I’m probably being generous to MTG and giving her the benefit of the doubt in spite of the fact that I’m appalled how “her people” are limited to white, American Christians. But my generous take on it is that she originally didn’t know that the wealthy elites among her people were fucking the children among her people and once she realized that, she rebelled against it.

I’m don’t know her or anyone who knows her so I’m just speculating based on the same information as everyone else, but it explains her behavior pretty well.

I think MTG is loyal to “her people”. She’s fine when “other people” are hurt, but Epstein and his co-conspirators hurt white, Christian, American girls. We’re seeing more and more people breaking off from MAGA based on their personal principles, like the NRA and other 2nd amendment rights group speaking out against the Pretti shooting.

Donald has no principles whatsoever, he just wants to “win” and demands absolute loyalty no matter what. It looks like some of his supporters are starting to see the con job, or maybe they already did, but they’re starting to realize that allying with a man who will betray you as soon as you’re no longer useful is a bad strategy.

I appreciate your efforts, one thing I’m sure of is that, “I alone can fix it” is the antithesis of what we need right now. It’s going to take a lot of open, compassionate people to make things better.

What’s our way forward? I don’t know and I’m struggling to figure it out, but the more I get into it, the more I come back to ideas like curiosity, authenticity, and connecting with people outside our comfortable social groups.

I really feel like the world we’re living in now is the result of engineered propaganda and the only cure is related to authentic connections among everyday people.

Systems aren’t gonna save us!

I don’t know how the law works on this, but it’s so fucked up that they carefully redacted these guys while exposing several of the victim’s names. It’s pretty clear who the FBI and DOJ work for and it isn’t the American people.

All their doing is pissing off the people who already have guns while convincing their political rivals to start buying guns.

I choose to believe this is historical fact.

Reverse engineering is theoretically possible, but often very difficult in practice.

I’m not enough of an expert in cryptography to know for sure if packet inspection would allow you to tell if a ciphertext could be decrypted by a second “back door” key. My gut says it’s not possible, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

So Musk had nothing intelligent, insightful or even interesting to say in response. Sounds about right.