SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025
...at a famous person's press conference: It's too hot here today, but mainly too humid, for a sensible person to function.
Plus, the errands that arose! All of a sudden, NAME WITHHELD's key would no longer work!
That said, we want to continue to establish the historical record. Reminding you of the human tragedy that lies at the heart of all such conditions, we want to memorialize the latest thing President Trump has said.
He said it yesterday, down in Texas, during a press event after viewing some of the devastation from the recent floods. The Q-and-A went like this:
REPORTER (7/11/25): ...here with CBS News Texas. Several families we’ve heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts, didn’t go out in time, and they also say that people could have been saved. What do you say to those families?
TRUMP: Well, I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. This was, I guess Kristi [Noem] said, a one-in-500, one-in-a thousand years [event]. And I just have admiration for the job that everybody did. There’s just admiration. The, uh—
Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don’t know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that.
The president stressed the word "evil." To watch the fuller exchange, you can move ahead to the 29th minute on the C-Span videotape.
Last week, President Trump named CNN as "the enemy" again because the network published an accurate report about an early damage assessment after the attack on Iran. In a very dangerous bit of behavior, he continued to heap abuse on one reporter in particular.
Yesterday, he was asked a fairly obvious question, though one which was possibly less than flattering. He quickly said that "only a very evil person" could have asked such a thing.
We've been asking, for quite some time, if something might be wrong in some way with this sitting president. The American press corps has agreed that manifestations of this type can only be discussed in the most simplistic ways possible.
Nothing to look at! Keep moving along! As they normalize and disappear these unusual behaviors, that is our press corps in action.
Humidity willing, we'll resume full services on Monday morning We'll be describing our search with regard to Medicaid coverage, and we'll be starting anew from there.
Steven Pinker is innocent.
ReplyDeletePiker poked his pinky in little girls stinky.
DeleteYou are a liar.
DeleteYou can not not handle the truth.
DeleteThe truth is Pinker is innocent.
DeleteWhy should anyone care about Pinker any more than the other rich and powerful men who are being shielded by Trump's refusal to be transparent about the Epstein files?
DeleteYou decide who you care about. Pinker is innocent and doesn't need to be shielded from any Epstein files.
DeleteThen why are you working overtime on this @5:39? The more defensive someone is, generally the more they have to hide. There is evidence against Pinker that suggests he is not wholly innocent as you claim. Why shouldn't the public know the truth about someone who has been so much in the public as a "public intellectual" (as Somerby puts it), disclaiming on the nature of rape and women's experience of sex and getting it all wrong!
DeleteThe public should know the truth: he's innocent. You can disagree with him scientifically and politically, but he's still innocent.
Delete"The more defensive someone is, generally the more they have to hide."
DeleteReally? Okay, you're an idiot. Now don't be too 'defensive' about what I just said or people will know it's true.
From AI: "Liars often react to accusations with defensiveness, avoidance, or attempts to deflect blame. They may become overly emotional, deny the accusations vehemently, or try to change the subject to avoid directly addressing the claim. Other common reactions include excessive explanations, blaming others, or attempting to undermine the accuser's credibility. "
DeleteYou’re the puppet.
Delete
DeletePinker sent polling data to Russians. And that's treason.
Manafort did that, not Pinker. Does Pinker know you are using his name in vain?
DeletePinker is on the client list/flight logs.
DeleteA witness testified that they "serviced" Pinker while he was on Epstein's island.
Pinker offered to help in Epstein's trial, even after Epstein was already a convicted pedo.
Pinker is guilty when it comes to Epstein.
Pinker is in good company, others guilty of using Epstein's "services": Trump, Prince Andrew, Dershowitz, Gates, etc.
DeletePinker sent polling data to Russians.
According to the Mueller Report, that was Manafort.
Delete"The president stressed the word "evil." "
ReplyDeleteHe's right. Idiot-Democrat media exploiting grieving families is evil; what other word would you use?
Good, decent.
Delete"Several families we’ve heard from are obviously upset because they say" So the grieving families of dead children are evil. Got. It. Cult. Weirdos.
DeleteThe humidity is probably too high in TX too, and that's why the nominal head of FEMA is not doing his job.
ReplyDeleteNobody cares what Medicaid numbers Somerby wants to pin down so that he can claim no one knows the truth about anything. Is there any acceptable amount of cuts to Medicaid that won't be perceived as unjust given that Trump is giving billionaires another tax cut in the face of an economy that he has made way less predictable?
ReplyDeleteSpot on.
DeleteThere are a bunch of MAGA Trump supporters who are disappointed and confused by his behavior and claiming that this is not what they voted for. We know that is a concern for Republican party leaders because they are blatantly trying to gerrymander TX congressional districts ahead of the midterms. Biden could probably win in the current political environment.
ReplyDeleteDisagree. Biden did his best to destroy America. Trump on the other hand has had the best first six months of any presidency EVER!
DeleteTrump voters are getting what they voted for. Surveys show Trump voters overwhelmingly support his action as Pres. They should,. He has fulfilled many of his campaign promises, such as various tax and spending cuts. And he tried very hard to fulfill others, such as peace in Ukraine and Gaza.
Delete"Surveys show Trump voters overwhelmingly support his action as Pres."
DeleteSurveys also show Trump is under water on every major issue with the broader public--not just those who voted for him.
People who didn't vote for Trump are still citizens. So far.
Trump is just better. And it's impressive given he went through that horrible trial in New York that was brought against him for political purposes only to win the presidency.
DeleteDoes it count as a peace negotiation if Trump withholds weapons and satellite data and damages Ukraine's ability to hold off Russia until it has no choice but to surrender?
DeleteTrump won the presidency the same way he wins those club championships held at his golf courses.
DeleteMost people agree it's preferable to have Trump over having Kamala Harris stumble and slur her way across the world stage as our president.
DeleteI don't know anyone who thinks this. Trump is doing the stumbling and slurring these days. The attempt to portray Harris as a drinker didn't catch on anywhere except on the right. It is kind of sad to see trolls still trying to put that one across when the election was over such a long time ago and Harris isn't a target any more.
Delete"Most people agree..."
DeleteEvidence. Got any?
"Kamala Harris stumble and slur"
DeleteYeah, on the deep fake videos you get fed all day.
"Trump voters are getting what they voted for."
DeleteNot everything. I haven't heard him mention the size of Arnold Palmer's schlong once.
Here is some evidence the slurs didn't work well, and an analysis of the use of such personal attacks by Republicans:
Delete"The attacks do not seem to be working as well as Trump may have hoped, because Harris is surging ahead in many of the polls. And her running-mate Tim Walz went viral after mocking the Republican attacks by describing Trump and Vance as "weird people."
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-drinking-problem-alcoholic-allegations-trump-1940978
I don't understand why trolls are still posting this stuff about a person who is not running for anything in a time that is not an election period.
Is this about distracting from Kristi Noem's vicious streak? Or is it to focus on Harris instead of Epstein?
Pinker lauds everything that Trump is now destroying.
DeleteWe're definitely dodged a bullet when voters rejected Harris.
DeleteNot many people feel that way about it.
DeleteTrump’s outright contempt for chumps, like David in Cal, is easily the best thing about him.
DeleteTrump could rape a 12-year-old girl in the middle of 5th Avenue in broad daylight, and he wouldn't lose Davidi in Cal's support.
DeleteHaving Kamala Harris as president. would be like having Jasmine Crockett as president, not experienced enough.
DeleteHarris could have made 90 deals in 90 days.
DeleteNo amount of experience is ever enough to get men to admit that a woman is qualified for higher office.
DeletePam Bondi and Kristi Noem are qualified.
DeleteYes, just not for the jobs they are currently holding.
DeleteTrump does not know what the fuck he is doing.
DeleteTrump has worsened the genocide in Gaza, inflation and employment are not doing well, tariffs are a disaster, no trade deals, Trump when not golfing is busy bombing people of color throughout the world killing innocent civilians including children while achieving nothing.
Trump is a total disaster.
Trump has threatened to take away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship.
ReplyDeleteInsanity.
If he can do that to her, he can do it to any of us.
DeleteTrump’s hilarious.
DeleteLast week he said Rosie should be the CEO of Citibank.
"Trump has threatened to take away Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship."
DeleteAnd who can blame him? TDS-suffering retards are so repulsive, deporting them is an urgent necessity. Think of the children!
Republicans voted for Trump to be afraid of strong women.
DeleteAnd you fell for it?
DeleteMakes sense. O'Donnell is a Democrat, so she's probably violent, and would spend most of her time slapping the shit out of Tump.
DeleteSpanked at Trump's request, with a copy of Forbes magazine that featured his family on the cover. Yes folks, that is what you can cut and paste about the leader of the free world as noted in People magazine. Daddy's home!
DeleteAccusations of TDS are highly correlated with those that molest children, troll at 12:39AM can't help himself, outs himself as a pedo.
Delete@12:39 is just repeating what Trump is reported to have asked Stormy Daniels to do during their tryst.
DeleteDHS tried to intimidate Puerto Ricans in Chicago this weekend, ahead of a community festival. Puerto Ricans are citizens but it is unclear whether DHS knows that, organizers said:
ReplyDelete"It was utterly confounding to Chicagoans this week when it appeared that Homeland Security agents were skulking outside the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture ahead of its annual Barrio Arts Fest this weekend. The museum is in a neighborhood, Humboldt Park, that is half Latino and predominantly Puerto Rican.
DHS denies that its agents’ visit had anything to do with the upcoming events, but that doesn’t pass the smell test: Museum staffers told ABC 7 Chicago that they heard agents talking about the festival...
“There’s footage of them looking around, asking how to come in and out, and occupying the parking lot,” said Federico A. de Jesús, a former Obama administration official who is now a consultant. He spoke with The Bulwark after a Wednesday press conference at the museum that featured more than a dozen local, state, and federal officials, including Rep. Delia Ramirez, state senator Omar Aquino, and Cook County Commissioner Jessica Vazquez."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-were-trump-dhs-ice-agents-casing-puerto-rican-museum-chicago-la-taco
Why Were Trump’s Agents Casing a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?
Plus: The lessons of L.A. Taco.
Adrian Carrasquillo
Jul 12
I believe that Trump is withholding the Epstein files so that he can engage in another round of blackmail with the men listed. Trump keeps talking about how their lives could be ruined by disclosure of the files (as he noted to Bill O'Reilly). That is the equivalent of "nice life you have going for yourself. It would be a shame if anything happened to damage your reputation. As Trump keeps saying, they would be ruined.
ReplyDeleteIf he releases those files, he loses his leverage.
DeleteThere are no files.
DeleteEpstein committed suicide.
Republicans are fascists.
Sorry, if those truths hurt your feelings.
Get over it.
How can there be no files? Pam Bondi said she had them on her desk.
DeleteThere were files. There are no files.
DeleteThere were flies, not files. Simple mispronouncing. Like saying "axed" instead of "asked".
DeleteYes, there were flies on her desk to review.
DeleteNo one listens to Pam Bondi. She's a full-time member of America's Nazi Party.
DeleteEpstein was murdered.
DeleteVideo shows someone walking up to Epstein's cell the night he died, and then a little later the video footage was altered, with a missing gap.
Duh.
A while back Trump was interviewed and asked why he wished Ghislaine Maxwell well (who was charged with sex trafficking at the time), and Trump responded, in mafia style, looking straight into the camera he said "her boyfriend just died, he was in jail and he died, murdered or suicide, and I just want to wish her well".
This was an obvious threat to Maxwell to keep her mouth shut, or wind up like Epstein.
With Trump it is ho's before bro's, he will turn on anyone when it suits him.
Epstein sent polling data to the Russians. Or was it Einstein?
DeleteManafort is not spelled E-p-s-t-e-i-n. Not even in Russian.
DeleteMaybe Somerby started using the term "kulturklatch" on Friday because Robert Reich has a new substack and podcast called The Coffee Klatch?
ReplyDeleteWe Should Stop Calling Him Our "President" | The Coffee Klatch for July 12, 2025
With Heather Lofthouse, Michael Lahanas-Calderón, and yours truly, Robert Reich
Maybe this was just Somerby's snide way of undercutting a respected Democrat who spends a lot of time discussing Trump's many failings, the state of our democracy, and things we can do to resist tyranny.
I was wonder why and how he came up with that discordant term, echoing Hitler and Germany and white supremacist bro culture. It may just have been his spiteful way of dissing Trump's opposition without actually having to do any actual research or address anyone else's points. Just some weird name calling.
Coffee Klatch is, of course, a very familiar term, especially in New York society. I recall Mike Meyers' dialect jokes about coffee ladies.
""Kulturkampf", meaning "culture struggle," describes the historical conflict in 19th century Germany between the government, led by Otto von Bismarck, and the Roman Catholic Church." I have no idea whether today's Hitler afficionados are reviving such terms to refer to current cultural struggles in American society, but I do know it isn't part of academia (except historically). So it is weird when Somerby grabs this term out of thin air like this.
Somerby never explains himself, so don't hold your breath expecting he will make his intended meaning clear.
"that discordant term, echoing Hitler and Germany and white supremacist bro culture."
DeletePeople hear echoes of what they want to hear. I read the entire post and not Hitler nor Germany nor white supremacist bro culture ever crossed my mind.
So, did you not recognize the German spelling of German words?
DeleteI read that entire post and all I could think of was German potato pancakes.
DeleteI listened to a guy explain the border “crisis”, and all I could think of was cupcakes and ice cream.
DeleteThe Biden administration admitted to losing track of 200,000+ unaccompanied kids, many of whom we know are being trafficked. The Trump administration is committed to finding as many of those kids as possible. They just found about 10 at that marijuana farm in California.
DeleteMao's squeals are a national treasure.
DeleteMaybe Somerby should investigate how many migrant children are unaccounted for? Newsmax says there were 600,000 and "tens of thousands" are unaccounted for. Some other reports are claiming they are all missing (after being released from DHS custody). In some reports, the situation is only that they no longer have addresses for the sponsors, not that the kids themselves went anywhere wrong. Meanwhile, Trump fired all of the Inspector Generals, so who is brining this charge? And how can anyone know whether the kids are being "trafficked" if no one knows where they are?
DeleteThis strikes me as an opportunistic attack to divert attention from Epstein, based on the use of normal procedures. If the Biden Administration said it didn't know where the kids are now, when it is no longer their job to know, how is that Biden's fault? And recall that these kids have been getting older all this time, so many are no longer children, having arrived (unaccompanied) when they were in their late teens.
But look over there -- a squirrel! Rich and powerful men had sex with children who WERE being trafficked, but if you care so much about children, what about the kids Biden let into the country? What about those kids? Huh, huh!
Now Trump is saying that Hillary created the Epstein files. How dumb are the MAGAs if they believe Trump's assertion that this is just another Russia hoax?
ReplyDeleteTalk about your open ended questions, "How dumb are the MAGAs?" I just don't have enough time to answer.
DeleteThe MAGAs should have known better than to go sniffing around after Epstein was offed on Trump's watch. Now Trump's in "there's nothing there" mode, having duplicitously promised the Jeffrey Epstein Files release for so long. Poor Pam Bondi is just following Trump's orders here, which puts the MAGA FBI in the peculiar position of calling her out for being such a subservient tool to Trump. Patel and Bongino have opted to engage in a war with Trump's proxy here. Both of them must at this point know that if push comes to shove they will be gone for not understanding their proper roles.
DeleteMichael Jackson died for our sins.
ReplyDeleteEpstein died for Trump’s.
I heard Epstein died for Pinker's sins.
DeletePinker is innocent.
DeleteNext you'll be claiming that Epstein was innocent.
DeleteNo one is innocent.
DeleteEpstein gave polling data to Russians. That's why he committed suicide.
DeleteAccording to Wolff's Epstein interview tapes, Trump is unable to form relationships with people, so he has no friends. That applies to women to, so he has had no wives who sincerely care about him as a person. If you "buy" a wife, what do you expect?
DeleteManafort gave polling data to the Russians. That was in the Mueller report.
DeleteWolff says he has seen photos of Trump hanging out with Epstein with topless GIRLS sitting on his lap, and in one photo they are pointing to and laughing at a "stain" on Trump's crotch area.
DeleteSo so super edgy to vote for and laud a rapist. Way to "own the libs"!
Has anyone else noticed that for the second time in the past 10 years we don't have a real First Lady? There seems to be this immigrant ex-porn star who barely speaks English who occasionally will accompany King Orange Chickenshit. And the liberal media pretends this is normal.
ReplyDeleteI like the first lady who wears gorgeous eye shadow and humps couches. Who are you talking about?
DeleteRepublicans voted for bigotry, not for a better economy.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats now losing the white vote. There isn't one demographic that is showing increased support for them except college educated white women (MSNBC wine moms)
ReplyDelete_______________
A new poll by the Democratic super PAC Unite the Country shows Democrats are facing deep credibility and enthusiasm problems after their 2024 losses. Voters across battleground areas view the party as “out of touch,” “woke,” and “weak,” with approval ratings below 35% among white men, Hispanic men, and working-class voters. Only 35% of Democrats are optimistic about the party’s future, down sharply from 57% last year, and donors have pulled back funding.
Strategists warn that simply emphasizing democracy or soft immigration stances no longer resonates with the broader electorate. Instead, Democrats must refocus on clear, common-sense economic issues—health care, schools, housing—and rebuild trust by elevating fresh leaders outside the Washington establishment. Voters want candidates they see as authentic and willing to fight for ordinary people.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5395563-democrats-losing-support-white-voters/amp/
Democrats could learn a thing or two from the GOP's use of identity politics.
DeleteDemocratic politicians need to 1. Stop lying about everything 2. Try to pretend to care about voters at least a occasionally.
DeleteCaring about voters is a loser electorally, but the Democratic Party should continue to do it anyway.
DeleteThe current gang of Democrat politicians will continue doing what they always do. Democrat constituency needs to kick the Democrat politicians and bureaucrats out, and get a whole bunch of new ones. Or, if that's not possible, just leave it.
DeleteDon't worry, Democrats have 100% of the anti-Trump vote and that will be the basis for their choices in the midterms and in 2028.
DeleteThe people who don't believe in Republican voter suppression tactics, think Democratic Party voters already left the party.
DeleteWe'll have to wait and see if those same folks believe politicians will leave the party, too.
The Democratic Party would win a lot more elections, if they had stopped Trump and the Republican Party from giving the rich and corporations huge tax breaks, while abandoning the working class.
DeleteUntil they are able to do so, the voters have no choice but to elect the people who give the rich and corporations huge tax breaks, while abandoning the working class.
Repuke politicians need to 1. Stop lying about everything 2. Try to pretend to care about voters at least a occasionally.
DeleteExamples: 1. Epstein 2. BBB 3. Quit watching your manpods.
Yes, but Democrats did vote 100% unanimously against the BBB. They are not a majority in the House or Senate, so it was up to a Republican to stop that bill. None did because they were all coerced and paid off to stand with Trump. So, the Democrats did what they could but it was (1) all the people who voted to elect more Republicans to Congress that didn't stop Trump, and (2) there is no blaming Democrats when they are not the party in power, largely because the people didn't vote for them when they should have, and (3) it was obvious what Trump was planning to do after election.
DeletePeople just don't trust Democrats anymore after all of their years of lies.
DeleteTrolls said the same thing about Dems in 2017.
DeleteAnd then the Dems won big in 2018 and 2020 and 2022.
Dems are held back by a dying cohort of establishment Third Way neoliberals, but they are being replaced by true populists yet the troll here does not celebrate that, putting the lie to his supposed complaints.
No, the troll here does not care about the working class, he is only here to trigger a response so the abyss he is in does not seem so lonely.
People don't care about politicians' lies.
DeleteThey hate Democrats for being war-mongering pro-open-borders globalist wokie scum.
Political observers are recommending the Democratic party stop alienating tens of millions of millions of voters with lies.
DeletePeople don't care about politicians' lies. They care about their standard of living, about peace and prosperity.
DeletePoliticians lie about those things.
DeleteDemocrats lost the trust of voters. They're not getting it back until they totally clean house and change the way they act and think The current incarnation is a total failure.
DeleteWhen you say "voters" you really should clarify which voters you are talking about. Democrats have never had the trust of Republican voters for example.
DeleteIt is hard to trust Democrats.. They have lied for so many years while twisting the truth and screwing us over. Sorry, I just do not believe them.
DeleteThat’s a joke considering how much Trump lies.
DeleteRural living isn't compatible with Capitalism.
ReplyDeleteOnce they get you to believe Epstein had a list, getting you to believe there is a "border crisis" is kid's play.
ReplyDeleteJamie Alanis fell 30 feet from a greenhouse roof during an ICE raid on a cannabis farm in CA (where that is legal). 200 people were arrested during that raid.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the circumstances of his fall and death, this illustrates the dangers of surprise visits to places of business where workers are disrupted and may be frightened and upset by what is happening. There is no reason why those ICE agents should have been on that property. Breaking into a place of business to disrupt workers at their jobs should not be allowed because it causes fatalities like this over paperwork.
Trump will not lose a single maggot's unqualified support. In fact, Dickhead in Cal just got a woody reading that horror story.
DeleteWhat it demonstrates is that retards shouldn't climb up onto the roof.
DeleteAnd, by the way, marijuana is illegal on the federal level. Are you idiot-Democrats advocating states rights now?
They voted for this, and not lower grocery prices.
DeleteI challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
Squeal, Mao, squeal!
DeleteNo 12:15, MAGATs are plain and simple dickheads. "Federal law still classifies marijuana as an illegal substance, but enforcement is generally relaxed in states that have legalized its use. While 24 states allow recreational marijuana use and 40 allow medical use, the federal government maintains its prohibition. Despite this, the federal government typically doesn't actively enforce these laws in states with legal cannabis, particularly regarding possession, cultivation, and intrastate distribution" Like where are the raids on Missouri, Oklahoma, Montana etc., etc., etc. Just fucking miserable shitheads.
DeleteJeff Tiedrich does actual media criticism today. No wishy washy "anything is possible" garbage from him! He tells it like most of us think it is!
ReplyDeleteFirst he repeats Trump's crazy rant about Hillary inventing the Epstein files. Then he says this:
"you know, there was a time — long before the internet existed — when if you wanted to experience this level of batshit, you had to go down to the park and wait for the guy with the wild eyes, unkempt hair and dirty t-shirt to wander over and press a badly-mimeographed sheet of paper into your hands. you’d look at it, and it would be a thousand single-spaced lines about how this guy’s uncle is a toaster, and the government has files that prove this but refuses to release them.
now, this caliber of crazy is shit out daily from the rancid anus-mouth of the president of the United States — and we’re all expected to go about our business, and pretend that Donny’s cheese hasn’t slipped all the way off his cracker.
CNN can go fuck itself in new and creative ways, because here’s how they reported Donny’s unhinged melt-down: as if it were the most normal thing ever.
President Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday amid criticism from some in his base over the release of a memo about accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, writing on Truth Social that Bondi is doing “a FANTASTIC JOB” in her role.
“full-throated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that lede. there is no hint in CNN’s dry reporting that Donny just posted the most stark barking bonkers thing, ever.
hey CNN, how about the part where the Mad King claims the Email Lady is behind this whole nefarious scheme? let see, you have to read down one, two, three, four— holy shit, you have to wade twelve paragraphs into the story before we get to it.
The president repeated his frustration in his Saturday post, writing, “For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again,” while accusing a slew of political adversaries, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director James Brennan “and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration” who he claimed “created the Epstein Files.”
just a perfectly normal president, making perfectly normal accusations.
if you only read CNN’s account and never saw the original post, you’d have no idea that the family of raccoons that live inside Donny’s head have finally chewed through all the wires.
and the press wonders why we get all bent out of shape over their sanewashing of this shit."
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/hillary-wrote-the-epstein-files-claims
Yes, he is saying the same thing as Somerby does about sanewashing but notice the clarity of language and directness of his complaint against the press. He leaves absolutely no doubt about how he feels about CNN and the other media sanewashing Trump's insanity.
I was hoping Jewish at birth David in Cal could help compare and contrast what Der Sturmer said versus what Stephen Miller said. Der Sturmer: "without the Jew, the German School would thrive; German children would not go hungry; our hospitals would have room again." Miller, ""What would LA look like without illegal aliens? You would be able to see a doctor in the ER right away, no wait time, no problem. You kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size." Coincidence David? You know better than this shit, you sick fck.
ReplyDeleteDavid is a bad person, no question. But I still love him.
DeleteAre you saying that Jew was illegal alien?
DeleteOf course Germany lost a great deal that had been contributed by Jews, including the physics that led to the atomic bomb. One I hadn't thought of was pointed out to me by a German guy: Jews were contributing a huge portion of comedy.
DeleteDo you think that loss to Germany is any compensation for what the Jews and others lost in the camps?
DeleteDavid has made a bizarre remark that suggests he has no real feeling for what happened to Jews in Germany. This is the kind of callous remark you'd expect from a right wing troll.
DeleteDavid is no more Jewish than Mother Teresa.
DeleteNothing David writes is genuine.
David is a troll, stuck in some windowless bunker, whose only joy is to trigger others into responding to his nonsense.
Sure, label David as a troll, but then move on, otherwise you are just giving him oxygen, enabling his worst traits.
And you, 1:55 Soros-bot, you have this "real feeling" about Jews specifically in Germany? How do you explain that?
DeleteThat's one of the main places Jews were persecuted. Did you not know that?
DeleteIt wasn't, Soros-bot. Not even close to, say, Poland.
DeleteSo my question not just to David is - Why is the Trump admin studying Nazi Germany rhetoric to coalesce fascist support for their extreme measures? And, what would you have done in Germany in 1933 to stop/slow the eventual horror, what are you doing to fight the new horror emerging on our own soil?
DeleteThere's nothing extreme in deporting illegal aliens, Soros-bot. In fact, that's the law of the land. The law was passed by the congress. The Trump admin only enforces it, as it should. Capeesh?
DeletePoland?, you aren't getting any smarter our genuine with time, you old goat fucker, Mao.
Delete@2:18 - the idea that the US today is like Nazi Germany is not only ridiculous; it's somewhat offensive. It minimizes the horror of Nazism and the Holocaust.
DeleteNot only is the US like fascism, we actually have unparoled civil liberties and civil rights today. I am proud my country ended slavery and ended discriminations against various minorities. We have freedom of speech at a time when this freedom is being curtailed in Europe.
So, when Hitler deported German Jews to Poland for extermination, that was A-OK with you, because it was the law of the land? No, I don't "capeesh".
DeleteHere is yesterday's horror. A migrant farmworker fell 30 feet off a roof and died because he was terrified of being sent to God knows where by men in masks with guns. Over paperwork.
@2:15 doesn't seem to know that Poland was occupied by Germany during that time.
DeletePoland was occupied from 1939 to 1945:
Delete"Yes, Poland was occupied by Germany during World War II. The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, marked the beginning of the war and resulted in the country being split between Germany and the Soviet Union. Germany directly annexed western Poland, while the rest was organized as the Generalgouvernement. The Nazi occupation was brutal, resulting in the deaths of millions of Polish citizens, including a large number of Jewish people. [AI]"
Steven Pinker is Jewish. I never suspected until now that the false accusations against him are antisemitism.
DeleteIf Steven Pinker is innocent, he has a lot to be gained by the Epstein files being released to the public. Perhaps you might ask him to encourage Trump to do that, on his behalf.
DeleteTiedrich continues:
ReplyDelete"now get ready, here comes the crowning moment of batshit.
Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, [Trump asks]
ohhhhh, the Email Lady wrote the Epstein Files — because of course she did. the files we were just told never existed, she wrote them. how does that work? did she use disappearing ink?
and she had help! look at this murderer’s row of fuckface forgers: Barack HUSSEIN Obama, James Comey, John Brennan and members of the Biden Crime Administration. yeah, all these people famously love each other. I’m sure that James Comey took time off from investigating Hillary’s emails to help her gin up some documents.
do you think they had a group chat going on while they were cooking up all this hokus malarky?
‘put your husband Bill in the files, Hil, that’ll really confuse everyone.’"
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MAGAs have been clamoring for the release of the Epstein files because they think Democrats are the pedophiles along with Epstein. It doesn't seem to have occurred to them that Trump himself, along with prominent celebrities, Republicans and billionaires are probably listed in those files. Those are the people who support Trump's campaign so he doesn't want to cause them any trouble, aside from his own predicament.
And the media is being complicit in hiding that info. But now that there is a widely dispersed independent media on substack, it would be hard to keep anyone's name secret any more, so the whole files have to disappear. And Bondi is a partisan first and an Attorney General second, so of course she is helping Trump suppress this stuff.
This is what a major scandal looks like. It is unfolding before our eyes. This is our generation's Watergate. At some point perhaps someone will give Trump a way out, suggest he resign and help him flee to Moscow or become a recluse at Mar-a-Lago, as Nixon did in San Clemente. It may only be a matter of time.
I want to remind everyone that Somerby has been claiming that #metoo is dead, no one cares about abuse of women any more. The conservative reaction to the failure of Trump's AG to release the Epstein files, after promising to do so, suggests that many people on the right do care about whether young women are abused by rich and powerful men. Yes, they think it is Democrats doing the abusing, but the reluctance to follow through on his promise suggests that Trump himself and other Republicans, especially billionaires and celebrities, may be involved.
ReplyDeleteI hope the supporters of Q-Anon and conspiracy theorists such as Roseanne Barr, continue to exert pressure on Trump to make the details of Epstein's operation public so that we can all know who was doing what to children and sex trafficked women.
In the meantime, the attempts to deflect from this focus on Epstein by accusing Biden, immigrants, and Democrats of being pedophiles and traffickers needs to be seen for what it is, a distraction and an attempt to evade accountability by Trump and his staff. Trump got himself into the mess and I don't see any way he will get out of it without coming clean.
Somerby has been ignoring this situation, but given his previous suggestions that very young women are historically fair game, I think this would be a good time for him to continue to stay mum on the subject of man-girl sex. For those who may have forgotten, see his essay on the way the movies promoted May-December romances like that between Bogey and Bacall ("She was only 17"). Somerby might take a look at the clamor around him and see that not even MAGAs support abuse of young girls for male pleasure.
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Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog doesn't think this will be Trump's downfall. But he also doesn't think Trump controls MAGA:
ReplyDelete"Trump seems to have been the party's sole leader for a decade, but he actually shares the leadership role now with the likes of Chris Rufo, Charlie Kirk, Chaya Raichik, and the Heritage Foundation, and the messages are channeled through Fox (for old people), purely ideological podcasts such as Steve Bannon's War Room for the middle-aged, and bro podcasts and social media posts for the young.
And all this is bankrolled by billionaires who largely stay out of the public eye but ensure that culture wars steer voters to the GOP and the GOP directs money into their pockets.
There's no crackup coming. Whoever hates "the libs" most and articulates lib-hate in the most energizing way will take over MAGA, whether it's still called MAGA or is rebranded. (The Tea Party was a rebranding for a disgraced GOP in the post-Bush era, and MAGA was essentially a personality-cult rebranding of the Tea Party.) What comes next will be extreme, but normie Republicans will dutifully go along.
Republicans don't really fight one another. They hate us too much to do that."
That is not to say that Trump himself will survive this crisis, but that Republican extremism will survive.
From The Hill (not a liberal or Blue publication):
ReplyDelete"More than 300 rural hospitals in the U.S. are at risk of closing down because of the bill, according to research conducted by the University of North Carolina’s Sheps Center for Health Services Research and released last month by Democratic lawmakers.
Rural hospitals already operate on thin margins. The law’s Medicaid cuts will lead to more uninsured patients, meaning rural hospitals will not get paid for the services they are required by law to provide to patients, according to the report. In turn, they will face deeper financial strain.
Medicaid-dependent services — like labor and delivery units, mental health care, and emergency rooms — are some of the least profitable, yet most essential, services that hospitals provide. But experts said those will likely be cut as hospitals try to stay afloat.
In rural communities, Medicaid covers nearly half of all births and one-fifth of inpatient discharges, according to health research group KFF. "
It seems bizarre that the right would be encouraging more women to have babies while simultaneously undercutting their ability to afford hospital care in the rural areas that are the Republican base.
The right's ongoing failure to connect these financial dots supports the view that much of Republican policy is grifting, not aimed at accomplishing actual goals. This is much like the cuts to FEMA and to emergency warning systems in TX ahead of this recent storm. How are people supposed to be self-reliant and prepare for storms when they receive no warning?
Another sign of Noem's incompetence and inability to manage her department is described by Heather Cox Richardson, who points out that Noem is broke with months to go before the new fiscal year starts:
ReplyDelete"Marcy Wheeler of EmptyWheel notes that one reason Noem has been cutting so ferociously at FEMA is because she has run through the money Congress allocated for HHS with her single-minded focus on immigration.
In May, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called out Noem’s expenditure of $200 million on an ad campaign pushing Trump’s agenda and $21 million to transport about 400 migrants to Guantanamo Bay only to have many of them transferred back out. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) told Noem: “You are spending like you don’t have a budget…. You're on track to trigger the Anti-Deficiency Act. That means you are going to spend more money than you have been allocated by Congress. This is a rare occurrence, and it is wildly illegal. Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year. You may not think that Congress has provided enough money to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], but the Constitution and the federal law does not allow you to spend more money than you've been given, or to invent money. And this obsession with spending at the border…has left the country unprotected elsewhere.
Noem responded to Blumenthal that she was fulfilling a mandate. She told him: “The American people overwhelmingly in the last election said, ‘We want a secure border, we want to make sure no longer are the scales of justice tipped in the favor of criminals….’” A recent video posted to Facebook Reels by the Department of Homeland Security makes it clear Noem’s justification was cover for a violent Christian nationalist vision in which ICE and the Border Patrol are enforcing God’s commandments. A dark film invokes Isaiah 6:8, the Bible verse in which God asks, “Whom shall I send?” and Isaiah answers, “Here am I! Send me.” The exchange is widely interpreted to show volunteers willing to do God’s work.
A poll released Friday makes it clear that the American people do not support such a vision and did not, in fact, expect a Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants who have no criminal record and have lived in the U.S. for years. "
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-12-2025
DeleteI agree with @3:40 that much of Republican policy is grifting, That's also the case with Democratic policy. Because government has the power to do so much for or against any group, the grifting is inevitably part of the system. Special interests, whether they be unions or businesses or NGOs, will make political efforts to get what they want. The way to have less grifting is to have less done by government.
ReplyDeleteTrump is the one doing the grifting. How do we get rid of the president?
DeleteThe way to prevent insurance fraud is to abolish insurance.
DeleteSo you're OK with abolishing hospitals?
DeleteSome details that were omitted about the raid on 7/10 at the marijuana farm. Ten kids were detained, among 200 other workers. Two were there with parents. The report said that "one was as young as 14 years old," which suggests the rest of the unaccompanied minors were older. That is within the range of child labor laws in many states and meets the minimum age in California, which is 14. None of the minors detained were being trafficked or were engaged in sex acts, all were working.
ReplyDeleteThe farm was owned by a major donor to Democrats in the state of California. He had given $10K to Gavin Newsom. Because Republicans are now trying to link human trafficking charges to this man, and less directly to Newsom himself, this appears to have been a politically motivated attack on Democrats.
This is surely outside the mandate of Noem's operations. It is wrong when govt resources are used to target and harm political opponents, such as the Governor of a state who is widely expected to run for President in 2028.
The report does not say how many of the "children" detained were female. However, news reports are broadly implying that these children were part of a sex trafficking operation. Never mind that children of farm families and migrant children have worked in agriculture forever. The film A Million Miles Away focuses on one such child who did field work in the US before his father was urged to settle out of the migrant stream so that his son could be better educated. He ultimately became an engineer and then the first migrant astronaut, Jose M. Hernandez.
It would be nice if our government actually cared about the welfare of child migrants, but they don't. This is a stunt to attack Democrat Gavin Newsom and to distract from the Epstein furor.
Trump played golf all weekend and now he is watching a soccer game.
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