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Moe Asto

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Pulling wire, installing devices IBEW

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They keep telling him the opposite of what we all know the truth is. Theyre telling him right now that one nuke is all it will take. That Iran will just be ours after. And nothing else will happen after.

07.03.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You'd think this type of person would have a enough sense to, you know

03.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Drop Site recognizes you, Ritchie

25.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Be real. These losers do it for free

19.02.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The secret move is lotion

15.02.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Too many beta-blockers?

11.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn, its like the entire USA is built on an indian burial ground.

10.02.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Leave those kids alone!

10.02.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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07.02.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 389 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3
Matt Stoller
@matthewstoller
The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning  'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government.

As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance. 

What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.

Matt Stoller @matthewstoller The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government. As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance. What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules.


The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to.

This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment.

The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted.

The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to. This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment. The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted.


While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere.

In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break.

Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.

While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere. In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break. Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.

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This is right. And it's not a coincidence that Epstein enters this scene with Iran-Contra, the scandal that helped build the shadow global networks that would ultimately erode and replace democratic institutions

03.02.2026 00:27 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Epstein Experience

02.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 655 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 9
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Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

03.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 7085 πŸ” 2130 πŸ’¬ 2590 πŸ“Œ 1679

Theres always the next one

30.01.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Unloads Immigration officers speak out: β€œFuck this.”

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!

β€œI thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

27.01.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 4234 πŸ” 1222 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 123
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Status Coup Interview: The Ku Klux Klan used to call themselves the invisible empire, and they wore masks, and they used to raid immigrant communities-much like
ICE is right now.

24.01.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 1206 πŸ” 556 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 27

Its a... piece of... art.

22.01.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice

ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice

ICE Deems Being In Privacy Of Own Home Obstruction Of Justice https://theonion.com/ice-deems-being-in-privacy-of-own-home-obstruction-of-justice/

22.01.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 4600 πŸ” 1055 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 58
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ICE illegally detained a snow plow driver from Minnesota

19.01.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 7

They lie and lie and lie about paid agitators from the left and here are the paid agitators from the right. These mfs

15.01.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)

1. Pat Bagley

09.01.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 12937 πŸ” 5226 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 289

You mean congress?

25.12.2025 03:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There was competition from Halo CE the same year but Metroid Prime has held up much better.

23.12.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nuts willing

15.12.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nuts willing

14.12.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SΓ³lionath
@Anarseldain
β€œHaving sex” (read: β€œgetting laid,” β€œgettin’ dat poosay”) is the easiest thing in the world. I could make a dating app profile and lose my virginity by dinnertime. But very few people alive have ever actually had *sex.* They’ve performed a social ritual, sort of like hazing. They’ve slapped their damp, clammy body against another damp, clammy body, like the wriggling of a suffocating fish. Maybe, possibly, their tongue came into contact with another tongue during the process. It doesn’t even sound enjoyable or enviable. They’ve never made love. They’ve never experienced passion, or tried to melt into another human being. To be crude, for a moment, it sounds like it’s more or less the equivalent of a salaryman dipping into the bathroom and having a 30-second wank, simply so that he can more-easily concentrate on whichever set of numbers he is currently moving from one column of an excel sheet to another. It’s nothing but a physical phenomenon, removed of any telos. There is no desire to unify, to become one; or even at a baser level, to control, to own. Leave alone any thought of the fruit of passion, the

SΓ³lionath @Anarseldain β€œHaving sex” (read: β€œgetting laid,” β€œgettin’ dat poosay”) is the easiest thing in the world. I could make a dating app profile and lose my virginity by dinnertime. But very few people alive have ever actually had *sex.* They’ve performed a social ritual, sort of like hazing. They’ve slapped their damp, clammy body against another damp, clammy body, like the wriggling of a suffocating fish. Maybe, possibly, their tongue came into contact with another tongue during the process. It doesn’t even sound enjoyable or enviable. They’ve never made love. They’ve never experienced passion, or tried to melt into another human being. To be crude, for a moment, it sounds like it’s more or less the equivalent of a salaryman dipping into the bathroom and having a 30-second wank, simply so that he can more-easily concentrate on whichever set of numbers he is currently moving from one column of an excel sheet to another. It’s nothing but a physical phenomenon, removed of any telos. There is no desire to unify, to become one; or even at a baser level, to control, to own. Leave alone any thought of the fruit of passion, the

creation of another life inside of the woman; perish the idea. There is no yearning, no primal and beastly need even, other than a poor simulacra, the simple desire to fulfill a base bodily instinct. It’s like eatingβ€”: and not to craft a meal, not to provide oneself art, not to turn passion itself into a physical, sensible monument, to provide unto oneself an appreciable reception of one’s own soul, but to microwave a frozen sandwich, or gulp down a cup of instant ramen, merely to stop one’s stomach from growling. We live in a world of walking stomachs; hylics, all. And most of it is nothing but glorified prostitution, anyways; even within most marriages which occur today. Piers’ Wife says that she wears the trousers in the family, so perhaps the dynamic is simply turned the other way, and Piers is like a sort of gigolo. Maybe he’s even too stupid to realise that that’s all he is. But all that he has ever provided to the world is nothing more than the vulgar commentary of one.

creation of another life inside of the woman; perish the idea. There is no yearning, no primal and beastly need even, other than a poor simulacra, the simple desire to fulfill a base bodily instinct. It’s like eatingβ€”: and not to craft a meal, not to provide oneself art, not to turn passion itself into a physical, sensible monument, to provide unto oneself an appreciable reception of one’s own soul, but to microwave a frozen sandwich, or gulp down a cup of instant ramen, merely to stop one’s stomach from growling. We live in a world of walking stomachs; hylics, all. And most of it is nothing but glorified prostitution, anyways; even within most marriages which occur today. Piers’ Wife says that she wears the trousers in the family, so perhaps the dynamic is simply turned the other way, and Piers is like a sort of gigolo. Maybe he’s even too stupid to realise that that’s all he is. But all that he has ever provided to the world is nothing more than the vulgar commentary of one.

When they say they're massive fucking losers, believe them.

10.12.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 2140 πŸ” 222 πŸ’¬ 212 πŸ“Œ 260

Im sure she was assigned to him as well

11.12.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cant fight miscegenation.

02.12.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be great if one day people got offended if you just called them white.

02.12.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0