Re: I need help workshopping the OP title, but it involves Epstein-Barr and the Kissing Disease

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House going to adjourn until September! I mean, they were going to take August off anyway, but pretty sure they had stuff brewing before then.

They do really seem roiled.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 7:24 AM
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Of course, even though it's based on experience, it's pretty revolting that the only way media can justify covering this is as long as paid-up right-wingers keep caring about it.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 7:29 AM
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It's going to be generations before anyone in the Lester family can name a kid "Moe"again.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 7:36 AM
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Meanwhile some DOJ DAG is going to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell. Totally innocent like.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 7:45 AM
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Oh, not just any DAG, but someone who was Trump's defense attorney.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 7:49 AM
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2: In defense of the media (I know, I know), they certainly tried to care about the Access Hollywood tape when the story broke, and it only made Trump's numbers go up. The problem with America is Americans.


Posted by: Cyrus | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 8:00 AM
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Hard to keep track of all the different quasi-judicial things they're doing to hide the ball:

- Announcing intention to prosecute Obama for treason somehow on the whole matter
- The grand jury stuff previously mentioned (the judge is looking askance and has asked for more materials that will take at least another 2 weeks)
- Trying to strike a clemency deal with G. Maxwell so she implicates they people they want her to
- Releasing more MLK Jr. files

What am I missing?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 11:10 AM
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Aliens. They're looking for aliens.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 11:12 AM
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And according to a report made to Dick Durbin, the FBI put 1,000 personnel to review 100,000 Epstein-related records for two weeks a few months ago. And they didn't find anything to selectively release?


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 11:14 AM
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9 I can't believe the entire file hasn't leaked yet


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 07-22-25 11:15 AM
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WSJ: "Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files."

I don't have a gift link but for you can put it into archive.is.

Subhed: "Bondi also told president at the meeting that Justice decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims."


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 11:48 AM
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The Trump Files feat. Epstein.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 1:45 PM
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(redaction remix)


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 1:54 PM
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I'm somewhat relieved that WSJ published another investigative story about this. One of my fears was that they'd either drop it or start using the Trump-friendly frames that NYT seems to love ("Republicans unite around dislike of the WSJ story! Looks like the winning will resume!"), and then that would be another marker on the road to full authoritarianism.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 1:58 PM
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They want Powell to stay. Trump won't drop that idea.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 2:00 PM
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They want Powell to stay. Trump won't drop that idea.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 2:04 PM
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Maybe they're pushing on Powell (I mentioned this earlier). Maybe they just have a newsroom that didn't stop doing what NYT or WaPo would have been doing 10 years ago.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 2:30 PM
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Multiple Republicans joined Democrats on a committee vote which succeeded, to subpoena the files from DOJ.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 2:30 PM
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President Vance, the first nutless tool in the White House.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 2:32 PM
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This is one of the better pieces I've seend about the Epstein-Trump syndrome:

Is any of this a smoking gun? No. But a smoking gun has never been a requirement for conspiracy theories. In fact, it's the lack of a smoking gun, the lack of a satisfying narrative conclusion, that invites the speculation that transmutes into conspiracy. I'm not saying Trump writing this birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, or his friendship with Epstein, is a conspiracy. I'm saying it's the stuff conspiracy feeds on, the stuff that QAnon and "they're eating the pets" and birtherism feeds on. Only, this time, Trump isn't tossing it scraps. He's on the menu.

Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 5:35 PM
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seend, seen, read, whatevs


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 07-23-25 5:36 PM
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