Dick Durbin sounds like a porn actor's name
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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...call the reps, if they push you off, question why?....one of my senators has started blocking my number...
oof, a list of times you called re: pedos in gov correlated with their voting record would make a fantastic campaign ad for anyone primarying these fucks.
"representative fuckhead, I called your office on 1,2,4,5,7,8, 10 july etc., hoping to speak to you about your misguided defence of sex offenders in our government. You refused to speak to me. So I'm gonna vote for (opposition) instead."
that'd be unffffff satisfying
...nope, apparently these folks hate getting called to do their job...
Any person assisting in a coverup should be tried for treason
Treason has a specific legal definition and this is not it. Conspiracy to obstruct justice, evidence tampering, and I'm sure others, but not treason.
Though one would hope that at least one out of the thousand plus FBI employees involved would be honest and decent enough to leak what Trump and his cronies are trying to hide though.
Donald Trump, and no doubt various other political figures, have been fucking children. That information is being used to control them. Let’s just say it’s by Russia, because that’s a fun one. Anybody who helps cover that up is assisting a foreign government. I’m pretty sure that could be argued as treason
Unlikely for it to be Russia. I’ve heard it said that Epstein was an intelligence operative, meaning he worked for an American agency or an allied nation, neither of which would make him a Russian asset. Factions exist within the American ruling elite that want Russia to be an ally and factions exist that want war with Russia or to see Russia destroyed/contained. Those factions that want containment support the Ukraine war and those that want friendship have been sidelined.
...epstein was a mossad agent, allegedly...
Alleged by Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan.
crap....
Any person assisting in a coverup should be tried
for obstruction of justice and aiding a sex offender, sure.
treason is another thing. we save that for Tangerine Palpatine and his relationship with Darth Putin.
Don’t save it. Apply it to them all. We aren’t going to run out of treason charges to hand out. Helping someone commit treason is treason.
Regarding the ever-changing nature of the instructions, which one source described as “full panic mode,” there were at least four different review instructions. Keeping in mind that the Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS) are trained in FOIA redactions but many in the IMD are not, there were multiple video training sessions that went out on an unclassified network on what to mark for redaction, what not to mark, and how to record things that needed to be flagged. That means that video exists of trainers explaining the process of flagging instances of Donald Trump appearing in the files, and those videos went out on unclassified networks within the bureau. It’s also of note that the trainers toward the end were folks from the Department of Justice, and not the FBI.
SOP for incompetent fascists
Any Trump-related evidence in those files is going to be memory-holed, and the evidence that has already been made public will be written off as "AI generated fake news made up by ".
He's already starting this process by suing WSJ because "he told them the letter was fake", as if people are just supposed to take his word for that. It's like a criminal telling a judge "Hey, that gun in evidence isn't mine!", and expecting the judge to say "Welp, he says it's fake. Case dismissed!"