How stupid do they think everyone is?
I’ll state the obvious, then make one observation.
The Obvious Epstein was an intelligence operation, probably US intelligence and Mossad working together. Every room had cameras, and everyone who partook can be blackmailed.
Observation: The great temptation with the Epstein files isn’t to release them or destroy them, the great temptation is to use them, because they represent a vast amount of power.
Anyway, British and American elites have a predilection for under-age sex and various sexual pecadillos. A taste for being spanked and buggery, in particular, are endemic in the English ruling class due to what goes on in a lot of boys boarding schools. This is so much the case that enjoying being beaten used to be called “the English vice”. We pretend it was just a Victorian thing, but it continues.
Being part of the ruling class traditionally comes with the ability to ignore conventional mores, but members of that class didn’t (and still don’t seem to) fully understand what the changes is surveillance technology mean. Every time some idiot is outed because they filmed their own sexual perversions I laugh, but, simply put, if one must be depraved, keep it in house, don’t film it, you moron, and don’t trust anyone. (This isn’t exactly advice, but a powerful person being blackmailed is even worse than a powerful person with a private vice.)
Trump’s has so far been able to push his program thru, but his approval ratings are underwater and important goals, like the end of birthright citizens immunity to revocation of citizenship are still to come. Trump needs leverage. I suspect he’s decided to use the leverage on hand.
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mago
Desperate people make desperate moves thinking the marks won’t notice.
This dementia clown has shot his feeble wad down his leg, and he’s not pulling anyone else’s.
Eric Anderson
“And, you.
You behind the bench there.
STAND STILL LADDY”!
Roger understood.
different clue
Here’s an article titled: ” Donald Trump in Panic as Ghislaine Maxwell Threatens to Expose Secrets About Epstein Parties “.
Here is the link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Full_news/comments/1luybnz/donald_trump_in_panic_as_ghislaine_maxwell/
Comments in the comment thread range from ” she’ll be suicided soon” to ” she’s extorting a pardon and will get one”. Normally I would think she would be suicided for just making such a threat. But then I wonder why she wasn’t suicided like Epstein to begin with, before a trial could happen. What forcefield of protection did/does she have that Epstein did not have?
Maybe her spy-guy father taught her some survival-craft. Maybe she long-ago placed copies of enough evidence to matter in some very secret very trusted hands with standing instructions to release it all if anything happened to her. And made sure all the authorities knew about this in general. If she did that, then she could still be “dead-man’s pedal” safe from getting suicided now that she is making demands and threats.
Oakchair
How stupid do they think everyone is?
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Functionally, what is the difference between stupid, don’t care, and too powerless to do anything about it?
Everyone knows the spy/military complex killed JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. Has anything been done? Nope.
Everyone knows Epstein was killed to silence him. Has anything been done? Nope.
Everyone knows autism and chronic illnesses are skyrocketing. Has anything been done? Nope.
Everyone knows a genocide is being committed. Has anything been done? Nope.
We could go on and on and on and on…
This is what a dystopia feels like. Watching as the ruling class commits atrocity after atrocity. Suffering while they maim and poison you and everyone you know. They flaunt it because what everyone actually understands completely and fully is that no one will be held to account.
Jessica
I am curious how the MAGA base will handle this. Cleaning up deep state secrets was one Trump’s key promises to them.
If they let him get away with this, then he is the Obama of the Right. Promise them anything, but give them war and goodies for the richest.
Ian, you are absolutely right. The Epstein files are most powerful held back, kept as a Sword of Damocles hanging over many at the top.