Richard

Ridiculous

“There was this planet in outer space, full of life, orbiting this star.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. No one will believe that.”

Hanx

“Why is a mediocrity like Tom Hanks so famous?”

“Because he’s an amazing actor!”

“Oh right. I didn’t realise. And why is he so creepy?”

“What do you mean creepy?! He’s the perfect American.”

“I mean like why on his social media does he take all these photos of single items of lost children’s clothing and make weird cryptic creepy comments about them? Stuff no normal adult would do. What the  hell is that all about?”

“I didn’t know about any of that stuff. But anyway it must be all harmless fun. Cos like I said he’s the perfect American.”

“Yeah, you said that all right.”

Whenever

“It shames me how little I’ve gone down this road. If I had started out much earlier, think how much farther along it I would be by now.”
“Don’t worry about it. Whenever you had started you would always be at the beginning.”

Jeffrey Epstein 60 minutes

I’ve probably generally avoided the news like the plague for a long time but anyway I thought this was a good piece.

M

To add this segment above with attorney Bradley Edwards, representing victims of Epstein, in December 2018 from which the given quote:

The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who, in 2009 when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people, that I want to talk to them, is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let’s just talk.  I’ll give you as much time as you want.  I’ll tell you what you need to know, and was very helpful, in the information that he gave, and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information. That checked out and that helped us and we didn’t have to take a deposition of him in 2009.

Interesting how under Trump it seems the extremely unlikely actuality has arisen that people like the very wealthy and very connected Epstein can actually come to justice? See also for instance the similar NXIVM sex-cult scandal. I doubt such powerful peoples ever felt much real sense of threat before since they and their ilk essentially owned the system. I certainly didn’t have some high notion of Trump before, but as far as I gave it any attention, from very early on the obvious endless media assault on him made me inclined to think much more positively about him given the obviously fraudulent nature of our mass-media taken as a whole, and the very dark nature of the power elites whose interests it represents.

All through my life it has seemed unlikely to the point of virtual impossibility that a very major political figure could not be one of their own so to speak, not be chosen by this very closed and poisonous circle, but very unlikely as it may have seemed, perhaps Trump is the first one genuinely to have slipped through the net in many, many years. And I know he hardly appeared any kind of knight in shining armour! Not that I’m going to get too carried away by all this.

Spot the Creep

Have another look. Can you find him?

Media

“You know the way the Western mass media is a total propaganda machine owned by a tiny few companies and silent interests, and these people are scum of the earth.”
“Of course yeah.”
“And you know how these lowlifes absolutely loved your man Obama and helped foist him on the world as some divine messiah.”
“Yeah, that was one embarrassing charade.”
“And so anyway when manipulative, control-obsessed people are constantly trying to push me in a certain direction, I tend to wonder a little about the nature of that direction.”

Normal

“People keep saying there’s a new Norman. Norman who?”
“Not Norman. Normal.”
“Not Norman Normal? Who the hell is Norman Normal?”
“No! People aren’t saying there’s not a new Norman Normal. They’re saying there’s a new normal.”
“I have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.”

Totalitarianism

“What would you think of totalitarianism?”
“I wouldn’t be mad about it to be honest.”
“But what if they were saying there was a good reason for bringing it in.”
“I’d be in favour of it then of course. It would be brilliant.”