rant · moment 8 of 25
Jeffrey Epstein and the CIA's Convenient Ignorance
from 160 - The Ballad of The Fat Girl With The Clean Car · #160
2 min
Tim mocks the idea that intelligence agencies had no idea what Epstein was doing despite compromising powerful people worldwide, contrasting it with amateur internet sleuths who figured it out.
- Tim launches into Epstein's life: international sex trafficking ring, multiple properties, connections to wealthy and famous people.
- The question of whether Epstein worked for the CIA or Mossad—nobody knows for sure.
- Tim mocks the theory that the CIA would tolerate Epstein as a spy, citing an Observer article that treats his intel work as plausible.
- If Epstein was compromising high-level US politicians while working with Mossad, how could the CIA genuinely have no idea what he was doing?
- Tim contrasts the intelligence apparatus's claimed ignorance with random people on Reddit who figured it out—which is more stupid to believe?
- People jump through hoops to convince themselves that US intelligence agencies aren't participating in this kind of thing because it conflicts with the myth of their heroism.