But wait, there's more:

In an interview Tuesday with conservative influencer and commentator Benny Johnson, the Speaker was asked about the prospect of Ghislaine Maxwell " Epstein's one-time girlfriend who was convicted for trafficking young girls " testifying before Congress, or the prospect of subpoenaing documents from the Department of Justice about the matter.

"I'm for transparency," Speaker Johnson responded. "We're intellectually consistent in this. Look, [President] Reagan used tell us, we should trust the American people, and I believe in that principle, and I know President Trump does as well. I trust him. I mean, he put together a team of his choosing, and they're doing a great job. It's a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it."

"The White House and the White House team are privy to facts that I don't know. I mean, this isn't my lane, I haven't been involved in that. But I agree with the sentiment that we need to put it out there," Johnson said.

Thugs swaggering around in what appear to be tossed together paramilitary uniforms du jour behaving like enforcers for a beleaguered regime ... .Are they trying to provoke someone into taking a shot at them so the Fuhrer can tell Gauleiter Homan to let his dogs slip their leads?

Trump doesn't actually do the work normally associated with a president's activities. Reports? Briefings? Not when there's tv to watch and social media to attend to. Add to that no understanding for or appreciation of the roles/histories of the intel agencies combined with an ignorant person's casual immersion in conspiracy theories and you have his installation of a menagerie of kooks, crackpots, and opportunists FUBARing stuff they shouldn't even know about.

Tell that to Trump, Boaz.
Oh, no, wait ...

Trump is such a wretched wreck, oozing weakness from every makeup-clogged pore.

Back in line, MAGAts! Schnell, macho schnell!

Or the month or so that passed between Epstein's arrest by the feds and his demise.
When Trump, his onetime buddy and fellow player, was POTUS.

Someone said Trump is planning on giving Texas back the name it had before a bunch of slave-owning yanquis lied their way onto foreign soil: Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas. Ready for the Sharpie any day now. Oh, almost forgot: Mexico will pay for it.

"Biblical grounds."
Is that code for "animals" and/or "wildlife"?

Some MAGAts may notice the perhaps suspiciously short time - barely two months - that passed between key Jeffrey Epstein witness Virginia Giuffre's suicide and Pam Bondi's nope-nothing here attempt to bury the scandal. (They've tried to run with less.)

"This much we do know," writes David French. "Some of MAGA's most trusted voices " including Patel, Bondi, Bongino and Trump himself " are suddenly telling their movement: Move along, there's nothing to see here. But MAGA does not want to hear what they have to say."

It's not going away.

Boaz and his sad clown emanations from Dogpatch.
Always good for a larf.

This is one of those stories to which you attach jumper cables and let the juice fly whenever MAGAts start losing interest so they get as fidgety as Trump when the subject arises. (As well they should.)

The US has never, ever put its best and brightest into border/immigration enforcement. That has largely been (and remains) the domain of goons.

Shakespeaker nailed the problem with brewing up conspiracy theories in Macbeath:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
...
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good

They're still laughing at the costume he put together for that state dinner with the queen. He looked like the New Year's Eve greeter at his opa's Yukon cathouse.

Follow the money.

The Brits must be absolutely gutted.

The Lincoln Project is what the moderate GOP wing was, before the party went courting Southern racialist Democrats to them them into Southern racialist Republicans.

No, it ain't going away.
Too, too hilarious.

Grrrrrrrrrr.
Yip.
Snarl.
Bark.

MAGAt faux manliness is not a sign of manliness.

Duffy has plenty of experience with space.
The empty one between his ears.

"Short of grabbing a feel of Ivanka or vomiting on the floor in the Oval Office ... "

So last week.