I saw a mini-documentary about the ‘resistance’ and most of them were packing M4’s and M249’s but I didn’t see a single Tavor (AK pattern I don’t remember seeing but I wouldn’t discount it).
And you’re right re Jordan, had a brainfart, although I
did mention the West Bank/Jordan border a while ago in another thread.
The M16 family is the most commonly produced rifle on the planet, and what you've pegged for the M249 is, well, I guess it could be an M249, but the M249 is just the US name for the FN Minimi, the most common squad automatic weapon on the planet.
Map of nations which are current users of the FN Minimi:
Map of nations which are current and former users of the M16 family in some capacity, current dark blue and former light blue (just Australia and Afghanistan):
The M16 and Minimi are licensed to all hell, so there's a dozen or more nations that produce them locally, so without actually seeing the serial numbers there's no way of knowing where they came from. To complicate matters, the HK416 has been adopted by several nations and is license built in several factories and, while appearing outwardly as an M16 derivative, is a completely different weapon system.
Let's say that there was an epstein list and that it wasn't deleted in the coverup. What use would putting those names out there be? You can't prosecute and convict someone for being on a list. It could be the basis to start an investigation but just the document itself wouldn't do anything.
Alright I'm ready to respond to this. My actual opinion on the matter is that there never was any "list." Honestly I think Epstein, while being a child abuser and trafficker, was nowhere near as influential as believed. There's a lot of reasons for this but just because there's a picture of him with Trump or Clinton or whatever doesn't mean they were best buddies. Rich folks hang out with rich folks, I'm sure if you put any of these people under the spotlight and picked through all the pictures of the events they've been to and hosted, you'd find tons of pictures of them in various places with the same people, over and over again. Basically I think Epstein was a clout goblin, and he spent a lot of money on facilitating parties and whatever for these elite types to hang out at his place, some of them probably went to his parties without really knowing who the fuck he was, just because he's the guy hosting the parties that other rich people are going to.
As for his child trafficking, I think he did a lot of it, I think there are more than a few elites that did partake in the child fucking, for instance Prince Andrew. I don't think it was as universal as people believe. I do not believe he was some high level broker of child fucking, I think that he liked fucking kids, and I think he had some elite friends that liked fucking kids, and so he helped some of them fuck kids. I find this idea of a universal pedophile cabal running the world hard to believe, mainly because the pedophile cabal is both apparently omnipotent and beyond reproach, but also they need some disgraced school teacher turned shady financier to facilitate the kid fucking, but also Ukraine is for kid fucking, but also the Mossad is for kid fucking, but also that weird rich person camp, you know the one, is for kid fucking, but also... You see my point? Every place or group or whatever which draws the ire of the far right is "well that's who/where facilitates all the kid fucking for The Powers That Be."
Anyway, I don't think there was ever a comprehensive "client list." I think that Epstein has become a boogeyman and lightning rod for a lot of people, and I think a lot of that is because of not necessarily Trump, but absolutely the people around him. JD Vance, for his faults, I do not think fucks kids, same with Pam Bondi. Vance wants to be someone, he wants to be president. There's no way that he would intentionally go on podcasts and talk about "well yeah we need to release that Epstein list" and then potentially shatter his reputation by sitting on his hands. I think that perpetuating this narrative of an "Epstein List" for the election cycle, and therefore insinuating that the Biden administration or The Pee That Poos or whatever is intentionally covering for an elite cabal of pedophiles was extremely helpful for Trump and Republicans in general. I think while they didn't believe to the extent that most did, they probably believed that there were in fact at least some things they could fast track to look like they're taking action on Epstein intelligence, and when they got in the realized that, holy shit, there's not nearly what they expected, and what they do have is sensitive, and they can't just dump it all. The result is that they are forced to face the monster that they are at least partially responsible for creating. As for truthfulness of the administration's statement/tampering/whatever, I find it incredibly unlikely that the course of events has gone how Bondi and whatever have said. The problem with the administration is that they just fucking lie, all the time, through their teeth, intentionally trying to blur the lines between fact, fiction, and something else. Additionally, Trump's administration has taken great care to purge anyone that would contradict their narrative. I have no doubt that Bondi or Kash or anyone else never bothered to actually crack the binder on fucking anything and actually read a single word in print. I think they likely gave orders to their people to "get me the Epstein list!" and, being eager to please or fearful to disappoint, their underlings insisted that, absolutely, they would work to get that list fast quick and in a hurry. I'm sure every time it came up the same underlings gave the same shit of "two more weeks." Eventually they knuckle down and get them to admit the truth, that they don't have a fucking thing they can release. This leaves the administration holding the bag, being forced to answer whether or not they are blustering retards that just lied to everyone for a year, or are they actively working to cover up an elite pedophile cabal. I find it very likely that the insistence of there being absolutely nothing is bullshit, I'm sure there is something, probably part of some kind of investigation. Some of it was probably destroyed, I'm sure, either through incompetence or malice. Most of it, however, I believe never existed.
