• partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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    1 hour ago

    Well, we know the next move. The goal now is to slowly disperse heat from Trump. They’re going to release the names of political enemies first—which will tire some folk. If backlash ensues, maybe they’ll release the names of some low ranking followers or foreign leaders. The very last thing they’ll release, if so, will be anything implicating Trump. If that happens, the goal will be to have diluted any possible impact by then. To tire the rioters, to normalize the prior crimes, to get the news cycles following other events (like a potential war with Venezuela). They’re trying to ice us, like in sport.

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      8 minutes ago

      Never forget she was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, with the power to take action against Epstein herself. She never did, though she held the proof. NY had to do it instead.

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    Predictable, honestly.

    I’ve discussed this with a few people in the last week. What’s going to happen with the release on Friday. The only sensible answer is, all the things we’ve seen from the Trump admin on everything:

    • re-interpret court orders
    • play for time
    • blame others
    • deny wrong doing
    • distraction

    This release was always going to be unsatisfying. They’ll never release something that incriminates Trump.

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      But by all means, please, let’s keep forcing their hand on this issue. This one issue works… the longer they hold out, the longer we can continue to occupy their prefrontal cortex, the less bandwidth they have for other heinous shit.

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    7 hours ago

    I was promised all the documents. I was promised they couldn’t hold any back just to avoid embarrassing someone

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    It’s really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They’ve gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don’t want them protected, and republicans don’t generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it’s quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

    So yeah, anyway… it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

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    Time for the Dems to pull something out of the secret stash of creepy estate photos.