I don’t want to be Russian, shrugging off corruption with a what-can-you-do. I don’t want to be Hungarian, doing the same. And yet, being dumbfounded and outraged 24/7 is exhausting. I’m giving in to what my former religion teaches is a sin: Despair.
So when I read that the Kennedy Center Board of Ass-Kissers wants to rename the opera theater therein for Melania Trump, all I can do is scoff and say, “Not a bad come-up for an old whore.” And if anyone should blanch at that, I would remind you to grow up.
Meanwhile, Congress may be adjourned until after Labor Day, but I hope the Dems keep the water torture going. Like Sen. Wyden in Oregon:
“The Trump administration may be closing the books on Epstein’s sex trafficking, but I am not ready to give up. Far from it,” the Oregon senator said in a statement earlier this week.
Trump made campaign promises to release FBI files related to Epstein. But he then seemingly reversed course after taking office, saying they wouldn’t be releasing further Epstein documents. Many of the president’s supporters have been pushing him to release documents, including a list of Epstein’s clients.
Wyden said several banks waited until Epstein’s arrest to flag suspicious transactions that could be related to criminal activity. Now, the senator is pushing to make Epstein-related financial documents public. Wyden disclosed many of his revelations in a New York Times article that details what his staffers found digging through confidential bank records.
Mr. Trump has acknowledged being friendly with Mr. Epstein for about 15 years, ending with a falling out over a real estate matter in 2004. Mr. Trump has not been accused by law enforcement of any wrongdoing related to Mr. Epstein, but his relationship with Mr. Epstein has come under scrutiny.
…On Wednesday, The Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Ms. Bondi told Mr. Trump this spring that his name appeared in the Epstein files. The context in which his name was raised remains unclear.
Trump and his closest allies thought they’d spend the summer taking a well-earned victory lap, having coaxed Congress into passing the megabill, bullied foreign governments into a slew of new trade arrangements, convinced NATO allies to spend billions more on collective defense and pressed world leaders to bow to various other demands from Doha to The Hague.
“POTUS is clearly furious,” said a person close to the White House, who, like others in this story, was granted anonymity to discuss the mood inside the West Wing. “It’s the first time I’ve seen them sort of paralyzed.”
Good. Maybe he’ll have a medical event that will require him to use a cane or walker thereafter.
And yeah, if all this requires sacrificing Bill Clinton, that’s fine with me. It’s time, and no one cares anymore. He’s an old man.
By the way, it’s worth clicking on the Politico link to see the fucking mess Tubby has made of the Oval Office, which now looks like a higher-end New Orleans whorehouse. Fitting, I know! When he and the old whore are finally gone, there isn’t going to be enough sage and sandblasting to drive all that gilt crap out.
Sorry I’m late today. We had a perfect start of the week, and currently it’s 86 degrees, forecast to be 10 degrees hotter tomorrow, with humidity in the armpit-mold range until the middle of next week. It isn’t weather to spark creativity. But we press on.
Suzanne said on July 23, 2025 at 8:45 pm
I know many think poorly of The Lincoln Project but this short video by Rick Wilson is worth watching for the entertainment if nothing else.
https://youtu.be/2Vm2J0S8XTk?si=NEKNWJYgiWxwlD7U
Honestly, I think it’s quite possible that the tech bros behind the rise of Vance and Christian Dominionists behind pretty Mike Johnson are looking for a way to dump Trump because they can no longer keep him under control, so they are letting it all out with the Epstein stuff. They figure it’s easier than having Trump fall down the stairs or out of a window. Too many questions. Let the MAGAs who were promised Dems’ head on a pedophile platter rip Donny to shreds, a good distraction, while they continue to shred the constitution. VP Vance becomes Pres Eyeliner Vance with Pretty Mike as his VP.
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Brandon said on July 23, 2025 at 9:40 pm
it’s 86 degrees, forecast to be 10 degrees hotter tomorrow, with humidity in the armpit-mold range until the middle of next week. It isn’t weather to spark creativity.
Yet Faulkner persevered.
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alex said on July 24, 2025 at 7:02 am
And now, from the cartoon creators who pioneered the concept of the talking turd… introducing the talking micropenis: https://youtu.be/Afetnw70S04
(Warning: Adult content and you can’t unsee it, and you also can’t stop laughing)
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Jeff Gill said on July 24, 2025 at 7:27 am
Plus, he’s taken to wearing a gold tie when he’s doing Oval Office events.
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David C said on July 24, 2025 at 11:27 am
I hope all the tacky, gold painted, Hobby Lobby shit was stuck up with hot melt glue so it will be easy to take down when (if) this country comes to its senses.
Let them rename the Kennedy Center for the Slovenian time-share. Changing the name back will be as much fun as pulling down Lenin or Saddam Hussien statues.
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Jeff Borden said on July 24, 2025 at 12:27 pm
The crap on the wall is polyurethane garbage. tRump bragged to Laura Ingraham about how he has found the perfect gold paint to make them look like real gold. It’s beyond tacky, which is no surprise to anyone who has ever seen photos of his hideous penthouse, but I’ve noticed it mimics much of what Putin’s office looks like. My guess is Putin’s gold is the real stuff. His lust for Putin is almost as comical as his obsession with Black von Blackenstein.
Now, about despair. I am as downbeat and pessimistic as anyone I know, which is so weird because my wife of 35 years is the most relentlessly upbeat and positive person in Illinois. But I saw something the other day that resonated: Despair can become an excuse to do nothing. Hope, in contrast, requires a shit load of work. As a half-empty glass kind of guy, this does not come easily to me. But I have decided enduring is the greatest rebuttal to MAGAism. Those assholes want us to become as cold and nihilistic as them. Fuck them. I’m giving monthly to Planned Parenthood, ACLU and Human Rights Campaign. I’m begging. my blue representative and two blue senators to raise holy hell on a daily basis. I do this knowing I’ll be dead long before the damage this movement has created will be mitigated.
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jim said on July 24, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Huffpost article describing the full season opening South Park that Alex referenced above. The lads got a crapload of Paramount cash before airing this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/south-park-naked-trump_n_6881da32e4b0d55a3f195c1b
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Dexter Friend said on July 24, 2025 at 2:14 pm
Eisenhower deployed Jupiter missiles in Turkey in 1961-2, provocative to the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the US could have seen Miami destroyed in 1962. We survived that. The Viet Nam fiasco, under leaders of both parties, split the nation and …we finally moved on. The madness of Bush43 and wars in The Region, it took just 20 years to calm that down, and we are still a nation, fractured, but united enough to survive.
Trump is a sick fuck, surely demented, and dangerous, but he and the whore can and will leave in OMG!—another 42 months.
We all remember pussy grabber’s getting away with that and getting elected, so I have no hope Epstein in death will prematurely end Trump47. We got rid of Nixon, but damn…51 years ago. The despots win.
And to borrow from Jeff Borden’s template:
Dick Cheney is alive and Ozzy Prince of Darkness is dead. Fuck. Not acceptable.
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Deborah said on July 24, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Dexter, I remember that well, I was 12 years old living in Miami in 1962. We were all terrified every time a plane flew overhead. We had duck and cover drills in school. I have left over trauma from those times.
I’ve always thought of Melania as a former sex worker who hooked up with Trump at some point when she realized he could be her sugar daddy and put her on the map somehow. Then she became a dominatrix over him and he can’t dump her because she has a lot of dirt on him, he’s terrified of her and she knows she can do whatever she wants and he’ll do anything to keep her from flipping on the kink. Am I wrong? I mean can’t you just see her with a whip squinting over him. If you have read Taffy Brodesser Akner’s Long Island compromise you know what I mean, and can picture Trump as the character, Beamer Fletcher.
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Scout said on July 24, 2025 at 2:53 pm
Nancy, I’m glad I’m not the only one who is out of fucks to give about telling it like it is about the FWOTUS. And from now on I’ll be referring to the bloated orange tumor as the Sex Pest in Chief. They are such shameful shitstains on our entire country and yeah, if we have to sacrifice good old Bill to have the truth come to light, bring it.
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Sherri said on July 24, 2025 at 5:21 pm
I just want to know one thing: where are the medbeds? We were promised medbeds if Trump was elected!!
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Little Bird said on July 24, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Aaaand now Hulk Hogan has died. Can’t say I care about that one. Misogynistic, racist, abusive, trump supporter. But damn if celebrities aren’t dropping like flies right now.
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Jeff Gill said on July 24, 2025 at 5:40 pm
The Deep State ™ is still using them to keep John F. Kennedy Jr. on ice until “The Storm” (c) breaks out. Keep the faith, Sherri.
Chemtrails will be converted to cane sugar soon, too.
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Julie Robinson said on July 24, 2025 at 7:19 pm
My understanding is that Melania wasn’t able to reach high levels of modeling, so she started looking around for a sugar daddy. She was terrified of having to go back to the old country where she would have married a peasant and lived in grinding poverty. Maybe the orange pimple looked good in comparison.
Not too sad about Hogan, but nostalgia makes me a little sad about Chuck Mangione. During my last year at IU Feels So Good was spinning on every campus turntable.
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susan said on July 24, 2025 at 7:39 pm
“I hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files…”
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