Okay, I finished reading your column, and clicked on the YouTube/Al Gore thingy at the t inability to answer the question video at the end, spent the 12 minutes watching it, and I can definitively say that, the end is here, and it has nothing to do with the Epstein emails, it's all about the climate crisis. But these emails are a fun way to avoid thinking about what will happen to anyone under 50, or maybe 60.
You have again hit the nail on the head, LTBW. These entertaining diversions mask the world’s wasted opportunity to do ONE DAMN THING about climate change.
Even worse than doing nothing, we are accelerating our planet’s doom.
Well, I am taking some time off. My wife told me I was constantly angry from submerging myself into the awfulness that is happening daily. I told her she was wrong, but, when my doggos started avoiding me, I got the message.
I did send you a couple of DM’s. Do you get those on your antique flip phone?
You mean, on my landline? No, as you may recall, landlines don't have anything like that (or at least, mine doesn't). Spouses may not always tell the truth, but animals? They're pretty honest. I've been really working on my garden, and my tomatoes are nearing their end (at least the big ones, but the cherry tomatoes, not so much) and the carrots are ready, and my peas are starting to bulge in their little pods. Survival, you know... But we've already had two inches of rain, almost like pre-1977, and I really need to get a system for rain harvesting. XXX. Remember, if it's news, it will be bad, unless we have a regime change.
To ME, it proves even more (aside from his brother - Mark?) that he in no way 'committed suicide'. He had too much on frump and had a cushy deal so to me was 'suicided' quite deliberately and IF his death had been looked into PROPERLY and by real experts it probably would have been labeled a suspicious death or 'homicide'. He knew FAR too much, Michael Wolff was in contact with him - also knew what he knew about frump...but IN prison one is at the mercy of whomever can be bought, just like these purported 'ice agents' or 'border patrol agents' operating with impunity HUNDREDS OF MILES away from any border yet imagining they have sovereignty even over our own Blue Cities' police forces. THIS is now a major crisis for frump/miller et al - so do not be surprised if in his panic and fury he lets miller declare that the military will be fully in charge of ALL of us! I'm expecting some extremely vile such thing to occur. It will either finally wake up magats OR have them join in with attacking their own neighbours. We have precedents from WWII.
And they always will. No amount of actual facts will ever convince them that Trump is not the hero they have projected all of their fantasies on.
They remind me of an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas gay man being interviewed after 10/7 and asked if he knew what happened to homosexuals (much less LBGQI+) in Palestine under the religion of Islam? When told he would be most likely murdered on site, or thrown off of a building, or stoned to death, he flounced away saying "that is not true thank you very much!" Hence the group "Queers for Gaza."
You cannot reach people who are that deeply in denial.
All the botox babes hanging out a Mar-a-lago could not care less that Trump trafficked in young women. They would not be at all surprised and would not lessen their worship of him.
The Bible thumpers will look away, just like the Senate and Congress is right now. Or, there will be excuses. I have heard 100+ time that Virginia Guiffre was 17, of legal age in Britain for sex with Prince Andrew who had daughters roughly the same age of Ms. Guiffre when he raped her, so no big deal for the now Mr. Mount-Batten Windsor.
I have learned to never have any expectations of Trump being treated as the criminal he is, helping other criminals (Ghislaine Maxwell, Rudy Giuliani, the Jan 6'ers, etc) live comfortably in their criminality. He IS above the law.
You're PROBABLY correct, Judith - but there's still that wee spark of hope in me which remains lit, hoping against hope that 'some' then more - and even more WILL turn on him. If Boobert could actually say NO after being taken into the Situation Room and threatened/blackmailed/promised/wooed/whatever they did - and STILL refuse NOT to back down from signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files, it keeps my tiny spark alive. I'm for sure a cock-eyed optimist, I know - despite that old, mangy orange ferret, SOMEOW having far more than his allotted share of lives.
Well, the victim Trump spent many hours with at Epstein's mansion may have been the young woman who in 2016 testified that Trump had raped her at age 13 at Epsteins house. The transcript of her thorrifying estimony, which was backed up by testimony from her Epstein 'handler,' is available on Kate Mann of Cornell's substack in a link from this story: https://mindsitenews.org/2025/08/15/among-women-anxiety-over-trump-is-turning-to-rage/
No worries, Jeff. It looks like you’ll have weeks of meaty material and we will be hanging on every single syllable! This was just the appetizer! Bon appétit!
I canNOT believe I just wrote a LONG post all about this shit (stuff) responding to a post from yesterday and THEN you covered every. single. thing. I SHOULD HAVE read this post of yours before writing, methinks? Always a day late and a dollar short. I think 'tis ME who should go back to sleep, LOLOL. I was SO TAKEN with the Signorile video this morning I just had to get it all out. I had NOT known that once they signed the discharge petition and the 218 votes were reached, they could NOT back down! Entirely NEW news to me - and gave me such a huge smile I can't remove from my face. You are priceless, Jeff. I got some of it last night (since I stay up VERY late), some of it from this morning - but YOU had already put it all together. Bravo and please keep up the most excellent work. Adelita is one of MY new heroes as well as Robert Garcia. Magats are screaming about the Democrats being 'underhanded' by 'waiting' to release these emails from the Epstain ESTATE - as if they didn't INVENT underhanded bullshit tactics. Love it, love it, love it!
AArgh - I'm still coming down from yet another awful migraine - am in that post-prodrome ? state, I think they call it. Whatever it is my brain isn't functioning properly. It's THIS post I was referring to - the one above from Diane Hembrow referencing Kate Manne's transcript of Katie Johnson. BECAUSE it's Friday and I haven't yet read Jeff's substack post of FRIDAY so am still on THURSDAY time, I'll stop now. But everyone who can - PLEASE click on that link. You will be flattened, I assure you. I'd read Katie's testimony before - but I guess they redacted some of the more disgusting stuff about frump previously. Ugh, Ugh, UGH! Karma needs to get her ass in gear!
This is like high-security prisons, where the worst, most sadistic, horrid convicted killers think that the worst, most sadistic, horrid fellow inmates are the child rapists.
Now we find out that the child rapist thinks Donnie Demento is even worse.
I want that POS that thinks he such a hard ass to find out what it's like even one day in the real world without anyone wiping his ass for him. There is nothing that's ever going to make up for the harm he has done, but he damn well has to have a taste of the experience that he has done to so many others that least deserved it.
Well - I've just read the ACTUAL testimony (transcript) posted here yesterday and am still shaking and shuddering in disgust...so I completely 'get' why EVEN jeffrey epstein thought frump was scum. She doesn't ONLY talk about what he did to her: he as always catered to but was ALWAYS vicious, always MAD at this 13yr old he wanted to wear a blonde wig to look like his daughter (her description of HOW he said that must be heard in HER voice) BUT the real reason she came forward after decades of remaining silent was her FEAR of him becoming President - she's heard his RACIST insults - using the N word, asking for 'maids' like those in his own home - demanding to play out a rape 'fantasy' and THEN threatening to DEPORT THEM, telling this one hispanic girl to 'speak English' (even though she was), and his NASTY comments oh so casually dropped about 'Sand N's' (she spells it out AND his oh-so-casual constant jew 'jokes' pointed at Epstein himself (and HIS penis). We've all already known that he's been a fucking racist/bigot/anti-semite for his entire fucking LIFE - but she was 13 at the time, a virgin thinking she was there to become a model, in abject fear of his violence pointed at her and the other VERY YOUNG girls Epstein treated far more 'kindly' despite his molestation of them.
This reminds me of an SNL skit. A League Of Evil Scientists calls the cops on their new member when he presents his 'child-molesting robot'. It was too much for even them.
Trump was too much for Epstein. I leave that to everyone's imagination.
One thing both Epstein and Maxwell had to be experts about was accurately reading other people: it's how the children were selected for abuse, first of all--and it was how they knew ways to target the rich, the powerful, etc.
And millions of people in this country couldn’t, wouldn’t, and/or were too dumb to judge that POS’s character as deeply flawed. What does that say about they who cheer on his worst actions and hatefulness? If Epstein, the monster that he was, thought Trump was too much, I hate to think about what he’s done that we don’t know about yet. This country is filled with the worst racists/sociopaths who love trump for no other reason than who he hates. The certainty that he’s raped little children doesn’t bother them a bit.
The people of New york& NJ knew all about Donny Two Dolls. 40 years ago/ 10 years ago /and current. A lying - 2 bit grifter with a silver spoon up his ass.
It's very telling as we saw Americans, seventy-seven million of them, thought electing a 37-time convicted felon and a sex predator was a good idea. The worst is that they think all the convictions are false and made up.
I started to read Michael Wolff's "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" for a book club. I could not even get to the second chapter. I could not spend my time reading about such horrid people and person like that. I was feeling too debased. If I feel that from reading about Trump I cannot even imagine what these girls and young women experienced. I am the mother of a young woman and when she complained about how something was unfair, I would always tell her, "The only unfair thing is that all children in the world do not have it as good as you and your friends!" That clearly resonated with her and she stopped complaining. Last night we were talking about the Epstein Files and what was going on with the young women and girls, and I was telling her that this was part of what I was thinking about when I said that to her. That there are girls who are sexually abused, and it appears it is pretty common globally. We all need to make this world a better place.
A friend read it and I decided not to after she told me about it. I have read a lot of stories of sexual abuse and have my own story. My own story when I think about it is really sickening.
"Not one decent cell in his body" could double as both Trump's next medical report AND his 2028 pretend campaign slogan when he finds a way to "run" again.
Perhaps Epstein considered HIMself more 'decent' since he used his hands to touch/molest these little girls who he used to give him his daily massages - the implication being that by not actually raping them with his penis OR being physically brutal and talking to them 'kindly' he was 'different' than frump so had 'some decent cells in HIS body'? I have no idea, am simply speculating about how some of the possibilities of how these pedophiles 'might' think.
If TRump comes out of all of this unscathed, then I will completely lose faith in our government, not that I have much left anyway. TRump is a disgusting pig and he needs to be held accountable.
I cringe to think of all the absolutely evil, vile and forever damaging acts to those young girls, all the while smiling and berating them as losers. It's too much. May he continue to go downhill, hopefully breaking something along the way, and live the rest of his worthless life incapacitated.
I was going to add “massive aphasia” so what comes out of his mouth is nonsense, but that’s been true for years now. And he may have already had strokes, as several doctors have suggested.
Just stuff his anus mouth with those maxi pads that miraculously healed his bullet riddled ear. He deserves to die a protracted, painful ignominious death. Given how MAGA Christo-Facsists’ Jesus died and how St. Peter died, and what pain and hate he is inflicting on people of good will, crucifying orange Hitler upside down would be insufficiently painful.
I’m not so much for physical torture (although I wouldn’t mind if someone surgically gave him REAL bone spurs…said the lady with 20 years+ of plantar fasciitis). But mental torture? How about rolling his inevitable wheelchair into a dark room with an endless loop of Epstein-Trump videos playing on a big screen TV?
Sorta like the character Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad, who’s wheelchair-bound and unable to speak and can only communicate by ringing a bell. That’d be awesome.
I've been wishing for this since #Bumblefuck's FIRST term - Locked-In Syndrome, due to a brain stem stroke.
And his nursing staff should then keep his tv tuned to all the news outlets, so he can hear them TOTALLY REVEAL *EVERYTHING* ABOUT WHAT A SKANKBASKET HE'S ALWAYS BEEN.
Yes, please. Although I have ever wished harm upon anyone before this, even the man who sexually abused me when I was a girl, I so hate this evil, vile, unrepentant, subhuman, lower-than-a-snake's-belly, piece of possum excrement, and quite possibly without the intelligence of the excrement. 😳😬
I was surprised no one made a bigger deal of the nearly naked women prancing around Mar Lago (and writhing in a large champagne glass) during his sordid Gatsby Party. It was revolting.
I envision him dead on the floor next to the toilet with his pants around his ankles, and a White House staffer who fucking hates him takes a photo and posts it to Twitter before alerting the medical staff.
It always helps me get back to sleep on restless nights.
He was disgusting before. I remember an interview with the pastor of a large conservative Christian Church who said of Trump's immoral behavior, we know he's not perfect, but he will give us what we want. So totally transactional.
But that's the whole point. It's not at *all* about the government. The government would be Congress and the Supreme Court, both of whom have long since been neutered. This is about the MAGAs and Donny's (and the entire GOP's) fear of them. They are already clawing themselves to pieces, this amps it up to 11.
Kathleen, the bombing run is the world and it has been pretty complete. Everybody hates us at this point so rotted garbage dumpster bannon is a child that is mad at the world because he was born in a pigpen and can’t shake it. I don’t know what he thinks but we look around and it is definitely the whole world, tramp will even fuck Pooty his bud over.
He will never see the inside of a jail cell because he is the chosen representative of the unreconstructed. He was not elected to be a legal or even a moral man. He was elected to oppress and destroy the minorities that the unreconstructed hate.
At best he would see a suspended sentence unless Taney Court 2.0 does him another favor. Hell even the six regressives on the court would be afraid of giving real consequences to the pricktator for fear of his cult.
The Senate must vote on release...and then D has to sign off on release. Really? In what universe is D gonna sign his demise?? Yeah...I've been beaten down. He NEVER is held accountable in his entire life. Must be nice
People!! Please read my comment. The House is CURRENTLY obtaining documents and receipts directly from the EPSTEIN ESTATE via a Ro Khanna subpoena that came to fruition in live TV on Lawrence O’Donnell’s “The Last Word”. Victims Attorney Bradley Edwards instructed Khanna to issue the subpoena and provided to Khanna the contact information of the cooperating attorneys of the Epstein Estate. These heroic breakthrough activities didn’t get a whimper from the MSM.
O’Donnell, his entire program staff, Bradley Edwards, and the Epstein estate attorneys (FUCKING YES!!!) should get a congressional Medal of Honor for telling Mike Johnson and Pam Bondi to go fuck themselves and obtaining these emails without any help from this fucking satanic administration.
Watch the segment with Bradley Edwards and Khanna here, for Christ’s sake already!!! 🤦♂️
I expect that’s how it’ll happen. Several more weeks of maneuvering and bullshit. But, it does seem that Donny is now finally so radioactive even Congressional MAGAts don’t want their names tied to this unspeakable mess.
I so agree with you. The comments from Steve Bannon, to me, pretty much explain who has actually been running our country in trump’s last term and this one - The Steves! Steve Bannon refers to him as an instrument (to be play and manipulated) and Stephen Miller is the vile sputum that lives in trump’s head.
It's disparities huh? I never thought he'd beat Mueller. Or impeachment. Or ALL federal cases like the Jan 6 insurrection. And the stolen document's! And FBI agents were wary of going into Mara Lago?? What the hell is going on here???
This is so much more than politics. It is about right and wrong, being a decent person or a scumbag. This is rich old men protecting each other. It is wrong, unlawful in so many ways and doesn’t have a political party. The biggest scumbag ever has a big mouth and happens to be president and that’s why it seems to be political.
Unfortunately that's what's going to happen. Republicans got exactly what they wanted when they voted for trump and that's all that matters to them. They wouldn't care if he sexually assaulted and then murdered a five year old on live television. They'd either call it an AI deepfake or come up with a ludicrous reason to make it the child's fault.
Let’s not forget, the meeting with Boebert was in THE GODDAMN SITUATION ROOM! You know, the place where they go for top-secret bombing missions and such. Nothing suspicious there. Nope.
Absolutely. Too much evidence has disappeared. Did you see the photo of his cell? There were at least 10 sheets in there. What were they covering up? Wouldn't it be wild if Epstein had been whisked away and is living happily ever after?
Kyle Kulinsky said on his YouTube channel that Epstein had ties to the Israeli government and could have been gathering blackmail intel for them. Plus there is the allegation from a victim that she was violently assaulted by Ehud Barak.
It's possible they held it there because everyone is forced to surrender their devices before entering. So Boebert couldn't secretly record whatever took place.
Pale-blue Xanax 1mg ovals skitter across the Situation Room table as unseemly hand-to-hand combat rages (MINE! MINE! MINE!). As in days of olde Ronny Jackson stuffs his pockets, comes to their emotional rescue.
They are probably threatening or blackmailing her about something, but I cannot imagine anything would result in a worse outcome than aligning herself with that immoral cesspool. (She and the others been wading in it occasionally already.)
How does a parent look their children in the face knowing that they are doing the bidding of a pedophile? Of course, that's a question that could go to all MAGA parents.
Check your premises. Are they good parents? They say they are.
MAGAs have shown how happy they are to have their children die of preventable disease, get torn apart by weapons of war, and drown in natural disasters. Well, at least the kids died before the Radical Left Lunatics could turn them all into gay-married communists.
It's what makes her so utterly loathsome--and downright evil: she knows she's lying; if you can stand it, look closely at her when she performs and see the glint of self-satisfaction as she delivers the lie and the accompanying demeaning put-down. She LOVES getting to lie. She is one very sick individual.
Sadly, I've met women in my life who were actually proud that their daughters were mistresses or call girls because it meant they were pretty. I worked in a hotel when I was college with a women who lived with her boyfriend along with her teenage daughter and they both walked around the apt in just their underpants all the time! Made me sick.
Mark, I'm sure LIEvitt wouldn't even UNDERSTAND that question. I envision her cocking her head to one side & staring, like a clueless Cocker Spaniel. One may as well ask her - or ANYONE entrenched in the MAGAspere - in URDU.
The choice, for people like *her*, between actually CARING about any puppies she may have squeezed out, & the imaginary "perks" of keeping her lips Crazy Glued 3" up #Bumblefuck's rectum, is obvious. NOTHING ELSE EVEN REGISTERS.
Drumph has had many contacts within organized crime organizations since his “construction days” in the NYC, NJ area…pick any one of those groups where drumph could have called in an old “favor…”
Her book was coming out. When she came out with information back in Florida, they either ignored her and the other victims or called them ho’s. I could see her fearing this happening all over again, and I really fear for the other victims.
It is perfectly possible that she did not commit suicide. I just wanted to point out the longevity of the damage done to these girls’ psyches - she still had PTSD.
I'm with you on that! Her own brother said that Virginia was in a really good place in her life and was in no way suicidal. We can never know what is in someone's mind or heart, but most people show a few cracks if they're going to kill themselves.
There was much fkery afoot. Epstein was on suicide watch but both guards fell asleep and the camera stopped working. Sure Jan. Also Epstein’s neck injury was consistent with being strangled and not hung.
Much fkery, indeed. I'm so glad that Jeff coined that term. I'm using it way too much now. Epstein was supposedly working for foreign governments as a spy. Maybe they offed him?
A lady who reports for the Miami Herald has been following that murder of Epstein from start to finish . The story that " investigators " came up with is the shadiest excuse and most incompetent lying ever done in a cover up .Also , hasn't that jail been demolished ? Nothing suspicious there , right ?
Starting? Epstein’s association with Robert Maxwell, Israel, Russia and the transnational crime syndicate along with other global organizations with intelligence, let alone the cretinous wastrel speaks volumes about his demise Linda!
If our 'showman' can conjure up a fake shooting of his ear disappearing, then reappearing, he most certainly can cause a killing in what is the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Orange Hitler will have his Nazi death squads start doing “Frank Underwood’s” to Epstein victims, potential testifiers, and Republicans who voted in favor of the discharge petition.
Epstein’s brother Mark should hire some expensive bodyguards.
He will start bombing Venezuela shortly. When American service men and women have to go ashore and die for Trump, I really think that even Maggots will revolt. So many poor kids enlist because it gives them an opportunity to lift themselves up. Not too many millionaires' kids sign up.
Some time ago, before 60 Minutes' integrity was compromised, they did a piece on Epstein's death. In addition to all the details like the surveillance camera "malfunctions," they said Epstein had offered nearby inmates large amounts of money to keep him safe. Not the likely actions of someone who is suicidal!
I've always wondered about that. Why would a self centered narcissist, scum bag like Epstein kill himself? Out of shame for being a whore monger? Not likely. I'm sure he thought he'd talk himself out of a harsh prison term and spend a few years in a Club Fed.
As he successfully did with Alex Acosta in his first round of incarceration. And as Ghislaine is doing now, in her Club Fed low security compound where she's getting preferential VIP treatment. Epstein and Maxwell were birds of a feather, not suicidal but extremely manipulative.
I still don't think Orange Obscenity is capable of believing that anyone can really hold him accountable for anything. He's a narcissist. They don't live in reality.
I do wonder about folks like donors and big players in right-wing media ... and Clarence Thomas.
As delish as all this is, I do *not* want Donny to 'step down to spend more time with his family'. I want it to go down as hard as possible, with as much thrashing and pain as possible. The longer poison remains in the system, the more damage it does.
I've got a theory about those huge-brim hats Melania wears. I bet she's hiding some kind of air-filtration system under there that she breathes through when he's in the room. We need some good investigative reporting by the I've Had It ladies about this.
My theory is the Ruskies have set up recording devices in the hat - hi tech stuff the Chinese developed - they want to make sure their dog stays in line!
Epstein talked to the Russians about Trump during his first term. By then those two were scared to death of each other. Now they’ll be the death of each other.
Do really think she married him for love? Wasn't she a "model" when they met? She just lucked out and caught the brass ring. Hey a poor girl from Eastern Europe has to do what she has to do to get by.
Melania dropped out of the University of Ljubjana her first year to model, so she was too old to be trafficked. Her agency head, Paolo Zampolli, was a trafficker, as were Epstein and Trump in the ‘90s. Epstein shagged her a year before she met Donald, the anecdote that made the fuss. It hardly matters who introduced them. She was there while they trafficked. She was buddies with Ghislaine.
Several media outlets had to retract and apologize after publishing that they "met" through Epstein--the stories really got Melania very, very unhappy. Just like with "focking Chreeezmahz."
Boebert is up for re-election is the 2026 midterms. I think Mike Johnson is too. MTG as well? The Epstein shit storm will squall on over the next year and the MAGA boatload is sinking. Vance will be MIA to protect his "brand."
Whomever follows Trump on the MAGA side will be a figurehead controlled by Project 2025. Rizz-free JD first alerted us to that crowd’s off-putting, offensive social awkwardness. Charismatic reality-show host Trump was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. MAGA dies with decaying Donald.
In his fifties, John Tyler married a teen. Grover Cleveland wed his ward. Dr. Stacey Patton’s unsparing look at American white male patriarchy, and other pedo POTUSes, is Substack’s best offering today.
That doesn't absolve Trump. It just means a lot of rich, priveledge guys can get what they want. If we punish enough for them, it might stop it, but there are a lot of poor young girls out there.
If any of the opposition in Congress are preparing articles against the top Fng guy then they OUGHT (for reasons of self preservation if nothing less) be also prepping them for the 2nd & 3rd inline at least.
I am NO scholar on the matter - but it seems to me like the articles would have to be separate, but in this case - also simultaneously presented. Or rapidly in sequence, again; at least.
My pet theory/hope is that he dies by a massive heart attack/stroke while he's on the shitter, frantically typing one of his unhinged rants on truth social.
The question isn’t whether these emails prove Donald Trump committed crimes. The question is why our standard for accountability has become so low that “didn’t commit crimes” is considered an adequate response to documented evidence of knowing about predatory behavior and choosing discretion over reporting.
The question is why wealth and social connection so consistently insulate men from even having to answer basic questions about what they knew and when they knew it.
The question is how many Virginia Giuffres have to die before we decide that protecting reputations is less important than protecting young people.
These emails are not a hoax. They are authentic correspondence, properly obtained through congressional subpoena. What they prove is exactly what survivors have been saying all along: the people who could have stopped Epstein knew, and they chose not to act.
That’s not a criminal conspiracy. It’s something potentially worse—it’s how power protects itself in plain sight, through the simple expedient of looking away while assuring everyone else they saw nothing at all.
YES...reporters preface their spiel with...."It must be noted Nothing in files explicitly shows the President abused girls.....". Fine, but put Obama in that position and this would be the greatest scandal in American history, right??
I hate to break it to you, Steve. You've got nothing.
On the other hand if I had a dollar for every time we thought it was the end for trump I'd be sitting on a beach enjoying a beverage. Can we make it so this time? I'm so tired.
Yo-Yo Ma boycotts Kennedy Center, Trump forgets his winkie problems long enough to freak out. Old MAGA can take the stage to demonstrate their cherished Duncan Yo-Yo skills. MAGA’d rather watch them walk the dog than listen to the previously unknown cello.
Child prodigy Yo-Yo Ma played for JFK at the White House. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, played “Amazing Grace” at the Biden inauguration. Fuck Trump with a dry corncob.
Didn't he play at Pres. Obama's first inauguration? I remember a scandal when it came out that he'd been "lip-syncing" with his cello because it was too cold outside for him to play in tune.
Yo-Yo Ma played “Amazing Grace” at the Biden inauguration, and has grooved with Obama many times, but I couldn’t find that reference. I grew up with TV lip-synching, so I don’t care what the performers did to weather the frigid Obama inauguration. The rosy cheeks of Seeger and Springsteen were as bracing as the music. 🎶
Yo Yo Ma is a class act. I once spent 20 minutes talking to him on an airplane, and I’ve seen him perform many times with Seattle Symphony. What a generous and self-effacing gentleman he is.
The one thing that baffles me is how does third rate huckster Bannon maintain any relevance? This miscreant is a cypher that shouldn't be asked the time of day.
I'm done worrying about the sex lives of men in elected offices since I realized that was one of the main reasons they ran for office. How else would they get girls otherwise.
Steve Bannon keeps him posted. “Wolff’s not as dodgy as he was in magazines. All those books, the gorgeous Amagansett podcasts add gravitas,” I said. My husband snorted.
Who's to say Wolff wasn't playing Trump and Epstein off against each other to feel important? He strikes me as a very small man, a third-rate journalist and scab biographer, who latches onto power and celebrity like a tick.
After months of daily exposure, I’m now impressed with Michael Wolff. Flashy and louche as a magazine writer, as a prolific author he’s measured and deliberate. His problematic sources trust him; people are dying to be listened to, even when negative copy results.
Wolff’s longterm devotion to getting this incredible story inspires me despite Epstein’s repellence. Illicit sex was going to happen whether Wolff was there or not. Even the bloodless trafficker was disgusted by Trump’s emotional manipulations in pursuit of adult sex. “Donald has no moral compass,” he told Wolff.
Observing a five-year-old on LSD, given by her mother, “That story was gold,” Joan Didion told her nephew Griffin Dunne in his documentary, “The Center Cannot Hold.” The piece on hippies in Haight-Ashbury I studied at J-school a half-century ago involved a tinier time requirement than Wolff’s, less moral repulsion than pedophilia. Didion sat, watched something disturbing, only commenting later, on paper.
Wolff shows remarkable sexual circumspection on air despite his years of immersion in the foulest of rivers. He clears his throat at Joanna Coles’ more provocative remarks. Lap dances from strangers were part of his flashy past, not his obviously happy and beautifully curated life today.
When he asks his wife about some feminine mystery—why do MAGA women wear long hair, short skirts, and boots when it’s not winter?—Victoria stops deadheading flowers and replies with acuity. He is respectfully appreciative. It’s the real thing. But what do I know, like Michael I’m also on my second marriage, and mine’s only lasted forty years so far.
Another Epstein quote revealed yesterday, and he would be an authority on such qualities:
"I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
as always, there was a fuckton of material to work with. this post could have been twice as long, but I do like to finish up by 11am
Oh gosh Jeff-go back to sleep-there will be more!!!!
And you do a great job! The cutting-room floor is what the comments are for. :)
Okay, I finished reading your column, and clicked on the YouTube/Al Gore thingy at the t inability to answer the question video at the end, spent the 12 minutes watching it, and I can definitively say that, the end is here, and it has nothing to do with the Epstein emails, it's all about the climate crisis. But these emails are a fun way to avoid thinking about what will happen to anyone under 50, or maybe 60.
You have again hit the nail on the head, LTBW. These entertaining diversions mask the world’s wasted opportunity to do ONE DAMN THING about climate change.
Even worse than doing nothing, we are accelerating our planet’s doom.
Walt!!!! Where have you been? Have you been commenting late? I only go through the first page of comments now... I've missed you.
Well, I am taking some time off. My wife told me I was constantly angry from submerging myself into the awfulness that is happening daily. I told her she was wrong, but, when my doggos started avoiding me, I got the message.
I did send you a couple of DM’s. Do you get those on your antique flip phone?
You mean, on my landline? No, as you may recall, landlines don't have anything like that (or at least, mine doesn't). Spouses may not always tell the truth, but animals? They're pretty honest. I've been really working on my garden, and my tomatoes are nearing their end (at least the big ones, but the cherry tomatoes, not so much) and the carrots are ready, and my peas are starting to bulge in their little pods. Survival, you know... But we've already had two inches of rain, almost like pre-1977, and I really need to get a system for rain harvesting. XXX. Remember, if it's news, it will be bad, unless we have a regime change.
Nature will restore balance one way or another.
Oh, I think Epstein deserves some credit! Think of all the MAGA's who believed tRump's lies....
To ME, it proves even more (aside from his brother - Mark?) that he in no way 'committed suicide'. He had too much on frump and had a cushy deal so to me was 'suicided' quite deliberately and IF his death had been looked into PROPERLY and by real experts it probably would have been labeled a suspicious death or 'homicide'. He knew FAR too much, Michael Wolff was in contact with him - also knew what he knew about frump...but IN prison one is at the mercy of whomever can be bought, just like these purported 'ice agents' or 'border patrol agents' operating with impunity HUNDREDS OF MILES away from any border yet imagining they have sovereignty even over our own Blue Cities' police forces. THIS is now a major crisis for frump/miller et al - so do not be surprised if in his panic and fury he lets miller declare that the military will be fully in charge of ALL of us! I'm expecting some extremely vile such thing to occur. It will either finally wake up magats OR have them join in with attacking their own neighbours. We have precedents from WWII.
Then, it's war.
And they always will. No amount of actual facts will ever convince them that Trump is not the hero they have projected all of their fantasies on.
They remind me of an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas gay man being interviewed after 10/7 and asked if he knew what happened to homosexuals (much less LBGQI+) in Palestine under the religion of Islam? When told he would be most likely murdered on site, or thrown off of a building, or stoned to death, he flounced away saying "that is not true thank you very much!" Hence the group "Queers for Gaza."
You cannot reach people who are that deeply in denial.
All the botox babes hanging out a Mar-a-lago could not care less that Trump trafficked in young women. They would not be at all surprised and would not lessen their worship of him.
The Bible thumpers will look away, just like the Senate and Congress is right now. Or, there will be excuses. I have heard 100+ time that Virginia Guiffre was 17, of legal age in Britain for sex with Prince Andrew who had daughters roughly the same age of Ms. Guiffre when he raped her, so no big deal for the now Mr. Mount-Batten Windsor.
I have learned to never have any expectations of Trump being treated as the criminal he is, helping other criminals (Ghislaine Maxwell, Rudy Giuliani, the Jan 6'ers, etc) live comfortably in their criminality. He IS above the law.
You're PROBABLY correct, Judith - but there's still that wee spark of hope in me which remains lit, hoping against hope that 'some' then more - and even more WILL turn on him. If Boobert could actually say NO after being taken into the Situation Room and threatened/blackmailed/promised/wooed/whatever they did - and STILL refuse NOT to back down from signing the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files, it keeps my tiny spark alive. I'm for sure a cock-eyed optimist, I know - despite that old, mangy orange ferret, SOMEOW having far more than his allotted share of lives.
Well, the victim Trump spent many hours with at Epstein's mansion may have been the young woman who in 2016 testified that Trump had raped her at age 13 at Epsteins house. The transcript of her thorrifying estimony, which was backed up by testimony from her Epstein 'handler,' is available on Kate Mann of Cornell's substack in a link from this story: https://mindsitenews.org/2025/08/15/among-women-anxiety-over-trump-is-turning-to-rage/
Or the direct lnk here: https://katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual-conspiracy-theory-surrounding
Aw, you’re harshin’ our vibe, dude.
The planet will recover. We won't. Maybe that'll be a good thing.
Let me give you a good one Jeff , I’m considering a late day post for it but I’m not sure - Hitler had micropenis
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-873680
Eva said "where's the brawn?"
😂
My money is that the 🍊💩👜 suffers from the same deformity!
I agree 1000000% percent.
Epstein was said to have a deformity in that department.
I believe the attorney at that deposition asked him if it was true his penis was oval.shaped like an egg. 😂
In addition to looking like an enoki mushroom.
There’s this little ditty from the UK during WWII (sung to the tune of Bridge on the River Kwai):
“Hitler has only got one ball.
Goering has two but rather small.
Himmler is somewhat similar.
And Goebles has no balls at all.
Hitler has only got one ball.
The other is in the Albert Hall.
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Cut one off when he was just small.
She threw it into an apple tree.
It fell into the deep blue sea.
The fishes got out their dishes.
And had scallops and ballocks for tea.”
😂😂😂
Just found out that Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge is Sasha Baron-Cohen's cousin.
Talk about diversity within a family!
Also, I read that Hitler had a very short penis because when he was young, he tried to piss into a goat's mouth and the goat ... cut him short.
😂
😳
Take one for the team Uncle Jeff and keep writing! We can’t get enough of this shit!
No worries, Jeff. It looks like you’ll have weeks of meaty material and we will be hanging on every single syllable! This was just the appetizer! Bon appétit!
but all that good garbage can go in a book that future generations need to know,
I canNOT believe I just wrote a LONG post all about this shit (stuff) responding to a post from yesterday and THEN you covered every. single. thing. I SHOULD HAVE read this post of yours before writing, methinks? Always a day late and a dollar short. I think 'tis ME who should go back to sleep, LOLOL. I was SO TAKEN with the Signorile video this morning I just had to get it all out. I had NOT known that once they signed the discharge petition and the 218 votes were reached, they could NOT back down! Entirely NEW news to me - and gave me such a huge smile I can't remove from my face. You are priceless, Jeff. I got some of it last night (since I stay up VERY late), some of it from this morning - but YOU had already put it all together. Bravo and please keep up the most excellent work. Adelita is one of MY new heroes as well as Robert Garcia. Magats are screaming about the Democrats being 'underhanded' by 'waiting' to release these emails from the Epstain ESTATE - as if they didn't INVENT underhanded bullshit tactics. Love it, love it, love it!
AArgh - I'm still coming down from yet another awful migraine - am in that post-prodrome ? state, I think they call it. Whatever it is my brain isn't functioning properly. It's THIS post I was referring to - the one above from Diane Hembrow referencing Kate Manne's transcript of Katie Johnson. BECAUSE it's Friday and I haven't yet read Jeff's substack post of FRIDAY so am still on THURSDAY time, I'll stop now. But everyone who can - PLEASE click on that link. You will be flattened, I assure you. I'd read Katie's testimony before - but I guess they redacted some of the more disgusting stuff about frump previously. Ugh, Ugh, UGH! Karma needs to get her ass in gear!
Take one for the team and keep writing!!! We can’t get enough of this shit!
You need an afternoon nap every day to rejuvenate.
And how bad do you have to be when a guy who runs a pedophile ring thinks you’re scum?
This is like high-security prisons, where the worst, most sadistic, horrid convicted killers think that the worst, most sadistic, horrid fellow inmates are the child rapists.
Now we find out that the child rapist thinks Donnie Demento is even worse.
I’m sure it’s why Ghislaine wasn’t happy at the real prison - nobody likes a pedo.
I want that POS that thinks he such a hard ass to find out what it's like even one day in the real world without anyone wiping his ass for him. There is nothing that's ever going to make up for the harm he has done, but he damn well has to have a taste of the experience that he has done to so many others that least deserved it.
The Catsup is a flyin' in the Presidential Dining Room just about now.
As well as the mustard and relish!
Exactly!
Well - I've just read the ACTUAL testimony (transcript) posted here yesterday and am still shaking and shuddering in disgust...so I completely 'get' why EVEN jeffrey epstein thought frump was scum. She doesn't ONLY talk about what he did to her: he as always catered to but was ALWAYS vicious, always MAD at this 13yr old he wanted to wear a blonde wig to look like his daughter (her description of HOW he said that must be heard in HER voice) BUT the real reason she came forward after decades of remaining silent was her FEAR of him becoming President - she's heard his RACIST insults - using the N word, asking for 'maids' like those in his own home - demanding to play out a rape 'fantasy' and THEN threatening to DEPORT THEM, telling this one hispanic girl to 'speak English' (even though she was), and his NASTY comments oh so casually dropped about 'Sand N's' (she spells it out AND his oh-so-casual constant jew 'jokes' pointed at Epstein himself (and HIS penis). We've all already known that he's been a fucking racist/bigot/anti-semite for his entire fucking LIFE - but she was 13 at the time, a virgin thinking she was there to become a model, in abject fear of his violence pointed at her and the other VERY YOUNG girls Epstein treated far more 'kindly' despite his molestation of them.
WAS always catered to. oops.
This reminds me of an SNL skit. A League Of Evil Scientists calls the cops on their new member when he presents his 'child-molesting robot'. It was too much for even them.
Trump was too much for Epstein. I leave that to everyone's imagination.
😵💫😳🤢
Even the scummiest POS in the world couldn't stand trump.🤣
He also called Trump, 'evil,' and 'mad,' as in crazy.
All dead on observations.
One thing both Epstein and Maxwell had to be experts about was accurately reading other people: it's how the children were selected for abuse, first of all--and it was how they knew ways to target the rich, the powerful, etc.
That's what I was gonna say. An evil POS like Epstein knows another evil POS when he sees one
And it’s how he knew how to blackmail each of them.
Trump has the same ability.
And millions of people in this country couldn’t, wouldn’t, and/or were too dumb to judge that POS’s character as deeply flawed. What does that say about they who cheer on his worst actions and hatefulness? If Epstein, the monster that he was, thought Trump was too much, I hate to think about what he’s done that we don’t know about yet. This country is filled with the worst racists/sociopaths who love trump for no other reason than who he hates. The certainty that he’s raped little children doesn’t bother them a bit.
The people of New york& NJ knew all about Donny Two Dolls. 40 years ago/ 10 years ago /and current. A lying - 2 bit grifter with a silver spoon up his ass.
It's very telling as we saw Americans, seventy-seven million of them, thought electing a 37-time convicted felon and a sex predator was a good idea. The worst is that they think all the convictions are false and made up.
They had to tell themselves lies in order to justify their votes.
I started to read Michael Wolff's "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" for a book club. I could not even get to the second chapter. I could not spend my time reading about such horrid people and person like that. I was feeling too debased. If I feel that from reading about Trump I cannot even imagine what these girls and young women experienced. I am the mother of a young woman and when she complained about how something was unfair, I would always tell her, "The only unfair thing is that all children in the world do not have it as good as you and your friends!" That clearly resonated with her and she stopped complaining. Last night we were talking about the Epstein Files and what was going on with the young women and girls, and I was telling her that this was part of what I was thinking about when I said that to her. That there are girls who are sexually abused, and it appears it is pretty common globally. We all need to make this world a better place.
Read Nobody's Girl
A friend read it and I decided not to after she told me about it. I have read a lot of stories of sexual abuse and have my own story. My own story when I think about it is really sickening.
T - Traitor
R - Rapist
U - Usurper
M - Murderer
P - Pedophile
Omg, this is just wonderful! Tock Tock fucking Donnie aught to trend. It has a nice ring to it!
"Not one decent cell in his body" could double as both Trump's next medical report AND his 2028 pretend campaign slogan when he finds a way to "run" again.
AND, it takes one to know one‼️
🤬🤯👿🤢😱
Perhaps Epstein considered HIMself more 'decent' since he used his hands to touch/molest these little girls who he used to give him his daily massages - the implication being that by not actually raping them with his penis OR being physically brutal and talking to them 'kindly' he was 'different' than frump so had 'some decent cells in HIS body'? I have no idea, am simply speculating about how some of the possibilities of how these pedophiles 'might' think.
Sorry, I don't believe a word Epstein has ever said. That's just one psychopath calling out another psychopath.
i think we can safely trust that conversations between Epstein and Maxwell are 100% accurate.
You do know he's dead, don't you? Who benefits?
True!!!
If TRump comes out of all of this unscathed, then I will completely lose faith in our government, not that I have much left anyway. TRump is a disgusting pig and he needs to be held accountable.
I cringe to think of all the absolutely evil, vile and forever damaging acts to those young girls, all the while smiling and berating them as losers. It's too much. May he continue to go downhill, hopefully breaking something along the way, and live the rest of his worthless life incapacitated.
The best KARMA for trump is to have a massive stroke and then be able to understand what is happening but unable respond in any way.
Never having to hear his voice again will be music to my ears.
Or hear his name or see a picture of him. I’m fucking sick of him.
OMG, his voice is terrible!!! My TV is muted when national "news" comes on.
I was going to add “massive aphasia” so what comes out of his mouth is nonsense, but that’s been true for years now. And he may have already had strokes, as several doctors have suggested.
Just stuff his anus mouth with those maxi pads that miraculously healed his bullet riddled ear. He deserves to die a protracted, painful ignominious death. Given how MAGA Christo-Facsists’ Jesus died and how St. Peter died, and what pain and hate he is inflicting on people of good will, crucifying orange Hitler upside down would be insufficiently painful.
I’m not so much for physical torture (although I wouldn’t mind if someone surgically gave him REAL bone spurs…said the lady with 20 years+ of plantar fasciitis). But mental torture? How about rolling his inevitable wheelchair into a dark room with an endless loop of Epstein-Trump videos playing on a big screen TV?
W/ him strapped into that chair, & his eyes clamped open - just like in "A Clockwork Orange".
I'm manifesting that thought every day.
Truly!!!
Sorta like the character Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad, who’s wheelchair-bound and unable to speak and can only communicate by ringing a bell. That’d be awesome.
Someone would need to take away his bell though! TRump would be ringing that bell 🔔 24/7/365! 😳
I never thought I could feel such hatred and disgust!
I have said for years: brain stem stroke followed by locked-in syndrome. That would be real Karma.
Videos of Obama would be even better.
Oh, yeah! Videos of Obama tripping down the stairs of Airforce 1. That really got his goat. Also, Obama dancing.
I've been wishing for this since #Bumblefuck's FIRST term - Locked-In Syndrome, due to a brain stem stroke.
And his nursing staff should then keep his tv tuned to all the news outlets, so he can hear them TOTALLY REVEAL *EVERYTHING* ABOUT WHAT A SKANKBASKET HE'S ALWAYS BEEN.
I have to say, there is a lot of creativity, we just need it to happen, and soon
Love that scenario!
Yes, please. Although I have ever wished harm upon anyone before this, even the man who sexually abused me when I was a girl, I so hate this evil, vile, unrepentant, subhuman, lower-than-a-snake's-belly, piece of possum excrement, and quite possibly without the intelligence of the excrement. 😳😬
I just want him dead!
He's not responding in any way that makes sense now.
The best karma would be spending the rest of his life in prison with Big Bubba the retired boxer as his cell mate.
I was surprised no one made a bigger deal of the nearly naked women prancing around Mar Lago (and writhing in a large champagne glass) during his sordid Gatsby Party. It was revolting.
Thought the same, rlritt. It wasn't a Gatsby party as much as it was the type of gathering you'd expect at Hefner's mansion. Total debauchery.
Yeah.....that was a huge middle finger to the rest of us.
He's been middle fingering us since 2015. Or 2010. Or before.
Drumph has been fucking with us in NJ since the ‘80s…..and NYC since the ‘70s…
I envision him dead on the floor next to the toilet with his pants around his ankles, and a White House staffer who fucking hates him takes a photo and posts it to Twitter before alerting the medical staff.
It always helps me get back to sleep on restless nights.
Elvis scenario
Poor Elvis. He deserved better than the people who controlled him. He had a wonderful voice.
I ❤️ how you think, Claudia.
I cannot like this comment enough! Now how do I get that "vision" out of my head?
😂😂
And incarcerated!
He was disgusting before. I remember an interview with the pastor of a large conservative Christian Church who said of Trump's immoral behavior, we know he's not perfect, but he will give us what we want. So totally transactional.
Well, we all know about the * ahem * proclivities of so many of those "pastors."
"Not perfect"?? How massively delusional is that statement??
As my MAGA Roman Catholic Deacon tells me, “we’re all sinners Joe”
I'd keep the kids away from your Deacon.
HA!
No shit!!🤮
But not all of us embody every single deadly sin, violate every single commandment, and oppose every single teaching of Jesus.
Religion is a crutch for criminals.
I suppose this is what “infused with divine providence” means 🤮
But that's the whole point. It's not at *all* about the government. The government would be Congress and the Supreme Court, both of whom have long since been neutered. This is about the MAGAs and Donny's (and the entire GOP's) fear of them. They are already clawing themselves to pieces, this amps it up to 11.
MAGA the "values" voters. Hah. If I wanted to prove their absolute hypocracy, I couldn't do it better than serving up Trump as lord and savior.
Steve Bannon says, “we're on a bombing run.'
The only question is which 'hood in which Democratic city? I say Watts in LA.
Psst, don't wake up Jeff
Oh, god--the fishing boats all need to get back to port ASAP.
Kathleen, the bombing run is the world and it has been pretty complete. Everybody hates us at this point so rotted garbage dumpster bannon is a child that is mad at the world because he was born in a pigpen and can’t shake it. I don’t know what he thinks but we look around and it is definitely the whole world, tramp will even fuck Pooty his bud over.
He deserves a nice dream.
Their act is bombing all right.
He means bombing democracy itself.
He will never see the inside of a jail cell because he is the chosen representative of the unreconstructed. He was not elected to be a legal or even a moral man. He was elected to oppress and destroy the minorities that the unreconstructed hate.
At best he would see a suspended sentence unless Taney Court 2.0 does him another favor. Hell even the six regressives on the court would be afraid of giving real consequences to the pricktator for fear of his cult.
When he does "see the inside of a jail cell", I hope it's the same one Epstein used--with the same end result. Poetic justice, and all.
The Senate must vote on release...and then D has to sign off on release. Really? In what universe is D gonna sign his demise?? Yeah...I've been beaten down. He NEVER is held accountable in his entire life. Must be nice
People!! Please read my comment. The House is CURRENTLY obtaining documents and receipts directly from the EPSTEIN ESTATE via a Ro Khanna subpoena that came to fruition in live TV on Lawrence O’Donnell’s “The Last Word”. Victims Attorney Bradley Edwards instructed Khanna to issue the subpoena and provided to Khanna the contact information of the cooperating attorneys of the Epstein Estate. These heroic breakthrough activities didn’t get a whimper from the MSM.
O’Donnell, his entire program staff, Bradley Edwards, and the Epstein estate attorneys (FUCKING YES!!!) should get a congressional Medal of Honor for telling Mike Johnson and Pam Bondi to go fuck themselves and obtaining these emails without any help from this fucking satanic administration.
Watch the segment with Bradley Edwards and Khanna here, for Christ’s sake already!!! 🤦♂️
https://youtu.be/oLepbAwOaIU?si=ZoiKPLmjVRW6nKZn
Saint Lawrence, his contained righteous rage...
His veto can be overturned.
I expect that’s how it’ll happen. Several more weeks of maneuvering and bullshit. But, it does seem that Donny is now finally so radioactive even Congressional MAGAts don’t want their names tied to this unspeakable mess.
Jeepers. Am I actually going to celebrate Christmas this year?
Well that's good news!
That might not save him:
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/new-dead-pedo-bestie-shit-has-come/comment/176842368
He is far from the only one. This "wealthy secret society" kind of bullshit needs to be exposed and forever ended.
I so agree with you. The comments from Steve Bannon, to me, pretty much explain who has actually been running our country in trump’s last term and this one - The Steves! Steve Bannon refers to him as an instrument (to be play and manipulated) and Stephen Miller is the vile sputum that lives in trump’s head.
It's disparities huh? I never thought he'd beat Mueller. Or impeachment. Or ALL federal cases like the Jan 6 insurrection. And the stolen document's! And FBI agents were wary of going into Mara Lago?? What the hell is going on here???
Megan;
Maybe Schumer can team up with Susan Collins and send a strongly worded letter.
Yes.
Yes, this is true:
Trump is an execrable piece of oozing filth.
No longer a shred of doubt.
That vile scenario has me re-considering the ultimate gift of my parents (eternal perspective), my Christian faith 😡
This is so much more than politics. It is about right and wrong, being a decent person or a scumbag. This is rich old men protecting each other. It is wrong, unlawful in so many ways and doesn’t have a political party. The biggest scumbag ever has a big mouth and happens to be president and that’s why it seems to be political.
Unfortunately that's what's going to happen. Republicans got exactly what they wanted when they voted for trump and that's all that matters to them. They wouldn't care if he sexually assaulted and then murdered a five year old on live television. They'd either call it an AI deepfake or come up with a ludicrous reason to make it the child's fault.
SAME🤬
Prepare to lose faith....sorry.
Let’s not forget, the meeting with Boebert was in THE GODDAMN SITUATION ROOM! You know, the place where they go for top-secret bombing missions and such. Nothing suspicious there. Nope.
This thing is waaaay too big. People are going to get killed over this.
I think Epstein already was, for starters.
Absolutely. Too much evidence has disappeared. Did you see the photo of his cell? There were at least 10 sheets in there. What were they covering up? Wouldn't it be wild if Epstein had been whisked away and is living happily ever after?
Epstein being murdered instead of killing himself is the one single thing every single part of the entire political spectrum can agree on.
Absolutely! I’m sure he knew it was coming.
Surely Orange Hitler was watching Frank Underwood whack his nemeses on Netflix instead of doing his fucking job in his first term.
https://youtu.be/Hpi9kFskZFk?si=i1tmiEI6d6lrQT1J
I always have thought that.
Indeed!
I just hope trump and administration are the targets.
More likely they'll be doing the mass murders.
Hopefully not whole blue cities.
Unfortunately, that's the likely outcome.
I agree
Kyle Kulinsky said on his YouTube channel that Epstein had ties to the Israeli government and could have been gathering blackmail intel for them. Plus there is the allegation from a victim that she was violently assaulted by Ehud Barak.
Gislsaine's father, Robert Maxwell, was hooked up with Mossad AND the KGB. This goes much deeper than pedophiles.
What a conniving POS. No wonder she's one too
And the Russian government, and the British government, and the American government...
Sounds like one already has been.
Probably already have.
Epstein already was
It's possible they held it there because everyone is forced to surrender their devices before entering. So Boebert couldn't secretly record whatever took place.
It’s the ultimate SCIF!
Pale-blue Xanax 1mg ovals skitter across the Situation Room table as unseemly hand-to-hand combat rages (MINE! MINE! MINE!). As in days of olde Ronny Jackson stuffs his pockets, comes to their emotional rescue.
Or 2mg bars
I read that it’s because you cannot record anything going on in that room.
The Cone of Silence. Maxwell Smart.
What?
Boomer reference to one of television’s greatest shows, says this TV-hater, “Get Smart.”
"What?" was Maxwell Smart's line after the Cone of Silence was dropped and Chief spoke to him.
And Smart had a shoe that was a portable phone, forecasting the cell phone.
True, abd the early mobile phones were indeed just like shoes. Dick Tracy’s wrist radio foreshadowed the Apple Watch decades earlier.
😂😂😂
They are probably threatening or blackmailing her about something, but I cannot imagine anything would result in a worse outcome than aligning herself with that immoral cesspool. (She and the others been wading in it occasionally already.)
Question for Karoline Leavitt:
How does a parent look their children in the face knowing that they are doing the bidding of a pedophile? Of course, that's a question that could go to all MAGA parents.
Check your premises. Are they good parents? They say they are.
MAGAs have shown how happy they are to have their children die of preventable disease, get torn apart by weapons of war, and drown in natural disasters. Well, at least the kids died before the Radical Left Lunatics could turn them all into gay-married communists.
You left out the transgender surgery after snack time at school, sponsored by the Radical Left.
Orange Hitler wanted his own handicapped nephew to die 👿 👿 💩
Indeed Mark, those crosses that hang around their necks are f-ing ridiculous!
She HAS to be aware of her lies—how does one then teach their kids to be honest?
It's what makes her so utterly loathsome--and downright evil: she knows she's lying; if you can stand it, look closely at her when she performs and see the glint of self-satisfaction as she delivers the lie and the accompanying demeaning put-down. She LOVES getting to lie. She is one very sick individual.
In MAGAworld, I think "honesty" is last on the list of things they teach their kids.
Of course she knows, but her lies have 'divine' as her qualifier.
She's serving the Anointed One
She's an evangelical zealot. Truth is extremely malleable in that world.
Sadly, I've met women in my life who were actually proud that their daughters were mistresses or call girls because it meant they were pretty. I worked in a hotel when I was college with a women who lived with her boyfriend along with her teenage daughter and they both walked around the apt in just their underpants all the time! Made me sick.
Mark, I'm sure LIEvitt wouldn't even UNDERSTAND that question. I envision her cocking her head to one side & staring, like a clueless Cocker Spaniel. One may as well ask her - or ANYONE entrenched in the MAGAspere - in URDU.
The choice, for people like *her*, between actually CARING about any puppies she may have squeezed out, & the imaginary "perks" of keeping her lips Crazy Glued 3" up #Bumblefuck's rectum, is obvious. NOTHING ELSE EVEN REGISTERS.
That says it all , Mark .
At some point people will begin to question whether Epstein actually committed suicide. Starting to seem that Trump wanted him silenced.
I've been questioning that since the news came out that Epstein offed himself...
He seemed to have had too much ego and too many connections to have killed himself.
He could have hired the very best law firm and fought the charges for years. He was murdered. No question.
Me too. N ow, judging from the emails released so far, Trump would have wanted to make certain that Epstein shut up.
Drumph has had many contacts within organized crime organizations since his “construction days” in the NYC, NJ area…pick any one of those groups where drumph could have called in an old “favor…”
I've been questioning that about Virginia Giuffrey (sp?). That poor woman knew too damn much. 😢
Her book was coming out. When she came out with information back in Florida, they either ignored her and the other victims or called them ho’s. I could see her fearing this happening all over again, and I really fear for the other victims.
It is perfectly possible that she did not commit suicide. I just wanted to point out the longevity of the damage done to these girls’ psyches - she still had PTSD.
I'm with you on that! Her own brother said that Virginia was in a really good place in her life and was in no way suicidal. We can never know what is in someone's mind or heart, but most people show a few cracks if they're going to kill themselves.
Same here. There are a whole lot of people that benefitted from his "suicide".
Do you think the guards were paid to ‘take a nap’?
There was much fkery afoot. Epstein was on suicide watch but both guards fell asleep and the camera stopped working. Sure Jan. Also Epstein’s neck injury was consistent with being strangled and not hung.
Much fkery, indeed. I'm so glad that Jeff coined that term. I'm using it way too much now. Epstein was supposedly working for foreign governments as a spy. Maybe they offed him?
A lady who reports for the Miami Herald has been following that murder of Epstein from start to finish . The story that " investigators " came up with is the shadiest excuse and most incompetent lying ever done in a cover up .Also , hasn't that jail been demolished ? Nothing suspicious there , right ?
As Malcom Nance says: "Coincidence takes a lot of planning."🙄
I’m not a conspiracy theory person but Old Ep just knew too damned much to not be “suicided” 🧐
A new term was coined after his "suicide" -- to be 'Epsteined.'
Starting? Epstein’s association with Robert Maxwell, Israel, Russia and the transnational crime syndicate along with other global organizations with intelligence, let alone the cretinous wastrel speaks volumes about his demise Linda!
If our 'showman' can conjure up a fake shooting of his ear disappearing, then reappearing, he most certainly can cause a killing in what is the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Orange Hitler will have his Nazi death squads start doing “Frank Underwood’s” to Epstein victims, potential testifiers, and Republicans who voted in favor of the discharge petition.
Epstein’s brother Mark should hire some expensive bodyguards.
https://youtu.be/Hpi9kFskZFk?si=i1tmiEI6d6lrQT1J
My fear is that Trump will start at least one war. He probably thinks that a nuclear war would be a really great distraction. We are so screwed.
He will start bombing Venezuela shortly. When American service men and women have to go ashore and die for Trump, I really think that even Maggots will revolt. So many poor kids enlist because it gives them an opportunity to lift themselves up. Not too many millionaires' kids sign up.
Some time ago, before 60 Minutes' integrity was compromised, they did a piece on Epstein's death. In addition to all the details like the surveillance camera "malfunctions," they said Epstein had offered nearby inmates large amounts of money to keep him safe. Not the likely actions of someone who is suicidal!
Linda, I think it's clear now that t had him murdered.
There are so very many powerful people on that list it could have been any of a number of entities that had him removed from his mortal coil.
I've always wondered about that. Why would a self centered narcissist, scum bag like Epstein kill himself? Out of shame for being a whore monger? Not likely. I'm sure he thought he'd talk himself out of a harsh prison term and spend a few years in a Club Fed.
As he successfully did with Alex Acosta in his first round of incarceration. And as Ghislaine is doing now, in her Club Fed low security compound where she's getting preferential VIP treatment. Epstein and Maxwell were birds of a feather, not suicidal but extremely manipulative.
Ms. Maxwell should watch her back.
“Someone” definitely had him whacked.
I still don't think Orange Obscenity is capable of believing that anyone can really hold him accountable for anything. He's a narcissist. They don't live in reality.
I do wonder about folks like donors and big players in right-wing media ... and Clarence Thomas.
I pity the poor girl who had to do Clarence Thomas, or Bannon, for that matter.
Gag me!
🤮🤮🤮🤮
The big donors and Trump’s lap dogs know who he is. They must be getting what they want in return.
I have been screaming this since it happened!!🤬
Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, questions the story, too. He doesn't believe the "suicide" angle.
Oh, no goddamn chance he killed himself.
As delish as all this is, I do *not* want Donny to 'step down to spend more time with his family'. I want it to go down as hard as possible, with as much thrashing and pain as possible. The longer poison remains in the system, the more damage it does.
His family doesn’t want him around. Ooh, that smell!
I've got a theory about those huge-brim hats Melania wears. I bet she's hiding some kind of air-filtration system under there that she breathes through when he's in the room. We need some good investigative reporting by the I've Had It ladies about this.
She has a methane allergy. Breathed too much of it back in those Slovenia whore houses.
My theory is the Ruskies have set up recording devices in the hat - hi tech stuff the Chinese developed - they want to make sure their dog stays in line!
Epstein talked to the Russians about Trump during his first term. By then those two were scared to death of each other. Now they’ll be the death of each other.
Do really think she married him for love? Wasn't she a "model" when they met? She just lucked out and caught the brass ring. Hey a poor girl from Eastern Europe has to do what she has to do to get by.
Melania dropped out of the University of Ljubjana her first year to model, so she was too old to be trafficked. Her agency head, Paolo Zampolli, was a trafficker, as were Epstein and Trump in the ‘90s. Epstein shagged her a year before she met Donald, the anecdote that made the fuss. It hardly matters who introduced them. She was there while they trafficked. She was buddies with Ghislaine.
A girl's got to live.
Several media outlets had to retract and apologize after publishing that they "met" through Epstein--the stories really got Melania very, very unhappy. Just like with "focking Chreeezmahz."
Melania might put peppermint oil or Vicks Vapo-Rub on her upper lip, as in the ER when CDIFF arrives.
Ewwww.
Right up their alley!!
And I want the "cover up" exposed. They should get all the people who knew and said nothing. Looking at you, Vance.
But Holy Little Johnson is third in line. We are pretty much fucked.
Boebert is up for re-election is the 2026 midterms. I think Mike Johnson is too. MTG as well? The Epstein shit storm will squall on over the next year and the MAGA boatload is sinking. Vance will be MIA to protect his "brand."
They all are.
ALL members of the House are up for re-election in 2026. Their terms are only two years at a time.
Whomever follows Trump on the MAGA side will be a figurehead controlled by Project 2025. Rizz-free JD first alerted us to that crowd’s off-putting, offensive social awkwardness. Charismatic reality-show host Trump was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. MAGA dies with decaying Donald.
In his fifties, John Tyler married a teen. Grover Cleveland wed his ward. Dr. Stacey Patton’s unsparing look at American white male patriarchy, and other pedo POTUSes, is Substack’s best offering today.
That doesn't absolve Trump. It just means a lot of rich, priveledge guys can get what they want. If we punish enough for them, it might stop it, but there are a lot of poor young girls out there.
If any of the opposition in Congress are preparing articles against the top Fng guy then they OUGHT (for reasons of self preservation if nothing less) be also prepping them for the 2nd & 3rd inline at least.
I am NO scholar on the matter - but it seems to me like the articles would have to be separate, but in this case - also simultaneously presented. Or rapidly in sequence, again; at least.
https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachment_of_federal_officials
Amen
My pet theory/hope is that he dies by a massive heart attack/stroke while he's on the shitter, frantically typing one of his unhinged rants on truth social.
Elvis 2.0: Cardiac arrest secondary to opioid-induced constipation, aggravated by inconsistently capitalized social media posts on crank network.
There are questions we should be asking.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-is-a-pedophile-rapist
The Question We Should Be Asking
The question isn’t whether these emails prove Donald Trump committed crimes. The question is why our standard for accountability has become so low that “didn’t commit crimes” is considered an adequate response to documented evidence of knowing about predatory behavior and choosing discretion over reporting.
The question is why wealth and social connection so consistently insulate men from even having to answer basic questions about what they knew and when they knew it.
The question is how many Virginia Giuffres have to die before we decide that protecting reputations is less important than protecting young people.
These emails are not a hoax. They are authentic correspondence, properly obtained through congressional subpoena. What they prove is exactly what survivors have been saying all along: the people who could have stopped Epstein knew, and they chose not to act.
That’s not a criminal conspiracy. It’s something potentially worse—it’s how power protects itself in plain sight, through the simple expedient of looking away while assuring everyone else they saw nothing at all.
YES...reporters preface their spiel with...."It must be noted Nothing in files explicitly shows the President abused girls.....". Fine, but put Obama in that position and this would be the greatest scandal in American history, right??
Exactly.
They'd still have to say it: legalese. Until the release of the email that explicitly states it, or the photos/video that show it.
I remember the news had to do that kind of tapdancing about Nixon until the "smoking gun" tape came out.
I am with you 100%. This kind of exploitation is universal.
I hate to break it to you, Steve. You've got nothing.
On the other hand if I had a dollar for every time we thought it was the end for trump I'd be sitting on a beach enjoying a beverage. Can we make it so this time? I'm so tired.
I'm choosing to be optimistic about this because I too, am exhausted. I f-ing NEED THIS!
"Infused by divine providence?" I need a drink.
I literally gagged when I read that.
You sharing that bottle Butch?
C'mon over!
Yeah, reading that, I realized I could strangle that guy with no remorse!
“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace”? I think not. Letters from God agrees.
Or some ipecac
He has God confused with the other fellow.
He’s dyslexic, so he reads God as dog, as in “like a dog.”
Yo-Yo Ma boycotts Kennedy Center, Trump forgets his winkie problems long enough to freak out. Old MAGA can take the stage to demonstrate their cherished Duncan Yo-Yo skills. MAGA’d rather watch them walk the dog than listen to the previously unknown cello.
Ma has repeatedly shown himself to be a class act. He don't play that shit.
Child prodigy Yo-Yo Ma played for JFK at the White House. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011, played “Amazing Grace” at the Biden inauguration. Fuck Trump with a dry corncob.
Didn't he play at Pres. Obama's first inauguration? I remember a scandal when it came out that he'd been "lip-syncing" with his cello because it was too cold outside for him to play in tune.
Yo-Yo Ma played “Amazing Grace” at the Biden inauguration, and has grooved with Obama many times, but I couldn’t find that reference. I grew up with TV lip-synching, so I don’t care what the performers did to weather the frigid Obama inauguration. The rosy cheeks of Seeger and Springsteen were as bracing as the music. 🎶
Yo Yo Ma is a class act. I once spent 20 minutes talking to him on an airplane, and I’ve seen him perform many times with Seattle Symphony. What a generous and self-effacing gentleman he is.
Lucky Elizabeth!
You ever hear of the great Black cellist-- Yo Ma-Ma?
I think of him whenever I recall the Frank Zappa song “Maybe You Should Stay With Yo Mama.”
“Something meaty she could get her hands around!” hahahahahah Great post Jeff!
I so appreciate Representative Swalwell’s prediction: “The beginning of the end.” Please let this be true.
My favorite email is (so far) the one where Kathy Ruemeller writes "Trump is so gross" and Epstein replies "worse in real life and upclose."
Pooping his pants even then?
There’s imperfection, Steve Bannon, then there’s child rapist, trafficking&money laundering.
Plus the goals Trump achieved for the far right, very rich, are not what most Americans want or think it’s for the greater good.
The one thing that baffles me is how does third rate huckster Bannon maintain any relevance? This miscreant is a cypher that shouldn't be asked the time of day.
He's stupid and ugly too. America is an amazing country.
the base-ist people revolting after handsome and smart Kennedy, Clinton and Obama (note: K and C were sexual sleazes, but hardly in T's league)
I'm done worrying about the sex lives of men in elected offices since I realized that was one of the main reasons they ran for office. How else would they get girls otherwise.
Very satisfactory. Let’s let him hang himself…not if he hangs you first, Jeffrey!
Two slashes across the throat and a broken hyoid bone later, Epstein expired. “Just hanging around,” read his last note from Rikers to Michael Wolff.
Now that’s what I call ’gallows humor’ defined.
Interesting how Wolf implicated himself!
Wolfe's kind of a dirt ball. He kept some rough company.
Steve Bannon keeps him posted. “Wolff’s not as dodgy as he was in magazines. All those books, the gorgeous Amagansett podcasts add gravitas,” I said. My husband snorted.
Who's to say Wolff wasn't playing Trump and Epstein off against each other to feel important? He strikes me as a very small man, a third-rate journalist and scab biographer, who latches onto power and celebrity like a tick.
A perfect description. He's a fucking cockroach 🪳
After months of daily exposure, I’m now impressed with Michael Wolff. Flashy and louche as a magazine writer, as a prolific author he’s measured and deliberate. His problematic sources trust him; people are dying to be listened to, even when negative copy results.
Wolff’s longterm devotion to getting this incredible story inspires me despite Epstein’s repellence. Illicit sex was going to happen whether Wolff was there or not. Even the bloodless trafficker was disgusted by Trump’s emotional manipulations in pursuit of adult sex. “Donald has no moral compass,” he told Wolff.
Observing a five-year-old on LSD, given by her mother, “That story was gold,” Joan Didion told her nephew Griffin Dunne in his documentary, “The Center Cannot Hold.” The piece on hippies in Haight-Ashbury I studied at J-school a half-century ago involved a tinier time requirement than Wolff’s, less moral repulsion than pedophilia. Didion sat, watched something disturbing, only commenting later, on paper.
He's almost as sleazy as the people he was interviewing. I wonder if he ever got a lap dance.
Wolff shows remarkable sexual circumspection on air despite his years of immersion in the foulest of rivers. He clears his throat at Joanna Coles’ more provocative remarks. Lap dances from strangers were part of his flashy past, not his obviously happy and beautifully curated life today.
When he asks his wife about some feminine mystery—why do MAGA women wear long hair, short skirts, and boots when it’s not winter?—Victoria stops deadheading flowers and replies with acuity. He is respectfully appreciative. It’s the real thing. But what do I know, like Michael I’m also on my second marriage, and mine’s only lasted forty years so far.