Posted on 07/13/2025 7:05:50 AM PDT by old school
The current communications strategy is a disaster—regardless of the facts on the ground.
That needs to get fixed.
The president needs to do whatever is necessary to restore our republic.
He doesn’t need to tell me jack **** because I trust the man to do that.
I would be fine with just a believable explanation for why the information can’t/shouldn’t be released.
There will likely come a day when I seriously question what Trump is doing.
I can tell you it hasn’t happened yet.
But I will never question the Almighty.
And I saw God’s hand at work in Butler.
Epstein ensnared Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson and Bill Gates. Three Bills and a Jeff.
The reason Presidents have communications strategy is not for their hard core supporters.
It is for those who supported them as the lesser of two evils as well as folks who may have doubts.
Good public policy requires the support of as many people as possible—so the goals can be achieved.
Communications strategy does not replace policy—it just makes it easier to implement policy.
What court order?
I lean towards the "burn the whole rotten structure down" side. Get rid of all the politicians participating in this and expose all the world wide intelligence agencies involved, whether ours, our allies or our enemies. If the CIA blackmailed an owner of an operating systems company to put a back door in his security, tell us and clean up the security failure.
I worry that this has gotten far enough that if the Republicans try to bury it they risk losing power over it without benefitting from the clean up.
Maybe I'm too much of a hopeful idealist or maybe I'm a burned out cynic, but I am tired of excusing everything for Realpolitik.
This is going to get ugly.
Kash lied to Congress about it in his confirmation hearing.
Here is the money quote:
“Jan. 30, 2025
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee): “So, will you work with me on this issue so we know who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in building these sex trafficking rings?
Kash Patel, FBI director nominee: “Absolutely senator.”
Anyone who thinks Blackburn is going to let this slide is smoking the good stuff.
my opinion, the so-called coverup— and there is one indeed, is actually the successful compartmental (circle the wagons actions) of the very very powerful SDNY enclaves of the REAL DOJ.
Bondi has been played or is part of this rear guard action by the deep state pubbies organizations.
at least 60 percent of the SDNY team members are in the process of overthrowing the will of the people in MAGA. Nearly half of the republicans in existence, are actually anti MAGA operatives.
that is of course just my opinion.
I rejoice that God is merciful... and shudder when I consider, he is ‘just and righteous altogether’.
We cannot succeed as a nation before God, when we have murdered MILLIONS of babies for Molech, and support queer/l-g-b-t-q culture. We have taken pleasure in supporting and protecting those that enable, practice and promote such things.
DJT cannot fix things that are endemic.
So it was a blackmail operation that required the blackmailer to be in far more trouble, and be far more ruined, than any of his blackmail targets if the operation is exposed?
And that rather than using professional honeypots or just prostitutes, uses underage civilian girls who then go right back to ordinary life, free to expose/spill the beans at any type me, expose the entire operation, and destroy the blackmailer? (Which is, in fact, exactly what happened)
If so, that's the worst/dumbest blackmail operation ever. Hardly a CIA or Mossad-level model of professionalism.
bkmk
Kash Patel, FBI director nominee: “Absolutely senator.”
So what if Patel came forward and said this:
"After having reviewed the files that we have, we have no evidence that the sex trafficking ring was built by anyone other than Epstein and Maxwell. We didn't find evidence of anyone else building that ring."
"If there ever were documents showing more than that, they never reached this Administration."
Why wouldn't this be a perfectly reasonable response by Patel?
It is a totally reasonable response.
There is zero chance I believe it.
There is zero chance the Senator will believe it.
But—if Kash wants to go there it is his neck.
What evidence do they have that would enable them to get a conviction of third parties, and how do you know they actually do possess it?
We have no idea what is in those files.
If I was a member of Congress I would want to personally inspect every single piece of evidence and reach my own conclusions about the state of the evidence.
I would take nobody’s word for anything.
So how/why are you so sure that is false?
Clearly said by someone who has never done a massive document review....
I'll just say I can guarantee that not a single member of Congress would actually be willing to do that. Although what might happen at some point is that DOJ will permit a limited number of people designated by Congressional leadership to review those documents.
But it absolutely will not be members of Congress themselves, nor should it be.
I make no claims at this point—except that I would want to see every single piece of evidence before making any claims.
Imho that is how many members of Congress will approach this matter.
Normally in such matters (massive documents) they rely on trusted members of their own staff to do most of the heavy lifting.
That said—the administration has zero credibility at this point. That may be unfair—but it is the way it is when you do 180 turns on stuff.
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