No special rules for special people. How about no special people at all?

There was a moment when our TV reception wasn't working properly during the Stupor Bowl, so I didn't see this live. But I've seen it now:

Jeffrey Epstein's victims aren't going to let us forget ...

It's taken a lot to get me to pay attention to the "revelations" about the "Epstein class." (Good label for 'em, that.)

That entitled rich white men should feel that have a right to the bodies and bodily service of very young, usually poor, women is not news. That's how these guys get their self-esteem, especially the ones who are just hangers-on in proximity to truly creative and accomplished people. That's too many men, though certainly not all men.

Guess I'm just a jaded lesbian feminist. These men are profoundly uninteresting, dim-witted slaves to their banal desires.

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Dan Pfeiffer, a Democratic communications guru, applauds how Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff explains why the Epstein files matter: 

... The release of millions of pages from the Epstein files has made clear that many of the long-running conspiracy theories surrounding the world’s most notorious sex trafficker were, in fact, grounded in reality. There truly was an elite network of people who either participated in or knowingly looked away from Epstein’s crimes—and the government spent years protecting many of them by keeping those records secret.

The public takeaway has been simple and powerful: there are two sets of rules in America—one for elites and one for everyone else.

That is why the Epstein story has captured so much attention. The idea of powerful people protecting one another at the expense of everyone else helps explain why so many Americans feel the system is stacked against them.