The Epstein situation is more depressing than outrageous to me and always has been. As fucked up as it is, I have no faith in it ever jeopardizing his power in any way. Conservatives that often push for child marriages won’t care. Edgy 4chaners who think loli porn is based are a major force in his youth support. Trump’s fascism fundamentally mocks any moral outrage about right and wrong, viewing power as the only metric to determine right to rule. He does not care about God or country, something that most of the Christian nationalists who follow him accept because at least he wins.
My view has long been that Epstein is more of the distraction, despite what him and Trump did being pure evil. The forest is the systemic horrors inflicted on kids by ICE, by increased poverty, by a rise in right wingers who are controlling of kids, while the kids one group of pedos abused is just the biggest tree. All this flaffing around trying to find proof of what everyone already knows is outsized to its usefulness. Trump raped kids and there will never be accountability, while we can see actual good if we work to save new kids from cruel parents, a cruel legal system, and poverty. Even helping one kid in your own neighborhood will do more good than all the attention people have given to Trump/Epstein in the past year.
The Epstein situation is more depressing than outrageous to me and always has been. As fucked up as it is, I have no faith in it ever jeopardizing his power in any way. Conservatives that often push for child marriages won’t care. Edgy 4chaners who think loli porn is based are a major force in his youth support. Trump’s fascism fundamentally mocks any moral outrage about right and wrong, viewing power as the only metric to determine right to rule. He does not care about God or country, something that most of the Christian nationalists who follow him accept because at least he wins.
My view has long been that Epstein is more of the distraction, despite what him and Trump did being pure evil. The forest is the systemic horrors inflicted on kids by ICE, by increased poverty, by a rise in right wingers who are controlling of kids, while the kids one group of pedos abused is just the biggest tree. All this flaffing around trying to find proof of what everyone already knows is outsized to its usefulness. Trump raped kids and there will never be accountability, while we can see actual good if we work to save new kids from cruel parents, a cruel legal system, and poverty. Even helping one kid in your own neighborhood will do more good than all the attention people have given to Trump/Epstein in the past year.