No matter how shrewd you (rightfully) think Donald Trump is, you do not appreciate his brains enough.
They knew how intertwined Europe's élites (not just the Scandinavians) have been with Epstein and his island (photos above and below of Norway's Crown Princess
Mette-Marit — who may now be denied the option to ever become queen when her husband ascends the throne — and the country's former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland who has additionally held several international posts).In the past year, The Democrat Party's Locofocos have gone increasingly bonkers over releasing the Epstein files, which they assumed must contain the most sordid revelations on Donald Trump. As millions of documents are released, it turns out that to a large extent (to nobody's surprise), it is mainly leftists, American as well as foreign, who are embroiled. Or, as Wretchard the Cat puts it, eloquently:
The irony is the Epstein files were supposed to sink MAGA but the torpedoes are running circular.
Thanks to the Republican president holding back on his promise, foreign élites will not now be able to accuse their "tactless," "brainless," and "inconsiderate" nemesis of gratuitously and irresponsibly releasing the confidential documents, as it is the Democrats' drama queens — their fellow leftist allies (whom they support in just about every endeavor) — who have been fighting to make the documents public. They are the only ones, or certainly the main ones, to blame.
I wouldn't be surprised if, during his talks with foreign officials (unless the premier talked to is part of the visitor roster to Little Saint James) over the past 12 months, the president has in private been repeatedly saying: "By the way, Look, I am trying to hold the fort here; a lot of people in your country are mentioned in the files and that's why I have been trying to limit their release, but the Democrats' fire eaters may leave us no choice."
Genius.
(Many links above are from Scandinavia i.e., in Danish and Norwegian; below are several in English.)
In related news: Calling Epstein "A math nerd with charisma", Daniel J. Flynn reports that The Epstein Enigma Unravels Ever-So Slightly in Bannon Interview:
Jeffrey Epstein called himself a “hermit” in two hours of 2019 interview footage just released. This seemed strange but probably on one level accurate. Despite his name invading the news with increasing ferocity over the last two decades, Epstein’s Woody Allen-ish voice remained completely unknown to me, and perhaps to many who follow current events, until his conversation with Steve Bannon was uploaded to YouTube. Stranger still, watching Epstein discourse on myriad topics for two hours resulted in no compulsion to immediately take a shower. Unlike with, say, Harvey Weinstein or Jimmy Savile, the mere look of Epstein did not provoke a visceral reaction of disgust. The disgust comes on an intellectual level after actively thinking about his deviance rather than on a physiognomic level while passively watching him speak. In fact, the more Epstein talked to Bannon, the more I wanted him to talk — and for Bannon to let him. He mesmerized. A reason beyond the money and the dark pleasures of Epstein Island existed for so many people to voluntarily pursue his company. Epstein was, to use an albeit overused word, brilliant. This superlative risks upsetting a coalition of simpletons and highbrains, who regard "smart," "intelligent," and "genius" as shorthand for every other positive attribute to include "righteous," "wise," "prudent," "dependable," and "good." Tellingly, the Marine Corps includes "intelligence" nowhere in its 14 leadership traits. …
Speaking of Epstein being "brilliant" — a word that would never be used for Donald Trump — Dennis Prager has stated numerous times that
People tend to be preoccupied with intelligence. But intelligence leads nowhere if you don't have common sense and clarity. In short, “brains” aren’t that important. Almost everyone is intelligent enough to handle life well.
The founder of PragerU says that what matters is that young people become good, adding that
“Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children’s IQs than their children’s characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.”
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As I said in my piece a while back titled: Br'er Trump and the Epstein Patch:
"You must remember that Trump is a native New Yorker, he grew up in the city, knew everybody, had access to everybody and spent most of his adult life having to do business in blue cities and corrupt cities all over the world. To get what he wanted he had to play ball and because he had $ was invited to every party and every gathering, he was given awards and access. He knew who and what all these leftists are and how they operate and remember, at every gathering he was at (and he was welcome at all of them till about 2015) he was sober.
So he knows how deeply up to their necks these guys were corrupt and I suspect during his first term he figured they would be willing to make deals to advance his agenda. What he didn’t realize and suspect was that they truly wanted to destroy him, first politically and finally by 2024 physically.
I think he’s going to let the Epstein stuff play out as far as he can all the time saying to people like Elizabeth Warren:
“Oh please Please Br’re Pocahontas don’t throw me into the Epstein patch!”
And then when the left is fully committed to both the release of the information and harsh punishment for all those involved (including all those who have given them millions upon millions over the years) and then BOOM!
When that time comes and the decides to give them exactly what they want, a lot of very rich and very bad leftist and their funders will find themselves in trouble"
https://datechguyblog.blog/2025/07/19/brer-trump-and-the-epstein-patch/
When you are talking about high IQs - it's a talent, the same as any other talent, unless you study and practice and learn HOW to do something it isn't necessarily of much use. Compare it with something like musical talents, let's say somebody has that "perfect pitch" and everything else that might make them the most brilliant concert pianist or composer etc of their generation - unless they actually bother to STUDY and learn what would be needed for doing something like that, learn how to play a piano, or how to write down music notations, well, nothing much is going to happen. Even if their musical talent includes being able to imagine and hear in their head new music, if they don't know how to play that music in at least some instrument, how to use their voice to sing it, how to make those notations so that somebody else would know how to play it, it will just be their personal daydreaming, and nobody else will ever benefit. That musical prodigy might perhaps be able to sing a bit better than others if he bothers to sing karaoke, and if he goes to do that often he might actually learn how to sing, but if that is his only practice, well, okay, maybe he might have some chance for fame if he, after learning, takes part in some talent finding show, but even with that route he'd still need that practice.
And with high IQ, it mostly seems to be the ability to see patterns easier that others, and having somewhat higher "processing speed" than others. Again, you would still need to study and learn about some subject where those are useful before you can use those for anything else than something like not having problems putting together Ikea furniture. And since lots of higher IQ people seem to be like me - easily bored - there are probably maybe even more failures than success stories in that end of the bell curve than with the middle group, the main exception being those whose talent is recognized early by their parents or teachers and who are then offered the necessary stimulus to study one way or another. Normal schools can be very boring for a high IQ child, and the "self starters" who are actually able to do it all on their own perhaps because they get obsessively interested in just one or two subjects seem to be rather less common than the mayflies who just keep jumping from one interest to another and spreading themselves too thin to ever fully learn any of those.
And yep, high IQ has nothing to do with such qualities as morals. If those one or two subjects a high IQ child or teen happens to get interested in mastering might be something like power and money, and the person has low empathy and sympathy towards others, well, that can get pretty bad. High IQ is not the same as wisdom, or even being just smart, as that too requires being interested in the subject and learning things like how humans - especially those "average" more normal individuals, interact, what works and what doesn't and so on, an interest in maybe figuring out what might work better etc, while at the same time not being interested in how to dominate and especially fool others in order to personally, and mostly just personally, to benefit from that.
@Anon 12:59pm
"And since lots of higher IQ people seem to be like me - easily bored - there are probably maybe even more failures than success" <- this
"... the "self starters" who are actually able to do it all on their own perhaps because they get obsessively interested in just one or two subjects" <- and once the shiny/interesting thing has been made/studied/understood, it is no longer interesting.
The "lucky" ones are able to string interesting things together well enough to provide a living. Often not very lucky because there are those that understand this mechanic is tied with OCD and milk that trigger.
Or to put it another way, generic high IQ tends to make good two-legged tools while cunning makes for good predators.
High IQ people like me get a very poor education from schools. I'm 76, and that was true 50 years ago. The problem is that high IQ people are the ones that provide much of our culture. Mick Jagger has an IQ of 155. So, you are talking about a very small, one in a thousand person cohort. America has about 4 million babies every year, and about 4,000 of them are high IQ. If the culture they grew up in preaches hate, that is what you are going to see at the movies.
@Anon 12:59pm
"And since lots of higher IQ people seem to be like me - easily bored - there are probably maybe even more failures than success" <- this
As a barely decent cover band musician, I've encountered numerous 'geniuses' who blather how a Joe Satriani or a Jascha Heifetz weren't special. The effort to chase the notes in so many different ways and play them cleanly and more importantly, musically in a fashion that the public enjoys, is extremely challenging.
And, in music business, playing the music is often times, the easiest part of the music business.
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