The Slime: From Roy Cohn to Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel
Elite psychopathy, mutual blackmail, and the bleeding edge of power.
The Slime
The Slime is not a specific group of people or an ideology. It is a shapeshifting vampiric force, flowing through the nooks and crannies of power, latching onto whatever advances its agenda. It is not a club, a secret society, or a cult—although it happily uses such groups as proxies.
The Slime can be described as a flexible, mutating meta-parasite—an alien mold hoarding money and power using any means available to it.
Underneath, the Slime is a shared set of psychological pathologies centered in Dark Tetrad traits: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and sadism. When these aberrant personality types recognize one another, especially in the elite class, they tend to clump together, often in unexpected—and covert—ways.
The remarkable transition we’re seeing now is the Slime that slithered and engorged itself feeding on American politics for decades in the dark, is now manipulating the levers of power right out front. And with the benefit of the Epstein files—to the extent we have the full picture—the Slime is far easier to see, both in the present and in the past.
It’s like that horrifying moment when you shine a black light in a hotel room and see what’s really there.
In the big picture, the Slime can arguably be described as the most powerful force in modern American history. Let me demonstrate a slice of how it works.
Bear
In 1976, Alan “Ace” Greenberg was head of New York investment bank Bear Stearns. According to his wife, a fellow parent from the expensive Dalton School (run by Bill Barr’s father Donald) recommended that he hire a “brilliant” young teacher named Jeffrey Epstein.
Despite Epstein having been hired and leaving Dalton under questionable conditions, Greenberg hired him anyway, giving Epstein an entry point into the financial world and a way to expand his systematic exploitation and abuse of girls and young women.
For example, in 1980, Epstein leveraged his position at the bank to put out a cattle call to “cute Texas girl[s]” in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Swakopmund
While Epstein was being educated on the world of high finance and sex trafficking in New York, on the other side of the world a young gay boy named Peter Thiel was being educated on the supremacy of white people in apartheid Christian school. Through the 1970s, Thiel’s father Klaus was building an illegal uranium mine with slave labor outside Swakopmund, in apartheid SW Africa—the last place on the globe where it was normal to greet others with “Heil Hitler.”
The Rössing Mine became a resource to a number of South Africa’s allies, which included Israel, then increasingly isolated and developing its own nuclear program.
Peter Thiel is currently cosplaying as the Antichrist for a reason. Because he was raised to hate everyone—especially people like himself.
This searing self-hatred mirrors another important figure.
Cohn
While Thiel and Epstein were just getting started in the late 1970s, a man cut from the same cloth—an antisemitic, homophobic, Jewish bisexual lawyer named Roy Cohn—was helping change history by getting his friend and client Ronald Reagan elected, through cheating.
Roy Cohn got started by going after communists and their sympathizers in the early 1950s and achieved notoriety by prosecuting Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage. Cohn successfully pushed for the death penalty—a result he often boasted about, achieved through aggressive tactics which included pressuring Ethel’s brother to commit perjury during the trial.
Most famously, Cohn was Joseph McCarthy’s chief aide during the Red Scare of the 1950s. Cohn both suffered from the fallout of McCarthy’s humiliation and benefited from the reputation he gained as an immoral, ruthless operator.
Among Cohn’s most important tools was blackmail and accusations of homosexuality, but Cohn’s own sexuality, while he always denied it, was an open secret. This includes a kind of mutual extortion pact with FBI founder and Director J. Edgar Hoover, himself a well-known sexual deviant.
October Surprise
By 1980, Roy Cohn was one of the most powerful lawyers and fixers in New York City. His clients included the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Donald Trump, and Rupert Murdoch. The New York Post, controlled by Murdoch, went all in for Reagan, including working to split the liberal vote by boosting Independent candidate John Anderson—who caused a perennially blue state to flip to Reagan 46-44.
Simultaneously, Roy Cohn was in “almost daily” communications with William Casey, Reagan’s campaign manager—and Knight of Malta—who became CIA Director. It was Casey who orchestrated a deal with the Ayatollah and Israeli government to funnel arms to Iran—if Iran would hold off on releasing the hostages until after Reagan was inaugurated.
Off to the Races
With Reagan in place, the Slime took full advantage, populating the administration, starting the long trend towards extreme wealth inequality, and expanding its criminal operations in and out of the government.
Epstein left Bear Stearns as a limited partner in 1981, under a cloud of accusations and suspicion, but Greenberg never abandoned him—even writing a letter for Epstein’s birthday book two decades later.
In 1981, Donald Trump was invited to a lunch with a reporter from Playboy magazine—whose interview subject was Trump close friend and lawyer Roy Cohn. Among the guests were cosmetics magnates Estee and Joe Lauder, and other right wing elites.
The lunch was served by Cohn’s “office boys” who were also “through the grapevine” known to be his lovers.
This is just the kind of tactic we see from Jeffrey Epstein’s files: inviting powerful people to witness and/or participate in something illegal or taboo and thereby make them complicit. This is the same as inviting people to a sex island, or a ranch.
Now Estee and Joe’s son Ron Lauder—a close friend of Bibi Netanyahu—has been advising Donald Trump to take over Greenland. Another person working to annex Greenland is Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery—yet another co-founder of PayPal.
Once you’re in the Slime, you’re in.
Israel Bonds
As a last throwback to the Slime’s legacy and influence, in January 1983, Roy Cohn was given an official audience with Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office—with Rupert Murdoch. A few months later, there was an event to raise money for Israel in New York: the B’nai B’rith Banking & Finance Lodge and Banking & Finance Division of State of Israel Bonds Testimonial Dinner for Roy Cohn.
Three of the Honorary Chairmen at the Dinner:
Ace Greenberg
Rupert Murdoch
Donald Trump
Roy Cohn died of AIDS in 1986, disbarred in his last days for defrauding his own client.
In 1987, Reagan gave a final crucial kickback to Rupert Murdoch and his late friend Roy Cohn for getting him elected. Reagan allowed the Fairness Doctrine to expire—giving Murdoch free rein to turn Fox into a propaganda operation.
That same year, Trump went to Moscow for the first time.
Fast Forward Four Decades
In April 2024, there was a secret meeting in the Hollywood Hills with a dozen or so members of the Slime, now updated for the 21st century. It included: junk-bond criminal Michael Milken; disgraced former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick; PayPal Mafia members Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks; and Rupert Murdoch.
This meeting was a planning session for the theft of another election, much like the one engineered for Ronald Reagan. Just as it had in 1980, this plan involved the laundering of massive amounts of money, and the deliberate misleading of the American public, this time through Elon Musk’s bastardized version of Twitter.
It has now been scientifically proven in several ways, that “X” has been deliberately tuned to change people’s brains. Not incidentally, not as a side effect, as a primary function of its operation. Both its core algorithm, and the content of the feed itself through fake influencers and bots, are changing people’s minds for them.
The Slime is a natural byproduct of humanity, really. The worst people—those with no morals or empathy—will always exist. The problem we’ve got is that the Slime has found a way to replicate itself using technology. It infested our algorithms and brainwashed a third of us. Now it’s putting Grok in the Pentagon.
This is the battle for the Republic—not affordability, or immigration—the war is for our minds. Will we surrender to the Slime—or turn on the black light and clean it up?
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This should be a full-page ad in the New York Times. It will become a full-length movie in a few years -- if we survive that long. Outstanding work, Jim.
The real face of unfettered and deregulated capitalism. A not-so-secret society of extreme narcissists and billionaire loons driving humanity off a cliff... rudderless deviants without empathy or morality. History is full of these characters who lust for power for power's sake. Their extreme wealth leaves them empty, soulless vessels, and it always ends badly. Every century becomes deadlier than the previous. We need to jam the spokes when and if we get the chance to push back. Thanks for shining the light into the darkroom, Jim.