Well, let’s just paste it in here, this little snippet from today’s New York Times:
Never underestimate how stupid—and I put myself in this class—the intelligent can be. Nor how loud I can snort.
Snorting, of course, because any fool could have seen, back in 2015 when this nightmare started, that Donald Trump…
Shall we put in New York Times language?
…that Donald Trump was not primarily concerned with those who had chosen him to be president.
…Or just plain-damn-fool terms?
…that Donald Trump never gave a shit about you and never will.
Lovely—and while we diddle with language up here in the previously United States of America, what’s going on in El Salvador? (Just a little fart from a tired brain, but shouldn’t I call El Salvador The Savior?)
I can tell you what’s going on in El Salvador, because I have only bound the 80-page report from the Human Rights Watch. I haven’t read it, but the custody of the eyes comes hard for me (even worse is custody of the ears, of course).
Just binding the thing told me that reading it—which I will do—was going to be tough. The beatings were constant. The food was scant and inedible. They all got severely beaten after Kristi Noem came down for her photo shoot and somebody shouted, “I’m an American CITIZEN!”
I will read this and tell you if any of the above is untrue. Just stand on one leg….
Human Rights Watch did what responsible organizations do: they plan, decide, organize, travel, investigate, discuss, and write drafts of the report until nobody has the strength to argue anymore. Then they publish a report that will be completely ignored until we’re done with Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein, who wrote that he had met a lot of awful people in his life, but Trump was by far the worst.
I guessed that in whatever year I read the two books about Jeffrey Epstein. Was it five years ago? Seven? Was Trump still in power, or not?
I read the books, at any rate, and it immediately became clear: Epstein was a completely disgusting human being, and so was Trump. Did he spend hours with VICTIM (as it appears on the released emails) or Virginia Giuffre (as outed by the White House) alone at Epstein’s house? Did they do it (or have it done to her?).
Duh
I assumed the worst, because I’m a drunk and I have this belief: it’s always worse than you think. There are always bottles hidden around the house and bills that didn’t get paid because…
…you know, ya gotta drink, right?
So of course Trump was screwing every chance he could get, and Epstein was putting those chances right in the path, or bedroom, of Donald Trump. When I found out that a huge number of people were obsessed with pedophile rings and Epstein, I thought ‘good for them!’ When I heard that they thought God had put Donald Trump (an unlikely savior, or Salvador) in charge of rooting out this mess….
Well, it boggled the mind.
It was a classic awful bind for a liberal. If I tell you that I care more about 250 years of democracy being torn asunder, senators in handcuffs in Federal buildings, armed troops slamming into cars and dragging citizen out of them and into (eventually) El Salvador, am I diminishing the pain of a high school (in some cases middle school) girl being raped by a wealthy older guy?
One man’s death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Whoever said it (Stalin, supposedly, I think) was just telling the truth. It’s easier for the mind to focus on Trump and VICTIM than it is to deal with…
…get ready…
“You Have Arrived in Hell” (title of the Human Rights Watch report)
Javier L.: “I feel I’ve lost everything—the time I didn’t spend with my daughter. We lived in fear, thinking every time they came into the module it was to beat us.” (page 79)
They also said the couldn’t sleep properly, because the lights were kept on permanently (page 75)
Miguel Z.:“The hardest part was not knowing what was going to happen, what my future would be, not having access to a lawyer… Not being able to speak with our families—without even knowing if they knew we were in El Salvador—we knew nothing. Not being able to talk to our loved ones or basically anyone—that was the worst.” (page 72)
Sounds like just the place for Jeffrey Epstein.
