It's a pretty old term so it technically has three different pronunciations bloot like blood, blot like to to blot out the sun, and blut like blunt without the n. Though you'd have to ask someone who is a bit more familiar with medieval Germanic languages.
Cant remember the name of the particular story but there's actually a myth centered around a Blót where basically a war chief is destined by the Norns to be sacrificed. They try to trick the gods and it goes bad for him.
It's remarkable how quickly the pages that publish things like this or the 60 Minutes CECOT segment disappear. Putting it on the fediverse will hopefully protect it from being suppressed. Torrents are important too.
Most of my coworkers have not even heard about it. Even less looked for it. It may be everywhere on lemmy but lemmy is very little known in the real world.
It's on Reddit and other places too. Your coworkers haven't heard of it yet because it dropped in the middle of the night. Stop expecting everyone else to be as terminally online as yourself.
My guess is a 'turncoat' in the DoJ 'accidentally' let this one, and other similar ones, slip through. Or they're all just fucking incompetent. Take your pick.
Yeah, this only reinforces Trump's own admission. The "grab'em by the pussy" comment seemed like immature hyperbole, but with this letter, now it seems like grabbing a woman's crotch is his signature move.
The use of the word "home" throws me off. If he said "out" I'd figure it was suicide but home is like "does epstein believe in some kind of afterlife?" Idk its weird. I almost wonder if there was a scheme to bust him out of prison but it turned into murdering him.
I think Trump is too stupid to play the game well, but I think he does try to. It's like when nazis hiding among normies use super top-secret phrases like "goyim"—they think they're being clever.
If he would have had a way out he wouldn't have written this letter incriminating Trump. It seems he got the deal to kill himself on short notice and this letter was the only thing he was able to do before and with it he was trying to take Trump down with him.
It looks like the back of a postcard. Maybe the prison only allows postcards so they can read everyone's mail? Seems like the kind of thing US prisons might do.
On closer inspection the line down the middle is a bit wobbly and there are faint outlines around the pages. I think someone just scanned the envelope and pages and assembled them in the wrong order.
As much as they have done horrendous shit, I don't believe for one second that this letter is real / authored by said monster. No one will spend their last words focusing one some narcissistic fuckwit. Especially not another narcissist / psychopath.
"As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential
Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein"
I will never understand how people could be this rich and do stupid shit like this.
With all that money, you could go find the love of your life, travel the world with them, pay for all the mental and healthcare you need, be fit and live the rest of your life happily with your soulmate AND still even have the capacity to help others if you so desire.
You can become a multi-millionaire through honest hard work and responsibility. There are plenty of multi-millionaires who live the lifestyle you describe.
You can't really become a billionaire that way. You become a billionaire by being a greedy, manipulative narcissist, obsessed with wealth and power. That's who you see doing this shit.
The people with all that money are the people so narrowly obsessed with money and/or the power money brings that they have dedicated their whole lives to taking it from others. Effectively that means only sociopaths who enjoy abusing others become that wealthy. People with more meaningful purpose in their lives, or who genuinely care for others, don't become billionaires.
They have OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. If they were hoarding rusty cars on their property, or hundreds of cars, the authorities would step in, and end it.
But if it's money, then they are loaded as successful businesspeople, and strongly encouraged to expand their hoarding behavior.
Confiscate their stolen hoard, and get them help for their mental illnesses.
Pretty sure there's also some stoic philosophers who made such observations. Also I'm pretty sure Diogenes said something like that if not in words then in spirit.
Lord Acton. He was a Liberal Party bigwig (the Liberals were the pro-capitalist party, opposing the pro-aristocracy Conservatives-- the modern US definition of liberalism has little to do with their policies). The quote is from 1887.
This article implies he was writing incriminating letters from jail, prior to choosing to kill himself. And there's never a hint of self-awareness at the atrocious pain and harm he caused, just a constant entitlement to all women.
Assuming it's genuine, it also shows he considered himself a victim of unfair treatment right to the end. Unless it's also a hint that the suicide was not of his own choosing, but that's getting pretty speculative.
Yeah theres already a lot of speculation and assumptions; I really don't want to add to the scuttlebutt, but those were my first thoughts on reading the letter and figuring out when it was sent and where from. Let's not mimic the QAnon approach though.
So far while poking around in certain places just to see what other reactions are floating around out there are, I've seen:
"Who created this AI slop?"
"Written by someone from MSM for clicks."
"Why didn't Biden release this, clearly fake."
"This is worse than the fake birthday card."
"Clearly not related to Trump, but instead Clinton."
Intense cope is how I see it. Could it be fake? Maybe. I try to draw upon the things that have been said in the past, actions clearly on record/tape, literal confessions that are public from years ago, real-time goal post moving, and delection attempts.
Innocent people don't usually jump through so many hoops.
Apparently, this was first released in 2023, during the Biden administration, and just sat there. Perhaps the media deserves some blame for not doing their jobs, as usual.
Correct, but we are seeing that they will use it as a convenient go-to excuse for EVERYTHING.
It also means that since they are so sure that Libz are producing AI slop to tar & feather them, they'll rationalize that they have the right to use it in return, except their AI really will be slop, because they're collectively too virtuosically stupid and incompetent to do anything correctly.
I heard this more than a few times over a year ago. Sure, it's getting better, but there will always be limitations and weak points, even if they require more effort to detect.
The article is overstating the importance. By now everyone knows Trump is a pedo and loves SA. Or if they don't, they never will.
FFS the victims have been around for twenty years, and we already have clear physical evidence. One more piece of paper might help with a conviction (good luck getting that after he's out of the White House before he dies), but it's not like the truth is even slightly hidden.
And he admitted to so much bad stuff already, on camera, on TV, in writing, too. Forget the victims if you want (which you shouldn't, but whatever), just take the man at his word and it's all there.
This is what bothered me the most about the "just a distraction from the Epstein files" thing. I mean more proof is never bad, but do you really need more than the "grab her by the pussy" quote to know he is a rapist?
This letter was written immediately before his suicide, and acknowledges his plan to do it. That makes this a deathbed confession, and they should hang Trump with it.
Yeah the page seems to be coming and going. I went to archive it and got warnings that my connections to the archive sites weren't secure. It's enough to make a person paranoid.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 161 pts · 233d
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 99 pts · 233d
"young, nubile, girls" jfc throw these creeps in a volcano
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 68 pts · 233d
Best we can do is keep making them President.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 233d
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 233d
What about a Temple of Doom cage style rotisserie?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 233d
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 233d
It makes the volcano spirits super happy though
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 232d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 232d
I propose Blót. Hanged speared then we feast, but not on the corpse that's for Odin.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 232d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 232d
It's a pretty old term so it technically has three different pronunciations bloot like blood, blot like to to blot out the sun, and blut like blunt without the n. Though you'd have to ask someone who is a bit more familiar with medieval Germanic languages.
logi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 231d
Or there is modern Icelandic where blót rhymes with gloat. We'll be coming up on Þorrablót soon, once we're done with all this jól business.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 232d
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 232d
Cant remember the name of the particular story but there's actually a myth centered around a Blót where basically a war chief is destined by the Norns to be sacrificed. They try to trick the gods and it goes bad for him.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 233d
Like I said yesterday: "once it's on the internet, it's there forever"
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 233d
It's remarkable how quickly the pages that publish things like this or the 60 Minutes CECOT segment disappear. Putting it on the fediverse will hopefully protect it from being suppressed. Torrents are important too.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 233d
It's all over the place, now. My lemmy feed is full of news stories about it.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 233d
Most of my coworkers have not even heard about it. Even less looked for it. It may be everywhere on lemmy but lemmy is very little known in the real world.
fishos@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 233d
It's on Reddit and other places too. Your coworkers haven't heard of it yet because it dropped in the middle of the night. Stop expecting everyone else to be as terminally online as yourself.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 233d
Not everyone is on reddit, but I do hope the news cycle will pick it up in time.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 233d
This letter came to light in 2023. They've managed to keep it quiet for 2 years.
Now it's time to blow this up. This should be the first story on every evening newscast to tonight.
But it won't be, especially CBS. I'd be surprised if it even gets mentioned anywhere on TV.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 232d
Cecot torrent is seeded and I have it on soulseek.
madjo@piefed.social · 10 pts · 232d
TIL that SoulSeek still exists.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 232d
Hell yeah it does
supamanc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 233d
My guess is a 'turncoat' in the DoJ 'accidentally' let this one, and other similar ones, slip through. Or they're all just fucking incompetent. Take your pick.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 233d
Ironically being the only one who isn't an actual traitor to the United States.
supamanc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
True day!
FluxUniversity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 227d
No its not.
find me a working copy of the robert beltran gripe generator
People like to say whats written on the internet is written in ink. Nobody stopped to think about who owned the paper it was written on.
snooggums@piefed.world · 37 pts · 233d
So the same 'grab them by the pussy' that Trump was caught on tape bragging about, but more clear who is was talking about.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 232d
Yeah, this only reinforces Trump's own admission. The "grab'em by the pussy" comment seemed like immature hyperbole, but with this letter, now it seems like grabbing a woman's crotch is his signature move.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 233d
Does "short route" home here mean suicide or blackmail? God this shit never clarifies anything but it definitely incriminates Trump.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 233d
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 232d
The use of the word "home" throws me off. If he said "out" I'd figure it was suicide but home is like "does epstein believe in some kind of afterlife?" Idk its weird. I almost wonder if there was a scheme to bust him out of prison but it turned into murdering him.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 232d
He's speaking in metaphor, which he seems to like doing often because, like his dumb pedophile cohort, he thinks he's the Riddler or something.
He doesn't need to actually believe in an afterlife to reference one.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 231d
No, Trump is just too stupid to utter coherent sentences.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 231d
I think Trump is too stupid to play the game well, but I think he does try to. It's like when nazis hiding among normies use super top-secret phrases like "goyim"—they think they're being clever.
saimen@feddit.org · 2 pts · 231d
If he would have had a way out he wouldn't have written this letter incriminating Trump. It seems he got the deal to kill himself on short notice and this letter was the only thing he was able to do before and with it he was trying to take Trump down with him.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 233d
Why does it start on the right then move to the left? Is this manga? Lol
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 233d
It looks like there's 3 separate scans on this page and they're just laid out wrong
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 233d
It looks like the back of a postcard. Maybe the prison only allows postcards so they can read everyone's mail? Seems like the kind of thing US prisons might do.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
Are you supposed to write postcards backwards though? I would have filled it out left to right
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 233d
On closer inspection the line down the middle is a bit wobbly and there are faint outlines around the pages. I think someone just scanned the envelope and pages and assembled them in the wrong order.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 231d
As much as they have done horrendous shit, I don't believe for one second that this letter is real / authored by said monster. No one will spend their last words focusing one some narcissistic fuckwit. Especially not another narcissist / psychopath.
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 107 pts · 233d
"As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home. Good luck! We shared one thing… our love & caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential
Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein"
thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 233d
I will never understand how people could be this rich and do stupid shit like this.
With all that money, you could go find the love of your life, travel the world with them, pay for all the mental and healthcare you need, be fit and live the rest of your life happily with your soulmate AND still even have the capacity to help others if you so desire.
But instead they do this shit. I hate reality.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 98 pts · 233d
We live in a system where, to become that rich, you must be evil.
That's all.
Asafum@feddit.nl · 30 pts · 233d
Exactly. This life rewards evil tremendously... I'm so sick of it
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 231d
I know some non-evil rich people. They're memorable because of their scarcity.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 233d
Money is just an enabler. They're already abusers, the money just helps them do it with planes and islands instead of trucks and sketchy motels.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 232d
You can become a multi-millionaire through honest hard work and responsibility. There are plenty of multi-millionaires who live the lifestyle you describe.
You can't really become a billionaire that way. You become a billionaire by being a greedy, manipulative narcissist, obsessed with wealth and power. That's who you see doing this shit.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 233d
The people with all that money are the people so narrowly obsessed with money and/or the power money brings that they have dedicated their whole lives to taking it from others. Effectively that means only sociopaths who enjoy abusing others become that wealthy. People with more meaningful purpose in their lives, or who genuinely care for others, don't become billionaires.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 233d
They have OCD, which manifests itself as financial hoarding. If they were hoarding rusty cars on their property, or hundreds of cars, the authorities would step in, and end it.
But if it's money, then they are loaded as successful businesspeople, and strongly encouraged to expand their hoarding behavior.
Confiscate their stolen hoard, and get them help for their mental illnesses.
aesviation@lemmings.world · 11 pts · 232d
They didn't get rich by being good people.
It's another reason why we should always criticize people for how they obtained their wealth. Most of them did it by nefarious means.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 232d
Pretty sure you described Tom form Myspace, dude got his money and GTFOd.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 3 pts · 233d
They got that rich because they already have problems.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 233d
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 232d
Did you just make that up? Has a nice ring to it!
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 232d
Hahaha no I cannot take credit for that one, that's from an old British historian from the late 1800s
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 232d
Pretty sure there's also some stoic philosophers who made such observations. Also I'm pretty sure Diogenes said something like that if not in words then in spirit.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 232d
I wouldn't be surprised! It's been a fact for as long as people have had power structures!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 231d
Lord Acton. He was a Liberal Party bigwig (the Liberals were the pro-capitalist party, opposing the pro-aristocracy Conservatives-- the modern US definition of liberalism has little to do with their policies). The quote is from 1887.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 230d
Yes, and all this being said, him being al liberal doesn't make the quote any less true
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca · 58 pts · 233d
This article implies he was writing incriminating letters from jail, prior to choosing to kill himself. And there's never a hint of self-awareness at the atrocious pain and harm he caused, just a constant entitlement to all women.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 44 pts · 233d
Assuming it's genuine, it also shows he considered himself a victim of unfair treatment right to the end. Unless it's also a hint that the suicide was not of his own choosing, but that's getting pretty speculative.
Asafum@feddit.nl · 44 pts · 233d
It definitely reads like "we did the same things, but I'm here in prison and that guy is president. Boo hoo pity me."
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 233d
Yeah theres already a lot of speculation and assumptions; I really don't want to add to the scuttlebutt, but those were my first thoughts on reading the letter and figuring out when it was sent and where from. Let's not mimic the QAnon approach though.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
Maybe they made him so miserable that he welcomed it.
roofTophopper@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 232d
So far while poking around in certain places just to see what other reactions are floating around out there are, I've seen:
"Who created this AI slop?"
"Written by someone from MSM for clicks."
"Why didn't Biden release this, clearly fake."
"This is worse than the fake birthday card."
"Clearly not related to Trump, but instead Clinton."
Intense cope is how I see it. Could it be fake? Maybe. I try to draw upon the things that have been said in the past, actions clearly on record/tape, literal confessions that are public from years ago, real-time goal post moving, and delection attempts.
Innocent people don't usually jump through so many hoops.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 31 pts · 232d
Apparently, this was first released in 2023, during the Biden administration, and just sat there. Perhaps the media deserves some blame for not doing their jobs, as usual.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 232d
Ah, yes, clearly AI handwriting
Guitarfun@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 232d
They constantly repeat shit without really understanding it, a lot like parrots. They obviously don't know how to actually identify AI slop.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 231d
Remember the kids doing non-technical degrees at college? Some of them are now journalists.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 231d
Correct, but we are seeing that they will use it as a convenient go-to excuse for EVERYTHING.
It also means that since they are so sure that Libz are producing AI slop to tar & feather them, they'll rationalize that they have the right to use it in return, except their AI really will be slop, because they're collectively too virtuosically stupid and incompetent to do anything correctly.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 231d
None of us will know the difference between "AI Slop" and the truth within a year.
markko@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
I heard this more than a few times over a year ago. Sure, it's getting better, but there will always be limitations and weak points, even if they require more effort to detect.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 231d
Good Critical Thinking Skills will expose most of it right out of the gate.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 51 pts · 233d
It's been put back on doj.gov
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00035768.pdf
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 233d
Trump, Epstein, and Nasser, the Three Pedo Amigos.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 232d
Makes sense. People copied it and noticed. They have to put it back or else risk further scandle.
I bet Trump is going to be pretty mad and extra demented this xmas.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 233d
fodor@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 232d
The article is overstating the importance. By now everyone knows Trump is a pedo and loves SA. Or if they don't, they never will.
FFS the victims have been around for twenty years, and we already have clear physical evidence. One more piece of paper might help with a conviction (good luck getting that after he's out of the White House before he dies), but it's not like the truth is even slightly hidden.
And he admitted to so much bad stuff already, on camera, on TV, in writing, too. Forget the victims if you want (which you shouldn't, but whatever), just take the man at his word and it's all there.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 231d
This is what bothered me the most about the "just a distraction from the Epstein files" thing. I mean more proof is never bad, but do you really need more than the "grab her by the pussy" quote to know he is a rapist?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 232d
This letter was written immediately before his suicide, and acknowledges his plan to do it. That makes this a deathbed confession, and they should hang Trump with it.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 233d
Where's the story? All I see is a comment section?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 233d
Yeah the page seems to be coming and going. I went to archive it and got warnings that my connections to the archive sites weren't secure. It's enough to make a person paranoid.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 233d
Right, I tried again now and it showed up correctly.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 231d
I'd rather skip to the end of him personally. I can't wait to say "remember when Trump was alive?".
0x0@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 231d
They've been around for a while now...
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 231d
Interesting. But don't hope for anything to come of it and you won't be disappointed. I've given up hoping for that asshole to get his.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 232d
It’s from RawStory, so I wouldn’t give it much credit.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · -5 pts · 231d
It has been said in other comments better but it is unlikely to be really from Epstein for several reasons.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
Nope, likely real
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 230d
Is that based on anything? The journalism I read said it was postmarked after he died and didn't look like it came from the jail at all.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
Yes, mail routes through screening centers when it is sent in prison, the postage indicates it was intercepted by the FBI.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 230d
You mean the FBI removed it from the prison's outgoing mail, then posted it, then collected it again?
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
It was analyzed for handwriting verification