Letters: Sept. 10, 2026

Success of the Epstein Class!
As we near two years of the Epstein Class controlling the three branches of our federal government, Executive, Legislative and Judicial, it is a good time to take stock of what they have achieved.
Our nation’s economy is booming for the Epstein Class. Tax cuts for the rich, relaxation of nearly all regulations on gambling, investments, banking, federal contracting, land use and basically any sort of transaction that can be used for the rich to accumulate more money are
working wonders for them. They are accumulating wealth at an astonishing pace.
Our government is more honest now that it has dropped any guise of avoiding scandal and corruption. Leaders in all branches openly take gratuities and bribes, self deal and then flaunt their wealth as it increases. Nothing is too large or small to steal. The world is their oyster, and it can and is being stolen by them with impunity.
The Epstein Class in government is successfully using the tried and true playbook developed by dictators over many centuries. Accuse any adversary of misdeeds you are already prodigiously performing yourself in order to accumulate and keep power. Use the levers of government to sue, prosecute and jail anyone who objects so as to ensure a stability the Epstein Class can enjoy.
Rule by the people, an outdated notion, has given way to executive fiat. Monuments are torn down and replaced as huge sums of tax money that were appropriated for other uses are spent without oversight. Places are renamed according to fiats issued at whim. Tariff taxes paid by the masses are levied, raised and lowered by fiat of the Executive Branch. Wars are waged, economic and military, without oversight too. Friendly nations and enemy nations are now treated alike, except some enemies get special positive treatment if it brings a profit for the Epstein Class. Our nation steals sovereignty and resources with impunity to enrich the Epstein Class. After all, what is good for big business and the rich who own the largest businesses, is good for the whole of the Epstein Class. The rising economic tide floats all yachts.
The Epstein class is bringing honesty to our elections too. Using the experimental 2020 electoral vote counting methods developed by election deniers that led to January 6, 2021, a memorable day in Washington, D.C. and the rest of our nation, the Epstein Class is instituting methods in this November’s election that will ensure they can remain in total control. Only the votes of the right voters will count and any unfavorable outcomes will be challenged. Force, similar to that used on January 6, will only be used where necessary and it will be more orderly since now there are enough newly minted federal agents to enforce executive fiats as needed. With new federal prisons in former warehouses around the country, there will be plenty of room to incarcerate any who disagree with election outcomes favored by the Epstein Class. Newly installed surveillance cameras nationwide will make it easy to track any who cause unrest.
The Epstein Class has created unlimited opportunity for itself in only two years of complete control of the U.S. government. Imagine the new levels of honesty, integrity and progress yet to come!
Jason Maloney
Washburn, Wisconsin
A midterm focused on someone
absent from the ballot
With Donald Trump increasingly positioning himself at the center of the upcoming midterm elections, voters are facing a critical choice that extends far beyond local representation.
By framing these congressional races as a referendum on his own legacy and future ambitions, the failed president has effectively placed himself on the ballot in every district across the country.This strategy changes the fundamental dynamic of the midterms.
Instead of focusing strictly on regional issues, economic policies or community needs, voters are being asked to relitigate national divisions. For his supporters, this is an opportunity to re-energize the movement and signal a desire for non-lame duck status for his final years in office. But since he never had a real agenda beyond foolish moves to distract from the Epstein files and his family’s rampant corruption.
For his critics, and they are many, it serves as an urgent reminder of the high stakes regarding the future of democratic norms and institutional stability.An election that should be about the performance of the current legislature is instead becoming a battleground over a singular figure.
Whether this personalization of the midterm ballot will mobilize his base or trigger a massive counter-rally from opponents remains to be seen. (Not really, but I thought I should say that – BLUE WAVE!).
What is clear, however, is that voters cannot treat this as a standard mid-term election cycle. The choices made this November will echo long into the future, shaping not just the composition of Congress, but the trajectory of American politics for years to come.
A. Reasoner
Two Harbors, Minnesota