs to give tax cuts to the rich for over 40 years now.

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                Who said I would consider a Republican? I haven’t considered a Republican in over 30 years, and I would never vote for a MAGA. MAGA should be purged from government, abolished, and prohibited.

                But not voting Republican doesn’t make me a Democrat. They are insufferably weak and cowardly, and hold 50% of the responsibility for the rise, and re-rise of MAGA.

                I refuse to be a member of either corrupt club.

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        When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

        If you’re not American you have known for a long time that this is America.