Billionaire Elon Musk and Prince Andrew are named in new files released by Congressional Democrats that relate to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The files turned over to the House Oversight Committee by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate appear to show that Musk had been invited to the financier’s island in December 2014.

Separately, a manifest for a flight from New Jersey to Florida in May 2000 names the Duke of York among the passengers.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Cool, now start naming the Dems as well. This isn’t a political issue. Everyone related to this shit needs to be held accountable.

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        11 hours ago

        Everybody always seems to forget about the Southern Strategy, where Donald Trump realized that conservatives in the South were the dumbest people in America, even dumber than Trump himself, and that if he switched to the Republican party, and then talked louder and more confidently than other people, these dumb shit conservatives would worship him and do whatever he says.

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          It does work that way, but Trump never realized anything.

          Nixon, Barry Goldwater, and Harry Dent conceived of this idea, and Karl Rove helped move it forward into the modern era. Trump was just the right dumbass in the right place at the right time to help conservatives seize power after they completed almost 2 generations’ worth of propaganda and brainwashing our own people.

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        They will genuinely attempt to explain it away with this reasoning. I’m calling it now. Once he saw the light and was blessed by the republican party it washed away this filthy democrat urge…

        I hope I’m wrong, but I sadly think I’m not.

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          I never considered that approach, but that would sound like a convenient excuse and the religious “forgive the sins” people will eat it up, blind to how he acts the same now as he did then.

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      Fuck off with this. The VAST majority of people with half a brain don’t give a shit if it’s a D or R next to the name. I’m sure there are Democrats that are in there, however, the long list of rich/politicians that have been found guilty of sexual crimes, child rape/CSAM ARE majority Republicans.

      If you rape children, you should face the consequences, full stop.

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        That’s exactly what I said, idiot.

        I can only think that you had a knee-jerk reaction assuming my initial word choice meant something that it clearly didn’t. That reaction is a large part of the problem with online discourse getting nowhere and everyone arguing all the time. You’re arguing with people agreeing with you for no fucking reason because you’re not actually stopping to understand the comments before responding.

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          The way you worded your statement definitely made more than just me assume your intent, hence the down votes.

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            Not surprising that people here have terrible reading comprehension and just vote and post knee jerk reactions based on their biases just like everywhere else. Social media was a mistake across the board. It’ll be the downfall of our society.

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                I mean, yeah in this case that seems to be indicated by the evidence.

                I get downvotes yet the responses are agreeing with what I said.

                I can only assume that because I called out the Dems for bullshit politicas releasing only certain names and protecting their own, people are assuming I’m trying to make the opposite claim, yet the next 2 sentences prove otherwise.

                So they’re not actually reading and comprehending the comment, they’re just reacting to their own assumption of what the rest of my comment must be in their head.

                That certainly seems to indicate that people have terrible reading comprehension, vote, and comment without actually reading the comments fully.

                So you tell me… if they’re agreeing with my comments, then why the downvotes if not a lack of reading comprehension and impulse control on social media?

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          You do have a point… But how do we know they’re not using that to hide shit? I mean, of course they would…

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            Its possible, sure.

            But I’d also point out those aren’t the only three names in this new set of documents. Bill Gates is in there, another with Rich Kahn (Epstein accountant, who just last year along with Darren Indyke, espteins lawyer, tried to prevent themselves from being named in suits by victims), researchers like Joscha Bach, his lead attorney Reid Weingarten, etc.

            This is only evidence of association, and not of crimes. There are quite a few names in these ledgers, Thiel, Musk, and Bannon are notable because its new information and well known names.

            Edit: I’d add two other items - fully unredacted would just mean the victims will get targeted again, and that republicans are more than welcome to vote to release more details. They constantly keep blocking it.

            Probably because of things like this:

            https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/21/2339592/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-57

            Which is now up to part 57. I’ve yet to see a similar list of democrats, but considering the religious right, I do say its far more likely to see a lot of republicans with Epstein and committing crimes than democrats. So we’ll probably see a few more democrats at some point, but I think the numbers will lean heavily republican because they are just more likely.

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        No, I’m demanding everyone involved be held responsible regardless of the political party, as I said in my comment. But apparently people here seem to not like that idea based on the downvotes.