OK, sure. Giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn’t just discrete. Fine.
But if I went to hang out with a “good friend”, and he brought some escorts, I can’t imagine myself sitting down for a cordial dinner without at least addressing the elephant in the room.
That’s seriously wtf.
But I guess I’m not rich and powerful where I’d even have that problem. The worst I’ve had to deal with is “no, I would not like to invite the strippers you know to this party”
Keep in mind that Epstein also ran an adult escort service. I forget who the celebrities were, but there’s an account of 3 C and B list celebrities on Epstein’s plane going to some sort of charity event, with a 23-year old “model”.
The play for blackmail might have started with girls who at least appeared of age. It would be the smart(ish) play, Monica Lewinsky was 25 when she was a White House intern.
Which we don’t talk about how fucked up that was enough. The power dynamic of that “relationship” is just wrong on so many levels. If you have direct power over the life of someone else, then that person is not a potential romantic partner. Full stop.
“as far as she knows, the ex-President did not take the bait.”
Phrased as “Epstein was trying to get Clinton into a blackmailable situation, Clinton dodged it.”
OK, sure. Giving him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn’t just discrete. Fine.
But if I went to hang out with a “good friend”, and he brought some escorts, I can’t imagine myself sitting down for a cordial dinner without at least addressing the elephant in the room.
That’s seriously wtf.
But I guess I’m not rich and powerful where I’d even have that problem. The worst I’ve had to deal with is “no, I would not like to invite the strippers you know to this party”
Keep in mind that Epstein also ran an adult escort service. I forget who the celebrities were, but there’s an account of 3 C and B list celebrities on Epstein’s plane going to some sort of charity event, with a 23-year old “model”.
The play for blackmail might have started with girls who at least appeared of age. It would be the smart(ish) play, Monica Lewinsky was 25 when she was a White House intern.
Which we don’t talk about how fucked up that was enough. The power dynamic of that “relationship” is just wrong on so many levels. If you have direct power over the life of someone else, then that person is not a potential romantic partner. Full stop.
How fucked up the relationshipbetween monica and Bill was has been talked about a lot, especially by Monica.
Shes has some deeply candid and open ted talks where she talks about how we handle shame and shaming as a culture and what it did to her as a person.