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Good. Suffer, you utter shitgibbon. I want you to be as terrified as everyone else who you had to 'involve' yourself with was.
Bet you're sweating now, fuck face.
Lol, there's so much emotion in this reply.
He does seem like and utter douche canoe tho.
There's no reason to slander shitgibbons like that
He is facing his second Christmas without his mother
He's a senior citizen, that is such a weak grab for pity.
Welp then he should have spent more time with mummy instead of raping children on an island
I cannot even pretend to have sympathy for this bastard
And his mother was also a bitch for protecting her rapist son.
She also allowed the mistreatment of her two mentally handicapped cousins to continue until they died alone in mental institutions.
Why do the good ones die so young?
Don't forget we all thought she was going to live forever...
He's embarrassed, not tormented.
The girls and boys he probably raped were tormented.
Classic DARVO technique by the prince
Tormented like he’s being sex trafficked under-age? Afraid like if he doesn’t do what the men say that they’ll torture him and he’s powerless to stop them? That kind of tormented?
Tormented like having to ask King Chuckie to send out the Gestapo to arrest anyone who mentions the diddling again
I'm sure Barbara Streisand would love for it to go away.
Why are there so many pedos among the rich
They are in the position of power to act on their desires. It's probably the same % everywhere.
Nah, I think it has more to do with power.
Theyre in a position to get something so illegal and evil, the thrill is in the power of doing something that lesser people would be executed for.
I think this is a major part of it.
Which is why high levels of wealth and power actually lead to bad mental health of the rich and powerful.
They get detached from normal life and start looking for thrills in the wrong places. It's kind of a similar effect as what middle class people know as lifestyle adaptation or the hedonic treadmill.
Once the normal things that provide pleasure are easy to obtain, people start looking for pleasure in places that still provide mystery, adventure and a challenge.
These people desperately need therapy to learn how to be content with normal things, but instead they follow their flawed monkey brains into a trap.
Sociologists call it anomie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie
In sociology, anomie is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow. Anomie is believed to possibly evolve from conflict of belief systems and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community (both economic and primary socialization). ...etc. ...
Hoarding wealth in greater quantities than you could ever use in order to have power over others desperate to just survive is abusive to start with. They're probably exposed to other people with all variants of abusive tendencies and trained to believe they are better than and deserving of the suffering of others. Being raised in that environment will definitely encourage a much higher proportion of other abusive behaviors.
Serious answer, as someone who's been through years of therapy.
Pretty much everyone rich and powerful experienced intense trauma early in life. And one of the horrible ways our early childhood trauma plays itself out is by causi us to recreate it on younger generations. You don't just wake up one day as a child molester. That shit was visited upon you in some fashion when you were a child.
Our entire culture is based on generational trauma (strongly suggest you read the Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate).
People who seek power and fame are almost all incredibly damaged from a very young age. Not necessarily an excuse, but if you want to stop the cycle you have to be able to step back far enough to see it.
He is facing his second Christmas without his mother
He’s fucking 70 or something.
If this is torment, how would you describe what those children went through?
I hope it lasts even after the docs are published.
Why would he be worried, if he has nothing to hide? SMH
Reminder that the king was also best buds with Jimmy Savile and I refuse to believe he wasn't aware of the rumors. Also refuse to believe the king didn't know Epstein, when Epstein was partying on Royal properties with the Kings family and friends.
Hey Prince Andrew, if the truth hurts then maybe it's you that's in the wrong?
I mean everyone already knows his name is on the list so idk what he has to worry about lol.
He either can't read the room or it's worse then we already knew about. Probably both.
Wow, I'm not tormented at all. I guess if you don't diddle kids you have nothing to worry about...
Poor widdle nepobaby
Oh won’t somebody please think of the poor prince.
Reap what you sow, cunt.
Loser ass POS.
Can we start calling him "The Royal formally known as Prince"?
Good.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Prince Andrew is said to be “totally tormented” at the prospect of his relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein coming under further scrutiny after a judge ordered the release of secret case files.
US Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Monday 18 December that documents relating to more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of disgraced financier Epstein should be made public.
They include 40 documents of evidence from Johanna Sjoberg, who has claimed the Duke of York touched her breast while sitting on a couch inside the US billionaire’s Manhattan apartment in 2001.
Andrew stepped down from public life after the furore over his friendship with Epstein and paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to Ms Giuffre, a woman he claimed never to have met.
In the infamous 2019 interview, Andrew denied Ms Giuffre’s claims and said an alleged encounter with her in 2001 could not have happened as he spent the day with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, taking her to Pizza Express in Woking for a party.
In January 2022, ahead of his legal settlement, his mother the Queen stripped Andrew of all of his honorary military roles, including Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
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Is he sweating?
i hope he offs himself. it would be the only justice these women will ever receive.
This website is abysmal; nearly unusable, jumping all over the place. Not quite as bad as the topic, but… giving it a run for its money.
And in a hole with this guy. Also everyone else involved in this pure evil and disgusting shit.
Torment away.
Good.
Good.