I shouldn’t say it, I suppose, but I’ve been morbidly fascinated, watching this spitting battle between The Drumpfster and MTG like one looks at an accident on the side of the road. You don’t want to know but you kind of need to see. Do you recognize the car? Might it be someone you know under that yellow cover? In their case, who’s going to win? Spoiler alert: everything we’ve seen supports the idea that the devil takes care of his own so MTG doesn’t stand a chance. The fact that MTG is right never really enters into it.

I was watching her the other day and I had the feeling that she really doesn’t understand quite HOW she became an outsider, here. It, just for a moment, felt more like she thinks she’s helping Donny get on a better path. Consider, if you honestly, genuinely do not believe 47 is incriminated in the Epstein files in any way, what would be the problem with releasing everything, all at once, and let the chips fall where they may, right?

And I honestly and genuinely suspect that MTG considers Donny above suspicion, so what’s the problem? Anyone can see that this whole sex-with-minors thing is a problem for the dotard, as it should be. No, it’s not a serious problem for MAGA. They figure if Donny had sex with kids, he had a reason. Maybe he didn’t KNOW she was 13. It was probably for the good of the country or some such. Some of them wish they knew how to get to that island, too.

But for those of us still operating with a functioning moral compass – and that is the two-thirds of us who aren’t MAGA, along with the rest of the world – yeah, it’s a problem. And from her point of view, MTG is right. If Donny’s not in the files anyway, why not just release them and let the entire issue dry up and blow away? She seems unable to make the final leap.

If Donny’s not implicated, there’s no reason to withhold the files. Donny is withholding the files. Take the leap Marjorie. Connect the dots. If Donny’s not implicated, there’s no reason to withhold the files. Donny is withholding the files. It’s such a short step. You can DO it, Marjorie. C’mon, make the connection. If Donny’s not implicated, there’s no reason to withhold the files. Donny is withholding the files.

The waiting is the hardest part…

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Meanwhile, a trove of who’s-who photos were released by the Epstein estate. Now we’re going to get to watch the left highlight all of the known conservatives that show up in the pictures and the right highlight all of the known Dems that show up in the pictures, each side trying to out-evil each other.

In the interest of fairness, it should be clearly stated that simply appearing in a photo with Jeffrey Epstein is not proof of moral failure. I suspect Jeffrey and Ghislaine were careful about whom they invited to play along. I suspect the infamous airplane served as a convenient place to “vet” a potential “guest,” so one might find themselves enjoying a convenient plane ride that never became anything more. But we KNOW there were some (many?) who DID, shall we say, pursue “opportunities.”

It’s the group that survived the vetting and visited the island I’m interested in. Those who appear in the DVDs that were secretly recorded and labeled with the date, a girl’s name, and the perpetrators name. The DVDs that, likely, formed the basis of the blackmail that “earned” Epstein enough money to own an plane and an island. I don’t care if you took a plane ride. I care if you took opportunities to engage in sex with teenagers. If you did, I don’t care what your politics are. You should pay a price for what you did to those girls…

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Look, only a moron of the highest order would think it’s some kind of good idea to allow Artificial Intelligence (AI) free rein with little to no oversight and no regulation. So, of course, Donny’s all in with little to no oversight and no regulation of AI. He has signed an Executive Order denying states the right to regulate AI as they see fit because as everyone knows, conservatives have always stood against states rights, right?

Gavin Newsom, once again, has taken the lead in opposing this stupidity, too. Executive Orders do NOT carry the weight of law. Only Congress can make Federal laws. Congress’ cowardly abdication of that obligation doesn’t change that.

There’s a thing out there called the Drake Equation. The Drake Equation is a mathematical formula that attempts to suggest a number of communicative extra-terrestrial civilizations in the galaxy. Frank Drake wasn’t trying to actually count the actual number. He was trying to stimulate debate on the possibilities. Since his original formula was presented in 1961, it has been modified.

One of the modifications is, “The number of civilizations that has survived it’s technological age.” That’s where we are and, as of this writing, it’s not looking like we’re going to be counted among those who survived. Donny’s desperate clinging to fossil fuels we don’t need anymore will definitely be a factor, but shoving AI into anything and everything that can have AI shoved into it will certainly do serious long-term harm, as well. But by all means, let’s just keep blindly careening at wild speeds into an unknown we can’t see, control, or understand, all the while trusting the same billionaires who have put us where we are today. I’m sure it will be okay…

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Look, would you PLEASE just read the US Constitution? Please? It’s not that long. You can find it online. You can choose between reading the “as amended” version (the one I recommend) and the original with the amendments listed at the end. Yeah, it’s a bit dry but it’s not written in “herebys” and “wherefores.” It’s written in plain English. Well, some of it IS a bit archaic. Still, the point is, you can understand it without a law degree.

There are just truckloads of debates in this submerging, once-great nation that could be settled quickly and easily if people would just take a few minutes, just a few, and read the basis of the nation. Thank you for your attention to this matter…