the jeffrey epstein memorial poll and conspiracy-mongering thread

Best part of that profile is this bit:

Puff Daddy arrived, dressed as a king with a crown and a long, flowing red robe. “He’s a real cool, down-to-earth guy,” said the rapper of Mr. Chatwal.

Oh wait I misread that as Chatwal talking about Puff Daddy lol. Still, interesting glimpse of that world

The guest of honor, said Mr. Chatwal, was Prince Andrew, who told a “quite humorous” joke involving Pepto-Bismol and his brother Prince Charles’ girlfriend, Camilla Parker Bowles.

I’m quite sure the punchline here is Irritable Bowles Syndrome.

Lol it probably was

lol

He wants to be reincarnated as a jumbo pack of nappies this time

https://nypost.com/2019/08/15/american-flags-lowered-to-half-staff-on-jeffrey-epsteins-private-islands/

Boat captain Kelly Quinn, owner of Salty Dog Day Sails, was cruising past Little St. James, just off the southeast coast of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, when she captured photos and videos of the lowering.

“It was a real moment out there and it just felt so heavy,” Quinn told NBC News. “I didn’t feel there was a realness of the end of Jeffrey Epstein until I saw that. That was a lot more literal.”

Though it wasn’t clear who lowered the two flags on each end of the 70-acre property, Quinn said she believes it was one of Epstein’s employees.

“They’re doing this as a remembrance, but the irony is he’ll only be remembered for the deviance,” Quinn said of the convicted pedophile and accused child sex trafficker.

lol @ this boat tour person being a recurring character

pedobear flag also at half mast

bill clinton at half mast

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/8f16cd8e-99a6-40ad-9087-349aeff2f74a/scale-to-width-down/800

"At first we didn't think much of the flag at half staff. By that point we had all grown accustomed to flags being lowered. Being ... draped. Over coffins, over bodies. We barely noticed the flag, but it was not long before we noticed the sharks. Oh, we saw them, alright. Circling the island, around and around. You could see their fins pokin' up over the surf, and you knew they were searchin', with those cold, black eyes. They were attracted, you see, to the blood. The scent of it. They went 'round and 'round, waitin' for the ... wait, did you say Quint or Quinn? Quinn? Oh, my bad."

Goddam it. Stepped on my own dumb joke.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/8f16cd8e-99a6-40ad-9087-349aeff2f74a/scale-to-width-down/800

from Counterpunch:

Subsequent reporting of the case will overlook decades of the elite-driven state craft that elevated corrupt and ruthless entities like Epstein and Trump, both ring-kissing acolytes in their youth of influential mob fixer/politcal power broker Roy Cohn – himself a serial sexual predator who similarly caught the fancy of fellow deviants Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover. Follow the money trail from Tel Aviv and you’ll discover an ancestral link between the corpse of Epstein and his ghostly godfathers waiting with his rewards in hell.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/la-danse-mossad-robert-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein

It’s all really just organized crime innit

Epstein’s covert activities have undiminished real world consequences for anyone on Israel’s international radar, especially those challenging the status quo policies in place that prioritize “The Jewish State’s” political and financial objectives over actual justice and global stability.

mm...hmm

damn I missed that, sorry. I was interested in the history aspect

now I feel stupid for posting that but I did not know abt the Cohn connection

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship/amp

love too kneel with force pic.twitter.com/VG8l2Y1GFS

— TrueAnon Pod (@TrueAnonPod) August 16, 2019

Reverse crunches are important core work.

whats the melting point of hyoid

I’d have simply leaned forward firmly, not done a faux hanging

We need some diagrams, mock up photos of the cell,some arrows etc.

I keep thinking that. I've seen pics of similar units specifically designed to prevent this sort of thing

absolute units

lol

Screaming is often heard from the cells of those leaning forward forcibly.

I'm paywalled but there's a new NYT story "recounting Epstein's final days"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/the-gall-of-ghislaine-maxwell

Before her was a burger, perhaps served “animal style,” which, in In-N-Out parlance, means topped with all the fixings

LOL

The anonymous photographer told the Post that Maxwell was reading “The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of C.I.A. Operatives,” which, if true, seemed to suggest her awareness of people’s fascination, and also their conspiracy-theory-mongering. There appeared to be, in other words, a distinct possibility that Maxwell was fucking with us. An ultra-wealthy cohort had allegedly committed a series of heinous crimes, in plain sight, with a kind of entitled shrug, and a general sense that they were above the rules of society and would never be caught. In Maxwell’s impenitent gaze, we could see the broader audacity of the Epstein affair.

How is this woman not either in jail or in hiding overseas?

also she's at the in-n-out by universal studios so make another layer

I find the anecdote about her blowing up the tank very distressing

If you're not aware of it already his father had quite some life (and death) story.

... her father

https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1164268214798340096?s=21

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Deleted my tweet about this sounding like Steven Pinker bc a journalist that as far as I can tell seems plausibly positioned to know says it’s not. But if it is still a Harvard professor.... ugh pic.twitter.com/nOyOnpCjDv

— 🍒 13 Leading Scholars 🍒 (@christapeterso) August 21, 2019

We haven't even covered the fact that the Ghislaine In-n-Out photo appears to have been a fake

I have found him, the dumbest journalist
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/jeffrey-epsteins-bodyguard-igor-zinoviev-on-his-old-boss.html

We haven't even covered the fact that the Ghislaine In-n-Out photo appears to have been a fake

― Simon H., Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:02 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.thedailybeast.com/photo-of-jeffrey-epstein-pal-ghislaine-maxwell-at-in-n-out-burger-was-staged-paper-claims

Definitely weird. Her lawyer apparently took the picture and shopped in a few details to make it look like she was there at a certain time. I guess she's trying to stay ahead of everybody by obfuscating and muddying the waters about her whereabouts.

bottom of the Gulf of Mexico maybe

We found Jeffrey Epstein's Spotify account, where his tastes ranged from Louis C.K. to songs like 'Before You Accuse Me' and 'Hot for Teacher.' https://t.co/PyV3RPq5KV

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) August 22, 2019

...the banality of evil

huh who would have thought that the extremely dude heavy techno intelligentsia was in cahoots with epstein too

https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-intellectual-enabler

the mit media lab’s entanglements with him being revealed feels like the very tip of a gross iceberg

On that subject, a new interview w. a formerly close associate

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-my-very-very-sick-pal/

Pivar was also present for a number of Epstein’s science summits. Epstein himself was no scientist, said Pivar, the author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization and an advocate of non-Darwinian models of evolution. (This was borne out in a recent New York Times story that described Epstein’s interest in cryonics and eugenics and his wish to “seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women” at his New Mexico ranch.) Epstein was a dilettante, and easily distracted. But he pulled so many prominent thinkers into his social circle, using the promise of his money to create “some kind of a mini university of thought,” that in Pivar’s view he did “amazing, incredible, amazing, remarkable things for science.” There were lavish dinner parties with the likes of Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould during which Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like “What is gravity?” If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, Epstein was known to interrupt, “What does that got to do with pussy?!”

Pivar was close enough to Epstein that the financier put him “in charge of Ghislaine while she was profoundly depressed from the death of her father,” the media mogul Robert Maxwell. Despite their friendship, Pivar said, he was “insulated” from the lurid aspects of Epstein’s personal life. “I don’t know anything about that,” he said, “because I was never invited to the Isle of Babes,” Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

In his telling, Pivar ended his friendship with Epstein after learning from Farmer of her sexual assault. Some evidence of the tension between Pivar and Epstein is lying in public view. In August 2007, Pivar sued a science blogger named P.Z. Myers and Seed Media Group, which hosted his blog, alleging defamation. Myers had lit into Pivar’s work, calling him “a classic crackpot.” In his complaint, Pivar made a point of mentioning by name two prominent members of SMG’s board: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. The lawsuit was later dropped.

this interview is *incredibly* gross and long so I'll wait for other people to pick out highlights. I did notice the Unabomber makes an appearance.