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> His public statements, urging the MAGA faithful to move on from Epstein, come across as an attempt to shut down discussion rather than encourage transparency.
by cosmicgadget 1y ago
> His public statements, urging the MAGA faithful to move on from Epstein, come across as an attempt to shut down discussion rather than encourage transparency.
That's all he can do. Just hope people forget or grow bored of nothing changing. How do you have your AG say there are thousands of hours of CSAM video and then not follow that up with, "... and here are the indictments".
- jfengel 1y agoAnd it will probably work. The faithful are pretty faithful. They really, really wanted the Epstein files because they're convinced that a lot of their enemies are in there, and there's a pretty good chance that they're correct about that. They'll hate to lose that, but they don't really care that the reason for it (that some of the people they support are also in it) is obvious. It has nothing to do with the victims; it's solely about punishing their opponents. So it was a useful political tool, and it's not as hard to jettison as you might expect. It doesn't stir up cognitive dissonance because the claimed reasons for interest are not the same as the real ones.