I’m thankfully not as invested as it sure appears an awful lot of otherwise respectable people seem to be in the apparent deep, dark secrets surrounding the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein, and in particular what notable people may or may not have been his friends, even if that may have been in the distant past. And I think any of you who know me in any way know I truly don’t give a flying f–k if a certain obese orange “free” world leader happened to be one of the many that may have at least been in the vicinity at the time. One can only hope for the sake of the young–ahem–women that were omnipresent that the younger, thinner version of him farted a whole lot less and may have actually been able to form a coherent sentence back in the day.
But I do seem to fall into what is increasingly revealing itself to be a bipartisan majority that can’t seem to accept whatever edict said leader is now increasingly demanding we must obey regarding “our attention to this matter”. THE HILL’s Elizabeth Crisp dropped some timely data from what I’ve come to learn is one of the more credible and non-partisan polls yesterday:
More than 6 in 10 voters in a new poll (63 percent) disapprove of how the Trump administration handled its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Just 17 percent of voters surveyed in the Quinnipiac University national poll released Wednesday said they were satisfied with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conclusions that Epstein kept no client list and died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019. Twenty percent had no opinion.
Republicans, who have long fueled conspiracies about Epstein’s associates and his death, were split — the poll found 40 percent approved of how the Trump administration carried out the probe, 36 percent disapproved and 24 percent had no opinion. Meanwhile, Democrats and independents overwhelmingly said they disapproved, at 83 percent and 71 percent, respectively.
“Epstein has been dead and gone for years but his tawdry legacy looms large in a country wanting to know more about who he knew and whether secrets have been buried with him,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.
Well, duh. We’ve just come off a month where apparently millions of us who are addicted to reality television found their way to an otherwise ignored Peacock to see which controversial racist survived the gauntlet of Love Island USA. And if anyone can attest to the power of that segment of the medium, it would likely be the guy who at one time commandeered a dramatically larger audience for another division of NBCU.
I am thoroughly bemused by his overdefensiveness and increasingly desperate attempts to deflect and dissuade. Those very acts belie his afterthought ramblings that he doesn’t seem to want or care about the accolade of the minions that have blindly given him the plurality vote in at least two free and fair elections. We know the truth, of course. Just ask anyone in his cabinet how his addictions to fealty run deeper than his apparent addicition to Mexican Coke.
So yes, if you press me for an answer I come out on the side of those that are seeking answers. But not for the same reasons that others are citing. Especially not the moral high ground that the Puppet–er, Speaker–of the House who apparently checks in with his Gen A son on a nightly basis to make sure he’s not lusting in his heart is clinging to which THE GUARDIAN’s Oliver Holmes shared yesterday:
On Tuesday, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, called for the justice department to make the document public, breaking with Trump in a rare moment of friction between the allies. “It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,” Johnson told Benny Johnson, a rightwing podcaster, in an interview released on Tuesday. “I agree with the sentiment that we need to put it out there.”
Allow me to finish chortling over that crock and then turn to our clearly troubled leader and ask him to seek comfort in the testimony of Colonel Nathan R. Jessup.
I’m confident he’s familiar with the seminal role that Jack Nicholson brought to life in A FEW GOOD MEN. Aside from the fact that Nicholson knows a lot more about basketball and when to let a team he’s rooting for celebrate a victory without him in the scrum, they’re cut from the same cloth and perhaps partied together even more than they may or may not have with Jeffy.
And in his most memorable scene of testimony Colonel Jessup delivered this forceful diatribe and defense that ultimately got him off the hook for whatever charges had been brought against him.
I feverishly believe if he actually found the huevos to find a similar voice he’d achieve much the same kind of results. Because here’s the God’s honest truth IMO. We are dealing with the id, and more of the id actually envies what he may have did in the company of Epstein. And yes, I’m including both genders in that assessment.
Let’s play out the worst case scenario. Unless those missing two minutes and fifty-three seconds of footage in Epstein’s cell show him with an ICE gaiter tiptoeing in wearing a pair of Bruno Maglis to personally snuff out Epstein’s regrettable life, there’s no alleged crime that would make a dent in a majority of supporters’ minds.
A plurality were willing to look the other way when he was convicted by a jury of assaulting an older socialite. Does anyone truly think a significant percentage of those who might have been in that plurality will somehow find anything that might be revealed from those Epstein files a bridge too far enough to make a tangible bit of difference in voting choices? I for one don’t.
Especially when you consider that a plurality of voters also voted for another alleged predator of young women who may or may have not x-eeted his support. FWIW, SNOPES seems to think it’s fake. But that still didn’t stop another free and fairly elected official to voice her own support for his ability to get to the bottom of this mess. MEDIAITE’s Charlie Nash could barely contain his incredulousness reporting on this endorsement:
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested on Tuesday that former congressman Matt Gaetz should be appointed as special counsel to investigate documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The congresswoman then proposed, “This is certainly important and I want answers, and maybe that takes that special counsel to do so. Maybe Matt Gaetz can lead the special counsel.”
And considering how we knows she conducts herself in public, this would bring me back to that earlier conclusion that there’s a percentage of women who would be willing to forgive and forget anything we might learn from those files.
So yeah, Tangerine Methane Gas. You just channel your Colonel Jessup and feed your minions the chum they want. You’re bound to get off–probably more than anyone you may have met on Epstein Island did. And it’s not like they’re coming forward in droves to share their stories with any podcasters–the one of consequence that did is now dead. Karma’s a bitch.
But for those who might find my conclusions a bit harsh and self-defeating do remember this. Jessup ultimately was jailed because he failed to follow procedure and was then held accountable based upon that self-inflicted harm. Witness how Fat Orange Jesus handled himself later in the day as THE INDEPENDENT’s Andrew Feinberg reported:
President Donald Trump delivered a rambling speech in Pittsburgh Tuesday, but set off alarm bells by forgetting names and telling ‘facts’ that were, at best, very unlikely to be true. At one point, Trump invoked his late paternal uncle, Dr. John Trump, who he often describes as the “longest-serving professor” to ever teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology even though the noted physicist did not achieve that distinction despite teaching there for 37 years as a professor and another 12 as a senior lecturer after mandatory retirement. John Trump died in 1985. Trump…claimed that one of his students was Theodore Kaczynski, a mathematics professor who became widely known as the Unabomber when he was arrested in 1996 for a decades-long string of letter bomb attacks on figures in higher education and other industries.
As one other President who might have been in those files might have quipped, it’s ok to “keep Hope alive”.
Until next time…