This. Groening is mentioned as being asking about in a deposition, on a schedule to meet along with several people in a public place, and introduced as a friend to a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Epstein was rich and powerful. He knew a lot of famous people. Maybe there’s more to come there, but nothing improper has presented on Groening thus far.

Toward the end he was blaming future Biden.

Also midterms are less than a year away and Trump’s rock solid 39% won’t help many of them if his name isn’t on the ticket to drive voters to polls. Picking a couple headline issues like these ensures likely voters see them as mostly Trump, but not crazy because they did x, y, or z that one time.

The best part his he golfs almost exclusively at his own courses. That money goes straight into his own pocket.

Or, easier method. He runs. Democrats sue saying he clearly can’t have a third term. SCOTUS declines to take the case because the constitution says he can run, he just can’t be elected.

States wait for each other to take him off the ballot, since elections are state run and eventually none of them do because they waited too long and they are super-duper sure he won’t win this time.

He wins, Sued again, SCOTUS declines to take the case because he’s a sitting president and who are they to mingle in elections “we can’t set a precedent of stealing elections from the people’s choice” or something of that nature.

Opposition falls in line because, yet again, the majority of Americans decided he and the GOP were the best choice and they’ll lose if they fight back. But really, if he wins a third term, GOP owns Congress and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it anyway.

Boom, third term for Trump

I have not read Lock-In, but the synopsis sounds similar to Recursion by Blake Crouch

Project Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir has some mystery, at least for a while while the character tries to figure out what’s going on.

If you’re okay with a horror element, Dead Silence by SA Barnes. Astronauts are trying to figure out what happened on a space ship that seems to drive everyone insane

Triple SecDef

“Democrats are being callous” against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.