Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Trump fails on Epstein, Ukraine, JFK... and America First

We should never underestimate our own potential for naivety.

The axiom ‘Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me’ finds salience often for the young and naïve in the form of the jilted lover. But it is for the mature and naïve that these words ultimately ring true – moreover, the jilted voter.

Before I continue, a brief but heartfelt apology to readers for my long absence. While my blog has remained free too all, thus absolving me of stringent obligation, I have always nevertheless felt indebted to my readers for their support and impelled to deliver regular material. I have not written anything in nine months, and for this I apologise. We needn’t dwell on the reasons, suffice to say I hit a wall and burned out. I can’t promise my output will immediately pick up where it left off but I am back and will endeavour to ramp up the frequency in the coming months.

In many ways though, I am glad for this hiatus. It has given me time to take stock of my preconceptions, clear away the deadwood, and recalibrate not only my assessment of world affairs as outlined in my work to-date, but also my expectations for the future. When one is at the coal face, he can remain oblivious to the methane seeping in, or more colloquially – he can’t see the forest for the trees.

It is now incumbent on me to repudiate a previous essay Wilson took his shot… but missed! written in the frenetic afterglow of what I now believe could possibly have been a false flag.

Am I finally embracing the ultimate conspiracy theory, that all this time since 2015 and long before, Donald Trump was part of the psyop – a cultivated and curated political sop for an increasingly angry voting base, installed via a series of multi-layered intelligence operations to act as a gatekeeper for the steadily accelerating New World Order?

I think it’s unlikely. But at this point, given everything we’ve seen in the past six months, it’s not impossible.

What has gone wrong?

By my reckoning, the MAGA camp can be broadly delineated along two strands. There are those who have lost faith in The System, see most existing power structures as corrupt, and whose driving motivation is to see the elite ruling cartels of banking, Big Pharma, armaments and the like exposed and held to account. As a white Millennial male, I am in good company as we constitute a hefty chunk of this cohort. Trump’s original 2016 base is largely comprised of this faction.

Then there are the centrist types – notably middle-class Gen Xers and Boomers who may previously have found Trump distasteful, possibly voting for him in 2016 while holding their noses, but more likely, only coming on board in the last two cycles, having groggily emerged from their Trump Derangement Syndrome as they witnessed the utter clown show of the Biden years.

Along the fissure that once only nominally divided Trump’s base, there now simmers an ideological rift that threatens to split the movement and herald a return to business as usual for the Republican Party or even a Democrat victory in 2028. And it is the folk in the second camp who are now saying, “Forget about Epstein and Kennedy. Learn to sing when you’re winning. We need to take our wins where we find them. Just look at all the progress we’re making on illegal immigration! And by the way – I stand with Israel and Ukraine.”

And well might we take the win and stop grumbling because, after all – it’s better than Biden isn’t it? Indeed, well might we learn to see the glass as half full… if it were not for one thing:

Glass-half-full politics is exactly what got us here in the first place and, moreover, this is not what we voted for. I use the word ‘we’ here liberally as of course I could not vote in the US election, but I have voted in other ways, specifically the abovementioned essay in which I unreservedly endorsed then candidate Donald Trump.

This is not to dismiss the democratic legitimacy of those Trump supporters who are happy to leave the past behind vis-à-vis Epstein and JFK, and who believe it is the USA’s sacred duty to defend Ukraine, defeat Putin, and above all safeguard the interests of the state of Israel. Certainly not – after all, there’s no law against being stupid.

I jest! And do not wish to offend readers who feel this way. What I really mean is, I believe this position to be misguided, and I hope that eventually – perhaps after another twenty years of war and unaccountable criminality of big business and intelligence agency elites – they might come around to our way of thinking, that the world is not as it is presented to us and the true evil is not the boogiemen of foreign dictatorships, not the perennial menace of Islam, not even the millions of Third World grifters crossing our boarders – but the high placed functionaries and moguls of our own societies.

At this, many in the glass-half-full camp, who prefer to cap their concerns at issues they can see on TV (such as illegal immigration and men in women’s sports) may still feel the words ‘conspiracy theory’ trembling on their lips. But I ask:

Is it a conspiracy theory that Jeffrey Epstein presided over a global child trafficking ring which involved many dozens if not hundreds of high profile politicians, businessmen and celebrities? No, this has been established as fact beyond any reasonable doubt.

Is it a conspiracy theory that John F. Kennedy was not killed by a single shooter and his murder involved senior government, intelligence and military officials and likely monied interests from the defence industry? No, and while perhaps not yet accepted as canon, it is widely agreed, at the very least, that the official story is a complete falsehood.

How then, if the very people and institutions that are held up as our best and brightest, as the flagships of ‘our democracy’, are perpetually enabled to avoid accountability for gross criminality, can we ever expect things to improve for the common man?

I will go on to ask:

Is it a conspiracy theory that the war in Ukraine was engineered by US deep state actors loyal to the Liberal World Order and sponsored by the Obama and Biden administrations? No. This is undeniable to anyone inclined to switch off cable news and actually research the subject.

Is it a conspiracy theory that the United States underwrites Israel’s position in the Middle East and that US foreign policy never runs counter to the interests of Tel Aviv? No. This is a fact.

How then, if the governments to whom we outsource our sovereignty, legitimised only by our good faith, are enabled to carry on endless military adventurism through various foreign proxies to the vast profit of their biggest corporate donors, can we ever keep a straight face and say “My government acts in my best interests”?

Trump may have swayed the strangely hawkish centrist block with its credulous faith in The System, its fundamental respect for authority, and its adherence to the received wisdom of experts, but in doing so he appears to have swerved into their lane and adopted their tepid and incoherent version of nationalism, and thus risks losing his core base, the people who made him who he is today, and without whom his movement will implode.

It is these many millions, both in the US and around the world who, with me, supported Donald Trump because we thought he meant what he said about ending the war in Ukraine, and releasing the full story on Epstein and JKF.

We really thought he cared about the truth, about ending the corruption, criminality and degradation of working and middle-class living standards through trillion dollar handouts to the finance and defence industries in furtherance of endless Vietnams, Afghanistans and Iraqs. We believed that he was not afraid of Wall Street and the CIA.

We believed that, just maybe, he had the balls to stick it to the man and change things by exposing the rot at the centre.

But what did we get instead?

A great big nothingburger is what we got. The familiar old fusillade of gaslighting and prevarication.

A reality TV clown show with the cokehead reality TV sock puppet president of Ukraine in the Oval Office on 28 February, and then a mind-numbing continuation of the status quo.

A theatrical dump of 80,000 pages from the JFK files on 18 March which revealed absolutely nothing while crates of documents remain sealed.

And then a similar obfuscation on the Epstein case made even worse by the premature reassurances of the Attorney General and the Director of the FBI, then underscored with these two attempts by the president himself at damage control – possibly the lamest moments of his entire political career and which landed with all the grace and subtlety of a fart in an elevator.

“…Jeffery Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about”…

If ever there was a tone-deaf, piss-poor take by a sitting president, then this is it. I beg to differ Mr President. We care. Remember us? The millions who supported you before it was cool to do so, because we thought you were different.

One of Trump’s most endearing attributes pre 2025 was that he spoke to his base like fellow humans rather than subjects. Now he’s engaging in the worst kind of political gaslighting, just today calling the Epstein files a “hoax”. Here he lays bare the arrogant, elitism that his detractors on ‘the left’ have for the past decade ascribed to him. Trump’s contempt for us as he insults our intelligence in this clumsy and bloviating manner is unacceptable. We are not stupid. We know it’s not a hoax and we want the files released.

Not because it’s salacious and sensational, and not so we can say ‘I told you so’ to our credulous friends and sneering adversaries. We want it all released because the truth matters.

Some have argued, evidently in a desperate attempt to justify Trump’s lack of action and thus absolve themselves from the responsibility of critical thinking, that to release the Epstein files would tank the economy due to the sheer number of highly influential people on ‘the list’. The flawed logic here is astounding. If this were true then it would literally mean that the world is run by paedophiles. And yet this rationalisation favours perpetuating such a grotesque state of affairs to avoid what would certainly only be a temporary economic disaster at worst. To my mind, the more CEOs, senators and socialites implicated in this miasma, the greater the impetus to reveal all.

Other apologists cite Trump’s tremendous progress on illegal immigration and his much publicised ICE raids. While this is certainly a bold step in the right direction, how many has he sent back in this term? 100,000? At this rate he’ll have deported half a million by the time he leaves office – from a pool for perhaps 30 million… you’ll forgive me if I don’t break out the champagne just yet.

And what happens when he’s gone? Are we just supposed to hope that a Trump protégé will follow in his footsteps and that the Democrats don’t get in and simply turn the tap back on? And what about the UK and Europe and the rest of the Western world?

The mass migration problem is bigger than America, because the players behind it are global in their scope. They care not about transitory populist movements and presidents with limited terms because their movement is perpetual and their agenda is universal. They do not recognise national borders, indeed they want them gone. They operate above the law and above governments in cooperation with the biggest corporations and NGOs on the planet and the spooks of the intelligence agencies who have all the right dirt on all the right people to ensure that the globalist program endures. Looking in at America from the outside right now, I get the impression that many Trump fans are so thrilled to finally see some action at the border, that they’ve entirely forgotten it is merely a symptom of the disease – a treatable symptom, but one that will return in perpetuity if the root cause is not addressed.

Who is pulling the strings?

What can we infer about Epstein, apart from the obvious? His alleged association with Robert Maxwell, a known Mossad asset, through his daughter Ghislaine is a red flag to anyone but the most credulous of official narrative believers. We also know that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino implicated Epstein in intelligence work with Mossad which appears to have involved an extensive high profile international blackmail ring, and who stated “(A trusted source) told me that Epstein is an intelligence asset for people in the Middle East… Epstein worked for multiple governments, including the Israelis”.

And most tellingly, we know that Epstein ‘killed himself’ under the most unlikely and suspicious set of circumstances in the long and storied history of suspicious suicides – a remarkable parallel with Robert Maxwell’s demise 28 years earlier.

While we cannot conclude anything concrete from all this, it does strongly suggest that Epstein’s racket was not just a means by which he and his associates could diddle underage girls; not even a means by which Epstein himself could blackmail politicians and businessmen for his own gain – but a means by which the Israeli government could blackmail politicians and businessmen.

But of course that remains a conspiracy theory because there’s no real evidence.

Which is exactly why we want the files released.

Who is pulling Trump’s strings? Because the man who once appeared to have no fear is beginning to look remarkably like every other politician before him. Furtive, mealy-mouthed, and ineffective.

Why hold back the JFK files? Is he scared of the CIA?

Why flub his hallmark campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine? Is he scared of the Military Industrial Complex (in a way that JFK was not, and which ultimately led to his death)?

And why sit on the Epstein files and gaslight his voter base after allowing Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to grandstand on the issue for months?

Ghislaine Maxwell cools her heels in federal prison for trafficking hundreds of underage girls… to no one. Hundreds of victims, and no perpetrators… Is the Donald himself somehow implicated in the files? Some would have it so, but I think it’s more likely that he’s been asked (or told) by someone in the ‘Middle East’ to kill the whole thing.

It is not wild-eyed conspiracy to suggest the CIA killed John F. Kennedy and may be threatening to do the same to Donald Trump or his family; just like it is not Putin-love to suggest Trump may now for some reason be more interested in Lockheed Martin’s bottom line than he is about achieving a peace deal; just like it is not anti-Semitic to suggest that Israeli intelligence could be wielding the might of US foreign policy through a decades-old kompromat scheme.

And if indeed Trump has either wittingly or unwittingly lent himself to such deeply cynical paradigms, then not only has he failed to deliver on his campaign promises, he has failed on his entire platform: America First.

For what is America, in essence, if not that beacon on the hill? The idea that the individual, no matter how low and menial, is created in God’s image and thus sacred, and therefore no earthly authority can hold ultimate domain over him.

In this sense, ‘America’ is the little man – the striving individual, family, or community… America is, or was meant to be, an example to the rest of the world that truth and decency matter above all things.

Donald Trump can deport all the illegals he wants, but they remain only one symptom of the greater illness – and treating symptoms will not cure the disease. Like banning knives to tackle knife crime, or increasing welfare spending to address poverty – the root causes will find their way to the surface again, like grass growing through concrete, and if Trump turns a blind eye to the true perpetrators of evil then America First dies, and with it so fades that beacon on the hill.

This is why we want to see the files. Not because it will magically fix everything, but because it sets a precedent – that evil will not be permitted to abide, that the names of the evildoers will not be kept in the shadows. The release of the ‘list’, more than any tangible effect it may have, is emblematic of the will of an awakening people who refuse to be played for fools – who won’t get fooled again.

The road will remain long and a better world may yet elude us, but the journey must start with naming those who have remained anonymous. Those who commit evil with impunity, shielded by the blanket of legitimacy granted them by the body politic.

I have not ruled out a redemption arc for our boy Donald – after all, I’m a romantic at heart, but once again, I shall keep the champagne in the fridge for now. And while my long hiatus has returned to you a sceptical and deeply disillusioned man, I remain steadfast on one key point, reiterated earlier in this piece:

We are constantly told which way to look for danger – Russia, Iran, Islam, immigration… and perhaps there’s some truth in all this, but our true enemies are much closer to home.

And their names?

Well, I don’t know for sure. But I’d bet good money that many of their names are on that list.

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

A change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again, no, no

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half-alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie

Do you?

Yeah

There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are effaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again, no, no

Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss