DP but boy howdy does this response scream “ a hit dog will holler” |
Disagree. All of us who have achieved enough power to see into those rooms know that having that much power does make it possible to join circles like those of Jeffrey Epstein. Only someone completely amoral would choose to associate themselves with him. Kathy Reummler is obviously in that camp (based on her communications with Epstein alone). Not every person with power would sell their soul for a couple of botox shots, some time on a private island, and a fawning manipulator's attention. She did. Bad look. |
The general theme here is that you would be awful too if you were rich and powerful enough. |
More like: once you are powerful and rich people want to sleep with you and befriend you because of your connections. That's when the true test of character begins. |
I'm having a hard time picturing an egg shaped dick. |
So you admit that you know $hit like this goes on and yet you did nothing. Again, hit dog will holler. You’re the problem. |
You’ve got the order reversed. |
I know things like this happen because I read about the Epstein files. This information has been public for decades. Do you think that when you get into rooms where people are trying to curry favor, they openly say: I am asking you this favor because you cheated on your wife in my cabin last weekend? No,. The person in power knows this. How would I, as an aide, intervene exactly? Jump up and say: why are you giving him this favor, John? It's all in the background. No one is confessing their crimes and quid pro quos. The problem is not that no one spoke up. Many women spoke up as did other people in power. The problem is that no one currently in power cares a bit. |
DP and you make good, sobering points. |
You’re trying to have it both ways, dear. Either you are powerful enough to “see into these rooms” OR you simply read the Epstein files (like everyone else is capable of, regardless of alleged achievements). Pretending that if someone doesn’t explicitly say “I am committing X crime for Y reason” that everything is perfectly above board is EXACTLY the problem. People like you look the other way and lie to yourselves because you GET something out of it. Probably something completely ordinary, like a bit more money for a nicer car or a bigger house or private school tuition. But burying your head in the sand when you’re one of the folks”in these rooms” (your claim, not mine) makes you complicit. Stop kidding yourself. |
Do you actually want to have a civil conversation or do you want to just make people shut up? Do you want to know how power works or just get more confident in your own arrogant assumptions about it. Because, here on this site, without caring, you are talking to people who have been in many of the "rooms where it happens." And all you can do is tell them how it works. It doesn't even occur to you to ask. Because you think you know everything already. It would be laughable if it weren't so sad. And you walk around calling people morons and idiots like that's not stopping the conversation? Odd. |
She also amassed quite a bit of power when she was White House counsel for Obama. That power did not spring forth from nothing the day Obama hired her nor did it evaporate on January 20, 2017. |
I’m absolutely NOT going to let you tell ME “how it works” when, by your own admission (see the bolded), you are part of the problem! As a PP so eloquently put it, I’m not going to buy your myths and cover stories. |
yeah, look at face. ick. |
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I have found it really interesting to search the files (the jmail site is great) to see who wasn’t in his circle. Romney, for example, only appears very abstractly and second/third hand mentions. So what makes Romney different from Clinton/Trump?
Along those lines, what made Kathy R such an enthusiastic participant in Epstein’s inner orbit, when Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Plouffe weren’t? Yes, we need to not only name and prosecute, and yes: investigate every high level member of every administration to understand how something this monstrous could happen and ensure that it never, ever happens again. That is a structural response. But OP’s question is about something different than structure. It is about individual, interior experiences and choices. It is not only a valid question, but an essential one: who sells their soul completely? Why? Asking this question doesn’t mean ignoring the broader, structural ones. It’s entirely possible— and worthwhile imo — to hold side-by-side questions of structure and questions of individual choice within that structure. |