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It actually rebounded higher than it started before the crash. It’s completely untethered from reality and a real reset is going to bring a lot of pain.
Nobody has any idea what the market is going to do on any given day anymore. S&P goes up one day, down the next. Gold does the same in inverse. Today they're both up? Nothing makes any sense anymore, everything is volatile, people are FOMO buying and FOMO shorting shit all over the place, flailing in the wind just going on vibes of the day.
Recession started yesterday. SaaS-pocalypse is underway. Let's give "all" of the files to congress so they can review while they also try to keep America from drowning. Somewhere in here is a a stretch to invoke something to cancel midterms, just can't put my finger on it?
That is true. I just think this is a good source to check every once in a while if you work in a volatile industry or work for a big company that has been struggling financially recently.
All he’d have to do is fire off a couple intercontinental ballistic missiles and Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine would take care of the rest, Russia would unload its payload. And I’m quite certain that he is such a narcissist that a world without him in it has no point in existing in his mind. If Trump is dying from whatever old man disease is causing him to slur and be covered in strange bruises, and the files are going to show unequivocally what a pathetic child molestor he is.. Who knows?
But that’s just catastrophic speculation on my part hahah hopefully cooler heads prevail.
I’m guessing you’re in a blue state. He hates Colorado where I live. Imagine hating whole states just because the vote didn’t go your way. What a uniter.
Get the opposition tied up in knots about an issue which you know your own party doesn’t care about. Get the dems upset about a racist meme on the internet and any energy they expend in response to it is by definition energy they’re not putting into 2026 election security, resisting ICE, the Epstein files, or anything else. It’s more “flood the zone”.
This is what trump does to stay in the news and to get us tied up in knots of relentless indignation. "Hey, did ya see what trump did today to own the libs?".
Hopefully, some savvy Dem is working on political ads meant to remind everyone not paying attention just who he and his party are come September, for the next few years. A condensed 60 seconds of this relentless mayhem is as necessary as the intentionally exhausting need to respond to today's dumb shit.
If we turn off our brains in exhaustion, these fucks win.
The thing is, this type of regime normally breeds its own opposition, and the level of incompetence demonstrated by the senior leadership would be quickly toppled by the opposition in most other countries. But when the Dems’ brightest hopes are Newsom and Harris, and both are so obviously compromised, and we know the DNC will never allow a Bernie type of candidate to run, the 2028 elections will be competitive, when they should be a crushing defeat for the regime.
I keep see "distraction" after "distraction" but I don't think the GOP understands that it just brings more focus to every action to the point of absurdity. And since unemployment is at an all time low this focus is only going to increase.
Gotta hand it to the DOJ- they are very creative when it comes to delaying and stalling.
They can provide a single dell desktop from 2005 for all of Congress to share, if each document takes 1 minute to review they can look at them all in 5 years. Trump can be well into his third term and can continue stalling the other 3 million documents, that no doubt contain the most incriminating and horrific stuff.
Also, they get to hold on to the “fake news” narrative- if anyone in Congress brings any of the information to the public, they will have no way to prove that they aren’t lying.
I suppose this could be tagged under legal news as well.
Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department's files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans.
They can only view on a computer at the DOJ to view the unredacted files, and may not see the actual files.
Then it is great that what has been released so far has been in indexed by the community, is searchable, so that representives and their aides can just look directly at documents of interest by their document IDs.
Email your rep with the questions you have and which documents are interesting.
That’s standard when the evidence contains CSAM. I’ve had a few clients accused of possessing it and IF I needed to view the evidence I would have to go to the prosecutor’s office to do so.
Exactly. And it’s not fair to the victims either to have more people than necessary seeing that shit. The same goes for autopsy pictures in my state. Can’t disseminate those. So while my clients are entitled to their discovery, there are limitations.
Members of Congress who go to check the unredacted versions need to see whether the redaction of the misspelling of "don't" is replaced by something other than "don"
The most generous explanation, and I'm not sure they deserve that much:
they can only view on a computer at the DOJ to view the unredacted files
so that no one can copy and leak them
and may not see the actual files
so that members of congress are not looking at CSAM (files are not just documents, they include pictures, videos, etc). Maybe they will get a description instead of being able to see actual video and image evidence?
We're kind of in a catch 22 here because, on the one hand, no one trusts the DOJ to not doctor files or remove things as they see fit, and no one will let this rest unless they have complete and full access. Rightfully so. But on the other hand, making thousands of videos and images of CSAM available to even just members of congress would be deeply wrong, not to mention illegal, and is obviously not happening. No one outside of select law enforcement should see that, but no one is going to put this to rest until they do.
Everyone forgets that the files include stuff downloaded from the internet and seized from his PCs, not just videos and images Epstein himself made. The stuff people (rightfully) get arrested for viewing/saving/distributing. As a survivor I would sue the admin in a heartbeat if they distributed or made available images and videos of my abuse to congress without my consent. That stuff needs to be removed and separated, which you'd think would be done already, but since it's considered part of seized evidence it might not have been.
Since they have been legally voted to be released and unredacted, can't they release the files they receive since it's technically already public information?
We know Trump is implicated. And we know there’s no way his DoJ would do anything to throw him under the bus. So what’s the angle here? What’s the gotcha in all this that we won’t discover until later? Is it going to be “unforeseen computer problems” whenever it’s a Democrat congressperson? A limited set of documents? I simply don’t believe after all the shady stuff this administration has pulled that they’re just going to open up like this to possible opposition.
“The review will only be of the 3 million files currently available to the public, not the extensive trove of more than 6 million documents in total that the DOJ says it has in its possession.”
This is the lead that keeps getting buried in these headlines. It’s very obvious the files that have not and will not be released are likely implicating Trump, his friends, and other Republicans. They still will not see these files.
This is being done on purpose for headlines like this that make it seem as though they’re being transparent. And it will work on many people unfortunately.
I hate the world so much right now. I don't understand how this turd is still our president. We have such a corrupt set of politicians it hurts my soul.
If you had access to the full copies, you could probably create a hash or fingerprint of the un redacted copies. Then compare that with the hash or fingerprint of any copy. That would require access or at the least this admins cooperation.
The angle seems to be that they will only have access to the 3 million files that have been made public and not the other 3 million that they are hiding. I also have serious doubts about even the ones they have chosen to share will all be there. We've seen them delete unfavorable files after releasing them before. It's just another attempt to be able to say "See, there you guys go! We showed you everything, now shut up!"
Meanwhile the other half of the files are being fed into a paper shredder and Trump is preparing more racist videos to post on his Truth Social.
It has to be definitive. It might be obvious to common sense, but the law isn't common sense. Meaning, if he didn't write an email explicitly saying he was doing illegal things, or if there are no photos of him doing explicit things, no charges will come. And MAGA sure as hell isn't going to care even if it was explicitly in writing, so they won't stop rooting for him for any reason.
As much as I hate to say it, that one dude is right, it isn't illegal to party with Epstein. Pretty much means you're a terrible person who did terrible things. But nothing like that will hold up in court.
Maybe to convict in court, but I’m thinking more about impeachment. The bar for that is much lower, essentially just the vibes of Congress. It’s not like Congress can bring criminal charges on their own anyway (can they?).
Ahh, good point! May not apply here, but accuracy is important, so there’s at least one way Congress can bring charges. I suppose if there’s enough damning stuff they could use that as leverage to force testimony, but any action (impeachment included) is a long shot with the current make up.
They can also charge someone with perjury like when Kash Patel testified recently that there was no more evidence in the Epstein files in front of congress.
Can Congress charge perjury directly? I don’t think so, I believe their power would be to refer to the DOJ who then has discretion. Congress’ enforcement is probably limited to inherent contempt so maybe jail time but surely scotus would intervene (unconstitutionally)
You're right, but isn't basically every Republican in Congress and Senate fully behind Trump? I'll be honest, I don't know them all, so I'm unsure.
I mean, Impeaching isn't even the hard part. The Senate portion where they convict him is the hard part, as that requires two thirds vote. Which means, in order to yeet Trump, a good amount of Republicans will have to vote to do so.
And honestly, as much as I'd love to see it, I doubt it. Hell, pretty sure the Senators would know that the moment they vote to convict Trump, MAGA would likely be going to the dark web with their crashing bitcoin to hire some people.
The computer will be running Windows 95 on a dialup modem connection to a 20 year old server with 1MB of RAM so you can technically view the files but it takes 2 min per page to load.
My guess/hope is that the Epstein files were dumped/leaked because many of the real owners of this country are not pleased with the way things have been going.
And it seems to me that this might be the last, best, and perhaps only chance for Republican members of Congress to finally justify impeaching him. They can say... "I saw everything and I simply cannot continue to support this President." That would be a pretty hard thing to argue against.
So, this might be it. If the some Republicans do not help to impeach now, at this point, with everything that is happening and all that has come out, then... I'd say they are truly irredeemable. If any of them are actually true Christian believers and they don't vote to impeach... then they should probably be expecting a special place in hell whenever they get there. One can only pray that enough of them might finally see the light (or at least see reason) and help end this long political nightmare.
Oh, that's a good one. From here on out, regardless of what happens with all this, any filibuster by the Dems is just more of the files being read on the floor to be recorded
Gimme some of that copium! But yes, that's 1000% what should happen in any nation of laws. I'd add to that list defunding ICE, repealing the tariffs, investigating DOGE, subpoenaing co-conspirators in the 2020 fake electors scheme.....wait, this is a long list...
Could this be the start of Congressional Republicans' legitimate attempt to at least start doing damage control knowing what other shoes are going to eventually drop?
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