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highplainsdem

(59,050 posts)
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:41 PM Sunday

Will Bunch: Epstein's emails are the end of America as they ruined it

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/epstein-emails-trump-summers-elites-20251116.html

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I don’t know if the emails, so far, are enough to take down Trump, but the president should be even more worried — and he probably is — about the much deeper rot that’s already been laid bare about the entire decrepit class of men (because they’re almost all men) who rule the world with atrocious grammar amid a non-stop booty call.

I’m not a financial expert, but if I had disposable cash I’d avoid the hyperinflated AI bubble and invest in a company that manufactures pitchforks.

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In the six years since Epstein was found dead, however, it has been the political backlash his email correspondents like the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel have heavily funded that has advanced while warding off the revolution. This was the ultimate goal of this sordid chat group, to desperately cling to their dying hierarchies around patriarchy and white supremacy, and to portray the #MeToo movement as going to far, when it’s obvious it didn’t go nearly far enough. It was during those fraught years they stumbled into the perfect avatar in the unlikely Trump presidency.

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The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites. The overblown stock market fueled by an AI hallucination is set to burst any moment, and new hiring is already grinding to a halt — just as the price of everything from steak to coffee goes through the roof and health insurance is doubling or tripling for millions of Americans. When this perfect storm strikes, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities.

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The Epstein emails have damaged Trump beyond repair, because the public has now seen the gross moral rot behind Trump's presidency and the elites who prop it up (and fawned over a convicted sex creep)

Take your money out of AI and into pitchforks. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/epst...

Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) 2025-11-16T18:47:44.062Z


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J_William_Ryan

(3,156 posts)
1. "I don't know if the emails, so far, are enough to take down Trump..."
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 02:58 PM
Sunday

They’re not.

Or more to the point, there are no mechanics of governance that can take down Trump – a Republican-controlled House will never impeach; a Democratic House will impeach but Senate Republicans would never vote to convict.

And Section 4 of the 25 Amendment doesn’t apply.

Last, an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is in no manner guaranteed, given the capricious stupidity of the voters and state Republicans’ efforts to undermine the democratic process and disenfranchise millions of likely Democratic voters – with considerable help from the blind partisan conservative majority of the Supreme Court.

Nasruddin

(1,141 posts)
5. Pitchforks
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:59 PM
Sunday

Yeah, investing in pitchfork ETF might be a thing....
but I have a feeling we might wind up using them on each other, while the Caesar class laughs

Fil1957

(404 posts)
3. No one single thing will take Trump down. But the combination of the emails, inflation, rampant corruption, health
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:49 PM
Sunday

issues and others too numerous to mention could. That is if the American people ever wake up.

erronis

(21,973 posts)
4. Will Bunch has always been a good observer with a sharp-pointed quill.
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:54 PM
Sunday

I really like his writing and style.

usonian

(22,509 posts)
6. They don't end America, but they end the delusion of a "benevolent oligarchy"
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:09 PM
Sunday

"Western civilization" is touted, especially by white nationalist racists, as progressive and abundant, but in fact, it's a history of a few seeking power over many, becoming in effect, gods, or God, less the benevolent aspect. Only the power. "Benevolence is for schmucks," in effect.

We've had kings, high priests, popes of the de' Medici ilk, dictators, cult leaders, all playing on "inequality" of one sort or another, and gaining privilege over others. More recently, scientists and engineers with warped personalities playing God as in "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." with that God-like power to destroy, and His Holiness Sam Altman deigning to take away thought.

The wealthy have always wanted privilege beyond ordinary people, to do what's forbidden and wicked. They are Gods and like Norse gods, free to have sex with mere mortals as they wish.

I have felt that the main attraction of a cult, or an organization like the mafia is the "legitimizing" of some forbidden "fruit" such as theft, murder, hate, racism, xenophobia and misogyny, all so commonly seen this time of year, as idiots foist their "dirty privilege" on family members "at the table". ( https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220807220 ) being as obnoxious and vile as possible.

But it comes at a cost. In the mafia, "nobody leaves alive" or with the magafia, they lose their dignity, opportunity, health and money.

It's like this:


Other than car makers Henry Ford and Elon Musk MERELY worshiping Hitler (and only Henry got a Nazi medal), there's that "privilege" again. Californians knew for a long time about the degenerate Bohemian Club, and for others, there's the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" by Kubrick, in which the wealthy indulge in secret debauchery.

Now, it's finally out in the open, interestingly, provoked by bullshit conspiracy theories about the radical left child abduction scheme.

Perhaps the hidden reason why the anti-oligarchy tour has had resounding success all over the country, including deep red districts, is the realization, beneath the brainwashing, and the adoration of the rich by the media they own, that they are f***ing us over, and maybe kids, too.

Now, the wealthy haven't cornered the market on debauchery and atrocity. They just don't want TO BE EXPOSED.

And exposed they are.

The fall of the Andrew formerly known as Prince was the tipping point. He was taken down not by secret evidence locked in a vault by the DOJ ( Defenders of Jeffrey) but by the posthumous publishing of a book by a victim.

Evidence will come forth that can't be shielded by the servants of oligarchs.

More here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1324&pid=4222

The ages-long history of inequality and privilege won't go away overnight, but equality is creeping into the consciousness of the public, long used like a dishrag to wipe away the sins of the wealthy.



Even without these images I snagged off the internet ON BILLBOARDS. (hint)

But if the Trump/Epstein matter does it, fine.

I like billboards.

Warpy

(114,206 posts)
7. Awwwwww. Of course, anyone who didn't think this shit was (and is) going on is delusional
Sun Nov 16, 2025, 05:34 PM
Sunday

The destruction of Fatso isn;t what people tink it is and it isn't the end of anything except a lot of an elaborate fantasy nurtured by a bunch of religious lunatics.

Fatso is under serious attack because he is screwing things up so badly and his hand picked loyalists are making things even worse. Whether he is removed, resigns, or is simply neutered and used as a spokesmodel is anyone's guess, but the people who really own this country have had reason to be alarmed at the way the economy and foreign policy are both going.

As for his base, especially the personality cultists, the death of this false idea they've had of this man is a very good thing.

As for the rape of girls barely through puberty by businessmen, the money collected by pimps, that will likely continue as long as some girls are throwaway children and businessmen think they have the right to abuse them because they paid money to a pimp. UNtill that breed changes, I don't see anything changing, not for a lot ov very young girls. I see such change as highly unlikely.

GreatGazoo

(4,311 posts)
8. Sentiments aside
Mon Nov 17, 2025, 09:05 AM
Yesterday

Those four paragraphs are a mess. Bunch calls emails "group chat". Writes "to" for "too". Randomly throws in AI bubble stuff after saying "I’m not a financial expert".

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