Hello!
This is Dr. Harriet Fraud on Capitalism Hits
Home, an interpersonal update.
This is a show about the intersection of capitalism,
class, and our personal lives.
What I want to talk about, which has really
hit home recently, is the case of Jeffrey
Epstein.
The Epstein case combines and magnifies everything
that's wrong with capitalism, male supremacy,
and gender training in one fell swoop.
The Epstein case is like a giant squid with
deadly tentacles reaching in so many different
directions which then contract and move this
monstrous predator through the sea.
The tentacles here are sex abuse, shame, super
wealthy men, their political flunkies, and
their social and legal enablers, moving relentlessly
forward until they're stopped.
Only now, we have Me Too and time's up and
a consciousness of not bearing the shame for
men's sexual crimes but turning that shame
back on them for perpetrating those crimes.
To be more direct, Jeffrey Epstein's case
is finally exposed for what it is: naked sexual
prey on young barely-pubescent girls and women
who are bought and traded for sex by the 1%
and those who serve them in our government
and our halls of justice and our prestigious
universities.
What happened in this case?
Where did Epstein get the power to abuse with
such impunity?
How did he operate the Lolita Express where
so many rich capitalists and their flunkies
including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton flew
and got to rape girls on the plane?
And when they landed at orgy island also how
did Epstein amass the amount of money for
such for an entree into such a group of wealthy
men and their flunkies?
Epstein owns elegant mansions in New York
City and Palm Beach, Florida.
He owns an elegant apartment in one of the
most prestigious sections of Paris and a ten
thousand acre ranch in New Mexico plus his
own little island in, ironically, the US Virgin
Islands.
What did he do to amass such wealth?
He has at least five hundred and fifty million
dollars at the moment.
That's a lot.
How he got it is a mystery.
Or maybe it isn't.
Epstein grew up in Coney Island, a working-class
neighborhood in Brooklyn from a working-class
family.
His mother was a teacher's aide his father
worked in lawns and gardens and parks.
However brilliant he was, he was a college
dropout, his super wealth was acquired through
social connections as reported by the New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,
New York magazine, and others.
The first of his unlikely connections was
with Attorney General Barr’s father who
granted him a job at Dalton teaching mathematics.
Dalton is one of the nation's most prestigious
and expensive prep schools.
It now cost for example fifty-one-thousand
three-hundred fifty dollars, more than the
median income in the United States.
Fifty-one-thousand three-hundred fifty dollars
for tuition.
Whether you're in kindergarten all the way
up to 12th grade.
That’s pretty steep for kindergarten or
even 12th grade.
Epstein had no college degree and was hired
to teach there.
He connected with the pupils’ rich father
who through the old boy network got him a
job at Bear Sterns.
There, Epstein ingratiated himself to wealthy
investors: one billionaire Leslie Wexner of
L brands owners of Abercrombie & Fitch the
former are even Dell, the limited, and Victoria's
Secret among others trusted Epstein with absolute
control over his whole finances.
To know what that pays, every financial transaction
that Epstein performed for Wexner involved
a fee paid to Epstein.
From Wexner alone Epstein received two hundred
million dollars.
Epstein also transferred to Epstein a 56 million
dollar mansion, one of the biggest mansions
in New York which is now worth 71 million
dollars according to The Times.
Epstein's
wealthy clients included Glen Dubin of Highbridge
Capital Management, one of America's biggest
hedge funds, Leon black CEO of the Apollo
Global Management firm, one of the biggest
capital management firms in the world, and
Jess Staley who was a top executive at Morgan
Stanley and is now the head of Barclays Bank,
fabulously rich men.
Epstein was financially clever and he was
a talented tax adviser.
These men are very interested in keeping more
for themselves no matter how many billions
they have.
But that's not enough to ingratiate himself
to all these wealthy men as well as Bill Clinton
and Donald Trump and Prince Andrew of the
royal family.
What else could be happening here?
Perhaps the long term well-documented friendship
with Donald Trump and his friendship with
Bill Clinton may suggest what else Epstein
had to offer.
This may be typical of their bonding.
Epstein and Trump were reportedly the only
men to arraign to keep judges at a competition
that Trump organized.
Actually he hired someone to make this swimsuit
contest at mar-a-lago with those two men as
judges and 28 young women for a calendar girl
competition.
In another more severe related incidents,
a 2016 lawsuit alleged that Trump raped a
13 year old girl in Epstein's Manhattan residence
in 1994.
The suit was voluntarily dismissed on November
4th, 2016.
The suit alleged that Epstein raped the 13
year old after Trump did and then the pair
told her that she and her family would be
killed if she ever spoke about what happened.
The girl dropped the suit after too many death
threats mounted.
She stated she was dropping the suit for that
reason.
Epstein's friendship with Bill Clinton which
Clinton, like Trump, disavows is revealed
in several articles and videos in The Times,
Rolling Stone, Vox, New York Magazine, and
The Business Insider.
What was the basis of these friendships with
wildly wealthy men and their powerful capitalist
apologists like Bill Clinton and Trump and
so many others.
Friendships in that group are transactional.
They're based on mutual benefit.
We might guess Trump, Clinton, and Alan Dershowitz
of Harvard regularly flew on the Lolita Express
where they landed in orgy island, having raped
these young women on the plane and kept them
pretty sex slaves on orgy island.
Just look up Lolita Express on Google see
what you find.
So, that Epstein was not only a clever tax
and finance advisor, but gave these men, I
think, opportunities to rape underage girls.
Why would they be interested in doing that?
What's in it for them?
Well, let's look back from a psychological
point of view.
Adolescent men are only allowed to be manly
and needy for one thing and that’s sex.
Adolescent girls are trained not to give sex
to adolescent men because those same men will
shame them and ruin their reputation, put
them down as dirty.
This sex as power which these men exert may
be immature men's revenge on the young women
who refused them.
They may be ashamed of their neediness.
According to James Gilligan who's published
at least 25 books and is an expert on this
at NYU Department of Psychiatry.
Nothing shifts shame as thoroughly and effectively
as overpowering someone and subjecting them
to unwanted sexual activity.
Porn culture does that it often presents women
as eager to be choked, slapped, and humiliated.
One of Epstein's many partners in the rape
of underage girls referred to the overpowered
girls as sexual snacks.
That was in Rolling Stone.
They shared Epstein's Lolita Express and enjoyed
violating these prepubescent girls because
they could transfer their sexual shame onto
these children, who they considered snacks
and those girls were indeed ashamed.
Perhaps a chance to get rid of that shame
while raping children was worth millions.
What are the gender dynamics going on here?
Well it's one of the many instances of sexual
misconduct that are ignored and brushed aside
because women, particularly younger women,
but all women are not taken seriously.
The
women who came forward to accuse R Kelly,
the singer, have faced that kind of erasure
that these victims did.
As Fox's Constance Grady notes, Kelly has
been accused of “creating an abusive sex
cult a very young woman who he isolates brainwashes
shames and abuses physically emotionally and
sexually.”
Girls and young women are routinely seen as
unreliable narrators.
It took 80 girls to stand up 80 women to stand
up and say that Cosby abused them for it to
begin to be taken seriously for it.
And another great example which is in everyone's
brain at this moment is Larry Nasser.
For 10 years at least, young 12 year old up
to 15 year old and 16 year old gymnastic athletes
had been reporting abuse by Larry Nasser.
The US gymnastics team doctor finally just
this year after abusing at least a hundred
girls, Nasser was sentenced to up to 175 years
in prison.
These girls were reporting abuse since 1997.
This year he was finally brought to justice.
For more than 10 years the officials at Michigan
State University, where he worked, ignored
the tortured girls as unreliable witnesses
and did nothing.
It took a groundbreaking investigation by
the Indianapolis Star and the brave testimony
of survivors and the growing strength of the
Me Too and Times Up movements to bring Nasser
to justice.
Meanwhile for the women who say Epstein abused
them, that justice has been just as hard to
find.
That may be about to change.
“Oh my God,” said Michelle Licata, one
of Epstein's victims.
She told the Miami Herald, who broke the story
upon hearing about the new indictment.
Finally, some justice.
In order to enjoy violating young women a
man has to be completely isolated from those
young women's humanity.
That kind of utter divorce from your own,
the continuity of your humanity between yourself
and others is fascistic.
That's what's essential to be killing people,
as twenty nine people have been shot in the
last two days.
It's that divorce from humanity that's responsible
for Trump having no compassion for children
in cages, for parents and children torn apart
and living in wretched, filthy conditions,
untended and without enough to eat.
It's that utter fascistic divorce from the
humanity of others is very dangerous for any
nation to have.
In the US vulture capitalism and capitalist
predation and grotesque hatred for women and
girls combined to let rich men rape with impunity
and then cover it up.
The cover up, the New York Times reveals that
Epstein got out of Palm Beach County Jail
in 2009 after serving just 13 months for having
sexually abused 36 women.
Actually not women, young, young women and
often barely pubescent girls.
He still had about a half a million dollars
intact.
He used his money to buy an image as a forward-thinking,
scientific philanthropist.
He bought journalists to sing his praises
in such reputable journals as Forbes, The
National Review, even the Huffington Post.
The prestigious Financial Times included on
its website an interview by journalist Dylan
Love recommending Epstein as someone who used
his resources towards beneficial ends.
The Financial Times didn't mention the beneficial
end of buying positive coverage.
It also omitted his status as a sex offender
in Florida.
Epstein's generous generous gifts to scientific
research, his invitations to scientists to
St. James Island which he owns.
His grants for famous scientists work what
silence on his copious crimes.
What else made such profligate predation power
possible?
What are the class dynamics here?
Most of the violated girls came from disadvantaged
families, single-parent homes who were poor
or foster care.
Julia Brown, the courageous journalist who
exposed Epstein's sweet deal that escaped
exposure in serious jail time, reports many
of the girls were homeless.
They needed money.
They were ashamed of what their need for money
led them into their youth and poverty made
it easier for Epstein and his alleged recruiters,
other girls to whom he promised cash and Jess
Lane, his accomplice as well as others to
bring in
more recruits and to intimidate them.
It made it easier for prosecutors to discount
or disbelieve them when the time came.
Important sources report that money talks.
That's not news to us.
We know that money talks.
Rich men are admired for their wealth, if
they got it from legal or illegal ends as
long as they're well-spoken, cultured, and
educated pimps and educated rapists.
They're rich; they buy fancy lawyers, judges,
and the media in Epstein's case.
It took a valiant reporter, Julia Brown, to
track down many of the 36 girls that reported
Epstein abused them.
Their testimony had been discounted.
She finally published the truth and the scope
of Epstein's abuse in the Miami Herald.
Epstein's money bought silence.
There was a sweetheart deal bought; Acosta,
Trump's former cabinet member, allowed Epstein
to get away with a 13-month sentence.
It was originally 18 months and Acosta commuted
it and during that sentence Epstein was allowed
to be away from his jail cell six days a week,
12 hours a day.
During which time he also abused more girls.
His money bought silence.
Now with Me Too and Time's Up that business
as usual is somewhat interrupted.
However, even now the media are quiet.
The last we heard from the New York Times,
who was covering this story every day, prosecutors
subpoenaed the pilots to turn over the flight
logs of who flew the Lolita Express to orgy
Island.
They're mandated by law to keep records, so
that we could get to know the whole scope
of people who raped these young girls on the
Lolita plane.
These are some connected people we already
know about: two of them from prestigious Harvard.
One, Alan Dershowitz, a professional professor
who tried in 1997 to get the statutory rape
law changed, so it was easier to rape young
women.
Another on his list was Larry Summers, former
president of Harvard, who was kicked out by
a popular movement because it was he who said
that women's brains were too limited for science,
that they weren't suited to that.
His misogyny got him demoted to full professor.
The information of who was on that flight,
all those flights actually, was eliminated.
Why don't we see it?
Money talks.
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