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State of The Epstein Class’s Union
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
04 Mar 2026
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Epstein network
Getty Images; Medium; US House Oversight Committee Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN

Disabling flying fingers of 14 fact-checkers; blowing out 30 
bullshit detectors. One hour and 41 minutes of Tourettes with-
out regrets. Specious Olympics of Lying — stuck the landing —
flooding the zone with dreck.

Elephant excrement flooded Fox-boxes of viewers and listeners laid
back on La-Z-Boys, red cap electrodes attached to shaved heads, their
Tariff Sheriff telling them, “We’re the hottest country in the world!”
The roaring economy is roaring like never before. Golden Age of America.

Their Tariff Sheriff told them we the greatest. Biggest. Best-est. Most-est
in history. Told them the price of eggs in Erehwon, along with butter, fruit
and rents are way, way down. And gas is less than two dollars a gallon at
Shangri-La stations. And 401Ks are way, way, way up for lil folks of Oz.

His wild-eyed Cruel Reich Cult members wore holes in trousers and skirts
springing up like jack-in-the-boxes applauding long and loud and often.
Some fractured greasy thumbs and bloody hands clapping so hard, for so
long, over and over again.

Like rabid, frothing-mouthed lynch mob, they cheered Big Beautiful Bank Job
and dastardly deeds of DOGE: Department of Grifter Enrichment. Sidelining
survivors and protecting Epstein Class pedophiles flying Lolita Express 39,000 feet
above borders and accountability they orgiastically chanted, “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!”

And their Tariff Sheriff told them he’s ended 8 wars, including the Mexican War;
War with Spain; French and Indian War; War Of 1812. Told them he rebuilt and
rebranded the Wehrmacht “Peace through strength.” And doing it is costing a trillion
dollars — along with blitzkrieg-warp speed redaction of our rights and freedoms …


© 2026. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet, BAR's Poet-in-Residence, and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can vote for his work at GoFundMe and PayPal.

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