Posted on 02/06/2026 5:03:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
Governments habitually lie. They lie so often that it is peculiar for governments to claim “authority” on anything other than falsehood. Before the Gutenberg press and general literacy, “authorities” announced self-serving lies in the public square. With the arrival of newsprint, “authorities” disseminated State propaganda as daily news. Radio and television revolutionized the mass manipulation of minds. The adoption of the personal computer, the rise of the Internet, the commercialization of pocket computers posing as handheld phones, and the sticky web of an ever-growing social media complex have made it possible for government “authorities” to reach inside every human brain and squish it into compliance. AI-powered machines now manufacture and disseminate lies faster than human-powered governments ever could.
Most people are only now realizing that — even in so-called “free” countries — government-sanctioned propaganda, censorship, and misdirection are pervasive and routine. To the surprise of citizens taught to “trust the authorities,” the unvarnished truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Governments regularly employ psychologically manipulative, and even exploitative, forms of information warfare against their own citizens. Politicians and generals tell lies to mobilize the American public for war. Economists and central bankers tell lies to justify money-printing that robs from the middle class and rewards wealthy elites. Government regulatory bodies tell lies about the safety of food and medicine before taking lucrative jobs inside the global food and pharmaceutical industries. The Chamber of Commerce calls the offshoring of blue-collar jobs and the importation of slave-produced crap “free trade.”
How can the word “authority” maintain any positive meaning when “authorities” are always wrong? At least since the First World War, scientific “authorities” have promised that human industry and mass commercialization would kill the planet in the “next few years.” After Trump thumped Hillary like a drum, Intelligence Community “authorities” concocted
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I’ll go out on a limb and say heterophobia is behind a lot of the hatred of Epstein. The “Me Too” movement made heterosexual conduct morally frowned upon. Icons of the past like Martin Luther King were outed as heterosexual. The line between acceptable and unacceptable heterosexual conduct has shifted, so that a “blonde joke” is no longer considered funny, and men are being told in subtle and blatant ways that they should be ashamed that they have a functioning member. In the Epstein files, all I have seen is what used to be considered healthy skirt chasing by adult men of adult women. He had his underage harem, but there is not a shred of evidence that anyone else, other than maybe Andrew, had a piece of it. The loudest critics are jealous barren men and women who selectively decided that now that they are out of the dating pool, dating is disreputable. The guilt by association is also unfair and many innocent people are being smeared.
Much of it seems to be from older women outraged that men their age would find younger women attractive.
However, it has always been so. Older men, with money and power, have always attracted younger women as well.
I think it is bad for society to have promiscuous sex treated as a virtue. But it has been treated as such, and pushed by those deliberately changing our culture, ever since the 1960’s, at least.
The open pushing of hedonism as the highest good has been very damaging to our society.
250 yrs.
Had a Good run.
Yep.
“After Epstein, How Can ‘Authorities’ Maintain Legitimacy? Why should liars, frauds, pedophiles, and evil perverts rule over us?”
It’s called voter laziness ... voters believing what TikTok tells them ... voter stupidity ... etc
Authorities? Liars. It’s the anti-human weapon used most often by the evil.
This is interesting—Musk and Burning Man and Epstein. Burning Man has long been rumored to be a blackmail operation for Big Tech.
Don’t be fooled by the limited hangout intended to give you just that impression.
This was much, much darker than you two suggest or seem to believe.
Sadly very true. At the core of the Democratic Party there are people who have openly embraced neo pagan, hedonism and decadence. Homosexuality with all its perverse permutations, drug use, earth and celebrityworship, pedophilia, child abuse, abortion, fornication of all sorts, pornography and of course socialism. That constitutes at least 40 % of the population. Approximately another 20% of the decadents that embrace those same perverse values are either “independents or have managed to permeate the Republican Party and especially its leadership. Its no mystery why the leaders of the govenment, academia,the media, big business and even the church are crap. There will one day be a reckoning but not before great suffering.
“After Epstein”
There is no after. This isn’t going away as much as garbage elites want it to. It’s a scarlet letter.
I could see Burning Man as a recruiting ground for "performers" to be later hired as bait for blackmail targets. If she's that "uninhibited", she may have no compunction about sex with strangers.
I also suspect many of the girls at events such as Burning Man are minors, just as many of the girls who ran away from home to San Francisco during the 'Summer of Love' and even more so the following summer.
We’re living in Weimerica.
total clickbait: article has zero to do with epstein ...
OMG which one of those Presidents takes credit every chance they get for Operation Warp Speed? The greatest operation anyone has ever seen. Nobody could believe it. Never been done in History.
NO ONE has bragged about, or been more proud of the damn jabs than Fauci…. And TRUMP
He's dead. Max is in jail. And we know the so called "victims" were well paid...yes...half a mil each is "well paid".
Shut down the Epstein tell all...it is helping nothing....
Take care of the Town you live in...Take care of your children. And Pray.
Burning Man’s always been full of tech execs going wild.
And yeah, underaged girls, boys for the closeted gays, etc.
It happened on his watch because of dirty Anthony Fauci
But it’s quite obvious that you don’t like President Trump
Okay, we get it
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The Wrath of God is upon us and this is just the beginning.
“...Political power is a magnet for the worst of the worst and once that’s all we have as leaders a cleansing turmoil is certain....”
^THIS^
Most of these jackasses are lawyers that couldn’t make it in private lawyerism...
They figured out that the only way they could legally steal other peoples’ money was to become a low-life politician. The rest is history...
Why should they rule over us? Because that’s what they set out to do while we were busy with other things all the while assuming they were more or less like us.
They ain’t.
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