Project Projection

 

He can run, but he can't hide.  Blueamp has the latest.

The Wall Street Journal was not allowed to come along as Trump ran all the way to Scotland, but it continues to drip out information about Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday present, the "book" to which his friends contributed.  Naturally most of today's attention is focused on Bill Clinton, who has never denied knowing Epstein.  Fair enough, but how about the others?  Peter Mandelson, currently UK ambassador to the United States; fashion designer Vera Wang; Mort Zuckerman, Canadian-American media mogul who used to edit US News and World Report; Les Wexner, former owner of Victoria's Secret; other billionaire investors, Alan Dershowitz, and most startling, the eminent physicist Murray Gell-Mann.  He posited the existence of quarks.  All I know about quarks is that the word comes from Finnegans Wake.

Before leaving the country Trump decided to kill two birds with one stone, harassing Jerome Powell into quitting while distracting from you-know-what.  Both birds survived.  He went to the Fed building, which is under renovation, and demanded to know why it was expected to cost $3.1 billion instead of $2.5 billion.  Powell studied the estimate and explained that it included another site, the Martin Building, renovated five years ago.  He also pointed out that the Eccles Building requires expensive features like blast-proof windows.  All of this has zero to do with Trump's demand for a lower prime rate, of course.  Later at the airport he got into a bizarre argument with a reporter about why a weak dollar is "good for inflation" (which he has ended) but not for buying stuff.  He sounds like someone who didn't study and is bluffing the instructor ("I went to Wharton").  

Speaking of costs, the Army reveals that the thinly attended Trump birthday parade cost $30 million, while his promotional tour of his Scottish golf properties will be a bargain for the taxpayers at only $10 million.  Trump could pay that out of the money extorted from Paramount, but he won't.  He calls it a "working trip" because of meetings scheduled with Keir Starmer and EU officials.  At least he could give the Secret Service free use of golf carts while they protect him from enthusiastic locals.

In his absence the Independence National Historical Park is being scrutinized for possibly allowing facts -- the dreaded DEI -- to upset visitors.  Its "corrosive ideology," to quote from Executive Order #7,995, is to note that George Washington owned nine enslaved people.  Another exhibit suggests that all was not rosy between the US and Native Americans.  Trump wants all inconvenient truths removed before next year's 250th anniversary in Philadelphia, or he'll have to move the Liberty Bell to his Offal Office like the Declaration of Independence.  Painted gold, of course.

The "news" that Bill Clinton visited Epstein Island may have come just in time, as death threats against Barack Obama exploded following Tulsi Gabbard's treason fantasy.  Now MAGA will have to threaten both of them.  The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism reports a 1,700 percent increase in threats to Obama as of July 19, so Project Projection is working on some level.  I can't fault Bush for staying out of sight; as he remarked of Trump's "American Carnage" inaugural address, "That was some weird shit."  It's only gotten weirder.

The absence of Elon Musk from the Epstein scandal is surprising, given their shared interest in eugenics.  While searching for something else I came across a bunch of articles from 2019, shortly before his death.  Epstein had plans to impregnate twenty women at a time with his own superior sperm at his ranch near Santa Fe, plans he allegedly discussed with scientific heavyweights like Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Oliver Sacks, and physicists Frank Wilczek and Gell-Mann.  He helped bankroll Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and the Worldwide Transhumanist Association, which give off seriously creepy vibes.  The more I read about this guy, the less I like him.