If you want a metaphor, there's a bucket, uou can't unfill the bucket. Everyone wants to put water in the bucket. Tptb must fill it, sure they have slowed thr flow. They either stop and die or it overflows. Their control isn't particularly meaningful in the grand scheme.
I get your metaphors, I just disagree with them. In this case you can absolutely unfill the bucket, usually by letting off steam in someway to make people think something was done.
In this case, attacking Epstein hard enough makes them think they took down the big pedo ring, thereby lowering the water level in the bucket because now people feel like they've won and managed to get one over on those in power. When its entirely possible we are being allowed to bark up this tree because its keeping our attention off them elsewhere, and keeps that bucket lower.
If you want a metaphor, there's a bucket, uou can't unfill the bucket. Everyone wants to put water in the bucket. Tptb must fill it, sure they have slowed thr flow. They either stop and die or it overflows. Their control isn't particularly meaningful in the grand scheme.
I get your metaphors, I just disagree with them. In this case you can absolutely unfill the bucket, usually by letting off steam in someway to make people think something was done.
In this case, attacking Epstein hard enough makes them think they took down the big pedo ring, thereby lowering the water level in the bucket because now people feel like they've won and managed to get one over on those in power. When its entirely possible we are being allowed to bark up this tree because its keeping our attention off them elsewhere, and keeps that bucket lower.