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Wasserman’s connection to the Epstein records has been documented separately from Sheeran. The entertainment executive, who founded Wasserman Media Group, appears in released records concerning Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
According to a database compiling publicly released records, Wasserman is listed in 109 flight records and 19 documents connected to Epstein-related material. The records include a 2002 trip on Epstein’s private jet to Africa as part of a humanitarian delegation associated with the Clinton Foundation.
Documents also include correspondence between Wasserman and Maxwell from 2003. Wasserman has previously denied having a personal or business relationship with Epstein, while reporting has detailed the circumstances surrounding his contact with Epstein’s circle.
funny how fencesitters are usually sitting on one side of the fence.
‘In these situations you really find out who your friends are,’ he told the crowd in footage captured by a fan.
At the end of the show, a tearful Sheeran said playing the concert had given him hope. He said: “Everyone is telling me to cancel, and I’m feeling all of my friends and family and people I know abandon me and I look at the end of the week and I see 50,000 people who haven’t abandoned.”
… maybe our real friends were the pedophiles and genocide supporters we met along the way
Bold choice of words on Ed’s part, considering that he first abandoned his friends and family when he decided that the favor and fortune of an evil billionaire was more important than solidarity with those who are suffering in Palestine.
Well duh, have you tried straddling a fence? It’s quite uncomfortable
Though then again it’s uncomfortable because of the balls, which the fencesitters seem to lack.
The “tell it like it is” crowd or the “both sides bad” crowd exclusively critiquing the left.
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It’s probably best if we prosecute the people tangentially connected to people in the Epstein files. Otherwise we might have to prosecute the people in the Epstein files and we can’t have that!
My inner voice transformed into Bill Nighy as chief inspector in Hot Fuzz reading that last bit
“you’ll continue to be exceptional and we can’t have that”
I want to see the Andrew formerly known as Prince subjected to a public trial and if found guilty by a jury, imprisonment like any common person. Alas his brother doesn’t quite hate him enough to kamikaze over a thousand years of monarchy into the ground just to screw him over.
That would be funny as fuck for future GCSE history students to learn about though.
I’d like to see just one american subject to a public trial. That may open the floodgates for the rest. Just one.
Our trials are public. Getting any of the Epstien Class indicted seems to be the issue, with one notable exception.
I definitely agree with this but i also feel that if you do put connected people who are in privileged positions of power then hopefully they too will turn against their masters.
Why not both? It isn’t just a tangential connection - he’s making money for them.
They’re capitalists and heads of state: we’re all making money for them until we get some heads rolling.
Yeah but most of us are trying to survive. I doubt Sheeran is in a position where getting fired would compromise his wellbeing.
It seems my statement came across as an apology for Sheeran, when it was intended as a reminder that people like Kraft have set up the economy so just trying to survive benefits them. And so the only way to get rid of their power to buy everything, including complicity, is to get rid of them.
Shotgun boycotts are like the war hawk attitude, “Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out” - somehow it passes for ethical purity now.
Ladies and gentlemen he’s going for the hat trick
In Ed’s defence, not that he really deserves any defense, I doubt Ed know about this. But still, fuck you Ed.
A lot of famous artists quit Wasserman agency last year specifically because of this. So it is almost impossible he did not know of it.
Coincidentally everyone signed with Wasserman agency never speaks out for Palestine except a rare both sides statement for some.
Ed probably just didn’t want to take a stance on it.
Oh, never mind then. Fuck you Ed.
He knows.
I don’t know if I believe that. I mean how often if we heard the oh everybody knows but no one said anything story when it comes to the rich and famous and Powerful?
If we know there’s no excuse for him to not know
I don’t know about you specifically but “we know” because someone else looked it up and shared it.
I’d be surprised if, of the people that read the Epstein files and recognized Ed Sheeran’s agency’s boss name (Casey Wasserman) in them, that count had four digits. But maybe I’m just unplugged from the entertainment industry
I’m also extremely out of touch with whatever’s current, and I can afford to be because I don’t work in the entertainment industry. Part of every celebrity’s job is image management, a single scandal can ruin a career and they all know it. He didn’t try because he didn’t care, because he didn’t think it would matter. He was wrong and now he’s paying for it, and I think that’s pretty cool and completely fair.
He named his company after himself, and Wasserman has its fingers in every talent agency pot - MLB, NBA, NASCAR, PGA, they’re in British football, in German boxing, they represent musicians, actors, filmmakers, YouTubers, eSports players, and more. I’m pretty sure it’s that you’re unplugged.
I get that he’s extremely busy with whatever the fuck he’s doing, song singing and whatnot, but he’s rich enough so he can hire a student to google all the names of the people who he’s associated with and replace everyone who fucked kids. Hell, he’s rich enough so he can hire two students so they can google each other, to eliminate all the possibilities.
Then go after Casey Wasserman, why shoot him? Is Sheeran in the files? You people need to work on your torch and pitchfork skills.
Because Sheeran catered and caved to Robert Kraft, another Epstein associate and genocidal Nazi. Ed Sheeran seems to surround himself with a lot of Epstein adjacent people and pro-genociders. Then he caters to them like he’s under their control.
Your expectations of celebrities are unreal.
Celebrities are regular people, there is no intrinsic difference between them and everybody else in the world, they should be under the same expectations as everyone else. Cause and effect still applies to them. As outlined by another commenter, a lot of people (celebrities, even.) quit the agency for this specific reason, Ed wasn’t one of them.
Most regular people aren’t paying much attention to it at all.
They are also at fault. If most of the people are stepping on hamsters that doesn’t make stepping on a hamster not something to hold them accountable for doing, no matter who they may be. People are accountable for their actions.
It’s unreal to me that Israel has killed over 20k kids and more than 80k civilians, and continues to pursue their genocide, while people remain silent or indifferent. Not saying anything, making excuses, and giving power to people that enable the genocide, makes them Nazi collaborators.
And yet that’s exactly what the majority of the population does, has done, and will do. You built your expectations out of hope and outrage, not history. That disappointment is on you when people don’t act the way you expected or want.
The majority? Genocide supporters have been the minority for a while, they’re just too bloodthirsty to realize it.
Yes. The majority. Who don’t even pay attention to the situation, they just say what you demand they say to not get socially assaulted by people like you.
Hmmm, when it’s someone in the entertainment industry who’s that close to Epstein, it looks extra suspicious. I wonder if he was part of Epstein’s “supply chain”.
any relation to Debbie Wasserman Shultz? You know, the head of the DNC that conspired with Hillary Clinton in the 2016 elections to force Sanders out.
edit: sorry internet stranger. sorry that DWS and Hillary were such scumbags that they attempted to circumvent democratic process and in turn destroyed American democracy all to satiate their greed and hubris.
Unrelated in at least the closest 2-3 generations as far as I can tell. Casey’s grandfather only had one child (Casey’s mother who gave him the Wasserman name) whereas Debbie got her name from her father. Whether Casey’s grandfather Lew had any siblings or cousins is harder to find out
you did the math.
What’s the logic behind persecuting Sheeran for this? Palestine yes, but this just seems dumb.
Ed Sheeran is incidental at this point. The boycott is the equivalent of breaking equipment at a factory. He is a profit engine for his agency, and if people don’t go to his concert, his agency and the venues lose money. Sucks for him, but nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to hitch his wagon to this train.
Then why not name all artists the agency is handling? This seems like it’s going to hurt nobody but Sheeran.
Because he made himself a target and life is not fair.
In other words, this is dumb and meaningless. Got it.
In other, wrong words that don’t mean the same thing at all? Yes.
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Yeah you’re the same guy who says Ukraine’s in the wrong for the war. I’d be more concerned if you were on my side. Love your argument though, very good points you make.
Ukraine is a US puppet since we overthrew their government in 2014, if the US government is supporting a regime they are 100% always the problem/at fault, no exceptions
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Debbie Wassermassen Schultz’s cousin?
