Of Course: Prosecutors Drop Charges of Bribing Politicians Against Democrat Politician Briber Sam Bankman-Fried

David Strom on this entirely-predictable exercise in Democrat Establishment Protection:

Nothing to see here. Move along.
That is the message from the prosecutor in the Sam Bankman-Fried case, as he notified the judge that the government would not be pursuing a trial in the charges not adjudicated in SBF's trial over defrauding customers.

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The charges that are dropped relate to bribery of politicians and illegal campaign contributions.
Quelle surprise.
What is so infuriating about this is obvious: it's not that SBF is getting off on these charges--how much time he spends in jail likely would not change much or at all; it's that all those bribed politicians and the ones who got illegal campaign contributions will completely avoid the public scrutiny that a trial of SBF would have brought.
Dropping the charges is about protecting the Establishment, not SBF. SBF is a minor beneficiary of the scheme to protect the people in power.
This is how the system works these days...
These days the elite is no longer even trying to pretend that there is equal justice under the law.

Correct.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:34 PM

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1 Shocked ! not

Posted by: It's me donna at January 03, 2024 02:33 PM (n2vyf)

2 fucker

Posted by: doug at January 03, 2024 02:34 PM (8/lc0)

3 They just want a new HQ building away from the urban blight they created.

Posted by: henry at January 03, 2024 02:35 PM (JMDly)

4 He needs to be somebody's girlfriend in the big house.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 03, 2024 02:35 PM (k6uu5)

5 4 He needs to be somebody's girlfriend in the big house.
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everybody's girlfriend

Posted by: henry at January 03, 2024 02:36 PM (JMDly)

6 He needs to be somebody's girlfriend in the big house.

Dude, we're incarcerated, not blind.

Posted by: Inmates at January 03, 2024 02:36 PM (CsUN+)

7 What do we do about this? America is not what it used to be.
Is there nothing that can be done?

2020 made me think there is nothing that can be done. Bend over and comply....

Posted by: Charles Nelson Reilly at January 03, 2024 02:36 PM (h8c/W)

8 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (u73oe)

9 I wonder what the Venn diagram is of the 'discover' in SBF's now torpedoed second trial and Epstein's flight list?

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (Rbu5d)

10 Funny how all the "leaks" of incriminating information virtually always run only one way, isn't it?

We're lucky we found out about Hunter's laptop, which was only because Hunter is a braindead fuckwit.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 03, 2024 02:38 PM (wtvvX)

11 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.

Stay out of tubs, is what I'm saying.

Posted by: Jean-Paul Marat at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (CsUN+)

12 We're lucky we found out about Hunter's laptop, which was only because Hunter is a braindead fuckwit.
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runs in the family

Posted by: henry at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (JMDly)

13 SBF did his job well and is now rewarded for it. He took ill-gotten gains from his investors, like Tom Brady, and gave them to the Democrat party. Anybody who invested millions with a stupid looking kid deserved to lose it all.

Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (3JfbU)

14 Marc Elias and Tank lose in court:

HOUSTON, TX, January 2, 2024 - True the Vote (TTV) declares a decisive triumph in their legal battle against Stacy Abrams' Fair Fight, legal teams led by Marc Elias, and the Biden Department of Justice. A federal court in the Northern District of Georgia today affirmed that citizens have the right to lawfully petition their government in support of election integrity without fear of persecution or prosecution.
In a resounding vindication, TTV successfully defended its actions of December 2020, aiding Georgia citizens in filing elector challenges based on data showing over 364,000 voters appeared to be ineligible to vote due to change in residency.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (NYzgN)

15 This reminds me of the never filing charges against any of the illegal actors in the derivative markets that killed the economy in 2008 because you just couldn't get a jury that could understand since regular people are stupid.

Posted by: huerfano at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (Q4KYm)

16 He has his father's hyphenated name and his mother's last name. Is that feminism? Or just retarded?

Posted by: nckate at January 03, 2024 02:40 PM (EPm6B)

17 SpaceX Falcon 9 OVZON-3

JAN 03, 2024 06:04 PM ET

https://t.ly/_XewL

Commentary starts in about 100 minutes.

Posted by: Ciampino - we can drop them off anywhere and tell them it's Cambridge at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (qfLjt)

18 Republican AGs in any state where he operated need to step up and do their jobs.

Posted by: Half Dozen at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (eHovo)

19 Millions collected in fraud, hundreds of millions frauded from investors and given to Democrats mostly.
The perfect crime it appears

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (+Y4/d)

20 Prosecutors: Sam, please don't hang yourself. We'll drop the bribery charges if you don't hang yourself.

Sam: okay

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (OUiUM)

21 Except for 2 does, the Epstein list drops today. Judge ruled.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (NYzgN)

22 I mentioned this in the thread on Gay - the left sees the ethics regulations and even laws as nothing more then weapons.

They are to be used against your enemies and NOT your allies.

So, its ok if Bill Clinton is a rapist, but Donald Trump needs to be impeached for saying p*ssy.

Or, it is ok to take bribes as a Dem pol but if you are a R you get the Bob McDonnell treatment

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (XqcwY)

23 Even if the government did prosecute this drooling retard for illegal campaign contributions, the actual recipients of those illegal contributions wouldn't be named.

It would be like the sex trafficking trial of Gis Max. She was somehow convicted of trafficking girls without any mention whatsoever of who she trafficked the girls to. She was basically convicted of being a pimp for prostitutes without any identification of a single john serviced by any of the prostitutes.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 03, 2024 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

24 i am SHOCKED by this development, just absolutely shocked i tell you

i shan't believe it...

-_-

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (nXhwP)

25 SBF did not defraud anyone, he always looked shifty and if you park your money with him anyway you had it coming. If he pretended to be an actual banker then you would have a case.

Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (3JfbU)

26 Why even bother with the mock arrest if you're only going to pursue a possible parking violation in the end? It's not like they can hide this shit like they used to.

Posted by: red speck at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (0Id0S)

27 Ciampino been staying away, hope they been going off unhitched

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (+Y4/d)

28 These days the elite is no longer even trying to pretend that there is equal justice under the law.

Everything is proceeding as we have foreseen.

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (a3Q+t)

29 Republican AGs in any state where he operated need to step up and do their jobs.

/Still waiting for the Arkansas AG to arrest Hillary Clinton for the CGI scandals...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (XqcwY)

30 Go to your local DoJ office and spray paint a red “T” on the door.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (ALn4J)

31 Did I miss the mass protest resignations of all those honest, hard working ham and eggers at the DOJ ?

Posted by: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (BfpYS)

32 Bob Menendez must have really got on the bad side of somebody to get the indictment treatment.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (xPl2J)

33 TO all of you who keep asking the question, "Why doesn't Mitch McConnell just retire?"

Now you know. This is but a single thread handing out there that has the potential to reflect badly (and perhaps illegally) on him. I would be surprised if there weren't quite a few of these threads hanging around. Ukraine.....China....etc.

Posted by: Orson at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)

34 18 Republican AGs in any state where he operated need to step up and do their jobs.
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Odds Sam's parents let him operate in Red States?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (pZ64F)

35 Federal prosecutor who made the decision to drop the charges is Damian Williams. He was appointed by Biden. His wife, Jennifer Wynn spent 3 years working for the Obama Foundation.

Good to have friends in high places.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (ZLI7S)

36 Just like the Epstein list.

We're not entitled to which politicians are doing what with whom.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (QBaJw)

37 This reminds me of the never filing charges against any of the illegal actors in the derivative markets that killed the economy in 2008 because you just couldn't get a jury that could understand since regular people are stupid.
Posted by: huerfano at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (Q4KYm)
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That's *exactly* why much of the criminal activity going on in politics will never be prosecuted in front of a jury. Most peoples' eyes will glaze over as soon as the lawyers start talking. It's by design. Even highly intelligent people will have trouble following exactly what went on and who was involved.

The complexity of their crimes is the reason why they can get away with them scot-free.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (7fElN)

38 Go to your local DoJ office and spray paint a red “T” on the door.

That's a "shoot your dog during a 3 AM raid"ing you white supremacist you

Posted by: The FBI at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (XqcwY)

39 29 Republican AGs in any state where he operated need to step up and do their jobs.

/Still waiting for the Arkansas AG to arrest Hillary Clinton for the CGI scandals...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (XqcwY)

———-

Waiting on the Florida AG to investigate the Epstein flights from Florida.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (ALn4J)

40 13 SBF did his job well and is now rewarded for it. He took ill-gotten gains from his investors, like Tom Brady, and gave them to the Democrat party. Anybody who invested millions with a stupid looking kid deserved to lose it all.
Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (3JfbU)
_________

I don't think there ever were any real investors. I think the entire operation was one yuge money-laundering scheme.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

41 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (u73oe)

For me, I understand it and somewhat agree with how they did it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 03, 2024 02:44 PM (BdMk6)

42 i am SHOCKED by this development, just absolutely shocked i tell you
i shan't believe it...
Posted by: SturmToddler at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM

More shocked than when it was discovered there is gambling in The Barrel?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 03, 2024 02:44 PM (a3Q+t)

43 He has his father's hyphenated name and his mother's last name. Is that feminism? Or just retarded?
Posted by: nckate at January 03, 2024 02:40 PM (EPm6B)

I vote retarded midwit.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at January 03, 2024 02:44 PM (wBh67)

44 What are the odds B-F wins on appeal now that this one is off the table?

Posted by: huerfano at January 03, 2024 02:44 PM (Q4KYm)

45 Bob Menendez must have really got on the bad side of somebody to get the indictment treatment.

He questioned Obama's Iran Deal. Remember that's when his pedo-trips to DR came out.

When he knuckled under they went away but I suspect the knives have been out with him for a while for disagreeing with Dear Leader

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (XqcwY)

46
Out: Failure Theater.
In: RICO Theater.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (hDu2Y)

47 I don't think there ever were any real investors. I think the entire operation was one yuge money-laundering scheme.
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You think?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (pZ64F)

48 Bob Menendez must have really got on the bad side of somebody to get the indictment treatment.
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (xPl2J)

Or some connected up-and-comer with a house in NJ wants a Senator Job.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (eoQWY)

49 I have a good post coming up next so stay tuned.

If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.

Posted by: ace at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

50 I'm old enough to remember when the Koch Brothers were Literally Satan when they gave money to Dubya and a handful of republicans. But SBF playing fast n loose with $billions -- ostensibly on behalf of leftist causes -- is completely excusable. Laudable, in fact.

Posted by: red speck at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (0Id0S)

51 Republican AGs in any state where he operated need to step up and do their jobs.
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/Still waiting for the Arkansas AG to arrest Hillary Clinton for the CGI scandals...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (XqcwY)

Ken Paxton was a warning shot.

You aren't safe. Just because you operate in a "red" state, we can get to you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (QBaJw)

52 25 Somehow don't get having investment money sent to politicians is gives you a good investment return.

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (+Y4/d)

53 31 Did I miss the mass protest resignations of all those honest, hard working ham and eggers at the DOJ ?
Posted by: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (BfpYS)

———

You can’t expect the good souls to resign just because they work for a thoroughly corrupt organization do you?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (ALn4J)

54 Garland Archipelago J6 political prisoners hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (hDu2Y)

55 Sammy Boy couldn't carry my jock strap!

Posted by: Zombie Bernie Madoff at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (Edu7X)

56 "There comes a time when you have made enough graft"

Things Obama didn't say.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (Cus5s)

57 My understanding is that the DOJ specifically worded the extradition so that the bribery could not be prosecuted. Also, I believe the USVI attorney who was fired was fired for not doing this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (tntOw)

58 You aren't safe. Just because you operate in a "red" state, we can get to you.
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We being the Kingdom of SoDiNY. They have an Air Force and an Inquisition.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (pZ64F)

59 SBF just sent your money to the politicians which you were going to send it to them anyway.

So what's the problem?

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2024 02:46 PM (OUiUM)

60 I have a good post coming up next so stay tuned.

If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.
Posted by: ace

KABOOM!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 03, 2024 02:47 PM (R4t5M)

61 I don't think there ever were any real investors. I think the entire operation was one yuge money-laundering scheme.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

You're describing all of Washington DC. Everyone there is on the take. Money laundering and outright theft.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 03, 2024 02:47 PM (BdMk6)

62 41 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (u73oe)

For me, I understand it and somewhat agree with how they did it.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 03, 2024 02:44 PM (BdMk6)

———

Every few years the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of the elite or something.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:47 PM (ALn4J)

63 33 TO all of you who keep asking the question, "Why doesn't Mitch McConnell just retire?"

Now you know. This is but a single thread handing out there that has the potential to reflect badly (and perhaps illegally) on him. I would be surprised if there weren't quite a few of these threads hanging around. Ukraine.....China....etc.
Posted by: Orson at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)
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Mitch has made the calculation that it is better to die in the Senate then a jail cell.

I can understand that.

Posted by: WisRich at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (G0vdT)

64 I have a good post coming up next so stay tuned.

If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.

Posted by: ace at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

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Classic Christmas movie post?

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (hDu2Y)

65 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (u73oe)

For those who aren't aware, the french peasants didn't just go after the royals. There were clergy and wealthy landowners (and other assorted wealthy) who were on the chopping block.

It was a full scale revolt against the elites who ruled them.

Yes, it got out of hand, but the impulse was very similar to our current situation.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (QBaJw)

66 You know what I haven't heard anything about? Lawsuits against the crypto depositories that placed deposits with SBF. There was a shocking and obvious lack of due diligence and risk management on their part. My guess is one of three things (maybe more than one): 1. They have quietly made their depositors whole (or at least the scarier ones); 2. The depositors don't want to be known, and are just taking their lumps; or 3. The "losses" were mostly on paper and the depositors actually only lost unrealized crypto gains, not real money.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (7B5FA)

67 Yes, it got out of hand, but the impulse was very similar to our current situation.

I'd argue the French aristocrats were less corrupt.

Much less corrupt.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (XqcwY)

68 Rumor is the illegals get $2200 when they cross.
Some have figured out they can circle back and get $2200 each time they cross.

How is it that we can give them cash and a phone, but we are too swamped to give them court dates anymore?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (NYzgN)

69
"Where did the money go?"

"Good question! We'll start an investigation right away, but it will take time."

Posted by: Auspex at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (j4U/Z)

70 How is it that we can give them cash and a phone, but we are too swamped to give them court dates anymore?

As with many similiar questions its because the people running the government don't WANT them to have a court date.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:50 PM (XqcwY)

71 Yes, it got out of hand, but the impulse was very similar to our current situation. Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (QBaJw)

Don't forget the church. As Poso points out, Notre Dame has been burned before.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 02:50 PM (7B5FA)

72 If you give me your American dollars I will give you fake money I created out of one's and zeros.

It's a great deal.

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2024 02:51 PM (OUiUM)

73 I have a good post coming up next so stay tuned.

If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.
Posted by: ace at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)

Mr. O'Spades -- keeping morons in suspense since 2004

Posted by: Doof at January 03, 2024 02:51 PM (eNASR)

74
Some Twitter/X people are hinting at something big. The very same people that 'Classic' Twitter banned, blocked, and otherwise abused.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (3qE2b)

75 I'd argue the French aristocrats were less corrupt.

Much less corrupt.

Oh yeah? AFAIK, the current "elites" don't employ piss-boys.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (CsUN+)

76 Honestly, I couldn't care less what happens to her. Nor do I care that Haaahvad is a shithole institution, turning out shitty minded midwits.

What concerns me, and should concern everyone else, is that we still act like this shitty institution is elite. And treat its students as if they are special, and put them in positions of power because they are.

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About five years ago I spent a morning at Harvard just looking around. What I saw were a lot of arrogant students strutting around, much as the English upper class must have been in the nineteenth century.

Before retiring recently I worked in academia so I know what students look and behave like, the Harvard students were not like that. I don't know what they are like when they graduate and join the elite corporations but considering how those corporations are performing, probably no better than when they strutted the Harvard campus.

Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (3JfbU)

77 71 Yes, it got out of hand, but the impulse was very similar to our current situation. Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (QBaJw)

Don't forget the church. As Poso points out, Notre Dame has been burned before.
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Our national church is the Church of Manhattan Media. Let's get going.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (pZ64F)

78 If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.

And a bunch of Mannix girls sky diving mostly naked off the skyscrapper right before it explodes ?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (XqcwY)

79 68 Rumor is the illegals get $2200 when they cross.
Some have figured out they can circle back and get $2200 each time they cross.

How is it that we can give them cash and a phone, but we are too swamped to give them court dates anymore?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (NYzgN)

———-

It seems that it would be very easy for an intrepid conservative reporter to go to Mexico then enter the USA without any papers and record what happens. Ideally it would be a Hispanic person.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (ALn4J)

80 He questioned Obama's Iran Deal. Remember that's when his pedo-trips to DR came out.

When he knuckled under they went away but I suspect the knives have been out with him for a while for disagreeing with Dear Leader
Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (XqcwY)

They play the long game, don't they?

Worth noting of course, Epstein was far from the ONLY pedo game in town. I have no doubt there are some in one faction who will work to take down those in another, because they're safe from retribution.

You're either in the know, or you're not, and my crimes remain secret, while yours are exposed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (QBaJw)

81 65 Not agreeing with what the French did in their revolution, but I’m starting to understand it.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:37 PM (u73oe)

For those who aren't aware, the french peasants didn't just go after the royals. There were clergy and wealthy landowners (and other assorted wealthy) who were on the chopping block.

It was a full scale revolt against the elites who ruled them.

Yes, it got out of hand, but the impulse was very similar to our current situation.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:48 PM (QBaJw)

The French Revolution wasn't a peasants' revolt(though there were later reactionary peasants' revolts that the French Revolutionary government crushed). The resemblance here is more in the proliferation of people with college degrees but without corresponding jobs in some administrative role.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (eYoxG)

82 or 3. The "losses" were mostly on paper and the depositors actually only lost unrealized crypto gains, not real money.
Posted by: Caesar North

Or 4. The crypto was recreated because it is so easy to fraud.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (tntOw)

83 It would be like the sex trafficking trial of Gis Max. She was somehow convicted of trafficking girls without any mention whatsoever of who she trafficked the girls to. She was basically convicted of being a pimp for prostitutes without any identification of a single john serviced by any of the prostitutes.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Which should stand the law on it's ear.

Huggy Bear, you are charged with providing prostitutes.

Missing half of the charge there. To whom?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (aNhid)

84 Some Twitter/X people are hinting at something big.

Is the Kracken coming?

How about a new Benghazi bombshell?

It has to be something big to wash the Epstein list out of the news cycle fast.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (NYzgN)

85 Didn't D'Souza go to jail for this?

Posted by: kent mcculloch at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (EVsOb)

86 About five years ago I spent a morning at Harvard just looking around. What I saw were a lot of arrogant students strutting around, much as the English upper class must have been in the nineteenth century.

Would you say they were swanning about?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 03, 2024 02:54 PM (CsUN+)

87 It seems that it would be very easy for an intrepid conservative reporter to go to Mexico then enter the USA without any papers and record what happens. Ideally it would be a Hispanic person.

I remember O'Keefe crossed the border dressed as Osama Bin Laden.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:54 PM (XqcwY)

88 You're describing all of Washington DC. Everyone there is on the take. Money laundering and outright theft. Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 03, 2024 02:47 PM (BdMk6)

Somewhat OT, but as I have posted before, I have become convinced that for our political class the object of appropriations is to spend money and they don't care whether it works or not. The spending itself is the object.

If a Member of Congress has a choice between a $10 million bridge in his or her district and a $100 million bridge, which one does he or she choose? The $100 million bridge. Every. Time.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 02:54 PM (7B5FA)

89 It used to be there were two systems of justice, one for us and one for individuals like Hunter or Joey Choo-Choo.

This is different: Now, they are exempting an entire group of felons. It's a mass amnesty. A blanket pardon.

This sort of "prosecutorial discretion" used to be an individual grant, and now it's blatantly extended to an entire political party. No charges, no trial, no embarrassing articles or nasty prison terms.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 03, 2024 02:55 PM (9nZO5)

90 I'd argue the French aristocrats were less corrupt.

Much less corrupt.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:49 PM (XqcwY)

Yup.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:55 PM (QBaJw)

91 My take is the French Revolution like many was the radical elite using the mob to take over, then as most Revolutions do needs to keep feeding who is evil to the mob until the elite as often does get on t o the chopping block ( literally).
The Bolsheviks did same but the elite fed each other to stay on top.

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:55 PM (+Y4/d)

92 I wonder if Bob Kraft was on the Lolita Express.

Posted by: Bill Belichick at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (Edu7X)

93 Your majesty, the peasants are revolting!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (u73oe)

94 The backroom dealing in the Ghislane trial must be fascinating.

Remember Trump had to force them to arrest her.

I suspect she's stashed her blackmail file/dead man's switch well so the government doesn't want to trigger that, but the government has to pretend to be prosecuting her

AND both sides have to avoid mentioning any client in public...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (XqcwY)

95 Meanwhile the Epstein "Doe Appeals" are ongoing.

You can actually hear the money changing hands, if you listen closely.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (9nZO5)

96 It seems that it would be very easy for an intrepid conservative reporter to go to Mexico then enter the USA without any papers and record what happens. Ideally it would be a Hispanic person.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

He would be found out and prosecuted for extreme ultra violent insurrection which threatened the very bedrock of our precious democracy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (NYzgN)

97 85 Didn't D'Souza go to jail for this?
Posted by: kent mcculloch at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (EVsOb)

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No he went to jail and court ordered psychiatric treatment for giving people money to donate to electioncandidates.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 02:57 PM (ALn4J)

98 Or 4. The crypto was recreated because it is so easy to fraud. Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (tntOw)

Yup.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 02:57 PM (7B5FA)

99 "The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) trustee estimated actual direct losses to investors of $18 billion, of which $14.418 billion has been recovered and returned, while the search for additional funds continues. On June 29, 2009, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum sentence allowed. -- On April 14, 2021, he died"

"The Wall Street Journal stated that Bankman-Fried had disclosed[where?] that Alameda owed FTX about $10 billion, which was secured through customer funds held by FTX when FTX had, at the time, $16 billion in customer assets"

Not sure how much of their money the Fried "customers" got back, maybe none?

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2024 02:57 PM (Cus5s)

100 Oh yeah? AFAIK, the current "elites" don't employ piss-boys.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (CsUN+)

This is a joke... right?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 02:57 PM (QBaJw)

101 64 I have a good post coming up next so stay tuned.

If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.

Posted by: ace at January 03, 2024 02:45 PM (KRtlO)
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Heh...awesome!!! You're finally going to do it. I knew you were a vecchio. The waitress story...am I right? Oh, baby, that's a good one. One of my best performances, buddy. When that bitch but Equal in my coffee, she was just askin' for it. I mean, who puts that poison in cup of coffee? That one has it all. Broken bones, tears, and that stupid bastard with the meat cleaver hurdling over the counter only to trip and cascade four of his fingers into that old broad's soup.

Posted by: Rich "Psycho" Giamboni at January 03, 2024 02:57 PM (dIske)

102 One of Trump's cases is accusing him of defrauding banks and insurance companies but the prosecutors don't have a SINGLE victim.

So they watched the Ghislaine trial and copied the script.

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2024 02:58 PM (OUiUM)

103 Oh yeah? AFAIK, the current "elites" don't employ piss-boys.
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*shifty (bulbous) eyes*

Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 03, 2024 02:58 PM (fs1hN)

104 That's a "shoot your dog during a 3 AM raid"ing you white supremacist you
Posted by: The FBI at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (XqcwY)

good luck. i've got a cat not a dog. and he LOVES to pounce on a red light...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 03, 2024 02:59 PM (nXhwP)

105 Law Skools were the point of the spear in the socialist revolution.

From Pay Toilets to Nut Houses to Sodomites Sodomiting they graduated die hard leftists bent on overturning everything good and sane with this country.

Now the fruit has come home to roost.

Posted by: Barry Obongo, Constitutional Skolar at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (Edu7X)

106 1 My take is the French Revolution like many was the radical elite using the mob to take over, then as most Revolutions do needs to keep feeding who is evil to the mob until the elite as often does get on t o the chopping block ( literally).
The Bolsheviks did same but the elite fed each other to stay on top.
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:55 PM (+Y4/d
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It’s the second tier elite that almost always starts the revolutions because they can’t make it to the top tier.

Mainly that’s due to elite overproduction which starts the wealth pump to the higher classes

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (ALn4J)

107 Republicans Using "New Weapon" in Efforts to Stymie Democracy: Crimes Committed By Democrats

Posted by: Associated Press at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (hqVaF)

108 Mail in ballots were created because they are so easy to fraud.

Posted by: torabora at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (OUiUM)

109 Ghislaine gets out in 13 more years if she lives. Maybe we find out more then or maybe not.

Posted by: nckate at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (EPm6B)

110 I don't know what they are like when they graduate and join the elite corporations but considering how those corporations are performing, probably no better than when they strutted the Harvard campus. Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (3JfbU)

Most Harvard College students go to graduate school when they graduate. Many of them, when they finish their graduate degrees, go into academia, where they are most comfortable and the degree carries some cachet. Harvard is disproportionately represented in faculty lounges. I attribute it to the phenomenon where when you're a kid you want to be a teacher because they're the only role models you have, and many of the Harvard kids never grow out of it.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 03:00 PM (7B5FA)

111 Some Twitter/X people are hinting at something big.

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Something big? Like Lizzo?

Posted by: Hillary! at January 03, 2024 03:01 PM (fs1hN)

112 It seems that it would be very easy for an intrepid conservative reporter to go to Mexico then enter the USA without any papers and record what happens. Ideally it would be a Hispanic person.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Doesn't have to be specifically Hispanic since they are catching all nationalities.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 03, 2024 03:02 PM (aNhid)

113 *shifty (bulbous) eyes* Posted by: Adam Schiff at January 03, 2024 02:58 PM (fs1hN)

His giant head was riding with the mayor in the Rose Bowl parade.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 03, 2024 03:02 PM (7B5FA)

114 Your majesty, the peasants are revolting!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (u73oe)

Yes, They stink on ice!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Redskins Fan at January 03, 2024 03:03 PM (Edu7X)

115 27 Ciampino been staying away, hope they been going off unhitched

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 02:42 PM (+Y4/d)
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Yes. Delays occasionally. Almost 200 launches with payloads now.

Live in 85 minutes.

Posted by: Ciampino - You know it is Rocket Science! at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM (qfLjt)

116 "We want dar-keys to dar-kingdom!"
---DEI hires

Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM (tbSPP)

117 If you start reading it and think, "Oh I don't care about that," wait until you get to the last part of it. It finishes with a big explosion on top of a skyscraper.

And a bunch of Mannix girls sky diving mostly naked off the skyscrapper right before it explodes ?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (XqcwY)

you um... wouldn't happen to have proposed script and casting list for this, would you....?

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM (nXhwP)

118 Some Twitter/X people are hinting at something big. The very same people that 'Classic' Twitter banned, blocked, and otherwise abused.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 03, 2024 02:52 PM (3qE2b)
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Like who? I'd like to read the hints.

Posted by: WisRich at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM (G0vdT)

119 Doesn't have to be specifically Hispanic since they are catching all nationalities.
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Hello border patrol earthling. I'm requesting asylum due to prosecution on my homeworld Zog II. It is also part of my culture to carry plasma guns.

Posted by: Grzk at January 03, 2024 03:05 PM (fs1hN)

120 I'd argue the French aristocrats were less corrupt.

Much less corrupt.
Posted by: 18-1
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Ehh, many of the priests were openly non-celibate and engaged in all sorts of Ungodly activities, a king's mistress had the Black Mass performed over her naked body, endless stories of French nobles that had the power to dispense justice being more corrupt than your average Chicago judge and massive borrowing to support wars and the Court at Versailles but taxation borne by the lower and middle classes.

Both Adams and Jefferson were appalled at the open lack of morals, the horrific plight of the poor, and the disgusting excesses and vices of the aristocracy. Reportedly Jefferson, as the American envoy to the French Republic during the Articles of Confederation years, had a hand in drafting the French Declaration of Rights.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:05 PM (bk5GW)

121 Some Twitter/X people are hinting at something big. The very same people that 'Classic' Twitter banned, blocked, and otherwise abused.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Please don't say Cates or Wicktor.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 03, 2024 03:06 PM (IG4Id)

122 His mom was an active participant in this. Gave advice on sending donations (many to her PAC) through straw men.

Don't know why I'm even raising this since she'll never be charged.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 03, 2024 03:06 PM (Dm8we)

123 The French Revolution wasn't a peasants' revolt(though there were later reactionary peasants' revolts that the French Revolutionary government crushed). The resemblance here is more in the proliferation of people with college degrees but without corresponding jobs in some administrative role.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 03, 2024 02:53 PM (eYoxG)

The point being, the revolution was from the ruled upon the ruling class. Don't get hung up on the term "peasants."

Most of the people who post here aren't peasants either, but our rulers sure think we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:06 PM (pydNp)

124 Something big? Like Lizzo?
Posted by: Hillary! at January 03, 2024 03:01 PM (fs1hN)

in a red bikini

also the worst thing to happen to a beach since D-Day...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 03, 2024 03:06 PM (nXhwP)

125 Quelle surprise.
......

Sacre blue!

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:07 PM (v0R5T)

126 @ 119
"Hispanic?" What about HER panic, you sexist, you?

Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at January 03, 2024 03:07 PM (tbSPP)

127 What a buncha suckers.

Posted by: Tulip bulbs at January 03, 2024 03:07 PM (cugUP)

128 New sneakers for the truck so ready gpr snow.
Off to Biden County now

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2024 03:08 PM (+Y4/d)

129 What the Star Wars franchise was really missing was woke gay feminism. I hope the new head can really incorporate that into the series.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 03:08 PM (NYzgN)

130 Ehh, many of the priests were openly non-celibate and engaged in all sorts of Ungodly activities, a king's mistress had the Black Mass performed over her naked body, endless stories of French nobles that had the power to dispense justice being more corrupt than your average Chicago judge and massive borrowing to support wars and the Court at Versailles but taxation borne by the lower and middle classes.

Both Adams and Jefferson were appalled at the open lack of morals, the horrific plight of the poor, and the disgusting excesses and vices of the aristocracy. Reportedly Jefferson, as the American envoy to the French Republic during the Articles of Confederation years, had a hand in drafting the French Declaration of Rights.
Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:05 PM (bk5GW)

And yet again, not as corrupt as our current rulers.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:08 PM (I270d)

131
Like who? I'd like to read the hints.

Posted by: WisRich at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM

Try @JackPosobiec - he is one.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 03, 2024 03:09 PM (3qE2b)

132 " seems that it would be very easy for an intrepid conservative reporter to go to Mexico then enter the USA without any papers and record what happens. Ideally it would be a Hispanic person." Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Me: "I'm an oppressed person seeking asylum"

Border greeter: "Where are yo from?"

Me: "Illinois. Can I now have my $2200 and a free phone, and a plane ticket?"

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2024 03:09 PM (Cus5s)

133 110
Well the main draw in the Sciences to become an academic is the possibility to do research, but research in one's field(s) of interest rather than what your employer wants.

Posted by: Ciampino - You know it is Rocket Science!! at January 03, 2024 03:10 PM (qfLjt)

134 And yet again, not as corrupt as our current rulers.
Posted by: BurtTC
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*blinks*
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Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 03, 2024 03:10 PM (fs1hN)

135 These days the elite is no longer even trying to pretend that there is equal justice under the law.

Correct.
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Calm.down. we just need better candidates.

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (QpAWD)

136 Kaboom >>> SBF

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

137 MSNBC is reporting that Trump manipulated the Epstein list to take his name off and put Bill Clinton in his place. I think that the Attorney Genial should investigate this new Trump scam .........

Posted by: Dorcus blimline at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (qpLSv)

138 I keep getting texts from Nikki Haley. I think she wants to date me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (pZ64F)

139 129 What the Star Wars franchise was really missing was woke gay feminism. I hope the new head can really incorporate that into the series.
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'woke gay feminism', hmm, seems redundant to me. YMMV

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 03, 2024 03:12 PM (fs1hN)

140 40 13 SBF did his job well and is now rewarded for it. He took ill-gotten gains from his investors, like Tom Brady, and gave them to the Democrat party. Anybody who invested millions with a stupid looking kid deserved to lose it all.
Posted by: Decaf at January 03, 2024 02:39 PM (3JfbU)
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I don't think there ever were any real investors. I think the entire operation was one yuge money-laundering scheme.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 03, 2024 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

Based on no information other than my gut, I'd say you are correct mostly because the kid's still alive.

Posted by: Inogame at January 03, 2024 03:12 PM (53oGX)

141 Dropping the charges is about protecting the Establishment, not SBF. SBF is a minor beneficiary of the scheme to protect the people in power.
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Power of and.

The big power players must be protected, but they need to make it clear to the SBFs of the world that if they help the Party, then the Party will take care of them. SBF got a wrist-slap for his crimes, the charges were all reduced if not dropped entirely and he will likely be reasonably well cared-for when he gets out. That's the game.

Do the Party's will, and if you get caught then keep your mouth shut and the Party will take care of it. They need to their SBF-type operators, too. Protect the ruling class and demonstrate that the operator made the right bet in backing you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 03, 2024 03:12 PM (WkNQM)

142 Did Donald Trump accept a bribe? Order his FBI director to fake evidence? Tell the National Guard to kill critics? Sell nuclear secrets? Jack Smith is being awfully suggestive. -- As Special Counsel Jack Smith makes ...
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The Daly Beast goes insane. These crimes probably happened, but are no doubt Biden crimes. The TDS is getting stronger and stronger, like raw sewage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 03, 2024 03:12 PM (9nZO5)

143 These days the elite is no longer even trying to pretend that there is equal justice under the law.
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Nope. They *say* it a lot, but they don't pretend that what they're saying is true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 03, 2024 03:12 PM (WkNQM)

144 Me: "Illinois. Can I now have my $2200 and a free phone, and a plane ticket?"
Posted by: illiniwek
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Get this man a bus ticket to Chicago, stat!

Posted by: Gov. Abbot at January 03, 2024 03:13 PM (fs1hN)

145 Meanwhile the Epstein "Doe Appeals" are ongoing.

You can actually hear the money changing hands, if you listen closely.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 03, 2024 02:56 PM (9nZO5)

Part of that sound you hear is judges and prosecutors opening envelopes containing photos and other documents regarding their own... transgressions.

Then being told "these are copies, we still have the originals."

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:13 PM (ih9qp)

146 Can't have all those bribed politico's names coming out in discovery, now can we?

Posted by: Halfhand at January 03, 2024 03:13 PM (E+3bw)

147 And yet again, not as corrupt as our current rulers.
Posted by: BurtTC
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About the same I would think. De Sade wrote during this era and the English had its decadebt Hellfire Club. The Age of Reason begat bloodbaths and widespread immorality primarily of the elites because they could afford the consequences of various venereal diseases, gambling losses, and rampant fraud in commerce (the South Seas Bubble among them).

Basically the Bourbon kings had run France into the ground, the Spanish monarchy was a shadow of its former glory, the UK was rising under a cloud of outright rotten borough politics, political and personal corruption, and the Hapsburg Empire began its slide into decay. Russia had its German nobility looting the country (Potemkin villages came from that era). Only Prussia, perhaps, with the Fredericks had somewhat of a disinterested and efficient state.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:14 PM (bk5GW)

148 138 I keep getting texts from Nikki Haley. I think she wants to date me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (pZ64F)

Send her a "D" pic. Always a good first move.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 03, 2024 03:14 PM (N39Ws)

149 Well the main draw in the Sciences to become an academic is the possibility to do research, but research in one's field(s) of interest rather than what your employer wants.
Posted by: Ciampino - You know it is Rocket Science!! at January 03, 2024 03:10 PM (qfLjt)
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That used to be known as "academic freedom" but the term has been twisted so now it apparently means the freedom to indoctrinate college students.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 03, 2024 03:14 PM (7fElN)

150 Mexicans could just cross the border every few days, collect the cash, then walk back into Mexico.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:14 PM (v0R5T)

151 138 I keep getting texts from Nikki Haley. I think she wants to date me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (pZ64F)
.......

I get them too. What a slut.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:15 PM (v0R5T)

152 *blinks*
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Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 03, 2024 03:10 PM (fs1hN)

That's progress! I'm so proud of you, man.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:15 PM (yr8ap)

153 131
Like who? I'd like to read the hints.

Posted by: WisRich at January 03, 2024 03:04 PM

Try @JackPosobiec - he is one.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 03, 2024 03:09 PM (3qE2b)

"Tick tock, tick tock."
Said some Fox News troll.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 03, 2024 03:16 PM (N39Ws)

154 BREAKING: The Epstein list that was expected to be released today (Jan. 2nd 2024) has now been delayed and a new release date has been scheduled for January 22, 2024 after “Doe 107” made a request for a 30 day extension last month that was accepted by the Judge today.

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1742380605999083590

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 03, 2024 03:17 PM (lf83v)

155 "Then walk back into Mexico."

Walk? Senor, I am the fastest mouse in all Meh-hee-co. I will RUN, and collect the $2200 many times.

Posted by: Speedy Gonzalez at January 03, 2024 03:18 PM (hqVaF)

156 I just want to take the time to point out that among the other things Sam Bankman-Fried funded with his money was the Together trial, which supposedly "proved" that Ivermectin didn't work for covid.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 03, 2024 03:19 PM (gHSfI)

157 This old town is filled with sin
It'll swallow you in
If you've got some money to burn
Take it home right away
You've got three years to pay
But Satan is waiting his turn
This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door
Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain...

Posted by: The Flying Burrito Brothers at January 03, 2024 03:19 PM (Edu7X)

158 About the same I would think. De Sade wrote....
Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:14 PM (bk5GW)

What's been documented, has been documented. I think the crimes of our rulers are still mostly unknown.

And yet, what we do know is, our rulers will send men and weapons across the globe to kill millions of people. None of those pre-industrial powers had the capability. They might have had the intent, but they didn't have the tools we have.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:19 PM (I270d)

159 I just want to take the time to point out that among the other things Sam Bankman-Fried funded with his money was the Together trial, which supposedly "proved" that Ivermectin didn't work for covid.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 03, 2024 03:19 PM (gHSfI)
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Don't forget his brother Gabe (he also worked at FTX) who wanted to use FTX money to buy an island nation - not the island, but the whole thing including the sovereignty - so that they could build a gigantic bugout compound and engage in genetic engineering to produce a race of supermen.

Your betters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 03, 2024 03:20 PM (WkNQM)

160 BREAKING: The Epstein list that was expected to be released today (Jan. 2nd 2024) has now been delayed and a new release date has been scheduled for January 22, 2024 after “Doe 107” made a request for a 30 day extension last month that was accepted by the Judge today.

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1742380605999083590
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
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That order only pertains to Doe 107. Not to the rest of the list which is due for release on a rolling basis this Wednesday.

Legal filings and court orders are a mystery for a lot of folks. Here is the January 3rd order of the Court (today) http://tinyurl.com/3uze3dk8

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:20 PM (bk5GW)

161 To be fair, $2200 is barely enough to get them to a welfare office.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:21 PM (v0R5T)

162 Big breaking news on ..... watergate. Turns out it was worse than watergate.

Lots of connections between JFK assassination players and Watergate players. All CIA connections.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 03:21 PM (NYzgN)

163 Epps will be the next one to have charges dropped.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 03, 2024 03:22 PM (KiBMU)

164 21 minutes of Vivek Ramaswamy ably handling a hostile press gaggle:

https://t.ly/_5-Lk

Posted by: bonhomme at January 03, 2024 03:23 PM (R38qh)

165 That order only pertains to Doe 107. Not to the rest of the list which is due for release on a rolling basis this Wednesday.
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Rolling basis? From what I remember, you could get an encyclopedia set on a rolling basis. You could also get a 1,000 page book all at one time. Why the need for a rollout? To build drama?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 03, 2024 03:23 PM (fs1hN)

166 I keep getting texts from Nikki Haley. I think she wants to date me.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (pZ64F)
.......

I get them too. What a slut.
Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:15 PM (v0R5T)

Tell her how good Cummala is at giving head, make it a competition.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:23 PM (OrSq1)

167 Did he swindle mostly Lefty rich people? I’m looking for that silver lining.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 03, 2024 03:24 PM (MNhXM)

168 You know.

It's probably impossible to prove the authenticity of any photo or video today with AI being so sophisticated. Why don't the scumbags just deny it's them? Why even be afraid?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 03, 2024 03:24 PM (3XMoj)

169 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said. The city’s new guidelines, announced last week, also ban discrimination against someone based on their English proficiency and threats to call immigration authorities on someone “based on a discriminatory motive.” These violations can result in fines up to $250,000. The guidance is for all public accommodations, employment and housing, the city’s Commission on Human Rights said.

Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:24 PM (RHGPo)

170 And yet, what we do know is, our rulers will send men and weapons across the globe to kill millions of people. None of those pre-industrial powers had the capability. They might have had the intent, but they didn't have the tools we have.
Posted by: BurtTC

I agree that modernity has unique ways to kill a lot of people quickly via nukes or in some cases a bit more slowly via biological warfare etc.

But still, Genghis Khan did his best to rack up a massive depopulating body count across Asia and Europe and the various widespread religious wars in Europe killed a lot of folks as well. Then you have the Muslim conquest nailed quite a few and is still ongoing along its bloody borders with the rest of the world.

There is a reason that some like Thomas Hobbes felt that humans were inherently depraved and thus a tyrant was needed to keep them in line by force if necessary.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:25 PM (bk5GW)

171 engage in genetic engineering to produce a race of supermen.
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You are supposed to yell out NAZI!!!! When your dice roll hits:race of genetic supermen.

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:25 PM (QpAWD)

172 The Free Beacon reviewed political donations over the past four election cycles from those who identified their occupation as "fact checker." $22,580 of the $22,683 in political donations that came from self-identified fact checkers during that time—a whopping 99.5 percent—went to Democrats and liberal groups.

Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

173 Out: Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

In: Yeah, I 'm pissing on your leg, what of it?

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at January 03, 2024 03:25 PM (NMo+J)

174 Maybe we should deploy our latest weapon.

Release the Plagiarism Checker!

Posted by: Just Lily at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (J3MGr)

175 Big breaking news on ..... watergate. Turns out it was worse than watergate.

Lots of connections between JFK assassination players and Watergate players. All CIA connections.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 03, 2024 03:21 PM (NYzgN)

I had a conversation with a family member over the holidays, he has a strong knowledge base when it comes to "known" history.

When I suggested the Watergate op was about getting Nixon from the start, initially he objected, and then started down the path of who was involved, including how and where the CIA was instrumental in getting the FBI to keep probing (when they could have stopped it in its tracks). He ended up convincing himself, without me having to say another word.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (OrSq1)

176 Ok, who would most surprise you if they were on the Epstein list? I'm going with Dolly Parton.

Posted by: Wally at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (hqVaF)

177 From what I’m seeing, Joe is making a speech on Saturday where he’s expected to paint DJT as a threat to democracy.

I’d say this is battlefield prep.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (u73oe)

178 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said. The city’s new guidelines, announced last week, also ban discrimination against someone based on their English proficiency and threats to call immigration authorities on someone “based on a discriminatory motive.” These violations can result in fines up to $250,000. The guidance is for all public accommodations, employment and housing, the city’s Commission on Human Rights said.
Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:24 PM (RHGPo)

Geez. Avoid the hassle in dealing with these invaders. Just shoot the bastards.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (BdMk6)

179 I guess SBF must have had good intentions

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 03, 2024 03:27 PM (RIvkX)

180 Rolling basis? From what I remember, you could get an encyclopedia set on a rolling basis. You could also get a 1,000 page book all at one time. Why the need for a rollout? To build drama?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I think that is in case if any others on the list had last minute objections like John Doe 110 did. He is excluded from the order to be released as well pending further court inquiry according to today's order. Even Jane Doe 107 has until Jan 22nd to persuade the court not to release. Preska has been pretty good about it actually compared with the hideous district judges in DC.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:27 PM (bk5GW)

181 ABSCAM has been replaced by ABSCOND.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 03, 2024 03:27 PM (1nfzE)

182 so the "Rub Their Noses in It" will continue unabated in '24

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 03, 2024 03:28 PM (sJHOI)

183 illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.superman.
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What about fu k face, a hole, fagotty New YorkTimes Reader, or groomer?????

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:28 PM (QpAWD)

184 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.
........

Embrace the suck, citizens.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

185 Don't forget his brother Gabe (he also worked at FTX) who wanted to use FTX money to buy an island nation - not the island, but the whole thing including the sovereignty - so that they could build a gigantic bugout compound and engage in genetic engineering to produce a race of supermen.

Your betters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 03, 2024 03:20 PM (WkNQM)

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As I have been fond of saying for a while now:

Transgenderism is the tip of the transhumanist spear.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 03:28 PM (hDu2Y)

186 Some enjoy the pointy tip of the spear.

Most do not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 03, 2024 03:29 PM (1nfzE)

187 162 Big breaking news on ..... watergate. Turns out it was worse than watergate.

Lots of connections between JFK assassination players and Watergate players. All CIA connections.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Been rumored for years so interesting that new information is dribbling out now.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:29 PM (bk5GW)

188 I keep getting texts from Nikki Haley. I think she wants to date me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:11 PM (pZ64F)
.......

I get them too. What a slut.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:15 PM (v0R5T)

Tell her how good Cummala is at giving head, make it a competition.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:23 PM (OrSq1)

Ok, I hate to say "and this is why I'm here, but Ok, Yeah, it is..

Posted by: This nic identifies as a different nic at January 03, 2024 03:29 PM (NMo+J)

189 Can you choose party affiliation after getting charged?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 03, 2024 03:30 PM (AN/rm)

190 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.

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Now do "literally Hitler."

/NYT hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 03:30 PM (sktNV)

191 expected to paint DJT as a threat to democracy.

I’d say this is battlefield prep.
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If they can't steal it they'll go to the mattresses. They will justify it by claiming Trump tried insurrection first, so it okay for them to do it now.

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:30 PM (QpAWD)

192 SBF just sent your money to the politicians which you were going to send it to them anyway.

So what's the problem?
Posted by: torabora

I think his organization existed JUST to launder money.
Making any money for his "small time" clients was just a sideline.
It is rumored that billions of dollars sent to Ukraine were "laundered" through a crypto currency, and ended up back in the coffers of the DNC and various Democrat AND Republican politicians, by Sam Bankman-Fried.

And any questions about the national debt now exceeding $34 billion dollars?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (TIijj)

193 >>Lots of connections between JFK assassination players and Watergate players. All CIA connections.

Lots of connections with the CIA and the China virus, too.

Because the CIA has been running the country for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (ZLI7S)

194 Ya gotta love how brazen this is.

Now for the next question: have these ungodly shitstains struck a side deal with this cracked-out Muppet, or will he not kill himself with multiple blows to the skull in his cell?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (0FoWg)

195 189 Can you choose party affiliation after getting charged?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 03, 2024 03:30 PM (AN/rm)

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"Not in a world where you can choose your sex and race, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (sktNV)

196 Our government is every bit as corrupt as Mexico's.

Wonder how much money ol' Joe has siphoned off from the cartels....

Posted by: Sam Adams at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (KEWDx)

197 SBF will be found in his luxury car dead due to ODing on aspirin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 03, 2024 03:32 PM (1nfzE)

198 Ok, who would most surprise you if they were on the Epstein list? I'm going with Dolly Parton.
Posted by: Wally at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (hqVaF)

I was about to say Stephen Hawking, but you know what? No, that wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:32 PM (QBaJw)

199 >>rom what I’m seeing, Joe is making a speech on Saturday where he’s expected to paint DJT as a threat to democracy.

>>I’d say this is battlefield prep

Yes of course. That's why Joe is tying to throw Trump in prison cause that's what democracy is all about.

Smells more like desperation to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2024 03:33 PM (ZLI7S)

200 Because the CIA has been running the country for years.
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Dr. Evil. He is on their payroll.

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:33 PM (QpAWD)

201 Ok, who would most surprise you if they were on the Epstein list? I'm going with Dolly Parton.
Posted by: Wally at January 03, 2024 03:26 PM (hqVaF)

I was about to say Stephen Hawking, but you know what? No, that wouldn't surprise me.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:32 PM (QBaJw)

You know whose name WON'T appear anywhere, on any documents?

Lex Wexner.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:34 PM (QBaJw)

202 Hawking was apparently quite the perv. Just didn't have the mobility to be a true player.

Posted by: Wally at January 03, 2024 03:34 PM (hqVaF)

203 > New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.

They're codifying the rule we've all seen in operation for some time now. If you're of the body, you can say almost anything you want, and they'll argue your intent was good. If you're not of the body, you can say something that was fine at the time, then they'll attack you twenty years later when what you said becomes not fine.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 03, 2024 03:34 PM (R38qh)

204 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said. The city’s new guidelines, announced last week, also ban discrimination against someone based on their English proficiency and threats to call immigration authorities on someone “based on a discriminatory motive.” These violations can result in fines up to $250,000. The guidance is for all public accommodations, employment and housing, the city’s Commission on Human Rights said.
Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:24 PM (RHGPo)
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There's nothing quite like the schizoid lashing out of an end-stage governing complex on the cusp of collapse

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 03, 2024 03:34 PM (WkNQM)

205 Our government is every bit as corrupt as Mexico's.
......

But more stupid.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2024 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

206 21 minutes of Vivek Ramaswamy ably handling a hostile press gaggle:
https://t.ly/_5-Lk
Posted by: bonhomme at January 03, 2024 03:23 PM (R38qh)

Like A Boss.

Vivek For VP.....Make It So!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2024 03:35 PM (Edu7X)

207 On Saturday may Joey finally lose his last shred of self control and starts to molest anyone in reach.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 03, 2024 03:35 PM (1nfzE)

208 If SBF and fam started a super race they'd need someone else's genetic material. Was he super racing with his ugly ass girlfriend and himself. Uh, no.

Posted by: nckate at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (EPm6B)

209 was about to say Stephen Hawking, but you know what? No, that wouldn't surprise me.
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There are already published pictures. He celebrated a birthday there.

Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (QpAWD)

210 You know what would stun me? Is if either Clinton is on that list. It would mean their grip on the Party is fully broken. And it would mean they would spill a lot of tea on a lot of people in revenge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (jOpJn)

211 On Saturday may Joey finally lose his last shred of self control and starts to molest anyone in reach.
Posted by: Anna Puma a

I'm predicting a 'full nadler'

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (CIS44)

212 Hawking named his wheelchair Paolo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (1nfzE)

213 Strictly speaking, the list being released today supposedly only includes people identified as witnesses and related to the specifics of Virginia Giuffre's complaint as part of a civil suit by Giuffre against Prince Andrew of UK.

It is not a comprehensive list of depraved individuals that went to the Island or his ranch in New Mexico. Dunno if it deals with past behavior by Maxwell and Epstein in Florida.

Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (bk5GW)

214 was about to say Stephen Hawking, but you know what? No, that wouldn't surprise me.
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There are already published pictures. He celebrated a birthday there.
Posted by: Remain calm, all is well at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (QpAWD)

I still say it's possible he was a complete fraud. I mean, he was an academic before he became an invalid, but I wonder if the machine through which he "spoke" was entirely programmed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:37 PM (QBaJw)

215 Starwarnood

Posted by: Rex B at January 03, 2024 03:38 PM (0u7I0)

216 203 > New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.
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So much for the First Amendment. NYC sucks donkey ballz.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:38 PM (pZ64F)

217 You know who almost certainly won't be on the Epstein list? Macron. He'd think, "Instead of 5 who are 16, I'd rather have one who is 80."

Posted by: Wally at January 03, 2024 03:39 PM (hqVaF)

218 In the case, State of Texas v. Becerra, the state of Texas challenged the attempt to use EMTALA to force ER doctors to become abortionists.

In the decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the EMTALA does not require emergency room physicians to provide abortions.

Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:39 PM (RHGPo)

219 Strictly speaking, the list being released today supposedly only includes people identified as witnesses and related to the specifics of Virginia Giuffre's complaint as part of a civil suit by Giuffre against Prince Andrew of UK.

It is not a comprehensive list of depraved individuals that went to the Island or his ranch in New Mexico. Dunno if it deals with past behavior by Maxwell and Epstein in Florida.
Posted by: whig at January 03, 2024 03:36 PM (bk5GW)

Right, it's a list of 150 or so names. If they were making a list of all who were in on the Epstein op, as perps of one sort or another, the list would have thousands of names on it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 03, 2024 03:39 PM (QBaJw)

220
New, bummer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 03, 2024 03:41 PM (3qE2b)

221 How does one determine 'intent' when stating someone is an illegal alien? Who makes this decision?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:42 PM (pZ64F)

222 Because the CIA has been running the country for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2024 03:31 PM (ZLI7S)

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CIA -- among others -- likely was "running" Epstein, too.

At least it was never Directed by an avowed Communist.

/Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at January 03, 2024 03:42 PM (o8N4w)

223 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.
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I think the term "invader" is a good substitute.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 03, 2024 03:43 PM (fs1hN)

224 223 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.
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I think the term "invader" is a good substitute.
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Target sounds good to me.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 03, 2024 03:43 PM (pZ64F)

225 >>CIA -- among others -- likely was "running" Epstein, too.

Agreed.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2024 03:46 PM (ZLI7S)

226 The House Oversight Committee will begin moving forward with holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena to sit for a deposition last month as part of the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into his father.

Posted by: SMOD at January 03, 2024 03:48 PM (RHGPo)

227 Epstein Island was only one of his ~~Operating Bases~~ Bordellos.

Don't forget, his luxury Miami digs, NYC condo, and some rumored Western Ranch kind of thing, the details of which fail to my memory.

Those'll all be separate "lists", but should be some Lolita Express flight logs to at least document some in attendance.

And wherever Epstein's remote "server farm" was, those hard drives are surely tucked away somewhere *very* safely, and maybe right now, Ghislane is the one who knows the codes, and the deadman-cutout?

'Cause those drives have the video and audio of each and every "vistor", every bedroom, every orgy, every perveted act. Probably enough there to bring down the world, as we know it.

*pops popcorn*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 03, 2024 03:55 PM (e6UQI)

228 New York City has banned the term “illegal alien” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,” the city said.

You cannot demean, humiliate or harass a person who knows what they are.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 03, 2024 04:04 PM (aNhid)

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Posted by: abridge at January 03, 2024 07:06 PM (qKF/O)

230 “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person,”
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Are you shitting me? In New York everything we do is meant to demean, humiliate or harass a person.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 04, 2024 11:09 AM (lf83v)

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