MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025
Also, the madness will emerge: We've now established a basic fact about JD Vance:
With revolution now underway, there's nothing he won't say and do.
Yesterday, he established that point on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. That Fox Business / Fox News Channel show is becoming the place for the revolutionaries to go to say whatever they want the peasantry to hear.
Bartiromo serves as a willing enabler; yesterday, Vance was untrammeled. For starters, he said he expects "a lot of indictments" in the wake of Tulsi Gabbard's discovery of President Obama's now-famous act of treason.
“I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria," Vance said at one point. "...I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law."
Bartiromo didn't ask him to get specific; the messaging was thereby delivered. But for our money, the moral squalor was fully revealed when the vice president extended his lord and master's ugly, unfounded talking point about the Epstein matter:
VANCE (8/10/25): I have to say, Maria, I laugh at the Democrats who are now all of a sudden so interested in the Epstein files. For four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did absolutely nothing about this story. We know that Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of connections with left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires. And now President Trump has demanded full transparency from this, and yet somehow the Democrats are attacking him and not the Biden administration, which did nothing for four years.
MARIA: Was it the right move for [Rep. James] Comer to send subpoenas to the Clintons?
VANCE: It absolutely was...Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to Epstein island all the time. Who knows what they did, but it's totally reasonable to ask these questions.
...And of course, we know that Clinton—or allegedly, he went to the island 26 times, 28 times? Totally appropriate for Comer to ask what was going on at that island.
It would be totally reasonable for some competent authority to review and report on the Epstein files. That said, here's what this revolutionary figure did:
First, he said that President Trump "has demanded full transparency," failing to note that President Trump could release the bulk of the materials in question right now, if he so chose.
Bartiromo didn't mention that point. Then, the real squalor occurred:
Belatedly inserting "allegedly," the revolutionary repeated the wholly unfounded claim his lord and master has thrown out two separate times.
Citoyens, there is no evidence—none at all—that Bill Clinton ever went to the island even once. But President Trump ginned up a pleasing claim about the (wholly invented) number of times Clinton went there, saying "supposedly" at one point.
Hapless journalists ran as fast as they could to repeat and broadcast the baseless claim. On Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace played the tape of the president making the invented claim without offering a word of comment.
Yesterday, there was a revolutionary figure, asserting the invented claim on this "cable news" program! Belatedly, he threw the word "allegedly" in, swapping out Trump's "supposedly.".
As with the Haitian immigrants eating the pets, so too here. All in all, our assessment would be this:
JD Vance will say and do anything in these revolutionary times.
What happened to Vance in the years of his childhood and youth? In the years when he was forced to grow up with the abusive treatment performed by the most dysfunctional family ever described in this nation?
We advise you to pity the child, but to tell the truth about the adult—in this case, about the adult who my have resulted from the mistreatment of the child.
We're linking you here to reports in Mediaite because finer news orgs, like the New York Times, tend to avoid reporting on moral squalor of this unmistakable type. (Or on the horrible family history which may help explain its existence.)
The finer orgs avert their gaze. But here you see the type of moral squalor which will emerge in times of revolution—and although they won't say so at the finer orgs, we're currently living in a time of revolutionary fervor.
General Washington's famous conquest triggered an age of revolution. The French revolution followed soon after, with Marie Antionette jeered in the streets, then executed by public beheading.
Eventually the Russian revolution occurred. Back in the 1960s, revolution was in the air across the sea in Chairman Mao's China. Today, an angry revolt from below is taking place right here in this land.
At times of revolutionary fervor, various kinds of moral squalor will be there for all to see. Also, the madness will emerge.
At the New York Times, they're constantly trying to disappear the current madness. But over the weekend, the sitting president nuttily posted this:
Trump Vows He’s Going to ‘Stop Violent Crime’ In DC With a Single Press Conference
President Donald Trump announced a press conference to occur Monday that he promises will “essentially, stop violent crime” in Washington, D.C.
In a Saturday Truth Social post, the president blasted D.C. as one of the most “dangerous” cities in the world while announcing his press conference.
“On Monday a Press Conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C. It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the World. It will soon be one of the safest!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT,” Trump wrote.
The presser is scheduled for 10 a.m. today. In a burst of craziness-adjacent fervor, the sitting president said the press conference "will stop violent crime in D.C.!"
No, that doesn't seem to make sense. In fairness, the presser will only do that "essentially."
The Crazy seemed to lurking right here in that post. Then he added this:
Trump Tells Homeless They’re Being Booted From DC ‘IMMEDIATELY’ As Part of His Crime Crackdown...
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Sunday to once again tease a White House press conference that he’s promised will “stop violent crime.”
On Sunday, the president said his press conference on crime in Washington, D.C., will occur at the White House, and he unveiled some vague plans, including shipping the homeless out of D.C.
“We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital,” he wrote.
“The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier—Be prepared! There will be no ‘MR. NICE GUY.’ We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” the president wrote.
He's going to stop violent crime in D.C.! Also, he's IMMEDIATELY going to ship that city's homeless population FAR away. It's going to happen VERY FAST.
Is something wrong with the sitting president? (He was once widely described as a very genial host.) We've asked the question again and again, noting that some such state of affairs would of course be a human tragedy, as such things always are.
Within the press corps' finer precincts, that question, by common agreement, imply cannot be asked. In order to maintain the illusion, crazy-adjacent Truth Social posts are only discussed at Mediaite. If you read the New York Times, these bouts of The Crazy don't happen.
Does Blue America understand the situation it faces? Do those of us in Blue America understand the various ways we ourselves have brought this angry moral squalor down upon our heads?
We'd say the answers are no and no. We'd also say that revolutionary fervor is in the air—that a revolution is underway, and we don't know where it goes next.
As is always the case at such times, JD Vance is rich in moral squalor—and the madness is there, again and again, for everyone to see.
What's the source of this revolutionary fervor? We'll examine that question all week. Tomorrow, we'll try to return to Pete Hegseth's pastor(s), with miles to go before we get to sleep.
We're posting at 8:49 a.m. The press conference to end all violent crime is currently scheduled for 10.
Tomorrow: Religionism speaks
BalasPadamOkay, Democrat squealing, and more Democrat squealing.
It's boring, but it's a good, hopeful, very positive sign. It means that swamp-draining goes well.
Keep draining the swamp, Mr. President, keep draining the swamp.
Mao thinks he's special, because he loves child rape, but he isn't. Every standard-issue Right-winger loves child rape. It's a totem for them, like being anti-vaccine.
Padam"Mr. President, keep draining the swamp."
PadamWith Ghislaine's help. Don't forget Ghislaine. She's in a minimum security prison now, with the freedom of movement to help drain the swamp, making sure everything is done on the up and up, no secret deals for political favors.
Why is Mao such a sick bastard after promoting illegal wars decades ago, he now is protecting child rapists. Sick little freak.
PadamWhy is Mao such a sick bastard after promoting illegal wars decades ago, he now is protecting child rapists. Sick little freak.
PadamPoor Bob Somerby.
BalasPadamNo matter how hard he tries, he just can't distract his readers from the fact that the Republican Party is an international pedophile ring.
I'm not willing to call Bob a failure, since there are scores of people who can't identify the Republican voter who isn't a bigot, after insisting they actually existed.
what 9:34 - you are dumb on a monumental scale.
PadamHow does name-calling refute anything @9:34 said?
Padam12:06 seeks to top 9:34's level of dumbness.
PadamAnyone who thinks Trump is anti-crime is suffering from years of being raped by Republican politicians, as a child.
BalasPadamVance: "President Trump has demanded full transparency from this (Epstein files)"
BalasPadamIf only Trump were in a position of power to make the desired transparency a reality.
Vance went on to emphasize that “a lot of Americans want answers. I certainly want answers.”
BalasPadamIf only President Trump had the power to order that these answers be provided. Maybe he should run for president, then if he got elected he would have that power because he would be the head of the executive branch, which includes the DOJ, where the files are held.
How about it, folks? Should President Trump run for president so that, if elected, he would have the power to order the release of the Epstein files? Thoughts?
If Trump runs for election to be President of the United States of America, I don't think I can vote for him due to his long history of business failures and the fact that he stole from a children's cancer charity.
PadamHe also gave me the creeps when he talked about how hot his teenage daughter looks.
I have a deluded grandfather, hooked-on the idiocy of Fox News. He's not a perfect Trump clone, because he's not addicted to Adderall, but If Trump won't run, maybe I can convince him to do so.
PadamKeep me posted.
The key fact about Trump's announced war on crime in DC is that rates for both violent crime and property crime are at a 30 year low. Somerby doesn't mention that at all. I find myself wondering why this fact has escaped Somerby.
BalasPadamIt is important because it suggests that Trump's crime prevention campaign is not about crime but is serving some other purpose. Yes, it is another distraction from the Epstein files, but might it not be an excuse to put troops on the street? And if so, for what purpose?
Also, note the way homelessness and crime and littering are all being conflated. Criminalizing normal human behavior may be a step toward Trump's plan to incarcerate and relocate anyone he wants, without cause. He is already doing that with people he calls illegal immigrants (including citizens and legal residents). Might this not be a step toward disappearing anyone he wants?
Somerby does apply the word "revolutionary" to Vance. That is odd, given that there is no revolution in progress, but rather a power grab by Trump who wishes to make himself a dictator. Yesterday, he was showing off his MAGA 2028 hats to another dictator. But Somerby calls Vance a revolutionary, without explanation or evidence. Vance isn't the guy kicking the homeless out of DC. Vance is the stooge acting as VP but taking endless vacations to milk his office before he himself is kicked out again, trying to pretend that anything he says or does matters to anyone. That is not what a revolutionary is, so why does Somerby call him that?
There is the obligatory paragraph about pitying Vance because of his childhood, in which Somerby appears to believe the lies Vance told about it. But then Somerby accuses the left of moral squalor, without ever explaining what he means by that phrase or why it is being applied to Democrats, who have done of the bad behavior arising from the right:
"Does Blue America understand the situation it faces? Do those of us in Blue America understand the various ways we ourselves have brought this angry moral squalor down upon our heads?"
I don't believe Somerby understands anything about Trump's intentions or the destruction of our nation and its democracy. His own description of our "situation" resembles nothing real. What is this moral squalor of which he speaks? He never says, but we in Blue America are responsible for it, even though we are not in power and have nothing to do with things like kicking the homeless out of DC, hiding and covering for Trump's involvement in sex trafficking with Epstein, or stealing from our government and now taking bribes under the cover of implementing tariffs and waivers for chips.
Somerby applies the word revolutionary to Vance but "moral squalor" to Blue America under the guise of criticizing Trump's regime. Trump exemplifies every form of moral turpitude but we on the left are the bad guys? Only in the coming authoritarian society in which up is down, good is bad, and the president speaks for the people from the White House roof (unintelligibly) while building a huge ballroom, because he can, in which no one will dance.
Hear! Hear!
PadamYou really should read more carefully. Our Host does not "accuse the left of 'moral squalor'" as you claim. He accuses the left of enabling JD Vance's moral squalor.
PadamIf you can't grasp the difference, you can't be helped.
Here is Somerby in 2015 doing just that:
Padam“We liberals are the problem now too! We’re lazy and we aren’t very smart. We exude a moral squalor.”
http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-problem-is-us-as-we-liberals-emerge.html?m=1
He has never to my knowledge retracted this.
Now, as to today’s post, it makes little sense to me that by barely losing an election here and there that the left has “enabled Vance’s moral squalor.” His moral squalor exists independently of anyone else. No one made republicans exude a moral squalor, nor did anyone “make” them authoritarians and frankly fascists in thrall to a fuckface.
"Somerby applies the word revolutionary to Vance but "moral squalor" to Blue America under the guise of criticizing Trump's regime."
BalasPadamIt's a shame you didn't read Somerby's column with more care before posting 8 paragraphs in response.
In this post Somerby uses 'moral squalor' six times.
Three times clearly apply to Vance;
twice more where it is kind of a free-floating miasma;
and once where it not a descriptor of Blue America but something Blue America has brought down on itself by (presumably) screwing up so badly that pukes like Vance are now in positions of power.
But he does not use it to describe Blue America, as you assert.
Aw, heck, Anon 11:43! I didn't mean to step on your reply to Nonny Moose 11:08. I didn't see it until after I had posted my own.
PadamSigned, me.
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BalasPadamAs a card-carrying idiot-Democrat I want as much crime in DC as possible. Trump's plans to eliminate crime in DC must be resisted and defeated!
We commit crimes that will not end crimes. Trump 2028!
PadamIs Trump doing too much or too little? Bob paraphrases: "Trump Vows He’s Going to ‘Stop Violent Crime’ In DC With a Single Press Conference." OTOH MSN reports, "Trump to Deploy National Guard to D.C., Take Over City’s Police Department"
BalasPadamThe felon, business fraud, rapist and orange chickenshit still under indictment in 3 separate jurisdictions is worried about violent crime? Go fuck yourself Dickhead.
PadamLess than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
Not to mention all the violent offenders in Jan 6 insurrection the orange chickenshit pardoned on his first day.
You can't make this shit up.
Then there's this:
Padam"here are two very fun facts.
the first is that crime in Washington, DC is at a 30-year-low.
the second — and more fun — fact is that the average homeless person on the streets of DC has thirty-four fewer felony convictions than the current president of the United States.
nonetheless, United States President Cookedbooks McHushmoney has decided that DC’s homeless population is a ginormous factor in the imaginary crime wave that definitely isn’t a thing, and he’s given them about ten seconds to get the fuck out of his sight."
"...it’s so easy to solve the world’s problems when you have no clue what you’re talking about.
screaming at the homeless to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW will totally work, because everyone knows that the best way to solve the problems caused by late-stage capitalism is to yell really loud until they magically go away.
who is Dear Leader thanking for their attention? the homeless?
I don’t think the homeless are following Donny on his crappy app. I’m pretty sure that the unhoused are more concerned with figuring out their next meal than in keeping up with the Mad King’s insane social media ravings."
"...but wait, Donny’s tough-on-crime clown show is about to get stupider — because right now there are about a hundred and twenty gobsmacked FBI agents going to their superiors, ‘I’m sorry, I’m supposed to be doing what now?’
the what is dispatching who to where? I know what all those words mean, but when you put them together in that order, they makes no sense.
In recent days, the administration has authorized up to 120 agents, largely from the FBI’s Washington Field Office, to work overnight shifts for at least one week alongside D.C. police and other federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital, according to the people familiar with those efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss specifics of a staffing plan that has not been made public.
hang on, the dudes who knock on your door because they just wanna ask a few questions are being reassigned to do … to do fucking what, exactly?
The deployment of FBI agents to deal with local crime puts agents from the bureau’s counterintelligence, public corruption and other divisions with minimal training in traffic stops out on the streets in potentially dangerous encounters, diverting them from their typical jobs at the bureau.
that’s an insane waste of resources, because—
FBI agents generally do not have authority to make traffic stops, and the people said the agents’ roles could include supporting the other agencies during traffic stops.
are you telling me that FBI agents aren’t even authorized to fight street crime? so what’s going on? are all these experts in forensics and data analysis just standing around, scratching their asses and trying not to get in the way of the actual police?
so, whose brilliant idea was this?
you know exactly whose idea this was: the dumbest fucking ignoramus ever to crap a diaper in the Oval Office..."
Pathetic felon response to Big Balls getting punched in the face. You can't make this shit up.
PadamFuck you fascist David
PadamCDC shooter believed COVID vaccine was harmful; union says misinformation put staff at risk
PadamNation Aug 10, 2025 12:26 PM EDT
A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
The 30-year-old suspect, who died during the incident, had also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Not one fucking word from Prince Orange Chickenshit about this though.
"Get these filthy poors out of my sight!"
PadamIt might be fair to call the Trump administration revolutionary in the sense that Trump has ignored and broken all of the restraints on the presidency and redefined the roles of congress and the judiciary, in violation of our nation's constitution. Don't people go to jail for that? When Trump starts using federal troops and the FBI to accomplish his goals, doesn't that make him part of violent crime? I think so.
BalasPadamHow does Somerby think the left created Trump's moral squalor when we didn't even vote for him and are not abetting him now. We aren't the ones signing up to be ICE agents -- I seriously hope the homeless will apply for those jobs. That signing bonus will allow them to rent apts in a nice neighborhood and get their lives back on track.
A good portion of the homeless are not wired for work. i.e. They are homeless.
PadamHe's "taking the Capital back", from the blahs.
BalasPadamPrince Orange Chickenshit calls it "liberation day" for Washington D.C., the city his party denies statehood to. Perfectly Orwellian.
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