I suppose people are waiting to see if a prominent person is accused. Or maybe for accusations that are outrageous.

The stupidest thing about conspiracy theories is that they often assume that if “the public only knew” then something would change. “The public” doesn’t give a fuck.

My opinion is that people just wanted to lock up Trump (or Clinton), and all the raped little girls are beside the point.

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    What’s public is very strategic. They published the wild but unverifiable stuff from random people . Syuff like Trump throwing children off boats or burying child trafficking victims in his very-visible golf courses. Stuff that isn’t even looked into because it’sa random crazy person making random crazy person claims. But it still generates a report.

    I work in government and deal with crazy people. I had a woman show up at City Hall last year for her meeting she arranged with Trump and Musk to help them overcome their differences. She insisted it was a real meeting, because she sent a meeting invite through Outlook. Then she forwarded me the invite.

    So if someone sends an Open Records request to the City about any records involving Musk or Trump, there will be a record of a scheduled meeting between crazy lady, Trump, Musk, and me.

    Those are the kind of records they are flooding us with right now with the currently-released files. This way, when the real stuff slips through it’s dismissed by many as just more crazy stuff.

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      It’s definitely this, but also shock and awe. Release everything all at once, but also not really everything, so there’s a shitstorm of reporting with outlandish stories and ongoing criminality. The end goal of that is to traumatise the public into thinking nothing can be done, because everyone is both overwhelmed by the firehose of information.

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    Just Vote! The Dems will do the right thing once they are back in power.

    (I’m pictured in the middle of this image.)

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    CSA survivor here, people really don’t care as much as you’d think they should

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      It’s why it’s so incredibly common (I’m also a survivor.) I often wonder how many people are pedos but you just never know. The apathy surrounding it must mean a lot more of them than we realize are pedos…

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        I feel like there are a lot of seemingly loving families with dark secrets. And they protect them in the family.

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    Isn’t it interesting they don’t even go after Democrats, like Bill Clinton, Gates etc?

    Yeah Clinton had hearing, but that just a spectacle, I’m saying there’s no DOJ investigation.

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        Yeah, that is probably right.

        I also think that once you are rich enough to be in that club, political affiliation is just for show for plebs like us and in reality they are all friends.

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      I’m saying there’s no DOJ investigation

      You have insider info as to what the DOJ does/does not investigate?

      Also funny that when stuff happens, oh that doesn’t count, it’s just for show.

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        The DOJ has made many statements over the last 1.5 years about the Epstein investigation being concluded with absolutely 0 evidence of human trafficking or even any wrongdoing by any parties involved, including Epstein and Ghislaine. It is a fact, told to us by the DOJ themselves, that they are not doing and will not do anything about the Epstein situation.

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          The DOJ has made many statements over the last 1.5 years about the Epstein investigation being concluded with absolutely 0 evidence of human trafficking or even any wrongdoing by any parties involved

          Can you share an example of one?

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        They said last summer, that there’s no one else to investigate.

        They made it look like if Epstein’s crime was just downloading some CP from the Internet.

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    I’ve been going down a YouTube rabbithole about a recent LEGO related scandal. It’s a long and complicated story I won’t go into but it involves corruption being exposed in a company called Bricks and Minfigs and corruption also being exposed in a police department in Utah. People are being sued left and right, the guy who spread the word about the corruption is in danger of going to jail, BAM is losing a lot of business, but I haven’t heard anything about the police being held accountable for their actions. The general public is punishing the big business involved by boycotting, but I don’t know of anything being done to punish the corrupt police.

    So I just keep thinking throughout this how exposing the corruption to the public leads to consequences if the corrupt group is a big business, but virtually nothing is dine when it’s a government agency. And what can the public do? Can’t boycott the police. We can demand accountability but we only have so much power. The main power people have over government is leveraging votes but now the American government is plotting to make voting harder. Exposing corruption to the public may damage big businesses but the public seems to be helpless when the government is corrupt. A fucking criminal organization is running the federal government and almost nothing is being done about it. The public all know. Now what’s to be done?

    Update: since posting this comment, I heard that the people in Fork, Utah are protesting over this. I wonder if they’ll also be having a NO King’s protest in that town today