"The rolling release of the Epstein Files is nothing short of a seismic event, throwing open the very ground we walk on and opening staggering new vistas into the ways in which our world actually works. Though much of work on the files so far has focused on Epstein’s trafficking of women and girls, for good reason given the horrors his victims endured and their inability to obtain justice thus far, the files illuminate far more about our fallen world. A kind of Forrest Gump of our hideously venal and corrupt elite, Epstein’s dealings are a skeleton key for an almost impossible number of terrible yet difficult-to-explain phenomena at the highest levels of wealth and power.
My little corner of that world centers on Elon Musk, whose empire of deception and greed has become something of a fascination for a decade now, starting as a simple automotive story.
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The origins of the Musk-Epstein relationship are one of the most important ways to understand who Jeffery Epstein was and how he operated. Though widely depicted as a sub-literate lecher, and certainly not the kind of intellectual he liked to court, Jeffery Epstein was not stupid. His casual, text-y (probably dyslexia-inflected) email style makes him easy to dismiss at first glance, but after reading enough of his email it eventually becomes clear that Epstein was in fact a remarkably sophisticated operator. Learning to appreciate Epstein’s actual abilities–the ability to spot opportunity, insinuate, flatter, hype, build intimacy, and connect–leads to a far more important lesson: these, and not any actual intellectual abilities, are the tools that our elite run on."
https://niedermeyer.online/2026/02/10/musk-epstein-year-one/
