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Next we'll hear that Jeffrey Epstein was personally responsible for the Fyre Festival
Jeffrey Epstein convinced Fox to cancel Firefly.
Epstein wrote the final season of Game of Thrones
Epstein wrote the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial
Yeah and totally not the beginning with the romanticised rape scenes of a kid.
And the final season of How I Met Your Mother.
(I have unbridled hatred for that season.)
He's going to be a byword for "an unfathomably evil guy" soon, if he isn't already. I would've thought "Trump" would be the 21st Century's version of "Hitler," but it honestly might turn out to be "Epstein."
Ah, there's room enough in the lexicon for both. All three, even.
The president is even more of a piece of shit than epstein measured by character and perhaps by the arithmetic of the sum of harm caused. Epstein himself said the president had no redeeming qualities talking to that virgin islands representative in the house (observer status, no vote, he had major properties and monies there.)
By volume of harm, yes. But by character? I'm not so sure. Trump does whatever he wants, and doesn't realize that what he does is awful. He often has to be reminded to hide his crimes. But Epstein knew that what he was doing made him one of the worst people to have ever existed, and did it anyway; even hiding it all away on an island to keep it under wraps. His was a calculated evil. Trump is just a selfish agent of chaos by comparison.
I guess what I'm saying is that Trump doesn't seem smart enough to have character as bad as Epstein did.
Yeah that's true maybe, also a lot of the harm from the now president is due to his being blackmailed by epstein, their wonderful secrets are rather widely known now.
Yeah there are perhaps people worse if a true accounting was done, in volume of harm. Putin I think even with our knowlege deserves the lion's share. It's because of him the president got in. Now I know the establishment democrats, whom I hate, use that as an excuse for losing to the biggest asshole in the country, but Putin did really help get him over the finish line, and worked on all western countries with the best fascist option they have. And now the US is in on helping subvert western democracy.
So I would put him at least above the president in total harm. In character there are those worse as well, netanyahu and his faction, all sorts of business and religious leaders. The president is about himself, and he's off his rocker. He is being led around by the hand by the party now. But he still is, and always was, one of the worst people by character in the world.
Absolutely no argument from me there.
there's plenty of Nazis to pick for to draw parallels, Goebbels, Mengele, etc.
Don't forget Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller.
Fair point. "Epstein" and "Eichmann" even start with the same letter and have the same number of syllables.