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[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Epstein's Final Days: Trying – And Failing – To Extort Trump?

Epstein failed to extort Trump; new NYT report reveals no dirt on Trump in Epstein’s final days.

Like Epstein, though, the NYT came up empty. Trump's name only comes up five times in an essay of multiple thousands of words, none of which connect to any crimes or malfeasance by Epstein. One mention relates to Stephen Bannon and another to Bill Barr, which leaves the three in the excerpts above. What does this tell us? First, if Epstein didn't have dirt on Trump, it means that Trump never participated in Epstein's sex crimes, as Trump has said all along. If Trump had, then indicting Epstein would have been a catastrophic error from the beginning. Epstein wouldn't have been sitting in his cell trying to come up with dirt on Trump; he would have gone to Trump after the Miami Herald forced reconsideration of the case earlier in the year to warn him about the dangers to Trump if his case went to court. All Epstein had while sitting in that jail was the same boring allegations about "smoke and mirrors" in the Trump Organization's wealth claims, which had been litigated ad nauseam by the mainstream media in 2016. Epstein didn't even mention connections to his sex trafficking in his personal notes or with his attorneys. Second: It explains why we've had to slog through endless conspiracy theories about Epstein's death. If Epstein really killed himself, it's because he was cornered and had no leverage left, which means that he didn't have dirt on anyone who mattered, either politically or to prosecutors. The Epstein Files have largely borne this out; as Alan Dershowitz repeatedly warned, the people named in them were not the subjects of the Epstein Files fantasists. One key reason to spin those "Epstein didn't kill himself" fantasies – and this applies across the political spectrum – is that a conspiracy to kill Epstein allows for the potential that one's political betes noires could be implicated in the murder and the sex-trafficking activities.  The truth is much more prosaic, boring, and useless. Epstein killed himself after more than one suicide attempt because Epstein had run out of options and leverage. He had nothing on Trump because there was nothing to have in the first place, and Trump's DoJ was going to put him in prison for the rest of his life. Epstein took the coward's way out, a choice facilitated by bungling at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, which had a long reputation for being a "s*** show," which closed two years after Epstein's suicide. All of the rest of this has been nothing but a fantasy spun by political activists hoping to exploit any ambiguities to paint Trump as a pedophilic predator, when Trump was actually one of the first Palm Beach figures to suss out Epstein as a malignant character and distance himself entirely from him.  Kudos to the NYT for reporting on this, minus several demerits for burying it in the middle of the report and then failing to point out the obvious meaning. 

[dertaglichedan]

[mr-cappadocia]

There's a huge difference between rebelling against an oppressive establishment, as in 1984, and preaching ethnic cleansing and the superiority of the Aryan race. If you really think white supremacists should be treated as harmless until the non-whites start getting killed then you have learned nothing from history. Please stop misusing the term "thoughtcrime."

There’s a big difference between hateful rhetoric and engaging in literal violence against… whomever?

You don’t fucking say?

See, the danger in your position, and I don’t think I can stress this enough, is that whomever you decry as “oppressor” suddenly can be punished mercilessly, brutally, horrifically without fear of moral repercussions.

Haven’t you ever asked yourself WHY Nazis could look at something like this:

and feel nothing? Not compassion, nor pity, nor remorse? Hasn’t that ever struck you as… bizarre?

It’s because the German citizen was trained to view the Jew as their oppressor. The shifty Jew who controlled the banks and sat in privileged positions of power.

This was how the German convinced themselves they were owed a pound of flesh.

When the Communists murdered five million of their own upper middle class what do you think the justification was? That they were oppressors. Literally they labeled them, and I’m not making this, “The Tightfisted”.

“bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine.” Stalin describing the Kulaks.

You’re being manipulated into labeling a group of people “The Oppressor” to justify the truly heinous shit that’s to come. Like the Nazi, and the Communist, and all the rest you’re no really different from, you’re following the same timeline, you’re just earlier on it.

Wake up.

[roninart-tactical]

^^^^^^^

100% correct!!!

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

^^^^ FINALLY

Slowly but surely, over the last years Marxist thought has infiltrated western thought yet again. I weep for the fact that so many across the entire political spectrum think like “X person belongs to Y designated oppressor class so s/he has automatically less rights” or “X person belongs to Y designated victim class so the law need not apply to him/her”. This is destructive.

[depsidase]

[haunted-hideaway]

I’m glad that OP:

1) Figured this out.

2) Shared so others can learn from their mistake.

[justinccase]

AI is helpful but we lose something when we rely on it to do our work for us. We become consumers and not creators, and it feeds us while robbing us of our ability.

[thememedaddy]

[justinccase]

At some point, stupidity and intelligence are indistinguishable. But stupidity gets a better story.

[dankxsinatra]

[ankle-beez]

And with YOUR help, we can make him feel even worse!

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

Why is everyone shitting on Chris Pratt lately? Did I miss something????

[noblepeasant]

TL;DR That idiot Page accused him of being homophobic, and it stuck, despite the "evidence" being the equivalent of "I knew this guy who knew this guy who said..."

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

So, they’re basically angry at him over nothing, he’s just the latest acceptable celebrity target?

[noblepeasant]

Pretty much, yeah.

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

That is incredibly stupid.

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

There's also "I assumed from his religion he was homophobic".

[mywackydreams]

While all this is true, and definitely the reason he’s so widely hated, the recent media backlash has nothing to do with him being “homophobic.”

It has to do with him writing an Instagram message complimenting his wife where he thanked her for giving him a healthy daughter, meanwhile his ex wife is currently taking care of their son who has numerous health issues.

Which yeah it’s kinda a dick move ngl but tbh if any other celebrity did this no one would bat an eye, but because it’s Chris Pratt and Chris Pratt is a Christian who met his wife in church and who hasn’t been vocal about politics so people assume he’s a homophobic alt right nazi despite zero evidence, this made big news.

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

The whole Instagram post was about him complimenting his wife.

Literally just “wow my wife is so sweet and cool and I’m a goober who helps her open jars of pickles.” It wasn’t “MY CURRENT WIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER, NOT LIKE THAT OTHER WIFE WHO BIRTHED A DISEASE-RIDDEN TROGLODYTE.” Saying that a child is healthy is a common thing parents do. The child is safe and being well cared for.

It’s not an attack on his former wife and other child. It’s him gushing about his current wife. Everyone does that! And yet people are calling it cringy and offensive??? It’s just a dude saying that he loves his wife. I thought Tumblr was all about guys loving their wives.

It’s just idiots on the Internet trying to pick apart someone because it’s trendy to do so. People call him a homophobe and a Trump supporter but I have yet to see any actual fucking proof of either of those. It’s just shitting on him for being Christian.

And before you say I’m a butthurt Christian, I don’t associate with Christianity anymore. My mother used the religion against me and I don’t have any religious leanings. I just think it’s fucking stupid to attack people on the basis of religion because some other people in the religion do shitty things. Because, you know, any big enough group is gonna have people who are bad in it!

[eric-coldfire]

Yeah, those people tearing him down need an ass kicking.

[bizarrolord-deactivated20241123]

People really will read the most innocuous of posts in the worst possible way, won't they?

[emeraldmercury]

Also Chris Pratt voicing Mario is his agent's fault. Most actors go where the money is and based on what their agents tell them to do.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

You want men who respect and love their wives, but crap all over men who do just that.

[justinccase]

The hypocrisy of the left does not end. They hate because it’s all they have. They are defined and empowered by their hate and they will stop at nothing to destroy.

[prickly-porcupine-memes]

[fullmetalfisting]

Tbh germ theory DOES sound crazy. Like if you told a regency-era nobleman that tiny creatures lived on the surface of everything and THAT’S what causes consumption, they’d be like “ah, I see you are a lunatic. Would you reside in my hermitage? Rantings and ravings do so amuse my guests”

[mysteryteacup]

But if you told a Medieval person this they would probably go "Ah, so when the miasma settles on surfaces it gains evil life. I understand."

[alarajrogers]

Yeah, actually, it would probably be pretty easy to explain germ theory to a Medieval person as tiny evil spirits that live on everything, but they can be purified by soap and water, or by alcohol, because that is why God has granted us those things. And because they can float in the air, if you cough or sneeze after they have infested you, that can cause them to infest others. And when you are sick, the angels God has deputized to defend the bodies of His beloved children are at war with the evil spirits, and, sadly, sometimes they lose, but the best way to help your angels win their battle is to rest, drink plenty (this would probably be small beer in this time period, not water, because the water was also infested), stay clean, and for the sake of God do not allow anyone to let your blood, for the angels need that blood in their war against the evil spirits. Bloodletting is good for some types of illnesses but not the kinds caused by the tiny evil spirits.

[chekhovs-raygun]

boiling as a sterilization measure is also easy to explain. water returns to the air when heated and it rises as steam back up to the floodgates of heaven; we know God created the world in seven days, He's not up there making more water every time it rains. it circulates. the returning of water to heaven also purifies the water of unclean and malign influences. you know wormy water from a muddy puddle will kill your kid. you know you wouldn't wade into a bog and have a slurp. water that remains in the low places of earth absorbs all that is unclean from our waste and it may also sponge up new diseases from hell, we're not totally sure about that one, but it seems likely. God set up the heavenly water cycle so that the earth's waters wouldn't totally fill up with gunk.

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

what's up with honey? it just preserves things against corruption. doesn't clean them off. honey doesn't evaporate at all. probably because bees don't sin. it's not good for ridding a tool of particles-- it's sticky-- but fine for preserving anything you don't want to go to heaven OR hell. this is why you wash the wound with wine spirits or purified water FIRST, to sluice the miasma out, then slap the honey on AFTER. and boil the damn bandage, too. you wouldn't put a rotten door in a sound doorframe and expect it to keep out bandits, would you? cmon.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#I have a running list in my head of useful knowledge for if I ever get timeslipped and this is one of those things

(from @lucillewalterblack-main)

[justinccase]

This is now my go to if I ever get sent back in time.

[hope-for-the-planet]

No, everything isn't on fire. Here are 4 practical ways to calm your climate anxiety

Around the world, 84% of 16- to 25-year-olds currently experience climate anxiety. Here is some real-world advice to help soothe that fear.

This is obviously a really complicated topic that can't just be addressed in a single list, but there are some really good tips here and they draw from some excellent leaders/activists in this area.

If this is something that you need today, I hope this list can direct you to some good resources to draw on in the future!

From the article:

For many of us, anxiety and depression stemming from the climate crisis have become nearly ubiquitous with the plight of modern life.  We deliver quippy one-liners about the world being on fire, share memes about how “cooked” we are amid these perilous “end times,” and perhaps most disturbingly, feel completely incapable of doing anything about it. But while this prevailing theme is unsettling, it also echoes a silver lining: We aren’t alone in these feelings.

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

[kriatyrr]

Often when I hear the phrase "it's never too late" I think "so I don't have to do it now, I can do it later" - that is not the case here. The earlier you do it, the better. You change your trajectory now, you'll be in a better place next year compared to if you dragged your feet around and made the change next month.

Shutting down all AI datacenters now might add decades to the time the Earth remains habitable, vs shutting them down in three years. (There is no accuracy to my numbers unless accidental; they are just for illustration purposes)

But that shut down in three years would still be meaningful compared to not doing anything. That's what "it's never too late" means.

[justinccase]

If Climate Change was real, banks wouldn’t be offering 100+year mortgages in London. Politicians keep saying it’s real and enact increasingly stringent rules because scared people are easier control…and you fall for their BS every. Single. Time.

[barbariankingdom]

(via Old Canada Series on X: “A 3D relief map showcasing the topography of Canada in 1955. credit: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 🇨🇦 https://t.co/5LBVom5jHg” / X)

[rangerdad1]

[justinccase]

I despise this! I’m a manager and once a month I’ll get some yahoo calling in sick and I know he doesn’t work there.

[depsidase]

[thepersynposts]

Christian In Name Only - C.I.N.O

[justinccase]

I love it when non Christian’s try to use the Bible like a gotcha. Paul told the Romans that “for your sake we are led like sheep to the slaughter”. But here’s the thing you forget: Christians are fighters. We are sent out like sheep in a den of wolves but we are shepherds. Shepherds protect their flock from the wolves, the coyotes, the false ones who try to gaslight us into capitulation. We are conquerors, not minions.

We are absolutely called to help other, visit the widows and orphans in their distress and the prisoners. It says nothing about self flagellation.

[mojave-pete]

Here is:

Another way Democrats stay in power:

Omar Navarro:

“I ran against Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the 2016, 2018, and 2020 elections. In 2018, Maxine Waters asked the Department of Justice to investigate me—to look into me.”

“Six years after the matter, the FBI and the Department of Justice came after me and indicted me for taking a stand and fighting against the radical left in the state of California.”

The FBI raided his mother’s home—located in a retirement community—with a team of 20 armed agents.

They also targeted his campaign staffer, who earned barely $10,000 a year.

Meanwhile, Maxine Waters has funneled more than $2 million in campaign funds to her own daughter.

The Democratic Party is the single greatest racketeering operation on the planet—with every single federal agency, from the FBI to the DNI, and from the DOJ to the CIA, on standby.

[superdriver321]

(Full tweet)

Here is:

Another way Democrats stay in power:

Omar Navarro:

“I ran against Congresswoman Maxine Waters in the 2016, 2018, and 2020 elections. In 2018, Maxine Waters asked the Department of Justice to investigate me—to look into me.”

“Six years after the matter, the FBI and ce came after me and indicted me for taking a stand and fighting against the radical left in the state of California.”

The FBI raided his mother’s home—located in a retirement community—with a team of 20 armed agents.

They also targeted his campaign staffer, who earned barely $10,000 a year.

Meanwhile, Maxine Waters has funneled more than $2 million in campaign funds to her own daughter.

The Democratic Party is the single greatest racketeering operation on the planet—with every single federal agency, from the FBI to the DNI, and from the DOJ to the CIA, on standby.

[unindoctrinated125]

George Carlin was right. It's a great big club and your not in it.

[sawbuckplus]

[emmaubler]

Imagine being so pathetic that you would actually spend your time monitoring a public figure you don't like (but don't actually know and doesn't affect your day-to-day life in any way), just so you can send nasty replies to whatever mundane rambling they may post. Couldn't be me.

[priveetru]

MAGAts are awful people trying to enact awful things who cry when people say mean words to them.

If you think the head of TPUSA has no effect on your day-to-day life, then you are too uninformed to be engaging with politics.

Imagine thinking saying "shut the fuck up" is peak awful person. The naivety is the bewildering.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

So, is the head of TPUSA who hurt your feelings in the room with us now?

[justinccase]

Liberals value feelings over facts.

[bighermie]