In the wake the fallout from the unearthed recording of a young Reagan calling Africans “monkeys”, here is a hilarious SNL skit from 1986:
I suspect that the simple-mindedness of many a politician is an elaborate ruse. Yet I doubt Reagan was anything like Hartmann’s portrayal. I imagine there were several people around him who could silver-tongue, or even blackmail, him into rubber-stamping just about anything. The odds of blackmail are greatly increased when it is revealed that a recording of Reagan making racist remarks. Was the recording ever brought up to coerce the cooperation or support of Reagan? It’s an open, but important, question. How much does the threat of blackmail factor in to the actions of our Political Class? I suspect quite a bit. Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been a prime generator of blackmail material on powerful people. Eric Margolis, writing at Unz in his piece, The Honey Trap on E 71st, tells the story of receiving a lunch invitation from Epstein. He arrived at Epstein’s New York mansion only to be greeted by a butler who immediately asked, “would you like an intimate massage, sir, by a pretty young girl?” As an intelligence reporter, he smelled a rat and immediately declined. He probably imagined the room he was to receive the “massage”, with multiple hidden cameras and microphones.
The power behind the throne is the only power that matters. The power that stems from the ability to exercise complete control over those who hold power.
