This whole Todd Blanche episode interviewing Maxwell is , to my mind, a total “wink, wink, nudge, nudge “ episode. Simply put, we know the Trump administration is totally untrustworthy. If anyone thinks that Trump seeks the truth for “justice & the American way”, they live in cuckoo land. Blanche was chosen to find out exactly what Maxwell knows & where evidence of the truth maybe found . They will silence Maxwell with a pardon offer & then strive to suppress or destroy any other evidence she may lead them too, if it involves Trump. Maxwell may get to be questioned at some Senate/Congress level , but she will be told to use the 5th , so as not to jeopardize her Trump pardon, but she will be allowed to incriminate any of Trump’s “enemies”. This will be another corrupt and stinking episode in the Trump reality show.
AB, unfortunately a damn correct assessment ! CORRUPTION through and through ! The 🍊 is a complete grand narcissistic SCOFFLAW believing he’s so gifted, so smart, so very special that laws simply do not apply. Starting early via daddy’s bigly money, has had lifetime of pockets stuffed full of lawyers gettin him off in legal terms all along the way, i.e. multiple times dodging the draft. Have enough money and pale enough skin tone, can get away with murder. Young Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t wealthy, but fund raisers/pro bono and white, he got off after killing two Black Lives Matter peaceful protestors and blew the arm off a third one. This is a sick portion of our society.
DB, yes, I’m too old, decrepit 6’ 3”. Several years ago it hit me, still I shall “think globally, act locally” to minimize my impact on Mother Earth and always get out and exercise my precious right to vote, but the time has come for younger folk to take the torch and light other’s torches and bust their butts fighting for change for the better, like global warming a huge thing hitting the younger gen, also reducing the 90 MILLION who couldn’t care enough last fall to vote despite how very clearly consequential that election was with a crooked convicted felon running, mostly to stay out of prison and also continue the grift.
You are 100% correct, Derrick. The orange crook is doing serious damage to the country. It may not recover in my lifetime or yours, especially with a partisan SCOTUS.
Another grey hair here who went to my first protest in 1969. (The Moratorium for those who remember). At that time Fake Bone Spurs sitting on his golden dump ass while my future hubs was drafted and sent to Nam. Have been saying for awhile now young people need to get going, run for something, stop trying to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Yes, I've been posting for deeper, stronger action, but get silenced on some posts. I'm sorry to upset, but we have to literally fight for our country. Yes, I'm another gray hair, calling for the young. It's your turn.
My wife and I have been doing the protest thing for decades and while we’ve taken to streets because of the felon in chief I have to say we’re tired. That being said, there are lots of young people here in Charlotte, my 30 year old niece included who are so active with indivisible and other organizations. We’ll still be there when we can but I have to say it’s fantastic seeing so many people out there. I’m hopeful they’ll stay engaged and make a difference.
Here's the deal: They are all as dumb as they are malevolent. SO, Ms. Maxwell might very well get a pardon. Then one year (or so) after she is sprung from jail, she'll either fall down the stairs (a la Ivanna Trump, who supposedly NEVER took the stairs in her own home) or out a window, like a truck load of dead Russians. This is about covering up an international child trafficking conspiarcy. It's not just Trump who is at risk of exposure. Ms. Maxwell, if she had a functioning frontal lobe, would stay safely in jail. But she's desperate to be freed, and desperate people can do supremely stupid things. Stay tuned.
Some people need to be careful what they wish for, especially in this situation. And if they really wanted more valid evidence, they’d interview the victims. Once again Catherine, your insight is right on point, makes complete sense and is very much appreciated.
Thanks so much Larry. We need to stop thinking of Trump as a US President, and instead think of him as an international mob boss. He will do ANYTHING not to go to jail. ANYTHING.
So much BLATANT criminality right in front of our eyes, and about half the country refuses to acknowledge it. This issue finally seems to be exposing him for who he is.
Hope you are feeling good energy and strength Catherine-it’s going to be an uphill battle for justice.
OMG you are so right! He is most definitely an international mob boss. And yes, I think he would sell his own kids into sex trafficking to save his sorry ass. He’s feeling trapped right now so he’s that much more unstable.
I'm happy for Arty. Hubby and I are going to take my buddy Luis, who is visiting from Mexico, to the Seattle waterfront and the Public Market. It will be a cool but rainless day, so perfect for hiking around.
I have a feeling the Supreme Court will be who lets Maxwell free or reduces her sentence. That keeps clown boy's hands clean. We all know Maxwell doesn't give one damn about the victims she abused or doing the right thing.
I’m sick and tired of pretty much entire R party constantly bleating about “family values”, then doing the opposite time, time and time again. Believing they have the market totally cornered on “being Christian” which means “being Jesus like” when frequently behaving 180 degrees opposite of that. Having so very little empathy for anyone but self. BS on the overall consensus that R’s in power are better for our economics when history shows the last 80 years GDP, inflation, national debt, unemployment do better when D’s get elected, they are the adults and do what is necessary to pull us up out of the hole the R’s left us in. It’s beyond disgusting. It’s getting scary close to loss of democracy “of, by and for” the people. It’s “oligarchy of, by and for the oligarchy” and the righties on the Supreme Court have MUCH to do with that, Citizens United and massive dark money brought in was just a start. We currently are living “wag the dog”. When do the masses wake up and take back the power of a working democracy ? It starts with a lot fewer than 90 MILLION sitting on their thumbs not bothering to vote ! 75M for Harris, just 2.3M more for 🍊, basically 77M, and then blow the voters out of the water, 90M do nothings. It’s so easy to see how lopsided those numbers are. Dang it, straightening much of this mess out is right there for the taking if the unmotivated get motivated and realize “politicians are NOT all the same and it makes a huge diff if vote or not”.
If there was shred of any honest attempt to actually gather further evidence. A career DOJ ( like the fired Comey) and a career FBI agent would have reinterviewed Maxwell. They would also definitely interview the victims. Having stated that, all these interviews had been done prior to Epstein/Maxwell guilty verdict. The Trump DOJ could simply request all evidentiary documents (including the birthday journal) held by the Epstein estate be handed over to an independent special investigator.What does exist is the thousands of files that are either at the FBI or at the DOJ , they could simply make them public with the victim’s names redacted. Suppression of the truth is what this democracy is seeing.
So glad you’re on vacation! I need breaks to keep my own balance so I can continue too.
I’m not surprised that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the news and being weaponized to protect the convicted felon in the White House in his role involving yet another crime. What do I think? I think she will either be pardoned or have her sentence commuted as soon as whatever she has to offer can protect the current American president. It may happen soon, or when this president leaves office, if he does leave office at the end of four years.
In a similar vein, I think something similar or related may happen to Vance Boelter, the hit man who assassinated Melissa and Mark Hortman in Minnesota in June of this year. He also seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. My prediction is either he will somehow walk free, get a minimal sentence, or also be pardoned by Trump. Why? Because his murderous behavior is in fact condoned, and even celebrated by those in power. I certainly hope I’m wrong about this. But keep your eye on this issue, which has gone quiet as it unfolds.
To me, the hard right reactionaries in power will seek to turn back the clock, reverse or block whatever social healing and wellbeing has taken place from the time of FDR in the 1930’s to the present. They will do this with racism, false traditionalism, and patriarchal white supremacy in all its forms. Remember - they are reactionaries, not conservatives. To keep calling them conservatives further gives them the advantage of normalization, which is one of their weapons. They are the authoritarian, reactionary right, no longer the conservative Republican Party.
To me, what’s happening is like the coming to power of the Spanish dictator Federico Franco in 1939. Spain was an authoritarian dictatorship from Franco’s coming to power in 1939 until his death in 1975. Spain suffered 36 long years as a dictatorship, but is thriving again as a democracy today. I think this is a possible model for what is happening to America now. But Trump will not last that long.
So glad Artie can have his time of peace and relaxation too. How good to help those we love through challenging times in their lives.
Wow, I'm just so over the Epstein situation, and sick of hearing his name. But at least it ran Congress out of town for longer than usual, and gave Americans a break from the train wreck that's Republicans in control and MAGA-fied.
Mike, thanks so much for publishing that newspaper from Scotland and the wonderful headlines! I was in the car when I heard you mention it, and it really got me laughing! I can only imagine what plans there are for Trump vs Scotland this weekend!
I'm also taking a break to enjoy the great weather here in the Northwest, and from going to TeslaTakedowns and Indivisible meetings.
Some Indivisible people have been going to the local DHS offices south of Seattle on Friday mornings, and staying as long as possible to get an opportunity to escort immigrants to appointments inside. We've been told that DHS is using a technology called Sting Ray to vacuum up the phone numbers of everyone involved outside the building - it has up to a 5 mile radius. So many people have decided to turn to 'burner' phones whenever they're close to DHS buildings. The Sting Ray is usually deployed from the back of the big SUVs that Homeland Security operates in, or sometimes by a local police department.
In the meantime, all Hail Scotland and, in August, the UK (preparing for Vance's vacation!).
Hey Mike and MS Pals, yes Fake Bone Spurs will continue his lifelong streak of narcissistic abuse. And will MAGA let this slide? They’ve let everything else slide and seem to crave cruel dictatorship. In that vein, here in CA we continue to see the utmost cruelty on kidnapping, and full Gestapo mode by these Border Control thugs. Here’s a section from LA Times today (copyright):
As the number of immigration arrests in the L.A. region quadrupled from 540 in April to 2,185 in June, seven out of 10 immigrants arrested in June had no criminal conviction — a trend that immigrant advocates say belies administration claims that they are targeting “heinous illegal alien criminals” who represent a threat to public safety.”
I hope Jan shows up sometime to tell him all the continued contact he made with Newsom’s office finally broken through and Newsom is actively incorporating the donor state stuff into his public comments and posts. Newsom has also been nonstop trolling Fake Bone Spurs and MAGA sycophants. Like him or not, at least he’s out there doing what we have been begging Dems to do for a long time which is fighting fire with fire.
Mike, hope you David and Artie have a special time together. Dogs love the beach! We’re in good hands as always with Joe, he’s had some interesting folks on and I like we get to hear more about the States.
This whole Todd Blanche episode interviewing Maxwell is , to my mind, a total “wink, wink, nudge, nudge “ episode. Simply put, we know the Trump administration is totally untrustworthy. If anyone thinks that Trump seeks the truth for “justice & the American way”, they live in cuckoo land. Blanche was chosen to find out exactly what Maxwell knows & where evidence of the truth maybe found . They will silence Maxwell with a pardon offer & then strive to suppress or destroy any other evidence she may lead them too, if it involves Trump. Maxwell may get to be questioned at some Senate/Congress level , but she will be told to use the 5th , so as not to jeopardize her Trump pardon, but she will be allowed to incriminate any of Trump’s “enemies”. This will be another corrupt and stinking episode in the Trump reality show.
AB, unfortunately a damn correct assessment ! CORRUPTION through and through ! The 🍊 is a complete grand narcissistic SCOFFLAW believing he’s so gifted, so smart, so very special that laws simply do not apply. Starting early via daddy’s bigly money, has had lifetime of pockets stuffed full of lawyers gettin him off in legal terms all along the way, i.e. multiple times dodging the draft. Have enough money and pale enough skin tone, can get away with murder. Young Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t wealthy, but fund raisers/pro bono and white, he got off after killing two Black Lives Matter peaceful protestors and blew the arm off a third one. This is a sick portion of our society.
There is always a fall guy. Some underling will be convicted, not the orange conman.
Exactly.
Maxwell will deny Trump's involvement with young girls, and he'll grant her a pardon. That's the way Mr. Sleaze operates.
I love the Scotland newspaper headline! We need more of this. Enjoy your time off with Artie, Michelangelo! You deserve it.
When will people get the balls to pick up arms and stop this shit?
Beats me, old dad. I'm too old and a 5'2' weakling. The young people need to wake up and get off their duffs.
DB, yes, I’m too old, decrepit 6’ 3”. Several years ago it hit me, still I shall “think globally, act locally” to minimize my impact on Mother Earth and always get out and exercise my precious right to vote, but the time has come for younger folk to take the torch and light other’s torches and bust their butts fighting for change for the better, like global warming a huge thing hitting the younger gen, also reducing the 90 MILLION who couldn’t care enough last fall to vote despite how very clearly consequential that election was with a crooked convicted felon running, mostly to stay out of prison and also continue the grift.
You are 100% correct, Derrick. The orange crook is doing serious damage to the country. It may not recover in my lifetime or yours, especially with a partisan SCOTUS.
Another grey hair here who went to my first protest in 1969. (The Moratorium for those who remember). At that time Fake Bone Spurs sitting on his golden dump ass while my future hubs was drafted and sent to Nam. Have been saying for awhile now young people need to get going, run for something, stop trying to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Yes, I've been posting for deeper, stronger action, but get silenced on some posts. I'm sorry to upset, but we have to literally fight for our country. Yes, I'm another gray hair, calling for the young. It's your turn.
My wife and I have been doing the protest thing for decades and while we’ve taken to streets because of the felon in chief I have to say we’re tired. That being said, there are lots of young people here in Charlotte, my 30 year old niece included who are so active with indivisible and other organizations. We’ll still be there when we can but I have to say it’s fantastic seeing so many people out there. I’m hopeful they’ll stay engaged and make a difference.
Here's the deal: They are all as dumb as they are malevolent. SO, Ms. Maxwell might very well get a pardon. Then one year (or so) after she is sprung from jail, she'll either fall down the stairs (a la Ivanna Trump, who supposedly NEVER took the stairs in her own home) or out a window, like a truck load of dead Russians. This is about covering up an international child trafficking conspiarcy. It's not just Trump who is at risk of exposure. Ms. Maxwell, if she had a functioning frontal lobe, would stay safely in jail. But she's desperate to be freed, and desperate people can do supremely stupid things. Stay tuned.
Some people need to be careful what they wish for, especially in this situation. And if they really wanted more valid evidence, they’d interview the victims. Once again Catherine, your insight is right on point, makes complete sense and is very much appreciated.
Thanks so much Larry. We need to stop thinking of Trump as a US President, and instead think of him as an international mob boss. He will do ANYTHING not to go to jail. ANYTHING.
So much BLATANT criminality right in front of our eyes, and about half the country refuses to acknowledge it. This issue finally seems to be exposing him for who he is.
Hope you are feeling good energy and strength Catherine-it’s going to be an uphill battle for justice.
OMG you are so right! He is most definitely an international mob boss. And yes, I think he would sell his own kids into sex trafficking to save his sorry ass. He’s feeling trapped right now so he’s that much more unstable.
I am so glad to hear about Artie! May you all have a resstful, peaceful and relaxing time away- Enjoy!
I'm happy for Arty. Hubby and I are going to take my buddy Luis, who is visiting from Mexico, to the Seattle waterfront and the Public Market. It will be a cool but rainless day, so perfect for hiking around.
I have a feeling the Supreme Court will be who lets Maxwell free or reduces her sentence. That keeps clown boy's hands clean. We all know Maxwell doesn't give one damn about the victims she abused or doing the right thing.
I’m sick and tired of pretty much entire R party constantly bleating about “family values”, then doing the opposite time, time and time again. Believing they have the market totally cornered on “being Christian” which means “being Jesus like” when frequently behaving 180 degrees opposite of that. Having so very little empathy for anyone but self. BS on the overall consensus that R’s in power are better for our economics when history shows the last 80 years GDP, inflation, national debt, unemployment do better when D’s get elected, they are the adults and do what is necessary to pull us up out of the hole the R’s left us in. It’s beyond disgusting. It’s getting scary close to loss of democracy “of, by and for” the people. It’s “oligarchy of, by and for the oligarchy” and the righties on the Supreme Court have MUCH to do with that, Citizens United and massive dark money brought in was just a start. We currently are living “wag the dog”. When do the masses wake up and take back the power of a working democracy ? It starts with a lot fewer than 90 MILLION sitting on their thumbs not bothering to vote ! 75M for Harris, just 2.3M more for 🍊, basically 77M, and then blow the voters out of the water, 90M do nothings. It’s so easy to see how lopsided those numbers are. Dang it, straightening much of this mess out is right there for the taking if the unmotivated get motivated and realize “politicians are NOT all the same and it makes a huge diff if vote or not”.
If there was shred of any honest attempt to actually gather further evidence. A career DOJ ( like the fired Comey) and a career FBI agent would have reinterviewed Maxwell. They would also definitely interview the victims. Having stated that, all these interviews had been done prior to Epstein/Maxwell guilty verdict. The Trump DOJ could simply request all evidentiary documents (including the birthday journal) held by the Epstein estate be handed over to an independent special investigator.What does exist is the thousands of files that are either at the FBI or at the DOJ , they could simply make them public with the victim’s names redacted. Suppression of the truth is what this democracy is seeing.
Hi Michelangelo and all,
So glad you’re on vacation! I need breaks to keep my own balance so I can continue too.
I’m not surprised that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the news and being weaponized to protect the convicted felon in the White House in his role involving yet another crime. What do I think? I think she will either be pardoned or have her sentence commuted as soon as whatever she has to offer can protect the current American president. It may happen soon, or when this president leaves office, if he does leave office at the end of four years.
In a similar vein, I think something similar or related may happen to Vance Boelter, the hit man who assassinated Melissa and Mark Hortman in Minnesota in June of this year. He also seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman. My prediction is either he will somehow walk free, get a minimal sentence, or also be pardoned by Trump. Why? Because his murderous behavior is in fact condoned, and even celebrated by those in power. I certainly hope I’m wrong about this. But keep your eye on this issue, which has gone quiet as it unfolds.
To me, the hard right reactionaries in power will seek to turn back the clock, reverse or block whatever social healing and wellbeing has taken place from the time of FDR in the 1930’s to the present. They will do this with racism, false traditionalism, and patriarchal white supremacy in all its forms. Remember - they are reactionaries, not conservatives. To keep calling them conservatives further gives them the advantage of normalization, which is one of their weapons. They are the authoritarian, reactionary right, no longer the conservative Republican Party.
To me, what’s happening is like the coming to power of the Spanish dictator Federico Franco in 1939. Spain was an authoritarian dictatorship from Franco’s coming to power in 1939 until his death in 1975. Spain suffered 36 long years as a dictatorship, but is thriving again as a democracy today. I think this is a possible model for what is happening to America now. But Trump will not last that long.
So glad Artie can have his time of peace and relaxation too. How good to help those we love through challenging times in their lives.
Richard
Fenton, Missouri
Wow, I'm just so over the Epstein situation, and sick of hearing his name. But at least it ran Congress out of town for longer than usual, and gave Americans a break from the train wreck that's Republicans in control and MAGA-fied.
Mike, thanks so much for publishing that newspaper from Scotland and the wonderful headlines! I was in the car when I heard you mention it, and it really got me laughing! I can only imagine what plans there are for Trump vs Scotland this weekend!
I'm also taking a break to enjoy the great weather here in the Northwest, and from going to TeslaTakedowns and Indivisible meetings.
Some Indivisible people have been going to the local DHS offices south of Seattle on Friday mornings, and staying as long as possible to get an opportunity to escort immigrants to appointments inside. We've been told that DHS is using a technology called Sting Ray to vacuum up the phone numbers of everyone involved outside the building - it has up to a 5 mile radius. So many people have decided to turn to 'burner' phones whenever they're close to DHS buildings. The Sting Ray is usually deployed from the back of the big SUVs that Homeland Security operates in, or sometimes by a local police department.
In the meantime, all Hail Scotland and, in August, the UK (preparing for Vance's vacation!).
Release the files with names of victims redacted.
Anything less is bs.
Glad that Artie is enjoying the beach respite, Michelangelo. Enjoy the time off.🌞👍
So important for us to keep the focus on the Drumpf/Epstein partnership despite the diversions and distractions.
Him saying he's allowed to do it says it all.....
Love Scotland's welcome to him. This should be posted everywhere!
Have a great vacation! Joe is doing well with your show so you can relax knowing it's in good hands.
Hey Mike and MS Pals, yes Fake Bone Spurs will continue his lifelong streak of narcissistic abuse. And will MAGA let this slide? They’ve let everything else slide and seem to crave cruel dictatorship. In that vein, here in CA we continue to see the utmost cruelty on kidnapping, and full Gestapo mode by these Border Control thugs. Here’s a section from LA Times today (copyright):
As the number of immigration arrests in the L.A. region quadrupled from 540 in April to 2,185 in June, seven out of 10 immigrants arrested in June had no criminal conviction — a trend that immigrant advocates say belies administration claims that they are targeting “heinous illegal alien criminals” who represent a threat to public safety.”
Dang hit send too soon, old folks malady. Also wanted to post this link to Newsom: https://substack.com/@gavinnewsom/note/c-138862467?r=4yewz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I hope Jan shows up sometime to tell him all the continued contact he made with Newsom’s office finally broken through and Newsom is actively incorporating the donor state stuff into his public comments and posts. Newsom has also been nonstop trolling Fake Bone Spurs and MAGA sycophants. Like him or not, at least he’s out there doing what we have been begging Dems to do for a long time which is fighting fire with fire.
Mike, hope you David and Artie have a special time together. Dogs love the beach! We’re in good hands as always with Joe, he’s had some interesting folks on and I like we get to hear more about the States.
All the best, 😎