At this point I don't much care about the Epstein list. I'd rather see heads start rolling for the covid debacle, USAID, and the crime described as ‘diabolical’ and yet another ‘informed consent violation’ by Bret Weinstein ( Feb 2025 Joe Rogan interview) : geoengineering.
At this point I don't much care about the Epstein list. I'd rather see heads start rolling for the covid debacle, USAID, and the crime described as ‘diabolical’ and yet another ‘informed consent violation’ by Bret Weinstein ( Feb 2025 Joe Rogan interview) : geoengineering.
Lisa - I agree, 100%, but not so sure anything is going to happen. Other than "making sure it never happens again". Makes my blood boil every time I hear that one. It's clear that we live in a lawless country, people just can't wrap their heads around it. When crimes are committed openly, with more than ample evidence of criminal conduct, and nothing is done about it, that, by definition is lawless. No other way to describe it.
Lawless for the elites and politically connected, Ron. We little people still have to abide the law, pay our taxes and be good little shoppers. Otherwise we end up in jail with the gangsters and the sodomites. Nobody is above the law except in America where the elites are above the law. Period. That makes my eyes bleed with anger.
There are a few channels on YouTube where independent guys find and take down the degenerate pedo pervs who sit in their trailers and plot to meet up with kids and contribute to the problem of trafficking and child porn. But they are the low-level scum. They are the ones that get caught and everyone then feels good knowing one less perv is off the street, never really thinking about the massive power behind what made those guys able to get to that porn in the first place. Same as it ever was.
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?
Mandatory State-prescribed curricula for children is a perversion that parents wilfully let happen, wilfully let their children be literally kidnapped-- Pied Pipered-- into.
Meanwhile, at some of America's schools, the children get abused in different ways and worse, shot and killed.
Your Rule of Law Jesus isn't going to save you.
You and a real community that is empowered to take care of itself might.
Morning Zazzy - nice post as usual - substantive as always.
Playing catch up now. 1) Le Bic, on the shore, adjacent Rimouski 2) Check out the Amish that went to Western NC and built tiny houses for the Hurricane Helene flood victims - 12 houses built in 48 hours, at a cost of $300K - all of which they did for free - most Master Carpenters.
On State-prescribed curricula, you are correct. Read a study years ago, that in Sweden (I think) formal school doesn't start until 7-years old. Data shows they academically outperformed every other industrialized country in later years.
There's a reason Obama and his ilk kept pushing for earlier and earlier pre-school "education" - Head Start - easier to bend those young minds. Preceded by the Bushs - Dubya and Jeb - with their "No Child Left Behind" indoctrination program foolishness.
In my comment, I just edited out 'under a certain age' in part because State-mandated anything at any age is fundamentally unethical because it's coercive.
I initially put 'under a certain age' because after a certain age, State-mandated curricula are not mandatory. So we won't have a social worker appear at our doors to question us about why our children, between certain ages, are not at school or submitting their tests.
I understand that some parents will be more fish-like than other parents and so be fine with laying their offspring like eggs to whatever/whoever happens.
Human beings and fish can of course peacefully coexist, as long as the fish don't impose their ways on we mammals.
"In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, songwriter Roger Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from his audiences:
Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad."
The State and their 'Rule of Law' is just yet another religion that does little for those who would have few ethical compunctions to do no harm/wrong. It's yet again an example of the classic priests abusing the children; their religion doesn't work on/for them.
If anything, as Cankerpuss' comment suggests, the State's 'Ten-Commandments Rule of Law' can often function as a hamstring against those who don't need it while helping to enable those who would.
You want real law? Try 'the law of the jungle' that 'the rule of lawyers' keep trying to disparage in support of their own.
We have no real, healthy, self-protecting communities anymore that would make the State's Rule of Law irrelevant and worse, such that it is.
Exactly. Why have Bill Gates and Bill Clinton not been arrested for raping children on Epstein Island?
Could it possibly have something to do with their wealth and power?
If the law is never actually enforced against such people, then "rule of law" is a sham and our government is entirely illegitimate, merely an occupying force in continuous violation of the Constitution.
I think that the risk vs. reward situation is upside down. Even if a perp is caught now, the DAs let them go. Perps have almost no chance of punishment today, even now.
I wrote a paper in nursing school about the effects of violence on kids. The studies showed that what really “programmed” the kids to violent behavior was unpunished violence, where, for example, the coyote kept coming back for more after getting clobbered by the roadrunner over and over.
I wonder if anyone has figured out that the criminal industry is a very lucrative business today, especially with so many people affected by the lousy economy. Could it be one of the draws for criminals entering the country is the availability of a very developed criminal network? The scum network has a ready made job waiting for them.
Phil? How about Canada, are you seeing the scum networks working up north?
Solution? Just like the 30s, concentrated effort by the FBI and local police to get these folks into cells or offshore. Two examples exist, the 30s as mentioned and the Old West before the Law came in. Both were unpleasant to Joe Average.
That's the State falling apart and that in-betweeness vacuum that gangs can enter.
But when/as the dust settles, the State might go away for a time and real community might pop back in-- those communities that settle the criminal gangs' hash through 'vigilante justice'-- another term for community self-protection in the absence of the farce of State protection.
Right now, the State's law is disabling 'vigilante justice' through the cliched mindfuck of 'don't take the law into your own hands.'
Criminal gangs don't stand a chance, but you have to look in the mirror sometimes and convince yourself that you're the adult and you don't answer to the decaying Nanny State.
Then you grab some guns, some armed pals and meetup with those gangs.
Get that new PM of yours to put the clamp on your border and stop the Latinos and especially Chinese from invading Canada. Then the tariffs will go off like Mexico. You look down here and see what the illegals have done to this country, start fighting the damn Leftists that want them with you.
Nope. Mark Carney is an ex-Goldman Sachs and central banker. He's as Rothschilds as a man can be. He'll do whatever TPTB tell him to do.
Sad but true.
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Illegal Latinos and Chinese are invading Canada? Are you sure? Can you provide a source? [Note: As a known, constant liar, Trump quotes do not count as they are usually unreliable and rarely are proven true.]
Take a trip to Seattle, or Vancouver and visit Little China. Most of the illegals coming into SoCal are Chinese. Think for a moment, Phil, if you wanted to take over without starting a shooting war, how would you do it? Rome was torn down by outsiders taking over. Britain was taken down by outsiders.
Look around Phil, you are the tip of the immigration spear. China is encroaching on the world, get it!?!!! Trump understands this, that is why he is a lot smarter than you appear to be.
I was waiting for you. Okay, you make lots of claims about Trump being dumb,etc. Where are your sources that he is wrong, that both our countries are not targets? You don’t have any. And you are right, that means with illegals you are in worse shape than what the data says. Just like here.
Now, about your sources? And what ideas do you have to stem the flow of Legals and illegals into our countries?
Mark 'Carnage' is a technocrat up to his evil eyeballs. While he was still head of the Bank of England he said companies that wouldn't go along with the ESG stuff would simply not survive.
Hold on one second here, Phil. You're saying that MR. Trump (we are careful to sound respectful around Mr. Kunstler) is a liar? If you don't like it here, as people like Mr. K used to demand of me in my student activities days, why don't you move to Russia?
Cape - you missed my point. It never does happen again, so that excuses the prior event - with no punishment - only assurances that it will never happen again.
Skyscrapers "felled by planes"? Has never happened again (Thanks TSA and "Patriot" Act). Federal Building blown up by a "fertilizer bomb", by a "homegrown terrorist"? Has never happened again (because they saved us from the Montana Freemen Militia, thanks FBI). Population locked down? Mistakes were made, but it won't ever happen again (Thanks WHO and CDC).
So, they really are protecting us, they're batting 1000. So, the only thing we have to worry about is the next thing that happens, but even then, no matter how bad it is, we can rest assured "that it'll never happen again". It's like a self-licking ice cream cone.
Puts us into a WROL situation, a very dangerous place. Without rule of law creates unintended consequences. These people don't appear to think it could happen to them, as they are above the law. Once the law disappears it gets more than nasty.
When folks speak of unpunished crimes, I sometimes think of MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection, but then I read in places like this that the whole thing was Nancy Pelosi's fault, or Gen. Milley's, or George Soro's, or Stacey Abrams' and realize I am 'way off base. MR. Trump happens to be about lawfulest person a body could hope to meet!
Over eight years of intense politically motivated investigations. Two impeachments. The Mueller "investigation". The J6 Committee. Not an outstanding parking ticket. Not an overdue library book. You may not like what he's done, but I can assure you, it's all been legal. Can't say the same for some others.
Deadly? Only for Ashli Babbitt. Murdered at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer. Oh, that's right, he wasn't guilty, no charges were filed. Sure hope that happens to me, if I ever "accidently" shoot someone. It will be an accidental shooting; I'm telling you right now.
I liked the library book joke, Ron! My understanding is that Ms. Babbitt’s death was a result of her ignoring a clear instruction not to continue trying to break into a that portion of the Capitol the guy who killed her was protecting.
This is a question I ask all the new friends I’ve made via Mr. Kunstler’s page. What are you feelings about MR. Trump’s devotion to an autocrat whose has his detractors either poisoned or dropped out of the windows of tall buildings? I personally find that kind of distasteful.
You got me, John. An awful lot of people have ended up dead around the Clintons, but I can't remember anyone being poisoned or being dropped out of a window. But there was Vince Foster who shot himself in the back of the head. Not only was he the White House Counsel, but who knew he was also a double-jointed contortionist. Plus, I don't think Trump was devoted to them in any way, but I could be wrong.
Agree entirely. Of all the fuckery put over people in the last few years the Covid scam was by far the most egregious. I suspect there will never be any accountability for any of it, though, for the same reason that the ‘Epstein files’ will go nowhere: too many people in high places involved and complicit, and the blobs would rather just pretend it didn’t happen.
And I have the feeling that there is likely overlap of the 'usual suspects' in all of these crimes. On other hand, the older I get the more I believe that the estimate of '1 in 24' individuals being a sociopath is far too low... And what better place for a sociopath to gravitate to than the maze of governmental bureaucracies.
This is why we must all PUBLICLY call for the hangings of everyone who worked on creating the virus and everyone who mandated the deadly mRNA jabs.
Every day. Forever.
This is the best way we can protect ourselves from a repeat. Calling in PUBLIC for the hangings of those criminals is literally the only way to get their attention. Pfauci pfirst.
... prison... you are being kind. I'm for a just trial (what other nefarious goings-on might surface during discovery? ) with gallows located in a very public place .
No prison for Fauci. He needs to hang. Not the kind hanging with a drop and a quick neck break. No, the kind where he struggles for a while and slowly suffocates. This guy is a mass murderer. Period.
I think most people will find the quick fix - Hang 'em High! - emotionally unsatisfying over the long term.
Two scenarios:
1) You're sitting in the laundromat parking lot watching Joe Rogan on your cell phone - the episode where he shows the lynching of Fauci. He was caught trying to sneak into Canada at Warroad, Minnesota when a lumberjack stepping out of Izzy's Lounge saw a little old lady trying to cross the road. Lifting her up on his broad shoulders, the lumberjack is shocked when Fauci's bonnet and wig fall off revealing the King of Spikes. Kicking and screaming in the icy wind, rope cinched tightly around his neck, Fauci is slowly hauled to the top of the power pole when his tiny head smacks into the line and ZAPP! The in vivo x-ray - caught by a few spectators quick with their cell phones is trending on Instagram... Or:
2) "The girls will cheer and the boys will shout..." The Dictator Zoo is rolling into town! Like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, your family - heck, the whole town! - is animated with electric expectation. Rotten eggs, apples, and tomatoes - and some not so rotten - are eagerly gathered into baskets as the family joyfully spills into the street. Fauci has the seat of honor on the dunk tank. "Three baseballs for a dollar! Drop 'im in the water and win a kewpie doll!", shouts the barker. "Just don't hit 'im in the face or you lose." "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" "Next?!" "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" And so it goes, from one town to the next...
It was necessary for the storyline. You kinda have to do that whole "suspension of disbelief thing".
Or, I could go for realism:
A lumberjack stumbling out of Izzy's Lounge saw the bonnet and wig fly off the 'little old lady' as she ran down the street, revealing the King of Spikes.
"Godspeed Mr. Fauci", toasts the lumberjack as he takes another swig of Bud Lite, turns, and walks back into the lounge, plunks a quarter into the jukebox, and queues up "Careless Whisper".
No lynchings as it will just escalate from there and as much damage as Fauci did to society we can't let him do any more by becoming some sort of martyr or impetus for all-out vigilante justice. Know these things: Fauci was put into place by the real villains and enabled by people who, largely in the SDNY and DC federal courts as well as SCOTUS, failed to uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
You could convict Fauci in a formal trial of 1M cases of murder or accessory to murder and give him the death penalty but what would happen is this: He would last on appeal long enough for the dipshit public to elect another Democrat POTUS who would pardon him. There's really only one way people like Fauci ever see reciprocal justice for the crimes they commit against the People.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. I'm inclined to think there is massive bribery and corruption there, and a travesty beyond comprehension inflicted upon the objects of abuse, which are real people (apparently a predominant number of young, underage both male and female) . These people are scarred for life.
If the greater systemic corruption issue is not identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished, it will continue under different form. It will take a while . The Epstein matter does come into play at a point. Presently, it could be a resource distraction.
The so-called justice system in NYC, SDNY and lower Manhattan in general has developed as a law unto itself. The Epstein case is a part of a much larger operation and culture which needs attention. The afore mentioned ie:' identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished' are the larger issue in play there.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. ~ wkenn
It might need to be moved all the way to the back of the bus. Musk calmly announced that efficiency was not an option, but a do or die requirement, and obstructionists, those who continually chirp "It will never work.", and those with a lesser agenda, need to "let that sink in".
If we actually had a Congress that truly represented the people and the states as the Founders intended, they would have already passed a bill banning public sector unions like Utah did a few weeks ago. They’ll drop to the floor kicking and screaming like they did in Utah, but they’ll either do their job, or they can go find a job in the private sector.
Until we the people take the steps to repeal the 17th Amendment we’ll have two lower houses of congress, and nobody representing the state’s interests.
I think the Epstein list might be a distraction from the massive real problem of human trafficking on a massive scale. Epstein was in charge of only a small delivery pool of humans to the elites. The trafficking world-wide, mostly using war situations or open borders as a cover, and involving large global entities like the Clinton Foundation as laundering apparatus, is so much more massive... but they focus on Epstein and Diddy.
According to Whitney Webb, we are being distracted by the salacious details of Epstein's blackmailing operation in order to hide the money laundering and power-brokering enabled by the sex-trafficking. I haven't read her two-volume work, "One Nation Under Blackmail" yet, but it's on my long - and growing - to-do list.
I like Whitney Webb a lot. I don't know where she gets her intel, but I would like to see how she figures they are going to replace gov't agencies with AI (per Musk). that is what I believe her current position is, although I will admit to seeing someone else's summary, not her own work (although I read her religiously a few years back).
We're not going to get shit from the Epstein list. How do you think Trump managed to get his cabinet picks all passed. He has the goods on his own party's people. They never cooperated before, why now? The manipulation of the population is being carefully herded toward civil war, if not global. Study late 1850's congress for anything close to what we're witnessing now. The lower your profile, the less likely they will be coming after you. Ya, I know, I just violated my own words.
Indeed...I seem to remember our host writing about seemingly endless orange barrels on I-87 north of Albany in one of his biweekly Clusterf*ck columns several years ago.
I do care about the Epstein _evidence_ (the list is already widely known).
But you're right, Fauci's creation of Wuhan Virus and the mandates to inject every human on the planet with dangerous and worse-than-ineffective mRNA slime are far more serious crimes:
The Epstein list is not to be discounted. For example, the fact that we never get any further information on it (even though dozens or hundreds of govt officials must be privy) tells us the names must be huge, and therefore worth pursuing. How many young lives were irreparably damaged by this ring?
The perps likely all hope to die of natural causes before it comes out, like any high criminal does.
And, sadly, I'd wager they all will. And then it still won't come out, if their name is big enough.
At this point I don't much care about the Epstein list. I'd rather see heads start rolling for the covid debacle, USAID, and the crime described as ‘diabolical’ and yet another ‘informed consent violation’ by Bret Weinstein ( Feb 2025 Joe Rogan interview) : geoengineering.
Lisa - I agree, 100%, but not so sure anything is going to happen. Other than "making sure it never happens again". Makes my blood boil every time I hear that one. It's clear that we live in a lawless country, people just can't wrap their heads around it. When crimes are committed openly, with more than ample evidence of criminal conduct, and nothing is done about it, that, by definition is lawless. No other way to describe it.
Lawless for the elites and politically connected, Ron. We little people still have to abide the law, pay our taxes and be good little shoppers. Otherwise we end up in jail with the gangsters and the sodomites. Nobody is above the law except in America where the elites are above the law. Period. That makes my eyes bleed with anger.
There are a few channels on YouTube where independent guys find and take down the degenerate pedo pervs who sit in their trailers and plot to meet up with kids and contribute to the problem of trafficking and child porn. But they are the low-level scum. They are the ones that get caught and everyone then feels good knowing one less perv is off the street, never really thinking about the massive power behind what made those guys able to get to that porn in the first place. Same as it ever was.
So true. The porn industry is massive, generating multiple billions every year. Perversion has always existed but I can only imagine how much perversion has proliferated since porn became instantly available at everybody's finger tips.
Degeneracy has been promoted, sold on a massive scale to the public, since the CIA began its programs post WWII. So people that are already degenerates and low-lives, sociopaths, psychopaths, sexual deviants - have it made. They've been coaxed out of the shadows and given the spotlight. If that isn't a sign of cultural collapse, I don't know what is.
Nail on head, Mary.
Thank you, Ron.
McAfee left some cryptic crumbs, maybe on Gab, a few years ago, regarding this. Cautioned to avoid it, as it was a funding source.
I'd need to try a search, maybe another time, it's past midnight on the East Coast... slow fade...
Here's as good a place as any to begin, a quick, somewhat random search, maybe it leads back to the posts around the alleged demise.
https://x.com/iluminatibot/status/1898149162069193025
I might fancy a hypothesis that the more fucked-up a society is/gets, the porn follows suit, perhaps like most everything else... porn, school, medicine... take your pick.
We are living in a fucked-up society, folks-- to be charitable with the definition of 'society'. As if we need to point that out.
People literally worship degeneracy and demand that it be included in all of our "entertainment" and culture, so I would tend to agree - 100%. Look at how low the bar has gone since, say, the 1950s. As family units have been destroyed to make way for the "freedom" of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and "coolness." One of my sisters, a teacher, says the F word 3 times per sentence but that's "edgy." Nope, to me, it's just profane. I don't want to hear it. But that's OK now in regular society. Just as it is in Portland for a dad and his young son to be sitting eating ice cream cones near someone shooting up heroin. How "cool"!
It appears that when a society becomes too rich and unbalanced with too much spare time (which used to be spent on warding off winter starvation/disease) that it turns to debauchery. Nowadays we have technology to add to the firehose. Look out below.
BINGO! Spot on Yirgach. You get it. We as a society have had it far too good for far too long. Instead of worrying about our next meal or working to build our shelter, our people have ample mental "space" to think on other things. Thus, out of literal boredom, they proliferate perversion, filth, decadence and immorality. They glom onto "causes" such as the environment, animal rights, and of course sexual deviancy.
If we had to spend more time producing our meals and maintaining our shelter many of these things that our people obsess over would simply disappear.
The curse of a wealthy society is real and we haven't evolved to the point that we can overcome our own greed and desires for power.
Well said CP.
I know from many elders here in VT that life in VT was really brutal.
Very hard to imagine nowadays . Electricity was a God send and cheap energy a miracle.
Now they are doing everything they can to stop it.
Well said.
Inclined to thing the process is circular or, perhaps, a spiral. Bad folks, bad porn, more bad folks, badder porn, and so forth. But these distinctions are niceties. Bottom line: both life and art imitate each other and each is execrable.
You're channeling me this morning, Zazzy. Pick a place, let's start anew.
I bought a couple more power-tools over the weekend for building/woodworking, along with a two-for-one on tape-measures. I'm slowly going outside of my comfort-zone with this kind of investment that's getting expensive. It's sort of like when you start going beyond some critical point where it's hard to back out of and the pressure of commitment is increasingly hanging over your head. ('What am I getting myself into?')
Woodworking, heh? Perhaps pick up a geetar kit and become an amateur luthier. I've dabbled in it over the years.
https://guitarspace.org/acoustic-guitars/best-diy-acoustic-guitar-kits/
I love acoustic musical instruments of many kinds, they can be very beautiful. Even in You Tube videos, where the subject has nothing to do with that, there might be the odd guitar or whatever lying or hanging around on the walls in the backgrounds.
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Zazzy, you'll do fine. You already have the creativity; that's the hard part. The rest is easy. There are people who say, I'll believe it when I see it. The truth is, we see it, when we believe it. Look around - everything you see, was once imagined - a belief.
Cavemen sat around in caves on cold, hard, dirt floors until one imagined a thing that had four legs, was elevated, and could be cushioned with pelts or moss. He fashioned it one day and brought it in the cave. He called it a chair.
The others believed it when they saw it, but had he not believed it before seeing it, they'd all still be sitting around on their asses.
Good quality tools are worth the investment. Look for vintage tools, many will last a lifetime. Check out pawn shops - many people put up tools, when short on money. Garage and estate sales are also a great source of tools. All three can contain real bargains, quality tools at a tenth of retail - and usually better made.
I have a custom designed piece - a combination corner table/end table/3-bottle wine rack design - that I haven't licensed yet - a funky custom design. The flagship piece for Funksional Furniture - a shop adjoining the cafe, which will craft custom furniture, but also hire out to build tiny houses.
Good that you got two tape measures - the old carpenter's sage advice - "Measure twice, cut once."
I've built houses, decks, custom furniture, "turned" wood bowls (on a lathe) - carpentry/woodworking is a great creative outlet, you'll love it, but don't stress over it, enjoy it.
Thanks for the encouragement, advice and the good points/analogies, Ron.
So you've built houses, etc.? Well then maybe I'll see if I can get away with picking your brain on the odd occasion or at least you're welcomed to offer any advice any time.
There's a lot one can do in/with carpentry of course, that's what's great about it and the material, wood, but I'll take a shot at tiny houses, alone, maybe including timberframe. It is imagined that, given increasing poverty, increasing prices with everything, including home-prices and increasing homelessness, the market might be ripe for tiny houses on a dime.
Did you say that you have a friend from Bic/Rimouski and that you had an idea to relocate there?
Mandatory State-prescribed curricula for children is a perversion that parents wilfully let happen, wilfully let their children be literally kidnapped-- Pied Pipered-- into.
Meanwhile, at some of America's schools, the children get abused in different ways and worse, shot and killed.
Your Rule of Law Jesus isn't going to save you.
You and a real community that is empowered to take care of itself might.
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Another Brick In The Wall
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School
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Morning Zazzy - nice post as usual - substantive as always.
Playing catch up now. 1) Le Bic, on the shore, adjacent Rimouski 2) Check out the Amish that went to Western NC and built tiny houses for the Hurricane Helene flood victims - 12 houses built in 48 hours, at a cost of $300K - all of which they did for free - most Master Carpenters.
On State-prescribed curricula, you are correct. Read a study years ago, that in Sweden (I think) formal school doesn't start until 7-years old. Data shows they academically outperformed every other industrialized country in later years.
There's a reason Obama and his ilk kept pushing for earlier and earlier pre-school "education" - Head Start - easier to bend those young minds. Preceded by the Bushs - Dubya and Jeb - with their "No Child Left Behind" indoctrination program foolishness.
In my comment, I just edited out 'under a certain age' in part because State-mandated anything at any age is fundamentally unethical because it's coercive.
I initially put 'under a certain age' because after a certain age, State-mandated curricula are not mandatory. So we won't have a social worker appear at our doors to question us about why our children, between certain ages, are not at school or submitting their tests.
And by all means, don't let school get in the way of your education.
~ Tom's School ~
I understand that some parents will be more fish-like than other parents and so be fine with laying their offspring like eggs to whatever/whoever happens.
Human beings and fish can of course peacefully coexist, as long as the fish don't impose their ways on we mammals.
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Scary School Nightmare
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Alan Parker's Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) is a highly under-rated cinematic masterpiece.
"In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, songwriter Roger Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from his audiences:
Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad."
~ Wikipedia
Rule of law is for pussies. So lame!
I'm down with the laws of physics.
The State and their 'Rule of Law' is just yet another religion that does little for those who would have few ethical compunctions to do no harm/wrong. It's yet again an example of the classic priests abusing the children; their religion doesn't work on/for them.
If anything, as Cankerpuss' comment suggests, the State's 'Ten-Commandments Rule of Law' can often function as a hamstring against those who don't need it while helping to enable those who would.
You want real law? Try 'the law of the jungle' that 'the rule of lawyers' keep trying to disparage in support of their own.
We have no real, healthy, self-protecting communities anymore that would make the State's Rule of Law irrelevant and worse, such that it is.
Exactly. Why have Bill Gates and Bill Clinton not been arrested for raping children on Epstein Island?
Could it possibly have something to do with their wealth and power?
If the law is never actually enforced against such people, then "rule of law" is a sham and our government is entirely illegitimate, merely an occupying force in continuous violation of the Constitution.
I think that the risk vs. reward situation is upside down. Even if a perp is caught now, the DAs let them go. Perps have almost no chance of punishment today, even now.
I wrote a paper in nursing school about the effects of violence on kids. The studies showed that what really “programmed” the kids to violent behavior was unpunished violence, where, for example, the coyote kept coming back for more after getting clobbered by the roadrunner over and over.
I wonder if anyone has figured out that the criminal industry is a very lucrative business today, especially with so many people affected by the lousy economy. Could it be one of the draws for criminals entering the country is the availability of a very developed criminal network? The scum network has a ready made job waiting for them.
Phil? How about Canada, are you seeing the scum networks working up north?
Solution? Just like the 30s, concentrated effort by the FBI and local police to get these folks into cells or offshore. Two examples exist, the 30s as mentioned and the Old West before the Law came in. Both were unpleasant to Joe Average.
Here in sunny southern California the criminal gangs are targeting people's vehicles.
Work trucks are being hit especially hard for the tools usually left in them over night.
The gangs are hitting entire streets busting out windows and stealing anything not bolted down.
That's the State falling apart and that in-betweeness vacuum that gangs can enter.
But when/as the dust settles, the State might go away for a time and real community might pop back in-- those communities that settle the criminal gangs' hash through 'vigilante justice'-- another term for community self-protection in the absence of the farce of State protection.
Right now, the State's law is disabling 'vigilante justice' through the cliched mindfuck of 'don't take the law into your own hands.'
Criminal gangs don't stand a chance, but you have to look in the mirror sometimes and convince yourself that you're the adult and you don't answer to the decaying Nanny State.
Then you grab some guns, some armed pals and meetup with those gangs.
You're on fire this morning, Zazzy. You had your Wheaties for sure this morning - or whatever the NS equivalent is. Carry on.
This is the first day of the end of a medium-level but draggy cold that's been de-Wheatifying me for a little over the past 3 weeks.
Ivermectin... Viruses are parasites. D3 is good too.
I'm ok, Sam, cold's gone, but good to know for another time, thanks.
The same is happening in Boise, ID. People aren't prepared for it - but they are getting used to it, sadly, as the area grows because... progress.
Is this MQ? Just a fond hello if so.
Remember, it's Boy-C and not Boy-Z. Boy-Z's a tinpot douchebag calling Ukraine home, for now at least.
In Canada, it's pronounced, Boy-Zed.
Zed, as in Pulp Fiction Zed?
Hey John.
I have not heard immigrant-gang crime-wave stories in Canada like I've recently heard from Ben (SoCal) and Anna (Colorado).
Get that new PM of yours to put the clamp on your border and stop the Latinos and especially Chinese from invading Canada. Then the tariffs will go off like Mexico. You look down here and see what the illegals have done to this country, start fighting the damn Leftists that want them with you.
Nope. Mark Carney is an ex-Goldman Sachs and central banker. He's as Rothschilds as a man can be. He'll do whatever TPTB tell him to do.
Sad but true.
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Illegal Latinos and Chinese are invading Canada? Are you sure? Can you provide a source? [Note: As a known, constant liar, Trump quotes do not count as they are usually unreliable and rarely are proven true.]
Take a trip to Seattle, or Vancouver and visit Little China. Most of the illegals coming into SoCal are Chinese. Think for a moment, Phil, if you wanted to take over without starting a shooting war, how would you do it? Rome was torn down by outsiders taking over. Britain was taken down by outsiders.
Vancouver has how many illegals from China?
I'm unaware of that. Again, please provide a source.
You guys always use this MO to try to tear down others. it will not work here,
2011 Chinese were 1.4% of Canadian population, 2021 they were 1.71%.
By province, 2021, BC, 10.5%, Alberta 4.3%, and Ontario 5.9%.
Vancouver and Richmond? 20%.
Source: Wikipedia
Do not feel bad, the West Coast of the USA is doing exactly the same thing.
AND
Latinos?
2001. 2021
Alberta. 19000. 66000
.6%. 1.6%
BC. 24000. 65000
.6%. 1.3%
Ontario. 106000. 250000
.9%. 1.8%
Quebec. 59000. 172000
.8%. 2.0%
Source: Wikipedia
Look around Phil, you are the tip of the immigration spear. China is encroaching on the world, get it!?!!! Trump understands this, that is why he is a lot smarter than you appear to be.
It is why our countries need to join up to counter this threat.
Those are legal migrants, John.
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Asking for a source to back your assertions is not an MO. That is standard debate procedure.
Legal doesn't mean it's right or a good thing.
I was waiting for you. Okay, you make lots of claims about Trump being dumb,etc. Where are your sources that he is wrong, that both our countries are not targets? You don’t have any. And you are right, that means with illegals you are in worse shape than what the data says. Just like here.
Now, about your sources? And what ideas do you have to stem the flow of Legals and illegals into our countries?
Mark 'Carnage' is a technocrat up to his evil eyeballs. While he was still head of the Bank of England he said companies that wouldn't go along with the ESG stuff would simply not survive.
Yes. Sadly, much like any Dem vs GOP election, Carney's competition, Pierre Poilievre, appears to be yet another skunk.
TPTB fix the entire game. We cannot vote our way out of tyranny any more than we can comply our way out.
Hold on one second here, Phil. You're saying that MR. Trump (we are careful to sound respectful around Mr. Kunstler) is a liar? If you don't like it here, as people like Mr. K used to demand of me in my student activities days, why don't you move to Russia?
Oops.
I'd like it here just fine if we cleaned house.
I suspect you would be part of the ousted if house was cleaned here.
The crime wave is not being blamed on immigrants per se.
Just that people are wandering down streets breaking into every car on that street.
Could be illegals could be gang bangers or as is more the case tweakers looking for meth money.
You're so not SoCal, Ben. But it makes sense that you need to be in San Diego. I would think that you'd more comfortable in Dubya's East Texas.
Crimes gone unpunished will definitely happen again.
For example, the worst crime against humanity ever, the mandates to inject poison mRNA.
"Patience." A good idea. Especially between March 15th-April 7th, 2025, when a lot of wheels will be falling off the wagons.
If nothing happens now then it will be certain that “that which can never be allowed to happen again” is more than certain to happen again.
Cape - you missed my point. It never does happen again, so that excuses the prior event - with no punishment - only assurances that it will never happen again.
Skyscrapers "felled by planes"? Has never happened again (Thanks TSA and "Patriot" Act). Federal Building blown up by a "fertilizer bomb", by a "homegrown terrorist"? Has never happened again (because they saved us from the Montana Freemen Militia, thanks FBI). Population locked down? Mistakes were made, but it won't ever happen again (Thanks WHO and CDC).
So, they really are protecting us, they're batting 1000. So, the only thing we have to worry about is the next thing that happens, but even then, no matter how bad it is, we can rest assured "that it'll never happen again". It's like a self-licking ice cream cone.
"...a self-licking ice cream cone." ~ Ron Anselmo
That might make for an interesting AI video text prompt.
Puts us into a WROL situation, a very dangerous place. Without rule of law creates unintended consequences. These people don't appear to think it could happen to them, as they are above the law. Once the law disappears it gets more than nasty.
Hemp is a renewable and reuseable commodity.
When folks speak of unpunished crimes, I sometimes think of MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection, but then I read in places like this that the whole thing was Nancy Pelosi's fault, or Gen. Milley's, or George Soro's, or Stacey Abrams' and realize I am 'way off base. MR. Trump happens to be about lawfulest person a body could hope to meet!
Over eight years of intense politically motivated investigations. Two impeachments. The Mueller "investigation". The J6 Committee. Not an outstanding parking ticket. Not an overdue library book. You may not like what he's done, but I can assure you, it's all been legal. Can't say the same for some others.
Deadly? Only for Ashli Babbitt. Murdered at point blank range by a Capitol Police officer. Oh, that's right, he wasn't guilty, no charges were filed. Sure hope that happens to me, if I ever "accidently" shoot someone. It will be an accidental shooting; I'm telling you right now.
I liked the library book joke, Ron! My understanding is that Ms. Babbitt’s death was a result of her ignoring a clear instruction not to continue trying to break into a that portion of the Capitol the guy who killed her was protecting.
Yeah, a real tough guy - shooting an unarmed woman. The only reason he didn't simply put her in a headlock, was that she would have kicked his ass.
This is a question I ask all the new friends I’ve made via Mr. Kunstler’s page. What are you feelings about MR. Trump’s devotion to an autocrat whose has his detractors either poisoned or dropped out of the windows of tall buildings? I personally find that kind of distasteful.
You got me, John. An awful lot of people have ended up dead around the Clintons, but I can't remember anyone being poisoned or being dropped out of a window. But there was Vince Foster who shot himself in the back of the head. Not only was he the White House Counsel, but who knew he was also a double-jointed contortionist. Plus, I don't think Trump was devoted to them in any way, but I could be wrong.
"MR. Trump's having inspired a deadly insurrection" LOL
Where nobody had guns in the most heavily armed country in the World! But had bus tickets to get themselves home in time to watch themselves on TV.
GMAFB Mendlessohn
The whole J6 thing was an entrapment operation:
https://patrick.net/post/1378157/2023-01-01-january-6th-should-be-a-national
Just watch the video of the Buffalo Guy being given a _tour_ of the Capitol by police, and then being arrested.
Walter - that's my point, we're already there, and have been - WROL, as you say.
Agree entirely. Of all the fuckery put over people in the last few years the Covid scam was by far the most egregious. I suspect there will never be any accountability for any of it, though, for the same reason that the ‘Epstein files’ will go nowhere: too many people in high places involved and complicit, and the blobs would rather just pretend it didn’t happen.
And I have the feeling that there is likely overlap of the 'usual suspects' in all of these crimes. On other hand, the older I get the more I believe that the estimate of '1 in 24' individuals being a sociopath is far too low... And what better place for a sociopath to gravitate to than the maze of governmental bureaucracies.
I agree...and it's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for, as one wag once said.
Well remember, a classic psychopath doesn't care about anybody but themselves.
Most bad people aren't that bad. Most murderers love their mothers, etc.
This is why we must all PUBLICLY call for the hangings of everyone who worked on creating the virus and everyone who mandated the deadly mRNA jabs.
Every day. Forever.
This is the best way we can protect ourselves from a repeat. Calling in PUBLIC for the hangings of those criminals is literally the only way to get their attention. Pfauci pfirst.
…..and a president that was complicit in the whole NWO test of conformity and obedience.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-awards-presidential-commendations-operation-warp-speed-team/
True, OWS is Trump's biggest failure.
On the other hand, he never mandated the poison mRNA injections like Biden did.
agree. Honestly, so many dirtbags and "at this point, what difference does it make"
I want to see Fauci go to prison
... prison... you are being kind. I'm for a just trial (what other nefarious goings-on might surface during discovery? ) with gallows located in a very public place .
No prison for Fauci. He needs to hang. Not the kind hanging with a drop and a quick neck break. No, the kind where he struggles for a while and slowly suffocates. This guy is a mass murderer. Period.
I think most people will find the quick fix - Hang 'em High! - emotionally unsatisfying over the long term.
Two scenarios:
1) You're sitting in the laundromat parking lot watching Joe Rogan on your cell phone - the episode where he shows the lynching of Fauci. He was caught trying to sneak into Canada at Warroad, Minnesota when a lumberjack stepping out of Izzy's Lounge saw a little old lady trying to cross the road. Lifting her up on his broad shoulders, the lumberjack is shocked when Fauci's bonnet and wig fall off revealing the King of Spikes. Kicking and screaming in the icy wind, rope cinched tightly around his neck, Fauci is slowly hauled to the top of the power pole when his tiny head smacks into the line and ZAPP! The in vivo x-ray - caught by a few spectators quick with their cell phones is trending on Instagram... Or:
2) "The girls will cheer and the boys will shout..." The Dictator Zoo is rolling into town! Like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, your family - heck, the whole town! - is animated with electric expectation. Rotten eggs, apples, and tomatoes - and some not so rotten - are eagerly gathered into baskets as the family joyfully spills into the street. Fauci has the seat of honor on the dunk tank. "Three baseballs for a dollar! Drop 'im in the water and win a kewpie doll!", shouts the barker. "Just don't hit 'im in the face or you lose." "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" "Next?!" "Ohhhh! No kewpie doll for you!" And so it goes, from one town to the next...
Now, which world do you want to live in?
I'm all for the Dictator Zoo Road Show. I gotcher rotten tomatoes and eggs right here.
But how naive are you believing that a Minnesotan would lynch Fauci? Silly boy! That's the land of Timpon Walz*.
All pharma crooks and mass murderers go free there, don't they? Isn't it a Sanctuary State (tm)?
*Hoping not to get a rap on the wrist from JK for using a punny name
"But how naive are you..."
It was necessary for the storyline. You kinda have to do that whole "suspension of disbelief thing".
Or, I could go for realism:
A lumberjack stumbling out of Izzy's Lounge saw the bonnet and wig fly off the 'little old lady' as she ran down the street, revealing the King of Spikes.
"Godspeed Mr. Fauci", toasts the lumberjack as he takes another swig of Bud Lite, turns, and walks back into the lounge, plunks a quarter into the jukebox, and queues up "Careless Whisper".
My world's better,, isn't it?
Hahahahahahahaa!
I want to live in the world where dollar-dropping video-taking drones buzz rooftop sundeck-tanning strippers. Who's with me?!
Me
I love you, Annette. <3
No lynchings as it will just escalate from there and as much damage as Fauci did to society we can't let him do any more by becoming some sort of martyr or impetus for all-out vigilante justice. Know these things: Fauci was put into place by the real villains and enabled by people who, largely in the SDNY and DC federal courts as well as SCOTUS, failed to uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
You could convict Fauci in a formal trial of 1M cases of murder or accessory to murder and give him the death penalty but what would happen is this: He would last on appeal long enough for the dipshit public to elect another Democrat POTUS who would pardon him. There's really only one way people like Fauci ever see reciprocal justice for the crimes they commit against the People.
Bill Gates right alongside of him.
I would much rather see Fauci drawn and quartered.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. I'm inclined to think there is massive bribery and corruption there, and a travesty beyond comprehension inflicted upon the objects of abuse, which are real people (apparently a predominant number of young, underage both male and female) . These people are scarred for life.
If the greater systemic corruption issue is not identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished, it will continue under different form. It will take a while . The Epstein matter does come into play at a point. Presently, it could be a resource distraction.
The so-called justice system in NYC, SDNY and lower Manhattan in general has developed as a law unto itself. The Epstein case is a part of a much larger operation and culture which needs attention. The afore mentioned ie:' identified by individual, defanged, uprooted and then justly punished' are the larger issue in play there.
I think caring about the Epstein case might need to be moved back in priority. ~ wkenn
It might need to be moved all the way to the back of the bus. Musk calmly announced that efficiency was not an option, but a do or die requirement, and obstructionists, those who continually chirp "It will never work.", and those with a lesser agenda, need to "let that sink in".
If we actually had a Congress that truly represented the people and the states as the Founders intended, they would have already passed a bill banning public sector unions like Utah did a few weeks ago. They’ll drop to the floor kicking and screaming like they did in Utah, but they’ll either do their job, or they can go find a job in the private sector.
Until we the people take the steps to repeal the 17th Amendment we’ll have two lower houses of congress, and nobody representing the state’s interests.
No, the Epstein files need to be moved UP in priority.
Punishment of the powerful for their flagrant crimes is more important than anything else.
I think the Epstein list might be a distraction from the massive real problem of human trafficking on a massive scale. Epstein was in charge of only a small delivery pool of humans to the elites. The trafficking world-wide, mostly using war situations or open borders as a cover, and involving large global entities like the Clinton Foundation as laundering apparatus, is so much more massive... but they focus on Epstein and Diddy.
This is a real problem.
According to Whitney Webb, we are being distracted by the salacious details of Epstein's blackmailing operation in order to hide the money laundering and power-brokering enabled by the sex-trafficking. I haven't read her two-volume work, "One Nation Under Blackmail" yet, but it's on my long - and growing - to-do list.
I like Whitney Webb a lot. I don't know where she gets her intel, but I would like to see how she figures they are going to replace gov't agencies with AI (per Musk). that is what I believe her current position is, although I will admit to seeing someone else's summary, not her own work (although I read her religiously a few years back).
Yep! Limited hangouts, most likely.
We're not going to get shit from the Epstein list. How do you think Trump managed to get his cabinet picks all passed. He has the goods on his own party's people. They never cooperated before, why now? The manipulation of the population is being carefully herded toward civil war, if not global. Study late 1850's congress for anything close to what we're witnessing now. The lower your profile, the less likely they will be coming after you. Ya, I know, I just violated my own words.
THIS is a metaphor for our patience;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7UAyQ83Yg
Tis the season again.
Indeed...I seem to remember our host writing about seemingly endless orange barrels on I-87 north of Albany in one of his biweekly Clusterf*ck columns several years ago.
I do care about the Epstein _evidence_ (the list is already widely known).
But you're right, Fauci's creation of Wuhan Virus and the mandates to inject every human on the planet with dangerous and worse-than-ineffective mRNA slime are far more serious crimes:
https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates
The Epstein list is not to be discounted. For example, the fact that we never get any further information on it (even though dozens or hundreds of govt officials must be privy) tells us the names must be huge, and therefore worth pursuing. How many young lives were irreparably damaged by this ring?
The perps likely all hope to die of natural causes before it comes out, like any high criminal does.
And, sadly, I'd wager they all will. And then it still won't come out, if their name is big enough.
The lack of prosecutions of Epstein clients is proof of the utter illegitimacy of our "government".