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After Epstein, How Can ‘Authorities’ Maintain Legitimacy? Why should liars, frauds, pedophiles, and evil perverts rule over us?
American Thinker ^ | 6 Feb, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

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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To: Ex-Con777
Not really un-named at all, just hidden.

Check this group for links to the real power brokers, the money changers.

41 posted on 02/06/2026 9:12:54 AM PST by itsahoot
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To: brookwood; marktwain
In the Epstein files, all I have seen is what used to be considered healthy skirt chasing by adult men of adult women.

That was a perk, what was the product and the price? Your lack of curiosity is amazing.

42 posted on 02/06/2026 9:45:14 AM PST by itsahoot
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To: SaveFerris

I used to. But my eyes have been opened


43 posted on 02/06/2026 9:45:31 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: SaveFerris

Then he would blame Fauci and say he was misled, but he doesn’t. Actually, that mass murderer should be brought up on charges, but that will never happen. He’s quite proud of the jabs and Operation Warp Speed and you know it.


44 posted on 02/06/2026 9:48:36 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: MtnClimber
What do you get when the “Authorities” have sold their souls in exchange for power?

because thats what 'authories' are?
why is it normal people you know arent in government?
this is how the world works. are we perpetuating naivety here or awakening to reality? i cant tell
45 posted on 02/06/2026 9:50:06 AM PST by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: antidemoncrat
It’s called voter laziness ... voters believing what TikTok tells them ... voter stupidity ... etc

It could be as simple as voting machines, mail in voting, illegal voters, crooked election officials and corrupt judges.

46 posted on 02/06/2026 10:03:04 AM PST by itsahoot
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To: MtnClimber

“How” is a better question. ‘Cause nobody does nuttin. There are no consequences for abuse of power.

Remember, children, you are not supposed to judge others.


47 posted on 02/06/2026 10:55:43 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: Lil Flower
I have had the COVID 19 shots and pretty much everyone I know has had the COVID 19 shots. The only person who died is my grandfather who was 96 years old, and I am pretty sure that was due to old age.

Why do the COVID 19 shots have to be an ideological litmus test? One of the worst things about the left is that they turn everything into politics. Why do we have to do it too?

48 posted on 02/06/2026 11:02:02 AM PST by Dat
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To: brookwood

Brookwood I thought you might want to hear from a jealous barren man. You claim, “all I have seen is what used to be considered healthy skirt chasing.” I too did my research. I made a thorough search of my closet and I even looked under my bed. Nothing! You claim, “there is not a shred of evidence that anyone else had a piece of it.” (Children 12 years old or what Bondi called “little kids) Be patient. This Epstein thing is just beginning.


49 posted on 02/06/2026 11:23:25 AM PST by Vehmgericht (s)
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To: Dat; Lil Flower
Why do the COVID 19 shots have to be an ideological litmus test? One of the worst things about the left is that they turn everything into politics. Why do we have to do it too?

 

You're asking a question that is directly related to you. Why DID you do it? Get the covid shots?

You're quite right that the left turns everything into politics. And many on the right, like yourself, failed that ideological litmus test which brainwashed people into succumbing to their fears and then getting a jab or two. Or even more.

50 posted on 02/06/2026 11:44:47 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Lil Flower
NO ONE has bragged about, or been more proud of the damn jabs than Fauci…. And TRUMP

Someone finally convinced him to at least stop talking about it, can't say if they changed his mind, but I would hope they did.

Which version of the truth are we on concerning the Epstein files. All three of our heroes lied to us, Kash, Bondi and Bongino have told us many versions and finally released some files they repeatedly said did not exist. Now no matter what they produce how can we can believe they are telling us the whole story.

No patriot could possibly oppose legislation that states only citizens could vote or that dead people should not receive social security payments, yet they do. Doge revealed so much fraud, theft and waste that it is impossible for a patriot to not address it with legislation yet they don't. Why?

51 posted on 02/06/2026 11:50:43 AM PST by itsahoot
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To: itsahoot

That was a perk, what was the product and the price? Your lack of curiosity is amazing.


My opinion is it was a “honey trap” operation to set up entrap powerful people for extortion/favors.


52 posted on 02/06/2026 2:22:33 PM PST by marktwain (----------------------)
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To: MtnClimber
Why should liars, frauds, pedophiles, and evil perverts rule over us?

Because we let them?

53 posted on 02/06/2026 2:24:44 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: Lil Flower; Liz; ransomnote; rx; rxsid; Bikkuri

(but he doesn’t)

He has blamed Fauci

Their feud is public knowledge


54 posted on 02/06/2026 2:59:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

There is a never-ending supply of NeverTrumper/TDSers flowing through.


55 posted on 02/06/2026 3:09:26 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

YEP

As if 8 years of the Lying Kenyan wasn’t enough

And 4 years of Resident Joe Biden 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄


56 posted on 02/06/2026 3:29:48 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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