THE KENNEDY CENTER AND WOKE RIGHT TRASH CULTURE

        When it comes to Media distractions, the late Jeffrey Epstein is the gift that keeps on giving. In the spirit of 2025's Reactionary Christmas Extravaganza, the former Bezos Lobbyist now heading the US Department of Justice released a pile of (heavily redacted and edited) dirty pictures and salacious gossip to keep the plebs amused during the Holiday Season. Trump actually has been suffering somewhat in the opinion polls for denying the American public the opportunity to experience vicariously what most of them subconsciously wish that they could be doing in spite of the self-righteous outrage that most of them express in public. 

       There was one Silver Lining in this dark cloud: the Justice Department made former talk-show blowhard Dan Bongino the scapegoat for all of this pent-up frustration and he is resigning. Not that Americans care: but it would be more of a meaningful investigation if somebody asked just how Epstein managed to commit suicide with materials that he was prohibited from having, in a jail cell precisely at the time the Panopticon broke down at the precise time his guards managed to take a nap; and why everybody connected with this incident skated free and what's happened to them since. 

      While we're on the subject of issues that American 'Conservatives' seem to be ignoring: another minor controversy has broken out over re-naming the Kennedy Performing Arts Center, which Trump has named after himself. If we recall the 2024 GOP Campaign, there was a lot of criticism about the Democrats 'rewriting history' and 'erasing our culture;' which, by the way was true; however the Reactionaries have outdone both the Democrats and organizations like Black Lives Matter in doing the same things. This year alone, the Gulf of Mexico and the Pentagon have been renamed and new holidays have been proclaimed, along with removal of monuments everywhere else. On the recommendation of the former Kennedy Chairman, WEF Trustee David Rubinstein, Trump assumed the position himself. Trump then terminated the contract of the current Kennedy Center President and replaced her with a DEI hire of his own: our old friend Ric Grenell. 

         Grenell was also appointed by the White House as John Kerry's replacement as US Special Envoy who, among his other achievements, was instrumental in releasing Andrew Tate from a Romanian jail. Like the aforementioned Rubenstien and his immediate boss, Marco Rubio, Grenell has extensive ties to the Bush Machine. During Trump's first term, he was appointed Ambassador to Germany. The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, wrote that among "interviews with 30 American and German diplomats, cabinet members, lawmakers, high-ranking officials, lobbyists and think tank experts, almost all of these sources paint an unflattering portrait of the ambassador... A majority of them describe Grenell as a vain, narcissistic person who dishes out aggressively, but can barely handle criticism." During the Biden/Harris years, Grenell was active among the Log Cabin Republicans, and hosted homo 'weddings' and fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago. He infamously claimed that Trump was "the most LGBTQ-friendly President in history," and vowed that his 2024 goal was to get "50% of the gay vote for Trump." 

      Grenell was not only criticized in Europe for his arrogance and perversions, but he openly admitted to undermining European democracies in favor of Far Right extremists, like Germany's AFD Party: which not coincidentally is headed by a Lesbian. He also aggressively fought construction of the Nordstream Pipeline.

      Reaction to Grenell's appointment to the Kennedy Center has been met with silence from American 'Christian Conservatives.' My intuition tells me though, that if Biden had appointed himself Chairman of the Center, renamed it after himself, and appointed someone like, say, Pete Buttigieg as Chairman the so-called Religious Right wouldn't have been quiet about that; nor should they have been. 

     So why does this Administration get a Free Pass? In the hypothetical situation just adduced, I don't believe that Biden would have dared do something this egregious because of the probable backlash, if nothing else. Yet, the Bush 3.0 Trump 2.0 Administration has demonstrated over and over again that it can abuse our Culture with complete impunity. Maybe American Conservatives should reflect upon that, instead of eagerly sifting through the Epstein Files to find names of their enemies involved in sexual escapades.