• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    Maybe there’s been some update I don’t know about, but I also haven’t heard about Joe Biden being in the Epstein files, either.

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      15 hours ago

      Almost as if character is like a real thing. Like respecting yourself means you also respect others. Say what you will about Joe, but never got any scumbag vibes from that guy. Haven’t really heard too many surprises from the names that I’ve seen in these files so far.

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          4 hours ago

          Unrestricted drone warfare is more an Obama critisicm than Biden. The only creepy Biden thing I remember was him sniffing women’s hair.

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            Obama and Biden both had to approve drone strikes. It was the first Trump administration that got rid of that requirement.

            Not saying that this makes Obama or Biden better, but it seems like Trump was even worse.

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            4 hours ago

            I care less about drone strikes against direct military targets and the like than I do about funding Israel’s ongoing genocide that has killed far, far more innocent people than any “whoopsie that was a schoobus” incidents.

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              That’s… A good thing? The full quote from the article is:

              In October 2017, Trump abolished the Obama-era approval system in favor of a looser, decentralized approach, which gave the military and CIA officials the discretion to decide to launch drone strikes against targets without White House approval.[25] This policy reduced accountability for drone strikes.[26] After Joe Biden took office, he halted counterterrorism drone strikes without White House approval and initiated a broad review of U.S. policy on drone use.[25]

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                That’s better than what it used to be under Trump, but not better than what it used to be under Obama. It does just mean that Biden had to approve every drone strike, so technically any kid that died during his presidency to US drones is on him.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if his name is somewhere in there off the cuff, but I’m honestly surprised MAGA isn’t screaming about him like they do about Clinton. I can only imagine that if he was in there for good it would’ve been the first thing Trump released.

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        There is no doubt in my mind Biden isn’t anywhere in there. For that exact reason. Trump would not be able to stop himself.