I don’t blame anyone for thinking Epstein’s death was suspicious. We’ve all been lied to, manipulated, gaslit by people in power, left and right. So yeah, when something shady happens, it’s natural to think, they did it again. I’ve been down that road too. We all have.
But sometimes it’s not malice. Sometimes it’s just raw, stupid negligence. There’s an old saying: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. And I hate to say it, but Trump’s administration, who was in charge at the time, gave us no shortage of that.
Remember, this was the same administration that put a 22-year-old former grocery store clerk and lawnmower boy in charge of counterterrorism literally weeks before a war with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism. Let that sink in. While serious threats were brewing, they handed national security over to someone whose most recent qualification was pushing carts at Safeway and mowing lawns for grandma next door. That’s not just a bad hire. That’s dangerously incompetent.
So when you look at how Epstein died... yes, in federal custody, under Trump’s watch, it’s not some all-powerful cabal tying up loose ends. It’s a bunch of half-asleep morons who couldn’t run a Chili’s, let alone a prison. That's the real scandal. And if we excuse it because it was “our guy” in charge, then we’re no better than the folks we rail against.
Maybe it's because of my experience in corporate, but if we want to call ourselves truth-seekers, we have to be willing to stare down stupidity even when it wears our jersey.
I don’t blame anyone for thinking Epstein’s death was suspicious. We’ve all been lied to, manipulated, gaslit by people in power, left and right. So yeah, when something shady happens, it’s natural to think, they did it again. I’ve been down that road too. We all have.
But sometimes it’s not malice. Sometimes it’s just raw, stupid negligence. There’s an old saying: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. And I hate to say it, but Trump’s administration, who was in charge at the time, gave us no shortage of that.
Remember, this was the same administration that put a 22-year-old former grocery store clerk and lawnmower boy in charge of counterterrorism literally weeks before a war with Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism. Let that sink in. While serious threats were brewing, they handed national security over to someone whose most recent qualification was pushing carts at Safeway and mowing lawns for grandma next door. That’s not just a bad hire. That’s dangerously incompetent.
So when you look at how Epstein died... yes, in federal custody, under Trump’s watch, it’s not some all-powerful cabal tying up loose ends. It’s a bunch of half-asleep morons who couldn’t run a Chili’s, let alone a prison. That's the real scandal. And if we excuse it because it was “our guy” in charge, then we’re no better than the folks we rail against.
Maybe it's because of my experience in corporate, but if we want to call ourselves truth-seekers, we have to be willing to stare down stupidity even when it wears our jersey.