{"id":582,"date":"2025-07-21T02:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:20:06","slug":"you-are-never-going-to-see-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"You Are Never Going to See The List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"358\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackmanwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Epstein-List.png?resize=358%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackmanwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Epstein-List.png?w=358&amp;ssl=1 358w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackmanwrites.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Epstein-List.png?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I listen to the pundits, late-night comedians, and MAGA-verse mouthpieces like Kash Patel and Pam Blondie (<em>I know but just can\u2019t resist<\/em>), I\u2019m getting really clear on one thing\u2014<strong>we are never going to see the Epstein list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the client names.<br>Not the flight logs.<br>Not the surveillance footage.<br>Not a single frame of old white men chasing teenage girls across Epstein\u2019s Island like it was some twisted version of <em>The Bachelor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the reason why might surprise you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just about protecting reputations.<br>It\u2019s about protecting the illusion that America still has a moral center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full release of <em>that list<\/em> would detonate the myth of this country. The MAGA-verse is already running on fumes\u2014high off grievance, delusion, and \u201cstolen election\u201d fairy tales. The pictures (in addition to the ones we\u2019ve already seen). The leather-bound 50th birthday gift given to Epstein, full of well wishes from prominent people\u2014including a \u201cbawdy\u201d note from Trump with a drawing of a naked lady, as written in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> on Thursday. But expose the truth about who really boarded those planes. and you might watch the whole damn system fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could literally topple the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, Trump is going with his \u201choax\u201d default that\u2014so far\u2014has worked every time on his base. MAGA has already accepted that the Epstein\/Trump thing ended a long time ago, telling us to stop dwelling on the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like slavery, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill O\u2019Reilly embarrassed himself on <em>NewsNation<\/em>, fumbling through a conspiracy theory that somehow pinned Epstein\u2019s death on Biden and Merrick Garland. Mind you\u2014Epstein died in 2019. Metadata shows a three-minute gap in surveillance footage. Guess who was president? That\u2019s right\u2014Trump. But the MAGA-verse doesn\u2019t deal in facts. They treat truth like COVID\u2014they\u2019d rather pretend it doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now Trump\u2019s claiming this whole thing is a Biden takedown plot, while completely ignoring the fact that it\u2019s <em>his<\/em> people\u2014his cult, his corners of the internet\u2014that are dragging this list into the spotlight. The irony is loud. But the MAGA-verse can\u2019t hear it. The call is coming from inside the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk already told us Trump&#8217;s name is on the list, and he should know because he had access to EVERYTHING, he and his DOGE boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why haven\u2019t we seen more photos of other men besides the two <em>pals<\/em>?<br>More arms around teenage girls?<br>More \u201cjust-turned-18\u201d knees being touched by men in power?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if we did, we\u2019d have to admit the truth we already know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R. Kelly is a pedophile who\u2019s never getting out.<br>Donald Trump is a man <em>allegedly<\/em> tied to Epstein\u2019s world\u2014who likely will never be charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here is what I think\u2014let\u2019s say the list comes out. A detailed log of names, dates, times, places, requests (<em>Say, \u201cD\u201d\u2026 I hear you like \u2019em young, better not go to Cell Block 1<\/em>), fetishes, etc. On this list will not only be Trump, but other powerful, influential, and famous names. Careers and lives would be ruined. Convictions? Or has the statute of limitations run out? The public outcry for impeachment would be deafening. But the Republicans, in fear of losing their seats under the threat of being primaried, would never vote en masse for impeachment. Melania would leave, but maybe not, out of fear of being deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MAGA-verse\u2014from Kash, Joe Rogan, down to the rally-going, red-hat-wearing devotees of their orange savior who took away their food stamps and Medicare\u2014will break out into the old Tammy Wynette standard, <em>Stand By Your Man<\/em>. Remember, he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and they would still support him, so it\u2019s not implausible that they\u2019d stay faithful even if he was <em>suspected<\/em> of having sex with children. (But they still believe Hillary was part of a sex-trafficking cabal run out of a pizza shop.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And don\u2019t forget\u2014we <em>danced<\/em> to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rick James: \u201cShe was only 17, 17\u2026\u201d<br>The Police: \u201cDon\u2019t stand so close to me\u2026\u201d<br>Bell Biv DeVoe: \u201cBackstage, underage, adolescent\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those weren\u2019t warnings. They were <em>theme music<\/em>.<br>And that silence you hear now? That\u2019s the complicity we\u2019ve always lived with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if a \u201csex tape\u201d dropped\u2014Trump front and center, Epstein directing, Ghislaine on the boom mic\u2014America would still find a way to look away. The MAGA-verse would dismiss it as AI. Deepfake. CGI. Biden\u2019s laptop. Anything <em>but<\/em> the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because America is the land of short attention spans.<br>A nation of <em>Ow squirrel!<\/em><br>Show them a flood, a scandal, a new TikTok trend\u2014and poof, the Epstein story is gone. Buried under the next manufactured outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This settler colonial project would implode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, I\u2019m done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I\u2019m just waiting for the pardon of Diddy sliding from the Resolute Desk, signed with a Sharpie on a sheen of baby oil.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I listen to the pundits, late-night comedians, and MAGA-verse mouthpieces like Kash Patel and Pam Blondie (I know but just can\u2019t resist), I\u2019m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants-and-raves","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackmanwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}