Epstein files flooding the zone and rewriting history
How will history record this moment in time – the opening months of 2026? For the North, the winter of Epstein, the blizzard of Epstein.
The chronology is, approximately: Epstein files, Venezuela abduction, Epstein files, 4.2 earthquake near Dimona that curiously never had any after-shocks, Epstein files, Ukraine talks, Epstein files, WEF in Davos, Epstein files, Munich Security Conference, Epstein files, Gaza Board of Peace, Epstein files, Tariffs… and it will be right back to Epstein files again today. And if it goes to attacking Iran and Trump’s State of the Nation it will be between Epstein files.
Like Watergate kept spilling out the Epstein files are flooding the zone – to use Bannon’s terminology. Where and how it will break and who it will take with it are uncertain as it churns, but I cannot help but wonder at what the history books of twenty or thirty years hence will make of this period given the narrative divergence between a waning mainstream media out to protect institutions and public figures and on the other hand a rising social media out to expose them for the cackling, cloven-hooved, demons they surely are. How far does the “Epstein class” go? Can anyone look at Tony Blair or Keir Starmer and tell me that isn’t a soulless meat sack of Lucifer? They are all at least Moloch-adjacent and the club is a nexus around Jeffrey Epstein – six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but kosher.
Watergate and the earlier Pentagon Papers damaged American public trust in the political system, but increased their trust in journalism. The Epstein files are far worse: both the political and the financial system of the US and the Western world are riddled with sex trafficking perverts running insider trading linked to Israel’s bidding and the journalists in the US especially are collectively concealing it all by focusing on anything but the Jewish and Israel connections as if it’s all a British and Norwegian embarrassment. The fact that Howard Lutnick is still on the streets let alone Secretary of Commerce is testament to the failure of their media as it is a failure of political accountability.
I was wondering how history records these things after watching a movie about the Dreyfus Affair, ‘Prisoner of Honour’ 1991, with Richard Dreyfuss (ironically), where there are scenes of antisemitism fuelled by the scandal which keep rolling of their own inertia regardless of the exoneration as if the scapegoat cannot be unslaughtered. But Epstein has no exoneration. Epstein is the one conducting the sacrifices. That’s the serious political version of history. Will the antisemitism that arises from two years of Gaza obliteration and then Epstein permeate political consciousness the way that the Dreyfus Affair did in the 1890s and far beyond where there is no shared view, a sharp division and a contest of facts?
The other thing I watched offers a less serious and more entertainment version of history: one of the first episodes of the 1970s TV show, Fantasy Island, where the plot is a Jeffrey Epstein character is running a “white slavery” ring of women – white women, obviously – from a small island next to Fantasy Island. Rorke warns the besotted young female client not to go to Little Fantasy Island because her beau is a sex trafficker and specifically states going there will void all insurance and no liability will apply to Fantasy Island LLC. She ends up going because he’s mega-rich and she doesn’t care that he’s a rapist. She (and his harem) are saved from being raped because Rorke took pity and was going to bill her for the whole rescue operation. Will the Epstein episode be relegated in the history books to a comical, Benny Hill-style sexcapade of weirdos like the Sargeant Pepper album cover of famous people and maybe some of them fucked Marilyn Munroe, as if it were a socialite phenomenon and not predatory, abusive and politically and financially manipulative.
Those are two options: the dry or the salacious. It is or can be both, but history will usually opt for one over the other. We don’t recall Caligula’s monetary policy do we? What we see is the holocaust discourse that has sustained the State of Israel is being lost in a blur of Tik Tok scrolls of Gazan children mangled by the IDF. I am wondering too, where Epstein fits as the bookend or conclusion to the #MeToo movement, or is this the peak in a long reckoning of the power structure and the proclivities and predations of the elites. The possible antisemitic repercussions of this confluence will be in the history books for sure, but the angle taken is probably going to be determined by how things unfold and whether it turns into a “celebrity thing” which makes it much easier for the mainstream institutional scholars to reduce the whole series of revelations as sex party antics.
In a world of Diddy and Cosby and Weinstein where does Epstein and his chums fit in? The thought of Robin Leach strangling a child prostitute to death poolside at the villa (while he gives his trademark commentary on it!?) is a bit overwhelming. And all the onlookers were thinking is probably: I thought we weren’t allowed to kill them? Nothing that half a dozen drums of sulphuric acid won’t fix. That’s just a glimpse. It is still too much information for the public to process, let alone guess where a future historian is going to assign responsibility or say what was its lasting impact.
Not saying the eternal struggle between Canaanite deities is determining the fate of the planet, but we have a much better understanding of how the Western world operates now we have seen behind the curtain and so my money is still on Moloch because everyone who has bet against Moloch ends up *whoops*. Just listen to Les Wexner’s five hour testimony to the congressional committee (held at his own compound) where he says he “didn’t know shit” about Ms Farmer who ended up killed because he says it as if he didn’t give a shit about her. Listen to the way he sniggers through most of it. Listen to the implausible nonsense, the lies. When they come back from each “off the record” portion he does not look like a happy chappy.
There is so much more to come and it hasn’t really happened in the US because Israel can still hold the centre ground of mainstream media and politics and civil society. Britain looks far more republican in their retribution than America: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arrested and his (royal) houses searched. An incredible photo of Andrew in the back of a car looking terrified like maybe laughing at Epstein’s death as he did in his final interview was unwise. Mandelson is somehow avoiding the same scenario.
If history had been different Queen Elizabeth would be alive now at 99 and two months away from her centenary facing this awful mess and given she was part of paying the hush money for Andrew we can see why she didn’t want history catching up to spoil her chapter.
