End of Day One
"You're tearing me apart!" cries MAGA, doing its best impression of James Dean. Their people shout for the Epstein file to be released -- the one that was on Pam Bondi's desk until the dog ate it -- and then they vote 211-210 to block the Democrats' attempt to release it. If it exists. If Epstein ever existed. Maybe that's it -- he's The Man Who Wasn't There in the First Place. His island is at the bottom of the sea like Atlantis. Trump is up all night pounding out Truths for them to follow, which only confuse them more.
"Hunter Biden's bathroom"?
Trump went all the way to Pittsburgh to regale Carnegie Mellon University with a speech on AI, which turned into an account of how his uncle John taught Theodore Kaczynski at MIT even though Kaczynski attended Harvard, and how he and Doctor John discussed the Unabomber even though he wasn't identified as such until after the uncle died -- look, I'm getting lightheaded. Anyway, he only dozed off once so that was good, but then some photographer from the Lying Media took this closeup of Trump's hand...
...which definitely does not show an attempt to cover an IV scar with makeup because he is not old and feeble like Joe Biden who didn't win a single golf championship in four years...
Sorry, I got distracted. How long, d'ya think, before the regime goes after crowdfunding, and specifically GoFundMe? I envision an executive order, some House bills, maybe an "investigation" by James Comer and the Comettes. Nearly two million dollars has been raised to date to help innocent people abducted and tortured by ICE and the families they leave behind. All the good will (if you can call it that) for removing "killers, rapists, gangbangers and other violent criminals" has melted away as people notice that someone they know -- farmworkers, daycare workers, home health care providers, day laborers, cooks and gardeners -- is being disappeared as if they were MS-13, their only crime being paperwork. And we who contribute the small sums we can afford -- we're the terrorists, according to Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin: "Why does the media continue to fall for the sob stories of illegal aliens?" Because you don't arrest bad guys by filling a daily quota. Because you lie as if it were a form of exercise. Because "illegal aliens" are human beings, Tricia, as you probably were long ago.
MAGA don't appreciate being called "weaklings" whose support Trump now spurns despite their houses full of made-in-China merch and their yards full of faded "LET'S GO BRANDON" signs. There's nothing wrong with wanting to stop child sex trafficking, which is a real crime, even if your energy has been weaponized and misguided for political gain. They want to know how many more Virginia Giuffres were exploited and abused by rich and powerful men. They want the reckoning they were promised. They don't want to hear "Nothing to see, go home, hey, how about those chemtrails?" No, they won't start knocking on doors for AOC, they'll just stay home or look for something Trumpier than Trump. The mind reels.
When in doubt, lie. Today Trump is claiming that Joe Biden appointed Jerome Powell in 2017 when Joe won that "Be President For a Day" contest. He's also showing Republicans a draft of a letter firing Powell, which he has no power to do -- perhaps a kind of "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Federal Reserve chairman?" All he needs now is a grade school nickname for Powell, like "Jerky Jerry." Keep watching those Truths.
Meanwhile we have a new name for Trump -- "Laranjao safado," Portuguese for "big orange dirtbag." Trump hasn't threatened Brazil with annexation like Canada, but he has a knack for creating nationalist feeling in people by interfering in their domestic affairs. There was a huge rally last week in Sao Paolo by people who carried signs like "Nice try, Trump, but we're not afraid," a reference to his tariff threat if they don't stop the Bolsonaro prosecution. It has boosted the sinking popularity of President Lula as he seeks a fourth term next year. Trump is also seen as pushing Brazil closer to China as a trading partner.
Here in the US academia is finally finding its voice and its backbone. Last winter Elise Stefanik led the mob finding antisemitism on every campus that failed to prevent editorials and demonstrations in support of Palestinians or even expel the "terrorists." This week a spirited defense was led by Rich Lyons, chancellor of UC Berkeley, who said, "If somebody is expressing pro-Palestinian beliefs, that's not necessarily antisemitic." "Berkeley has a solemn obligation to protect the quintessential American value of free speech," he added. Mario Savio would have been proud.
Speaking of speech, Fox News houseplant Gutfeld! says it's time for MAGA to embrace its own N-word: "I've said this before, we need to learn from the blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the N-word by using it. So from now on it's 'What up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?"
Yeah, couple problems there, Greg. The N-word you reference is a racist insult derived from the Spanish negro. No one wants to hear it from a white person like you. "Nazi" refers to a specific, highly toxic nationalist and racist political movement which originated in Germany. If you want to make explicit the link between Trump and Hitler, be my guest. I don't think you can remove the power from the word after a world war and millions of dead, but take your best shot, my Nazi. Also: BEING A NAZI IS A CHOICE AND MOST WHITE PEOPLE ABHOR IT.
Read Dr. Travis L. Stokes for a more articulate "fuck you, Greg."
Twenty blue states are suing Cowgirl Ilse Koch's DHS over the decision to shut down FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (BRIC) program and spend the money Congress appropriated on more concentration camps. Red state Louisiana doesn't have that luxury. Up to ten inches of rain is predicted for Jefferson Parish and New Orleans is already distributing sandbags.
Could someone find out exactly how many air traffic controllers work for the Department of Transportation? And then tell Sean Duffy, who had no idea when questioned by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA). He just knows we need more.
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