Just as it has diverted attention away from what is colloquially styled the Epstein Files, the contents of which are probably why we're at war (at the behest of Israel, which was probably running the honeypot operation using Epstein as its willing front man).

The case of the Dirty Old Turtle is remarkable in its own right because it is unprecedented – at least in the modern era. In another era, the public was kept in the dark about President Woodrow Wilson – who'd been incapacitated by a stroke. His wife became de facto the president, signing laws by guiding her crippled husband's essentially lifeless hand, which held the pen. The mind had no capacity to understand what the hand was signing. As now, while this was happening, it was known to everyone in the immediate circle of the president because such as thing cannot be hidden from close advisors and associates for more than a few days at most. It was, on the other hand, easy to hide it from the public because – a century ago – there was no 24/7 news coverage and what news there was could be very effectively controlled (and was). Another example of this being the fact that few Americans had any idea that President Franklin Roosevelt was a wheelchair-bound cripple. Photos of him standing were shown and so most people believed he could stand – and walk, even.

It is harder to pull off such shenanigans today, even though the "news" is even more controlled now than it was back then. The difference is the public has other means to suss out what's going on. As for example the identities of the people who have to know whether the Dirty Old Turtle is alive. Or alive but brain dead. They are his staffers.

They may also be criminals. It being a crime to conceal a death. It being fraud to be complicit in the telling of consequential lies pertaining to the public's business. These people – Terry Camarck, the Dirty Old Turtle's Chief of Staff and Robert Steurer, the Dirty Old Turtle's Communications Director, and Melissa Bennett, the Dirty Old Turtle's Director of Operations, as well as Senior Advisors David Popp and Dylan Vorbach – know the truth but are deliberately suppressing it, by omission at the very least.

These are people on the taxpayers' dime. Does anyone remember that silly line about the government working for us? Here – as if anyone needed more – is evidence of the degrading preposterousness of that line. Imagine you disappeared and had not been in to the office for a month and your co-workers (who knew you were dead or brain dead) told the boss you merely recovering from a "minor" fall and a bout of pneumonia but were fine, fine fine and not to worry. Do you think the boss would buy it? Do you think – when the boss found out your co-workers had been lying about it – that those co-workers would not be fired?