Either … or ….

Neither … nor …

😉

The whole “conspiracy theory” thing was originally started by the CIA to cover up some conspiracies and secret covert operations of theirs. Because they didn’t want prosecutors or Congress critters to look at the evidence, they counter claimed that the whistle blowers were talking about a “huge conspiracy” that could not exist, like Iran Contra weapons or Benghazi style “stand down” orders. They CANNOT EXIST, SO SHUT UP CRAZY BOY GIRLS.

Basically it worked with the help of the fake news media.

But why would conspiracy theories have to be true or false, for there to be a crime or evil sh going on? That’s the disinformation and red herring. It doesn’t matter if there is a conspiracy or not or whether the theory is right or not.

What matters is who the f is fking kids and selling sex slaves, right? Isn’t that what matters, not how big a “conspiracy” there is? You have to prove the crime first before you can attach that conspiracy charge. How you can be a conspirator to a crime that does not exist or hasn’t been proven?

Can you conspire with your neighbor to clean up the local dog sh?

Nothing to see here, peons, move on or the Friendly Park Rangers will smash your face in, veterans on public land.

All you need is the charge to stick under reasonable behavior. What people mean by “conspiracy theories are false” or unbelievable, is that there is nothing evil or sinful or criminal going on.

It’s just an accident the Titanic hit something or FDR=pearl Harbor, or Gulf of Tonkin, etc.

On the other hand, the actual procedures, formal or informal, had worked for forty years. What about Epstein required something more than that which had served so well? What would occur to the guards or to supervision?

I might feature somebody thinking that, since an assorted bunch of non-standard folks had passed through the facility for decades and only one had managed, what was Epstein going to do that was better than any and all of his predecessors? Somebody would profit by his death? Seen that before, check. Had great, insupportable remorse….well, maybe. Or maybe not, but check.Mentally ill–arent’ they all, check. Mobbed up? Check.

Maybe even sloppy, sleepy, and overworked, they were more than good enough. Really good, in fact. Only one suicide in forty years. Beat that.

I’m so bad with negatives and double-negatives. Then there’s the “nor” problem.

How many people have to screw up before that convenient Hanlon adverb “adequately” begins to become a problem?

Is there a limit?

There is too much about what we have been told that just doesn’t cohere. And on top of that, we *know* not only that the politicians lie to us, but that the bureaucrats lie to both the politicians and to us.

(*) i.e. the permanent government, the core of the swamp and of the Deep State

(**) whoever ends up being the fall guy, it’s almost always the case that the true blame lies at a higher level.

And yet sometimes they manage to screw up nevertheless, and leave themselves open to huge criticism when it’s the last thing they wanted.