Charlie Stross1d ago

What I REALLY want to know about the news-behind-the-news is, why is Melania suddenly holding press conferences to say that she didn't know nothin' about Jeffrey Epstein and *especially* wasn't having a relationship with him?

I mean, with the right it's ALWAYS projection, right? So if she runs true to form for a conservative this probably means she had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Show threadGraydon1d ago

@cstross Or she had in fact nothing to do with the sexual abuse, but _was_ having the corpses rendered down for otherwise unobtainable sourced-from-human-tissue anti-aging cosmetics. And she wants people to know that of course she would never be so déclassé as to ask about where the young pretty corpses were coming from.

If it isn't something somehow specifically excruciatingly embarrassing to the surviving principals, it's something your editor would never let you keep in the text.

Show threadPassenger1d ago

@graydon @cstross

If we ever find out the truth and it even mentions adrenochrome, I am going to be extremely sad. I cannot handle a situation where the Q people were right, even by default.

Show threadCharlie Stross1d ago
@passenger @graydon The pizzagate bullshit was just recycling and updating the old anti-semitic Blood Libel. (Pizza: flatbread. Blood libel: matzo supposedly being baked with Christian children's blood. Pizzagate: a pizza parlour where children are abused underground. Spot the similarity?)
Show threadHighlandLawyer
@cstross @passenger @graydon
Even further back: Romans claiming Christian were consuming children's blood in the catacombs; once in power themselves the Christians then recycled it against the Jews.
Apr 10 at 6:10pmTusky
Show threadCharlie Stross1d ago
@HighlandLawyer @passenger @graydon Yup: I suspect it goes back even further than that, too.
Show threadMichael Newton1d ago
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Thing is, I can't help suspecting that each time these people are so pleased with themselves for having come up with their very own, very unique, cunning plan.
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