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Wicked Blue

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4. Everything can be used as a distraction from everything else

Reply to RandySF (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 11:59 AM

Friday

It's the Shell Game --

1. A game, usually involving gambling, in which a person hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then shuffles them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object.

2. A fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting conspicuous things to hide something else.

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Justice Department says it's releasing 3 million pages from its Jeffrey Epstein files [View all] BumRushDaShow Friday OP

Covered with suspicious-looking Sharpie markings, no doubt Wicked Blue Friday #1

The Epstein files are now the distraction. RandySF Friday #2

Everything can be used as a distraction from everything else Wicked Blue Friday #4

Completely redacted UpInArms Friday #3

I got some interesting bank transfer memos FakeNoose Friday #5

That's a lot of files. They must have suspected wrongdoing long ago. twodogsbarking Friday #6

Does this statement mean they've done all they're going to? Bayard Friday #7

In AP's initial article, the mentioned this - BumRushDaShow Friday #9

Heads should still roll over the long missed deadline, Bayard Friday #13

If you were sexually assaulted and wanted nobody to know about it, Igel Friday #15

One suspects a bit of self-misdirection. Igel Friday #14

Whatever they release will be like Nixon's Transcripts tonekat Friday #8

And I would guess, adding the names of louis-t Friday #10

Wait a sec. . . isn't the DOJ saying that even the USSC doesn't have jurisdiction to make them in2herbs Friday #11

You're merging two unmergeable things. Igel Friday #16

So they were using ICE brutality to divert attention from Epstein, but now they are using Epstein to divert attention Martin68 Friday #12

Obviously. Igel Friday #17