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It has no purpose to release militarily. This only weakens the US position. Know their enemies know their detection capabilities.
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This is what they do Everytime things are going really bad. "Oh btw aliens!?". It's a psyop so people appeal to higher powers and feel that the government is keeping them safe. Truth is if aliens ever made contact with the us, the representatives would be trying to sell us for alien weapons they could use to go kill whatever remains that they don't like at any given moment.
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What are they distracting us from?
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The upcoming elections they are in the process of rigging.
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I think the idea is to distract from the Epstein Files. Or maybe it's the Iran "excursion". Or the gerrymandering...
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It's absolutely gerrymandering.

Trump is running candidates against any incumbent who doesn't vote for redistricting to gerrymander the map.

I'm willing to bet he starts "joking" about how Roosevelt got more than two terms and the amendment to limit terms is a deep state crime.

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Correct answer, carry on citizen.
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Epstein Files
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the government wants to control the people so they can control the government /s
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The amount of coordination it takes to release these files, coupled with the incompetence of government.

The prosaic explanation is the more likely one, meaning the events are unrelated.

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You've mistaken indifference with inability. The government can absolutely get something done very quickly if certain people wish. There are numerous examples.
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They will never release them. The distraction will morph into all the electoral subterfuge they will attempt as they increasingly fear losing power at the polls. They know what's in those files and what will happen to them if they lose in 2028. Thus they will be even more incentivized to behave badly.

If gas prices double from here it will be less stupid distraction and more overt authoritarianism... the ICE question has not been settled. ICE is still violating your neighbors and making a mockery of what is supposed to be a society of free people. They merely thought the overt city takeovers and shooting Americans in the head had become a bad look that wasn't worth it politically. The persistence of this calculus is not inevitable.

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It's a joke.
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All of this is true only if you’re unaffected by the policies of ICE/transgender/etc
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Everyone else is brainwashed/uninformed/doesn't employ "critical thinking" but me, I am the very smart one
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people are dying in camps but go off
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There is such a thing as "naive cynicism"
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That actually wouldn't be a distraction.

More than anything, that's the one thing that they want to avoid. That's something that's radicalized at least one person into doing something rash and could radicalize more.

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The distraction is not releasing them. If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted. They were sealed from the public not from the DOJ.

The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.

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It's possible releasing the files would have negative consequences on both the current and previous administration, which is why neither of them did it.
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The previous administration didn't need to release any files to selectively prosecute anyone who they wanted to.
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There's likely enough for more convictions, but two things:

1) Maxwell was under prosecution at the time, so some of it was related to that.

2) The kind of people being mentioned as potential indictees are the kind who can do something about it.

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Co-conspirators are prosecuted in parallel or semi-parallel all the time, without waiting for the core prosecution to conclude.

There was no reason for why the administration had to wait for the files to be unsealed to go after anyone it wanted to. Unsealing them only makes the records available to the public at large, not the rest of the DOJ.

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> If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted.

not so fast. There is new info coming out about Kerry being implicated.

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secret third option: the dirt is still effective as blackmail and thats more valuable to powers that be than prosecution. the fbi acquired all the videos on disc from a safe in wexlers 5th ave mansion, yet no one was arrested for sex crimes, weird!
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You sound invincibly unconvinceable - but the way I see that argument is the media power of the narratives against the admin are all currently weak, there's no tidal wave of pressure from which to distract - and even if there were, it's not like Trump has ever needed that, he's always been able to dispatch wave after wave of narratives, undefeated.

Would you like to know more? The timing is viewed more naturally I think in a trajectory from the 2017 NYT article, through the series of congressional hearings, whistleblowers and attempted UAPDA legislation, to recent statements by Obama and Trump re "classified info", that seemed to lead directly to here. Through all this, the chorus of increasing public interest and demands.

More starkly - it's odd to see this issue in anyway partisanly or linked to a particular administration, or even news cycle. It's a persistent topic of human interest, across cultures and decades. The Trump intersection I think can be explained because he's the most "renegade" (yes, a pun), least controlled and most effective. These latter claims themselves are deeply controversial for some, and may contribute to making it hard for such folks to see any such prosaic explanations of the timing and reach for something a little more out there.

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Conspicuously missing in your argument is a link to a credible source with any evidence (or even 1st person testimony). It should be easy.

Instead, I just see elaborate narratives about political motivations and garbage evidence like that laughably low-effort fake video presented in Congress by Representatives.

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Lol, what? Reads as zany non-sequitur in context - did you reply right? Your frame that any timing of this drop is disputed and requires evidence, I reject. If you say precisely which phrases you felt that about, your comment might be better.
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Oh, you were joking?

Sorry, I encounter someone who believes exactly what you wrote at least once a week.

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This is the correct understanding. Thank you for voicing it.

It is unfortunate how many have succumbed to Trump derangement syndrome and are rendered unable to discuss this topic critically, moving to complete dismissal because of the controversy surrounding the messenger.

The UAP disclosure movement has been decades in the making. Trump was simply the one willing to push it, exactly because of his counterculture, renegade nature as you put it.

Are we alone? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? What's the meaning of life? They've robbed themselves of the ability to engage with these questions, and it's a shame.

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TDS = Trump Devotion Syndrome.
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