TWGB: It's Raining Shoes!

 

It certainly has been a minute, hasn't it? So, what brings me out of self-imposed blogging exile, if not something very relevant to my obsessions? Is it that the POTUS's favorite she-pimp seems to be getting favorable treatment, with the expectation of more of the same? Well sure, that's pretty heinous, given what she has done, and you would certainly be right to wonder why, but there's of course more, because this is TrumpWorld--and of course, there are emails, lots of them, indicating Trump knew about the girls. 

I don't think any mature rational person, knowing what we know about Trump and women (and girls) who isn't pretty sure how well he knew either--it was not a well-kept secret.

But if you know me by now, you know all roads go back to Moscow. Or really, anywhere kompromat on this scuzzy, flabby-brained bag of crapulence can damage this country's national security. Because fine, MAGA does not give a tiny, constipated shit for women and girls--understood. From "Moses Mike" Johnson to the lowest Q-creep, they can pretend to moralize all they want, but at the end of the day, they can, will and do compromise their morality for the sake of politics. 

But Epstein was letting the Russians know what of course they already knew--how to handle Trump. Epstein was talking with the Russians and people in Trump's circle at a period of time that is MIGHTY inconvenient. 

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? I don't want to wonder, though--we need to see what else in in these Epstein files, and not whatever version has been redacted to death (so we have heard). The American people deserve the truth. 

(As for me, I'm still writing--I'm doing my usual November poetry challenge. )

They Aren't Serious People

 

Two relatively weird and messed up things (I guess not just two, but these were the ones I was tracking) happened today--the Trump Administration got to pretend they were being "promises kept" about releasing the so-called "Epstein files" and they also seem to have gotten the Tate Brothers extradited from Romania. 

I'm not going to touch on Romanian politics or how President in fact Elon Musk is rooting for the pro-Russian candidate and mad the democratic republic wants a do-over and all that--my bandwidth is limited, and TrumpWorld is messy enough as it is. Per my understanding Cailin Georgescu earned his troubles honestly and you want to keep that between him and the country his dumb ass ran, cheated, and was caught on the verge of insurrection in. 

For a lot of reasons, I don't find that funny, myself. I do think it's very funny we are going to pretend the Tates are supposed to be, adamantly, "innocent until PROVEN guilty" when we just horked them out of the environment people were trying to find them guilty in. And their whole schtick was advertising themselves as successful pimps and human traffickers and admitted to being all the bad things they are accused of. 

Big Men in Kids' Pants

 

Anyway, last night I didn't blog about Trump possibly referring to himself as a king over interfering with New York local politics over "congestion pricing" or with his daft, ahistorical and ignorant ravings over whether Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is a "dictator" (while Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for a quarter century, and no, the temporary interregnum of Nukesy-Pukesy the Drunken Hate-America Elf does not count). I wrote a short science fiction story instead because it gave my brain a rest from what can only be described as imprecatory cursing bordering on being entered on several watchlists, from Homeland Security to St. Peter's. 

But my problem coalesced for me in the above picture of our US Vice-President, JD (Jimmy Donuts?) Vance, sitting there with his Little Lord Fauntleroy awkward short-looking trousers. Jello Dildo Vance never learned how to buy pants. When I say "Big Men in Kids' Pants" I am not talking about in a Matt Gaetz way or a Tate Brothers' way--although their pants truly also don't fit and make them look stupid and juvenile. Also, they fuck underage girls. (That's called "statutory rape" in law-and-order world.) 

I mean they have never learned to pull up their big boy pants and pretend they have a "crisis of manhood" when they have a crisis of not figuring out --not the "man" part--but the "adult" part. 

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are the real machers, so I will leave Vance alone for a minute--and he's used to it! And they never earned a callous between them. Billions of dollars, yes. Did a 70 hour week of physical on your feet pallet jack and register banging work-no. Never climbed poles, fought fires, worn a hardhat but never used the equipment but for show. Their work is investing. 

Kennedy, Caviezel, and the Conspiracy Theories

 

I was prepared to just dedicate a little space to the "surprise" movie of the summer, a little action picture (I guess it's action?) starring Jim Caviezel (whose work on "Person of Interest" was quite all right) and which is just a bit controversial. You know, in the way that the movie is at least thematically related to Qanon, and Jim Caviezel is a big old Q-Krazy. As in, when he promotes the movie, he adds a dollop of adenochrome discussion which is a descendant of the gnarly old anti-Semitic blood libel, which itself can be traced back to "the Jews killed Jesus".

So of course it's being promoted to Christian groups and conservatives with a "pay it forward' scheme that seems to be plumping its box office totals, in rather the way mass book-buys aid conservatives on the best-seller lists. 

Now, as for me, I don't like to criticize art I haven't sampled and don't mean to yuck anyone's yum over wanting to see the movie--which may very well be worth it at the price! I'm just naturally skeptical over something that might very well be soft-peddling hard bullshit that misrepresents human trafficking and how to combat it. It also strikes me as really odd that just as focus has come upon the real-life group formed by Tim Ballard who inspired the movie--he's checking out for a while. That may or may not be anything sketchy. 

But I'd hate to see anyone fall unawares into any of the Qanon-related "rabbit-holes".  Or decide to freelance to combat human trafficking because they think they are "helping".

(I do have to say that this "raising awareness" of human trafficking with a look of earnestness reminds me a bit of the "Kony 2012" viral video from nearly a dozen years ago. I recall one of the makers of that video was briefly checked into a health clinic or something in the surrounding attention. And some very cringe music videos surfaced.) 

Matt Gaetz Begged His Pardon

 

Man, Is it bad that Matt Gaetz was pretty sure that he needed a pardon from the Trump Administration for potential sex trafficking charges? 

Johnny McEntee, according to people familiar with his testimony, told investigators that Gaetz told him during a brief meeting “that they are launching an investigation into him or that there’s an investigation into him,” without specifying who was investigating Gaetz. 

McEntee added that Gaetz told him “he did not do anything wrong but they are trying to make his life hell, and you know, if the president could give him a pardon, that would be great.” Gaetz told McEntee that he had asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for a pardon. 

Asked by investigators if Gaetz’s ask for a pardon was in the context of the Justice Department investigation into whether Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws, McEntee replied, “I think that was the context, yes,” according to people familiar with the testimony who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Now, just because someone votes in ways that kind of suggest sympathy with sex traffickers and has friends that are sex traffickers is no reason to rush to any kind of conclusion. But, I dunno. 

I might. 

But the story also suggests that Gzaetz was pushing for something along the lines of a "blanket pardon" for himself and other lawmakers, so he could have been concerned about all kinds of things.  Which is also not a great look.

As for his part, former President Trump says he never was asked for a pardon by Gaetz and I have no problem believing Trump never gave him one. 

Martha's Vineyard and the Migrants

 

So, I think that the DeSantis stunt of hijacking undocumented people from Texas (who had not ever stepped a foot in Florida) and were mostly Venezuelan (escaping a left-wing government nightmare that would be familiar in treachery to Cuban immigrants) was obviously signaling about his national ambitions, not the current gubernatorial battle; his ass thinks he has that sewed up.  I want to concentrate on how what he did here, spending some ridiculous sum to transport asylum seekers processed by DHS to try and own libs, was dumb as hell. (Is it human trafficking--or kidnapping? It totally feels like a violation of human rights.)

I have been saying DeSantis is covering up his clusterfuckery with culture war signifying, and this is just another example of that. Does someone need to spend taxpayer money for 50 people that never set a step in Florida to actually get decent treatment in a receptive and empathetic community of people who are welcoming and actually happy to help people in trouble--in a whole other state? 

You know, a lot of liberals are going to focus on the cruelty. That these people were misled to get them onto the transport with promises of jobs and they weren't even fed or told where they were going to go. I don't think that matters to DeSantis fans. They love the cruelty part of it. They get off on it. These thimble dicks think that owning libs is exactly what went down and...

That isn't what happened. 

Migrants and local high school AP Spanish students, who have been dismissed from school to help interpret, play a ball game in the Parish House parking lot to pass the time. pic.twitter.com/KsyRKsoslv

— Brooke Kushwaha (@BrookeKushwaha) September 15, 2022

What really happened was a whole community chipped in.  This could have been Ron DeSantis, but he doesn't have that grace. This could have been Greg Abbott too, who did the same stunt times two in DC. What if just treating immigrants and asylum-seekers like human beings was such an accessible idea that governors in an election year never had to signify about treating them like pawns and not even people, and just--fucking showed basic human decency? What if decency was always an option, and we recognized that choosing whatever this is--is not ok?