I Believe I Can...Puke

Looks like the jig might finally be up for two of the biggest super predators. I'm speaking of serial child rapists R Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein. Both were sexually exploiting and abusing girls in plain sight with only feeble attempts at bringing them to justice and holding them to account for their horrible, vile acts. Both have been protected by their wealth and connections to powerful allies. And, as a result, both have exposed the sheer hypocrisy of these allies, many of whom would otherwise have us all believe what great champions they are on this and other hot button social issues.

Well, not exactly all of them. There is of course, the crotch grabber-in-chief, Donald J. Trump, who has spent most of his adult (child)hood sexually bullying, assaulting and raping women. He has then used his daddy's money to hire a whole pack of shysters do the very same thing to these women again, this time using the legal system instead of his own underperforming member to "schlong" them.

Maybe that's why he decided to nominate Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney, to be Secretary of Labor and ostensibly policy lead of the U.S. Government's anti-(sex) trafficking efforts. It makes perfect sense that Trump would put Acosta in charge after Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein the sweetheart deal of the century to avoid federal charges of sex trafficking and rape, among others. After a mealy-mouthed defense of his spineless cave to this wealthy scion of the Manhattan "Masters of the Universe," Acosta finally did the right thing and resigned.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were Trump who told him to hit the road, if only because the Donald went on record saying he did the exact opposite. Trump is nothing if not consistent, because he always telegraphs when he's lying. In this case, when he said, "It was him not me," implying that the resignation was entirely Acosta's decision, my antennae immediately went up. Poor Donald. He was probably getting nervous that all this focus on Epstein and his sordid acts might flush out some more of Trump's own heinous history of criminal misogyny. Not that it would matter, since he's gotten away with it pretty much every single time.

Still, one can only hope the this time will be different. With both R Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein potentially being sent up the river to do some quality time behind bars, it would be nice to believe that the public might focus just enough of its attention on these two men's cases. If it does, Americans will realize just how endemic sex trafficking is, right here in the U.S., right in their own neighborhoods in many cases. And maybe, just maybe, they'll also begin to appreciate how these two sociopaths' impunity is only the tip of the iceberg for a justice system characterized by gross, systemic inequities.

I can always believe, anyway. I believe I can...puke.