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Epstein files

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Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 12:54

I've had too much time on my hands this week due to illness and I've gone down a rabbit hole with the epstein files.
Is anyone else struggling after reading this vile stuff?
I'm absolutely reeling and feel physically sick to my core. The world I thought we lived in doesn't exist (and probably never did in my lifetime).
It appears that not one single man involved will be held accountable. They are all being protected and the whole thing is being brushed under the carpet.
Why is this barely being reported on? Where are the protests? Are we being desensitised to this evil?
Can anyone help me make sense of this? 😢

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InterestedDad37 · 06/02/2026 14:49

Shhhhitsmagic · 06/02/2026 12:54

I've had too much time on my hands this week due to illness and I've gone down a rabbit hole with the epstein files.
Is anyone else struggling after reading this vile stuff?
I'm absolutely reeling and feel physically sick to my core. The world I thought we lived in doesn't exist (and probably never did in my lifetime).
It appears that not one single man involved will be held accountable. They are all being protected and the whole thing is being brushed under the carpet.
Why is this barely being reported on? Where are the protests? Are we being desensitised to this evil?
Can anyone help me make sense of this? 😢

Barely being reported?! Come off it, it's top billing! I get that there's so much else wrong with how things are/aren't being dealt with, but you really cannot claim that it's 'barely being reported'.
And other people are of course being reported on, not just the ex Royal scumbag. Mandelson, and the other names coming out bit by bit. Jagger, Naomi Campbell, Noam Chomsky, many people have been mentioned, and many more will be.
Perhaps cast your news-reading net wider.

Sellseashells · 06/02/2026 17:08

I remember threads years ago discussing paedophile rings linked to the higher echelons of society. It was all dismissed back then as bonkers David Icke tosh. Yet here we are. It scares me what else is lurking. The whole thing about forcing weak, voiceless victims, such as children from care homes, to basically entrap powerful people, so they can then be blackmailed for the rest of their lives and used like puppets for political gain, it all stinks to high heaven.

LadyRoughDiamond · 06/02/2026 17:36

The main thing that keeps going through my mind is the scale of the whole thing. It feels almost endemic.

This may just be reflective of my life stage at the moment, but I can’t help thinking that the Epstein affair is all part of a much wider, general culture of women not counting.

It starts at home. A woman who puts herself, her time and her ambitions on the back-burner to support her partner’s career. The facilitator, because she doesn’t matter as an individual. At work, she’s shouted down in meetings and is the butt of insidious little jokes at her expense because her function is to be decorative and to entertain, nothing more. Outside she’s stalked, cat-called, grabbed because men think her function is to be their plaything.

To men in power, she’s just a service animal. Her abuse is just collateral damage, sacrificed for the “greater good”: protecting or courting another powerful man.

That’s how men like Mandelson got the job of Ambassador; how Andrew M-W went unquestioned for so long. People knew about their association with Epstein, but turned a blind eye because women don’t matter.

cobrapaw · 06/02/2026 17:45

I haven’t read it and I’m don’t think I want to. I keep seeing videos on Tik Tok, a woman screaming that they (Epstein and his friends) were eating children. And another audio of a terrified little girl screaming for help, are they real, is that the sort of stuff that’s in the files?

Shedmistress · 06/02/2026 17:59

Nobody can prosecute as they own the judges. There's a reason that he never deleted anything, its all been kept to blackmail people to keep quiet.

dayswithaY · 06/02/2026 18:03

I couldn’t stand the sight of Bill Gates squirming and saying “I only had dinner with him”.

They’ll all keep saying that and hire expensive lawyers, that’s how the world works sadly.

CoffeePleaseBlack · 06/02/2026 18:04

Feeling exactly the same OP

canuckup · 06/02/2026 18:24

Imagine how much good all of those people could have done with their wealth

India
Pakistan
Yemen
South Sudan
Congo
Afghanistan
Syria
Etc

Instead they have parties and rape children

Ariana12 · 06/02/2026 18:29

It feels as though the rot has gone SO deep that it just cant be dealt with. The only people who've been stripped of their titles and generally punished are Peter Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, abd we can be sure that the former didn't assault any of the women! No one in the US at all! And no real reckoning for the many young women whose lives were trashed. The only person in jail is one woman who assisted Epstein. As ever it feels as though the powerful men will get away with it.

FreeTheOakTree · 06/02/2026 18:32

InterestedDad37 · 06/02/2026 14:49

Barely being reported?! Come off it, it's top billing! I get that there's so much else wrong with how things are/aren't being dealt with, but you really cannot claim that it's 'barely being reported'.
And other people are of course being reported on, not just the ex Royal scumbag. Mandelson, and the other names coming out bit by bit. Jagger, Naomi Campbell, Noam Chomsky, many people have been mentioned, and many more will be.
Perhaps cast your news-reading net wider.

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YES! Barely being reported on. Anyone who find this horrifying finds that is it barely being discussed, let alone reported on.

Perhaps how you feel about it, is reflected on how you have commented on this post.

InterestedDad37 · 06/02/2026 18:37

FreeTheOakTree · 06/02/2026 18:32

YES! Barely being reported on. Anyone who find this horrifying finds that is it barely being discussed, let alone reported on.

Perhaps how you feel about it, is reflected on how you have commented on this post.

Well I've been watching the news and listening to the radio all day, and it's been top billing, through the Mandelson story and other aspects.
You'd have to be blind, deaf or comatose to think it isn't being reported on 😂😂

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 06/02/2026 18:38

It is deeply disturbing.

But we shouldn't really be surprised. The so-called leader of the free world is widely known to have spoken about the way in which he is able to sexually assault women and get away with it. Multiple women have accused him of sexual misconduct, sexual assault or rape. And yet somehow, people elected him anyway. Twice.

We have allowed these men to get away with it, sometimes in plain sight. I don't understand why.

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 06/02/2026 18:38

To Think everyone laughed at what Corey Feldman has been saying for years. He was spot on.

There’s some good Instagrammers OP doing succinct rundowns of the files. Will try to find a good one

Cosmication · 06/02/2026 18:39

I don't know what's in the files. I don't know much more than what came out via Virginia Guiffre ages ago and what's being reported on the BBC. I don't have time to trawl through millions of pages and emails. If you say it's not being reported in the media then what is the detail that you're talking about OP?

outerspacepotato · 06/02/2026 18:42

I'll be glued to the TV watching Bill and Hilary Clinton testify.

It's horrific, but it needs to be exposed.

TulipLavender · 06/02/2026 18:47

What I don't understand is why there is so little being discussed or reported on about Epstein basically working for CIA, Mossad and KGB. The whole thing stinks -it wasnt just a child rape trafficking but done for the purpose of bribery and power brokering. Its how power is wielded. It's absolutely horrifying how Palentir (amongst other tech giants etc) is owned and lobbied for by these pyschos and has multi million pound contracts collecting our health data on the NHS whilst also powering AI surveillance to support a genocide in Gaza. The future looks very bleak indeed in the hands of such an immoral elite. We are entering dark days of AI surveillance and elite control of everything. Whilst Prince Andrew's conduct is putrid is feels like a distraction from what they are really doing.

xanthomelana · 06/02/2026 18:51

Seems people like Mel Gibson were right all along when they said Hollywood was just an institutionalised pedophile ring. Now’s the time to be looking at what other celebrities have said in the past but have been labelled as crazy by many. Time and time again the conspiracy theories are proven to be true.

canklesmctacotits · 06/02/2026 18:52

Remember all that nonsense during the 2024 presidential election about pizzagate? A ring of Democrat pedophiles being run out of a pizza parlor? Turns out it wasn’t nonsense at all. The files are showing girls and women being referred to as slices of pizza: phenomenal pizza last night! Shall we have another pizza party on the island? Can you spare a slice for me? And so on. Code, apparently.

canklesmctacotits · 06/02/2026 18:52

canuckup · 06/02/2026 18:24

Imagine how much good all of those people could have done with their wealth

India
Pakistan
Yemen
South Sudan
Congo
Afghanistan
Syria
Etc

Instead they have parties and rape children

India?

Ohnonononotagain · 06/02/2026 19:07

Sellseashells · 06/02/2026 17:08

I remember threads years ago discussing paedophile rings linked to the higher echelons of society. It was all dismissed back then as bonkers David Icke tosh. Yet here we are. It scares me what else is lurking. The whole thing about forcing weak, voiceless victims, such as children from care homes, to basically entrap powerful people, so they can then be blackmailed for the rest of their lives and used like puppets for political gain, it all stinks to high heaven.

In the early 1990s when my son started school I became friendly with one of his pals Mums. She was a social worker. And she used to talk to me about the network of people in positions of power- judges, police,politicians etc who used to provide escape routes for paedophiles and those accused of preying on children. Being very naive then I thought she was exaggerating and I didn't entirely believe that such things happened. I feel guilty about not taking seriously what she had to say through her own working knowledge.

Ateawholeboursininonego · 06/02/2026 19:10

Ohnonononotagain · 06/02/2026 19:07

In the early 1990s when my son started school I became friendly with one of his pals Mums. She was a social worker. And she used to talk to me about the network of people in positions of power- judges, police,politicians etc who used to provide escape routes for paedophiles and those accused of preying on children. Being very naive then I thought she was exaggerating and I didn't entirely believe that such things happened. I feel guilty about not taking seriously what she had to say through her own working knowledge.

But why would they provide escape routes?

Ohnonononotagain · 06/02/2026 19:12

Ateawholeboursininonego · 06/02/2026 19:10

But why would they provide escape routes?

Because they were part of paedophile rings themselves.

Ateawholeboursininonego · 06/02/2026 19:12

I feel the same op, I’m intrigued to read more, but am realising it’s really starting to affect me and making me question men more and more. What if none of them are really decent? Would they all get away with it if they could? Why kids, it’s just heartbreaking how people could be so utterly evil

crumpetswithcheeze · 06/02/2026 19:16

The words ‘conspiracy and theory’ need to cease existence. When people open their minds to the possibility of evil happening, rather than just dismissing it as untrue as that suits their anxious brain better, then we will see change.

It was exactly the same with covid - unnecessary hysteria, lockdowns, the awful way our elderly were treated in hospitals and care homes, the shutdown of the NHS, coerced vaccination. I’m just waiting for the pile on (bring it on - I’m used to it).

Unless you’ve had a relative thats been abused or trafficked, it’s easier for a lot of people to turn a blind eye and pretend it doesn’t happen. Honestly, the hatred I feel for these spineless people who care more about their dose of daily happiness than looking out for vulnerable people, is almost on par with the hatred I feel for the paedophilic monsters.