[Video] Jeffery Epsteins butler was caught in an FBI sting in 2009 trying to sell the client victim list. He told them the entire operation, 17 years ago. And the FBI did NOTHING.
9h 25m ago by lemmy.world/u/IndustryStandard in progressivepolitics from streamable.com
Genuinely just dumbfounded when I got to the point in the video where the little popup blurb refers to Epstein with the memed "disgraced financier" title. Holy shit, just call him the "infamous child sex trafficker", that's what almost everybody who knows his name knows him for.
john wayne gacy, disgraced party clown
No, no, ya see you just don't get it.
Let me break it down for you.
Poor person that's a pedo = pedo
No matter what that person does, that's what they'll be (as it should be).
Rich person that's a pedo = disgraced financier or president of the United States that just so happens to also be an alleged pedo.
Get it?
The media loves to make up all sorts of weird stuff like this mostly for headlines. Some random peasant that diddles kids isn't new but a rich one is apparently?
Just like when a woman is a pedo (aka rapes little boys or girls) the news refers to it as "sex" but when a man does it it's "sexual assault" or "rape" even though both the man and the woman are pedo rapists... It's a sick, twisted world we live in.
The FBI was actively protecting Epstein. I don't know how we don't immediately come to this conclusion
Well I mean... Their job is to protect and serve the elite. Did you think that phrase was meant for victims or the average person?
I'm not sure if it is worse when the fbi does nothing or when it does something...
I mean it’s probably because they saw the client list and were like
wow so uh all these guys control our salaries and are on all the oversight committees and are Big Deals in the executive branch, so maybe we shouldn’t piss them off 😳
Which, to be clear, is the most absolutely fucking heinous and pants-on-head stupid reaction a person can have to this sort of thing. But, you know, it’s the US government, so that’s pretty true to form.
FBI feels like a company HR department. They're there to protect national and politicians' interests, not the public's.
Tbh, the J Edgar Hoover era was deeply problematic for a number of huge reasons, but one issue they didn’t have was investigatorial independence from whoever was in office. This whole “the regime gets to wield the DoJ and FBI as a cudgel against our political opponents and people who don’t support them” thing is unbelievably caustic, on so many levels.
You’re right, instead Hoover got to wield the FBI as a cudgel against his political opponents and people who didn’t support him
That’s one of the big reasons. Hoover was deeply misguided in what he did and how he did it. But at the same time, he was definitely more mission-driven - in the sense that a large part of his motivation was to establish the FBI as an investigative agency beholden to the country, not any politician in particular. It’s just that his interpretation of “what’s good for the country” unfortunately included a lot of somewhat paranoid and violently reactionary motivations, because he perceived a lot of relatively benign political disagreements as personal attacks on him and/or the agency.
Stories like this are why I do not think of Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden as separate entities from Donald when it comes to discussion of the Epstein Files. These fuckers knew and there was no accountability or justice.
Nor war. Nor policing. Nor prisons. Nor immigration. Nor corporate profits.
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The only difference is in the packaging and presentation.