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Questions swirl over Ohio billionaire Les Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
(www.theguardian.com)
What questions? The old bastard was his fucking mentor.
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The weirdest thing about all this is that by sheer accident, the QAnon freaks actually managed to find a tiny sliver of truth: There really is a cabal of powerful child abusers. It's just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.
I recently watched Eyes Wide Shut. Maybe the billionaires had Kubrick murdered over it.
Its almost like Epstein's PR team led by Dan Klores and Howard Rubenstein crafted QAnon. They knew the truth would eventually come out and wanted to paint Trump as secretly fighting the global sex trafficking ring (instead of actively participating).
So if the child predator ring is true and they actually are cannibals, what's up with the adenochrome thing? Are they stabbing child brains for spine water? So much that Q has built up is turning out true but about the greediest people on the planet, instead of a guy who runs a pizza shop.
Epstein met Moot(4chan owner) and drove him home. Moot created the /pol/ board on 4chan the next day. Qanon would start on /pol/ a couple years later.
It's the UFO strategy of mixing garbage with truth and painting it all as ridiculous and not worth investigation.
If Q was moot that would be hilarious
Or Steve Bannon or Ghislaine Maxwell the reddit mod
It’s just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.
"Hillary Clinton is connected to a pedophile ring"
Yes! We're finally pealing back the curtain. We're on the case. Finally, this unholy cartel of human trafficking is going to be exposed.
"and only Donald Trump can bring it to light"
Fuuuuuuuuuuu-
You know who her husband is, right? And that pizza child predator cabal thing came from Hillarys election chairman. That's whose emails they were. They didn't just pull it out their ass.
They claimed Hillary was doing sex crimes in the basement if Comet Ping Pong Pizzaria, a restaurant with no basement. And they claimed the sex crimes were in pursuit of extracting a pharmaceutical that reverses your age. And they claimed Donald fucking Trump was going to crack the case.
A lot of it was pulled directly from the asshole.
It's was Bill, the Comet pizza theory was because "pizza" and "cheese pizza" is used as code words in the Epstein emails, and Comet Pizza used the same logo that has connections to pedophilia. No idea why either group chose that logo. There are signs to cannibalism in the Epstein emails, I'm guess that's where the adrenochrome thing comes from.
You are starting from the assumption that the Qanon allegations must have a factual basis. That's complete nonsense.
Sure. All good. But there's still nothing to suggestion any of that was happening at the location specified, much less by Hillary's campaign staff during the election season.
I just gave you the connections. Comet Pizza used the same logo that was used by pedophiles(Comet Pizza slightly changed their logo since, for that reason), and the emails that started the Qanon pizza thing is from Hillary's 2016 election chairman, John Podesta(don't quote me on the name, I may have misspelled it, or maybe it was his brother, one of the Podesta)
I just gave you the connections.
But not the explicit claims. Alex Jones and Candice Owens weren't talking in metaphor. He claimed there was a literal basement where people actively working on the campaign were doing satanic rituals.
Yeah, if someone said that, they were wrong. But I can see how they'd make that connection. As there does seem to be some factual things about that. But then again, that's how all good conspiracy theories are apparently. Even worse, it seems like the people actually responsible lead them, Qanon, Jones, and Candice, down the wrong path and then made them out to be crazy, just to get the scent off their tracks.
As a QAnon follower we were actually WRONG and everything is OK!
-Republicans!
Do they? Before the Epstein stuff he was well known locally to be a pedophile and sex criminal.
They’re not fucking questions. The content discovered in the docs is like saying you found a smoking gun while watching an M777 field howitzer fire for effect.
The man was drowning in allegations and accusations ten years ago. He regularly used Epstein to source "models" for Victoria Secret ads and events. Talking about Wexner like he's under investigation for human trafficking is like suggesting Jeffrey Dahmer might have bitten someone.
Columbus, Ohio resident here. We've known Wexner likes little boys for several years now. When Epstein's black book came out, and behind the page with Trump and others was a full page of Wexners, Lex being the single most mentioned person in the entire black book. He's the reason Epstein got rich.
For the past few years, we watched the Ohio State University build a 26-story expansion to their hospital that dwarfs everything around for miles. See that stadium in the background? That's Ohio Stadium, the ~~~~4th~~~~ (edit: 5th) largest sports stadium in the world. And of course, last year, they put Wexner's name right on top of the new tower in big white letters. What a slap in the face.
Wait, osu has the 4th largest sports stadium in the world‽ Fucking hell, stuff like that is why I avoided the university district like the plague.
And yeah, I can confirm you couldn't spend much time in cbus without learning that Wexner is a pedo.
The osu
Which one Oregon state university? Oklahoma state university? Or Ohio state university?
Alternatively, which Ohio state university? Akron state? Cincinnati state? Cleveland state? Youngstown state? Wright state?
Yeah, I just checked, and it's still the 5rh largest stadium. In the Americas, it's only surpassed by Michigan's and Penn State's stadiums. I knew about the exercise field in North Korea, but it looks like a cricket stadium in India recently took the #1 spot in the world.
Of course it's those three states lol. But also what the fuck‽ I would've assumed it would be like one of Texas's pro stadiums or an Olympic stadium. Three of the five biggest stadiums in the world being Midwestern college football annoys the hell out of me, and not just because I care about academics, oppose cte, and grew increasingly frustrated that Ohio was happy to do shit like that or buy Cincinnati a new stadium but a light rail was a nonstarter.
And Penn State also had a great program for sexual abuse and misconduct
He's a billionaire, his head needs to roll either way