US Democrats have made public a 238-page scrapbook given to Jeffrey Epstein as a present on his 50th birthday. The letters repeatedly reference the sex offender’s lecherous reputation

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    The continued escalating absurdity of everything that happens within the Trump administration has me now fully convinced that I never stopped tripping that time in 1995. I want to wake up, it’s too fucked up to be real. even though I have really enjoyed much of the last 30 years, especially my wife and cats, i am OK with going back and continuing on a better timeline lol

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      Man the 80’s and 90’s when I was growing up were paradise in comparison. I felt your comment hard, I am genuinely having a hard time (and getting angry) at the insanity we’re living.

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      When i get high I’m often scared that my whole life is fake and I’ll wake up in my 12 year old life. I make my husband promise to do everything exactly the same so we end up together again. I’ll be nicer to my mom next time. And I’ll start the dogs eye drops earlier.

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      Watching his Spokes-Barbie trying to clarify what the explanation was to call that a “hoax” was high comedy.

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    Is it just me, or have a lot of these posts been taken down today? Let’s hope this one survives.

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        Is it? It might take down the guy who murdered him.

        That’s not a bad birthday gift. Except for the whole getting murdered part, but that’s already done.

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      I know one I commented in just a few hours ago has since mysteriously disappeared…

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        “Mysteriously” why not check the mod log? [email protected] has rules that they have to be actual news sources, not the MeidasTouch post on Meta’s Threads app.

        I posted on that same one, but I looked at the modlog and the mod who removed it asked to use an actual news source or just post that source in a more appropriate community.

        This kind of conspiratorial thinking doesn’t help us.

        News rule in question:

        From the modlog:

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          In my defense, I didn’t know I was able to check the mod log, nor am I aware of how to do so, so my bad… I just remembered seeing the post and being disgusted, I couldn’t even tell you what sub it was in.

          And yea, maybe I was a little hasty in labeling it ‘mysterious’ but considering we currently have a senile pedophile in the white house who seems determined to be the next Kim Jung Il and is only too happy to rewrite history while siccing his clown shoes gestapo on people indiscriminately, I’d say if there’s a time to be paranoid, this is fucking it.

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    Only the drawing of the kids balloon thing was sketch.

    There’s nothing wrong with being highly sexual about adults who consent.

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      No, there absolutely isn’t. The concerning thing for me is that they’re professional relationships, and this shows they were personally connected. If it was formal “greetings on your birthday, sincerely XXX” that’s totally different to “sex girls sex girls”. That takes the relationship into a personal realm, meaning they were personally intertwined with a predator.

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          I find it hard to believe many of them didn’t. There was an entire island of victims, some of them knew something. Also like attracts like, predators seek out other predators because they pose far less risk than a decent person