QAnon made the idea of elite pedophile rings seem crazy, but America really is run that way. Take the Epstein list, which doesn't exist, though you can assemble your own list from quite public information. Donald Trump hung out with Jeffrey Epstein a lot, there's even video of them leching together. Bill Clinton flew on the ‘Lolita Express’ dozens of times and is a known pervert. Both parties like sex parties, and the cover-up is bipartisan and brazen. This is real late-stage Empire shit. The Empire is run by carnal, carnivorous criminals, and they don't care who knows it.

At the same time, these same people want you to believe that they can define right and wrong, terrorist and warrior, rapist and victim. So they continue to slander the brave, deeply ethical men of Hamas with lies about rape, while there's public video of 'Israelis' gang-raping Palestinian prisoners, sometimes to death. While 'Israelis' protest in the streets for their right to do it. It goes back to America's foundational fear, that a Black man might have raped a white woman, so lynch them in public, and bring the whole family to watch.

This is the dull and rusty propaganda held to imperial citizens' throats. The Empire makes no great effort to censor their cruelty, they want you to watch. The cruelty is the point, and they want you to be complicit in watching it. It's like hazing into a gang, which is all the Empire's military forces are, in truth.

Some vestigial sense of Western values holds this increasingly craven charade together, but it's becoming increasingly clear that there are no values, and never were. The true Western values are genocide and lying about it, and they're not even good at being evil anymore. Western Civilization is falling in the sense that they're losing to armed natives, and losing the propaganda war also. 'Israeli' colonizers are getting their asses handed to them by the brave Palestinians, and support for 'Israel' among imperial populations has plummeted.

Among the global majority, of course, this is old news. We all see the Resistance fighters in sandals taking down tanks, and all the crimes of White Empire that stink to high heaven. Globally, nobody believes their shit anymore, and even locally within Empire, pedophiles killing children is a bad look.

But I repeat, that's what's happening. The people on the Epstein list are making lists of people to disappear for speech, they're disappearing Mexican-looking people off the streets, and they still have the gall to get on TV and preach. They're both lecherous and lazy, which is not a winning combination. It's just an open abomination, and a humiliation to anyone that thinks the least deeply. They're trying to make the very idea of an Epstein list disappear like they disappeared him, and acting like people's brains have disappeared also. The pedophile rings pulling the strings used to be much more sophisticated. Now they're just lazy and transparently awful.

I wonder when, historically, the truth will all come out, but in whatever proportion it will be a horror. However bad we imagined the imperial elites to be, they're certainly much, much worse. Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was, in hindsight, too generous. The elites are not merely trafficking and killing women, they're trafficking and killing children. And these are not merely personal proclivities, they're mass murdering children in Gaza. The worst people on Earth are trying to define truth for the rest of us, but reality would like to have a word.

For decades they got away with throwing an occasional Black celebrity to the wolves (Bill Cosby, R. Kelly), but now it's becoming clear that the rot goes all the way up. The carnal corruption goes all the way to the top of White Empire, as the QAnon kooks were saying all along (just all wrong). I increasingly think that's why this conspiracy theory was seeded, to make people seem crazy when we describe what's actually going on. That America is really run by a pedophile ring, currently mass-murdering children in public. The truth is truly stranger than fiction, and the conspiracies are worse than any theory we could imagine.