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Wrapping Up the GoFundMe Bit and Friends Who Need an Exit

from Jeffrey Epstein's Go Fund Me · #139

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3 min

He closes out the GoFundMe riff, reflects on his friend being a 'fighter' against addiction, and darkly jokes that many of his still-living friends would be better off with a terminal diagnosis and a GoFundMe.

In this bit9 moments
  • 19:17Tim argues his charity work means he's going to heaven, not hell.
  • 19:37Donating a thousand dollars to the GoFundMe either means someone is deeply affected or they're playing the game at a lower level than him.
  • 19:54Tim explains why he didn't stay close to the deceased friend: he wasn't doing heroin, so their social circles never overlapped.
  • 20:14When Tim was a cocaine addict, only other cocaine addicts wanted to hang around him and his crew.
  • 21:03The friend was a good kid who always tried to clean himself up and fight his way out of addiction.
  • 21:32Tim claims many of his friends would be better off dead than alive, given their circumstances.
  • 21:43For people in their mid-thirties with nothing and no future, an operable tumor and a GoFundMe would be the best outcome.
  • 22:03Tim describes the fantasy: a doctor says wrap it up, a GoFundMe raises fifty grand, and they get twelve months to spend it before death.
  • 22:17It's sad that this is what passes for hope for people on Long Island.
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