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Leigh Blake's avatar

Maxwell was a PIMP!!! It doesn't matter how you see her...and she ABUSED these KIDS!! Epstein, obviously delighted, couldn't have had a better "mate"..These monsters were tied into many other individuals who apparently ENJOYED these POOR KIDS!!! Innocent?? REALLY??? How stupid can you be to be a part of this and not be COMPLICIT?? I do NOT care what party ( politically) these people ( men????) belonged to...THEY ARE ALL COMPLICIT!!! ( Sorry, Billy...) and of course our "dear" felon was obviously involved too. How much of this is just another diversion, I do not know...it's just another part of the whole CRIMINAL PICTURE of this felon..We don't need to retry Epstein and Maxwell....WE NEED TO RID THIS COUNTRY of the felon and his regime...

PS: there is a terrible static interference part way through the audio presentation..I had to leave.. Thank you for this Information...

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Nina Gilliam's avatar

I've followed Julie K. Brown's reporting on this story for years. If only everyone who claims to be a journalist was as determined as Ms. Brown is to investigate and report the truth!

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karen's avatar

We really need to keep the victims at the forefront of *any* discussion of Epstein. They’ve been victimized over and over again. And now, again.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

I agree in principle, of course; ultimately the Epstein story is about finding justice for the victims. But victims have to make the affirmative decision themselves on whether they want to become part of the public face of this scandal, which can be deeply traumatizing (retraumatizing) in its own right. Virginia Giuffre was a fighter, but she succumbed.

We have no right to demand that of Epstein's victims. Let them make that decision.

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karen's avatar

I wasn’t demanding their involvement. My point is to keep the their suffering and victimization, including the recent beneficial treatment of one of the perpetrators, at the top of any discussion.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Absolutely.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Vaush is a leftist YouTuber who I agree with about 80% of the time but the other 20% is annoying as fuck. He's from Seattle and presents himself as an archetypical hipster, late 20s/early 30s, round frameless glasses, impeccably groomed beard and mustache. He _hates_ the Democratic Party.

I hadn't seen this anywhere else yet, but today he said that Judiciary, despite being on extended vacay, has just subpoenaed a bunch of officials over the Epstein files. There were a few Bushies, but not Alex Acosta. Nobody from either Trump administration _of course._ Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch. And Bill and Hillary Clinton, LOL. The vote in committee was 8-2.

The Democrats on committee must be salivating. This will be a counter-troll of epic proportions ;) The idea, of course, is to make Epstein go away by bipartisanizing it but James Coomer (Comer, but he's no doubt a coomer) the man with barely enough IQ to remember to breathe, is chairing it.

Grab your popcorn ;)

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Leigh Blake's avatar

Now I've got to investigate Vaush...be right back...you are correct...Alex Acosta should've been on this list...

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Leigh Blake's avatar

Okay...went to Vaush's page...Interesting...What a slew of ""PEOPLE" who visited and were acquaintances of these deplorables...even a photo of Pope Francis talking with Epstein and Maxwell...GEESH!!! ( What did Pope Francis think??) ..He was lucid and I had not known about "Vaush" so I'm furthering my education.. the letter from WOODY...Oh my... too late for popcorn...this will just go on and on...What chance do any of these young ladies have??? What a nightmare...to LIVE with... How is this going to help us get the felon OUT??? The virus has spread..... Thanks Bob!!!

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Mike's avatar
Aug 6Edited

The Dems have been handed Trump's head on a silver platter, but I sit and watch them, with no power whatsoever "Demand" hearings, accountability, etc. and I laugh a laugh of despair.

Years of being the righteous, dignified, intellectual, "I feel your pain" *party leave us routinely out-maneuvered by a band of rabid Visigoths who not only aren't playing the same game, they play a game with no laws or norms. They have sabers and spears. we have "but that's not FAIR!~". And butter knives. That's our brand

I have asked before here a few times "Where do you think this is leading"?

Impeachment? HAHAHAHAHA. If we don't have a big majority in the Senate, a total waste of time.

You think he'll resign? Never. Will. Not. Happen.

No one has an answer.

You think the GOP will abandon him? He's been convicted of 34 felonies, stole Top Secret docs, tried to overthrow the gov't and more and ... they ALL still support him. Epstein is not his Waterloo. It's jet fuel for their "I've been treated so unfairly" B2 Bomber

We are nowhere near done with this shit. In fact, in my lifetime we'll never be done with it

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Mike's avatar
Aug 7Edited

I have seen several articles about this strategy session to come up an escape hatch for Trump. Susie Wiles is in the thick of it

Rick, can you please stop talking so respectfully of her? She’s no better than the pond scum who surround her

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Bob McKeown's avatar

There are two separate things. I was talking about Comer's subpoenas to former Democratic officials including the Clintons, but strangely enough, not Alex Acosta. That's pure political theater that's an attempt at distraction and could be a disaster for the GOP, since their questioners are such total idiots.

You're talking about the meeting at chez Vance tonight, with Trump's principals but not Trump. Why did word of the meeting leak? It reeks of coverup and the desperate hunt for a PR strategy, which only keeps TrumpStein in the news.

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Mike's avatar

Yes, I know they're two separate things

JFC

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Sorry, Michael. It's easy to screw up the threading and respond somewhere else, so I thought you were responding to my Vaush post. My bad.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

As Rick likes to say, this is the game we're in. None of us likes it or thinks it's fair, but we have to play with the cards we were dealt and the Democrats don't have any power right now. What some of us are clamoring for is performative, including that Newsom FOX lawsuit you've been shouting from the rafters about. The Dominion suit took two scalps -- Carlson and Lou Dobbs -- but $787.5M is couch cushion coins for NewsCorp and didn't de-fang FOX, just as Newsom's suit won't de-fang FOX. He's not talking about it anymore.

What Newsom is threatening right now which would be much more impactful is to redraw CA's districts if Abbott goes through with it in TX. Kathy Hochul is threatening it in NY as well. As Rick says in his recent Enemies List about Greg Abbott, the midterms right now are for all the marbles; if the Democrats don't win back the House we can kiss America goodbye. Impeachment without a strong sense that the Senate will convict (and the most optimistic assessment of the Senate is a hair's breadth Democratic majority) might well be politically unwise as it would give Trump another bloody shirt to wave.

But we can stop a lot of Project 2025 in its tracks and haul Trump's assclowns before committees with teeth. No one has "the answer" right now, Michael, because no one can foresee the future. But we have a fight coming up next year we cannot afford to lose.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Now is our moment—today take action against this harmful government. They are:

• Spitting on count orders.

• Seeding rot and corruption.

• Shielding a pedophile trafficking ring in plain sight.

• Gut-punching a broken healthcare system—ripping coverage from 13 million lives.

• Abusing the poor, the needy, and children.

• Stealing from the poor to fatten the rich.

I made 54 protest signs to aid protest groups. I will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/more-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

According to Nick Bryant, another journalist who’s covered this story deeply, Epstein/Maxwell ran an international child sex trafficking ring, with some victims as young as ten. Victims, including Virginia Guiffre, pointed to Maxwell as worse than Epstein. That’s who Trump wished well after her conviction and is now working out a sweetheart deal with. I hope many in MAGA, who mostly come from the wrong side of the interstate (unlike Ghislaine who grew up on an English estate), keep demanding for the full release of the files, for no deal for Ghislaine, and for justice for victims of child sex trafficking. The sex trafficking of children should be tackled and exposed. If we let this go, our country won’t recover from being crushed by the weight of its own depravity.

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john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Julie Brown deserves to be commended for her excellent work, doggedly pursuing justice, for the many young girls abused by Epstein and Maxwell.

Even with the renewed efforts to reveal the full extent of this sex trafficking operation, the vast amounts of money laundering, the international spying and blackmailing involved, the facts are still being covered up by corrupt officials.

You can follow the links found in this article quite far, if you want to understand the gross injustice suffered by the victims. It is still obvious today that the trauma experienced by these children is not being given priority, as a tainted DOJ and FBI are attempting to hide the massive amount of documentation. The attempts to cherry pick facts and use evidence to merely destroy political opponents, is an abomination of Justice.

We must keep demanding all the facts, and the culprits names, regardless of their political affiliation or position of power.

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Shelly P's avatar

If there ever was a statement of how bottomless the rot in America’s moral core is, it’s the ability to paint these child victims as toss away collateral damage. That the powerful & wealthy are always worth believing, exonerating and allowed to control the narrative while escaping justice. I’ve wondered if the Epstein case involved pets instead of girls, would Americans then be fully outraged & in the streets?? (See Noem & puppy scandal).

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Sharon Heidē Ward's avatar

Great interview. According to some statistics, one in four girls, and one in six boys will be sexually abused before age 18. I think it’s probably closer to one in three girls, or worse. The horrors do not stop. Something I didn’t know until very recently (because why would I need to know this) is that child SA can accelerate puberty and many other long term health effects. I took a picture of my granddaughter yesterday dressed up to go out to dinner, but I’d never post. She’s ten but could be mistaken for years older. Sad. America is a giant cesspool of pedophiles.

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