What a stain on our country, to be run by a r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile. Anyone still loyal to MAGA isn't someone you want your kids around, folks. These people are deeply sick.
We should be asking every MAGA person we know who has kids how they can continue the support Trump and others who are perpetrating the greatest coverup.in the history of our nation. Shame on MAGA supporters who have kids.
The same question should be posed to those touting "Christian" thinking of today. It certainly isn't the Christian thinking and behavior that we used to be taught.
I have asked, Alan, and the response that I got was a refusal to believe the “Epstein Hoax.” The same MAGAs do not believe that Trump is a convicted criminal, but do believe he is being persecuted. They are also election deniers who believe he won in 2020. You absolutely cannot fix stupid, but Trump and the Republicans know how to manipulate it!
"What a stain on our country, to be run by a r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile."
And your proof of that is what, exactly? If you truly believe Donald Trump is a "r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile", please communicate that to him directly and watch how fast you get sued for defamation.
There may be several people involved with Epstein to the extent that they should be charged and jailed. This situation has been going on since Epstein's first conviction in the early 2000's. Since 2015, the Democrats have had multiple chances to leak some absolutely damaging info on Trump in regard to Epstein if there was any. It hasn't happened. I'm willing to bet that once the Dems take control of the House and the White House they will still not find anything that would result in charges being filed.
The bigger issue is that Jen and the Left only care about Epstein so long as it involves Trump or Republicans. There will be no coverage from Jen if any Dems are linked to Epstein.
He has sued all kinds of people and institutions for many things, with defamation as a favorite charge, but as far as I know, he has never sued anyone for allegations or accusations of pedophilia or anything else related to Epstein. I wonder why…
If you still believe Trump is is innocent, you have not been paying attention. Read the Katie Johnson transcript of her testimony when she details Trump’s raping of her at the age of 13. There is plenty of proof out there Hal. Plus the FACT he has been convicted of 32 counts of rape. Just was never sentenced… which should happen once he is out of office.
A federal appeals court upheld the jury's findings that he defamed and sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Lots of people have rightfully accused Trump of being a rapist and a pedophile, beginning with his victims. And he might sue someone for saying so, but he'll drop the case before it ever goes to court because discovery, which could include the entire Epstein files, would be damning for him. That's why all his 2020 election cases were dropped or lost: he had no case.
The Department of Justice was still the DOJ when Obama and Biden were in office, and since Ghislaine Maxwell still had an appeal ongoing until the SCOTUS rejected in in 2025, the files were sealed, and THAT'S why the files weren't leaked.
"A federal appeals court upheld the jury's findings that he defamed and sexually abused E. Jean Carroll."
"Defamed and sexually abused" is not the same as rape.
"The Department of Justice was still the DOJ when Obama and Biden were in office, and since Ghislaine Maxwell still had an appeal ongoing until the SCOTUS rejected in in 2025, the files were sealed, and THAT'S why the files weren't leaked."
Or perhaps there is really nothing in the files that links Trump to anything like what the Left hopes for - namely, pedophilia and/or rape.
Agreed! Accountability must come for Trump, Lutnick and other members of the Epstein class in the Executive branch as well as former politicians (of either party) and U.S. billionaires and their minions who may have been involved in this monstrous cabal.
I've been hearing that European countries will seek to "liberate" America, just as we liberated them during WWII, when they start getting their hands on the Epstein documents during their own investigations. Several survivors of this travesty claim there are tapes that could bring down Trump and several members of the billionaire class. I'm not holding my breatk, but this would be a nice reset as our country starts to build back from the disastrous Trump era. I know he's plotting to undermine elections, and that might be the most unforgiveable thing he's done—erode America trust in free and fair elections. That was never an issue before that sore-losing, lying grifter came on the scenee. But I hold out hope that as much planning is being done by the Republicans to steal the miderms, more is being done by Democratic governors and AGs. When the Democrats regain power, they can start with impeachments by the score, and then perhaps whittle into the billionaire clasa and superpower companies by breaking up monopolies.
There's also this, which came directly from Congressman Ted Lieu:
"At a press conference, Representative Ted Lieu claimed the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files contain “highly disturbing” allegations accusing Donald Trump of raping children and threatening to kill children, and he demanded the full release of the records.
Lieu also called for the resignation of Todd Blanche, arguing Blanche has “gotten the law wrong” and mishandled the files in ways that endanger victim privacy."
I'm not holding my breath, but as I have been for the last decade, I'm hopeful someone will stand up to this fool and expose him. The worst of him has yet to be revealed. There are frightening things in his closet, including a document that's easily findable on Google from a 13-year-old girl that brought a rape complaint against Trump and Epstein. I've seen it, and it's horrifying. She was supposed to have a press conference in October 2016, but cancelled it and disappeared. Was she bought off? Or worse? I would put nothing past him.
The only way we will break this corrupt, elite, "Epstein class" and their usurpation of power in our once better Republic is to elect Democrats who will make the first order of Congressional business to write a law that overturns Citizens United, enact strict campaign finance laws, and restore a progressive income tax with a top rate of 80 or 90% and federal estate taxes that don't have loopholes whereby capital can keep being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Unregulated capitalism is a formula for the return of feudalism. If you read what some of the tech bros like Thiel's dream future is, it is a form of feudalism possibly even worse than the one that reigned during much of the Middle Ages. It's time to remind the billionaire's that they are not kings.
"If we want the rich and powerful to be held to account (i.e. everyone is treated equally under the law), then we need to replace a system dominated by authoritarian-minded oligarchs with one responsible to the voters."
It's many layers of sticky shit to sort through, but at the ground level we must start with CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.
Weaken Citizens United through Congressional legislation that requires transparency for how much and to whom billionaires write their checks, make ALL foreign money or influence illegal with stiff penalties including prison time, and at some point institute public financing of and financial spending limits within elections.
The idea is to make American politicians accountable to their constituents, and only their constituents, NOT to their biggest donors.
Why not neuter Citizens United completely? While at it, get rid of the constant campaign mode that this country appears to be stuck in. Six months from start to finsh should be long enough. We have good and fast communication today that should make it possible.
Note that I didn't say 'overturn', I said neuter. State and federal legislative reforms can effectively reduce the effect of the act without a new decision from the court, or a Constitutional Amendment, neither of which would happen in the current environment.
Good luck--tell me how it worked out for you. You fail to mention the fact that most of our Democratic Party pols are also hiding under the desk. The few vocal ones are acting as cover for the vast majority of nitwits and enablers. Moreover, the three so-called justices who are implicated in the Trumpstein files--Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh--are also the ones who are adhering like superglue to the Felon's diaper-clad fundament. They will fight to the death to avoid being prosecuted. I would also like to point out that the formal charges laid out when Andrew M-W was arrested--and his ex-wife is accused of--have nothing to do with the sexual abuse of children but instead are focused on the mechanisms Epstein used to blackmail his "friends" into giving him state secrets and insider trading tips. Mandelson was removed and lost his lordship not because of the rape of children but because he passed state secrets to Epstein. The others? They are being shamed but no charges are being brought against them for the sexual abuse of children. No one in power really gives a sh*t about girls and women and they never did. Why do you think it took decades for Weinstein to be prosecuted--and he raped women, not children? Remember: Al Capone did not get nailed by the Feds (specifically the T-men) for mobster activity. He was convicted of tax evasion. If you want any kind of justice you have to attack the money end of the equation. No one will care that girls and women were abused because rich white men are overwhelmingly misogynist and disgusting specimens of humanity who consider women and girls as property to be manipulated and abused at will. They. Always. Have.
If we're to have any chance at all of holding anyone accountable or accomplishing anything, we must stop the SAVE Act and that means demanding that Democratic Senators, every single one of them, commit to taking part in a talking filibuster if necessary. If we're to have any chance of winning either or both houses of Congress, we must stop SAVE. (And to call that a misnomer doesn't begin to describe the irony...)
Biden’s last year added 8X more jobs than the 1st year of Trump’s “Golden Age”, but the unpatriotic “fools & lapdogs” that he appointed are sending us into bankruptcy.
Haven't organizations like the Heritage Foundation & Federalist Society been deeply entwined in gutting our democracy, creating a steeply hierarchical & wealth misappropriating core, with linkages beyond our borders?
Yes they have. Project 2025 was just one published example of what they've been pushing and influencing for years. Look also at how they have influenced the appointments to the supreme court.
In that regard, join former AFL-CIO political strategist Michael Podhorzer today, February 23rd at 1pm ET / 10am PT with Melissa Deckman the CEO of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) to discuss PRRI’s vital new report “Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas.”
It's that book's 10th anniversary. Anyone significantly involved in what's broadly the international environmental movement, notably regarding the politics of energy, would be familiar with the names of those miscreant families, the Kochs et al. Stateside, for generations, the fossil fuels (& derivative) industries have shaped the policies of the US federal departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Interior, State, Treasury & Transportation. Everything else gets stained with the opprobrium "undeserving" status, notably Education, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Labor.... Ironically or perversely or both, those influencers represent the antithesis of capitalism, democratic or otherwise: they hate competition in goods, services & ideas.
If you are a wealthy, white, man you are considered to be very special. You get to have little ‘quirks and peccadilloes’. You are naturally assumed to have a right to ever more wealth and power… but daily, we hear these privileged men speaking nonsense to us with the tone of a bureaucrat being forced to be polite to monkeys. They are special only because they had the great good luck to have a hand up from an early age. We need to have the courage to enact and run a true meritocracy.
I think we should bring back the Ancient Greek practice of ostracism. Rather than terrorizing people who pick our broccoli and provide landscaping services, we will vote the corrupt billionaires out of the country. They can live in Dubai or join Assad in Moscow. I am still waiting for Democratic leaders to identify this as the problem (rather than spending time raising money from them).
Not only did Dear Leader know about the pedophelia ring, he participated in it. Michael Wolf has the pictures. Besides that, what needs to be exposed is the vast blackmail and extortion ring that Epstein was able to build thanks to the greed and disgusting easy sex he offered his fellow predators (mostly ugly, rich old men who couldn't get it otherwise.)
The relationship between Epstein and the Dear Leader was obviously one of mutual fear of exposure. There was an interview of Epstein when he was asked if he ever saw trump in the company of underage girls and he plead the Fifth rather than answer. His fear of the Dear Leader was apparently justified since he conveniently never got to testify.
Both the Dear Leader and Epstein have a long history of abusing young girls and women. To them, all females (except Melania and Ghislaine) were useful and easily disposable, shuttled around, used and then discarded when they got too old. I wish the victims would name names. Maybe they are still too afraid of the Capo.
I think melania and jiz were also abused...hump was fuing'ing stormy hooker when M was home with new baby. M did get her family here though because of it.
What a stain on our country, to be run by a r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile. Anyone still loyal to MAGA isn't someone you want your kids around, folks. These people are deeply sick.
We should be asking every MAGA person we know who has kids how they can continue the support Trump and others who are perpetrating the greatest coverup.in the history of our nation. Shame on MAGA supporters who have kids.
Alan, I would expand your statement: shame on MAGAt supporters. PERIOD.
The same question should be posed to those touting "Christian" thinking of today. It certainly isn't the Christian thinking and behavior that we used to be taught.
I have asked, Alan, and the response that I got was a refusal to believe the “Epstein Hoax.” The same MAGAs do not believe that Trump is a convicted criminal, but do believe he is being persecuted. They are also election deniers who believe he won in 2020. You absolutely cannot fix stupid, but Trump and the Republicans know how to manipulate it!
Do not lament. Act as outlined by Jenn here. I plan to contact my DEM congressman - in House and Senate.
Yes— keep contacting our Reps. They need to hear from us. That’s how Democracy works.
He's also a meglomaniac...leading our country down a rabbit hole to a Golden Wonderland!
Angie Agreed well said 💯
"What a stain on our country, to be run by a r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile."
And your proof of that is what, exactly? If you truly believe Donald Trump is a "r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile", please communicate that to him directly and watch how fast you get sued for defamation.
There may be several people involved with Epstein to the extent that they should be charged and jailed. This situation has been going on since Epstein's first conviction in the early 2000's. Since 2015, the Democrats have had multiple chances to leak some absolutely damaging info on Trump in regard to Epstein if there was any. It hasn't happened. I'm willing to bet that once the Dems take control of the House and the White House they will still not find anything that would result in charges being filed.
The bigger issue is that Jen and the Left only care about Epstein so long as it involves Trump or Republicans. There will be no coverage from Jen if any Dems are linked to Epstein.
He has sued all kinds of people and institutions for many things, with defamation as a favorite charge, but as far as I know, he has never sued anyone for allegations or accusations of pedophilia or anything else related to Epstein. I wonder why…
Who has accused Trump of being a "r*pist and a child sex trafficker and pedophile"?
Who hasn’t?
OK, I give up...who hasn't?
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26580813/260130-epstein-files-ntoc-names.pdf
If you still believe Trump is is innocent, you have not been paying attention. Read the Katie Johnson transcript of her testimony when she details Trump’s raping of her at the age of 13. There is plenty of proof out there Hal. Plus the FACT he has been convicted of 32 counts of rape. Just was never sentenced… which should happen once he is out of office.
A federal appeals court upheld the jury's findings that he defamed and sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. Lots of people have rightfully accused Trump of being a rapist and a pedophile, beginning with his victims. And he might sue someone for saying so, but he'll drop the case before it ever goes to court because discovery, which could include the entire Epstein files, would be damning for him. That's why all his 2020 election cases were dropped or lost: he had no case.
The Department of Justice was still the DOJ when Obama and Biden were in office, and since Ghislaine Maxwell still had an appeal ongoing until the SCOTUS rejected in in 2025, the files were sealed, and THAT'S why the files weren't leaked.
"A federal appeals court upheld the jury's findings that he defamed and sexually abused E. Jean Carroll."
"Defamed and sexually abused" is not the same as rape.
"The Department of Justice was still the DOJ when Obama and Biden were in office, and since Ghislaine Maxwell still had an appeal ongoing until the SCOTUS rejected in in 2025, the files were sealed, and THAT'S why the files weren't leaked."
Or perhaps there is really nothing in the files that links Trump to anything like what the Left hopes for - namely, pedophilia and/or rape.
Thank you Jen, well said. Our decaying and crumbling democracy is out in the open for all the world to see.
Re Trumepstein. Open?
We have yet to hear from ex-prosecutors like Anne Marie Villafana and Maureen Comey, who could know more than everyone else combined.
Agreed! Accountability must come for Trump, Lutnick and other members of the Epstein class in the Executive branch as well as former politicians (of either party) and U.S. billionaires and their minions who may have been involved in this monstrous cabal.
Trump will never testify. He will take the 5th. He is not capable of telling the truth about anything.
You are absolutely right, but he and his ilk can still be held to account.
I've been hearing that European countries will seek to "liberate" America, just as we liberated them during WWII, when they start getting their hands on the Epstein documents during their own investigations. Several survivors of this travesty claim there are tapes that could bring down Trump and several members of the billionaire class. I'm not holding my breatk, but this would be a nice reset as our country starts to build back from the disastrous Trump era. I know he's plotting to undermine elections, and that might be the most unforgiveable thing he's done—erode America trust in free and fair elections. That was never an issue before that sore-losing, lying grifter came on the scenee. But I hold out hope that as much planning is being done by the Republicans to steal the miderms, more is being done by Democratic governors and AGs. When the Democrats regain power, they can start with impeachments by the score, and then perhaps whittle into the billionaire clasa and superpower companies by breaking up monopolies.
This is interesting Chris. Where are you seeing/ hearing this about the possibility of Europeans exposing Trump?
Start with the movie "The Wizard of Oz."
More likely state rape prosecutions.
There's also this, which came directly from Congressman Ted Lieu:
"At a press conference, Representative Ted Lieu claimed the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files contain “highly disturbing” allegations accusing Donald Trump of raping children and threatening to kill children, and he demanded the full release of the records.
Lieu also called for the resignation of Todd Blanche, arguing Blanche has “gotten the law wrong” and mishandled the files in ways that endanger victim privacy."
I'm not holding my breath, but as I have been for the last decade, I'm hopeful someone will stand up to this fool and expose him. The worst of him has yet to be revealed. There are frightening things in his closet, including a document that's easily findable on Google from a 13-year-old girl that brought a rape complaint against Trump and Epstein. I've seen it, and it's horrifying. She was supposed to have a press conference in October 2016, but cancelled it and disappeared. Was she bought off? Or worse? I would put nothing past him.
Get rid of the Electoral College, one of our least democratic institutions.
Yes - that was a historic mis-step!
The only way we will break this corrupt, elite, "Epstein class" and their usurpation of power in our once better Republic is to elect Democrats who will make the first order of Congressional business to write a law that overturns Citizens United, enact strict campaign finance laws, and restore a progressive income tax with a top rate of 80 or 90% and federal estate taxes that don't have loopholes whereby capital can keep being concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. Unregulated capitalism is a formula for the return of feudalism. If you read what some of the tech bros like Thiel's dream future is, it is a form of feudalism possibly even worse than the one that reigned during much of the Middle Ages. It's time to remind the billionaire's that they are not kings.
The owners of Legacy Media are part of the Epstein Class.
"If we want the rich and powerful to be held to account (i.e. everyone is treated equally under the law), then we need to replace a system dominated by authoritarian-minded oligarchs with one responsible to the voters."
It's many layers of sticky shit to sort through, but at the ground level we must start with CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.
Weaken Citizens United through Congressional legislation that requires transparency for how much and to whom billionaires write their checks, make ALL foreign money or influence illegal with stiff penalties including prison time, and at some point institute public financing of and financial spending limits within elections.
The idea is to make American politicians accountable to their constituents, and only their constituents, NOT to their biggest donors.
Why not neuter Citizens United completely? While at it, get rid of the constant campaign mode that this country appears to be stuck in. Six months from start to finsh should be long enough. We have good and fast communication today that should make it possible.
I agree that we need to legislate strict timelines for campaigns.
Unfortunately with Citizens United, a Supreme Court ruling can only be overturned with a Constitutional Amendment or another Supreme Court decision.
Note that I didn't say 'overturn', I said neuter. State and federal legislative reforms can effectively reduce the effect of the act without a new decision from the court, or a Constitutional Amendment, neither of which would happen in the current environment.
I could not agree more. We seem to have been unmasked as world-class hypocrites.
Good luck--tell me how it worked out for you. You fail to mention the fact that most of our Democratic Party pols are also hiding under the desk. The few vocal ones are acting as cover for the vast majority of nitwits and enablers. Moreover, the three so-called justices who are implicated in the Trumpstein files--Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh--are also the ones who are adhering like superglue to the Felon's diaper-clad fundament. They will fight to the death to avoid being prosecuted. I would also like to point out that the formal charges laid out when Andrew M-W was arrested--and his ex-wife is accused of--have nothing to do with the sexual abuse of children but instead are focused on the mechanisms Epstein used to blackmail his "friends" into giving him state secrets and insider trading tips. Mandelson was removed and lost his lordship not because of the rape of children but because he passed state secrets to Epstein. The others? They are being shamed but no charges are being brought against them for the sexual abuse of children. No one in power really gives a sh*t about girls and women and they never did. Why do you think it took decades for Weinstein to be prosecuted--and he raped women, not children? Remember: Al Capone did not get nailed by the Feds (specifically the T-men) for mobster activity. He was convicted of tax evasion. If you want any kind of justice you have to attack the money end of the equation. No one will care that girls and women were abused because rich white men are overwhelmingly misogynist and disgusting specimens of humanity who consider women and girls as property to be manipulated and abused at will. They. Always. Have.
If we're to have any chance at all of holding anyone accountable or accomplishing anything, we must stop the SAVE Act and that means demanding that Democratic Senators, every single one of them, commit to taking part in a talking filibuster if necessary. If we're to have any chance of winning either or both houses of Congress, we must stop SAVE. (And to call that a misnomer doesn't begin to describe the irony...)
AND, Trump and the MAGA right Absolutely MUST be held accountable. There is NO other alternative to this, Donna.
Common sense in the morning. How refreshing.
Trumpism/MAGA...a malignant cancer.
Intel Warner on Trump's bogus attacks on our elections & the trust from our allies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7WO3ASqBjk
Biden’s last year added 8X more jobs than the 1st year of Trump’s “Golden Age”, but the unpatriotic “fools & lapdogs” that he appointed are sending us into bankruptcy.
The “I can do anything” Chosen One can’t by fiat change the plain language of the law & the constitution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMiszTQZtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vdQq8PPTWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUPaVFnM6g&t=14s Dem AGs on Legal AF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOy0RUNHZao Nils L No Kings...
Resist MAGA gangster, grifter authoritarianism! Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
Remove all members of the GOP (Guardians of Pedophilia). Replace with honest, thoughtful people.
Haven't organizations like the Heritage Foundation & Federalist Society been deeply entwined in gutting our democracy, creating a steeply hierarchical & wealth misappropriating core, with linkages beyond our borders?
Yes they have. Project 2025 was just one published example of what they've been pushing and influencing for years. Look also at how they have influenced the appointments to the supreme court.
In that regard, join former AFL-CIO political strategist Michael Podhorzer today, February 23rd at 1pm ET / 10am PT with Melissa Deckman the CEO of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) to discuss PRRI’s vital new report “Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas.”
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/117497?r=103bk&utm_medium=ios
Read "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer. Chilling. And well documented.
It's that book's 10th anniversary. Anyone significantly involved in what's broadly the international environmental movement, notably regarding the politics of energy, would be familiar with the names of those miscreant families, the Kochs et al. Stateside, for generations, the fossil fuels (& derivative) industries have shaped the policies of the US federal departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Interior, State, Treasury & Transportation. Everything else gets stained with the opprobrium "undeserving" status, notably Education, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Labor.... Ironically or perversely or both, those influencers represent the antithesis of capitalism, democratic or otherwise: they hate competition in goods, services & ideas.
If you are a wealthy, white, man you are considered to be very special. You get to have little ‘quirks and peccadilloes’. You are naturally assumed to have a right to ever more wealth and power… but daily, we hear these privileged men speaking nonsense to us with the tone of a bureaucrat being forced to be polite to monkeys. They are special only because they had the great good luck to have a hand up from an early age. We need to have the courage to enact and run a true meritocracy.
I think we should bring back the Ancient Greek practice of ostracism. Rather than terrorizing people who pick our broccoli and provide landscaping services, we will vote the corrupt billionaires out of the country. They can live in Dubai or join Assad in Moscow. I am still waiting for Democratic leaders to identify this as the problem (rather than spending time raising money from them).
Not only did Dear Leader know about the pedophelia ring, he participated in it. Michael Wolf has the pictures. Besides that, what needs to be exposed is the vast blackmail and extortion ring that Epstein was able to build thanks to the greed and disgusting easy sex he offered his fellow predators (mostly ugly, rich old men who couldn't get it otherwise.)
The relationship between Epstein and the Dear Leader was obviously one of mutual fear of exposure. There was an interview of Epstein when he was asked if he ever saw trump in the company of underage girls and he plead the Fifth rather than answer. His fear of the Dear Leader was apparently justified since he conveniently never got to testify.
Both the Dear Leader and Epstein have a long history of abusing young girls and women. To them, all females (except Melania and Ghislaine) were useful and easily disposable, shuttled around, used and then discarded when they got too old. I wish the victims would name names. Maybe they are still too afraid of the Capo.
Accountability for the MAGA right AND Trump simply must take place.
There is no other option.
I think melania and jiz were also abused...hump was fuing'ing stormy hooker when M was home with new baby. M did get her family here though because of it.
Well, affectionate messages between the two have come to light. M and G, that is.
maybe a thank you for contacts, or for keeping hump busy ha ha
Ha! It was on the lines of "Can't wait to see you" "Let's do lunch" etc.
oh, like real friends...or girlfriends ...they were both in the hooker business
Yup.
I think he was actively involved in running it.