A lot of this so called Epstein files stuff is complete crap. Granted Epstein was weird dude and definately a POS with a taste for underage girls, the world is filled with them. The U.S. is the NUMBER ONE abuser of underage porn on the planet. And blackmail is as old as the bible. Epstein as was stated earlier was building a network for influence. They always talk about how so in so is compromised, what in the f*** to you think Epstein was trying to do. and when you're trying build a massive database of influence, whether or not it's tru isn't important, it just has to be believable, not necessarily true, and those are not always synonymous.
Speaking of databases of influence, remember when a half drunk Maxine Waters in a candid interview said,
"Obama has put in place a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life... and that database will have information about everything on every individual" in Feb 2013? When that video was leaked, Barry's administration explained it away calling it disinformation taken out of context. They gaslit the public saying what she was referring to was the Obama campaign's voter outreach and data analytics infrastructure from the 2012 election (and earlier 2008 efforts). Barry described it as an innovative, powerful organizing tool for mobilizing supporters, not a secret government surveillance database collecting "dirt" or compromising information on political opponents or the general public. REALLY? The SO CALLED Fact-checkers and mainstream reporting from the time treated Waters' remark as hype about campaign tech, not evidence of a sinister government plot. The idea of Obama boasting about compiling compromising "dirt" on citizens doesn't appear in any verifiable public record from him. But everyone was falling for it and the buzz was building. Three months later Obama gaslit the U.S. citizenship saying, "It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience" HUH?
Flashback to September 2002, Bill Binney, along with J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis, asked the U.S. Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG) to investigate the NSA for abusing Trailblazer system, a system intended to analyze mass collection of data carried on communications networks like the Internet and all telecommunications. These guys invented the system they were snitching on, in the 90's and first the Bush administration began abusing it via the Patriot Act, turning the focus on american citizens, when it was originally designed to spy on the rest of the world. Next thing you know the entire intelligence machine went after Binney, Wiebe, and Loomis, jackboot raids and all. This attempt to destroy these guys went on for years, and continued on into the Obama era.
The Obama administration took the surveillance to the next level, and that along with The punitive treatment of Binney, and the other whistleblowers also led Snowden to go public with his revelations rather than report through the internal whistleblower program. Like what Snowden did or not he verified what Binney and crew had been saying. Anyone that thinks checking some silly box to opt out of anything concerning your privacy are too naive to help. You would literally have to go back to little house on the prairie lifestyle off the grid to come close to gaining any sort of true privacy. The more electronic convenience they sell you the easier it is. In these high profile crimes like the Vegas shooting and Bakersfield, the the FBI claims they can't crack some perps phone and claim the Apple isn't cooperating is just a delay and deception tactic to just make the truth go away.
Sorry for the derail but this is a long standing issue with me that I can never let go. It's a bipartisan problem and we are screwed by them all.
"We're going to turn this red Prius into a soup kitchen!"