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  • law enforcement tailed his car and tracked his cellphone, steps usually reserved for serious threats.

    Over that picture of him standing next to some seashells arranged to say 86 47, that he didn’t even arrange.

    Nobody should be putting Comey (or anyone) on a pedestal for eventually not doing Trump’s song and dance. But this should be a wakeup call to anyone that still believes they won’t find a reason to go patriot act on your ass if you’re a God-fearing Republican. That giant Palantir database they’re building that we suddenly have stopped hearing anything about comes to mind.

    So as the country is crumbling around us, they wasted government resources on tailing Mr. Milquetoast, knowing full well he was not an actual threat. They then fired his daughter who was prosecutor on the Maxwell case, and now it’s looking very likely, they’re going to give Maxwell a pardon in exchange for some kind of testimony she can provide proclaiming Trump’s innocence.

    86 47 seashells picture on Instagram = threat to national security

    International child sex trafficking co-conspiritor, who also is being protected from being sued in civil court due to a release Epstein’s lawyers had his victims sign = possibly free to walk as if nothing ever happened. Signaling to corrupt and powerful elites all over the world, business as usual, the U.S. is not even pretending to care about justice anymore, and we can now basically get away with anything. Human rights violations, war crimes, doesn’t matter no need to pretend or even try to cover it up.


  • Trump’s order instructs agencies to prioritize funding to mental health and drug courts — and to not fund “harm reduction” programs that the administrations said facilitate illegal drug use.

    Prioritize funding for mental health by not funding one of the few policy strategies that has shown any benefit to society in the last 40+ years of policy making.

    I love when surviving reality under the GOP becomes an unsolvable riddle. It’s like the other one they just gave us. “We’re not making any cuts to Medicaid, but you can’t have healthcare, unless you can prove you’re working. Also, the economy is fucked, we’re automating everything, and there are no jobs. Good luck!”



  • A former aide to Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that the president is scheming up a “hidden pardon” deal with Maxwell, which would have her say he participated in no wrongdoing with Epstein, the sex offender who died in prison in 2019 amid new charges of sex trafficking.

    Dave Aronberg, Bondi’s drug czar when she was Florida’s attorney general, told CNN Thursday that there could be in the works “a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell that she would get some immunity now and maybe a hidden pardon in the future: some sort of implication that she would be pardoned in the future if she comes out and says that the president was… not involved in any criminal activity.”

    I’m no detective or former drug Czar for Pam Bondi, but I too suspect that they are probably going to do the most obvious and blatantly corrupt thing they could possibly do.

    Aronberg also voiced suspicions of Blanche conducting the interview with Maxwell, given his close history with Trump as his former attorney.

    Probably me next week when he’s gotten away with it once again, and we’re just supposed to continue pretending this is all normal:







  • Good thing these networks profits don’t rely on public opinion or anything. It would be a shame if people made a point to go out of their way to shit on “skydance” (which does kinda sound like a name a simpleton came up with to explain changes in the weather) at every opportunity.

    Between dissent that doesn’t rely on corporate sponsorship and people not bothering to watch CBS anymore anyway (bc why would you? I don’t even mean that as joke. Literally what is left at CBS?) it could make some impact. I guess we’ll see.

    Getting people to boycott all of the things formerly owned by paramount is tougher bc they own so much shit, but they’ve also been going downhill for a while.