Here is a shocker: In broad strokes, the Pizzagate Conspiracy is real.
The short form, Pizzagate, which is not true in detail, was that powerful people formed a cabal to engage in human trafficking and child abuse, and that they were above the law, because they were too big to prosecute.
It was made up from whole cloth, but take away the details: It happened at the Comet Ping Pong Pizzaria, it only involved Democrats, and it happened just in Washington, DC.
By any meaningful standard of morality though, the Jeffrey Epstein affair is indistinguishable from the fever dreams of Alex Jones.
The basic substance of this is the same, rich man, with powerful friends, including current and former presidents, jet-setting around the world and abusing children with impunity.
Full disclosure, this is not my insight, Matthew Walther drew the conclusion in an article published in The Week.
Here is the conclusion:
Among other things, the Epstein case forces us to ask ourselves some uncomfortable questions about the real meaning of "fake" news. There is, or should be, more to being informed than fact-checking formalism. If you have spent the last few years earnestly consuming mainstream left-of-center media in this country you will be under the impression that the United States has fallen under the control of a spray-tanned Mussolini clone who is never more than five minutes away from making birth control illegal. If you watch Fox News and read conservative publications, you no doubt bemoan the fact that Ronald Reagan's heir is being hamstrung by a bunch of avocado toast-eating feminist witches. Meanwhile, Alex Jones's audience will tell you that America, like the rest of the world, is ruled by a depraved internationalist elite whose ultimate allegiance is not to countries or political parties or ideologies but to one another. These people believe in nothing. They will safeguard their wealth and privilege at any cost. They will never break rank. And they will commit unspeakable crimes with impunity, while anyone who dares to speculate openly is sued or hounded out of public life as a kook.
Which of these worldviews is closest to the truth?
He’s right, and I am considering finding a way to invest in guillotine futures, because this does seem like France in 1789.