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    Torture porn? Fuuuuck. This keeps getting worse and worse. All of these sick fucks need to hang in the streets. Both, the ones that committed the crimes and the ones that helped cover them up.

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    Here’s a sobering thought: You think all these predators suddenly stopped trafficking and raping girls once Epstein was dead? This shit is still happening in other dark places more likely than not.

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      I’ve thought of this. Trump is in a perfect position to steal young girls from one of his Concentration Camps, and nobody knows more about Epstein’s operation than him.

      We can’t count on him being too moral to operate such a business, and he finds any avarice too tempting to resist, and he doesn’t have the impulse control to resist anyway.

      And on top of it, he thinks he’s immune from prosecution for it. He could literally run TV ads to fuck 12 year olds, and nothing would happen to him, or at least he thinks so.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump is working on exploiting that business opportunity right now.

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      The Franklin incident happened in the 80s and may be the precursor to Epstein. It’s very similar, never resolved and the cover up ended with a dosen “suicides” and "found shot in the head"s, a plane crash that killed the lead investigator and his son, and victim Alisha Owens in prison for 15 years for perjury because she refused to recant.

      Also Epstein’s xbox account has been active since he died but before it leaked. Kids play xbox. I haven’t seen login locations just times but certainly an interesting lead for someone

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        And it wasn’t just islands. He had the girls on palm beach in Florida, there’s tons of evidence of that. Seems he used his NY home the same way. Probably why both were wired with cameras like the little saint james island.

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      And surely they’ve learned to use more secure communication methods, so the likelihood of there ever being more files like this are slim.

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        That may be true, but governments’ and agencies spying apparatus have become infinitely more advanced.

        If we could elect people who actually care for the law, justice and children we could clean up the FBI / CIA and cripple the pedophile network.

        But step one is literarily NOT electing fucking child rapists… But apparently that’s too hard for Americans

        Fuck Trump, this entire pedophile administration and any piece of shit that voted for this pile of human garbage

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        They’ve learned to have confidence in their current choice of encryption and storage. Their arrogance is always their downfall.

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    “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers,” Massie added. “This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing [Les] Wexner as coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.”

    Wait . . . So he was lying when he said that???

    Well don’t that beat all.

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      While we all knew he was lying. Now there’s documented evidence proving that he did, and that’s much more actionable.

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    The Republican is Thomas Massie, as expected. It seems that he is one of a few Republicans who will act ethically as long as the topic is Epstein.

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      Only because he’s gone after November. After that, we won’t have his help. There are a lot of other outgoing MAGAs that aren’t speaking up, hoping to slip out of this with nobody remembering that they were part of it. That’s why carving a Swastika into their foreheads is so important.

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      He also defended Alex Pretti carrying a gun, saying it’s not a death sentence but a right.

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        Would he have said that if Alex was a legal US Citizen carrying a gun legally but instead he was a brown man? Probably not, just because Massie argues against his own team he’s still a leopard with the same spots. GOP, always assume ulterior motives.

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          There used to be some Republicans that I respected to some degree, even if I disagreed with their policies. John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney are examples.

          Now the only hope I have for current Republican politicians is that some of them are secretly opposing Trump because of their own ambitions. I don’t think a good person could have kept quiet about Trump.

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            The ones you respected have done some terrible shit in the name of status quo. Some of it has flown under the radar.

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              The politicians I mentioned stood out because they didn’t always toe the party line. They actually represented their constituents, and that’s the bare minimum I think you need to be an elected representative. Whatever else they’ve done, the fact that they actually served as representatives makes them stand head and shoulders above the usual throngs of spineless losers who serve as our congresspersons.

              When you give the party as much power as our politicians do, it violates the most basic principles that this country was founded upon.

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            The ones you mentioned are all despicable people, maybe do some research. They literally just acted somewhat reserved and dignified in public while performing their atrocities. I’d argue that’s actually worse.

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    But will it have consequences? The whole structure of the current US government is built on and around the notion that laws and consequences are not applicable to the “in-people”.

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    Fox news: “Who is this Patel anyway? He’s just a low level coffee boy FBI Director. As usual the Democrats (shut up I know its a Republican) lie about who has what information! Coffee boy FBI Directors wouldn’t have access to unredacted information! It was Joseph Stalin Hussien Biden who did it!”

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    Make no mistake, these republicans seemingly coming forward having a conscience is not a come to Jesus moment. They’re posturing because they are fucking scared of impending doom.

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    Until something actually happens, this is nothing. We’re very long past the point of words and outrage being effective. Until people GO TO JAIL, all of this is roleplay.

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    Is it abnormal for Thomas Massie to speak up? If so that’s significant. If he’s retiring, not so much. They always attempt to grow a spine when they know they will be away from danger.

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      Massie teamed up with Dem Khanna(sp?) to get the Epstein file bill snuck into a House vote. Whatever else he’s done wrong, he’s been solidly focused on getting this shit public for a while.

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      While it is absolutely true what you’re saying about the miraculous post-retirement regenerative power of vestigial Republican spines, strangely enough Massie’s on the right side of Epstein and has been all along.

      Is it abnormal for Thomas Massie to speak up?

      Not on Epstein. I don’t know anything about Massie’s other voting history, but on Epstein the orange chancre has threatened him directly more than once, and he has never backed down. Without Massie and the other Rs who crossed the aisle, EFTA would not have passed.