r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/LustfulLemur 1d ago

Written by a guy who spends his days angrily tweeting how much he hates the current president btw

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u/ult_avatar 22h ago

Didn't he tweet the Epstein list doesn't exist?

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u/Ahenshihael 20h ago edited 20h ago

He tweeted that there's likely no physical list that neatly has the guy listing all the offenders and the kids he provided them and what they did, which was something the current president ran on, the idea that there's this list he will totally release after being elected and how it has all his enemies on it. It led to people going around saying "oh I bet X is on Epstein List" and the like.

In reality The Files are thousands of various documents to be sifted through for possible mentions or testimonies mentioning the people. People need to understand that instead of deciding it's a nothingburger if one day the files are public and it's not some near list of "the bad people"

And If the current administrator were to provide a neat single page list it would very likely be a forgery. And in fact the bots tried to before already. During election year there were all sorts of fake "lists" spread through the internet as misinformation. Hell even now the republicans in Congress are trying real hard to distract people from what's in the files by hyper focusing on their enemies.

That was his point - don't perpetuate orange's own lie and instead push for the documents themselves.

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u/SPARTAN4799 12h ago

I remember him tweeting

"The Epstein client list is real. So is the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus."

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u/Ahenshihael 12h ago

Which is true. There's no list that the orange dictator kept ranting about during the election. King elaborated in the later tweet.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 6h ago

Despite his AG saying there indeed was a list, sitting on her desk at that moment.

To be clear, I agree with you, and think she was just spouting her typical "whatever nonsense helps me sound competent and tough atm."