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Didn't Melania also get her parents Green Cards to live in the US during Trump 1.0 at the very time Trump was barking about "Chain Migration"? I mean, that's like 6 January 2021 apologist Rep Jim Jordan, who asked AG Bondi in her Hearing this week: “You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn’t give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress.”

What really makes Trump's 2025 job numbers look anemic is that in Biden's last year---2024---Non-Farm Job Growth was 2,230,000. Now that's 1232% better than Trump. If one uses Trump's 'drug price math' on it in reverse, Biden's job growth would have to fall 73,569% to equal Trump's. Also, given a day to think about it, a good many Wall Street analysts think the January 2026 number of 130,000 is absolute nonsense and will re revised down sharply at some later date, when it can be hidden behind something like a new Dow high or an invasion of Iran. Even if not pressured to do so, employees in the Trump Administration know that telling the truth and doing one's job gets you fired. It happened to the former chief at the BLS when she presided over a bad number. It happened to FBI agents who had investigated the insurrectionists of 6 January 2021, and it happened to DoJ prosecutors who presided over trials of the arrested 6 January terrorists. It evened happened in the intelligence community when two career agency employees were fired because they issued an intel report that contradicted Trump's world view, which is based on his willfully ignorant gut feel. One could thus opine the January +130,000 was just kind of a Potemkin number meant to mask the massive downward revisions for 2025. I guess in Trump world another name for that would be "alternative facts".

She was trying to keep her job, not do her job. So if the Dow hits 50,000, how many 9 year old girls can pedos rape per Ms Bondi? That's a vile calculus for someone who is supposed to be the Chief law enforcement official in the country. Maybe she's auditioning for a spot on Fox Business? Incidentally, almost every President has presided over a new high in the stock market. It's about as rare as a day when Trump doesn't rage Tweet and lie.

Goodness, you're such a warrior! Iran is such an immediate threat that you think it justifies the thousands of innocents who would be killed in any US attack, plus the shattered infrastructure that would burden millions of innocents? No doubt you'll be volunteering to be the first boots on the ground.

As Trump said, "Everybody knew", yet Trump ONLY called the Police Chief after Epstein was arrested. Trump's call is thus merely virtue signaling. If he really cared, he would have called the police the second he knew what Epstein was doing. That might have saved incredible pain for dozens, maybe more, young girls.

When you're one of the "everybody knew" what Epstein was doing (as Trump claimed when he congratulated the police Chief), you're no hero for keeping it to yourself until Epstein got arrested. If Trump was one of the "everybodys", how many young girls were abused from the time Trump "found out" until Trump saw Epstein was arrested and tried to virtue signal?

The non-farm payroll number for Jan26 came in at 130,000. Revisions to 2025: Original total for all of 2025: 584,000 Revised Number for 2025: 181,000 (Trump as President) Revised Number for 2024: 2,230,000 (Biden as President) Biden wins by a landslide, beating Trump's 1st year by 1232%. Total non-Farm Payroll Growth in 4 years of Biden: ~9,000,000 Avg per month: 187,500 AG Bondi, in her House Hearing yesterday, actually asked why is everyone so concerned about the Epstein Files when the Dow is over 50,000. Oh, new Dow records are nothing so rare. Most Presidents have presided over one. The last to fail to do so was Jimmy Carter 1976-1980.

Tariff rates based on the tone of voice? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's from the writings of David Ricardo. Trump is becoming more and more skilled at shooting himself in the foot. He's become a regular marksman in that regard. It's going to be tough for the Supreme Court to ignore that...rates based on tone of voice.

The Trump Administration is wont to remind us constantly of any crime committed by undocumented migrants. Not so surprisingly, they are silent when it comes to the crimes committed by those pardoned by President Trump for their assault on the US Capitol, beating police, smashing doors and windows, defecating on the Capitol floor and smearing it on the walls, and searching for the Vice President in order to hang him. "We love you all very much", said Trump when he finally addressed the assault hours after it began and after he spent 187 minutes watching it live on TV, even hearing the chants of "Hang Mike Pence" (as all who watched also heard on TV). Here are the crimes committed by the insurrectionists after Trump pardoned them: sexual assault, child sexual assault, production and possession of child pornography, rape, conspiracy to commit murder of FBI agents, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, reckless homicide, driving under the influence causing death, illegal possession of firearms, domestic violence by strangulation, burglary, vandalism, grand theft, stalking, violation of protective orders, threatening public officials and drug trafficking Had Trump not pardoned them, the country would be a lot safer and many people---including innocent children---would have been spared the horrors of what these criminals wrought. Frankly, common sense would suggest that the kind of people who would do what the insurrectionists did on 6 January might also be the kind of people prone to commit other heinous crimes. Thus, Trump bears some responsibility for what these people have subsequently done. Here are the names of the criminals: David Daniel Andrew Kyle Grisby Theodore Middendorf Andrew Quentin Taake John D. Andries Joshua Lee Atwood Bryan Betancur Dominic Box Kyle Travis Colton Timothy Desjardins James Tate Grant Jarod Lee Hawks Joshua Dillon Haynes Emily Hernandez Colby Dillion Herrington Daryl Eugene Johnson Edward Kelley Kene Brian Lazo Jia Liu Martin Joseph Pastucci Donald Nathan Pelham Narayana Chandra Rheiner Alan Michael St. Onge Hatchet Speed Taylor Taranto Shane Jason Woods Miles Adkins Zachary Alam John Banuelos Brent John Holdridge Matthew Huttle Christopher Moynihan https://www.newsweek.com/list-of-pardoned-jan-6-rioters-who-have-faced-new-criminal-charges-11318677

I'm less discriminating. I prefer to stay away from drunks, smokers and MAGA. Otherwise, I couldn't care less if people are white, black, brown, red or yellow, gay or straight, male or female (admittedly I do prefer the sight of females), Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, Shinto, Daoist, atheist or agnostic. (Just don't try to proselytize.) I do prefer they speak in a measured voice, and it's nice when they are fresh smelling.

The guy who Tweeted: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” lost again. Somewhat ironically, that is the same guy---President Donald J Trump---who called his goobers to DC for 6 January 2021, rallied them with his usual hate speech on the National Mall, told them to march to the US Capitol where a simple pro forma certification of "the fairest election is history" (according to Trump's own cyber tsar charged with monitoring the election) was to take place, and then watched for 187 minutes while his goobers beat 140 cops, smashed doors and windows, defecated on the floor of the Capitol and hunted for the Vice President in order to hang him (as they chanted, and which could easily be heard on live international TV coverage, including that watched for 187 minutes by Trump). Trump was the sole authority who could have called out the National Guard to address the heinous attack (contrary to his bald face lie that the Speaker could do that), but for 187 minutes he sat and watched. When he finally spoke, it was to tell the terrorists, "We love you all very much". So reminding serving military personnel of their duty to ignore illegal orders is “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” in Trump world, but fomented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying democracy gets the pawns "love" and the ringleader avoiding any prosecution. Maybe, with this latest loss for Trump et al, the universe is righting itself again.

Yes, Trump needs a distraction from the Epstein Files. What better way than to use all those "suckers and losers". That's what they're for, right? Iran is no immediate threat whatsoever to anyone right now. Also, there was a perfectly effective nuclear deal that Trump quashed...because Obama lives rent free in the Mar-a-Lago of Trump's demented and addled brain.

According to Rep Thomas Massie (R), Trump's name appears more than 1,000,000 times in the Epstein Files. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi probably ran out of black Magic Markers crossing out Trump's name, which is why the release has taken, so far, two months more than the legal deadline set by Congress. Other revelations are that victims were as young a 9 years old. So a woman who helped traffic and procure girls for her boss, who took them as young as age 9, is angling for clemency, and Trump has stated on several occasions he is considering a pardon. Difficult to understand what constitutes a non-pardonable offense in Trump world. It isn't beating and bear spraying 140 police. It isn't searching for the Vice President to hang him. It isn't running 400 tonnes of cocaine into the US. It isn't laundering money for Hamas. It may not be procuring 9 years olds for Epstein and his clients.

Trumpian MAGAmath is rather tricky. Trump had Peter Navarro go on with Maria Bartiromo and spin the upcoming job numbers. It was math as only a MAGA could do. You don't need a calculator or an abacus, but a Ouija Board. Navarro said we have to lower our expectations, because we're not getting 2 million illegals a month entering the US. I guess he made up that number. Then he claimed 200,000 of these migrants were the only ones getting jobs, while Americans went to the UE line. Now, since Trump has ICE sending folks home, we should only expect 50K new jobs per month, but those 50K are the equivalent of 200K under Biden. WTF? So sending migrants away slashes job openings?. Now one also has to remember than a good many of the migrant jobs were involved in fruit and produce production. I guess we're supposed to forget that the BLS monthly number is called Non-Farm Payroll. Also, the labor force might have undocumented workers, but they are not counted in the labor force, from which UE numbers arise. So when Biden's economy produced the longest string of UE<4% in 64 years, that was because legal Americans were employed. So I guess in a land where drug prices can fall 600-700%, getting rid of migrants who supposedly filled 200,000 jobs a month per BLS data is the same as 50K and rising unemployment. Oh, and Trump promised 15% GDP growth. I'm not sure why he didn't go for 150%. I mean, go big or go home, Donny. There's really not much difference between a silly lie and a batsh!t crazy lie.

Sen Elissa Slotkin is smart and tough. She served in Baghdad with the agency. She could spot Trump 60 IQ points if they sat together to take the test. Could be the VP candidate on the 2028 Dem ticket, and if she continues to shine in the next 2 years, the Number 1 on the Dem ticket. She's very center left, kind of a female Bill Clinton. I think Pirro should do a Bongino and go back to being an angry drunk Talking Head on Fox. That's about what her peak potential is. We're seeing across the board...from Hegseth to Pirro---that time as a Fox "personality" is a definite negative for adult work.

(The halftime show, not the game itself. A perpetually hated team---Patriots, owing to their success---and a small market team like Seattle are not the draws of, say Dallas and Miami.) Of course even if it's number 2, that's not bad. Heck, Trump came in second in 2020. Of course, that still doesn't satisfy him.

Did you get one of those cherry-picking jobs after Trump deported undocumented workers? The mention of the 3 (R) House members is but a small part of the post. You can search for the whining snowflakes on right wing fascist TV (Foxx, OAN, Newsmax, etc.) and listen to their lament. Or just check your messiah's rage Tweets. I'm sure the NFL misses old men like you and your conservatives who stopped watching because of Colin Kaepernick. Of course I doubt the makers of Viagra or Cialis worry about you not watching, because nothing can really raise the dead, not even Big Pharma. Enjoy your shuffleboard.

LOL! Something about "Most Watched Superbowl Halftime Show Ever" seems to escape your MAGAdotian intellect. If you need something that epitomizes "failure" look at the crowd who watched Trump's DC parade last June.

Sometimes one can become a bit too enamored of another culture. Case in point is Larry Ellison. He named his newest megayacht after the Shinto mother-goddess. The goddess' name is Izanami. Spelled backwards..... Anyway, Larry had to choose and new name and have the boat repainted.

It just keeps getting worse for Trump. It doesn't stop with Commerce Sec Lutnick. Newly released documents show a relationship between Epstein and Navy Secretary John Phelan. On at least two occasions, Phelan flew transatlantic on the Lolita Express with Epstein. On one of the flights was Epstein's "model scout" Jean-Luc Brunel, a man convicted of rape who was found dead in 2022 in his jail cell in France, coincidentally reportedly dying by suicide. Phelan was a businessman and art collector with no navy experience and no military service, whom Trump appointed as Navy Secretary. When he was appointed, and it became known that Phelan was a prominent "art collector", journalists asked some in the art world about his tastes. An exec at Sothebys described Phelan's taste as "a celebration of the sexual side of life". The artworld publication Artnet published a series of photos of pieces Phelan has displayed in his homes, though the photos cannot be shown in polite company, nor on network TV. It was also reported that on screens in his NYC home, Phelan runs a video piece with 50 years of Playboy centerfolds. Phelan is also a major donor to the Republican Party. He held a fund raiser for Trump in August 2024 at Phelan's Aspen mansion. That residence is famous because---in an interview with artnewspaper.com---Phelan's wife noted that the Aspen home has a totally mirrored floor. She commented, "It's amazing to see people's reactions at parties when they realize what you can see in the floor....naughty and nice!" The "best people" indeed! In an odd bit of irony, when Trump flew out to Aspen to attend the fundraiser, he used the airplane that was once the Lolita Express, though this was after Epstein's death.

You seem incapable of learning, as the answer has been shown to you before. You also seem incapable of understanding professionalism. The Epstein saga was an ongoing matter. Biden's DoJ behaved in a manner professional law enforcement is bound to behave: not doing anything that might influence an ongoing investigation nor ongoing litigation. Perhaps you think Jeffrey Epstein was the sole pedo in the entire sordid matter? Perhaps you think no one---from Lutnick to Navy Secretary John Phelan---had any clue what really went on in the Lolita Express or on Epstein Island or at his New Mexico ranch? Well, not everyone thinks that way. From the initial investigation through Maxwell's trial and sentencing is not the complete picture. All the Epstein material had to be reviewed to see if other people should be charged. Releasing those docs would have jeopardize any case to be brought. It was only under Trump 2.0 that Trump himself announced we should all move on from Epstein, which prompted the bipartisan effort to get the files released.

Of course the snowflakes of MAGAstan have been triggered. It's hilarious. Such crybabies, having learned well from their cult leader. On all MAGA-media networks, the whiners have decried the performance with such silly comments as, "The Superbowl Halftime Show is supposed to unite America, not divide it!" LOL! Is that requirement an Amendment to the US Constitution? Is it in Trump's autographed Bible? So far three Republican House members (Andy Ogles, Randy Fine & Mark Alford) have called for an official Congressional inquiry into the halftime show, as if that is the more important issue facing the United States today. That is some serious blizzardry of snowflakium. Rational people think the show, like all musical performances, is about "entertainment". It seems the NFL and Bad Bunny did just that, as 130,000,000 people watched it live, and so far 61,000,000 have watched the Official NFL video on YouTube. Trump wishes he had those kind of RATINGS. The NFL is under no obligation to unite America. Many people would think uniting America might be the job of....oh....the President, if anyone. Trump, with his use of racist tropes, constant rage Tweeting about everything from Late Night Talk Show Hosts to Olympic athletes is hardly a way to unite. Calling elected officials "low IQ", especially if they are Black women, is hardly a way to unite. Dis-inviting Democratic Governors to the traditional White House meeting when the National Governors Conference comes yearly to DC is hardly a way to unite. Continually calling essentially half of the country "radical leftists" is hardly a way to unite. "Many people are saying" the US hasn't been this divided since 1860. The NFL, on the other hand, had a much better year than Trump. Maybe the last game wasn't so great, but the man who stood up to Trump in ways weenies like Bezos, Cook and Zuckerberg are incapable---NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell---delivered a show that brought smiles and joy to tens of millions of Americans. If MAGAs don't like football anymore, they can have their UFC or "Professional" Wrestling. Heck, the goal of UFC is to cause brain damage in one's opponent, perhaps leading to the same level of dementia from which Trump now suffers, while Pro wrestling is just silly fantasy that appeals to the actual low IQ demographic.

The Administration sure does look guilty. Maxwell spoke freely for 9 hours over two days with Todd Blanche, and she subsequently got moved to a country club prison. Now, she shutters up, unless she gets clemency. Rep Jamie Raskin showed another side to the Trump Administration's attempts to delay delay delay and hide hide hide. Finally allowed to see a few unredacted documents, or mostly unredacted, here was his comment: "The DOJ is giving Members of Congress just four computers in a satellite office to read the unredacted Epstein File of more than 3 million documents,” Raskin wrote on X. “Working 40 hours a week on nothing else but this, it would take more than seven years for the 217 Members who signed the House discharge petition to read just the documents they’ve decided to release (and there are 3 million still being withheld.)" “This is what a cover up looks like.” (Available on X, under Rep Jamie Raskin) It seems it also takes the DoJ time to go through the remaining 3 million documents just to make sure nothing negative about Trump emerges. The law passed by Congress ordered the DoJ to release ALL of the documents by 19 December 2025. Since they've published names of victims as well as nude photos---unredacted---their excuse that they are taking time so that victims are not harmed is pure BS. They've missed the legal deadline by almost two months. They obviously couldn't care less about victims, just the people who should be exposed, but have escaped it so far.. Enough has already come out, and is unclassified, to know Epstein did not work alone and was a clandestine asset of a foreign intel service. Until now, nobody had any clue where his wealth came from. Now it is becoming clearer. Epstein was a creation. He was a pedo whose life and aura was created to lure prominent individuals who also have a penchant for underage girls, so that compromising material could be obtained and then used against the pedos to blackmail them into certain actions. Politicians could be useful, major businessmen could be useful, people with significant social influence could be useful, and the intel service running Epstein had a Machiavellian view of things. The end (compromising material) justified the means (abusing underage girls). It will eventually come out.

And I bet you actually believe Trump didn't schtupp Stormy. I know there's cognitive dissonance in MAGAstan over that one, because at the time they did the deed, Stormy was looking pretty good, so MAGAs probably like to think their messiah got some good stuff, but at the same time they have to believe his lie that he didn't do it. Of course, since Stormy described Trump's junk in sordid detail "Not quite freakishly small, but well below average" and looking like a little mushroon, certainly Melania, Marla Maples, and possibly Ivanka know Stormy is telling the truth.

I guess you missed it. They agreed to testify if it is in an open Hearing. You know, where nobody can spin what is out in the open. Has Trump offered to testify under oath?