It’s not like Jeff Bezos had private dinners with Jeffrey Epstein or invited Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation only, weekend retreat at a private resort he rented out.

Oh wait, he did exactly that and probably a bunch more.

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    I love how it says he’s the founder of AWS. Amazon (the online store) is basically a side business for him, AWS is the real cash cow.

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      AWS is the real cash cow

      Significantly higher margins and bigger government contracts, particularly with state security services. So no surprise there.

      But Amazon, as a retail business venture, generates significant profits on its own. What’s more, it is gradually supplanting the USPS, which puts the business at the logistical center of a critical piece of US infrastructure. A classic “Too Big To Fail” setup that also guarantees Amazon a customer base indefinitely and lets them freeze out competitors as the USPS decays.

      AWS is a bigger funnel of money, but Amazon retail and wholesale is an enormous economic footprint with lots of downstream political consequences.

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    Beginning to think that Jeffery Epstein was at the center of a massive financial and influence peddling network that reached into the highest levels of business and politics.

    Well, now that we know this picture exists, I’m sure someone will be doing something about it.

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      When Epstein died I didn’t think much of it. What surprised me was lots of non-conspiracy theory friends were diving head first into the conspiracy. As the years have went by and more info leaked, yeah, there was definitely something big going on. We know Elon Musk lied numerous times about knowing Epstein and Maxwell, only to be proven by others testimony he did in fact know them, stayed at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, probably meet with Maxwell for “kung fu” practice, etc.

      I even believe that the whole “pedo guy” incident with Musk was actually a coy attempt to keyword search flood “Elon Musk Pedo” with search results for that nonsense. We’ve seen other famous people do stuff like that to keyword bury topics, I’m sure Musk was aware of the technique. And he won the lawsuit because he was rich enough to fight a freedom of speech claim.

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    And it’s worth pointing out that the photo of Ghislaine Maxwell and Elon Musk is everywhere but this photo of Bezos and Maxwell is much rarer to see.

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    One of the reddit dudes had a story about going to a party early on in reddit’s boom. Said Epstein was there and someone basically told him not to talk to him because everyone there at the party knew what he was and what he did.

    Everybody knew. Everybody knew what Diddy was up to. What Weinstein did. Everyone knew.

    Just fuckin shoot these people. Absolute trash humans

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    Reminder these people know full well the implications of such a photo, and will have done a lot to avoid such photos ever happening

    If you see one, there’s probably a thousand they avoided