“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying...but they are still lying.”

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Courageous women who are survivors of sexual assault by Jeffrey Epstein are calling for transparency from the federal government and for the release of case files.

In the words of Lisa Phillips:

“We are not asking for pity. We are here demanding accountability, and I’m demanding justice.  Congress must choose: Will you continue to protect predators, or will you finally protect survivors?”

Yet President Donald Trump calls this furor a “scam” and a “hoax.”  

Trump’s blatant inversion of morality and truth regarding the Epstein investigation is reminiscent of his pardoning of January 6 rioters who attacked police officers.

For example, on January 6, Daniel Rodriguez repeatedly drove a stun gun into the base of police officer Michael Fanone’s skull, causing him to lose consciousness and suffer a heart attack. Rodriguez was sentenced to over 12 years in prison, and the judge called him “a one-man army of hate.”

Appallingly, after his blanket pardon of Rodriguez and his fellow cop-beaters, Trump claimed these violent felons did not attack anyone, and that, in fact, they were the ones who were attacked. He further stated that pardoning them was “a great thing for humanity.”

Trump’s relentless assault on reality and ethics has damaged America’s soul. How much longer will we tolerate his poisoning of our hearts and minds?

Racist double-standards in U.S. media? GOP given blame

 “A riot is the language of the unheard”  —  Martin Luther King Jr. (the Christian civil rights martyr who was assassinated by a racist white man in 1968 and then was subsequently honored with a national holiday in Dr. King’s name that, as you may recall,  the majority of the Republican Party’s politicians fought against tooth and nail).

The so-called “legacy media,” otherwise known as the traditional mainstream corporate media, has lost almost all of its credibility with the public over the past generation due to its cowardice, self-serving dishonesty, and the myopic profit motives of selfish billionaire capitalist owners which almost always takes precedence over protecting free speech or telling the truth.

However, contrary to what you may have been told, most Americans aren’t necessarily relying on non-traditional online sources of news, etc., as their first choice for accurate information. It’s just that the places of old where we used to collectively congregate in order to be spoon-fed our shared news by relatively few outlets (televised network news mostly) is no longer relevant in the high tech revelry of the 21st Century, with the artificial intelligence revolution still on the way which will change everything (just hopefully not within 7 seconds of implementation like Skynet in Terminator 3).

Time has moved on and so has technology, but this isn’t necessarily the main reason for the demise of traditional print journalism in America. Remember the days not so long ago when “mainstream” print journalists working at then-profitable major newspapers — like the L.A. Times and The Washington Post — were well-respected, admired and taken seriously for the most part? But now it’s quite the opposite, isn’t it?

And who could possibly make this point any better than the forthright, fearless, also martyred African-American Muslim religious and civil rights leader Malcolm X, who once upon a time insightfully said:  “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”  

Sounds like the GOP to me.