I woke up thinking how the longtime operation of Jeffrey Epstein and his wing-woman Ghislaine Maxwell (including Epstein’s convenient death in federal detention during Trump 1.0) is the perfect illustration of how the powerful always prey, unaccountably, on the vulnerable. The privileged elites, rightfully hated by virtually everyone else, live by a different set of laws, rules and morality than the rest of us. They have always felt truly feel entitled to own everything and to make every decision for everybody else.
The rest of us are fungible, expendable pawns to be used to their best advantage. Their logic is impeccable, if self-serving. If 60,000 more poor people die preventable deaths, or 600,000 (estimated deaths so far from Musk canceling USAID) a million, or a hundred million, as the direct result of policies that ensure that the wealthiest can hoard even more wealth, how is that the fault of the super-wealthy? It’s simply democracy.
These rich powerful men saw the needy, cute 14 and 15 year-old girls Epstein and Maxwell collected from broken homes in working class neighborhoods as disposable receptacles for their desires. Most kids that age are insecure and easily seduced by praise and promises. Epstein literally groomed them, using his ultra sophisticated and charming procuress Ghislaine Maxwell to gain their trust. Epstein and Maxwell showered attention, praise, money, expensive gifts and the promise of a bright future on susceptible girls. They carefully screened the girls so they could be freely exploited without any fear of anything ever happening to Epstein and other the powerful men who used them. The girls were just objects of lust for them.
To the girls, the attraction was being made to feel special and the promise of money and class like the elegant Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was a spoiled, entitled, self-hating, pathetic, deeply damaged exploiter who was drawn to Epstein because he was like her beloved father, the ultimate scumbag billionaire who ripped off the pension funds of his own workers because he somehow wasn’t rich enough. Never having really had her shady, preoccupied father’s love (he left her nothing in his will) and in desperate need of wealth, she found another rich monster to cling to and became an abuser herself in order to feel some kind of power and self-worth.
The wealthy, well-connected men who sexually used these girls probably got off as much on the fact that the girls were garbage they could do whatever they want to as any other aspect of it. They were powerful and untouchable and these girls were cute, safe and ready for use, otherwise disposable instruments for the gratification of the mens’ undeniable desires.
A highly respectable older man I once knew, who was likely a pedophile, asked me once why pedophiles were so hated, why they were so often killed by rapists and murderers when they got to prison. I stated the obvious — it’s probably because they prey on the most vulnerable and defenseless among us and the harm they do to their innocent young victims scars them for the rest of their lives. Even a psychopathic serial killer with a life sentence can probably grasp the evil of this on some level. If anyone deserves a harsh, violent end it’s someone who takes advantage of a trusting young person, and inflicts lifelong damage, for their own twisted gratification.
Of course, because of the wealth and power of the men Epstein secretly videotaped having sex with girls, the essential ugliness of the issue becomes obscured. It turns into an abstraction, a 1,000,000 page file to be haggled over by politicians, like the JFK assassination files. 62 years later, the true story of how JFK was killed, and who arranged his murder, is still shrouded in officially sanctioned bullshit. Anyone who questions the highly unlikely official lone gunman version is called a conspiracy theorist, though the real conspiracy appears to involve the obfuscation of what actually happened in Dallas and which powerful, unaccountable men arranged it.
A group of survivors of Epstein’s empire of lifelong trauma has shown great courage and resolve and they deserve a measure of justice for the abuse they were forced to endure. Their suffering is the heart of the Epstein files, whatever the rich fucks who scramble to protect themselves from shameful revelations about themselves may have to say about it. And, of course, it’s not as if Trump, Epstein’s lustful running buddy for decades, is mentioned in the files thousands of times, more than any other powerful man associated with the late pervert. Why would he be? There was no reason for the FBI to reassign 1,000 agents to spend thousands of hours scrubbing his name from files that are a complete hoax and don’t actually contain anything incriminating about anyone, was there?
And besides, while Trump pardons, the day after two ceremonial turkeys, a felonious former president of Honduras, imprisoned for importing tons of cocaine into the US, he is illegally killing men on boats (86 to date, that we know of) he accuses, with all evidence of their theoretical crime at the bottom of the ocean, of being terrorists bringing deadly drugs into the USA.
Welcome again to the Age of Incoherence. This is what happens when billionaires promote a power-crazed, vain, incurious, grandiose, crazy, manipulable, infinitely covetous idiot to power and age and genetics add dementia to the mix. What could go wrong?
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