I had an item today in Unherd about the unceremonious sacking of Pam Bondi, our dearly-departed Attorney General, and the installation of Todd Blanche to that role in an acting capacity.
Massie is also "clueless" about the COVID thing being Fauci's fault as if it wasn't a systemic thing beyond his control.
Also I can't stand that phony Taibbi who was silent about COVID and berated those that questioned the 911 official story. Also the Twitter files was bullshit journalism via screenshots and is the same shit that pumped up the Epstein narrative.
Thank you, Michael, for continuing to speak truth to power. Pizzagate-on-Steroids, a/k/a The Epstein Files, has been one of the least rewarding spectacles of this degenerate age. The number of journalists even attempting to write honestly about this mess is vanishingly small. Keep up the good work, though, eventually, maybe, your honest analysis of the facts might break through to the public.
Blanche is definitely a step up. He did those hours of interviews with Maxwell which were quite revealing how much the story has taken a life of its own. Reading the Maxwell interviews was very eye opening. She could be lying but it came across to me that she spoke reasonably. She could have easily thrown Clinton and Epstein under the bus but she didn’t ( when it would have been politically expedient to do so to get Trump’s favor for a reduced sentence or pardon) .
One thing about Massey. Did you see the latest from Dan Bongino? Granted he has an axe to grind with Massey so we have to take what he says with a grain of salt. But he claims recently on his podcast, Massey never once came to DOJ or FBI to ask for full disclosure and find out what was in the files even before the transparency act. Bongino claims he is total grandstander. I hate to give Bongino credibility but considering how Massey and Khanna have grandstanded on this issue and even thrown innocent people under the bus just for politics, I am inclined to think Bongino is correct. Despite the fact that on most other issues, Massey is sold.
Well, politics is both war and religion and religion is always war and--
--and there are just too many guys getting themselves excited thinking about infinite numbers of children being raped. If you take away the righteousness you're just left with--well, too many guys getting themselves excited about infinite numbers of children being raped.
Blundering Scam Blondi needed to go. Fair enough. Especially after allowing the impression that Epstein’s list of blackmail sycophants was sitting on her desk.
Why would he put them in a list by the way? Were there so many he couldn’t keep track?
A typical day at Epstein Manor with Epstein thinking out loud:
“Let’s see, who can I enlist to help me get Chief Justice Robert’s down to the island to hook up with a scantily clad teen?”
“Oh Ghislaine.”
“Yes Darling.”
“Bring me the list please.”
“Here you are my love”.
“Let’s see here. Aha, Bill Clinton. Got him on vid with two thirteen year olds. Perfect”.
“Ghislaine Darling.”
“Yes my love.”
“Remind me to call Bill Clinton and then check in with Mossad after my massage. Have the teens arrived? And remember, no one under eighteen, wink wink.”
Also, calling Kentucky’s Thomas Massie “clueless” followed by describing his motives to use the Epstein circus to thwart Trump’s attempt to primary him in 2026 for refusing to vote for his Big Beautiful Deficit Bomb seems odd. I guess Massie cluelessly stumbled onto his only viable option for winning his primary. Calling him an unethical hypocrite, albeit one with a singular vein of purity when it comes to deficit spending, kinda fits, but clueless?
Lastly, Elon Musk, a guy who started with nothing, used his Paypal fortune to create both a car company and a rocket company. After the third failed launch, when no investors would give him addition operating cash he dumped his last $40 mil into SpaceX’s forth launch which worked. The rest is history including a buyout of Twitter where Tracey loves to pontificate without fear of censure.
Musk might be a lot of things but numbskull is not one of them.
Reprehensible what Tracey has been doing on this matter.
From today’s NYT column about Epstein:
“Doomscrolling through the Epstein files, I’ve found countless resonances to the stories I heard from the women in Maryland, in Ohio, in Nigeria. Mr. Epstein and his allies portray his survivors who are from poor backgrounds as frauds and thieves after money. Those with histories of trauma or substance abuse are dismissed as untrustworthy. Victims’ behavior is endlessly dissected and litigated. In an email from 2010, a contact noted that one of Mr. Epstein’s accusers smiled during a deposition. “Her OWN behavior in the depo disproves her allegations,” he wrote.”
Oh gee, maybe I should develop a greater understanding of the "countless resonances" this writer was apparently invoking, and then I'll finally realize how "reprehensible" my conduct has been.
I didn’t post her whole column here, but she did a lot of research with rape and sexual abuse victims, and found commonalities with them and with Epstein’s.
But no, you’ll never understand how taking the side of the powerful and using their rhetoric of disbelief and accusations of gold digging creates not only an impediment to these particular victims but also creates a cloud of menace for future victims. That deterrence winds up enabling abusers.
Not only do the Epstein class have all the money in the world on their side, the DOJ working night and day to protect the guilty, the President and State of Israel, they’ve also got the freelance contrarian right-wingoverse working pro bono. (Or for self promotion)
What legitimate victim would want to come forward and spend the rest of their lives being victimized again by all that?
It’s a shame too, Mr Tracey because I actually do read your columns because you’re a good writer. I am trying to develop amateur writing ability myself and I learn from your thinking and writing style.
Unfortunately, like Mr Taibbi, for whatever reason, you’ve elected to find the weakest and most suffering people you can and use your talents kicking the shit out of them.
I’m not especially religious but I like to think I have a sense of right and wrong, and I don’t like bullies.
I will be very glad when this period of madness leaves you and you can return to covering the actual evildoers. It’d be a loss to the world if you took up permanent residence in Taibbitown.
You’re responding to a column devoted to criticizing, rather acerbically I might say, the former Attorney General, the current acting Attorney General, and a prominent member of the House of Representatives. Yet you are chastising me for reprehensibly bullying the “weakest and most suffering people” in society. Very strange, but thanks for the feedback.
Your writing is so much fun to read. You're like Pauline Kael. I have been reading your old pieces on Tom Morello and Bill Cosby lol
Massie is also "clueless" about the COVID thing being Fauci's fault as if it wasn't a systemic thing beyond his control.
Also I can't stand that phony Taibbi who was silent about COVID and berated those that questioned the 911 official story. Also the Twitter files was bullshit journalism via screenshots and is the same shit that pumped up the Epstein narrative.
With "friends" like him, who needs enemies?
But do what you gotta do to get coverage.
Thank you, Michael, for continuing to speak truth to power. Pizzagate-on-Steroids, a/k/a The Epstein Files, has been one of the least rewarding spectacles of this degenerate age. The number of journalists even attempting to write honestly about this mess is vanishingly small. Keep up the good work, though, eventually, maybe, your honest analysis of the facts might break through to the public.
Blanche is definitely a step up. He did those hours of interviews with Maxwell which were quite revealing how much the story has taken a life of its own. Reading the Maxwell interviews was very eye opening. She could be lying but it came across to me that she spoke reasonably. She could have easily thrown Clinton and Epstein under the bus but she didn’t ( when it would have been politically expedient to do so to get Trump’s favor for a reduced sentence or pardon) .
One thing about Massey. Did you see the latest from Dan Bongino? Granted he has an axe to grind with Massey so we have to take what he says with a grain of salt. But he claims recently on his podcast, Massey never once came to DOJ or FBI to ask for full disclosure and find out what was in the files even before the transparency act. Bongino claims he is total grandstander. I hate to give Bongino credibility but considering how Massey and Khanna have grandstanded on this issue and even thrown innocent people under the bus just for politics, I am inclined to think Bongino is correct. Despite the fact that on most other issues, Massey is sold.
Perhaps you intended to write, “Massie is solid”?
Pathetic. They just can't tell the mundane truth about Epstein!
Well, politics is both war and religion and religion is always war and--
--and there are just too many guys getting themselves excited thinking about infinite numbers of children being raped. If you take away the righteousness you're just left with--well, too many guys getting themselves excited about infinite numbers of children being raped.
Blundering Scam Blondi needed to go. Fair enough. Especially after allowing the impression that Epstein’s list of blackmail sycophants was sitting on her desk.
Why would he put them in a list by the way? Were there so many he couldn’t keep track?
A typical day at Epstein Manor with Epstein thinking out loud:
“Let’s see, who can I enlist to help me get Chief Justice Robert’s down to the island to hook up with a scantily clad teen?”
“Oh Ghislaine.”
“Yes Darling.”
“Bring me the list please.”
“Here you are my love”.
“Let’s see here. Aha, Bill Clinton. Got him on vid with two thirteen year olds. Perfect”.
“Ghislaine Darling.”
“Yes my love.”
“Remind me to call Bill Clinton and then check in with Mossad after my massage. Have the teens arrived? And remember, no one under eighteen, wink wink.”
Also, calling Kentucky’s Thomas Massie “clueless” followed by describing his motives to use the Epstein circus to thwart Trump’s attempt to primary him in 2026 for refusing to vote for his Big Beautiful Deficit Bomb seems odd. I guess Massie cluelessly stumbled onto his only viable option for winning his primary. Calling him an unethical hypocrite, albeit one with a singular vein of purity when it comes to deficit spending, kinda fits, but clueless?
Lastly, Elon Musk, a guy who started with nothing, used his Paypal fortune to create both a car company and a rocket company. After the third failed launch, when no investors would give him addition operating cash he dumped his last $40 mil into SpaceX’s forth launch which worked. The rest is history including a buyout of Twitter where Tracey loves to pontificate without fear of censure.
Musk might be a lot of things but numbskull is not one of them.
If Bondi had been successful, she might have been fired for upstaging President Trump.
I bet Trump names her Ambassador to Iran...and sends her in wearing only a g-string bikini. Place your bets!
Reprehensible what Tracey has been doing on this matter.
From today’s NYT column about Epstein:
“Doomscrolling through the Epstein files, I’ve found countless resonances to the stories I heard from the women in Maryland, in Ohio, in Nigeria. Mr. Epstein and his allies portray his survivors who are from poor backgrounds as frauds and thieves after money. Those with histories of trauma or substance abuse are dismissed as untrustworthy. Victims’ behavior is endlessly dissected and litigated. In an email from 2010, a contact noted that one of Mr. Epstein’s accusers smiled during a deposition. “Her OWN behavior in the depo disproves her allegations,” he wrote.”
Oh gee, maybe I should develop a greater understanding of the "countless resonances" this writer was apparently invoking, and then I'll finally realize how "reprehensible" my conduct has been.
I didn’t post her whole column here, but she did a lot of research with rape and sexual abuse victims, and found commonalities with them and with Epstein’s.
But no, you’ll never understand how taking the side of the powerful and using their rhetoric of disbelief and accusations of gold digging creates not only an impediment to these particular victims but also creates a cloud of menace for future victims. That deterrence winds up enabling abusers.
Not only do the Epstein class have all the money in the world on their side, the DOJ working night and day to protect the guilty, the President and State of Israel, they’ve also got the freelance contrarian right-wingoverse working pro bono. (Or for self promotion)
What legitimate victim would want to come forward and spend the rest of their lives being victimized again by all that?
It’s a shame too, Mr Tracey because I actually do read your columns because you’re a good writer. I am trying to develop amateur writing ability myself and I learn from your thinking and writing style.
Unfortunately, like Mr Taibbi, for whatever reason, you’ve elected to find the weakest and most suffering people you can and use your talents kicking the shit out of them.
I’m not especially religious but I like to think I have a sense of right and wrong, and I don’t like bullies.
I will be very glad when this period of madness leaves you and you can return to covering the actual evildoers. It’d be a loss to the world if you took up permanent residence in Taibbitown.
You’re responding to a column devoted to criticizing, rather acerbically I might say, the former Attorney General, the current acting Attorney General, and a prominent member of the House of Representatives. Yet you are chastising me for reprehensibly bullying the “weakest and most suffering people” in society. Very strange, but thanks for the feedback.