The Real MAGA Beef About the Epstein List - 7/15/2025

First off, I want to make it clear, I have supported and do support Trump since 2016, my preference for DeSantis notwithstanding. I don't call myself MAGA. I just don't. I do like what MAGA stands for, but I don't subscribe to any movement top to bottom, side to side. The world is complicated, sometimes I have my own thoughts and I'm not in perfect alignment with the mainstream.

Suicide or suicided?

Now, to the reason I'm writing tonight: Why is MAGA in an uproar over failure to release "the Epstein list"? The angry mob is calling out anyone who might not agree to the list's release as "protecting pedos", but at the heart of it, that's not the real issue. If not that, then what is?

The real issue is that Jeffrey Epstein is widely believed to have been a tool for intelligence organizations, in the U.S. and or abroad, secretly gathering information on his guests' lewd and immoral behaviors, which was then used to blackmail those same individuals here in the U.S. and overseas, to do the bidding of intelligence agencies. Whether doing so for Israel or the U.S., or both, that's what many believe. It's the root of people not believing "Epstein didn't kill himself," for example.

The theory is underscored by seeing how many of our politicians so often seem compromised in some way into making statements or voting in ways contrary to what would seem to be in good sense and in good conscience. All the dirt Epstein reportedly gathered, it is believed, is used to force politicians to play along or be ruined. Most believe, as I do, that our 3-letter agencies, the valor and commitment of many individuals within them notwithstanding, have evolved to be evil and corrupt, presuming to collectively know better than we do what's best and or what's right of our country.

Many believe our 3-letter agencies meddled in the 2016 and 2020 elections, meddled with Trump's first term massively, and had a large and corrupt role in things like Jan 6th and the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping. Certainaly there is also suspicion about their role in either one or both of the Trump assassination attempts. (JFK/RFK anybody?) You can discount all of that if you want. That's your choice. All I am doing here is to point out in large measure, why MAGA is livid about the failure to disclose the list. Personally, I can see a good number of reasons they might not want to, but I'm not here to argue for or against, just to dig in to the root frustration.

There is one major flaw here. Yes, the people on the list are bad guys: pedos, etc. But they're not THE bad guys. They're the ones who were blackmailed, but NOT the blackmailers. Maybe, just maybe, the reason we're not seeing the list is because they're trying to flip a blackmailed ex-Epstein Island visitor to tell who it is/was blackmailing them to try and make a case against it. Is that what it is? I don't know. Maybe.

Regardless, MAGA feels we've been screwed by the system, particularly rich and powerful people in and out of government, and for them this list is bloody red meat. MAGA wants its due. They're hungry for payback. They want to eat. I can't blame them. 

And fuck the pedos, anyway,

Butler PA, a Year Later - 7/13/2025

 

"Fight, fight, fight!"

A year ago today, an assassin on a rooftop nearby to a Trump rally attempted to assassinate President Trump. A few brief thoughts:

Reports now that the Secret Service had intelligence suggestion Trump's life was in danger, but did NOT alert the agents responsible for security at the event. I want to dig in right here. How could they NOT notify the security team? I start with Trump Derangement Syndrome. All parties involved in the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service in D.C. were Biden Admin and Establishment types. You can't convince me otherwise. They saw Trump's rallies as a circus sideshow. A distraction. A waste of resources, time, effort, money, etc. Like, who has ever had this kind of a traveling sideshow and expected us to protect the head clown? For real.

Do I think they were part of a conspiracy to assassinate Trump? It more likely they were not than were so. I do think there was some measure of coverup. I don't exactly know why, but we do know that kid's body was cremated way too fast and I saw, within days, that roof being washed clean. Those two things, alone, insert doubt into the whole story. Do they prove anything? No. But they're goddamned suspicious as hell. If you asked me, do I believe it is an absolute certainty that there was NOT a conspiracy, I would say, no, there is now way it can be totally ruled out. After every corrupt thing that they did to try to stop him prior to, during, and after his first term, to say it is completely out of the question would be preposterous.

Let's look who was running the show: Secretary of Homeland Security "the border is secure" Alejandro Mayorkas, the single most contemptible member of the Biden Administration (my opinion, I know there are certainly others who some dislike even more), Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, a BIden loyalist who proved to be in way over her head, and Deputy and then Director Ronald Rowe, who couldn't possibly have show himself to be a bigger asshole than he did in the aftermath. There isn't a single one of them I would trust to ensure Trump's well-being.

Will we ever know the full story? Probably not. You would think we would know every single thing about the assassin. Why don't we? Remember the nonsense about not being able to get into his phone(s)? Something stinks. It could be a simple matter of them covering up their own incompetence. It could be something worse. It seems like some transparency would have been enlightening. How could we ever expect that from the same people who said the border was secure and that Joe Biden was mentally competent? 

Epstein and Other Outrages - 7/9/2025

Epstein didn't traffic those underage girls to nobody.

I have no idea what's going on with all the Epstein drama. It's really a bad look when two, opposing Administrations in a row clam up like this. The possibilities are nearly endless, and pretty much none of them is good. 1) The only speculation I discount, nearly out of hand, is that Trump was one of Epstein's clients with the underage girls. He wasn't. Nope. Why do I say that? Because if he was there is no way, none, zero, zip, zilch, nada, that the Democrats and Trump's enemies in the Deep State would NOT have released that. It is a certainty, that if there was a smoking gun there that indicted Trump, we would know it, whether via legal action or leak.

What I do think, not know, but think, is that 2) a lot of important people in government, elected and bureaucrat alike, all three branches, and out of government in finance, business, entertainment, etc., are likely involved. I also think 3) there's a good chance this was an FBI/CIA or other government agency or extracurricular government people's blackmailing operation. Our elected officials are being influenced or controlled by someone. Both 2) and 3), above, may be wrong, but I don't think so.

This is Sade Perkins. Sade is a racist piece of trash.

The Texas flood last weekend brought out the worst in people. I give the title, "Worst of the Worst", to a woman named Sade Perkins, who took to social media, and among other things suggested it was God's will to "wash the little c'nts away". Because they're white, and thus, presumably, their parents voted for Trump, and that, all by itself, proves they're racists. So, in Sade's twisted thinking, white people probably voted for Trump. This makes them racist. It also makes their children, especially girls, you know, the "little c'nts," legitimate targets of God's anti-racism wrath. I am sure Sade believes that. And when people tell you who they are, believe them.

Dr. Christina Probst has Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Then there's Dr. Christina Probst. Sweet Chrissy went right on social media, the dead were barely started even being counted, and pointed out that Kerr County voted for Trump and were getting what they voted for, finishing with a very cynical "Bless their hearts." Sweet Chrissy is unfit to care for children. She is an evil, deranged bitch. I hope life gives her what she deserves.

Anti-ICE activists are upping the ante and moving into terrorism and assassination. 

This is terrorism, friends. It's not activism any longer. This is not the last of it, not by a longshot (no pun intended). It's a good time to buy ammo and think about personal protection and security. They're upping their levels of violence. I think I'll buy some 12 gauge shotgun shells this time. Checking my gun safe, everything else is well stocked. Lest you think this is isolated and not part of something larger, I leave you with a link to an Axios piece. Read it and be warned.

House Dems Say Their Supporters Want Blood

Scary shit. Keep your powder dry.

Big Beautiful Bill - 7/5/2025

In the shadow of a B2 Bomber and F-35's, President Trump signed the budget bill on the White House lawn yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it. Some assorted thoughts:

1.) Thank goodness we're finally defunding Planned Parenthood. American women kill 1,000,000 babies a year. Right to choose my ass. 1,000,000 is too many. And Planned Parenthood, all the intentionally misleading propaganda about providing essential health services aside, provides nearly 40% of those 1,000,000 abortions. Do the math. You want a right to choose whether your baby lives or dies? Fine. Don't use our money to kill hundreds of thousands of babies.

2.) Making people who can work work as a requisite to receiving government health benefits seems fair to me. Not everyone can work. I get that. I am not talking about someone who literally can't work. There are also a hell of a lot of people who can work but think they can't or choose not to. We mollycoddle a whole lot of them, in doing so we help to convince them they can't work. And some know they can, but why bother? Work is hard. Free shit is easy. F*** those lazy mother***ers.

3.) IDGAF if people here illegally don't get a dime of taxpayer money for anything.  The free shit is why they're here. Do I mean all illegal aliens? No. Some, maybe many, are pulling their own weight. But the ones getting the free shit? Nah. No more free shit. Why not? Because they're not entitled to it, and because we can't afford it.

4.) I do not like that we raised the debt ceiling. I don't like it at all. I supported DOGE, but I recognize that the entire apparatus resisted DOGE actively, passively, aggressively, and stubbornly. I was staunchly behind Elon and his attempt to make an impact on the financial insanity in Washington, and I get, totally, why he's pissed. MAGAs are making him out to be the bad guy. Nah.

A couple of notes, unrelated to the BBB:

I don't like calling the immigrant processing facility Alligator Alcatraz. I do support deportation on a massive scale, but calling it Alligator Alcatraz feels wrong to me. The decision to deport someone, and the process of doing so, are serious business and not an internet meme. If they call is "Everglades Alien Processing Facility" or "South Florida Processing Facility," at least there's some dignity in it. I'm sure many disagree, but I'm not a fan of the Alligator Alcatraz name at all.

I read that three "unnamed sources" claim that SecDef Hegseth cut off some military supplies to Ukraine, saying that he was doing so to ensure our own readiness, despite having been told the supplies could be given without impacting our own readiness. I hope these Alexander Vindman types of unnamed sources are out of work at the Pentagon by week's end. IDGAF if they disagree. So be it. But to go rogue deep state and piss and moan to a reporter because the SecDef disagreed with your assessment in a clear attempt to undermine him and his authority? F*** all the way off!

Connecting a few dots: Socialist Zohran Mamdani, Democrat New York mayoral candidate, has said New York needs to tax whiter neighborhoods. Let's just stipulate to the evil of that and leave the racism and race card he's playing there aside. This guy is the same guy who used misleading racial identity on his college application. Hmmm. Perhaps Mamdani was just trying to set the stage so when elected he could save money on taxes?

Arriverderci Facebook - 6/20/2025

Bye bye, Facebook, at least for a while this summer. After that, who knows?

I deactivated my Facebook account Tuesday. I will make the explanation as short and to the point as possible. Here goes.

1) Because I've lost too many friends because I expressed my political point of view on there. People I used to care about have extricated themselves from my life. I mourn their departure, but at the same time have a sense that it's good riddance. I care about my country and my countrymen, so because my opinion differs from theirs, they've abandoned me. In a very small number of cases, it is I who abandoned them, but in each specific instance, it was their arrogance and insult that inspired me to sever our Facebook connection. I was stupid, uneducated, a racist, etc. If that's what they think of me, I don't need them in my life, anyway.

2) As the situation in our country continues to evolve, devolve is probably more like it, I find myself becoming intolerant of dissenting voices even absent of insult. The insults are still there, mind you, but no longer a prerequisite to my intolerance. At the same time I find continuing to express myself futile and counterproductive. I just do. More than anything, though, as much as people's intolerance toward me and my views as I described in the preceding paragraph has hurt me, those feelings serve to makes me uncomfortable with my own, similar feelings toward others. It just ain't worth it.

I decided to sit Facebook out for a while. I'll reassess later this summer. We'll see. For now, I'll concentrate on family, taking care of stuff at home, reading lots of books, and continuing my Italian Lessons. 

Arriverderci Facebook. 

The "No Kings" Assassin, a Turning Point for Me - 6/15/2025

The "No Kings" Assassin is a Tim Walz political appointee in Minnesota.

You read that right. The "No Kings" assassin is a Tim Walz political appointee. I've seen attempts to turn him into a Trump supporter or MAGA dude, but he's not.

Before I ramble on, my condolences to the family of Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and wishing a full recovery to Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who were also shot by the No Kings assassin. We should not overlook the tragedy the No Kings assassin has brought to the lives of the Hortman's and Hoffman's family and friends.

Vance Luther Boelter is the "No Kings" assassin. His motive remains unclear. My hunch, just a hunch, is that he was involved in some kind of corruption and was at risk of being caught. I read this morning that his wife and two family members were stopped by police in Minnesota with money, passports, and guns, likely making a run for it to Canada. Was she in on something? Who knows? But running off to Canada sure don't seem all innocent and pure like windblown snow kinda stuff to do.

I find it ironic that on a day when an assassin with No Kings flyers in his vehicle kills a politician and her husband, and attempts same with another, that liberals across America, in the same No Kings protests against Trump, carried guillotine posters, severed Trump heads, posted posters with the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the crosshairs, and carried abundant 86 47 signs, which at this point can't be denied: are all allusions to assassinating the President and now the Vice President. By the way, Tim Walz, who appointed the No Kings assassin, has called publicly for bullying Trump and Trump supporters like me. Condemnations from my so-called friends on the left? Crickets.

Yesterday was a bit of a turning point for me, on a personal level. I have pretended that my friends from the left, I should say former friends, thinking about the ones who have abandoned me and our friendship, are decent, good people who simply disagree. I have deluded myself into thinking we are still friends. I am sad to report, I have given up that thinking. Some will notice I am giving up on them and may act like it's me, but with very few exceptions, they have cut me off and out of their lives long ago, probably with spoken or unspoken "good riddance."

I am done with people who hate Trump more than they love or like me. I am done with people who hate Trump more than they love our country, our flag, and our Army. I am done with people stupid enough to continue to think that the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the leftist establishment propagandist media are impartial deliverers of fair and unbiased content. I am especially done with people who drink in their "facts" from these sources who think I'm the one with a closed mind. And, more than anything, I am sick and tired of far-leftists who pretend to be moderate and reasonable. One of the worst symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the afflicted not recognizing that indeed they have it.

I do NOT think Donald Trump is perfect. Far from it. I do not think Trump has pitched a perfect game since his return to office. Far from it. But I will be goddamned if I'm going to sign on to the leftist, socialist, social justice insanity that the left poses as an alternative.

A reprise from earlier in this piece, but I want to say it directly and clearly: If you have cut me out of your life because of my politics, go fuck yourself. You were a phony friend and you are an asshole. Be out of my life. You are gone from it by your own choice, so stay gone from it. It is as you wish. Live your own life of media leftist propagandized lies and delusion. I will be just fine without having you in mine. 

20,000,000 or More is a Problem. My Proposal - 6/12/2025

20 Million or more illegal aliens is a problem. For starters, IDGAF if the protesters or illegal immigrants are black, brown, yellow, red, or white. I have no problem with diversity. If you think that my opinion on immigration is shaped by some innate or inherent racism, I will never convince you otherwise. So, fuck it, think whatever you want.

I vehemently oppose all the nonsense going on to oppose ICE. Democrats have screwed the country with immigration insanity, especially since Trump took office the first time. But, finger-pointing and blame aside, I'm here today to propose a solution to the problem. If you don't think there's a problem, stop reading here and now. You're too indoctrinated and biased or too plain stupid to gain even a morsel of understanding, so please, stop reading here.

1) A Constitutional Amendment that eliminates all illegal aliens from being counted in the U.S. Census. This means congressional and electoral apportionment are calculated ONLY on the basis of the number of legal residents, whether legal alien or U.S. Citizen.

2) The same Constitutional Amendment to restrict or repeal aspects of birthright citizenship to children born to a parent or parents either are U.S. citizens, or who have PERMANENT LEGAL residence in the USA. This would exclude children of either illegal aliens or persons here on temporary work or tourism visas.

3) The so-called Big Beautiful Bill will tax remittances by 3.5%. This is not high enough. A remittance tax of 15% is good. 20% is even better. How about 3.5% remittance tax for foreigners who can show they have legal status in our country, and 20% for anyone who can't show same?

4) Illegal aliens who commit ANY additional violent crime or other serious crimes, after the misdemeanor of entering the country illegally or overstaying a visa or work permit, to be deported expeditiously. This would be incorporated into the same Constitutional Amendment.

5) Background checks on all immigrants processed for ANY crime after arrival here. Expeditious deportation if found to have committed serious crimes in their home country before immigrating here.

6) Illegal aliens here now to be afforded 3 options only:

a) Immigrants who declare themselves present with the desire to remain in the U.S. permanently, who chose NOT to return to their native country to apply for LEGAL residence, can be awarded a permanent work permit, if a background check shows they have NOT participated in criminal activity once here. These individuals will NEVER be eligible for citizenship, but their children would be under birthright. Commission of crimes here in the U.S. would be cause for automatic revocation of legal residency status. 

b*) Immigrants who declare themselves present with the desire to live in the U.S. permanently, but who are willing to return to their native country to start a legal immigration process. (I know our legal immigration program is broken badly. We need to fix it.) These immigrants will be eligible to apply for citizenship in accordance with existing U.S. law after they are granted permission to return and subsequently returned if they are cleared in a criminal background check and can show they have or will have gainful employment upon return to the U.S.A. In light of their willingness to go back and do things the right way, some form of financial aid to assist their departure, and expedited handling and processing of their return authorization.

Immigrants with proof of gainful employment here in the U.S. may receive this same authorization from the consulate of their home nation here in the U.S. A. This would require their employer to "sponsor" the immigrant and to pay a reasonable but significant fee that would offset the cost of expedited immigration processing, and entail a criminal background check.

*this paragraph updated 6/13/2025. 

c) Immigrants who hide out in the U.S. and continue to reside here illegally, but do NOT declare under "a" or "b", above. These persons will be exempted from obtaining any benefits or assistance, subject to swift deportation upon discovery and apprehension, and permanently barred from returning to the U.S. or seeking U.S. citizenship. Their children would NOT be eligible for birthright citizenship under the Constitutional Amendment I envision.

Employers found to be knowingly employing immigrants in category "c", preceding paragraph, will pay exorbitant fines for the employment violation of hiring these people, to be codified into law. Perhaps a fine at one level if the company has <20 employees, higher if they employ from 20-200 illegals, higher still for 201-1,000, and for employers with >1,000 illegal immigrants in category "c", the highest fines, something extremely high, like 25% of total revenues.

Immigration is a turd. Nobody wants to clean it up, because there's no clean end to pick it up from. There is no solution that will please everyone. If my proposal doesn't please you, I'm sorry about your luck. I most assuredly haven't seen YOUR proposal.