victim's name redacted

remember the thousand Janes

Today is my daughter’s birthday. Her middle name is Jane, after my grandmother. Nothing is more precious to me. She is the first thing I think of when I contemplate the Epstein files because there are a thousand Jane Does among the survivors. That’s a thousand teenage girls who were enticed by a black widow named Maxwell to go work for her partner, the dark prince of pedophiles named Epstein. Those girls were then trafficked to other pedophiles. The most famous of those girls, a traumatized woman named Virginia, died by her own hand last year. The dog who hasn’t barked and his circle of enablers don’t care about Virginia beyond her usefulness as a political pawn. The president was Epstein’s best friend. They were tangled in each other’s dark money and criminal activities. They traded girls back and forth. Everyone knows this. Everyone has seen the photos and videos of them together. Everyone remembers the pussy grabbing chat. If this were any other president, I would enjoy watching him squirm in the sunlight that’s coming for him. I would take pleasure in watching the grifters and goons on the right twist themselves into knots trying to explain why the files should remain hidden. But this is not any other president. This is a cult leader. His supporters are cult members. The cult members may not identify as racists and zionists but still they support racists and zionists. The cult members may not identify as nazi sympathizers but they support nazis. They may not identify as the protectors of pedophiles but they support the sworn protectors of pedophiles. The evangelical christians and oligarchs on the right like to call the president an imperfect vessel because he serves their primary agendas. They want to bring about the end times and for that they need Israel to be a state. They don’t support Israel out of love for the jewish people. They expect the jews to burn in a lake of fire alongside the palestinians and the queers and they are at peace with this. Because they are racist. Because they hate things they don’t understand. And because they want to reshape this country into something it never was and never will be, a white christian state. They expect the maga working class to accept the imperfect vessel nonsense because they assume the working class on the right are likewise racist and also ignorant and some of them are, yes. But some are not. Anyone who remembers the president’s dismissal of E. Jean Carroll as not his type and therefore not rape worthy knows he is a pig. Anyone who remembers the Central Park Five knows the cult leader is racist. Anyone who remembers him saying despicable things about his own daughter and the Miss America pageant knows he is a creep and a pedophile sympathizer. Anyone who remembers his crooked gaffe about two corinthians knows he is not a christian. Anyone who has been paying attention knows the cult leader is notorious for not paying contractors. They know that he has undocumented immigrants working for shit wages and no healthcare at his golf resorts. Anyone who has been paying attention knows the cult leader does not care about the working class. They know he used food stamps as a weapon against the left. They know he doesn’t care about Israel. They know he doesn’t care about the jews or the palestinians. They know the imperfect vessel doesn’t care about history. Anyone who has ever listened to him speak knows he doesn’t care about the future. He doesn’t care about the truth. He doesn’t care about this country. He doesn’t care about the environment. He doesn’t care about world peace. He doesn’t care about the nameless and redacted girls and boys exploited and trafficked by predators like Maxwell and Epstein. The cult leader doesn’t care about the survivors. He doesn’t want justice for them. If he did, he would not be giving Maxwell special treatment in prison. His bluntly stated reason for cutting ties with the prince of pedophiles was that he resented having his teenage girl staff poached from his golf club. The imperfect vessel cares about two things. He cares about putting his name in fake gold on the sides of buildings and he cares about money. He is the only president ever to become a billionaire while in office. I have no idea what’s in the Epstein files, none of us do. But strictly based on his behavior of late, and his repeated claims that a thousand Jane Does are a hoax, one can’t help but assume there is something so unspeakable in that black box of redacted names that the cult leader will resign and flee to his own goddamn island before he allows the files to see daylight. It could be that the bombshell all of this leads back to is not the hellish island but the shady death of the pedophile in the cult leader’s custody. The political puppets on either the left or right could have released the files anytime over the past dozen years but they chose not to because there are powerful wealthy donors of all stripes in those files. If this were any other president, the decent members of his party would come forward and tell him to resign or be impeached, as they did with tricky Dick. They may yet do this because none of the oligarchs on the right or left want those files exposed. Any republican politician with an eye to reality beyond the cult surely knows they have no future in the Washington game if they continue to support this. They know they will be asked to explain why they voted against releasing the files. They know this is an indefensible position. They know too that he has committed war crimes against smugglers in the gulf of Mexico. They know that ICE agents have committed crimes against both the undocumented and American citizens. They know they are complicit in the cult leader’s crimes against humanity. They know that members of the cult leader’s cabinet will be prosecuted in the years to come and they don’t want to be among them. They know the imperfect vessel is a cornered rat and they know this makes him ever more dangerous. If they have daughters they should remember what is precious to them. They should remember there are a thousand redacted girls in those files and the coming storm is about justice for them, not about protecting the dog who hasn’t barked.

peace.