Crossing the Pedorubicon continued.

This past year, the following phrase seems like it got repeated by corporate-owned and Right-wing media professionals many, many, many, many times. We’re talking many times. Many.

“The Republicans appear to be sending a message…”

(I added those ellipses to the end of the above quote as a way of conveying the cryptic bad-assery.)

Since Trump’s reelection, the Administration and GOP have issued lots of vaguely-worded announcements short on specifics but also reeking of antipathy and upper-class hostility. Though the unclear statements may have been intentionally confusing, the underlying ugliness of the Right’s belief system came through loud and clear.

Sure enough, after each issuance of a veiled threat, shareholder-controlled and Russian-oligarch-sponsored media would report on the official communication by:
• pretending that its few details were not glossed over
• claiming that the GOP’s obfuscation is never intentional
• reminding readers/viewers that Republicans have morals.

And wouldn’t you know it? The sign-off to many of these articles/videos reiterated to readers/viewers that some type of “message” is being “sent.”

Fear. The subject of my first book.

Here’s the thing, Nazis: I can’t deny the fact that passive-aggressiveness is an effective tool for instilling fear in the masses. However, when it comes to issues like the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, your lack of clarity might end up transforming into a pedophile-loving albatross around your billionaire-worshipping necks. In fact, it could be the fatal and self-inflicted blow that sinks your whole Project 2025 crusade. Yeah, the Silicon Valley incels may not have money to finish their bomb shelters when this is all over.

While vagueness can come across as more threatening than clarity, vagueness also opens up the speaker’s words to interpretation. Though a certain type of fella feels cool when he “keeps ’em guessing…”, when it comes to sensitive topics, sometimes guesswork is not the best strategy.

True, dancing around the truth does clean-up duty after DOGE slashes programs and makes cuts that will lead to the deaths of millions of innocent people. And the next time Signal Pete Hegseth invites the world into his chat, you can gaslight and deflect.

But here’s the rub about bad-faith efforts like “sending messages” when it comes to the Epstein/Trump scandal, which victimized so many, women as well as girls. If you send messages that do not contain the actual verbal messages that accurately convey your feelings and thoughts, you allow the folks who receive these messages to come up with their own meanings.

And, as the year 2025 comes to a close, I believe that too many people on the American Right support child molestation, as long as the child molesters are rich and the children are poor and it happens in private. This is how I read the “messages” they sent. They might back violence against women in general, as long as the victims aren’t wealthy. I can’t say 100% for certain, but I get these vibes from the crowd that says, “shit rolls downhill” a lot.

Mike Johnson stalled the swearing-in of Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, like he wanted to block her vote for the Epstein files’ release maybe? Megyn Kelly’s recent statement, that Epstein’s teen victims might not fit some “definition” of pedophilia, I was surprised when she first said it. And then I wasn’t. MAGA seems to be full of awful mindsets and her malformed brainfarts blend in.

Know what’s weird? I started writing this post a day before before today’s news: that the Trump Administration is signaling it will slow the release of the Epstein files.

(Hmmmm…they might be sending us a message…)

Trashy rich folks are worried. It appears that all of this was some open secret and the victims were the butt of many cruel jokes and evidence of this cruelty is in the files. It also looks like Larry Summers isn’t the only power-fella who became way-too-enamored with an inhuman monster and looked the other way.

Did those other men like Larry Summers ignore their gut feelings about Jeffrey Epstein? To me, the more important question to ask is: do those types of men have these gut feelings in the first place?

To Epstein’s former bros, I wish each and every one of you an awful 2026.

#TaxTheRich. More posts:
• Are you in your twenties and wondering what’s up with your parents?
• A gigantic thank you, from me to Rush Limbaugh.
• A hypothetical experiment using two bros who overuse the word “successful.”
• World events since I released my first book.
• Open letter to a selfie of my drunk-ass self, taken on August 11th, 2001.

I write fiction and have two dark comedies available, Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2), as well as Revolutionizer Alpha, the first book in a sci-fi series. I also wrote a story about God. It was weird, but then I decided to make the story and its sequel free. And all of the sudden, it didn’t seem as weird. Writing about God is much less weird when you write about God without charging money for it. Here’s my professional site, my trade. Follow me on Medium.
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