Score Card

Since the 70s, Trump has been accused of some kind of sexual misconduct by somewhere between 38 and 70 women and girls.

Not to get too pushy with it, but if we stop to consider that upwards of 90% of all sexual assault incidents go unreported, the number of girls and women who've been pawed or raped or forcibly molested by that fuckin' jerk could easily be well over 500. Maybe a thousand or more.

Now then - let's think about how often Trump has practically made a career out of filing defamation suits against people he thinks have slandered him. He's filed way over 4,000 lawsuits in the last 50 years.

That's a lawsuit every 5 days or so.

But he's never filed a defamation suit against any of his accusers. He's filed plenty of suits against media outlets for reporting on his history of assaults and misconduct, but I can't find anything that says he's ever sued an accuser.

Are ya feelin' it?

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

On Liam And His Dad

I knew there had been a win in court. I didn't know how bigly the judge had dunked on Kristi Noem and Donald Trump.

This is outstanding.

Here Comes The 🌊

Maybe - hope so. Long time before we get to the midterms.

Raging Moderates

Starting at about 14:00, Galloway makes a great point about 'concentric circles of culpability'.

And I'm not going to sign off on that dildo Todd Blanche's assertion that "It's not a crime to party..."  While that's true, when a smarmy slug like Blanche says it, he's using it to gloss over a metric fuck ton of shitty criminal behavior.

So we need to sort thru it as best we can, knowing there are lots of smarmy slugs who'll make bank defending and spinning and deflecting etc.

The crazy stupid wealthy

have always hated democracy.

For as long as there's been a USA,

their project is to tear down

our traditions of democratic self-governance

in order to replace it

with a corporate style plutocracy.

Oh Them Boys

Changes

I wait for when

the pain of the memory

is greater than

the fear of letting it go

Suckers & Losers

They got suckered into it, and they know (now) that they fucked up.

Tuesdays With Amanda

• In October, the trade deficit was at its lowest since 2009, but shot up 94% in November.
• ICE is losing the support of cops
• Elon was too cringe for Epstein

Katie Phang Brings It

It gets a little deep, but we can't allow that to help us keep ourselves in the dark about all this shit.

We need to dig into it.

This one "small-ish" bit of a monstrously huge and ugly scandal reminds me of the scene in The Post, when the reporters get their first look at about half of the 7,000 pages that made up The Pentagon Papers.

Phang is here talking about one pretty tiny bit, but it illustrates for me that we have to try to chop this thing down into bite-sized chunks, and get after it a little at a time.

Analogy