Limited Hangout Week re Epstein “Disclosures”

If the phrase "limited hangout" is not yet part of your vocabulary, it's time to add it to your repertoire. Grok offers this definition:

A limited hangout is a strategy, often used in espionage, politics, or public relations, where a partial truth or selected information is disclosed to the public or investigators to prevent the discovery of more damaging or sensitive facts, effectively acting as a form of damage control when a full cover-up is no longer viable. The term originates from CIA jargon, as described by former official Victor Marchetti, who explained it as admitting "some of the truth when tight lips have slipped" but withholding the key details to mislead further inquiry.

Here is the only thing you can do to make sure you are not a victim of limited hangouts: Repeatedly ask: "What else have you not yet told me?" Ask this repeatedly, especially when dealing with people, government officials and corporate news outlets you have previously trusted. Consider these recent examples:

DOJ under Pam Bondi redacted a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu with Jeffrey Epstein from the files.

Redactions are admittedly an imperfect way of engaging in limited hangouts, but they work well enough often enough, given the limitations of human attention and memory.

DNC mega-donor Reid Hoffman was mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein files. David Sachs: "The NYT story on Epstein & Silicon Valley has paragraphs on Elon, Peter Thiel … Reid Hoffman barely gets mentioned despite having the deepest Epstein relationship and having lied about it."

New York Times forgot to mention that one of its own reporters worked closely with Epstein well after Epstein was a known child sex trafficker. And see here.

The DOJ briefly uploaded — then removed — an 86-page document titled “Investigation into Potential Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirators.”

Amidst all the chaos, Rep Thomas Massie emerges: with some common sense:

Rep. Thomas Massie says he’s ready to use the nuclear option if the DOJ refuses to un-redact the names of Epstein’s clients. He warns he will simply start reading Epstein’s client names publicly if Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice does not release them. “If the victims want to give them to me, I’ve expressed that I’m willing to do that.” See also here.

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DNC’s Position on Immigration and Many Other Policies: Not Organic

I offer this set of quotes along with my personal view that immigration is a fraught and complex subject, one filled with difficult to formulate policy. It results in many instances of heartbreak and unfairness. What I can conclude is that anyone who has a simplistic view of immigration is not being thoughtful or honest. Take a look at these quotes by prominent Democrats.

What is stunning about these quotes is that they represented the clear consensus of the DNC Complex (DNC, corporate media and most sense-making institutions in the US) for decades. Then, all of a sudden, all of these politicians have flipped 180° without any explanation. Nor any interest in the reason for the 180 by the Corporate media. In my article, I provide links to dozens videos featuring these same politicians, and others, offering opinions completely contrary to their current positions. This is further evidence that the DNC position is completely contrary to what it appears to be today. Again, without any explanation of why the DNC has flipped its position entirely.

The only thing I can say for certain is that these unexplained flips are direct evidence that this process of flipping is not organic. I suspect the following: NGO or donor money, power, attempts to pad the voter rolls (and see here and here and here and here and here and here) and tribalism. This much is certain: Normal honest people don't completely flip their opinions on major long-held positions without explanation.

Consider further, the video excerpts of prominent Democrats who are stating policy positions most people today would characterize as "Republican":

Obama: https://x.com/travelingflying/status/2012918038262059446

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2012741729128997280

https://x.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1997087112315752780

https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2012954668838588585

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975688443167711654

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1973899222253776988

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2012937860056232415

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012704936518132153

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1974106435563954436

https://x.com/patriot_savvy/status/2012886820627845452

Joe Biden:

https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1975695044939292736

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1932389659281363170

Nancy Pelosi

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2011168208238129466

https://x.com/america/status/1972679649810382927

Bernie Sanders

https://x.com/Highway_30/status/2012774949446893597

https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1996236734246388211

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2011870591004131714

Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton

https://x.com/CoVet_81/status/2011149382763368737

https://x.com/Gitmo99/status/201082956535506144

https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/1972688228697395593

https://x.com/newtgingrich/status/1972659456363188320

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George Carlin: You Don’t Need a Formal Conpiracy

Comment: "There is no national conspiracy to buy elections and control America."

George Carlin: "You don't need a formal conspiracy, right? When interests converge, these people went to the same universities and fraternities are the same directors. They're in the same country clubs. They have like interest. They don't need to call a meeting. They know what's good for them. They're getting it. And there used to be seven oil companies. There are now three. It will soon be two. The things that matter in this country have been reduced. In choice. There are two political parties, there are a handful of insurance companies. There are about six or seven information [companies] but if you want a bagel, there are 23 flavors, because you have the illusion. You have the illusion of choice."

https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2005792249175822799

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Lenin, Unvarnished

Greg Lukianoff is frustrated with the widespread white-washing of Lenin. Excerpt:

Lenin wasn’t “complicated.” He was evil. Full stop. We don’t say that enough in the United States because most people never actually learn what he did and others with “intellectual” mentors, parents or grandparents can’t let themselves admit they had a warm heart for the man who ushered in the new age of true totalitarianism quite intentionally. Instead we get at best a cartoon: czar bad, revolution messy, Stalin later goes too far. Lenin is treated like the grim (or for true elitists, heroic) but necessary prologue. That’s backwards.

This is a man who personally ordered people hanged in public “so that the people will see, tremble, and know.” Not generals on a battlefield—peasants labeled “kulaks,” defined as the wrong class of peasant, you know? Like my family. He didn’t reluctantly authorize force in a crisis. He theorized terror as a positive good. He wanted fear as a permanent feature of the system. If deliberately terrorizing civilians as a category isn’t evil, the word doesn’t mean anything.

And what he built was not run-of-the-mill authoritarianism. A normal dictator mostly wants you to shut up and not plot against him. Lenin’s party claimed a monopoly on TRUTH. Every independent center of life, churches, unions, rival socialist parties, the press, civil associations, had to be destroyed or absorbed. Violence wasn’t a last resort; it was a standing method; it was “cleansing”. Whole groups were pre-classified as enemies to be “liquidated” if necessary. He made the jump from dictatorship to totalitarianism.

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