• Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world
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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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    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.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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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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        Trump was a trafficker. Trump Model Management was started years before Epstein’s MC2 modeling.

  • BillyClark@piefed.social
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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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      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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    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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        Smoke and mirrors my friend. This will not lead to them doing a job, just them attempting to keep their job and their freedom.

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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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    Bet on it: for the FBI under Trump it is more important to protect the guilty wealthy and influential criminals than protecting and providing justice to the victims.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    But he seems so trustworthy and doesn’t look at all like he needs to end a press conference immediately to scuttle off with the boss’s diaper bag (a.k.a “Football #2”).