In a decade that’s already been marked by frequent, major vindications for the alleged “conspiracy theorists” among us, Friday’s Epstein Files document dump by the DOJ seemed relatively unsurprising at first. Here, we were told, was yet more evidence that a handful of rich and powerful elites are conspiring behind closed-doors, hosting degenerate parties, and abusing victims. And of course, following the document dump, there were the usual political cheap shots, which were mostly divorced from any semblance of reality.
On “Saturday Night Live,” which long ago abandoned the pretense of being a comedy show, there was an awkward and painfully on-the-nose joke by Pete Davidson implying that the Trump administration had released the latest Epstein Files to distract everyone from the ICE shootings in Minneapolis — even though the ICE deployments in Minneapolis, as the “SNL” sketch helpfully pointed out, were supposedly intended to distract from the Epstein Files in the first place. In short, the message was that, for the typical observer, this latest document dump contained nothing new. We’re told this is all a political distraction that tells us nothing we didn’t already know.
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