Gorgeous, Nigel. Just gorgeous. I needed
this to fully enjoy it, but I found it.
I'm sorry to leave that beautiful thought for the following.
Charlie's been warning us of Epstein for years, in association with Bill Clinton, e.g. in
this Fox News link, if you've the stomach for it.
Seems there's enough slime in that bucket to splash Donald Trump, too.
But it won't make any difference to Trump's conservative base.
The Religious Right is thrilled with the way Trump is doing what they perceive to be God's work. After decades of ineffectual grumbling or gridlock, in a wasteland of too-liberal Democrats and too-moderate Republicans, they're now getting what they've longed for: they've got their war on Islam, they've got their first of potentially several Supreme Court picks on the way to eliminating abortion and gay rights, and soon they'll have their so-called pro-Israel policies. A lot of Jewish Israelis are going to be very, very surprised when they find out that certain extremist Christian groups define "Israel" as themselves, the spiritual descendants of Abraham, so "pro-Israel" doesn't really mean what it sounds like. But oh, well. The geographical Israel is important mainly because it plays a key role in conservative Christians' longed-for End Times, which Trump will no doubt hasten. (Since the Second Coming of Christ is what ISIS wants to bring about, too, I'm sure ISIS is thrilled with the assistance.)
I'm sure Trump's boast from last year, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose voters" (video
here), is not far from the truth. The Religious Right knows that Trump is evil, but they don't care. They think Beelzebub is doing God's work despite himself.
Trust me, they won't care about this Epstein stuff, if it manages to stick. And they won't care if there's proof of conflicts of interest, or fraudulent business practices, or tax evasion, or misrepresentation of Trump's wealth, or favors owed to Russia, or ANYTHING. The Religious Right had enough practice justifying their boy's other morally reprehensible stuff along the way, in the name of a higher good, that they will have no problem finding a way to justify anything, at this point.
And on that depressing note, I'm going to bed.
No, I'm not--I'm going to listen to Karine Polwart sing that positive song in that beautiful space again. And
then I'm going to bed.