• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      The released files contain the anonymous tips people sent in, including ones sent after Epstein became public knowledge. This tip was likely fake (or at least the fading embers of my faith in humanity hope it is), but we’ll never know for sure due to the DOJ’s refusal to investigate any of it.

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        It’s good that they don’t investigate it now. They’d just bury anything they want and purposefully do a bad job. If a shred of normalcy ever returns to the White House then it can be investigated properly

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            Silly Biden - back then it was presumed that the president shouldn’t interfere with investigations like that. They should be done apolitically, and independently.

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              Communications use shortcuts. You didn’t define what “return to normalcy” was and I didn’t put restrictions on what that meant. After the first trump presidency, there was already a “return to normalcy” in which the US government was in stable enough hands to do all that, and nothing happened.

              I wasn’t saying that “Biden needed to personally handcuff trump and put him behind bars” I was saying “the US already returned to a state of normalcy where the correct investigation could have happened and justice dealt, however this was not done.”

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                I agree. Biden was too worried about looking like he was politically interfering and even put republicans in charge. He get them a chance to clean house and they failed miserably. And so Biden failed clearly also. Hopefully if they get another chance, the gloves come off.

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                  Putting William Barr, a Republican and someone with multiple indirect connections to Epstein*, in charge of the investigation ranks among the stupidest decisions Biden made during his presidency. He killed any chance at seeing justice done and opened the doors for a second Trump term out of his outdated belief that reaching a hand across the aisle is still effective in a post-civility politics era.

                  This whole clusterfuck could have been avoided if literally anything had been done to prevent it, but Biden’s desire to appear impartial had him put someone in charge who had multiple reasons to slow-walk and kill the case. A case where, again, any ethical lawyer in Barr’s position would have recused themselves given his historical connections to Epstein.

                  * Through the law firm he used to work for as well as his father. AFAIK there no direct link between the two, but it was still enough to make him an unacceptable choice.

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        And given how literally everything the right says is projection, it matches up completely with the shit they were accusing Hillary Clinton of

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        There’s straight up emails and texts of him questioning chefs about it they can make “shrimp” in all the colors, the potential chefs are disgusted by “shrimp” but think it could be worth the money. Shrimp is their term for fetus.

        Also let’s not forget about the jerky and all the people who just absolutely had to have more like it was a crack addiction and how they couldn’t get more jerky when Epstein was “trying to get back on normal food”.

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            Read the files, there is correspondence between Epstein and the potential chefs. GO FUCKING READ THEM.

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            Even what I said is barely scratching the surface of just how fucked the whole situation was, go read the files for yourself. The only way we improve after this is by having a majority of the global population read these sick fucks own words about it.

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            Watch this:

            https://youtu.be/ghUNyJzLkfE

            Now I’m aware this dude (flesh simulator) has gone of the deep end a bit, but I think that’s kinda expected and understandable based on his video history. That was mostly after this video though, and only kinda in some ways, he’s not gone complete loony.

            (And, obviously, graphic content warning. No images or extreme audio, just the stuff you picture while he’s going through everything. It’s not fun, don’t watch if you feel even a bit unsure if you can handle it).

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      Some people are choosing to interpret a few references to food items like jerky and cream cheese as code for cannibalism. Any case like this is going to attract a certain amount of noise around it - including the belief that nothing is being done to investigate it - which just muddies the real crimes. I’ve seen people try to involve space aliens in all this.