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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I was about to whine about the fact that no judge or official could really tell Hegseth what to do, then I read the article:

    In April, Hegseth’s Trump-loyalist advisor, Patrick Weaver, took offense to the suggestion that he should have to submit to testing being carried out on those close to the Defense secretary. An ally of President Donald Trump and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Weaver’s complaint resulted in a phone call from the White House to Hegseth’s team telling them to knock it off.

    Ah, he’s going after other Trumpers, that’s why. The ouroboros may be starting to eat itself…



  • It’s because that was his day job. Somehow. It’s what provided the means for his hobby of diddling kids.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

    He never finished his college degree, and after dropping out ended up teaching math at a private high school. He got fired for performance issues (and perhaps getting a bit too close to his students), but had made friends with one of the parents of a kid at the school, who happened to be an executive at Bear Stearns. He got a job trading options, and eventually spun that out into his own consultency, where he made more money than he (or anyone) really deserved to. He seems to be a chronic failure, but knew enough key people so that he could always fail upwards.

    There are a lot of really weird coincidences from his early career, though: that High School was run by Bill Barr’s dad, Donald. (yes, that Bill Barr, who was Trump’s AG at the time Jeffrey Epstein “killed himself” in jail.) And Donald Barr actually wrote a trashy sci-fi novel in the early 70s in which sex trafficking of teenagers is a key plot point. Enough coincidences to keep conspiracy theorists going for decades.










  • Hah, and when this source asked the guy’s office about it the guy’s spokesman went full DARVO:

    Asked about the situation, Walters’ latest director of communications, Quinton Hitchcock, responded with a pointed statement Friday afternoon.

    “What an absolute joke of a story and this is embarrassing from you to write a junk tabloid lie,” Hitchcock wrote in an email. “Any number of people have access to these offices, you have a hostile board who will say and do anything except tell the truth, and now, ‘NonsenseDoc’ is reporting on an alleged random TV cable image. Rock solid truth in journalism.”

    So yeah, now I’m even more convinced the guy was caught red-handed…





  • Democrats ended up passing impeachment articles against Trump for the second time with a week left in Trump’s term. The Senate took them up after he was officially out of office.

    You can bet that Republicans will use that as precedent to say they can impeachment Obama years after the fact, for made-up shit. In fact, I think we will see more abuses of these powers that look judicial but are really political. Impeach Biden for being senile? Impeachment Obama over Russiagate? Heck, they can even go back and posthumously impeach Carter over his sweater. They don’t have to convict, but just the impeachment alone will go on Democrat’s “permanent record”. Anything is possible when you just can make shit up!