Trump DOJ just erased one of the Epstein files from their website

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https://xcancel.com/EdKrassen/status/2017302514169700830

No wonder the FBI is hell bent on trying to take down archive[today].

I don't get it. Can't DOJ do 'grep Trump' before release?

Oh, I think everyone competent was fired. They probably believed stuff like "child molesters should be jailed," which would make them a danger to the current administration.

Especially with all the stuff implicating Trump.

So the thing about autocratic states is that they do not value competence; they value loyalty. Accordingly, they are very poorly run. This is pretty much a universal with the arguable exception of China (which is weird by autocratic states standards in many ways). The people in positions to do this in DOJ will be loyalists, not people who are good at their jobs.

One wonders what makes competence and loyalty mutually exclusive.

They’re probably not totally mutually exclusive. But blind loyalty to a _person_ (which is what you’re looking at here) is mostly a not-very-smart-person thing.

(To be clear, loyalty to a country or to an ideal is a different thing, but unshakeable loyalty to a single person is normally a bad sign.)

Maybe the grep guy made a conscientious 'oversight'.

Sounds to me that some of the people involved in censoring the files may be "accidentally" letting some of the Trump incriminating stuff through. Malicious compliance is the best compliance.

Or could be incompetence.

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