Shorting Hope in our Alleged Political System

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks for me here:

MTG: “You cannot vote your way out of this.”

“The House and the Senate, both parties, are controlled by the richest donors in our country.”

“No matter who is in charge … they fund the military-industrial complex.”

“They fund Big Pharma.”

“This is the world that everyone has gotten a peak look into through the Epstein files.”

“There’s only a rare few that are actually … trying to do the right thing, and those are the people that the entire Washington establishment destroys.”

When I read MTG's comments, I thought of George Carlin. Carlin, who died in 2008, spoke truth to power better than most:

My first rule: never believe anything anyone in authority says. None of them. Government, police, clergy, the corporate criminals. None of them. And neither do I believe anything I am told by the media, who, in the case of the Gulf War, function as little more than unpaid employees of the Defense Department, and who, most of the time, operate as the unofficial public-relations agency for government and industry. I don’t believe in any of them. And I have to tell you, folks, I don’t really believe very much in my country either. I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

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Wanted: Investigators for the Epstein Investigators . . .

History shows just how corrupt banks can be (consider the 2008 crash). Svetlana Lokhova reports on JPMorgan's records, which give rise to numerous red flags. Finding Epstein fraud and criminality in these records would see to be straight-forward--shooting fish in a barrel--but investigations against Epstein rarely go anywhere. Real investigations would require investigators of the investigators, and investigators of THOSE investigators because no empowered entity seems untouched by Epstein's fractal network. Even worse, today's investigations of Epstein fail because he was an avatar for a vast tangled system of enabling politicians, billionaires and banks.

FinCEN database using [redacted]-possibly Epstein's identifiers like name or accounts, and CTRs referencing Epstein's Social Security Number (SSN). Results: 14 [redacted, likely SARs] (8 with attachments) and 89 CTRs.

Epstein's JPMorgan accounts (held through entities like his Southern Trust Company) processed hundreds of millions in transactions, including payments to young women and co-conspirators. The records would help trace fund flows, identify enablers, and build cases.

The emails strongly indicate that there were suspicious transactions associated with Jeffrey Epstein's accounts at JPMorgan Chase.

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs): These are confidential filings that banks are legally required to submit to the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) when they detect transactions that may involve illegal activities, such as money laundering, fraud, or in Epstein's case, potential links to sex trafficking.

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Watergate Inverted

Over the last five years, I have come to understand dozens of major events completely differently than they have been portrayed by corporate media. I don't pretend to know much about the following stary about Watergate, as told by Tucker Carlson, but Watergate 2.0 intrigues me.

Will there ever be a day when I have any confidence in the truth of any nationally significant story?

Post by conspiracybot:

Tucker Carlson explains how the FBI and CIA conducted a coup to take out President Richard Nixon with help from journalist Bob Woodward.

“Richard Nixon was taken out by the FBI and CIA, and with the help of Bob Woodward.”

“[Woodward] was that guy. And who is his main source for Watergate? Oh, the number two guy at the FBI. Oh, so you have the naval intelligence officer working with the FBI official to destroy the president. Okay. So that's a deep state coup.”

“Richard Nixon was elected by more votes than any president in American history in the 1972 election.”

“The most popular president in his reelection campaign, and two years later, he's gone, undone by a naval intel officer, the number two guy at the FBI and a bunch of CIA employees.”

“You tell me what that is. Those are the facts. Those are not disputed facts.”

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Epstein, Power, Money, Ubiquitous Corruption

We are being kept in the dark. We elect what is really a pretend government. The majority of the people calling the shots lurk in the shadows. We've always known that big donors and corporations have an outsize influence on our politicians, but it's much worse than we suspected. It's now clear that at least hundreds of rich and powerful people worked with Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of the US security state and the Israeli government. This has been true through many administrations, as evidenced by recently released documents connecting Jeffrey Epstein's power and money to the Clintons and to Obama's WH Attorney Kathryn Ruemmler. It involves many of the DNC's most powerful funders: Reid Hoffman, Glenn Dubin, Tom Pritzker, Leslie Wexner and Bill Gates. as well as some of Trump's highest-placed people, including Howard Lutnck, Steve Bannon, William Barr and Alan Dershowitz. It involves many hundreds of documented incidents where your voice as a citizen has been nullified. You did not vote for this corrupt and degenerate plutocracy. Nor will you ever be given the opportunity to get rid of it by any sort of vote. The people who have really been in charge don't care about you or me. They laugh at our Constitution.

And have you ever noticed how there are so many news media narratives that run counter to common sense? Those narratives are being driven by corrupt power and money.

I never thought I'd say this, but the U.S. government is more than corrupt. Our country has been completely occupied by unelected people (many of them operating through NGOs) who make many of the biggest decisions, including in the areas of domestic policy, public health, finance and foreign policy. In the area of foreign policy, we already knew this from years of US obeisance to the Israeli government's political arm, AIPAC, especially evidenced by our willingness to pour unlimited $ into wars at the direction of Israel. All of this has become distressingly more clear based on the recently released Epstein files. It is equally clear that we haven't yet seen the vast majority of the Epstein documentation. Most of Epstein's data has been meticulously and obediently redacted or withheld from U.S. Citizens by unknown people on behalf of their unknown bosses. See the post/video below (by Shadow of Ezra) for more on that.

An investigation has found that the Department of Justice has released just two percent of the material the FBI seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s properties.

The report says Epstein’s electronic devices, including computers, hard drives, and servers, are largely missing from the files made public.

It concludes that the three million and even six million figures shared with the public represent only a fraction of what authorities actually possess.

You might think that what I have written sounds crazy. I would agree with you that this sounds completely crazy. If you are brave and courageous, however, visit X, search for "Epstein" and start reading the who's who list of all the rich and famous people who have been exercising their political muscle in the shadows. The more you read, the more you will appreciate the courage of a handful of our elected representatives who know that we the citizens have a right to know what has been going on. Thank you to Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Nancy Mace, who led or supported the bipartisan discharge petition and legislation to compel the Justice Department to disclose the Epstein files.

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