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Just a reminder of why we're in a war right now (Original Post) wolfie001 14 hrs ago OP
All those sketchy 'modeling agencies' and 'contests' were pimp fests. pfitz59 14 hrs ago #1
In my opinion, the very worst "beauty pageants" are the ones with little girls. MIButterfly 13 hrs ago #2
donnie's kiddy show. pansypoo53219 13 hrs ago #3
JonBenet Ramsay llmart 12 hrs ago #4
The reason I stopped on that show that day was because I thought the little girl was Jon Benet Ramsay MIButterfly 12 hrs ago #5
Is anyone surprised that this completely amoral evil person would do such a thing? ChicagoTeamster 12 hrs ago #6
precisely. B.See 10 hrs ago #13
Link to Guardian article ? krkaufman 11 hrs ago #7
I went back to Reddit and found a link: wolfie001 11 hrs ago #8
Thanks. krkaufman 11 hrs ago #10
LINK krkaufman 11 hrs ago #9
Yuck jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #12
Unfathomable jfz9580m 11 hrs ago #11

pfitz59

(12,615 posts)
1. All those sketchy 'modeling agencies' and 'contests' were pimp fests.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 08:43 PM
14 hrs ago

An open secret at the time.

MIButterfly

(2,570 posts)
2. In my opinion, the very worst "beauty pageants" are the ones with little girls.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:22 PM
13 hrs ago

While channel surfing one day, I watched about five minutes of "Toddlers and Tiaras" and it was disgusting. I bet every pedophile in the country was glued to their TVs watching that shit. Everything about it was repulsive, the way they tarted up the little girls; the attitudes and greediness of the parents, etc. I saw a five-or-six-year-old girl, in heavy makeup, with big hillbilly hair, sashaying across the stage, swinging her non-existent hips and singing "My baby whispers in my ear sweet nothings." WTAF? I couldn't change the channel fast enough.

llmart

(17,543 posts)
4. JonBenet Ramsay
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 10:29 PM
12 hrs ago

Perfect example. When I moved from the midwest to the South I learned that beauty pageants for little girls were a very common thing. I worked with a woman who told me that when she had a baby girl all she ever wished for her was to win a beauty pageant.

MIButterfly

(2,570 posts)
5. The reason I stopped on that show that day was because I thought the little girl was Jon Benet Ramsay
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 10:35 PM
12 hrs ago

and that it was updated news report about her. I didn't notice what channel and what program it was until I looked a couple of minutes later.

ChicagoTeamster

(803 posts)
6. Is anyone surprised that this completely amoral evil person would do such a thing?
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 10:37 PM
12 hrs ago

And the American Evangelical Christian community picked this person (and I use the term lightly) as their savior. The religion that started as an attempt at a religious justification for continuing the institution of slavery and denying black people civil rights.

krkaufman

(13,961 posts)
7. Link to Guardian article ?
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:26 PM
11 hrs ago

Is there a link to a Guardian news article covering this or just rumors?

wolfie001

(7,538 posts)
8. I went back to Reddit and found a link:
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:30 PM
11 hrs ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year
I remember reading this article about 3 years ago. His cult doesn't care yet they lobbed attack after attack on Joe Biden. Bunch of a-holes.

jfz9580m

(16,891 posts)
12. Yuck
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:16 AM
10 hrs ago

I can’t stand to read these..they are so depressing if you have any imagination and I have a vivid one.

This must be a reckoning for this society across all party lines holding all the powerful accountable..

It serves no democracy minded person to downplay anyone of this type. That is what will perpetuate it.
It is time to offload anyone older and compromised in these ways.

I won’t stand for an extra fascistic narcotics war based blackmail with equally sleazy coercive and fraudulent Reefer Madness style bogus, billionaire front “prison reform”.

I am preparing pushback ..


jfz9580m

(16,891 posts)
11. Unfathomable
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:50 PM
11 hrs ago

Actually it makes sense..especially given how much cheap shitware from China and Russia all these types tended to favor, meaning that a ransomware crisis affecting only people who actually do bad shit is passed down to all of us who are guilty solely of stuff like marijuana use.
For some creepy male porn addicts we are all held hostage and doctors and scientists are forced to minimize the damage to broader society due to our bored, degenerate corrupt elite (as Yasha Levine described them).
Epstein was an example of inadvertent entrapment.

People who only do the right thing when surveilled and monitored are ..like that is fucking sad. System of trust or nothing.

Either way, a few boatloads worth of pot aside I am personally not worried. And I am going to turn state’s witness the day I can against the proliferation of a highly (oops..I can’t use that word without feeling mocked anymore) illicit and unconstitutional in any honest or meaningful democracy that values common sense and reality over theatre/kayfabe/unreasonable and slimy bs.

Everyone with very little to hide that is not lame human cringe pat yourselves on the back.
The pseudo elite are a disgrace and this is an opportunity to hold all of them accountable with their grifters across all lines rather than getting resigned to this.

But at least I will be fighting overtly from now on. Finding that this sleazy local hospital I was hoping was less sleazy is now owned by Blackstone Inc was the final straw.
I will never again ignore my instincts.

Perverts plus an economic war of attrition..

There is way more of us than them..and things can still turn around for all of us with only the criminal wealthy and their very few henchpeople/grifters finally being held accountable. Thats the point of all the available data.not normalizing a new hell, but pushing back.

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