At first, I thought you meant so many black boxes on a page, that there was little information. Each entire page is a black box. There's no information at all. It's like they're mocking Congress and daring them to do something.
And they will do......exactly nothing! The fuck is the point in having laws? The fuck is the point in having a system of governance? How long until Emperor Trump dissolves congress?
That is fucking ridiculous. This is NOT national security shit it is a pedophile ring of rich people who used airplanes and islands to molest children without getting caught.
It kind of is national security shit, if the people whose mentions were redacted have any bearing on national security. Keeping them redacted means they are vulnerable to extortion.
I don't know if you misread their comment, but that's what they were saying. Keeping the names secret makes it (continue to be) a national security risk.
Look, it's pretty damning but let's not just make stuff up. We don't need to. We can't know what was blacked out because... its blacked out. Surely Trump is in some of it, and notably isn't in the rest. We don't know who else is being protected though. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
The only way to get this admin to uncover others is to make trump try to keep saving that terrible face of his. Until the admin opens up the files, anything redacted is the most heinous acts performed by and on trump.
I asked ___ if she knew what being circumcised meant and she stated no. ____ then said that she thought Epstein was in steroids because he was a "really built guy and his wee wee was very tiny." Gonzalez would explain that when she stated "wee wee" she meant penis.
I shouldn't laugh...the situation is terrible...but damn, that's gold.
Not from your doc. From volume 4, doc 7157, page 15.
Edit to add: some of this is just straight up teasing. I just opened a few that were just scanned pictures of microcasette tapes. Wtf am I supposed to do with that? Can I print it out and play it on a fax machine?
Has anyone tried datamining around the black boxes? Because this DoJ is so unbelievably incompetent I wouldn't be surprised if you could just delete a black layer to find the fun stuff underneath.
They copied and pasted the same black box. Each page is literally the same nothing burger, you can open it in a text editor and see the repeating chunks. The interesting part is that page is identical across files. They didn't even bother redacting individual parts, just replaced the whole thing.
I wish so badly it was one of those times they just changed the font background color thinking that would do the trick and we could all really see what they were hiding
Everyone knew this was going to be the outcome. It doesn't mean that forcing them to do this was worthless though. First, it makes it very obvious to everyone that they're hiding something. Second, this is illegal, as congress specifically forbade redactions for the reasons they gave. This probably won't do anything, but it's still good to make them break laws in case it can be used later against them. Third, it wastes their time. The people who had to go through and redact all this stuff weren't doing other things.
Only 11 more months before the midterms. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if congress does not punch back, this will be fodder for a house oversight committee to look into the failure to release the files in the way intended by the law.
There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We'll know once they've all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we'll see.
A joke is supposed to be funny. They can be insulting, or plain mean and horrible but still funny. This isn't funny. This was predictable and nauseating.
What is funny -mainly because I'm not american- is that unless fundamental changes happen then this is the precedent that's set for future your presidents. When the orange kiddie fiddler dies it may get a bit better initially but at some point in the future a more competently evil cunt will reign your kingdom and you'll look back to king Donvict Drumpf and think "shit, we should have done something".
I can already hear the arguments. "We survived Donald Trump. That just proves our democracy is strong. Let's just move on."
Like someone arguing that the first heart attack didn't kill them so everything is status quo.
That's what I heard from folks who supported Trump 1.0. "It'll be a stress test of the government, the guard rails." Well, it was. And democracy completely failed the "test." Cool.
This is a multi-thousand-page fuck you. It's also overwhelming circumstantial evidence that the files contain evidence that Trump was deeply involved in the trafficking and child rape.
38 Comments
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 118 pts · 262d
An example of a redaction: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdf
119 pages of just black boxes. Fucking horseshit.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 262d
At first, I thought you meant so many black boxes on a page, that there was little information. Each entire page is a black box. There's no information at all. It's like they're mocking Congress and daring them to do something.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 262d
And they will do......exactly nothing! The fuck is the point in having laws? The fuck is the point in having a system of governance? How long until Emperor Trump dissolves congress?
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 262d
Now laws? Looks like the purge is on boys
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 262d
That is fucking ridiculous. This is NOT national security shit it is a pedophile ring of rich people who used airplanes and islands to molest children without getting caught.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 262d
It kind of is national security shit, if the people whose mentions were redacted have any bearing on national security. Keeping them redacted means they are vulnerable to extortion.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 262d
You can't extort someone if the knowledge is public. You are aware of this right?
tea@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 262d
I don't know if you misread their comment, but that's what they were saying. Keeping the names secret makes it (continue to be) a national security risk.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 261d
That's the point, friend.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 262d
That definitely affects the security of the Republicans' hold on power.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 35 pts · 262d
The only thing to remember is that they only blacked out sections where trump's name was mentioned. That's pretty damning.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 262d
Look, it's pretty damning but let's not just make stuff up. We don't need to. We can't know what was blacked out because... its blacked out. Surely Trump is in some of it, and notably isn't in the rest. We don't know who else is being protected though. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 262d
The only way to get this admin to uncover others is to make trump try to keep saving that terrible face of his. Until the admin opens up the files, anything redacted is the most heinous acts performed by and on trump.
TheseusNow@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 261d
They recently removed a photo of Epstein's open Desk with Trump's photo in a drawer. So its not as made up as it sounds. The removed photo still made it to many news sites. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/dec/19/new-photos-from-epstein-files-release
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 262d
I shouldn't laugh...the situation is terrible...but damn, that's gold.
Not from your doc. From volume 4, doc 7157, page 15.
Edit to add: some of this is just straight up teasing. I just opened a few that were just scanned pictures of microcasette tapes. Wtf am I supposed to do with that? Can I print it out and play it on a fax machine?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 262d
BarbedDentalFloss@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 262d
Has anyone tried datamining around the black boxes? Because this DoJ is so unbelievably incompetent I wouldn't be surprised if you could just delete a black layer to find the fun stuff underneath.
despoticruin@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 262d
They copied and pasted the same black box. Each page is literally the same nothing burger, you can open it in a text editor and see the repeating chunks. The interesting part is that page is identical across files. They didn't even bother redacting individual parts, just replaced the whole thing.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 262d
I think people took a look and just saw empty pages. Would not be surprised to find out something later though.
Kcap@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 262d
I wish so badly it was one of those times they just changed the font background color thinking that would do the trick and we could all really see what they were hiding
BanMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
It's happened before. We can hope it happens here.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
"Access Denied"
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 54 pts · 262d
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 262d
I boggles my mind that so many in people in government are okay with children being raped.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 262d
They deserve to be overthrown
the_q@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 262d
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 261d
Exactly this
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 262d
Hey! Exactly what we expect!
fizzle@quokk.au · 10 pts · 262d
I've been saying this every time someone says "release the files!".
As if they'd release documents showing that Trump managed Epstein's warehouse stock.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 262d
Everyone knew this was going to be the outcome. It doesn't mean that forcing them to do this was worthless though. First, it makes it very obvious to everyone that they're hiding something. Second, this is illegal, as congress specifically forbade redactions for the reasons they gave. This probably won't do anything, but it's still good to make them break laws in case it can be used later against them. Third, it wastes their time. The people who had to go through and redact all this stuff weren't doing other things.
tea@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 262d
Only 11 more months before the midterms. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if congress does not punch back, this will be fodder for a house oversight committee to look into the failure to release the files in the way intended by the law.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
There is always the chance they incompetently bungled something, like all the previous times. We'll know once they've all been parsed. Though this is the most important one, so we'll see.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 262d
A joke is supposed to be funny. They can be insulting, or plain mean and horrible but still funny. This isn't funny. This was predictable and nauseating.
What is funny -mainly because I'm not american- is that unless fundamental changes happen then this is the precedent that's set for future your presidents. When the orange kiddie fiddler dies it may get a bit better initially but at some point in the future a more competently evil cunt will reign your kingdom and you'll look back to king Donvict Drumpf and think "shit, we should have done something".
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 262d
I can already hear the arguments. "We survived Donald Trump. That just proves our democracy is strong. Let's just move on." Like someone arguing that the first heart attack didn't kill them so everything is status quo.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
That's what I heard from folks who supported Trump 1.0. "It'll be a stress test of the government, the guard rails." Well, it was. And democracy completely failed the "test." Cool.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 261d
They already do, regarding watergate. America is like the main character of Momento.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 262d
No shit!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 262d
This is a multi-thousand-page fuck you. It's also overwhelming circumstantial evidence that the files contain evidence that Trump was deeply involved in the trafficking and child rape.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 262d
Let's do another release with everything redacted except for the names (aside from victims, obviously).
Give us some random adjectives and maybe a noun here and there, too. We'll figure out the rest.
....Peter Thiel.........Bill Clinton......door knob.....large, black......Bill Cosby....... orangutan.......Musk.....umbrellas.......Jared from Subway....foot-long............ boofing........Brock Allen Turner...........Harambe.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 262d
NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I DEMAND CONSEQUENCES!