[watwut]

> This admin has so far acted like a kleptocracy and, like, because of the Epstein files if they lose power many will go to jail, so there's a huge incentive to remain in power.

I find this to be unrealistic worry. Just like with mee too, the perpetrators will eventually be protected. Just like with any previous abuses, including war crimes and so on, high level people will be protected first, celebrated second and then we will collectively move onto pretending they were being treated unjustly the whole time.

The amount of people who think that the real victims of abuse are perpetrators and real wrongdoers are victims who talk about it is just too high. It is rarely openly framed or phrased this way, the used words are always nicer, but this is the overall theme of the things.

[superze]

Former trump adviser Steve Bannon said:

"If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."

Seems like it's not so unrealistic.

In the UK and other parts arrests have already been made and in the US the FBI director is drinking beers.

[JetSpiegel]

Bannon was already jailed for failing to adhere to a congressional subpoena.

What he probably means is being killed in prison, "suicided" when the cameras are mysteriously off, but this doesn't make sense, he's in the side of the oligarchs.

[watwut]

Yes, people were arrested in UK, but UK is not USA. It is a country with different legal system, different politics and somewhat different ideology.

The Trumps history was known prior election, but it was only advantage for him. Kavanaugh is on supreme court. People in Epstein files were defended with bad faith and excessive benefit of the doubt in the past and will be defended the same way again.

When it comes to abuse, harassment and such, when you look at supreme court, president, ministers, politicians, college leaders, religious leaders etc etc etc, there is no history of even credible rape accusation being a disadvantage for the person. There is a track record of hysteria that something might happen to those important people and then elites circling the wagons protecting each other.

There are going to be angry blogs from progressives and feminists, they will be accused of overdoing it and of moral panic. And if democrats gets voted into power, they will continue reconciliatory doormat politics of last 40 years.