• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    I wonder which name she would never dare write down if wanting a pardon…

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    sounds like we’ll get a release of the epstein files with one name missing. That seems strictly better than no epstein file release.

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      No, it sounds worse. What good is the testimony of a “witness/convict” that you threaten and bribe? It’s not, it’s nothing. Well, if you put it together with the Epstein Files, that might be something. Which is what we already knew.

      I think you knew it too, but maybe a few other readers didn’t.

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        well if you put it together with the epstein files, that might be something

        You do realize I was talking about the epstein files right? Seeing as I said “epstein file” in both sentences that I wrote.

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    Markus also said that she was asked about “every possible thing you could imagine–everything."

    So logically that would mean she’s revealed everything she knows about Trump.

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    Not that I care much, I wonder how many days she will last on the street. So many people want her gone.

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    This culture of pardoning criminals for handing over other criminals is sick.
    In this case specifically Trump has a huge conflict of interest, and she is probably pardoned for NOT mentioning Trump.

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    I mean yeah, duh. Anything is better than jail, especially when you belong there for trafficking minors. In the likely event she gets freed, I hope she’s harassed until the end of her worthless days.

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      Wait, what the hell is an “auto-mod” doing banning people? That’s not a reason but a method as well, flying in the face of the very point of lemmy’s mod log system.

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      100% this. This will be the hit list they want to go down. Pardon Maxwell, then say listen…here are the names (with no evidence but her word). Then they start making arrests. Probably 5 or less GOP members, the rest nobodies and Dems.

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        They won’t arrest anyone. If they do, everything about this whole process will be subpoenaed and plastered in public for all to see.

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          Plot twist: Trump issues a blanket pardon for Maxwell, and all the Democrats she names. Whether or not they actually did it, for precisely that reason. If they prosecuted them, then the government have to prove it’s case. But Trump can pardon anything for any reason, even shit he makes up.

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            That’ll piss off his base because he’s supposed to be the savior, not the swamp or something. They’ll release the “names” and then nothing will happen because, exactly like you said, then they don’t have to prove it.

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              He doesn’t need the base anymore. If he holds on to power past Jan 2029, he won’t need their votes to do it. He won’t need any votes at all.

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                Public opinion always matters. Even kings needed their people on their side; why do you think they made up all that divine right bullshit and had the churches preach it so much?

                Every country has the government that a sufficient number of people are willing to tolerate. Tyranny can only tip the scales, it cannot change the game. If a populace doesn’t want to be ruled, it cannot be ruled. That’s why fascism relies so heavily on the imposition of a hierarchy; because the people who aren’t at the bottom will support the system that gives them someone else to tread on, while the rich and the powerful live it up at the top. But you always need to keep a significant sector of the population on your side. There always has to be an in group who benefit enough from the government to want to keep it.

                Governments end when enough people want them to end. Democracy is just a way of doing it politely.

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        Yes, but this might be mutually assured destruction when Clinton says hey fuck you and starts naming his own names

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    It is very simple to predict how this regime will respond. Theyll release her list without trumps name and call it a day. Duh.

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      Close, they’ll release a doctored list with the names of his political opponents, have her nod in exchange for clemency, and the have ICE drag them away in unmarked vans.

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    “Her lawyer said that the sit-downs this week were Maxwell’s first opportunity to answer questions about what happened.”

    I’m pretty sure that she was questioned by investigators during multiple investigations into Epstein over the years, including her own trial that sent her to jail.