By Alasdair Black
What this whole Epstein horror story shows, is that sexual abuse is about power, venal privileged self satisfaction, carnal gratification and exploitation, where human lives are commodities to be traded, used and discarded in the most heinous, pornographic and sordid ways.
Little wonder the abusers are the most richest and powerful people in America.
The old adage screams glaringly from the files… “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Are megalomania, sociopathy, psychopathy really psychotic disorders or are they a part of the human condition; are they inescapably present in the deepest darkest recesses of the human condition?
Naming it as an illness, disease or a disorder, give a vapid excuse to absolve responsibility.
We discipline our children, personally learn to follow social conventions, rules, law and morality, because we know we’re all capable of behaving badly and we usually face immediate consequence for even absent-minded trespass.
These consequences drain, fade away and disappear almost completely for the obscenely wealthy and powerful.
We’ve always known this human weakness, we invented religion, morality, ethics, laws, social expectations and conventions, even personal rules in our intimate relations in order to lessen bad behaviour toward one and other, even in our most vitally important intimate and filial relationships
Do you know what sovereign political Constitutions are for?
They’re to control the abuse of power, in order to set limits, redlines and boundaries on power.
Why?
Because we all know the opportunity of power is seductive and will always be abused, because of human frailty.
The Trump zeitgeist and Trump’s abuse of power has been full of trespass, not only of laws, constitution and social norms, but of human decency, empathy and compassion.
Trump is a mean, amoral malevolent man, whose motivation on everything he does is based purely on ego, greed and venal self satisfaction or – dare I say it – selfish carnal gratification.
Trump is an obscenity, an obscenity that should have never gotten anywhere near the centre of power.
He has debased America’s very soul, the American experiment and the very idea of patriotism, service and duty.
His presence saturating the ‘Trumpstein’ files declare it unequivocally. (In one source I read he’s mentioned 38,000 times).
The only way to make this right and salvage America’s soul is to strip Trump of his presidency, and to finally hold him to true, inescapable and total account for everything.
“EVERYTHING!”
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It is now blatantly obvious that a huge Pedophile organisation is at the top of all Governments in the world. Where money and greed has perverted minds is some horrid ways. And the victims in ignorance took bribes to do all sorts of depraved things with these creatures.How do we the people go from here. And lock these creatures away for the term of their natural lives.
Joshua Scheer, with Chris Hedges has really spelt this out, too https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/12/rot-at-the-top-the-elites-darkest-secrets-spill-out/
A piercingly accurate comment upon this whole sordid business. How is it though that so far, with the redactions, that so many of these depraved creatures are still un-named?
Some of those who have been selectively named have resigned or had their privileged status, titles etc. removed, and yet the Republican controlled government in the USA continues to protect Donald Trump even though he is increasingly indicated.
There are more references to his name within the disgracefully censored published files than to anybody else.
The fact that there are over 3 million more files that the Dept. of Justice will not release, can’t help but make one think that those files contain much , much worse and that the Dept. of Justice is bending to some kind of Authoritarian power. The exhibition of herself that A.G. Pam Bondi made of herself recently showed that she is both inept as well as afraid.
The DOJnfile drop was clearly ‘curated’ to make it difficult to research and offering much granular low hanging fringe fruit on the outer layers, especially centrists, then media can create their own narratives.
Meanwhile nada on the inner circles of paedophile perps &/or elites with the WH trying to claim that’s it, nothing to see here…
Another indie outlets focus on Rudd via a QUANGO re Epstein, plus latter’s Israeli links (of course via various figures), but the main game is US and Russia; the latter is ignored yet Trump, Netanyahu and Putin are allies?
One follows the excellent UK investigative ByLine Times which has a longstanding archive on Epstein….and deep links with Russia, along with elites Thiel, Musk et al.
One would be careful using the Scheer Post as a source for anything eg. the article uses bullet points, no sources, cites George Galloway and Hedges all over the shop geopolitically; latter blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion then flipped within a week or two to support Ukraine.
Galloway… from Peter Jukes 25 November 2025 in ByLine Times
‘Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein….
…..When Theresa May was eventually forced to resign in 2019 to be replaced by Boris Johnson, (Farage’s chum) Bannon was at a conference in Kazakhstan and celebrated her ouster with the Sputnik presenter and British left-wing politician George Galloway.’
Meanwhile ‘US faux anti-imperialist tankie sh*theads of the left (or right?)’ (copyright Draitser Counter Punch ’22), gas light the Anglosphere left to oppose Ukraine, NATO and the EU, directing people to oppose the US, but they are Americans themselves, contradiction?
The European left has never been deluded about Russia and observe how the Anglo far right and left often share talking points aka Fox News?
An accurate summary Alasdair Black, of what has been totally overlooked by all and sundry when it comes power and those that not only exercise it, but those who for want of a better description believe that they, and they alone are the most qualified to nominate and select an individual for that role and position.
I have for many years been sad at the fact that the human issues that dominate an individual’s propensities and how they can possibly act them out have been removed or not given credence in ANY job candidacy or selection process which has been completely obliterated.
It’s not that you can’t obtain materials and services to accommodate this, you can, however again, selective editing and use of these materials has also been used, abused and applied for maintaining that status quo.
There are tools to accommodate this and I have used them extensively in my life which has given me an extraordinary journey of learning about human nature, and as we have seen human nature is dark when power rests in the hands of flawed and questionable people, however it’s also very wonderful.
So, maybe it’s time for these ancient tools to be discovered and used in the way they were meant to be, shows us how to avoid pitfalls and dangerous mistakes, know your weaknesses and your strengths and apply them diligently where needed.