“There was no integrity in that room today, it seems like, when it came to Epstein and Maxwell,” Teresa Helm said after Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Six survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and two members of another accuser’s family said they felt “degraded” during Wednesday’s contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to face them and apologize.
Several Epstein survivors and relatives were on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers grilled Bondi for over five hours about several matters, including the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case. She was specifically questioned about why released files were heavily redacted and why several survivors’ names were not.
“There was such a lack of empathy today. There was such a lack of, honestly, humanity today,” Dani Bensky said on NBC’s “Hallie Jackson NOW.”
The hearing was almost an exact repeat of what I have seen from Bondi in the recent past. Why did they think grilling her again would result in a different outcome?
The thing that kills me about this whole shitshow is this.
You have women working for an incredibly powerful, wealthy. charismatic, connected, bullying man. If she goes along with him she will be ok but if she steps out of line she will lose everything, maybe even be killed. It will be absolutely unimaginably horrific. She has no friends but the ones who are friends with this man, no support besides what this man allows. She is dependent on him for everything. She gets credible death threats from enemies. She derives power from her association with him and takes some pride in surviving the shit that has come her way.
Now. Obviously I am describing a woman being abused here. But am I describing Bondi or the Epstein victims?
Bondi doesn’t see her own abuse. And that’s the saddest part of all of this to me. She looks down on these women, thinks she’s better than them. She’s just like them. Just as used, just as disposable.
Isn’t this the point?
That rep for the Epstein Class had every intention of going there with her little burn book to show that she’s still Donvict’s gal and to give a middle finger to any decent person in the country. If the victims are harmed in the process, then that’s perfect, because with the conservatives cruelty is the point.
This hearing was a total disaster for Bondi. There was no hiding what a monster she is, and it’s now come out that photographers captured images of her burn book which included info from illegal DOJ surveillance of members of Congress search histories of the Epstein files. Bondi is spying on Congress while they review the Epstein files, a blatant violation of the separation of powers.
I’m sorry to upend your thiughts, but the dow is going really well right now.
I’ll just leave this here…
A psychopath is an individual with a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, shallow emotions, impulsivity, and persistent antisocial behavior. While often charming superficially, they exhibit callous disregard for others’ rights and feelings, frequently lying or manipulating to achieve goals. They generally do not feel remorse or guilt, and are prone to dangerous, irresponsible, or criminal actions.
Key Characteristics and Traits
Lack of Empathy/Remorse: Inability to feel guilt or genuine emotion, allowing them to exploit others.
Superficial Charm/Manipulation: Often appear normal, pleasant, or charming to mask their true nature.
Antisocial Behavior: Disregard for social norms, laws, and safety.
Impulsivity and Irresponsibility: Prone to boredom, poor behavioral control, and high-risk actions.
Grandiosity: Often have an inflated sense of self-worth.
Or in other words, she’s a soulless monster who deserves shame, ridicule, and a lifetime of misery.
No one is denying that shes a republican.
Yes but not because she has psychopathic tendencies. We cannot allow ourselves to villainize people based off their birth conditions. There are a good chunk of people who due to no fault of their own were born with these tendencies, and a lot of them try very very hard to live a good and kind life, even without emotional connection.
If we start demonizing people who struggle connecting to emotions, either fully or partly, we will condemn many autistic and other neurodivergent people who happen to also struggle with expressing emotions, perhaps not as greatly as those with psychopathic behaviors.
On the front of empathy, yeah it’s understandably scary to think about people without it. But again, we cannot decide that they are doomed to be cruel and malicious people without allowing them to learn and forge their own paths.
All this so say, Bondi is absolutely a despicable pile of garbage because of her actions and the role she has played in this regime. And I am absolutely never going to defend anyone even closely related to this administration. But, we must be careful not to simply decide someone’s fate because of who society says they are, otherwise we form self fulfilling prophecies.
Thank you. Here’s a good article on Bondi, apparently she once wanted to be a pediatrician, loved kids(!). Then she got pressured into becoming an attorney by her dad. She didn’t want to be a prosecutor but got pressured into that (lady isn’t good at forging her own path I guess). Got good reviews although they said she was easily bowled over by colleagues. Then Trump molds her into the AG position, where she had trouble getting into the nasty spirit.
This isn’t a sociopath, this is a sad pushover of a person with no backbone who got used until she become a perpetrator. One wonders about her childhood and what abuse she suffered, or why she’s got no self esteem at all.
That said eventually your actions do dictate the kind of person you are - no matter why she is this way, she’s a pile of garbage now, yes. Pedophile protector, woman hater, nasty wretch of a human.
Was it because she started screaming about how much the DOW is up? (much less than it was projected to be under competent leadership)
Never mind the child rape, have you seen the economy!
That is literally unironically what she said, yes.
Why aren’t you guys even talking about THAT?! At this hearing that’s totally about this other thing!???
Also Blondi: did you guys even apologize to President TRUMP (she has a weird way of saying his name; she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader FFS) for investigating his crimes?
Small nitpick, only because I see it repeated a bunch right now, I am so sorry for being annoying like this please don’t hate me
It’s the Dow, or Dow Jones, or Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJI. But it’s not DOW, those initials mean other things.
Again I am so sorry I hate that I even posted this I really do just mean to help and not be the ahctually person
Another nitpick I’m surprised I haven’t seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn’t know what units we use to measure the Dow.
She could be right. They may have tried bribing whoever reports those numbers with $50,000 to provide more favorable numbers. When they found out that Dow Jones isn’t a person, they probably tried to play it off as a Four Seasons incident.
Meanwhile, D. Jones is calling GDT to find out if this is a residual check.
It’s the DOW if you yell it though?
is dow up because tech is shitting the bed? or is GOP just rewriting reality again?
It’s up because the value of the dollar is falling
TBH with employment down and costs of living soaring I couldn’t care why the DOW is up, the DOW has always gone up, I’m more interested in those Epstein questions she refused to answer in order to scream about the DOW.
everyone working for trump is just a muppet, under direct orders from trump along the lines of “don’t answer any questions, just talk about how great i am”
so…DOW. that’s all anyone’s ever going to get
She literally said he’s the greatest President in American history.
yea, keep gargling them shriveled up little dictator tots
fucking traitor cunt
I don’t wish harm but to very few people, and Pam Bondi is one of them. I would pay big money to be able to punch that bitch right in the kisser.
I’d buy tickets to that show
Funny you should say that. In this administration everything is for sale, you just can’t afford it.
Just make sure you wash the shit off your fist afterward.
if you have empathy/ a conscience/ a soul–trump is not appointing you to anything
Pam Blondi the lapdog
Bondi’s the kind of person whose first response to hearing about the Epstein file, or any rape, is, “What were they wearing?”
Or checks the state of Dow Jones and uses that as a jumping-off point to praise a useless dumbass like Donvict and say he’s the bestest president that ever did presidenting and did you guys even apologize to him yet?
The best part of the hearing was when the Democratic woman who pointed out that of course we are asking questions about what YOU and the DOJ did in relation to Epstein, since that’s what the hearing is about. Blondi tried to pretend she was really baffled that people were not talking about all the shit she wanted to distract with, LOL.
The lack of commom decency from these “federal officials” reveals their false claims of holding certain beliefs as their own, rather than just an advertisement to gain entry to these offices. So of course it’s treason when their lies fall on un-groomed ears so they are ‘performing’ as their freedom depends on it. The flippant responses to seasoned congress members - the newly installed beligerant and farsical congress members - the lack of quality acting is only complemented with the actual white supremist beliefs echoed and chanted repeatedly, while kissing up to thier own in the most bizarre fashion of ‘authority’ worship I have seen outside of B-movie dialog.
They have shown themselves to be utter frauds on the very single issue they pretended to care so much about.
Blondi and Patel especially show how completely unserious the Republicans were about child sex-trafficking. They only showed lots of concern when lots of idiots fell for that Pizzagate/Qanon horseshit because they thought it would be the Democrats that are the perps.
I keep asking - have the Republicans even met their own party? It’s full of Republicans. And they think the Democratic Party is going to have all the pervs?
Doesn’t watching her speak at these hearings feel like watching a shitty instagram reel? Like, where did she learn her fake-ass behavioral cues and gestures?
It’s only a matter of time before Trump throws people under the bus, and hopefully she will be among the first.
Because that’s what she did, so it is right that they feel that way. DOJ don’t give a shit about them. Only the people in power.
1 in 5 people you meet lack empathy. I got these numbers from reporting the US military made to the office of general accounting. The military gives everyone a psychiatric evaluation. Its the only place to get a accurate number on this. Due to the fact that almost all of them avoid any type of therapy. I can’t find the link right now but if I find it later I will post it.
Edit: Here you are. For my not surprising number of doubters. This is where I started when I went down the path toward finding the numbers I’m using. I rarely bookmark anything on my phone as its barely useful when doing anything serious but I bookmarked these pages on it.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/narcissist-signs https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/npd-statistics/
Its up to all of my detractors here to read through it. Here is a hint if you disagree and get upset reading it you may be one of the people I’m talking about. Not that you will admit it.
If you read this and notice that some of the people around you who cause you pain and stress act and do these things to you. You may be a victim. I encourage you to seek therapy. Those that have this problem will not want you to and try to convince you its not right to do so.
The most common thing they will do is try to scare you and embarrass you. The best thing you can do is not tell them until you have been in therapy for a while. There is no point in arguing with them. They will never admit fault. Its one of their most telling traits. A inability to admit fault and truly apologize. The best they can ever do is feel sorry you feel that way. Not sorry they hurt you but just sorry you hold them accountable for it. That is how they are crippled emotionally.
I am a detractor who read these sources. You can too if you have any interest in the subject.
The first one does not mention statistics at all, just describes why you shouldn’t call people narcisistits because it has a specific definition that is overly applied. Ironically enough.
The second source does mention some statistics. But actually verifies the questions that were raised by other curious folks. It states that only .5 percent of the population experiences NPD and that 20 percent of the military does.
This verifies that the military survey is NOT the only source of statistics and that 20 percent of every one you meet doesn’t necessarily “lack empathy”.
So, a relief, I suppose, for now.
Although, the claim that anyone who questions a random internet comment are all the same person and are definitely controlling narcissistic a holes has not been verified.
But it’s probably true. I will not look any further into it for fear of self reflection.
20% of people outright lacking empathy is a lot. With such a large percentage, how can you be sure you aren’t one of them?
Yesterday I helped to clarify why AIPAC fucked up in the NJ special election. When my response was followed with the joke “Ah, thank you for not explaining that while literally walking out the d”, it started collecting downvotes. The “not explaining” seemed to stand out as negative, and I admit I was a little confused myself. However, instead of throwing shade or downvoting it myself, I just asked a simple question about what they meant. The response: “(I was walking out the door, like the author while writing the article)” put everything to rest. It was a joke about how the author of the posted article trailed off without coming to a clear conclusion.
Yet even after this clarification was posted, you jumped in with the worst negative assumption about the interaction. You weren’t seeking clarity or offering anyone support, you were looking to attack. Even after being respectfully asked to re-read the conversation, you double and tripled-down on this incorrect negative assumption. I feel that this attitude is evident here, as you challenge your “detractors” and charge that they are the ones lacking empathy. Don’t forget that every accusation is a confession.
Ultimately, I don’t agree with your 20% statistic. Mostly this is because I don’t believe in binary assignments, such as having or lacking empathy. We are all capable of making positive assumptions about each other’s intentions. Some of us just choose not to in certain circumstances, but there is always room for change.
The military doesn’t give everyone a psych eval.
Anyone seeking a higher clearance goes through one. But that’s not a full accounting, the vast majority of people never need a clearance beyond the general Secret that almost everyone gets. No real psych eval for that.
Some specialized jobs get them as well. And I think some combat jobs get them by default… but mostly no. It’s just the standard, “can this person both follow orders and be trusted to do the job they were hired for?”
Anyone who fucks up which most of the lower functioning ones with NPD get tested as well. It not a choice between the military and some other large sampling. Its the only place where its done at all other than in the field of psychology. which is a lot fewer people and well most of the time people in that field are victims of the subject matter we are discussing.
I know this because I have spent hours and hours reading and search for information on it and nothing you say will change it. I sure am getting a lot of push back about it here three ‘people’ trying tell me I’m wrong is kinda telling in and of itself. No argument you make changes anything.
I was a member of the US military. I never got any form of psych eval, and neither did anyone I knew, except for people who had a Top Secret clearance.
So your hours of reading are just wrong, or you didn’t understand something. It happens.
So yeah, the people who were likely to get a psych eval were the people most likely to need one. And that creates selection bias.
Its funny how I keep getting push back for this but have got confirmation on my information from others. You were a grunt I guess and not a trouble maker so you slide on by. I guess its the people I asked since one of the people who confirmed it was a ex EOD tech and a army ranger. A real stable and trustworthy person whose word carries more weight with me than any random internet stranger.
The numbers I got were reporting from the military to the office of general accounting. Like I said the links I provided was the start of the search not the end. I know how to look up information and its not my job to do it for you or appease your doubt. Why would it create a selection bias? Because the people are smarter or more useful to the military?
I made NCO. I still never got a psych eval. It wasn’t part of the process.
Again, if I had needed a Top Secret clearance there would have been one, but I never needed anything beyond Secret, which did not come with a psych eval.
The vast majority of people never get Top Secret, and never get a psych eval unless something comes up, like a major fuckup or certain combat roles.
I’m pretty sure I have already said that mentioned the fuck ups. Narcs fuck up all the time but in a setting like the military it doesn’t get ignored. The second person I mentioned was a programmer in the army and he left as a E5. He had a top secret security clearance and worked a job for a few years in the private sector after he left due to that. You try to make it seem like its rare but its very common as far as I can see. Perhaps all the vets I interact with are just more trustworthy and able to be approved for a security clearance.
You just said it yourself. Top Secret. But it’s not super common.
Secret is almost automatic, but Top Secret is not. No, you need a special investigation into your background. You get a psych eval, your parents, neighbors, teachers, and highschool classmates are also interviewed.
It’s a process that can take months or even a year or two.
So no, the military does not go through that process with everyone.
So yeah, the only people getting psych evals are the sort of people who the military needs to trust implicitly. People who work on classified shit, or people who might need to be evaluated to see if they’re going to snap and kill everyone because of the fucked up shit they went through on their last combat deployment.
And not everyone deploys, and of those who do, not everyone goes outside the wire.
So yeah, there’s a huge selection bias right there that gives you your 20% nonsense.
Three " ‘people’ " huh. That seem to suggest a lack of empathy towards anyone who applies a minimum amount critical thinking.
No one should take a claim like that at face value, period. If there is some evidence for it then the burden of proof is on those who make the claim, not the other way around.
Must be a part of that 20 percent to dehumanize anyone who questions you so easily. Maybe there is some truth to the claim after all.
The only caveat is that people who want to be soldiers aren’t necessarily representative of the general population. Plenty of people join the military because they want to kill people.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the number is around 20% of those who enlist.
I’m pretty sure the military is a general slice of the population.
Men make up ~80% of the military in the US. Already we are off to a bad start if you think the military is a ‘general slice’.
Using the military as your source comes with a whole lot of biases. Military enrolment is not mandatory in the US, so your numbers are already skewed by factors of wealth, ‘patriotism’, and gender.
You can assume that people who are not open to the possibility of killing a human being are filtered from their ranks by default. And then being exposed to the life of a soldier (especially in a war zone) can skew the way that a person interacts with their world.
Not to mention that “lacks empathy” isn’t exactly quantifiable in a meaningful way without further qualification.
You can’t possible be more wrong about anything you just said other than the rough makeup of the military. The number is 1 in 5 and its probably higher than that. You are surrounded by people who lack a basic human characteristic. To varying degree’s these people have a reduced morality linked to a absence of empathy. They are the politicians, the CEO’s, law enforcement and the clergy. They are trump and johnson. They are musk and zuckerberg. They are bondi and noem. That is just scum floating on top of the swamp. They are also people you work with. From my perspective they are possibly you.
One thing they do is take offense at anything indicating a problem with being that way and my numbers are sure to offend any of them. They seek power and don’t care what they have to do to get it. They never consider any harm they may do to others in getting what they want. They never admit guilt or truly apologize.
They are evil as described by Gustave Gilbert. As I said the US military is the only place to get a large sampling of people on this hidden epidemic. You wont find another as large. Prove me wrong about that and find it. Easy bet on my part. It doesn’t exist because the subjects of it avoid and decry any form of therapy.
Oh, you’re that kind of dumb. That “anyone who disagrees with my point is obviously just offended at my right-ness” kind.
Thank you for your time. I’m tapping out.
Thanks for tapping out. Its just like admitting you are wrong.
You are ignorant of the facts at the very least. The statistic men make of 80% military is irrelevant since men make up 85% of of people with NPD.
Quit gaslighting. Its pretty clear you are incapable of admitting you are wrong. A very narcissistic trait. Along with a very thin skin.
I hope you blocked me cause that is what I’m going to do now to you.
The only place to get an accurate number on this thing you should totally believe about everyone you meet is a test that the military definitely doesn’t give to everyone but can maybe be sourced probably.
Nope. The only place to get any idea about a true number is the military. Anyone who needs a security clearance gets tested. Which is more and more everyday. Anyone who fucks up gets tested. Which is most of them. There is no other place that can give you a accurate number due to the nature of people with no empathy. Instead of arguing with me go look for numbers on Cluster B disorders Particularly NPD. Anyone who lacks empathy exhibits it in some form. What you will find is a very low number of these people seek out help. Most of the testing done in the civilian world is court ordered. They will never seek out help for something they see as a superpower. What possible problem could there be for not giving a shit about others?
There is no other source with as large of a sampling of US citizens. I really wish I had time to find that site with all the information about it. It had a huge number of nested pages outlining the psychology of these assholes.
The only other place where testing is common is among people who are in a psychology field, either as a student or a practicing professional.
The number is 1 in 5 and its probably higher than that. I don’t care what you believe I know I’ve developed a really good skill at spotting them. Plenty of tells with their sort.
Why would the military be a representative sample? Maybe when we had the draft, sure. But even then their were conscientious objectors, and of course women weren’t drafted. And plenty of people voluntarily enlisted even in the Vietnam era.
Is it not reasonable to expect that those with high empathy levels would be less likely to voluntarily enlist? Knowing nothing else, I would expect the military to select for those with low empathy levels. It’s an obviously useful ability if your job is to kill other human beings. And you’re supposed to carry out orders without any consideration for the consequences of those orders or who they hurt. That sounds like an extremely low-empathy environment.
Anther pointless argument that ignores what I’ve said to try to tell me the military is a poor place to get that information. Totally ignoring its the only place it exists. Also another useless pointless argument to try to convince me that all the people that join the army are killers. They are not natural killers and if you actually knew any or any vets you would know that.
I suspect at this point I’m talking to the same people who just switch accounts to try to gaslight me. There is data from other sources but the military is the largest sample. The next being medical students. I think people from the psychology field are next and I haven’t bothered to look again (why would I?) to see their exact percentage but I recall its around 14 percent. The number that is reported by trained professionals is absurdly low because people without empathy are terrified of and hate therapy.
I’m secure in my knowledge. My therapist and my psychiatrist have looked at the same information I do. Real people with real degree’s agree with me and nothing some random person on the internet says to try to argue against it will change my mind.
Its amazing how many are jumping in here to argue against it. Its not the first time but the baseless incorrect assumptions are always the same.
That’s a really weird thing to say because you posted a source that provided statistics beyond the military survey, which pointedly proved that statement false.
Then you denied saying that the military was the only source when that fact was pointed out.
But you are now trippling down on that false claim.
It seems like you might have the inability to admit fault and truly apologize. Which is also what you accused others of.
Might be time to take a break and question some preconceived notions. Like, no hate. You are on one right now. 20 percent of people are not who you think they are. It’s probably healthy to realize that.
Cool cool. And how does this source you wish you could find about a biased sample of the public, the only one possible of course, quantify “lacks empathy”.
Go away. when I have time and at home I will find it and post it but I’m sure you will find fault with it as well.
Until then I will remained convinced that 20 percent of the entire human population is some quantified amount of psychopathic.
links in my original post. I drew three people or three accounts arguing against it this time. Not one in five but consider the subject and the subjects of the subject.
First source says .5 percent of the population and 20 percent of the military. Which is exactly what you were questioned about.
1. The military is a biased sample.
2. The military is not the only source of statistics.
Also, kind of a shit source that doesn’t appear to reference anything, to be fair.
