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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        This is NOT national security shit

        That definitely affects the security of the Republicans’ hold on power.

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      The only thing to remember is that they only blacked out sections where trump’s name was mentioned. That’s pretty damning.

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        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.

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      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?

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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        I think people took a look and just saw empty pages. Would not be surprised to find out something later though.

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      They are bundling all of the trump documents into these single file pdfs and just completely blacking out the whole page. There’s just too much shit to figure out what’s incriminating and redact line by line.

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    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”.

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      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.

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        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.

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      and think “shit, we should have done something”

      They already do, regarding watergate. America is like the main character of Momento.

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    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.

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    As predicted.

    The cat is out of the bag already, though. We don’t need to know their names because the behavior and the way the involved and suspected has acted, we’re knowing about them.

    Isn’t the trick not to give off the suspicion? But we’re dealing with one of if not the most corruptly incompetent administration this nation has ever seen, so nothing is off the table.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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    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.