Eyes on the Prize

[H2O Man]

“Now only thing I did was wrong
Stayin' in the wilderness too long
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on

“The only thing we did was right
Was the day we started to fight
Keep your eyes on the prize, hold on”


I will assume that everyone is familiar with the above song, and its significance. It seems like a perfect tune for today. It is easy to get distracted by the frenzied pace of madness in the daily news. Let's consider one important example of this.

Michael Wolff, the journalist who knew Jeff Epstein the best, reported that he has been told that president felon has been contacting associates and administration staff, asking for suggestions on how to direct the media and public attention away from the Epstein files. There are times when either he or one of his people will say or do something in an attempt to serve as a lightening rod. These are meaningless.

What is dangerous is the cluster of symptoms uncommonly known as TRS (Trapped Rat Syndrome). These include the push to gerrymander in Texas, the federal forces in DC, and the apparent offering of natural resources in Alaska. There are obviously others in the works.

However, both podcasts and the few remaining journalists integrity continue to report on the Epstein – Maxwell – felon scandal. The British media has added Punce Andrew to the mix, as he had a close relationship with the three convicted sex offenders. His mom had to pay $12 million to settle his “affairs” in civil court. Andrew only had to surrender all sense of shame.

A relatively new event will be getting more attention, since former cellmates of Ghislaine have had some access to media. Reports indicate that during the Biden presidency, she told people that she had information on the felon that would have knee-capped his 2024 campaign. She offered it to the administration in return for a pardon. Because President Biden had a sense of honor, and knew right from wrong, her offer was ignored.

The maggots of the maga cult will say that the most outspoken inmate cannot be trusted to tell the truth, as she is incarcerated on a drug charge. Yet some remain willing to take the felon's lawyer saying in his nine hours of meeting with her, she said she never saw the felon do anything wrong. That might be best understood in her diseased opinions on exactly what is right versus wrong.

Maxwell's attorney – who has had a long close relationship with the felon's lawyer in the DOJ – has reportedly become concerned that her recent move to a country club, complete with day passes – could be increasing the risk to her safety. Hence, I am asking for two things: first, a moment of silence while we offer thoughts and prayers for Maxwell, for whatever outcome you may wish. And second, for people to become more active now.

We do not want internet sites to become an opiate for the activists, a large and sticky fly strip that keeps good people from doing more than complaining in a echo chamber. At the very least, each and every Democrat in the country should be contacting their elected representatives on any of a number of important issues. Because the administration is so focused on reducing attention on the Epstein crisis – and it is a crisis for the felon – I advocate that we apply pressure there.

For but one example, Rep. Jamie Raskin has asked the AG to release both the Epstein files and Jack Smith's second report – about the stolen classified documents – we should all be actively supporting him on this. And merely agreeing with him is surely not “activism.” All that it takes is the willingness to exercise Amendment 1 rights, at a time when the Constitution is under attack.

A poll of republicans that I saw yesterday indicated that over 70% of them think the felon had knowledge of Epstein's sexual offenses against underage girls while they were friends. Though they are no longer buds, it follows that the felon has knowledge of what the Epstein files contain that would harm him. At the same time, he knows that Maxwell's siblings have other materials which are more damaging than his birthday letter. And that they want her to return to England, not stay in the Texas luxury hotel.

Hence, we can correctly anticipate an increase in TRS activity from the White House. This will demand that some of the current activists go beyond contacting elected representatives and attending rallies. This requires individuals to do self-examination, and identify how important our country is, and if it is indeed worth fighting for, how far they are willing to go. We need to exercise our potential for Gandhi – King power.

If anyone has read this far, I thank you.
H2O Man

[EmmaLee E]

1. Thank you for the rallying call!

I am so tired of the echo chamber of people (me included) complaining, wringing hands, and thinking up clever epithets instead of actually doing anything.

[H2O Man]

6. Thank you!

I've been talking about this primarily with people of my generation. I am old ..... my adult children insist I should be on the cover of National Geographic, as the oldest living organism on Earth. I think that we should be setting the example for the younger generation, since they have never witnessed Dr. King's campaigns. But even younger adults (those under 60) should be actively exercising their Amendment 1 rights. Once you get started -- especially with a few friends -- it can be fun. Frustrating, but fun.

[Saoirse9]

2. Curious. Why is everyone suddenly concerned about Epstein?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But it has been well known for more than 25 years that Epstein and trump were best pals. Joined at the hip. Screwing the same young girls.

Is it just because he campaigned on releasing the files?

I am ready to contact my gop rep if necessary but what else should we be doing?

[H2O Man]

7. Contact

those in the House and Senate. A few maga republicans say it is what people contact their office about. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Epstein file contacts are the most she ever has gotten. Another one said he is getting "five hundred to one" on Epstein. The host thought he was exaggerating, but he said that was accurate.

When contacting republicans, I suggest a short message on a specific message. Hold hearings with witnesses including the now adult victims, publish the Palm Beach police investigation's reports, and Julie K. Brown (the jouranist that uncovered the corrupt Acosta actions). And ask them to have the DOJ release the second Jack Smith report, because the public needs to know if Epstein documents were among the classified files the felon stole.

[Saoirse9]

19. Okay I will write to my slimy gop reps

A few times a week I think.

[H2O Man]

23. That's great!

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Ask for a response ..... a letter or e-mail. Let them know that you will share it publicly.

(Many years ago, perhaps when you were but a twinkle in your mother's eyes, I got a response from a U.S. Senator on my letter voicing opposition to the Reagan wars in Central America. The first letter thanked me for supporting the president, promising that he would, too. A day later, I got a second letter, pretty much saying, "Wait! We sent the wrong letter! Here is our real position!" I immediately drove both to one of the largest newspapers in our region, and showed them to the editor. The paper reported this. That Senator's office never took my calls or responded to my letters after that.)

[Saoirse9]

26. Great strategy! n/t

[soldierant]

13. This goes all the way back to QAnon

and its doctrine that very high u Democrats were running a child sex trafficking enterprise. Or maybe more than one. Remember the pizza parlor and its (non-existent) basement? And Trump**(*) was going to be the savior who would break that all up. That's the only reason he campaigned on releasing the files - the fact he was campaigning on that suggested to his base that he really was going to break up pedophile sex rings, which suggested to them that he was not a pedophile (they don't give a continental crap how many adult women he rapes.) Now that he's reneging on releasing the files, even his dumbest followers are beginning to suspect he might be a pedophile. That would really put them off, despite the fact that many of them abuse their own children in various ways. And, since he in fact is, the files would show it. Beyond dispute. And he would be toast politically.

Of course, if he and his mobsters can consolidate enough power in other ways, while that still might matter to him, it would not matter to the GOP. Hence the redistricting idea. We need to fight on all fronts.

[H2O Man]

17. Yes.

The pizza parlor morphed into a global ring that not only raped kids, but sacrificed and consumed itty-bitty babies. "A Modest Proposal," that existed only between their ears.

And I agree 100% on the need to fight on all fronts.

[soldierant]

21. Thank you.

Sometimes I come close to despair when it occurs to me that - if we can't even remember the history in our own country for the pasr 8-19 years or so - and we here are among the more politically savvy voters - then how can we ever expec the whole voting population to learn from, for instance, Worls War II and the leadup to it?

I do think we are capable of it - the founding father were only human, though it's tempting to see them as superior beings compared to what we aee today - but it may yake an entire new Enlightenment to bring that out.

[H2O Man]

22. Exactly.

We've seen some of our friends here express concern that the administration -- particularly the vice president -- wanting to end women's sufferage. I've been hoping that someone would mention Florida in 2000, and Katherine Harris's role in removing thousands of black voters from the rolls.

https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/vote2000/report/exesum.htm

Disenfranchisement of specific sub-groups of voters is not new. Since before the 1950s, it has largely been an attempt to prevent non-white and/or low income voters from voting. I remember a local election in the mid-1980s -- small time, I know -- when republicans were outraged that I had gotten most everyone in the largest low-income neighborhood registered ..... and set up rides to the polls. The republican "leader" even told the ladies running the voting to not let them vote. But vote, they did, and thus Democratic Party candidates won both seats.

Over the decades I spoke at length with my two mentors about the founding fathers. Onondaga Chief Paul Waterman -- his gX7 grandfather met with them in Albany and Philly -- said the founding fathers used what the Iroquois call "the Power of the Good Mind" to go from Franklin's Plan of Union, to the Articles of Confederation, and eventually the Constitution. (I've advocated that we try that on this forum, with very, very little interest.) When Rubin Carter and I discussed this, he agreed with Paul. He included a bit on that in his second autobiography.

While I accept that we are here, now -- always has been now, and always will be -- I think that the fast news cycle adds to the general public's problems in remembering the past. Just my opinion.

[soldierant]

25. IMO "small time" in politics is not a thing.

Many thanks to you for that voter registration campaign and everything else you have done to grease the skids for progressives and progressivism.

[Saoirse9]

18. Good answer, thanks n/t

[malaise]

3. TRS (Trapped Rat Syndrome)

Love it

Rec

[H2O Man]

8. Thank you!

I'm glad that you like TRS.

[B.See]

4. Wow. Talk about flashback...

The title instantly called to mind the excellent award winning PBS documentary, "Eyes on the Prize" whose episodes opened with that song.

A must watch, if you've never seen it.

[H2O Man]

9. Right!

I consider that "must see" for people today. Those my age do well watching it, though we lived through that period. (I'm fortunate in that a late friend knew both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.)

[Easterncedar]

5. It's absurd that this is his weakest point

Cripes - felony, adultery, cruelty, stupidity, treason and a history of unprecedented levels of grift and graft and theft - but yes, it’s a weak spot and we need to position our picks right on that point and hammer it for all we’re worth.

Thanks, H2O Man. You are correct as ever!!

[H2O Man]

11. You know?

I think it adds additional evidence that as a sociopath, he rarely thinks ahead. He did immediately after Jack Smith was appointed, when he announced he was again running for president. But he knew that there was Q-anon beliefs within the core of his cult, but made the Epstein files a significant issue in his campaign. He must not have thought that the cult would demand that he release the files.

[erronis]

10. AMIRight that this feels a lot like when Nixon was starting to be exposed?

Long time ago (for me) and barely out of teenage-hood, but there seemed to be a frenetic effort to frame/reframe everything to divert attention. Perhaps there were a couple of CREEPS involved also. Perhaps Stone/ratfucker and of course Cohn.

For all the billion$ spent on consultants/lobbyists/etc. the RW apparatus hasn't really changed. It's sad that this time their messaging has put us in this dire straight.

[H2O Man]

12. I think so.

It seems to be unfolding in what may appear to be slow motion, but if we mix activism with patience, it will pick up speed. And we need to keep it going, because it will help us in the mid-terms. It also has the potential to get the maga representatives to not risk their own positions in DC for him. For almost every republican in office dislikes the felon, but fears his cult. As the layers of the cult peel away, the republicans will have to face the fact that the felon is a lame rat.

[spanone]

14. Good sense and well expressed!

K&R

[H2O Man]

15. Thank you!

We have a heck of a good opportunity right now. We should take advantage of this, for such an opportunity will never come our way again. Exactly what is in those file can only be speculated on ..... though it is informed speculation. Epstein, Andrew, and the felon were rather focused on models at the time, and it has been noted that at the time, most models were between 14 and 20 years of age. It is extremely important to recognize that target audience included those who wanted to be models. They were predators, hunting vulnerable girls.

[spanone]

16. Absolutely. The felons actions mirror his fear of exposure....press on one and all.

[calimary]

20. Thank you for this. H2O Man!

[H2O Man]

24. Thank you!

I appreciate that!

In upcoming weeks, I hope to speak at rallies in four local counties about these issues. I'm not much of a public speaker, in my opinion, but I have two presentations to give in the next two weeks. That'll get me ready for at some of these rallies.