Uh, Sam, even if we assume for the sake of argument that all there is to the story was that Epstein raped hundreds of underage girls and got away with it for years, it's still a big deal! Do I really have to explain that?
It seems like you think the author is doing some apologetics for Epstein, but I didn't get this at all. How would you have us plan out useful next steps for handling the matter?
No acknowledgement of how much Trump is acting like he's got something to hide. Mocking the *very* plausible evidence of Robert Maxwell's association with Israeli intelligence. And is there an innocent explanation of the Prince Andrew picture? (It couldn't be me, I don't sweat!) It sure seemed like he was trying to minimize it.
I think that Sam nails it with “Power isn’t really constituted of people sitting in pleasant control over everything and manipulating reality as they wish but always involves warring factions hanging on for dear life to whatever it is they have.”
Although conspiracy theories are more common in today’s media environment, they may be part of that “sixth sense” that somehow is evolutionary adaptive. Distrust in certain circumstances is very powerful.
The QAnon theory has Donald Trump doing battle with the Deep State. Now comes the Project 2025 theory, which has him systematically implementing the aims of that project.
Trump's recognizably political positions can be connected with Project 2025 easily enough, but many of his actions are outbursts of personal grievance that don't advance any political interest or national vision. Note Andrew Sullivan's latest piece ("Why Is the President Breaking Wind?") about Trump's crusade against wind generation of electric power, a valuable technology that offended him by spoiling the view from his golf course in Scotland. If he'd won his case against those turbines, he probably would have simmered down; but losing it sent our spoiled-boy president into a towering rage.
Look at all the actions which Trump throws himself into with sustained energy, and you find that they're attacks on things that matter to the people he regards as his enemies, from racial and sexual equality to scientific knowledge.
It’s worth remembering that Trump isn’t the only one driving policy in this administration.
Russell Vought, now Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was one of the chief architects of Project 2025, which lays out a detailed blueprint to centralize executive power and dismantle the federal bureaucracy. Stephen Miller, now Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, helped shape the plan’s immigration agenda. Other senior figures—like FCC nominee Brendan Carr, “border czar” Tom Homan, and policy planner Michael Anton—also contributed directly to Project 2025 and now occupy high-level roles.
Trump may not have read Project 2025, but his administration is clearly advancing many of its goals. Dismissing that as a “conspiracy theory” overlooks how closely aligned the project’s authors are with current policymaking. That alignment matters—regardless of Trump’s personal motivations.
Quote "The all-powerful cabal really seems to have been suffering a series of reverses recently—they have had a conspicuously difficult time, for instance, keeping Donald Trump out of office—but it’s really not very fun to imagine that the Democratic Party is broke and dysfunctional, that the Deep State is facing severe funding cuts, that, in any case, power isn’t really constituted of people sitting in pleasant control over everything and manipulating reality as they wish but always involves warring factions hanging on for dear life to whatever it is they have." A very long sentence for a start and Oh! dear! Back to bashing the democratically elected POTUS. All the negatives you list could well be a list of the positives of "the American culture" of Lawfare and most of all -democracy. The Dems are at the moment on the wrong side of history. To swallow that must be hard for you and the Leftists, but it is a fact of life. Sam, it is no more than the swings and roundabouts of political life in a democracy, of which you are well aware. Learn to live with it, or you will have a stroke or heart attack before Trump's term in office ends.
I think #MeToo and the fact that the same people that perpetrated that crappy destructive era are guilty of supporting sex trafficking of minors with the southern border open and grooming so many young school children to be sexually aware and active before they are of legal age are the ones screaming Trump-Epstein! Sex With Minors!... have the majority of the public rolling their eyes and saying "yeah, we have been against these things forever, but you are a bunch of lying hypocrites and we are tired of it. "
Really? Epstein’s rapes and trafficking will never be reduced in moral depravity just because his bank account was smaller and his influence less impressive. The story isn’t about him anyway. It’s about a know lecher who keeps changing his mind every minute about a pal (frenemy?) who may or may not have set him up with underage girls. When that lecher is the president the right way to go is to the evidence. But whoops. Said lecher has refused to let anyone see it, despite the fact that the evidence may absolve him. Really? Are we actually going to believe Ms. Maxwell when she says that powerful men didn’t really need Jeffy? Like powerful men just start looking around for child pimps when they know a known, discrete supplier. This is nothing like QAnon.
Uh, Sam, even if we assume for the sake of argument that all there is to the story was that Epstein raped hundreds of underage girls and got away with it for years, it's still a big deal! Do I really have to explain that?
Yes you do sorry let’s just get beyond it
It seems like you think the author is doing some apologetics for Epstein, but I didn't get this at all. How would you have us plan out useful next steps for handling the matter?
No acknowledgement of how much Trump is acting like he's got something to hide. Mocking the *very* plausible evidence of Robert Maxwell's association with Israeli intelligence. And is there an innocent explanation of the Prince Andrew picture? (It couldn't be me, I don't sweat!) It sure seemed like he was trying to minimize it.
I think that Sam nails it with “Power isn’t really constituted of people sitting in pleasant control over everything and manipulating reality as they wish but always involves warring factions hanging on for dear life to whatever it is they have.”
Although conspiracy theories are more common in today’s media environment, they may be part of that “sixth sense” that somehow is evolutionary adaptive. Distrust in certain circumstances is very powerful.
The QAnon theory has Donald Trump doing battle with the Deep State. Now comes the Project 2025 theory, which has him systematically implementing the aims of that project.
Trump's recognizably political positions can be connected with Project 2025 easily enough, but many of his actions are outbursts of personal grievance that don't advance any political interest or national vision. Note Andrew Sullivan's latest piece ("Why Is the President Breaking Wind?") about Trump's crusade against wind generation of electric power, a valuable technology that offended him by spoiling the view from his golf course in Scotland. If he'd won his case against those turbines, he probably would have simmered down; but losing it sent our spoiled-boy president into a towering rage.
Look at all the actions which Trump throws himself into with sustained energy, and you find that they're attacks on things that matter to the people he regards as his enemies, from racial and sexual equality to scientific knowledge.
With Donald, everything is personal.
https://thefamilyproperty.blogspot.com/2025/08/absurdly-simple.html
It’s worth remembering that Trump isn’t the only one driving policy in this administration.
Russell Vought, now Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was one of the chief architects of Project 2025, which lays out a detailed blueprint to centralize executive power and dismantle the federal bureaucracy. Stephen Miller, now Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, helped shape the plan’s immigration agenda. Other senior figures—like FCC nominee Brendan Carr, “border czar” Tom Homan, and policy planner Michael Anton—also contributed directly to Project 2025 and now occupy high-level roles.
Trump may not have read Project 2025, but his administration is clearly advancing many of its goals. Dismissing that as a “conspiracy theory” overlooks how closely aligned the project’s authors are with current policymaking. That alignment matters—regardless of Trump’s personal motivations.
Thanks. Those are important points.
Quote "The all-powerful cabal really seems to have been suffering a series of reverses recently—they have had a conspicuously difficult time, for instance, keeping Donald Trump out of office—but it’s really not very fun to imagine that the Democratic Party is broke and dysfunctional, that the Deep State is facing severe funding cuts, that, in any case, power isn’t really constituted of people sitting in pleasant control over everything and manipulating reality as they wish but always involves warring factions hanging on for dear life to whatever it is they have." A very long sentence for a start and Oh! dear! Back to bashing the democratically elected POTUS. All the negatives you list could well be a list of the positives of "the American culture" of Lawfare and most of all -democracy. The Dems are at the moment on the wrong side of history. To swallow that must be hard for you and the Leftists, but it is a fact of life. Sam, it is no more than the swings and roundabouts of political life in a democracy, of which you are well aware. Learn to live with it, or you will have a stroke or heart attack before Trump's term in office ends.
I think #MeToo and the fact that the same people that perpetrated that crappy destructive era are guilty of supporting sex trafficking of minors with the southern border open and grooming so many young school children to be sexually aware and active before they are of legal age are the ones screaming Trump-Epstein! Sex With Minors!... have the majority of the public rolling their eyes and saying "yeah, we have been against these things forever, but you are a bunch of lying hypocrites and we are tired of it. "
Really? Epstein’s rapes and trafficking will never be reduced in moral depravity just because his bank account was smaller and his influence less impressive. The story isn’t about him anyway. It’s about a know lecher who keeps changing his mind every minute about a pal (frenemy?) who may or may not have set him up with underage girls. When that lecher is the president the right way to go is to the evidence. But whoops. Said lecher has refused to let anyone see it, despite the fact that the evidence may absolve him. Really? Are we actually going to believe Ms. Maxwell when she says that powerful men didn’t really need Jeffy? Like powerful men just start looking around for child pimps when they know a known, discrete supplier. This is nothing like QAnon.
Enact the disclosure act already