‘He’s a lot of fun to be with’: Trump and Epstein were close friends for 15 years
‘He’s a lot of fun to be with’: Trump and Epstein were close friends for 15 years
I am beginning to think the media is bringing this up right now to distract from other more important issues that are going on right now.
They just need people to be outraged, confused and distracted so they don’t have time and energy to grasp what else is happening in regard to dismantling US democracy and the status quo of the world order after 91.
The problem is that the audience of lowest common denominator doesn't really care about the dismantling of the post-Cold War world, nor do they understand it. If anything, they prefer the Cold War era because that's the era in which "they made things like they used to" and "the minorities knew their place."
So if you're a news organization, even one that did care about truth and decency and not just profits, how do you get those people's attention? The terminally online MAGA/QAnon doesn't seem to care that he's losing Medicare, or that his children's schools are being gutted, or that his elections are being rigged by billionaires. But he does care about theatrics and drama and outrage. That's what drew him to Trump in the first place. So you run the Epstein/Trump story because nothing else seems to work.
Or... you run it because you know it guarantees clicks and ad revenue, because MAGA/QAnon are the most gullible drooling imbeciles on the planet. Either way, the loss of US democracy is merely taken for granted. It's already happened, it's not news anymore.
Like the firings that were on hold but are now going through.
Does becoming uber rich make people do weird stuff or do people who are into weird stuff have the abnormal drive to be uber rich?
I'm mostly talking out of my ass, but I wonder if the access to copious amounts of hard drugs and alcohol that comes with money plays some part in it. Seeing if there's anything to substantiate that idea, here's a review of prior studies on the subject: Substance misuse and substance use disorders in sex offenders: A review.
The following is an excerpt from Table 1. History of substance abuse among sex offenders: retrospective file research:
| Study | N | Sample(s) | Outcome measure | (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tzeng et al. (1999) | 532 | Child molesters | Substance abuse | 51.3 |
| Alcohol misuse | 27.3 | |||
| Cocaine misuse | 5.3 | |||
| Other drug misuse | 14.0 | |||
| Looman et al. (2004) | 25 | Child molesters | Alcohol misuse | 66.7 |
| Drug misuse | 41.7 | |||
| Carlstedt et al. (2005) | 70 | Child molesters with pedophilia | Substance abuse | 23 |
| 103 | Child molesters without pedophilia | Substance abuse | 33 |
(No, I don't know what "child molesters without pedophilia" means.)
It basically continues like this. You can read the study yourself, but there does appear to be at least some correlation with drug and alcohol abuse when it comes to child molestation. Speaking anecdotally, I have also heard that cocaine use can lead to engaging in riskier sex acts that might not be appealing while sober.
I have no experience using cocaine, but being drunk has never made me want to sexually abuse children, so I suspect there must be some other personal defect which leads to these kinds of behaviors, with drugs/alcohol reducing inhibitions. Obviously, drug and alcohol use does not explain disgustingly rich people being disgustingly horrible creeps on its own, but it might be in the mix.
Being drunk not only didn't doesn't make me want to sexually abuse children, being that drunk would prevent any possible action. And weed has never made me a pedo as well.
What an odd study
In my misspent youth I did a lot of cocaine. Not 80s business man amounts, but regionally touring rock band amounts. I was also regularly binge drinking. Not once did I have the urge to abuse a child in any way. That much cocaine did short circuit my inhibitions and I engaged in a lot of risky behaviors that I wouldn't have otherwise but there wasn't a single time that I looked at a kid and thought about them in any way except as a kid. In fact, if someone showed up with a kid while I was high I would leave because I didn't want kids to see that.
I think it has something to do with the taboo nature of it. If you're rich you can get away with more and more depraved shit. So eventually you turn to raping kids as one of the most depraved things a person can do.
I'm explaining it badly but basically it's a ladder of behavior proving what they can get away with because to them it means they have power. Drugs happen to be a (lower) step on that ladder from their point of view. Can I get away with driving too fast or impaired? Cheating? Can I force my significant other into a threesome they don't want? Drugs? And so on until it's diddling kids, hunting people for sport, or eating the brains of live humans who are restrained in a table built for that purpose.
I think it's a bit of both. You need to have low morals or be a narcissist just to become Uber rich since it's inherently exploitative to make that much money. Then once you have the money you are protected from most things because you can pay money to make it go away. So then you start getting into weirder and weirder things, or it just becomes more of your focus since you can afford anything you want.
Like the saying goes "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
Thats what happens when you have a king instead of a president.
Power doesn’t corrupt, power reveals
Until one day Trump said "oh no, this guy is just a bit too friendly with underaged women, I can't tolerate that in my group of friends."
I think you dropped this:
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