Episode 1159
Learning from the Sanders loss.
Apr 13 2020
Well, I think to charge someone… arrest someone… Yes, you have to have some evidence. I mean… You wanna have something to back up while you're charging them with a crime, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about a lot of different information here. Including by the way, financial crimes that are part of these files.
If they couldn't get some of these people on the sex trafficking, one would think that they would try other avenues. Another example, by the way, is Epstein used a lot of doctors, dentists, people like that who are supposed to report if they suspect that someone is being sexually abused. None of those people, to my knowledge, have ever reported that they took Epstein's money and they whitened these little girls' teeth and did things like that. They never did that. They could be prosecuted. The people that helped him get these visas to bring all these women and girls from overseas. There are people that did that paperwork for him. So there's evidence that's all out there that I think that they could have explored that I don't see any inclination that they did that.
Journalist and author Julie K. Brown from the Miami Herald’s Investigative Team, joins This Is Hell! to talk about her work uncovering and investigating the Epstein Files, which can be found on her Substack, where she is still breaking new stories on the case.
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Whitney Bauck
Feb 11
Overcoming America's Long History of Criminalizing Dissent and Protest / Whiteney Bauck
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Welcome to the Moment of Truth: the thirst that is the drink.
Though I call him the Good Doctor, he's not good. He's not a bad doctor, necessarily. Just a bad person who happens to be a doctor. Or a good person who found a way to opt into a bad system for glory and profit. Either way, the "good" is tongue-in-cheek, or ironic, or sarcastic, or sardonic. Perhaps all simultaneously.
The Good Doctor recently apologized for having repeatedly repeated Donald Trump’s irresponsible talking points that Covid-19 was no worse than the flu, calling it “a press-induced panic” from as early as February 4. On March 10 he mocked people for heeding New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s advice to avoid riding the subway. He continued to mock and downplay legitimate medical advice about avoiding exposure to the virus all the way until he gave a contradictory lie on March 31 to try to cover his ass, and only officially admitted being wrong in an apology via Periscope feed on April 4, less than a week ago. He’d had a change of heart. Or a change of mind. Or the facts changed. Or maybe he was simply making a minor tweak in a discrete component of the overall structure of his brand. I could’ve told him, when you echo whatever echoes in the rightwing echo chamber, you will make mistakes. This time it might turn out to have cost thousands of lives, we’ll never know, although we can assume the damage he did by boosting bad information will have been large.
I always wonder how a somewhat reasonable person transforms into a jolly rider aboard the rightwing bandwagon.
The Good Doctor was in fact a good person at one time. Or perhaps he was a bad person who happened to stumble into the business of helping people. He was a specialist in addiction and addictive personalities. Way back when. And in pursuit of that specialty, he had a clinic where he helped a lot of people, including people who couldn't afford to pay him. Poor people. He helped the poor, that's pretty good. And knowing what he's become, it’s hard to figure out why he was so helpful to those poor people, or to anyone. It was almost as if he didn't know anybetter. He didn't know he had the option to be a thoughtless, selfish person who happened to be a doctor. That's my current theory. The same reason a lot of young people get married and have kids without even knowing why, except that that's what's done, and when they find out later they... read more