enabling a rapist

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Vote Because the GOP Is Enabling a Rapist

by the Rude Pundit

Every time the New York Times or Politico or even Fox "news" tries to fluff some flaccid minor issue into a fully-erect controversy, I think, "The president is a rapist and that's something that should be talked about every goddamn day." Indeed, as Donald Trump and complicit Republicans pretend that the totally legal dirty trick of putting someone with the same name as GOP Senator Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska is like an electoral crisis that demands judicial intervention, perhaps up to criminal and civil penalties against Democratic candidate (and frontrunner) Mary Peltola, the media is more or less ignoring a report put out by House Democrats detailing more rape allegations against Trump. And I might be a naif in legal matters, but I'm gonna say that supporting an alleged rapist as president is far more important than whether or not Alaskans are too stupid to figure out there can be more than one Dan Sullivan. 

There are a million fucking reasons to vote for Democrats and/or to vote against Republicans, from the Iran War to ICE's brutal rampage to Trump's wanton, extravagant corruption to the disgusting racism of Trump and many candidates to the failure to address Americans' deep anxiety about health care and income and affordability to the future-murdering refusal to do anything to mitigate the destructive march of the climate crisis to the attack on reality with election lies and immigrant lies and economic lies to the harm caused by the diminishment of science, like vaccines, in favor discredited bullshit to the abandonment of Ukraine in favor of Russia, which is a criminal enterprise disguised as a country to the shitting on our allies with threats and bullying to the baffling waste of funds and time on nonsense like ballrooms and monuments and marble and fake gold shit. I could go on.  You could go on. 

Every step of the way, Republicans in the House and Senate have either actively and enthusiastically voted for all of this or they have enabled it through inaction or vociferous support. The same goes for the rape allegations against Trump, and it's one giant reason to vote out Republicans. We have been living with a president who is a rapist, likely a child rapist, and it's time to fucking do something about that. Your vote for the Democratic candidates is one way to start to hold these rapist-loving bastards to account.

This past Monday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released a report that detailed aspects of the rape and sexual abuse allegations against Trump and his relationship with serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein that haven't been public or haven't been put into a coherent narrative by a congressional committee. It's filled with disturbing details, like Trump's rape of Beatrice Keul, a Miss Switzerland who was in New York to compete in a beauty pageant owned by Trump. The rape occurred in the Plaza Hotel in November 1993; a month later, Trump married his second wife, Marla Maples, at the Plaza. Jeffrey Epstein was there for the pageant and for the wedding. 

Obviously, the details of the allegations are fucked-up. But the report is not merely a recitation of horrors and of lies (like that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, which...nope). Many of the victims made statements to the FBI, and falsely accusing someone of a crime is itself a crime. If they were lying, they were doing it with the threat of prosecution hanging over their heads. This is not to mention the possibility of lawsuits from Trump, who is the suingest asshole in the world.

To back up the allegations, the report gives us information like this about one survivor, who went by "Jane Doe 1" since she was 14 at the time: "As made apparent when viewed in the version made available to Members of Congress, but not to the public, Jane Doe 1 was viewed as a credible witness by DOJ investigators and prosecutors, and she was one of four women to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell during her criminal trial under the pseudonym  'Jane.' Jane’s testimony was devastating for Maxwell’s defense." Epstein had introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago (which ought to be called "Meet-a-Pedo" from now on) with "This is a good one, huh?" to which Trump said, "Yes."

Just think about that: This victim, who was raped or watched others being raped at several Epstein properties, was seen as having strong enough testimony that it could be used in court. 

Another woman, under the pseudonym of "Katie Johnson," sued Trump in 2016 for rape and sexual abuse. She dropped her lawsuit and has gone silent, but she had reported what happened to her by Trump and Epstein to the FBI. Other documents involving complaints to the FBI had been withheld by the Department of Justice in its release of the DOJ-selected Epstein files. Members of Congress had access, and that's why their content is discussed. 

There's more, so much more, in the 53-page report, yet you're not going to hear about any of it or about the fact that Republicans didn't want this to come out. You're gonna hear about the Alaska non-scandal or the tiff between insufferable loser Haley Stevens and rising star Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan or every tiny mistake by a Democrat blown up into a full-on breaking newsgasm. But you're not gonna hear more than something in passing, almost like, "By the way, Trump was accused of more rape. I know. Yawn, right?" instead of a five-alarm fucking blare that the president has been credibly accused of rape and assault by over a dozen women.

Why is it hidden by the corporate media? Perhaps because of the complicity of the billionaire owners of media companies? Perhaps once a media outlet goes down that road, it's all or nothing. If you start reporting that the president is a rapist, then you gotta follow that to its logical end: that president being removed from office and sent to prison.

A fuckton of voters do care about this. They care about the Epstein files. They care that the president is a rapist. They care that Republicans will never do anything about it. And if they give Democrats the keys to Congress, those Democrats better be ready to tear down the rapist-in-chief. As for you, dear voter, your decision is either to side with rape-lovers or vote them out. You know what you need to do.

Rude Pundit

JoJo from Jerz

Love JoJo from Jerz. Not only is she pretty, she's smart and can curse like a sailor, and she's a Democrat, not a mindless butt-licking toady like MAGA. One last reminder: get out and fucking VOTE. 

In the history of dumb fucking cults, you MAGA lobotomy laureates are—hands down, without a doubt, bar none—the fucking dumbest.

And it’s not even close.

And I can hear people saying, “Jo, be nice.”

Nice?

Nice jumped out a window when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Nice ran into oncoming traffic during the January 6 insurrection. Nice threw a toaster into the bathtub watching Donald Trump’s masked goons shoot American citizens and kidnap people off the street.

Nice has left the building because you fucking Kool-Aid-crusted crayonnoisseurs have tethered the rest of us to the Thelma and Louise car—and in exchange, you’ve gotten fuckall.

At least Heaven’s Gate was promised a spaceship.

You were promised cheaper eggs and got diarrhea lettuce.

Make America Healthy Again? You got a measles comeback tour. Sick of winning? You got whooping cough.

You glorious, star-spangled dipshits. You sanctimonious, self-satisfied shidiots. You tallow-brained, Trump-tumescent troglodytes. You swirling maelstrom of mouth-breathing dumbfuckery.

You are microwave-a-fork stupid. Lick-a-nine-volt-to-see-if-it’s-Republican stupid. Eat-the-fucking-silica-packet-because-you’re-not-a-sheep stupid. Vote-for-the-guy-who-said-he’d-fuck-you, get-fucked, then-mail-him-your-insulin-money stupid.

You cannot fix this kind of stupid. You cannot reason with this level of willful stupidity. You cannot convince somebody that two plus two equals four when Donald Trump says it equals five and you’ve decided the calculator is part of the fucking deep state.

Who’s the candidate? What does he stand for?

“I don’t know anything about him. All I know is Donald Trump says he should be our senator, and I trust him.”

That’s it. That’s the entire intellectual contribution of the damp fucking packing peanut between your ears. You’d ask more questions about a suspicious potato salad than somebody who gets to vote on whether you keep your healthcare.

And when reality refuses to cooperate? The polls are the deep state. Gas prices are the deep state.

Republicans have the Oval Office, the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court. They control more state legislatures than Democrats. But somehow—some FUCKING how—it’s the Democrats manipulating everything to make Donald Trump look bad.

A Republican could personally set your curtains on fire and you’d demand Nancy Pelosi reimburse you for the drapes.

I would argue that if Democrats are that powerful, they should be in charge. But what the fuck do I know?

He promised peace. You got eight months of war with Iran. Cheaper gas? Diesel hit record highs. Cheaper groceries? You’re being told to pick another protein because Hamburger Helper now needs a fucking cosigner.

But feed you the lie that Timmy’s preschool teacher secretly operated on him and sent him home as Tammy, and that’s all it takes.

The woman is trying to get sixteen children into coats without somebody eating a mitten. You’ve decided she’s running a clandestine surgical theater behind the cubbies. Between Goldfish crackers and learning what a triangle is. Apparently, she’s got a forty-minute opening.

She can’t get Mason to keep both shoes on, but sure, the laminator folds out into an operating room whenever the parents pull away.

You can’t afford dinner, and you’re demanding a congressional investigation into the fucking finger-paint table.

And what happened to “PROTECT THE CHILDREN” when the conversation got around to Jeffrey Epstein? Trump’s name is all over the Epstein files, and the allegations against him are fucking shocking. You don’t get to manufacture preschool predators while running a protection racket for your pompadoured patron saint of plausible deniability.

A rainbow sticker gets a forensic investigation. Trump gets a fucking permission slip.

His tariffs fucked you. His war fucked you. He slapped his name on a meme coin and you bought it like Jesus had opened a fucking brokerage. His family cashed in. You got a commemorative screenshot of your own fleecing.

He hands the rich a tax break and takes a meat cleaver to Medicaid and food assistance. You’re raffling off a fucking air fryer to pay for surgery, but congratulations to the hedge-fund hemorrhoid on his second yacht.

Yet when anybody proposes helping people afford their lives, you scream “SOCIALISM! COMMUNISM!” You couldn’t distinguish either from fucking ventriloquism. You think the proletariat is something a urologist scrapes off with a tiny spoon.

“NO GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS!”

But dangle five thousand dollars and you rugged individualists are dry-humping the fucking mailbox. DOGE refund? Nothing. Tariff check? Nothing. And what happened to that healthcare plan that was always two fucking weeks away?

Now Trump says if Republicans keep Congress, they can send you those five-thousand-dollar checks.

THEY HAVE CONGRESS.

Why can’t they send the fucking checks NOW? Did the deep state eat the fucking mailman?

And I get why, once upon a time, you actually believed that Manhattan money-grubbing motherfucker who shits on a gold toilet gave a fuck about you.

But do you actually STILL believe that?

Do you still believe that amoral, avaricious, depraved, debased, corrupt, callous, conscienceless con artist—your cash-catfishing, country-club cockalorum, your preening, pud-pulling peckerpotentate, your foundation-frosted fellatiarch—gives a fuck about you?

He has betrayed you, and you’re STILL applauding.

You can’t afford your medication or your mortgage. He’s playing Pretty Pretty Princess with ballrooms, columns, helipads, and golf-course grass. Supergluing gold medallions to the Oval Office like he’s decorating for a fucking Juggalo prom.

He doesn’t give a fuck about you. He’s not even pretending anymore. He’s treating the country like a terminally ill relative whose jewelry he wants before the ambulance arrives.

And yet you’re still out there insisting God sent him.

God sent that stupid, sinister, sexist, sadistic, self-serving, shameless, slovenly, saccharin-filled, spaghetti-sauce-stained sloth?

If that’s who God sent, then God was huffing fucking Glade plug-ins behind a Wawa.

Explain to me exactly how you reason with that. You’re putting stained glass on a porta-potty and calling the smell a religious experience.

And I know. I know. People will say, “Don’t mock them, Jo. Don’t punch down. Don’t make fun of them. Take the high road. Reason with them. Try to convince them. You’ll alienate them. You’ll make them dig deeper into their little foxholes. You’ll push them away.”

After TEN FUCKING YEARS of this shit?

You think the missing ingredient is that we haven’t asked nicely enough?

What’s the plan? Another documentary? A pie chart? Do I need to tuck the Constitution into a slice of American cheese and hand-feed it to you?

No. No, fuck that.

We’re not pulling you into our tent by treating your refusal to learn like everybody else’s failure to teach. You’ll find a justification for the cruelty before the people he’s hurting have even caught their breath.

He hates who you hate, and that’s all you think you need. You’ll forgive every broken promise as long as somebody who doesn’t look like you gets hurt.

He could piss down your back and tell you it’s raining, and you’d ask him to autograph the fucking umbrella.

We have been shackled to your flaming dumpster fire of fucked-up decisions for long enough. We are being governed by fools and morons because a plurality of the dumbest dumbfucks who ever DUMBED believed a con man, a criminal, a counterfeit, a snake-oil salesman, a phony, a fraud.

The high road is that we need to outnumber you. Outvote you. Outmaneuver you. Once and for fucking all.

Your lives keep getting harder, and you can’t name one thing he’s done to make them easier. You can’t point to one thing that’s actually improved your lives in any measurable way.

But you’re still sheep standing in the middle of a goddamn pasture, staring at a wolf holding a sign saying I’M GOING TO EAT YOU, telling each other, “I love the way he tells it like it is.”

Just because you’re dumb enough to keep worshiping the wolf doesn’t mean the rest of us have signed up to be its fucking dinner.

And that’s why we have to vote. We HAVE to vote. Everybody who isn’t one of these fucking idiots has to vote. Vote blue, no matter who. Make it too real to steal and too big to rig.

We’re done letting the people who eat the fucking crayons draw the map.

I love you guys!

Stay safe out there, stay strong, and stay connected to each other!!

AND VOTE!!!!!

💙 Jo

JoJo from Jerz (she's also on Substack)

E. Jean Carroll

And now, something a little "lighter" but still gross. I still do wonder how bad Trump actually smells up close. We hear stories about old folks wearing adult diapers with a shitload in their diaper and smelling really bad, but they usually seem to be aware and take steps to clean up. Apparently, not so with Trump. He might just wear that smell as some kind of badge. "Here, smell this! Breathe deep! I dare you to say anything!" What a freak.

BREAKING: E Jean Carroll publicly humiliates Donald Trump by revealing that his disgusting body odor and bizarre behavior "mesmerized" the jury during the trial that resulted in her $83 million defamation win.

These details are hilarious as they are gross...

“I don’t understand how people can be afraid of a fat, elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, and sits in a courtroom and moans and groans and complains and snorts,” Caroll told The Daily Beast podcast.

“They were mesmerized. You have never seen anything like it,” she said of the jury. “He never sat still, and he talked the entire time within earshot of the jury. He belittled Alina Habba, his own attorney. He would spit as he was talking. He didn’t smell so good.”

She recounted how her attorney Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan really got under Trump's skin...

"He stood up with steam coming off his back and hot air blowing out his ears because Robbie Kaplan was giving the final argument, and she was asking the jury how much it would take to make him stop," said Carroll.

“She drove him so crazy, he stood up in the courtroom and left,” she explained. "When a man is innocent, he doesn’t storm out of a courtroom; he stays and fights. He turned tail and stormed out of the courtroom. He lost right at that second. He couldn’t have looked more guilty."

Caroll credibly accused Trump of raping her and he was ultimately found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her. She was awarded $5 million but then Trump continued defaming her in public and denying her story, eventually resulting in her massive $83.3 million victory.

“When the jury heard the evidence, it wasn’t very hard,” Kaplan told the Daily Beast.

“The clerk opens it up, reads it, frowns, shakes his head, folds it back up, and then hands it to Judge Kaplan,” said Caroll. “And Judge Kaplan opens it up, and his eyebrows rise up towards his hairline, and he frowns, and he says, ‘Madame forewoman, what does the M stand for?’”

The forewoman explained that "m" stood for "million.

“That was a moment,” said Carroll. “I left my body. As I say, I felt like Peter Pan who flies around the ceilings. And quite frankly, I’ve never come down from that. That win was so enormous and so powerful, not for me, not for Robbie, but for everybody in the country who had sort of lost hope that he could ever be beaten.”

“We’re still feeling the good victory of that. It’s happened. And we’ve proved—Robbie proved, and I proved—that Trump can be beaten,” Carroll continued. “He can be beaten.”

E. Jean Caroll is right. Trump shouldn't be feared. He can be defeated. All it takes is the courage to fight back.

Voices of Democratic Women

Musk's treason

Elon Musk would be a prime candidate for deportation, if he wasn't so rich, but I kinda doubt that it would work.

A Quick Follow Up On Musk's Treason...A Friend Asks, Is Getting Him On Money Laundering, Also Snaring His Accomplices, "Easier" Than Treason?"

My Reply-

["That's the "Al Capone" "follow the money" strategy. "Get him on anything, it doesn't matter," is the rationale. We've had some debate about this before. It's a big loser.

We have to destroy him and Trump together, and likewise their movement with them, instead of nipping at their toes. Treason is actually easier to convict on because Musk confesses to it every day out of his pure Olympian arrogance.

But we have to repudiate the corrupt American culture which enabled him. Our politics have turned rotten because of the tragic moral and intellectual degeneration of our population. That is the painful truth which the populists want to avoid.

The MAGA half of Americans are largely immoral swine. One-half of the other half don't care about anything but themselves and have no attention span for much else. Americans are seen by other nations as being sick for allowing Trump to be president twice, and they are right.

You have to realize that roughly one-half of Americans are either idiots, religious bigots, corrupted by racism and greed, or are just amoral. Musk exists for the same reason Trump does. 80 million people are just plain failed humans in their character. You are not going to change them or the children they are raising through "Lawfare." Did we prosecute Goering and the other Nazis at Nuremberg for stealing French art treasures, or for crimes against humanity? FFS.

We have to do it through public Nuremberg style trials, not just to punish the evil-doers but in order to confront Americans with their complicity in Trump's and Musk's crimes. Just like we did with the Nazis.

Money laundering charges won't change Americans. Showing them video of piles of dead bodies of Ukrainian children that died because Musk slowed down their air defense warning systems might, just like the newsreel footage of the Nazi death camps at the post-war trials did with the Germans. The people in Congress that want to subpoena Musk for cutting USAID funding causing the deaths of 100,000's of people are absolutely on the right track. That's exactly what I would do. Not yet another financial scandal and litigation that goes nowhere, because these oligarchs are just replacement parts for a rotten system. Show Americans how they voted for and/or ignored genocide.

The place where you and many others often make the same error is the belief that we are fighting a small group of wealthy oligarchs whose power is in their control of money, and that's how they corrupt politics. And you think that using their money as a weapon against them will stop them because going with legal and financial strategies to take it away is their weakness. It will not. That is just impotent populism, not an actual war-winning strategy.

Their power is not in their control of money. It is their ability to control your minds. They own Americans from the neck up. People think they are independent thinkers. What a joke, Americans in the majority are a bunch of easily misled lemmings who are getting the government they deserve. The solution is to be found in changing that. Which we can.

Let's talk about how to fix that over the next two generations or so instead of screwing around with a bunch of legal gimmicks or hiring computer techs to track down cyber crimes. The people have to change if they want democracy. They first need to take back their own minds and break with the destructive, violent, nihilistic, and narcissistic Roman-style entertainment culture which bodysnatched them.

Lance Rosen

Musk and Putin

So, it appears that Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin are in "close contact." WTF? The richest man in the world in close contact with arch-villain Putin? So the recent interruption of Ukraine's Starshield makes sense now. As soon as the signals were restricted, Putin launched a bunch of missiles into Ukraine, which went undetected. So how can Americans trust Musk at all? WTF are his motives? WTF is with the stupid "Mars" idea too? I wonder what Musk's rocket-bro cult members would think about Elon's close relationship with Putin? I will be asking that, over and over.

So, let me get this straight: Vladimir Putin, a mass-murdering dictator, war criminal, and enemy of the United States who's been helping Iran target Americans during Donald Trump's war with Iran, publicly admits that he and Elon Musk are in "close contact," praising the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.

This all comes shortly after Ukraine suddenly had its access to Starlink services restricted prior to a massive Russian ballistic missile attack that killed civilians.

Meanwhile, Musk is a private citizen and CEO whose companies have billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts, and he's spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to influence the outcome of our elections. In fact, he's spent hundreds of millions of dollars between 2024 and 2026 and is essentially trying to buy Ken Paxton a spot in the United States Senate.

Musk is also someone who's going around spending money to meddle in the elections of other nations, most of which are also allies of the United States and targets of Russia and Russian propaganda.

And somehow, none of this is being investigated by anyone at any level of law enforcement, national intelligence, or the U.S. government?

To summarize: The richest man in the world, someone with billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts and a lot of influence over our national security due to those contracts, who's also been the GOP's top political donor over the past two election cycles and held a very high-level role within the Trump administration with access to the personal information of basically every American citizen, is having private meetings with the Russian dictator, who's publicly praising him and boasting about their close, seemingly positive relationship.

Yet, not a single investigation by any entity in this country into any of this.

Nothing to see here, it's all a "Russia hoax" and "fake news," right?

I have an idea: Let's put all of this information inside Hunter Biden's laptop. Then maybe we'll get Republicans in Congress to finally give a sh*t and do something to investigate all of this — because this is a very big deal.

Allen Clifton