The Epstein saga, now in its seventh year, has shown a scale of criminality beyond caricatures. A seemingly endless parade of untouchable sleazebags infests the news like a much longer pandemic.
Let’s clarify – This isn’t about the rich geriatrics having a good time. These allegations all relate to extremely serious crimes against a lot of people. They all carry heavy-duty jail time. There’s no “immunity”.
God’s gift to scatology, sometimes known as Donald Trump, isn’t anything like the whole story; he’s just hogging the headlines as usual. Anyone else with a name worth mentioning is popping up monotonously as the story goes on.
I’ve never understood why these people were ever called ‘elite’. Elite means something. It means top professionals.
That definitely does not describe the vast majority of these guys. Even at top levels, they’re mainly business, media, and political networkers, insiders in the boys’ clubs. Not heavy hitters. Not standalone tough guys. Just rich brat nothings as people.
It’s a procession of personal mediocrity that has led to this unsightly horror story.
Epstein got his start in finance. At the soon-to-fail Bear Stearns, he made contacts and eventually became a “limited partner”. Bear Stearns was one of the first big crashes in the subprime disaster that destroyed the US middle class and caused the Great Recession.
Epstein sailed serenely through the crisis. At some point, he formed J. Epstein & Company, managing financial assets. He was still very much involved in the finance sector. This sector is effectively a mega-network, connecting with big money and big names.
A well-known, long, and turgid list of criminal cases related to sex trafficking began in 2008. After he died in 2019, the flood of details emerged of his other activities, soon dragging in names like a fishing trawler scraping the bottom of the sea.
It’s almost pointless to recite the names involved. Suffice to say it’s a picture of the ‘leadership’ of this catastrophically mismanaged world. Epstein is a common factor.
Pretty cute so far, isn’t it?
A few questions at this point:
How do so many underage kids get so easily involved with the ‘elite’ for so long?
Who does the physical trafficking and moves people from A to B?
How does a guy who started barely one step up from an office boy suddenly become best friends with the richest of the rich and political powerbrokers?
You need connections. You need introductions. You need traffickers. You need direct communications. That’s exactly what’s coming out of the Epstein files.
These people don’t communicate with just anyone. They filter out just about everybody. They routinely delegate almost all contacts. The entire Epstein operation was clearly based on an almost incredible range of inside contacts. Who has so many contacts that just spring to life when required?
How was it all funded? By Epstein? There’d be vast records of housekeeping at least. Even the catering for parties should have generated at least some information. Anyone trace the money? There’s no noticeable mention of how any money and so many people moved around in this operation. Enforcement doesn’t seem to be looking.
Enforcement has also mysteriously failed systematically and infallibly missed every shot on the board. That’s been pretty common in corrupt governments at all levels in the US since Prohibition and Tammany Hall. Sound familiar? It’s folklore in the US. Does the expression ‘organized crime’ ring a bell? How and to what extent are they involved?
The most basic example of failure of enforcement is indicative. There are famous laws in the US about transporting minors over state lines and related laws. It looks like most of that enforcement simply never tried to happen, and if it did, it did nothing.
Other countries are now getting conspicuously involved in investigations. That’s tricky, because jurisdictions matter. Whoever is charged with what will reverberate through other jurisdictions. Justice may come from outside the US.
Says a lot about the state of America, doesn’t it?
The fountains of sleaze are overflowing. The pipelines can’t handle it.
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