I expect the shutdown to last through 11/15, then 47 caves.

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9. It is amazing the degree to which a dead man is driving events.

As Scott Galloway points out the Oct 15 Raging Moderates, every 71 to 74 hours, as soon as Epstein starts to creep back into the news cycle, the regime comes up with a series of ridiculous actions that will take the media's gaze off Epstein.

Discussion of Epstein as a driver of events around 28.20 and again a little later