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Nobyembre 17, 2025

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Achilles ayon kay ...: Someone actually asked Chuck Schumer why they didn't release the Epstein files during the Biden administration.

I don't think he is going to win his primary.; 11/17/25, 6:02 PM
TaeJohnDo ayon kay ...: Hardy Viking stock on the way to pillage?; 11/17/25, 6:13 PM
john mosby ayon kay ...: Yep, when I see a nice lake like that, early in the morning, it makes me want a good old-fashioned coxing. CC, JSM; 11/17/25, 6:23 PM
Beasts of England ayon kay ...: Digging the second one…; 11/17/25, 6:25 PM
BUMBLE BEE ayon kay ...: Yes, the second one is spectacular1; 11/17/25, 6:32 PM
tcrosse ayon kay ...: Back in the early 1960s the crew team would look over the incoming freshmen and press likely looking ones into service, much as the Royal Navy did in the Napoleonic wars. Early in the morning the newbies would row an unvieldy scow, with the coxswain banging time on the gunwale. This may have been part of the sorting process.; 11/17/25, 7:06 PM
Breezy ayon kay ...: Agree - the texture array on the second pic is excellent!; 11/17/25, 7:29 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: "Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,"; 11/17/25, 7:38 PM
Inga ayon kay ...: "Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,"

If anyone is a piggy it’s Trump. Couldn’t keep his snout off that glass door to the area in which underage girls were swimming.; 11/17/25, 7:51 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: "Democratic Party hysteria over this issue is obviously absurd because “all of the Epstein files” could have been released over the last four years. There must be reasons why the last administration didn’t take that step, and there should be scandal in MAGA-world if those reasons overlap at all with the Trump administration’s. Between Epstein’s own hysterical rants about Trump in the newly released documents (he sounds like Kathy Griffin in some of the emails) and the blue party’s seeming entanglement with Epstein from the Clintons to Larry Summers to Reid Hoffman,"" it’s hard to imagine where that overlap might be, unless it involves major corporate names and/or overseas relationships. Some of that is suggested in [Dem Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett’s] story.|; 11/17/25, 8:02 PM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...: Two days ago, signing a petition to release the Epstein files was considered a treasonous act. Only four House Republicans were willing to do it—and they were immediately pressured, threatened, and harassed by Trump into removing their names.Tomorrow, they’re all going to vote for it.

Because, now they have assurances that Bondi will refuse to release the files because they are part of an active investigation.; 11/17/25, 8:05 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: No - kak.
It doesn't work like that.
btw- Thomas Massey has it right - and I'm glad.

meanwhile - reality:
"All of a sudden, it seems like everyone is calling for the release of the Epstein files. The MAGA movement is angry at President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for not coming through for them and delivering the cabal of rich pedophiles who benefited from relationships with Epstein.

Democrats and other Trump opponents, smelling blood in the water, have joined the calls for transparency on the theory that they might hoist Trump and his attorney general on their own conspiracy-packed petard.

Allow me a moment’s dissent: Have you all lost your minds?

Should the FBI and the Justice Department release willy-nilly their investigative files into a major child-exploitation and human trafficking case involving a large number of victims—given that truly vile conduct directed at them, and an untold number of witnesses who may be wholly innocent of wrongdoing, is likely to be unleashed?

The question answers itself.

For one thing, at least some of the information in the so-called Epstein files is likely grand jury information—that is, information protected by Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure—or otherwise protected by court seals. It is illegal to release this material. It’s not a choice the attorney general gets to make: Should I dump all this information into the public domain? She can’t. She shouldn’t. And if she does, she should go to jail.

Attorney General Bondi should resign if she was lying when she declared that she had Epstein’s client list on her desk—something the FBI now says does not exist. If she simply misspoke, she did so recklessly and stupidly and should probably resign anyway. But the solution is not a data dump of material, much of which is properly protected by federal law.

Even among the materials that are not protected by court seals, the Epstein files necessarily contain a wide range of information about victims. Are people seriously calling for this material to be dumped into the public’s hands?"; 11/17/25, 8:09 PM
Inga ayon kay ...: “Because, now they have assurances that Bondi will refuse to release the files because they are part of an active investigation.”

Of course.; 11/17/25, 8:10 PM
JRoberts ayon kay ...: For a while, and especially now, the Epstein files affair has felt much like the witch trial scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.; 11/17/25, 8:26 PM
Mason G ayon kay ...: "For a while, and especially now, the Epstein files affair has felt much like the witch trial scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

No kidding.

The left seems awfully fired up over it, I wonder what they think is in the file now that wasn't in it when The Autopen was in office.; 11/17/25, 8:42 PM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...: I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world.

The man I supported and helped get elected.

Aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men who were radicalized by the same type rhetoric being directed at me right now.

This time by the President of the United States.

As a woman I take threats from men seriously.

I now have a small understanding of the fear and pressure the women, who are victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his cabal, must feel.

As a Republican, who overwhelmingly votes for President Trump‘s bills and agenda, his aggression against me which also fuels the venomous nature of his radical internet trolls (many of whom are paid), this is completely shocking to everyone.

My phone is blowing up with constant amazing support. I’m so thankful!

The Political Industrial Complex and the toxic violent nature of American politics must end.

Our country is worth saving and it can only be done if we pull together and save ourselves. ~Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
@RepMTG

Seeing a trollish flame-thrower suddenly discover empathy when it is they who is under distress is pathetic and somewhat fascinating. One wonders whether their cognition makes contact w/irony. It's the lowest EQ abysmal character people who care about "a thing" only when it's happening to them.; 11/17/25, 8:46 PM
Maynard ayon kay ...: I often look over the end of the day thread that Althouse posts.

However, when I see that Igna and Kaki are already posting multiple times, I realize that it is time to turn off the computer.

I can only stand so much mindless stupidity in a day.; 11/17/25, 8:57 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: Karma + comeuppance; 11/17/25, 8:58 PM
Inga ayon kay ...: “I can only stand so much mindless stupidity in a day.”

How can you stand your own company?; 11/17/25, 8:59 PM
Prof. M. Drout ayon kay ...: This whole info-op can't possibly be intended to convince anyone, so I assume it is an effort to destroy conversation spaces outside the left bubble by polluting them. The bots and paid shills that used to drop only one or two comments are now kind of just spraying things everywhere. So it seems they've given up trying to seem authentic in order to attract attention and waste time, and are now just spamming out many comments fairly indiscriminately in hopes that there will be so much visual clutter that people will abandon the forums.
I wonder who decides on these changes in tactics, because it does seem to be centrally directs, as the phase change happens at the same time on multiple cites.; 11/17/25, 9:11 PM
Inga ayon kay ...: Speaking of Karma, Trump’s former spiritual advisor on his way to jail for raping little girls.; 11/17/25, 9:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit ayon kay ...: Finding some independently apparent agreement on why Nick Fuentes is holding sway now.

YouTube: Why is Gen Z is susceptible

YouTube: Why Nick Fuentes is Popular; 11/17/25, 9:30 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: wiki:
"Morris served on a 25-person "evangelical executive advisory board" to Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign[19] and hosted Trump at Gateway Church in June 2020. Morris attended the September 2020 Rose Garden ceremony at the White House for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.[20] After the sexual misconduct allegations, a spokesman for Trump stated that Morris had not had a role in Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.[21]

"Trumps former Spiritual Advisor" - MSM(D)

More info.; 11/17/25, 9:35 PM
Dave Begley ayon kay ...: “Eight man crew is the most difficult team sport.” The Boys in the Boat.; 11/17/25, 9:37 PM
Caroline ayon kay ...: Definitely number two. I’m not engaging with Epstein noise.; 11/17/25, 9:40 PM
Aggie ayon kay ...: ..."I wonder who decides on these changes in tactics, because it does seem to be centrally directs, as the phase change happens at the same time on multiple cites. "...

I've noticed it, too. I think a good bit of it is coming from the 'bots'. But I also think that some are susceptible to taking these changes on cue and responding in kind, too. I tune out a lot more commenters now as a result. Not just the progressive ones, either.; 11/17/25, 9:41 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: Turley:
"So the J6 Committee is now estimated to have cost almost twice of the projected budget of $9.3 million to put on what Nancy Pelosi called the "narrative," including the hiring of producers to create the made-for-TV hearings..."; 11/17/25, 9:45 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
...That production involved editing out the very language that the BBC removed in its controversial production, so that the public did not hear Trump tell his supporters that they were to go "peacefully" to the Hill to "cheer on" their allies in Congress...; 11/17/25, 9:45 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn ayon kay ...: In the fourth picture, is that a giant Sasquatch climbing up the Capitol dome?; 11/17/25, 9:54 PM
Peachy ayon kay ...: "In one of the most telling statements from establishment media, CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter complained that the BBC controversy shows that the media today is held to an "impossibly high standard.” That standard is called good journalism as the BBC itself admitted..."

LOL - BCC edited Trump's speech with a 45 minute gap. The MSNBC hacks altered Trump's speech. period.; 11/17/25, 9:55 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn ayon kay ...: The market plummeted more than 1% today in anticipation of devastating revelations about Trump in the Epstein files.; 11/17/25, 9:57 PM
gadfly ayon kay ...: Wow! Peachy likes what Ben Wittes wrote on Lawfare about the Epstein files.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/no--don-t-release-the-epstein-files; 11/17/25, 10:21 PM
Dr Weevil ayon kay ...: If the market "plunged", it's more likely to have involved sneaky bastards spreading nasty rumors to help them make money with short-selling.; 11/17/25, 10:29 PM
Rt41Rebel ayon kay ...: Another Trump masterclass. Allows the Dems to spin up another Acme “scandal,” plays coy, and then they fall into the canyon and the anvil crashes down on their heads.; 11/17/25, 10:30 PM
Rt41Rebel ayon kay ...: “ The market plummeted more than 1% today in anticipation of devastating revelations about Trump in the Epstein files”

More likely that many more business and Democratic leaders will be implicated.; 11/17/25, 10:33 PM
Inga ayon kay ...: “Wow! Peachy likes what Ben Wittes wrote on Lawfare about the Epstein files.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/no--don-t-release-the-epstein-files

11/17/25, 10:21 PM

LOL!; 11/17/25, 10:59 PM
Saint Croix ayon kay ...: I've been around for 50+ years. I've seen a lot of movies about WW2, and read a lot of books about it. And this short 38 minute youtube video kind of blew me away. I'd never heard this before. It sums up, clearly and succinctly, how and why the USA won the war.

"The truth is, the vast majority of the German army was a 19th century force. Their supplies, their artillery, their food, all of it was pulled by horses."

Did you know that? Mind-boggling.; 11/17/25, 11:11 PM
buwaya ayon kay ...: Re the youtube presentation. That is, sad to say, an AI generated product that is very common these days. The images are all AI generated and often absurd. A supposed US tank (illustrating a segment about Kasserine Pass) is an amalgam of US WW2, post WW2 and German tanks, which is at least amusing.
The script is also typical of an AI product.
There is something to be said about German analytic failures but it does not quote actual German sources.
The German military certainly was behind in mechanization; the French were much further along in that, btw, in 1940. But there are no cites of sources or statistics.; 11/18/25, 12:42 AM
buwaya ayon kay ...: Correction from a market top after a very long run up (see the S&P 2024-2025; PE ratios are absurdly high now). The market was on a downward trend from over 2 weeks ago. I was out of the market Nov 2. Rather proud of my market timing.
Now in T-bills, waiting.
BTW I beat Warren Buffet, his market timing was almost a yesr premature.; 11/18/25, 12:49 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: Pittsburgh Steeler Jalen Ramsey was ejected after a scrap with Cincinnati Bengals Ja’Marr Chase during Sunday’s NFL game. Ramsey claimed Chase spit on him and threw a punch. Chase denied that he spit on Ramsey.

Ramsey said after the game. “They’ve got 100 cameras out there. They can see everything.”

Chase was suspended yesterday ….. for spitting on Ramsey. Made me laugh.; 11/18/25, 5:07 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) ayon kay ...: Leftists are loving AI! Fake ICE videos are all the rage, literally. Fake moms crying about fake kids etc. Of course Meta allows fake videos to smear Trump and ICE but take down cartoons I post making fun of communists.

You see leftists need to be enraged to be engaged and AI is as good a stimulant as reality. Better even. The DHS can’t put out real video to counteract the smears like they do with actual arrests spun by activists (“He was just a dad!” “Here’s his mile long rap sheet and the gun he illegally stashed under his car seat.”). It’s diabolical.

Clever as short term strategy but supremely evil.; 11/18/25, 5:18 AM
Humperdink ayon kay ...: Maynard said: “I often look over the end of the day thread that Althouse posts.

However, when I see that Igna and Kaki are already posting multiple times, I realize that it is time to turn off the computer.”

It’s funny, after Trump smoked Kamala in the election, Igna went subsurface. Now that our Commie friends are mounting a perceived comeback, voilà, Igna is a human Gatling gun with her comments, with Kak in tow.; 11/18/25, 5:18 AM
rehajm ayon kay ...: One eats at a diner. One dines at an eatery…; 11/18/25, 5:31 AM
narciso ayon kay ...: 1% is a rounding error; 11/18/25, 7:10 AM
narciso ayon kay ...: Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.; 11/18/25, 7:10 AM
narciso ayon kay ...: https://open.substack.com/pub/donsurber/p/trump-roped-the-dopes-on-epstein?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur; 11/18/25, 7:40 AM
tim maguire ayon kay ...: The list of websites I visit is short and most of them are down right now (thanks Cloudflare!) so I’m relying on you—Althouse and her commentariat—to keep me from living like it’s 1995 again.; 11/18/25, 7:48 AM
Peachy ayon kay ...: gadfly - link does not work for me.
What is your point?; 11/18/25, 8:12 AM
Peachy ayon kay ...: Mike Wolf - enraged with fake reality.
sounds like leftist hell.; 11/18/25, 8:14 AM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: Mike Wolf @ 5:15, this sounds like a talking point I’ve heard floating around certain MAGA influencers lately, but I haven’t seen any concrete examples of these supposed AI deepfakes of ICE raids.

Meanwhile, the videos shaping public opinion tend to be the verified ones—body cams, bystander phones, lawsuits, and so on.

Can you point to one of the fake videos you’re talking about? If these are widespread enough to outweigh all the real evidence, there should be at least one major example to examine.; 11/18/25, 9:00 AM
Kakistocracy ayon kay ...: WE JUST GAVE ALL THE ORIGINAL EPSTEIN FILES TO CLOUDFLARE. THEY ACCIDENTALLY DESTROYED THEM.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!; 11/18/25, 10:09 AM
Inga ayon kay ...: Trump said not too long ago that if you don’t like what you’re seeing, just say it’s AI.; 11/18/25, 10:09 AM
Narr ayon kay ...: "Did you know that?"

Yes, yes I did. But thanks for asking, and may the word spread.; 11/18/25, 10:21 AM
Narr ayon kay ...: I was commenting on the historical facts, not the video, which I did not view, but sounds like something I've seen out there.

Commented before reading buwaya's.; 11/18/25, 10:23 AM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: Tariffs are great and wonderful and in no way increase prices for Americans which is why we have to reduce the tariffs on select goods to make them more affordable for Americans.

And yes, that $8 a pound for ground beef is the cheapest it’s ever been, even if it did spike because of illegal immigrants bringing over sick cows.

ICE is only arresting hardened criminals, the worst of the worst, which is why 97.4% of the 614 detained in Chicago had no criminal record at all. And these thugs terrorizing our ICE agents, the only reason a conviction never happens is because rogue judges keep believing AI generated videos.; 11/18/25, 11:03 AM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: Oh, and that 10% increase coming on Medicare Part D will actually lower your cost. Who knows? Maybe Chyyyna will pay it?; 11/18/25, 11:07 AM
Rusty ayon kay ...: "Now that our Commie friends are mounting a perceived comeback, voilà, Igna is a human Gatling gun with her comments, with Kak in tow."

OK, Hump. That raises a pretty funny image.; 11/18/25, 11:14 AM
Rusty ayon kay ...: RJW said, "
Can you point to one of the fake videos you’re talking about? "

Can you point to a video of ICE arresting babies?; 11/18/25, 11:15 AM
Gospace ayon kay ...: A real video taken out of context can seem very devastating. For example- look at Derek Chauvin being convicted of killing a thug who died of a self inflicted drug overdose because the video made him "look guilty". And he needed to be convicted to stop riots. Convicted of following procedures he was taught to use to restrain violent suspects. Because the videos looked bad.; 11/18/25, 11:29 AM
narciso ayon kay ...: See fall of minneapolis; 11/18/25, 1:28 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: Gospace, those claims don’t square with the facts, or at least what the jury decided. The autopsy and expert testimony showed Floyd didn’t die of an overdose—he died because the restraint cut off his oxygen and no, was not consistent with police training. Chauvin wasn’t convicted because the video ‘looked bad’; the video matched the medical evidence. That’s why the jury convicted him.

Rusty, does ICE arresting a U.S. citizen and driving off with his car and baby count?; 11/18/25, 1:54 PM
narciso ayon kay ...: If he were anymore ignorant we'd have to water him; 11/18/25, 2:22 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: And when the Republican list of gibberish couldn’t become more of a non sequitur, Speaker Johnson then tells us that today’s 427–1 vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act was “not a reversal.”; 11/18/25, 2:29 PM
Rusty ayon kay ...: "Rusty, does ICE arresting a U.S. citizen and driving off with his car and baby count?"

As usual. You're long on assertion and extremely short on proof.
Just an FYI on your on going battle to defend any illegal against my right to be secure in my own country. ICE can't handcuff an infant. They don't make handcuffs that small.; 11/18/25, 2:46 PM
Gospace ayon kay ...: Ronald J. Ward said...
Gospace, those claims don’t square with the facts, or at least what the jury decided. The autopsy and expert testimony showed Floyd didn’t die of an overdose—he died because the restraint cut off his oxygen and no, was not consistent with police training

How did you not choke when swallowing those lies?; 11/18/25, 2:49 PM
narciso ayon kay ...: Minneapolis still has an abandoned police station because of thd subterfuge; 11/18/25, 2:50 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: I don’t know what your point is Rusty. You’re the one who brought up babies, not me.

Sorry Gospace but I’m a “show me the receipts” kinda guy. My comment was based on what prosecutors presented and what evidence the defense countered. The jury didn’t buy it. Neither do I.; 11/18/25, 3:07 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: After the Defense Intelligence Agency warned Trump that selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia could allow China to acquire the warplane’s technology, thanks to a security partnership between Riyadh and Beijing, Trump responded in an interview;

Q: “Are you planning to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia?”

Trump: “I am planning on doing that…We’ll be selling F-35s.”

But in an age where a sitting president could molest a grade schooler on 5th Ave and not lose a single supporter, what’s the big deal in jeopardizing our national security by rewarding a foreign authoritarian who’s in a position to reward Trump’s family business?; 11/18/25, 3:32 PM
Jim at ayon kay ...: My comment was based on what prosecutors presented and what evidence the defense countered. The jury didn’t buy it. Neither do I.

I can only hope one day you get a trial as corrupt and biased as the one Chauvin got. Just so you know what it's like to spend the rest of your life sitting in a cell for a crime you didn't commit.; 11/18/25, 3:39 PM
Ronald J. Ward ayon kay ...: Jim, Chauvin’s defense relied on 2 main arguments that were flawed. Floyd may have used drugs but it was proven he died from cardiopulmonary arrest due to extensive subdual, restraint, and neck compression.

The other is that the nine minute neck compression was not compatible with police training. In fact, it’s only to be used as a means to cuff and then proceed with the arrest and removal procedure.

It never helps a defense team to bring claims that falls apart in front of a jury.; 11/18/25, 5:04 PM
Rusty ayon kay ...: It's a new day and I have a new live trap. I also have a trail camera set up looking at the trap.; 11/19/25, 7:48 AM

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