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Mike Johnson is now blaming Republicans in refusing to open the House.

I’m a Catholic, Mass going, Bible reading man myself & I’d be pretty darned careful reviewing God’s particular choices in this vein since oh say 1914.

It’s a sports (league, governing body) issue & a local issue. It’s akin to PEDs. There are legitimately to me 120 issues more important than this. But it’s a top 5 issue for maga. Crazy thing is the most prominent trans person in politics is Bruce Jenner, a maga & Fox fixture. When it came time to make a choice for the presidential advisors on fitness, Trump skipped over Jenner (legitimately a top 5 all time American athlete) entirely but included Lawrence Taylor - a convicted sex offender & narcotics & PED user - and even invited him to the White House. Just part of the general craziness around the whole maga universe.

Where my girl at?

Today Trump, who wanted to meet with the Taliban, released thousands (yes) of terrorists, & who takes hundreds of millions in personal bribes from wahabiists, met with a man that he himself had placed on the US terrorist list. This was an actual AQ aligned terrorist according to the Trump State Department. But ah yes the danger is the secret fundamentalist Muslim whose careerist wife dresses in fashion & runs his campaign & is really doing Taqiyya while also a communist believing religion is the opium of the masses. Got it.

Actually I’m surprised the maga folks haven’t mentioned it. The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in >>The resignation of the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, over accusations of bias comes as a shock and leaves a gulf at the top of the corporation when it needs leadership most. Davie stressed that the decision was his alone – neither the board, nor even many of those who led the coordinated attack among rightwing press and politicians expected it. Now the resignations of both Davie and the CEO of BBC News, Deborah Turness, have shown that baying for blood gets results. The biggest shock is that this saga began just a week ago with the leak of a 19-page “devastating memo” from Michael Prescott, a former political journalist who spent three years as an external adviser to the broadcaster, published in the Telegraph. The dossier alleges BBC Panorama doctored a speech by Trump, making him appear to support the January 6 rioters, that its Arabic coverage privileged pro-Hamas views, and that a group of LGBTQ employees had excessive influence on coverage of sex and gender. The Telegraph wrote that the BBC’s very silence “proves there is a serious problem”. Meanwhile, the former UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s “blast” at Nick Robinson, the only BBC staffer to publicly fight back against the accusations, leads the Mail on Sunday, and Donald Trump’s press secretary has called the BBC “100% fake news” Leave to one side for now the direct allegations about specific failures of BBC coverage, and the BBC’s own baffling inability or unwillingness to defend itself over the past week. But the row obscures the context that explains what is, at the heart of the matter, a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion.<<

76 people. The US is acting as an outlaw nation. We’ve angered & activates placid allies in a region right on our soft southern border. We’ve moved 10%(!) of our naval assets away from global hot spots. We don’t arrest the people we capture. We’re given no information on any of it nor is Congress. Meanwhile it’s totally ineffective & stupidly costly. And the one true enemy nation 60 miles from our coast is completely untouched as is Nicaragua.

Thank you. Nigeria for whatever reason is the only place maga cares about this issue & the only reason they care about it is Trump tells them too. Meanwhile Christians have been under attack in Syria (where Trump specifically abandoned them), Ukraine & Gaza as well.

Israel believes that Iran’s 60% enriched uranium nuclear material was safely spirited away. >>Israeli officials have warned since June that they are prepared to attack Iran again if it moves closer to producing a nuclear weapon, an intention Iran has always denied. The Israelis recognize that Iran’s nuclear program has been degraded but not destroyed, partly because Mr. Trump stopped the June war sooner than Israel wanted. “Israel wants to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is contained, and they won’t get it through negotiations, so I suspect the Israelis intend to strike again,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate at the Center for American Progress in Washington and at London’s Royal United Services Institute. “The Iranians are rebuilding, but once they are past a certain line, Israel will attack again.”<< >>But both camps consider another round of confrontation with Israel inevitable, he said. “So the country is doubling down on preparedness for the next round, and they want it to produce a new equilibrium that will wipe out the sense of Iranian weakness,” Mr. Vaez said. Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Financial Times last week that the organization believes that the majority of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium survived the war, but that its status is unclear without inspections. He estimated that Iran has roughly 400 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, which is close to weapons grade.<<

>>Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein confidante and convicted child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that President Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations made public on Monday by House Democrats. “The deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is ‘sick of having to be Maxwell’s ,’” according to a letter to Trump from Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. .…Days after her arrival, she said in emails to friends and relatives that she was much happier at the less restrictive facility. Now Judiciary Democrats say they have obtained documents and whistleblower information that Maxwell is receiving special favors at the prison camp — benefits unavailable to other inmates. Raskin’s letter said Maxwell has received customized meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area and access to a service puppy. Raskin said Maxwell was also afforded private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. The guests were allowed to bring computers, which Raskin described as “an unprecedented action” that risked Maxwell having “unmonitored communications with the outside world.” When the phone lines went down for other inmates at the camp, Raskin said, Maxwell had friends and relatives call prison employees, who then could help her speak to them. “These luxuries and amenities … mark Ms. Maxwell more as a guest at a Trump hotel than a federal prisoner and child sex offender,” Raskin wrote. While prison officials “cater to her every need,” Raskin wrote, Maxwell has also been preparing a written request that Trump commute her sentence. “The Warden herself is directly helping Ms. Maxwell copy, print, and send documents related to this application,” Raskin wrote. Raskin said Democrats have been told that “any inmate or staff who questions or blows the whistle on the institution’s grotesque pampering of a serial sexual abuser and human trafficker at taxpayer expense is being punished and retaliated against” by the warden, Tanisha Hall. …<< Msnbc

In March, the U.S. government sent more than 200 Venezuelan men to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador >>Luis Chacón, 26, from the Venezuelan state of Táchira, was one of several men who said the constant abuse at the prison led him to contemplate suicide. A father of three, he said he had been working as a driver for Uber Eats in Milwaukee before being detained and expelled to the prison. His low point there came in June, he said, on the day of his oldest child’s seventh birthday. “We had heard that if there was a person who died among us that they would let us all go,” he said. He thought maybe he should be that person: He climbed on a bunk bed, he said, and tried to hang himself with a sheet. The other men, he said, pulled him down. The forensic experts said that they were struck by how similar the men’s allegations were. The former prisoners, each interviewed separately, described the same timeline and methods of abuse, with many of the same details. When such “identical methods of abuse” are described by multiple people, the experts wrote in their assessment, it “often indicates the existence of an institutional policy and practice of torture.”<<

DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump Rumors about Donald Trump’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein have gripped the Republican Party. A few conservative representatives with ties to the FBI and the Justice Department have spilled that the true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported, according to journalist David Schuster. Michael Wolff, a longtime chronicler of Trump’s White House who conducted extensive interviews with Epstein prior to his death, told The Daily Beast last month that Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap. These rumors have galvanized into a legitimate movement among Republicans, who are now, Schuster wrote on X Wednesday night, clamoring for the files’ full release. For months, just four Republicans had penned their signatures on a discharge petition demanding transparency into the investigation of the pedophilic sex trafficker and his potential associates. Those conservative lawmakers include Representatives Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert. Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won the special election in Arizona in September, has also vowed to sign the bipartisan petition. She’s the last signature that the House needs to force a vote on the issue—and Speaker Mike Johnson has conveniently refused to swear her in for more than a month. But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with “more than 100 Republicans” planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming,” reported Schuster. The Trump administration has failed at every turn to mitigate anxieties about the president’s longtime friendship with the child sex criminal. The typically bombastic Attorney General Pam Bondi was silent when asked about the photos during a Senate hearing last month, a choice that further “spooked” several GOP lawmakers, with many interpreting her nonresponse as a very vocal “yes.” “The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him?” asked Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in early October. But Bondi could only blink with her mouth agape. “You don’t know anything about that?” Whitehouse said. “OK.”<<

The government is taking ownership in another corporation. >>The investment in Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies is the latest stake taken by the U.S. in a handful of private companies — including another rare earths company and chipmaker Intel since President Donald Trump began his second term in January.<<

Caligula reigns - another bacchanalia this weekend at the imperial palace by the sea

Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges ~~ The Utah man was previously charged with firing a gun outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. >>John Banuelos, 40, who is from Utah but whose sister lives in the Chicago area, was arrested “near 29th Street and Cicero Avenue in Cicero” on Oct. 17, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. A warrant for his arrest was issued in Salt Lake County on Oct. 1 on charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said.<< >>The Justice Department moved to dismiss the case on Jan. 21, 2025, the day after Trump took office. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote then that she could not “discern—and neither party has identified—any defect in either the legal merits of, or the factual basis for, the Government’s case,” and that the government’s “only stated reason for pursuing dismissal with prejudice is that the President, in addition to pardoning the Defendant, has ordered the Attorney General to do so.” The pardon, she wrote, “cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake.” “In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor. The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning,” she wrote.<<

The President appears to suggest the government just pay for everyone’s health care.

It must be pretty hazy if they couldn’t find one FBI or DOJ person to pin it on.

Good lord, these people actually act like they’re on the take. There’s no constitutionality at issue here. Funds are appropriated. This will take forever.

Elaine Chao had spent 12 years as Deputy Secretary of Transportation, 8 years as Secretary of Labor, she was director of Peace Corps, headed the Maritime Commission, was director of United Way. Duffy was DA in Ashland County, population 16K. When he was hired he was a tv pundit.

More pics of Sleepy Don emerging.

>>An FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any moment. Alexander Smirnov, who has multiple business ties to Trumpworld, was sentenced on January 8, days before Trump became president. He had pleaded guilty to fabricating a story that former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, had received millions in bribes from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, as well as to a $2 million-plus tax evasion offense. Yet despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russian intelligence and foreign assets, the U.S.-Israeli citizen has been mysteriously missing from prison for at least the past four months, Disaster Girl can reveal. Following reports in April that the Trump administration was reviewing the case, concerns have now arisen that the president is considering an imminent pardon. Smirnov had been serving his sentence at FCI Terminal Island, a low-security prison in Los Angeles. He is still listed at FCI Terminal Island on the Bureau of Prisons website, with a release date of February 2029. But while no filings on the docket for his appeal indicate how or why his release was ordered, he has not been there since at least July. His absence became apparent when a process server attempted to serve Smirnov with papers for a civil lawsuit related to Smirnov’s time working as a confidential informant for the FBI on a securities fraud case involving California man Andrew Hackett. The process server hired by Hackett told Hackett he had been unable to locate Smirnov at Terminal Island. The prison confirmed to the process server that Smirnov is on “furlough,” according to emails and court filings… ..<< Jacqueline Sweet

James has filed a motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, including over 360 public statements by the president as evidence.

It would probably help your argument if the President hadn’t put a TV personality in charge of the Transportation Department & who’s overseen the worst year in aviation safety in decades.

And today Trump pardoned a man convicted of spying for China.

Here’s another distinction from Biden. Biden’s secret power in 2020 was being normal, maga called it ‘in the basement’ or ‘hidin’ Biden.’ People were sick of Trump & a guy who was fairly monotone & just did the usual was appealing. It continued into his 1st & 2nd year, which is why the clamoring about Where’s Biden was so ineffective, it was just Biden doing what got him there. Hence when the debate happened, yeah shocker. But Trump - he has to be out front, all the time. Thats maga, thats him, thats what he wants, what his administration is built on, & what his fanbase craves. What that means is we will see more of this, soon & frequently.