Yes, King Charles has already stripped his brother (the former) Prince Andrew, of his royal title and relocated him to a different residence. I just heard today on npr that the staff that comes with that residence are refusing to work there now.
Our allies, allies I hope we still have in the future, can really blow the lid off the criminal cabal of the wealthy who think that wealth allows them to commit the despicable, unlawful and disgusting behavior we are learning about.
I hope the Clintons do testify, and I hope it's not behind closed doors.
For there to be any hope of Democrats to play hard ball, the current "Corporatist Democrats' have to be booted to the curb. These old (70+ years), soft, spineless men are complicit in what's happening to our democratic Republic!!!!
I'm 68 years old. I'm not being ageist. I'm being realistic. Not all of the complicit Democrats are older men and women, but by and large, the older, establishment, Corporatist Democrats insist upon playing by out of date broken rules.
I think the age framing misses what’s actually doing the work here. The problem isn’t “older” Democrats per se, it’s institutional incentives. In hierarchical institutions, independence threatens positional control over agenda, resources, and credit. Outside of crisis periods, that pressure reliably produces suppression of independent actors, regardless of ideology or intent.
I’ve modeled this across agencies and domains: institutions temporarily tolerate independence during existential threat, then revert once oversight, leadership turnover, and budget constraints decay, typically within an 18–36 month window. That dynamic explains why reform energy collapses even when personnel change. It’s structural, not generational.
Celeste......That's why we need term limits and age limits for Congress and the Supreme Court!! No more lifetime or making these positions a career!!! Maybe there would not be as much corruption? 💙💙💙🇺🇸
Republicans and the regime are not playing chess they are playing chutes and ladders. If they were actually intelligent they would attempt to anticipate various outcomes. Instead they are as dumb as Trump and his cabinet and the behind the scenes puppeteers. They make the same mistakes over and over and over again. They are so arrogant they cannot believe they do anything wrong or that something they plan will not go as they envision.
My fear is that many of these guys are in their 60s, 70s, 80s...by the time it takes for all them to go on trial, most of them will be dead, without any accountability. UGH...
Clinton needs to name the perpetrators. As far as I'm concerned, anyone having anything to do with Epstein after his conviction in 2010 knew he was a p3do. They're complicit. Their obsfucation of the files will not work.
That name rings a bell. Was he the one from "I, Claudius," the one whose wife was friends with Livia and she tried to save them from their corruption trial?
Ooh, that is a head scratcher! I'm afraid I'd have to watch that episode again to know. There were so many common names in Roman history (and so many characters that come and go in that series, esp. if Livia marks them out for disposal) it can be difficult to keep them straight. Possibly! And it may have been paraphrased and not exactly quoted. Anyway, good excuse to watch some "I, Claudius" again. It seems so topical; especially the Caligula sequences. I expect a horse to be installed in the Cabinet any day now.
Keep as much evidence coming as you can Brian. The American people cannot trust this DOJ, Trump or the entire administration to not gaslight, obfuscate and flat out lie to us. We know there are currently members in Congress being shielded whose past behaviors are being hidden. I will be watching the hearings when they become public and hope the Clintons shed more light on others, be they Dems or Republicans. ALL of the VICTIMS will get Justice and hopefully peace in the end, however long it takes.
Notice in other countries there's accountability and humiliation being handed out ... Thanks to Scotus who made sure businesses were able to buy themselves a country with Citizens United.
If it is a crime to lie to Congress, then there is an extremely long list of candidates. Include the six current sitting republicans on the corrupt supreme court. We may need a whole separate section of the DOJ to handle all these cases.
Hey, Brian! So glad you chose this for today! Fabulous article, complete with the humor I enjoy SO MUCH.
I made the mistake of commenting on Rep Lieu's pc yesterday (on C-SPAN, no less!), which to me, made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that not only is there plenty of Trump in this newly released batch, but that a fair number of items involve Trump and the degree of pure HORROR is beyond imagining, except for other pedophiles, of course! Anyway my comment mostly just referenced Trump's habit of believing he is above the law. And I caught two serious Magas with it, though it was not my intention. One called me a liar, straight out. The other told me, ever so gently, that Trump simply wasn't in the Epstein files, "no matter how much I might want him to be (her first person, referring to ME wanting it, which I ABSOLUTELY DO!). I was shocked that there are Magas who are still deluding themselves about his involvement in the Epstein WORLD. "Never believe what your eyes see, ONLY believe what I tell you" quoting Donald J Trump at his"finest"!
Even if I hadn't already heard a few descriptions of something that Trump did to these CHILDREN, prior to raping them, such as him pre-measuring the girls' private parts, only the article used the exact words. I can't, because just reading them made me, horribly, horribly ill. Anyway, Rep Lieu's face as he alluded to some of what he'd seen, ABOUT TRUMP, was pretty shocked, likely similar to what mine must've been. This stuff BLOWS MY MIND, and not in a good way.
We are going to need all the humor which can be summoned, just to be able to TRY to look or even just hear about the things these men have done to the girls. And I am joking about the humor, because this stuff will probably PARALYZE anyone decent who gets close to it.
My only question is this: if these items in the recently released batch are this HORRIFYING, and it sure is beginning to show that they may be even WORSE than that, AND they're about our our disgusting orange madman, how in the WORLD can anyone allow him to remain in office for more than a split second, even if generally sitting presidents can't be touched?
The "interesting" thing is, this stuff has ALREADY been released and digitally copied, so there's no going back for Trump this time. The only reason he hasn't yet blown up a country, in an effort to distract us again, would appear to be that he REALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE he can EVER be held to account for what he did.
I'm both pleased, because those survivors have waited TOO DAMN LONG for their justice, and frightened, because when it finally dawns on this unbelievable specimen of a perverted pedophile, he is going to do anything he can think of to try to distract the world. Like pushing the red button? Gods help us if that happens .....
Actually he HAS blown up several countries (plural): Colombia, Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela. (All except Ru$$ia which needs it the most.) That's quite a prize-winning "peace president!" s/a
Did he use nukes on them? Just curious. I have been expecting him to start WWIII, ever since last fall. And you're absolutely right z it's ridiculous how he lusts after the Peace Prize, but also wants War. He's just without a doubt, the most ridiculous person in the world. Like Pete Buttegieg has said a few times now, can't wait until the day when we can wake up and realize that the orange menace is no longer President!!!
Not to mention that countries in Europe are doing their own investigations, and they will not redact U.S. names!
Our allies at work👍👍👍👍👍
Yes, King Charles has already stripped his brother (the former) Prince Andrew, of his royal title and relocated him to a different residence. I just heard today on npr that the staff that comes with that residence are refusing to work there now.
And the prime minister spoke today. I truly appreciated what he said.
Me too! Aaron had the clip!
It’s because Andrew has been known to be petty, arrogant, rude, and mean to staff who worked for him and his late mother.
Hence the accusations of child molestation.
He stripped him that's something, but he needs to go to jail for child RAPE! Such sick SOB's!
Oh dang, gotta move castles again.
Lithuania investigation will be very interesting
Can you post some of the investigation results or a link to it?
and the Polish one!
Our allies, allies I hope we still have in the future, can really blow the lid off the criminal cabal of the wealthy who think that wealth allows them to commit the despicable, unlawful and disgusting behavior we are learning about.
I hope the Clintons do testify, and I hope it's not behind closed doors.
Hillary will do a tattoo on Comer's head.
Al......or tap dance on his head!
Good enough Pamela, so long as it strong beat.
Mary Ann.....I pray you are right!
Hurray for the Europeans!
AND heads are rolling and investigations being opened into the Mandelson affair!
For there to be any hope of Democrats to play hard ball, the current "Corporatist Democrats' have to be booted to the curb. These old (70+ years), soft, spineless men are complicit in what's happening to our democratic Republic!!!!
Hell yeah! They are all cut from the same cloth
Please don’t be ageist here. There are a few older Dems — Ed Markey, Ron Wyden, my rep. Doris Matsui, and, of course, Bernie — who are fighters.
I'm 68 years old. I'm not being ageist. I'm being realistic. Not all of the complicit Democrats are older men and women, but by and large, the older, establishment, Corporatist Democrats insist upon playing by out of date broken rules.
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I think the age framing misses what’s actually doing the work here. The problem isn’t “older” Democrats per se, it’s institutional incentives. In hierarchical institutions, independence threatens positional control over agenda, resources, and credit. Outside of crisis periods, that pressure reliably produces suppression of independent actors, regardless of ideology or intent.
I’ve modeled this across agencies and domains: institutions temporarily tolerate independence during existential threat, then revert once oversight, leadership turnover, and budget constraints decay, typically within an 18–36 month window. That dynamic explains why reform energy collapses even when personnel change. It’s structural, not generational.
If you’re interested, the working paper is here and lays out the mechanism and testable predictions: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5698642
All republicans now, the complicit democrats next.
Time to clean up Congress. Time to turn politics into a service to the country and the people, and not a "career pursuit".
Celeste......That's why we need term limits and age limits for Congress and the Supreme Court!! No more lifetime or making these positions a career!!! Maybe there would not be as much corruption? 💙💙💙🇺🇸
An exception is Ed Markey. He's still sharp, still fighting for us.
All rich, greedy, old White men born without souls and a moral compass!
Republicans and the regime are not playing chess they are playing chutes and ladders. If they were actually intelligent they would attempt to anticipate various outcomes. Instead they are as dumb as Trump and his cabinet and the behind the scenes puppeteers. They make the same mistakes over and over and over again. They are so arrogant they cannot believe they do anything wrong or that something they plan will not go as they envision.
Dumb or just as corrupt as their leader?
Asking for a friend....
Is that why they run congress, the executive and the supreme court?
Yes, because each of them is as corrupt as the Republican Party itself. Precisely.
My fear is that many of these guys are in their 60s, 70s, 80s...by the time it takes for all them to go on trial, most of them will be dead, without any accountability. UGH...
True that, Trump will be dead but his enablers won't. And they don't have no farking immunity either.
Trump will certainly be dead or his health issues making him incapacitated. He will never face trial.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom for public service should go to that final, fatal big mac.
Bwahahaha- that's priceless! You are so right!!!!!
Then sue the estate for all that they are worth.
Clinton needs to name the perpetrators. As far as I'm concerned, anyone having anything to do with Epstein after his conviction in 2010 knew he was a p3do. They're complicit. Their obsfucation of the files will not work.
"Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall."
-- Abolitionist motto
"fiat justitia ruat caelum" -- "Let justice be done, though the heavens fall" -- associated with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus.
That name rings a bell. Was he the one from "I, Claudius," the one whose wife was friends with Livia and she tried to save them from their corruption trial?
Ooh, that is a head scratcher! I'm afraid I'd have to watch that episode again to know. There were so many common names in Roman history (and so many characters that come and go in that series, esp. if Livia marks them out for disposal) it can be difficult to keep them straight. Possibly! And it may have been paraphrased and not exactly quoted. Anyway, good excuse to watch some "I, Claudius" again. It seems so topical; especially the Caligula sequences. I expect a horse to be installed in the Cabinet any day now.
Yeah, it's time Bill took one for the team.
Good!
Keep as much evidence coming as you can Brian. The American people cannot trust this DOJ, Trump or the entire administration to not gaslight, obfuscate and flat out lie to us. We know there are currently members in Congress being shielded whose past behaviors are being hidden. I will be watching the hearings when they become public and hope the Clintons shed more light on others, be they Dems or Republicans. ALL of the VICTIMS will get Justice and hopefully peace in the end, however long it takes.
Notice in other countries there's accountability and humiliation being handed out ... Thanks to Scotus who made sure businesses were able to buy themselves a country with Citizens United.
Brazilian justice really lowered the boom on Bolsonasp-hole for his own Jan 6 parody.
TRUTH!
From your post to God’s ears.
I want investigations in to the trafficking AND the MONEY.
If it is a crime to lie to Congress, then there is an extremely long list of candidates. Include the six current sitting republicans on the corrupt supreme court. We may need a whole separate section of the DOJ to handle all these cases.
So what happened with that co-consirators investigation?
exactly!! If this was happening in 2019.. what happened?
Bumpkiss.
Hey, Brian! So glad you chose this for today! Fabulous article, complete with the humor I enjoy SO MUCH.
I made the mistake of commenting on Rep Lieu's pc yesterday (on C-SPAN, no less!), which to me, made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that not only is there plenty of Trump in this newly released batch, but that a fair number of items involve Trump and the degree of pure HORROR is beyond imagining, except for other pedophiles, of course! Anyway my comment mostly just referenced Trump's habit of believing he is above the law. And I caught two serious Magas with it, though it was not my intention. One called me a liar, straight out. The other told me, ever so gently, that Trump simply wasn't in the Epstein files, "no matter how much I might want him to be (her first person, referring to ME wanting it, which I ABSOLUTELY DO!). I was shocked that there are Magas who are still deluding themselves about his involvement in the Epstein WORLD. "Never believe what your eyes see, ONLY believe what I tell you" quoting Donald J Trump at his"finest"!
Even if I hadn't already heard a few descriptions of something that Trump did to these CHILDREN, prior to raping them, such as him pre-measuring the girls' private parts, only the article used the exact words. I can't, because just reading them made me, horribly, horribly ill. Anyway, Rep Lieu's face as he alluded to some of what he'd seen, ABOUT TRUMP, was pretty shocked, likely similar to what mine must've been. This stuff BLOWS MY MIND, and not in a good way.
We are going to need all the humor which can be summoned, just to be able to TRY to look or even just hear about the things these men have done to the girls. And I am joking about the humor, because this stuff will probably PARALYZE anyone decent who gets close to it.
My only question is this: if these items in the recently released batch are this HORRIFYING, and it sure is beginning to show that they may be even WORSE than that, AND they're about our our disgusting orange madman, how in the WORLD can anyone allow him to remain in office for more than a split second, even if generally sitting presidents can't be touched?
The "interesting" thing is, this stuff has ALREADY been released and digitally copied, so there's no going back for Trump this time. The only reason he hasn't yet blown up a country, in an effort to distract us again, would appear to be that he REALLY DOESN'T BELIEVE he can EVER be held to account for what he did.
I'm both pleased, because those survivors have waited TOO DAMN LONG for their justice, and frightened, because when it finally dawns on this unbelievable specimen of a perverted pedophile, he is going to do anything he can think of to try to distract the world. Like pushing the red button? Gods help us if that happens .....
Actually he HAS blown up several countries (plural): Colombia, Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela. (All except Ru$$ia which needs it the most.) That's quite a prize-winning "peace president!" s/a
Did he use nukes on them? Just curious. I have been expecting him to start WWIII, ever since last fall. And you're absolutely right z it's ridiculous how he lusts after the Peace Prize, but also wants War. He's just without a doubt, the most ridiculous person in the world. Like Pete Buttegieg has said a few times now, can't wait until the day when we can wake up and realize that the orange menace is no longer President!!!
💩 Happens.
He⁴⁷ ALWAYS screws up!!
Good, may he choke on it when the Clintons televised enquiry trip him up
Shhhh...don't tell them!