"GOLDSTEIN: You know, they're valuable in the sense - obviously, he had a lot of money there. At the peak, he had about $300 million in his accounts. But you have to view him more than just the dollars.

There were lots of transactions he was doing, obviously, to run his sex trafficking operation for so many years. And he was also valuable in helping to bring business to the bank because his stock and trade was connecting people.

You know, it's always unclear exactly how much he did in terms of bringing new business into the bank, but clearly he was very important in making introductions to some people at the bank."

;;

"SHAPIRO: In 2019, after Epstein was arrested in New Jersey and charged with federal sex trafficking offenses, J.P. Morgan filed a report retroactively flagging some 4,700 Epstein...

GOLDSTEIN: Right.

SHAPIRO: ...Transactions as suspicious, totaling more than a billion dollars. What was going on there? And how should those transactions have been handled in real time?"

much more at the thread link

Apparently Epstein had lots of enablers besides his Wingman Donnie Doll Hands.

"What's actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers," Hinton told the FT.

"It's going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer."

"That's not AI's fault," he continued. "That is the capitalist system."

Although OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his ilk have, as the FT notes, suggested introducing a universal basic income (UBI) to counteract AI-induced unemployment, Hinton claimed that such a stopgap "won't deal with human dignity" and the loss of purpose people may experience without work.

Though timelines for this jobs armageddon weren't provided, Hinton did put dates to another forthcoming AI revolution: when the technology could become superintelligent, able to out-think even the cleverest humans.

"A lot of scientists agree between five and 20 years," he said. "That's the best bet."

- the Church, as it likes to be known, is losing power in the world

Meh.... yes and no; some places yes, some not so much.

To trandgenders toes, at least.

- ISRAEL IS TRYING TO KILL CIVILIANS.
RUSSIA ISN'T.

BOTH ARE TARGETING CIVILIANS:

Russia's citizen targeting strategy in Ukraine:

Ladies... pleeeze!

- Project 2025.

It's eerily evil, kinda like the Epstein Files... but it's public and still nobody reads it.

hmmmm.... wonder what percent of trump voters have poor reading skills?

Lemme just drop this very short George Carlin Short here:

"Trump's Stunning Lack of Empathy

Sometimes it can be hard to describe the ego that Donald Trump has, but it's even more astounding when it's combined with his lack of empathy.

And this was perfectly exemplified again yesterday when Trump basically said that the reason he is not getting credit for a 100% crime reduction in DC is because they are counting fights between a man and his wife."

So, Lee... I've been telling 1Nut and Boaazus both that they could pass for Venezuelan in low-lit Home Depot, and to be very careful.

I mean, a half-drunk low IQ white nationalist ICEer might mistake a Chinaboy or a ------- for a 'Meskin anytime... especially when there are Big Bonuses for number of arrests involved!

Bubba had excuses, though... for one, he was married to Hillary.

Plus he was from Arkansas, so that's a near automatic teenybopper/cheerleader fetish right there.

Sorry everyone... Major B was mistaken for a Venezuelan today and arrested by ICE at a Home Depot in NC!

He was immediately Deported to Ghana via Alligator Alcatraz, and may not be responding to our posts anytime soon.

Sad.

#25

Are you speaking of the New Trump MAGA mini-Condoms Available at the WH Gift Shop Online?

"Over the past 50 years, rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes have soared, while sperm quality has plummeted."

Which is how they elected Traitor Trump!

They always have threads about trans, immigrants, and 'the Russian Hoax!' to go to; subjects they've been thoroughly brainwashed about.

"But while Trump's official signature often looks more jagged than the loopier "Donald" on the Epstein birthday letter, there are many examples of him signing his name in a similar way around the period in question.

A photo of an inscription in a copy of Donald Trump's book "Trump: The Art of the Comeback" that belonged to Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump's name appeared on a contributor list for a book celebrating the 50th birthday of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, evidence that he participated in the collection even as he denied that he signed a sexually suggestive note and drawing."

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"There's a 1996 letter to then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. There's a 1995 letter to a member of a local Palm Beach commission. There's a 1999 letter to former CNN host Larry King.

There's a 1984 letter to the executive editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal. Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on Monday produced a 2014 letter he received. There's even an inscription from 1997 in a Trump book that Epstein owned."

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"All feature that loopier style, followed by a long tail coming off the final "d" in Trump's first name.

It looks like Trump often signed his name in this manner when the subject matter was more personal " situations in which signing with his first name only would be appropriate.

If anything, the signature appears to affirm the legitimacy of the letter. But Trump allies are apparently sticking to the claim, even after their assertions about Trump drawings already blew up in their faces."

1Nut and Maj B, and any other non-lily white should take a few seconds to understand their historic circumstance, per this George Carlin very short Short:

"We were founded on a very basic double standard...."

"White House issues fresh denials upon release of Epstein birthday greeting

Congress released a copy of the greeting that prompted Trump lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal.

"As I have said all along, it's very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement on social media. "President Trump's legal team will continue to aggressively pursue litigation."

News Corp., which owns the Journal, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of the signature on the birthday greeting shows apparent similarities to Trump's signature from contemporaneous documents, including letters Trump wrote to Hillary Clinton in 2000 and to George Clooney in 2006.

The analysis also compares the drawing of a woman's body to line drawings previously attributed to Trump."

- just show them my company badge.

You are assuming these Trumpers can read, or that they care at all. Think Hyundai.

You could be in Ghana tomorrow.

Well, the Catholic Church pretty much missed the Reformation, although they did do some upgrades in response to the Protestant Church with the Council of Trent (1545"1563), and somewhat sense, but I liked the last Pope, and I love this guy, American Pope 'Big Balls'... who don't take no --- offa nobody!

And I like him a lot better than than the BB kid, who helped Elon scam the People.

- When you believe in fairy tales

You know, some rwing white nationalist masked ICE Agent might mistake a China boy for a Meskin', especially when he's getting Bonuses for arrests.

Be careful out there, 1Nut.

You, too. Major B,

"Please note that, in an abundance of caution, we have redacted names and faces of women and minors who appear in the book (other than Ms. Maxwell, public figures, and family or class photos) to ensure that no potential victims are publicly identifiable," Weiner and attorney Daniel Ruzumna wrote.

"We have also redacted photographs revealing any nudity from the book," they added."

from above link

"Democrats on the committee released on Monday evening what they said was another page from the "birthday book," " posting a letter with a photo that they described as "Epstein and a longtime Mar-a-Lago member joking about selling a fully depreciated' woman to Donald Trump for $22,500."

The photo shows Epstein standing next to several other people holding an oversized check written to appear that the check had been made out from Trump to Epstein for $22,500.

The committee did not identify the other people in the photo.

Below the photo, a hand-written caption states,

"Jeffrey showing early talents with money and women! Sells fully depreciated' [readacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500."

#12

Yes, but was he wearing a tan suit?