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Beware ‘Ragebait Engagement Farming’
American Thinker ^ | 13 Jul, 2025 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 07/13/2025 4:04:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Luircin

Indeed.


21 posted on 07/13/2025 5:07:03 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Clarice offers a well-written defense of Bondi and the DOJ, but her argument isn’t conclusive.

She leans on an absence of evidence she couldn’t access even if it existed, downplays serious red flags, cites sources with personal stakes (like Dershowitz), and relies on trust in institutions that many no longer share.

It’s a plausible rebuttal—not proof that nothing’s being hidden. In fact, it reads more like a skilled defense attorney’s closing argument than a definitive debunking.


22 posted on 07/13/2025 5:10:15 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: MtnClimber

Good article, but I’ll still prefer my “Occam’s razor” hypothesis: releasing what Epstein files exist would implicate Republicans along with some Democrats at a time when the Senate and House have thin GOPee majorities. They simply think the risk is too great, and it doesn’t go beyond that reasoning.


23 posted on 07/13/2025 5:12:54 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: MtnClimber

Epstein videoed everything.

Where are the tapes of Clinton screwing 15 year olds?

Dozens of billionaires, politicians and royalty are on those tapes raping young girls.

Nobody has been charged. This is a monstrous scandal.

This is Bondi’s fault.


24 posted on 07/13/2025 5:13:44 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy, now with 88% plausibly anti-Semitic posts!)
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To: MtnClimber

Doing right has no end as the Epstein case is just the beginning.


25 posted on 07/13/2025 5:17:03 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: MtnClimber

I believe the “Epstein Files” were destroyed We still have Ghislaine Maxwell in a 20 year prison sentence with very little information from her
This entire case is bizarre.


26 posted on 07/13/2025 5:17:06 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Theophilus

‘My fantasy is for our government to stop gaslighting us. ’

That’s one of mine as well.


27 posted on 07/13/2025 5:18:13 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: griswold3

So Blondi just had a pile of ash on her desk?


28 posted on 07/13/2025 5:28:55 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: RoosterRedux

That is my opinion as well.


29 posted on 07/13/2025 5:35:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
The internet and social media have given rise to paid professional influencer base that is desperate to manufacture controversial and inflammatory topics for content that produces hits for their social media sites to generate fast income.

One good viral video can make them $20,000 in a matter of weeks so they jump on anything that they can use to hype as a pretext to drive media coverage.

A lot of people are making a lot of money producing social media content to stir people up and make them angry to drive interest in their social media sites.

30 posted on 07/13/2025 5:36:37 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Theophilus

ASIC lists and vague information that could not prove de a “preponderance of evidence “ in order to convict anyone.


31 posted on 07/13/2025 5:48:40 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Sirius Lee

I see that a lot of people here consider the fervent desire to see justice done in the Epstein case a mere distraction from more pressing matters like jumping into or escalating one of our forever wars. The Epstein case and the type of evil that it represents should not be suffered to be swept under the rug by any decent people. Keep pushing; we’ll never be a healthy society as long as crimes like this go unanswered.


32 posted on 07/13/2025 5:51:25 AM PDT by Kinzua (What have we allowed to happen?)
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To: Luircin

>> people don’t like having their fantasies crushed

That is a fact, and “wishcasting” is a serious mental health problem on both sides of the aisle.


33 posted on 07/13/2025 5:55:45 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: cgbg

The case is closed.

The DOJ and FBI are not investigating anything on this case.


“Or so the Germans would have us believe!”


34 posted on 07/13/2025 5:57:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: griswold3

>> This entire case is bizarre.

Only explanation that connects all the dots for me is that Epstein was somehow working in conjunction with the intelligence community. And that itself is bizarre, although considering what those imperial bastards have done over the decades, not entirely incredible.


35 posted on 07/13/2025 5:58:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: rdcbn1

“A lot of people are making a lot of money producing social media content to stir people up and make them angry to drive interest in their social media sites.”

Good points—but that is just the beginning of the story.

Everything the administration does is put under an intense microscope.

That gives much less room for error.


36 posted on 07/13/2025 6:03:33 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: MtnClimber
There is absolutely no doubt that Epstein was running an operation where he trafficked in pedophilia activities to rich and powerful people.

The fact that the "Epstein Tapes" are reported to include huge amounts kiddie porn simply proves that Epstein was using not just using access to underage girls for his operation, he was also supplying kiddie porn to his clients and blackmail targets as well as using his jail bait sex slaves to further his subversion schemes .

The number of people in government and positions of responsibility that we are seeing taken down by pedophilia and kiddie porn is staggering so Feldman's dismissal of "pizza gate" activities ring hollow.

Not sure why she has chosen to take this position , but she is spreading a totally false narrative.

I reluctantly support President Trump's decision to send Epstein's Lolita Island affair on a trip down the memory hole in the spirit of realpolitik but to try to re write history and say that the Epstein Affair was a bogus, blown out of proportion media event is total disinformation.

Frankly, Clarice Feldman's new avocation as an Epstein apologist tends to make a Mossad connection to the Epstein affair a lot more plausible.

37 posted on 07/13/2025 6:05:03 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Sirius Lee

The US society of today simply does not consider pedophilia a serious offense. In the 1960s in a number of States, rape was a capital offense. “Carnal knowledge” of a child under a given age was a capital offense, regardless if it was rape or “consetual.” But another couple years of Democrat rule and pedophilia will be legalized. The ‘Rats and their media are working hard on that. I don’t agree that all the people trying to make the story go away are pedos, but the tide has been moving in that direction for years.

I usually read Clarice for wisdom and clarity on a subject. Not sure she succeeded today the way she usually does.


38 posted on 07/13/2025 6:50:41 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: MtnClimber

Likely scrubbed it long before any criminal investigation.

Bimgo if anything a list would be in numbers in case it was found and the names in a safe place off shore.

Ain’t conspiracies fun Moe


39 posted on 07/13/2025 7:10:16 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rdcbn1

I go to The Conservative Treehouse and there are a ton of new names making posts about how they were MAGA but this has ruined it for them. Yeah, right.

This reminds me of Bonfire of the Vanities where a mob creates misery out of nothing while those leading the hysteria all have a personal gain angle.


40 posted on 07/13/2025 7:17:26 AM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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