
Dear Ed
Thanks for your email (below).
You make a strong case.
Even so, my particular commitment to truth is eager for the chips to fall where they may. I am not defending any orthodoxy, dogma or doctrine for its own sake.
Yes, I think it is decidedly likely that high-ranking Democrats are on "The Epstein List."
But I think it is also likely that Trump is deeply implicated -- if only by way of "covering up," which was the crime that brought Nixon down. He wasn't a Watergate "plumber" -- and the people would probably have forgiven him if told the truth -- but no, he insisted on covering up.
Let me state my a priori working hypothesis that Trump's most important contribution to the world stage will prove to be how he accelerated China's takeover as global hegemon.
Although I do not have much regard for Chinese governance, the Chinese are not aiding-and-abetting the unprecedeneted genocide of the Gazan people as war criminals Biden and Trump have done, and as Trump continues to do. (I say this as someone who has always been a big fan of Joe - from waaayyyyyyy back!)
I also accept as a given that Chinese hegemony will be immeasurably better than Trump's neverending Cruelty -- the central feature of his governance.
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Still, I hope, indeed I expect, that some abrupt reversal of fortune -- what I sometimes call "The Rupture" and other times refer to as "The Break" -- will happen within years, probably within the remaining years of Trump's administration.
Whatever happens with The Epstein Files, I think the The Break is most likely to be economic - some witch's brew of grotesque government corruption; gross ineptitude throughout Trump's government; a collapsing dollar (prompting abandonment of the dollar as global reserve currency); increasingly adverse global reaction to America's untenable debt (in fact Uncle Sam's increasing inability just to pay interest on the debt; the fallout from Musk's ravages at DOGE; a soon-to-plummet stock market (that is sputtering even now); realization that cryptocurrencies are essentially bogus - that "there's no there, there"; trastornos in the bond market; and China getting a definitive upper hand on AI.
Airforce general friend, lunchmate and travel companion, Arthur Clark (who died two years ago at age 100 after dedicating his career to "military intelligence") liked to remind me that "China has more honor's students than we have students."
I also believe in the Law of Karma -- that "we reap what we sow" -- and that "every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Furthermore, my working hypothesis is that Trump is already toast, and that his party of decerebrate, lickspittle invertabrates will be totally unable to reform itself after Trump passes from power.
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM Ed M M.D. wrote:
OK. Here's a nightmare scenario. Trump ) delays release of the Epstein files in order to raise the right wing's emotions to fever pitch. Then the files are released and Trump's name does not appear on the client list. But Bill Clinton's does. And other democrats'.
And the hoped for scandal completely spares Trump but tarnishes the left.
He and his team are very expert at whipping up emotions. This could happen. And the longer he delays the higher the emotions. Watch out! This man is dangerous.
Ed
Greetings
The “good Christians” (who are neither) despise Truth.
They only care about power — that they have it, and that their unchecked power will be used to punish anyone who insists on Truth… simultaneouslyletting the chips fall where they may.
At the moment, I cannot access my blog post about ultra-conservative Catholic Pat Buchanan’s “Where The Right Went Wrong,” but I will scout it out and send it along. (Buchanan has served - inside Republican White Houses — as a senior presidential advisor — longer than anyone else.)
It is notable that in the beginning of the Book of Job, Yahweh summons Satan in order to make a deal with him. (The encounter is well worth reading.)
It is even more notable that Yahweh (not to mention the God whom epistle writer John identifies as “Love”) wants nothing to do with His Malignancy.
The Christian nationalists who put Trump in the Oval Office — not just once, but twice!?! -- are the most dangerous people in the world.
And those “Christian” “nationalists” are about to eat the most humble pie ever, assuming they are not so bewildered by their irremediable falsehood that their moral compass is now unrecoverable.
Left to their own devices, these putative “Christians” will never admit that Trump was wrong, because then they would have to admit that not only their political, but also their religious) belief systems are wrong.
Release of the Epstein files will change that.
Folks on the right side of the aisle can determine where they stand — before God “Himself” — by answering this question: “Do I want the Epstein files released in their entirety?”
The unmitigated release of the Epstein files is exactly what they ALL wanted — and adamantly!!! — back when they were slurping sludge from QAnonsense which promised that a “righteous, punitive ‘storm’” would be unleashed by Trump before “whoremonger, liar, felon, cheat, thief, Democracy-Demolitionist” left office at the end of his first term.
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