POKING AROUND THE WEEK THAT WAS CRAZY

Scottish protest against Gramps yesterday

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Today is Day 189 of the shitshow of shitshows. There are 465 days left until we make this shitshow Close Out Of Town.

Following Thursday’s reports from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times describing the Epstein “birthday book” that lists Grampaw Shitstain as one of the contributors under the “Friends” category, and the confirmation from other named contributors that they did participate, coupled with the news that the book is held by the Epstein estate, which said Thursday that they would “comply with all subpoenas” about the book - after the House Oversight Committee voted by a bipartisan majority to issue such a subpoena to produce the book next month - Gramps couldn’t sleep due to the Adderall overdose. He crawled to the Golden Throne Room early early Friday morning and posted another rage tweet on Lies Anti-Social: “Radical Left Democrats are doing everything in their power to distract and obfuscate from our GREAT six months of service to America. They have gone absolutely CRAZY, and are playing another Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax but, this time, under the guise of what we will call the Jeffrey Epstein SCAM. As things are revealed and, I hope will take place quickly, you will see that it is another Democrat CON JOB. Hopefully, the Grand Jury files will put an end to this HOAX. Everyone should see what is there, but people who are innocdent should not be hurt. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Yep, the senile old traitor is still terrified, and part of that terror comes from his realization that his Greatest Hits - CON JOB! HOAX! SCAM!- are not having the effect they used to have on his Gammas.

I’ve never been a particular fan of South Park, but I took a look yesterday. The show began its 27th season with the best “shots below the belt” at Gramps that anyone has done as they showed his “teeny-tiny” penis in both animated and live-action form. It starts with Trump being accused by the Canadian prime minister of being akin to a “dictator from the Middle East,” then Trump lashes out at a White House artist for painting him with a small penis. Cut to Trump in bed asking for sex with Satan, who tells him he’s reminded of “another guy” (Saddam Hussein for those who remember the earlier season) but that Trump is even weirder. “Come on, Satan, you know you can’t resist this,” Trump says, pulling down the covers to expose his very small penis; “I can’t even see anything because it’s so small,” Satan says as he looks away in disgust. After Trump threatens to sue South Park for $5 billion and a nervous Jesus Christ tells the town’s residents not to make him mad - “He also has the power to sue and take bribes and he can do anything to anyone. It’s the fucking president, dude… South Park is over” - the town makes a PSA for him. In the mock ad for Trump that plays in the episode’s final minutes, an “AI enhanced” live-action very obese Trump is shown running through the desert, discrding his clothing. Increasingly sweating and exhausted, he finally takes off all his clothes and lies down naked on the sand. The “ad” ends with a shot of what Stormy Daniels called his “mushroom” growing erect - but still small - while a voiceover declares, “Trump: His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.” Now that the creators have what we shallow Hollywood types call “Fuck You” money from the $1.5 billion deal they finished extracting from nepo baby dumbass David Ellison 8 hours before the episode ran (If you want to see how talentless Ellison is, download the execrable “Flyboys” and watch him flail at portraying a member of the Lafayette Escadrille) they gave all of DumbfuckWorld a giant middle finger - they really screamed “FUCK YOU!” which is what you’re supposed to do with “Fuck you” money. They did it the day before the FCC approved Paramount’s payoff of Donnie’s extortion and allowed the merger. I like Rick Wilson’s review about the show “nuking Trump from orbit” - “It obliterated Donald Trump with the most dangerous weapon known to man: a well-placed dick joke.” Trey Parker told visitors to comic-Con Thursday that the network suits asked the South Park creators to censor the episode and blur the erect penis, but were told to pound sand with extreme prejudice. “We put eyes on it and told them the penis was a character.”

Watch the ad yourself, but remember YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED so no shocked outcries.

Whitey’s House spokesbimbo Taylor Rodgers, who’s in strong competition with Karoline Leavitt in demonstrating what a Presidential Fluffer looks like, responded to the show: “The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end - for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offense’ [sic] content, but suddenly they are praising the show. Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows. This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history—and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”

As everyone will remember from the 2016 campaign, Trump is very protective of his “mini-me.” When Marco Rubio said that everyone knows a man with small hands like Trump does is small elsewhere, Trump indignantly shouted “There’s no problem there, let me assure you!” So the South Park episode was a shot straight under the skin. And then there was Stephen Colbert’s shot that did not hold back on Gramps in a searing monologue where he unearthed the sordid rumors of the Trump manhood, highlighting a list of apparent nicknames that he claimed were also in the files. One in particular, however, stood out: “Micropenis DJT.” On Comedy Central, Jon Stewart tore into Donnie’s “chronic penis insufficiency.” Yes, this is all very junior-high-level boy’s bathroom humor, but remember: Grampaw Shitstain is a permanent 12-year old playground bully. This stuff is guaranteed to “get a rise” out of him and that massive fatal myocardial infarction isn’t going to arrive in time without some extra effort.

Samantha (1992-2008)

BONUS: Here is Democratic FCC commissioner Anna Gomez’s blistering statement about the FCC approving the Paramount deal:

“The Paramount payout and this reckless approval have emboldened those who believe the government can—and should—abuse its power to extract financial and ideological concessions, demand favored treatment, and secure positive media coverage. It is a dark chapter in a long and growing record of abuse that threatens press freedom in this country.”

Last Monday, the Department of Defense announced the award of a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest concentration camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in Maladministration II’s “massive deportation” plans. The new concentration camp near El Paso, Texas, is expected to hold up to 5,000 people kidnapped off the streets by ICE. Unmentioned was that one of the subcontractors slated to work on the project, Disaster Management Group, is owned by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company - TentLogix - that pleaded guilty in 2019 to a scheme to hire undocumented workers and conceal them from immigration authorities. Albers is a big-time Republican donor who has spent time at Mar-a-Lago (surprise surprise - not). Two people with direct knowledge of the award and two familiar with the company told ProPublica that Disaster Management Group would help build the new facility, receiving a substantial chunk of the more than $1.2 billion the government has allocated for the project. A spokesperson for Disaster Management said that Albers and Disaster Management had been dropped from the DHS’ investigation of TentLogix and exonerated. Upon learning of illegal actions by TentLogix’s co-founder, the spokesperson said, “Mr. Albers parted ways as a minority and non-operating owner of TentLogix.” The spokesperson didn’t directly answer questions about Disaster Management’s role in the detention camp at Fort Bliss, saying only that the company “is proud to support projects of national importance for nearly 20 years.” You know, I don’t think even a crate of “Pooph” could overcome the stink of corruption here.

Here’s the Whopper Of The Week: As he was leaving DC for Scotland where he will perform “presidential duties” by opening another of his shitty golf clubs and dodging Scottish protesters calling him a “Cunt” every mile of the trip - paid for by us - Grampaw told reporters that he hasn’t thought about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell as she was set to meet for a second day with Consigliere, er, I mean Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche. “It’s something I haven’t thought about it. I’m allowed to do it but it’s something I have not thought about. I certainly can’t talk about pardons.” (Perhaps, but Consigliere Blanche certainly can in that private meeting with no others present.) When questioned on the meeting, he told reporters they should be focused on other Epstein associates and other topics, including the release of documents related to former President Obama and the investigation into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election (Look! Look! A shiny object!”) “I don’t know about the meeting, I know it’s taking place and he’s a fantastic man. He’s a great attorney,” Trump said of his Consigliere. (No wonder his eyes are brown.) If you believe any of that horseshit, I have several crypto scams I can recommend that you won’t be able to resist.

The Department of InJustice is pulling the same scam they used with the failed US Attorney nominee in New York: Trump parking lot lawyer Alina Habba No Brain, said she would continue on in the position despite a judicial decision declining to extend her interim status and instead opting to replace her. She declared in a post on Xitter (that’s pronouncded “shitter”) that she is now the state’s acting U.S. attorney. “Donald J. Trump is the 47th President. Pam Bondi is the Attorney General. And I am now the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. I don’t cower to pressure. I don’t answer to politics. This is a fight for justice. And I’m all in.” An InJustice Department official said Gramps withdrew her nomination to be the state’s U.S. attorney and she was appointed First Assistant U.S. Attorney, meaning she becomes acting U.S. Attorney to the end of Maladministration II. Last week, Maladministration II circumvented a judicial decision not to retain another of the president’s picks. Judges on the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of New York refused to extend the interim term of John Sarcone III as US Attorney To get around that decision, Sarcone was first appointed his own First Assistant to replace himself, then as a “special attorney” to Bondi, which gave him the powers of a U.S. attorney indefinitely. attorney, because the position is now vacant. This means Habba can hold that office until January 20, 2029. Yes, there is no Rule of Law left in this country and you can be sure the six criminals cosplaying as “justices” on the Unsupreme Court will OK this travesty in an unsigned decision on the “emergency” docket.

If you thought Jerome Powell’s public fact-check of Grandaddy Dumbass was as good as it gets, check this: Powell intends to ignore Trump’s constant calls for him to resign, believing that doing so would damage the independence of the U.S. central bank. Powell has been telling his inner circle that he’ll stay in the role until his term ends in May 2026, and is willing to endure months of Trump berating him over the president’s demands to slash interest rates. Powell has been telling his associates that his decision to stay as Fed Chair is not only a personal one, but that caving to Trump’s pressure would risk the Fed violating its long-standing principle of avoiding political influence in key economic decisions. Jared Bernstein, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under Biden, praised Powell’s resilience under Trump’s relentless attacks. “He’s putting the integrity of the institution above himself. If I were a 72-year-old guy who’s getting verbally abused by the president on a daily basis, retirement would look pretty good. But I really believe that Powell is engaged in protecting the institution.”

Friday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin became the third judge to rule against Gramps’s attempt to end birthright citizenship using the Unsupreme Court’s new rules, finding that the nationwide injunction he granted to more than a dozen states remains in effect because “no workable, narrower alternative” would provide the plaintiffs full relief, an exception laid out in the Supreme Court’s ruling. “Despite the defendants’ chosen path, the Court - aided substantially by the plaintiffs’ meticulous factual and legal submissions - undertook the review required of it by CASA and considered anew whether its original order swept too broadly,” Sorokin wrote in a 23-page opinion, referencing the high court decision. “After careful consideration of the law and the facts, the Court answers that question in the negative. The record does not support a finding that any narrower option would feasibly and adequately protect the plaintiffs from the injuries they have shown they are likely to suffer if the unlawful policy announced in the Executive Order takes effect during the pendency of this lawsuit.”

A Venezuelan American murderer and ex-US Marine, who killed three people in Spain in 2016, was released to the US during last Friday’s high-profile prisoner swap between the US, El Salvador and Venezuela, according to media and NGO reports. Dahud Hanid Ortiz, who was convicted last year in Venezuela of a triple homicide in Madrid, is one of the 10 US nationals that arrived in Texas last Friday. Marco Rubio: “It is unacceptable that Venezuelan regime representatives arrested and jailed US nationals under highly questionable circumstances and without proper due process. Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland.” Ortiz carried out a violent murder in Madrid, Spain, in 2016 which made international headlines. In a fit of jealousy, Ortiz drove from Germany to Spain to track down his ex-wife’s new partner, Víctor Joel Salas, an attorney based in Madrid. He entered Salas’s office and instead found two women, employees of the law firm. He stabbed the two women and waited for Salas to enter the office. When a taxi driver and client of the law firm entered, Ortiz stabbed the man, set fire to the law firm’s offices and fled. Salas arrived shortly thereafter and discovered the three bodies. Ortiz fled first to Germany then Colombia, then home to Venezuela where he was caught. In January 2024, he was sentenced by a Venezuelan court to 30 years in prison for the triple murder. Some “political prisoner.”

Dilbert Dimbulb is polling so poorly with independent voters that it could force Republicans to “wave adios” to their House majority, according to CNN data guru Harry Enten. “I will say this is the biggest warning sign, the biggest danger sign for President Trump in his second term so far.Why is that? Because it does not appear that there is a bottom to which Donald‘s support can‘t fall to.” Trump’s favorability with the vital demographic has dropped off a cliff, with his net approval rating among independents down from -3 percent when he took office to -29 now.“If you‘re not winning among independents, you‘re probably not winning overall. And when your net approval rating’s -29 points, you are definitely not winning overall.” The drop-off is so staggering that it beats Trump’s own record for worst net approval rating with independents at the six-month mark of a presidency: a -23 percent figure posted in his first term.

The disdain for Trump among independents is even more pronounced when it comes to his handling of inflation—an issue that helped Trump win the 2024 election. While Joe Biden had an bad -38 percent rating from independents on inflation, Trump faces a disaster, with a -45 percent rating.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his estranged wife Angela declared three separate homes as their primary residence in mortgage documents, allowing them to lock in improperly low lending rates, the Associated Press reported. Interest rates on mortgages for primary homes are much lower than the rates for secondary homes or investment properties, allowing the couple to potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars with the false statements, The New York Times reported. It’s a federal and state crime to knowingly make false statements on mortgage documents. The couple have long resided in a $1.5 million home in a gated community in the Dallas suburbs, which is in the district Angela, a state senator, represents. Ken said he lived there until recently. Besides the Dallas home, the couple—who have four children and five grandchildren—also own two rental properties in Austin, a rental property in College Station, Texas, and a fourth rental property in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, the AP reported. On mortgage documents, they listed the Dallas home and the two Austin properties as their primary residences. They also collected a homestead property tax break on both the Dallas home and one of the Austin properties - a home worth $1.1 million - that is only supposed to apply to the primary residence. They rent out the College Station home even though the mortgage says the property is for their exclusive use and cannot be rented out. The Broken Bow home—a luxury five-bedroom cabin—is available for rent on Airbnb even though the $1.2 million mortgage, stipulates that it can’t be rented out. Paxton’s office as AG is the primary agency tasked with investigating allegations of mortgage fraud, making him unlikely to face much legal trouble in Tejas.

The Wall Street symbol for New Paramount - the combination of old Paramount and SkyDance - is $PSKY - that’s right - “pesky.” Sounds right to me.

The ever-perspicacious Michael Cohen gets today’s last word: “This isn’t just about Epstein, or Maxwell, or Trump. It’s about whether justice still means anything in a country where silence can be engineered, stories can be erased, and history can be rewritten in real time. This is the moment we stop asking what happened and start asking who’s allowed to tell the story.”

Sisters Midnight (1996-2014) and Sally (1996-2010)

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