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BAM! The rich and powerful pervs are GOING DOWN! Wait...whut? (Original Post) BamaRefugee Dec 2021 OP
Makes you wonder who took Epstein's place. Haggard Celine Dec 2021 #1
Didn't it look like Joel Greenberg and Matt Gaetz were maneuvering to fill in the void? Baitball Blogger Dec 2021 #3
Greenberg won't be. He's in trouble and they say he's ratting out Gaetz. Haggard Celine Dec 2021 #4
Except the two of them together aren't half as smart as Epstein was. localroger Dec 2021 #7
I'm sure it was also the era. Baitball Blogger Dec 2021 #13
If dying in Prison is good at what he did, then I guess so. fwvinson Dec 2021 #18
Well if someone twice as smart as both of them ended that way... localroger Dec 2021 #21
The smart solution is to teach our daughters how to avoid these a-holes FakeNoose Dec 2021 #2
The smart solution is to prevent people who make terrible parents from having kids. But...impossible BamaRefugee Dec 2021 #5
Even People Who Are Good Parents Can Have Kids Be Victims... GB_RN Dec 2021 #12
How about teaching people to be decent human beings? Why is the burden on CHILDREN niyad Dec 2021 #10
The ultra elites always protect each other. Nothing's gonna happen. Check this out BamaRefugee Dec 2021 #6
The Atlantic is one of the finest news magazines in existence, a photo of a good person with Alexander Of Assyria Dec 2021 #9
No it isn't irrelevant. CrackityJones75 Dec 2021 #14
Perhaps you should read the entire excellent article. What it discusses is the niyad Dec 2021 #15
No I do agree with that. CrackityJones75 Dec 2021 #17
Be interesting to know when that photo was taken. niyad Dec 2021 #19
Luke, and anybody who sees the title, should actually go read the lengthy, serious niyad Dec 2021 #16
The scale of child trafficking that QAnon imagines going on is fake Silent3 Dec 2021 #22
Why are you posting Luke Rudkowski tweets? He is a batshit cray Alex Jones 9/11 truther bro Celerity Dec 2021 #23
LOL leftstreet Dec 2021 #8
Looks like a perfect job for Lauren Boebert The Mouth Dec 2021 #11
Beyond Cozying Up ProfessorGAC Dec 2021 #20

Haggard Celine

(16,844 posts)
4. Greenberg won't be. He's in trouble and they say he's ratting out Gaetz.
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 04:07 PM
Dec 2021

I think both of them wanted to take Epstein's place, but they're both under too much scrutiny now to be involved. I'm wondering if there's someone else now who is actively pimping girls for rich old pervs. Maybe they have a plane and an island like Epstein did, or maybe they have a different sort of setup. But you know those bastards haven't given up having sex with kids. Maybe they're all going to Bangkok now, no telling what.

localroger

(3,626 posts)
7. Except the two of them together aren't half as smart as Epstein was.
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 04:42 PM
Dec 2021

Got to give the man credit, he was evil as fuck but also good at what he did.

localroger

(3,626 posts)
21. Well if someone twice as smart as both of them ended that way...
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 08:38 PM
Dec 2021

...then I wouldn't want to be holding Greenberg and Gaetz's life insurance policies. Epstein did manage to enrich himself and hobnob with the world's wealthy elites for decades. Gaetz in particular seems seems to be heading into the pedo version of Pickett's Charge.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)
5. The smart solution is to prevent people who make terrible parents from having kids. But...impossible
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 04:15 PM
Dec 2021

Seriously, why shouldn't people have to pass examinations just like a driver's license to have kids? You get big fines and prison if you don't have a "Parent's License" and get busted procreating!

And also, it's not only daughters by any stretch of the imagination.

GB_RN

(2,350 posts)
12. Even People Who Are Good Parents Can Have Kids Be Victims...
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 06:46 PM
Dec 2021

To people like Epstein and Maxwell. I concur with the previous commenter that we need to teach our kids (both boys and girls) how to be on the lookout for scumbags like those two.

Now, having said that, I don't disagree with your statement that there should be a license required to become a parent. I mean, you have to have a license to own a gun, fish, hunt, or drive a car. But, we allow any 1D10T on the face of the planet (or in this case, in the US), an opportunity at the greatest responsibility you can have in life...all without having to prove that you're capable of handling it. It's a shame, really...

niyad

(113,278 posts)
10. How about teaching people to be decent human beings? Why is the burden on CHILDREN
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 06:39 PM
Dec 2021

to avoid such depravity? Why is it ALWAYS the females' responsibility to avoid, rather than the pervs' responsibility not to be pervs?

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
9. The Atlantic is one of the finest news magazines in existence, a photo of a good person with
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 06:34 PM
Dec 2021

a much later discovered very bad person person at some point in history with zero context is irrelevant

 

CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts)
14. No it isn't irrelevant.
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 07:25 PM
Dec 2021

If the magazine put out a story saying that sex trafficking is fake and there is a picture of the the owner of the mag palling around with someone responsible fir trafficking minors I would say that is at least noteworthy.

niyad

(113,278 posts)
15. Perhaps you should read the entire excellent article. What it discusses is the
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 07:42 PM
Dec 2021

qanon nonsense about sex trafficking and how many groups and individuals are taken in by the bs ( pizzagate,adrenochrome, child organ harvesting, etc.)

 

CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts)
17. No I do agree with that.
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 07:53 PM
Dec 2021

But if you own a publication and have had a relationship with someone responsible for trafficking minors that is a notable thing to come about. I am not saying it is damning but it is notable.

niyad

(113,278 posts)
16. Luke, and anybody who sees the title, should actually go read the lengthy, serious
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 07:46 PM
Dec 2021

article. It talks about qanon's lying campaign, for one thing. Talks about the bs figure if 800,000 missing children a year, which was discussed extensively here on DU recently.

Silent3

(15,206 posts)
22. The scale of child trafficking that QAnon imagines going on is fake
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 08:46 PM
Dec 2021

Unless someone can provide a quote from an Atlantic article that flat out says child trafficking, of any sort and any degree, does not exist at all, I think it's a fairly safe guess that the Atlantic was merely, and correctly, dispelling conspiracy theories about vast child trafficking networks.

It doesn't take a very big operation to provide for the sordid appetites of a few of the rich and powerful and connected.

Celerity

(43,333 posts)
23. Why are you posting Luke Rudkowski tweets? He is a batshit cray Alex Jones 9/11 truther bro
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 08:54 PM
Dec 2021

You should self delete.

The Mouth

(3,149 posts)
11. Looks like a perfect job for Lauren Boebert
Thu Dec 30, 2021, 06:43 PM
Dec 2021

She's already used to cozying up with scumbags and obviously has no morals

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