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Epstein Files

Bondi in February:

FOX News host John Roberts asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about President Trump's promise to release all government files on the assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, along with the Jeffrey Epstein "client list."

"Have you seen anything that you said oh, my gosh?" John Roberts asked.

"Not yet," Attorney General Bondi said. "It is sitting on my desk right now to review. That has been a directive by President Trump, and I am reviewing that. I'm reviewing the JFK files and the MLK files. That is all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all these agencies."

Bondi, now:

A review ordered by President Donald Trump-appointed leadership of the Justice Department and the FBI found no evidence that notorious deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein kept a "client list" of associates whom he blackmailed or conspired with to victimize dozens of women, according to a new memo reviewed by ABC News.

Care to wager whether or not a man also known as Agent Krasnov is on the purportedly nonexistent client list?

And don't forget who was president when Epstein died in prison.

Another Putin Executive “Retires”

Russia’s former transport minister has died from a gunshot wound just hours after Vladimir Putin sacked him.

The body of Roman Starovoit, the ex-minister, was found in his car in a Moscow suburb. He appeared to have killed himself, Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement.

Yes, he shot himself in the back of the head, four times, from 6 feet away. I guess that shoving him out of a 10th floor window wouldn't send the right message to other minions.

You can bet that the fuhrer of Mar-a-Lago is on the phone to Noem and Patel, saying: "Did you see what Putin had done? Why can't you do that for me?"

Über-Rich Nazi Wants His Own Party

Elon Musk said he’s carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing the America Party in response to the president’s sweeping tax cuts law.

He claims to be a centrist...

...but he's the clown who was throwing Nazi salutes and he poured money into Germany's neo-Nazi party. He claims "no donors", which means that this new party will be his toy. It'll be something for him to use to piss off Trump, up until the point where Trump has him denaturalized on trumped-up charges of visa fraud and nationalizes SpaceX on the grounds of national security.

It probably won't come to anything, as he has the attention span of a golden retriever.

Your Sunday Morning Hybrid Noise

A P2V-7 Neptune:

When I was a kid, some adult told me about the flight of the Truculent Turtle andtold me that he was on the crew. Over a decade later, I looked it up in a large library and read the original coverage of the flight. Of course, he wasn't on it.

Mike Johnson to Texas Flood Victims: Fuck You, Yer On Yer Own

That's pretty much his message, but he gussied it up with the usual blather about thoughts and prayers.

In other words:

Patel Turns the FBI into a Trumpist Goon Squad

They're getting rid of agents whose only offense was having a friend on Trump's enemies list.

Remember, when you see an FBI agent, you're seeing a political operative with a gun, not a cop. You're seeing a representative of a rotten and politically corrupt agency that is just as evil as it was when Hoover was running things.

ICE is Now America's Secret Police

Something you should read and consider. The ICEstapo is operating on the principle of "arrest everybody."

Do you work for ICE? Fuck you, you goddamned Nazi pissants.

Fuck the New York Times. Now and Forever.

They printed an editorial carping about Trump's politicization of the FBI. (Free to read).

Trump didn't hide any of this. He made it clear all along that he was going to use the might of the Federal government, including the FBI and the DoJ, to persecute and exact retribution on his political enemies, real or imaginary. But all they could carp about during the election was "zOMG!!1! Biden's old!!!1!". And they were so, so mad that he wouldn't talk to them.

Anyone with a quarter of a working prefrontal cortex could have seen this coming. Rosemary Kennedy could have seen this coming. But not the NYT, they were willfully blind. The paper's management and owners are prime example of the saying that the only difference between an elitist and a white supremacist is money. They were fine with Trump's grifting and passing tax custs and everything else as long as it didn't imact them. But now they're seeing their gardeners and maids and contractos being hauled away and they're now into hand-wring about that Trump is doing and they are so worried.

Well, fuck them. Fuck them up their asses with the Pulitzer Prizes in their display case. Do that daily and until the Universe ends.

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