RR Edmonds
@rredmondsart.bsky.social
💙 Washington
Figurative Sculpture Artist.
Clay days are the best.
Next to bicycle days.
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Figurative Sculpture Artist.
Clay days are the best.
Next to bicycle days.
No soliciting
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23. Here’s @andycraig.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/andy...
Grimly... funny's the wrong word, but you know what I mean... thing is I still don't think this was some overarching convoluted blackmail scheme or anything like that. These people are all just rich and powerful perverts, and also idiots, and so gravitated to the guy who was happy to cater to them.
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
23. Here’s @andycraig.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/andy...
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22. What we’re seeing is the consequence, after decades of effort, of putting the rich and powerful in a separate category of morality and law from the rest of us. What they do is no longer subject to social judgment. It’s just how they spend their time.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
22. What we’re seeing is the consequence, after decades of effort, of putting the rich and powerful in a separate category of morality and law from the rest of us. What they do is no longer subject to social judgment. It’s just how they spend their time.
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21. There’s so much crime, it may look like a conspiracy. But that suggests something out of the ordinary.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
21. There’s so much crime, it may look like a conspiracy. But that suggests something out of the ordinary.
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One of the craziest things that has become apparent to me as I’ve gotten older is people are just putting “hello yes would you like to do crimes? Here is my plan to do crimes, let us join together to do the crimes at this specific time and place” in emails
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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19. Altogether, they don’t paint a picture of commendable inner fortitude. They seem to paint a picture of criminal minds: bribery, extortion, exploitation & other evil acts discussed without a care in the world. (I have not read all 23K emails, just those reported or discussed publicly.)
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
19. Altogether, they don’t paint a picture of commendable inner fortitude. They seem to paint a picture of criminal minds: bribery, extortion, exploitation & other evil acts discussed without a care in the world. (I have not read all 23K emails, just those reported or discussed publicly.)
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The same holds true for religious leaders, and we find to many examples of men exploiting their positions to silence their victims.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The same holds true for religious leaders, and we find to many examples of men exploiting their positions to silence their victims.
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18. If nothing else, perhaps this trove of correspondence between rich and powerful men and the country’s most famous pedophile will correct that error.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
18. If nothing else, perhaps this trove of correspondence between rich and powerful men and the country’s most famous pedophile will correct that error.
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17. We associate “success” with character. The richer and more powerful you are, the deeper the strength of your character appears to be. On the basis of that, American society tends to hold elites in high esteem.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
17. We associate “success” with character. The richer and more powerful you are, the deeper the strength of your character appears to be. On the basis of that, American society tends to hold elites in high esteem.
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16. We give those freely, of course, as their status triggers in many of us a natural inclination toward judging people on an individual level.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
16. We give those freely, of course, as their status triggers in many of us a natural inclination toward judging people on an individual level.
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15. That brings me to my second word, contempt.
Those of us who are still subject to the rule of law, ie, normal people, may not have the power to force elites to do the right thing, but we do not owe them. They are not entitled to our respect and administration.
Those of us who are still subject to the rule of law, ie, normal people, may not have the power to force elites to do the right thing, but we do not owe them. They are not entitled to our respect and administration.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
15. That brings me to my second word, contempt.
Those of us who are still subject to the rule of law, ie, normal people, may not have the power to force elites to do the right thing, but we do not owe them. They are not entitled to our respect and administration.
Those of us who are still subject to the rule of law, ie, normal people, may not have the power to force elites to do the right thing, but we do not owe them. They are not entitled to our respect and administration.
Nope.
14. Even then, however, it must get through the Senate, the most elite institution of elite institutions. Then it must get Trump’s signature. Does anyone here expect him to add to the stack of revelations?
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Nope.
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13. Maybe that effort will begin with the release of “the Epstein files,” which are still in the possession of the DOJ. (Yesterday’s cache was not part of that.) The House appears ready to vote on their discharge next week, with a surprising number of Republicans, as many as 100, in favor.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
13. Maybe that effort will begin with the release of “the Epstein files,” which are still in the possession of the DOJ. (Yesterday’s cache was not part of that.) The House appears ready to vote on their discharge next week, with a surprising number of Republicans, as many as 100, in favor.
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12. If there’s to be change, it will come after many years, perhaps many decades, of effort to bring elites back in line, through democratic means, with the laws and norms according to which the rest of us live.
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
12. If there’s to be change, it will come after many years, perhaps many decades, of effort to bring elites back in line, through democratic means, with the laws and norms according to which the rest of us live.
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11. The most obscene crimes can be overlooked in the name of class solidarity. You can stack revelations all the way to heaven and it won’t “overcome the elite impunity that’s cosseted Trump for more than 40 years.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
11. The most obscene crimes can be overlooked in the name of class solidarity. You can stack revelations all the way to heaven and it won’t “overcome the elite impunity that’s cosseted Trump for more than 40 years.”
Example: The Catholic Church
10. But we all know, or at least suspect, that there’s no amount of evidence or persuasion that can move elites against elites if they can collectively avoid accountability by looking the other way, now and forever.
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Example: The Catholic Church
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9. For there to be justice – in this case, the faint hope of impeaching and removing a president credibly implicated in child-sex trafficking – *elites must betray elites*. Powerful men (and they are men, let’s be real here) must find in themselves an incentive to be traitors to their class.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
9. For there to be justice – in this case, the faint hope of impeaching and removing a president credibly implicated in child-sex trafficking – *elites must betray elites*. Powerful men (and they are men, let’s be real here) must find in themselves an incentive to be traitors to their class.
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8. That’s the thing. It won’t.
Yes, it’s important to never give into cynicism. It’s important to set standards of conduct and the consequences for violating them.
But no one here is a fool.
Yes, it’s important to never give into cynicism. It’s important to set standards of conduct and the consequences for violating them.
But no one here is a fool.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
8. That’s the thing. It won’t.
Yes, it’s important to never give into cynicism. It’s important to set standards of conduct and the consequences for violating them.
But no one here is a fool.
Yes, it’s important to never give into cynicism. It’s important to set standards of conduct and the consequences for violating them.
But no one here is a fool.
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7. Kurtz said “it’s one of the oddities of this whole spectacle that the question is whether Trump ... was also engaged in another kind of sexual misconduct, as if stacking revelations high enough will finally overcome the elite impunity that’s cosseted Trump for more than 40 years.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
7. Kurtz said “it’s one of the oddities of this whole spectacle that the question is whether Trump ... was also engaged in another kind of sexual misconduct, as if stacking revelations high enough will finally overcome the elite impunity that’s cosseted Trump for more than 40 years.”
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6. Impunity is the word befitting these revelations, Kurtz said.
I would suggest a couple more. First, class solidarity.
I would suggest a couple more. First, class solidarity.
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
6. Impunity is the word befitting these revelations, Kurtz said.
I would suggest a couple more. First, class solidarity.
I would suggest a couple more. First, class solidarity.
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Tangential, but with each additional Drop I am forced to ask: is there one human being on earth who still believes Epstein killed himself
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Tangential, but with each additional Drop I am forced to ask: is there one human being on earth who still believes Epstein killed himself
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Some of these people are lawyers; the rest are intimately (phrasing) familiar with courtrooms and lawyers in their professional lives. They didn't put this stuff in writing because they're naive or ignorant; they did it because they have no fear of consequences. None at all.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Some of these people are lawyers; the rest are intimately (phrasing) familiar with courtrooms and lawyers in their professional lives. They didn't put this stuff in writing because they're naive or ignorant; they did it because they have no fear of consequences. None at all.
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
Exactly
5. Kurtz then quoted a political scientist we both follow, @edburmila.bsky.social.
bsky.app/profile/edbu...
bsky.app/profile/edbu...
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Exactly
This.
See them for what they are.
See them for what they are.
4. @davidkurtz.bsky.social said he was “astonished not so much by the chumminess [Jeffrey Epstein] enjoyed with elites even after he’d served time for soliciting prostitution with a minor, but by the messages’ flagrantness, their casual disregard, and their indifference to consequence.”
The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep
It’s the Impunity, Stupid In reviewing a portion of the 20,000-plus Jeffrey...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This.
See them for what they are.
See them for what they are.
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3. While the Democrats hoped to focus attention on the corruption of one individual, namely Donald Trump, the Republicans, in their bid to muddy the waters, ended up focusing attention on the corruption of the elite culture from which Trump arose before becoming president.
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
3. While the Democrats hoped to focus attention on the corruption of one individual, namely Donald Trump, the Republicans, in their bid to muddy the waters, ended up focusing attention on the corruption of the elite culture from which Trump arose before becoming president.