The Epstein-Rome Parallels Nobody Wants To Discuss | Jeremy Ryan Slate

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Politics is a story as old as time.

[00:00:02]>> It's It's crazy, man.

[00:00:04]>> If you hold the wheels of power, you make the rules. And this in Marcus's journals, does he really write specifically about this? And playing with that decision in his head.

[00:00:20]So I know there's mentions of that and there's but there's mentions of them from the positive way like of you know being upstanding and there's a lot of mention of his wife being upstanding but she may or may not be running around on him. So >> oh she was cheating on Marcus >> thoughts that she could have been >> with who?

[00:00:36]>> Other wealthy and rich men. So >> like was she back home >> like Marcus is a guy that wanted to see the best in everybody. And I think that's the difficulty because that can really put you in a tough position.

[00:00:45]>> I mean you're the emperor and your wife's sleeping around. I don't know about that.

[00:00:50]Was she back home while he >> She was back in Rome. She wouldn't be on campaign.

[00:00:53]>> Ah, so there's no Yeah.

[00:00:57]So she's uh >> Biden her time, if you will, >> in some ways. Yeah.

[00:01:03]>> Now, did he Was he [ __ ] around, though, too?

[00:01:06]>> He's the emperor. You have to imagine he probably was. Like, we can't say that he was or wasn't, but >> I mean, he's got to get the stress out some.

[00:01:12]>> It's probably likely that he did, >> right? So, it's a All right. It's a two-way street.

[00:01:16]>> Yeah, >> it's tough. Well, and especially like you have to understand especially in politically connected people and rich people that was just done you know >> it's marriage was done but it was done in a lot of ways for political position >> that's what I'm saying was this an arranged marriage or was it marriage for love >> at that level it would have been typically an arranged marriage like this is a good family this is a good family like even look at um why did Augustus marry Livia and he never had children with Livia because it's a political marriage like in in those places they would have been political marriages is >> that's that's a strange thing about elite society and again we can bring it back to modern day power though you're really trying to preserve power >> I was talking with someone yesterday who is not from that society >> but in recent years has like been in some environments where he's around people like this >> where it's like he he was saying it's all the same people when you he was I'm not going to list places he went but you know some enclaves he's It's It wasn't Epstein's Island, by the way, but you know, normal places. But he's like, "It's all the same people. It's all the same families. They all hang out. Their kids go to all the same [ __ ] private schools. They all marry each other."

[00:02:30]>> And it's like, some of it h by the way, if you want to go to the highest level, some of it still happens right in front of our face. Look at like King Charles and Diana arranged marriage. That [ __ ] went well. You know what I mean?

[00:02:40]Like these >> But it's the creative it's a created political class. And I think that goes back to we were talking about earlier with the life cycle of of government because it starts to be more of an oligarchic system. Yes.

[00:02:53]>> You have to be in the club. You know, it's like uh George Carlin used to say, "It's a big club and you ain't in it." I >> quote it every day.

[00:02:59]>> But it's it's it's very true, right?

[00:03:01]It's a it's a political class. It's like, you know, why can you um you know, there there was was it the mayor of DC that was like doing coke or whatever.

[00:03:09]This not the current one. This is like 20 years ago. and somehow he's like still in power and all these other things. Or somebody could be accused of being in the Epstein files and they're still in power because it's a big club and you ain't in it.

[00:03:19]>> Yeah, that's not okay. That's where I draw the line.

[00:03:21]>> Yeah, >> no pun intended.

[00:03:24]>> Oh, that's funny.

[00:03:24]>> No, but it's it's a it's it's a great point, man. Like it's rules for thee >> and not for me.

[00:03:29]>> Not for me. And you know, I I don't know that there's a better example of it right now than Howard Lutnik, who you know, I savaged in that in that Patreon that ended up going public. And I I don't regret any of that. I >> I've seen people posting that like everywhere.

[00:03:51]>> Oh, dude. I will continue to do it because we then >> that you guys were talking about.

[00:03:56]>> Yeah.

[00:03:56]>> Yeah. that we then ended up clipping that up and [ __ ] half the internet clicked clipped it up and then this guy went in front of Congress and had to answer for this and has the audacity.

[00:04:09]>> Like I've saw things that he may be leaving. Is he actually leaving?

[00:04:13]>> He as of the time of this recording he has not. This is going to come out next week. So hopefully when this comes out he's [ __ ] gone and we never hear from him again. What really pissed me off is I've defended Howard Lutnik in the past.

[00:04:24]M I've known Howard Lutnik's story forever. He's the Caner Fitzgerald guy.

[00:04:28]He lost his brother in the tower. He lost 646 people from his company in one day and somehow kept the lights on. He was a Wall Street legend in a way and there was a lot to respect.

[00:04:38]>> Sounds like he knew the right guy.

[00:04:40]>> I mean, it sounds like he did, you know, now >> there was somebody keeping the lights on for him.

[00:04:44]>> Now you got to wonder, right? But to see like I just every time I watch that clip of him on that [ __ ] New York Post podcast just telling that story like in this tone so perfectly and his hands are like this and he goes so he gets right up in my face and says I get the right kind of massage and in the six to eight steps it takes to get from my house to his house. I looked at my wife and we decided that we will never spend a second around that disgusting individual ever again. And then he lists off business, socially, or philanthropy. And they're literally all the emails he's on, business, social, and philanthropy coming out in these files. and he has the audacity to go into Congress and answer the questions where they're like, and they asked him, by the way, very nicely, nicer than I would have, ironically enough, where they're like, "You see why we have a problem here, Howard? Like, you told this story so vividly about not spending time around this guy after 2005." And then we have a bunch of emails of you getting drinks with him, visiting him on the island with your whole [ __ ] family and [ __ ] And he's just like, "Yes, I did visit."

[00:06:06]Admitting openly that he lied. Yes, I did visit him on the island, but there was nothing untored about it, which listen, you elites, you got to get rid of words like unoured. That's just a dead giveaway. And you know, we went there with my wife, my kids, our nannies, and we left with the kids and the nannies as opposed to what? Leaving them there. And then he walks out and they're asking like, "Yeah, is he going to resign?" And you got the speaker of the house like, "No, he's doing a great job." Like, what the [ __ ] >> You know what I mean? This is >> it's a big club and you ain't in it.

[00:06:38]>> And that's >> politics is a story as old as time.

[00:06:43]>> It's it's crazy, man.

[00:06:45]>> If you hold the wheels of power, you make the rules. And this I've been doing a a series lately on my YouTube channel about banking families.

[00:06:52]>> Banking families. And if you look at uh there's a banker in I think it's the 1500s uh Yakob Fuga and he was actually the guy that funded the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and helped him get elected.

[00:07:05]>> Y how do you spell that?

[00:07:07]>> Yakob. So it's J A K O B. Yakob Fuga.

[00:07:10]It's Fuger. It's spelled Fuger, but it's fuga is how it's pronounced.

[00:07:13]>> Got it.

[00:07:14]>> F u G- R.

[00:07:15]>> I never heard of this guy.

[00:07:16]>> So he basically funded the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

[00:07:20]>> How did he do that? He bribed the people. So there's these seven electors that would pick the Holy Roman Emperor and he bribed the electors by giving them whatever they would want and they picked his guy. So the next thing you know, every decision Charles V makes looks a lot like a decision Yakob Fuga would make.

[00:07:38]>> Or you look at the Medi. The Medi in the Middle Ages at one point they funded a pope. Later on they have a pope with Leo the 10th who's um Giovanni de Medici. So these banking families have been doing these things for a very long time. Now it doesn't mean that you know they are Epstein but at the same time these same type of operations whether they're through corruption of money or corruption of sex they've existed for a very long time.

[00:08:07]>> Yeah. Who controls the money holds the power.

[00:08:10]>> You control the money. You you don't have to be the king but you can control the king.

[00:08:14]>> You fund them.

[00:08:15]>> All you got to do is control them. All these politicians that we put into office, >> they're all funded.

[00:08:21]>> Mhm.

[00:08:21]>> They all have to answer to daddy.

[00:08:23]>> Yes.

[00:08:24]>> And daddy's who's the money.

[00:08:25]>> Correct.

[00:08:26]>> Right. And that's everything from farmer to big the big banking. All of it. This guy the spelling of this guy's name is hilarious though.

[00:08:33]>> Yeah.

[00:08:33]>> Fugger.

[00:08:34]>> Fugger.

[00:08:36]>> What a way to go through life. He looks like a real fugger.

[00:08:40]>> That's why the German pronunciation is fugger.

[00:08:42]>> Fugger. Okay. The richest man who ever lived.

[00:08:46]>> Yakob Fuger.

[00:08:47]>> That's Is that a real thing? He was the richest guy who ever lived.

[00:08:50]>> I can't speak to that, but I know he was pretty rich.

[00:08:53]>> Yakob Fuger, the merchant and banker of Augsburg, uh, prominent merchant.

[00:09:02]Is there >> he started as a like a wool merchant and later on he he kind of gets into power broking because he gets all this money by he's basically becomes a supplier back and forth. So he becomes kind of like a mercantalist of like you know you need this I can get you the money for that you know like supplying the loans for the for the imports >> right makes a lot of money doing that and that that's how he's able to buy someone like Charles V cuz this time period as well obviously what does it say at the same time he was a cleric and held several pre-bends I can't see it sorry uh American journalist Craig Steinmens has estimated his overall his overall wealth to be around 400 00 billion adjusted to 2015 equivalent to 2% of the GDP of Europe at that time.

[00:09:53]And have you ever heard the name before?

[00:09:54]>> No. Neither did I till about a month ago.

[00:09:57]>> No.

[00:09:59]It's one of the It's one of the fun things about looking at hidden forces in history.

[00:10:03]>> The foundation of the family's wealth was created mainly by the textile trade with Italy. Yep. That's what you were saying. The company >> because he goes early in his life. He goes to Venice and he's kind of observing a lot of the mercantalism in Venice and he's like cuz he's he's becoming a priest at this point in time and he looks at that and he's like well why would I why would I be a priest if now I understand how mercantalism works and then he goes back to Augsburg and he builds this empire.

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