Elsewhere In The Epstein Cinematic Universe

Sure why not.

Peter Mandelson had more than one leak to worry about after another tranche of his friendly emails to Jeffrey Epstein was made public.

The disgraced former US Ambassador could be seen relieving himself against a garden wall after a late-night visit to George Osborne's Notting Hill home.

The Finest People

I suppose Gaetz did, eventually, have some minor consequences, but I also don't doubt that he could have a comeback and the conservative morality police would have little to say.

The man President Trump wanted to be attorney general was allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year old girl who was working at a McDonald’s, saving up for braces, and partly living at a homeless shelter.

Last year, a House Ethics Committee report found “substantial evidence” that former representative and former attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him,” and that he “engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl” in 2017. The report also mentioned that Gaetz possessed and used cocaine and ecstasy while in office. Last month, newly unsealed court documents further detailed just how dire a situation the girl was living in before she was connected with Gaetz.

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A little chance for the Crimson to get their digs in.

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers maintained a close personal relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey E. Epstein until just months before his death in August 2019, according to emails released by Congress on Wednesday.

Larry started it:

I found this article by a former Harvard Crimson President very disturbing. The moral bankruptcy that led the Crimson to endorse BDS some time ago, without subsequent withdrawal, appears to have spread to the news pages.

(I have shared Stoll's article to several at the Crimson…

— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) November 10, 2025

"moral bankruptcy"

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But, Atrios, Why Are You Focused On Larry Summers?

Because the man has infested "Democratic" circles for decades, despite being a horribly corrupt conservative bigoted asshole responsible for numerous catastrophic decisions.

But, Atrios, isn't that all in the past?  Wasn't he rejected by Biden for any prominent role?

Lawrence H. Summers is a distinguished senior fellow at American Progress.

Yes Larry has plenty of Dem detractors, but the way of dealing with him for years was to keep giving him fancy titles, in hopes of keeping him on board, instead of just booting him into the sun.  This has never worked. It has just empowered him to wreck thingss.

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Who do we think the "she" is here?

*2019*

Akshually, It's Ephebophilia

The only question was who would go there first.

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As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

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— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) 12 November 2025 at 19:20

Go For It

The more Trump, the better, I say.

President Donald Trump’s advisers have had conversations about him traveling the country to give economy-focused speeches as they privately weigh a number of strategies to improve his standing on the issue, administration officials told CNN.

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And Then

I'd be more into the "we can't do shit until we take back Congress" strategy if I didn't know it would be followed by the "we can't do shit until we take back the presidency" strategy.

Yes, yes, I know, no magic wands, but don't tell me Hakeem Jeffries is the man for the hour.

2017

Larry Summers explaining his naughty joke to his pal Jeff (pdf). Click to embiggen as always.

The naughty joke is the first highlighted bit. As for the second...

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Don't See How Donnie Two Scoops Wriggles Out Of This One

 Seems bad.

Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The emails to longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein’s death, and the author Michael Wolff include conversations in which Epstein asserts Trump spent significant time with a woman whom Oversight Democrats describe as a victim of Epstein’s sex trafficking. The emails also include a message in which Epstein asserts Trump “knew about the girls” — seemingly in reference to Trump’s claim that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club for poaching young women who worked there, according to the newly released emails.

But What Did They Win

Yes you can argue, not necessarily convincingly, that it will be good for the November elections - a year from now - but at what cost.

They assert that in hammering away at the extension of health care subsidies that are slated to expire at the end of next month, they managed to thrust Mr. Trump and Republicans onto the defensive, elevating a political issue that has long been a major weakness for them.

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And in holding out for weeks while Republicans refused to extend the health tax credits and Mr. Trump went to court to deny low-income Americans SNAP food benefits, Democrats also honed their main message going into 2026: that Republicans who control all of government have done nothing to address voters’ concerns that the cost of living is too high.

If by some miracle the take the House and Senate and then send "nasty" bills to Mr. Trump who will happily shut down the government again, will they go on TV and say there's no point in trying to stand up to him, again? 

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