Posted on 07/09/2019 3:47:59 PM PDT by Eurotwit
The arrest of the apparent billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein at a New Jersey airport on Saturday on federal charges for crimes he was accused of during the Bush administration should not be surprising to anyone who has followed the news carefully. He may have escaped in 2008 with a ludicrous one-year stint in a county jail that he was allowed to leave six days a week, but his name has never quite been out of the headlines. Between 2008 and 2015 Epstein reportedly settled more than a dozen lawsuits from Jane Does alleging sexual assault; the youngest of his alleged victims was 14 years old.
The only question is why did it take this long? Why was the ludicrous deal that gave Epstein and his fellow conspirators immunity in exchange for a slap-on-the-wrist jail sentence ever allowed to go through in the first place?
The most obvious answer is, of course, that Epstein knows people. Lots of people. A list of his reported friends, business associates, and legal counselors reads like a #MeToo and Manhattan sleazebag All-Star team, with a few stringers pulled in from the media and both political parties: Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Mort Zuckerman, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, the current president of the United States. The obscene deal that kept Epstein out of what could easily have been a life sentence in prison was negotiated by Alexander Acosta, the current Secretary of Labor, who was then a federal prosecutor in Florida. In 2002, Graydon Carter, the longtime editor of Vanity Fair, removed references to Epstein's sexual activity from a profile, including testimony from alleged victims, according to the article's author. "He's sensitive about the young women," Carter is said to have explained. Won't somebody please not think of the children?
It will be at least another week before 2,000 or so pages of documents related to Epstein's exploits will be released following the order of an appeals court last week. When we finally see them we will likely be able to answer questions about the identities of the "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister, and other world leaders" who have also been accused of sexual abuse by Epstein's alleged victims. Is one of them a Razorbacks football fan? Who was the "famous prime minister"? Was Trump speaking from personal experience when he said in 2002 that Epstein "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"?
We should keep all of this in mind the next time we feel inclined to sneer at so-called "low-information voters," especially the kookier sort. You know the people I mean. Wackos. Gun nuts. 8channers. Conspiracy theorists in Middle America who watch InfoWars (one of the few journalistic outlets to discuss the issue of pedophilia regularly) and post about QAnon and "spirit cooking" and the lizard people. The news that a globalized cabal of billionaires and politicians and journalists and Hollywood bigwigs might be flying around the world raping teenaged girls will not surprise them in the least because it is what they have long suspected. For the rest of us it is like finding out that the Jersey Devil is real or turning on cable news and finding Anderson Cooper and his panel engaged in a matter-of-fact discussion of Elvis’s residence among the Zixls on the 19th moon of Dazotera.
Among other things, the Epstein case forces us to ask ourselves some uncomfortable questions about the real meaning of "fake" news. There is, or should be, more to being informed than fact-checking formalism. If you have spent the last few years earnestly consuming mainstream left-of-center media in this country you will be under the impression that the United States has fallen under the control of a spray-tanned Mussolini clone who is never more than five minutes away from making birth control illegal. If you watch Fox News and read conservative publications, you no doubt bemoan the fact that Ronald Reagan's heir is being hamstrung by a bunch of avocado toast-eating feminist witches. Meanwhile, Alex Jones's audience will tell you that America, like the rest of the world, is ruled by a depraved internationalist elite whose ultimate allegiance is not to countries or political parties or ideologies but to one another. These people believe in nothing. They will safeguard their wealth and privilege at any cost. They will never break rank. And they will commit unspeakable crimes with impunity, while anyone who dares to speculate openly is sued or hounded out of public life as a kook.
Which of these worldviews is closest to the truth?
All I know is when the wikileaks came out I sat and read them...days and days worth and there were emails that you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt were code...spending unbelieveable amounts of money on pizza (flying in pizza and stuff)...then you go and look at Tony Podesta’s artwork in his house (he and his brother were mentioned many times in the wikileaks)...when you see that art you have zero doubt pizzagate was true.
Then maybe last year or end of 2017 I read a news article (regular news station not a blog or something like that) which talked about a group of priests who identified the children they targeted and once they did they gave them necklaces that had a slice of pizza on it. Police had gotten involved and it was just a news report...I never questioned it again.
” It’s so disgusting I won’t even post links to it here, but people who have looked at this issue have seen it, and only some really sick individual would consider it “art.” “
I saw some of that crap - you’re SPOT ON.
Bet there’s a lot of nervous pedos tonight.
I read that Acosta’s family was threatened. May be why Trump seemed to defend him. Time will tell.
Recently I asked my son if he believes in pizzagate. He said, “Yes, look at the artwork in Tony Podesta’s home.”
Yeah it is. After all, isn’t this absolute true reason behind the coupe against Trump? Think about it and how it all began with those emails...
“The dungeon and other disinformation put out to redirect the conversation has nothing to do with the actual perps and facts of Pizzagate.”
It’s the shills, trolls, pedo defenders and enablers that put the disinformation out there claiming ‘the dungeon’ was under Pedo Pong Pizza. It’s actually alleged to be under the Pegasus Museum.
“its a person or people that use the power of hindsight to convince others that they’re an oracle of sorts.”
WRONG. It’s the good guys, that are fixing this mess, telling us what’s going on since the corrupt media is controlled by the same evil people that are being taken down.
This... 👍
Humblegunner...the village is missing you
Thank you. I had forgotten what it was called.
That person made an observation that applies to you far too often.
Your reply is typical lowest-common-denominator vulgarity.
re: “The rest of you naive, heads in the sand deniers are finally realizing that yes, these “impossible” things might just be true. That sometimes (many times) these “conspiracy theories” are actually true!”
Failed on Sandy Hook, failed on Y2K.
Those were NOT insignificant fails ...
Alefantis also stated in a site/online mag dedicated to the DC social scene that Comet Pizza did have a basement before that became inconvenient to him. I don’t have the link anymore because I eventually decided I needed to try to keep the sick stuff I saw on his and Podesta’s social media out of my head as much as possible, but I hadn’t been taken down last time I looked (and it was also available on archive.org at that time).
Well said.
What further convinced me was the email - in Austin, I think - asking fellow elites at the end of the workday how many wanted to share a single slice of pizza.
Multiple movers and shakers are going to gather together to share the eating of one slice of pizza?
It was on the face of it so bizarre, so irrational, that I knew it must be code for perversity.
Facebook has instituted a new policy regarding death threats....
Whilst in early May they placed individuals such as Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer as well as Infowars on their list of "Dangerous Individuals and Organisations... And, no this is not a joke. https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1148737160918523904
On a long ago visit to NYC I had a pizza at Epstein’s Pizza.
Q predicted many things that have come to pass. To characterize it as nothing more than hindsight is simply inaccurate. I’ll point out just two Q predictions among many that have come to pass (actually one that came true and one that is coming true as we speak). The first was Q’s prediction of John Perry Barlow’s death. If you don’t know who he was, look him up. Supposedly Barlow peacefully died in his sleep. His death occurred about a week after Q essentially predicted it. The second was his prediction a few months ago that Rachel ‘Ray’ Chandler would be in the news soon. Ray Chandler is intimately caught up in the Epstein scandal. Here’s a picture of her with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s plane.
https://cdn.qmap.pub/images/f973303a972484f4d38e0ee0cf67a66211e9210a59d6fb87d822c7114c88c1e1.jpg
It’s time to start opening your eyes people.
“WRONG. It’s the good guys, “
Well, the good guys are being pretty damn stupid telegraphing their moves/discoveries to the scumbags raping kids.
By the way, the implication regarding John Perry Barlow’s death is that he was murdered because of what he knew regarding Securedrop, a phony whistle blower program run by the CIA.
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