Sorry, did you forget the comment chain you were commenting on? This wasn't about files that were currently unreleased, it was discussing why Biden didn't release them during his presidency.
As far as Trump goes, yes, he's implicated all over the files. A simple search on any search engine will find plenty of examples for you.
Obama and Biden didn’t release any though. Not one.
Instead… The entire DNC spent a billion and a half on an election just on 2024 to lose historically. Lawfare. States trying to remove Trump from the ballots… all the had to do was release even one incriminating file.
You must have seen files I haven’t. Please link to a file that implicates Trump in wrong doing.
>Obama and Biden didn’t release any though. Not one.
... Right, and I was addressing why that was the case. That's the discussion that was being had here. Seriously, are you aware of the comment chain you're commenting in?
>You must have seen files I haven’t. Please link to a file that implicates Trump in wrong doing.
Once you understand that legitimacy of rule by the wealthy is the primary corner stone of the United States, you'll understand that even the wealthy who didn't participate in the Epstein coalition don't want to open that can of worms.
It's why the Democrats keep only pushing social issues, they are captured and cannot make any radical change without losing the support of their wealthy donors.
Another way to look at it, consider that every coup that occurred in South America was done extra-legally to protect American corporate/monetary interests.
Personally I think anyone who believes there’s a stack of “files” sitting somewhere which culminate in a spreadsheet of “Famous politician / # of underage girls we can prove he assaulted” is fantasizing and thinking the world is just like an exciting John Grisham novel.
Anyone who’s guilty of that either has sufficient corrupt clout to have eliminated the evidence of their crimes (thus no “files” threaten them), or, are already known about.
And come on, with the guy at the top of the government being very likely one of them and very openly and obviously corrupt, it is more of a stretch for me to believe that “Epstein permanent deletion service” isn’t an item on his main bribe menu.
It’s a wild web of alliances if Biden and the DNC had evidence of Trump impropriety with Epstein which would be the absolute defined end of Trump, and refused to play even that small bit in the event that it implicated a Sponsor too.
Codex is my preferred, I use it at work. The whole "Department of War" fiasco was enough for me to say Goodbye to OAI for personal. I'm a Claude person now. It's about the same level of performance really.
There are a lot of people who are unhappy with the steps the government took to crack down on COVID misinformation, and some people are still upset about Twitter's decision to limit spread of the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was entirely unilateral, and reversed within 24 hours).
Both of these took place in 2020, when Trump was president, but of course Trump's greatest coup was to make everybody think Biden was president in 2020.
Though IMHO it's not just a Biden problem, it's a "everybody in power" problem. They just can't seem to resist (ab)using their power to shape the conversation and censor their opponents. It's also not new, it's been happening for hundreds of years at least. But it did get a lot more brazen under Biden IMHO with Twitter/Facebook etc and admin officials telling private companies what to censor (err, "moderate").
This is your regularly mandated PSA that the quote about "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater" comes from Schenck v US, which used that analogy to justify why the government could ban people from protesting the draft in WW1. It is not good law anymore, and has been fully superseded since the Brandenburg v Ohio case which limited the exemption to "imminent lawless action."
Read the links. It wasn't just that. People from the administration were actively talking with social media companies and telling them to take stuff down. At some points they even demanded it.
andy do you really think the Hunter Biden laptop story was equivalent or even close to "yelling fire in a crowded theatre"?
They didn't. Fbi told Facebook etc to be on the lookout for Russia pushing stories to influence elections etc, they didn't ask them to do anything specific. Bidens campaign did ask Twitter to remove nudes of his son, which already broke Twitters own rules. This is why the twitterfiles were a nothing burger.
That could be one reason they want to do it. Maybe by using data from Palantir or harvested from Elon's work with DOGE, along with twitter user data and whatever else they can get, they want their AI to be the all-seeing eye of Sauron. (Which isn't too far from what the whole ad-tech industry is about in the first place.) Or they want to make sexually explicit deepfakes of everyone Elon doesn't like. Or they want to flood the internet with AI generated right-wing propaganda.
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