There have been some other rumors going around that Trump's minor health issues may not be so minor. The other side of this, is that the now, democrat run oversight committee is not going to let this go. The Epstein thing will simmer the rest of the summer and be back with a vengeance in September.
As for this business with Obama, they seem to be forgetting that he has the same judicial immunity as Trump. He didn't when he was president but he does now. Will Obama come out an defend himself? He should. I get that past decorum used to dictate that ex-presidents went away and stayed out of the limelight for the most part (like George W. Bush), but this is a different time. Trump has upended all of the norms of presidential behavior. My advice to Obama, come out swinging. Do it forcibly but politely. Maybe enlist Bill Clinton to help a little since Trump is coming after Hillary as well.
I repeat and restate remarks of Keith Olbermann yesterday morning as if set forth at length. WHITE HOUSE "PARALYZED"; NOW IS THE TIME FOR OBAMA TO DESTROY TRUMP - 7.24.25
As to Trump's medical report, it it were my report, my physicians would automatically refer me for a thallium stress test if not a cardiac catherization.
Mr. Solomon, the very idea that an honorable man like Obama could be a criminal is an inadmissible social definition. Nobody would have imagined it until the Trumpsters claimed he is a criminal. If Obama now speaks out about the issue, even if he denies it, he lends it credibility by making it an admissible social definition. When Obama says "I am not a crook." The first thing that pops into the minds of citizens, is that he could possibly be a crook.........NIXON..........Politicians have leaned lots since Nixon.
When I was a boy my father told me to not take off the clothes of Barbara, the neighbor girl. He therefore presented me with the possibility that I could do it. It was an admissible social definition. My father never told me "Do not cut up the neighbor girl with a knife and eat her," because cannibalism was an inadmissible social definition. Please note here that I am not denying there are cannibals in the world.
My father did tell me to not use cigarettes. This presented me with the possibility that I could use cigarettes. An admissible social definition.
All I know is that TACO47, felon, makes my skin crawl. Since I retired in 2016, that criminal conman has been a dark shadow over our country, for over ten years. I can’t stand to look at his face, can’t stand listening to his verbal diarrhea or read his gishgallop BS that he posts and illustrates his illiteracy. I am beyond sick of him and his corruption along with his sycophantic minions who have lost their humanity, ethics along with their spines.
I was wondering when the Republicans were going to learn that TRump is just not that into them. I do believe it is happening sooner rather than later due to the Epstein issue. The Big Bad Bill would eventually hurt most of them, but his constant gas-lighting on this issue seems to be hurting their "feelings". A term that must be used lightly with the hard core MAGAs. You did a stellar job explaining their lack of empathy, Thom.
Watch what the Republican House members are saying that are voting against the others: Green, Mace, Massie and more. They don't want to go home and get another taste of a pissed-off constituency. They know they will lose their seats.
President Obama is a black man trying to protect his black family. He gave us all the rest of his adult life from community organizer to President. He doesn't owe us another damn minute. The Obamas, all of them, have my love and admiration no matter what he decides to do or not do.
The maggots are without interests except in their own areas of concern. I just heard on Apple News that this administration is destroying ten million dollars of contraceptive products going to developing country’s and it will cost thousands to destroy the cache.
Obama is not Black. He is of mixed race. I heard a Black man say this and it is true. He has a white mother.
Ms. Heasley, nobody is inherently Black or White, Negro or Caucasian. One's race is determined by how the members of one's community identifies one. The fact is that there is only one species of sapiens on this planet regardless of variations in phenotypes. Race is an artificial phenomenon, created culturally. It does not exist independently of culture.
I am in total agreement with what you write. And if given time, after I heard Morgan Freeman elaborate from a Black man's perspective that he did not consider Obama a Black man, and did some research, I would have come to your conclusion. I mistakenly considered Freeman's declaration as somehow representative of the Black man in general. I do see that Morgan Freeman appears to have strong opinions about everything!
In addition, your time stamp 12:39 is a false code meant to tacitly slander me - absolute lack of transparency -coordinated with the local maggots in my neighborhood, the blaring fire department timed with your stamp and local businesses including my dentist and pet hospital and Kaiser Permznente, where for more than two years they have neglected their HIPPA law responsibilities.
This behavior is terrorizing of me and the accusations inherent in the time stamp would not stand up in court if you would try to take me there.
“What they found is both shocking and absolutely consistent with the observations and suspicions of those of us who have to regularly interact with Trump followers: they’re sick, at least by the standards of liberal democracy. They lack empathy and even get pleasure out of watching other people in pain.” This is consistent with what I believe is the character traits of my friends and family who support Trump.
Last week I asked whether this can be measured via a dopamine test? Google says high dopamine levels can lead to feelings of euphoria and increased energy, but also potentially to aggression, anxiety, insomnia, and even mania in extreme cases. It can also result in impulsivity, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating.
Recently, PET (positron emission technology) scans have been used to measure dopamine levels.
the time has long passed...this orange, bloated, fat ass, gasbag, pedo needs to be gone....by any means necessary...any means ! ....arrested, removed in chains, charged for all his crimes, tried, convicted and locked away in a deep dark cell ( along with BeBe) never to be seen or heard from again.....oh yeah...and the maga GOP needs to be permanently scrubbed from existence.
Maybe, but no one is doing a survey of the death rate in the Sudan, because the people don't have a Ministry of Health, nor a journalist, or ex pat students, professors or oil to take their story to the world, and keep it front and forward like, for instance Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersch do for Gaza.
Yeh, Daniel. That's my big bitch. All you see on the news is 55,000 Gazans killed, meanwhile HAMAS has wiped out 10 battalions. a battalion is 500 men.
Same shit in Lebanon. IDF takes out a Hezbollah headquarterss, kills the staff, leaders and toops and what gets reported IDF killed X number of Lebanonese, now they are doing the same shit in Syria.
Well by those lights Germany killed 250,000 Americans and Japan an equal number.
Dishonesty in reporting. implying that they are all civilians, gets more eyeballs and clicks.
And HAMAS is motivated to lie and distort, yet no sign of critical thinking in the media, not even among Jews,and I mean Haaretz
Yeh, Sudan is a situation to which even oxfam has turned a blind eye.
Here is the real situation, none of us have enough blood to bleed for all of the suffering people, so our pity, our anger,our angst is limited and directed in the direction that we are guided to look, and which just happens to concur with our own predispositions and prejudices.
It is fashionable to keel haul the Jews, they don't have their hand on the oil spigot, and can shower nations and people with money, or buy them 747's and donate millions to universities.
Last I checked the jews were doing most of the killing. A large hand is being held over the Jews head as they slaughter and starve Palestinians. They don't need oil, they're Jews and that's a good enough reason.
So then because they ae Jews, you are concerned and upset?
Back to Sudan. According to WHO
7.7 million people across South Sudan will face acute food insecurity, accounting for over half of the entire population. Additionally, 2.3 million children in South Sudan face malnutrition, a rise from 2.1 million at the beginning of the year.Jun 12, 2025
As regards the killing in Gaza. What the media ignores, and of course the HAMAS Ministry of Health is that 1. The deaths are inflated and no one questions them and 2. Most of them are HAMAS and Islamic Jihad fighters.
The IDF has wiped out at least 10 battalions of fighters a battalion is 500 men.
And finally, not one person needlessly died, all deaths are on the heads of HAMAS. The started it have used the people as human shields, and the killing cold have stopped and can stop at any time. All HAMAS had to do was lay down its arms and give it's Jihad to annhilate the Jews.
But no. HAMAS is dedicated to the annhilation of the Jews,
Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, stated, "We are called a nation of martyrs... and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs". This statement was made in relation to the October 7, 2023, attacks and their consequences.
According to reports from <> and MEMRI of an interview on a Lebanese TV channel on October 24, 2023, Hamad also stated the October 7 massacre was "just the first of many" and that "there will be a second, a third, and a fourth" if possible. When asked if a price would be paid, he reportedly responded, "Yes, and we are ready to pay it".
Deal with that and we can talk, frankly I tire of HAMAS propaganda.
Yes what is happening to the people of Gaza is horrible, but place the blame where it belongs.
The moment Israel lets us, HAMAS will claim victory, recover, regroup, and start all over again.
I've been called an antisemite and an Islamphobe... and call a pox on all houses. But I am not susceptible to propaganda and manipulation.
We the People NEVER gave that angry toddler Trump permission to starve children in Gaza or any where else. Killing USAID. He shames our country and our People. 😢😭
Agreed about Trump, however the blame for the devastation in Gaza lies squarely on the backof HAMAS. They' ve been using the people whom they are suppose to protect and represent as human shields and propaganda
Hamas considers two million Gazan civilians, including children, as martyrs, whether they want to be or not.
“We are called a nation of martyrs,” said Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad. “And we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” He promised more attacks: “There will be a second, a third, a fourth.” When asked whether he sought the annihilation of Israel, Hamad matter-of-factly replied, “Yes, of course.”
You nailed it Thom. This whole Obama thing is a campaign to distract, not us, not the public, but TrumpHumpers.
Considering that I see no social redeeming qualities, in the malevolent cult of Trump humpers, and am devoid of empathy for anything that they believe they are going through.
If the personality study is true then we are left with a populace that is 37% forever brewing in the cauldron of hate, racism and lack of empathy. And there is very little chance of fixing that without quality education. In Finland they actually teach critical thinking. Imagine that. Of course education won't free everyone from set in stone thoughts but hopefully enough. Almost everything in life can be expressed in a bell shaped curve. We need to skew that curve so that enough people are capable of rational thought.
As for the ridiculous Obama conspiracy, I hope that in time he is able to sue for trillions.
This is not surprising, though it does sound a bit like a bumper sticker I once saw, “Republicans for Voldemort”. A follow-up could look at who wants to be actively associated with the Trump gang. There are many levels of government to consider, though a good start would be ICE. On paper there are high standards for who can be hired as an officer there, but I suspect the system filters and selects for those with similar brutal characteristics. Probably anyone who comes in with a more nuanced personality either shuts down their feelings or they won’t last long in such a toxic culture.
From their behavior doc, I safely assume that ICE agents are recruited from, and join, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boyz, 3% ers, the KKK and the various militias that have infected the body politic.
I don't know this as a fact, but I bet most are outside contractors. Number 1 on my hit list for many years were defense contractors. In some federal bulidings some of the security was supplied by "rent a cops."
The Defense Base Act gnerally applies to companies operating out of the country, but I also heard "Service Act" cases, involving domestic contractors.
It appears that our local and state police, turn a blind eye to men grabbing people off the streets. I haven't seen any reports of the police arriving and arresting men who kidnap people in broad daylight.
Their excuse is that they can't interfere with federal authorities, and by what means do they know they are federal authorities, Masked men roaming streets, jumping out of vans and kidnapping people.
I watched the press gaggle pestering Trump about a Maxwell pardon before he left for his $10+ million taxpayer funded promotion of his Scotland golf courses. He is clearly rattled by the Epstein matter demonstrated by his attack on Barack Hussein Obama - you know he's on the defensive when he uses his middle name. He tried to distract any way he could. The possible Maxwell pardon if gives it will bite him big time because it will focus the spotlight on the horrible things she did. (Read Heather Digby Parton in Salon today: "Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?" here: https://www.salon.com/2025/07/25/will-ghislaine-maxwell-come-through-for-trump-in-the-epstein-scandal/ ) I had my own take on the Sex Scandal that Won't Go to Sleep in "Jeffrey's Black Book: Is it real or will it turn out to be like H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon?" link here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/jeffreys-black-book-is-it-real-or
Dozens of victims have been compensated in civil suits against Epstein and the Epstein Estate. Every case is chocked full of potential witnesses.
According to Google, Maxwell has also been a defendant in several civil lawsuits related to the Jeffrey Epstein matter. These include lawsuits filed by Virginia Giuffre (settled in 2017), Sarah Ransome (settled in 2018), Annie Farmer (2019), Jennifer Araoz (2019), and other unnamed individuals in 2020 and 2021.
The allegations in these suits varied, including claims of defamation, recruitment, sexual abuse, and false imprisonment. Maxwell has denied these allegations. She also filed her own lawsuit against Epstein's estate seeking reimbursement for legal fees.
Wonder whether David Markus represented her in all these matters? Wonder whether other johns (like Trump) were implicated or mentioned?
Questions for Maxwell would concentrate on the period surrounding 2006, when Acosta gave Epstein the deal of the century and others got get out of jail free cards.
Did she have any dealings with Trump Model Management?
Here's the DOJ statement at the time:
"In the earlier phase of the conspiracy, from at least approximately 1994 through approximately 2001, MAXWELL and Epstein identified vulnerable girls, typically from single-mother households and difficult financial circumstances. This earlier phase required the defendant and Epstein to identify one girl at a time to target for grooming and abuse. In the later phase, from approximately 2001 until at least approximately 2004, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Epstein’s Palm Beach Residence to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after which Epstein, MAXWELL, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash. MAXWELL and Epstein encouraged one or more of those victims to travel with Epstein with the intention that the victim engage in sex acts with Epstein. Moreover, and in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims, MAXWELL and Epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein. In this way, MAXWELL and Epstein created a network of underage victims for Epstein to sexually exploit."
I didn't write anything "indicating" that RFK Jr. was a john. Of course, this is the term used to refer to a client or customer who pays for sexual services from a prostitute. I haven't seen reports that anybody paid for sexual services received in the Epstein case. That being noted, I did not write anything about thinking RFK Jr. engaged in any sexual activities in the Epstein gatherings. I also did not suggest that Trump was what you refer to as a john. We just do not know who did what while they were associatiing with Epstein. We also don't know that they knew and did nothing about as far as the sexual activities Epstein and others engaged in with minors and other women who were part of the sex trafficking enterprise.
I was not clear in what I meant and see where you could interpret it the way you did. Here's my correction: "Just now it is RFK Jr. (correction). He’s an embarrassment to everyone in the Kennedy clan because of his anti-vax positions."
As for linking to the story in The Daily Beast (with the photo) as summarized in RawStory, I did this to highlight that they referred to the "little black book." as follows: "Epstein’s 'little black book,' which featured contacts for socialites and politicians, as well as the girls he sexually assaulted." As you know the notion of an actual black book is what I built my Substack on.
Your dismissal of Obama and Clinton's reliance on faulty intelligence, cooking the books like George W Bush did with the weapons of mass destruction propaganda, is more evidence of your penchant for audience capture over truth. Just because Trump is a sociopathic narcissist, it doesn't mean he wasn't unjustly targeted by Obama and Clinton to foment a Russiagate narrativce which has been disproven repeatedly. Cue MSNBC liberals to call me "Boris" and a "Putinbot," just like the defamation McCarthy and his lackies who put anyone who disagreed with the narrative of Commies infiltrating intellectual spaces and Hollywood projected onto those who exposed them. none of these powerful people, including war criminals and liars like Obama or Biden (as well as Trump of course) are ever held accountable. Nor will they ever be. If you can cover up the Democrat's genocide and still publish pieces like this and have people fawning all over you, there is no morality and no accountability.
There is a lot of truth in your comments Barry that democrats Obama and Clinton and republicans of George Bush ilk illicitly soiled our government with their form of politics used to win.
For a long time now these same leaders have allowed slander to motivate their strategy of surveilling me and destroyed our family.
I absolutely hate to use myself as an example, but each time analysis finds destructive behavior I find it mirrors my experience and causes a visceral reaction and I can’t keep quiet.
‘They’ even use doctors and other businesses and corporations to exact punishment on me for past actions which I have been repeatedly punished in a public manner. In succession each new encounter takes advantage, and, like my recent dentist Dr. Hage who permanently damaged a nerve in my lower lip in a procedure he has done hundreds of times and admitted he had never damaged a nerve there before; so what am I to conclude? I don’t believe he made a mistake.
I, for one, am quite hopeful that the Epstein scandal will not die in six weeks and that the MAGA fanatics who are angry about being teased for years and then denied a list of clients will not forget that they have been scammed.
The one common denominator for the malevolent personality types is an underlying sense of fear and dread bathed in a fundamental hatred and mistrust for people in general and for those who they believe have failed them, including those in social services and government (who in many cases did indeed fail them).
It seems to me that the tactic Trump is using for distraction goes without saying because there isn’t anyone on Earth who doesn’t see through what he is doing.
Thom, it really is always the Black Man? Right? The hottest story of Trump’s year will remain just that, Thom, Epstein the hottest story of Trump’s life right now. Thom the Black Man distraction really isn’t going to work, Thom. That’s just me though.
There have been some other rumors going around that Trump's minor health issues may not be so minor. The other side of this, is that the now, democrat run oversight committee is not going to let this go. The Epstein thing will simmer the rest of the summer and be back with a vengeance in September.
As for this business with Obama, they seem to be forgetting that he has the same judicial immunity as Trump. He didn't when he was president but he does now. Will Obama come out an defend himself? He should. I get that past decorum used to dictate that ex-presidents went away and stayed out of the limelight for the most part (like George W. Bush), but this is a different time. Trump has upended all of the norms of presidential behavior. My advice to Obama, come out swinging. Do it forcibly but politely. Maybe enlist Bill Clinton to help a little since Trump is coming after Hillary as well.
Obama can cut off the psy ops.
I repeat and restate remarks of Keith Olbermann yesterday morning as if set forth at length. WHITE HOUSE "PARALYZED"; NOW IS THE TIME FOR OBAMA TO DESTROY TRUMP - 7.24.25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUdpTr21zs&t=421s
BTW I screwed up the last name yeasterday.
As to Trump's medical report, it it were my report, my physicians would automatically refer me for a thallium stress test if not a cardiac catherization.
Mr. Solomon, the very idea that an honorable man like Obama could be a criminal is an inadmissible social definition. Nobody would have imagined it until the Trumpsters claimed he is a criminal. If Obama now speaks out about the issue, even if he denies it, he lends it credibility by making it an admissible social definition. When Obama says "I am not a crook." The first thing that pops into the minds of citizens, is that he could possibly be a crook.........NIXON..........Politicians have leaned lots since Nixon.
When I was a boy my father told me to not take off the clothes of Barbara, the neighbor girl. He therefore presented me with the possibility that I could do it. It was an admissible social definition. My father never told me "Do not cut up the neighbor girl with a knife and eat her," because cannibalism was an inadmissible social definition. Please note here that I am not denying there are cannibals in the world.
My father did tell me to not use cigarettes. This presented me with the possibility that I could use cigarettes. An admissible social definition.
To falsely accuse him is a tort, actionable in court, subject to damages.
My 'ol pappy told me, "don't shit where you eat."
Trump never got this advice.
Defend himself? Obama should sue for billions....
I want to see a campaign of posters hanging from every overpass, carried at every protest, on bumper stickers, saying : “Trump. YOU ‘RE FIRED!”
All I know is that TACO47, felon, makes my skin crawl. Since I retired in 2016, that criminal conman has been a dark shadow over our country, for over ten years. I can’t stand to look at his face, can’t stand listening to his verbal diarrhea or read his gishgallop BS that he posts and illustrates his illiteracy. I am beyond sick of him and his corruption along with his sycophantic minions who have lost their humanity, ethics along with their spines.
Projection it's always projection with TRump
I was wondering when the Republicans were going to learn that TRump is just not that into them. I do believe it is happening sooner rather than later due to the Epstein issue. The Big Bad Bill would eventually hurt most of them, but his constant gas-lighting on this issue seems to be hurting their "feelings". A term that must be used lightly with the hard core MAGAs. You did a stellar job explaining their lack of empathy, Thom.
Watch what the Republican House members are saying that are voting against the others: Green, Mace, Massie and more. They don't want to go home and get another taste of a pissed-off constituency. They know they will lose their seats.
President Obama is a black man trying to protect his black family. He gave us all the rest of his adult life from community organizer to President. He doesn't owe us another damn minute. The Obamas, all of them, have my love and admiration no matter what he decides to do or not do.
See you in the streets for me, Barack, and you!.
I'm sorry but Obama (and Biden) should have called out the psy ops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections
We wuz robbed. Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania?
And now, he should sue. There is not enough money in the world to compensate for the lies. Give the proceeds to thje treasury to try to meke us whole.
The maggots are without interests except in their own areas of concern. I just heard on Apple News that this administration is destroying ten million dollars of contraceptive products going to developing country’s and it will cost thousands to destroy the cache.
Obama is not Black. He is of mixed race. I heard a Black man say this and it is true. He has a white mother.
Ms. Heasley, nobody is inherently Black or White, Negro or Caucasian. One's race is determined by how the members of one's community identifies one. The fact is that there is only one species of sapiens on this planet regardless of variations in phenotypes. Race is an artificial phenomenon, created culturally. It does not exist independently of culture.
I am in total agreement with what you write. And if given time, after I heard Morgan Freeman elaborate from a Black man's perspective that he did not consider Obama a Black man, and did some research, I would have come to your conclusion. I mistakenly considered Freeman's declaration as somehow representative of the Black man in general. I do see that Morgan Freeman appears to have strong opinions about everything!
In addition, your time stamp 12:39 is a false code meant to tacitly slander me - absolute lack of transparency -coordinated with the local maggots in my neighborhood, the blaring fire department timed with your stamp and local businesses including my dentist and pet hospital and Kaiser Permznente, where for more than two years they have neglected their HIPPA law responsibilities.
This behavior is terrorizing of me and the accusations inherent in the time stamp would not stand up in court if you would try to take me there.
“What they found is both shocking and absolutely consistent with the observations and suspicions of those of us who have to regularly interact with Trump followers: they’re sick, at least by the standards of liberal democracy. They lack empathy and even get pleasure out of watching other people in pain.” This is consistent with what I believe is the character traits of my friends and family who support Trump.
Co-dependants all.
Last week I asked whether this can be measured via a dopamine test? Google says high dopamine levels can lead to feelings of euphoria and increased energy, but also potentially to aggression, anxiety, insomnia, and even mania in extreme cases. It can also result in impulsivity, restlessness, and difficulty concentrating.
Recently, PET (positron emission technology) scans have been used to measure dopamine levels.
They lack empathy and even get pleasure out of watching other people in pain.
The true definition of a sociopath or psychopath.
the time has long passed...this orange, bloated, fat ass, gasbag, pedo needs to be gone....by any means necessary...any means ! ....arrested, removed in chains, charged for all his crimes, tried, convicted and locked away in a deep dark cell ( along with BeBe) never to be seen or heard from again.....oh yeah...and the maga GOP needs to be permanently scrubbed from existence.
Please don't be distracted from the starving people, suffering humans in Gaza.
What about the millions starving in Sudan, and the innocents killed by Putin? Why just Gaza?
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam
Maybe, but no one is doing a survey of the death rate in the Sudan, because the people don't have a Ministry of Health, nor a journalist, or ex pat students, professors or oil to take their story to the world, and keep it front and forward like, for instance Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersch do for Gaza.
After all they are only black,not brown or white.
They also don't monitor Syria/Hamas/Hezbollah kiiling their own people and count combatantants as victims.
Yeh, Daniel. That's my big bitch. All you see on the news is 55,000 Gazans killed, meanwhile HAMAS has wiped out 10 battalions. a battalion is 500 men.
Same shit in Lebanon. IDF takes out a Hezbollah headquarterss, kills the staff, leaders and toops and what gets reported IDF killed X number of Lebanonese, now they are doing the same shit in Syria.
Well by those lights Germany killed 250,000 Americans and Japan an equal number.
Dishonesty in reporting. implying that they are all civilians, gets more eyeballs and clicks.
And HAMAS is motivated to lie and distort, yet no sign of critical thinking in the media, not even among Jews,and I mean Haaretz
Don't see this happening in Sudan.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-israeli-forces-intercept?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=2g7cs&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Yeh, Sudan is a situation to which even oxfam has turned a blind eye.
Here is the real situation, none of us have enough blood to bleed for all of the suffering people, so our pity, our anger,our angst is limited and directed in the direction that we are guided to look, and which just happens to concur with our own predispositions and prejudices.
It is fashionable to keel haul the Jews, they don't have their hand on the oil spigot, and can shower nations and people with money, or buy them 747's and donate millions to universities.
Last I checked the jews were doing most of the killing. A large hand is being held over the Jews head as they slaughter and starve Palestinians. They don't need oil, they're Jews and that's a good enough reason.
So then because they ae Jews, you are concerned and upset?
Back to Sudan. According to WHO
7.7 million people across South Sudan will face acute food insecurity, accounting for over half of the entire population. Additionally, 2.3 million children in South Sudan face malnutrition, a rise from 2.1 million at the beginning of the year.Jun 12, 2025
As regards the killing in Gaza. What the media ignores, and of course the HAMAS Ministry of Health is that 1. The deaths are inflated and no one questions them and 2. Most of them are HAMAS and Islamic Jihad fighters.
The IDF has wiped out at least 10 battalions of fighters a battalion is 500 men.
And finally, not one person needlessly died, all deaths are on the heads of HAMAS. The started it have used the people as human shields, and the killing cold have stopped and can stop at any time. All HAMAS had to do was lay down its arms and give it's Jihad to annhilate the Jews.
But no. HAMAS is dedicated to the annhilation of the Jews,
Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, stated, "We are called a nation of martyrs... and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs". This statement was made in relation to the October 7, 2023, attacks and their consequences.
According to reports from <> and MEMRI of an interview on a Lebanese TV channel on October 24, 2023, Hamad also stated the October 7 massacre was "just the first of many" and that "there will be a second, a third, and a fourth" if possible. When asked if a price would be paid, he reportedly responded, "Yes, and we are ready to pay it".
Deal with that and we can talk, frankly I tire of HAMAS propaganda.
Yes what is happening to the people of Gaza is horrible, but place the blame where it belongs.
The moment Israel lets us, HAMAS will claim victory, recover, regroup, and start all over again.
I've been called an antisemite and an Islamphobe... and call a pox on all houses. But I am not susceptible to propaganda and manipulation.
You're right.
We the People NEVER gave that angry toddler Trump permission to starve children in Gaza or any where else. Killing USAID. He shames our country and our People. 😢😭
Agreed about Trump, however the blame for the devastation in Gaza lies squarely on the backof HAMAS. They' ve been using the people whom they are suppose to protect and represent as human shields and propaganda
Hamas considers two million Gazan civilians, including children, as martyrs, whether they want to be or not.
“We are called a nation of martyrs,” said Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad. “And we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” He promised more attacks: “There will be a second, a third, a fourth.” When asked whether he sought the annihilation of Israel, Hamad matter-of-factly replied, “Yes, of course.”
You nailed it Thom. This whole Obama thing is a campaign to distract, not us, not the public, but TrumpHumpers.
Considering that I see no social redeeming qualities, in the malevolent cult of Trump humpers, and am devoid of empathy for anything that they believe they are going through.
Do they support preverts or what?
Of course support, and I am sure that if one could download their phones and puters, you would find child porn in abundance.
If the personality study is true then we are left with a populace that is 37% forever brewing in the cauldron of hate, racism and lack of empathy. And there is very little chance of fixing that without quality education. In Finland they actually teach critical thinking. Imagine that. Of course education won't free everyone from set in stone thoughts but hopefully enough. Almost everything in life can be expressed in a bell shaped curve. We need to skew that curve so that enough people are capable of rational thought.
As for the ridiculous Obama conspiracy, I hope that in time he is able to sue for trillions.
This is not surprising, though it does sound a bit like a bumper sticker I once saw, “Republicans for Voldemort”. A follow-up could look at who wants to be actively associated with the Trump gang. There are many levels of government to consider, though a good start would be ICE. On paper there are high standards for who can be hired as an officer there, but I suspect the system filters and selects for those with similar brutal characteristics. Probably anyone who comes in with a more nuanced personality either shuts down their feelings or they won’t last long in such a toxic culture.
From their behavior doc, I safely assume that ICE agents are recruited from, and join, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boyz, 3% ers, the KKK and the various militias that have infected the body politic.
I don't know this as a fact, but I bet most are outside contractors. Number 1 on my hit list for many years were defense contractors. In some federal bulidings some of the security was supplied by "rent a cops."
The Defense Base Act gnerally applies to companies operating out of the country, but I also heard "Service Act" cases, involving domestic contractors.
It appears that our local and state police, turn a blind eye to men grabbing people off the streets. I haven't seen any reports of the police arriving and arresting men who kidnap people in broad daylight.
Their excuse is that they can't interfere with federal authorities, and by what means do they know they are federal authorities, Masked men roaming streets, jumping out of vans and kidnapping people.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea they usually aid and abet ICE due to a state statute that requires it.
I watched the press gaggle pestering Trump about a Maxwell pardon before he left for his $10+ million taxpayer funded promotion of his Scotland golf courses. He is clearly rattled by the Epstein matter demonstrated by his attack on Barack Hussein Obama - you know he's on the defensive when he uses his middle name. He tried to distract any way he could. The possible Maxwell pardon if gives it will bite him big time because it will focus the spotlight on the horrible things she did. (Read Heather Digby Parton in Salon today: "Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?" here: https://www.salon.com/2025/07/25/will-ghislaine-maxwell-come-through-for-trump-in-the-epstein-scandal/ ) I had my own take on the Sex Scandal that Won't Go to Sleep in "Jeffrey's Black Book: Is it real or will it turn out to be like H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon?" link here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/jeffreys-black-book-is-it-real-or
You're indicating that RFK Jr. was a john.
Dozens of victims have been compensated in civil suits against Epstein and the Epstein Estate. Every case is chocked full of potential witnesses.
According to Google, Maxwell has also been a defendant in several civil lawsuits related to the Jeffrey Epstein matter. These include lawsuits filed by Virginia Giuffre (settled in 2017), Sarah Ransome (settled in 2018), Annie Farmer (2019), Jennifer Araoz (2019), and other unnamed individuals in 2020 and 2021.
The allegations in these suits varied, including claims of defamation, recruitment, sexual abuse, and false imprisonment. Maxwell has denied these allegations. She also filed her own lawsuit against Epstein's estate seeking reimbursement for legal fees.
Wonder whether David Markus represented her in all these matters? Wonder whether other johns (like Trump) were implicated or mentioned?
Questions for Maxwell would concentrate on the period surrounding 2006, when Acosta gave Epstein the deal of the century and others got get out of jail free cards.
Did she have any dealings with Trump Model Management?
Here's the DOJ statement at the time:
"In the earlier phase of the conspiracy, from at least approximately 1994 through approximately 2001, MAXWELL and Epstein identified vulnerable girls, typically from single-mother households and difficult financial circumstances. This earlier phase required the defendant and Epstein to identify one girl at a time to target for grooming and abuse. In the later phase, from approximately 2001 until at least approximately 2004, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Epstein’s Palm Beach Residence to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after which Epstein, MAXWELL, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash. MAXWELL and Epstein encouraged one or more of those victims to travel with Epstein with the intention that the victim engage in sex acts with Epstein. Moreover, and in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims, MAXWELL and Epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein. In this way, MAXWELL and Epstein created a network of underage victims for Epstein to sexually exploit."
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse
I didn't write anything "indicating" that RFK Jr. was a john. Of course, this is the term used to refer to a client or customer who pays for sexual services from a prostitute. I haven't seen reports that anybody paid for sexual services received in the Epstein case. That being noted, I did not write anything about thinking RFK Jr. engaged in any sexual activities in the Epstein gatherings. I also did not suggest that Trump was what you refer to as a john. We just do not know who did what while they were associatiing with Epstein. We also don't know that they knew and did nothing about as far as the sexual activities Epstein and others engaged in with minors and other women who were part of the sex trafficking enterprise.
State whether or not you said: "Just now it’s the embarrassment to everyone in the Kennedy clan, RFK Jr."
State whether o not you linked: "RFK Jr. Pictured Partying With Child Sex Predator Jeffrey Epstein."
I was not clear in what I meant and see where you could interpret it the way you did. Here's my correction: "Just now it is RFK Jr. (correction). He’s an embarrassment to everyone in the Kennedy clan because of his anti-vax positions."
As for linking to the story in The Daily Beast (with the photo) as summarized in RawStory, I did this to highlight that they referred to the "little black book." as follows: "Epstein’s 'little black book,' which featured contacts for socialites and politicians, as well as the girls he sexually assaulted." As you know the notion of an actual black book is what I built my Substack on.
Your dismissal of Obama and Clinton's reliance on faulty intelligence, cooking the books like George W Bush did with the weapons of mass destruction propaganda, is more evidence of your penchant for audience capture over truth. Just because Trump is a sociopathic narcissist, it doesn't mean he wasn't unjustly targeted by Obama and Clinton to foment a Russiagate narrativce which has been disproven repeatedly. Cue MSNBC liberals to call me "Boris" and a "Putinbot," just like the defamation McCarthy and his lackies who put anyone who disagreed with the narrative of Commies infiltrating intellectual spaces and Hollywood projected onto those who exposed them. none of these powerful people, including war criminals and liars like Obama or Biden (as well as Trump of course) are ever held accountable. Nor will they ever be. If you can cover up the Democrat's genocide and still publish pieces like this and have people fawning all over you, there is no morality and no accountability.
There is a lot of truth in your comments Barry that democrats Obama and Clinton and republicans of George Bush ilk illicitly soiled our government with their form of politics used to win.
For a long time now these same leaders have allowed slander to motivate their strategy of surveilling me and destroyed our family.
I absolutely hate to use myself as an example, but each time analysis finds destructive behavior I find it mirrors my experience and causes a visceral reaction and I can’t keep quiet.
‘They’ even use doctors and other businesses and corporations to exact punishment on me for past actions which I have been repeatedly punished in a public manner. In succession each new encounter takes advantage, and, like my recent dentist Dr. Hage who permanently damaged a nerve in my lower lip in a procedure he has done hundreds of times and admitted he had never damaged a nerve there before; so what am I to conclude? I don’t believe he made a mistake.
I, for one, am quite hopeful that the Epstein scandal will not die in six weeks and that the MAGA fanatics who are angry about being teased for years and then denied a list of clients will not forget that they have been scammed.
The one common denominator for the malevolent personality types is an underlying sense of fear and dread bathed in a fundamental hatred and mistrust for people in general and for those who they believe have failed them, including those in social services and government (who in many cases did indeed fail them).
Don't know why there aren't more likes and restacks on this report.
This is a top ten piece any day of any week, anywhere.
It seems to me that the tactic Trump is using for distraction goes without saying because there isn’t anyone on Earth who doesn’t see through what he is doing.
That study about the dark triad raises questions about what the election maps show, and the "culture war" coverage.
Seems like DARVO strategies would present as among extremely manipulative personalities.
Thom, it really is always the Black Man? Right? The hottest story of Trump’s year will remain just that, Thom, Epstein the hottest story of Trump’s life right now. Thom the Black Man distraction really isn’t going to work, Thom. That’s just me though.