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A Boring Dystopia
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I am sure it's not unique, do we have any more historical examples we can point to though? All I have is the borgia pope.
Examples of blackmail in politics? Seriously?
Yeah what you have a lot of them on the tip of your tongue? I can't think of any that have been exposed as such, not off the top of my head.
Lester Hunt, Hoover, MLK, Dalia Star, Chicken and Bull, even Marie Antoinette? CIA ops have done all kinds of blackmail over the years.
Oh shit, I knew about Hoover, I should've thought of that. I've been accusing the president of being a career blackmailer since his first term, in a hoover-esque trove. Although besides King I didn't know specifics of any of his blackmail just that he had a huge trove.
The president's birthday note to epstein all but said they were both blackmailers. The creepy one written inside the outline of a pre pubescent girl, not so subtle if you ask me. Such an enigma. A child raping enigma.