The renewed scrutiny on the HHS Secretary comes amid an ongoing firestorm over the Epstein files.
  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    3 days ago

    But Kennedy, the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, came under fire for the plane rides again last year when he bizarrely defended his association with Epstein by listing other sex predators he knew.

    “I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein. I knew Roger Ailes. I knew… O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house,” Kennedy told comedian Andrew Schulz during a podcast.

    Wow, that’s quite a social circle he has there. He doesn’t just swim in human excrement, he socializes with it.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      65·
      3 days ago

      “I can assure you that I’m not a pedophile. All of my friends are pedophiles, murderers, and rapists, so I think I’d know if I was a pedophile!”

    • logicbomb@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 days ago

      This makes me think that the Guinness Book of World Records should have a category for the stupidest thing ever said by a public figure.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 days ago

      “We’ve just totally normalized being godawful parasites who kill the people they rely on when they become inconvenient. What, aren’t you friends with people under multiple ethical investigations??”

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the communist party writer on The Daily Show. I wonder if they pay well.

        • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          Unfortunately no. Speaking truth to power pays just shy of what you’d get as an art gallery attendant. There’s fringe benefits: you get to keep your soul when you go

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    28·
    3 days ago

    “partying with” may be a bit of a stretch. “Attending an event for wealthy American oligarchs with”? Yeah, I buy that.

    “New York Academy of Art gala”

    Any event containing the word “gala” is not for the plebes.

  • msprout@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 days ago

    I was browsing Epstein’s black book yesterday, and it is actually a little alarming how many Kennedys are in there. I know an address book isn’t the same as a client list, but it does mean that they most likely knew one another.

    I also learned that Minnie Driver as of 2008 or so, when this black book was seized as part of an investigation, used an EarthLink.net email address lol

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      There really aren’t that many super wealthy/well connected people. They all know one another and party with one another and sit around scheming about becoming more rich and more powerful.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Epstein was everywhere in Hollywood and politics, that was his entire business. So we will probably see floods of pictures with him “partying” with prominent figures.

    WHICH IS GREAT! It’s likely that most of the people he met or were in the same building with had no “dealings” with Epstein, but the more we can saturate the public with pictures that validate the conspiracist ideas that celebrities and politicians are all involved in some child-eating cult, the more we incite the turn against Trump from his own base. Trump’s administration is fucking wounded right now, we gotta pour lemon juice and sewage into the wound at every opportunity.