Brian Tyler Cohen brings us more on Jeffrey Epstein co-collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyer meeting with DOJ attorney Todd Blanche (who has a tie to Emil Bove of course, who I discussed on Friday)...I realize this report doesn’t tell us about a quid pro quo, but the fact that ANYONE is talking about a pardon for Maxwell is beyond reprehensible (and I’m sure the condition for a pardon is her absolving Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence)...and Cohen is right; the point of all of this media fluffery and obfuscation is to COMPLETELY BURY the Epstein file (some think the file doesn’t actually exist, but I’m inclined to believe that it does) - NSFW/H...
...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show tells us about Epstein (in a 2010 deposition) pleading not just the fifth, but the sixth and 14th amendments (?) also to get out of answering a question about the Gropenfuhrer and underage girls...and to be serious for a minute, it cracks me up in a way that Trump supporters were apparently OK with DOGE destroying our government, including killing US AID and sentencing millions in starving countries to death, along with siding with “Bibi” and his carnage in Gaza (and no, I don’t give Biden a pass on that either), along with ICE deporting everyone they decide to profile, especially if they’re students (leading to the “brain drain” Kyle K., among others, mentioned last week), endangering our nuclear stockpile, making our airspace more dangerous from firing air traffic controllers, blowing up scientific research, effectively destroying Medicaid and gutting the CFPB, and on and on...no, the #1 reason these life forms decided to contact their elected representatives was over the likely association their god-king-ruler has with a dead pedophile (and the “Ozempstein” bit is clever also)...
...and Chris Hayes speaks with Sam Seder about the latest episode of “South Park” and you-know-who – yep, unfortunately “nascent authoritarianism” does seems to fit, in the context of Columbia University and U of P caving to try and appease our demented orange toddler of a *preznit...good point by Sam about the self-censorship, particularly on cell phones for people flying in and out; way beyond pathetic that we’ve reached that point...another good point about the Smothers Brothers and Nixon getting THEIR show cancelled back in the day...
...and Brittany Page tells us about Cantaloupe Capone signing an executive order to criminalize homelessness, with 220 similar bills already passed in states...I’m old enough to remember that homelessness in this country hit a big spike after The Sainted Ronnie R decided to close institutions that treated people with mental illness, including Byberry in these parts (here), so this is finding a typically demented way for the “party of Lincoln” to more or less close that circle...and it looks like “the Cicero Institute” is another one of these wingnut think tanks that sprung up like festering mold in a garbage can as more or less a result of the truly infamous Powell Memo...once again, a Republican tries to spook suburbanites with more tales of “oh, those baaad street people in (insert blue big city name here)...they’re homeless EXCLUSIVELY because of their behavior, and we’re the ‘right’ people living in our McMansions, so we’re absolved from caring or doing anything to help whatsoever, even if it means paying a pittance more in state or federal taxes to house these people”...as Page notes, drug use prevention efforts to help the homeless are going to get blown up pretty much by the destruction of Medicaid in the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...when Page breaks down the numbers of what Pumpkin Pol Pot is planning to spend on detention versus homelessness, it’s pretty damn plain that the latter isn’t a priority for this bunch ($170 billion in detention versus about $12.8 billion in new housing – you can do the math on that as well as I can...more here)...
Update: Actually, the Cicero Institute was formed in 2016 and has ties to Peter Thiel, so it’s more or less a “grandchild” when it comes to their relationship to the Powell Memo...more direct offspring, if you will, would be the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, to be precise.
...and I’ve been jonesin’ for a newer tune for a little while now, and I think this will do the trick nicely...
...and dusting off the memory banks, I can tell you that, at an early age, there were certain people who informed my sensibility when it comes to news, politics and the world in general, and one of them (for better or worse) was Tom Lehrer, who I’ve dubbed as the funniest math professor of all time (he famously said he couldn’t do satire any more after Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 because he correctly surmised that nothing could be more absurd than that)...I know I’ve gone overboard lately with the tributes when it comes to Brian Wilson and Ozzy Osbourne, but Lehrer deserves that treatment also, beginning with this number...RIP.
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