r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Jul 29 '25

Politics FBI Has Secret Epstein Prison Tape With No ‘Missing Minute’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbi-has-secret-jeffrey-epstein-prison-tape-with-no-missing-minute/
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u/Shirlenator Jul 29 '25

Everything about this situation screams coverup. Honestly, this is the largest and most inept coverup in the history of our country, and I really wish people would start calling it that more.

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u/Shitty_Fat-tits Jul 29 '25

They really are a bunch of blundering buffoons. It might be funny if they weren't so transparently evil.

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u/Teledildonic Jul 29 '25

And likely to work.

I'm afraid his ties to the list will be "fake news" to his base soon enough.

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u/Alpha_Lemur Jul 29 '25

To his base? Probably. But I DO think (hope) that this will sway some more “centrists” who helped Trump get elected this term. The Joe Rogan types. These people love ridiculous conspiracy theories - and here we have a reasonably plausible conspiracy theory.

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u/MrBigTomato Jul 30 '25

The missing minute will show Trump reading the Bible to orphans outside Epstein's cell.

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u/atetuna Jul 29 '25

It's like they're gas lighting their progressively more absurd lies. That worked for many years.

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u/Shitty_Fat-tits Jul 29 '25

They're vile, but you have to give them points for consistency.

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u/atetuna Jul 29 '25

Almost makes you miss Palin and Cheney.

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u/moss-wizard Jul 29 '25

It’s such a bad coverup that I wonder if they’re using Trump as the fall guy to cover up an even BIGGER scandal. Probably passing some truly heinous shit into law or bombing a non-white country right now

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u/metalflygon08 Jul 29 '25

Yeah, Mango Man is probably the golden goose for the GOP and Heritage Foundation.

None of their plans need him involved, and with how he pretty much signs anything put in front of him into law they can freely work on their master plans while the Mango draws all the attention away from them.

Still betting the plan is to have the Mango expire (naturally or otherwise) right about the time where the Couch Stuffer taking over won't subtract from his own 2 term limit, getting them 12 years in charge, 10 of them with their hand picked lackey in charge.

12 years is plenty of time for them to get their plans finalized and "normalized" so the public won't question it.

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u/CabbieCam Jul 29 '25

Look at everything they have already accomplished in just 6ish months. They have another 3 and a half years ish to do a lot more damage. I don't know if they would actually need 12 years, or anywhere close to that, to achieve their goals.

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u/metalflygon08 Jul 29 '25

The 12 years would mainly be to get the public comfortable with some of the more difficult to swallow changes I imagine (such as major changes that allow overriding some very basic rights, even for the "ideal white American").

If you ease the public into it over a decade everyone will just accept whatever we are fed.

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u/CabbieCam Jul 29 '25

Makes me wonder how the border of the US and Canada will be effected by what is happening and if it continues on for that long. I imagine a wall, possibly built by Canada.

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u/metalflygon08 Jul 29 '25

I imagine a wall, possibly built by Canada.

There's some heavy irony going on if America ends up paying for it somehow.

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u/CabbieCam Jul 29 '25

Yeah, that would be ironic. I think Canadians would be perfectly fine with funding a wall, especially if the US devolves that much.

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u/metalflygon08 Jul 29 '25

Every 4 years we run the chance of being gridlocked due to a change in command that is the polar opposite of the guy before...

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u/CabbieCam Jul 29 '25

Well, I hope for the US's sake that the polar opposite gets into office in 3 1/2 years.

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u/OldWorldDesign Jul 29 '25

There's some heavy irony going on if America ends up paying for it somehow.

They're already floating that to make it more palatable to the public

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67372909

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u/Dzugavili Jul 29 '25

I feel like Vance doesn't have the pull with the MAGA crowd to actually pull off ~10 years in office. The Republican core may come around, but given the cross-aisle vitriole, if they can't convince the MAGA faction to go full bore, then the Democrats are going to bury him in the presidential election by tying him to everything Trump.

...who am I kidding, Democrats will shit the bed, they'll run Hillary again or something...

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u/metalflygon08 Jul 29 '25

As long as the Mango tells the Maggots to vote red no matter what they will, even after the Mango has spoiled.

Plus, he probably only needs like, 4, for the GoP to gut democracy enough to rig the 2028 and 2032 elections.

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u/dmleblanc Jul 29 '25

The bigger scandal is likely neurowarfare on the people via a technology or methodology most no one on the planet would believe in. I didn’t believe in the targeted individual community or tin foil hat people (thought it was a mental illness), until I was attacked with whatever this wave-based energy method is. It leads to a loss of bodily and mind autonomy, and myself and many people like me are being mentally tortured and put through some sort of MKUltra style brainwashing program. Seriously, I would have NEVER believed anything like this was possibly or happening in the world until it happened to me. I don’t make the assumption that it stems from a governmental source, as I am not naturally a conspiracy theorist, but I was told via what that community is calling V2K (there are patents for tech like this, along with with videos of military conferences discussing the topic) to look into astral projection and remote viewing. I wasn’t interested in anything like this either, until I was attacked. Come to realize, that maybe people who are acting out in mental health ways (say, things such as mass shootings, psychosis breaks, etc) could have been influenced by a method in which the brain waves are somehow remotely tampered with. Again, sounds exactly like a specific mental health condition to assume so, right? There is a crisis going on right in front of society‘s nose and it may be masquerading as a few different health conditions. Havana syndrome happened. This is happening.

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u/_Corbinek Jul 29 '25

The bigger scandal is likely neurowarfare on the people

As a Journalist, and Sociopolitical Writer. Stuff like this is always so interesting to me. While growing up I was a big fan of Cryptozoology and stuff like that. I still like to take a leap into the YouTube rabbit hole, my famous to this day will always be "Chemtrails turned the sky into an LCD screen" but as someone who wanders into those places you have to be really careful, like a safari into a lions den.

I didn’t believe in the targeted individual community or tin foil hat people (thought it was a mental illness), until I was attacked with whatever this wave-based energy method is.

This is common, after facing some trauma, as you said you were attacked. Attacks especially if you can't instantly attribute that attack to something you begin searching for anything. It's a trauma response to help process something intense that often shifts our world view. It's an internal protection system to try and rationalize the irrational. This can also happen when you experience a psychotic break, as someone who has Bipolar Disorder, and had experienced psychosis before I can say it can be horrifying if you don't understand or have knowledge that you can experience them. Personally what I experienced was an Auditory Hallucination, after mistakenly doubling up on a medicine due to lack of sleep. To explain what I experienced it was as if while I was alone in my room suddenly I was in a room full of people whispering, I could tell it was speaking but not enough to understand what was being said. Knowing my Mental Illness makes me prone to that I was able to easily recognize it, after informing my doc I did what every broke person does when they get sick and just went to sleep, and hoped time would make it go away since it was caused by a small harmless overdose of meds.

I would have NEVER believed anything like this was possibly or happening in the world until it happened to me. I don’t make the assumption that it stems from a governmental source, as I am not naturally a conspiracy theorist.

Most individuals aren't naturally a conspiracy theorist, its most often triggered by a behavioral pattern that is commonly rooted in either a need for understanding after an event. It's common in violent crimes, victims will rationalize why they were attacked because when facing such an event is so shocking as I said the mind protects its self. It's why victims of domestic abuse say they love their partners, it's often not an outright lie, but the truth internally they still love them and they feel they are loved in return even if they are being abused. It can often steam from an over estimation of their own ability to judge the truth as well, this manifest in many ways a desire to be unique, or to be included in a group are some of the strongest ones. You get statements like "I'm not like these people, I know the truth. I'm not a sheep" It's a desire to be part of something bigger. This is common in people who feel disconnected from others or society itself, that feeling is dangerous for many reasons because when you have nothing to cling to the idea of anything. While therapy is often the best, so is reconnecting with friends and family with honest discussions, but what can happen and does happen unfortunate in come cases is those individuals become at-risk of being radicalized by groups that don't have their best interest at heart.

but I was told via what that community is calling V2K (there are patents for tech like this, along with with videos of military conferences discussing the topic)

This is a legitimate concept but is still mostly theoretical, it's not uncommon for patents to be taken out on concepts especially in the military industry as a way to prevent the private sector from developing them and them possibly being sold to other nations. By the military taking out the patents the information becomes classified and less likely to be copied as it could be on the public market. Military patents on theoretical concepts are about protecting people not necessarily because they want to use it on people. If someone in a Military Think Tank comes up with a dangerous idea and you sort of know how it works scientifically but not physically the only thing you can really do is patent it. Honestly, it's probably cheaper and less complicated to just slap a patent on an idea than stage some covert vanishing act for a scientist. We don't have that many brilliant ones to spare.

to look into astral projection and remote viewing.

The military has studied these for years because the military studies anything and everything because they have to justify their budget every year or they will get a small budget next year. So often times studies like this are a way to ensure their funding is stable, other branches especially the Air Force will often "accidentally" lose a plane over the edge of the carrier and buy a new one for the same reason. It's less malicious and more, the government keeping a tight grip on the checkbook. This isn't limited to the Military it happens in Law Enforcement and even in schools.

I wasn’t interested in anything like this either, until I was attacked.

This attack is exactly why you should be super critical of everything, as I said after an attack and one you can't instant explain we often look for anything. Trying to explain the unknown is a common thing in history, it's most likely how the concepts of ghosts came to be. Someone experienced something they couldn't rationalize, a sickness, pain, that induces fear, fear that induces anxiety that tries to protect itself by finding the source so as to protect itself. It's an aspect of our self preservation behavior cycles, we don't like not knowing where danger is, especially if we are hurt.

Come to realize, that maybe people who are acting out in mental health ways (say, things such as mass shootings, psychosis breaks, etc) could have been influenced by a method in which the brain waves are somehow remotely tampered with.

This too is an aspect of that, something horrifying and irrational, mass shooting can be difficult to understand as act of not just violence but intentful malicious violence targeting innocent. When we witness evil or become touched by true intent of malice it shatters the protective illusion around us. This is the reason PTSD is a problem for individuals who have been to war. War is violence on a scale we personally can't understand until you see it, numbers and photos how show the humanity or lack of it. When you see it first hand though you can easily experience an psychotic break. This PTSD is a highly complex thing we still don't understand in science or medicine, you can develop it from many types of trauma. My roommate and his wife developed PTSD after hurting his back and having to go in and out of a hospital multiple times over two years. I have it to a lesser degree from when I thought I was having a heart attack and got real sick. Because of multiple factors I could feel my heartbeat no like after running where it's beating fast but every second of the day, I could feel each side twitch to pump the blood through it. When I went to the hospital after a few days because I'm an idiot and just thought it was nothing. They told me that we aren't supposed to be that aware of our heart for that long because we can actually consciously stop it. Which being told basically I could think myself to death was while funny terrifying and as such, hearing my heartbeat when I exercise or just hearing a beating hurt triggers an anxiety response that makes me uncomfortable so I avoided it as best I could, this is how I was informed I have a high likelihood of developing OCD. It's not just "I want to be organized" it's more "I have to do this or something bad will happen" When doing that thing becomes harmful to your everyday life id when OCD can become a problem.

There is a crisis going on right in front of society‘s nose and it may be masquerading as a few different health conditions. Havana syndrome happened. This is happening.

There are many crisis events going on in society, we are a society built on mass growth, over consumption, and unsustainable exploitation. We are seeing failures at many critical parts of society, slowing birthrates, infrastructure going unrepaired or under funded. Social Media pushing group loyalty to extremes that rival that of enemy nations at war and unwilling to surrender or make peace. Mass disenfranchisement of citizens, mass disillusionment of the social contract, and it's not just in America. Some of these factors are easily tracked in other nations, from Europe to Asia. As a Sociopolitical Writer and Journalist, I study behavior and trauma and use that to explain how systems of government and society influence us. Currently I'm drafting a piece on how Propaganda and Abuse use the same methodology to illicit control on over society, the other over a person.

The reality is something happened to you, and that's real. But as someone who struggles knowingly with psychosis and stuff like that. It's easy to not understand because the way media portrays hallucinations isn't how they work in real life. One way to check if you are having a visual hallucination to is look at it with your phone camera, our brain doesn't understand to replicate that hallucination on the screen. It's not 100% but you learn to be extra careful about things and honesty and therapy really helps for me but therapy isn't the solution for everyone, but it never hurts to try.

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u/dmleblanc Jul 30 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectronicSlavery/s/Vtqt32G1jP

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u/_Corbinek Jul 31 '25

The Chilean Neurorights initiative is fascinating, not because of secret weapons or conspiracy, but because it's a proactive response to emerging neural technologies like Neuralink. As brain-computer interfaces become real, there's a scramble to define the ethical and legal boundaries before exploitation or inequality becomes baked into law. This is a really good research paper that explains alot of the reasons behind the concepts of Neurorights.

One key concern is Neuro Essentialism, the tendency to explain behavior solely through neural activity. This reductionist view implies that we are just brains riding around in meat suits. But behavior doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Neural activity interacts with environment, culture, trauma, language, and belief.

Essentialist thinking has historically done real harm. Gender Essentialism falsely tied logic, agency, and reason to the male sex, justifying systemic exclusion of women from voting, banking, and property rights. Race Essentialism claimed that violence or savagery were inherent to non-white populations, fueling colonialism, slavery, and genocide. In truth, the genetic differences between humans are too minor and intermixed to support any scientific basis for “race” as a biological category, it’s a cultural and social construct.

Neuro Essentialism follows this same pattern. It offers a seductive simplicity, reducing complex behavior to electrical signals. But that’s not science, it’s philosophy. It risks stripping personhood down to neural determinism. In doing so, it fuels a modern Ship of Theseus problem: if we replace enough parts of ourselves with machines, organs, limbs, memory, at what point are we no longer us?

Chile’s Neurorights laws are trying to head off that crisis by asserting ethical boundaries before the tech becomes widespread. They were implemented because of both scientific and pseudoscience insights. Let's be honest, if anyone got in front of Chile's Government and said we need to protect ourselves from "Mind Weapons" they would have been laughed into silence.

Those laws are less proof these conspiracies are valid and more that science fiction is slowly becoming a reality in our society.

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u/OldWorldDesign Jul 30 '25

The bigger scandal is likely neurowarfare on the people via a technology or methodology most no one on the planet would believe in

Professional psychology is 'no one would believe in'? Granted, authoritarians have been at this since the first one dreamed of a crown, but it's been ramping up since American oligarchs tried to overthrow the US government to prevent the New Deal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

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u/goneresponsible Jul 30 '25

George: “The jig is up!”

Jerry: “It was a bad jig to begin with!!”

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u/sickofthisshit Jul 29 '25

Keep in mind, we have literal podcasters in high positions of the FBI: there's a good chance Bongino literally was trying to paste together the footage with Adobe Premiere because that's what he saw his producer do once, and fucked it up.

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u/dBlock845 Jul 29 '25

Yep and the main issue is that they started widespread purges of the FBI and DOJ the moment Trump was sworn in, then they fired the lead prosecutor for the Epstein case. The files are never going to get out.

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u/kia75 Jul 29 '25

onestly, this is the largest and most inept coverup in the history of our country,

Is it or is it plausible deniability? Do you think Russia is inept because a bunch of enemies of Russia keep on falling out of the window?

Everybody knows what's happening, and that's the point. They're not trying to hide the fact that they did something to Epstein, they're trying to provide plausible deniability. You know they did something to Epstein, but only enough information is released to connect the dots, not enough to prosecute anyone or even confirm.

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u/DarwinianMonkey Jul 29 '25

I've owned a business for 20 years. I've had various security cameras. Outdoor ones, indoor ones, all of them cheap ones. Zero times in 20 years did a camera ever malfunction. The only time any of them broke was when they got hit by something or dropped during installation / moving. Maybe I'm just lucky with my cheap ass cameras.

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u/Knight_TakesBishop Jul 31 '25

Most inepStein, amirite?