The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Just one more reason why Bill Pulte has been pushed into this position as "acting" DNI by Trump past unusually strong bipartisan opposition, to the point of canceling the nomination hearing for the real candidate.

This office is really what people should be paying attention to in the coming months, because it's all about the midterms.

For those who are unaware, Bill Pulte is a MAGA loyalist that goes after Trump opponents, and has ZERO knowledge of or experience in national security. As the head of Federal Housing Finance Agency, he is the guy who has been accusing those legitimately investigating Trump (Letitia James, Adam Schiff, etc) of unsubstantiated mortgage fraud.

Expect him to do the same with the ODNI.

When Tulsi Gabbard resigned (or was fired, who knows) another candidate to replace her as DNI was put forward, the Rs and the Ds agreed on him for the most part, and that confirmation hearing was supposed to have happened on Wednesday. It did not. It was canceled at the last second by Trump, allowing Pulte to become "acting" DNI.

While an "acting" DNI has time limits on how long they can "act" without confirmation, that legal end to the "acting" role of DNI comes after the midterms, so this essentially puts Trump's personal bully in the office for the duration of the election season.

Even the Republicans don't want Pulte, and with the Dems they also refused to renew a part of FISA in objection, because the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has access to all the surveillance tools and output this country ever got its hands on.

The consensus is that Bill Pulte is being chosen as DNI for the sole reason of being able to leverage that surveillance against non-favored candidates in the midterms.

Think about that for a hot second. All the surveillance powers of the Five Eyes leveraged against US political candidates that the orange administration doesn't like.

And now we see there's actually a second reason for Pulte's installation: to suppress facts gathered about our voting machines.

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Yeah, the Tates, among others, are now in the business of selling training videos on how to become "OnlyFans managers" and trick women into producing content for them. In other words, they're digital pimps. The Guardian just did a big article on it.

That's why the Tates have women on their property to beat up the other women they have there, some imprisoned apparently, who refuse to continue producing content for them. They are literal pimps, but for OF content.

Oh, it's worse than you think. The article doesn't really say much, but if you look for it, it does say this (emphases mine):

Mark Milk, 51, also of Sioux Falls, now faces five counts related to her death. Milk was almost three decades into a life term on a manslaughter conviction when Noem commuted his sentence in 2023.

Milk faces five counts including possession with intent to deliver cocaine that caused Wendel’s death. He is also charged with transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to court documents.

She was fourteen.

I'm here to talk about the the candidates we have, not the candidates that aren't running.

I read the article but was not really understanding WHY anyone would be opposed to ending it, so I went looking for more information. Turns out the group sponsoring the legislation, Unchained At Last, has its own site, and much more information than is in the article, as well as maps showing how many states have outlawed child marriage altogether, as well as the handful of states where you can be married at 18 but not be legally adult until 21, which is still a form of legal underage marriage.

I had my eyes opened. There is much more information on each of these in the website, but the four reasons they state for needing to end underage marriage are:

Child marriage can easily be forced marriage. The age of majority, when children become legal adults and get the rights of adulthood, is 18 or higher in every U.S. state. Children who have not yet reached the age of majority have limited legal rights and therefore can easily be forced into marriage or forced to stay in a marriage. They face overwhelming legal and practical barriers if they try to leave home to escape a forced marriage, get help from an advocate, enter a domestic violence shelter or retain an attorney. Perhaps most shockingly, children typically are not allowed to initiate a legal proceeding – such as seeking a protective order or even filing for divorce – unless they act through a guardian or other representative. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights categorizes all child marriage as forced marriage.

Child marriage destroys nearly every aspect of American children’s lives, including their health, education and economic opportunities. It even undermines their physical safety: Individuals in the U.S. who were married before age 18 report high rates of physical, sexual, financial or emotional abuse during their marriage as well as unwanted or unplanned pregnancies.

Child marriage undermines statutory rape laws. In most states and under federal law, sex with a child that would otherwise be considered rape – in some cases, felony rape – becomes legal within marriage. In those situations, the marriage license becomes a “get out of jail free” card for a child rapist.

Child marriage can also be a form of human trafficking. Due to loopholes in immigration laws, thousands of American girls are being trafficked legally for their citizenship, forced to marry adult men from overseas so the men can get a U.S. visa. Similarly, American men are legally importing child brides from overseas.

So now the question becomes one of understanding what's in it for the Republicans in Ohio to leave the situation as-is, and I think that pretty much answers itself. Case closed.

Realistically, what could even happen to Trump?

Realistically, right now, nothing.

But everything is changing pretty rapidly, so what's important is that people are busy putting facts together and creating cases that can be pursued when he no longer has the legal protection he has right now.

I personally believe that will come instantly when no one is expecting it, if only because I'm old and have seen how these things move very slowly until they don't, and then it's dizzyingly fast, like Watergate over two years and then the sudden resignation of Nixon. He's already lost the House, IMO, I don't think he can push through a majority on anything substantial anymore, and may even lose the Senate, so his protection from the legislative branch is already slipping.

Right now we're all waiting until the midterms, but if something big were to happen prior to tip the scales the start of his reckoning could come even faster. No one wants most of what he is doing now, and the number of people willing to put their careers and livelihood on the line is shrinking.

When that day comes, the knives will be out for him, politically and who knows how else. This protection will not last forever.

There is overlap between that Dialog member list and the Epstein files. I don't have time to go through it right now, but at first glance just skimming the Bluesky list, Larry Summers is in the Epstein files, as is Peter Attia.

I'd bet anything they're not the only ones on both, either. If I get the opportunity I'll look through it later and see if I can spot more.

No, that's great. It's the difference between actual policy initiative, which will get real tax dollars and resources thrown behind it, and just something the average MAGA christofascists want, which was never a big secret. This is a relief. Thank you for looking, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer.

All good. I'd have been happy to help look, though. Glad you found them. Trying to search the DoJ archive directly is a cast iron bitch sometimes, and I am absolutely certain that's by design.

Right now I'm trying to think through the easiest way to cross-reference a list of 113 members of Peter Thiel's Dialog Group with the Epstein files; I see two right off the bat (Larry Summers, Peter Attia) and I know there are more.

But I've lost track of all the various Epstein archive sites so short of doing it name by name I might just drop it: in the end, Peter Thiel being in very rich but bad company isn't exactly a shocker, lol.

project 2025 plans to undo child marriage laws.

I'm pretty familiar with Project 2025, but I don't recall that. The actual Project 2025 manifesto, 🤢 Mandate for Leadership 🤮 mentions marriage in a number of ways, including same-sex and even interracial marriage, but there's nothing in it about child marriage at all that I know of or can find, just a lot of self-righteous hyperbole about cis-het marriage and the family unit being the root of all good, blah blah blah.

I just checked it again to be sure, and yeah, marriage is not ever mentioned adjacent to anything regarding the age of the participants.

I'm not trying to challenge you, they're guilty of almost everything they've ever been accused of and far more that's even worse, but can you tell me where you got that from? Because if they're going to start this too I'd like to know more about it.

DM'd you.

You're replying to shit you pulled out of your own ass and huffed a week and a half after Platner won the primary.

Maybe that's just when you peaked in life because I see you're now replying ten days late to everyone who told you how wrong you are, but your line "Hey, if your heartfelt belief is that every eligible Democratic candidate is a nazi then guess we’re fucked and there’s no hope" has nothing to do with me or anything I wrote.

It's ALL you. Own it, son. The rest of us have moved on. Platner won.

That's possible, but does not seem likely. First, it wasn't just the two towns, and hits came back from Buncombe County as well.

Also, the results exclude Madison County altogether, though there are cameras in the county, and presumably queries were made in regard to Madison County residents and plates, which is the supposed reason Madison County has Flock to begin with.

The way I read the HaveIbeenFlocked site was that the query itself was answered from that specific town or group of towns linked to the response, which would not be possible if the query itself had NO response from the HaveIbeenFlocked database.

Also, those two towns were just the most frequently listed, but others across the country have come up as I noted, as well as Buncombe County, which is where you'd think the vast majority of responses should be coming from, but they're not.

Buncombe County (Asheville) is the source for multiple queries, but not anywhere near a majority. And someone involved in the HaveIbeenFlocked flow of information is very aware of the Buncombe County responses, because on all the Buncombe County hits I saw, the reason for the query was redacted: that didn't just happen, someone chose to do that.

But if all this is legit, you know what source I never saw linked to a query? Madison County itself.

Now how is it possible, when cameras are in Madison County -- iow, Madison County is itself a valid source on HaveIbeenFlocked -- and the law enforcement requests are coming from Madison County, presumably pursuant to a valid Madison County law enforcement need for information, but the cameras in the county are not the source of any information requested? (Or very little, and I just missed them time after time.)

But don't take my word for it: the links are in my post. Look for yourself. Click on anything you find, as randomly as you like, and see what you see.

Who are you even talking to?

it has made them more successful than they ever could have dreamed.

Thanks for reading what I wrote; I half didn't expect you to, so thank you for that. That said, I agree with you -- except for this. Today, right now, they are more successful than they could have ever dreamed.

But today isn't forever, and this is not over.

Even if everything comes crashing down, they have made enough money that they can easily shuffle around and ensure their prosperity.

Maybe, maybe not. A thing about groups is that they tend to have weak links, and when one falls multiples fall rapidly thereafter.

Imagine, if you will, a post-Trump legal landscape wherein all those files he tried so hard to hide got wikileaked, many of the ones who are protecting him now have turned their backs and the ones who are left are overruled, and every one of his "deals" as well as those of everyone around him are being picked over with a fine-tooth comb. What will Musk have then? A lot of legal bills, a fading star, and not what he craves the absolute most: attention and plaudits that salve his massive insecurities. The money will bleed out too, but that will happen over time.

Imagine being on the highest of the high mountains like fElon, and then sliding down it foot by foot for the rest of your miserable existence, grabbing at tufts of grass and kicking at rocks to get back up to where you will never be again. These exalted positions will disappear as fast as they appeared, and we don't know how, and we don't know when, but they are not permanent.

And that's only one minor possibility: there are still infinite outcomes here, and far too many involved persons for the perps to control or even foresee.

And this:

Everything we were taught about the importance of morals and it’s relationship to success is a lie.

As written, well yeah. It always was. That's simple disillusionment, if your idea of success is limited to massive wealth. Our own is not, but to be honest the survivor I am with has transformed what I believe about success anyway, as I have watched them grab win after win on a personal level where I honestly thought further progress was doomed. I swear sometimes I think they are a phoenix, rising up from the ashes again and again just because their will to overcome is so immense, but then the days of pure exhaustion and defeat come as well, which is the place your first comment was written from. I am very familiar with it.

Now you've said who the perps are, and today, in this minute, you are absolutely right. Yet the really important question, another one I learned from a survivor, is this: who do YOU want to be? Because in the end, none of the perps matter past their crimes. As far as we are concerned they are over, less than, not worthy. But to your life, you do matter. So do you personally want to be someone who only practices morality for the promised gold at the end of its Johnny-do-good rainbow, or do you want to be a genuinely moral person who is moral wherever they find themselves, doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do and that's just the kind of person you are?

I ask this because, to borrow a metaphor, everyone who is bit by a vampire has the choice of becoming a vampire. Everyone who is abused has the choice of becoming abused. Everyone whose life has been hollowed out by evil has the choice of responding to that by becoming evil themselves.

To me, if you manage to retain your own innate goodness in spite of, and in active battle against, the evil that was done to you, that is no small thing.

And I guess that's what I am asking of you. In your frustration, stop perpetrating the lie that this is all helpless and hopeless and that the only forms of success or justice are the exact ones defined and -- for now, anyway -- withheld by the perpetrators.

This isn’t defeatism, it’s fucking reality.

It's an insane take, and let me tell you why. For as long as there have been people, there have been sexual crimes against children. For as long as there has been organized crime, there has been organized profiteering off the bodies of children. For as long as there have been individuals with power and means, there have also been groups of them satisfying their sexual tastes as a collective, using their combined means to both acquire and protect whatever it is they are into. For every group of people engaged in this, there are many more individuals acting alone to use and trade the bodies of the young for whatever they can get in return. For every girl or boy stolen by a group or even just malevolent individuals, there is another one sold by his or her own parents, and even more individuals and groups standing in line for the chance to buy and trade their flesh.

THAT is fact. THAT is the way of the world. THAT is societal and historical reality, not your tunnel vision of this one time and this one place and this one set of perps and how one corrupt justice department has thus made it all okay for every offender everywhere for all time. That's just willfully helpless bullshit.

And not only that, your view focuses solely on just one sort of justice, when in fact there are all kinds of justice meted out regularly, some by nature and some by people, some deliberately and some by accident, some by strangers and some by victims, and most of which happens in such a way that no one ever expected to see until it was all right there.

As for the legal system offering "justice" to the offenders and their survivors, I don't think it ever could and I don't think it will now. But that doesn't mean I'm going to bury my head up the ass of corrupt government obstruction and lack of political will to address it and mope for the rest of time.

The survivor I live with has had to grapple with even the concept of justice, and as someone who has had the actual facts explained to me I'll tell you something else you don't know: the survivor I know doesn't even believe justice exists. Even if this were a perfect world, and the perpetrators and their agents and proxies who trafficked them in their youth were all brought to trial today, that would not give a single day, a single hour, of their life back. It would not lift a single burden off the backs of those already dead because of what was done to them, nor how those evil, sick and malign acts irrevocably derailed that young life for the worse. Other survivors do believe in legal justice, but even they would be the first to tell you it won't give them their youth or innocence or time spent in self-destruction back.

Legal justice would vindicate many survivors, certainly, but not much else. Why? Because for as long as there have been people, there have been sexual crimes against children, and if you think it is limited in any way by stringent laws, you think wrong. Every society has members among them who do these things, both the people that have a taste for it and the people who sell it to them, every single society since time began, and to think they don't is to believe in some ethno-perfection fantasy, like the Russian who told me one time, "We do not have such things in Russia!" (Yeah, right. Pull the other one, lol.)

So it's not about the law. It's about society, and changing how we, as world citizens, speak and write and think of such things. That has nothing to do with one country's corrupt legal system, but hits much more closely at the source of the problem: society itself willing to turn a blind eye to the most perverted among us. And the perps can't shut that discussion down, no matter how much money and power they have. Look around: they're trying hard, and getting nowhere. Why? Because the discussion itself has changed. And why has the discussion changed? Because we, the citizens of the world, are talking about it and not buying the bullshit. And how has that happened? Because of survivors who wouldn't shut up and the people who refuse to be silenced. It's not about the law at all. That is entirely out of the law's hands.

And as someone now old who has seen a great deal of shit, I will tell you with absolute certainty that this situation will not end the way you expect it to, and if you weren't so enamored of your own tunnel vision you'd already be noting just how bizarre some of the turns are that this situation has already taken. I have a lot of unfortunate personal knowledge of this subject, but even I didn't think we'd be at war with Iran over it. The bulk of the files were released on Friday, January 30: not because they were trying to fulfill the EFTA law, but because people were literally pouring out of their homes in rebellion against ICE and it was the only thing the administration had that was big enough to take back the narrative. Jeffrey Epstein, believed untouchable, died in a jail cell. Trump ran a third time just to stay out of jail. Bill Gates and Les Wexner, both thought to be untouchable because of their immense wealth, have had to personally sit through Congressional interrogations; same for a president and senator/ex-Secretary of State. My personal money is on something entirely unrelated -- DOGE -- coming back to bite them all in the ass by the end of the year. More and more truths are coming out of the woodwork in ways that could not be foreseen and cannot be prevented, though the entire weight and will of the US presidency is behind doing just that. ALL of them are sweating balls. Nothing about this has been what the perpetrators of it wanted it to be.

You didn't see any of that coming. And I know you didn't because no one did. So who are you to insist that nothing will change?

Yet we are all changing it, now, collectively.

Every time an individual makes the effort to know the truth of what has happened, such as what happens in this online community and others like it, we honor and help survivors. Look around you: from Gisele Pelicot to Virginia Giuffre, the entire world is talking about sexual crimes in a different way. And even more importantly, as Mme. Pelicot noted, from the abused to the abuser, "Shame must switch sides." And it is.

Every time we personally and individually hold space for real truth to come out, in whatever way it comes out, instead of trying to fill it with our own uncomfortable and self-indulgent whine about how nothing ever changes because we don't like how the subject has made us feel, we honor survivors.

Maybe you're interested in being part of that, maybe you're not. But don't fool yourself that you are some kind of seer for the ages by whimpering about government inaction: for as long as this has gone on, society has mostly turned a blind eye, and whatever actions were taken against the offenders were taken by the local community of the offender.

So know that whatever happens, it already wasn't what you thought, and it won't be what you think, and secrets once thought safely submerged can and do pop right back up through the most unexpected means. Meanwhile, the real justice -- of allowing the deluge of revealed truth to change our collective beliefs and understanding of what these crimes really are and how they damage all of us -- is already happening all around us.

But you won't see it because you don't want to. You're laser focused on the one tiny little part of the whole thing that the perps and their proxies still control, and insisting it will be that way forever, as though the US legal system is The Good Ship Lollipop waiting right off shore, never to hove into view. If you're wise, you'll take your eyes off that mirage of legal justice. It's the lie the perps in power want you to believe, and right now, it's the lie you're helping to perpetrate by posting that hopeless and helpless shit.

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