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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's All Fun & Games Until One Oligarch Accuses the Other Oligarch of Being in the Epstein Files
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It's All Fun & Games Until One Oligarch Accuses the Other Oligarch of Being in the Epstein Files (Original Post)
bluescribbler
11 hrs ago
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mitch96
(15,249 posts)1. I want to know when these guys start falling out of windows a-la ruzzia...nt
SheltieLover
(69,240 posts)2. Reminds me of a sign at our vet's office...
"It's all fun & games until someone ends up wearing the cone of shame."
Cute cartoon-like pix of dog wearing the cone.
With the man babies' spat, though, I wonder if all the "family values" repukes will see involvement in child trafficking as something disgusting & shameful, or whether it will be another badge of honor for the adjudicated rapist & 34-count felon.
Guessing the latter.
Kid Berwyn
(20,600 posts)3. Both are in the Epstein files.
Of course, the US press -- Corporate McPravda -- is A.W.O.L. for some strange reason on the impact Epsteins generosity has made on Washington DC and the entire country.
... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epsteins conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, I cant believe what you say, because I see what you do.
One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauers documentary comes near the end, when its no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isnt a liar and a fraud, when its no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn has been extremely loyal and extremely honest. Were Cohns partieswas his protectionreally that good?...
Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/
Small world the rich live in, small like the crumbs they leave fall from their table for the rest of us to live off.