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marcus816's avatar

Wow, just wow. Judge as you will, I must say that the Vanity Fair article about Cormac McCarthy and his muse and inspiration, Augusta Britt, is absolutely fascinating.

What an incredible woman she is, and always has been. She had, and still has, such an amazing life.

I enjoyed reading a few of McCarthy’s books, most notably, the “Pretty Horses” trilogy and Suttree, which I couldn’t finish. As beautiful and atmospheric as his writing was, I finally had to give them up. They were just so damned depressing. As I read the article, I realized that that what made them so damned depressing was that he kept killing off my favorite characters, particularly the characters that were inspired by Augusta Britt, and to my mind, they were the best, most interesting characters.

It is an excellent biographical sketch of an incredible person, Augusta Britt.

Tom's avatar

Bondi and Krash Patel really have no souls. How anyone can see these documents and still defend the people that did it is truly beyond me.

Susan Niemann's avatar

It's about to get heavy? It's nightmare material. JFC. 👀

A girlfriend from Belarus? Did Ms. Maxwell know?

Hollysdower's avatar

Bill Barr ordered the FBI to stand down on the Epstein investigation after Epstein died, on Trump's orders. Bill Barr needs to do some time for this too.

Eureka's avatar

Bill Barr, whose father hired Epstein to creep on high school kids at Dalton?

Phried Ω's avatar

"The rich are different from you and me; they have a lot more money" needs revising. "The rich are different from you and me; they get away with crimes and shit".

Hank Napkin's avatar

Money. How does it work?

Cliff Lake's avatar

A Belarusian girlfriend... now just why does that make so much sense?

Jon Payne's avatar

It's the 60 year old man equivalent of the a teen boy's (imaginary) gf in "Canada."

Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

Listen, if we don't allow our billionaire oligarchs to rape whoever they want, build sex ranches, and force all women to carry their genes, are we even a country worthy of billionaire oligarchs?

And what are the chances of Elon finding a kid that likes him if we don't allow all of this????

Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

Diaper man's only ability is his gift for self-preservation. That phone call to the police was exhibit A. He knew the walls were closing in on his best bestie and so he took steps to make sure that everybody knew he had no part in it. Slippery slime has the same kind of abilities.

VelveetaSneeze's avatar

That was my first thought, too. If everyone knew, including him, then why didn't he call himself? You know, instead of calling only *after* the police were already investigating.

Alexandra Barcus's avatar

It is hard to believe that Epstein was not investigated more fully in large part because of all the land he owned.

We must not forget Bill Brr's father hired Epstein to tech at the Dalton School. All in the family.

counterlife's avatar

Thank goodness. That's a club no one should be in.

Hank Napkin's avatar

Live action version of "The Ruling Class"!

Pope Jen is Weak on Crème!'s avatar

why the fuck would anyone let alone a billionaire, call a palm beach sheriff about an international sex trafficker?

Gee. That does not sound inserted or anything

Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Deflection

" I let the cops know so I couldn't have been part of it"

Megan Macomber's avatar

CONCRETE BLONDE LIVES. In my heart. Johnette Napolitano can hit me up any time for anything. God really IS a bullet.

Michael Bowen's avatar

I still wonder why they weren't total top-of-the-charts, headline at Lollapalooza big.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

"the alleged buried bodies of girls strangled to death during rough sex"

Wasn't that part of the plot of "The Godfather Part II"?

Nemo's avatar

Like everything connected to Trump, it looks like the whole Qanon bullshit was just projection.

jltympanum's avatar

Everyone has to struggle with his/her sexual urges. Most of us, by the time we are 30, have learned how to deal with them in a socially acceptable way. These Epstein-adjacent creeps didn't bother to do that, and now they think they can get away with their (possibly murderous) unresolved issues, relying on their (probably) questionably earned wealth to protect them. It's infuriating to those of us (i.e., most of us) who have put in the effort to become properly socialized to have to put up with these jokers. I say, castrate 'em all and let God sort them out.

Megan Macomber's avatar

30?!?

You must be speaking for yourself. Sorry, but half of "us" get trained to "deal with" YOU by the time we are twelve. If y'all would do us the favor of mastering *yourselves* a decade or so earlier, our lives would be a hell of a lot more productive.

PS--"mastering", if you take my meaning.