The Fakestein files
Once again, the public is being played.
Earlier today my husband sent me a clip from a lady who claimed on Dr. Phil that the President was not actually Joe Biden at the time Biden was in office. She was finally claiming her just desserts apparently, as another ‘Epstein files release’ supposedly vindicates her claim. Observe:
The first thought I had is the first thought you should have had and the first thought any sceptical person would have: we have finally reached the point where it needs to be explicated that just because something is in the Epstein files doesn’t make it true.
This is a perfect time for me to articulate to you what’s really been happening with these things and why it’s unfortunately more bad news without upside for you, the public.
I don’t know how much you have heard me wax about the tech mafia, but even so it’s probably something you can grok at first pass on your own. Since 2023 the corruption that has kept me terminally underemployed has been inviting itself into the U.S. government, showing everybody how rotten tech has become in a very painful and expensive way. Whether it’s buying themselves datacentres on the public credit card or conspiring to capture the only social media platform accessible to Americans that they don’t own, they’ve been making a mess pretty consistently, and the Epstein files are their latest and greatest plaything.
Two of the biggest names being dragged through the mud with this right now are Donald Trump and Bill Gates. These two men have almost nothing in common from a personality or business standpoint except for one thing: they have a common enemy in the tech mafia.
The thing you have to understand about Trump’s relationship with the tech mob is that it’s always been a marriage of convenience. Corrupt elements in the FBI were the last ones in and first ones out of the operation of having Thomas Crooks try to assassinate him during the election – yes, the very same people officially supporting him right now are the prime suspects in trying to have him taken out. I’ve talked about this before, laying out a really strong thesis that basically revolves around the perpetrators having information that is statistically impossible to get independently. Read all about it.
Basically, from the earliest point that they could have shooed their stooge JD into the White House, they have been opportunistic as all get out, and the fake Epstein discourse is their latest angle of attack. The biggest motivation for it these days is the fact that Trump doesn’t obey them enough during his second term – he’s been doing a lot of things that the other faction that helped him get into office—the New York libertarian banker faction—and also sometimes just things that nobody wants him to do but he wants to do, like acquiring Canada or Greenland. The bankers even had to start crashing their phoney little stock market to get him to let off that last one. Point is, Trump is absolutely captured, and some of his comments during the funeral of Charlie Kirk make me think he’s slowly waking up to realise that… not that it changes anything.
On the other hand, Bill is an old enemy of the Santa Clara Valley remainder that is running the show now. This has been a long running rift that almost certainly stretches back to the beginning for the latter, but the most salient recent example of it is Microsoft’s double-crossing of OpenAI with their exit from the AI Ponzi involving Azure credits.
These two names have been on blast pretty much continuously, becoming synonymous with contemporary ‘Epstein files’ discourse. This has been achieved through narrative management on social media platforms, which are all captured by the very same mob who has bones to pick with these guys. Did you even notice the transition? How long ago was it that we were hearing the caterwauling of ‘stop talking about the Epstein files’ before it became this hybrid disinformation–blackmail operation where Ghislaine is openly negotiating with the mob for her freedom in exchange for helping to nail Billy G?
A year ago, the Epstein discourse was organic. Now, it has been given placement. All of your social media algorithms now govern the subject in accordance with the framing given to it, and it will be yet another topic that the public gets to pretend to talk about while the voices allowed passage through the algorithms are herded into a false consensus that buttresses the desires of the criminals running this operation.
Once again, you are being lied to. It’s so diffuse you probably didn’t even notice it. But this has been standard operating procedure for years – powerful people have realised a common interest in capturing and controlling the Internet so that embarrassing shit like this has no flight potential like it did in yesteryear:
To be clear, the problem is not the ‘trolling’ that most of the article devotes itself to. It’s the lede buried in the details if you actually read through it, which is hinted at the top of the page: “it’s all a scam to make money.” This is a textbook example of garden-variety corruption and things like this are fucking everywhere if you look. The problem that this online potentiality poses is that it can expose things that matter a lot more than the No Cussing Club and its third-rate political connections in California. As it turns out, this exact political problem was litigated through the persecution of Julian Assange. Who won that fight? What do you think the norm is now for exposing powerful criminals?
Epstein was so brazen and careless that there didn’t even need to be investigative journalists at work exposing him; if there were they would have been Kashoggi’d a long time ago by now. It was so spontaneously bad, but even so, it’s been woven back into the new power paradigm at the behest of tech’s preeminent mobsters.
The norm now is the Russian propaganda tactic of admittance without repentance. Naked corruption turning all of their crimes into a taunt against the public: “you won’t do anything, or you can’t do anything, but at least we’ll sort of tell you that we really are evil and corrupt and all of that.” I can think of no better example of this than these mock interviews of Epstein made using generative AI, sandwiched right next to another, older corpse of mainstream media manipulation:
At the end of the day, it’s all a big joke to the stakeholders powering these productions. They hope you never notice them behind the scenes—that you will think they are laughing with you—and in your hypnosis you laugh at the destruction of your own country. Watch another cold open and tacitly accept that nobody is ever going to cut the shit and prosecute these criminals. You’ll keep getting poorer and more destitute, paying for their crimes through inflation and job market distortions, and it’s all a fucking joke.
You can laugh at it if you like, but the joke is still on you.