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While this is alarming, it seems like such an obvious attempt to distract us from the people in Texas who died from the Republican party's inaction. As well as the revelation that the Epstein suicide video was edited
Wait is there proof of that now?
I'm a couple days late, but yeah, it was pretty clearly edited based on the metadata.
Further investigation suggests that almost three minutes of the video could be missing though the authors concede that the missing minutes may have been overlap between the two files that were stitched together.
Well there's and entire minute missing, and the video was released with Adobe Premiere metadata....
I read that wasn’t even epsteins cell
The video shows a totally different cell than the original news pictures yeah.
So what was the point of it? And why does it matter if was edited?
It matters because that missing minute is when he actually died. One minute he's alive, the next he's dead.
I mean if it’s not even his cell, what’s the point of the video
The usual: buffoonish attempts at distraction.
I completely agree. My confusion is with the people who are being critical of the coverup still seem to be missing the point that the video is irrelevant in the first place.
The video may as well have been of Disney world. I don’t know why anyone cares about the edit and I don’t believe all the people talking about the edit are complicit in the coverup.
Ah the only explanation is you're on the video killing Epstein. Have fun in prison why does the truth matter?
I’m saying if the video isn’t even of his cell, what’s the point of the video and if it’s edit? Who cares about some random cell?
You can’t be that fucking oblivious.
I think you’re not understanding what I’m saying. You’re rhetoric is ironic.
In case you’ve been in a box, no one is really talking about this point. They are more concerned about the video being edited rather than completely irrelevant.
The point I am making, which seems to be difficult for people to interpret even they they are calling me stupid, is if the video isn’t even irrelevant why does any even care that it is edited. And secondly, why is there no articles pointing out how misleading the video is.
What rhetoric?
I think you’re not understanding a blatant attempt at an obvious cover-up. It matters because we are being openly lied to by the government.
Basically what happened is that they released a video of the wrong cell and then removed a minute from that video in order to confuse people.
Thanks, captain obvious.
Are you that fucking oblivious to your own rhetoric? You just said
It’s obvious it’s a cover up. The assessment of the coverup is confusing. I’ve already stated why I find other people’s assessment of the coverup confusing. I shouldn’t have to repeat it again while being called oblivious
You don't know what rhetoric means.
And apparently, yeah, you are that oblivious. It’s not that confusing, like, at all. Politicians are lying and making shit up because most of them are on Epstein’s list of clients.
Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous.
Ok. Now explain how that pertains to what I was saying.
They took money meant for emergency infrastructure and checks notes gave it to cops.
Pretty sure it's to distract from Alligator Auschwitz as well.
If it's a legitimate threat, it's not a distraction. It's called "flooding the zone" and it's intentional, but it's mean to overwhelm us in general with the sheer amount of bullshit he spews.
But don't make the mistake that this is a distraction. He's opening a path to strip anyone he dislikes of citizenship and exile them to a foreign death camp. This is deadly serious and should not be ignored.
Murder. Epstein was murdered and Bill Barr knows the details.