What should be a way bigger part of this whole Epstein story is the scale of the trafficking ring and the extensive, sustained, and continuing coverup. I just scrolled my phone's newsfeed and nothing about Epstein for the top 50 stories. Just looked at CNN.com and not a damn thing about Epstein that I saw. The story has died for now even though Maxwell was just this Friday transferred to the country club detention facility. And, hahahaha, we all seem to be largely pinning our hopes on MAGA, QAnon dipshits staying pissed off about this.
The free press is dead. Consolidation, right wing bullshit, control of media by the new mega billionaire class, the end of outlets like daily newspapers with nothing taking their place is what brought us here. The president's involvement in a child fucking sex trafficking ring used to would've been a story with some legs. It's estimated that there were as many as 1000 victims. Not a single living man has had any sort of criminal consequences. The one woman that was ever held to account now sits in the softest detention facility imaginable awaiting a likely pardon or commutation against the wishes of the victims. I know they've successfully flooded the zone with other outrages but I can't help but think about how different this would've been in the past. These are such bizarre times.
Again, adjust your expectations downward, evermore past what you imagine to be the bottom of the abyss, you sweet summer children of the ledge.