Terrance Goggin: THE EPSTEIN SAGA IS JUST BEGINNING….AS THE SAYING GOES, “THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD. ITS NOT EVEN PAST.” Willian Faulkner ‘Requiem For A Nun’

Secret Service agent: Trump is a big fan of ABBA, and on motorcade rides liked to blast Dancing Queen. When he hears “You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeen,” he tells the driver, “Epstein used to love this song.”

BREAKING: Mark Epstein: The reason they’re gonna be releasing these things is that they’re sanitizing these files. There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out.

Another inmate killed him, what happened to that inmate?

Obama used the situation room to monitor the killing of Bin Laden. Trump has been using it to prevent release of the Epstein Files. This is the difference between a president and a pedophile.

Epstein wrote in 2018, approximately a year before he was found dead in his prison cell: “You see, I know how dirty Donald is.”

OMG! A new Associated Press–NORC poll has Dementia Donnie's approval rating at 33%!

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A beautiful November Saturday evening in NYC!

New reporting (by Yahoo, sourced to The New Republic): GOP insiders say they’ve been warned that the unreleased tranche of Epstein-related material is “MUCH MUCH worse for Trump” than what is public.

After a closed-door Republican conference meeting, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters: “What we have here is an intergalactic freak show.”

The Nation writer Jeet Heer: “Two things are both true: 1. Marjorie Taylor Greene is alarmingly batshit crazy. 2. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the sanest voices in the Republican party.”

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Our boorish president. He has been trying all his life to achieve the respect of New York society. They have been laughing at him his entire life, and it is not stopping with his garish Home Depot crap in the oval office. What a pathetic clown.

Adam Serwer: Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty.

Paul Krugman: Trump has also proved willing to be moved by Chinese promises to resume purchases of U.S. soybeans. You might say that he ceded the future to China in return for a hill of beans.

Dementia Donnie corruption on steroids. Not only did his family make billions on the pardon of Binance founder CZ, the $40 billion Argentine bailout, including the purchase of beef, was a cover for the rescue of Tether, the crypto industry’s $127 billion shadow bank. www.narativ.org/p/new-analys...

Many of us have had our Ayn Rand/libertarian phase and still feel it's seductiveness. Here is a compelling argument in favor of classic liberalism and the American experience. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

Krugman: America has alienated its democratic allies and established a reputation for reneging on agreements. America used to have unmatched economic leverage. Now the world knows that China has more.

Sara McGee, who is running for state rep in TX, on Trump’s MRI: “Hi. Imaging professional here. We use serial MRIs to monitor the progression of Alzheimer’s. Carry on.”

David Graham wrote a lengthy essay in The Atlantic about the many ways that Trump will try to rig the 2026 and 2028 elections. These plans are already unwell underway. Read it. archive.ph/QNBY6#select...

The Bulwark: "This president is unwell." I like the Bulwark, because these are Republicans who are agast at what is happening to their country, not Democrats who could be accused of always crying that the sky is falling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh_z...

Fox News showed a edited clip of Biden apparently wandering off stage, which didn't happpen, and the news lit up. The Japanese prime minister just had to take Dementia Donnie by the hand and no one says anything! Double standard alert!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aig-...

Paul Krugman: SNAP payments will end on Monday. It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.

Even conservative Reason is sounding the alarm bells on Trump: “The intense acceleration of the quest to aggregate power in the WH is now unambiguously the more immediate threat to liberty.

The latest Gallup poll shows that Americans now think Democrats, rather than Republicans, are the better party to keep the country prosperous, by a margin of 47% to 43%. This is a shift of 18 points in just over two years!

To round out a week of beautiful October evenings, Old City, Philadelphia, the Customs House, Ritter and Shay. And the Trump regime wants to sell it!

HCR: A nonpartisan independent research organization found that 56% of Americans agree that “President Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy."

The president is concerned (not) with your welfare.

No comment.

An urban October evening.

Michael Crichton: “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”

As he said, "smart people don't like him.'

HCR: Yesterday Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) took the floor of the Senate to hold it through the night “to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy.” He said: “We cannot pretend this is normal.”

A suburban October evening.

Paul Krugman: Trump’s disconnect from reality is uniquely destructive. No other president has tried to overturn an election, to use the military against U.S. citizens, or to use the Justice Department as his own personal vendetta machine.

William Kristol: Seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump acted out like a toddler obsessed with own poop.

William Kristol: Seven million Americans peacefully took to the streets out of their love for this country, and Trump acted out like a toddler obsessed with own poop.

The Atlantic: Now, in Donald Trump’s second administration, Trumpist culture wars have made almost everything more expensive, effectively forcing all Americans to pay an anti-woke tax.

Eric Salwell: “The only hate anyone saw on the day of the protest was our commander in chief posting an AI video depicting himself dropping shit on millions of Americans."

Ben Meisalas: Last night Trump posted a video of himself dropping feces on the faces of peaceful protestors... I suppose posting a video of himself shitting on America sums up the state of the country now.

William Kristol: How can this go on? It’s not just that the president looks at half the country with disdain and hate—it’s that he has now built a movement around himself that makes that disdain and hate its organizing principle.

No Kings Day will go down in the history books!

The Spirit of 1776!

We are the resistance!

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Thomas Jefferson: The tyranny of the legislatures is the most formidable dread at present, and will be for long years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period. That time is now.

Paul Krugman: Trump is doing so many corrupt, destructive and stupid things that the failing attempt to rescue Argentina’s MAGA president isn’t even in the top 10. But the Argentina debacle is a teachable moment, a naked demonstration of hypocrisy and incompetence.