A selection of insane viral garbage tweets on the "Epstein Files"
If the information you’re consuming about the “Epstein Files” comes from whatever BREAKING NEWS excrement flows to the top of your algorithmic slop heap, you might as well be living in a demented alternate universe. There are only so many examples I can personally see, or have deviously sent to me, and then spend the time necessary to patiently refute them. So I can only imagine the ungodly volumes of absolute dreck that I’ve mercifully not been made aware of yet.
Naturally, the instantaneous hysteria-fomenting interpretations of these “files” are richly rewarded on social media — generating engagement and visibility that exponentially dwarfs whatever modest fact-based corrective I can provide. So in some ways, this is a resoundingly losing battle. Joe Rogan spent an entire quasi-segment a few days ago reciting slop-tweet after slop-tweet that I guess were fed to him by Jamie, and narrated all these crazy revelations as though they’ve suddenly been found to expose the confirmed, incontrovertible truth. Isn’t it so awesome that the guy with the biggest audience on the internet still doesn’t bother to take two seconds to verify anything before dopily blasting out the most absurd, incendiary nonsense to millions of impressionable viewers and listeners?
According to Joe, Whitney Webb has been triumphantly vindicated in her April 28, 2020 prognostication that “thousands of American children” were mass raped, and somehow “they” managed to cover up this child rape atrocity of unfathomable magnitude. There is no credible basis whatsoever for this totally lunatic claim, of course, whether in April 2020 or today — but that hasn’t stopped the doofuses on the podcast circuit from brainlessly trumpeting it, thereby convincing their regretfully large audiences that thousands of American children have indeed been brutally raped. Look, I can enjoy a bit of morbid humor as much as anyone, but it’s really not funny anymore that so many people are being told to definitively believe in a mass child rape atrocity, the perpetrators of which have gone shockingly unpunished. Because it’s hard to imagine anything that could more feasibly drive the mentally unwell to outbursts of homicidal mania. Astoundingly, the very same batshit claim from Whitney Webb was cosigned and promoted by journalist Ryan Grim, who struggled to provide a smidgeon of actual evidence when I politely asked him for some. I’ve been approached by ZeroHedge about potentially debating Grim — of course I readily agreed. Not sure what his response is yet, but feel free to drop him a line.
Anyway, here’s an accumulation of insane tweets/posts from the past week or two that I’ve fruitlessly taken the time to dispel. It’s the smallest of all possible drops in the bucket, but whatever. Maybe you can send a few of these to panicked friends or relatives who think dismembered babies were boiled in vats of sulfuric acid, and it was hideously covered up by Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.