BobDylan

Just what I expected, the Repubs coming up with a bull💩 technicality to further hold back the Epstein files..

It's esp., been true since the early 1970s, when the SC began ruling that campaign money was protected speech, and therefore couldn't be limited or regulated. This was long before their Citizen's United decision, which was more of a final nail in the coffin. It's really interesting to me, that the corporate media will occasionally mention how high our rate of non voting is in elections, compared to other developed democracies. But at the same time, the corporate media never does any studies, research, or analysis of why that is, esp. when it comes to asking registered voters why they don't vote. My take is that those voters see no real diff between the two major parties, esp. on economic issues and policy, and that's why they don't bother voting, esp. in fed elections. But the corporate media doesn't want to admit that, much less let those voters ever know about any third party or independent candidates, that offer a real option for voting outside the duopoly, and someone who isn't bought, because those parties and candidates don't have the money to buy ads in the corporate media, so the corporate media protects their big money clients, the major parties. And so it goes, on and on...

I'm with Lindy and macphysto, in really missing George Carlin. He was my hero and was also my generation's Lenny Bruce, when Carlin got older and his commentary got edgier and angrier.. I love the T-shirt with him and the quote, " Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large groups of people"...

JNL- The last line of your comment sounds like my upcoming Thanksgiving trip to Oklahoma to see my two sisters. Driving several hours there from my home in Iowa, thru southwestern Missouri, eastern Kansas, and then the northeastern part of Oklahoma. Done it before, and it's a cultural wasteland, as far as radio, nothing but country music stations, Christian radio, and right wing talk radio. As before, I will bring a bunch of CDs to play and also just enjoy the silence for some of the ride by myself....

They are splitting hairs and arguing in bad faith about distinctions about whether a few years either way makes any difference at all, in the law and the facts of an illegal, immoral, and unfair power imbalance between a child and an adult in a sexual situation. Period... Also, the fact that a man, including Epstein, prefers sex with girls close enough to legal consent age, at least in how they appear to onlookers, still makes them a creepy scumbag and a pedo, a criminal, and an adult man who has no business having sex with them. Those men are merely trying to look more respectable than they are, and to minimize or reduce their vulnerability to being condemned by the public and their peers..

Gotta love the Hannibal Lecter reference, macphysto...

Ah, but what or who do we eat, lol? Not into cannibalism...

I don't think it will be regulated well enough, if at all, and besides that, it will result in so many workers being replaced, that we will need a UBI to financially support the surplus workers in our economy, as well as replace their tax revenue, so I see a very dystopian, chaotic future with mass unemployment, starvation, and violence, along with totalitarian crackdown by the fed govt., to deal with the results of it all. Think something like Soylent Green.