You know, if one person, just one person, does it, they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him.

And if two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them.

And if three people do it! Can you imagine three people walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of “Alice’s Restaurant” and walkin’ out? They may think it’s an organization!

~Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant

At the height of the Vietnam conflict, music was a catalyst for the anti-war movement, including Guthrie’s shaggy dog tale of his effort to avoid the draft. Makes one wonder if he should have paid more attention to Ringo Starr on the Beatles’ White Album.  Are “blisters on my fingers” equivalent to “bone spurs?”  [Historical Footnote:  Many people believe John Lennon or George Harrison contributed this ad lib at the end of the “Helter Skelter” track.  Starr later acknowledged his exaggerated drumming during this particular recording resulted in the digital malady.]

The above excerpt from Guthrie’s 1967 performance came to mind as I read reports on the FBI raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s New York residence.  According to the Washington Examiner, “A detention memo filed by the prosecution further alleges ‘an extraordinary volume of photographs of nude and partially-nude young women or girls’ were seized in the raid on Epstein’s New York City home.” Of particular import was recovery of compact discs from a safe, one of which was labelled “Young [name redacted] + [name redacted].”  In other words, there are photos of at least one of the victims with someone other than Epstein.  You have to ask, “Why would a convicted sexual predator keep evidence of his guilt, especially if it included people who had also taken advantage of these girls?”  This question is easier to answer than, “Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?”

Something about the press reports seemed much too familiar.  Didn’t Donald Trump’s friend David Pecker, CEO of the National Enquirer parent company America Media, Inc., have a safe filled with files associated with “catch and kill” stories about Trump detractors and challengers?  And then there was Michael Cohen, who admits he kept hundreds of taped conversations under lock and key.  Anyone want to guess why he did that?  And finally, there is Russian President Vladimir Putin. If only Geraldo Rivera would put the same investigative effort into discovering what’s in that collection housed somewhere in the bowels of the Kremlin as he did with Al Capone’s Chicago vault.

I try not to promote conspiracy theories.  But it is fair to ask questions when circumstances warrant such inquiries.  For example, how many now known sexual deviants played some role in Trump’s capturing of the Republican nomination and eventual occupancy of the Oval Office?  Take NBC Today Show host, Matt Lauer, please.  During the campaign, Lauer emceed a “presidential forum on foreign policy” with the two major party candidates.  It was a Trump love-fest (Lauer did not interrupt or fact check any of Trump’s false statements) and a Clinton hit-job with the majority of his time with her devoted to the email server despite her efforts to share thoughts on the U.S role in the world.

As Bill Maher often says, “I don’t know it for a fact; I just know it’s true.” What are the odds Matt Lauer’s phone number is in one of Jeffrey Espstein’s black books or there is a a file labeled “ML” in David Pecker’s safe. And you have to ask, “Which of these ‘safe-keepers’–Epstein, Pecker, Cohen, Putin or ones yet to be identified–have something on Jerry Falwell, Jr?  Lindsay Graham?  Or even William Barr?”

So, let me posit the Dr. ESP corollary to the Arlo Guthrie theory of how movements evolve.

When one person does it, it’s an anomaly.

When two people do it, it’s a coincidence.

And if three people do it.  Can you imagine three people doing the same nefarious thing for the same reason, it’s  a conspiracy.  And folks, that’s what it was.  The friends of Donald Trump entire massacre conspiracy!

Instead of worrying about Democrats energizing the “black vote” in 2020, the media should be more focused on the “blackmail generated vote.”

For what it’s worth.
Dr. ESP