Wednesday, July 9, 2025

These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For

The Farce can have a strong impact on the weak-minded.

7 comments:

maruadventurer said...

Lets assume something as dangerous as that is -- That the contents of the Epstein files is so toxic that reasonable minds would conclude that the safest course is to bury it. Considering that 2 admins attempted to do so is likely true.

To borrow a phrase from another movie, "... Only way to be sure is to nuke it from orbit." Which for the citizenry means the following. Any politician who is an incumbent from say 2005 forward must be eliminated, preferably by primary elimination. Other means if that is not a option. That means anyone based on the criteria regardless of whether they were on some list or not.

Its the only option that terminates any hint of suspicion.

Aesop said...

Toxic to whom??
Releasing those files neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket.

As to the only reason for 2 admins have covered it up is to assume it would be so purgative to the body politic that releasing it unedited is in the public interest, and it should be given front page coverage on every newspaper in the country, and 24/7 on the news channels, until everyone implicated either resigns, or kills themselves, and probably ideally both.

Anyone who chickens out on that should be prosecuted under state and federal statutes to the fullest extent of the law, and sentenced to full terms for every count.

Easy peasey.
Oh, and not coincidentally, the way things are done in a nation of laws, rather than an oligarchy.

If we are the latter, it's long past time to start stacking bodies.
Either way, let the purge begin, and in earnest.
The original allegations are bad enough.
The conspiracy and cover-up are far worse.
Guillotines and nooses are in order all around, and that's becoming far more likely to be far less than purely rhetorical.
Under Robert's Rules, "Off with their heads!" is a motion from the people that's always in order.

Mark Jones said...

When it comes to criminal conspiracies inside the government (and in the media, etc) "too big to fail" (i.e., too big to be allowed to be revealed for fear of the society-wide consequences) is bullshit. The bigger the conspiracy the MORE crucial it is that everyone involved be identified and removed. By any means necessary.

It's the only way to restore any confidence in those who remain in power. It can only be "too big to fail" in the sense that it's too entrenched to be removed except by removing heads as necessary.

John said...

All shredded by now.

Night driver said...

Joun might have a point, above. Though there may be some issue as to WHO might have done the shredding.
I offer this from https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/andrew-branca-lays-out-reality-of.html
Not going to repost that whole thing, but if one does not have a mulishly closed mind, it makes a bit of sense.

Night driver

Tucanae Services said...

@Aesop, 1:35pm Well to the politicians naturally. I'll take the L for not being specific. Not opposed to your approach either, as barring results of any other, that is where we land.

Aesop said...

Night driver,

As pointed out on other blogs, Branca likes to talk about things of which he is blissfully ignorant, as if his ignorance made it as he would wish.

AG Pam Bondi stated publicly and unequivocally in February that she "had the client list on [her] desk, in the case file".
Now, miraculously, "there is no client list".
{cf. the dog ate my homework}
Sh'yeah, as if.
For the sitting Attorney General of the United States to pretend the memory of the public on such a well-publicized point is as short as her credibility is risible.

For her and DoJ minions to conveniently lie it out of existence currently, exactly as noted elsewhere, brings to mind a telling scene and quote from Charles Laughton in Witness For the Prosecution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOSJkcKPbo

Branca's uninformed (I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt there) imaginations are farcical in light of such settled facts as crystal-clear
statements of the AGUS. A more prudent blogger wouldn't publish concoctions at odds with such reality, but then again, this is Branca, so prudence and familiarity with the exact points at issue is seldom part of the equation.

The last time he was trotted out by all and sundry was in the shooting on Rust. Branca assured one and all that Baldwin was entirely and undeniably guilty as charged based on Branca's complete unfamiliarity with on-set safety protocols, while I pointed out Baldwin wasn't and never could be because of exactly those protocols, then further pointed out where true and entire culpability would lie, and Baldwin would never serve a single day in jail.

Turns out the prosecution hid crucial exculpatory evidence, which became apparent rather rapidly, resulting in a mistrial with prejudice, because Baldwin wasn't legally culpable, and thus he never spent a single day in jail.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes, and Branca to date is best used as a south-pointing compass. His contentions are always theoretically plausible, if only one completely ignores all known facts at issue.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is a poor way to go through life, boy." - Dean Wormer, Faber College, Fall 1961