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Great do Epstein next

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He probably already knows, because, well, ya know

It should be bipartisan at this point to demand the release.

If it makes everyone in office look bad then all the better!

Because a ton of people in office were his "clients". This country is rotten

Reading the Epstein saga start to finish has been instructive as to how power works in this country.

I previously had not understood it.

What you wrote is very interesting (and intriguing). What readings would you recommend?

Not the person you asked but what (s)he described sounds like "One nation under black mail" by Whitney Web. Actually worried whether the author would get Epsteined herself.

> (s)he

'they' works wonders in such cases :) (hope this is not seen as snarky or whatever)

Not the previous commenter, but I would recommend Hiding In Plain Sight, by Sarah Kendzior. It centers on Donald Trump, but covers in great detail what is publicly known about the seedy history of the people in his orbit, including Epstein, and it calls into question how the people in power in the political, business, and media worlds have left so many questions go unanswered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzio...

I think Biden sniffing every kid he could get his hands on qualifies as "hiding in plain sight".

That's precisely why we'll never see it.

No I don't know, tell us.

Because he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and has personally seen the island

Trump, a sexual offender known to grab pussies of random women, had a relationship with Epstein.

Yeah, unless his dementia worsens even more he's not going to release those files.

Unless the release won't actually hurt him. There's a big group of persons that will aspire to be powerful enough to do those sorts of things... It would help strengthen his image

I think the desire to keep that stuff quiet is bipartisan because loads of people from both parties are exposed, as well as too many wealthy people.

Now that we also have P-Diddy it makes me wonder just how many high class sleazy pimps with blackmail operations are operating at a given time. This must be a standard racket.

Back in the late 2010s, I worked with someone who had a personal relationship with PD, to the point that my business partner was soft pitching our business to PD...

The person that I worked with partied with PD and mirrored some of the same (alleged) sort of toxic and abusive antics in their own home and social circles, which I experienced firsthand. There was a darkness emanating from this person that I haven’t really felt before or since. We ultimately stopped working together due to them violating our contract.

The public allegations so far totally jibe with my experience associating with PDs associates and my limited visibility into the world of PD. I’m very glad to have come to my senses and avoided any closer orbit of this world.

That darkness… wow. I’ve met someone like that, and it made me think I was crazy. I guess it’s your brain stem warning you that this person is dangerous in a certain kind of way— extreme dark triad traits.

There's a good chance it will happen, Musk has been pushing for this.

Just like he’s a free speech absolutist, right?

I doubt he's pushing for it internally:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfrie...

Yeah, you can bet it won’t be on a slow news day.

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