Congress has turned into some kind of bizarre public psychotherapy session where elected officials compete amongst one another for who can exhibit the most overbearing narcissistic personality disorder nypost.com/2021/02/04/how…
AOC is on the floor of the House saying that anyone who questions the claims of "survivors" -- because everyone in Congress is apparently a "survivor" now -- is guilty of exacerbating the "trauma" of ALL "survivors" everywhere in the country. Again, this is insanely manipulative
Pelosi gave AOC a special 60-minute order to allow "space" for members of Congress to publicly express their emotions and "lived experience" on the floor of the House. That is what's occurring right now
Rep. Dean Phillips is tearfully apologizing to AOC for previously failing to recognize his privilege. This is the business of the House of Representatives right now
Rep. Mark Takano condemns those who have sought to "gaslight" AOC and others who claim they underwent trauma
Rashida Tlaib is bawling on the floor of the House. She can't even get through a sentence. This is a group therapy session (taxpayer funded and televised)
"Everybody's experiences must be validated," says Cori Bush. Sorry, you are no longer allowed to "invalidate" the "experiences" of politicians -- that's "harm"
AOC's voice is quivering as she concludes this bizarre group therapy session. She has successfully imported the language of self-confessional therapeutic moralism into the House, with full support from Dem Leadership. Gotta give her credit for achieving her objectives!
Doing a stream momentarily in which I too will share my "lived experiences"
Column is in today’s NY Post if interested
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Epstein "survivor" Anouska De Georgiou, then age 31, emails Jeffrey while he's incarcerated in Florida and offers to come visit and/or send him pics of herself. "Seriously though sweetheart, if I can do anything let me know." Later received $3.25 million from the Epstein estate
In 2011, Anouska De Georgiou, then age 34, emails Jeffrey to let him know she's in New York and would like to visit. Sadly, he's in Paris that week. By 2021, she's a "trafficking" victim and key government witness against Maxwell. By 2025, she's a "survivor" on the media circuit
In 2022, Anouska De Georgiou explained that she finally realized she was a "survivor" in her 40s -- after undergoing intense, years-long "deprogramming" therapy
Interesting redaction. "Victim" Nadia Bjorlin, an actress on "Days of Our Lives," sent a headshot to Epstein. She testified in the Maxwell trial; this was a government exhibit. DOJ redacts not only her face, but the caption she wrote: "To Jeffrey -- Thanks for rocking my world"
In November 2020, Nadia Bjorlin received $5 million (tax free) from the Epstein Estate. She had hired a personal injury lawyer who advised that it would "help her case" if she helped the government prosecute Maxwell. Bjorlin was a longtime Soap Opera actress during this period
Another image shows the full note Nadia Bjorlin wrote (as an adult) to Epstein. "Thanks for rocking my world! You're the best!!!"
Truly craven statement from Netanyahu today, blaming the Australian government for the attack because of its recent "call for a Palestinian state." Which was mostly an empty symbolic gesture anyway, but for Netanyahu, it can somehow be causally connected to a random mass shooting
What's the scenario whereby the perpetrators were impelled to carry out this attack by the government's call for a Palestinian state? They likely never even heard about it, because it was so inconsequential, and even if they did, would've probably discounted it as meaningless
The former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has been on a global media tour with a Palestinian counterpart promoting their latest (very anodyne) proposal for the creation of a Palestinian state. So why not blame him for fueling the anti-semitism that causes these attacks
Basically what happened here is a person hailed as one of the media's foremost "experts" on Epstein (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) couldn't handle a few incredibly mild questions, accused me of being an agent of Dershowitz, and then prematurely terminated the stream. Video in article above
The episode was emblematic of how impossible it is to have any reasonable public discussion of this issue. Asking simple factual questions leads to wild accusations. Those wedded to the popular narrative never expect to be challenged at all -- they're in a cocoon of reaffirmation
There's so much wrong with this "Meet the Press" clip, it's incredible. The "victim" whose harrowing testimony Kristen Welker quotes from is Anouska De Georgiou, a British model, actress, and reality TV show contestant who was preposterously allowed to testify in the Maxwell trial under the fake name "Kate," even though Anouska De Georgiou had already made numerous public statements and media appearances about her purported experiences with Epstein, including an NBC News interview.
The judge ultimately instructed jurors that they could not convict Maxwell on the basis of any sexual contact "Kate" claimed to have with Epstein, as none of this alleged contact would have been illegal under the charges brought by the government. It was certainly never close to established at trial that "rape" or "sexual assault" was perpetrated on this person, despite her dramatic claims at the subsequent sentencing hearing (quoted by Welker) which were not subject to cross-examination.
Anouska De Georgiou, aka "Kate," maintained contact with Epstein into her 20s and 30s. The idea that her story constitutes illicit "sex trafficking," much less pedophilic sex trafficking, is simply ridiculous. And yet Welker reads off this searing quote to a TV audience that will never receive any additional context.
Speaker Mike Johnson's claim that there are "probably a thousand" victims of Epstein also makes absolutely no sense, and is nowhere close to established by any credible evidence. It derives from the FBI/DOJ memo earlier this month, which does not provide any articulated basis for the claimed figure of "one thousand" victims, and appears to conflate Epstein's alleged possession of commercial pornography (legal) with child sex abuse, collapsing it all into one amorphous category of "victims."
Throwing around that huge, wildly unsubstantiated number is a perfect way to keep the public hysteria going.
Another interesting part of Anouska De Georgiou's "victim impact statement" that Kristen Welker chose to omit from her reading on Meet the Press is De Georgiou claiming to have undergone "deprogramming" in her "mind and body" in her 40s. Whatever exactly that's supposed to mean
In 2008, when she was around 30, Anouska De Georgiou emailed Epstein while he was incarcerated in Florida, offering to send him photos of herself. In 2010, she dated David Hasselhoff. In 2011, she again initiated emails with Epstein, asking to visit and stay with him in New York
I'm almost always right about this crap, just sayin'
"Trafficking" as a legal construct is a relatively recent invention of over-zealous prosecutors, pandering politicians, and lazy sensationalized media, jointly fomenting sex hysteria and moral panic -- as American as Apple Pie