Doesn’t it make you feel better?
The pigs have won tonight
Now they can all sleep soundly
And everything’s all right
-nineinchnails, “March of the Pigs”
The big news at the start of the week was Viceroy Trump’s telegraphed announcement that he is mobilizing the National Guard and directly commandeering the Washington DC police force to protect the “Capital”, despite the fact that District Represenative Eleanor Holmes Norton pointed out that the crime rate is down 26% this year compared to the same period last year. And despite the fact that he previously cut District security in DC’s budget by at least 20 million dollars with his One Big Bullshit Bill.
And it was just announced that on Friday the 15th, Trump will have a Ukrainian “peace” summit with his liege, Vladmir Putin, and without Ukrainian or European representatives. In Alaska. Which implies that the talk is less about selling out President Zelenskyy by handing over Ukraine’s fortified eastern territory and more about selling out Sarah Palin’s home state and returning it to Papa Czar.
All just another week in Trumpworld, where the most powerful nation on the planet is run by a retarded pigboy who grunts and oinks and squeals and treats the whole world as his personal trough of slop and we all just accept this cause apparently that’s what God wants.
So we all have to join JD Vance in vainly wishing, hoping and praying for the happy day when little piggy finally becomes bacon.
But this is why we need to recognize Trump’s increasing escalations for what they are. Distractions. Of course he was going to militarize DC anyway. He’s probably thinking of calling it “Trumpburg” or something. (I know, I shouldn’t give him ideas.) Of course he is going to try to give away the store on Ukraine and lift sanctions on Russia, apparently because they’re worth more money than the EU. And as if Ukraine is going to accept a 1938 Munich deal when they still have the EU on their side.
This is a semi-successful attempt to distract people from what everyone had been talking about:
The Epstein Files! (TM)
Because again, the only thing that unites the Church of Trump and the rest of us who believe in causality is: “Epstein didn’t kill himself.” Nothing else can turn the Trumpniks. You certainly can’t appeal to reason. With them everything is that much more identity politics than the postmodernist Left. Normally a Christian would say “I am a Christian because I believe in the Credo” or “I am a Christian because I believe that obliges me to do certain things.” The reason things are different with the Trumpniks, and the reason you can’t persuade them with bourgeois concepts like facts, is because their morality is based on identity politics. Rather than saying “Because I am a Christian, I believe certain things are good and evil” they say “Anything I believe is Good, because I identify as a Christian.” It’s like “I identify as an Army Attack Helicopter”, only you expect people to take you seriously.
Which goes to the point that you also cannot convince them with morality. I had mentioned that liberals tend to complain that the alt-Right are bullies. People should stop that. Trumpniks take it as a badge of virtue. And recently they’ve been throwing around the word “cruel.” Stop that already.
Like Trumpniks care that they’re cruel. They LOVE it when you say that. “Aw, does little baby think I’m cruel when I pour lemon juice in his paper cuts? How KYOOT!” That means you don’t like them, and since they don’t like you, that validates them. Like with “deplorables.” They’re out and proud about it. “We’re here! We hate queers! Get used to it!”
The hook it that this identity is based on the projection of self-righteousness, that the Demonrats are irredeemably Evil and Republicans are automatically Good. But now the Church sees the government they voted for do everything they’ve always accused Democrats of doing, what they voted for Republicans to get to the bottom of, and the coverup is far more active than anything in Democratic administrations because Jabba the Slut doesn’t want us knowing what’s in those files.
Like, it was revealed, basically by accident, that the FBI redacted Trump’s name the files, supposedly 40,000 times, but eventually they settled on saying “numerous times.” “During that process, agents came across multiple references to Trump, as well as “dozens of other high-profile figures,” according to investigative journalist Jason Leopold. However, FBI FOIA officers determined that Trump’s name and others were to be blacked out under existing FOIA exemptions. The rationale? Trump was a private citizen at the time the federal Epstein investigation launched in 2006. That legal status gave the FBI a basis for redacting personal names from public records unless a clear public interest could be shown. …Importantly, Leopold emphasized that the presence of names in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing or criminal conduct.”
Yeah but, isn’t that kinda giving it away? How careful were the stooges in making sure that anybody else connected to Trump was likewise redacted, and who were those people? Wouldn’t we just be able to see what text was redacted in the files and add up the clues?
And this weekend, Vice President JD Eyelashes had a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo and tossed off the defense that well, the Biden Administration never made much of the Files because Democrats were in them. This was a bad move on three levels. First, it brought attention back to the seeping wound when Trump was trying to distract the marks with more atrocities.
Two, it assumes that after more than 15 years of Bill Clinton not being in public life, after Hillary Clinton basically railroaded her presidential nomination against Bernie Sanders, only to realize she was the only Democrat who couldn’t exploit the news of Donald Trump’s sexual assaults, people frankly don’t need to protect the once popular Bill Clinton if he was involved in the sex scandals on Epstein Island.
Third point, related to the second, if evidence incriminates Democrats, wouldn’t there be that much MORE reason for a Republican government to release it, even if only selectively?
And why give a sweetheart deal to Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, reassigning her to a Club Fed – where sex offenders are legally NOT allowed – if you aren’t planning to use her for the coverup?
I saw this meme on the internet that explained the whole situation: “If the Epstein list doesn’t exist, Trump lied to you. If the Epstein list exists and he doesn’t want to publish it, then it’s because he’s on it, and therefore he lied to you. If the Epstein list exists and only your perceived enemies are on it, but he still doesn’t want it published even though he made you believe that your enemies are his enemies, he lied to you.”
As a much wiser, braver, more accomplished president put it, “people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.”
I’m starting to agree with Seth Meyers: It’s getting to where they should just call them The Trump Files Featuring Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump is a greasy little pig who has managed to slip out of every trap he’s laid for himself with his own malicious incompetence, but now he sees himself going down a metal corridor, and he knows where that metal corridor goes, and he would rather have ANYbody else go down that corridor but him.
The only reason he has never had to face the consequences of his actions is that he has had damn near half the country (at least, the ones who bother to vote) backing him up no matter how repulsive he is. And it’s worked up to this point, because even the Trumpniks with more than room temperature IQ – and there are lots of them – have to rationalize the fact that they have invested themselves in someone who is not just utterly immoral, but a malicious failure. Nixon and Clinton may have been utterly immoral, but they weren’t actively trying to destroy the country.
And there are two reasons why the Epstein case matters and why the non-Trump part of the country (real America) has to bite this case like a pit bull: One, such gain as Viceroy Trump got in 2024 from non-white and independent voters was from people who previously didn’t support Trump, and in that respect said more about how much America hates Democrats. (Cause let’s face it: We ALL do.)
In other words, he won because he got support from people who aren’t in the cult and who previously would have been just as likely to vote Democrat. So those are the people who don’t see Trump’s history of crime and sexual immorality as a resume asset.
Unlike the cult. Which gets to the second point. They now have to work harder and harder to maintain the pretense that their Lord and Savior is going to save Real America from the creeps and crooked elites, now that they know that Trump is a creep and crooked elite. But unlike the smart Trumpniks, they aren’t just in sunk cost fallacy, they’re in identity fusion.
The cult has to keep up support because as in the beginning, any support for Donald Trump says a lot more about the supporter than it does about Trump. So I speak out to you people again: Admit it.
YOU ARE TRUMP. You have power only as long as he does and he has power only as long as you support him. So you will never give him up. NEVER. No matter what he does to you and no matter what you can see yourselves turning into.
You voted to turn us into a shithole country. You voted to turn us into a Third World dictatorship because you would rather be a fearful peasant than an American.
You knew what he was. He said so himself. “You knew I was a snake when you took me in.”
You knew he’d been judged to have committed sexual assault when he lost a defamation case. You knew he was convicted of 34 felonies. You heard words out of his own mouth.
Don’t tell me this isn’t what you voted for. YES IT IS.
So I expect you to smile, stand up, take off your hats (except the red MAGA caps) and sing along to the MAGA National Anthem:
And I’m proud I elected a pedophile
Cause he means so much to me
And I guess I forgot the men who died
Who thought that we’d stay free
And I’ll gladly stand up
Next to you and defend him still today
Cause there ain’t no doubt, I hate this land
God Damn the U S AAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAA
(everybody!)
And I’m proud I elected a pedophile
Cause he means so much to me
And I guess I forgot the men who died
Who thought that we’d stay free
And I’ll gladly STAND UP
Next to you and defend him still today
Cause there ain’t no doubt, I hate this land
God Damn the U S AAAAAAAAAAA