A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.

The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.

Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.

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    Those sick bastards should lose everything and then some. Their assets and finances should be used toward education, healthcare and public services which help the lower class.

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    “Muted” is a weird way of saying that there will be no consequences at all and if you disagree masked men will show up and disappear you or shoot you in the face and call you a terrorist on tv if you’re lucky enough to have someone catch your execution on video

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    I watch a lot of YouTube about this stuff. Neither the randos nor the mainstream have asked the question I’m thinking 24/7 - how does any other sovereign nation know these files are compiled, involving their own leadership, and aren’t suing the US for access?

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    Because MAGA loves pedophiles … mostly because it is self love.

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    Well, with the biggest fish in the Epstein sea is protecting his own flock in the US. Here in Europe, there is still public scrutiny and there is justice.

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    toppled top figures

    Who? I know of one guy from the UK - Peter Mandelson, as named in the article and summary. Who else?

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      I’ve seen political pundits saying how bad the feeling in the Labour Party is and how no prime minister has ever managed to survive anything even remotely similar

      But it hasn’t happened yet, Starmer has historically low polling numbers anyway, and i don’t think that many political wonks believed he would still be leader come the next election anyway

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    I wonder why they redacted the word “don’t” 🤔. Almost like someone called don with a last name beginning with t appeared so many times they needed to automate the redaction of his name.

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      Oh surely not. It would literally be illegal to teach a name like that. I’m sure they wouldn’t…

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    That’s because Project 2025 flooding the zone blew out our Overton Window like the fucking Kool-Aid Man.

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    “Why isn’t the US government prosecuting the pedophilic billionaire death cult?”

    My dude, the US government IS the pedophilic billionaire death cult.

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      Shame if international agents swarmed America to capture all these pedo billionaires.

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        It’s a shame that the US population is STILL waiting for someone else to come and fix the quagmire they have gotten themselves into.

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          And it’s a shame that the rest of the world is waiting for the US population to fix this quagmire. When has a fascist movement ever been taken down from the inside, or been contained just in one country?

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      yeah, like any good gangster tramp hires nobody he hasn’t some leverage over. They’re all covering for each other’s bodies in the closet.

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    That’s because the unredacted European names are the distraction from the redacted mentions of the orange lardsack.