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Jeffrey Epstein is singlehandedly responsible for the extreme polarization of this country, and it's time that we experience a Great Cultural Reset this year.
Look, the man is an awful person, but don't give him THAT much credit. Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Lee Atwater and anyone involved in the southern strategy was major parts of it. McConnell, "The Freedom Caucus", and "Tea Party" were major parts of it. The Koch Brothers with the heritage foundation is a major part.
And this is the short list. I didn't go into the evengelicals, AM conservative pundits, Rupert Murdoch and so much more.
Sometimes I wish that William McKinley wasn't shot so that that would inadvertently lead to the US becoming a socialist country, a lot similar to the alternate history story "Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline" (wiki is here). Seriously!
Or Garfield. He at least wanted every confederate leader hanged.
The US is just not allowed to have good leaders
It makes me wonder, Jepstein set a lot of gears to turn independently, but without the spider at the center of the right-wing web I wonder how completely the propaganda will deteriorate as there's now one less cohesive force at the center pushing it forward.
Lucky guess
At 8:16 a.m. on August 10, 2019, an anonymous 4Chan user posted...
It beat ABC News journalist Aaron Katersky's post about Epstein's death on Twitter, now known as X, by 38 minutes
Is that in any way surprising? Someone with insider knowledge posted about it before a journalist was informed?
In the Wikipedia article about his death they said that he was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 6:39 AM. More than 90 minutes before even this post on 4Chan, he'd already been taken out of his cell, rushed to an ambulance, driven across NY, taken to a hospital, rushed into the emergency room, and pronounced dead. There were so many opportunities for someone to notice that and post it somewhere.
In a sense, this means you pretty much clear the jail guards, ambulance drivers and emergency room doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. of suspicion. Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?
What's surprising here isn't that it was posted first to some forum used by random Internet chuds. That's what you'd expect. What's surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.
Can you imagine that they saw a dead Epstein, but sat on that for 90 minutes before posting it to 4Chan?
If they were involved in emergency response, they might have been too busy doing their jobs to post immediately.
Not really. If you're the ambulance driver, for example, as soon as he's out of your vehicle but before he's pronounced dead, you're not really involved anymore and you can post about it. Same for the prison guards and everyone else along the way.
Maybe... but not being able to find 30 seconds to post this major news for over 90 minutes? It seems more likely to me that whoever posted it found out about it closer to 8:30.
Not to mention the fact that people at ABC news knew about it sometime before the reporter posted about it.
That’s what you’d expect. What’s surprising is that they were competent enough to keep the news quiet for nearly 2 hours.
Most people in NYC are probably in traffic or on the train at that time in the morning. Aaron Katersky probably got the scoop simply by being at work before 9am.
I wonder how he found out. I'm guessing the person who leaked it on 4Chan is probably a political staffer, or something. Initially I thought it was a prison guard or a paramedic. But, I'd have expected them to leak it sooner. Say you're a 4Chan user and you're a prison guard. Would you really discover his body, call an ambulance... and then wait over an hour and a half before posting on 4Chan?
You might have some reports to fill out or whatever and post about it after getting home after the end of your shift or whatever. I mean it's probably not the person's first thought to post about it to 4chan so there being some lag time would make sense.
But it could also just be an intern at ABC who monitors social media channels (including 4chan) for leads heard about it and posted before it was confirmed. Serious journalists will put in some legwork to confirm a story before reporting it, but there's no requirement to do that if you're just posting shit to 4chan.
FBI is more interested in who leaked epstein's death on 4chan than who he raped children with
The DOW is currently too high to investigate pedos
They know who he raped children with, that's their blackmail cache.
They don't know who the weak link in the chain is; that's going to end up being blackmail against them.
Trump obviously killed this dude, right?
It could have been any number of people. He had dirt on half the politicians and business leaders in the country. Lots of people wanted him dead.
Yeah but there's the classic elements to solving a murder mystery: means, motive, and opportunity.
Trump had all three.
Obviously, it's because the FBI is on 4chan.
and the Bureau of Prisons.
Elon and his cohorts have been involved in 4chan since it was a cultural phenomenon back in the day. Not because he had some skin in the game, but because it probably felt good to know and disseminate information before the rest of the 4channers knew it. That boy is all about clout before anything else.
The newly released Epstein files show that the Justice Department tried to identify the 4Chan user behind the posts — but couldn't figure it out.
"Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies."
whenever there is breaking news, I always pop over to 4chan. They have videos, images, witnesses, and statements before any mainstream media.
I don't think that he is ~~Dead~~
Somehow Epstein returned
if he suddenly shows up with a fleet of gold ~~star destroyers~~ battleships i will forgive JJ and Disney but only then
That would be some uncreative writing. What's next? We all wake up and Trumps re-election was just a dream?
I’ve been getting the impression lately that 4chan has been a platform where the rich, or someone paid by them, uses snippets of truthful information baked into outlandish stories to obfuscate their ongoings behind a narrative of easily dismissible conspiracy. Like feeding the pigs carrots, so their shit smells of shit and carrots, and now everyone avoids carrots as a byproduct of it’s association with shit.
What are the odds this is just more of that? They may speak on Epstein’s death before it’s reported for credibility, then misuse that credibility to obfuscate the truth further. The FBI could have been in the dark, hence their investigation, but they could have also been steered away from making any conclusions on the matter.
Q was probably Steve Bannon working through Ron Watkins who was a useful idiot proxy. The point was to make talking about what Epstein and the gang were actually doing sound like crazy talk.
Remember: A way to poison the truth is to package it with 9 lies, and a way to hide a lie is to package it with 9 truths.