Ex-Prince Andrew tried to make this same argument. Everyone who went to pedophile island was a mega-rich elite who easily could, and in most cases probably also did, independently procure victims and commit sex crimes without Epstein's help if they wanted.

hey remember when they tried to condemn Tim Walz for making an Anne Frank reference 😑

My favorite part about this is that he won a split decision

This answer from Trump is insane. He twice refers to ICE/CBP as “soldiers” and is just creating more license for federal agents to continue brutalizing people with no accountability.

Our new daily routine during my lunch break bc she claws at her door when I get close.

Holy shit I thought this was fake but on Thursday night. UCLA and Ohio State Men's Volleyball combined for 94 combined points in the 2nd set.

This is arguably the kind of result that changes hearts and minds in Congress.

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Also, even if you took all this at face value, "the West" was prosperous, dominant, and more-or-less free during this period. These nuts are obsessed with turning the U.S. into the UAE.

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

If this happened in major cities your split second thinking is to ram them. Because this looks like you’re about to be a crime victim.

always struck whenever i read anything from rufo how it is absolutely clear that he is a dumbass

minor quibble here, but he didn’t prevent the feds from arresting her, he discouraged them from illegally detaining her in a facility. she had already been arrested and was being transported.

I always wondered why McMaster didn’t come clean about the white house meeting where Trump divulged Israeli classified intel to Sergei Lavrov.

Within a year or two, the meaning of the word "ceasefire" changed from "it doesn't matter that firing has stopped, ceasefire now!" to "it doesn't matter that they're still firing, praise the peacemakers!"

Getting harder and harder for this little man to beat the “is a literal Nazi” allegations.

You gotta be kidding me, this guys entire shtick is fake

The Utah governor just signed a bill to expand his state's supreme court by two seats. Conservatives have been angry at a series of judicial rulings, including one that safeguarded direct democracy in 2024 & one that struck down their gerrymander. 1st step of their retaliation.

I’m failing the Explain What’s Going on to Offline People Without Sounding Like You’re in Left Wing Q-Anon Challenge.

Well, you would think…

Melania director Brett Ratner was pictured cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein in newly released photos published by the Department of Justice.

What the hell was Qanon doing? There really was/is an international child sex trafficking ring and they got almost none of the leaders of it right. Just a whole group of world-class stupid motherfuckers, man

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Who are 7 people who have never been in my kitchen

Ten years ago, If someone had asked me what Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Peter Attia, Donald Trump, Stephen Hawking, Larry Summers, and Bill Gates all have in common, I would not, in a million years, have guessed.

Added to the list of forbidden courses they can add at the university of austin

Reminder: he very specifically stated he believed he’d be arrested/jailed if Harris won.

It's funny how all these billionaires started buying up all the social media apps, newspapers, and television networks right as all these revelations were starting to come out.

Melania prequel coming soon

Lindsey Graham was absolutely sloshed on Fox earlier tonight. (video from @acyn.bsky.social )

Incredible how Fetterman fits right in with the gerontocracy.

The mind reels at Epstein because it turns out that elite society is, uh, actually a pedophilic cabal and, yeah, everything is connected. That isn’t supposed to actually happen. That’s not how it works (yes it is)!

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

This is a fun league. 3 on 3 full court is a lot of running. But it’s a lot of fun too because there’s not as many players clogging things up.

Literally nobody likes the Melania movie because even the most obsessive cult of personality Trumpists have no interest in her, she's not part of the deal. They don't think about her at all, she has no fans, she's just an incidental background character.

Jesus Christ

The latest update basically killed my iPhone, which had zero issues

Lawless. Tasteless. Indecent. Racist. Authoritarian. You could go on. But you couldn’t say one positive thing about conservatism today.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Wow -- incredible!!!

Democrats should just come out and say that when they take power the chickens will come home to roost and when Jake Tapper or some dumbie says isn't thats just going low too say yes that's exactly what we're going to do. You literally cannot deal with conservatives until they feel a sense of fear.

youtu.be/nPDWrrJUBOI?... So many funny scenes in this movie. But the payoff of her being as bad an actress as you’re expecting—but *plausibly* bad—is perfect.

The outcome of the 2024 election was possible because many “independent” voters and the national media either have not caught up to or choose to ignore this obvious fact.

The central political divide today in the U.S. is not between two sides offering slightly varying iterations of the same underlying political bargain but between a tradition affirming the historic liberal-constitutional order and one that enthusiastically strips rights from ideological opponents.

Free state of Florida alert