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What a day.
Glad Drago and Tina are still here.
Enjoy AA conversations with Grok. If not, I skip it.
Believe Epstein was not afraid of death but was depressed about losing everything and spending boring life in prison.
Epstein created a will and trust 2 days before suicide. Don't ask me for a link, I already posted it twice.
Bill Gates and other visitors had sex with adult prostitutes, not 14 year old children.
Althouse photos are way better than her mouse sketches.
Eggs are $3.10 at Costco, no limit. $8.50 during Biden, 2 dozen limit.
Pam Bondi, at Trump's demand, is trying to get grand jury testimony in the Epstein case released.
This allows Trump to claim that he wants to release this stuff, knowing full well that grand jury testimony in the United States is sacrosanct.
No court is going to allow that testimony to be released to the public because that would destroy the grand jury system.
Bondi presented a deliberately weak argument to the court, which will allow the court to slap it down.
Bondi and Trump can then (in a day or two after getting slapped down in court) blame the court for hiding all the Epstein files.
It's a cynical, corrupt move that is going to work magically.
Eggs at my Wal-Mart are $2.72/doz for Large Grade A.
So except for all the ephebophilia going on all across the Administration, Trump's doing a phine job.
"So except for all the ephebophilia going on all across the Administration, Trump's doing a phine job."
The border is closed; illegals are starting home.
The military recruiting problem is fixed.
NATO members are pledging to meet their obligations (and more).
Iran's nuclear program is buried under a mountain.
DEI is in retreat.
University radicalism is on the defense.
The economy is strong and profligate government spending is under attack.
Leftist NGOs are being defunded.
And the price of eggs has returned to normal.
Trump is doing a great job.
Number 3 is my favorite.
Discovered an old boyfriend of mine online. The TDS is strong with him. I dodged a bullet there. There were a few other things that rang alarm bells, but TDS was very prominent.
What a day.
Yep. Despite all the other things going on, the day I've longed for since ... well, forever, is finally here.
PBS and NPR have lost their federal funding.
Remember all those Republican promises? Decade after decade they promised and didn't do jack.
And now? NPR and PBS will have to compete just like everybody else.
Big kudos to Speaker Johnson. I wasn't sold on him, but he's done yeoman's work the last couple weeks.
@Unoriginal Mike
According to internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data obtained by NBC News, approximately 18,000 immigrants were deported from the United States in June 2025.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated net immigration (immigrants entering minus those leaving) for June 2025, at approximately 108,000, with a significant portion attributed to "other foreign nationals" (OFN), including those entering illegally or overstaying visas. This is all during the Trump Administration.
The border is NOT closed.
NATO members "pledge" shit all the time. I pledge to donate to NPR every year to get the tote bag. I never actually send them the money and neither does NATO.
NBC is reporting that Trump only destroyed 2/3ds of Iran's stockpile of Uranium, according to Israeli spies onsite.
DEI might be in retreat, but that's only because they rename it. They kept all the money they were spending on it.
I could go on, but it's tiring. You definitely have the Trump spin down, though, I'll give you that.
“So except for all the ephebophilia going on all across the Administration, Trump's doing a phine job.”
“Trump is doing a great job.”
Phabulous even!
“You definitely have the Trump spin down, though, I'll give you that.”
OM is a huge phan of Trump.
"I pledge to donate to NPR every year to get the tote bag. I never actually send them the money"
Why am I not surprised?
There is much, much still to do. We're in the 1st inning. The future is unknown, but man, compared to where we were headed, I'll take this.
I see Trump has already filed his lawsuit against Murdoch https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-murdoch-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-docket-mystery-2025-7
Damages sought: $10 billion
$10 billion
I'm guessing the WSJ will settle for less than that figure.
Once word gets out that one of the reporters of this story works for Fusion/GPS and Hillary Clinton, I think the landscape changes dramatically.
It's clearly a Deep State op on Trump for destroying the Democrats USAID money-laundering operation.
The PBS station's website now has a donation- button banner reading "Defunded but not defeated." Apparently the elected government of the United States stopping payments to the CPB counts as an act of aggression or even an act of war. They dream, perhaps, that in time they will defeat the elected government of the United States, parade it's legislators in chains, and force it to pay tribute in perpetuity.
FLC: "No court is going to allow that testimony to be released to the public because that would destroy the grand jury system."
Yeah, no. GJ secrecy is important, but it's important because it allows the government to build a case in secret at its own pace. The very same evidence given to the GJ is going to be used at trial, or at a minimum shown to the defendant to compel a plea.
Most of the people who get on the stand in the GJ room are professionals - cops, forensic people, record custodians from banks, telcos, etc - who fully expect to have to testify at trial. The total civilian witnesses and victims have been pleaded with and mollified to get some reasonable probability that they will repeat their GJ testimony at trial. Cooperating coconspirators not only expect to testify at trial but expect their cooperation to be made known in open court at sentencing.
So releasing transcripts from a GJ that concluded years ago, in a case where the target died?
The system will easily survive.
And if the GJ testimony helps reveal some defect in how Epstein was handled?
The system may even improve.
RR
JSM
I pledge to donate to NPR every year to get the tote bag
…vintage stores may be trying to contact you soon..
We will see shortly, Mr. Mosby, which one of us was correct. Would you like to wager on the outcome?
"I pledge to donate to NPR every year to get the tote bag"
I have so many free NPR tote bags that I think I'm a net consumer of your tax dollars instead of a net payer of them. It's quite funny, actually. If you pledge ... they give you the tote bag, but you don't actually have to give them any money. Which I think is an indictment of our entire government.
I give the tote bags out as Christmas gifts to people I don't like.
The PBS station's website now has a donation- button banner reading "Defunded but not defeated."
I've been told repeatedly that only a small fraction of their funding came from the government. Seems to be an awful lot of drama coming from them over losing that small fraction.
"Which I think is an indictment of our entire government."
Maybe, but it also reflects poorly upon you.
The defensive punches being thrown aren’t really landing, like their shriveled leftie hearts aren’t up for it…
I've garnered some nice music CD pledge giveaway items from our local NPR affiliate, which now broadcasts way too much that is not music. (We have accumulated our share of mugs, tote bags, and umbrellas of course.)
If this makes them go back to playing mostly music, I'll be happy.
Maybe, but it also reflects poorly upon you.
Wait till you hear how I've screwed the March of Dimes (lifts champagne glass).
I don’t live in Yew Nork, but I’m getting sick to death of seeing that closed eyed Stimpy smile on that Mamdani character. That’s all you see when he’s not running his mouth spewing his moronic policy prescriptions.
Jerry Lewis is still after me, too.
I've been told repeatedly that only a small fraction of their funding came from the government. Seems to be an awful lot of drama coming from them over losing that small fraction.
Ooooh, I was wondering when somebody else would notice this.
I interrogated Grok for 18 questions about this dichotomy and watched it regurgitate every single Democrat talking point ever made in support of NPR and PBS and that fucking communist Big Bird, who never raised a single wing to help Oscar out of his trashcan while watching the Cookie Monster get fat on an unlimited amount of cookies.
Bastards.
Tulsi Gabbard just tossed a hand grenade of sorts. The person behind the “Russia, Rsdia, Russia” hoax was neither Comey nor Brennan. It turns out to have been — wait for it! — Barack Obama himself. What a douchebag.
FLC: "We will see shortly, Mr. Mosby, which one of us was correct. Would you like to wager on the outcome?"
I was commenting on the "destroy the grand jury system" justification versus the "no court would allow" prediction.
I agree with you that (almost) no judge would allow the disclosure, and that the judge would probably recite the "sacrosanctity of the GJ in saecula saeculorum, om mani padmi hum, ameeen" formula as knee-jerk justification.
I think in that case Bondi would keep pushing it up the appeals chain.
RR
JSM
Hey, wasn't yesterday supposed to be another big nationwide protest? 'Good Trouble' or something? I haven't seen any news reporting mostly because I don't watch TV, but looking online I'm seeing that all the stories are two days old, talking about the Big Plans for Tomorrow. Was it a big fizzle?
Trump sues Wall Street Journal publisher and Rupert Murdoch for $10bn ~ FT
'US president files libel case following media group’s report on his alleged correspondence to Jeffrey Epstein'
Murdoch should then counter sue for 20bn
MAGA spent years trying to pretend Trump was innocent of all of his crimes by decrying "lawfare" every time he faced trial.
Now they cheer as he files a frivolous lawsuit, so they don't have to stop to think about why Trump is refusing to release the Epstein files he promised to.
Discovery is gonna be fun.
"Epstein" has saved Kaka the embarrassment of having to talk about the economy.
"I think in that case Bondi would keep pushing it up the appeals chain.
They (Trump, but moreso Bondi) is looking for someone else to blame for hiding the Epstein documents.
She is the one who claimed they were sitting on her desk awaiting a review (which was itself a lie). Now she says no Epstein list exists and Trump calls the whole thing a hoax.
She needs an out. Trump doesn't (he's never running again).
So she's asking a judge to do something she knows a judge won't do so she can blame the judge and escape her own perfidy.
That's one slimy bitch.
Most recent unintentionally funny ChatGPT comment:
"In January 2025, the Jimmy Kimmel show was number one in the key Adult 18-49 demographic, with a 0.16 rating. This indicates a substantial and engaged audience, regardless of the precise gender split."
So, if 99.8 percent of people don't watch, you have a "Substantial and engaged audience" for a TV network show. LOL
Has TDS reached its nadir? Now the same sort of folks who insist on shopping for organic produce at Whole Foods are defending high fructose corn syrup. MAHA!!!
In addition to broadcast ratings, the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" YouTube Channel earned 19.3 million views during the week of Jan. 13.
The problem with this, is it includes BOTs, people who are under 18, foreigners, and people who watch the same clips over and over.
Narr at 7:44, playing with fire.
"...I've been told repeatedly that only a small fraction of their funding came from the government. Seems to be an awful lot of drama coming from them over losing that small fraction. ..."
I think their CEO likes to trot this out as a defense too. But the majority of the funding that's been cut was historically directed to localities, universities and so forth, and they turn the money around to pay for programming from NPR, PBS and so on. So it's more like a pass-through.
Even before he took office the first time, Trump knew all about Obama framing him.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+gave+Obama+a+frame&oq=trump+gave+Obama+a+frame&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAjIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCTE2MjgwajBqNKgCAbACAQ&client=ms-android-uscellular-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Just finished "Sinatra in Hollywood" detailing his film career. Interesting how many awards and good performances Sinatra had in film. Too bad he stopped trying to be a good actor after "Von Ryan Express" and just settled for bad comedies, detective movies and Heist films.
"Even before he took office the first time, Trump knew all about Obama framing him."
You look at him laughing with Obama at Carter's funeral, for example, and you wonder. But what is he going to do, make a big scene? That'll be counterproductive. You play the long game. I couldn't do it.
O-Mike: "You look at him laughing with Obama at Carter's funeral, for example, and you wonder."
Nothing discombobulates one's mortal enemies like being incredibly nice to them. Better than a Judas kiss - at least JC knew what/when was happening. Ordinary humans are stuck with the nagging feeling that today may be the day.
RR
JSM
"Nothing discombobulates one's mortal enemies like being incredibly nice to them."
I have little doubt he enjoyed it,
"Narr at 7:44, playing with fire."
When the walls fell.
FLC: Gilgamesh and Enkidu on the water
RR
JSM
OK, now Althouse has no idea what you're talking about.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Darmok_(episode)
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JSM
BM wrote: "Tulsi Gabbard just tossed a hand grenade of sorts."
There's no evidence in anything Gabbard published that suggests Obama or the IC acted unethically. But even if you thought they did, the idea that anything that happened was illegal makes no sense given Trump's view of immunity and presidential power.
The Supreme Court already answered this question, in US v Trump. A president has absolute immunity for all acts committed within the purview of his core presidential powers, which obviously includes counter-intelligence.
Trump -- and his subordinates -- view of executive power is profoundly incoherent. On the one hand, they think the president has total immunity for official acts, and that all members of his administration should effectively be instruments of his will.
On the other hand, they think you can prosecute people for revising -- or, more accurately, shifting the focus of -- intelligence assessments. Pick an actual position and stick to it.
"There's no evidence in anything Gabbard published that suggests Obama or the IC acted unethically."
LOL
Distraction from the dumpster fire that is Donald Trump’s past friendship and activities with Jeffrey Epstein by bringing up Obama in Trump’s associations with Russia. Yes, that is Trump’s pattern, but his old tricks aren’t working as well as they used to except with the hardcore cultists.
The walls…
OM, you’re a phunny guy.
Trump's lawyers in the defamation suit are a small Palm Beach business firm specializing in chain franchising and professional liability defense.
If you want zoning permits for a Hardee's off I-95, defend yourself against a malpractice suit, or sue the Dow Jones and Rupert Murdoch for defamation, Brito PLLC is where you go. News Corp owns Dow Jones owns the Journal. A real Sheinhardt Wig Company situation. 😉
Trump sues Murdoch for $10 billion over WSJ story on Epstein birthday letter ~ CNBC
Ghislaine Maxwell sued Virginia Giuffre for defamation and it didn’t go so well for Maxwell — who is now serving 20 plus years in prison. All the incriminating discovery in that defamation case became public as a result of the Miami Herald.
Interesting to note that Pam Bondi was Florida's AG 2011-2109 -- a period of time when Jeffrey Epstein's plane records became public, victims' lawsuits were filed and a lot of new evidence against Epstein surfaced. So questions should be asked why she didn't take up the case -- or launch a probe when she was AG in Florida.
"...Now the same sort of folks who insist on shopping for organic produce at Whole Foods are defending high fructose corn syrup...."
A few years ago I was in a Whole Foods in Dallas and couldn't find any Blue Bell ice cream, the national ice cream of Texas. I asked a young male clerk (with fishing tackle accessories and ear plugs), and he snootily informed me that 'Whole Foods does not carry Blue Bell ice cream, because it contains high fructose corn syrup'. He said it as if referring to an indelicate shame, like having genital warts, i.e., who in their right mind would ask for them? I just told him that I felt, at my advanced age, that I might have already proven my competence at making life choices without having them made for me, and left it at that. Then, I finished shopping there and went to the Kroger down the street and bought some.
There's no evidence in anything Gabbard published that suggests Obama or the IC acted unethically.
Matt Taibbi has way more credibility than you do.
On December 8th, intelligence officials were preparing a Presidential Daily Briefing that said...
“We assess that foreign adversaries did not use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US presidential election this year. We have no evidence of cyber manipulation of election infrastructure intended to alter results."
That memo was buried by somebody in Jim Clapper's office. "Based on some new guidance, we are going to push back publication of the PDB. It will not run tomorrow and is not likely to run until next week."
The PDB was never released. Instead, on December 9, Obama called a meeting. It included Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Kerry and a few others. After the meeting, they all got sent a memo tasking them with the creation of a "new assessment per the president's request."
From that moment forward, intelligence officials began leaking “blatantly false” information about a nonexistent “secret assessment” that Russia intervened to influence the “outcome of the election.” This leaking continued unabated until January 6th, when a new, hastily-crafted Intelligence Community Assessment was released, triggering a series of developments that led to the publication of the Steele Dossier and an explosion of media stories linking Trump and Russia in an unprecedented scandal.
The material is bolstered throughout by explanations of a whistleblower from then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s office. Just this handful of documents holds explosive implications, implicating a much bigger pool of White House officials than previously understood, including Obama himself, in what appears to be a top-down effort to create a false narrative about Russia meddling to help Donald Trump. If there’s an analog in American history, I can’t think of it.
What is up with that white streak in Tulsi's hair? So sexy!
Coldplay in Madison this weekend. Will Ann and Meade be caught in the kiss cam?
So, the Oval Office served a dual-purpose as director of change and misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. The Obamacity.
that white streak in Tulsi's hair? So sexy!
She's a girl. It's hard for her to go wrong. But, yeah, the hair highlight is becoming. A real aesthetic enhancer.
This perp is not only physically sick but mentally as well. Could you imagine if DARK BRANDON spent 30 minutes telling this blatant delusional lie where the RIGHT WING folks would be ripping their eyes out.
At an energy and innovation summit in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, President Donald Trump insisted that his uncle, Dr. John Trump, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had once taught a “seriously good” student named Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski.“He’d go around correcting everybody,” Trump boasted. “It didn't work out too well for him... but it’s interesting in life.”
During his winding 30-minute speech at the inaugural “Energy and Innovation” summit at Carnegie Mellon University, Trump elaborated on the story, suggesting that the student was the domestic terrorist and mathematician known as the Unabomber.
After invoking his late paternal uncle, whom he falsely described as MIT’s “longest-serving professor,” Trump continued his implausible anecdote.
Kaczynski was one of his students,” he continued. “Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius.”
Trump his MIT professor uncle taught the Unabomber - but records say otherwise
The crowd showed little reaction to the story, and it was unclear if the president was confusing Kaczynski, who died by suicide in a federal prison in 2023, with someone else.
The bizarre claim is not only highly unlikely, it is practically impossible.
Kaczynski attacked academics, businessmen, and random civilians with homemade bombs between 1978 and 1995, as part of a campaign aimed at collapsing modern society. He killed three people and injured 23.
Before being recognized as the Unabomber, Kaczynski earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1962, having entered at the age of 16, and Master's and Doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan by 1967.
Before becoming the infamous Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski never attended MIT
Kaczynski taught as an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley, until 1969, before making a deliberate shift away from academic life and mainstream society, living in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana.
Despite Trump’s statements, Kaczynski never attended MIT. There is no record of him ever visiting or lecturing at the university either.
Meanwhile, Prof. Trump, a cancer research pioneer who received the National Medal of Science, taught at MIT for approximately four decades before his death in 1985 at the age of 78.
He focused on high-voltage phenomena, electron acceleration, and the interaction of radiation with both living and non-living matter, including the design of X-ray generators for cancer therapy.
His expertise has been repeatedly vaunted by his nephew, who on Tuesday described him as a “smart man.”
Unlike Kaczynski, John Trump was not a mathematician; he was a professor of electrical engineering and physics.
Even if the renowned physicist did cross paths with the infamous serial killer, he could not have known that Kaczynski was linked to the Unabomber attacks.
The alleged conversation would have taken place more than a decade before the FBI identified Kaczynski as the Unabomber in April 1996 after his brother, David Kaczynski, turned him in after reading his manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future.
The manifesto makes no mention of Prof. Trump, MIT, or any figures associated with that institution. The MEDIA constantly let this guy LIE HIS BRAINS OUT like jACK NICHOLSON IN THE SHOW one flew over the CUCO'S NEST ThE magas up in here (ths is magaville) just let his lies and delusions slide like oh he is so silly(needs to be in a straight jacket) This perp aint gonna make it, hes too old,delusional and dangerous and sick mentally and physically.VANCE coming for him//
Prosecuting Obama for treason is a spectacularly bad idea. Not on board with that. Arresting him for treason, prosecuting him for treason, frog-marching him to jail as you try to prove he's a traitor. The Democrats committed political suicide by going down this road. Let it go. Obama is irrelevant.
"Prosecuting Obama for treason is a spectacularly bad idea."
Yeah, but we can get Brennan and Comey and Clapper, right?
Saint Croix said...
Prosecuting Obama for treason is a spectacularly bad idea... The Democrats committed political suicide by going down this road. Let it go. Obama is irrelevant.
7/18/25, 10:48 PM
Because Trump was innocent. Obama is not. No one is above the law, or haven't you heard. What would be spectacularly bad would be letting a high-profile criminal and traitor get away with his crimes. I'm sick of seeing Democrat Party scofflaws get away with it. That Russian Collusion travesty was a disease released into the country just like Covid was turned loose on the populace to raise hell and create chaos, and it was our own government that did that to us!!!!
They all deserve life imprisonment, Obama and Biden along with the others.
7/18/25, 10:47 PM
Do you really think anybody's going to bother to read that all that shit?
And THIS is why we laugh at the insignificant Left Wing Media. Oh, the poor little guy. He wasn't getting shot at, but HE has PTSD, because he delusionally thought MAGA was going after him....like they do in his dreams every night. Sucks to be him...when the left are the ones burning down the country, and MAGA is trying to save it. HE is on the wrong side of HISTORY!!
Jason Cohen 🇺🇸
@JasonJournoDC
🚨NEW: CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane tells Chuck Todd he got "PTSD" after Trump assassination attempt — *NOT* from the shooting, but because the crowd blamed the media🚨
"For those of us there, it was such a horror."
"I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave. Not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you could — you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people."
"They were coming for us! If he didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!"
@DailyCaller
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/cbs-reporter-traumatized-by-trump-rally-crowds-hostility-after-assassination-attempt/
Gee, what are talking about tonight? This dropped after I went to bed. I just searched the WaPo with the word Gabbard (the Mrs. subscribes), and saw no mention of this whatsoever.
How long, I wonder - how long? To the finish, I suspect.
Yeah...Frank Marshall Davis who had a wet spot on his pants when Obama sat on him.
"Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I've got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me ..."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/02/decrypting_obamas_pop.html
Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
Barack Obama says young boys need a gay man in their life for guidance and that having only a father around isn’t enough.
He believes being around gay men helps boys develop emotional awareness, empathy, and a broader perspective.
Obama recalled that one of his most important mentors was a gay professor who shaped his views on compassion and humanity.
The complaint alleges the article is defamatory for terming Trump and epstein "friends." Talk about turning attention on oneself. But I guess it worked with ABC and rape.
In the Missouri v. Biden (later, Murthy v. Missouri) case, Trump-appointed Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the Biden administration's asking social media companies to explain their editorial policies was “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”
Accordingly, the standard established by Trump-supported lawyers is that any government request to suppress media coverage would violate the First Amendment.
So the new $16 billion lawsuit against WSJ, et al, isn’t just government pressure—it’s a sitting president threatening to weaponize the courts against media for editorial decisions over what he claims is “erroneous information.” By Trump’s own supporters’ legal standard, this is a textbook First Amendment violation.
Interestingly Fox News and Rupert Murdoch lost a damages case brought by Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million and still faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit brought by Smartmatic. Fox supported Trump's lies about the voting machine companies, so now Trump wants to whack his most loyal media owner from the other side of the fence
so now Trump wants to whack his most loyal media owner from the other side of the fence
How you can manage to type without drooling all over your keyboard is a mystery to me.
the new $16 billion lawsuit against WSJ
Wow, it has increased $6 billion already! That's awesome. The big bombshell expose was a dud.
I never wrote a drawing of a naked woman in my life. And if I did, it would have way bigger boobs. Believe me. ~ Donald Trump 😉
Obama recalled that one of his most important mentors was a gay professor who shaped his views on compassion and humanity.
@wendybar, which I suppose is why Obama is totally lacking in compassion for people at the American middle class and esp. people below them on the economic ladder, and why Obama is thoroughly inhumane.
DB wrote: "Coldplay in Madison this weekend. Will Ann and Meade be caught in the kiss cam?"
The most important thing about the cheating lovers on the Jumbotron kiss cam is that Trump’s administration is still gaslighting the public on the Epstein files -- this time by requesting grand jury transcripts that nobody asked for.
@Aggie from 8pm last night ... Ace of Spades HQ had a posting tangentially about that a couple of days ago if I remember correctly. Some media outlet interviewed the guy who runs the major agency that supplies rent-a-mobs for Leftists. He claimed to them he'd been offered $20 million to supply crowds for what looked to be the "Good Trouble" protests but turned down the offer. He is apparently starting to feel the frequency with which lefty protests become violent is bad for his business reputation. I guess Soros et al weren't able to find anybody else with enough bums and unemployed grievance studies majors on speed dial.
They are desperately trying to prop up what is left of Trump’s base many who will think that the grand jury transcripts are the Epstein files. I am looking forward to the disclosure part if Trump sues the WSJ that will depend if he or Murdoch blink first.
Re: The kiss cam scandal.
Best response from the internet yet: the CEO should have said he was her giving her the Heimlich Maneuver.
I have heard/read the Commies blathering on about sending back illegals who have been here 20 years. OK I’m on board. Have the 10 million +/- who invaded in the last 5 years raise their hands and leave. You’ll encourage that, right Pinkos?
I agree with Michael Fritzgerald. This need to be prosecuted, if for no other reason than to show you can’t get away with it. I personally believed that since they did (and I think Trump was willing to let it go), they felt confident lying to the President about Covid and Hunter’s laptop. By then, it was obvious they’d lie about anything to retain their power. They need to be in jail, not walking free.
Kak, forgive me for interrupting your PTSD (Perpetual Trump Stress Disorder) but I was wondering if you have any more stock tips you could share with us. The last time you bloviated about how bad Trump's tariffs were going to be financially, I did the exact opposite and made a small fortune.
You're like our financial Costanza...doing the opposite is very rewarding.
I personally believed that since they did (and I think Trump was willing to let it go), they felt confident lying to the President about Covid and Hunter’s laptop
Yes it’s all about incentives. Let them get away with it and they become more brazen more often. It wasn’t that many months ago they were highly confident they controlled hearts and minds since they controlled the media. Heck a few weeks ago Schumer believed they would slowly chip away at Trump’s approval. Apparently the secret weapons were the new improved dossier and the economy tanking because the media say said it would. Now trust in mainstream
media fights with Congress and OJ for lowest approval ratings ever while lefties are all in…
About the kiss cam. How terrible for the kids, if they are a mom and a dad. Silver lining this happened during the summer school break. Maybe by the time they come back to school this will have been forgotten… like the Epstein story?
Prosecute the little fish. Don't arrest Obama. It's a big mistake to go down that road.
Trump can pardon Obama. That would be funny as hell.
Be magnanimous, not vindictive.
Magnanimous means to be generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or a less powerful person.
The Democrats anger, hatred, and fear of Trump, when he was out of office and irrelevant, made him far more powerful than he should have been. It's precisely how Trump was able to regain the White House.
Arresting an ex-president and trying to prosecute him for treason is like arresting an ex-president and trying to prosecute him for 88 felonies. It's a fucking joke, and the American people will not accept it.
You think, "It's over, we won." And then you discover, oops, it's not over. And the other party is back in power.
For you treason fans out there, you'd have to prove that Obama was working with Russia or China or some other enemy of the USA to subvert our republic. Do you have any proof of that?
you'd have to prove that Obama was working with Russia or China
You think so? I know they tried to claim that about Trump, but the people they prosecuted in put in jail? They just claimed they committed a trespassing and then put them in prison for years. This is a bit more than trespassing. It’s more than just lying to a government official, which is what they tried Gen. Flynn for.
I'm with Saint Croix on this one: attempting to prosecute Obama will go poorly. On the other hand, I like his idea of granting Obama a pardon - say, for actions taken in his private capacity between November 2020 and January 2021. Shine a light on it, give that JD Vance side-eye to the camera, and let people draw their own conclusions.
Trump’s administration is still gaslighting the public on the Epstein files -- this time by requesting grand jury transcripts that nobody asked for.
Why did "nobody" ask for them? Why isn't the corporate press demanding them?
IT would be a bad move to prosecute Obama. Maybe the best thing to do, is use his own tricks against him. Prosecute Clapper/Brennan/Comey et al if a case can be made, and make sure Obama is mentioned frequently during that process. And then, use the Federal Bureaucracy to make it impossible for him to finish his library. Let Chicago see it - every day.
I like Obama the Unindicted Co-Conspirator and hope that we can add that tag one day.
Inag lives for fake scandals. Phunny idiot that she is...
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Oh, I suspect they won't go after Obama. And yeah, putting everyone else in jail and letting Obama skate as the Unindicted Co-Conspirator is fine with me. Because everyone will know that Brennan and others did this while at the least, Obama let them do it. But Brennan and others; they need to go to prison.
Yeah, but we can get Brennan and Comey and Clapper, right?
Yes. Spook the spooks.
Historically they've always been lying bastards, but we accept them because they're our lying bastards, and they're lying to our enemies. But now they're working internally, spreading lies and subverting our elections.
It's not treason, treason is a bad fit. But it's criminal as shit and they should be prosecuted for what they did.
As long as the Epstein story was was just conjecture and hearsay, it was going to hurt Trump with his base. But now that there’s actual evidence, the base is rallying behind him
It's more fabricated lies from the corrupt left- Kak-a-bitch.
kaKAW kaKAW!
"so now Trump wants to whack his most loyal media owner from the other side of the fence"
I read the WSJ. They hate Trump.
Kak is a tool. This I can tell you.
Saint Croix said...
“I like Obama the Unindicted Co-Conspirator and hope that we can add that tag one day.“
I love it. Let it be so.
WSJ News has TDS, not the Opinion folks…
When given the option between supporting Trump and changing their mind on pedophilia, the choice is not a hard one for Trump voters
“Obama is like Nixon” works.
Is this why Michelle has been so despondent in recent months? Trump re-elected, Michelle emoting angst and wanting to find her own self…
I’d like to know what exactly Obama was trying to protect by unleashing this effort against Trump. There are a few possible options, but which one or two specifically led him or forced him to do this.
What did President Obama know and when did he know it?
Murdock - remember when the collective left hated him. Good times.
Obama is not like Nixon. Nixon was framed.
Good morning, all. Saint Croix and FLC in particular.
“This corruption in this story dwarfs the worst Trump scandals. It’s unprecedented. It’s now in writing that the whole Trump-Russia thing was invented. But feel free to think it’s still a Fox fantasy.” ~ Matt Taibbi
"It's now in writing" is such a funny line. Trump's handpicked subordinate reached the exact conclusion he wanted her to reach, and then wrote it down. It must be true, then.
How does a nitwit like Taibbi think a nearly irrelevant Russia story dwarfs presidential pedophilia?
Watching your icons be melted down to their essential nature must be completely demoralizing. Self delusion will continue to save you I suppose.
“What did President Obama know and when did he know it?”
That’s pretty obvious, isn’t it.
“BREAKING NEWS: We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS "article" in the useless "rag" that is, The Wall Street Journal. This historic legal action is being brought against the so-called authors of this defamation, the now fully disgraced WSJ, as well as its corporate owners and affiliates, with Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson (whatever his role is!) at the top of the list. We have proudly held to
account ABC and George Slopadopoulos, CBS and 60 Minutes, The Fake Pulitzer Prizes, and many others who deal in, and push, disgusting LiEs, and even FRAUD, to the American People. This lawsuit is filed not only on behalf of your favorite President, ME, but also in order to continue standing up for ALL Americans who will no longer tolerate the abusive wrongdoings of the Fake News Media. I hope Rupert and his "friends" are looking forward to the many hours of depositions and testimonies they will have to provide in this case. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”! ~ Donald J Trump
I think Trump is missing Murdoch’s classic move here. He lets what they have solidly get published, even if it seems small. Then Trump emotionally sues (see above) and discovery begins and everything is fair game. He’ll be forced to testify and all manner of files will be unveiled and chewed over.
gadfly said..."In the Missouri v. Biden (later, Murthy v. Missouri) case, Trump-appointed Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the Biden administration's asking social media companies to explain their editorial policies was “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”
You've obviously not read the ruling. The Biden administration was not asking.
Kak - "solidly" - are you that dumb?
Kak :
"First, the Journal has neither the Birthday Scrapbook nor the letter. It said it “reviewed” the letter. When? Where? How? Was it just read to them over the phone? What does “reviewed” even mean? For sure, it means they don’t have it. The Journal described the letter as being “among documents examined by Justice Department officials” —what officials?— “according to people who have reviewed the pages.” ["people?" What people - name them. Not named. Not sourced.]
In other words: the whole Scrapbook story is double anonymous hearsay. Some unnamed “people” said some unidentified “officials” reviewed the birthday binder and the original letter. Even bad lawyers wouldn’t consider trying to admit that in court. “Um, your Honor, someone told us that some government officials may have seen a letter, which someone else described to us… and we’d like to enter that into evidence.” Okay."
Next, the Journal’s future defendants admitted they know nothing about the letter’s provenance. “It isn’t clear,” the Journal admitted, “how the letter with Trump’s signature was prepared.” Great. And there’s no chain of custody. Nobody’s ever even heard of this Birthday Scrapbook before. “The existence of the album and the contents of the birthday letters,” the Journal conceded, “haven’t previously been reported.”
No leaks, no mention in any of the court cases, nothing, in over twenty years.
hey Narr!
My comment was a "garner" joke.
Kak -
furthermore;;
"Notwithstanding all those problems, the Journal glowingly described the “bawdy” letter. It waited till about three pages in, and then set out a very non-Trumpian, odd, quippy typed (not handwritten) fake dialogue between Trump and Epstein that sounds just like a scripted confession. “Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey,” the letter gushed. “Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it.”
To make sure we got the message, the carefully scripted, incriminating-sounding typed dialogue was allegedly placed inside a hand-drawn cartoon of a naked woman, with “breasts denoted by small arcs” (small breasts? pre-pubescent ones?) above “Donald,” scrawled as a signature in the sketch’s pubic region.
Get this— despite the obvious, explosive, salacious potential, the Journal did not publish a picture of the actual letter. It did not even explain the letter’s absence. Why not show the letter? Is it sealed? Confidential? Restricted? If so, why not just say that? Or is it possible the Journal never actually saw the letter but just “reviewed” an oral description?
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Journal did not mention any forensic analysis. The convenient fact the incredibly suspicious ‘dialogue’ was typed eliminates handwriting analysis of that part, but what about the signature? The drawing? You’d think they’d have cited six forensic handwriting analyses before going to print with something like this."
Kamala sure could have used that B-day scrap book.
Ah!
Garner garners.
NPR, I can listen to the music, but I hate the lyrics.
Are you considering all things? Are you?
The absolutist claim of omniscience is annoying. And they're not kidding.
See also, "All The News That Is Fit To Print."
Excellent, Saint Croix.
As a result of his lawsuit—Trump and Epstein will then be in the news daily, providing a treasure trove of tidbits that Murdoch’s outlets can gleefully report on. Given Trump’s longtime relationship with Epstein, it’s going to be ugly and we’re finally going to get the Epstein trial that ended when he died. Rupert remains the alpha old crocodile.
Recession Odds Collapse from 70 Percent to 19 Percent, Lowest Ever Recorded on Polymarket I hope you aren't betting with borrowed money, Kaka.
Kamala when the Walz fell.
My larger holdings are DODFX & VFIAX & VOO — I'm not moving off either one of them. We own lakeshore properties which we rent out for cash flow and hold for the longer term asset appreciation.
"a nearly irrelevant Russia story"
that's how you summarize that whole shit-show?
nearly irrelevant?
would have been nice if you had said that in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, or 2024.
just to be clear, you're acknowledging that Russia did not "hack" the 2016 election and put Trump in power?
It was a very big story, in all the newspapers and TV news. I don't know what sock puppet you were using back then. But I am sure you had many, many things to say about how Trump was Putin's man in Washington.
Churchill: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its pants."
Kak: "And when the truth finally arrives, it's nearly irrelevant."
“ As a result of his lawsuit…”. Look on the sunny side. Unless the defendant can provide provinance of the sketch and text and avoid discovery of Trump hate Emails and bad faith it will be settled after plaintive demands to fight for the free press.”
Thanks, Meade. Thanks, Lem.
This is what the trial will look like. One easily provable lie after the next. As always.
'“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday...
Trump said he ‘never wrote a picture in my life.’ Here are four.
“The president’s blanket denial of a Wall Street Journal report could further inflame the Epstein case.” ~ WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/18/trump-epstein-drawings/
1. Trump’s a stone cold liar, as always
2. That said, he is not without talent in the writing a picture department and certainly better than Dubya, John Wayne Gacy and, of course, a failed painter who went into politics in post WW1 Germany.
Remember: The internet is written in indelible ink.
Big: Gabbard Making Criminal Referral on Obama National Security Team
Did the initial reporting on this include the criminal referral? I missed that.
Kak - Democrats are all stone cold liars - always.
Kak - that you and other desperate hive-minders and loyalists to the Soviets buy the story - really does not surprise any of us.
A major reason the Epstein story is problematic for Trump is that it undermines his core narrative: that he, as a member of the elite, uses his insider status to expose elite corruption and advocate for "the people." His involvement now implicates him in an elite cover-up.
I went to the Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa yesterday. It is huge! I mostly went to see the animals and produce. Farm stuff. Which was cool. Biggest bull steer I ever saw. We also went to the craft and art galleries. Arcades and rides everywhere you turned. Also. The worlds largest accumulation of fried food vendors anywhere in the world. Any one of the Hostess products can be deep fried. As well as deep fried baked potatoes. Who knew. America is a wonderful place.
The day before we went to a concert in the town square in Tustin and before the concert started we were asked to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone around us stood. California isn't totally screwed.
That's what I did. Bye.
"Saint Croix said...
Prosecute the little fish. Don't arrest Obama. It's a big mistake to go down that road.
Trump can pardon Obama. That would be funny as hell."
Great idea. Michelle also.
Then, Pardon a bunch of 'em. Pardon annoying MSM figures, entertainers, random dem politicians for unspecified crimes. Insinuate they committed crimes.
Let them all squirm and complain that they didn't do anything illegal and didn't need pardons.
They will need to disparage Trump's pardons while still insisting Biden's were legit.
It's hilarious how effortlessly Gabbard executed this bait-and-switch, conflating a Kremlin-run social media propaganda campaign with an election-results hacking operation that was never alleged. By merging these distinct issues, she seeks to portray Obama as a criminal. Weak sauce ….
Imagine having to support someone that has sex with trafficked, underaged girls because you’ve made them part of your identity. I keep thinking of my brother in law and all the Trump gear he wears. He loves it because he thinks it as a sign of rebellion.
I wonder how long until a stranger asks him why he supports a child rapist.
You're just another loyal Soviet - KAK.
"You're just another loyal Soviet - KAK."
Nah, he's a conservative. Ain't that right, Rich?
Kakistocracy said...
Imagine having to support someone that has sex with trafficked, underaged girls because you’ve made them part of your identity. I keep thinking of my brother in law and all the Trump gear he wears. He loves it because he thinks it as a sign of rebellion.
I wonder how long until a stranger asks him why he supports a child rapist.
7/19/25, 11:44 AM
Yep. I imagine Bill Clinton, and his willing band of Progressive women that promised to get on their knees for him. YOUR world...not ours.
OM, you’re a phunny guy.
He is, isn't he!
"California isn't totally screwed.
That's what I did. Bye."
I grew up in Orange County in the 50s/60s. I miss it a lot and hope that one day, it might be like that again.
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