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Guys, this is the best summory I have seen! (Original Post) babsbunny 3 hrs ago OP
*summary* mispelled babsbunny 3 hrs ago #1
I would never make an errer like that Orrex 3 hrs ago #2
Two err is human. oasis 3 hrs ago #5
My cat has two errs. Abolishinist 2 hrs ago #10
Your funny. QueerDuck 37 min ago #24
That's why err is in my name. I'm a hooman! erronis 1 hr ago #13
Pinboy3niner would have enjoyed this thread malaise 1 hr ago #18
You no it. nt duhneece 1 hr ago #19
Were?? tavernier 1 hr ago #20
If the correct message is conveyed, multigraincracker 1 hr ago #16
It was the excitement of getting it out, we all understand...Great video, presentation. Thank you Escurumbele 45 min ago #21
K&R Hugin 3 hrs ago #3
J.D.Vance, Merrick Garland, Putin and Epstein. A lot oasis 3 hrs ago #4
Bookmark yellow dahlia 3 hrs ago #6
So malaise 2 hrs ago #7
And Virginia Giuffre, and Robert Maxwell, and Jean-Luc Brunel, and etc. TheRickles 2 hrs ago #8
Ding ding malaise 2 hrs ago #9
Bill Barr and his "cleaning crew". rubbersole 2 hrs ago #11
misspellings johne8408 2 hrs ago #12
LOL! llmart 45 min ago #22
A brilliant analysis... GiqueCee 1 hr ago #14
It wasn't just Merrick Garland who sat on his hands. Also Eric Holder under Obama Gaugamela 1 hr ago #15
Were they protecting themselves? I don't care what party the people who committed those crimes are/were Escurumbele 42 min ago #23
In my view they were protecting themselves and the system of wealth and privilege. Gaugamela 1 min ago #29
And so was Melania (Putin's handler for Trump) being provided with young girls by Vlad Putin and then Botany 1 hr ago #17
Melania may have been set to be what she is now. I remember reading on one of the tabloids, the story of, Escurumbele 36 min ago #25
This is a must see. OGBuzz 31 min ago #26
I'd forgotten about Ginni Thomas, election denier... IcyPeas 12 min ago #27
An evil cabal out to rule the world. BarbD 2 min ago #28

Escurumbele

(4,041 posts)
21. It was the excitement of getting it out, we all understand...Great video, presentation. Thank you
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:13 PM
45 min ago

It does explain a lot....And we all thought Epstein was just a pedophile...he wanted to be more...

Hugin

(37,584 posts)
3. K&R
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 04:36 PM
3 hrs ago

It seems to square with what is known so far. Pending further disclosures and discovery in the releases, it’s still the tip of the iceberg in my opinion.

oasis

(53,412 posts)
4. J.D.Vance, Merrick Garland, Putin and Epstein. A lot
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 04:49 PM
3 hrs ago

to digest here but well worth an investigative look.

rubbersole

(11,087 posts)
11. Bill Barr and his "cleaning crew".
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 05:44 PM
2 hrs ago

I'd bet he has the video evidence recovered from the raids on JE's properties when he was arrested. I wouldn't be surprised at anything at this point. Thom Hartmann had a theory today that had Putin guiding this whole blackmail operation.

llmart

(17,427 posts)
22. LOL!
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:13 PM
45 min ago

I caught that too, but I didn't want to be accused of being the "grammar police". (or rather the "spelling police&quot .

GiqueCee

(3,578 posts)
14. A brilliant analysis...
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 06:02 PM
1 hr ago

... now, to paraphrase Desi Arnaz's warning to Lucy, "you got some 'splainin' to do!"

Gaugamela

(3,355 posts)
15. It wasn't just Merrick Garland who sat on his hands. Also Eric Holder under Obama
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 06:20 PM
1 hr ago

and Janet Reno under Clinton.

My guess is that the whole racket was zealously protected by the CIA. The OSS/CIA was corrupt from the start. It was established by east coast blue blood interests through Brown Brothers, Harriman, who employed the Dulles bothers. The OSS quickly moved to align with the mafia during WWII, and the CIA continued this type of arrangement in various assassinations and coups around the world. They routinely undermined and overthrew democratically elected governments and installed right-wing dictators to make the world safe for US imperialism and oligarchic profit.

By the time anyone started to figure out the extent of the Epstein racket it was so deeply entrenched and protected that moving against it could end your career or possibly get you killed.

The world’s oligarchs are surreptitiously colluding and maneuvering to rearrange the global financial system and replace the old order with a kind of global, neofeudal mafia state. It’s the same mindset as kings and barons and plantation owners that’s been around throughout recorded history.

In my opinion, instead of talking in political terms, the left needs to start framing this situation as a fight between good and evil. If we address it in these terms many more people will start listening and adopt the narrative. People want to believe they are part of an epic quest. That’s what Qanon and right-wing chatterboxes give them. But if we redefine the narrative and better identify the situation and the enemy we might get broader support to tear down the Trump insurgency.

Escurumbele

(4,041 posts)
23. Were they protecting themselves? I don't care what party the people who committed those crimes are/were
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:17 PM
42 min ago

Everyone involved needs to be held accountable, this is not a party issue, it is treason and perversion wherever one looks at it. I just hope the entire story will be out, soon.

Gaugamela

(3,355 posts)
29. In my view they were protecting themselves and the system of wealth and privilege.
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:57 PM
1 min ago

Nobody cared about the victims, whom they saw as little willing prostitutes. What’s important is capitalism and American hegemony and destroying the evil of communism.

Botany

(76,629 posts)
17. And so was Melania (Putin's handler for Trump) being provided with young girls by Vlad Putin and then
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 06:38 PM
1 hr ago

those girls were passed onto Maxwell for grooming and they went onto Epstein who used them to get
Kompromat and Blackmail money from their rich clients at the same time Putin was getting control
over all these rich and powerful men such as Trump, Bannon, and so on.

Escurumbele

(4,041 posts)
25. Melania may have been set to be what she is now. I remember reading on one of the tabloids, the story of,
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:23 PM
36 min ago

I guess when Melania had sex with trump for the 1st time, and I cannot remember if she said it to the tabloid herself or a friend said it, but the "news" was that "Melania had never had better sex in her life, until she had it with trump", I believe it was a simple trick to booster his ego and get him to merry her.

I am sure she could do what Meg Ryan did in the film "When Harry met Sally" with a sandwich, just fake an incredible orgasm and boost the easy target to think that no one is as good as him.

Mission accomplished so she doesn't have to get in bed with the guy anymore...

IcyPeas

(25,107 posts)
27. I'd forgotten about Ginni Thomas, election denier...
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 07:47 PM
12 min ago

I seem to remember reading she hired buses to bring the mob to the Capitol.

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