The Rude Pundit: The MAGA Meltdown Over Jeffrey Epstein Is the Stupid Climax They Deserve: Bongino Agonistes

[babylonsister]

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The Rude Pundit
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7/13/2025
The MAGA Meltdown Over Jeffrey Epstein Is the Stupid Climax They Deserve: Bongino Agonistes

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So imagine how Bongino must have felt when the Department of Justice and the FBI, the government entity he is deputy director of, released a statement about its investigation into their files on Epstein and announced, "This systematic review revealed no incriminating 'client list.'" And I gotta tell ya: thinking about Bongino watching his entire world crumble in front of him, sledgehammered by people he thought were his allies, like Patel and our demigorgon of an Attorney General, Pam Bondi, that shit just makes me laugh. He had to deal with the fact that all these supposed friends who, like him, like Trump, like nausea personified, JD Vance, all who said that the list was real, who claimed they had seen the list, were either lying then or lying now. Bongino had already had the soul-wrecking moment of saying that Epstein killed himself, according to Patel's FBI. Now this. Fuck. I wish someone had recorded it because it would be my new porn.

Imagine it. Imagine when he understood like the rest of us that there are only 2 possibilities for saying there's no list: that there was never a list and he was played and played hard, like everyone in the MAGA movement has been, that he's a rube like the rest of them. Or that his beacon, his one true love, his idol, and his surrogate father Donald Trump is on the list, that Trump fucked kids, and so that list must be disappeared like so many migrants in South Sudan. And that Patel, of all the goddamn people, is good with this.

So he lost his shit. He reportedly blew up in meeting with Bondi and Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and is considering resigning. He didn't show up for work on Friday. Trump claims he still is working for the FBI, but no statement has come from him.

And now Bongino, in a job he isn't remotely qualified for, has to face this reality: He can leave and return to the conspiracy-mongering, with an audience of pissed off, betrayed, potentially ex-MAGA freaks (but still freaks), awaiting a new leader. Or he can stay and, oh, fuck, this is just (chef's kiss) perfect, become part of the loathed Deep State.

This meltdown is everything Bongino deserves.

[gab13by13]

1. Do not like the word "Stupid."

That implies they did a bad job of using Epstein to their advantage while covering up Krasnov's role in sex trafficking children.

What Epstein did should not be looked at "politically," Epstein was a monster and whoever aided him should be prosecuted.

They released the Hur, Durham, Weiss, files, release the Epstein files.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. But I do like the word "demigorgon". . . . . nt

[Ray Bruns]

5. Yes, but isn't the word "demogorgon"?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I quoted from the OP. "demi" means "half" or "half like"

"demo" means "of the populace". Democracy is government by the populace (usually through elected representatives).

I looked up "demogorgon" and it is a bogus fictional creation for a modern entertainment on Netflix. There is more to the depth and endurance of the English language than ephemeral modern coinages.

Look up "gorgon" to find that long-standing meaning. Pam Blondi and Kristi Gnome are wannabe gorgons in the worst kind of autocratic way.

[Metaphorical]

23. Sort of

Demogorgons were likely a mistranslation (or transcription error) of a Greek text about old gods (demiurges) in about the sixth century AD, with the word demo- coming from the same root as daimon (δαίμων , that took on a live of its own by the 1400s. There is likely no direct relationship to Gorgons (Γοργών . The quoted author probably should have just used the term gorgon for Biondi et al, as another name for Medusa.

[sop]

3. It's hard to believe the Epstein Files is the hill Bongino is willing to die on after overlooking so many Trump crimes.

There must be some really serious shit in these files, evidence that can't be explained away by Trump apologists, for all these MAGA rats to be jumping ship now.

[WinstonSmith4740]

19. My guess is they won't try to explain it away.

The MAGA crowd will simply accept it...remember "real men wear diapers" at his rallies? And the Evangelical Right will find a Bible verse to excuse it.

[Karasu]

26. It has to do with the entire convoluted Q mythology Republicans have built for themselves. If you know, you know.

If you don't, good.

[Montauk6]

4. What I amusingly do not get about these MAGAts...

THIS is the hill they die on? The line in the sand? The bridge too far? The straw that broke the camel's back????

After ALLLLL of the stories of his corruption, even being a convicted felon; bringing the country down with a pandemic that could have been better curbed; a coup attempt; and other assorted nonsense.

No, EPSTEIN ISLAND and they're all Howard Beale now! WTseriousF!!!???

And what's even more hilarious is that so many MAGA lawmakers are into lowering the age of consent, not to mention all the crazy pedo transgressions among the Fundie Jeezoid Machine--MORE SO THAN THAT STUPID PIZZA BS!!!

Malloy 3:16 sez, "Have I mentioned today how much I REALLY hate these people?"

[Ray Bruns]

6. I don't care on what hill it is as long as they die, metaphorically.

[Hornedfrog2000]

13. Or literally

Would suffice

[travelingthrulife]

17. I know. Maybe they are looking for exit ramps from the cult. This is all old news that they

didn't care about at all in the past except for Clinton bashing.

I suspect it is another distraction while they busily dismantle the government.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

32. I don't care if

they could bring him down for farting in church. Just get it done!

[3Hotdogs]

7. The second paragraph is so good,

I had to read it three times and then a quick trip to the bathroom to take care of a sudden urge.

[malaise]

9. Love me some Rudie

Rec. 😀

[Johnny2X2X]

10. I don't think people understand how invested MAGAs are in this case

And it has little to do with Trump. They were invested because they have spent years building this up into some legendary catch all for liberals. They've been talking about this report non stop since the election last Fall, finally the world was going to get a look at how many Democrats were pedophiles, and they were sure it was going to be thousands of prominent Dems. This was going to be the culmination of years and years of conspiracy theories being proven true. They are sure Trump turned Epstein in the minute he found out he was a creep. They are sure the Clintons, Chuck Schemer, Nancy, Joe Biden and all other prominent Dems are implicated dead to rights.

They really want it to come out, the fact it isn't going to be released means the reports just don't contain what they'd hoped. Now I have no hopes it will be a deal breaker for them, it won't be, they're too invested in the other awful things happening in this country. But it's just like withholding of a huge reward they've been anticipating for years.

[onlyadream]

11. This time the projection backfired

Trump was hoping Epstein talk would rile up his face not realizing they would be so riled up that they would insist on the list being made public. Trump never thought that the list, which contains himself, would ever come back to bite him. But this time it was too close and it’s coming back.

[Martin Eden]

22. Thanks, now I understand better. I made the mistake of thinking logically.

Given Trump’s long friendship with Epstein; his record of sexual assault; and his attraction to young girls (including his own daughter) -- also evidenced by walking into the dressing room at a teen beauty pageant -- it seems obvious that Trump would be a prominent client for sex with underaged females.

And for that reason he would NEVER release a full disclosure of Epstein's clientele for such escapades.

What I forgot is that such obvious logic does not apply to MAGA true believers, including prominent influencers like Bongino.

They're all a bunch of morons.

[Karasu]

27. THIS. You said it all perfectly...so I don't have to!

[progressoid]

36. I'm hoping it keeps them from voting ever again.

[Joinfortmill]

12. It is deliciously fitting that a Dead Epstein will be the one to take Trump down.

[BoRaGard]

39. "The Dead Epsteins" would be a fab magat Skank Metal band name

[txwhitedove]

14. Oh hell, the "list" just changed hands, all more fodder for Rump's leverage and bribe schemes.

[Prairie Gates]

15. There is no list and the whole thing was a Maguffin all along

Everything in the so-called file was already publicized at Maxwell's trial, and that's the whole story.

Of course, that makes Bongino and most of MAGA gullible fools.

There's no need for us to join them on their Fantasy (Epstein) Island.

[questionseverything]

28. No the entire file hasn't been made public

And

Anyone saying there’s nothing here to look at when the president of the United States has a dead ex best friend buddy and the dead ex best friend buddy’s girlfriend says I am ready to show it all….seems suspect

[Prairie Gates]

29. "seems suspect"

Deeply uncool claim, friend.

We all get to have our opinions without being personally attacked, no?

[questionseverything]

30. It's not a personal attack, it's a logical conclusion

[Prairie Gates]

31. Upsetting

[AntiFascist]

34. Simply ask Trump, what's the harm in releasing it to the public if there's nothing to be found?

Trump seems to know that there is something to be found but uses the excuse that it has been fabricated by Democrats.

[Martin Eden]

16. K&R for R.P.

He really nails it with this one!

[Under The Radar]

18. Would have never guessed...

….that the Epstein story would be what flipped MAGA from Trump. What would it take for Elon Musk to announce that Trump lost the 2020 election and ordered the mob to attack the capitol?

[WinstonSmith4740]

20. I'm hoping...

Elon releases evidence that he lost in 2024, too.

[panfluteman]

21. My Intuition Tells Me That Donald Trump's Name Could Be All Over Those Files...

The list of characters playing leading roles in the Epstein Files could very well be, in descending order of importance: Jeffrey Epstein, Elaine Maxwell - and then Donald Trump. In addition to intuitively speaking, you could also arrive at this conclusion via logical deduction:

1) Trump's DOJ and FBI have, as their primary objective, protecting and exonerating Donald Trump.
2) After a lot of fanfare that they were going to release the Epstein Files, all they could come up with was a suspicious probably edited video of Epstein's jail cell - and no Epstein Files.
3) If they didn't release the Epstein Files, what are they hiding to cover the @$$ of their Dear Leader?
4) If they aren't releasing the Epstein Files, even in a redacted version, Trump's name must be all over them!

Boy - this must come as a real rude awakening to those MAGA zealots, who were so convinced of the holy sanctity of their Dear Leader - Aw Shucks! I heartily agree with other posters here that it is indeed a very strange process that determines exactly which hill a cult will die on, but this could be it...

[Blue Owl]

24. K&R

[Karasu]

25. Said it myself yesterday. These fuckers really convinced themselves only Dems were on the list for the sake of their

ridiculous mythology. Now they're fucking trapped without an easy way of bullshitting themselves out.

That entire party of delusional conspiracy theorist dumbfucks is getting what it deserves.

[usonian]

33. There's probably a backstory to all this, involving Putin, Epstein, Trump, and recently, Musk.

And it's somehow unraveling, given whatever its truth is and the big lie about Dems trafficking and drinking blood.

I just want it to blow up



Shame to smear such a fine "Christian" father.



This?


Or this?


So hard to choose!

[live love laugh]

37. LOL @ the referee

[calimary]

40. Eeeeuuw! That trump photo.

I cannot avoid noticing where his eyes were focused. That’s YOUR DAUGHTER, you fucking SLIMEBALL!!!

[usonian]

41. He is a PERV

Scum like his buddy. There are some other famous photos and quotes.

Big difference is that Jeffrey was "well hung" in one sense. I dunno about the other.

CT's exist about spying and blackmail.

It's weird as hell that the magats care not about his perversion, compared to CT's about dems human trafficking and drinking blood.

But so are they.

And their false "god", the golden calf.

[Marcuse]

35. Bongino is going to "go through some things".

[BoRaGard]

38. Bongino turned out to be the ultimate G.O.P. Whimp Brown Noser

after having pretended to be a manly man...what a joke