Billionaire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew are named in new files released by Congressional Democrats that relate to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The files turned over to the House Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate appear to show that Musk had been invited to the financier’s island in December 2014.

Separately, a manifest for a flight from New Jersey to Florida in May 2000 names the Duke of York among the passengers.

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    white coffee mug with meme text "now that's what I call a distraction from the Epstein Files" as a decal

    Not nearly enough names. Keep going. I want to be shocked and dismayed. I want to find my blind spots. I want the names of people I thought were allies. And then I want us all to have a great, international cultural reckoning to ensure this doesn’t ever get this far again.

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    It is kind of funny, because during his meltdown in Indonesia, Elon called one of the cave rescuers a pedophile.

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      That was madness. Somebody putting his skills to good use to rescue a bunch of people stuck in a flooding cave and gets called a pedo for saying Elons robot is useless.

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    On 11 May 2000, Buckingham Palace said on its website that Prince Andrew had flown to New York to attend a reception there for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Andrew returned to the UK on 15 May, a later entry said.

    Oh, the blatant hypocrisy…

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      You don’t even need to be an Epstein Guy for this. It was rampant all through the 00s.

      Mark Foley was chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, having been appointed by Dennis Hastert, who was in the middle of making hush money payments to one of his own victims.

      This was also when a bunch of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal was breaking into the news.

      Go back farther, to the 80s, and you might learn about The Franklin Scandal, a historic intersection of child prostitution and banking.

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      A lot of these articles only want to talk about the handful of people we already know associated with Epstein.

      Bringing up the same old names, because they are A) untouchable and B) barely even news anymore.

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    My “favorite” part of the article is the last short paragraph. “Republicans on the committee accused the Democrats of “putting politics over victims” and said they would release the full set of documents soon.”

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    I think the title is spelled wrong. The correct one is, “Donald Trump has been using the FBI and justice department to coverup the Epstein files because he probably fucked children.”

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      He definitely fucked children. We have sworn testimony. Donald Trump is a convicted felon, Jeffery Epstein’s best friend, and a child rapist.

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        He definitely molested children… I don’t think was all that particular about age when he was in a “grab’em by the pussy” frame of mind. It’s all funny locker room talk until you think about how he bragged about buying beauty pageants so he could go into the dressing rooms, Miss Teen USA was one of the pageants he owned, he hung out with Epstein, he had teenage girls working in the spa at his hotel, at least one of which Epstein “stole” from him. Dude didn’t care about consent, and considered teenage girls to be property.

        Ha ha ha locker room talk!

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        Yeah, people who don’t fuck kids don’t try to stop the release of files or documents that detail which people fucked kids… Especially when everyone knows that person is LITERALLY NAMED MANY TIMES in said files.

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    Where are we at with the file releases? I think they’ve released about 1%'s worth, so far. All heavily redacted and just enough spice to titillate the masses without giving any specifics. Oh Donald…will you burn the whole world down just to hide your special secrets with your very special friend Epstein?

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    Also, the unknown Andrew has clearly stated via his Royal offices that he doesn’t sweat at all, perfectly normal medical condition, so it cannot be him. At all. The end. There is no more to say on the subject.

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    I admit I’m a little surprised (but not shocked) about Musk. Not because I didn’t think he would do that, just because he called out that Trump was in the Epstein files that time. Like I know dude has done all kinds of fucked up rapist stuff, just figured he was doing that stuff outside of Epstein’s sphere.

    But not shocked, because how can you be these days? Just really idiotic for Musk called attention to the Epstein files when he was in them. The guy is an idiot, but you’d think even an idiot wouldn’t talk about anything to do with crimes they’re complicit in.

    But ketamine is a helluva drug I guess.

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    How do we know Lord Ruler isn’t forging the documents as blackmail against Musk?

    (Not that i believe they are, but it seems plausible)

    (I should probably point out that I’m not really paying attention to the details here)

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      According to this article musk was invited, but does not state that he went as it does with Andrew (whom also received a “massage” according to the article)