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Attacking Iran ‘won’t make the Epstein files go away,’ Republican lawmaker warns Trump
(www.the-independent.com)
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At this point this isnt about the files its about manufacturing a situation for trump to try and interfere at a more broad level for elections. If they are not fixed in his favor all the shit he has done is going to come back and bite him once dems gain control. And before anyone criticizes that the dems wont do anything for the people you are correct, they are going to go after this not because it helps people but because without it the oligarchs and elites in this would loose control to progressives coming to platform on actual change and justice.
Just like why the US ended slavery, it wasnt about freeing the slaves it was that eventually those slaves would fight for freedom and if they weren't the ones leading those movements they were going to be taken out and that was not something the elites at the time could except so begrudgingly they backed ending slavery. This situation is similar and the epstien files are a manufactured problem to act as a proxy now. Bringing those people to justice is this genration of elites freeing of slaves meant to disrupt the growing collective action against the wealthy.
Right now we have people hating the billionaires and what they are doing to the world. If the ruling populace wants to maintain control they need to have some sacrificial lambs that they can feed to the masses. They needed a Trump and epstien situation, a group of individuals so vile we would be blinded to all of the injustice every other billionaire and politician has been doing to the common people. This way when they are able to bring "justice" to their manufactured situation people feel like they have gotten some power back, that they were listened to and it overshadows all the other injustice thats become to them. It diffuses the collective because the naive people will buy into this "justice" and think they dont need to fight anymore, dissolving the collective action that would actually spark change and remove those at the tops control.
I think trump is finally realizing now he is only but a puppet in this situation but one that got control of one of the most powerful positions in the world, he knows that once his term is up he will get thrown to the wolves quickly and he is fighting tooth and nail with his loyalist to make sure he stays in office till he is dead so he never has to face the end result and accept the fact he got got by the other elites who always viewed him as an outsider. They used trumps need to appease and be viewed as one of them for years, the reason for epstein wasnt for black mail it was to find someone so vile they could use them to be the new slave owner that these folks could "free" to disrupt collective action against the rich.