Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a batch of 68 photos obtained from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, one day before the deadline for the Trump administration to release a much larger group of Epstein files.
The photos come from a trove of 95,000 images the committee received last week, the Democrats said. The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body; various travel documents; a screenshot of text messages about an 18-year-old from Russia and more. The photos can be accessed here.
The Democrats released several dozen photos last week, showing various high-profile figures including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Gates and others. Neither batch of photos implicates any of those pictured in Epstein’s crimes.
What does the foot say?
Edit:
The release includes images of lines from the novel “Lolita” written on a person’s body.
Great.
That’s really weird… straight up abuser stuff
Seems to be the beginning of the second paragraph of the book…:
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.
Which in the book continues with…;
She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
That novel is so beautifully written that I wish it was about something completely different so I don’t feel dirty while reading it.
English wasn’t even Nabokov’s first language! That’s insane!
The line immediately preceding this one is beautiful:
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
I appreciate others ability to remain impartial on any given topic.
That being said, the context of pedophilia definitely makes this disgusting.
Which suggests Epstein never actually read the novel to completion.
Apparently the POS even had an annotated version and still didn’t understand the book!
Edit: The annotated version, the one that he had, is very informative.
I’ve read the novel. Humbert is a pathetic old man who destroys Lolita’s life for a fling on the road. The girl goes from a charmed upper middle class life before the family meets Humbert to the death of her mother, debasement and abuse at the hands of Humbert, and finally poverty, poor education, and bearing children out of wedlock. Lolita’s life is ruined in the aftermath, much like Epstein’s real victims. Nabokov did not write a sympathetic treatment of child abuse in Lolita, nor is Humbert a hero in the story.
Lol
…ita
I don’t know what that means. Shed some light?
Lolita is an (in)famous novel about a man’s obsessive sexual attraction to a prepubescent girl. It’s supposedly well written, but the content is abhorrent.
The author, Nabokov, wanted the reader to be abhorred by the narrator character.
Unsurprisingly, pedophiles loved it and related to him.
Bill Gates is so cooked.
Yeah, they said that in the antitrust trial in the 90s. It was horseshit then and it’s horseshit now.
Billionaires never see justice for the same reason no one has ever seen the easter bunny. Justice doesn’t exist. Just a legal system designed to punish the poor and minorities.
Bernie Madoff, Elizabeth Holmes. It’s rare but it does happen.
And all you have to do is defraud the billionaire pedo class.
That’s not what Madoff did, but ok. We’ll lie so you can be pretend like exceptions don’t exist.
It’s part of what he did, and it’s the sole reason that he’s the only rich person who saw any consequences from the subprime mortgage catastrophe.
Now is there any other rich criminal you want to make excuses for because you’re unwilling to admit that capitalism is less than absolutely perfect in every conceivable way?
So far you’ve gone to bat for Madoff and Gates.
billionaires never see justice
It’s because they have successfully convinced the majority of this country that having money makes you a better person.
Noam Chomsky? Wow…
Chomsky said that, at the time of his meetings with Epstein, “what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”
that kinda says all it needs to right there
According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”
Ha. Try getting a job with a felony on your record, asshole.
He’s pretending to not know anything because he doesn’t want to “commit suicide” in prison if the billionaire pedos think he’s gonna testify against them.
You can get a job as president with 37 of them
oh look David Blaine does magic for rapist pedophiles.
What is it with magicians and Epstein, there’s also David Copperfield
It is important to remember that simply being in a photo with Epstein isn’t evidence they were a part of what was happening or knew about it. Being at the same generic rich person party as Epstein isn’t damning by itself.
Epstein traveled in elite circles and obviously wanted to flaunt that access as much as possible. He was everywhere the money was, he worked in Finance for decades.
Likewise, almost surely not all visits to his Island were related to his sexual trafficking business.
Context is important, and that’s why actual investigations into all of these connections are important as well.
I can think of very few names already connected, pictured with or involved with Epstein whom I will feel any loss if they happen to suffer in the court of public opinion.
The very worst people in the world are going to leverage the fact that not everyone named or implicated was actually doing anything with minors or hurting anyone, and I’ve lost whatever fuck I had to give a long time ago. Everyone who went there is a rich asshole in some way and this is consequence.
And yeah, I am including the fucking scientists as well. Fuck Kraus, fuck Hawking’s memory. I am so done with the world being divided into classes of people who can get whatever they want, and people who die from preventable illnesses because they can’t afford health insurance.
I wish my anger was as contagious as it is on the right, we would already be marching together to physically remove this fetid, evil administration.
If you lie with dogs then you will get fleas
Lemmy intellectuals will attack this take, and they will also be the people who listen to the arguments from the world’s most evil people and their lawyers and say “We need to hear them out, we have a system with rules.”
Towards a class of people who live above the rules and have no system other than wealth and power. Our “laws and rules” are designed to control the population, not the donor class, not the elite, not the ones who have never known hardship. People who can systematically abuse others for their own satisfaction are ruining whatever potential our species had, in my opinion this isn’t just an ideological or legal issue, it’s fucking existential.
And because people like those in the pictures will block any real investigation, to me, it’s guilty until proven innocent
it’s guilty until proven innocent
Yeah well that’s not how our justice system works, fortunately.
No not these pictures. Where is the one with selections from Art of the Deal written on a baby’s ass?
Great work democrats!
