• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    No, he really doesn’t. What he has is a willful and profound ignorance of the separations of US government, our constitution, and how until now, no president took it upon himself to throw out the constitutional divisions of government and try to run all three branches, including the judicial, which includes criminal investigation and prosecution at the federal level. Federal, not state.

    Biden literally had nothing to do with any of it, except being president at the time.

    Why are you so insistent on blaming Biden, the president of the country, for not interfering in state level investigations?

    Why are you so intent on looking away from those who were and are actually guilty of stalling investigations and using their positions to protect pedophiles?

    Why are you both working so hard to point fingers anywhere except at those who actually worked to cover these crimes and keep them covered, and still are?

    You know, it almost seems like you aren’t really interested nearly as much in bringing the real perps to justice as you are in playing a game of squirrel to take the blame off of those who are STILL in power and STILL working to cover and defend these crimes.

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      You misunderstood me. I am not the least blaming Biden government for being complicit and not releasing the files. What I am saying is that they could have expedited the process knowing that there is a looming danger of Trump becoming the president and doing all the fuckery he is doing right about know.

      I absolutely know that his hands were tied, and that his regime was too ethical to not interfere in the matter.

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        16 hours ago

        I did indeed misunderstand you. And as someone who is 100% on the side of the survivors, because there is history here – a specific user repeatedly pointing to an out-of-office president for what he could not legally have done anyway, instead of ever lifting a finger to accuse those actually doing the coverup even now, today – I see that I massively overreacted to your own statement.

        I usually reply with more attention, but honestly I just got tired of it and snapped. My apologies. Your calm explanation is appreciated. Thank you.

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      “hey guys, I know we’re saying that Trump is an existential threat to the US, but leaking documents to stop him would violate norms. So we won’t. We’ll just blame the left when we lose.”

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        16 hours ago

        leaking documents to stop him would violate norms.

        You have to have direct access to documents to leak them. Not only is a president separated from access to the products of a criminal investigation by the separation of powers at the federal level, in Epstein’s case he was also separated by the division between federal and state. And in Biden’s case, he was separated from that kind of meddling by his own respect for the constitution, which forbids it unequivocally.

        Also, investigators who are genuinely working to bring justice do not use their investigations as political footballs, they use them to bring justice to the accused.

        You should really just make up your mind: do you want pedos busted, or protected? Because what you are suggesting, “leaking documents” to stop the president, does not help honest investigators get pedos into jail. It stops them cold when defense lawyers bring that sort of prosecutorial misconduct to the judge.

        But hey, keep pointing your finger at everyone but those actually guilty. That should work really well to keep billionaire pedos out of prison. After all, it has so far.

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          15 hours ago

          Thanks for reassuring us there’s no point to electing Democrats to stop the GOP agenda or politicians.

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            15 hours ago

            Thanks for reassuring us there’s no point to electing Democrats to stop the GOP agenda or politicians.

            Funny how you don’t blame the GOP for the GOP agenda. You can take that same “look anywhere else but at the guilty” deflection horseshit to someone else.

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              15 hours ago

              Enjoying your tea party with your little straw man?

              Of course I “blame” the GOP for their agenda. But the GOP doesn’t pretend to oppose the GOP yet fail to do so.

              The Democrats do.

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                14 hours ago

                You’re in the wrong thread. I am talking about the Epstein files coverup, as are most of the other fine people here.

                You clearly want to talk about something, anything else.

                Try harder, because you’re way off topic. You can refer to the post title if you’re confused about where you are.

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                  14 hours ago

                  I am talking about the Epstein files coverup

                  Yes, the one enabled by the Biden administration.

                  Whether that was through malice or incompetence is immaterial.