Another Lucy with the football moment has occurred in the United States. Less than 1% of the Epstein file information has been released, and what was offered to the public emptied out all the black ink cartridges in the greater DC area. This, in a long line of dashed liberal dreams, whether it be Special Counsel investigations, the hope of criminal charges when new administrations come in…any number of just wait a bit and your patience will be rewarded aspirations.

But the thing is, this day of reckoning just never seems to materialize. This realization only lands after countless hours, days and weeks are spent waiting for Daddy to come home and make it right. By the time this is understood, a new hope is on the horizon—perhaps an unrigged primary, a new set of possible criminal charges for war crimes. This time will be different, they think.

This is the way most human minds seem to work. If you aren’t getting justice today, just wait. It will show up eventually., You will be rewarded in the afterlife or perhaps post-midterms. Just not today.

The fact that an inordinate number of women have come forward to tell of their horrific experiences when they were children doesn’t seem to be enough for many to believe. There have been lives ruined by the activities of a small group of entitled and deranged men. The Venn diagram intersects in all the wrong places. Intelligence agencies, genocidal governments—they all seem to play into this disgusting drama. At this point, it takes an actual conspiracy theorist to fail to connect the dots to the life-draining misery going on planet-wide.........

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