The news and the internet has lost its mind over this Epstein file thingy….
To be honest I have not cared one iota about this crap along the Epstein Line….I have had my attention elsewhere and this did not interest make at all….but that was about a week or more ago….now it is getting out of hand.
The MAGA infighting over the Jeffrey Epstein files continues to escalate, and now Democrats are piling on. Axios reports that Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna introduced a resolution requiring the Justice Department to release all files related to Epstein, forcing House Republicans to shoot it down Monday night. Khanna, however, promised to reintroduce the measure “again and again and again.” As NBC News explains, Khanna’s move comes as President Trump is facing a near revolt among MAGA allies who are livid with his administration, particularly Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi has reneged on a pledge to release the Epstein files, instead saying the Justice Department has concluded that he had no “client list” of the rich and powerful and that the sex offender took his own life in prison. While Tucker Carlson, Laura Loomer, Steve Bannon, and others have been going after the Trump administration’s about-face, Democrats are now joining the attacks. “Trump administration officials are either lying about the file and keeping it covered up to protect themselves, or they lied about its existence in a shameless political ploy to get elected,” says Democratic National Committee adviser Tim Hogan. “Either way, it is disgusting, and they have to be held accountable.”
- In MAGA: Confused about the infighting among Trump allies? Will Sommer of the Bulwark writes that five distinct factions have emerged, and he breaks them down in an analysis. One is the “get over it” crowd, with figures such as Charlie Kirk getting in line behind Trump and urging people to drop the matter. Opposite them are the “Epstein dead-enders” such as Carlson. For them, “Epstein has come to stand for everyone and everything that screws the little guy: mass immigration to depress wages, housing unaffordability, and much more. If the elites can keep abusing girls with impunity, what else can they get away with?”
- Exit strategies: An Axios analysis suggests three ways that Trump can get out of this mess, starting with the appointment of a special counsel to review the entire Epstein case.
- Analysis: Shawn McCreesh provides an overview of all this in the New York Times. “It is entirely too soon to know what the revolt will mean or if and when it might sputter out, but the nature of it was stunning to behold,” he writes. “It was like a Mobius strip of paranoia and distrust: a political movement that galvanized and exploded around a conspiracy theory—lies about Barack Obama’s birthplace were central to Mr. Trump’s political rise—cannibalizing itself over the mother of all modern conspiracy theories.” The latter refers to the idea that Epstein had dirt on powerful people and was murdered to make sure he stayed silent.
Everybody is looking for a way to use the saga to some advantage….Dems hoping to cash in on the possibility of something hidden in the files….MAGA looking to discredit anyone who wants to believe that Donny has somehow done something nefarious….
And me I do not give a sh*t!
There is more important stuff than this drama that this country needs to focus on….and yet the simple minds pick this POS.
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“lego ergo scribo”
I don’t care but certainly believe Ep not a suicide and a client list was was long standing fact sheet but now destroyed. The bigger story should be who was the actual click running things when Joe the vegetable was allegedly in charge. Also crooked Comey and recent Schiff revelations fraud.
The post is about Epstein….if you want to trash Dems then you have the floor. chuq
I accept the admonishment. Will try to stay on topic. However, those sanctions against Russia seem fairly ineffective…
They are Carl….they are part of BRICS so they have built-in trading partners….it is at best a feel good policy that accomplishes very little. chuq
I agree with you, chuq… but all this does do a couple of things toward a possible greater end. To explore… the MAGA base and grievance-vengences is eating itself up over this which serves to divert their normal rage for everything. It also sidetracks Trump, thus diverting him from affairs of state that we would prefer he not address (cause damage) any more than he has. But even more of a possibility… it’s a growing crack in the dike from within Trump World. On some levels there is doubt forming in his base. Yes, we are far away from him departing the office (3.5 years in fact)… but we can diminish his power over Congress in the midterms.
But to your original point.. for sure this Epstein crap is all a nonsense waste of time…. on the surface.
I mean what if someone did something how would that make things different for people today? chuq
Agreed!!
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You have to admit that the Trumpers royally f**ked this up. First Bondi claiming she had the files and supposedly the client list right there on her desk and it only needed to be edited for security reasons and she was going to absolutely, positively release it, to now claiming oops, that whole thing about me having files and lists? Doesn’t exist. Sorry. Nothing to see here.
Then there’s the video from the prison that we now know was deliberately edited to remove 3 minutes.
Then there are the “usually reliable source” in the white house claiming that Trump was seriously considering pardoning Maxwell earlier this year.
Heck, if I wanted to deliberately design a conspiracy theory to make people wonder what the heck was going on I couldn’t have done any better than Trump and his cronies did to themselves.
The ‘oops’ factor is a stable with the Trump administration….I see we have a similar sleep pattern…..chuq
ah, you’re one of those four hour sleepers too? It used to worry me but I’ve just accepted it and have learned to live with it.
Yes I am….age and pain seem to be my best friends these days….LOL chuq
There are a huge number of people in high places who are probably sweating internally over Epstein and Maxwell; if you look at old film footage for any length of time you can see politicians, presidents, govenment officials, actors, englsih royalty, all swirling about. Just because he’s been removed doesn’t mean he is incapable of causing a hell of a mess for the next few decades, and beyond. Governments come and go, but people like Epstein linger forever.
You’re absolutely right of course.
I probably shouldn’t. but I have to bring this up. This is not the first time a sex scandal allegedly implicating high level government officials has taken place. Am I really the only one who remembers the DC Madam scandal? from back in, oh, I think it was 2006? I admit that’s ancient history in today’s world but it seems very eerily similar to the Epstein situation.
To refresh people’s memories. Deborah Jean Palfrey was running a prostitution ring with allegedly hundreds of “high profile” clients in DC amd elsewhere, and was ultimately convicted in 2008 on charges of money laundering and racketeering. Supposedly there were client lists with hundreds of names on them that would have implicated some very important people indeed. And then she was found dead, hanged in a shed near her mother’s home two weeks after her conviction. A judge sealed all of the records,. including the client lists. Her attorney tried to get the records of the case unsealed and took it all the way to SCOTUS which refused to release them. Her attorney said releasing the records was important because it would have had an impact on the upcoming presidential election.
I for one really want to see those files. Many UK politicians, influential businessmen, and royal family members are on them. We should know who the people are that used to have sex with children and are now in positions of power.
Best wishes, Pete.
Those files should be released….and let the chips fall where4 they may….it does not need to be this never ending diversion from the actual problems we are facing. chuq