Category Archives: January 6 MAGA riot

Fascist worms on parade

I started to call this “Fascist Weasels on Parade”, then decided it was an insult to actual weasels. Changed it to worms, invertebrates, true, but also heroes in their own right. Without worms, no food supply for life on the planet. My humble apologies to worms for the constant, necessary, life-sustaining work that you do. There really isn’t a proper pejorative to describe these fascist ass-lickers who cringingly cleave to the unwashed butt crack of their Leader. There is no depth they won’t stoop to in service to their violently insane, supremely vindictive master.

Shamefully, and predictably, enough, Trump’s spineless lickspittles in the Senate, at 4:00 a.m., right before they left for a well-earned five week vacation, voted to narrowly confirm Trump’s criminal lawyer, and dead-eyed criminal in his own right, Todd Blanche, as the Attorney General of the United States.   Heather Cox Richardson lays it out beautifully. 

She contrasts this cringefest to how principled Republican senators reacted in 1974 when Nixon (a paranoid, bold-faced, lawyerly liar who insisted he never did anything wrong — see below [1]) faced impeachment for abusing his power and obstructing justice by covering up crimes far less serious than countless crimes Trump has committed in his second term, and being in contempt of Congress (the government branch Trump has contemptuously neutered). 

American fascists (Roger Stone, Manafort and associates among them) have put the lessons learned from Nixon’s downfall to good use — making charges against Republicans for abuse of power and contempt of Congress,  neither crime nor misdemeanor and the same with obstruction of whatever you want to call it.  As for any non-MAGA official doing anything that can be cast as similar  — call out the DOJ, National Guard, ICE, CBP, Proud Boys, Klan, the National Park Service, FEMA and the Department of Prisons!!

Blanche wrote fraudulent “settlement” “agreements” in the days after “dismissing” a fake lawsuit that was basically Trump v. Trump’s Lackeys, (Trump’s lackeys never even submitted a “defense”), in a case the judge called out as a fraud on the court.  The judicial investigation into that fraud is ongoing.  Blanche, in the fake settlement contracts (signed only by him, talk about invalid contracts — no meeting of the mind between two parties, no exchange of consideration) preemptively covered up a host of likely, almost certain, Trump tax crimes, for Donald J. and Uday and Kusay Trump and their heirs.  Blanche was the author of Trump’s self-pardon (though he tap danced for the Senate Judiciary Committee about who actually typed it up for him).  

Blanche has so far successfully, and brazenly, covered up Trump’s long involvement with suicided sex criminal and blackmailer Jeffery Epstein, withholding over 3,000,000 documents, heavily redacting all others (except for nude photos and names of teenaged victims of Epstein) and declaring there is nothing further to investigate. 

Emmet Sullivan, the federal judge in the case Katie “Though she be but little, she is fierce” Phang brought against Blanche for his multiple, ongoing violations of the Epstein Files Transparency Act has ordered Blanche to testify in open court next week, August 13th, about his evidence, not his bullshit rationales for why he lied over and over about his redactions, wrote insulting dismissals of Phang’s motives rather than legal answers to her motions and ignored direct court orders from Judge Sullivan.

This is the fully weaponized Trump DOJ under a criminal maniac who hires his criminally-inclined criminal lawyer as Attorney General to get perpetual, no cost, unlimited prosecutorial revenge on enemies real and imagined and blanket legal protections for himself and his fabulously corrupt offspring as well as loyal billionaire ass-lickers like Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent and Doug Burgham.

Unless the fascist brains behind Trump stage a massive terrorist attack right before the upcoming midterms (and why wouldn’t they?) and station heavily armed masked ICE/CBP militias, and paid freelancers in full KKK regalia, including pointy white hoods, in front of every minority voting district polling place (Trump would love to) and starts having his gestapo openly assassinate election officials, judges, non-corporate journalists, snide citizens and anyone else who doesn’t stay silent or parrot his incoherent lies (the only “rigged election” he lost was the one when he was president and the federal officials who declared the election valid worked for him) there will likely be a “blue wave” that will turn Congress Democratic.  When that happens, all of these nefarious characters will be investigated. Blanche will be impeached on multiple counts, along with Hegseth, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, Robert F. “Dr. Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. and the rest of them.

All the more reason for Trump to make a secret deal to have “Iran,” “antifa,” humanists, hamas, tren de aragua, commies, Jews, Puerto Ricans, etc. — in other words TERRORISTS — nuke an anarchist jurisdiction two days before Election Day, possibly with one of their many Patriot missiles, since even adorable MAGA Mike Johnson’s declaration that he runs the protection racket for corrupt MAGA Congressmen who committed crimes for the Boss won’t be of much use when they are once again in their blessed minority.

The Republican party now  openly represent the 1%. Why not have Congressional representation reflect that, as Trump’s billionaire donors build obedient, undefeatable, merciless AI robot armies and fill cyber-brothels with irresistible, endlessly compliant sex slave robots, while raping and pillaging what’s left of the biosphere?

USA! USA!!!!

[1] In his resignation speech, Nixon refused to acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he told the American people he had to step down because he no longer had the support he needed in Congress to advance the national interest. He blamed the press, whose “leaks and accusations and innuendo” had been designed to destroy him. His disappointed supporters embraced the idea that there was a “liberal” conspiracy, spearheaded by the press, to bring down any Republican president. source

Sound familiar?

A vile turd by any other name

Below is an irrefutable op-ed by Anthony Conwright, about the renaming of the Slaveholder Rebellion of 1861 to The War Between the States and finally The Civil War. This metamorphosis happened over the course of decades as the result of political lobbying by Confederate sympathizers.  Conwright draws the straight line to Trump doing the same thing at warp speed with his January 6th Day of Love when peaceful, victim patriots went to the Capitol where they were met by violent libtard cuck traitor cops… Those who refuse to learn the lessons of the past, as they say, are continually fucked the same way.

We are living, as the curse goes, in interesting fucking times.

If you can’t open the op-ed by clicking the image above, use this “gift” link.

Hang Fauci, Smith, Schiff, Comey, James, O’Donnell, Talarico, Mamdani…

While Trump’s personal criminal lawyer Todd Blanche bobs and weaves, assuring senators with practiced lawyerly weasel words that he is no longer Trump’s personal criminal lawyer… “uh, excuse me, senator, I have to take this call from Mr. Trump…” MAGA is spraying its high-powered firehouse of cyclosporiasis full force.  

Put that fucking liar and self-aggrandizing fraud Anthony Fauci on the stand, let him plead the Fifth over and over so we can’t get him for perjury as we let the country see how clearly guilty he is of being a lying, self-aggrandizing fraud.  Look what he wrote in his personal diary!   Like we couldn’t get our hands on it!    Fauci had testified to Congress literally hundreds of times during his long term as head of the infectious disease unit at NIH.   His opening remarks went into detail about why this session he was subpoenaed to attend, years after his retirement, was different.  

This time it was purely political, a distracting partisan hate-fest as Trump implodes, to give FOX and the MAGAsphere endless talking points about what a lying, weaponizing dickhead Fauci was while he was nonchalantly killing a million Americans by ignoring Trump’s wise advice about not testing for Covid in order for the numbers not to keep going up and up. 

To watch Josh “Fistpump/flee in terror” Hawley aggressively interrogate Fauci over what color his tie was, what color the carpet was, whether Fauci had a dick, was to see a Nazi go after a Jew in a German courtroom from the mid-thirties until the day Hitler blew his own brains out in a bunker.  It brought to mind debate champ Lyin’ Ted Cruz’s Jew-baiting of mild-mannered nebbish AG Merrick Garland when he confronted Garland over the Nazi salute (directed at Jewish members of school boards) being protected First Amendment expression.  Check out Rand! Paul bullying Fauci’s lawyer.

Not to be outdone by his senate colleagues Hawley and Paul, pugnacious, unpinnable college wrestling champ and law school graduate Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to Blanche accusing Jack Smith of perjury on an extremely weak theory. Let us not forget that Jordan defied a subpoena from his Congressional colleagues and awkwardly dodged questions live on FOX about his conversations with Trump as his Day of Love riot was going on at the Capitol. MAGA knows better than to take oaths.

Jordan (who never actually became a lawyer) made a perfectly-timed fanciful criminal referral for Jack Smith while Todd was on the ropes for his unflinching service to every corrupt Trump whim, his refusal to answer questions honestly, his participation in, and defense of, Trump’s fraudulent Trump v. IRS “settlements”, his  refusal to put in writing what he stated under oath, his grudging, insulting,  pro forma meeting with Epstein survivors, his incoherent, contemptuous two page court filing response to Katie Phang’s lawsuit against him for the release of Epstein files and redaction logs (both required under the EFTA), and all the rest.  Jordan wrote his beautifully timed, if idiotic, criminal referral asking Blanche to investigate and prosecute Jack Smith for not answering a question Jordan and his colleagues never asked him.  In other words: perjury by a man, a scumbag, actually, who simply hated and persecuted Trump for no reason!  That will play well on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, et al.

Former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman fully demolishes law school graduate Jim Jordan’s incoherent criminal referral here.  This is what Republicans, running interference for the most corrupt president in world history, are saying about Jack Smith, who, unlike the rest of them, testified candidly under oath for hours. I turn this over to Harry:

Moreover, Trump and Judiciary Committee Republicans have undertaken a vicious defamatory campaign against Smith, part of the overall elaborate effort to whitewash Trump’s crimes. Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “deranged animal,” a “criminal” who should be “thrown out of the country.” Grassley called his investigation “a runaway train that had no brakes” and declared in an official Senate Judiciary Committee press release that Smith and his “merry band of DOJ partisans weaponized the justice system” and that “it’s no surprise Smith didn’t play by the rules.” Kennedy, speaking to reporters outside the Blanche confirmation hearing, said: “I think he hates Republicans. He exercises power emotionally and immaturely. And I think he ought to have his head in a bag.” Cruz called the prosecutions “the worst political lawfare this country has ever seen.”

A defense against spurious false statement charges would serve as a public relitigation of Smith’s prosecutions and the mountains of evidence they were built on. It would remind the country—and re-establish for the historical record—who played their hand straight and who palmed the cards.

The hearing contained false and misleading statements, but they weren’t Jack Smith’s. In every public appearance, Smith has been scrupulous and by-the-book, which only makes sense since he knows the administration has him in its crosshairs.

The misconduct and false witness are on the other side: Trump, still lying about his crimes; Blanche, still straddling the untenable position of representing DOJ and his former client; Senate Republicans, still hiding under Trump’s coattails and hypocritically assailing Smith; and Jordan, in the self-appointed role of Torquemada, arrogantly leveling nonsensical charges against the one man in this farcical episode who actually followed the law.

Trump loves “acting” officials, and they love you, sir!

Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence

Trump sued the BBC for $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm because he claims the BBC aired a clip of his speech on January 6, 2021 that maliciously and knowingly defamed him. Trump claims the British Broadcasting Corporation viciously, knowingly and deceptively edited his more than hour long January 6, 2021 Ellipse speech to make it sound like he urged an angry, armed crowd, without a parade permit, to walk down to the Capitol and make sure Mike Pence did the right (if not strictly legal) thing, and to fight (peacefully, peacefully!) like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore (the savage dark-skinned eaters of pet cats and dogs would get it, and put them all to the sword, presumably). It seems the BBC has no incentive to fold to Trump’s incoherent defamation demands in the TEN BILLION dollar lawsuit against them, like CBS, ABC and other spineless US broadcast corporations.

Now BBC, as the party sued, is entitled to discovery from MAGA man to prove his monetary damages as he tries to prevail on his claim that their version of his speech was inaccurate and deliberately false and harmful to his reputation and his finances (defamatory). The court gave the BBC, who has already turned over thousands of pages of evidence to Trump’s lawyers (Trump turned over about 700 pages, fair is fair) the greenlight to get Trump’s relevant business records (evidence of $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm) and depose people who were in his Day of Love War Room, the Oval Office and on the phone with him, in the days leading up to, and including, January 6th.  Trump’s lawyers tried to withdraw the monetary damages part a few days ago, to protect his problematic financial records from becoming part of the court file, but the federal magistrate blocked that attempt.   Be careful what you wish for, boss.

This childish and vindictive fellow has a thing about not needing to produce evidence of anything. The 2020 Donald Trump for President reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, prior to the election Trump lost, brought over a hundred lawsuits to try to limit mail-in voting, drop boxes and other forms of early and absentee voting — during the pandemic, mind you. They lost almost all of these cases, for lack of evidence of voter fraud, proof of vote dilution, systematic Black cheating, Libtard cuck cheating, Feminazi cheating, Illegal ALIEN cheating, communist skullduggery, etc.

Remember, Trump claimed, without evidence, of course, that he’d been robbed of the popular vote win in his 2016 Electoral College victory by massive voter fraud, dead Mexicans voting for Hillary by the millions, as I recall him saying. A regular zombie apocalypse. He announced the appointment if Mike Pence and a MAGA schmuck from Kansas named Kobach to head a voter fraud commission. Their rigorous investigation ended in no finding of fraud and they closed up shop without bringing charges against anybody.

Announcing the formation of this voter fraud commission was one of those reptilian Trump propaganda moves, like when he told state election officials to just say there had been fraud and he and his friends in Congress would do the rest. Or when he told Zelensky to just announce an investigation into Hunter Biden on American TV, no investigation necessary. Or when he had a guy who dipped his hand into the reflecting pool indicted for a felony. Or when he subpoenaed New York Times reporters to a grand jury — subpoenas that were withdrawn by Todd Blanche’s DOJ when a judge gave him the choice of withdrawing them or having them quashed.

The reason Pence and Kobach didn’t find those millions of dead Mexicans who voted for Hillary in 2020 is clear enough. Here’s the far-right, Project 2025 Heritage Foundation’s authoritative Voter Fraud Database. Take a look. Explore the data, as the good folks at the Heritage Foundation invite you to.

You will see literally hundreds of cases of voter fraud documented over the last forty years or so — out of maybe a billion votes cast. The incidence of fraud is something like 0.0001%, which looks as bad as it is. There’s no widespread fucking voter fraud. Truth has never been an obstacle to psychopaths.

These lawless sociopaths believe judges Trump appointed are Trump judges and should rule like Aileen Cannon, the unleashed Colombian-born Kraken in her cozy Florida federal court. To their credit, many of the federally judges Trump appointed are not corrupt. I followed one of the 2020 Trump/RNC voter suppression lawsuits in Western Pennsylvania and was very impressed by 43 year-old Federalist Society member, Trump appointee J. Nicholas Ranjan, who wrote one of the most thorough dismantlings of a baselees lawsuit I ever read (tediously detailed highlights here).

When Judge Ranjan granted the motion from every sued county election board in Pennsylvania and ordered Trump/RNC to produce evidence of their claims, Trump/RNC told him they didn’t need evidence to prove their case.  Then they produced boxes of screenshots from public opinion shaping entertainment outfits FOX, Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, Völkischer Beobachter [1], etc. 

Pugnacious dickhead, Trump-booster and supremely qualified chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, a wiry college wrestler who could not be pinned, a law school graduate who did not pass the bar exam, an adult witness to sexual predation of college wrestlers who maintained Omerta to protect his boss (allegedly), sent fellow Trump lover Todd “I am, was, his criminal lawyer” Blanche a criminal referral urging him to investigate, indict and prosecute Jack Smith for perjury. The charge is based on a very attenuated legal theory, and, MAGA-style, with no credible evidence of a crime (Smith’s alleged perjury was in not answering a question he was not asked), in clear reprisal for Smith’s unpardonable public crimes against the Leader, a man unfairly subjected to countless witch hunts.  

Smith, in Jordan’s learned legal opinion, committed perjury when he lyingly answered a question posed by a MAGA interrogator about phone evidence he’d legally obtained as part of his investigation into the January 6th plot Jordan was a key player in. Recall Jordan’s twitchy tap dance when asked live on FOX if he talked to the president before or during the riot at the Capitol, recall his stuttering evasiveness. Jordan also disobeyed a Congressional subpoena and refused to testify before the January 6th Committee.   Senator Josh Hawley, neither as stupid or as uneducated as Jordan, and an actual lawyer, jumped on Jordan’s idiot theory, with the alacrity he showed scooting away from the rioters he’d fist pumped on his way into the Capitol an hour or two earlier, calling Smith a “serial perjurer”, presumably for his answers to questions asked, and not asked, about phone logs obtained showing calls to and from Trump as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.  

Evidence? The phones, including call records and hundreds of real time texts, of Secret Service agents and others at DHS intimately involved with Trump on January 6, 2021, were wiped clean under the watchful eye of corrupt Department of Homeland Security inspector general Joseph Cuffari. That mother violator, who waited six months (the time after which it would be impossible to retrieve any of this crucial evidence) to inform Congress that there were no texts or phone records from those around Trump as he fomented his insurrection, is still in his job, through multiple scandals and four years of Biden, one of the few IGs who survived Trump’s immediate Project 2025 purge of all agency watchdogs. Because when you have someone good, and loyal, who will bury evidence to help you out, you don’t fire someone like that.

Because when it comes to winning or losing, in the court of public opinion, what the fuck does evidence have to do with it anyway, am I right?

[1] The “fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany“, or “Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands” as it called itself, had its origin as the Münchener Beobachter, or “Munich Observer”, an antisemitic semi-weekly scandal-oriented paper which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society with financial backing by Käthe Bierbaumer and, in August 1919, was renamed Völkischer Beobachter (see Völkisch and Völkisch movement).

Nailing an insane propagandist — and urging you to contact Senators Tillis and Cornyn to vote no on Todd Blanche.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SaEmJDGjtHY?is=XvE5vfu_1zGwe8_B

For some reason WordPress is not letting me embed this short video featuring, and debunking, the insane speech Stephen Miller recently gave at the US State Department. It is well worth watching. It shows Miller, one of Trump’s chief propagandists, and arguably his most rabid, calmly delivering the TRUTH about which constituency is the real, violent terrorist threat in America (and worldwide, presumably).

The Left, Miller claims (no evidence needed for MAGA claims, evidence is for cucks!), is responsible for most violent terroristic threats, murder and mayhem.  The Left ultimately wants gulags, says Miller, to imprison and torture their political enemies.  As they say, every claim is a confession — and the most grotesque imaginable projection.  [1]  

The Trump administration, as part of Project 2025’s sanitizing of white American history, removed the recent FBI report that shows almost all of the political violence in the US in this century comes from the far-right, usually white supremacists.   When an innocent American citizen is murdered by ICE, on video, the administration immediately — without any investigation, and while withholding all evidence from local prosecutors– publicly defames the murdered American as a “terrorist”.   I got your terrorist right here, Stephen.

Miller is currently the “official” pushing the daily quota for the arrest of law-abiding immigrants to detain in for-profit concentration camps until they can ultimately be deported to random countries designated as dangerous by the US State Department .  His deranged boss, his cognition now a shadow of his former mental abilities, angrily commands the DOJ to prosecute his enemies, the ones who “weaponized” the government by enforcing the law against Trump.  DOJ obeys, because Trump’s DOJ is not at all weaponized. 

The violent mob that overran the Capitol on January 6th were, in the delusional eyes of the president, loving patriots who deserve generous reparations for the suffering they endured under the weaponized Biden DOJ.   Presumably the Capitol Police were the actual traitors on that Day of Love.  After all, they prevented the lynching of traitors like Mike Pence and enemies like Nancy Pelosi.  And it was Biden’s FBI that started the “riot” (even though Trump was president and the FBI worked for him), if you’re a true believer.

What more can we say?   I called Thom Tillis and John Cornyn today and left them messages urging them not to vote yes on dead-eyed psychopath and practiced liar Todd Blanche.   You can reach Tillis at 202-224-6342.  Cornyn is at 202-224-2934,  Write a short script to make it easier to leave a cogent message.

For Tillis:  I am urging you to vote no on the Todd Blanche nomination.   Look no further than Mr. Blanche’s response to the Katie Phang lawsuit seeking the rest of the Epstein files — and the legally required redaction log.   Blanche’s DOJ has been defying the law Congress passed, and his three page reply to Phang’s motion is perhaps the most succinct summary of his lawlessness.  He also sits in the middle of Trump v. IRS, a case brought after the statute of limitations had run where the president, although litigating in his personal capacity, was in control of both plaintiff and defendant.  A federal judge ruled that Blanche could not refer to the quote settlement as a settlement.  Blanche told your committee that it was merely the judge’s opinion and that DOJ was appealing it, at the same time dancing around the fact that the January 6th Slush Fund had not be explicitly canceled in writing (as the fake settlement stipulated it must be).  Blanche won’t speak in court under oath.  Does that not tell you everything you need to know?   Please, senator, do what you know is the right thing to do.

For Cornyn:  I am urging you to vote no on the Todd Blanche nomination.   I am grateful for your questions to Blanche about the requirement, in the fraudulent January 6th Slush Fund settlement, that the fund be voided in writing.  As a retired lawyer I greatly admired that question.  Please have a look at Mr. Blanche’s three page “response” to the Katie Phang lawsuit seeking the rest of the Epstein files — and the legally required redaction log.   Blanche’s DOJ has been defying the law Congress passed, and his three page reply to Phang’s motion is perhaps the most succinct summary of his lawlessness.  In addition to his obstruction of the EFTA, he was not credible in his claims about his two days of meetings with Ghislaine Maxwll, in a case he had no familiarity with (after firing Maureen Comey who prosecuted Maxwell).  Blanche also sits in the middle of Trump v. IRS, a case brought after the statute of limitations had run, demanding literally 100,000,000 times what the statute allows, where the president, although litigating in his personal capacity, was in control of both plaintiff and defendant — and certainly of Todd Blanche.    I am urging you to do the right thing and vote no to prevent a Senate vote on this cynical and ominous nomination.

[1] Another fine example, from our “Department of War”:

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell responded to Schmitt’s story by posting on social media that “[t]he Department of War rejects these baseless and malicious accusations of hiding injury numbers as outright lies from partisan hacks at the New York Times who are desperate to smear America’s military and its leadership. Claims of concealment are fabrications meant to further distress the American people in the wake of three service members killed in action.” He continued: “This is the most transparent Department of War in history.” source

Time to get Kashyap to write more subpoenas for those malicious commies at the New York Times!

Epstein, Trump, Blanche, Roy Cohn

Trump criminal attorney, former and present, Todd Blanche, stood at a podium when he was elevated to Acting Attorney General and addressed Trump directly, telling him that whatever Trump decides his service to Trump and his agenda will be, Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or no government role at all, “I’d say ‘thank you very much, I love you, sir”.

Blanche is neither an honest person nor a remotely ethical one. He should be repeatedly asked one question during his upcoming confirmation hearings. This excellent yes or no question was raised by Andrew Weissmann, former Department of Justice official . “Yes or no question. Is Donald Trump’s name in the millions of pages of Epstein files you have not released?”

I can hear Blanche, glancing over at the clock he needs to run out, stone faced, doing what they all do. “Senator… sen-a-tor… I have already answered that question and yet you persist in re-asking it over and over… Senator, do not try to reclaim your time, I am an officer of the court, senator, and the Acting Attorney General of The United States of America and you will treat me with the respect I am entitled to under the law. I serve the Constitution, as well as my client, Mr. Trump, the greatest American to ever occupy the Oval Office. Don’t interrupt me, senator…”

Blanche has already demonstrated his unfitness for the job over and over again. He has defied the law Donald Trump signed regarding full release of the unredacted Epstein files, on orders from his boss and sole client, Donald J. Trump. Blanche has the temperament of an angry, self-righteous lackey. He has disgraced the DOJ in ways even Bill Barr would not stoop to, though Barr was a lying abomination in the role of America’s top law enforcement officer.

Blanche’s open defiance of federal law, his brazen stonewalling of the Epstein Files Transparency Act alone, should disqualify him. So should the shameless services he rendered to Trump in the fake case Trump v. IRS that Trump brought against himself to get billions of taxpayer dollars, to fund an army of armed insurgents to disrupt the midterm elections. In a side deal, the next day, Trump/Blanche granted Trump and his accursed kin all immunity from IRS audits.

Regarding Epstein, how many times will the survivors of Epstein’s abuse have to make themselves heard before the law is enforced and the guilty men of power are held accountable, even if only be named publicly? Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person convicted connections to Epstein’s years of sexual abuse of junior high school girls, after speaking with Mr. Blanche, got a nice change of prison, from a high security one for sex offenders, to a much more pleasant one where she can practice yoga, have catered meals and her own puppy. Blanche has now changed DOJ rules to give himself the unappealable right to move federal prisoners anywhere he wants, with or without cause, reason or explanation. That’s how democracy works, if you’re a fascist working directly for the corrupt leader.

Check out the courage and dignity of these women. Compare it to the absence of courage and dignity in Todd Blanche and his MAGA confederates

And they made this video months earlier, when Epstein’s longtime Girl Friday, Lesley Groff [1], appeared to lie repeatedly to James Comer’s House Committee that hosted her for an informal conversation that was not videotaped or given under oath.

[1] The controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement Epstein entered into with the Justice Department named Groff as a potential co-conspirator that the U.S. “will not institute any criminal charges against.”

Following Epstein’s 2019 death by suicide [there is no doubt he was suicided, by whom is the question — ed], the Justice Department continued investigating people connected to him, including Groff. A 2019 Justice Department list of Epstein family and associates named Groff as a “co-conspirator.” The list also included Maxwell.

A memo describing the department’s investigation after Epstein’s suicide details Groff’s interactions with Epstein’s survivors, including scheduling appointments, arranging travel and completing payments.

(from the PBS link above)

If you invested $10,000 in Trump’s meme coin

You got fucked, brother. That investment is now worth about $360. Congratulations.

Naturally the auto-generated AI response is inaccurate, AI is still actively teaching itself to be accurate. The actual figure is $364. One million investors in Trump’s crypto lost $3,800,000,0000. So? Suck it, cucks.

Heather Cox Richardson, after reviewing the bad fallout from Trump’s impetuous mass bombing of Iran,, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which will continue to spike inflation well into the future, [not to mention his idiot “diplomatic” team’s ongoing incoherent blundering], and before going into the details of Trump’s spiral down an even more demented version of McCarthyism, went on to his business dealings.

And then there were the stories about corruption. On Tuesday, new financial disclosures showed that Trump has made an eye-popping $1.4 billion in his family’s cryptocurrency ventures since he took office. On Thursday, Trump appeared to feel the need to defend those profits, telling CNBC: “There’s nothing illegal. There’s nothing wrong with it I could know.” Julia Manchester of The Hill noted that Trump went on to say that the nature of the presidency means that his children “have inside information” about almost any business decision they make. He said: “Almost anything they do, if they want to buy a truck, if they buy an energy efficient truck, they have inside information.”

There are specific legal prohibitions against using insider information for benefit in stock trades and financial transactions.

And Trump appears to have fleeced his own followers. On Saturday, Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany of the New York Times reported that as of the end of June, nearly a million people who bought Trump’s memecoin lost a total of $3.81 billion while Trump walked away with $636 million. Trump took transaction fees up front, so he made money no matter what happened with the coin. For his followers, though, his advice that “It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING!” and to “Join my very special Trump community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW!” cost them dearly as the coin slid from trading at $75.35 to trading at $1.76, a drop of 97%. . .

. . . But Trump officials routed that money [supposed to be donated to the nonpartisan America250 program to his own Freedom 250 organization] to favored contractors, including the firm that helped to organize Trump’s rally at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, before attendees stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA), the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, told reporters: “I’m a lawyer, and I know better than to pronounce that a crime has been committed. But I do know the elements of fraud, and there is evidence of all those elements here.” source

“There’s nothing illegal. There’s nothing wrong with it I could know.”

In the man’s defense, he is under a lot of pressure and has a ton of serious medical issues he has to keep hidden. You can’t expect him to always make sense, or speak in sentences that can be parsed according to the normal rules of human language. He’s pleading ignorance of the facts and the law, which it is not a crime of which he could know.

Trump’s legal talent, and deal making brilliance

The proud, the few, the fewer and fewer, Trump’s increasingly less competent Department of Justice. Trump’s childishly vindictive reign — he is our retribution, after all, as promised — (and, arguably, America’s punishment for centuries of racism, slavery, mass murder of the indigenous people, sexism, tolerance of pedophilia, consequence-free rape and so on) requires the unquestioning loyalty of unprincipled men and women (almost overwhelmingly white and almost all born male) who will do literally anything for proximity to power.

If a law needs breaking, they must be prepared to defiantly break it. If an honest answer to the court will make the boss look bad, and hamper “his” vengeful, cruel and illegal “agenda” — lie. As federal appeals judge for life Emil Bove instructed his attorneys going into court to defend the illegal detentions and deportations of several hundred men, be prepared to say “fuck you” to nosy federal Judge Boasberg if he tries to push back against illegal government tactics. Thousands of career lawyers in the Department of Justice have either been forced out, fired (scores for prosecuting January 6 rioters or working with Jack Smith — same with FBI agents) or demoted for lack of, I don’t know the German word for it, unlimited zeal for the Leader’s every corrupt and vicious whim. The New York Times notes:

Things have gotten so ugly with the openly corrupt Trump/Charles Koch/Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society agenda, and its in-your-fucking-face AI generated dump of tons of excrement on America, that even the NY Times has felt empowered to be a little saucy with her headlines. Picture the clucking, matronly tone of voice delivering, after the pause indicated by the comma, ” and it stings.” Shaking her head, pitying you: “it stings, doesn’t it? I know, the truth hurts…”

Any judge ruling against the president’s/Project 2025’s “agenda” is deemed a dangerous, sick, partisan hack activist judge. Here’s former Krisi Noem spokesperson, from a few months back, when she defended the unconstitutional practices of the Department of Homeland Security:

In February, then–DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin explained away the administration’s dismal record by saying that “many activist judges have attempted to thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people’s mandate for mass deportations.” source

We, you and I, elected Mr. Trump (by a landslide and, coincidentally, a victory, by almost identical margins, in all seven swing states) and gave him a mandate to open a nationwide system of brutal concentration camps to house millions of “illegals” of all ages (and the five year-olds are as dangerous as the 75 year-olds, aren’t they?).  That’s exactly why we put the man in power, isn’t it?  That’s democracy and if you don’t like it, GEO group has a nice, damp cement cell you can share with twelve other cucks, with a nice bowl of maggot-filled mush twice a day if you’re hungry.

You see, people like Trump, Koch, the insane chainsaw wielding Musk, hate fueled zombie Stephen Miller, can NEVER BE WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING.  You must understand this.   They are capable of committing unthinkable acts to never be wrong, to prevail, to try to bring about the triumph of their will.  

Trump can muse at a news conference about how weird it would be to sue himself, then a few months later he can sue himself, settle with himself (with a deal that ends all IRS investigations into years of his tax fraud, and his family’s — retroactively, prospectively and in perpetuity) and attack the judicial process that calls bullshit on his bullshit. 

If it comes out of your ass, sir, and it smells like shit, and when you smear it on the wall it looks like shit, it’s unlikely to be anything else.  The same goes for the excrement that pours out of your pie hole, sir.

When the judge in Trump et al v. The Internal Revenue Service saw Trump quickly withdraw the baseless, fraudulent lawsuit the day before the judge would have dismissed it as a baseless, fraudulent lawsuit — and thrown out the clearly fake “settlements” that Trump claims ended the suit, she noted in her decision that no settlement had been filed with the court, as is required. The two-part “settlement” only came out after Trump dismissed the case against himself.

Undaunted Trump’s lawyers, the Acting Attorney General most prominent among them, insisted over and over, in public, that the illegal seizure of almost two billion dollars in taxpayer funds to compensate Trump allies and innocent victims of Biden’s DOJ vindictively prosecuted and convicted, or forced to plead guilty, to Trumped up charges of breaking into the Capitol, assaulting police, respectfully defecating in the halls of Congress, chanting “Hang Mike Pence” after constructing a gallows outside the Capitol, assaulting those defending the joint session of Congress as members and their staff fled for their lives, conspiring to bring weapons across from Virginia for a fully armed assault, etc. was completely above board, He also defended the second half of the “settlement” released the day after the slush fund was created, the one that said the IRS can never investigate Trump for anything, ever. Blanche claims that his order that the IRS will never investigate any person or entity associated with Trump, his children or the Trump organization is 100% legal and binding, now and forever. He also claims it does not give anyone “blanket immunity”. I have to say, Blanche is a fucking moron, though one must admire his doglike brazeness, I suppose.

When the judge reopened the case to hold a hearing on the clear fraud on the court and the conspiracy to bring about these fake “settlements”, after a filing by 35 retired federal judges of urged her to do so [1], TACO Trump immediately withdrew the slush fund — though Blanche, as pathetic a suck up as I’ve ever seen in politics, insists his order that the IRS never investigate anyone related to Trump will stand for all time, and that there is nothing foul or in the least bit irregular or suspicious about the order.   Just don’t hold it too close to your nose.

[1]   35 retired federal judges were not having this shit, and their motion to the judge who consented to dismissing the case is worth reading in its entirety.  It is beautifully written and perfectly argues a flawless point, the judge who dismissed the case is legally permitted to, and must, reopen Trump’s fake case for a hearing on a fraud against the Court.  The next day she did.  Trump’s “answer” to conspiracy to commit fraud on the court is due on June 12, two days before the handsome rascal turns an athletic eighty years old.  I told a nurse yesterday that I plan to celebrate my birthday by hosting a cage match on somebody else’s lawn. Hey, if you can do it, why not?

A fund to compensate violent “victims” for abuse that never happened

First of all, corporate media, and everybody else, stop calling this brazen criminal conspiracy to steal thousands of millions from the taxpayers to pay criminals loyal to our criminally insane president millions a “SETTLEMENT”. The scam, perhaps Trump’s brain trust’s biggest FUCK YOU to Americans yet (you know this complex fraud wasn’t the dotard’s idea), is not a settlement. Heather:

In her order dismissing the suit, Judge Kathleen Williams noted that because Trump’s dropping of the suit “does not reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement, there is no settlement of record. Additionally, Defendants—federal agencies represented by the Department of Justice, which has an independent obligation to uphold the ‘public’s strong interest in knowing about the conduct of its Government and expenditure of its resources’ and the ‘fair administration of justice,’ neither submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.”

Judge Williams was not alone in her skepticism about the deal. Andrew Duehren of the New York Times reported today that career lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service thought the agency should fight Trump’s suit, noting that the statute of limitations for such a suit had run out, the Justice Department has previously taken the position that people cannot sue the IRS for the actions of a contractor, and the Justice Department settled a similar case from hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin with a public apology rather than a monetary payoff.

The document that purports to be a “settlement” has the words “settlement agreement” written in capital letters across the top of it, but the important word is “agreement.” It is not the settlement of a legal case: Trump dropped the case when it looked like the judge would throw it out.

It is simply an agreement between Trump and his own appointees at the Department of Justice. source

Soul dead, amoral, power-crazed Trump sycophant Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, feverishly auditioning for the fulltime job, announced the purpose of the fraudulently acquired $1,776 million tax-payer dollar slush fund under the discretion of the new Commission on Covfefe and Justice for MY MOST LOYAL FIGHTERS, irrationally asserting that it was “a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.”

It is, in fact, an unlawful, completely opaque process for disbursing illegally seized tax dollars, with a deranged and demented CEO (Trump) having the final, secret say on all payouts to reward violent fighters who committed various felonies for the selfsame criminal president. There is no legal definition of “lawfare” or “weaponization” (Nazi buzzwords, like lugenpresse — Lying Fake News), although Blanche’s DOJ openly engages in both, daily, bringing repeated, baseless prosecutions against Trump enemies who are forced to spend tens of thousands of dollars defending against nakedly evidence-free charges that ultimately get thrown out of court.

“Redress,” in Blanche’s statement defending the illegal slush fund, means the secret distribution of up to a million dollars each for 1,776 violent patriots, without any oversight, except for the unlimited discretion of the man obsessed with building the Donald J. Trump- Marie Antoinette- Jefferey Epstein ballroom. If the payouts were hypothetically limited to $50,000 a man, that’s a grateful, pumped up army of 35,520 private citizen thugs, preemptive pardons in hand, to bully and intimidate, shoot, even kill, citizens at polling places. In Trump v. United States his handpicked far right partisan lickspittles ruled that their man is allowed to commit crimes, or order the commission of crimes, including, presumably murder, if he can argue, with his usual cogency, that the crimes were committed in the exercise of his core duties.

Putin helped Trump by calling in hundreds of bomb threats in Democratic districts on Election Day 2024. Why not? His boy gave him everything he asked for, and he continues to. That’s what friends do for each other. ICE might not be the proper goon squad to intimidate voters at the polls, there could be successful legal challenges, but a private army of proven violent extremists would be perfect. With a preemptive pardon in the pocket of every weapon wielding “poll watcher,” whether or not masked or in a KKK hood, how many wrong colored voters will be too intimidated to vote? Plus, mail-in voting is fraud! Even the CEO of the US Postal Serves agrees, sir, yes sir! (tears rolling down his strong, masculine cheeks).

This fake settlement is a major criminal conspiracy by our own federal government (or at least between Trump, Blanche and Bessent). As Heather laid out above, the judge who dismissed the case for lack of a genuine controversy in the lawsuit, because Trump controls both sides, as Trump was voluntarily dropping it (and “settling it”), noted in dismissing it that there was no settlement included in the papers Trump or the IRS filed in his fake case against his own Executive Branch agency. The IRS also filed nothing in regard to any “settlement”.

Of course, the obvious question is what does a slush fund to pay violent rioters, and reward American Eichmann Jeffrey Clark and co-conspirators, have anything to do with Trump’s complaint in the fake case against the IRS that the judge dismissed? It’s as solid (and irrational) as the connection between the correspondents’ dinner and Trump’s fucking Epstein ballroom. Back to fucking Todd Blanche, then, and a cooler head than mine for some details:

In essence then, the settlement gives Trump full control over almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to spend however he wants, without oversight. The Department of Justice document establishing the fund declares that “[o]nce the funds are deposited into the Designated Account, the United States has no liability whatsoever for the protection or safeguarding of those funds, regardless of bank failure, fraudulent transfers, or any other fraud or misuse of the funds.” . .

. . . A document—this time signed by Blanche himself—amended the previous agreement to add: “The United States RELEASES, WAIVES, ACQUITS, and FOREVER DISCHARGES” Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization, “and is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing, any and all claims” that, as of yesterday, “have been or could have been asserted” by the IRS against them or “related or affiliated individuals” or companies. In other words, Blanche is asserting a blanket promise to stop all IRS audits of Trump’s taxes and not to prosecute any crimes Trump, his family, his businesses, or his associates might have committed that crossed the IRS. . .

. . . [Legal analyst Joyce] Vance commented that “[t]he optics of this are so bad that it’s hard to believe Trump would expose himself to their consequences unless he really needed this deal.” It’s probably worth remembering that, after years of pursuing the gangster Al Capone, the government finally managed to convict him of tax evasion. It appears Blanche and Trump’s loyalists are trying to make sure that can’t happen again, declaring any such investigations the “weaponization” of the Justice Department.

Holly Baxter of The Independent reported today that in the midst of all the chaos—including his war on Iran and rising fuel and food prices—Trump called a sudden, urgent press conference today as Blanche was testifying. But what was on his mind was not Iran, or prices, or his corrupt agreement with the Department of Justice. He wanted to talk about his ballroom.

Trump’s comments in that press conference have invited commentary suggesting he is turning the White House into a fortress. Describing the ballroom, he said: “Between the drone-proofing, the missile-proofing, we have ah, and the drone capacity upstairs, we can have all sorts of military—I hate to use the word snipers—but we have great sniper capacity. It’s built for our snipers, not enemy’s snipers, our snipers. And because of the height we get a very clear view of everything all over Washington.”

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Here’s the wall the demented paranoiac had built around the White House during his increasingly unpopular first term. It was up, protecting him (like the bulletproof glass he stood behind), on that beautiful January 6 morning when he urged his Day of Love crowd to march with him to the Capitol, peacefully, without a permit (which would have come with massive police presence, probably thwarting his surprise attack), and persuade the joint session of Congress to get with the Stop the Steal program, after peacefully breaking through police lines, gently smashing windows to patriotically trespass in the building, and respectfully defecate in the halls of Congress like the meek tourists they were, while politely calling for Mike Pence to come out and calmly walk to the gallows so they could, kindly, lovingly, stretch his neck a bit. Every one of those loyal patriots who served their master that hallowed day, and were unfairly persecuted afterwards, deserves a new arsenal of automatic weapons, a motor boat and a nice new car — no?