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I Don’t Care About the Epstein Files or if Trump is in Them

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Section 1: Why I Don’t Care

I’ve never cared about the Epstein files, and I still don’t. If you want me to care, show me hard evidence of one of two things: either the girls involved were pre-pubescent, or they were genuinely coerced—not with weasel words like “groomed,” but with clear proof of enslavement. We know what real enslavement looks like—there are organizations worldwide with documented cases of girls being forced into sex, which is rape, plain and simple. There’s no such evidence in the Epstein case. The best anyone can muster is “groomed,” followed by testimony from girls who, let’s be real, were likely clamoring to get in on the deal. They were showered with attention, gifts, and plenty of compensation. Only later, after the whole thing collapsed and they saw the money trail, did they come forward claiming they were “coerced.”

Section 2: Addressing the Counterarguments

I know people say all sorts of things. Some claim there’s no evidence he didn’t rape prepubescent girls, and that his island visitors were complicit. Fine, then show me the evidence he did something criminal. Others bring up legal definitions, like how minors under a certain age can’t consent to sex. That’s a weak argument because it’s arbitrary. A 14-year-old can’t legally consent to sex, even if they’re post-pubescent, so it’s not pedophilia, but somehow it’s still wrong? Yet in the same countries, kids can consent to puberty blockers or irreversible surgeries. That’s inconsistent—shut up with that nonsense. You’re not making a real argument; you’re just throwing out arbitrary rules.

Then there’s the “disparity of power” claim. That’s also nonsense. What counters a man with means, power, and influence more than young female sexuality? That’s the balance of nature. A post-pubescent 14- or 15-year-old girl is offered something she wants—money, attention, luxury. She says yes because she wants it, not because she’s forced. Where in life isn’t there a disparity in power, money, or influence? Now, take that same girl, fast-forward five or ten years. She’s a hot 20-something, still not rich, chasing a wealthy 50-, 60-, or 70-year-old guy with fame and power. Suddenly, she’s a “gold digger” and he’s “pathetic.” The hypocrisy is glaring. People flip the script based on age or context without making clear distinctions.

People also claim Epstein’s operation was systemic—his private island, flying in powerful guys, all that. What they really mean is it was outside government control. That’s the core of their complaint. People were doing what they wanted, and as I keep saying, if there’s no pre-pubescent pedophilia and everyone involved was making voluntary choices for nice offers, I don’t see the problem. I’ll get into why I think this is later.

Section 3: A Personal Perspective

Here’s the first of two personal angles on this. A few years back, it came out that Jimmy Moore, a popular low-carb blogger and podcaster, was arrested in his state—where the age of consent might’ve differed from where he operated—for grooming a 13-year-old girl into sex. She turned 14 during their relationship. There’s no evidence or testimony in his prosecution that she was pre-pubescent or that anything was forced. Yes, there was “grooming,” which just means he made her an offer she willingly accepted. She was sexually mature, and that’s the key for me. I can’t see how that’s criminal.

Is it distasteful? Sure, it’s distasteful to me, and I’ll explain why in the next section. But I’m a man, so I try to think non-emotionally and not filter my views through what a woman might think. I was actually a real-life friend of Jimmy’s. I’d been a guest on his podcast, Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb, three or four times. Even after I publicly mocked his obese appearance while he was preaching health, we met up at a Paleo or low-carb conference in 2016. He was cool with it, saying, “Keep it real.” But when this scandal broke, everyone was screaming, “He’s a pedophile!” I stood up for him. I said, “No, he’s not a pedophile.” It’s not something I’d do or even want, but he’s not a pedophile. People were cheering that they “got him,” and in the end, he pleaded to some charges and got 20 years in jail.

Here’s the punchline: the girl was 13 years old, and I still don’t think he belongs in jail. The worst part for me isn’t the age or the act—it’s that he betrayed the trust of her parents, who were fans of his. He went behind their backs to pursue her. That’s the real sin in my book.

Section 4: Another Personal Angle

Here’s another personal take, and I think I’m somewhat of an expert because of my past. Back in my early 20s, when I was about 21 and in college, I hooked up with a girl born in the Philippines but raised in the U.S. since she was three. She had the Filipino look but was otherwise fully American. Something about her got in my head, and a couple of years later, I ended up living in Japan for five years. My job there sent me all over Southeast Asia, so I was surrounded by hundreds of Asian women—Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Thai, Chinese, even some Indonesian. As far as I know, I never got involved with anyone under about 20. They were my age or a few years younger, and that’s what I liked. One girlfriend in Japan was even older than me by a few years.

There’s a different sexual vibe with Asian women—I won’t get into the details, but it’s real. Still, it was never about really young girls. To me, they were just women, same as any. I’m not into virgins or that whole “first time” drama. I’d rather someone else deal with that. For example, when I lived on a beach in Hayama, Japan, I was riding my 1000cc motorcycle—Japanese were limited to 500cc, but as a foreigner in the military, I could ride whatever—and I stopped at a store where this cute girl was working a stand, offering food or juice. I chatted her up, and after her shift, she came to my place, just 100 meters away. We ended up in bed, and I found out she’d never had penetrative sex. We hung out for a couple of months—not exclusive, but regular—and kept it to oral because I don’t care for the drama of “first time” penetration. Never have, not once in my life.

So, I guess I don’t make a great pedophile, despite what people might think of me as a so-called “sexpat” in Thailand. My main gal here in Pattaya is 44 or 45, depending on whether you go by her real age or her paperwork—she grew up in rural Thailand, and her dad took a year to register her birth, so officially she’s 44. I also see a few women in their young 20s. They’re spunky, lively, experienced, and don’t have hang-ups about sex. I don’t get the obsession with very young girls, but as long as they’re post-pubescent and there’s no coercion or sex slavery, it’s not criminal. It’s natural. I’ll dive into that more in the next section.

Section 5: The Natural Argument

Here’s my real issue with all this: the inconsistency, ignorance, and failure to make distinctions. People ignore facts that completely debunk their outrage. Let’s set the backdrop. Whenever something like this happens—doesn’t matter who it is—you get these sting operations, like To Catch a Predator. They catch a guy who’s been online persuading a young girl to meet, they spring the trap, and everyone claps like trained seals, cheering, “They got a pedophile! She’s underage!” But here’s the thing: are you aware that in the U.S., there isn’t one age of consent? There are three, depending on the state. Some states set it at 16, others at 17, and others at 18.

I guarantee you, when they do these sting operations, most people don’t even know the age of consent in the state where it’s happening. Say a guy lives in a state where the age of consent is 18, but he’s chatting online with a 16-year-old girl from a state where it’s 16 or 17. He meets her in her state, thinking it’s fine, but because the sting is set up in a state where it’s 17 or 18, he’s suddenly a pedophile and a felon. If he’d stayed in her state where it’s 16, he’d be fine. It’s laughable, especially when it’s almost always devout Christian Americans—code for the biggest idiots ever—pushing this nonsense.

Let’s put it another way. Imagine you live in a state where the age of consent is 16 or 17, but your house borders a state where it’s 18. You bring a girl home, and your bed literally straddles the state line. You’d have to be careful which side of the bed she sleeps on, or which side you’re on during sex, to avoid being labeled a pedophile or a felon. It’s absurd. You ask why I’m so vocal about this? It’s because people are so damn stupid about it. And I still haven’t gotten to my ultimate punchline—that’s coming at the end.

Section 6: More on the Natural Argument

Modern Western civilization has drifted far from natural humanity, especially in its legal systems. Let’s talk about this in the context of what religious people, particularly in Western religions, believe. They say God created the Earth, humans, and all of humanity to operate according to His plan. Granting that, doesn’t that plan include the fact that humans reach sexual maturity—puberty—around ages 10 to 13? I’m not getting into debates about early puberty; let’s just say it’s typically in that range. If God created humans this way and told them to “go forth and multiply,” why does Western civilization, especially its religiously driven parts, punish young women who’ve passed puberty for doing just that?

It’s hypocritical to jail thousands of men for following what you claim is God’s plan. I don’t even believe in God, but I see it in a natural sense: humans are sexually mature at that age, and we’re hardwired to act on it. We’re designed to create babies. Is it supposed to be pleasurable, or some dreary duty? Everything in human civilization, especially Western religious culture, seems to contradict this natural drive. In my next section, I’ll explain why I think it’s all set up this way.

Section 7: Why Western Civilization Does This

Western civilization has long been obsessed with a counter-natural approach, refusing to embrace humanity’s natural drives. As an aside, living in Thailand, I can say without a doubt that Asia often seems to bow to Western views on this publicly, but behind the scenes, life flows much more naturally. I’ll save that for another post. My point is, in the West, this shift started long ago, even before women had the right to vote. It’s tied to the Christian strand of Western Abrahamic religions.

It was a clever move, really. Even before women’s suffrage, the West placed huge emphasis on giving women extra, often undeserved, privilege just for being women. Think of the Victorian era—all that talk about being a “proper gentleman” in the presence of a lady. But it got twisted. It went from “keep women happy” to filtering every damn thing through “what would a woman think?” That’s a trap. It’s an inch-to-a-mile problem. Women naturally crave safety and security, relying on men to provide it. Men, on the other hand, don’t obsess over safety—they see problems and fix them. That’s their nature.

Over the last century, though, something went wrong. Society stopped having men listen to women, evaluate their concerns, and fix real problems. Instead, men started preemptively filtering everything through a woman’s perspective before even opening their mouths. This flipped the natural order. Now, you’ve got a vicious cycle where society runs on “what would a woman think?” rather than a man’s instinct to identify problems and solve them. Women can think what they want, but men should be out there fixing shit, not second-guessing themselves based on female approval.

Section 8: Elon, Trump, and the Epstein Files

What sparked this whole post was the news from June 6, 2025, that Elon Musk posted on X about a feud with Donald Trump. Over the past few days, they’ve been going at it, and I suspect it’s partly staged—not scripted, but a gentleman’s agreement to go gloves-off for whatever reason. It’s just my gut feeling; we’ll see how it plays out. Things escalated when Musk posted on X, claiming the reason the Justice Department has been slow-walking the release of the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is in them. Here’s the post: Elon Musk’s X post.

Here’s what I really think: it’s planned. I believe Trump actually wants the files released, but if his name is in them, he wants that bombshell defused upfront. By having Musk throw it out there, it’s like the 2016 “grab them by the pussy” tape—people gasped, but Trump still got elected. This isn’t about impeachment or losing power; it’s about maintaining authority. Most people will just shrug and say, “Yeah, whatever.” That’s partly why I’m writing this post—to tell everyone to get over the Epstein files. Why is it such a big deal? It’s mostly men being men and women, especially young women, being women. Haven’t you read Lolita? Seen the movies? Don’t you get it?

Section 9: The Ultimate Punchline

To wrap this up and deliver my ultimate punchline, let’s cut to the chase. In my mind, this whole mess—Epstein, age-of-consent laws, all of it—stems from misogyny. But here’s the twist: the biggest misogynists on Earth are women. Ever heard of a catfight? It’s no secret. As women age and become less desirable in the sexual and support marketplace, they despise younger women who turn men’s heads. Even if a guy’s been married to you for 20 years and loves you to death, those young gals catch his eye every time. It’s natural. So, women hate them. Misogyny, as an idea, was created by women, for women, and it’s behind at least half—maybe three-quarters—of society’s problems. I could dive into solutions, but that’s for another post.

Now, the punchline. There’s a country out there, a first-world powerhouse, once the second-largest economy behind the U.S., now maybe third behind China, but still a major player: Japan. When I lived there in the late 1980s for five years, the age of consent was 13, set since 1907. I had no idea at the time—I was in my mid-20s, dating Japanese women my age or a bit younger. It wasn’t like you saw old guys parading around with teenage girls; it just wasn’t a thing. The low age of consent reflected a respect for what happens behind closed doors. If a girl was post-pubescent and wasn’t forced or raped, it was just… what humans do. No need to make a Super Bowl out of it. Note: Japan raised the age of consent to 16 in June 2023, but my point stands for the era I’m referencing.

The Japanese were a million times smarter than Americans on this, especially the religious, conservative, Republican types who create problems where none exist. They’d rather jerk off in public with their moralizing than keep things private and let people live. Circling back to Jimmy Moore, all you folks cheering that he’s rotting in jail for 20 years over something that would’ve been fine in Japan at the time—suck up your pathetic bullshit. You’re the kind of people who love seeing lives ruined over the rules your particular states make, rules that don’t even align with nature.

So Fuck Off.

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