Ordinary people react to weird criminal behavior in morally understandable ways. It is not wrong for ordinary people to express revulsion at finding out about execrable behaviors practiced, allegedly, by those in positions of power. Power exists in politics. It exists in those who supply big money to political players. It's also present on a personal level in those who exert power over the powerless, such as the victims of convicted sex traffickers like Jizzlane Maximumwell and Biff Shempstein.
Like Zelig, the protagonist of Woody Allen's movie of the same name, Jizzlane Maximumwell and Biff Shempstein appear in an astonishing array of photographs with rich and famous people. They knew actors and actresses, directors, producers, political figures, intelligence agency officials, tech billionaires, Mick Jagger, newsmen and -women, models, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton, who, for some reason ordinary people aren't allowed to know, invited Jizzlane Maximumwell to her wedding.
If I were to list all of the friends of Biff and Jizzlaine here, it would distract the reader too much, just as the filth contained in the Shempstein Files so far released overwhelms the ordinary person. Ordinary Americans struggle now to make ends meet. Gas and food remain expensive. Health insurance is expected to rise in cost. Medicaid will be slashed per the "Big Beautiful Bill," which can be abbreviated BBB, which also stands for the Better Business Bureau. It's too bad ordinary Americans can't complain to that bureau about the way this country's been run for decades.
President Trump claimed, incredibly, that "This is the greatest economy in the history of the world!"
If the insane, narcissistic M. Bison, the dictator played by Raul Julia in Street Fighter had made that statement, viewers would've been justified in laughing gustily, but Trump's claim will be forgotten quickly, covered over by the next crazy declaration or action by an administration characterized by incompetence, and, even more unforgivable, an indifference to the real struggles of ordinary Americans.
Adding to these domestic problems, Trump may soon unleash the U.S. military on Iran again, a move, according to polls, not approved of by the majority of Americans. Too, since Trump is mentioned in the first release of the Shempstein Files over 3,000 times, he's having trouble convincing ordinary Americans to forget about what he calls "a Democratic hoax," as if a political party as wretched and incompetent as the Democrats could organize and carry out such a huge operation, creating millions of documents, some of which feature Democrats allegedly engaging in vile criminal activity against innocents.
The Justice Department, run by one of Trump's toadies, Pam Bondi, has released the first mega-chunk of Shempstein Files without providing names of perpetrators, their names blackened out, the redaction tasks so extensive that millions of taxpayer dollars went towards overtime hours for FBI employees having to inhale magic marker fumes while simultaneously discovering sickening accounts about the villains they serve. Some victims' names didn't even get blackened out, but we can't know the name of the person to whom Biff Shempstein wrote, "I enjoyed the torture video you sent me."
Huh?
Why can't we know the name of the person who sent a torture video to a convicted sex offender? Shouldn't that unknown person be investigated? Ordinary Americans believe that people who harm others for fun, as well as those who "enjoy" watching such activities in some audiovisual or photographic medium, should be investigated. That is the minimal action that should be taken, yet, whoever sent Biff Shempstein the video can feel safe, protected by what Senator Sanders calls the Shempstein Class.
Ordinary Americans don't want to be governed by an untouchable class of Caligulas.
What to do?
Awareness grows among ordinary Americans that they have been had. The world is a lie. The jet set ain't what it used to be in Frank Sinatra's day, but maybe it's always been like this?
It required an army of brave victims of Shempstein, Maximumwell, and their collaborators, to alert their fellow ordinary Americans to the now undeniable fact that the ruling class has moral authority over no one.
Vic Neptune
