@bennyjohnson Release anything you want. The Epstein file and accountability will not go away. Read the room and the nation. We can’t go away from this until justice is served.
As a nation and people if we can't stand up for our most vulnerable - children. We all deserve to die. I don't fuc**** care about the stock market , or your government, or going to the moon or Forget national debt, immigration interest rate . This is priority number 1. If we don't get justice here nothing matters.
THIS ISN’T THE LINE, WHAT IS?
If these sick monsters doing this to CHILDREN isn’t the line, WHAT IS.
The ONLY way this is fixed is if ENOUGH of us ALL COLLECTIVELY stand up and DEMAND accountability.
But I’m just a conspiracy theorist.
The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.
As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance.
What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.
The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to.
This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment.
The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted.
While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere.
In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break.
Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.
@MarioNawfal This is so fucking messed up. If we don’t stand our ground now when will we ? We can’t heal until all of these monsters who are leaders in their field are brought to justice.
🚨IMMEDIATE RELEASE🚨
I Am Being Threatened For Protecting Children...
If you would like to read both letters yourself, you can do so here:
https://t.co/2n8YmJ9uRu
@ShawnRyan762 Dude hats off to you for standing up to the corrupt pedos. I hope you one day run for public office. Country needs people like you @RepThomasMassie@RoKhanna to lead from the front. Our gvnt is corrupt from the top down and we need new leaders who have standards and principles
Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would:
1. Admit nothing
2. Deny everything
3. Make counter-accusations against me
I knew that I would be smeared relentlessly, despite never having attended his parties or been on his “Lolita Express” plane or set foot on his creepy island or done anything wrong at all.
Nonetheless, the extreme pain of being accused of being the opposite of who I am was worth it.
The strong must protect those cannot protect themselves, especially vulnerable children. I will gladly accept any amount of future pain to do more to protect kids and give them a chance to grow up and have happy lives.