Pamela raised the same right hand when she took an oath to become Attorney General & swore to Congress that she would be impartial & independent from the Executive. She was a despicable liar then, just as she is now. She spends her time on her hands & knees scrubbing up the President’s messes & doing his bidding. She has brought shame on the integrity & purpose of the DOJ. She needs to be impeached for lying to Congress & the American people & for violating her oath of office. She refuses to answer questions in good faith, spews off-topic insults & talking points & basically presents as a screaming banshee. Someone please make her go away.
The Trump regime is deporting 5 year old children. The Trump regime is deporting people who wrote a bad check 14 years ago. But Trump, the GOP and the MAGA minions are telling the American people that not one rich white man should be prosecuted for raping hundreds of women and children as young as 9. You can't claim to believe in family values or law and order if have no humanity.
I am struck by the idea of performance and an ah ha moment. Trump made many girls perform sexually for him. Now, he is demanding Pam perform for him in a different capacity, but still demanding a woman to submit to him. It is disgusting!
Bondi has fallen into a hole of her own making. Whatever did she think was Trump’s reward for her lies and ignorance of the Law? She deserves every piece of vitriol and Justice she will face as her reckoning comes forth. She is not a decent attorney or is she a decent human being. Noem better Botox up because they don’t do Botox or Dysport in prison and that’s exactly where she’s headed, hot lips shouting lies and illegalities the entire way. The more WE call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell our MOCS to impeach, the more power we gain. This is not a time to sit but the sidelines wishing and hoping. This IS a Call to Action.
Bondi is a vile, disgusting creature and I think her behaviour yesterday sickened many more people and has made people wanting those files released more than before because obviously the Trump Regime is protecting pedophiles. I'm also answering questions I don't want to answer with 'The Dow is now over 50'000" lol
Epstein had his hand in everything. He could not have possibly done all of it alone. Maxwell was the facilitator for recruiting girls and young women. The unnamed co- conspirators helped with financial fraud, connections to foreign political leaders, and whatever else criminals do to gain access, power, and money.
Yes. The criminal network reaches into high positions in financial, social, political, business, military and judicial institututions worldwide. The industrial scale sexualised violence against children and the vulnerable is, shocking and heinous though it is for many, the tip of a decades deep dirty iceberg. Melt it down effectively and governments (plural) will fall. Not unrelated to this network, central to it are the global fossil fuel industries. Hence Maga Trump just trashing a half century of hardwon but existential planet and life saving legal environmental protections.
We will all witness physical icebergs melt before the Maxwell-Epstein one.
So, thanks to the Republicans, what we’re currently witnessing in our country right now - a democracy that’s presumably based on the Constitution and the rule of law - is a monstrous pathetic madman sitting in the WH who is now legally defined as a sexual predator and a convicted felon.
For the past year, he has essentially bypassed congressional oversight and ruled by fiat, ie executive orders. In simpler terms, he simple does whatever the hell he wants, whenever he wants to do it!
He has also surrounded himself with a gang of bootlicking criminals and thugs who have also trampled all over the rule of law and the constitution by ignoring and dishonoring their oaths to protect and uphold the law.
And now we’re witnessing in real time his corrupt DOJ and his AG make a laughingstock of any notion of accountability. They are literally thumbing their noses at us. Obviously Bondi has devoted full fealty to the sexual predator-in-chief and made a mockery of the investigation process which was supposed to hold all those involved in the Epstein scandal fully accountable. Including the POTUS.
And the SCOTUS has clearly shown us where they stand.
So. With a convicted felon/sexual predator in the WH, why would we, how can we expect anything other than what we witnessed yesterday? On the other hand, the vast majority of Americans want ALL the files released, regardless of their political position, their wealth, their “social status” of those who are in the files.
This is - bar none - the largest, most blatant and outrageous criminal coverup in the history of our country! It’s simply UNACCEPTABLE.
So, we must keep the pressure on until the truth, the whole truth, and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH is exposed. And everyone is held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE to the fullest extent of the law.
Otherwise, we are no longer a democracy. We are an authoritarian state run by oligarchs.
Mike, "practicing Catholic" is redundant. If you're not following Jesus, you're not a real Catholic--just a baptized heathen. The same applies to the protestants. I love your podcast and am an annual subscriber. So far, I have ony watched you and Joe, b/c I love Joe!! (And you too, of course.) I hope somebody figures out that you can't pardon someone unless they've been convicted of a crime. There's no such thing as a "future pardon" aka get out of jail free card. As such, any Trump blanket pardons should be treated as the absolute nonsense they are and disregarded. Then, all these traitors should be charged with bribery, domestic terrorism, obstruction of justice, perjury and treason. Trump and his family should be prosecuted under the RICO statute and every last thing they have should be taken, sold and put in the US treasury.
Signed: Mike S.--a 78 year-old Catholic in California who sometimes uses bad language when I see what's going on.
I think what I appreciate the most about seeing you in action is your humanity.
You represent all of us on a big stage with heart and soul engaged and fully prepared to fight for right.
Thank you for standing up and putting yourself into uncomfortable situations to show that love and positive actions can and should still happen and do make a difference. ❤️🤍💙
We need heroes. You are one of them for our times.
We have others too but you are definitely one of them. Thank you. 🙏
(Sorry, hit send too soon.) To finish my thought. Exposure of everyone who was in and around Epstein’s orbit is critical. Get the names out and let public pressure start. As for the impeachments, ASAP isn’t soon enough. But for the federal prosecutions, timing matters. No point trying until Trump is out of office so he can’t issue pardons. However, if there is a way to prosecute at the state level, bring it on!
Mike, the next time one of these self-satisfied MAGA Hat Jagoffs asks you who you want prosecuted, ask them "Who do you think should NOT be prosecuted?" You can answer or not with who you think *should* be, but if they're suggesting that there are people who shouldn't be prosecuted, who should be excused, make them name them. Because I wanna know who they think should be held above the law. Because fuck that.
“As a practicing Catholic, I believe in forgiveness. I want repentance. I want them to recognize the damage they’ve done—to this country, to our institutions, to people’s mental health, to the economy, to ICE, and especially to the victims who’ve been caught in the blast radius of this entire Epstein nightmare.”
But none of that is what they want. I’ve been writing about Trump ever since he descended down the golden escalator. What Trump and his supporters want his power, money, religious Dominion, and revenge on every uppity person of color, on uppity women, on uppity gay people, on people who reject conservative religious belief and its never ending quest for power, money, Dominion, and revenge.
And Trump personifies that and promises to give it to them, because he wants the same thing. Except religion of course. As Seneca observed, maybe: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
He left out highly profitable, as well.
I wrote this in my essay on the insurrection. Five years later, and it still seems to be true:
“Then there is this, an alternative thought, and the one that I lean towards. It’s not that his supporters couldn’t see who he is. They could see him very clearly, and unfortunately for the rest of us, LIKED what they could see. I made the same observation about Franco in Spain, a stupid little man with the charisma and imagination of a rutabaga. 200,000 dead Spaniards did not detract much from his support. And the trains in Spain mainly, plainly ran on time.
As a Catholic acquaintance of mine wrote, the religious reich uses the unborn as a shield to protect themselves from any criticism or blowback for everything else they want to do. He wrote: “Because instead of defending the unborn, they have devoted their time and energy to defending every lie, cruelty, sadistic act, racist remark, misogynist bullying, sexual assault, kidnapping, call for violence, and criminal act he has committed. They voted for him this time, not because those things were bugs, but because they were features. If they had really only supported the prolife stuff and not all the other filth. they would have spoken against the other filth. They never did. They either remained silent or, as was far more often the case, they passionately supported it.”
Not included in this paragraph was his observation that abortion rises under republican presidents, as it has under Trump, and funding for their particular Personal Devil, Planned Parenthood, has increased to record levels under his administration. So the pro-life issue is as fake as the most pro-life president ever, not that that is surprise. It always has been. That has been clear to me for over 50 years, ever since I first got involved in the abortion fight in Hawaii. It’s a cynical movement, using sincere people’s sincere concerns about abortion to accrue power and money.
That was quite an indictment, coming from a staunch Catholic and a very religious man. And very telling about the hypocrisy of the Religious Right, the Republican Party, and the use of abortion to incite ordinary people to vote against not just their own interests, but against decency, compassion, responsibility, and integrity. Thus we have the rampant belief among Republicans that the election was illegitimate and was stolen from Trump. It is sheer projection, of course. It’s what they would do if they could, and what Trump clearly tried to do.
Damn right Mike! Every name in those files WILL come out. All will be exposed. It probably won’t happen until we have a professional AG with a Democratic President in office. But, it will happen. And you know what? Every one of those rich perverted bastards have to go down. And make no mistake, there have been people killed due to this sick fiasco. That is why there is so much resistance from the Epstein Class. They fear true justice! Well, they should have worried about that when they doing their crimes. The lying will not stop from them. Mike, they have no other option. They did it!!!
I watched her behavior with shock and awe that anyone would address Congress in such a desperately sad way. I agree that the fractures take place in these actions and behaviors. It is obvious. The nation is bruised and bleeding and they can't even "read the room." Thank you for standing up for America. The brutality of human trafficking is a sick aberrant undercurrent and I do hope that every person associated with Epstein is held to account regardless of their power or status. I will keep holding the peace and actively objecting to this insanity. I hope Republicans will stand up for the Constitution and the healing of this country at some point. I have never been so proud to be a Democrat.
Pamela raised the same right hand when she took an oath to become Attorney General & swore to Congress that she would be impartial & independent from the Executive. She was a despicable liar then, just as she is now. She spends her time on her hands & knees scrubbing up the President’s messes & doing his bidding. She has brought shame on the integrity & purpose of the DOJ. She needs to be impeached for lying to Congress & the American people & for violating her oath of office. She refuses to answer questions in good faith, spews off-topic insults & talking points & basically presents as a screaming banshee. Someone please make her go away.
I live with anticipation.
The Trump regime is deporting 5 year old children. The Trump regime is deporting people who wrote a bad check 14 years ago. But Trump, the GOP and the MAGA minions are telling the American people that not one rich white man should be prosecuted for raping hundreds of women and children as young as 9. You can't claim to believe in family values or law and order if have no humanity.
I am struck by the idea of performance and an ah ha moment. Trump made many girls perform sexually for him. Now, he is demanding Pam perform for him in a different capacity, but still demanding a woman to submit to him. It is disgusting!
I wonder when Bondi will tumble to this fact? Sexual assault comes in many forms.
Bondi has fallen into a hole of her own making. Whatever did she think was Trump’s reward for her lies and ignorance of the Law? She deserves every piece of vitriol and Justice she will face as her reckoning comes forth. She is not a decent attorney or is she a decent human being. Noem better Botox up because they don’t do Botox or Dysport in prison and that’s exactly where she’s headed, hot lips shouting lies and illegalities the entire way. The more WE call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell our MOCS to impeach, the more power we gain. This is not a time to sit but the sidelines wishing and hoping. This IS a Call to Action.
People with millions and billions have unchecked power. They apparently can do anything they want with no accountability. Even abuse children.
Bondi is a vile, disgusting creature and I think her behaviour yesterday sickened many more people and has made people wanting those files released more than before because obviously the Trump Regime is protecting pedophiles. I'm also answering questions I don't want to answer with 'The Dow is now over 50'000" lol
Epstein had his hand in everything. He could not have possibly done all of it alone. Maxwell was the facilitator for recruiting girls and young women. The unnamed co- conspirators helped with financial fraud, connections to foreign political leaders, and whatever else criminals do to gain access, power, and money.
Yes. The criminal network reaches into high positions in financial, social, political, business, military and judicial institututions worldwide. The industrial scale sexualised violence against children and the vulnerable is, shocking and heinous though it is for many, the tip of a decades deep dirty iceberg. Melt it down effectively and governments (plural) will fall. Not unrelated to this network, central to it are the global fossil fuel industries. Hence Maga Trump just trashing a half century of hardwon but existential planet and life saving legal environmental protections.
We will all witness physical icebergs melt before the Maxwell-Epstein one.
So, thanks to the Republicans, what we’re currently witnessing in our country right now - a democracy that’s presumably based on the Constitution and the rule of law - is a monstrous pathetic madman sitting in the WH who is now legally defined as a sexual predator and a convicted felon.
For the past year, he has essentially bypassed congressional oversight and ruled by fiat, ie executive orders. In simpler terms, he simple does whatever the hell he wants, whenever he wants to do it!
He has also surrounded himself with a gang of bootlicking criminals and thugs who have also trampled all over the rule of law and the constitution by ignoring and dishonoring their oaths to protect and uphold the law.
And now we’re witnessing in real time his corrupt DOJ and his AG make a laughingstock of any notion of accountability. They are literally thumbing their noses at us. Obviously Bondi has devoted full fealty to the sexual predator-in-chief and made a mockery of the investigation process which was supposed to hold all those involved in the Epstein scandal fully accountable. Including the POTUS.
And the SCOTUS has clearly shown us where they stand.
So. With a convicted felon/sexual predator in the WH, why would we, how can we expect anything other than what we witnessed yesterday? On the other hand, the vast majority of Americans want ALL the files released, regardless of their political position, their wealth, their “social status” of those who are in the files.
This is - bar none - the largest, most blatant and outrageous criminal coverup in the history of our country! It’s simply UNACCEPTABLE.
So, we must keep the pressure on until the truth, the whole truth, and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH is exposed. And everyone is held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE to the fullest extent of the law.
Otherwise, we are no longer a democracy. We are an authoritarian state run by oligarchs.
Mike, "practicing Catholic" is redundant. If you're not following Jesus, you're not a real Catholic--just a baptized heathen. The same applies to the protestants. I love your podcast and am an annual subscriber. So far, I have ony watched you and Joe, b/c I love Joe!! (And you too, of course.) I hope somebody figures out that you can't pardon someone unless they've been convicted of a crime. There's no such thing as a "future pardon" aka get out of jail free card. As such, any Trump blanket pardons should be treated as the absolute nonsense they are and disregarded. Then, all these traitors should be charged with bribery, domestic terrorism, obstruction of justice, perjury and treason. Trump and his family should be prosecuted under the RICO statute and every last thing they have should be taken, sold and put in the US treasury.
Signed: Mike S.--a 78 year-old Catholic in California who sometimes uses bad language when I see what's going on.
I think what I appreciate the most about seeing you in action is your humanity.
You represent all of us on a big stage with heart and soul engaged and fully prepared to fight for right.
Thank you for standing up and putting yourself into uncomfortable situations to show that love and positive actions can and should still happen and do make a difference. ❤️🤍💙
We need heroes. You are one of them for our times.
We have others too but you are definitely one of them. Thank you. 🙏
(Sorry, hit send too soon.) To finish my thought. Exposure of everyone who was in and around Epstein’s orbit is critical. Get the names out and let public pressure start. As for the impeachments, ASAP isn’t soon enough. But for the federal prosecutions, timing matters. No point trying until Trump is out of office so he can’t issue pardons. However, if there is a way to prosecute at the state level, bring it on!
Mike, the next time one of these self-satisfied MAGA Hat Jagoffs asks you who you want prosecuted, ask them "Who do you think should NOT be prosecuted?" You can answer or not with who you think *should* be, but if they're suggesting that there are people who shouldn't be prosecuted, who should be excused, make them name them. Because I wanna know who they think should be held above the law. Because fuck that.
MIke, you wrote….
“As a practicing Catholic, I believe in forgiveness. I want repentance. I want them to recognize the damage they’ve done—to this country, to our institutions, to people’s mental health, to the economy, to ICE, and especially to the victims who’ve been caught in the blast radius of this entire Epstein nightmare.”
But none of that is what they want. I’ve been writing about Trump ever since he descended down the golden escalator. What Trump and his supporters want his power, money, religious Dominion, and revenge on every uppity person of color, on uppity women, on uppity gay people, on people who reject conservative religious belief and its never ending quest for power, money, Dominion, and revenge.
And Trump personifies that and promises to give it to them, because he wants the same thing. Except religion of course. As Seneca observed, maybe: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
He left out highly profitable, as well.
I wrote this in my essay on the insurrection. Five years later, and it still seems to be true:
“Then there is this, an alternative thought, and the one that I lean towards. It’s not that his supporters couldn’t see who he is. They could see him very clearly, and unfortunately for the rest of us, LIKED what they could see. I made the same observation about Franco in Spain, a stupid little man with the charisma and imagination of a rutabaga. 200,000 dead Spaniards did not detract much from his support. And the trains in Spain mainly, plainly ran on time.
As a Catholic acquaintance of mine wrote, the religious reich uses the unborn as a shield to protect themselves from any criticism or blowback for everything else they want to do. He wrote: “Because instead of defending the unborn, they have devoted their time and energy to defending every lie, cruelty, sadistic act, racist remark, misogynist bullying, sexual assault, kidnapping, call for violence, and criminal act he has committed. They voted for him this time, not because those things were bugs, but because they were features. If they had really only supported the prolife stuff and not all the other filth. they would have spoken against the other filth. They never did. They either remained silent or, as was far more often the case, they passionately supported it.”
Not included in this paragraph was his observation that abortion rises under republican presidents, as it has under Trump, and funding for their particular Personal Devil, Planned Parenthood, has increased to record levels under his administration. So the pro-life issue is as fake as the most pro-life president ever, not that that is surprise. It always has been. That has been clear to me for over 50 years, ever since I first got involved in the abortion fight in Hawaii. It’s a cynical movement, using sincere people’s sincere concerns about abortion to accrue power and money.
That was quite an indictment, coming from a staunch Catholic and a very religious man. And very telling about the hypocrisy of the Religious Right, the Republican Party, and the use of abortion to incite ordinary people to vote against not just their own interests, but against decency, compassion, responsibility, and integrity. Thus we have the rampant belief among Republicans that the election was illegitimate and was stolen from Trump. It is sheer projection, of course. It’s what they would do if they could, and what Trump clearly tried to do.
Yes, and the insurrection continues.
Damn right Mike! Every name in those files WILL come out. All will be exposed. It probably won’t happen until we have a professional AG with a Democratic President in office. But, it will happen. And you know what? Every one of those rich perverted bastards have to go down. And make no mistake, there have been people killed due to this sick fiasco. That is why there is so much resistance from the Epstein Class. They fear true justice! Well, they should have worried about that when they doing their crimes. The lying will not stop from them. Mike, they have no other option. They did it!!!
Great job 👏 thank you for sharing your story. A reckoning is needed!!
I watched her behavior with shock and awe that anyone would address Congress in such a desperately sad way. I agree that the fractures take place in these actions and behaviors. It is obvious. The nation is bruised and bleeding and they can't even "read the room." Thank you for standing up for America. The brutality of human trafficking is a sick aberrant undercurrent and I do hope that every person associated with Epstein is held to account regardless of their power or status. I will keep holding the peace and actively objecting to this insanity. I hope Republicans will stand up for the Constitution and the healing of this country at some point. I have never been so proud to be a Democrat.