Let's ask the forum, am I wrong?

Yeah....   @DCPatriot was thinking (alluding) that the Epstein Girls were more 17-ish jail bait, than little girls.  Both are wrong and illegal,.......  But molesting the 12/13 y.o.'s is just 10 levels more beyond  despicable.

I think you were over the top with that accusation.  Just my opinion.

Doesn't this ugly f__ have a ship to attempt to hijack near the Strait of Hormuz?

 

Never thought I'd hear a pro-pediphilia comment on here. 

I take a very strong offense to that, @Weird Tolkienish Figure  After all these years, it's not right!  Shame on you!

MeganC...

But it is up to the Russian people to decide the trajectory for their nation.

They chose their fate when they elected Putin.

You are completely wrong on both counts.  First, the Russian people have never, ever decided the trajectory of their nation.  During the days of the czars, there was nobility, and there was the serf class, who had nothing to say about a damn thing.  During the communist era, the state owned everything, and every living being in Russia was 100% expendable.  That is still the case today.  A totalitarian government under Putin, the people did not elect anyone.  If ever there was a fixed election, they are all fixed in Russia.  And in the remote areas of Russia, the communists are still very much in control.  Every Putin election was fixed.  And when Putin was not running Russia, he was behind the scenes pulling the strings and in real control.

IF there are specific reasons for the purpose of withholding Grand Jury information, victim protection, avoiding slandering those who did nothing wrong, then why not cite those reasons for the non disclosure of the evidence rather than come out and say there is no list, nothing to see here, move along?

It isn't that Republicans aren't reasonable people or that they cannot understand there might be reasons for withholding information pending prosecution, and that releasing it would make a fair trial impossible.

But to dangle this carrot in front of the mule that pulled your wagon for so long and then to act as if it doesn't exist is not only an exceedingly poor read of the room, it calls into question credibility on a serious scale. It is relatively rare that the Right cedes rationality to emotion, unlike the Left, but this is perhaps THE universal hot-button issue, that of those who would exploit minors for sexual purposes.

@DCPatriot We have a legal standard called 'age of consent'. There's a reason, simply because we do not consider our offspring mature enough to be fully fledged adults as a rule, before then. While there are a few exceptional youngsters out there capable of making informed and mature decisions, we impose that age limitation across the board.

Were the 15-16-17 year olds willing? Perhaps, but it does not matter, because they were legally not considered capable of giving consent to engage in sexual activities with adults. There are (or so I have been told) girls out there as young as 12 who have 'relations', which is a product of sexualization at an early age and perhaps the amount of estrogenic substances in diets and elsewhere. BUT they are not old enough to consent until they reach an accepted age for adulthood.

@Smokin Joe

Thanks...a very delicate subject articulated as we've come to expect from you.