My exact thought. Is Congress ACTUALLY gping to DO anything? WHY is Bondi just talking? This should be an impeachment hearing. Impeachment should be ALREADY be happening for Trump. Congress talks and talks. He is getting ready to kick over the table because he's losing the board game.
Article II, Section Four. The first Trump misadministration oversaw the convenient death of Epstein, the second Trump crime spree is overseeing the overtaking of the Epstein client list.
That’s an understatement. What a shameful nonsensical nonhuman being she is. She has sold her soul for the devil himself with no shame or regrets. Sickening and depraved deviant evil vile she is.
Thomas Masse isn’t and from what I’ve heard there are more Republicans who share his views on this administration and the bs that Donald has done to this country and the world and especially the Survivors and the Epstein Files and all who are complicit and culpable. Those who don’t are giving themselves away as to who they are.
While the El Paso airspace closure was quickly cancelled, I think Trump is trying to show all of us his power to disrupt our lives. Authoritarian dictators always think they can win compliance and silence exposure of their lies and lawless behavior with threats and strong arm tactics. They don’t understand that this makes people more resistant and, when they cross the no-go lines of supporters, they flip those supporters to the opposition. Continuing on this path, they will be a smaller and smaller group doing more dangerous things in their desperation to keep control. I guess they think they can actually become something like the 1000-Year Reich. Hitler, etc., caused millions of deaths and left parts of Europe in ruins after only 12 years. Then Hitler committed suicide, Mussolini was lynched. The world staggered to its feet and created a more inclusive, liberal society. Now the cycle starts over. Can’t these selfish, cruel monsters see beyond the thrill of their incompetent push for domination?
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Very excellent comment about that issue. He’s probably done that for the Saudis or Putin or perhaps even an escape from the country. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
I fear that consumerism, like greed, is an addiction for many. (But it’s my grandchild’s birthday, my wedding, Christmas is coming, that’s something I’ve wanted for months and it’s finally available, I can’t resist that low sale price, etc.)
I believe we’re in a crisis, and shopping is the antidote for many when they feel sad or worried. But folks, if you can triumph over your shopping addiction, you can triumph over the destruction of your country.
The control you have over your spending is your best weapon against the cruelty of the MAGAts and oligarchs. Every time we buy something we don’t need, we give permission to being ruled by oligarchs.
I apologize if I sound preachy, but I’m scared. And angry with the way self-obsessed billionaires are taking control over government, media, trade, education, research, environment, healthcare, etc.
I hate feeling so helpless, but I love the encouragement I get here.
It is a very real problem: "Compulsive spending, like many other addictions, is a way of coping with stress, pain, trauma, and other negative emotions. People who engage in compulsive spending respond to negative emotions by spending money." Psychology Today, 9-Dec-16 https://tinyurl.com/ytwf5v6p
Seriously. Mothers'/Fathers'/Grandparents'/Secretaries' Day cards: for what? $7 or $8 for a 4 second read because somehow we would remiss if we didn't?
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on that. I am at the point in life, where I don't need any trinkets, jewelry, knick-knacks, etc. Plus, my kids should save their money for homes and things that matter.
I do however, love my mother's day cards, where they are the highlight of the day because my son's tell me what I mean to them or how I have shaped their lives, or what they appreciate about our relationship and that is worth more than any stupid trinkets and I can re-read it when I need a pick-me-up or smile.
As a mental health professional that is very true. We tend to call it a negative coping mechanism but what you have shared along with the individual before you is very very true. Especially common in those who have experienced traumatic events. It’s a shock to the system and one that causes a lot of compulsive behaviors such as shopping and hoarding to not have to deal with the pain.
I don't think you are preachy at all. I really appreciate your take on consumerism as an antidote for feeling scared/powerless. I know food is that for me, which is for sure part of consumerism...I had a rough week, I deserve a bag of M&Ms (a big bag)...till I saw the price and then I declined. What faulty thinking that is!!! (and yet just talking about it makes me want a bowl full of M&Ms....) Why don't I say I had a bad week, I deserve a long walk in the woods, or time off to listen to Beethoven's 9th (which I am actually doing right now...). I think right now it's difficult for many to have control over their spending because there just isn't much left over after rent, electric, food, car payment and insurance (and for many making that payment on a medical bill, and yet folks are charging probably unnecessary "things" on their credit cards. Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a nation where there was no pressure to get the latest new fashions/color paint for your house/fashion accessories/hair style (even though they promised you last season THIS was THE hair style for you)..last year Super Bowl winner t shirts were fine but even though they are not worn out, you need ones for this year's winners (I don't think they are the same team, I don't follow football!) But since we don't live in that world the best we can do is try to reduce our own consumerism. And you are not helpless....you can do all you can to reduce your own consumerism and then continue to do things that help the resistance...make calls, send emails...they don't cost. Vote in every election you can. I hope that at least some Democrat and Independent folks running for office are doing what they can to rephrase the campaign from us (Dems/Indies) against them (maga GOP) to het, it's US (all of us) against them..the ultra rich. I think that's a lot of what Bernie Sanders does and we need a whole lot more of it.
Cali here. And a other thing, speaking of the Superbowl. Why are tickets $6k-$7k?? and that's nose-bleed seats. So, nobody can afford to go to the Superbowl unless you are affluent? Wtf? That's just not right. I am a huge Seahawks fan & would have gone, but . . . I'm retired - what else do I need to say? 🤷♂️
Having been alive before there ever was a Super Bowl, I agree it is so sad sports events have become only for the wealthy. I have no idea what tickets cost back then but it was nice when a family of four could afford to go to a professional baseball game. Surely Superbowl tickets were not as expensive then as they are now when adjusted for inflation. But then the salaries of the players was not as high and the stadiums were, well, outdoor not high tech stadiums where you were not protected from the snow should that happen! The way football should be!!!! Gosh I'm old!
I actually put back 2 items at Costco today! The price of tuna had doubled & I can't remember the other thing but I just said, "No, I'm not buying that!"
That’s wonderful! It’s in becoming aware of one’s own mental health issues to identify triggers and how they are responded to. I hope you don’t guilt yourself though because you’ve got to eat healthy as that is very important as well. I used to have clients that I had on my caseload and they hated it at first because I told them while I handed them a plain old notebook for journaling. I told them look I don’t care what you write but regardless of your dislike of journaling I want you to daily write one word. Just one word a day to describe your feelings. So they did. Pretty soon they’d write more and more and they learned that by expressing their emotions and feelings on paper it allowed them to express their inner most thoughts that were actually fueling their negative coping mechanisms and they soon discovered that the method was a healthy coping mechanism that empowered them to be their authentic self.
I still think that Epstein files is their Achilles heel. As of last night, Massie, and several others remain persistant. IMHO therere are layers of culpability:
1. Rapists.
2. Pimps.
3. Those who knew or had reason to know that Epstein ran his operation on the honeypot, yet did business and even invested with him had his fellow conspirators, i.e. Lutnick et al.
4. Obstruction of justice. Ironically when Trump # 45 "investigated," it tracked people like Julie Brown and the Miami Herald!
Although Trump claims ignorance, an FBI document just released summarizing a 2019 interview with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, Donald Trump told police in 2006 that Jeffrey Epstein was engaged in "disgusting" behavior, identified Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein's "operative," and described her as "evil".
Where is the archer Paris whose arrow found Achilles's heel with the guidance of the god Apollo? Do the same rules apply to someone dipped in $hit not the River Styx?
Too many who could benefit by inflating it. Maybe AI can develop surgically implantable backbones sufficient to permit the exchange of Instant Karma for some modicum of recognition that their sycophancy, placation and abetting collectively form the handle on the toilet that is swirling us around
Pam Bondi’s performance at today’s hearing was nothing short of disgraceful. She repeatedly veered into irrelevant stock market talking points that had nothing to do with the questions at hand, or even her lane, while leaning hard into whataboutism, burning the first 20–30 seconds of Republican time to deflect from Democrat questions she never actually answered. But strip away the theatrics and distractions, and the real indictment is she couldn’t even bring herself to acknowledge the survivors, let alone apologize for the DOJ’s catastrophic failure in releasing unredacted, identifying information. That silence tells you everything we need to know about her fitness to serve, and about the White House that continues to shield and enable her. When accountability was required, she chose evasion. There really are no words, but the message was loud and clear.
Their MO is to keep people hungry, jobless, scared for their primary needs while stealing in plain sight everything the people have. It's corruption on display.
She will do everything in her power to protect the felon, fraud, traitor, pedophile, rapist, treasonous, Putin loving sack of shit. Let us all be sure to make this thin skinned, wannabe dictator a lame duck. Keep the hammer down on these sick perverts. There is lots more to expose.
Both times that Bondi has previously appeared (Senate Judiciary and Senate Committee) have been shit shows. She has been combative and refused to answer questions, so why would today be any different?
The Democrats need to shut Bondi down when she starts trying to change the subject or attacks. The only thing thru should say is "Answer. The. Question." She should be held in Contempt of Congress if she tries to get up and walk out. Enough of her bullshit. Nail her to the wall.
Please mention to someone on the funding committee that until we get receipts and find out where 45B $$ disappeared to, that they get no more money. The damage is done. Store shelves in groceries are emptying because they are holding and deporting the workforce. NO MORE MONEY!!!
As I recall, Nixon's defenestration was sudden but not unexpected. Dems controlled Congress in Nixon's day and still it was excruciatingly slow until it wasn't. Sorta like bankruptcy.
Call me crazy but I still am going to keep asking until they investigate Ivana’s casket! Donald had her cremated against her wishes, yet the pallbearers were struggling to even carry it. She clearly didn’t weigh enough having been cremated and I still believe he’s hiding something or a bunch of some things inside that casket. They seriously need to exhume it and look inside of it because ashes don’t weigh anything and why burying it in the brush piles?! You don’t hide a casket of someone you loved under heavy brush piles and grown pallbearers don’t struggle to carry ashes. How do we get them to exhume her casket?
Trump and this cabal of wealthy white men remind me of the attitudes of rich boys in frat houses. The invincibility that there are no consequences for them because they will just buy they way out. The rigging and cheating and stealing to win at all costs, be at the top, step on whoever because their wealth and position in society demands it. This is pervasive within this class, now rightly called the Epstein class.
Please look into the closing of airspace around El Paso…is there a threat or is this more distraction?
My exact thought. Is Congress ACTUALLY gping to DO anything? WHY is Bondi just talking? This should be an impeachment hearing. Impeachment should be ALREADY be happening for Trump. Congress talks and talks. He is getting ready to kick over the table because he's losing the board game.
He should have been incarcerated J6!
His whole cabinet and complicit members should be removed and then prosecuted.
Yes his entire administration, cabinet members, and his loyalists in Congress are all culpable and complicit for aiding and abetting him.
Article II, Section Four. The first Trump misadministration oversaw the convenient death of Epstein, the second Trump crime spree is overseeing the overtaking of the Epstein client list.
Bondi doesn't really know how to do anything except run her mouth.
That’s an understatement. What a shameful nonsensical nonhuman being she is. She has sold her soul for the devil himself with no shame or regrets. Sickening and depraved deviant evil vile she is.
I saw a great yet disgusting quote saying Bondii is Trump's Ghislaine Maxwell. It was right.
Bingo! Thanks for your reply.
You have to have the votes to impeach, republicans are still holding out.
Thomas Masse isn’t and from what I’ve heard there are more Republicans who share his views on this administration and the bs that Donald has done to this country and the world and especially the Survivors and the Epstein Files and all who are complicit and culpable. Those who don’t are giving themselves away as to who they are.
I agree that a 10 day closure of airspace is not only extremely disruptive, it is also ominous and not typical security measures.
While the El Paso airspace closure was quickly cancelled, I think Trump is trying to show all of us his power to disrupt our lives. Authoritarian dictators always think they can win compliance and silence exposure of their lies and lawless behavior with threats and strong arm tactics. They don’t understand that this makes people more resistant and, when they cross the no-go lines of supporters, they flip those supporters to the opposition. Continuing on this path, they will be a smaller and smaller group doing more dangerous things in their desperation to keep control. I guess they think they can actually become something like the 1000-Year Reich. Hitler, etc., caused millions of deaths and left parts of Europe in ruins after only 12 years. Then Hitler committed suicide, Mussolini was lynched. The world staggered to its feet and created a more inclusive, liberal society. Now the cycle starts over. Can’t these selfish, cruel monsters see beyond the thrill of their incompetent push for domination?
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Very excellent comment about that issue. He’s probably done that for the Saudis or Putin or perhaps even an escape from the country. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
It's already been canceled.
From Dale Lawrence
I fear that consumerism, like greed, is an addiction for many. (But it’s my grandchild’s birthday, my wedding, Christmas is coming, that’s something I’ve wanted for months and it’s finally available, I can’t resist that low sale price, etc.)
I believe we’re in a crisis, and shopping is the antidote for many when they feel sad or worried. But folks, if you can triumph over your shopping addiction, you can triumph over the destruction of your country.
The control you have over your spending is your best weapon against the cruelty of the MAGAts and oligarchs. Every time we buy something we don’t need, we give permission to being ruled by oligarchs.
I apologize if I sound preachy, but I’m scared. And angry with the way self-obsessed billionaires are taking control over government, media, trade, education, research, environment, healthcare, etc.
I hate feeling so helpless, but I love the encouragement I get here.
It is a very real problem: "Compulsive spending, like many other addictions, is a way of coping with stress, pain, trauma, and other negative emotions. People who engage in compulsive spending respond to negative emotions by spending money." Psychology Today, 9-Dec-16 https://tinyurl.com/ytwf5v6p
Yes, we’ve been brainwashed from the cradle to consume, to spend, in order to feel adequate.
Seriously. Mothers'/Fathers'/Grandparents'/Secretaries' Day cards: for what? $7 or $8 for a 4 second read because somehow we would remiss if we didn't?
To paraphrase Karl Marx, spending is the opiate of the people.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on that. I am at the point in life, where I don't need any trinkets, jewelry, knick-knacks, etc. Plus, my kids should save their money for homes and things that matter.
I do however, love my mother's day cards, where they are the highlight of the day because my son's tell me what I mean to them or how I have shaped their lives, or what they appreciate about our relationship and that is worth more than any stupid trinkets and I can re-read it when I need a pick-me-up or smile.
Might a phone call or visit be nicer if not more meaningful? To each her own
As a mental health professional that is very true. We tend to call it a negative coping mechanism but what you have shared along with the individual before you is very very true. Especially common in those who have experienced traumatic events. It’s a shock to the system and one that causes a lot of compulsive behaviors such as shopping and hoarding to not have to deal with the pain.
I don't think you are preachy at all. I really appreciate your take on consumerism as an antidote for feeling scared/powerless. I know food is that for me, which is for sure part of consumerism...I had a rough week, I deserve a bag of M&Ms (a big bag)...till I saw the price and then I declined. What faulty thinking that is!!! (and yet just talking about it makes me want a bowl full of M&Ms....) Why don't I say I had a bad week, I deserve a long walk in the woods, or time off to listen to Beethoven's 9th (which I am actually doing right now...). I think right now it's difficult for many to have control over their spending because there just isn't much left over after rent, electric, food, car payment and insurance (and for many making that payment on a medical bill, and yet folks are charging probably unnecessary "things" on their credit cards. Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a nation where there was no pressure to get the latest new fashions/color paint for your house/fashion accessories/hair style (even though they promised you last season THIS was THE hair style for you)..last year Super Bowl winner t shirts were fine but even though they are not worn out, you need ones for this year's winners (I don't think they are the same team, I don't follow football!) But since we don't live in that world the best we can do is try to reduce our own consumerism. And you are not helpless....you can do all you can to reduce your own consumerism and then continue to do things that help the resistance...make calls, send emails...they don't cost. Vote in every election you can. I hope that at least some Democrat and Independent folks running for office are doing what they can to rephrase the campaign from us (Dems/Indies) against them (maga GOP) to het, it's US (all of us) against them..the ultra rich. I think that's a lot of what Bernie Sanders does and we need a whole lot more of it.
Cali here. And a other thing, speaking of the Superbowl. Why are tickets $6k-$7k?? and that's nose-bleed seats. So, nobody can afford to go to the Superbowl unless you are affluent? Wtf? That's just not right. I am a huge Seahawks fan & would have gone, but . . . I'm retired - what else do I need to say? 🤷♂️
Having been alive before there ever was a Super Bowl, I agree it is so sad sports events have become only for the wealthy. I have no idea what tickets cost back then but it was nice when a family of four could afford to go to a professional baseball game. Surely Superbowl tickets were not as expensive then as they are now when adjusted for inflation. But then the salaries of the players was not as high and the stadiums were, well, outdoor not high tech stadiums where you were not protected from the snow should that happen! The way football should be!!!! Gosh I'm old!
I actually put back 2 items at Costco today! The price of tuna had doubled & I can't remember the other thing but I just said, "No, I'm not buying that!"
That’s wonderful! It’s in becoming aware of one’s own mental health issues to identify triggers and how they are responded to. I hope you don’t guilt yourself though because you’ve got to eat healthy as that is very important as well. I used to have clients that I had on my caseload and they hated it at first because I told them while I handed them a plain old notebook for journaling. I told them look I don’t care what you write but regardless of your dislike of journaling I want you to daily write one word. Just one word a day to describe your feelings. So they did. Pretty soon they’d write more and more and they learned that by expressing their emotions and feelings on paper it allowed them to express their inner most thoughts that were actually fueling their negative coping mechanisms and they soon discovered that the method was a healthy coping mechanism that empowered them to be their authentic self.
But His Royal Heinous says prices are going down!
I agree!
El Paso is a hub of one of the deportation and detention/concentration camps. Do people know this? I just heard they lifted it now. Suspicious
It's already been lifted. It's going to cost the airlines a lot of money and hassle, not to mention the harm done to the city and passengers.
Distraction, that's what they do.
Hope they tear her a new hole on the stand!
I still think that Epstein files is their Achilles heel. As of last night, Massie, and several others remain persistant. IMHO therere are layers of culpability:
1. Rapists.
2. Pimps.
3. Those who knew or had reason to know that Epstein ran his operation on the honeypot, yet did business and even invested with him had his fellow conspirators, i.e. Lutnick et al.
4. Obstruction of justice. Ironically when Trump # 45 "investigated," it tracked people like Julie Brown and the Miami Herald!
Although Trump claims ignorance, an FBI document just released summarizing a 2019 interview with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter, Donald Trump told police in 2006 that Jeffrey Epstein was engaged in "disgusting" behavior, identified Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein's "operative," and described her as "evil".
Where is the archer Paris whose arrow found Achilles's heel with the guidance of the god Apollo? Do the same rules apply to someone dipped in $hit not the River Styx?
HIs Achilles heel is his ego and need for adulation. It really shouldn't be so difficult to use against him, yet no one appears to have tried.
Too many who could benefit by inflating it. Maybe AI can develop surgically implantable backbones sufficient to permit the exchange of Instant Karma for some modicum of recognition that their sycophancy, placation and abetting collectively form the handle on the toilet that is swirling us around
I was thinking of inflating it to self incriminate. Like the scene from A Few Good Men where Nicholson caves due to ego.
From what I've heard, the Republicans are gonna lob her some softballs and stay away from the Epstein Files. It will be a dog and pony show, no doubt.
That’s a given.
She exhibited abhorrent behavior.
Pam Bondi’s performance at today’s hearing was nothing short of disgraceful. She repeatedly veered into irrelevant stock market talking points that had nothing to do with the questions at hand, or even her lane, while leaning hard into whataboutism, burning the first 20–30 seconds of Republican time to deflect from Democrat questions she never actually answered. But strip away the theatrics and distractions, and the real indictment is she couldn’t even bring herself to acknowledge the survivors, let alone apologize for the DOJ’s catastrophic failure in releasing unredacted, identifying information. That silence tells you everything we need to know about her fitness to serve, and about the White House that continues to shield and enable her. When accountability was required, she chose evasion. There really are no words, but the message was loud and clear.
Yep. Perfectly said. Her performance was pure cringe.
Thank you 🙏 The unwillingness to even look at the survivors, really got under my skin. These people are true sociopaths!
Ben, stay strong, stay safe and continue speaking truth to power!
What makes us think that she will tell the truth? She has no respect for the law, so why do we think she will, under oath, tell the truth?
Maybe it will be harder when the survivors are staring her down, instead of just ‘faceless victims’. Let’s hope we see her crawling in her skin.
That would, maybe work, if she had a conscience. She clearly does not. No remorse. No regret-except getting caught.
Their MO is to keep people hungry, jobless, scared for their primary needs while stealing in plain sight everything the people have. It's corruption on display.
As long as they’re changing so many names, they may as well rename it the “Department of Injustice“ or “Department of Retribution”.
Love it
Prove she lied, over and over again, then impeach her.
She will do everything in her power to protect the felon, fraud, traitor, pedophile, rapist, treasonous, Putin loving sack of shit. Let us all be sure to make this thin skinned, wannabe dictator a lame duck. Keep the hammer down on these sick perverts. There is lots more to expose.
Thank you for keeping us informed. 🕊️🙏🏻❤️✊🏻
Both times that Bondi has previously appeared (Senate Judiciary and Senate Committee) have been shit shows. She has been combative and refused to answer questions, so why would today be any different?
The Democrats need to shut Bondi down when she starts trying to change the subject or attacks. The only thing thru should say is "Answer. The. Question." She should be held in Contempt of Congress if she tries to get up and walk out. Enough of her bullshit. Nail her to the wall.
Call the Marshals and force her to sit back down.
They work for her (DOJ) - that is a major problem as well with court-order enforcement
Can Capital police be a help?
No doubt she'll try and pull a krusti demon and leave early
Please mention to someone on the funding committee that until we get receipts and find out where 45B $$ disappeared to, that they get no more money. The damage is done. Store shelves in groceries are emptying because they are holding and deporting the workforce. NO MORE MONEY!!!
As I recall, Nixon's defenestration was sudden but not unexpected. Dems controlled Congress in Nixon's day and still it was excruciatingly slow until it wasn't. Sorta like bankruptcy.
With RMN, it was the lie more than the act. Now, the lie and the act are indistinguishable
Call me crazy but I still am going to keep asking until they investigate Ivana’s casket! Donald had her cremated against her wishes, yet the pallbearers were struggling to even carry it. She clearly didn’t weigh enough having been cremated and I still believe he’s hiding something or a bunch of some things inside that casket. They seriously need to exhume it and look inside of it because ashes don’t weigh anything and why burying it in the brush piles?! You don’t hide a casket of someone you loved under heavy brush piles and grown pallbearers don’t struggle to carry ashes. How do we get them to exhume her casket?
Probably stolen documents or worse. I've read many comments that say murdered children are buried on his golf course same as the Epstein ranch.
Yup! Same DJ. on the murdered children.
Trump and this cabal of wealthy white men remind me of the attitudes of rich boys in frat houses. The invincibility that there are no consequences for them because they will just buy they way out. The rigging and cheating and stealing to win at all costs, be at the top, step on whoever because their wealth and position in society demands it. This is pervasive within this class, now rightly called the Epstein class.
Why didn’t she prosecute Epstein’s Florida collabotators?