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Jemmaline's avatar

An astonishing, hilarious, and very very entertaining pice to read. Thank you. (Yes, I know the Epstein crazy also undermines civil rights rights and pollutes with brain dead conspiracism the political discussion we truly need to have about this matter, but for now, I’m happy to be gifted such a fun read).

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Michael Tracey's avatar

Sometimes, you just have to laugh!

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Gutterdandy's avatar

Big money for telling unchallenged "stories" about Epstein seems to be drawing some $MeToo scammers out of the woodwork, unsurprisingly. I remember Giuffre saying she'd been in a traffic accident in Australia and would 100% be dead very soon, then having the police deny that story, and finally Giuffre commiting "suicide" not too long after that. Very strange stuff, certainly worthy of some actual journalistic inquiry.

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JayBee's avatar

Outstanding journalism here, MT. Appreciate your diligence in highlighting this epic scam. Many thanks!

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Maggie jervis's avatar

It's a good thing your birthdate was not 6/6/66 otherwise you might have ended up depicted on one of Maria Farmer's 'satanic' tableaus or with Juliet Bryant sticking pins in you as a voodoo doll. The 'stories' of these 'well-groomed' adult 'survivors' and their entourage are truly revealing. I understand there was at least one of the victims on the 2019 Epstein indictment at the Bradley and the Women presentation - she was minor victim 1 on the indictment later named as Marina Lacerda. I noted that the 2019 indictment which appears to cover the same period as the Florida one but in NYC seems to suggest the same type of masseuse related offences as were already publicised re the Florida ones. Have their statements been disclosed? They seem to be completely unrelated to Ghislaine Maxwell who was living in Florida with Ted Waitt at the time though of course she may have visited the NY house. Of the same time frame and space was Jennifer Araoz who Vicky Ward - whose socialite 'dot-joining' dates back to her Vanity Fair phantasmagoria kick-off article in 2002 involving the Farmer sisters - publicised. She was not on Epstein indictment though her alleged experiences as a high school 'masseuse' appear to mirror theirs and the Florida ones. Her story seemed unlikely to me, but who I am to judge. It's not known if she was part of the DC gaggle. Presumably not as she had publicized her claims through Ward and co previously and would have stood out. Ward was of course 'a friend' or acquaintance of Maxwell's at the time of the first VF article and Maxwell complained to her about it - on tape but unfortunately only a transcript made by Ward survives. Think Ward could jot down her own 'list' based on her society contacts or maybe share it with the 'survivors'?

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Pathetic turd Michael Tracey has looked past the many minors to point at adults. Because anyone knows that once you’re 18, you couldn’t possibly be groomed into behavior that was against your will? Ok? How old was patty Hearst? Or the Manson bitches? Does that explain the plethora of other facts about Epstein that point toward covering up a gigantic crime ring? You and your fans are most likely pedophiles, trying to muddy the waters concerning pedophilia so you can get a restraining order lifted.

This isn’t about you perverts. STFU. You’re digging a hole for no reason

This is mostly about black mail, money laundering and which politicians were coerced into using their power on behalf of evil.

Was Virginia Giuffre mentally unstable? Perhaps it was because she was sexually abused in her youth and exploited in adulthood. Why is Michael Tracey and his trash followers so mentally unstable?

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Val Crosby's avatar

The only "pedophile crime ring" is in your head and you're projecting your fantasies onto cases having nothing to do with that.

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Bryan Steele's avatar

What are you talking about? Epstein was convicted and went to jail. Maxwell is currently in prison for all this nonsense.

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Douglas Levene's avatar

Was Epstein convicted of having sex with or trafficking children? No? Then what are you talking about?

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Actually, yes. You fuckin retard. He actually plead guilty to avoid trial. With rockstar attorneys. Let Micheal Tracey do your thinkin for you. You’re ill equipped.

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Val Crosby's avatar

"Trafficking" in the legal sense means something that colloquially is understood quite differently. People automatically think pimp and client. But it's become so broad and when minors are involved can be simple as getting her from some arbitrary point A to B. Not to mention conflating minor with child which is quite different level of seriousness legall

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Said the predator

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Douglas Levene's avatar

Trafficking children or transporting adult women across state lines for immoral purposes? Which was it?

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Four Quartets's avatar

Nice language. Kind of 5th-grade-insecure-boy-trying-to-sound-tough. Better to have spent 5th grade in English class; then you would know that "plead" is not past tense, ill-equipped is hyphenated, the vowel in Michael is spelled "ae," not "ea," and "thinkin" has a "g" at the end. So: both crude and ignorant; I bet you're a big hit with the girls.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Ad hominem. Thanks for bringing nothin to the discussion.

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Val Crosby's avatar

Keep in mind what the claim is "pedophile crime ring" and on what basis Maxwell was actually convicted. This case has so much media manipulation skewing it. There is no ring or network of people buying sex with children. Brad Edwards himself says this isn't true. Interestingly his clients and politicians publicly make these claims with zero pushback.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Who are you quoting moron? You’re outing yourself. You disgusting piece of garbage.

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

Patty Hearst was actually kidnapped and held by her kidnappers.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

And she robbed a bank. You fuckin dork

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

She did indeed assist in robbing a bank. Her very famous very expensive defense attorney was drunk during most of the trial and bungled her defense.

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Chuck Campbell's avatar

Do you get the point? Or are you really that stupid. Being coerced when vulnerable doesn’t really have a cut off age. Also, if they’re so scandalous how did they walk away with so much money in damages? Rich people don’t give their money away unless they believe not paying would mean way more money or jail time. Real jail.

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LadyM's avatar

Actually, the rich take a commercial stance to money / payoffs. Often due to legal advice. If they were to defend themselves, the costs of their time, legal fees etc.etc. would far outweigh the payout. Just sayin 😂

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David Cashion's avatar

Accuse others of which one does.

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Jordana Stoddart's avatar

22 year old massage survivor Teresa Helm told the far-right Epoch Times that hospitality is actually "grooming" when you really, really think about it:

"The driver takes me to the apartment where I'm staying. It's clean, it's comfortable, it's safe. There's food there in case I'm hungry. That's another part of the grooming process because, yet again, it solidifies and sends the message to me that they genuinely care."

Or maybe the apartment had accommodations?

When my hotel puts candy on my pillow, are they trying to groom me, baiting me with candy much in the same way that predators of yore lured children into a pedo van with candy? Hard to say, but the next time I check into a hotel, I'll be wearing a chastity belt.

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Cla Parker's avatar

Pimps and hoes. No biggie. Your mother wasn't coerced either.

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Fren's avatar

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

You know, legitimate massage therapists who provide useful and non-sexual services must be really annoyed the way “massage therapists” get lumped in with them.

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MICHELLE RODENBORN's avatar

Keep holding feet to the fire. We need to know the truth, all of it.

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Val Crosby's avatar

Americans infantalize women so hard when it comes to this stuff. I don't know whether it's because of a new feminism, religious influences, perhaps an overcorrective safeguarding from men too. In any case it's still pretty serious I don't see the need to convince the public this has anything to do with "pedophiles" to get sympathy, if the trauma is real.

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Theresa Thompson's avatar

Everyone involved in this circus has a motive, and it's not "healing trauma" or exposing child sex trafficking. I personally think Massie and MTG shouldn't have touched this. We'll see how this rolls out. Keep it up Michael.

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G.W. Borg (Shadow Democracy)'s avatar

OK, so I'm glancingly following the Epstein story and ideologically inclined to believe the very worst about Epstein. But even I kept noticing that the ages of at least some of the "survivors" were suspiciously adult. That paired with my previous experience in legacy media during which it dawned on me that there was a misleading tendency to paint everything in deepest black and brightest white (the Kosovo war was an example) began to tickle my skepticism bone.

Michael Tracey is performing a valuable -- actually indispensable -- service here. And if enough people begin to pay attention, we'll learn something quite enlightening about our ever-expanding media environment. And perhaps about ourselves.

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Cla Parker's avatar

Hilarious. I know a lot about you already.

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Red Brown's avatar

Ro Khanna is revealing himself to be more of a dishonest rat than I already thought he was. Either that or (the best possibility) he is the worst wishy-washy political opportunist who typifies the Democrats in his lack of intellectual integrity on behalf of any discernible principles.

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Theresa Thompson's avatar

Trump's now declaring it all a "Democrat hoax". Ro Khanna being involved makes sense. He's telling Trump to prove it.

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Cla Parker's avatar

"Trump's now declaring it all a 'Democrat hoax.'"

That's how you know it's true. magatards have been salivating over this shit for yours.

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Douglas Levene's avatar

Thank you, again, Michael, for speaking truth to power. It’s crazy that this grift is still going on and that so many people have been taken in by it. I would wager that over 90% of the people who are mad about The Epstein Files believe that they conceal evidence of a child sex ring. You know, sex with children, not adults. Despite zero evidence that such a thing happened. It’s just like Pizzagate, only the madness has spread wider into the population.

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Cla Parker's avatar

There's plenty of evidence, weirdo. And convictions.

Now tell me how viruses aren't real.

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James Jenkins's avatar

Exactly

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