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😜 OK MAGA I brought some 🍿 to watch the mental gymnastics justifying her release.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

Pay the Pedo King enough and you'll get a pardon

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago

And the gop goes wild. Finally the human trafficking can continue.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

"...explained that releasing grand jury materials from Maxwell’s case “would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial”

There it is. The excuse to redact/withhold whatever they want as ransom to keep her in prison

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Grand Old PDFs

[–] DoctorNope@lemmy.world 74 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Ah, see, you think you heard that MAGA was going to “release the Epstein files” but what they actually said was “we’re going to release the Epstein pedophiles.” Yeah, they’re letting everyone involved with him off the hook.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can see this as an actual tactic. It means that do-gooders have to handle each and every one of the released, or be forced to focus on just one.

Considering the nature of MAGA, unleashing violent criminals upon the innocent remains in character. 😞

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

It means that do-gooders have to handle each and every one of the released

Wait, where are the do-gooders?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago

The Epstein 'philes

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

And what meaningful action are Dems taking to stop it?

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

Democrats can't do anything. They don't have the capacity to accomplish anything useful. They're absolutely powerless.

That's why you should vote for them.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What action can they take?

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 3 hours ago

You don't get it. The minority party somehow has the power to do whatever they want; they just don't because they're exactly as bad as Republicans.

/S

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 13 points 14 hours ago

Strongly worded letter SLAMMING them for corruption

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A firm email is being drafted.

(Epstein Island was a rare example of bipartisan effort)

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Rare?

Democrats have a pattern of vocally opposing issues only after they irreparably solidify them.

In 1986 they helped pass draconian drug laws and mandatory minimums that supercharged mass incarceration, then decades later turned around and branded the “war on drugs” a moral failure.

In 1994 they wrote and championed the crime bill that funded more cages and longer sentences; only once whole communities were gutted did it become fashionable for them to “reckon” with mass incarceration.

In 1996 they joined Republicans to “end welfare as we know it,” slapping work requirements and time limits on poor families, then years later started admitting it deepened extreme poverty.

That same ’90s crew pushed NAFTA and the broader free-trade consensus that helped ship industrial jobs overseas, then reinvented themselves as champions of the working class once the damage was locked in.

They joined in financial deregulation at the end of the decade, tearing down New Deal banking walls, and after the 2008 crash, suddenly discovered the virtues of regulation.

On social issues it’s the same story: they crafted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and passed DOMA, then only when public opinion flipped did they pretend they’d always been on the side of LGBT rights.

They voted for the 2002 Iraq AUMF and let Bush have his war, then spent the next decade calling it a catastrophic mistake.

They backed the 2006 Secure Fence Act to harden the southern border, then later denounced wall-style politics as cruel and nativist.

So no, Epstein Island wasn’t some weird one-off “bipartisan moment.” Bipartisanship is the rule whenever it comes to locking people up, bombing someone, cutting social supports, or serving corporate interests, and Democrats in particular have a long record of helping build the machinery first and only discovering their consciences after it’s too late to dismantle it. At least the Republicans consistently tell you they hate you to your face.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So your problem with Democrats is that they're capable of admitting they were wrong?

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Nice twist.

My problem is that they're always on the wrong side of history, and only start using the vulnerable as rhetoric after they can't kill and maim them profitably.

They don't serve us, they use as to serve the capitalist class.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Well she trafficked underage girls who were sexually abused by rich men as part of a Mossad honeypot. Not like she did anything wrong.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Only an anti-Semite would believe otherwise.

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 17 points 15 hours ago

Her father was a triple agent for the UK, Russia and Israel, I'm sure he'd be very proud, had he not 'fell' off his boat when he stopped being useful

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 115 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

This is gross.

There’s no way she should get released. What she did is beyond atrocious.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Her half way house address is

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20500, United States.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 43 points 21 hours ago

She’ll be on the streets in 3 days and 2 checks

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 66 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

The letter further cautioned against releasing documents related to Maxwell’s case, as they may “contain untested and unproven allegations”.

It explained that releasing grand jury materials from Maxwell’s case “would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial”, should her petition to be released succeed.

Oh, I get it. Just another ploy to keep the Epstein files hidden?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We've got emails between him and dozens of billionaires. Larry Summers chat logs where he's asking for advice while cheating on his wife. My Brother in Christ we have his Quora search history.

How many more files do you feel like you need to see? Nobody else is going to jail for this shit.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

ALL THE FILES

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can really tell who they want in jail and who they don't when you compare it to Luigi Mangioni's case. They were happy to release all sorts of documents and publicly state he is guilty (despite being presumed innocent in the eyes of the law)

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Exactly. Plus, this all feels SO coordinated. Trump team had a private conversation with her. Then she gets moved to a comfortable prison. Trump approves the release of the documents, but what do you know? She is now appealing for her release and thinks the documents shouldn’t be released.

There’s 100% shit in there Trump doesn’t want public.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lmfao I didn't know "my client needs to avoid all consequences so the truth doesn't get out" was a valid legal defense.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

After she was found guilty! Maybe before, but definitely not after.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 16 hours ago

My client does not wish for this information to be released because this information is incriminating.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 13 points 16 hours ago

Disgusting fucking perverts.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It will be interesting to watch all the sAvEtHeChIldReN qtards trying to spin this if Taco were to release this child molester.

While they are doing that, I sure hope some people take it upon themselves to ask these idiots when "The Storm" is supposedly coming? And how does freeing Ghislaine the child molester figure into this supposed "Storm", LOL?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The current MAGA position seems to be that they weren't children, they were just very very very young adults...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And of course trafficking adults for the purposes of sexual exploitation is fine

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

I'm reminded of Jon Ronson's observation in "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", that the religious right are surprisingly tolerant of sexual misconduct scandals in a way that progressives aren't.

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[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 35 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

The most depressing part is that she'll get her release. She'll find a way to bribe Trump, and he'll give her a presidential pardon because he's a whore. Then she'll go back to what she was doing before and business will continue like usual for them because everybody will move on from it just like they did with the Panama papers before it and the Snowden leaking the NSA's mass surveillance even further back. Accountability and justice are dead in this timeline.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

"Quiet" pardon incoming.

"Quiet" in that the media, most especially Fox News, will not report it at all.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 17 hours ago

He will pardon her, and commute her sentence. He just pardoned a massive, evil drug lord.

Hahahaha oh my fucking god this is absolutely insane

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