Stepping back

 

If Dear Leader doesn't like being asked about Epstein, he's not going to want this cover framed on his desk.  His now infamous response to Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg News ("Quiet, quiet, piggy") was anticipated by New York magazine.  Here is Ms. Lucey:


Just his type, you might think.  But Trump doesn't like any journalists, only MAGA propagandists.  Here he is with our great ally (he's buying F-35s from us!) Prince Mohammed bin Salman:

The prince doesn't look embarrassed at all, but you know how solicitous Trump is of rich, corrupt tyrants, even when they don't wear Brooks Brothers suits.  "Things happen."  One day you're ordered to the Saudi embassy to sort out a passport problem, next you're being dismembered and buried in the garden.  Allegedly.  C'est la vie.  Jamal Khashoggi held US citizenship, too, but things happen.

Something something bedfellows, how does it go?  First MTG and AOC bonded over their wish to see pedophiles brought to justice, now MAGA-TV speaks up for the separation of church and state.  Carl Higbie on Newsmax:  "Stay in your lane, guys.  This is why we separated the church and the state.  After all, the church loves not paying taxes."  Marriage equality?  Access to abortion and contraception?  Don't be silly, Higbie's enraged that Catholic bishops dared criticize Trump's assault on immigrants.  "How many immigrants are you offering to house in your churches?"

Maybe a lot, as Kristi & Corey have announced their holiday plans.  ICEstapo will target Spanish-speaking churches all over the country between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  It's rumored that Stephen Miller has raised the daily Cruelty Quota to 5,000, but children will count as a full person.  In Florida, they finally nabbed Paul Bojerski, a retired optician who has lived here since 1952.  For some reason now being sorted out by a judge he never became a US citizen.  He was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp in 1946 and currently lives in the Krome Detention Center in Miami.  I feel safer already.

After FIFA invented a "peace prize" in his honor and the largely abandoned Kennedy Center was made available for the World Cup draw free of charge, you'd think Trump would want it to be yuge, the greatest World Cup ever, nobody has ever seen etc.  But welcoming the world must take a back seat to hatred of "the other."  Today he announced that Marco Rubio's team of intrepid xenophobes will vet every person who wants to come here for the matches, to make sure they don't get up to any preversions, as Major "Bat" Guano would say.  Once a fan scores a ticket it will only take sixty days to find out if they passed the rigorous screening for a visa.  They should probably start work now on the essay question, "Why Donald Trump is the greatest person in history."  Diabetics, cancer patients, the obese and the transgender needn't bother.  Try Mexico and Canada, where just anybody who loves the game is welcome.  And start rounding up your documents and character witnesses if you're even thinking of the 2028 Olympics.

"I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me."  Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor?  No, Lawrence Summers, Harvard professor emeritus and the latest FOJ (friend of Jeffrey) to be named in emails.  It's no secret that Summers always had a low opinion of women, more or less a requirement for what went on in Epstein's enterprise.  Was he a participant in the crimes or only one of the intellectuals Epstein accumulated for his other endeavors?  We may find out.

Trump's putting on a show for Prince Bone Saw today, verbally abusing ABC News reporter Mary Bruce because she poked him in two sore spots.  She asked about the Khashoggi murder and the Epstein files and that was all it took:  "I think you are a terrible reporter.  It's the way you ask...you're a terrible person and a terrible reporter."  Then he threatened to sic Brendan Carr on ABC and revoke their license, which networks don't have.  (Imagine the chat afterward:  "These broads, they don't talk like that in your country, do they?"  "Have you tried public flogging?")  Carr is busy right now dealing with his master's demands for the dismembering firing of Seth Meyers.  His war on Jimmy Kimmel backfired like a 1955 Roadmaster and he's desperate for a win.

The House just voted 427-1 to release the Epstein files, with the reliably awful Clay Higgins claiming concern for the privacy of the victims.  Some of the victims released this PSA because their truth is more important to them than privacy.

If we ever learn the true extent of this it will make Watergate look like a glove compartment full of unpaid tickets.

























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