Going to share this goodness above since I was late to the party.
I want to share a new discovery this morning. I switch up new reads on Substack. Many I just skim a bit here and there. I particularly liked this post by The Resistance Report and pondering what this moment means now January (next CR vote).
All are great and encouraging at long last!!! The rump needs to be impeached. Thankfully these women stood up and finally did the right thing! Hopefully others will follow. How could they not, unless their names are in the files?
The most encouraging thing I've read all week is that if Trump is removed for treason and the case can certainly made he's guilty of, it's not just he, but his entire horrid administration that gets the boot. Oh happy day! Could someone please help Jack Smith build the case and let's get all of them out? Doesn't do much good to impeach Trump and get left with Vance who's just as evil but smarter and not demented.
I love everything about Newsom being in Brazil instead of Donny. It’s great to have representation by a sane, rational man, and for the world to see it.
Not just sane and rational, but also pretty invested helping with climate change, science, remediation etc. California's always led the way with getting lead out of gasoline, solar roof tops (Schwarzenegger is to thank for that), low lead and low flow faucet's and toilets (Tump's worst nightmare) etc. You can't even buy a full flow faucet from an out of state website, it tells you the item cannot be shipped to your state! All of Trump's crazy shit about water to LA was so insane and not the least bit helpful to the fires, but no one in the legacy media called him out on it.
Scott -- Consider also using an upside-down bowl of mashed potatoes as a reminder of what Mary Trump said was dumped on Donald's head when he was young and misbehaving badly at the dinner table. She said that episode humiliated him when everyone at the table started laughing at him. I'm all for fresh humiliation now!
The question is why wealth and social connection so consistently insulate men from even having to answer basic questions about what they knew and when they knew it.
The question is how many Virginia Giuffres have to die before we decide that protecting reputations is less important than protecting young people.
I like Joyce Vances question/statement (she has said it several times) why is someone supposedly 'not mentioned' in The Epstein files fighting so hard to prevent their release? If he is not mentioned wouldn't they exonerate him?
I have read the book and it just about broke my heart. Why do men hate women so much? I feel in order for any man to do the things they did had to hate the victims!!
While it’s true we don’t have the votes to impeach and remove the pedophile in chief, the exercise would be worth it so we would have all those republicans on record who vote to protect him yet again. The next 3 elections should be solely focused on how the MAGA regime is made up of sexual predators and other criminals and if the person running for office wasn’t a participant, they were responsible for refusing to hold them accountable for their crimes. Remind the MAGA voters in every election that a vote for ANY republican is a vote to have your children sexually abused by the pedophiles they protect.
I disagree. If Trump beat an impeachment and removal process for a third time, his vindictiveness against his accusers would ratchet up to immediate firing squad level.
It seems Gavin Newsom may be taking the idea of a "shadow cabinet" seriously. As for "temporary," - well, yes. As for "years, not decades" - it's already been at least one decade since Trump entered politics and, if he survives this second term, a decade and a half that he will have occupied some degree of space in our heads, no matter how much or how effectively we're able to shut him out. I have long wanted there to be some sort of class action lawsuit in which millions of people sue him for the time we lost thinking about him and having to put up with his corruption, his criminality, and his cruelty - not to mention his incompetence. His presence in our lives is time we will never get back. I never paid any attention to him before 2015 (have not watched one episode of "The Apprentice" or "Celebrity Apprentice"), but during times when I was working in New York City, I'd notice his open-mouthed face blaring at me from some tabloid newspaper or other, and realize, "So, this is what my friends here have to put up with every single day. No wonder they hate him so much." That same toxicity has enveloped the country during this last decade - and it will take years to rid us of the stench, let alone the permission he has given people to act upon their lowest, base instincts and complete lack of civility, respect for the law, and regard for the Constitution.
I totally agree, Paul. Was just saying words along those lines to my partner the other day. We spent the entire decade of our 60s dealing with the awfulness of Traitor Dump and his MAGA minions in our faces every day. And actually, this goes back to my fifties when the traitor was dumping all over President Obama with his "birther" bs. Like you, I always thought the traitor was an idiot and never had any interest in watching his "reality" shows.
Yes, still if there is anything to be culled from this terrible person, it is that he has woke us up to each other!! "We the People' need to continue to speak up!! We need to protect and reinforce the Rights of our Constitution. Oh, and throw everyone in this horrible administration out!!! :-)
I like the idea of a class action suit filed by of millions of us against Trump and maybe include his regime for crimes against us; against humanity; for all the harm this degenerate has done to so many. As punitive punishment to drain his finances to take all the money he stole from us! It should include his whole criminal cabinet! Oh how I wish. I sure like that idea! Charges should include treason, murder, robbery, lying, brutality and pedophilia!
I love that idea, lets take all of his money I was going to say take his self respect but he doesn't have any of that. I have visions of somebody restraining him completely and beating him within an inch of life to show him what he really is!!
I've thought of that ever since the first time he disgraced this office, and I asked a friend, a retired corporate lawyer. His answer: "before you can form a class to bring a class action you have to have a legal claim, and Trump and his people are by and large protected by "sovereign immunity." You can't sue the sovereign for doing his job. That doctrine was vastly expanded, erroneously, by the Supreme Court in USA v Trump. So the answer is no. Sovereign immunity does not, however, apply if you break the law, which is why some of his minions are having trouble doing what he wants them to do: there's a point at which they are exposed to future prosecution if they follow his whims." The Epstein files quite certainly will show he broke the law.
OK, thanks Jessica but he breaks the law everyday. How is "the sovereign" doing his job? He commits treason. I have a hard time understanding this. I'm not saying you are wrong, just trying to follow. How would Epstein show he broke the law more than him bombing boats without evidence or lying to get National Guards into our cities and his abuse of immigrants? I'm sorry but do you get the difference? Again not arguing, just don't get it.
Grivalda was professional, assertive and absolutely right to call out Johnson. He was protecting Donnie and hopeful that the Epstein files would go away. Mace and Bobert have nothing to lose by signing the discharge petition. Neither of them will ever win re-election or election to a new role; they cooked their goose many times over and are finished as near as I can see. Why not go out guns blazing? That said, Mace was a victim herself so she is supportive of the issue.
Three thoughts, not at all in order of importance: 1) appreciate the rotating selection of Thanksgiving foods covering the Abuser-in-Chief’s face. No one wants to see his full awfulness. 2) Newsom 2028! I’m all in. 3) THANK YOU for continuing to center the VICTIMS in the coverage of Epstein and Maxwell’s horrific crimes and Trump’s involvement in their world. The devastating impact of these crimes on the lives of these girls and young women matter!! So many media just talk about “Epstein files” and “the island” and “his house” and “the plane” as though there are no victims. I have Virginia Guiffre’s book “Nobody’s Girl” and am commited to reading every word she wanted to get out into the world.
I don’t credit Mace and Boebert with much, but I am pleasantly surprised that they didn’t cave.
And Adelina gave a great speech but even better brought two victims with her and they received a standing ovation from the entire Congress. Including I assume a bunch of Republicans. That was a great thing.
Totally agree about Mace and Boebert. I have to admit that I hadn't been in favor Adelina speaking with Mike Johnson at her swearing in. But WOW! The woman can speak!!! Very impressed with what she said, and how she said it!!! Looking forward to hearing more from her!!
It needed to be explained to me what Epstein meant by “the dog that didn’t bark”. It was from a Sherlock Holmes mystery in which the dog didn’t bark, because the dog knew the burglar.
Don't mess with us Mexicanas: we flip tortillas with our bare hands and know how to ninja with chanclas. Way to go, Ruben. Keep it up. These Protectors of Pedophiles deserve no courtesy, no respect. Besides, I think it's nice to assume MAGA Mike knows how to read, considering he's never read a current news report...
He reads half sentences and only passages that support blind obedience. If he actually does read it. I’m not so sure he’s even tried to read the New Testament 🤷♀️
I'm with the truth tellers. Those children and young women who were forced to endured the monstrosity of Trump, Epstein and all the other perverts who deserve to be incarcerated no matter their bank accounts.
We need to support each other and help every woman make a stand for who and what they are. In a lot of instances women are their own worst enemy. We are by far superior to men!!
Praise be that we have Grijalva and Gallego bent on the truth being revealed. Hope we can continue to trust that Mace and Boebert will remain supporting the victims in some way.
What has been released so far makes it clear that Trump stood by as girls were abused and did nothing. (and quite likely participated in the abuse himself.)
Happy that Newsom spoke up for our country with gusto but sanity to international leaders on climate change.
Today we are focused on these two actions:
Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act: https://tinyurl.com/3yfw2m7a
Pass bill on unmasking ICE and displaying clear ID here: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82
Going to share this goodness above since I was late to the party.
I want to share a new discovery this morning. I switch up new reads on Substack. Many I just skim a bit here and there. I particularly liked this post by The Resistance Report and pondering what this moment means now January (next CR vote).
https://substack.com/@rosietheresister/note/p-178743629
All are great and encouraging at long last!!! The rump needs to be impeached. Thankfully these women stood up and finally did the right thing! Hopefully others will follow. How could they not, unless their names are in the files?
The most encouraging thing I've read all week is that if Trump is removed for treason and the case can certainly made he's guilty of, it's not just he, but his entire horrid administration that gets the boot. Oh happy day! Could someone please help Jack Smith build the case and let's get all of them out? Doesn't do much good to impeach Trump and get left with Vance who's just as evil but smarter and not demented.
The difference is Vance would be the lamest of ducks...
I’m loving Newsom on the world stage!
Much better him than Trump!
I love everything about Newsom being in Brazil instead of Donny. It’s great to have representation by a sane, rational man, and for the world to see it.
Not just sane and rational, but also pretty invested helping with climate change, science, remediation etc. California's always led the way with getting lead out of gasoline, solar roof tops (Schwarzenegger is to thank for that), low lead and low flow faucet's and toilets (Tump's worst nightmare) etc. You can't even buy a full flow faucet from an out of state website, it tells you the item cannot be shipped to your state! All of Trump's crazy shit about water to LA was so insane and not the least bit helpful to the fires, but no one in the legacy media called him out on it.
Makes sense when California has the fourth largest economy in the world. That alone should make trump's innards turn gangrene : o
I love my Gov! Not just for his political savvy, but because he is definitely not hard on the eyes! 😁
Or the ears. He talks clearly and without affectation, clever without being smartass.
True!
I am, too, Ms. Jonington! He is a power house!
Thank you for Mr. Potato Head! 😆
LOL I figured it's not even mashed Pamela!
Scott -- Consider also using an upside-down bowl of mashed potatoes as a reminder of what Mary Trump said was dumped on Donald's head when he was young and misbehaving badly at the dinner table. She said that episode humiliated him when everyone at the table started laughing at him. I'm all for fresh humiliation now!
Har!!
I was going to remind people of that incident, thank you. It still makes him livid when someone mentions a “bowl of mashed potatoes”.
How as bout a lemon tart in his face.
LOL!! I second that! I laughed so hard when I seen that. Thank you Scott for doing that for us!🙃✨🤗
A welcome change because potatoes are inherently ugly and most of us like pumpkin pie.
That is what I said, no more pumpkin pie.
I fee like there are questions we also need to be asking
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-is-a-pedophile-rapist
The question is why wealth and social connection so consistently insulate men from even having to answer basic questions about what they knew and when they knew it.
The question is how many Virginia Giuffres have to die before we decide that protecting reputations is less important than protecting young people.
Money is power in tangible form. They use it to protect themselves and their cronies.
"Money is power in tangible form."
That's one hell of a quote. Compliments to the chef. Mind if I use it?
Certainly.
Will use it in good health.
I like Joyce Vances question/statement (she has said it several times) why is someone supposedly 'not mentioned' in The Epstein files fighting so hard to prevent their release? If he is not mentioned wouldn't they exonerate him?
This is the big question. 👏
Especially when it is raised by a former U.S. Attorney raises it.
Absolutely, Wendy.
I also believe that Kim Johnson may have been the other victim in the room with Trump and Maxwell during the hours spent in Epstein’s house.
I have read the book and it just about broke my heart. Why do men hate women so much? I feel in order for any man to do the things they did had to hate the victims!!
Women are not human to men like that. They’re on earth to serve, satisfy and obey men.
While it’s true we don’t have the votes to impeach and remove the pedophile in chief, the exercise would be worth it so we would have all those republicans on record who vote to protect him yet again. The next 3 elections should be solely focused on how the MAGA regime is made up of sexual predators and other criminals and if the person running for office wasn’t a participant, they were responsible for refusing to hold them accountable for their crimes. Remind the MAGA voters in every election that a vote for ANY republican is a vote to have your children sexually abused by the pedophiles they protect.
I disagree. If Trump beat an impeachment and removal process for a third time, his vindictiveness against his accusers would ratchet up to immediate firing squad level.
He is the most vindictive person on the planet
Sounds lije a good plan. Valerie.
That's a fantastic idea!👍
You don't really think they care do you?
It seems Gavin Newsom may be taking the idea of a "shadow cabinet" seriously. As for "temporary," - well, yes. As for "years, not decades" - it's already been at least one decade since Trump entered politics and, if he survives this second term, a decade and a half that he will have occupied some degree of space in our heads, no matter how much or how effectively we're able to shut him out. I have long wanted there to be some sort of class action lawsuit in which millions of people sue him for the time we lost thinking about him and having to put up with his corruption, his criminality, and his cruelty - not to mention his incompetence. His presence in our lives is time we will never get back. I never paid any attention to him before 2015 (have not watched one episode of "The Apprentice" or "Celebrity Apprentice"), but during times when I was working in New York City, I'd notice his open-mouthed face blaring at me from some tabloid newspaper or other, and realize, "So, this is what my friends here have to put up with every single day. No wonder they hate him so much." That same toxicity has enveloped the country during this last decade - and it will take years to rid us of the stench, let alone the permission he has given people to act upon their lowest, base instincts and complete lack of civility, respect for the law, and regard for the Constitution.
I totally agree, Paul. Was just saying words along those lines to my partner the other day. We spent the entire decade of our 60s dealing with the awfulness of Traitor Dump and his MAGA minions in our faces every day. And actually, this goes back to my fifties when the traitor was dumping all over President Obama with his "birther" bs. Like you, I always thought the traitor was an idiot and never had any interest in watching his "reality" shows.
TRump has most definitely caused We the People a boatload of pain and suffering!
Yes, still if there is anything to be culled from this terrible person, it is that he has woke us up to each other!! "We the People' need to continue to speak up!! We need to protect and reinforce the Rights of our Constitution. Oh, and throw everyone in this horrible administration out!!! :-)
I like the idea of a class action suit filed by of millions of us against Trump and maybe include his regime for crimes against us; against humanity; for all the harm this degenerate has done to so many. As punitive punishment to drain his finances to take all the money he stole from us! It should include his whole criminal cabinet! Oh how I wish. I sure like that idea! Charges should include treason, murder, robbery, lying, brutality and pedophilia!
I love that idea, lets take all of his money I was going to say take his self respect but he doesn't have any of that. I have visions of somebody restraining him completely and beating him within an inch of life to show him what he really is!!
I've thought of that ever since the first time he disgraced this office, and I asked a friend, a retired corporate lawyer. His answer: "before you can form a class to bring a class action you have to have a legal claim, and Trump and his people are by and large protected by "sovereign immunity." You can't sue the sovereign for doing his job. That doctrine was vastly expanded, erroneously, by the Supreme Court in USA v Trump. So the answer is no. Sovereign immunity does not, however, apply if you break the law, which is why some of his minions are having trouble doing what he wants them to do: there's a point at which they are exposed to future prosecution if they follow his whims." The Epstein files quite certainly will show he broke the law.
OK, thanks Jessica but he breaks the law everyday. How is "the sovereign" doing his job? He commits treason. I have a hard time understanding this. I'm not saying you are wrong, just trying to follow. How would Epstein show he broke the law more than him bombing boats without evidence or lying to get National Guards into our cities and his abuse of immigrants? I'm sorry but do you get the difference? Again not arguing, just don't get it.
Those of us with SA & PTSD should get compensation for mental health appointments to deal with him triggering us!
Grivalda was professional, assertive and absolutely right to call out Johnson. He was protecting Donnie and hopeful that the Epstein files would go away. Mace and Bobert have nothing to lose by signing the discharge petition. Neither of them will ever win re-election or election to a new role; they cooked their goose many times over and are finished as near as I can see. Why not go out guns blazing? That said, Mace was a victim herself so she is supportive of the issue.
Three thoughts, not at all in order of importance: 1) appreciate the rotating selection of Thanksgiving foods covering the Abuser-in-Chief’s face. No one wants to see his full awfulness. 2) Newsom 2028! I’m all in. 3) THANK YOU for continuing to center the VICTIMS in the coverage of Epstein and Maxwell’s horrific crimes and Trump’s involvement in their world. The devastating impact of these crimes on the lives of these girls and young women matter!! So many media just talk about “Epstein files” and “the island” and “his house” and “the plane” as though there are no victims. I have Virginia Guiffre’s book “Nobody’s Girl” and am commited to reading every word she wanted to get out into the world.
Scott has so many Thanksgiving foods to choose from! I’m thinking cranberry sauce, big ol’ fat roasted turkey, but the mashed potatoes is my favorite.
I don’t credit Mace and Boebert with much, but I am pleasantly surprised that they didn’t cave.
And Adelina gave a great speech but even better brought two victims with her and they received a standing ovation from the entire Congress. Including I assume a bunch of Republicans. That was a great thing.
Totally agree about Mace and Boebert. I have to admit that I hadn't been in favor Adelina speaking with Mike Johnson at her swearing in. But WOW! The woman can speak!!! Very impressed with what she said, and how she said it!!! Looking forward to hearing more from her!!
Adelina is a true democrat. She’s keeping our core focus a priority: the people, helping the people, and not the powerful men who abuse the people.
It needed to be explained to me what Epstein meant by “the dog that didn’t bark”. It was from a Sherlock Holmes mystery in which the dog didn’t bark, because the dog knew the burglar.
Thank you, I've been wondering about that.
Correct! I saw HCR in this morning’s newsletter mentioned the connection to its origin too.
Me, too! Once it was explained, I remembered the reference right away.
Thank you!
¡Ay chingona! ¡Viva Grijalva y Gallego!
Don't mess with us Mexicanas: we flip tortillas with our bare hands and know how to ninja with chanclas. Way to go, Ruben. Keep it up. These Protectors of Pedophiles deserve no courtesy, no respect. Besides, I think it's nice to assume MAGA Mike knows how to read, considering he's never read a current news report...
Oh. He knows how to read. He reads the Bible all the time he says. The problem is he does not comprehend at all.
He reads half sentences and only passages that support blind obedience. If he actually does read it. I’m not so sure he’s even tried to read the New Testament 🤷♀️
I'm with the truth tellers. Those children and young women who were forced to endured the monstrosity of Trump, Epstein and all the other perverts who deserve to be incarcerated no matter their bank accounts.
Imagine voting no on this. 👹
You must be bananas if you do
Unimaginable UNLESS??? bought&paid AND/OR are in the Epstein Files themselves
I still think many Republicans have gotten death threats if they vote yes.
I agree
Who says women are the weaker sex??? Boy, are they WRONG!!!! You ladies show them!!
We need to support each other and help every woman make a stand for who and what they are. In a lot of instances women are their own worst enemy. We are by far superior to men!!
Praise be that we have Grijalva and Gallego bent on the truth being revealed. Hope we can continue to trust that Mace and Boebert will remain supporting the victims in some way.
What has been released so far makes it clear that Trump stood by as girls were abused and did nothing. (and quite likely participated in the abuse himself.)
Happy that Newsom spoke up for our country with gusto but sanity to international leaders on climate change.
The emails also revealed that G. Maxwell lied about what she knew of Trumps relationship to all of this.
Very true. Not that we trusted a word she said anyway, but nothing she says is worth the breath she took saying it.
She has denied everything: is looking for a pardon
Gavin Newsom is a class act. I look forward to hearing more from and about him - the sooner, the better.
Anyone who now does not stand against the child predators is complicit. Apparently these two women have recognized that.
More people need to call out Mike Johnson for his complicity.