Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
America is being ruled by people who took money from gangsters and while the truth might not set them free, it could save the world
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“I’m going back to studying Faust,” Marci Shore told me today.
The intellectual historian said she’s revisiting the Goethe classic after making the mistake of watching Pam Bondi’s performance.
Shore had difficulty wrapping her head around how a woman, with Epstein survivors sitting directly behind her, could live with herself — how “we can have an entire administration operating through blackmail, bribes, and ritual humiliation.”
Welcome to West Russia.
Russians are stuck with a gangster from St. Petersburg, who oversees a lawless post-truth fiefdom, a ‘whole culture of simulation,’ as Peter Pomerantsev wrote.
And now, the US is ruled by a convicted sex felon, among his unique qualifications, from Queens, who is quickly replicating Putin’s model to American sensibilities.
And that brings me back to Bondi and Faust.
She made her deal with the devil when she covered for Epstein the first time.
Being skilled at evading morality proved lucrative.
And in fact, it’s a requirement to participate in this so-called administration.
Just ask the military brass, who were quietly escorted out of the Pentagon to ensure “loyalty and efficiency” to the convicted sex felon from Queens.
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I thought I’d take a moment here to show how much money members of Trump’s organized crime cell have been paid by autocrats and oligarchs, but why bother… the receipts are readily available, like the $115,000 a month Bondi’s firm was paid by Qatar, forcing her to register as a foreign agent.
Once you take money from the mob, they pretty much own you.
So they lie and they lie and they lie, maybe thinking they’ll avoid Russian window cancer.
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
Staring at the moon tonight and wondering what it thought about the mess we’ve made of things — comforted by the fact it wasn’t thinking about us at all — I pondered truth, and how all these compromised liars rely on us to accept the post-truth world they are forcing us to live in.
I stand here before you to say, I do not, and never will, accept a post-truth world.
As Shakespeare wrote, “Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
Based on a 16th century proverb, the idea is that honesty exposes liars and defends against evil — truth as way to counteract the devil.
As the Great Bard also wrote, “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
We see that in every post by Trump Inc.
We know, however, truth and reconciliation worked in the past.
Shaming the devil takes courage.
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