Of note, BONDI's promise to release the EPSTEIN FILES with attendant CLIENT LIST seems to have just kind of, oh, what? Evaporated. If TRUMP wasn't in those files in some extremely unflattering way, BONDI would have made good on her pledge. But she did not. BONDI works for TRUMP. For some reason, TRUMP really doesn't want is to see how the EPSTEIN FILES relate to TRUMP. Why is that?

So the inflamed boil festers and grows poisonous, the tattered coverup drags on and becomes insupportable, and TRUMP's panicked deflections from his association with EPSTEIN & MAXWELL intensify.

Really sad nobody around Trump cares enough to get that intervention underway.
But, then, he only cares about himself so why should they care about him?

Don't let journalists in.
Kill the journalists who are there.
Information control.
Meanwhile, Israeli supremacist loons embrace the dark side.

Bingo

Just follow the money and favors.

Question:

Why is Trump giving special treatment to his "former" friend Maxwell, Epstein enabler, coconspirator, procureress and sexual abuser of children?

The authors suggest

These examples are but the beginning; Trump, after all, has more than 1,200 days left in office. There is no evidence that he's going to get more competent or more compassionate, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. The challenge for Democrats will be to keep up with the cascading horror stories and to tell them in compelling and sensitive ways, conveying the devasting effects of the Trump administration's across-the-board mistakes.

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Yes, it's really more smoke because of ... what was it again?

TRUMP, EPSTEIN & MAXWELL

Oh, JV is just soooo boooored.
Perhaps some more of that eyeliner, just a touch of kohl, to soothe the fevered Neanderthalian brow?
It must be tough, playing arsewiper to Old Senescent.

Whatever it is, it's got Trump squirming like all that makeup coverup he's slathered on is giving him a fearful itch.

"But he hasn't got anything on!"
Hans Christian Andersen
"The Emperor's New Clothes"

Tomasky's point bears repeating:

"This is about the rape of children. Hundreds or maybe thousands of them. Apparently, enough of MAGA world is repulsed enough by that fact that this is one time in the last decade when Trump's attempts to wave it all away as a Democrat hoax aren't cutting it."

Thanks

Appreciate the book tip.

Truly, Lincoln never ceases to amaze.

Morning..Lincoln for me remains one of history's truly intriguing characters. Politically astute, he knew there was a long game and he adhered to a moral compass. Imagine that!

Wow, a 2nd Amendment loon's wet dream realized!
Small price to pay for willfully misinterpreting the Constitution, eh?

Timothy Leary? He's outside, looking in.
~ The Moodies

"I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small."
"Norma Desmond"
Sunset Boulevard

MKUltra, twenty years (that we know about) of secret human subject experimentation.
Your tax dollars at work.

To ratify one country's rapacious takeover of another country's territory, terrorizing and murdering people?

Trump really is a disgusting puke.

Great, now Fat Boy Lardo will insist on parting the seas, "sometime within the next two weeks, maybe sooner, maybe later."

Enjoyed that, CORKY, thanks. It gave me a smile and reminded me a bit of my then-teenaged son many years ago asking, "Hey, Dad, you ever hear of a group called the Doors?"

Cocaine makes you do strange things.