The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes)

Hahaha, no.

The US could invade maybe two countries with a GDP around 1/4 ours, and actually persistently occupy them for maybe a few years.

Our economy is crashing extremely rapidly, we’ve functionally lost the ability to build new warships or aircraft in anything approaching a timely or affordable manner… and, because we have decided to tariff and threaten or militarily attack basically everyone everyone…

All of our supply chains for a great deal of our fancy schmancy military tech doesn’t work any more.

You cant build complex guided missiles and computer chips and sensors that aim them or night vision goggles without access to a wide array or rare earth minerals, most of which China basically has a near total monopoly of.

We don’t have the native industrial base to build anywhere near everything we would need to, to actually autarkicly sustain our own war machine.

… we can’t even feed or house our population at a reasonable cost anymore, our internal infrastructure is physically falling apart, and our cybersecurity is beyond laughably comprimised.

There is no way this country would ‘win’ trying to occupy Taiwan.

China + Japan + SK + all of goddamned SEA + potentially even Australia vs US = we fucking lose hard.

We may be able to get away with some neo-Monroe Doctrine bullshit for a while.

And keep funding genocides in the ME, and doing random airstrikes and spec ops shennanigans in poorer countries.

Thats about it.

This recent analogy is completely unlike the scenario we are talking about.

You are talking about an independent bad actor who is making requests and attempting to do alibi construction via independent organizations that they are not a member of.

The scenario with the pre-dated Epstein letter is potentially an ‘inside job’ kind of scenario, where the bad actors would be members of the organization that would be facilitating the crime.

It would be more like a jewelry store owner hiring a stick up man to rob and then torch his place so the store owner can collect an insurance payout on his otherwise failing business.

And then the jewelry store owner has a drafted up version of the insurance claim paperwork that is dated to the day before the actual robbery and arson took place, because the stick up man he hired has to delay 24hrs at the last minute.

So then the robbery/arson occurs on the 10th, the store owner goes back to his insurance claim draft, moves the date forward a day, saves it as another file, then submits that to the insurance people.

… but, a subsequent law enforcement investigation into the entire thing finds that the jewelry store owner actually forgot to delete the old draft of the insurance claim, dated to the 9th, prior to the robbery and arson.

Writing the report in advance makes you look guilty even if it wasn’t murder

Correct.

The document with the August 9th date we are talking about was not actually released by the AG office.

It was discovered to exist during the subsequent FBI investigation into the entire event/affair.

As in, they had this drafted up, you know, oddly, suspiciously, but did not release it publically, because that would indeed have been odd, strange and potentially incriminating… but they also forgot to delete it.

Which, by your own logic, makes them look guilty.

Yep.

Uh huh.

That’s… the entire point.

From the article:

The document released by the US Department of Justice in the latest set of the Epstein Files describes Epstein being found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in Manhattan, where he was declared dead.

However it is dated Friday, August 9, 2019, while prison records and official document show it was not until August 10, 2019, that a corrections officer delivering breakfast found Epstein unresponsive in his cell.

Here is the document that actually was released to the public, dated August 10th:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-manhattan-us-attorney-death-defendant-jeffrey-epstein

And here is the seeming early draft of it, dated August 9th:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%25208/EFTA00013180.pdf

… these links are both in a high level comment that our own conversation descends from.

Please familiarize yourself with the actual details of the case, detective.

And potentially also SK, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, etc.

It really would be like the dumbest possible thing the US could do.

Well uh, as per my last email:

… sorry, lol.

Goodness, 4’ 11" certainly is short!

Not to, like, height shame or whatever, but yeah, thats… just literally they would have needed a booster seat and like pedal extensions or custom pedals or something, to drive a modern giganto-truck.

I would say “you’d be surprised” but you evidently are also a corpo or ex corpo, so… no, you wouldn’t be.

Yeah, most of your (ex)coworkers are in fact devious, petty, self-centered idiots.

Yep.

… evidently the concept of planning a nefarious act is… a novel concept, for some.

The point is roughly the same as the point of Rogaine, or Viagra.

The entire market demo of modern ‘trucks’ is shooting for ‘make driver feel like big fancy manly man.’

Danke!

That all sounds like a pretty good diagnosis/evaluation to me.

You got got by somebody.

But do not spend any more time trying to investigate with the aim of like, determining the culprit.

You need to act defensively.

See my other comment.

Take the smoke break.

You’re not nuts.

But most people think you are, because they are morons.

You do actually have to calm down though, or you’ll end up in a psych hold, which is probably highly undesirable if you now no longer have immigration type paper work.

Think of it this way:

You are a crisis management and resolution reaponse team of one.

Seems like everyone else involved in your network, wherever you are living, is an idiot, as well as the cops you’ve talked to thus far.

Sounds like you’re probably also making backups and records of everything you can, which is good.

Now, what I would suggest is to do an inventory of what kinds of documents you lost, which can be replaced, which can’t.

The ones you can get replaced, start the process of getting them replaced.

Calmly.

Put out whatever the equivalent of a credit freeze is wherever you are, for… basically everything.

Banks, any kind of ID that’s tied to you and/or your physical address… you’re gonna need to contact all of them, try to explain what’s happened, tell them you’ve already contacted law enforcement, give them a name or number of something so they can liaise, and also take you more seriously.

Again, you have to do this calmly.

It also probably would be best to show up to as many of such places as you can, in person, to explain things, with the physical IDs and such you hopefully/presumably still have.

Again, calmly, cool, collected, resonable.

… This is all gonna take a while to iron out.

A marathon, not a sprint.

Eventually, what would probably be ideal is getting new bank cards, new/updated IDs, new phone number… but do not try to change everything all at the same time, otherwise their own internal systems will flag you trying to recover from an identity theft as you potentially doing fraud.

You can come out the other side of this ok, but you must maintain your composure.

Yeah.

Materiel is like… equipment.

To the two people who’ve downvoted you so far… its not a meaningless nitpick.

The iconic M82 50 BMG Anti-Materiel rifle was at least initially invented for doing things like disabling a car from a distance, for doing damage to a radio transmitter, fucking up a parked helicopter or jet, intentionally detonating an IED, something like that.

Yes, you can use it as an anti-personnel rifle, but it is heavier, less accurate, and has a lower effective range, as well as a good deal more recoil, than actual sniper rifles designed to kill people or roughly human sized hunting game animals at an extreme range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-materiel_rifle

Basically, an Anti-Materiel Rifle is somewhere between an old school Anti Tank Rifle, and a Sniper Rifle.

So… contextually, unless you are a Vertibird, or in Power Armor… you are probably not ‘made of materiel’.

TitanFall 2.

Metal Gear Solid V.

… maybe a slightly more impressive than average potato.

Amazing what you can do with a well optimized engine, eh?

Ow my brain.

Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

Shhh you’ll upset the quantum mystics that need to believe magic is real!

Oh my god.

That really would be the cherry on top of this goddamned clownworld timeline.

Do you know if the name has some kind of double or joke meaning, in German?

Uh, nicht spreche deustch, or something.

This is a joke, but I have unironically seen and known a number of short kings / queens who…

… pretty much actually do need a child seat to be able to safely operate a large SUV or truck.

If you can’t or can just barely actually see around you… you shouldn’t be driving that car.

This was my first thought as well, this… this has to be taking place in Utah, in some way of another.

Gideon Dunster is such a Mormon name that it is actually comical to me.

Ok, rare to see such an explicit kind of Great Filter / Idiot Test play out at scale, but here we go!

Anybody who is still using Discord after it requires you to personally directly link your drivers liscense or w/e to it, well, they’re fine with every government apparatus of any kind knowing everything they say and do on Discord.

Good luck to those glorious morons, truly, good luck.

You are going to need it.

Super, duper hope you’re not queer or trans or neurodivergent.

… you… think the 23 concentration camps currently being built by ICE / FEMA are … only for migrants?

Brown people?

Well you trust the current fascist regime a lot more than I do.