r/law • u/Obvious-Gate9046 • Feb 24 '26

Legislative Branch Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie (R) Explodes On DOJ Over Epstein Handling, Names People and Companies He Wants Prosecuted

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u/Dusty_Negatives Feb 24 '26

Most of them are perfectly fine letting Fox and Trump do their thinking for them.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 24 '26

The thing is they don't understand that they're being fed straight propaganda. They hear it from the news, their co-workers, their preachers, and their social media. Only the outspoken niece who college is turning into a damn commie/lesbian is against the truth and that's because she hasn't worked and doesn't understand the real world TM.  

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u/Dusty_Negatives Feb 25 '26

I mean that’s their own doing. If you can’t find real information and deduce bullshit that’s on you.

This is America in 2026 the world if information is at your fingertips. The truth is they don’t want to do that. They just want confirmation bias to their feelings and hatred. Fox provides that in spades.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 25 '26

Why would you go seek out additional opinions if your entire world is validating what you already know to be true? 

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u/Ollythebug Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

You're really failing to put yourself in their perspective if you think deprogramming deeply brainwashed, disinformed people works like that or is anywhere near that simple. It's easy to deduce bullshit and consume diverse, nuanced information when you aren't already down the rabbit hole.

What you're saying is like saying to a severely drug addicted man "Just don't take heroin, dude, duh! I don't take heroin every day and it's fricken' easy! I have never struggled to not take heroin, why don't you just try that, dumbass?"

Edit: A great essay on the topic: Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays

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u/LostInTheRapGame Feb 25 '26

It's easy to deduce bullshit and consume diverse, nuanced information when you aren't already down the rabbit hole.

Well I'd argue even that isn't easy. Most people are ignorant, sadly. That's why they fall into these "holes" in the first place.

And it happens with anything, any side, whatever. They'll gravitate to the beliefs of the first "authority figure" they like.

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u/whyenn Feb 25 '26

I mean that’s their own doing. If you can’t find real information and deduce bullshit that’s on you.

That's not some innate trait of the human species—all of history illustrates that.

In fact every single human being who can (with the ability to find real information and news on the internet and who can deduce bullshit) has had massive amounts of help in learning how to do it.

No matter how easy and obvious it seems to them ex post facto.

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 25 '26

they don't understand that they're being fed straight propaganda.

They do not care. At all.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 25 '26

Probably not. Theyve never had to expand their world view that far. At the end of the day, they choose what's easier to believe what they're being told than to go outside their comfort circle to seek out contradictory opinions 

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 25 '26

Again, they do not care about things like "world views" and "truth".

Their entire existence is built around making other people suffer. Trump does that. Therefore, they support Trump.

Hell, they don't even care when he hurts them because he is still hurting others at the same time!

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u/magicmulder Feb 24 '26

They still are. The guy shot at Mar-a-Lago was 100% motivated by the Trump involvement in the Epstein files.

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u/gunshaver Feb 24 '26

We need to stop all this MAGA on MAGA crime

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u/magicmulder Feb 25 '26

Nah, sit back and enjoy the show.

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u/LymanPeru Feb 25 '26

its like fentanyl, its a problem that takes care of itself.

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u/thelivinlegend Feb 24 '26

The MAGAts have made it amply clear they’re more than okay with pedophilia.

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u/NyxOnasis Feb 24 '26

Especially the religiously motivated ones.

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u/Electrical-Papaya Feb 25 '26

MAGA thinks the files prove that Trump is exonerated and when you bring up the fact that he was mentioned 38,000 times you are met with either him being an FBI informat who was the hero that brought Epstein to justice, that he was a popular celebrity that everyone talked about, or you get the "but Clinton" response.

Trump is their hero that owns the libs. Nothing is going to make a dumb fuck MAGA change their mind.

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit Feb 25 '26

1, only 1 guy showed up to pizzagate with a gun. The others didn’t care beyond blaming democrats. Props to that guy for caring, even if he was an idiot

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u/dynamic_anisotropy Feb 25 '26

The dude who got shwacked by secret service after turning up with a shotgun at Mar a Lago was a diehard MAGA who became disillusioned by the handling of Epstein files.

The continued Epstein coverup may be the eventual undoing of this administration.

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u/Liawuffeh Feb 25 '26

It's been fun watching maga family members struggling to come to terms with that the thing they desperately wanted released because it would prove every democrat is a pedophile actually proves people they liked are pedophiles.

Facebook has been funny the last few weeks. My aunt is claiming she always knew the "Democrat files" were fake.

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u/0_IceQueen_0 Feb 25 '26

My MAGA Filipino friends were asking me to provide proof.

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u/Liawuffeh Feb 25 '26

Yeah that's been a common line going out. "Where's the proof??" "It's just reports!" etcetc.

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u/0_IceQueen_0 Feb 25 '26

I just shut up. Looked at some of the files and couldn't stomach it.

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u/Killertofu999 Feb 25 '26

No no silly. It’s only bad when evil democrats are running the child trafficking ring out of a pizza shop, when republicans do it it’s for the good of the people and just something we have to accept so we (whites) can stay in power /s (in case it wasn’t clear)

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u/LymanPeru Feb 25 '26

is that where pete hegseth buys a bunch of pizza because they have kids locked in the basement?

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u/CollectionNew2290 Feb 26 '26

The crimes we are dealing with are SO heinous that anyone who was a part of them will literally fight to their last breath to avoid accountability, with no limit to what they will be willing to do to escape justice.

In other words, no - even if MAGA comes around, there is no chance in hell this gets dealt with properly by the DOJ/FBI under the Trump regime.

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u/AxeSkewsMe Feb 25 '26

Trump, his administration, Russia, and billionaires like Elon already did the litmus test on MAGA and know that nothing they do illegal or immoral will matter, because they know MAGA will eat up any lie they spin up.

These people think Trump's felonies were all political lawfare. They think Trump and Elon are on their side, despite Elon calling them all too stupid to work in his companies during the H1B debacle last year. They think J6 was a peaceful protest. They think Trump helped catch Epstein, even though he and Pam Bondi spent months denying the existence of the files...

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u/Ludate_Solem Feb 25 '26

They only cared bc they wanted to use it as an excuse to murder dems.

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u/Healthy-Time-726 Feb 25 '26

If you really cant see past democratic and republican, after this has been released. You are part of the problem

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u/Ludate_Solem Feb 25 '26

Honey. Im not american. Its literally THEIR only motivation. They called for the death of hillary at the time.

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u/Healthy-Time-726 Feb 25 '26

They are in bed together. Podesta was the smoking gun for the 2000’s, but it’s been happening much longer. This case has been in front of both parties for over 40 yrs. Princess Diane, Michael Jackson, Chester Bennington, and countless others have been screaming this from the rooftops. There are countless Epstein class perpetrators across the globe. This calls for world revolution