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2026-07-11 11:41 UTC

Trump was a gleeful co-conspirator with Epstein. He wrote Epstein love letters to their shared passion for child rape. He used the power of the state to hide his crimes. These are public facts. If the US legal and political systems worked in reality the way they work in the liberal imagination, this public information would have already been sufficient to destroy him and virtually everyone in his orbit. But the US doesn’t work like that. The overwhelming commitment of the US system is to perpetuate a status quo that benefits our elites as a class, and a key pillar of that status quo is elite cohesion and impunity. This is how we ended up with Joe Biden as president acting as if Trump, in the wake of a failed coup attempt, was just another collegial former president rather than as a Gramscian State of Exception that needed to be dealt with expediently and aggressively.

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@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social 2026-07-11 11:45

We do not live in a Watergate rerun. There is no smoking gun of a revelation that some brave leaker or hotshot journalist is going to reveal that will automatically bring down Trump. The US, as an institution, is dedicated to protecting Trump because so many other members of the US elite are implicated in his crimes but also because they would prefer to be ruled by a demented and fascist abuser than risk breaking elite ranks and creating the precedent of the victims of elite abuse getting justice. So yeah, release the Epstein Files. Fully agree. Let the world know. But this is not some magic bullet that will intrinsically defeat him. There is no self-executing response to his crimes and abuses.

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