Hate to Say I Told You So...

I never thought I'd have even an ounce of respect for Marjorie Taylor Greene and yet...

It's been really odd to watch an entire party collectively shrug their shoulders and move on when they win. When they are right. When they told us so. I mean, it's like they all forgot that for the past ten years they've been screaming about an elite cabal of rich people trafficking kids for deviant behavior while also running the world.

We all thought they were nuts. Like what they were describing was insane. Sure, there are bad people out there, and sure there is a wealthy group that tends to set the rules, but come on....an elite group of pedophiles that are infiltrating the governments of every country of the world and...

Well shit. I guess it's time to eat some crow. But now that the Epstein files are partially released, now that there is a smoking gun, they aren't coming back to tell us that they told us so.

I guess they really do hate to say it.

Or...maybe...

They aren't glad they are right. Either they believed all along that it was too insane to be true as well and were just trying to win elections, or just as likely the story they told themselves about the DEMONRATS vs. the godly Republicans ended up being not true and that part they can't handle. The allegiance to the Republican brand is too strong to say, well shit, it was the uber wealthy vs the rest of us all along like those hippy kids have been saying since hippy kids were invented.

When Mari and I had coffee last week she said she keeps waiting for that moment when the more conservative members of her family come around. When the fever breaks. When they take a look at what is happening and realize that it doesn't actually represent their beliefs. I told her good luck with that.

It's really hard for people to leave behind belief systems. I've said before that I think it's easier for me to say I'm wrong about smaller things because I was wrong about something much bigger. Because I did leave the church and all that that entailed I know that sometimes what you used to believe is no longer what you do believe and it's okay to say so. But that doesn't mean it was easy to leave. It doesn't mean that it didn't hurt, or cost me something (a lot of somethings). I'm just glad I left when I was younger and that my mother just assumed I'd come back instead of disowning me. I have friends who left their churches as adults and had to walk away from a lot more than I did.

But this is a little different. This is them being right about what they said they believed. They said they believed that there was a cabal of pedophiles among the rich and famous. They said that they wanted the Epstein files released because it would show that they were right. And they fucking were right. More names than the handful we all knew would be there. More connections and associations than we (most of us) had ever imagined. It's horrific. Not just the sexual crimes, though those would be enough, but financial crimes as well. It's what they thought it was.

Except that it's not Hollywood lefties and only democratic politicians. There isn't some FBI file on their man Trump actually being an informant like they swore he was. People that they don't want to be in the files are in the files. The web of perverts is running the White House right now. And apparently other countries as well. There are people who might not have participated in the sexual crimes but were there for the connections to money and the sexual crimes weren't a disqualifying factor.

Which, anyone ANYONE who was in contact with him after his 2008 conviction made that choice. That sexual assault of a minor was not a disqualifying factor for hanging out. Sort of like the conviction in the E. Jean Carroll case wasn't a disqualifying factor in voting for Trump.

So I guess they are being consistent?

They only believe bad things about democrats. Trump can do whatever he wants.

Except Marjorie Taylor Greene. She might still think there are Jewish Space Lasers controlling the weather but at least she's been consistent about her belief that pedophiles should be punished.

And my god what a low fucking bar that is.

And yet...

They hate to say I told you so, so they will just ignore the pedophiles because...well...reasons.

Unfuckingbelieveable.