Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.

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      Funny thing is that no FBI director has been appointed by a Democrat. Not even Clinton had that kind of control of the FBI.

      Edit: looks like I was wrong about appointments; Clinton did appoint an FBI director who had previously been appointed by Bush to another position. He still didn’t have the kind of power over the FBI that would have let him quash an investigation like this

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        The 5th Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, who was director at the time of the complaint, was literally appointed by Bill Clinton. Furthermore, the 3rd director, William Webster, was appointed by Jimmy Carter, and the 7th director, James Comey, was appointed by Barack Obama.

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        I was just thinking this. The FBI was completely in dependent back then. Still interesting to note.

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        Not really trying anything. Just that whatever kept the FBI from pursuing Epstein, it was something other than a desire to protect Clinton. They had it in for Clinton and would have gone after this if they thought it would take him down.

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    He said the government until now has denied the existence of the Ms. Farmer’s report, and that it was “shameful” that it was kept secret. “There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist,” Mr. Edwards said. An internal investigation of the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein case, released in 2020, made no mention of Ms. Farmer’s original complaint.

    Absolutely Bonkers

    “There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist,”

    And may I add, “and then hang every damn one of them as traitors.”

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      “and then hang every damn one of them as traitors.”

      Normally, aid agree 100%, being a Traitor is about the lowest form of scum there is, but there is something worse - a pedophile, and they’re all pedophiles.

      So hang them as both Traitors AND Pedophiles, and make THAT their permanent legacies.

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        And most pedophiles don’t do shit, most suffer their entire life with their sexuality but would never hurt a child - those are a different kind and more often than not- not actually pedophiles

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          That doesn’t excuse MAGAs. They unapologetically support and provide cover for people they know are pedophiles. That makes them pedophiles.

          If you had a roommate who was bringing home children to molest, and you refused to address it, lied to people about it, provided alibis for the offender, misdirected investigations, etc., guess what? You’re a pedophile, too.

          ALL MAGAs are pedophiles. Every last one of them.

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            They are enablers, apologists or such but not pedophiles, a lot of them did molest teens or children, but you don’t have tp be a pedophile for that.

            Look, I am not tryong to cover for them or any such thing, all I am saying is, is to use words correctly, espescially psychological diagnosis such as pedophelia in the right amd defined way. MAGA is already blurring the language with their blantantly wrong use, let’s not do it ourselfs, otherwise pedophilia won’t mean anything and all.

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              I’m not interested in scientific accuracy. We’ve been getting bludgeoned by, and losing to, vicious propaganda for decades, and you want to parse a simple political message?

              I’m not going to go into any layering of defenses by pedophiles or their enablers and defenders. If they are covering for Epstein and his friends in ANY way at all, then they are PEDOPHILES, plain and simple. Stop defending them, or YOU’RE a pedophile, too.

              See how this works? Get on board, or get run over. This is fucking WAR!

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                You can hate someone without them having to have a universally bad description. I am not defending them, in fact I would love to have them face punishment in the most crucifiying way. And not only those on the list, but every single American Maga fascist.

                EVERY.

                SINGLE.

                ONE.

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                  This is the disgusting Michelle Obama Doctrine: When they go low, we go high. That’s what got MAGA elected TWICE! It’s weak and cowardly, and voters fucking HATE it. They want warriors, and that’s why people vote for MAGA, even though they are literally EVIL. What Dem voters really want, is when they go low, we kick them in the fucking teeth, REAL HARD!

                  Hate has nothing to do with it. They have engaged in, and enthusiastically defended every single characterization I made. It is an accurate description of EVERY MAGA, and they should be painted with that description on bright red paint.

                  We are long past politeness. They are kicking us in the balls all day every day, and you really hate it a lot, but you don’t want to protect your 'nads because you think it might offend the kicker?

                  So fucking weak and infuriatingly cowardly. Who would vote for that?

                  Just ew.

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        Nothing wrong with traitors, our founders were traitors.

        Fuck pedophiles, traitors get judged on a case-by-case basis.

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          No, the founding fathers were Patriots, not traitors. A traitor deeply betrays the people around him for his own benefit. Our founding fathers were not traitors, most had never set foot on British soil. They were not British, they were American, part of a British colony, over which they had no control. It is not treason for an oppressed colony to declare their independence.

          On a case by case basis, all MAGAs are Traitors. ALL. It is a basic defining characteristic, just like being a pedophile, or a racist is also a basic MAGA trait.

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            Okay, allow me to rephrase… the founding fathers, many of whom considered themselves traitors, and were considered traitors by the crown; so they were only traitors by definition and not to Barney

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              I am not aware that they thought of themselves as actual traitors. They did understand that they were viewed as traitors by the Crown, and would be executed as such, but of course the enemy thought they were traitors. Who fucking cares what the enemy thinks?

              Bottom line is that history does not record them as traitors, any more than any oppressed people who rise up and reclaim their country are traitors.

              Humans are under no obligation to remain loyal to a government that abuses and oppresses them. In cases like that, those who abuse the government for their personal benefit, at the expense of the people, are the real traitors.

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                I am not aware that they thought of themselves as actual traitors.

                Well, they still knew they were traitors. They wrote a lot of letters about it.

                History does record them as traitors, for all to see. You are simply in denial of it. They are real traitors, there are no traitors if they are not to be considered as such. Every traitor has reasons.

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      Hey it’s me Detective Hangemall. I’ll gladly investigate this but my record so far is zero convictions. All the damn suspects keep disappearing but I’m willing to work for free.

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    I’m losing my mind. Keep getting banned on reddit because the ban bot’s list of unacceptable words keeps growing at an exponential rate.

    Now my comments are dissappearing when I submit them on Lemmy too

    I’m just screaming into the void

    Edit: I now have proof that humans are not reading appeals. I told them off using the most vulgar language I could muster in my appeal

    An hour ago my appeal was approved

    I feel like Morgan Freeman’s character “Red” at the end of Shawshank

    I don’t really give a shit

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      Shit piss motherfucker cunt fart tits turd twat cum smegma pussy cock dick pedophile bill Clinton George bush Donald Trump Barack Obama Israel Netanyahu fuck orgy rape kill purple monkey dishwasher fuckstick dipshit fisting gape anal felching Orgy.

      EDIT: yeah you’re totally getting censored because you’re using inappropriate words. You can’t use any inappropriate words on lemmy, that’s why it’s such a bucket of boiling hot ape shum, what in the corpse-fucking shit is even fucking wrong with this hymen-gnawing world? We can’t even fucking cuss!

      I’ve fucked barn cats with more tact and self awareness than this arbitrary word-based filter, WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SHITEATING FREEDOM?

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          I can say whatever the fuck I want on fuckjng tv. If any motherfucker is pigfuckingly stupid enough to put my fucking idiotic ass onto fucking television then they can deal with the headfuckingly challenging god damned tessaract of shit that’s going to come out of my fucking mouth and they can spend an eternity drowning in that four dimensional fucktangle of sewage for all I fucking care.

          Also this fuckjng censorship is out of fucking control, I am tired of sitting behind this Great Wall of fucking feces trying to get my important message out into the fucking world, why in the infant Christ fucking hell are we putting up with this egregious non consensual removal of our fucking balls?

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        If you don’t already work in a trade, you’d likely have a bright future as a skilled blue collar worker. Your vocabulary would allow you to perform the deep magic.

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        Stuff urine motherforker c*** fort tights turf twad come sm*gma pussycat chicken chicken pdfile bill Clinton George bush Donald Trump Barack Obama Israel Netanyahu fork ogre grape unalive purple monkey dishwasher forkstick dipshirt punching great analogy felching ogre. you mean?

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      What were you saying? Or what instance were they posted too? I imagine every instance will be a bit different. But I’m curious what could be said about Epstein and co that would get deleted. Only if you were directly calling for someone to attacked for something unproven would I imagine anyone having an issue here

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      Tbf, we don’t know who really owns any instance, especially the large ones (like the one you’re on). It could be reddit or meta for all we know

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    Probably because he was a CIA asset.

    Look at the mafia guys that murder people and walk free today courtesy of America’s witness protection program.

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    Let me guess, Clinton was President of the US? Also, when Epstein died in prison Trump was President? Nah, that is just a coincidence.