You're missing the most important fact about this obvious stunt:
That's a fair point about epstein stuff (let alone how trump talked about maxwell) but people should simply be doing both things. It's 100% what democrats did and didn't do in the past that got trump back in the white house. Between biden simply not being fit to hold office for at least the past couple of years (let alone being given another presidency) and democrat's utter inability to stand for anything what else could have possibly happened? Republicans will hold the majority of power in the government for at least two years, democrats have basically that long to find anything resembling a spine and principles.
It would be shocking if anything of significance isn't redacted in whatever is released. This is just Trump throwing his podcaster audience a bone IMO.
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Putting the hypocrisy aside for a second, from a pure optics standpoint and in regards to Epstein stuff - Trump at least distanced himself from Epstein before people in the Democratic establishment did. Not releasing anything on Epstein could be as much of a favor to himself as it is to others.
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There are certainly some in the consultant class who are completely out of touch and have no clue but plenty of people in power do know what the average American would be motivated to vote for and they work against those things willingly. That is very much the way of things.
That's like implying the first person to run when a gunshot goes off in a crowded area is smarter than everyone else in the crowd. Hell, if anything, the fact that Trump started an immediate damage control narrative is more indicative that he had more to lose than everyone else did since they didn't see the immediacy of the threat, but he did. Perhaps they weren't in a hurry to denounce him because they haven't done anything illegal, and only distanced themselves due to the optics of being known as someone who was friendly with Epstein?
The strategy of using numbers to control people becomes more widespread by the minute. And it does work to a large extent. But this is a game that tech billionaires play better than anyone. The little Nate Silvers have no shot against the Thiels and the Elons (or more hidden players) who just control these vast amount of data and know exactly what 21 year old dog owners in which district of Nebraska click on.
I was wondering if things being declassified meant they wouldn't be redacted. So no? With how long it's been it'd be weird if there was something in there that was a threat to national security. It's definitely that of course but there's two things to consider:
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He's also pretty much destroying our agricultural workforce. People voted for Trump for cheaper gas and instead got more expensive eggs, coffee... and everything else.
Petro capitulated in hours though. Did those things get more expensive over the weekend?
I dunno, I was just offhandedly naming shit that was supposed to get more expensive. Like, the eggs are gonna get worse because of avian flu, and the coffee was gonna get more expensive because of tariffs.
Nope, and a different way of thinking about this is it is the act of redacting information itself that makes it so certain documents are able to be declassified in the first place. Otherwise it wouldn't happen unless perhaps it benefits the agenda at the time.
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I didn't bring it up to praise Trump really, just noting that something that could be seen as entirely self-serving is also potentially to the benefit of even his political "enemies". And also, it clearly matters a lot less to his supporters in any case.
Colombia agreed to receive airplanes with its citizens within a few hours of the whole thing starting. It wasn't so much a deal as it was a "take back your people or I will use a mean twit to send your economy back to the middle ages".
Yeah, I do not think the old guard understood yet that this is a misery of their own making. Hopefully some powers will shift, but looking at it more constructively, first there needs to be some strong leftist candidate that people who also doubt the current approach can rally behind.
oh I thought Colombia took back its citizens because they'd rather have them back than be in USA's jails
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There are important movements going on there, however I'm dubious to how mainstream those things will become. European governments benefit from some general form of Democratic socialism at least to some degree, that's simply not allowed in broad daylight here. The fact that Sanders ever got anywhere in his Presidential races despite labeling himself as such is a miracle.
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Well, the schadenfreude (probably misspelled) is aimed at Latinos that COULD vote, voting for Trump and then losing their families. Those people are the ones that deserve mockery and hatred, not the deported relatives. Same for Palestinian Americans/Muslim Americans who abstained or voted Trump.
I sympathize for the people who were deported because of the decisions of their fellow Latinos, sure. But like the one dude who's Venezuelan wife got deported when he voted for Trump? Fuck that guy, I hope she leaves him.