You would think Harvard University has enough money that their tenured professors don't have to go slumming with child rapists to scrounge up extra cash. And you would be wrong. Because that is exactly what Harvard professors have been doing.

Professors are often put in compromising situations where they are soliciting donations from shady individuals. Still, Harvard English professor Elisa New has broken some kind of a record here. Joking about Lolita with the world's most notorious child rapist is next level.

The most likely end for a demagogue cult leader like Trump is to be assassinated by one of his own former supporters, once these people stop drinking the Kool-Aid and realize they've been conned. Once the dam breaks - and it looks to be breaking - I wouldn't give $.02 for that man's life.

Our job isn't to persuade Trump voters to abandon Trump. Our job is to see that the Epstein scandal hits the escape velocity required to crash through the protective bubble of right-wing media, and force these people to reckon with what they already know. I see this happening in my MAGA relatives.

Donald Trump is suing his own DOJ. Michael Flynn is suing the DOJ. This is called looting the US treasury.

My god. The damage these people have done.

Every Trump supporter knows somewhere they are backing a horrendously immoral piece of shit. The challenge is the way contemporary media protect these people from a reckoning with what they already know about Donald J Trump. Real cracks in the protective bubble are emerging for the first time.

I think Americans need to think - really, THINK! - about the Ukrainian children who were bleeding out in the thousands from Russian bombs aimed at schools & hospitals while US foreign policy was held hostage to child rape kompromat passed by Jeffrey Epstein to Vladimir Putin. The horror.

Hold on: I don't think Americans can yet grasp the horror of Jeffrey Epstein calling up every adversary of United States foreign policy trying to "sell" what he knows about Trump. America will never recover from this scandal, so please stop shrugging your shoulders. This will haunt us for decades.

You have to treat the remaining Trump supporters like they are on a bad trip. Don't sit down to dinner at Thanksgiving. Don't visit them at Christmas. Their behavior is likely to be violently erratic. Just let them be and hope they recover until you feel it's safe for your family to be around them.

Trump is just going to keep citing the price of the Walmart Holiday Meal like it's an inflation index.

meanwhile, over at the New York Times

WHAT. THE. FUCK. @nytimes.com? What has happened at that place?

It should scare every American that Jeffrey Epstein was on the horn to foreign leaders all over the world "shopping" what he knew about Donald Trump while he was POTUS. My god. I feel like people have barely begun to confront the possibilities here.

I honestly believe this stuff is bothering Trump more than the child rape stuff. Jeffrey Epstein pulling back the curtains on the Trump family's money laundering schemes and shady deals with foreign "gangsters." He was never a builder, he wasn't even a businessman. He was a money launderer.

I believe we are done here, yes? It's time for the president to resign, yes? The fact that Trump is a unique president is no longer a valid response. Any president attached to this needs to resign. We need to shut this all down.

The entire Republican Party is now a coverup operation for child rape.

Seen this posted elsewhere. What it doesn't account for is how many of us have lost friends and family during this time. Trump is a violent sociopath. You can't be a Trump voter without picking up the vibe. Many of our loved ones became people we hardly recognize. No idea where we go from here.

Not that it matters, but saying the Epstein thing is a Democrat hoax and you're going to prosecute all the Democrats involved makes no sense at all. Trump's brain is fried. He should be removed from office immediately. He has almost no idea what's happening around him.

One thing you learn from watching family succumb to dementia is that they lose the ability to disguise their intentions in the ordinary way of people trying not to be horrendous hypocrites. Trump out there like, "It's not me, it's definitely not me, it's everyone but me!" is very recognizable.

this is like when OJ promised to find the real killer

Dude, when you finally fucking die, every major city in America is going to throw an epic party that no one will ever forget.

It's a minor thing, but who the hell is "J.P. Morgan, Chase." Dude, get a life. How is this guy POTUS?

Donald Trump is lashing out by threatening to weaponize the DOJ against all of his political enemies. This must NEVER NEVER happen again. We need new laws to prevent something like this EVER happening again. We have ceased to be a free country. For THIS guy? This child rapist? Never again.

Why can't Trump voters see this is all a con?

None of this is going to turn Trump supporters into Democrats. They probably won't even stop supporting Trump. But it takes some fight out of them, wears them out, discourages them, and sets up massive electoral wipeouts, like the one we just witnessed. It all matters. Every little bit.

Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."

Just to be clear: What will sink Trump isn't new information in the Epstein Files. It's the fact that the old information (already public) will finally crash through the protective bubble of right-wing media for the first time. That's the goal.

Hey America - I think we can do better than this. [thought of the day]

How is this the world we live in?

Like Trump's first attorney general nominee paid a 17-year-old for sex because she need money for braces. What are we doing here

When you're a young American woman who needs braces but doesn't have dental insurance.

American Exceptionalism today means that the 17-year-old having sex with Trump's AG nominee Matt Gaetz was just trying to pay for her braces because she didn't have dental insurance. Doesn't it just make you PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN?

So Matt Gaetz paid to fuck a 17 year old who was working at McDonald's and living in a homeless shelter. Trump nominated him to be Attorney General of the United States.

OK maybe that's enough human misery for the day I'm going to go throw up.

I feel like I'm going to throw up. There is a profound moral ugliness here that is almost unbearable.

Nothing to see here, just the head of the Council of Europe chatting with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein about how Putin and Lavrov might manipulate Trump. Jagland responding in the subliterate patois - I'll com to un high level week - that signals real manly power. www.politico.eu/article/jeff...

How in the hell is Michael Wolff allowed to get away with this? How is he allowed to advise the world's most notorious child rapist on how to blackmail the President of the United States, and even after Vladimir Putin gets in on the act, somehow Michael Wolff is never prosecuted? How?

Trump is *this close* to dragging the US into a war in South America to distract from his CHILD RAPE scandal. Republicans? You can get off this train anytime.

Maybe we "know" this already, but coming from a 100% MAGA family, I can confirm that the PEDOPHILIA accusation was just a weaponized political tool for dehumanizing Democratic opposition. These people don't actually care about the rape of children. It's time to respond in kind.

What Trump has taught liberals and leftists is that truth does not matter in politics. Did Trump rape a child? I'm certainly going to say he did. I don't care if there's proof. This is how politics works. Trump is a CHILD RAPIST. Doesn't matter if it's true. It only matters that I repeat it.

Please, Democrats, consider: The Republican Party must NEVER again have the reputation for being the serious and responsible party on national security. Donald Trump is a walking national security crisis. That Republicans are going along with all this should DESTROY their reputation.

There is a simple solution: Put WOMEN in charge of as many institutions as you can possibly "reform." This won't solve all the problems, but some of the biggest and most damaging problems will disappear instantly, and then we can focus on the rest.

At what point do Trump voters get tired of being on the hook for his horrible crimes and say, "Fuck it, that's enough. I'm out"? My whole family is MAGA, so I'm not being naive - there IS such a point. They will not just tolerate this bullshit forever, especially as Trump fades politically.

Donald Trump is a man who is compromised from so many directions, he's a walking national security crisis. A man like this could not get even the lowest level clearance for employment in sensitive federal positions, so what's he doing in the Oval Office?

I hate that this is true, but the real worry in the Epstein Files is not the child rape. It's all the financial crimes. There are bribery and extortion schemes everywhere in these files. The Trump family will absolutely be prosecuted for this in the future. What an awful world we inherited.

One way to frame the challenge of America's 21st century: How do we keep obnoxious assholes like Larry Summers from "passing" as responsible leaders in places like Harvard University and the US Treasury? That man is a piece of shit human being. Why didn't that matter at the time?

Something worth noting in this Larry Summers email: "I yipped about inclusion" refers to apparently perfunctory remarks he made about women's rights to a Saudi audience. Summers goes on to say he thinks women are dumb, and sexual harassment at work is overblown. Really puts it in perspective.

Maybe it's time to make more noise about this? Last spring a thousand agents frantically redacted all mentions of Trump's name in the Epstein files. How does that square with what can and will be released?