Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.

Friday, November 07, 2025

Something puzzles me about the whole Eppy thing . . .

Obviously, there is something in the DoJ evidence file that Ronald Dump desperately wants to hide, and we know that in addition to whatever might be there about him specifically, a whole lot of wealthy and powerful men were involved as well. The thing is, a lot of people know who they are, including the victims, and DoJ and FBI personnel who have been unceremoniously fired. But the only name we have for sure is ex-Prince Andrew. 

If two people know something, it can be a secret, but if 100 people know it, and if that includes a whole lot of people who don't actually want it to be a secret, it can't be. Also, too, Mike Johnson is going to have to call the House back into session pretty soon, and swear in Rep. Grijalva, so whatever time he's buying won't matter in the end. So why aren't we learning more?

2 comments:

Chucky Peirce said...

He'll reopen Congress when they figure out a way to eliminate one Democratic Congressperson.

Don Quixote said...

Men in the western world, particularly white men of prominence, don't get punished for being rapists or pedophiles. Violence against women and children is looked at as something that is an entitlement. Just like racism in the United States, it's part of what is perceived as the right of (generally) white men who behave viciously and violently.

--It was an open secret in Hollywood for years that Kirk Douglas had brutally raped the 15-year-old Natalie Wood, but nothing was done to hamper his career or, god forbid, charge him criminally.

--It was known for years that Bill Cosby was a serial rapist, but nothing was done until it was acknowledged by another Black man. In this case, he was charged and imprisoned, probably because he was black coming although he got out of jail too.

--Numerous cabinet members, and the infamous "Uncle" Clarence Thomas have always been appointed to their positions, despite clear evidence that they're sexual abusers.

--Günter Parche stabbed Monica Seles so Steffi Graf would ascend to the #1 ranking in women's professional tennis. He succeeded. And he didn't even go to jail. And the games played on, when they should've stopped until Seles was ready to return with proper counseling and increased security at matches.

--When I was at Juilliard in 1980, even we students knew that James Levine, resident conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, was a pedophile who had molested (among others) a boy in Central Park. His handlers were in the habit of paying off victims. But when he was finally investigated 35 years later (!), the management at the Met claimed that they'd known nothing about it. Bullshit. They were enabling him and helping to pay off of the victims. Everyone knew about it. Think about that--decades of molestation unpunished, its perpetrator enabled by a world-famous artistic institution.

The list goes on and on. It doesn't matter if three people know, or 3,000, or 30,000. They all work together--the handlers, the businesspeople, the Congress people, the courts, the police, the judges. They all work together to protect the members of the white men's club.

That's why we can have a piece-of-shit president who is a viral racist, a psychopath and a rapist, with an entire political party supporting his obstruction of justice. They are all members of the club, and they are running the government--into the sewer.