This news will stick in our minds for years or decades:
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/g-s1-103685/doj-says-few-more-weeks-epstein-files
A million more Epstein files have been found. My guess is that most of those are duplicates of documents already released. And a bunch are unrelated to any crimes.
What was that famous comment from a children’s show host? “That should hold the little bastards for a while.”
Epstein has taken hold because it’s big and exciting and easily condemned and understood. It’s not meaningful or important in a national or policy sense, and if Trump and Epstein never met Trump would still be a Class-A creep and unqualified to any leadership role whatsoever.
it’s also both a great distraction from the other stuff Trump does AND a distraction from any “good” things he wants to crow about to the MAGA faithful. Tricky.
Sorry if much of this has been discussed, I just got inspired.
Going back to very early in the thread:
Sure looks that way. And that only leads to him thrashing harder to shake it off himself, at worst only getting him angrier and wanting to take it out on someone else yet.
As to why it has had “legs” , yeah, the salaciousness and the way it reaffirms the “cabal of powerful perverts” narrative is what kept it alive. EVERY side of the discussion has someone influential or powerful they’d love to humiliate or intimidate or turn public opinion against and why, will you look at this extensive list of rich putzes we can associate with this a-hole.
It’s bringing about reckonings on all sides, willy-nilly (like it or not). For example, Noam Chomsky is not anyone I’d have wished to be implicated, but since he is, I say down with Chomsky.
He exchanged a lot of emails, etc, He is not implicated- AFAIK- in the “island” or the sex scandals. Many famous people got free jet rides, too,
I don’t know if he was on the island, but he and Steve Bannon seemed extremely chummy at Epstein’s estate.