The establishment is getting weaker, which is positive for liberty.  You can call it the establishment, the deep state, or the power elite, but it is quite obvious that there is a ruling elite that is not equal under the law and that rules over us at our expense.

The majority of the U.S. government is not part of this power elite.  Many are bureaucrats who try to milk the system, but even many of these people are getting milked more than what they are getting out of it.  They just don’t realize it.

Even within the so-called intelligence agencies, I am sure that most people are not evil. When it comes to the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA, it is just a select few at the very top who are really part of the evil deep state.

I think the U.S. government is like a giant tree that is very expansive and even looks healthy on the outside.  But on the inside, it is rotting.  It is so big, it seems like it will never fall.  But every now and then, you see a rotten branch break off from the tree. And when bigger branches start to fall, let alone the whole tree, you need to watch out because it will do some damage.

I think one of those smaller branches fell recently with the reported death of Jeffrey Epstein.

I doubt that any of the big players with Epstein will be exposed in the sense of them actually going to prison.  But the story is certainly exposing some of the rot that exists.

The whole story is obviously crazy.  The guy knew a lot of big names.  He likely had dirt on a lot of these people.  He had reportedly already tried to commit suicide, but then managed to do it anyway, if we are to believe the official narrative.

As Dave Smith recently pointed out in this excellent podcast episode, even the official narrative doesn’t look good.  Even if everything the establishment media is telling us is true, the power elite looks incompetent at best, but more likely really corrupt to the average person.

Epstein was originally prosecuted many years ago and got off with a plea deal that landed him a short prison sentence, which wasn’t even full prison.  The guy who gave him the plea deal, Alexander Acosta, ended up in Trump’s cabinet and was recently forced to resign.  But Acosta has insinuated that he was told by higher powers at the time to give Epstein the plea deal.  In other words, the government failed to put this guy behind bars when it was pretty well known that he was a pedophile.  This is pure corruption coming from the establishment.

Then he ends up being arrested again this year and is obviously a high risk for suicide. Of course, there is an even bigger motive to see him dead from those who were involved with his pedophilia ring. Epstein has now supposedly committed suicide while in jail, which shows total incompetence or neglect at best.

The Clinton Crime Family

Prior to the Epstein suicide, I read several blogs and memes that poked fun at the Clintons. The Babylon Bee ran a headline saying that people with dirt on the Clintons are 843% more likely to commit suicide. I saw other posts that said with Epstein knowing the Clintons, we should not be surprised when he commits suicide.

The memes have only gotten better since Epstein’s reported death.  The “Clinton Body Count” was trending on Twitter.

I have known about the Clinton body count for about 20 years, even before I became a hardcore libertarian.  The number of people closely associated with the Clintons who either ended up in prison or with an early death is extraordinary.  It is disproportionate by a large margin, even when taking into account that they obviously know a lot of people.

As Dave Smith pointed out, it should be a red flag just by looking at the people who associated closely with Epstein.  Trump knew Epstein, but it is not clear how well.  The Clintons were very close with him.  If the people around you found out that one of your best friends was a pedophile, do you think they would look at you a little differently, especially if you didn’t completely disassociate yourself from the person when it was obvious?

As Dave Smith also pointed out, Trump was lambasted by the media just because David Duke supported him.  Meanwhile, the Clintons were actually close to Epstein, yet you hear little about it.

Back in 2016, I wrote about Trump invoking Juanita Broaddrick’s story in his campaign. I then wrote the following:

“I think the next step will be to link Bill Clinton with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  Clinton has taken repeated trips on his private jet.  Personally, I would be surprised if Bill Clinton isn’t a pedophile.”

I already knew that Epstein was a pedophile.  I knew Bill Clinton was associated with him.  I knew there were credible reports about him flying on Epstein’s private jet many times to his private island.  Do you think Bill Clinton was just doing real estate deals with Epstein on the island?  All signs point to Bill Clinton being a pedophile, yet we hear almost nothing about it from the establishment media.

Of course, I knew there was a seemingly credible woman named Juanita Broaddrick who accused Bill Clinton of raping her.  But that was before the “MeToo” movement, so I guess it didn’t mean much in the 1990s.  But how many of the “MeToo” people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, who tried to destroy the women who accused Bill Clinton of things?

I would love to the see the Clintons go down.  I don’t think it is going to happen, but I think their reputation has already taken a significant beating.

I understood Dave Smith’s sentiment that we already know Hillary Clinton is evil because she was so flippant about destroying Libya.  She is a war hawk.  But the American public, for the most part, doesn’t see her as evil for this. If they think she is knocking off people who get in her way politically, then she will certainly be looked at as the murderous evil person that she is.

I think it is amusing that some of the left are actually forced to reply to this.  I have no idea if the Clintons were involved in killing Epstein.  There were many other people who had a motive for seeing him gone, so there are plenty of people to point fingers at.  It’s just that the Clintons have a history of making people disappear who get in their way.

(As a side note, there was speculation that John Kennedy Jr. was going to run for senator from New York just before he died in a plane crash.  Hillary Clinton won that senate seat in 2000, which was her stepping stone towards the presidency.)

Losing Legitimacy

I saw someone post on Facebook that people should not be politicizing Epstein’s death.  We should be seeking justice for his victims.

But you basically have to politicize it because there is politics all over the thing. Epstein was likely part of the CIA or some other deep state element.  He had a lot of money, and it isn’t clear where it came from. He also had a lot of protection from powerful people at the top.

Epstein is dead, assuming that report is accurate.  The only way to bring any justice to his victims is to go after the other people who were involved.  It is hard to get anywhere without politicizing it.

The FBI is supposedly investigating it.  This is like Allen Dulles investigating the Kennedy assassination.  There is a better chance of O.J. Simpson revealing the real killer of his ex-wife.

Dulles was fired from the CIA by Kennedy.  He was likely one of the deep state players who arranged for Kennedy to be taken out.  When you get the actual criminal running the investigation, you know what kind of answer you will get.

But the downfall of Epstein is still important, aside from stopping his aggressions.  It is helping to delegitimize the government. When Epstein was reported dead, I think a majority of people turned into conspiracy theorists.  This one was just too obvious.

I have said in the past that the deep state probably did not want to do to Trump what was done to Kennedy.  I compared it to Darth Vader striking down Obi-Wan Kenobi in front of Luke Skywalker.

Although Epstein was about the opposite of Luke Skywalker, I think there is still something of an analogy here.  He was struck down in full public view.  It was likely done by very powerful people at the top who didn’t want their own crimes to be exposed.

This just adds to the true belief that there is heavy corruption and criminality at the highest levels of government.  The legitimacy of the state goes down another notch.

The tree has lost another branch and it is rotting more.  A little bit of the rot can now be seen on the outside.