Pizzas & Hot Dogs: The end of an innocent menu

Image credits: An unsettling painting by Serbian artist Biljana Đurđević from Tony Podesta's art collection, allegedly hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's living room.

Popular fast-food dishes have been commandeered and repurposed into symbolic language. The latest Epstein emails showcase that he alone held the combination to Pandora’s Box of the world’s elite, which, when released and deciphered, heralded the collapse of the moral value system the American Revolution was once based on. Pizzas and hot dogs, the preferred food of the youth, have been twisted as innocent children have themselves become the meal.


By Nadia Ahmad
The values of equality, liberty, and the government as a representative of the people, as decreed by the American founding fathers, have been disregarded by the moral corruption of our modern rulers.

The façade of accountability and the affectation of coldness
People discovering their leaders and rulers have engaged in depraved offences against children to the degree revealed in the Epstein files will lead to apathy, not revolution. Corruption at such a scale led to disillusionment.

How can the world’s population maintain their confidence in the judicial system and the accountability of their rulers when corruption is so widely prevalent? The resulting defeatist attitude and systemic mistrust have far-reaching sociocultural consequences for the masses. The illusion of democracy and a self-correcting system has detonated.

Preceding moral scandals involving the ruling class have been relatively contained. Exposing the entire global community to a single corruption scandal will generate widespread cynicism. Unless the world’s elite holds itself accountable, the next stage will likely be a new art form of absconding justice. The cyclical re-emergence of this scandal stems from the absence of a legitimate resolution, leaving it undigested in the collective human mind.

Epstein’s intercontinental impunity network was protected by ritualised silence, with wrongdoing categorised as “class-protected transgressions”. Democratisation and the constitutionalization of monarchies were intended to guarantee legal sanctions and accountability for moral corruption, regardless of socioeconomic background or political power.

Epstein exposed the failure of these processes. Money is no longer inherited intergenerationally over centuries; it is traded horizontally among families of first- and second-generation wealth. Power is not accountable to itself, and the American institutions intended to ensure a system of checks and balances have proven hollow.

Stretching the human tolerance for violence and carnage through the exposure of the human mind to extreme brutality has been successful. The mind stretches, and tolerance increases through exposure, and with the ease of dissemination through media, mass-producing and distributing graphic content has become routine.

Even ISIS was able to circulate its obscene videos to the global population in the early 2010s. While their content originally rattled the world, with time, their violence was metabolised, and our tolerance for violence stretched. Today, an ISIS video does not generate the same degree of horror among viewers.

There is no shared moral language left to process an ever-evolving scandal, which now includes accusations of murder, torture, and cannibalisation of children. The irreparable fracture between the people and their rulers will serve no agenda but to tame and subdue the world’s people.

Since this scandal began to appear in mainstream news, many have predicted a revolution. So far, there have been no organised protests calling for the arrests of those implicated in the Epstein files. Scandals of this magnitude do not mobilise the masses; they tame them psychologically.

Holy values versus procedural values.
The publicization of sexual deviance was once restricted to the hereditary nobility. The world’s most famous perverts have historically come from aristocratic and royal backgrounds, from the Marquis de Sade to Henry VIII. Despised Roman Emperors were often attacked for their sexual immorality, like Caligula and Commodus. 

Now, the new rich and recently powerful have found themselves following their blue-blooded predecessors down the boulevard of sexual deviance, led by tour guide Jeffrey.  

The mass shock the Epstein scandal generated was not because the elite class was engaging in debauchery. In the genetic memory of the middle and lower classes is their rulers engaging in questionable sexual behaviour. People are shocked that the promised system of Democracy does not punish its own guardians. The feudal system institutionalised itself, replacing the continuity of families with the continuity of institutions, which were ruled and reigned over by an untouchable political and financial class. 

The American Revolution was not founded on purity, but on the claim that power must justify itself publicly, an ideal from which the elite were not ontologically exempt. Legitimacy flows upwards from the consent of the governed, not imposed downwards based on status. Epstein exposes the rot in this failing system.

The moral collapse of the elite has made the rule of law sound hollow. The democratic notion that institutions self-correct now appears naïve, and asking citizens to “trust the process” is received as an insult. What is dying is not morality, but the belief in a self-correcting referee system, which democracy is designed to guarantee.

The Declaration of Independence cut ties with the monarchy. Instead of a sacred, divinely chosen monarch, you had a holy procedure, with the constitution turned into an altar. Legal procedures, alongside institutions, replaced bloodlines, in which a shadow priesthood was immune to the rule of law.

Even constitutional monarchs today exist above the law. This covenant between the ruler, the law, and the people exists because it is unspoken; once visible, the spell breaks. The Epstein list and emails made visible the unspoken immunity and impunity dynamic the world had unknowingly signed with the elite.

Exposing the world’s masses to crimes of such magnitude serves the objective of taming the human consciousness. Next comes not revolution, but chaos. Moral cynicism becomes intelligence, loyalty becomes transactional, and power becomes openly shameless. This late

Republic behaviour (one catalyst behind the fall of Rome) is one signifier of the decline of the American empire, which the administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to remedy by “Making America Great Again”.

Dante’s second circle
As Epstein had been operational since 1990, much of recent history must be revisited and accounted for in light of his potential involvement. The political implications of his covert relationships remain largely unexplored, as his operation has continued in parallel with major global events over the last few decades.

In 2016, child-sex trafficking accusations implicating Hillary Clinton and Tony Podesta were widely dismissed by the left-wing media as an absurd right-wing conspiracy theory. The same obscure references to “pizza and hot-dogs” which led to the theory also appeared in the latest batch of Epstein emails.

Why was Bill Gates discussing pandemic simulations with Epstein in 2017? Epstein, who was neither a government official nor a medical professional, had little to contribute regarding global epidemics. His primary connection was through Gates, a prominent vaccine advocate who was a frequent visitor to Little St. James and a close associate of Epstein.  

To Epstein and his associates, instability in Ukraine generated opportunities. In 2014, emails about the unstable situation in Ukraine that offer “opportunities” are confounding. Notably, many of Epstein’s victims were from Eastern Europe, and Ukraine has been referred to as a “paedophile heaven” in Western media as early as 2009.

Allegations suggesting thousands of girls were trafficked from Turkey to Epstein for a fee of 200 million USD. In light of Clinton’s emails on supporting ISIS during their revolution against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Epstein’s emails suggesting the Obama administration was feeding ISIS direct information on Palmyra, alongside the connections between ISIS and Türkiye, the political implications for the Middle East of the Clinton-Epstein association require investigation.

Tony Blair and George W. Bush, both also linked to Epstein, played their own part in destabilising Iraq. Epstein’s associates are directly related to events which led to the destabilisation of Syria, Iraq, and Libya.

The havoc wreaked by the Obama-Clinton regime was also the destabilisation of Libya. In emails released in 2016, a focus on destabilising Libya was noted. Since the destabilisation of Libya, the country has become a hotspot of slave markets and human trafficking, which were banned under the deposed Leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Wherever disaster strikes or nations are destabilised, children disappear.

In 2010, Laura Silsby and 9 others were arrested for attempting to smuggle children out of Haiti to the Dominican Republic (coincidentally, a Caribbean island, just like Little St. James). They were released following the Secretary of State Clinton's intervention. Concerns about the vulnerability of children and women in Haiti have been widely expressed, where the Clinton Foundation works extensively.

The end of the Age of Innocence
Covenantal systems demand permanent accountability, even of Kings. What we are seeing today is an attempt by the world’s elite to abscond from permanent consequence. While post-enlightenment liberalism assumed procedural accountability, consequences for the elite were still demanded and expected.

What Epstein revealed was the hollowness of procedural accountability, from the top. This is an essential signal to the stage the U.S. finds itself in today, America has lost its innocence. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, America lost its innocence; with Epstein, America loses its innocent regard of itself. While Empires throughout history have survived scandals, they do not survive the unresolved exposure of their priestly class to scandal.

The release of new information about the Epstein scandal is not increasing moral outrage; instead, it is reminding people that the crime was never investigated. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these”.

Children exist at a level of innocence which has been tainted by a predatory elite, who turned childhood into a field where they played out their despicable deviance. With no shared moral language left to process the scandal, Epstein remains in a political purgatory with the cyclical emergence of new evidence renewing his relevance.

Fast food such as pizza and hot dogs can be delicious, but they can also shock the digestive system. Is the American stomach able to process the obscene fast-food orders of Epstein, or the dark menu of Clinton and Podesta? Now, we are left to wonder not who is on the Epstein list, but who is not.

How will The DONALD act now, to save the Republic from itself? 

 

Nadia Ahmad

Nadia Ahmad is a Lebanese journalist, public policy researcher, and political analyst. She is focused on the Near and Middle East, analysing geopolitics through a political theology approach and the dynamics of Abrahamism.
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