Jeffrey Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein

Eric Weinstein has repeatedly described Jeffrey Epstein as a likely "intelligence construct" — an artificial persona maintained by intelligence communities for covert operations. Weinstein has made this case through podcast episodes and an extensive multi-year public campaign on X (formerly Twitter), alleging systemic media suppression, intelligence involvement, and institutional failure to investigate Epstein’s background.

Primary Allegations

Weinstein's central thesis, reiterated across multiple platforms, is that Epstein:

• Was not a real financier and ran no identifiable hedge fund.
• Functioned as a front for intelligence operations with a backstory that cannot withstand scrutiny.
• Operated with impunity due to an unspoken national or transnational "understanding" to avoid probing questions into his finances or intelligence ties.

Weinstein wrote: > “Either he had an enormous fund or he didn’t... This manager to this mystery fund is like a captain who supposedly has one of the world’s largest mega yachts…that somehow isn’t registered or flagged... It leaves no wake.”

On Epstein as a Construct

Weinstein has long argued that Epstein was not acting alone:

• He claims Epstein was “a mall filled with different businesses” — not just a honeypot for sexual blackmail but also a vector for covert funding and scientific influence.
• The “construct” hypothesis suggests Epstein’s character was designed to deflect scrutiny and compartmentalize illicit or intelligence-related functions.

Critique of the Media

Weinstein repeatedly emphasizes the media’s failure to investigate the existence (or nonexistence) of Epstein’s purported financial empire:

• “The scandal is not investigating. Not publishing, Not doing journalism. Clearly the state has control of our news.”
• He coined the term “Anti-Interesting” to describe institutional reluctance to pursue stories that could threaten powerful systems of coordination and control.

Intelligence Community (IC) Involvement

Weinstein suspects Epstein's apparent immunity and mysterious wealth point to intelligence collaboration:

• He repeatedly questions whether Epstein’s activities were protected under the pretext of “Sources & Methods”.
• “Why are our news organizations not asking whether Jeffrey Epstein was a state sponsored Intelligence agent... whose trafficking of little kids was protected as ‘Sources & Methods’?”

Moral Argument and Call to Action

Weinstein calls for men, particularly fathers, to demand answers:

• “Where are the Dads?... We Dads might at least stand together against any nation’s Intelligence Community trafficking children. If we can’t do that, I don’t know why Dads matter.”

He urges society to prioritize the rights and safety of children over intelligence prerogatives:

• “If we have to abuse children to gain security for the country, maybe we don’t have the right to a nation.”

Epistemological Caution

Weinstein frequently clarifies that his position is driven by public evidence and logical inference—not inside knowledge:

• “I am not the guy to tell you what Epstein was... I don't actually know about any of those things... I have never claimed that I do.”

Nonetheless, he insists that failing to investigate the inconsistencies is the most damning fact of all.

Call for Oversight and Reform

Weinstein calls for renewed institutional accountability:

• He advocates for a modern reformation of the Church and Pike Committees.
• He has called on the press, Congress, and the public to confront systemic obfuscation by intelligence services and media gatekeepers.

Selected Tweets

• “Never let go of ‘The Epstein Thing.’”
• “This is what Anti-Interesting is all about. Use it.”
• “No one can fake records of his trading prowess.”
• “We now lack journalism.”

On X

2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Keep the coincidences coming!

And what is of course most uninteresting of all to Journalists is pursuing categorical denial from intelligence agencies that Jeffrey Epstein was tied to any intelligence service and/or the last known sighting of Ms G Maxwell and her passport(s)...

6:47 PM · Dec 19, 2019

HuffPost

@HuffPost

Weeks before Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, he suffered neck injuries in the cell he shared with another man. Video footage of the incident is nowhere to be found. http://huffp.st/21iucL4

3:58 PM · Dec 19, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

1/ WE NEED A NEW CHURCH COMMITTEE: Fred Hampton Edition.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the US assassination of our own citizen Fred Hampton, inventor of the Rainbow Coalition. This year is the 40th anniversary of our killing of Jean Seberg via the FBI direction of our Press.

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

2/ With the inexplicable “Perfect Storm” death of Jeffrey Epstein & likely govt direction of our corporate press not to seek categorical denial of our intelligence community w regard to ANY link to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilia & traffic in minors, we MUST investigate our own IC.

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

3/ We would never have learned about our own Government crimes against MLK Jr, Dick Gregory, Jean Seberg, Fred Hampton & others if we the people were not in control of our permanent Government class.

Without investigation, the people are no longer in control of our Govenrment.

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

4/ What‘s the emergency? It’s the silence & bizarre behavior around Epstein:

Q1: Ghislaine Maxwell has a passport. Where and when was it last recorded and why is this of interest to no corporate media?

Q2: Where is the categorical denial or refusal to comment on IC ties to JE?

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

5/ Q3: Prince Andrew’s interview is close to the most bizarre thing I‘ve ever seen on video. Those questions were all expected. What was that?

Fred Hampton reminds us that our permanent class in Gov’t can kill extrajudicially. Jean Seberg reminds us it uses our press against us.

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

6/ Learn to listen for the “sounds of silence”. Silence around @AndrewYang and @TulsiGabbard. Silence around Ghislaine. Silence around Epstein’s Villard House office in NYC and trading records. Silence around IC ties. And silence around the Church & Pike Committees. #BackToChurch

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

End/ I’m calling on @AndrewYang, @BernieSanders, @TulsiGabbard & other Mavericks to LEAD the charge asking about the silence reaching epidemic proportions. It‘s time to investigate ourselves which has always been A NORMAL PART OF DEMOCRACY. It has nothing to do w tinfoil 🎩s.🙏

6:10 PM · Dec 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Oh I think it’s much more diabolical than that often. Here’s how the game is now played. If a person has a *totally* SOLID story that runs counter-narrative to MSM there‘s NO MSM invitation. The story thus ‘breaks’ on conservative Media. Then Lefties cry: “OMG: THEY WENT ON FOX!”

Nov 15, 2019

Erika Sanzi

@esanzi

Just heard @kittypurrzog tell your brother @BretWeinstein on his podcast that she is only invited to appear on/be a guest on heterodox/right leaning outlets and that @MSNBC and other lefty sites/orgs won’t give her a platform.

Nov 15, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

You are seeing Fox-Breitbart-ProjectVeritas break pivotal stories that had been handed to NYT/NPR-CNN. As in the Epstein hot mic there’s a layer above reporters that’s repeatedly killing huge important stories. Why? So they can be discredited by the outlet where they must appear!

Nov 15, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Think about how many times you’ve heard someone say: “Oh, I bet you heard that on @fox, @BreitbartNews, @Project_Veritas. You can’t trust ANYTHING that runs there. You’ve been had. Hahaha.”

It’s such a brilliant gambit. But what makes it work is that MSM must stay all but mute.

9:46 PM · Nov 15, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I think folks aren’t getting at all what I’m saying. I don’t disagree that Epstein was a sociopath. That *was* my read of him. But there was a 2nd layer. A role,mission or job. The two were in conflict. The sociopath just wasn’t focused enough on science/trading to play the role. https://t.co/2xMDu6IeIL

For 15 Yrs starting before his Florida conviction, I’ve said that Epstein was a “construct” because that sociopath could not have constructed that unnatural role by himself. My guess has been that someone/thing hired a sociopath to play a different one focused on science/trading.

So did he fool me? Perhaps. If he has no connection to any intelligence community, he fooled me. If he really cared about science he fooled me. If he really ran a ccy trading strategy out of Villard house he fooled me. If he was a genius he fooled me. If this wasn’t kayfabe..

But intelligence communities do create assets. They do fit them with backstories and characters to play. That is my guess here. And the role that was being played was a badly drawn Gatsby-Bond like character who would never blink. So, am I wrong? Was this bastard state-protected?

You‘ll note that I‘m completely agnostic in this theory as to whether the underlying sociopath would commit suicide given the opportunity. Maybe! How would I know? I wouldn’t.

What I do know is that if he was playing a role, his character as written would never commit suicide.

What I’ve been trying to focus folks on is that there’s likely more than one layer here. There was a sick man & a separate role he wasn’t fully able to play. Poke at the role: ccy trading, Villard House, IC contacts, associates, tax evasion, etc and see it all come crashing down.

8:16 AM · Nov 10, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The Jeffrey Epstein I met would NEVER have killed himself. Lots of folks met him. His was a bizarre personality: find me anyone he met who found that personality compatible with a simple suicide.

If JE just hung himself, then the person we met was a character played by an actor. https://t.co/vpeqp2hMkZ

4:10 PM · Nov 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

For the record, I don’t know that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t commit suicide.

What I am confident saying is this:

“Jeff Epstein, wasn’t a secretive self-made Billionaire hedge fund trading genius who simply just committed suicide w/o any ties to intelligence groups worth reporting.”

I absolutely AM saying that the lack of a vigorous and serious investigation by news media into his reported death and ties to intelligence befitting the severity of this story is essentially *proof* that there is NO functioning press in the United States. We now lack journalism.

7:37 PM · Nov 5, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A leprechaun said to an elf, “Our news is no longer top shelf, I mean what the ‘F’, I don’t know that Jeff- rey Epstein just killed himself.”

Said the Elf “I too must complain! *No one* can locate Ghislaine? I think that this time I’ll forgo my rhyme: This BS is now very scary.”

9:26 AM · Nov 4, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So when you say it, it isn't crazy? Got it.

Why not try....journalism? Ask questions:

A) Where are all Epstein's closest associates?
B) Where are the trading records?
C) What was the non-bullshit source of his wealth?
D) What is his relationship to US & Foreign intelligence.

7:42 PM · Oct 30, 2019

NYT Metro

@NYTMetro

Breaking: Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy ‘points to homicide,’ pathologist claims https://nyti.ms/36m7Bk2

1:04 PM · Oct 30, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is where I feel quite alone. Most friends in the developed world either close their eyes to our crimes (which are many & awful) or they go self hating & talk about the developed world as evil.

I LOVE the US, UK, AUS, Israel etc w/ eyes wide open for *struggling* to improve. https://x.com/holdenweb/stat/holdenweb/status/1188648675796496384

3:50 AM · Oct 28, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

How great is it that I can tweet like this & still be alive despite openly calling for a second Church Committee to investigate the IC & its relationship to J Epstein for example? I can & do yell “To hell with the Clintons, NYT & DJT.”

And I’m still here. I frickin’ love the US.

Oct 28, 2019

(((murgatroyd of appomatox)))

@WhlBarrowTestes

A second church committee? And here I thought you're Jewish!

Oct 28, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@WhlBarrowTestes We have to go #BackToChurch if we are going to find out why Jeffrey Epstein was untouchable for so many years and how he came to leave the scene. Amen brother.

3:58 AM · Oct 28, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Let me tell you what’s totally & absolutely uninteresting: J Epstein’s ties to the Intelligence Communities.

I commend our papers of record for not stooping to sell papers/win clicks even debunking such wild eyed theories. Ok: back to 24/7 coverage of the breaking slavery story.

11:20 PM · Sep 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

BREAKING: Brexit, Rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, Jean Seberg, Andrew Yang, COINTELPRO, and Jeffrey Epstein’s possible connections to Intelligence Communities may never have happened. Please return home.

[Let’s make this *the* issue. I can’t live on a Truman show run by idiots.] https://t.co/nv6snNmVBf

7:26 PM · Oct 3, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Trying to build a haystack to hide the Space Needle?

We stumble on a gigantic program w synapses connecting the UK royal family, Harvard/MIT/Stanford, Bill Gates, Kompromat, Robert Maxwell’s kid, POTUSes...and there are 1000s???

The NYT is now OJ looking for the “real killers.”

Sep 16, 2019

Nicholas Kristof

@NickKristof

It's good to see the outrage at Jeffey Epstein. But there are thousands more Jeffrey Epsteins out there, and tens of thousands of victims. So here's how we can channel our anger to make a difference. My Sunday column, just posted: https://nyti.ms/2LuQK5S

Sep 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In pretending this is mostly about a single wealthy sex offender attended by a never ending series of miraculous coincidences of ever escalating improbability, this is no longer the elephant in the living room. This is the rotting Blue Whale at the US national thanksgiving table.

Sep 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Do you remember when JFK took his own life in Dealy Plaza? No?

Well that’s how this reads to me.

This never was a self-made currency-trading genius billionaire. Almost certainly, this was a huge program. And someone f——d it up by hiring Jeffery Epstein as its face & front end.

1:19 PM · Sep 16, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

That’s the home of my old congregation at Harvard: “Worship & Study”. Ugh.

Think about it this way. What would you fund if you wanted to observe & influence a good chunk of the future Jewish leaders within the US establishment? Harvard Hillel! For what was Epstein the front end?

https://t.co/u0tLMsDZeL

How is this not an intelligence community issue at this point? Do we have no right to know whose asset this was and whether pedophilia was a bug or a feature of the choice to have Jeffrey Epstein play the role of “Mysterious mega genius playboy currency trader”? I still say bug.

Whoever authorized this thing to continue deserves what is coming. But this was probably a program run by a tiny number of people. We need to go after them rather than have them take down general faith in our national security apparatus. Which seems likely as this leaks further..

10:55 PM · Sep 14, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We have fused a convent with a bordello and now we can’t separate them. The bordello needs a convent for respectability. The convent needs a bordello for resources. These houses divided will not stand until we refactor our institutions.

The problem is us. This is who we became.

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

GBH News

@GBHNews

COMMENTARY | Two prominent local colleges are grappling with a straightforward ethical question that has been made out to be needlessly complex: Should a university return donations of “dirty money”?

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The modern US research university is built on the steepest E.G.O. (embedded growth obligation) of any major sector. It’s a pyramid scheme careening out of control with Boomers at the helm of all of the top ones as they have been hooked up for inter-generational wealth transfer.

Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s time for the failed generations (Boomers & Silents) to leave and the untested (GenXers & Millenials) to get to work cleaning up this unholy mess after a pair of failed generations.

The Epstein cover up is the Hill that our Institutional class wishes to die on?

Ok. #SoBeIt

Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is going to keep happening. Plot any metric you like. They all tell a single story:

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Should @SamHarrisOrg & I talk about the Boomers and their original & bold approach to stewardship of education, research and our world class universities?

How about how Student Debt was reclassified in 2005 to keep kids from fleeing this experimental approach through bankruptcy?

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I don’t actually like saying this, but there is no way out. The United States research enterprise cannot afford this generational effect turning our research enterprise into a giant wealth transfer program. This generation has to lose ill gotten gains:

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

As we know, University costs have skyrocketed above inflation. Administrator ranks have ballooned. Student Debt has become non-dischargeable. Adjunct & Student labor have exploded. ETC.

Turns out, there's really only one generation at the helm now steering us into this iceberg:

2:57 AM · Sep 13, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Let’s make this transparently obvious. What was Jeff Epstein’s top trade of which anyone is aware?

Did he use prime brokerage? Did he have counterparties? Did he use an execution team? Did he buy execution algos? He claimed to be rich from trading. Ok. Give the best known one.

I’ll wait.

9:41 AM · Sep 11, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

MIT engages in sensitive work. Epstein was acting oddly like a 1-man boutique funding agency after the US stepped away from certain funding.

A) Was Jeffrey Epstein a market genius?

B) If not, what thing X was funding Jeffrey Epstein?

C) Did MIT have a direct relationship to X?

https://x.com/dabeard/status/dabeard/status/1171592125936521216

It really feels to me like the pervert narrative is what brought an enormous covert structure into view and folks are treating it like the main story. But it seems to me that a large infrastructure was fronted by a badly drawn Gatsby character with no plausible source of wealth.

And the money isn’t enough. Bill Gates didn’t need the money. MIT didn’t need dirty money that badly either. Jeffrey Epstein’s public face was that of someone richer than 11 figures of net worth. And he just wasn’t that rich.

Q: For what was Jeffrey Epstein the front end?

Epstein had an enormous secretive office in Midtown. I know because I dropped off trading materials there in 2004 before his Florida arrest brought him to light. If he was a self-made financial genius of supposedly infinite wealth there will be extensive records there. Anyone???

Why are we not focused on his office? Or am I also about to suddenly take my own life, have an unfortunate car accident, or meet a random lunatic for mentioning the obvious? If this is an intelligence operation why are we trusting intelligence to clean it up and investigate it?

Are we counting on MIT to research MIT? The NYT to report on the NYT? The intelligence community to investigate itself? Why is no one calling for a redo of the Church Committee?? This is not a genie that can go back into the bottle. No one can fake records of his trading prowess.

But by all means, do run yet another story on the “Lolita Express” to “Pedophile Island” as if that’s the only story. We are all terrified to discuss the obvious. Follow the money. Where did this Dalton math teacher get so much? Where is the trading record? Money leaves a trail.

7:34 AM · Sep 11, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The world seems determined to take away the most counterproductive interpretations from the sordid Epstein situation. This is an important point made by @wolfejosh.

That said, the number of shady fortunes that have been rehabilitated by University giving is rather formidable.

10:05 PM · Sep 9, 2019

Josh Wolfe

@wolfejosh

Here’s an interesting, UNINTENDED thing

If philanthropy + named buildings get seen (see the Steinardt part of this thread) as MOTIVATED by whitewashing a rep

Then big giving by good people may become TABOO

as it may backfire suggesting the GIVING is done to assuage MISGIVINGS

9:39 PM · Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@meyerjef In my theory, the actor Jeffrey Epstein was a real person. A math teacher chosen to play a role. The things the actor did as the character are real physical acts. You are not getting what I’m suggesting if that’s your take. Sorry.

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A load bearing man was knocked out & an enormous human infrastructure has been crumbling as a result. What that complex really was isn’t yet understood. Keep in mind our universities became increasingly hostile to mavericks, partially explaining this creepy dependence on Epstein.

NYTimes Communications

@NYTimesPR

Today Joichi Ito resigned from The New York Times Company Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Sep 9, 2019

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What do I believe? That there was no “Jeffrey Epstein” as we know him. There never was.

What we called Jeffrey Epstein was likely a fusion of an actor and a character, both with the name Jeffrey Epstein (a la Colbert). And whoever chose the actor to play the role likely goofed.

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Lastly, I think that the authors of the preposterous character know that this was too big, too dumb and too public. It won’t stay hidden. Silencing everyone is not an option. Wrongdoing will have to be eventually admitted to save the thing that the complex was designed to serve.

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Oh and one more thing. I’ve believed this since I met this ‘thing’ in 2004. Ask anyone I discussed Epstein with over the last 15 years since before his arrest & incarceration in Florida. He was so obviously a front that I used one weird phrase for 15 years: “JE is a construct.”

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The idea was to make a huge bet that everyone would remember when it became clear. Everyone in the Edge world asked “What do you mean he’s a construct?!” Thus they will all remember this theory. This was a badly written character resembling no financial trading genius In history.

Sep 9, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

People tell me that news has now become commercial and that stories are simply constructed to sell papers/get clicks. This is just nonsense.

Nothing would get clicks, boost circulation or sell papers for a NYT/CNN/NPR like aggressively getting to the bottom of the Epstein story.

As I learned uncovering an immigration conspiracy to use visas to tamper with the free market for STEM labor by our national science complex, no news organization is trying to sell us the actual true stories that move news product organically. The stories we want are held back.

News is a lot like college admissions: it’s an insiders game. We know it’s rigged but can’t quite figure out how.

Why take that kid/run that story? Why do you consistently have zero interest in the most interesting kids/stories?

We’re just now learning *how* rigging works.

Take the current totally synthetic & transparent push for “authoritative sources”. Such sources would be the ones warning in 2005 that the “Great Moderation” was a lie & that a crash loomed. Someone like @nntaleb. Yet they mean the opposite. They mean cheerleaders like @nytimes.

6:20 AM · Sep 5, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Underrated cryptic tweets that I placed 9 years ago for future use. Unnoticed with *zero* likes in almost a decade.

Yes, our government developed a plan for rounding up people who could contradict the GIN. There‘s a plan for a coming total collapse of confidence in our system.

The Gated Institutional Narrative or GIN is that which Section A of the reserve index was repurposed to protect. It’s the false story of us as a country, and right now nobody smart has any idea why we shouldn’t call for an independent investigation of the Gated Epstein narrative.

Seriously, you shouldn’t believe it from me. If you think the idea of rounding up innocent professors, rich people, labor leaders, newscasters, professionals, etc is nutty....hey so do I. It sounds crazy.

So go search on that string. Tell me how you make out.

Who’s crazy now?

10:51 PM · Aug 28, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

1/ Long-time followers of this feed will note that I smuggle ideas at times. One of which is that it’s in society’s best interest to pay certain groups vastly more money, and usually groups that infuriate me. If you look at Jeffrey Epstein’s stable of scientists you may get why.

Aug 22, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

2/ Think of the underpaid U.S. research community (particularly theoretical physicists, molecular biologists, ML-experts & top mathematicians) as an unlocked Yellow Bugatti with the motor running and ‘Steal Me’ painted in red on the front hood, in Mandarin/Farsi/Russian/Arabic...

Aug 22, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

3/ Epstein offered many scientists ‘restoration’ by dangling private planes, exotic locales & FUNDING (probably more than sex) the way colleges at Oxford and Cambridge use cellars and high table. We need to fire our worst researchers & start paying our best at a different scale.

Aug 22, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

4/ Were I Epstein or whoever created the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Secretive Finacial Genius character’, my scientific targets would have partially overlapped his. But I‘d have bought off the entire IAS physics department outright. Those people should all be made very wealthy & happy.

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

End/ Oddly, Epstein was buying quite good people, but many who were distinguished by being outward facing rather than the quiet introverted types famous within the fields yet all but unknown outside of them. That‘s a puzzle. Maybe they were the lure to entrap others. Or perhaps..

12:53 PM · Aug 22, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Like the Drake Equation, I feel we need an Epstein Equation to measure an asymptotically vanishing probability that the official simple story is true w/ each new bizarre development.

Just multiply a lot of small probabilities together to see how fast a product goes toward zero.

10:02 PM · Aug 14, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

#IHaveZeroInterestInComittingSuicide #IDoNotIntendToShutUpAboutEpstein

I will be discussing the Epstein situation. At least that’s my intention. But anyone can be silenced; I met him & it scared the hell out of me. He was not a financier. Some ‘thing’ had set him up to play one.

10:52 AM · Aug 11, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My predictions for what happens next in the Epstein death:

A) Lots of low quality conspiracy theorizing followed by: B) A call for platforms to 'Do something!' to stop A). C) New 'reasons' why G Maxwell and L Wexner can't be made to fill in the details.

This is such bullshit.

6:49 PM · Aug 10, 2019

2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Uh, first of all I don’t think we’ve met and pretending that I am “gushing” about someone is not a good introduction. It makes me think “not good faith” given that Cernovich has said horrendous things in the past which we have called wretched and worse. I’d take this up with him.

As for this case, I’m not really interested in Epstein/Ghislaine and company. I want to know whether my country was involved in state protected trafficking in minors & why our press refuses generally to do journalism in this case. Grateful to all doing the work to settle this.

If you have answers and know more about it, go for it. I personally am terrified that we have a gentleman’s agreement not to ask whether this is tied to the intelligence community and I appreciate those trying to find out the truth given the stakes. I don’t have more background.

3:17 AM · Jul 31, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I predict an escalating series of tragic spectacular coincidences surrounding Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell, our press, our wealthy and our intelligence communities.

Because Quantum Mechanics! Or because Black Lives Matter!! Or Something. Yep. Must be quantum or racism...

12:06 AM · Jul 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Jeffrey Epstein: coincidence magnet.

The “fair coin” that comes up tails every time. Because no one wants to be labeled a conspiracy theorist.

As a Mathematician I can say that this IS statistically possible. As a human, I would say don’t listen to me as a mathematician here... https://x.com/PalmerReport/s/PalmerReport/status/1285063675221606400

11:52 PM · Jul 19, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I don’t think that is where this is. I have no inside scoop and am not a general Clinton Body Count guy.

There is some structure around Epstein that all of us civilians are endangered by. Some piece of a dark world spilled into all of our lives. And many eyes are watching.

5:22 PM · Jun 23, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Everyone focused on trying to get me and @EpsilonTheory to talk to each other on Epstein, collapse, markets and other topics, can now lay off. It has just happened.

[Good call on your part planet 🌍 btw. Much as I hate to admit it...]

8:57 PM · May 19, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Listen carefully: you don’t have to elect Biden or Trump.

The world has woken up via being suddenly shut in doors by crazy incompetent people largely born in the 1940s and 1950s without a coherent explanation. Or plan.

Lives lost. Nurses sacrificed. Jobs & businesses destroyed.

You don’t have to take these choices. *Nobody* smart wants these people except to defeat each other. You don’t really like Fox. Or CNN. Or the NYT. Except when they go after your enemies.

Okay. So go cold turkey. Call them all what they are: The UnWorkables.

You would be better off with a thoughtful and competent 45 year old electrician or self made businessperson as president. Almost no ordinary people have family business interests in China or Ukraine. Chose anyone without dementia. Pick someone who can’t remember the moon landing.

Pick someone who never met Jeffrey Epstein. Pick someone who can code or with a masters degree or better in STEM.

You don’t have to keep picking the card the magician is forcing you to select as your card. It’s not YOUR card. It’s the magician’s card. Grab the magicians wrist.

That card says “Biden”. Take that card and a lighter and set it on fire. Then grab the deck and pick another card, rifle it to check for markings on the back, look to see if they all say Biden, and chose a different card at random. This was never a primary. There was no election.

If the enormous generation of you young folk can’t use this mismanagement of a pandemic by a bipartisan kleptocratic gerontocracy, then you aren’t thinking like young folk at all. Demand your debt free future and the removal of this preposterous class of ancient legacy predators.

Learned helplessness is UnAmerican. This is like China or Russia controlling our minds from a bad sci-fi thriller. But we are being controlled by our grandparents and parents instead. And they don’t care.

This is beyond insane and it has never been like this. Ever.

Rant over.

10:54 AM · May 6, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Where are we on State-Sponsored pedophilia honey-pots?

Let’s try the following: How can we be sure that China, Russia or Iran wasn’t behind Epstein if we can’t ask the question of Epstein’s ties to intelligence? So either we KNOW his tie, or we are leaving a giant security hole.

Why is that anti-interesting? Wouldn’t we want to be sure that Epstein’s fortune didn’t come from China, Russia, etc.? Thus we either *know* that it didn’t and aren’t reporting what we know, or we have left the door open to the states that we are certain are trying to control us.

Pursue this even further: if news desks aren’t asking these questions, aren’t they under suspicion of being under control of foreign or domestic intelligence? That is can we essentially back out that some intelligence has captured legacy media if they aren’t willing to *ask* Qs?

Let me say as someone old enough to remember Watergate & the Church Committee, as recently as 40-50 years ago journalists would pursue stories about dirty tricks and Intelligence excesses. The phrase “No Comment” is familiar to anyone my age from this time.

Where is that phrase?

It is an entire concept that has disappeared: institutional accountability with institutions going after institutions rather than institutions going after those individuals who are the only ones who are still really raising questions.

7:59 AM · Feb 28, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The digital layer allows us to measure the market demand for many genuinely fascinating topics in which the legacy journalism layer pretends to take zero interest.

Odd. Guaranteed markets on real topics. Zero interest. Ownership of media by interests who do not need profit.

The digital layer allows us to to see reporters following people they never acknowledge even exist.

Who really cares? Why does it matter? Because institutions agree never to treat as real that which remains confined to the digital layer alone. Hence the reason we’ve stagnated.

I’d like to know where the “last known whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwell” and “location of Epstein trading records from Villard House” and “ties to intelligence” investigations are stalled out. Even where these stories ran into brick walls would be fascinating. Where is the DISC?

7:14 AM · Feb 28, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My simple take on conspiracies: Looking at the @AndrewYang @MSNBC series, it‘s clear that this is not a repeating accident. However what we’re really worrying about is this. What happens if we start to acknowledge these cryptic power moves? Does the world become Qanon & InfoWars?

If we teach COINTELPRO do we start believing in Reptilians? If we acknowledge the Powell Memo, do we believe in Illuminati next? Does questioning Epstein’s death and any connection of his to intelligence communities legitimize all of Pizzagate? Does Jean Seberg destroy all news?

Does our suspicion that the Warren Report was used to silence questions around JFK open up the idea that our government is illegitimate when it releases findings?

Sadly, the answer is that we’re falling into 3 types. Conspiracy deniers, Conspiracy nuts & a tiny third group.

The deniers fear legitimizing deep questions & concern about ground truth, interests, power, leverage, cryptic organizations, etc. Better to avoid the slippery slope without near certain evidence they say.

Nuts want hidden order everywhere. They want to be in on a secret world.

The third group (mine) has had it with both of these groups. We know enough to discuss Type I vs Type II error. We don’t know what’s going on most of the time so the nutters make us crazy. We also don’t believe that Jeffrey Epstein’s coverage is normal. We can map irregularity.

We also know we can be wrong & don’t think that makes us nutters or dupes. It’s Type I vs Type II error & we refuse to get all weird because it involves conspiracies. This is a normal thing to think about unless you know ABSOLUTELY nothing about the history of proven conspiracy!

Two of the most important issues at the moment in this space are about the news:

A) What is the explanation for the bizarre coverage of Jeffrey Epstein?

B) What is the explanation for the bizarre coverage every 4 years of popular candidates outside the system gaining traction?

We know enough to know that something is wildly off in both cases but we don’t know exactly what. That makes both the Nutters & the deniers extremely uncomfortable with us. We may be near certain something is off like nutters but reject detailed theories w/o proof like deniers.

My conclusion is simple: consider joining us. If you’ve outgrown radical pro-life v pro-choice. If you‘re too smart for pure capitalism vs communism. If you can’t get the old camps to work for you, consider taking Type I vs II approach to conspiracies. As you would anything else.

11:02 AM · Jan 9, 2020

2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Normally I would think that our interests would be best served by self-investigation of the IC through redoing the Church/Pike Committees.

But given the hands closing around the throat of free unsurveiled action and open idea exchange, pardoning Assange and Snowden makes sense.

6:40 AM · Jan 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Or more simply put: if our bizarre press and elected representatives refuse to ASK about Jeffrey Epstein’s links to the Intelligence world, what choice do we have but pardoning those who do the work abdicated by government & the press while they cowardly refuse to do their jobs?

6:40 AM · Jan 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I should also say that the problem isn’t as simple as Assange & Snowden. Assume for the moment that they both acted in a principled fashion and did so with great care. You’d still have the issue that pardons send a signal to less principled actors which could be catastrophic.

6:48 AM · Jan 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We need an intelligence community we can trust to *not* be open. That is the conundrum we face. How do we gain oversight and protect ourselves against a secret world that we want to remain opaque?

This is a giant liability of not being able to rest on a shared national culture.

6:48 AM · Jan 18, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Honest question: who are the *deep* critics of our establishment and institutions that the establishment and institutions *are* taking seriously?

Let’s assume I’m worried about Davos. Or media refusal to ask obvious questions about Epstein. Who are you listening to on that?

3:50 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

Kennedy Jr is a menace.

10:10 PM · Feb 6, 2021

Ingraham

@IngrahamAngle

“[Fauci] is a very sinister guy who has turned this country over to Big Pharma.” -- @RobertKennedyJr on The Laura Ingraham Show. Listen to my full interview with Robert by subscribing to @QuakeMedia today: http://quakemedia.com/laura

10:00 PM · Feb 6, 2021

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

The issue with Kennedy Jr isn’t his criticism of Big Pharma or leaders of the medical community. Skepticism is often good. The issue is his years of shoddy and mendacious “scholarship” that has impacted lives negatively.

4:47 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Ok. Take that as you state it.

Many of us are worried about the Great Reset & Davos. Or why the press won’t ask questions about accelerated natural selection in the Wuhan Lab. Or about Epstein & intelligence or where his hedge fund records are. Who are you listening to on those?

4:47 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

Are you asking me or your followers? Either way, to whom do you recommend we listen? I agree all of those topics are worthy of further coverage and scrutiny.

5:23 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’m, somewhat unfairly, asking you. I’d be happy to ask privately. My DMs are open.

I’m concerned that JE was never a hedge fund manager and that no one in traditional media is trying to find his hedge fund trading records/filings or asking about ties to intelligence community.

5:40 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’d recommend listening to @BretWeinstein on accelerated natural selection of the virus but to talk to virologists about the difference between an engineered synthetic virus & merely directing selection inside a lab. Media deals with the former only to discredit lab leak theory.

5:47 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

On the secret immigration act of 1990 & H-1B history, I can give you the backstory. But Michael Teitelbaum and Prof. Norman Matloff would be excellent sources once you know the reason the NSF flooded our markets leading to staffing our STEM research labs with Chinese nationals.

5:50 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I truly appreciate @jaketapper for engaging me on Twitter. I have suggested we switch to DMs. He has engaged. The conversation is now private at my request and not his.

Thank you Jake. I admire this and it is all too rare. There is no gotcha.

End.

6:01 PM · Feb 11, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Thanks for the invitation. I can try to explain my concern.

There really *is* a problem w MAGA, Trump, Qanon & conspiracy theories running rampant. And it will result in death & destruction if it spins out of control.

However it is being fueled by those who claim to fight it.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

CBR_wick

@CBR_wick

Hi @EricRWeinstein. Can you please explain to the public why you would be preemptive like this in a way that seems to contradict your value system? 🙏

12:42 AM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The entire war over fact checking is a war of 2 low resolution teams.

One team wants absolute freedom to spread wild eyed theories that just about everything is a psyop or a false flag.

The other team wants to impose institutional consensus reality on everyone via media & tech.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Unfortunately, I can’t live under either. So each of the warring parties thinks I’m against them & for the other team. In their mentalities if you aren’t on their simplistic team you are, de facto, working for the other side. There’s no basic concept of *responsible* heterodoxy.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No the Freemasons do not run everything on behalf of pedophile reptilians who faked Sandy Hook with crisis actors.

Yes there are/were conspiracies behind Epstein, H1B, @MSNBC, PPE, climate science, the “Great Moderation”, Great Reset...everywhere institutions want a “consensus”.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Having spent a good portion of my 20s at Harvard, I know *exactly* how this game works. Our betters sit down and try to figure out how to control others behind closed doors. They see themselves as the intrinsically enlightened people who need to do the thinking for all of us.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When they wanted to cut our Social Security payments & raise our taxes they opted to try to change the CPI rather than pass legislation. When they wanted to pay less for scientists they knew to keep *silent* about NSF Labor Shortage claims even though such shortages don’t exist.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

These are the folks who tell you “masks don’t work” rather than “save masks for doctors as we forgot to restock them and moved all manufacturing to China like morons”. They will then spin on a dime to tell you “Only bad dumb people don’t wear masks”. This is the worst of Harvard.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So I don’t want Alex Jones and Qanon nor do I want @TwitterSafety, @msnbc and @Harvard. I see them as very different forms of the same thing: people who want to take away our ability to see clearly.

And, I assure you, @Harvard tries to paint anyone it can’t control as dangerous.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So, my belief is that anyone who rejects/questions Davos, Consensus Reality, Institutional Narrative, Public Health Campaigns, High Immigration, Peer Review, Primary Election Coverage, Trust & Safety...will be treated as Alex Jones sooner or Later.

This is Managed Reality ™.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I cannot live in Managed Reality ™ because I think it defeats the purpose of being a human being. It negates being an American. It abdicates responsibility for our children.

I have defeated Harvard about half the times we have fought. How? Because they just aren’t that good.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Managed Reality ™ has a weak spot. It’s not run by our A-team anymore. Fauci isn’t Francis Crick. Biden isn’t Elon. Janet Yellen isn’t Satoshi.

In general, the A-Team is going independent because tech/media/Ed are enforcing way too much conformity through personal destruction.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So why am I worried?

Well, I’ve been trying to save the institutions. It’s probably doomed, but almost no one is trying to do what I do: rescue the institutions from their death spiral by reinserting their critics in positions of prominence (eg Chomsky at MIT).

Hence my fear.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If I were a tech guy I’d retreat into wealth. If I were a professor I’d shut up and collect my salary with job security. If I was a politician or journalist I’d follow the other sheep.

But I’m a science guy, an American and a dad. And I want my kids to have a particular future.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Thanks.

3:50 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Actually...We both are. Maybe you aren’t getting that. Your strategy is skepticism. Mine a hybrid.

I just recorded my first podcast interview in some time. Would be delighted to have that conversation as it would be more effective if people saw our two different approaches.

4:06 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

But I was moved when I saw you move off the official story of Jeffrey Epstein. It got too preposterous for even Michael Shermer!

We need to show folks that our minds change with information as Bayesian priors shift. Delighted to change my mind too if you can show me better ways.

4:06 PM · Feb 12, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What would you say to the same needs in reverse? I, for example, want to know if Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the US intelligence community and has some measure of immunity to operate as a pedophile & trafficker.

Q: Was his Florida arrest what you call a “Blue on Blue” screw up?

3:11 PM · Mar 5, 2021

FBI

@FBI

#ICYMI: During a congressional hearing this week, #FBI Director Christopher Wray discussed how end-to-end encryption threatens the FBI’s mission to protect the American people from federal crimes, including crimes against children, cyberattacks, and terrorism.

2:40 PM · Mar 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: I want to know if I am risking my life by repeatedly asking why no national news organization asks you on the obvious direct on-the-record questions about his financial records or ties to the intelligence communities including the FBI. Am I?

3:11 PM · Mar 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: Do our sources and methods permit a blind eye to child sex trafficking by foreign controlled agents?

Q: Does the FBI work with tech platforms to control the reach of citizens who ask these questions to you that the @nytimes @washingtonpost, @cnn & @npr conspicuously will not?

3:11 PM · Mar 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: Do you have the financial records & filings of Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed “hedge fund” offices at Villard house? If not, why not? If so, was there a Foreign Currency trading fund?

Q: Can the FBI be trusted with End to End encryption if it will not answer these questions? 🙏

3:11 PM · Mar 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Please quote tweet the top tweet in thread to counteract downranking by Twitter. We need these questions asked by our news media. Make this a story. Force them to simply do their job on what could be the biggest story of the decade & don’t ever call @TwitterSafety ‘Safety’ again.

3:25 PM · Mar 5, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s so weird what the internet chooses to infer. Obviously I’m worried about a tie back to some unit of Israeli intelligence. It’s Robert Maxwell’s daughter for Godsake.

The internet fixates generally & internet Israel critics more than most. Internet inference is very weird.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Some of my motivation is to communicate that *if* some unit in Israel is ultimately directly implicated, it sure as hell isn’t “The Jews” or “Israel” that is behind this. That ordinary Jews would risk everything to stop such techniques. And I’m willing to make the point concrete.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Do I know that it is Israel behind this? No. Do I think one nation acted alone? I’m not even positive that Epstein was state sponsored. What do I believe? That Israel and the US WERE part of a GROUP of national ICs that turned a blind eye to child sex trafficking at a *minimum*.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

How big is that group? Well, I believe *If* it exists it contains at least 2 nations not 1. And while I love Israel and have lived there, I’m very worried about the universal silence over this.

Why am I doing this? In part to stand up for 2 countries I *love* & fear went wrong.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Israel has had some terrible operations (e.g. Lillehammer) like the US (e.g. Cointelpro). And their strength comes from being strong enough to face those horrors when the happen.

And I believe in my 2 favorite nations enough to ask the questions whose answers I fear to my soul.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have said this before. But the fixation on Israel never rests. So neither will its honest critics and its defenders. I would like to think I can count my self among both their ranks. End.

4:37 PM · Mar 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

And remember, if you mention anything funny going on you are just a crazy person complaining that your Twitter game is lame. And if James O’Keefe has video of an engineer laughing about it, everything PV does is faked. And Epstein totally killed himself and no one cares about it.

12:57 AM · Mar 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Also Antifa doesn’t exist. And the election was merely fortified. And masks don’t work unless they do. And protests are mostly peaceful unless they occur on January 6th. And radicalized Muslims are suffering from white supremacy. Unfettered conversation is bad.

Have a great day.

12:57 AM · Mar 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I think folks get confused that Jeffrey Epstein was valued for providing sex to his circle.

I don’t think that’s right. Many in his circle had access to sex.

You have to take a next step to see it.

The thing Epstein offered that his friends just couldn’t get...was silence.

2:57 AM · Mar 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Think I’m wrong? Then where are any competent probing articles on this story in national news media.

Every one of us who talks about this story knows fear. I do. All the time. Fear is the product. Sex silenced by terror.

Are you a reporter? Then why haven’t you filed the story?

2:57 AM · Mar 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Ask for the hedge fund filings. Ask on the whereabouts of the contents of his Villard House office. Then try to get some rest.

Not so easy as it sounded right?

No, Epstein provided a blackout curtain of silence woven from implied terror. And you need state cooperation for that.

2:57 AM · Mar 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Usual Disclaimer: I am not feeling suicidal and have no further knowledge Beyond what I put out months ago. I am not a threat as I only met him once briefly and have no other intimate secrets requiring my silence. I’m now just a broken record that everyone has heard before.

3:08 AM · Mar 31, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff

This is what institutional betrayal looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.

It’s COVID pronouncements. Or String Theory. Or CPI revisions. Or “Labor Shortages”. Or fast-track trade treaties:

https://youtu.be/ab1NTIlO-FM

Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff & Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”

I guessed BM might be front-running his own business. Boy was I wrong on the specifics.

RIP Bernie Madoff.

8:05 AM · Apr 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The person, @officialmcafee, who reached out to me *obsessed* about not being “suicided” like Jeffrey Epstein, is characterologically the same as the person described hours before his death by his wife here.

Assume for the moment that his wife is correct in what she says here…

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

That would change the Bayesian priors considerably for me. The main doubt I had and that he might actually have killed himself is that my information was just over a year old. Prison could have changed someone. Very unlikely in McAfee’s case. But not impossible.

Now I think not.

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No one on earth probably has gone to greater lengths (e.g. tattooing themselves) in communicating “If I am found dead like Jeffrey Epstein I was murdered.”

And he is found dead from gravity in a prison? That sounds like something else. That sounds like a message killing.

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What is a “Message killing”? Well it’s not much talked about.

MESSAGE KILLING TARGET: Antonio R Caponigro.

When Tony Cponigro was killed in 1980, he was found in the Bronx with $300 dollars shoved in his mouth and lower orifice.

MESSAGE: Don’t be Greedy.

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

MESSAGE KILLING TARGET: Marisol Macías Castañeda

A Mexican journalist, editor and blogger writing anonymously about drug cartels was murdered by Los Zetas. She was found with her computer keyboard and other peripherals.

MESSAGE: The Cartels can find those who blog anonymously.

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

MESSAGE KILLING TARGET: Abe Reles.

Reles was a Hitman who was just about to turn on Albert Anastasia in 1941. Instead He mysteriously fell to his death while under tight police supervision.

MESSAGE: “The bird (Reles) could sing (testify) but he couldn’t fly (defenestrated).”

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Applying the same logic here, POSSIBLE MESSAGE KILLING TARGET:John McAfee.

John died in *exactly* the way he told us he would *never* die: like Epstein.

MESSAGE: “We can get anywhere. You can’t stop it by taking elaborate precaution. We can always murder so it can’t be proven.”

8:27 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

• Caponigro

8:29 PM · Jun 25, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It is hard to read this story of Epstein’s inexplicable deal with prosecutors without specialized vocabulary not meant for the public. The magical words are likely to be “event deconfliction” and “blue on blue incident”.

Otherwise you would think that this is about Ken Starr.

5:35 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If any reporters want to ask about the history of deconfliction between the Federal and International IC and local law enforcement they can contact these entities listed by the DOJ.

This lists the three major deconfliction database systems: SAFETNet, RISsafe, and Case Explorer:

5:35 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I just called to ask CaseExplorer for South Florida about the history and federal participation in deconfliction circa 2000-2008. I was getting the history going back to 1990.

Then I mentioned a Jeffrey Epstein.

“Sir, I am now going to terminate this call.”

Reporters? Anyone?

5:35 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The Guardian called him a Billionaire. The New York Times called him a suicide. Others called him a disgraced Financier.

Wouldn’t we have to rule out IC construct? Why will no media ask about the possibility of a state sponsored Pedophile IC operation?

Is there no press at all?

5:35 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

He was not a billionaire. He was not a currency trading hedge fund genius. He was not a simple suicide.

This isn’t about Ken Starr.

I would not trust any newspaper that refuses to ask this question:

Was Epstein a state sponsored operation tripped over by local law enforcement?

5:35 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

#FollowTheSilence

5:41 PM · Jul 14, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?

It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.

Roaring20s

@Dream_S14

@EricRWeinstein was the first talking about Epstein being an intelligence “agent” (Mossad IIRC), that was a long time ago, his brother @BretWeinstein was the first to speak about the lab leak, a long time ago, both were labelled as crackpots, now both being shown to be accurate

3:40 AM · Jul 16, 2021

6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community & who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.

6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.

6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

It’s tough getting things wrong over & over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.

6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.

But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.

6:15 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

*too

6:18 AM · Jul 16, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The cognitive tools for understanding any rationale behind NIH funded Gain of Function Research in China are almost certainly being withheld.

Look at it from the point of a true believer in the system. “We have to not lose the bioweapon arms race & should keep our rivals close.”

“But the public will never understand a partnership with our main rival as being safer than being frozen out of all CCP decisions. On the other hand we can’t be seen as engaging in a bioweapons arms race. So we had myriad ways to evade the optics of what we were actually doing.”

“Then COVID got out. Suddenly the whole world was talking about zoonotic bat respiratory Corona viruses: a subject the public had never heard of before. Our excuses & proxies for what is essentially military strategy for containment of CCP biowarfare ambitions were center stage.”

“Only we can’t talk about this. And our strategy that worked well enough when no one in the public knew “Gain of Function”, “Spike Protein” or “Zoonotic” terms stopped working when everyone on the planet was forced to become amateur scientists. Then we lost ‘Lab Leak is racism’.”

“So what do we do? Do we have an open town-hall to explain all things that are part of delicate multi decade Wash DC political insider theory like “Constructive engagement”, “Iranian Nuclear Containment”, “Two State Solution”? Of course not. That’s why we have an expert class.”

So we sit around with the expert class withholding all the cognitive tools “we the people” need to figure out whether we have the CORRECT public spirited Elite. Which we do not.

Thus the ‘elite’ get more and more resentful that we are meddling in ‘their’ strategic endeavors. Ha. The idea that it’s time to come clean about Epstein, Iran, the West Bank, Strategic Engagement, Nuclear Bluffing, Climate & Wealth, internal spying, Assange and Snowden, simply never occurs to a class that believes it is acting in a way that can NEVER be open to public scrutiny.

Start from this insider premise that is never said out loud, “The purpose of democracy is to give the public the most minimal choice over multi-decade cryptic strategies that must be managed by insider classes, so that they can only slightly course correct from expert consensus.”

The populist premise is simpler: “You insiders seem to be incompetent at your jobs & more than competent at your extraction of wealth & obfuscation of all with which you have been entrusted. How can we force you ‘elite’ to account for your non-elite malfeasance and incompetence?”

That’s how I see it. We have to stop talking about this in the exact terms we are handed by the very ‘elite’ who don’t want us talking about the real issues. We need to stop using the framings we’re handed.

For example, “Gain of Function” is largely a euphemism for “weaponized”.

Do I believe in an actual Elite that cannot share everything with the public. Yeah. Think about it; It cannot be otherwise.

Do I believe in this *elite*? This is the Keystone Cops meets Mr Magoo.

So I am neither a populist nor a defender of the system as it is currently found.

We should join the populists in demanding answers based on pathological extractive, unethical and incompetent behavior.

But you cannot “burn it all the fuck down”, put it all on the blockchain or vote for complete transparency either.

We need a well paid actual public spirited elite public servant class.

And no one I know is willing to say this. They either defend the system as is, or want some radical revolution.

We need new folks in their 20s-50s. Not Fauci. Not Biden. Not Trump. Not Pelosi. Not McConnell.

If you’ve been in power for a long time and are now in your 70s & 80s? It is simply time to go. That’s not ageism.

That’s an IMPLICIT part of the system. We’ve never before remotely had a President & core group this out of touch, this old, and this technically over their heads.

Soapbox speech over.

As always, thanks for listening and letting me try out these ideas at scale. 🙏

4:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Distrust ANYONE like Apple who supports scanning your *private* photos, but won’t call for hearings into Jeffrey Epstein’s fictitious multi-billion dollar currency trading hedge fund or will ask why NO top dedicated newsdesk will investigate his ties to Intelligence Communities. https://t.co/QLid4ccazG

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5:30 AM · Aug 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is an easy tell: people who have **less** than **zero** interest in elite pedophiles connected to intelligence, want intelligence on everyone, dominated by ordinary non-pedophiles. If you’re dumb enough to believe this i can’t help you.

This is about control, not children. https://t.co/wx1j5qI6Ix

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5:30 AM · Aug 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

When you see this campaign, remember this: the face that has the privacy is hidden. That’s Apple.

The face being recorded? Why, that’s you. The sucker. https://t.co/gsdXrEOW1Y

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5:30 AM · Aug 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Prove me wrong @alexstamos, @apple and Tim Cook: join me in calling for hearings into the Intelligence Community, its connection to Jeffrey Epstein and state protected pedophilia in our highest “elite” Echelons.

No? Thought so. This is sickening. Creepy Cowardice? That’s iPhone. https://t.co/PonA18O75E

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5:30 AM · Aug 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If I have this wrong, @tim_cook I will happily apologize. Will you join me in calling for open investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and ANY ties he had to the Intelligence Community? Whether he was let off through “event deconfliction” in a “Blue on Blue incident” in S. Florida? 🙏

5:37 AM · Aug 8, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Many appear to be on the lookout for any and all issues that allow authoritarians to concentrate power. So far we have:

A) Child trafficking.

B) Climate catastrophe.

C) “X is actually a public health issue.”

D) Society is Structurally bigoted/Evil.

E) “It’s a PANDEMIC people!”

B) and E) are traditionally somewhat compelling but are clearly now being used by leaders. The others are transparently not compelling. Epstein taught us no one in office cares about child trafficking enough to get to the bottom of what was going on w/ our government and Epstein.

Disagree? Okay: Hold one brutal hearing this year on Epstein, the records of his mysterious Hedge Fund, child trafficking and any links between Epstein and Intelligence communities.

I’ll wait. Will apologize if it happens.

Cc: @alexstamos

So the problem is that climate and pandemic may require coordinated action. But there is seemingly no one honest & competent enough to forgo the opportunity to spread authoritarian control to surveillance, censorship, and expectations of obedience inconsistent with free society.

I’d support the need of public spirited government to narrowly tell us what to do in the most limited of legitimate circumstances requiring coordination beyond our usual.

I don’t support what I’m seeing which is institutional fetish for using pandemic, climate, etc for control.

We have to rid ourselves of a class of authoritarians who want to turn everything into a catastrophe requiring the surrender of our personal freedom & privacy.

By the same token, sometimes there is a war or pandemic. And you may need war-time leaders over peacetime careerists.🙏

6:23 PM · Aug 9, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have always admired Ed Asner. It takes grit to stand for innocent children and a foundation named “Rosenberg.”

This will be an unpopular tweet because Julius Rosenberg was a traitor. But many loyal progressive families were also targeted by the US government for nothing. https://t.co/BUafp4y8RW

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1:58 AM · Aug 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Into that quagmire of actual Soviet spies, traitors and other scum alongside loyal do-gooding anti-totalitarian progressive US activists waded people who were focused that children not pay the price of COINTELPRO & other terrifying dirty tricks campaigns.

My family was targeted.

1:58 AM · Aug 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

My parents generation bore the brunt of the extra-judicial anti-communist zealotry. And I, to this day, despise the suffocation of Communism and Totalitarianism in much the same way I can’t stand the evil cruelty of Anti-Communism.

So choosing to stand for kids is a big deal.

1:58 AM · Aug 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Thank you Ed Asner for lending your name and strength as a man to a hugely unpopular and righteous progressive cause particularly close to my heart.

I don’t know why so few stand for targeted children. Whether against Epstein, COINTELPRO, or the Taliban. But most adults run.

1:58 AM · Aug 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

RIP to Ed Asner. A man who stood for deserving and innocent children at considerable cost to himself and one who repeatedly stood his ground for a better world. 🙏 https://t.co/Mvg5KIEOzv

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1:58 AM · Aug 30, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Imagine:

A) “Reformed” Pakistan Backed Taliban as Secret US Regional Security Partner.

B) The Wuhan Laboratory as US Bioweapons Research Partner.

C) Jeffrey Epstein as Trusted Intelligence Partner.

D) EcoHealth alliance as Sensitive Information/Defense Conduit.

were correct.

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

You would have a pattern. The US government would be trying to get things done (e.g. keeping tabs on PRC Bioweapon research) without an ability to explain anything.

No one wants to explain: “The US protects pedophiles, works with fundamentalist killers, and empowers its rivals.”

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

But if you look at it, we don’t seem to be getting to the bottom of ANY of these various stories. It’s as if each story is just too uninteresting or draining to pursue for our Pulitzer hungry journalists. No one wants to hold truly in-depth hearings. Well, why aren’t we digging?

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is it that our top leaders know all these truths already? That they have a common issue: we attempted to shackle scientists, spies, generals, geopolitical strategists to a point that they found unbelievably unethical workarounds for EVERYTHING we tried to get them to stop doing?

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Are our media, political and research classes effectively telling us: “We don’t owe you a thing. You put restrictions on us so we couldn’t move. These nutty workarounds were needed and they’re all YOUR fault. Not ours. We were trying to do your work until you made it impossible.”

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Imagine the Colonel Jessup. Only, this time, he’s not merely evil but also real and NOT good at his job. He is reborn as an incompetent who cannot do his job.

And he lacks the integrity of a real leader to blurt out that he did in fact order the Code Red:

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Take a look at the @EcoHealthNYC and @NIAID leadership.

I think what I want at this point is the truth about what we are up to in Afghanistan, Sexual Kompromat, BioWeapons research, inflated money Supply, etc. And I think what they think is that we’re simply not entitled to it.

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Only problem is that this is still a democracy, we’re a free people, they work for us, and we’re right on this and they’re wrong.

I think we need to see that all these big stories may be fitting a pattern: it may simply be Col. Jessupes (and their kluges) all the way down. 🙏

4:33 AM · Sep 21, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I hadn’t been saying much about @EcoHealthNYC for a reason. I don’t have many mentors, but a man I respect as my mentor was on the board: a heroic figure to me & to others. So I had hoped that the situation there was under adult supervision.

I appear to have had misplaced hopes.

5:04 PM · Oct 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

In a different world, these issues would first be dealt w/ behind the scenes so as to avoid destruction to our infrastructure. I assume @EcoHealthNYC is a typical proxy for the government which uses outside contractors to evade restrictions on government. But this is way beyond.

5:05 PM · Oct 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

No one has much commented on how high-powered the board has been. You have a director of the NSF as a board member for example.

No one is asking the hard questions yet. Like Epstein, this story doesn’t add up: I fear we don’t look for answers when we know many of them already.

5:05 PM · Oct 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If I were a reporter, I would ask the board members about @EcoHealthNYC’s BioWarfare responsibilities given its @doddtra relationship. I would ask the 77 Nobel laureates about who organized the letter supporting the funding of Dr Daszak.

Journalists: Break a sweat. What is this?

5:05 PM · Oct 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is a big deal. Treat Dr Daszak & Dr Fauci as they deserve: central figures in some story involving grey area BioWarfare strategy and responsibilities that we ordinary humans don’t understand because no one will explain it.

The strategy failed: duh. Time to declassify it. 🙏

5:05 PM · Oct 6, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Things I don't believe we can't conclusively resolve:

A) COVID's origin.

B) The Jeffrey Epstein story.

C) UAP.

D) JFK assassination.

E) Vegas Shooting.

F) Extent of 'Democracy Fortifying' in 2020.

G) Efficacy of Non-Vaccines.

H) Mysterious WEF 'Build Back Better' mantra.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I) Negative impacts of Trade known to have been suppressed.

J) Adulteration of BLS CPI measure of inflation.

K) Negative economic impacts of Immigration.

L) Sudden spike in fake 'Objective Third Party Fact Checking'.

M) Sudden "Diversity Equity Inclusion" explosion.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q) Joe Biden's state of cognitive decline.

R) Nature of MSNBC campagin against Andrew Yang.

S) Nature of Dean Scream, Anti-Ron Paul and other interference in democracy by Mainstream media News.

T) Impact of loss of mandatory retirement on young people seeking work.

U) Rex84.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

V) Collusion between National Academy and National Science foundation division of Policy Research and Analysis to fake demographic crisis in mid 1980s.

W) Lack on anyone building the significant & desperately needed new non-profit institutions despite skyhigh wealth inequality.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

X) Loss of Academic Freedom across the board in Academe.

Y) Loss of the Lancet and other publications as trusted non-political sources of fact.

Z) The true nature of @EcoHealthNYC w its relationship to @doddtra & Dr A. Fauci.

Moral: much of this 'ambiguity' is serving the few.

7:17 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

A last point: I don't know what happened in most all of these (the NSF & BLS stories being exceptions). I really don't. The quality of my guesses is not particularly high. The quality of my suspicions as to what IS resolvable has been *considerably* higher, at least historically.

7:49 PM · Oct 23, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Can we skip to the “end run around bioweapon research restrictions” part?

Can we jump to the “Epstein & the intelligence community” story?

Can we discuss our moronic “Meet our partially reformed Taliban security partners.” theory?

No? Ok. I thought not. https://t.co/Ei58KBi5be

6:51 AM · Oct 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Almost every pivotal institution is lying about almost everything of importance, almost all the time now. We have to just stop.

6:51 AM · Oct 26, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@InfinityJames The stories are popular with some journalists. They are popular with readers too.

Somehow the editors always kill them. It’s very interesting. “Let’s hold off: Nobody remembers Jeffrey Epstein.”

“Nobody cares why @EcoHealthNYC was running some DOD grants through Wuhan.” Etc.

4:21 AM · Nov 1, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MediClit The tweet has been seen by slightly more people than live in Dallas Texas.

Out of that, people will self select. I haven’t been following the many comments but experience tells me that negative and mean people almost always have much more energy, focus and time on their hands. https://t.co/EHB2SyYULw

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4:42 PM · Nov 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MediClit It also takes some getting used to to realize how many people are watching such tweets since only a fraction engage. But I’m not following all the comments. Too much to do. Sorry.

4:45 PM · Nov 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MediClit Men & women are in a partnership.

When men don’t stand up for little girls because they fear the state, the media and, in particular, the intelligence community, the partnership goes out of whack. But I’m old fashioned. We’re the expendable gender. And this is likely IC related.

7:57 PM · Nov 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MediClit Let’s try to model better male female dynamics. Moms are pretty ferocious and this is a team effort.

I’m sorry but there is something about looking at Epstein with that little girl on his lap on his private jet that makes me think we should be out on the DC mall with pitchforks.

8:00 PM · Nov 22, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” -@NYMag

1:11 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What was that about? Jeffrey Epstein was not a “disgraced financier”, 14 year olds are not “Beautiful women…on the younger side.”

Was Trump sending us a message, a warning or a confession? Whatever it was, it’s a big deal. Time to revisit this article:

https://t.co/zQ54rPetbc

1:11 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So this just appears now!?! And what do we learn? That if "Sources and Methods" of the Intelligence Community might be compromised, prosecutors regularly decline to push for full prosecution EVEN IN THE CASE OF SEXUAL ABUSE of minors and INFANTS.

Bingo: Follow the Silence.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Jason Leopold

@JasonLeopold

I have spent a decade, literally, collecting hundreds of IG reports from the CIA via #FOIA. I've filed 13 requests and sued the agency 3 times since 2012. When @a_cormier_ & I started to review these docs earlier this year we spotted a disturbing pattern

9:34 PM · Dec 1, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

We have an undisclosed program; there's some kind of 'understanding' that we don't understand. I very well understand why we don't casually compromise "Sources & Methods". But trafficking kids is NOT casual business. Nor is USING them as part of 'Sources & Methods' for kompromat.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

One question now creates 2 teams:

Team A) 'Sources & Methods' are above child trafficking in importance.

Team B) Child Trafficking is above any exemption for our 'Sources & Methods'.

I believe that if Epstein needed to use kids for S&M as Kompromat, we lost our plot entirely.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Seriously, I am not being naive here. If we have to abuse children to gain security for the country, maybe we don't have the right to a nation? If our intelligence community is so pathetic...look you get the idea. If the US isn't protecting kids from our own IC, we aren't the US.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I understand we may occassionally have to fell a monster overseas. I understand that sometimes there's a ticking time bomb and 'extraordinary methods' are needed. I understand that we must surveil people or engage in illegal acts while undercover.

But you-can't-use-kids. Period.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is there some GIANT understanding involving our journalists & news desks that when the IC says 'Sources & Methods' we all just say 'Ok. Anything you say boys.' Like, for example with @arobach being shut down on Epstein:

Abuse of Kids > Sources & Methods

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Notice how everything adds up if there's a giant understanding that Sources & Methods trump everything protecting innocent children? You just say 'Sources & Methods are at risk'. Explains Acosta, Robach, Veritas, etc. Boom: No more Epstein mysteries. It's all 'Sources & Methods'.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: Why no discussion of Villard House records?
A: Sources & Methods.

Q: Why no investigation of Epstein's Hedge Fund's trading partners & brokerage?
A: Sources & Methods.

Q: Why do editors claim no one cares about Epstein?
A: Sources & Methods.

Q: Project Veritas?
A: S&M.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Q: Why report Epstein was a disgraced Financier when no one seems to have traded with him?
A: Sources & Methods.

Q: Why so little interest in covering Ghislaine relative to Kyle Rittenhouse?
A: Sources & Methods.

Q: Why did no one ask where GM last crossed a border?
A: S & M.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Moral: Our kids cant vote. We bring them into the world totally dependent on us. If we have a country that deserves an Intelligence Service, we have a right to know that kids are 100% OFF LIMITS as regards 'Sources & Methods' by the IC of us or our allies. Period. Kids >>> S & M.

6:54 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

P.S. And...I appear to be back to being throttled more agressively after several threads were throttled less agressively or not at all by twitter.

At least at first on this thread. We will see whether that continues. CC'ing @lexfridman @benshapiro @jordanbpeterson @SamHarrisOrg

7:02 AM · Dec 2, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have been told that “Sources and Methods” of the IC must be protected by any means necessary.

That is likely the most parsimonious explanation for why the Epstein case never resolves. Something seems to happen to everything and everyone who could clear it up.

5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Is this a conspiracy theory?

Well, think about it like this. When the Intelligence Community is doing it’s job properly it’s supposed to generate conspiracies for the public good. So saying the IC is a conspiracy factory isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s part of a job description.

5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Further, we definitely have an “Event Deconfliction” system to make sure that local law enforcement & district attorneys don’t bust & prosecute undercover federal agents, screwing up our secret programs. Events are called “Blue on Blue.”

So that isn’t a conspiracy theory either.

5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Additionally, the use of honey traps, honey pots, and kompromat are all well known as tools of the IC, as is disinformation.

None of that is conspiracy theory either.

The only thing you can object to as irresponsible conspiracy theory is the assertion that this may apply here.

5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I submit this to you that “This likely is the best explanation of all the improbable things that keep happening which keep us from learning the truth in this case.”

This isn’t remotely tin foil hat territory. This looks like state protection of the Sources and Methods of the IC.

5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Jeffrey Epstein and the global Intelligence Community (IC).

Which of the following best describes Jeffrey Epstein and his most likely relationship to the IC?

—————

Jeffrey Epstein was most likely:

6:42 AM · Dec 19, 2021

2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Organized civil disobedience is the correct next response to the prolonged, indefinite and deliberate abuse of exotic emergency powers inconsistent with being a free people in our own country.

I don’t want to go there, but it is time.

We are going to have to get CCP influence out of our country. We are going to have to get Fauci and Daszak to explain what we were doing in Wuhan. We are going to have to drive Pfizer out of news sponsorship. We are going to have to extend freedom of speech to digital speech.

We are going to need algorithmic transparency from Twitter through regulation. We are going to need to rein in the Feds ability to print its way into crushing the working class through seignorage and blowing out income inequality for holders of risk assets.

We are going to need to scale back our military obligations so we can actually be counted upon by our partners. We are going to need to prohibit the Whitehouse from attempting to label those who raise the president’s cognitive decline as “Purveyors of misinformation.”

We are going to need hearings on the intelligence community and it’s relationship to pedophiles like Jeff Epstein endangering our children. We are going to need the receipts and federal securities filings from his likely non-existent hedge fund. We need student debt forgiveness.

8:42 PM · Feb 6, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Jean-Luc Brunel John McAfee Jeffrey Epstein

All officially committed suicide by hanging in prison without video.

You should check if you have a module installed in your head that IMMEDIATELY triggers to declare that this is likely coincidence or at worst an emergent phenomenon.

9:22 AM · Mar 15, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I think this isn’t right.

We have a world where institutions BLATANTLY lie in the vague direction of the truth to make the truth…uh…punchier. More viral.

Some people, upon detecting the lies (e.g. “Climate modeling is settled science”), decide there’s no truth in it *at all*.

Many believe there is no chance COVID was Zoonotic because we are lying about the lab by saying it has to be Zoonotic. But we don’t know.

Many people are convinced Ivermectin is a total COVID solution since we’re obviously lying about human medicine as Horse Dewormer. It isn’t.

No one knows if Epstein killed himself. We just know our papers aren’t aggressively reporting that story. So many assume Epstein’s death is fake or an obvious hit. Because it could be either, but our lame institutions don’t dare ask even the easy questions. So we lurch to oppose.

Many people don’t believe that Russia/Ukraine is a threat or even real because they can see the obvious daily spin. But it is a huge threat and an atrocity. We’re just lying and spinning parts of it.

They don’t believe the Fed has ANY function because it does do some bad stuff.

Moral: if you want a better model of Trump Supporters try this one: they prefer idiosyncratic lying/spin/distortion by a gadfly as an antidote to coordinated credentialed institutional polished lying with amazing production values. Further, they don’t think *anyone* offers truth.

But they will react to spin and hype as if there is ZERO substance behind it if that spin and hype are coordinated across multiple venues, institutions & talking heads.

They aren’t principally embracing Trump or idiocy. They are rejecting obvious coordination of hype.

That.🙏

12:22 PM · Apr 6, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

These powerful people could likely get sex elsewhere.

Epstein was an intrinsically terrifying person. He sold silence. His “vibe” was terrifying and not by accident.

9:02 AM · Jun 5, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

One wish for Father’s Day: That every Dad w a daughter ask one simple question: “Why are our news organizations not asking whether Jeffrey Epstein was a state sponsored Intelligence agent of one or more nations whose trafficking of little kids was protected as ‘Sources&Methods’?”

There’s something that is just too horrible to imagine: that no leading news organization will pursue the question of whether an Intelligence agency of any nation would be permitted to allow an affiliate to traffic little girls. I see 0 evidence that Epstein managed a hedge fund.

I personally don’t believe there was a hedge fund. I don’t believe Epstein was a “disgraced Financier”. I don’t believe he was ever a multi-billionaire. I don’t believe he made his own money. I don’t believe he traded currencies successfully. So: Where does this story come from?

If you’re going to report that he’s a “disgraced hedge fund manager”, go produce your evidence! Where is the evidence of this hedge fund??? Where are its trading records? Who was its prime broker? Did it focus on Carry trades? Mean Reversion? Trend following?

Or is it all a lie.

We Dads might at least stand together against any nation’s Intelligence Community trafficking children. If we can’t do that, I don’t know why Dad’s matter. And I’m convinced Dad’s matter.

Thanks. 🙏

5:54 PM · Jun 19, 2022

2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

To our government, there is nothing less interesting than large numbers of unexpected UFOs encountered by Air Force and Navy Aviators. Apparently.

Unless a living Jeff Epstein emerged from a UFO over the Wuhan Institute and confessed to releasing COVID19: https://dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Unclassified-2022-Annual-Report-UAP.pdf

2:27 PM · Jan 12, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Any updates: on the debris from 2nd, 3rd and 4th objects shot down over AK, Yukon & Lake Huron?

Or origin of COVID and the @EcoHealthNYC interference?

Or the source of the Epstein trading fortune?

Paper mask mandate efficacy?

Money supply changes on CPI?

Vaccine assessment?

Updates on FBI, DHS, GEC, CISA Prebunking citizens sharing real information through manipulated tech platforms?

Election interference via federal suppression of journalism?

Projected impact of Vinyl Chloride cloud in expected deaths & morbidity?

Disclosure of UFO/UAP history? Updates on how the congressional leadership is able to beat the markets?

To whom Ghislaine Maxwell & Jeffrey Epstein trafficked?

Whether GM & JE were in any way related to the IC?

Why we pulled out of Bagram the way we did?

Why we can’t question Ukraine escalation?

Etc?

Updates on FBI, DHS, GEC, CISA Prebunking citizens sharing real information through manipulated tech platforms?

Election interference via federal suppression of journalism?

Projected impact of Vinyl Chloride cloud in expected deaths & morbidity?

Disclosure of UFO/UAP history?

Updates on how the congressional leadership is able to beat the markets?

To whom Ghislaine Maxwell & Jeffrey Epstein trafficked?

Whether GM & JE were in any way related to the IC?

Why we pulled out of Bagram the way we did?

Why we can’t question Ukraine escalation?

Etc?

This is something I’ve never seen: total suppression of answers to normal questions needed to make informed decision in everyday life and at the ballot box.

If this much needs to be protected on a need-to-know basis, democracy is simply over. This isn’t compatible w/ democracy.

1. TheDISCisReal
2. SlipTheDISC

9:29 PM · Feb 13, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Imagine if it were leaked that COVID came from an NIH grant: “This-has-no-business-being-in-the-public-domain.”

Or if Epstein were foreign intelligence operating with tacit approval of the US IC: “This-is-not-intended-for-public-consumption.”

Capisce?

https://x.com/Badbydefault/status/1645631029825224706

My point: you public servants have protected AND failed too much. You smear *every* one of us who merely trips over your mile-wide trail of incompetent statecraft from Bagram to Wuhan that passes through 71st St Manhattan & east of Dayton.

MORAL: Protect less or succeed more. 🙏

9:01 PM · Apr 10, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The central question remains:

Was Jeffrey Epstein a *construct* of the intelligence community, who as state sponsored predator cannot be investigated by news media cooperating with government for “reasons of national security.”

That should sound crazier than it does today: I have been asserting that Epstein was OBVIOUSLY not a major financier since well before his Florida arrest in 2006.

These leaders are meeting him years after his conviction and incarceration.

This thing appears just *impossibly* fake. I’m sorry. It seems fake. Just fake.

CIA's William Burns, Goldman's Kathryn Ruemmler, Noam Chomsky, the president of Bard College, a Kissinger consultant and a Rothschild. They all met with Jeffrey Epstein in the years after his conviction, documents show.

Simple question: can we be said to have a free press if it refuses to investigate the legally mandated financial records and filings of a multi-billion dollar currency trading hedge fund at Villard House in Manhattan, directed by Jeffrey Epstein that I claim simply never existed?

The claim from his team of exclusively young female employees at his 71st residence was that he only used Ultra Orthodox men to trade for him and that he issued all trading instructions, which required only a few minutes a day due to his brilliance.

My claim is that we all tripped over a MASSIVE “too big to fail” intelligence operation whose major revelation is not about Epstein but about near TOTAL material control of our news by intimidation and harassment of reporters:

ABC News Defends Its Epstein Coverage After Leaked Video Of Anchor

4:28 PM · Apr 30, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

He is the “Discovery & Disclosure” candidate:

Assassination Disclosure.

Wuhan Disclosure.

Epstein Disclosure.

Ukraine Disclosure.

UAP Disclosure.

Pharma Disclosure.

If you’re totally unethical & need these disclosures *never* to happen, I’d recommend smearing his campaign.

As for his wildest views, I’m up for hearing his arguments. As I told him directly, a lot of them have sounded crazy to me. But a lot of things that sounded crazy to me have come true recently. So I want to hear him talking with experts who strongly disagree with him.

But I think the big story is that this is a man who will push to learn what is going on that we can’t see and accepts very little of the modern institutional narrative. Really gracious, smart and earnest in person.

9:53 AM · Jul 3, 2023

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I think many of you made a huge mistake about the “Client List”. About “Lolita Express”. About “Pedophile Island.” That is, if the goal was to use Epstein to get justice, and put an end to this abuse of children and civilians by the sickest members of the world’s ICs.

You had fun with memes. And you let an IC sponsored pedophile get away. We were supposed to be pushing the press:

“Why don’t you ask **any** truly detailed questions about a supposed multi billion dollar FX hedge fund that may not have existed at all?” That was…and is…the first order of business.

We can’t know exactly what he did, where and when.

But there is no way to fake this hedge fund. Either he had an enormous fund or he didn’t. We can get all the details if he did. Or push as to why they don’t exist.

I don’t know if he killed himself. I don’t even know if he is dead. I don’t know if there is “the Epstein client list”.

The thing we know best is that he claimed to manage a multibillion dollar fund that ***cannot*** be hidden. Where are its records and employees?????????” Why does the press avoid reporting on this fund like the plague???? It was headquartered at Villard House for Christ sake. Madison Avenue. Who liquidated it? Who worked there? wtf?

This manager to this mystery fund is like a captain who supposedly has one of the world’s largest mega yachts…that somehow isn’t registered or flagged. It leaves no wake. No shipyard built it or serviced it. It has no crew. No harbor master has ever seen it.

“It’s so quiet that Lockheed asked to study it. It’s said to be made of optically neural superconducting ice crystals that form only from the tears of virgin sea lions cooled to absolute zero so it can’t be seen. He brilliantly purchased a Bugis Prahu Charter that was grandfathered in before the 1609 Mare Liberum was in force so that he alone may sail the seas without ever communicating with other vessels or harbors. It is said that his carbon fiber anchor and chain stretched to the bottom of the Challenger Deep so that he didn’t need to approach the shore for years on end.”

C’mon.

The key was that he wasn’t a “disgraced financier”. He was a construct fitted with a mysterious poorly drawn backstory. And that construct probably belonged to several Allied nation states:

“He’s so brilliant that he only accepts people who surrender total control of their wealth under power of attorney. He is closed to anyone who doesn’t have 1 Billion dollars minimum. In fact: his investor list is so discreet, and is said to be so secretive and closely guarded that he has only one known client.”

Did you not realize that outside investors are a liability to a cover story or front? Beware any super secretive fund that has a story why they dont want family office or institutional money. This is not the only one btw.

Hence…the exclusivity.

Why was he obsessed by Gravity? He was almost certainly a front used for funding edgy science, information gathering, control, etc away from normal channels.

It wasn’t one thing. He wasn’t a creepy front company…he was a mall filled with different business providing different goods and services. It wasn’t all about raping kids. Some collection of people invested something like 9 figures in creating a weird 11-12 figure fairy tale via leverage. And it was used for a lot of things. It was called Jeffrey Epstein.

Moral: focus on the cover story. Not the memes. Go after the press first. Figure out exactly who is stopping the fund from being dissected. Focus on the non reporting.

This is what Anti-Interesting is all about. Use it.

One man’s opinion. 🙏

https://youtu.be/vjwf9F_v5cI

Last edited 6:29 PM · Jul 12, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Never let go of “The Epstein Thing.”

We all need to stand up against rogue psychopaths within our ICs, and find the courage to speak up on behalf of those without the ability to speak for themselves.

How is this complicated?

As the oath says: All enemies, foreign & domestic.

1:20 PM · Jul 11, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I am not the guy to tell you what Epstein was. Or whether he killed himself. Or what the "Client list" was. Because, like you, I don't actually know about any of those things. And I have never claimed that I do.

I am going to tell you with 100% absolute certainty that Epstein is "Anti-Interesting" to our news desks. No one want to publish a story about how his multi-billion dollar currency trading hedge fund worked by interviewing a few of those many former eployees that it must have had.

Or by reviewing the fillings it must have made to the Government. Or its trading records. Or by talking to the sell-side coverage it must have had. Or by going through it's records.

Or that it didn't exist. And he wasn't a Multi-Billion financier. And that someone set him up as a construct at great expense.

The scandal is not investigating. Not publishing, Not doing journalism. Clearly the state has control of our news.

I don't care where this leads. I believe he was most likely constructed by a *tiny* number of tight lipped psychopaths who set him up to ruin the lives of children in the service of gathering information. And those people...whoever they are...would need to be brought to justice. Whatever the cost.

I would like to think there isn't a father alive (no matter how flawed) who disagrees with that. And that we need to put ourselves at risk as a group to protect our children from the State, The Press and The Evil co-conspirators. And I don't know who they are. It's terrifying.

I also thing that a number of people who had nothing to do with that but who had deaings with Epstein (e.g. scientists) need to be separated from that aspect of evil and fully exonerated. And those that participated in the Evil with Epstein need to face justice as well.

Pretending that there is nothing further to see here, and that no one wants this investigated remains preposterous.

This was over 5 years ago now. Where are the Dads?

https://youtu.be/dJNjH4SP6vw

9:29 AM · Jul 9, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Controversial Professor Jordan Peterson
Disgraced Financier Jeffrey Epstein
Panamanian Strongman Manuel Noriega
Anti-Vaccine Activist Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Dragon Believer Joe Rogan
Far Right Crackpot Laura Loomer
Fringe Epidemiology Professor Jay Bhattacharya

It's their formula.

6:52 AM · Apr 7, 2025

Gad Saad

@GadSaad

Dear @Newsweek, I have a name beyond "former Joe Rogan guest."

https://www.newsweek.com/sam-harris-joe-rogan-politics-podcast-social-media-2056158

6:41 AM · Apr 7, 2025

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