The Republic won't be saved by the election.
For anyone looking for electoral salvation in the US mid term elections, I think it's time accept this is not going to happen.
By releasing the Epstein Files Donald isn’t so much suddenly following the law (the releases are not satisfying the bills requirement) but has used the moment sent a clear message to large swaths of the political, business, scientific and cultural leadership of the US:
The attached image is a blackmail note, not an improper redaction and there’s many thousands like that."You will lose all and go to jail if I'm unhappy with you or lose my job"
The endless slope of institutional and personal failure, from senators switching sides by “developing brain damage”, majority leaders, congressmen, constant tied votes, failed investigations, inactive AGs and Supreme Courts that lead to Trumps second term should disabuse you of the idea that there is electoral salvation.
The redaction of perpetrators is a message to remind everyone who is holding their balls and has power over every single one of them now.
It is evident that these people took great care in trying to ensnare, attract and corrupt anyone with potential in society they could, Scientists, Business, Technology, Medical that this network was built purposeful and the blast radius if the conversation moved on from its focus on Epstein to the actual perpetrators who got away would be biblical.
It is evident that the network is Trump’s power-asset now which is why nobody is getting prosecuted despite overwhelming leads.
And it is evident the network extends internationally, meaning anyone associated with it, in Europe, Canada and elsewhere is a national security threat at risk of being compelled to act against their nations best interest to avoid exposure. See Lord Mandelson.
All these people know they are toast. All the people currently running ICE and friends know they are toast unless the republic burns.
If it can’t be done with elections it will be done by force, there is zero chance of people as corrupted as this mess will somehow decide to walk to jail collectively.
At the same time it’s impossible to unite a country where everyone else is harboring massive disgust of the pedo elite, let alone have such a country hold together alliances or compete with China, which means that if things get unruly, someone is going to start a war or have some galvanizing event like an attack to remind Americans that there is threats out there larger than the annual chance of sacrifice of their first born female children. Like scary communists.
Any way you look at it, this is going to be a mess and if you can, you should probably figure out whether you’re the stick around and fight or leave before the doors close kind of person because this looks like one of those situations that ends up either in fire or people bringing back French legacy technology.
I’m sorry, it really doesn't look great.
The network and rot is international
The selective non redaction of names in the files is interesting and shows the residual power potential in the files, especially given incomplete information availability: I do not believe Lord Mandelson's 1 name was accidentally left unredacted.
He was clearly a valuable, long term asset leaking information of tremendous financial value (EU bailout details) and shaping U.K. techbro friendly politics for decades.
Unfortunately for him, Trump and Elon had been busy for the last year trying to fell the UK government, running massive influence campaigns online to stir racial riots and reframe any political action in their favor. See for a linkedin account involved in these digital influence operations.
And so leaking Lord Mandelson’s name, as someone with the confidence of the PM, looks like a super convenient opportunity if one wanted to bring down or at least dramatically weaken the UK government in favor of their Brexit tool Nigel Farrage. We don’t know why specific names are redacted or not, but we do know perpetrators openly confessing to crimes are redacted in the files and we know many victims are not.
Occam’s razor slays Hanlon's when you’re dealing with malicious people plotting crimes and spreading chaos in the world to pick up cheap assets:
The Epstein network is still active, each of its members on the leash held by the person setting the rules of redaction.return to tribalism . counter to globalization. amazing new alliances. you and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, and as i said in your office. finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain 2.
None of this needs to evoke sympathy for the UK prime minister, his job was to protect the country and he failed. Some stories don’t have heroes and more often than not lately, electorates are given the choices of lesser degrees of evil to choose from.
The tragedy is that the sacrifice of a knight here may topple an opposing king and lead to full capture of the UK by Thiel’s henchmen at Reform.
The same playbook is primed for Germany. Several ministers in the ruling party are mingling and playing games with Thiel’s Springer vassal, delaying constitutional protection measures and driving radicalisation messages while pushing suicidal policies (abandon part time, abolish pension age, etc) that are almost too well designed to drive people to vote for the protest party, Afd, like Reform and FN in France the favored factions aligned by Steve Bannon (with Russian money as we see in the Files) and given digital reach by Elon.
The best hope, it seems, is that like in the UK, members of parliaments start remembering their power and break party discipline to demand integrity.