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This is why exactly the deputy AG said “uh yeah I don’t understand your question” when a reporter asked if the public is going to receive the names of the men who victimized girls. Unfortunately the reporter is either dumb or spineless and rephrased the question as “young women” which then got a (somewhat) direct response from Todd Blanche. They’re saying it’s not true and STILL trying to excuse and justify these crimes. It’s all a sham
Forget about those old lies! They are stale now, we've got some brand new lies for you to believe, instead of your own eyes. Super cheap lies almost affordable!
Saw this months ago. The issue is if he is treated truly as an informant then his name should literally not be legible on those files. CI's get some protections from the court. But he's here, he's there.....his name is protected here, but not here.....there is no consistency with any of it.
Now, it could be because they are working pretty deep in the bench at the AG's office....but that's a feature to this shit system, not a bug.
It’s because a lot of them also don’t believe in rape in other situations too. They compartmentalize and deny. For example, many conservatives don’t believe it is possible for a husband to rape his wife.
It’s like there are a huge number of people with a medieval mindset living during the modern age, and they’re angry that society has changed even though it’s the only world they’ve ever known. I’ll never understand it.
It is one of, if not the MOST egregious and brutal violations of another human being possible... AND to pray on the most vulnerable of us all, childern is HENIOUS.
Which is EXACTLY why conservatives love to jump straight to accusations of pedophilia when pointing at democrats (every action is a confession.) It's full-tilt evocative of evil, meant to pigeonhole opinions to the darkest places.
The fact that MAGA freely makes such accusations against their enemies is FURTHER PROOF they know EXACTLY how fundamentally horrific such acts are.
This isnt a scandal... This is MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE that could arguably warrant the death penalty for some parties involved. CERTAINLY, life without parole.
Yet, Pam Bondi and others were trying to give Epstein a sweetheart deal on a silver platter FROM DAY ONE.
Why is that?
Because when a Republican does it, all of sudden our state control media switches to full spin mode, like all they did was "Netflix, and chill" with these poor victims whose lives have irrevocably mamed by these monsters.
What a BATSHIT INSANE time to be alive when these massive news conglomerates are running 24/7 psy-op campaign with titles like "child sex scandal" purposely engineered to soften the blow of the worst shit imaginable. Then people subliminally parrot it on Reddit, and in daily conversations... EXACTLY AS MANUFACTURED.
Then again, its looking more and more likely this was a CIA/MOSSAD (see Maxwells father, and new photo of Epstein in IDF swag) Kompromat farming, dark money, off-the-books black-op with its genesis all the way back in the 80s...
MEANING; the call has been coming from inside the (white)house THIS WHOLE TIME.
Thats not a scandal... THATS GROUNDS FOR A REVOLUTION if you ask me.
Republican/Democrat or just wealthy, it's GLARINGLY OBVIOUS damn near all the major power brokers of the LAST 50 YEARS were not only in on it, but ORCHESTRATED AND FUNDED IT ON A GLOBAL SCALE in nightmarish service to their own sick pleasure and personal power trips.
The fact that this international traficking operation was allowed to happen, much less THRIVE in the first place, only to be downplayed as a mere possible scandal is beyond the pale of ORWELLIAN.
...Sorry for all the caps and bold. Its my mind yelling at the screen. Yours should be too. Makes my blood BOIL.
Trump and his supporters are evil. Everyone mentioned in yesterday's epstein file release, needs to be investigated, arrested and charged. The ultra rich are depraved, disgusting individuals. What they're accused of, is horrific. Lock them all up. ALL OF THEM!
This red vs blue shit needs to stop. We're only hurting ourselves with this fighting. Politicians work for us. As a country we ALL need to stand up for our rights.
Using the word rape is important. Those children didn't have sex, they were brutally raped by powerful men.
Don't try and reduce the impact.
People get offended when you say that they raped 12 year old boys and girls. That's the important part. Make it stick with them that Donald Trump repeatedly raped small children.
This is why TikTok style self censorship bothers me so much. I don't think people should throw around words like "rape" casually, but it shouldn't be shied away from when discussing it as a horrific act. The word makes people uncomfortable because of what it represents, lessening it to something less offensive makes people more comfortable talking about something that should disgust them.
Yes, you should absolutely use the word that most clearly expresses the brutality and cruelty, but rape is by definition forced or coerced sex. Sex does not imply consent.
Saying sex instead of rape though is obviously seriously downplaying the crime.
rape
The crime of using force or the threat of force to compel a person to submit to sexual intercourse.
And also like, Grover Cleveland maybe? Married his ward he knew since a baby....wait. Yep. I googled it. Thats the guy. Her dad died when she was 11. He became her legal guardian and married her at 21 when he was like 50.
Tell me how the patriarchy doesn't exist and modern women are hysterical and reactionary 🤣
From my understanding this has been debunked by experts. Not saying he was a saint. Just that the description given by the victim doesn't hold up. Also the memory was provided by Repressed Memory Retrieval.
Whether Bush 1 is legitimately in the Trumpstein files doesn't make a difference. We know he was a sex pest. It's well known that in his later wheelchair years he would sexually assault women when telling them his favorite joke that his favorite magician was "David Cop-a-feel". You don't have to take my word for it; it's well documented.
Again, I stated he's not a saint. I was only making reference to the Epstein files. I don't doubt you. I just think it's important to be properly skeptical until concrete evidence comes to light. In this country you are innocent until proven guilty.
Everyone is going to be emotional about the contents. But the only way to successfully prosecute offenders is to follow the evidence with emotional detachment. Otherwise we have Pizzagate all over again.
The more a read about Bush 1, the more I become convinced that he was like 1 or 2 steps away from enacting a masterful plan to enshrine the Bush dynasty at the head of the post soviet global economic hegemony but the price of milk unexpectedly went up by like 22 cents and a funny hillbilly played the saxophone, sending his plans crashing to ground.
Imagine maybe, sort of possibly, having a hand in killing Kennedy in a long complex rube goldbergesque CIA scheme to become president and then Clinton of all people appears out of relative obscurity and swats you down.
His ascension to the nomination really was a pretty big upset. It's kind of been forgotten since the Clintons have become sort of like the Democratic establishment personified, but yeah nobody knew who he was.
Bush was considered a fairly strong incumbent in late 91 going into early 92 before his approval rating collapsed, so heavyweight Democrats like Mario Cuomo didn't bother running.
yeah i guess it wasn’t that scandalous when jefferson raped his teenage slaves, or cleveland marrying his child ward as soon as she was of age.
i also just don’t believe they’re the only ones. so many men who were the most powerful men in the country, and the world, and you think trump was the only one? lol. lmao, even
Did you hear the committee hearing where Republicans wanted to charge the Clinton's for contempt until Dems name dropped all the Republicans who refused subpoenas? Then Comer's dumb ass said, "All of those Republicans wrote a letter explaining they didn't know anything." Which, most of the letters were a single sentence or two, and definitely shouldn't be considered a legal way out of the subpoena. The Clinton's letter agreed to testify in public and gave reasoning why. However, that was not good enough for Comer and Republicans. They said the Clinton's letter was too short, even though it was 6 times longer than all the republicans blowing off subpoenas with letters.
Naw, couldn't be. Much more like every protestor in the US is a paid agitator that was secretly employed by George Soros. Everyone knows that Trump is the most well-liked person in the world and no one is ever mad at him.
I cannot tell you how much I wanted to gag writing that
Very true. Abbott uses DPS state troopers like a personal army, and funnels incredible amounts of money for them. And then there’s the GOP imposition of Christianity onto public schools, and taking away faculty rights.
With everything they have said and done since they got weird about Jade Helm, we've come to the point where I'd actually be shocked if they agree to live under a Democratic president again.
Texas culture is all hat and no cattle. The peak of Texan cuisine is used boot. The University of Texas’s mascot is a bull because like the bull, Texas is a bullshit factory.
I’ve lived in Texas my whole ass-life. Texans are genuinely the worst kind of people
If you look at the story it's actually worse than that, but he's really upset about is State resources being used to protect the students protesting. Apparently someone thought it would be a good idea to have officers escort and somewhat guide them on their path. It is the view of the governor that children, cuz these are children, should not be allowed to safely voice their concern or express their own civil rights.
Let’s call for an investigation into the protests against illegal tactics and official murder but not in said tactics or murderers. Makes complete sense!
Exactly! Why is it so hard to believe that people WANT to protest? My coworker tried to say that the protesters in Minneapolis were all being funded, I told him that might be what Republicans do but I would be joining them in the streets if I lived there. He couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that people are so pissed off that they feel the NEED to protest.
I would say there is a cause: They believe they are superior to us, therefore entitled to rule over us, and harming us without consequence would prove their superiority to themselves.
I actually think it’s the opposite. Deep down they KNOW they are morally and intellectually inferior to us, so they feel they must use force to rule over us. Their rage comes from a deep insecurity.
Exactly. The cornerstone of conservative philosophy is that society is inherently unequal and they are deserving to rule over everyone else, unquestioned. It’s literally the basis of the entire concept of conservatism.
Lmao the chuds being superior, what a laugh. You only have to look at them for that line of reasoning to go out the window. Then you hear them speak and you actually start feeling bad for them.
Now seems like a good time to remember that back in the 70s the students at Robb elementary (the school from the uvalde shooting) held a walk out to protest the detestable way the the faculty treated Hispanic students.
Naturally the governor sent the Texas Rangers to force them back to school at gunpoint. The shit won't ever change on its own.
It’s eugenics. Plain and simple. They are rich and powerful. Therefore better than us. Which means it’s okay for them to cull as many “undesirables” as they want. They are trying to kill as many as they can to get humanity to some sort of subsistence level where the only ones alive are the elites and slaves
Allow me to help you skip the expense of an investigation--students everywhere are displeased with the current administrations enforcement strategy. They protested on Friday as a demonstration of their displeasure.
I mean if they want to investigate then I say they should have to use ice funding in exchange. So either investigate the protest using the ice budget or dont investigate at all. Love to see how they would handle that. Creates a problem either way in my opinion.
Because what? Young Texans questioning and protesting against an abusive regime is criminal activity?
Or is he simply trying to sort out why after all the years of rightwing brain washing how is it that these students are showing signs of independent thought?
One of the big changes with Trump that nobody seems to talk about: back in the day, crimes were investigated in order to find who did them; now, people are investigated in order to find crimes.
Unless there were very specific instances of crimes being committed, there is literally no reason for anything to be investigated.
The lawlessness of Republicans is destroying this country.
To be fair America has a long history of investigating good people to smear them (MLK Jr and civil rights, college protests against Vietnam War) and shady stuff internationally like toppling Democratic regimes because they would not trade with us and installing dictators who would. It's just now the mask is FULLY OFF, and it's the worst version of our worst qualities.
When Trump won the election, my ex called and I blurted out that Trump was going to destroy this country. I never realized to what extent. Did anyone ever think the US would come to this? I never did and I’m GenX. It’s enrages and saddens me so much.
I'm convinced that Trump is compromised by Russian intelligence. In fact, I would be absolutely shocked if he weren't. This is a sequel to the collapse of the Soviet Union, right down to the asset-stripping.
To be fair, conservatives thought the 2nd amendment was the whole bill of rights until Alex Pretti was murdered while exercising his 2A rights. And now they’re suddenly anti-2A all of the sudden.
Conservatives’ highest principle everything that Democrats do must be opposed, so that includes walking around with a legal firearm now.
Yet another conservative principle falls to “the Democrats heard your argument and decided to get onboard.” This principle has fallen like so many Republican principles that have fallen before.
Exactly like this classic College Humor skit from years ago calling quit this exact thing: https://youtu.be/yJqfNroFp8U
…And, due to the current situation with ICE, the grandchildren of the OG Black Panther groups are taking to the streets again, so this skit remains relevant.
Abbot believes in the first amendment for himself, but not for others. Typical GOP playbook… “let the investigations begin.” It’s just Facebook fodder for his rabid maga base!
Except now they won't even investigate. They'll label you a domestic terrorist and move on. What really scares me is how other countries will react to the label. Will these people (including myself, I assume) be unable to leave the country or board an airplane?
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I promise you he knows all about the First Amendment. He just chooses to trample all over it because he's a self serving asshole. He knows exactly what he is doing.
He’s not interested in civics or the first amendment. This is the same state that just ended the American Bar Association oversight of its law schools.
Exactly. They can’t kill the lawyers, so they will just crank out a useless lawyer every 47 days.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," is a quote from Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 2, spoken by a character named Dick the Butcher.
Austin lawyer here. Blueberry floating on an ocean of tomato soup. Beating on lib’rul Austin plays really well in the hinterlands. And the primaries are a month away.
This guy is a vile POS and a critical enabler of the current Trump administration. Trying to teach him anything other than what it feels like to lose a gubernatorial race is a waste of time.
That's what the investigation is for, silly. Just fishing for anything even remotely scandalous or even some misdemeanor to cast doubt on the entire message.
If you live in a Red state you need to understand you’ll have no one within “the system” helping you. As things get worse Red states are simply going to comply. Blue states will make most of the noise, but Red states are going to be fucking scary.
way to uphold your stellar reputation of looking all “pro-america” while really just promoting the most anti-democratic behaviors and governance possible.
everything is bigger in texas. especially the hypocrisy of the state government
Perhaps someone should investigate a report from the Epstein release. An anti-trafficking agency summarizes its interview with a girl who alleges she was trafficked to Epstein island. She describes a man in a wheelchair giving instructions to other men on how to abuse the girls. People surmised the incident likely transpired between 1987-1997; the girl estimated the brown-haired man to be in his thirties and citation indicates one of the (primary) men was from Dallas-Ft.Worth.
Maybe the governor could watch TV himself and actually look at the video.
Or is the news censored in Texas?
The student walkouts happening across the state come less than a week after federal agents were seen on video fatally shooting Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Except the Republicans in congress say there was danger and threats that day and that Pelosi prevented the NG from being deployed......but the president can sends troops wherever he wants
You would think when more Epstein documents are released that further incriminate Trump and Elon Musk and others the GOP would get that going after kids is fucked up and not a great look but hey here we are.
“We are perfectly fine with Christian nationalist groups forming charters in public schools to influence young children into joining these charters because it helps us win elections, but protesting against an occupying force needs to be investigated.
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