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…The only one notable enough to have his own Wikipedia article:

Honestly, I’m just thinking “Huh, and he didn’t even need to gift a private jet. Take that, Qatar!”

Yeah, Heinlein is more of a Curtis Sliwa type in terms of holding a strange and unique combination of good and bad views that grade out as “conservative“ but remain opposed to outright ethnic/religious nationalism and the type of authoritarianism required to uphold it!

For example, Israel’s most advanced container terminal is still operated by none other than Chinese state-owned Shanghai International Port Group:

Wait, is that a “can” or “can’t”? That’s the thing, I can treat ICE/CBP/etc. as a more immediately important issue while making a sidenote of the shit assholes are comfortable saying in public; a far cry from starting a dedicated taskforce with fucking Greenblatt in charge.

Now that’s funny, because I‘m much closer to the ”Israel should have never been founded as a Jewish state” camp.

It was actually the “as if *you* were really prosecuted” part that got me thinking that, and since the topic was antisemitism… (if you had said “as if Jews/they”, I would have assumed otherwise).

If you want my actual opinion; it’s that I’d rather just nip a resurgence of this form of bigotry in the bud as we simultaneously deal with all the other kinds infecting this country. (Fortunately, the white nationalists are the primary common enemy for all of us anyways.)

…I’m 2nd-gen Asian-American; I‘m not sure what it says that you assumed I was Jewish for making an argument that doesn’t even necessitate that the groypers actually succeed at, say, reinstating pograms (I doubt they actually succeed, FYI). My intent was to be purely descriptive.

…your average young Republican staffer increasingly sees ”solving the Jewish problem first” as a means to “end woke” (in a “when the Jews are gone/down, then we can deport/enslave everyone else much more easily” way).

…to blame specifically Jews for anti-racist movements, non-white immigration, interracial marriage, religious tolerance, etc., which they see as primarily a Jewish plot to destroy white people. And following that, while a Russ Vought might see Jews as something for the Rapture to solve…

He actually does, in a “would rather shoot Anne Frank twice than both Al-Baghdadi and Malcolm X” way (the lack of Jews is a reason why he considers the CCP and the Taliban superior to the West). The thing is that he represents an always present but now growing trend among the far-right…

To be more precise, the GOPOversight account retweets statements about Epstein being cahoots with Wolff against Trump, Posobiec claiming that Russiagate has somehow been disproven, etc., but noticeably thus far hasn’t directly shared selected emails the way Oversight Dems have.

It’s been over two days now since GOP Oversight dumped the Epstein emails, and yet so far, their Twitter account seems rather cagy about posting any actual messages that could be even tortuously interpreted as exonerating Trump‘s relationship with Epstein… …(outside of reiterating claims that Trump never touched Giuffre), instead opting so far to focus on Epstein‘s communications with Wolff, Thomas Jr., and now Plaskett *without* posting the actual messages themselves the way Dem Oversight has for a few. Which is particularly funny because over here, we libs and lefties have been obsessing over those particular messages ourselves anyways!

To copy-paste myself from earlier today:

Cursed thought; if Epstein was tight with both Bannon and Chomsky, does this make him the ultimate red-brown sex criminal?

Especially since the main relationship in My Antonia is a platonic friendship where the guy is actually slightly younger than the girl!

Given this fact, it’s possible she was trying to trick Epstein into reading My Antonia for moral self-improvement reasons (sorry lady, but you probably ain’t fixing him):

Which is particularly funny because over here, we libs and lefties have been obsessing over those particular messages ourselves anyways!

…(outside of reiterating claims that Trump never touched Giuffre), instead opting so far to focus on Epstein‘s communications with Wolff, Thomas Jr., and now Plaskett *without* posting the actual messages themselves the way Dem Oversight has for a few.

It’s been over two days now since GOP Oversight dumped the Epstein emails, and yet so far, their Twitter account seems rather cagy about posting any actual messages that could be even tortuously interpreted as exonerating Trump‘s relationship with Epstein…

Funnily enough, that’s not what My Antonia is actually about; the protagonist is actually *younger* than the “girl” in question, the two remain just friends, and any romantic feelings are one-sided on the protagonist’s end; I think Elisa was stretching the comparison to get Epstein to read it.

The weird bit (of several) is that the “young girl” in My Antonia is actually a bit older than the protagonist, and the relationship between the two remains that of genuine friendship, so Elisa’s comparison seems more a stretch meant to arouse (ugh) Epstein’s interest.

Somehow forgot the obvious disclaimer: there are certainly other possible interpretations besides this one!

Honestly, now I feel even more frustrated people are focusing on the other emails now.

...which is to say, Epstein’s use of “mentioned“ is likely meant to imply “mentioned as doing sex crimes”, which is to further say: even if Trump didn’t do anything to Giuffre, why do Epstein and Maxwell seem so concerned that he’s not been accused of such?

… (the aforementioned article claims Trump was a “flirt but no touch” kind of guy), even assuming Epstein misremembered or never read the article itself, we do know he was previously forwarded a preliminary summary by Maxwell which didn’t mention Trump, but did include a list of the accused…

Come to think of it, the redacted name in that email being “Virignia” [sic] just raises more questions; the exchange was almost certainly about Giuffre going public in the Daily Mail less than a month ago. While Epstein incorrectly wrote that Trump “has never once been mentioned“…

Which why I think the focus should really be on the ones between just him and Maxwell (like the one initially released by COR Dems; those are the ones where he’s likely at his frankest).

Technically, I think the bulk were released by COR Republicans, even if I suspect COR Dems intentionally baited them into doing so.

Indeed, in an email with said publicist, he talks like he genuinely thinks the former Prince Andrew is innocent, though that seems, erm, questionable on all counts.