I went through this my blog and found a few mentions of that weirdo with his private island and connexions with the Rich, Famous, and Political. Not many mentions, but he was mentioned. This blog was never QAnon but it did (lazily) take the Epstein claims at face value. All the best villains are here: Clinton! Gates! . . . Trump!
Everyone is focused on the Trump angle now. The Left is calling him a "PDF". The Right finds odd that the Left didn't run on this in 2016. They didn't even really do this 2017-2024, beyond the odd pic of the two hobnobbing in New York in the 1990s. Now, finally, some Right figures are peeping out to say what they should have said a decade ago.
As a philosophic look as to why Epstein (and, before him, QAnon) has been so important to the Right: Scott Greer.
For the psychoanalysis on what Jeff E. actually was, in life: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry makes an attempt. He paints a social-climbing Talented Mister Ripley type, or maybe Saltburn. Jeffie was a walking void. He put all his energy into charming others; and in New York high society, people like to be charmed. And some people honestly loved the man. Take those pictures of Ghislaine and Jeffery canoodling. They look sincere.
People like that don't grow up, though. Hence the yen for the underage. If it's offshore, American consent laws might not apply. So the Epstein couple told themselves.
From that, Gobry rules impossible that foreign intelligence services would ever trust this guy. Especially not Mossad, who might hire Jews, but certainly won't hire Jews as Jews when they're on private islands like freakin' Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Maybe THE JEWS aren't as smart as they think they are. But Mossad/Shin Bet is smarter than most Jews. They have to be.
For Gobry, "the Epstein files" amounts to every New Yorker whom Epstein ever ran up at, which is to say, every Giuliani-/Bloomberg-era New Yorker who ever scrounged the cash to attend a charity event or cocktail party. The New York Times who, you know, actually live there, have copped to it. Hanania figures the whole thing is settled.
Moldbug argues for pursuing this noncase even knowing it is shark-season booshoo. I guess so attention-whores like Vox Day get to keep having stuff to post about. This is cynical. But if the other guys are going to be cynical too, why not set up a soundproof kennel for everyone to bark at each other - whilst Trump does real work.
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