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Epstein was arrested for this way back in 2019 and she was arrested in 2020. What makes you think they're now "ready to go" at some future date when they could have done this at any point in the last half decade?
Have you not been paying attention? They were forcing subpoenas through Congress so Johnson sent everyone home early, they are back in session soon. There's enough Republicans willing to help that its an actual problem for GOP leadership. Its a very obvious wedge issue now, please read the news more if you don't understand the current political context.
For someone so smug about "understanding the current political context," you sure seem quite naive and gullible about believing politicians when they pledge to take action but only at some indeterminate future date.
They haven't done anything about it at any point in the last five years, but "this time it's different" and when do they plan on doing something? "soon"
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Sorry if I came across as smug, I am more bewildered. They have already taken action in Congress, more action can't happen until Congress is back in session. Instead of relying on your cynicism you could inform yourself and make substantive criticisms that actually land.
Oh, let me explain.
They're desperate to spread the idea that both sides are the same. It's happening a lot here.
They know they can't get Lemmy to support Republicans. But they think they can suppress the vote for Dems, and that's good enough.
They're "doing sonething" in the same way that George Costanza would look like he's "doing something" at work by walking around with a fast pace looking annoyed. I want results not some bullshit grandstanding that always, 100% of the time, leads to absolutely nothing in the end. I'm sick of the false promises. I'm sick of the excuses. They've been sitting on this since before COVID existed and now we're told once again to wait and be patient six years later because soon something will come of it. How the fuck people can still believe this obvious pile of bullshit is beyond me. This is quite literally the exact same tactic Trump used when claiming he had mountains of evidence that the 2020 election was rigged and that it would all be released soon except now its a bunch of Democratic sycophants falling for it.
Is your reading comprehension that bad? They clearly stated that the Dems were doing something, to the point where Mike Johnson ended the session early because of it.
Yeah, and? You're seriously trying to argue that the culmination of all their effort over five years after this woman was arrested is that a single House session ended a few days early? What the kind of nonsense is that?
Was that not you?
Yep that's me, and that's also me telling you that their efforts culminating in what amounts to a few extra vacation days for themselves isn't "doing something." What's so hard to understand about that? Why are you making excuses for a bunch of people protecting pedophiles from justice?
What's so hard to understand about the fact that they were doing so much that the opposition party had to shut down Congress to stop them?
That the result of their "doing so much" was a few extra days off of work for themselves. Would you call that a victory?
If your sister/cousin/daughter were molested by one of these individuals would that feel like justice served after half a decade of them sitting on this information? I think not.
Do you actually think their goal was extra days off? You can't be that stupid.
Who cares what their goals were. We're talking about what they've actually accomplished and thus far that's only been extra days off.
The fact that this all you can point to before resorting to insults says quite a lot about the quality of your argument.
Right, because after the session was closed it was literally impossible for them to accomplish anything else.
You're baselessly assuming that they'll drop it when Congress resumes.
And here is where we circle back to the fact that this is the sum of their accomplishments six years after Epstein's arrest and five years after Maxwell's. Make your excuses about how "they would do something, but they can't do anything now because blah blah blah" but it's falling on deaf ears.
Why don't you take a step back and examine what you're even defending here.
Lifelong appointment federal judges sealed the Epstein case files immediately following the trials, supposedly to protect victims, the time limit of which ran out in 2025.
To overrule the federal judges would take no less than a constitutional amendment.
I think current events demonstrate quite clearly that it doesn't really matter what a single federal judge thinks, but you go ahead and keep finding excuses why high profile pedophiles like our president continue to walk free after all this time.
Federal judges brought back a deportee from another country, rehired the forestry services, will probably reverse more and more Trump decisions as time goes on.
It's certainly true that Trump is trying to overturn rule of law and assign himself as despot, but did you really expect that behavior from the Biden admin?
You know what, I took your previous claim about these case documents being sealed at face value, but thus far, all I can find that was sealed was the grand jury testimony from Maxwell's case. What specifically are you referring to because the FBI and DOJ's investigative documents aren't sealed they're just not being released by this or the prior administration.
Even if your claim does turn out to actually be true, are you really arguing that an administration influencing a judge to unseal documents relating to a high-profile pedophile ring of people working in the highest levels of government is "overturning the rule of law and assigning [one]self as despot?" That's absolutely ridiculous.
This argument has the same energy as "we have to support Israel because they're our ally in the region." There's always some flimsy excuse or justification for why "it's okay for us to do terrible things because look at how bad those other guys are!"
Yes, overturning the laws in every case is despot behavior. That's how laws in a democracy work. When there are any exceptions then there are no rights for anyone.
With that out of the way, you might be right that the DOJ documents weren't a part of the sealed records. Hard to say for sure. The feds were the ones who collected the evidence to use in the prosecution in the first place, so either the evidence was collected and catalogued before the sealing took place or it happened afterwards during the Biden Administration.