Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

Scranton Time - bits and pieces from Tom Flannery

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"It’s all highly embarrassing for those of us who are still embarassable...."

"It’s all highly embarrassing for those of us who are still embarassable...."

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Epstein. Nobody believes the official line here. Nobody believes he killed himself, and nobody believes that there is no client list filled with the names of rich, powerful men. Especially not with Ghislaine Maxwell sitting in jail for proffering young girls for that list of rich, powerful men. Everybody knows Trump is all over the list, as is Bill Clinton and other well documented sleazeballs. Rich, powerful men have always been sleazy. It’s partly how they became rich and powerful in the first place. Normal rules no longer apply. These men walk between the rain drops.

It’s why Woody Allen and Bill Cosby are not in prison, as a simple example.

The press is falling all over itself reporting on supposed rifts in MAGA land, with prominent Trump supporters publicly upset with Trump’s latest consigliere, Attorney General Pam Bondi, who back in March said the Epstein files were “on her desk”, but has lately backtracked to say that Obama’s dog ate them. Or something like that. First FBI director Kash (Marty Feldman) Patel, who rode into that office on a wave of conspiracy theories, said that Epstein surely committed suicide (and then released a doctored video that all but proved he was lying), and now Bondi is sputtering in interviews as if she’s being waterboarded. Through it all, Trump is rage tweeting “can’t be all get along” missives that read like they were written by Alex Jones on a meth bender. It’s all highly embarrassing for those of us who are still embarassable.

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