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lastlib

(27,744 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:26 AM 22 hrs ago

When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object...

evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.



Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776
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It's time.
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When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object... (Original Post) lastlib 22 hrs ago OP
George III was not mastermind of a sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire, the biggest in recorded history. usonian 21 hrs ago #1

usonian

(23,977 posts)
1. George III was not mastermind of a sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire, the biggest in recorded history.
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:12 AM
21 hrs ago


When the Trump-Epstein empire is blown up, he loses blackmail power (and power is money. Money is the only meaningful thing to him) and his money-laundering (for Putin, presumably.)
He always lived by threat and money-laundering. A mafia "Don".
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220810679
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220735608

He is gone. World leaders are gone (know any FORMER princes?), GOP legislators are gone. Business tycoons are gone and maybe even five random people.



Independent investigations, including the Bank of America suit, and Ron Wyden's efforts, will show the money trail., Al Capone died of the effects of syphilis (as will Jabba the Orange Hutt) but the money trail sent him up.

The web of blackmail is bigger than this, which includes innocent people Epstein courted to look "nice"


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