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xocetaceans

(4,385 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2026, 05:43 PM 4 hrs ago

(Brian Tyler Cohen) Trump implicated in latest Epstein files release

In 1940, I suspect that Glenn Kirschner might well have been seen standing in Paris and declaring the Maginot Line to be a sound fortification even as Dunkirk were being evacuated had he been part of the French Defense Ministry at that time.

There is no evidence that the US Judiciary is up to the task to do anything meaningful against the Trump Regime.

How many judicial orders may be ignored before some significant degree of accountability is achieved? It is not enough to look sternly at officials in the Trump Regime and say someday you will be held accountable, for that someday may well have a weak President like President Obama who decides that it is too much trouble to hold the torturers or the bankers to account but that it is easy to strike a US citizen with a drone instead of capturing him and putting him on trial. (Another US citizen (a child) was 'collateral damage' in the effort if I recall correctly.)

It is insane to listen to Kirschner continue to state that the US Judiciary is up to the task. It is not. It failed to move with the necessary alacrity when Trump needed to be tried for his 1/6 Insurrection. (Yes, Merrick Garland was slow and worthless as well. Appointing a worthless AG is a sin that will (for many reasons) unfortunately permanently taint President Biden's legacy.)

At some point, remarks concerning the strength of the US Judiciary seem to be just so much filler to lengthen an episode and have no more weight than a trite schtick put on by a bad comedian.

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(Brian Tyler Cohen) Trump implicated in latest Epstein files release (Original Post) xocetaceans 4 hrs ago OP

with notable exceptions, the judges have been doing their jobs rampartd 3 hrs ago #1

Please MSM: criminality isn't the one and only consideration in the Epstein files. Yes there is criminality wiggs 1 hr ago #2

rampartd

(4,383 posts)

1. with notable exceptions, the judges have been doing their jobs

Reply to xocetaceans (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 06:57 PM

3 hrs ago

but that has never been enough.

kirschner "we will neither have nor deserve a republic" if we let them get away again.

that line is past, i think.

ask ai a question.

are there any polls, statistics or economic indicators that persons named in data released with relation to epstein can not fake?

which ai is most likely to give the most useful answer to "tell me who collected an $85 M ticket from the oklahoma lottery. during the 1990s?"

if i ask, am i triggering the events which will lead to my termination? i may be able to go straight to "copilot" but maybe the damn thing is training me.

wiggs

(8,730 posts)

2. Please MSM: criminality isn't the one and only consideration in the Epstein files. Yes there is criminality

Reply to xocetaceans (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 08:45 PM

1 hr ago

among some or many of the players. Heinous crimes. But as often as not, MSM (inc Dan Abrams show) is ready to say that no criminality is apparent from files released so far. Probably because Trump involvement is redacted or not released yet. And the argument we hear has to do with INDICTING this person or that person. Administration says there's not enough evidence to indict anyone (not that we trust what they say).

HOWEVER, the nation's interest in the files goes WAY beyond just a threshold for criminal indictment. We are concerned with:

...are these people in positions of power exposed to blackmail because of what's known about their activities? Hugely important to know if TSF or Lettner or others are compromised, no? Who owns who?

...the survivors are owed a full exploration and discussion...indictments or not

...we need to know who in govt is lying

...we need to know how the judicial system failed, from the very beginning

...we need to know how the ultra elite operate to escape responsibility, accountability, justice.

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