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Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.

The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.

Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”

His appointment with Bannon in 2019 was just months before Epstein was federally charged with trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty and was found dead in a jail cell in New York in August 2019.

His appointment with Bannon in 2019 was just months before Epstein was federally charged with trafficking and sexually abusing dozens of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty and was found dead in a jail cell in New York in August 2019.

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[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 141 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Is pedophilia a prerequisite for joining the financial elite?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 97 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A person gets that rich because their morals allow them to exploit other people.

Once they are that rich, they can get anything they want, they no longer have the "thrill of the hunt" and substitute it for the "thrill of the forbidden".

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When you feel invincible you tend to test that invulnerability. We should feel lucky they aren't hunting us for sport just to prove they can.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You know I was going to say its probably some sort of "forbidden fruit" but if that were the case I think a pedophile ring would be the tip of the iceberg.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Watch the movie Hostel, or read the synopsis, and tell me that doesn't seem plausible.

Escape Room has a similar premise. One could also argue Cabin In The Woods tells a similar tale of shadowy groups of elites using human sacrifice if you put billionaires in place of the Old Gods.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

See I would have gone with The Most Dangerous Game first, but human sacrifice is totally there. Cannablisim or some shit too

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Highly recommend reading the book American Kompromat by Unger

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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Well, it certainly seems to give the other rich bastards a trustworthy amount of blackmail

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 101 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

also mentions a tentative breakfast with Bill Gates.

Oh look, more evidence that bill gates probably raped children.

In my experience people online are really reluctant to believe this of gates, despite the constant stream of evidence from epstein files, the workplace culture and business practices that reflect a psychopath in charge and the need for one of the most expensive PR excersizes in history since ashoka the terrible started promoting buddhism.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The thing with Bill Gates is, he was an absolute piece of shit while running Microsoft. Basically killing all the competitors and trying to kill open source projects.

The whole he's a good person look at what he is doing with his money, is just flawed. He shouldn't have that money in the first place. He definitely screwed over other people and companies to get that kind of money. If you think I don't care about companies, well the extra costs will just go to the consumer, so us.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I seriously doubt everyone who traveled to that island was in on the rapes. But you about couldn't convince me any given visitor was ignorant of the crimes.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm just not sure.

Are you granted entry to the child rape island to just look around and talk to people without incriminating yourself? Seems unlikely.

Was there a single attendee who managed to avoid sexually assaulting a minor? Maybe. Would I believe anyone who says that was them? Absolutely not.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Epstein was loaning and moving millions, maybe billions, of dollars. I can hardly pretend to understand what the game is like on that level.

But first and foremost, Epstein was a financier. The money was top, girls second. And the girls were a source of pleasure and blackmail. Rinse and repeat. C-C-C-COMBO! Once you set foot in that tar pit, for whatever reason, you're stuck.

Gates, for all his flaws, never struck me as a kiddy fucker. Horny wasn't his game. Ruthless domination of the IT world was his goal, and he got it. Does that make sense? And yes, I am well aware of his evil past. I started learning computers when he was a kid building Microsoft in the 80s. Read his unauthorized biography, tracked him on the news, worked his ecosystems, seen where he's been, mostly. I get it.

Guess I'm only saying, because he met Epstein, flew to his island, not automatically putting rape on his record. But again, I'd have a hard fucking time believing he didn't know.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you believe Epstein was an asset of an intelligence agency (perhaps more than one), then why would they waste the money and time on him flying people out that he wasn't going to blackmail? Like he is the sex blackmail guy, that's his role for intelligence, there's no need for him to be around people if he isn't doing his job and getting sex blackmail from them.

Similarly, Ray J (who is now claiming to work with the FBI as an informant to take down the Kardashians/Jenners that he says are worse than Diddy and indeed both groups associated a lot with Justin Bieber and others), Ray J has long been said to be a celebrity drug dealer. He was the one who supposedly sold Whitney Houston her drugs, including the night she died. If someone is hanging out with Ray J or partying with Ray J, you'd assume they are doing drugs because that's his literal job and he just won't be wasting time not dealing.

Also, remember that Ray J was who filmed Kim K's porno, rumored to be released by her mom Kris. Kim used to work for Ray J's sister Brandi (largely innocent of all this afaik) and stole from her, substantial amounts. And ofc, Kim was married to Kanye, who parades his now partners around like sex slaves and is an open Nazi and hangs out with Candace Owens, a probable Russian asset.

Who knew that shitty celeb gossip would become so relevant?

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[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Absolutely off topic: Ashoka the terrible? I only know the Mauryan emperor who famously converted after having caused such bloodshed and destruction that he then became a pacifist. Considering other emperors, he sounds like a pretty based guy after his redemption. Am I missing something?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's probably just a lie, the sudden change of personality part. Or there's an academic theory that his conversion and pacificism were just PR.

In the province where his last brutal massacring happened, which supposedly precipitated his change of heart, the version of the steles that he commissioned leaves out the change of heart part and just details what a brutal massacre he committed.

So if he's still selling himself just as a brutal conqueror in the province where that image is beneficial for suppressing revolt, how sincere was his conversion?

Modern understandings of the brain also suggest that someone who took his meals in the custom built torture dungeon he called "ashoka's hell", is probably neurologically incapable of empathy. The sudden appearance of empathy doesn't really fit with how psychopathy works.

It's not universally accepted, but I find it convincing. The lies of the powerful are often written in stone.

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 93 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I don't get how the MAGA voters, can believe there is a secret pedo ring that runs the world, then vote for one of its members, who isn't even hiding what a piece of shit he is.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

It must be secret or it is no longer a conspiracy. The "cabal" of rich and powerful people running the world known to everyone ? Nah not interesting, it must be a secret cabal ...

[–] danielton1@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

That's how cults work.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

maybe their thought process is that they wish they could be part of it too

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago

Instead of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, they're actually temporally embarrassed pedophiles?

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And they still don't think he is involved somehow. They are so excited to tell you Bill Clinton is involved given the same evidence lol

Like anyone gives a shit if Bill Clinton was locked up haha

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[–] fucktrump@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They’re offended they can’t be in the club

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 82 points 2 weeks ago

Always the ones you mostly suspect.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 weeks ago

🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He had a kink roleplay account where he pretended to be his toddler son picking up women.... so yeah

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

...his TODDLER son? Excuse me what the actual fuck?

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Like father, like son.

[–] thelittleerik@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Covert pedos are usually sometimes the loudest screaming pedophilia at people as an insult.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (31 children)

Just learned that Erica Kirk was in on all the human trafficking as well. I swear this is the thing binding all these assholes together. Raping children and blackmailing each other over it. Disgusting.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Recommend the documentary Children Underground, about Romanian street children and their lives. Imo it really adds an element to this and her connections to trafficking Romanian kids decades after this documentary.

Also, Ghilisaine Maxwell's dad had a similar charity to fly Romanian orphans to Israel on his plane: https://www.nli.org.il/he/images/%20nnl_archive_al990040300950205171/NLI#$FL45875197

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just learned that Erica Kirk was in on all the human trafficking as well.

Eh?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A little Ghislaine Maxwell in training. No woman would nestle Trump like that just because she was grieving. It was so staged it hurt.

She is also obviously not grieving at all, she got what she wanted and now is on track to be the first female president.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No way MAGA would never vote for a woman

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Now we just need to wait for a Peter Thiel speech on how releasing the Epstein files will release the antichrist.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edit: Brain not work gud. Somehow I misread Epstein as Musk.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't see Musk on the manifest (Musk is in the diary entry on page 1), the two typed names are Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The redacted names are probably victims.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

More trickle feeds. I'm not surprised by Bill Gates after his orange lipped dinner with Trump.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Roughly six pages from more than 8,500 documents provided by Epstein’s estate to Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee include meeting schedules appearing to show appointments with Bannon and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during Donald Trump’s first term in office.

The documents also mention Musk joining a potential trip to Epstein’s island in 2014.

Prince Andrew also is listed in the documents as a passenger on Epstein’s aircraft, with financial disclosures provided to the committee suggesting evidence of payments from Epstein to an individual listed as “Andrew.”

The inclusion of one’s name in the documents does not indicate wrongdoing.

Republicans on the committee called the latest batch of files “old news.”

“It's sad how Democrats are conveniently withholding documents that contain the names of Democratic officials” and “putting politics over victims,” according to Oversight Republicans. “We are [totally] releasing [one or two of] them all soon [lol].”

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish they would release all of it. Let’s see all of the names. I’m tired of the shit being used as a weapon… everyone needs to go down that deserves to.

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