What's Just Above The Subtext?

 Okay, this may feel like misdirection from me, but I believe that it doesn't matter what is in the Epstein Files. This protracted game of hide and seek has gone on long enough. The most recent revelation that Elon Musk and Prince Andrew appear by name in flight and call logs connected to Jeffery Epstein's island east of Puerto Rico. Invitations were extended. Did they accept? What about Steve Bannon and Peter Thiel? 

Can we please stop referring to Jeffery Epstein as "American financier" and start calling what he really was? A child sex offender. 

And what about the convicted felon auditioning for the role of Yertle The Turtle? I have grown oh so tired, so very very tired, of waiting for "proof" that this capriciously flawed individual did something awful. All of this supposed "smokescreen" of sending the National Guard into blue cities and ICE thugs roughing up a woman who was pleading for them to take her and not her husband isn't the distraction. 

It's the plan. 

The widely held belief that the "president" is a pedophile counts yet another strike against this morally bankrupt serial abuser of women and children who has countless lives on his way to the big time. Now, instead of ruining one woman's life at a time, he is able to do it to an entire country. Entire swaths of the population of the United States have been cut off from the lifelines they so desperately need while he continues to decorate his tacky nest in the style best described as maximalist. 

His clown car of a cabinet continues to find ways to make the American Dream a nightmare for those not fortunate enough to live among the one percent. Vaccines are for sissies, and so is that new kickoff rule in the NFL. The Federal Communications Commission, which should be safeguarding Americans' right to free speech is busy taking requests from the Orange Emperor as to which jester should be silenced next. 

If you can afford to put gold cherubs over every doorway in your rental house, then you probably don't care how much groceries cost. If you're busy making your way to New York City to watch the Ryder Cup, you can't be bothered with negotiations to avert a government shutdown. 

And the parade of political enemies that are being brought to "justice" while the tattered remnants of the United States Constitution lies at the feet of the MAGAts who finally got what they wanted way back on January 6, 2021.

Sure, we can continue to hold our breath and wait for the moment when the "truth" about the adjudicated rapist and Jeffery Epstein, or we can start working on what comes after the worst mistake the American electorate has ever made. And start clawing our way back to being the kind of nation we want to be. Not just the one we deserve.