Lateral Move or Step Down?

I imagine you’ve heard — Krusty Gnome got booted from her Secretary of Homeland Security gig.

An aside: it can’t just be me — every time I hear/read Department of Homeland Security, what I hear is Vee must protect der Vaterland. Said, of course, in the most offensive, cartoonishly clipped, heavy German accent.

Aside number two: Now that the US is on track to outpace Nazi Germany in the construction of concentration camps and the incarceration of people whose only “crime” is failing to have white skin or the right politics or enough money and connections, can we PLEASE retire the epithet “good German?” This was used to describe anyone who deliberately turned a blind eye to the atrocities, the horrors large and small. 

Look around – it’s us here in the U.S.A. who are building the camps which are responsible for crimes against humanity. There have been at least nine deaths SO FAR THIS YEAR. Motherfuckering 2026 is only TWO months old! How many of us are turning a blind eye?

What I’m getting at – the German proverb: If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis. 

Update that shit! If there’s a Republican at the table and ten other people are sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with eleven Republicans.

Are you a “good Republican” a “good American?” Are you sitting at the table blithely passing the time of day, talking about the Sox, sipping your beer with someone who voted for and/or still supports this regime?

Okay, I’m back from the Asides.

I *think* Prez Pedo thinks he’s being subtly kind and all delicate-like in not just sending Krusty, her boyfriend, and husband back to their home in Bumfuck Nowhere, South Dakota. Nope. He went out of his way to make up a brandy new department and position just for her. She’s now going to be his special envoy for the Shield of the Americas. 

‘Da fuck is that?!!! I swear, this administration just pulls all their ideas out of movies made from comic books.

In the Trumpverse, the Shield of the Americas is a pile of weasel shit dressed up in foofaraw and expensive suits, just like the Board of Peace. The Shield doesn’t exist yet and I’ll be gobsmacked and thunderstruck if it ever actually does. 

The name of the gathering is supposed to reflect Trump’s vision for U.S. national security strategy to put a greater emphasis on the Western Hemisphere, as he looks to leverage U.S. military and intelligence assets unseen in the region since the end of the Cold War. 

The leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago have confirmed they will attend, according to the White House.

Noem, speaking in Nashville, confirmed she will be at the summit and that Trump will announce "a big agreement" that will detail "how we’re going to go after cartels and drug trafficking in the entire Western Hemisphere." (source ) 

It’s another Reality TV President grift. The only thing that’s gonna come out of this is Pedo and Krusty getting to fleece a fresh batch of marks. Oh and the “special envoys” from other countries, along with Krusty and her boyfriend get an all expenses paid lux vaca at some lovely resort. The envoys will occasionally pretend to discuss having a new US military/CIA presence, as though anyone was at all unaware that we've been there all along.

Just in case you’re unsure, Krusty didn’t get the ax because she was a lying, thieving, HUGELY embarrassing failure at her job. It’s not because so many innocents died because from her cruel, callous indifference to life. It’s got NOTHING to do with the astoundingly brutal violence of her troops. Nope. She lied badly on tv. She also might have said something that didn’t cast Dear Leader in the most glowing of golden lights. THAT, especially from an older chick, is unforgivable.

In the recent House Judiciary Committee hearing where she was getting grilled, Rep. Jared Moskowitz wore a big "Justice for Cricket" button while questioning her. A little mocking while she goes down the tubes is perfect!

Markwayne Mullin is Pedo’s pick to replace her. This is the bastion of maturity, decorum, diplomacy, and keen discernment who challenged the head of the Teamsters union to a fight at a Senate hearing. Yeah, as if they were 10-year-olds on the playground.

This is the guy who was cowering on the floor in front of his seat in the Senate Chamber during the J6 insurrection. Sure, Two First Names is a real tough guy.

Markwayne, on a good day, maybe has the same intelligence level as Boebert. He's also about as emotionally stable as Nancy Let’s-Take-It-Outside Mace. Homeland Security has gone from a Mar-a-Lago faced violent, soulless, dimwitted, lying-ass, grifter to a chickenhearted, kumquat brained, emotionally stunted, rich guy who likes to run his mouth about how big and manly he is.

Lateral move or a step down? It’s like comparing a fresh pile of steaming Rottweiler shit to a hot load of Doberman Pinscher excrement.

GIVE ME AN F!

I’m in the mood for a good old fish cheer this morning. You?

So, we’re in a big, fat war and it’s getting bigger every time I check the news (and I’m perniciously online). Our reality show president, Dementia Don the Pedophile King, and his pet Secretary of WAR, the drunk, White Christian Nationalist and former weekend Fox “News” couch sitter with zero relevant, real military experience, are running the show. Oh yeah, coked out lil’ Marco Rubio is there to stutter out his own special, mangled, circular takes on why the fuck these unqualified, moronic, dumbfuckian, rotted rutabagas thought dropping bombs, murdering over 150 elementary schoolgirls, amongst others, was the bestest route to peace.

Apparently we have an infinite number of bombs and our perma-sozzled, Nazi glorifying dickless wonder of a defense secretary wants to drop every single one of them.

We’re probably all gonna die.

I wonder how thrilled all those suckers 'scuse me, countries who ponied up a cool billion to join Pedo’s little Board of Peace are now? So far, Iran has hit Israel, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Jordan. All but Iraq and Oman belong to Trump’s little club. 

Oman got an invitation to join Donny’s clique but hadn’t replied before bomb time. I suspect they’re gonna be a straight “no, thank you” now. Dunno why Iraq, Turkmenistan, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan didn’t get invites. Maybe they didn’t strike the old orange con man as easily fleeced marks?

By the by, if we're going to be strictly accurate and shit, shouldn't the name of his fanboi frat be spelled out as Bored of Peace?

Folks on Threads have been talking about their World War III nuclear preparedness plans.

Where I live is more or less ground zero for multiple attacks, being nestled between a naval base, a nuclear submarine base and a shipyard. My disaster response plan in the event nuclear attack is to have every molecule in my body reach 1,000,000°C and vapourise at roughly the speed of light.

This plan requires no special equipment, training or practice.  Of course, according to American survival plans, if I can find a school desk to hide under, then all bets are off.
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If given the choice, I choose instant incineration over a long, slow, excruciating death from radiation poisoning.
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A doctor friend of mine recommended cyanide pills in the event of nuclear war, but they’re not currently available on Amazon.
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Welding glasses, beach chair, 3 pineapple jalapeño buzz balls.
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I’m in MD, real close to D.C. So, that said...My deck chair, sunglasses, and a bottle of Macallan 25 for one last delicious drink, while I watch the mushroom cloud for .5 seconds until the end.
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I live on the river in Southeast Ohio. I’m pretty sure we’re not making it and if we do we’re crawling out with several legs and arms and multiple eyes. Maybe a head or two.

Instant mutation just add radiation.
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I’m near a major refinery, an Air Force base and a Navy shipyard. I’ll be in my garden with a large gin and tonic.

The death toll so far? In Iran, at least 1,230, with more than 6,000 people wounded. In Israel? 19 civilians. Lebanon? At least 77. Bahrain – one. Kuwait – five. United Arab Emirates – three. Syria – four. Iraq – 13. U.S military dead – six.

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
~ Masters of War, Bob Dylan 

Bat Guano

So look, I’m in NO way meaning to dis bats or bat shit in ANY way. I mean, bats eat a TON of insects. That’s awesome! Better to have them hanging around your yard on a summer night than to coat yourself in chemicals (DEET AKA: N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide). Also, better to fertilize your lawn and garden with fabola organic good-for-the-soil-AND-the-plants bat shit than the synthetic stuff. Right?!

But see here, there are a certain amount of people who need to be called out hard. They are, for reals now, serious batshit.

Lauren Boebert — I mean, obviously. The woman really gives us lazy heauxs and foolish twats a bad name and I totally resent that! This person isn’t just uneducated – I don’t believe we could find an atom’s worth a sense or natural intellectual capacity in her with a live cell imaging microscope. She probably needs someone to remind her to brush her teeth, wipe her ass, and put on clothes each morning.

Handy Oakley, as she’s more commonly known, is the Vice Chair of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. This sounds like a made up position – like giving a kid a fancy title for making sure all the green and brown crayons stay properly aligned in the box. Ya know, to make him feel like he's important.

Markwayne Mullen — He’s a senator. Oh but wait. He’s a senator from Oklahoma, the state that ranks 50th in education. Unsurprisingly, he’s gaspingly low on brainpower. How low you ask? He was on Fox “News” Monday and, not just once but, TWICE referred to Kegseth as President Hegseth. No. Really. He also waxed gritty about the “smell of war.” 

“It smells bad. If anybody has ever been there and been able to smell the war that’s happening around you and taste it and fill it in your nostrils and hear it, it’s something that you’ll never forget….”

He’s never been in the military, never been to war or in a war zone. He was a rancher and a plumber before becoming a senator. The closest he’s been to war is playing Call of Duty on his couch. 

Nancy Mace — The bathroom monitor House Rep from South Carolina. WHAT is her problem? I’ve gotta figure she’s suffered some serious abuse while growing up and/or as a young adult. It seems she’s never had the opportunity to successfully work through it with a decent therapist. At this point she really just ought to go inpatient. I'm serious here.

Clearly Nancy’s desperate for attention but WHY, WHY, WHY did she go into politics? Did she feel she wasn’t quite enough of an exhibitionist for, say, a circus act? Did she consider becoming a school teacher or a salesperson but was told she was too deranged, unintelligent and/or lacking in empathy? What?

Nancy’s chair of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In that roll she’s led congressional hearings on UFOs. Apparently, Nanc is worried about little green men invading Earth. 

Krazy Kash Patel — Wanna know how absolutely imbecilic this administration is and how out of the loop old Krazy Kash is? He fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran days before Pedo and Bibi went all bomb happy on Iran. Why? 

Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. 
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In Trump’s first term, CI-12 (DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit) was instrumental in tracking potential threats from the Iranian regime in retaliation for the 2020 drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, then-leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force.

Iranian-backed actors have since been charged with plots to assassinate American officials that Iran has blamed for Soleimani’s death, including Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser John Bolton. (source) 

Ooooh, OUCH! That mistake's gonna be a big issue in Kash's annual review, eh? Some GOP bozo thought he'd be perfect as the Director of the FBI.

Have you heard about the Florida Rep, Anna Paulina Luna yet? Like Nancy Mace, Anna believes in little green men. She refers to them as “inter dimensional beings.” Before getting elected to Congress Luna was an influencer and did something with Turning Point USA (you know, that shot-in-the-neck, idiot, dead guy’s show) where she actually compared Hillary Clinton to herpes. WHAT is it with these absolute mindless rutabagas talking trash to and about Clinton. Do they honestly not realize that, when they do this, they look, more or less, 10,000 times more astoundingly stupid than before they opened their mouths?

Nope, guess not. The ability to recognize that would require brainpower.

Anna leads the House Oversight Task Force on declassification of federal secrets. Gosh, don't you feel safer knowing that such a cerebral heavyweight is in charge of this? 

The Guardians Of Pedophiles will never run out of complete idiots.

What Happened ?

Just curious…

What happened to Maduro and his wife?  Where are they now?
The most recent news report I can find is an Al Jazeera post from January 24th. He’s in jail in Brooklyn and there’s no mention of his wife. Meanwhile, Venezuela’s being run by Maduro’s faithful deputy. She's being told to smile pretty for Trump while the robber barons hold a gun to her head and steal all the oil. 

What happened to Charlie Kirk’s shooter? 
Tyler Robinson is facing the death penalty in the “strongly pro-life state” state of Utah.

What happened to the boxes of purloined classified docs at Mar-a-Largo? 
The fact that this man was not immediately locked up after this gross treasonous theft (or before) and then allowed to steal another election is a testament to how deep the corruption and dysfunction runs in this damn country. The Department of “Justice” dropped charges against Pedo after the election. Of fucking course it did.

Ivana – did she fall or was she pushed? 
It was ruled an accident but those seem to happen a lot to people who potentially have dirt on Donnie, eh?

What happened to the 1,200 missing people from Alligator Alcatraz?
The most recent article I can find on the joint is from December 10, 2025. While chock-full of eyeopening data, there’s no word on the missing 1,200. Did those fucking ghouls, Miller and Noem, have them offed – disappeared into the swamps? Will we ever know?

What happened to the Hortman’s murderer?
Vance Boelter is still in federal custody awaiting trial. Amazingly, Prez Pedo hasn’t pardoned him and made him Secretary of Getting Rid of All Democrats yet.

How about the 21-year-old killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend? 
Why’d Secret Service have to kill him? They couldn’t otherwise disable him? I mean, aren’t the President’s guards, the Secret Service, supposed to be top notch, precision shots? Oh wait, this is the Clown Administration. All they need to be expert at is sucking up and looking like they could be pert Fox “News” couch sitters one day.

Where are the ICE goons who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good? 
Pretti’s murderers, Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez, locations are unknown. DHS isn’t saying a word and the FBI have also “declined to comment.” There’s, likewise, no word on Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross. Noem has him in a safe house somewhere. I hope it’s a prison for him and he can never safely get out.

Why are girls being kept in a private area in that concentration camp in Texas?
We know why. This is Prez Pedo’s America. Girls and young women have no rights, no autonomy.

What happened to all the money that DOGE was saving us?
HAH! That shit was a fairy tale. Any money “saved” went into tax breaks and slush funds for the wealthy. DOGE was a con, a grift but you knew that.

What’s happening with the East Wing?
The Epstein Ballroom still needs to be approved by the National Capital Planning Commission BUT that crew is packed with Trump toadies so approval is a lock. What a fucking waste.

Will we ever have a free press again? 
Media is completely under the oligarch’s control. I'm not holding my breath.

What happened to the investigation into the $50K bribe that Hamfaced Tom Homan took?
It was closed by Perjury Pam’s “Justice” Department. Lying Leavitt’s denying everything. Of course. 

What happened to Tulsi's whistleblower complaint?
Scuttled, of course. It’s what you can expect from an entire administration of Russian plants.

To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal. 
~ Henry Kissinger

Wag the Dog

Linda Silvestri

When a king feels that his people are about to rebel, he declares war on another country.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The stupidest man on the planet thinks he’s gonna bring happy regime change to the Middle East? There’d be better odds of a promising, beneficial-to-all success if I, the most baseball illiterate and diplomacy challenged human on the planet, tried to broker peace between coked up Red Sox and Yankee fans.

Seriously, was this really all about Iran rebuilding their nuclear program, developing long range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe? Mind you, these are the same allies who he and Vance dis on the regular. 

Of course not! All the security analysts and experts on Iran say those claims are either complete bullshit or are molehills made into mountains.

It’s great that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has gone bye bye – 92 million people lived under oppressive, brutal rule for too damn long. What happens now though? What’s the plan?

“Where does this all go?” Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ intelligence committee told NPR. “We can bomb Iran along with the Israelis for, you know, lengthy period of time, but in the service of what?

“Is the intention regime change? Because there aren’t many examples either of regime change affected through bombing, or, quite frankly, of American military forces actually doing regime change in a way that is satisfactory.” (source) 

The U.S. doesn’t exactly have a great history in the regime change business.

Just a few examples:

Cuba (1961): The failed CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion. 
South Vietnam (1963): One, two, three, four, what are we fight for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam! 
Guatemala (1954): The CIA executed a coup that overthrew the government and installed the first of a line of right-wing dictators, in its place. Gee, aren’t we swell?
Nicaragua (1981–1990): OY! This was Reagan’s complete horror show boondoggle.
Iraq (2003): With the phony baloney claim of weapons of mass destruction we tossed out Saddam Hussein and then what? After nine years of war that left 500,000 to over a million people dead, the country is fragile and divided but better (?) since we’re not there anymore. 

The Iranian Red Crescent Society, a non-governmental humanitarian organization, has said that at least 555 people have been killed by Israel-US attacks across 131 cities since Saturday. So far, four U.S. service members have died.

Once again, a war has been launched by a man without a plan – a man too incredibly stupid to even conceive of the need for one let alone hire a crack, qualified team to come up with one.

For what it's worth, I don't think Prez Pedo jumping us into war in Iran is all about distracting us from his horrifically vile and unbelievably disgusting crimes against children. Nope. Pedo's a chaos demon and a complete attention whore. He has to have all eyes on him, everyone talking about him ALL the time. In order to make that happen, he's got to be starting new fires on the regular. Didn't Pedo send U.S. forces into Venezuala to take out Maduro just two months ago? He struck more than seventy Syrian targets on December 19th. Bombed Nigeria on Christmas Day. Launched 126 operations in Somalia in ‘25, killing nearly two hundred people. The old orange sadist's been a busy steaming load of feces. I'm not even including his Greenland threats. Maybe every new crime is a distraction from the one immediately before.

One thing that's immensely clear – this is not a person who thinks or plans ahead. There is NO game plan.

Fellow humans, we are SO fucked.

Zevon Dreams

I woke up with Warren Zevon’s Lawyers Guns and Money playing in my head.

Well, I went home with the waitress, hey
The way I always do, hey
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too?

I was gambling in Havana, whoo!
I took a little risk, hey
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this.

Now I'm hiding in Honduras
I'm a desperate man, hey
Send lawyers, guns and money
That shit has hit the fan.

Why? Why not?

The dream I woke from? I was making my way home, coming down the causeway to the Neck. The cottages and townhomes on the right were all gone – replaced by marsh grasses as tall as triple decker apartment buildings. The road was no longer boring old asphalt. It was now an Aztec patterned mosaic made completely of broad, bright blue turquoise tiles. There were a few towering, green palms as well. 

I guess climate change had hit Massachusetts big time. Mexico had moved north.

What puts this in my dreaming mind? Possibly it’s all the clips I’ve seen online of Aztec dancers, notably the group Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli (Warriors of the First Cactus Flower) protesting ICE in Minneapolis. Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli is an arts, culture, education, community organization based in St. Paul – how they came into being is just beautiful. 

They became a part of the Minnesota protest scene after Philando Castile's murder-by-cop.

Sergio woke up to see the Facebook video filmed by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, depicting the grisly aftermath of the shooting. “It just took me back to when we got stopped the day before. At any point, when we got stopped, things could have gone wrong and this could have been me. This could have been my son.”

Later that morning, Quiroz went to the Governor’s Mansion to join the protests that began the night of Castile’s death and continue to this day. But Quiroz isn’t one for chants or signs. He has a different way of protesting: An offering of ancient dances.

So he decided to come back with his group, Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli, which means Warriors of the First Cactus Flower in the Nahuatl language.  There were about 10 of them, dressed in traditional regalia,  including Copilli, the the feather headdresses in vibrant greens, yellows and reds, and leather or cloth belts with beadwork. (source) 

Apart from fancy dancers, hoop dancers and grass dancers, the Aztec dancers are, to me anyway, the most dramatically prominent. It’s the regalia. Okay, fancy dancers are right up there but, as yet, I haven’t seen any of them at one of the protests.

Meanwhile, our criminal government continues to ensure us all a place in Hell. The death toll at the girl’s elementary school in Iran is now up to 148 with 95 others injured. 

Is America great again yet?

Capt Tim Hawkins, the spokesperson for US Central Command, said the US was “aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations. We take these reports seriously and are looking into them.” (source) 

Yeah sure, buddy.

The little girl’s school building was next door to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps barracks. Did Kegseth’s crack War Machine make an *oopsie*? Had they intended to hit the barracks and just kinda missed? That really would be totally on par for Pedo’s perma sozzled, incompetent, vanity-before-intellect Secretary of Drunk and Stupid.

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!

Gee, now that we're bombing the fuck out of Iran, I wonder if FIFA will be rescinding Pedo’s Peace Prize. 

President Bonespurs statesmanly stated that “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war, but we’re doing this for the future.”  Yeah...sure, buddy.

U.S. and Iranian people are going to die for what? To delay the world hearing more about Trump’s financial crimes as well as the depravities committed against so many women and children. That’s all it’ll be – a delay. We WILL find out. Perjury Pam, Comer Pyle, and the rest of the Guardians of Pedophiles can’t/won’t protect him forever.

And Pedo’s chief cheerleader and chickenhawk, Lindsey Graham, is all RAH, RAH, RAH, sis boom bah! FREEDOM! Amirite?

Christ in a bowl of sugared grits, that man is SUCH a stupid, craven mess. I wonder what kind of dirt Pedo’s got on him. Gotta be something pretty damn nasty and flat-out unforgivable.

I only mention it BUT is this really what peace looks like? The ultra violent invasions, by his private army of rabid, jacked up ICEholes, of Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland (both Oregon and Maine) and Minnesota? 

Pedo’s unauthorized wars on Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen?

I think the Fédération Internationale de Football Association should take remedial courses in philosophy, international relations, and just basic words meanings. Understanding Orwell’s doubthink would be a good start. 

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

If we’re at continuous war, we’ll be too busy and too damn exhasuted to fight back against our real oppressors. 

If you haven't already, you’ve really got to read Hillary Clinton’s entire opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. You can find all four pages (it’s not a long read) here.

Some snippets:

“This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than to seek truth and justice for the victims and survivors, as well as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf.”

“Infuriatingly, the Trump Administration gutted the Trafficking in Persons Office at the State Department, cutting more than 70 percent of the career civil and foreign excerpts who worked so hard to prevent trafficking crimes. The annual trafficking report, required by law, was delayed for months. The message from the Trump Administration to the American people and the world could not be clearer: combatting human trafficking is no longer a priority under the Trump White House."

Of course it’s not. The fox doesn’t want the hen house protected in any way.

“If this committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”

The committee is NOT serious. It’s a sop to the masses. A panto meant to give the illusion that the Republican administration gives a fuck about all the young girls and boys who were raped, beaten, and otherwise sadistically abused by deformed dicked Epstein,Trump, and all their equally twisted rich buddies.

And, in all the insanity, let’s not forget Kyle Bassinga on this last day of Black History Month. He was a 21-year-old Black student from Atlanta who was found hanging from a tree in a park in Marietta, Georgia. Local police were quick to say there was “no foul play” and rule his death a “suicide.” 

Of course they were. They always are.

Black men don’t hang themselves from trees. JULIAN, a civil rights organization, has an in-depth analysis on modern-day lynchings from 2000 to 2025. You can read it online – it’s called A Crimson Record after Ida B. Wells’ A Red Record. 

Lynching has never disappeared — it has adapted, hidden behind silence and indifference.
~ JULIAN founder Jill Collen Jefferson 

Storms of Empathy and Rage

It’s been one hell of a week on top of so many hellish weeks and months. 

My health has been stupid this winter and not with dramatic tumor related bullshit either. I’m used to battling that garbage. It’s the normal slings and arrows of outrageous aging that’s throwing me off. Don’t I have enough on my plate? Shouldn’t I get a pass on this other crap?

Yes, yes I damn well should.

Beyond my health crap is, of course, the havoc being rained down on us by Prez Pedo and his crew of sycophantic, desperately myopic, greedheaded, drugged up, control freaking fucks.

This story of Nurul Amin Shah Alam just about broke me. This is the nearly blind Rohingya (Rakhine State, Myanmar) man who spoke no English. He had been dumped by ICE outside a closed coffee shop in Buffalo, NY on a frigid night after he’d been held for almost a year. He didn’t have a guide dog or a walking stick. His family hadn't been called to pick him up. It was below freezing. He had no shoes, only the orange booties from ICE lock-up.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam is dead now. Of course he is! Presumably he froze to death. He was only 56 years old. 

If not for Ten, Jen, and Oni taking such amazingly good care of me, that could be me. I’m so very lucky. Why me and not him?

In other news, here are some highlights from the Guardians of Pedophiles’ absurd closed-door session with Hillary Clinton yesterday. 

First, I really gotta ask, WHY are these jokers pretending to investigate Hillary for anything to do with Epstein? How is grilling her relevant to anything ANYWHERE?! Oh, that’s right – these are Republicans and governing is nothing more than Gaslight Theater for them.

Anyway – key moments:

1. ‘Who is being protected?
“I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein,” Clinton told reporters after her deposition. “I never went to his island. I never went to his homes. I never went to his offices. 

“If the majority was serious, it would not waste time on fishing expeditions. There is too much that needs to be done. What is being held back? Who is being protected? And why the cover-up?” she said.
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2. ‘I started being asked about UFOs’
… Late into the session, questions are said to have veered off course. “It got quite unusual,” Clinton told reporters, “because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories”.
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3. Session briefly derailed by leaked photo
The deposition of Clinton was interrupted when Lauren Boebert, a Republican member of the committee, leaked a photo from the room. Conservative influencer Benny Johnson published the image on social media platform X stating that Clinton “does not look happy”.
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4. ‘Ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files’
Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the committee, told reporters that Trump and his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, should testify over their ties with Epstein.
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5. Clinton confident her husband knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes
Asked by a reporter on Thursday if she was “100% confident” her husband was unaware of Epstein’s crimes when he spent time with him before the late sex offender’s first arrest, Hillary Clinton responded: “I am, and I think the chronology of the connection that he had with … Epstein ended years, several years before anything about Epstein’s criminal activities came to light.”

The ONLY reason she’s being grilled is because she’s a favorite punching bag for Republicans. Those rake stepping dumbfucks keep thinking she’ll be an easy victim since she’s just a chick. HAH! You absolute rake stepping fools! 

Ms. Clinton, the former US secretary of state, the former first lady, the former lawyer is far more intelligent, savvier, cannier than any of these ridiculous, half-wit, posturing fools who think they’re gonna pull a fast one on her.

I need to find a really good book to disappear into. I just can’t reality today.