What I REALLY want to know about the news-behind-the-news is, why is Melania suddenly holding press conferences to say that she didn't know nothin' about Jeffrey Epstein and *especially* wasn't having a relationship with him?
I mean, with the right it's ALWAYS projection, right? So if she runs true to form for a conservative this probably means she had an affair with Ghislaine Maxwell.
@cstross Or she had in fact nothing to do with the sexual abuse, but _was_ having the corpses rendered down for otherwise unobtainable sourced-from-human-tissue anti-aging cosmetics. And she wants people to know that of course she would never be so déclassé as to ask about where the young pretty corpses were coming from.
If it isn't something somehow specifically excruciatingly embarrassing to the surviving principals, it's something your editor would never let you keep in the text.
Huh. Looka that.
Of course, I always suspect them of antisemitism at some level, conscious or unconscious. That's just the Correct Default Position for guessing what most right-wingers think.
But I hadn't seen the structural, point-for-point analogy to blood libel.
It's... both disgusting and... *unoriginal*.
They can't even make up their own conspiracies!
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