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

2025

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vjwf9F_v5cI&ab_channel=FoxNews

Abuse of Kids > Sources & Methods

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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 @bariweiss @BretWeinstein @joerogan @esaagar

10:54 PM · Dec 1, 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

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://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/#print

I once again note people reading things in that I didn’t write. I can’t help you. The difference between making a confession and sending us a warning about Epstein covers a *lot* of possible territory.

Think before assuming.

5:11 PM · Dec 1, 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.

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.

N) Collusion beween Tech Platforms functioning as Communications Utilities as well as with the Federal Government.

O) Death of John MacCaffee.

N) Chinese infiltraion of US basic research through 'Student Exchange'.

P) Take over of 'Peer Review' during Robert Maxwell's reign.

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.

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.

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.

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.

12:17 PM · Oct 23, 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.

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.

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.

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?

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. 🙏

10:05 AM · Oct 6, 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

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

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… https://x.com/disclosetv/sta/disclosetv/status/1408484338384179203

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.

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.

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

MESSAGE KILLING TARGET: Antonio R Caponigro.

When Tony C[a]ponigro 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.

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.

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).” 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

“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

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.

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?

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. 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.

7:57 PM · Mar 30, 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. https://t.co/J7rnjkNDYO

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.

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*.

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.

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.

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.

8:37 AM · Mar 6, 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?

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?

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?

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? 🙏

Note Added To Thread: There is no way in hell any account of this size taking this crazy risk to ask direct questions to the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein and the Intelligence community has engagement numbers this low without interference from Twitter.

@jack: can you hear me?

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.

7:11 AM · Mar 5, 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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ™.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks.

7:50 AM · Feb 12, 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.

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?

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.

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.

10:40 PM · Jan 17, 2021

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.🙏

5:10 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

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

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.

8:50 PM · Oct 27, 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

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

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

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

@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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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