The Evening Blues - 7-7-25
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This evening's music features blues singer and banjo player Papa Charlie Jackson. Enjoy!
Papa Charlie Jackson - Shake That Thing
"British police have been arresting anti-genocide protesters for holding signs expressing support for activist group Palestine Action, which London has now officially designated a terrorist group for putting red paint on war planes that were being used in the Gaza holocaust.
That’s right, welcome to the empire, where peace activists are called terrorists, where hospitals are called military bases, where facts are called blood libel, where people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime."
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West
Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s persecution at the hands of western governments is once again highlighting the way our society’s purported values of free thought and free expression go right out the window wherever Israel is concerned.
But one thing that’s not getting enough attention is the fact that many, many other acts also spoke out in support of Palestine at that same festival, and that the crowd was full of attendees waving Palestinian flags. Supporting Palestine and opposing Israel’s genocidal atrocities is just what’s cool now.
This is a massive cultural development, because it means we are seeing the emergence of actual, meaningful rebellion in western counterculture for the first time arguably since the Vietnam War. The artists and their fans aren’t just talking the talk of sticking it to the establishment anymore.
Bob Vylan are the truest punk because look how much they’ve upset the establishment.
— buns (@desigotdone) July 3, 2025
For generations the ruling class has been successfully stomping out all politically relevant counterculture, first in the form of direct frontal assault by official government operations like COINTELPRO, and then by the way all major platforms and studios are owned by plutocrats who benefit from the imperial status quo and refuse to elevate anyone who might pose a threat to it.
There have of course been countless artists in every generation who put on a rebellious face and give the finger to authority, but they’ve never presented any kind of threat to real power. Punk rockers who sing “fuck the man” but never advance any actual tangible causes. Satanic panic bands and shock rock superstars scaring church ladies and stirring culture wars. Bands voicing criticisms of the Iraq invasion but making it about supporting the Democratic Party. Celebrity musicians promoting social justice and equality without ever saying anything that might inconvenience the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world.
The rich and powerful don’t care if you dye your hair or pierce your nose or kiss a member of the same sex or say Hail Satan. They don’t care if you support one mainstream political faction over the other, or if you yell empty words about anarchy and revolution that aren’t pointed toward any real material goals. They care very much, however, if you are undermining public consent for military and geopolitical agendas they’ve worked very hard to propagandize the public into accepting.
The establishment never dropped the hammer on Marilyn Manson. Lady Gaga never ran into trouble with the state for singing that gay people are Born This Way. Ozzy Osbourne is living in the lap of luxury with an estimated net worth of $220 million. But groups like Kneecap and Bob Vylan are being subjected to police investigations and visa revocations for taking a stand on Palestine.
Which, of course, is only going to make their position more popular among young people with a defiant streak in them.
It’s hard to imagine how western governments could make support for Palestine look more attractive to western youths, really. Here’s this unimaginably horrific mass atrocity that they can all watch unfolding on their phone screens in real time every single day of the year, and they’re being told “You’re not allowed to oppose this. We, the stuffed shirts in Washington and London, command you to obey. If you think unauthorized thoughts and chant unauthorized chants, we are going to get very huffy and upset.”
I mean, can you think of anything more fun?
This is after all the generation who’s been told that they need to accept being poorer and sicker than their parents and grandparents and that they’ll never own a home no matter what they do, knowing full well that the crusty old bastards finger-wagging at them for opposing an active genocide are the same freaks who’ve refused to do anything to steer their planet’s ecosystem away from looming disaster. They have every reason to want to express defiance, and nothing to lose by doing so.
A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it. This is a fascinating time to be alive.
"Completely Illegal": Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on Israel's "Outrageous" Attacks on Gaza Hospitals & Staff
Alastair Crooke : What's Next in Trump's War?
Israeli strikes kill at least 38 in Gaza as ceasefire talks reach critical point
Israeli warplanes launched a wave of strikes in Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 38 Palestinians, according to hospital officials, as talks over a ceasefire in the devastated territory reached a critical point. Officials at Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said 18 people were killed by strikes in al-Mawasi, a nearby coastal area that is crowded with tented encampments of those displaced by fighting elsewhere.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, 80 people were killed and 304 wounded in Israeli attacks there over the last 24 hours.
Late on Sunday the Israeli military also said it had attacked Houthi targets in the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif, and the Ras Qantib power plant in Yemen. This was in response to repeated attacks by the Iran-aligned group on Israel, the Israeli military said.
Israel has escalated its Gaza offensive in recent days, as momentum gathers in negotiations over a US-sponsored proposal that could lead to an end to the 21-month war.
Speaking as he left Israel for talks with Donald Trump in Washington on the ceasefire and other regional issues, Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Sunday that he was determined to ensure the return of hostages held in Gaza and to remove the threat of Hamas to Israel, reiterating promises he has made repeatedly throughout the conflict.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is Netanyahu Lobbying for More War?
Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
Heartbreaking testimonies gathered from medical staff, parents of children hospitalized for malnutrition and displaced Palestinians struggling to survive paint a horrifying picture of acute levels of starvation and desperation in Gaza. Their accounts provide further evidence of the catastrophic suffering caused by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on life-saving aid and its deadly militarized aid scheme coupled with mass forced displacement, relentless bombardment and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
“While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease pushing the population past breaking point,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
In the month following Israel’s imposition of a militarized “‘aid” scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured either near militarized distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys. “This devastating daily loss of life as desperate Palestinians try to collect aid is the consequence of their deliberate targeting by Israeli forces and the foreseeable consequence of irresponsible and lethal methods of distribution,” said Agnès Callamard. ...
“As the occupying power, Israel has a legal obligation to ensure Palestinians in Gaza have access to food, medicine and other supplies essential for their survival. Instead, it has brazenly defied binding orders issued by the International Court of Justice in January, March and May 2024, to allow the unimpeded flow of aid to Gaza. Israel has continued to restrict the entry of aid and impose its suffocating cruel blockade and even a full siege lasting nearly eighty days,” said Agnès Callamard.
Larry Johnson : The Crazed American Zionists
Hezbollah Rejects US Demand to Disarm, Says It’s a Domestic Issue
Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist.
Lebanon’s government has been in talks with Hezbollah according to recent reports, built around a US proposal / demand to fully disarm Hezbollah and every other faction within Lebanon by November in return for talks with Israel about normalizing relations.
It’s unclear the US could have delivered on this promise even if Hezbollah had agreed to disarm, since the proposals were effectively the same as came with last year’s ceasefire, which Israel never followed through on and which the US never called them to account over.
Since Israel is actively occupying parts of southern Lebanon, launching airstrikes nearly daily, and launching ground raids against the south, it is unsurprising that Hezbollah isn’t willing to unilaterally disarm on the slim hope that Israel will actually reciprocate.
Russian Strikes Again Hammer Ukraine; Moscow Says Peace Only If West Sanctions Lifted Assets Repaid
Hegseth falsely cited weapon shortages in halting shipments to Ukraine, Democrats say
Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, unilaterally halted an agreed shipment of military aid to Ukraine due to baseless concerns that US stockpiles of weapons have run too low, it has been reported. A batch of air defense missiles and other precision munitions were due to be sent to Ukraine to aid it in its ongoing war with Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor in 2022. The aid was promised by the US during Joe Biden’s administration last year.
But the Pentagon halted the shipment, with NBC reporting that a decision to do so was made solely by Hegseth, Donald Trump’s top defense official and a former Fox News weekend host who has previously come under pressure for sharing plans of a military strike in two group chats on the messaging app Signal, one of which accidentally included a journalist.
Hegseth has now halted US military supplies to Ukraine on three occasions, NBC said, with the latest intervention purportedly coming due to concerns that the US’s own weapons stockpile is running too low. When the president was asked about the pause in shipments to Ukraine by a reporter on Thursday, he claimed that it was necessary because “Biden emptied out our whole country, giving them weapons, and we have to make sure we have enough for ourselves”. ...
The decision surprised members of Congress, as well as Ukraine and the US’s European allies. Democrats said there is no evidence that American weapon stocks are in decline. “We are not at any lower point, stockpile-wise, than we’ve been in the three-and-a-half years of the Ukraine conflict,” Adam Smith, a Democrat and ranking member of the House armed services committee, told NBC. Smith said that his staff had “seen the numbers” on weapon supplies and that there is no justification to suspend aid to Ukraine.
The weapons being delayed include dozens of Patriot interceptor missiles that can defend against Russian missile attacks, as well as howitzers and other missile systems.
"Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History": John Nichols on Trump's Budget Law
Worth a full read:
US Supreme Court Affirms the Imperial Presidency
Continuing in their shameful deference to the president, Donald Trump’s lackeys on the U.S. Supreme Court once again affirmed the superiority of the executive over the other two branches of government. ...
Trump v. CASA, Inc. came to the Supreme Court as a challenge to Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order purporting to unilaterally outlaw the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. But in its June 27 ruling, the high court didn’t actually decide the citizenship issue, which they kicked back to the lower federal courts.
Instead, in a shocking decision, the Supreme Court held that federal judges cannot issue universal injunctions for actions that are almost certainly illegal. “Never before has the Supreme Court imposed such restrictions on the ability of courts to provide relief against unconstitutional acts,” Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote in The Los Angeles Times.
The Supreme Court granted the request by the Trump administration to partially pause three federal court rulings that had blocked Trump’s executive order.
Those courts had determined that only nationwide injunctions would provide the plaintiffs with complete relief because people constantly move in and out of states, and children born to noncitizen parents in a non-plaintiff state may later reside in a plaintiff state, and vice versa.
Trump will likely continue to be barred from enforcing his order against the pregnant plaintiffs who challenged it. But the decision could affect any case in which a federal judge makes a ruling that encompasses people beyond the individuals who actually filed the lawsuit.
Stateless Palestinian Woman Details 'Very Traumatizing' Abuse Suffered in ICE Detention
A newlywed Palestinian woman from Texas released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention earlier this week says she was shackled for long periods, denied food and water, and subjected to other human rights abuses during nearly five months in ICE custody—all because she is a stateless person.
Ward Sakeik, 22, was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents from Gaza. Because Saudi Arabia does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreign nationals, Sakeik was officially stateless when her family legally emigrated to the United States when she was 8 years old.
Sakeik's parents subsequently applied for—and were denied—asylum in the U.S. but were allowed to remain legally in the country pending routine check-ins with ICE.
After graduating high school and the University of Texas, Arlington, starting a wedding photography business, marrying a U.S. citizen, and beginning the process of obtaining a green card, Sakeik and her husband went on their honeymoon in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She was detained shortly after arriving back in the United States after Customs and Border Protection agents flagged her for flying over international waters—a move that Department of Homeland Security officials said violated immigration policy.
"After a few hours from returning from our honeymoon, I was put in a gray tracksuit and shackles," Sakeik said at a press conference following her release. "I was handcuffed for 16 hours without any water or food on the bus. I have moved around like cattle. And the U.S. government attempted to dump me in a part of the world where I don't know where I'm going and what I'm doing or anything."
"We were not given any water or food, and we could smell the driver eating Chick-fil-A," she continued. "We would ask for water, bang on the door for food, and he would just turn up the radio and act like he wasn't listening to us."
Sakeik said unhygienic conditions at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas—where an ICE officer was shot in the neck during a Friday evening attack—caused widespread illness among detainees.
"The restrooms are also very, very, very unhygienic," she said. "The beds have rust everywhere. They're not properly maintained. And cockroaches, grasshoppers, spiders, you name it, are all over the facility. Girls would get bit."
"I wouldn't wish this upon anybody," Sakeik said during a Saturday interview on CNN. "It was very hard, very traumatizing, and very, very difficult."
Eric Lee, an attorney for Sakeik, told CNN that immigration officials dismissed Sakeik's account as a "sob story."
"I guess what we would ask the American people is, 'Who are they gonna believe, their lying eyes or the statements of the people who are responsible for carrying out what are really crimes against humanity here in the United States?'" Lee added.
Sakeik said she now plans to advocate on behalf of women and girls imprisoned by ICE.
"I... want the world to know that the women who do come here come here for a better life, but they're criminalized for that," she said. "They are dehumanized, and they're stripped away from their rights. We have been treated as a 'less-than' just simply for wanting a better life."
The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.
“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”
Cynthia Olivera, a 45-year-old mother of three US-born children, thus joined a growing list of examples contradicting the Trump administration’s claims that the immigration crackdown it has spearheaded since the president’s return to the Oval Office in January has prioritized targeting dangerous criminals.
Being in the US without legal status is generally a civil infraction rather than a criminal violation. Nonetheless, despite its claim that the immigration crackdown is mainly meant to rid the US of violent criminals, the White House has maintained that anyone in the US who lacks legal status is a criminal subject to deportation.
Olivera was unwittingly thrust under the weight of those policies after Trump spent his successful 2024 presidential campaign promising to pursue them, earning her husband’s vote along the way, according to what he told KGTV. She was just 10 when her parents brought her to the US from Toronto without permission, she said to the station. ... KGTV reported that its investigative team scoured California and federal court databases, but the unit found no criminal charges under Cynthia Oliver’s name.
Elon Announces OFFICIAL LAUNCH of New 'America Party'
NYT BLASTED for Zohran Hit Piece Shopped By "Race IQ" Poster
Weedkiller ingredient widely used in US can damage organs and gut bacteria, research shows
The herbicide ingredient used to replace glyphosate in Roundup and other weedkiller products can kill gut bacteria and damage organs in multiple ways, new research shows. The ingredient, diquat, is widely employed in the US as a weedkiller in vineyards and orchards, and is increasingly sprayed elsewhere as the use of controversial herbicide substances such as glyphosate and paraquat drops in the US.
But the new piece of data suggests diquat is more toxic than glyphosate, and the substance is banned over its risks in the UK, EU, China and many other countries. Still, the EPA has resisted calls for a ban, and Roundup formulas with the ingredient hit the shelves last year.
“From a human health perspective, this stuff is quite a bit nastier than glyphosate so we’re seeing a regrettable substitution, and the ineffective regulatory structure is allowing it,” said Nathan Donley, science director with the Center For Biological Diversity, which advocates for stricter pesticide regulations but was not involved in the new research. “Regrettable substitution” is a scientific term used to describe the replacement of a toxic substance in a consumer product with an ingredient that is also toxic.
Diquat is also thought to be a neurotoxin, carcinogen and linked to Parkinson’s disease. An October analysis of EPA data by the Friends of the Earth non-profit found it is about 200 times more toxic than glyphosate in terms of chronic exposure. Bayer, which makes Roundup, faced nearly 175,000 lawsuits alleging that the product’s users were harmed by the product. Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, reformulated Roundup after the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a possible carcinogen.
The new review of scientific literature in part focuses on the multiple ways in which diquat damages organs and gut bacteria, including by reducing the level of proteins that are key pieces of the gut lining. The weakening can allow toxins and pathogens to move from the stomach into the bloodstream, and trigger inflammation in the intestines and throughout the body. Meanwhile, diquat can inhibit the production of beneficial bacteria that maintain the gut lining. Damage to the lining also inhibits the absorption of nutrients and energy metabolism, the authors said. The research further scrutinizes how the substance harms the kidneys, lungs and liver.
The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in 2010, but the threat of oil reaching this beautiful and environmentally valuable stretch of northern Florida’s Gulf coast was still enough to devastate the region’s economy. The Florida state congressman Jason Shoaf remembers how the threat affected the bay. “It harmed our commercial fishing, aquaculture operations, and just the threat of oil kept tourists away for months,” Shoaf recalls. “Businesses were forced to close, jobs were lost, and the disaster reshaped our region forever.”
Those memories were freshly triggered in April 2024, when the Florida department of environmental protection (DEP) granted a permit to Louisiana-based Clearwater Land and Minerals for exploratory oil drilling on the Apalachicola River basin. So area residents, along with environmental and business groups, formed a Kill the Drill coalition to oppose the permit. A year later, the coalition’s efforts and an administrative challenge to the DEP’s permit by the non-profit Apalachicola Riverkeepers prevailed when Judge Lawrence P Stevenson recommended the department deny the permit. In May, the DEP reversed course and denied the permit.
But that was not enough to convince those seeking to preserve the region’s environment. Shoaf, who represents Florida’s north-eastern Gulf coast region, applauded the DEP’s decision but says the threat of oil exploration and drilling near north Florida’s inland waterways would only be ended by a permanent ban. So to prevent future threats and the DEP from issuing other oil exploratory drilling permits, Shoaf and state representative Allison Tant co-authored House Bill 1143.
“While the permit to Clearwater Land and Minerals was denied, we can’t assume the next one will be,” Shoaf says. “HB 1143 protects our precious water resources and the ecosystems that depend on them by prohibiting drilling, exploration and production of oil, gas and other petroleum products within 10 miles of a national estuarine research reserve in counties designated as rural areas of opportunity. It also requires the Florida department of environmental protection to ensure natural resources are adequately protected in the event of an accident.”
In April, the legislature overwhelmingly passed HB 1143 with only one dissenting vote in the Senate. It was presented to Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, on 18 June. And, despite a poor recent record on protecting the environment, DeSantis signed the bill last week – handing the coalition that lobbied for it a cheering victory.
Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis
The ongoing challenges of forecasting extreme weather during the era of the climate crisis have been brought to the fore again amid catastrophic flash flooding in the “hill country” region of Texas. ... July is peak flash flood season in the US, and central Texas is known as “flash flood alley” because the necessary ingredients of tropical moisture and slow-moving storms come together often over hilly terrain there. National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters caution that more floods could come this weekend and into next week.
The scale of this latest climate disaster became apparent on Saturday as drone footage taken on Saturday morning showed entire neighborhoods inundated and rushing waters streaming through small town streets. Tales of survival and heartbreak were plentiful.
An initial analysis of the downpours and the decisions by forecasters that led up to them by the Guardian shows that rainfall of this magnitude was exceedingly rare and difficult to predict, even for this flood-prone region. Friday’s totals of more than 10in (25cm) of rain in three hours could be expected just once in a “typical” 500-year period for Kerrville, Texas – three months’ worth of rain in just a few hours. Radar data show that more than 4in per hour fell during the peak of Friday’s rains. That rainfall intensity was in excess of a similar flash flood in 1987 that also ended in tragedy for campers along the Guadalupe.
Saturday’s rainfall totals actually exceeded Friday’s rainfall for a region slightly north of Friday’s peak rains. Nearly 14in of rain fell in five hours just west of Austin, Texas – rains that would be expected just once in nearly 1,000 years given a stable climate.
Despite funding cuts and widespread staffing shortages implemented by the Trump administration, NWS forecasters in both the local San Angelo office and at the NWS national specialty center responsible for excessive rainfall provided a series of watches and warnings in the days and hours leading up to Friday’s flooding disaster.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Anti-Genocide Activism Is Terrorism In The Empire Of Lies
Independence From Empire Day 2025
US now funding the bloodbath at Gaza aid centers
Gaza Aid Group CONFRONTED Over Daily Massacres
This Time It’s Official: Mexico Is Going to the BRICS Summit
CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are ...
Is Trump’s expansion of presidential powers setting the stage for future Oval Office holders?
Mamdani’s Train is Running But Blacks Wonder if There is Space for Them
BRICS Summit without Xi, Putin. Trump warns BRICS
A Little Night Music
Papa Charlie Jackson - I'm Alabama Bound
Papa Charlie Jackson - She Belongs To Me Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
Papa Charlie Jackson - Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - Hot Papa Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson & Ida Cox - How Long Daddy, How Long?
Papa Charlie Jackson - Ash Tray Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - Take Me Back Blues
Papa Charlie Jackson - All I Want Is A Spoonful
Papa Charlie Jackson - Maxwell Street Blues
Comments
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. Just dropped in to say Hi
"Hi". A bit subdued here, and it looks like it's infectious or something.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
good to see you! have a great evening.
i guess if nobody's around, i may as well take the opportunity to hit the rack early.
have a good one!
tanks for the screen time bud
I cannot make this replacement machine behave
buh bye
Zionism is a social disease
evening qms...
hope you get your machinery to behave.
have a good one!
Hi bluesters
Hi all, Hey Joe,
Thanks for the news and blues.
Is that the original Shake that thing?
My this fellow sure seems to have a large 'drum' on his banjo. Or is it my eyes? Or was he a small guy?
My eyes are just about useless here, now, can't comment really. Replying to PM nearly impossible now... It's all gray fuzz to me now...
We got about 5" of precip the last week, which is great, but hard to appreciate considering what happened just north over the divide.
happy trails all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
to tell you the truth, i'm not sure if that is the original "shake that thing," it's clearly an early version of it. there were a lot of people working with that particular phrase and a variety of tunes around it, so, given that it was an early recording, it might have been borrowed from by later artists.
the banjo that he is pictured with (if my eyes are working) appears to have six strings and a large body. i know from listening to many of his recordings that he played several instruments (including mandolin and guitar) but it's possible that there are just very few pictures of him. there were a lot of somewhat unusual instruments available back in the 20's and 30's that were marriages of two different instruments (banjolins, etc.) so my guess is that what he's holding is a banjo-guitar hybrid and the large drum might be both needed for volume and perhaps also a larger structure to support the use of heavier strings. just guessing.
have a good one!
Hey, joe!
Good music, good videos, mister!
I have to arise early for the next 3 days, court, court, court. sigh...
That means I only got to see select videos and read select articles.
I went to Zerohedge to see what that site had to say about the Epstein..nothing to see here...bs.
Seems Trump idolizers are different from MAGAS. MAGAS are insulted by the report, are peeling away from the Republicans. Midterms should be very, very interesting. War, BBB, now this? MAGAS have voter regrets.
Get a good night's sleep, dear friend! No telling what tomorrow will bring.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
good luck with court! i hope everything turns out well.
i'm far from shocked by the epstein findings, though, of course i am skeptical of them and i think every thinking person ought to be. the findings are just too convenient.
have a good one!
I could analyze the Epstein stuff all day.
No list, no trafficking, then why suicide? Why isn't Ms. Maxwell free? Why did Prince Andrew shell out millions when there was no "there" there? Is a client list different from a flight log? If so, where did that log go? etc...
I am expecting court to go well tomorrow and Wednesday, but the Judge on Thursday is on a different planet from us.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Not getting why the MAGAs
are upset about the Epstein report. (Nor can I differentiate between MAGA and Trumpster.) It's not as if any of them had any interest in this matter back when Epstein was first indicted and managed a slap on the wrist plea deal. All facilitated by GOP DAs (and some other politicians?) and the GWB Justice Dept.
Don't recall any GOP citizens and politicians jumping on this matter after Epstein served his time or supporting any of the victims in their civil suits. The Miami Herald finally did a full review of the matter and that sort of led to FBI and NYPD to have Epstein arrested during Trump's tenure on July 6, 2019. Death a month later.
Epstein knew that he wouldn't be protected a second time. Nor was Maxwell. Even as the prosecutors couldn't revisit the 2005/06 charges.
There are Trump fanatics. But
MAGAS include former democrats and a wave of movement to the Republican party by blacks and Hispanics, very traditional D voters.
They were not so much TRUMP as NO MORE WAR, control the borders, and honesty in government, which includes reigning in the FBI and CIA, for starters.
Democrat once bitched constantly about how Ds would split from each other, and Rs always stuck together. That is one of the reasons why Bernie was so hated by the blue no matter who mainstream D.
Both parties pick and choose their scandals strategically, it seems.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thanks OTC
but still not getting it. But I've never understood "swing voters" as they usually make no sense. Unlike those that go 3rd party or decline to vote.
I don't think of MAGAS so much as swing voters.
They were just voting that one time for peace, for and end to the spy control network here in this country, and border control was nothing to do with race, but wage and job security, world peace.
The Ds drifting to MAGA chose these issues over LGBTQ+ and, say, abortion rights.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981