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Analyst says interest in Epstein files plummeted after war on Iran launched (www.aljazeera.com)
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Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie has said the war ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away’.

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[–] [S] 232 points 5 months ago (7 children)

In case you had any doubt what this whole Iran affair is really about...

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  • [–] 66 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    When the United States fakes an attack on US soil by Iran, Trump will be able to declare martial law without pushback. Once he has that kind of control he will destroy the Epstein files permanently. He will also never give up martial law and will become a dictator that will pass on to other dictators for the next hundred years. This is the future of the United States of America unless the man is taken care of.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The worst of it is already gone if I had to guess. When the FBI got hacked it lost 100TB of data relating to the investigation. 100TB ain't gonna be emails, that's media.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    People don’t lose data from being hacked. The FBI has backups of backups. Even I can’t “lose a file” if I tried because everything I do has very basic consumer level backups. If they “lost” something, it was destroyed internally… and even still there’s probably a copy.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's why it is important to make everyone you know expect it. If enough people don't get fooled, then this won't work.

    I'm actually worried about 4th of July. Fascists love dates and numbers and it is 250 anniversary of US.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Ten bucks says he declares Marshal Law instead.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I’m not taking that bet. I don’t like to lose money hahahah.

    My guess is he does it in October before the midterms so he can hassle voters or cancel elections.

    With the USPS timestamps, SAVE act, etc there’s just no way the election is going to be fair.

    The USA is dead. The fall of the USSR is going to look like utopia.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not saying he wouldn't, but isn't Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn't be justification enough for an action of internal oppression. Again, I'm talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The United States government knew about Pearl Harbor, and they let it happen to get Into World War II. This led to Japanese internment camps inside the United States, which I would argue Is internal oppression. There is good evidence, that you can go find yourself, that The United States let 9/11 happen. This led to the patriot act, and an entire war.

    Martial law is not part of the insurrection act. That is a different thing, with similar talking points.

    Declaring martial law or using anything in the insurrection act to take over the local governments would not be marketed as oppression. And if no one says oppression, then it can’t be oppression (According to the government).

    I think that if Donald Trump is willing to bypass Congress to go to war, he’s willing to break any rule in the book. The rules no longer apply and the only reason he hasn’t tried to take over local governments is because no one is standing up to him yet. He gets away with everything. He may be a few cards short of a full deck, but he’s not dumb. He knows if you don’t have a problem, don’t make one. The United States citizens are not a problem for him.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Had me until

    but he’s not dumb.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    If he’s dumb, then he’s just really really Lucky.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It’s called being born into wealth.

    You just get good at using your wealth to avoid accountability. It doesn’t take intelligence to not pay contractors cause you keep getting away with it your whole life.

    There is strong evidence that he basically got saved by Russian money.

    So yes, being so lucky to be born into wealth and also sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes like betraying your own country.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    What I find extremely obscene is that he doesn’t have talent, skill, knowledge, training, or experience.

    It’s just money. Dirty old money.

    All you need to break EVERY rule in the book is...MONEY.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Being intelligent and being not dumb are not the same thing.

    He knows he doesn’t need to roll tanks down Main Street USA, because people in the USA refuse to stand up to the government in any meaningful way.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I guess we have different definitions of dumb.

    Like there are reports that he was the dumbest student in many classes.

    Remember the basic “intelligence” test he took and he kept bragging about the results?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    False flag shit. Like the angry young fellas from Bucks county? That wasn’t Isis. That was some angry young dudes that identified with Isis. Isis would have sent (Cough, ahem) more qualified individuals to do this sort of bidding. I do hope that the one right wing C word, unfluencer that shows up repeatedly to things like this, falls and hits his head rather quickly. I am tiring of his ugliness. I am a straight Cis male so you know if a MF’er is so ugly and it triggers me this much, there is one takeaway. That Sumbitch reeeeaaaalllllyyyy ugly. I hope the Isis wannabes can fuck him up severely one day. Then, they’ll probably just “grow out of that type of behavior”. They are just young and somewhat misguided.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    I don't think this is even true. It is more that media (owned by the same elites) can temporarily escape to Iran so they report it.

    Meanwhile the records about victim's interview that they were hiding were released and they look quite bad.

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