Epstein loopholes and Fast Karma

 Just in case you weren’t sure, yes, Republicans are in fact the party of pedophiles. Top to bottom.

In Bakersfield, California, a former county supervisor was busted last year for sexually abusing at least one of his children. He was charged with felony child abuse and the illegal possession of assault weapons. Sounds like a real peach, eh? Totally the kind of guy you want as your dad and as a neighbor, right?

His name is Zack Scrivner and he was granted mental health diversion on December 19, 2025. What’s a mental health diversion, you ask?

Under California law, mental health diversion allows eligible defendants with diagnosed mental health disorders to receive treatment instead of incarceration. If successfully completed, charges can be dismissed and records sealed. (source) 

California State Senator Shannon Grove held a press conference yesterday to announce Senate Bill 1373, a bill designed to limit certain crimes from being eligible for mental health diversion.

“However well-intended the program was, it did not come with enough guardrails and has become a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’ for violent offenders across our state,” Grove said. (source) 

Seems to me you shouldn’t be able to claim the “Epstein loophole,” as it’s been dubbed, when your mental health disorder is self-induced. Zack “was under the influence of drugs.” Did he go with Adderall, Trump’s amphetamine of choice or Musk’s fave, ketamine? Maybe he just went with regular old, off the street coke?

In HAH, HAH, HAH, karma’s my favorite bitch news, we have the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team, who yucked it up at Prez Pedo’s misogynistic “joke.” 

After the US men’s ice hockey team won gold on Sunday, Trump called into the locker-room celebration and invited the players to be his guests at Tuesday’s State of the Union address.

“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” he said. “You do know that. I do believe I probably would be impeached [if the women’s team wasn’t invited].” Several of the men’s players were captured laughing at Trump’s comments in a video that later went viral. (source) 

So, they laughed at his we-have-to-humor-the-emotional-little-ladies “joke” and accepted the felonious fuck's invite to lunch at the White House.

He had the staff serve them cold McDonald’s cheeseburgers (not even Big Macs, fer fucks sake) still in their paper wrappers – no plates, no fries, and bottled water. I’m guessing they were provided little plastic ketchup packs. 

Classy. Amirite?

I only mention it but the last time the U.S. Men’s Team won the gold medal was 46 years ago – 1980. Before that? 1960. They did win silver in 2010, 2002, and waaaay back in 1972, 1956, 1952, 1932, 1924, and 1920 though.

The U.S. Women’s team? Gold in 2026, 2018, and 1998. Silver in 2022, 2014, 2010, an 2002. Bronze in 2006. Women's ice hockey was only introduced in 1998. The women's team seem to be doing pretty damn well, eh?

Flavor Flav of the hip hop group Public Enemy is hosting the women’s team in Vegas and has been rallying up other businesses around the city to join in. 

I’m not keen on Vegas BUT, if I was a gold medal winning hockey player, I’d rather be dining on well prepared fresh food, served on china in chandelier lit rooms versus cold, paper wrapped crap tossed on a conference room table in an overly bright, cramped, windowless closet.

Maybe that’s just me though?