What began as a drizzle has morphed into a torrential downpour.
And by the looks of things, it is threatening to become a tsunami.
America in recent past, has had to deal with major scandals at the very top of government, with Iran-Contra and Watergate coming to mind.
Ronald Reagan knowingly used the proceeds of arms sales to Iran to fund an anti-communist war in Nicaragua and when it found its way to the mainstream media, the former B-list Hollywood actor was damaged, but managed to hang on till the very end.
With Richard Milhous Nixon, it was a different story.
The 37th president instigated the bugging of the Democratic party headquarters — Watergate office building — and if it weren’t for the African-American security guard who stumbled on the tampered locks, which culminated in the arrest of five men sent to do the job, the world wouldn’t have been privy to the full extent of Nixon’s paranoia.
Nixon resigned and was subsequently pardoned by his vice, Gerald Ford. His reputation was irreparably tarnished.
But It is no hyperbole to state that Epsteingate has the potential to rank up there with the Iran-Contra and Watergate.
In the last few days, tranches of emails from Jeffrey Epstein to a host of players has had the world mesmerized.
Larry Summers, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Peter Thiel, Peter Mandelson, Gordon Brown and Donald Trump have all been named in a series of electronic messages from the late sex trafficker.
Epstein, through his emails, spun a web of complex entanglements, which ties some of the most prominent men in western society today to his island resort and Epsteingate, much more importantly, has shown us the extreme levels of depravity which exists among those who dictate how we must live.
The former secretary of Treasury and President of Harvard, who was forced to resign when his comments regarding women being less intelligent than men went viral, was found repeating those revolting words in his mail.
The erstwhile British ambassador to Washington was appointed by the sitting prime minister of the United Kingdom, despite being fully aware of his links to the deceased pedophile and was only sacked when the press got wind of the fact.
The previous Duke of York self-implicated when he took a photograph with the recently deceased victim and compounded his mess by conducting an interview with the BBC in 2023.
The founder of Palantir and PayPal was described in lurid terms and Donald John Trump is mentioned in not-so-positive tones.
So what does these revelations leave us?
Safe in the knowledge that there’s a fierce urgency to topple our profoundly compromised clerical, political and oligarchic class on both sides of the Atlantic.
Pentecostal pastors fell over themselves to endorse the worst ever individual for the most important job in the world, fully aware of his many sins.
And a generation of Republicans and Democrats chose not to do the right thing when they had the means to, perhaps out of fear or outright apathy.
The system found ways to protect these monsters, concealing their crimes, while simultaneously immiserating us.
The MAGA crew, who have awoken from their narcolepsy, are rightly outraged by the breadth of the atrocities of a man who inveigled them.
This feels as if its a long way from final, especially if those files are ever released to the public. Perhaps its contents in the social media engine would result in Epsteingate surpassing Iran-Contra and Watergate.
We're standing by to see how these politics play out.
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