Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Accused of Molesting, Is Charged with Human Trafficking of Minors

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SECOND

Saturday, July 13, 2019 6:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

It's hard to tell the difference between satire and news these days. Really, it is...

The Epstein case is a reminder of the depraved milieu from which our president sprang.

On Monday, Donald Trump disinvited the then-British ambassador, Kim Darroch, from an official administration dinner with the emir of Qatar, because he was mad about leaked cables in which Darroch assessed the president as “insecure” and “incompetent.”

There was room at the dinner, however, for Trump’s friend Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who was charged in a prostitution sting this year. Kraft was allegedly serviced at a massage parlor that had once been owned by Li Yang, known as Cindy, a regular at Trump’s club Mar-a-Lago. Yang is now the target of an F.B.I. inquiry into whether she funneled Chinese money into Trump’s political operation.

This weekend, Trump National Doral, one of the president’s Florida clubs, planned to host a fund-raiser allowing golfers to bid on strippers to serve as their caddies. Though the event was canceled when it attracted too much attention, it’s not surprising at all that it was approved in the first place.

A stripper auction is tame by the standard of gross Trump stories. It’s worth reviewing a few lowlights, because it’s astonishing how quickly the most lurid misdeeds fade from memory, supplanted by new degradations.

Acosta, you’ll remember, got his job because Trump’s previous pick, Andrew Puzder, withdrew following the revelation that his ex-wife had appeared on an Oprah episode about “High Class Battered Women.”

The White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned last year after it was revealed that both of his ex-wives had accused him of abuse.

The White House speechwriter David Sorensen resigned after his ex-wife came forward with stories of his violence toward her.

And just this week, a senior military officer came forward to accuse Gen. John Hyten, Trump’s nominee to be the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of derailing her career when she turned down his sexual advances. “My life was ruined by this,” she told The Associated Press.

E. Jean Carroll, a well-known writer, accused Trump of what amounted to a violent rape in the mid-1990s, and two friends of hers confirmed that she’d told them about it at the time. In response, Trump essentially said she was too unattractive to rape — “No. 1, she’s not my type.”

Since Epstein’s arrest, many people have wondered how he was able to get away with his alleged crimes for so long, given all that’s publicly known about him. But we also know that the president boasts about sexually assaulting women, that over a dozen have accused him of various sorts of sexual misconduct, and one of them has accused him of rape. We know it, and we know we can’t do anything about it.

Trump seems to understand that the effect of this cavalcade of scandal isn’t cumulative. Instead, each one eclipses the last, creating a sense of weary cynicism that makes shock impossible to sustain.

www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/acosta-epstein-trump.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

1KIKI

Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:32 AM

Yep, SECOND is DESPERATE to wash away the Epstein / Clinton connections in a tide of bullshit.

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 13, 2019 1:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Yep, SECOND is DESPERATE to wash away the Epstein / Clinton connections in a tide of bullshit.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

I agree. I'd say it would be interesting to to see how SECOND spins this, except we have several thousand examples of that already.

Hey SECONDRATE, how does it feel to be so out of touch with reality?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

SECOND

Saturday, July 13, 2019 5:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Yep, SECOND is DESPERATE to wash away the Epstein / Clinton connections in a tide of bullshit.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

I agree. I'd say it would be interesting to to see how SECOND spins this, except we have several thousand examples of that already.

Hey SECONDRATE, how does it feel to be so out of touch with reality.

I remember Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky perfectly well. I remember Bill lying to Congress, on TV, then getting impeached. I think he should have been removed. If he had, V.P. Al Gore would have been President and, very likely, Governor George Bush would not have been elected running against President Gore. Bush gave plenty of indication while he was governor of Texas that he was too stupid and dishonest to be President. Without Bush, there would have been no Iraq War, the second one that was lost at a cost of trillions of dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War#Indirect_
and_delayed_costs

Like Bush, Trump's history was evidence he should not be elected President, and not just for 6 years of bungling the Texas governorship, but for 40 years as a crook and sex criminal. Do you want to know Trump's history?

The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/donald-trump-scandals/474
726/
Trump has a raft of allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct lodged by women in multiple places, from different eras.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

1KIKI

Saturday, July 13, 2019 6:43 PM

Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Accused of Molesting, Is Charged with Human Trafficking of Minors

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:19 PM

Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SECOND

Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Accused of Molesting, Is Charged with Human Trafficking of Minors

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s resignation Friday amid the mushrooming Jeffrey Epstein investigation made him the latest in a growing list of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members to depart under a cloud of scandal, plunging his administration into further upheaval.

Trump announced Acosta’s departure in a morning appearance together on the South Lawn. The president expressed regret over Acosta’s decision, calling him a “great labor secretary” and saying he had reassured the secretary that “you don’t have to do this.”

“It was him, not me,” Trump said.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Acosta-resigns-as-labor-secretar
y-amid-scrutiny-14090843.php

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

Can you be sure, 1kiki, that Republicans are no worse than Democrats? Really sure?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SECOND

Saturday, July 13, 2019 7:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

That Bush had a history as a bungling governor of Texas, and therefore should not have been President? Right.

That Trump had a history as a crooked businessman/sexual harasser and should not be President? Right.

The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/donald-trump-scandals/474
726/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 13, 2019 10:32 PM

Quote:
Yep, SECOND is DESPERATE to wash away the Epstein / Clinton connections in a tide of bullshit.- KIKI

I agree. I'd say it would be interesting to to see how SECOND spins this, except we have several thousand examples of that already.

Hey SECONDRATE, how does it feel to be so out of touch with reality? - SIGNY

I remember Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky perfectly well. I remember Bill lying to Congress, on TV, then getting impeached. I think he should have been removed. If he had, V.P. Al Gore would have been President and, very likely, Governor George Bush would not have been elected running against President Gore. Bush gave plenty of indication while he was governor of Texas that he was too stupid and dishonest to be President. Without Bush, there would have been no Iraq War, the second one that was lost at a cost of trillions of dollars. - SECOND

You turn everything, and I mean everything, into your personal hobby-horse: bitching about Texas Republicans, Republicans in general, Trump and Trump voters, and - when all else fails - Americans in general including (gasp!) Democratic Presidents - just so you an expiate your feelings of guilt?

You never do ANALYSIS. You never think about POLICY. If you turn every event into a reason to beat your chest like some Pharisee (Maybe if I use a Biblical reference you'll understand what I mean) then you're clearly ignoring 99.9999% of what's going on which... btw... has nothing to do with you and your sense of guilt and feelings of betrayal.

Now, I don't know for sure but I think this will be ANOTHER psyop that will bite you in the ass.

And if that happens to be the case, would you use THIS moment to ask yourself why you were so very very wrong ... AGAIN? Or will you continue on your merry way, bumbling thru reality with both eyes closed?

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

1KIKI

Saturday, July 13, 2019 11:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:
Acosta ... Trump ... more Trump ... blah blah blah ... Trump

FIFY

Your mind is broken. You think Trump is the entire world. Don't you get tired of your claustrophobic thinking that keeps frantically running around in that small circle at the end of that short chain?

Jeffrey Epstein, Billionaire Accused of Molesting, Is Charged with Human Trafficking of Minors

And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac

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