Jeffrey Epstein, rich sex offender, pays to keep teen victims from testifying

[Manqueman]

An apology:
I claim that Trump has no friends as you and I define the word because he is so, well, bigly vile.
Thanks to the recent Epstein news, I stand corrected.
Trump has friends, all right – each as disgusting and vile as he, including Epstein. (Reminder for those willing to dig for facts: There was that suit in the SDNY against Trump alleging rape at Casa Epstein. That case was discontinued with surprising alacrity, but among the filings were the affidavits of the plaintiff and a witness. And if they were at all fabricated, they were very well fabricated.)

[AnthonyC]

@SeamusAMurphy

I just have to think that the priorities of the lot of us are WAY off and we are too easily distracted.

You can only use threats of shame and ostracism to change behavior within your own community. Those sufficiently outside your circle are immune because they don’t care. The result is that in some cases people who are at least trying to do better end up more punished than those that don’t bother, at least in the near term.

[nungesser]

@SeamusAMurphy

So, we live in a nation that can raise enough of a ruckus to get a boring ancient pop song off several radio stations (Baby it’s cold outside), can get Al Franken booted out of congress, and can get (really) center left college professors tossed out, but when a monster who both rapes and facilitates the rape of underage girls is exposed, the response is basically a giant shoulder shrug? I just have to think that the priorities of the lot of us are WAY off and we are too easily distracted.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s not a fair comparison. There isn’t a huge outcry about “Baby it’s Cold Outside”; it’s just an old, kinda sketchy song that some radio stations decided not to play. Al Franken proactively resigned his seat when multiple women accused him of groping them. Jeff Epstein isn’t an elected official, he’s a convicted sex offender who’s been doing his creepy stuff out of the public eye for the most part – I’d say very few people know who he is, and he’s paid tons of money to keep his victims quiet. Folks who know who he is and what he’s done aren’t shrugging their shoulders, they’re seething in frustration at not being able to do anything about it.

[anon29537550]

@nungesser

and many of them are on the younger side.”

I am getting tired of posting this emoji, really and truly.

[anon29537550]

@anon62577920

Ex: start/amplify a conspiracy that the government “did 9/11” to detract believability from true facts like Saudis gave money and support , government probably missed key intel .

Ex: start/amplify a conspiracy that powerful politicians are running a secret sex dungeon in a pizza parlor to make true stories like the one in OP seem “crazy”.

I have decided that this is now MY rule, and I claim it for my own!! “Anything the Trumpkin conspiracy theorists throw out there is a slightly mutated version of their own doings. There are no exceptions, only ones that have not been discovered yet.”

[Jamie_Anderson]

Didn’t Trump refer to Epstein in his speech to the Boy Scouts?

[Wanderfound]

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N Illingworth (NinaWritesStuff)

[anon62577920]

@anon29537550

I have decided that this is now MY rule, and I claim it for my own!! “Anything the Trumpkin conspiracy theorists throw out there is a slightly mutated version of their own doings. There are no exceptions, only ones that have not been discovered yet.”