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Thursday, February 12, 2026

JoJo from Jerz

How about a little bit of righteous outrage re Pam Bondi? JoJo from Jerz has some for you.


Pam Bondi Is Such A Bitch

A Pedophile Protector in Pumps & Pinstripes

It was another day ending in Y in Donald Trump’s motherfucking America. And there we were again, dragged into yet another gobsmacking gauntlet of gilded grift and grievance theater — a stress test of our sanity, our restraint, our daytime sobriety and our ability to resist the urge to chuck the goddamn remote control through the goddamn living room window.


I was watching clips from the Bondi hearing — which dragged its bloated carcass across my screen for hours — and it was the single most unprofessional, evasive, petulant, mean-girl spectacle I have ever seen in my life.


She was smarmy. Insufferable. Condescending. Combative. And so fucking rude.


Was she raised by a marauding band of exiled Real Housewives, bottle-fed on boxed Pinot Grigio and menthols, left to marinate in a playpen with a bleach cocktail and a stack of National Enquirers? Did she learn her signature brand of venom by mainlining reruns of Jerry Springer and YouTube compilations of cats getting drop-kicked?


She didn’t even have to speak — her mere presence radiated the kind of entitled malevolence that made you want to leap through the screen and personally escort her out by the hair, heels scraping marble, before dumping her out on the curb with the rest of the day’s trash.


I hated watching that shit. I would have rather scraped dried gum off a subway platform with a stolen Starbucks gift card. Sat through a three-hour lecture on municipal sewage infrastructure delivered by a man who thinks PowerPoint transitions are a personality trait and “let’s circle back” is foreplay. Reorganized my junk drawer with tweezers. Untangled Christmas lights in July. Argued with Comcast about a phantom fee.


But that was where we were.


And if the Democratic members of that committee could endure her resting Cruella-de-Vil-sucking-on-lemons face, so could I.


That nasty-ass, sanctimonious, snide, self-satisfied so-called attorney general didn’t answer questions — she ducked them, barked over them, and mangled them into unrecognizable shapes until the substance evaporated.


Every time someone asked a direct question, she reacted like someone had just keyed her car in the parking garage. Not a public servant. Not an adult. A snarling, eye-rolling, grievance-soaked little tyrant in a blazer.


Was she trained in some underground seminar called How to Dodge and Demean in Ten Easy Steps? Did she major in Advanced Deflection with a minor in Playground Bullying? 

Because instead of answering anything, she barked, she sniped, she flung insults like cocktail napkins at a closing-time bar. Bulldozed the clock. Yanked the conversation sideways. Tried to smear the person asking the question as if character assassination could substitute for substance.


Oversight wasn’t oversight to her. It was a personal affront. And she responded the way insecure people do when they know they’re cornered — louder, meaner, smaller.


She called Raskin’s questions “Trump derangement syndrome.” Called members jokes. 

Snapped “no evidence.” Threw out “transparency” like it was holy water. Invoked “the Dow at $50,000” — which is not even a thing the Dow does — as if stock tickers function as moral disinfectant.


Then Ted Lieu played the footage.


Trump and Epstein laughing together at Mar-a-Lago.


Lieu asked whether underage girls were present at that party or any gathering Trump attended with Epstein.


She refused to answer.


Instead, she bristled. Raised her voice. Redirected. Inflated. Deflected.


Members of Congress went into those Epstein files and came back saying his name was everywhere. Not once. Not twice. Everywhere. And as Raskin pointed out, we now know his name has been redacted nearly 950,000 times.


Nine hundred and fifty thousand.


A forest of black ink where sunlight should be.


What did the public get? A blizzard of black bars. Entire sections gutted and wrapped in Sharpie like accountability was contagious.


Thomas Massie pointed out that survivor testimony naming the men they say trafficked them had been carved up beyond recognition — thick slabs of black swallowing names, swallowing details, swallowing oxygen out of the room.


The girls named names.


Those names were buried under redaction like bodies under fresh concrete.


Then came the part that should haunt her.


Survivors were asked — right there in that room — whether they had requested meetings with her Department of Justice and been granted the opportunity to speak.


Hands went up.


One after another.


Not one of them had been given a meeting.


And she sat there. Snack in hand. Phone glowing. That thin curl tugging at her mouth.


She kept her eyes fixed anywhere but their faces — on her phone, her notes, the clock, the ceiling tiles, maybe the exit sign glowing red like a tiny neon lifeboat.


She refused to look at them.


She refused.


People were watching and recoiling. You could feel it — that collective stomach drop, like watching someone trip a child in a grocery store aisle and then blame the child for being in the way.


My phone lit up all day with the same blunt reaction.


What a bitch.


And let’s stop pretending there was ever mystery about who she works for.


We’ve known.


She works for Donald Trump. Not the public. Not the Constitution. Not the girls in those files.


Him.


Her loyalty doesn’t move outward toward justice. It shoots straight up toward power. She is an instrument — a puppet — of his lawless authoritarian regime. A fixer. A fluffer. A fellator. An enabler in a tailored suit who treats proximity to power like a sacrament and accountability like heresy.


If she ever had a soul, she taxidermied it and mounted it over the fireplace long ago. What’s walking around now is just the costume.


She isn’t some tragic accident of bureaucracy. She’s the symptom you can see because the infection is already everywhere — rash, flare, pus surfacing. The rot was there long before she took the chair. She volunteered to wear it like perfume.


And there I was, jaw tight, watching her slither away from accountability like it was an Olympic sport — ducking, deflecting, reshaping language until it resembled something that might survive cable news chyron therapy.


She’s betting time will sand this down. That transcripts will fade into footnotes. That redactions will dull into abstractions. That history will blur the footage instead of writing down exactly what she did.


She thinks time will bleach the record.


Like she bleaches her hair.


Well, fuck that.


And fuck her.


Fuck the smugness.


Fuck the gaslighting.


Fuck the corruption.


Fuck the criminality.


Fuck the coverups.


Fuck the complicity baked into every plastic smile and prewritten talking point.


Fuck the moral sewage bottled and sold as “law and order.”


Fuck the fraud framed as faith.


Fuck the cruelty polished into policy.


Fuck the idea that we’re supposed to sit quietly while predators are shielded and it’s called justice.


Accountability may not have arrived today, and it likely won’t come tomorrow. But it will arrive just the same.


Because history is going to lay her out flat — no spin, no lighting tricks, no PR gloss — just the record.


It will remember exactly what she chose to be.


A fixer.


A fluffer.


A fellator.


An enabler.


A loyal operative for power.


Not a guardian of justice.


Just a henchman in heels, shining the boots that crush downward.


And when the redactions lift — because they always do — the record will show exactly who turned away from the survivors.


And exactly who didn’t.


(Just LOOK at her face here 🤬).



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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Pam Bondi

Damn, Pam Bondi is a piece of work. I mean, piece of shit, right? This is what passes for an Attorney General under Trump? Let us recall that during Biden's term, the GOP, and especially Trump, kept harping on the idea that Biden had weaponized the Department of Justice against Trump. It was pure bullshit, but the sheer repetition convinced a lot of fools that Trump was right. In fact, Biden studiously avoided directing the Department of Justice (and Merrick Garland) against his opponents. It was just another case of projection. Once Trump "took" office again, he weaponized the shit out of the DOJ.  

Pam Bondi appeared in front the US House this week to spew bullshit and hurl insults at anyone who spoke against Trump and the Epstein files. Did she ever graduate high school? I'll bet Trump was quite pleased at Pam's performance, once he pulled his demented head out of his ass.

Below is one of the many articles created after Bondi's embarrassing performance. This one from John Pavlovitz.


Dear Ms Bondi,
I’m writing to you as an American citizen, a former pastor, and the father of a daughter.
I spent today, as much of the nation, watching you speak before the House Judiciary Committee in a state of stunned disbelief, which surprised me, as I thought you’d reached a moral bottom many weeks ago.
I witnessed you posturing and protesting, feigning indignation in the face of reasonable questions you repeatedly refused to answer.
I looked on as you deflected and pivoted, performing the wildest verbal gymnastics to keep from providing the simple clarity that our elected representatives asked for and deserved—and wondered why anyone would do that.
I sat incredulous, watching you appear to lie with great ease, even joy, seeming to contradict both irrefutable evidence and your own words in the past. It was a tour de force in distraction, a true masterclass in gaslighting.
And while a thousand thoughts ran through my head, when it was over, I was left with a single question:
How does someone become Pam Bondi?
I’m not speaking about your education, your professional experience, or your career path, which are easily retrieved. I’m talking about the meandering road to losing one’s soul.
I wonder how an apparently intelligent human being finds themselves sitting in that chair in front of the watching world in a moment of such gravity, so completely bereft of empathy, so seemingly unencumbered by other people’s suffering, and so strident in the face of simple accountability.
I try to imagine how you, the person entrusted with stewarding the Law in the highest seat of power here, arrives at a place where that Law has seemingly become irrelevant.
Are the money and the power so intoxicating that they have rendered your conscience inoperable?
Has your journey been filled with a million small moral compromises that burdened you in the beginning, but slowly emotionally anesthetized you to the point that now you feel nothing?
Are you so beholden to the man who enabled your ascension to this lofty space that you are willing to shield him from the litany of heinous sins that you must know well he is guilty of?
Maybe you don’t even have the answers.
Maybe you can’t explain it either, though I’m sure there’s a story you have to tell yourself to keep the self-loathing at bay and let you sleep at night.
I see that you do not have children of your own. Perhaps if you did, you might see this all differently, I don’t know. It certainly shouldn’t take that.
But you are someone’s daughter, and I do wonder how that girl became the woman sitting there at that table today, so dismissive of other women who have survive trauma. I imagine there may be some answers there somewhere.
But as the father of a daughter, I want you to know that I fully detest what you are doing to so many other people’s children right now.
I abhor your callous disregard for the daughters who stood courageously before you today, whose eyes you did not have the dignity to look into; women whose cavernous hell you know full well, because you’ve pored over it countless times in words, photos, and videos.
It sickens me to my core to know that thousands of survivors, girls and young women not unlike my daughter, have experienced unspeakable horrors and are finding in you, not a fierce and willing advocate, not a steadfast warrior who will deliver them justice, but a shame-throwing avatar of the men who brutalized them.
I’m not sure what you believe in, but I am a person of faith, and my religious tradition tells me that we will all face accountability for our misdeeds and transgressions beyond this life, even if we evade them in this one. That possibility does provide a small bit of comfort, but I hope you don’t have to wait that long.
I hope that you will face a legal reckoning for any betrayals of our nation that you are guilty of, for the chaos you are willfully creating, and most of all for the sorrow you are exacerbating for the daughters (and the sons) throughout this nation who feel less safe and less protected.
They are afraid because the Law seems to be refusing to drag the monsters out into the light, because people like you appear so willing to curate the darkness.
I hope whatever you got for your soul was worth it to you.
It sure as hell isn’t for the rest of us.
Sincerely,
John Pavlovitz


Thursday, February 5, 2026

Somalis

Even before the truth came out about the fraud plaguing Minnesota (and Somalis in Minnesota), I had an inkling that the stories were bullshit. It was just too convenient. Trump is such a fucking racist asshole, I suspected it was cooked up as a way to punish Minnesota. Sure enough, the truth has come out. It was mostly contractor fraud, and not fraud on the part of Somalis. But why let a little truth get in the way of a nice juicy lie? Cue John Fugelsang.


Those Deeply Stupid Racist Lies About Somali Migrants in Minnesota

Grifters stole from Somali families; so Trump blames Somali families; and racists have the permission structure to be... well, you know.


FEB 01, 2026


By now, most of us have heard at least a bit about the administration’s bombastic smears of widespread fraud against Minnesota’s African refugees. People who knowingly voted for a felon are enraged at brown people doing something “illegal.”

MAGA politicians and influencers, eager to distract from a White House that continues to illegally cover up child rape, have been huffing racism like a rag soaked in gas fumes. It’s become a xenophobic Holy Grail for white people who hate fraud, but admire Donald Trump.

In January, the U.S. Treasury announced multiple investigations and audits into Minnesota businesses it claims ran a large benefits-fraud network. Almost immediately, Republicans popped the champagne, dusted off the dog whistles, and declared victory in their ongoing war against immigrants, facts, and woke math.

Then the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended up to $129 million in federal payments to Minnesota and Minneapolis — claiming fraud in SNAP and child nutrition programs, which happen to be some of the most difficult government programs to defraud.

Yes, this administration has found a bold new way to fight fraud: By making sure poor kids don’t eat.  We’ve reached the point where “law and order” now means telling hungry children, “Sorry, your lunch money is under audit.”

Minnesota Fraud, MAGA Logic, and the Magical Disappearing Children

This all follows the very real and very serious Feeding Our Future scandal, where private nonprofit operators — some of them Somali-American — allegedly stole more than $250 million via fake meal counts and money laundering. 

That fraud really happened. It was enormous. And it exposed massive failures in government oversight.

But here’s where MAGA enters the picture — not with solutions, not with reforms, not with concern for who’s been hurt - but with a flamethrower of lies and racism aimed directly at African refugees, and at Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Republicans since 2016, it’s that fraud isn’t a crime and it certainly isn’t objectionable — it’s a branding opportunity against anyone you already despise.

Two Things Can Be True (I Know, Right Wing Friends Hate This)

You don’t have to buy MAGA lies to admit that government failed.

YES: Minnesota experienced an unacceptable breakdown in oversight.
BUT: it was not an “immigrant conspiracy,” or a Democratic plot, or proof that social programs don’t work.

Both of these things can be true. And MAGA absolutely cannot survive that sentence.

Instead, they’re exploiting real harm to:

  1. Smear Somali Minnesotans
  2. Defund public services
  3. And launder lies and scapegoating through YouTube videos, Elon Musk posts, and very bad math.

These are hardworking migrants who followed the rules, came to this country and were promised a better life.  Now, the profoundly sadistic racists of the Trump administration have revoked temporary protected status for thousands of Somali nationals in the US, in the face their own lies that the diaspora community in Minnesota participated in widespread fraud.

And since these are the same Christ-hating Christians that knowingly spread lies about innocent Haitian migrants being “illegals” who were stealing and eating pets, it’s worth examining their lies with a bit more critical thinking than the folks who watch FOX News.

Lie #1: “Welfare Recipients Did This”

No, they really didn’t. 

Thanks to Republicans, U.S. welfare programs rely heavily on third-party contractors. 

And this fraud was committed by private contractors, not the needy families receiving aid. The theft happened at the administrative level — the same place fraud always happens when governments outsource services without oversight.

No evidence shows beneficiaries orchestrated the fraud.

Media, please get this right: It wasn’t “welfare abuse.”
It was contractor fraud.

Which, coincidentally, is the exact kind of fraud Republicans accept — as long as it’s done by corporations.

MAGA deliberately blurs this line to smear poor people and immigrants.

Lie #2: “90% of the Fraud Was Caused by Somalis”

The major Feeding Our Future fraud was committed by operators of nonprofits that acted as sponsors and vendors within federal nutrition programs. This isn’t the same as direct claims fraud by everyday welfare benefit recipients,

There is no legal finding that this was an organized “immigrant conspiracy.”

Trump, who was elected the 1st time with a racist lie about the first black POTUS and elected the 2nd time with the racist lie about innocent Haitians eating pets, boldly claimed this while offering zero evidence. 

Federal prosecutors do not support it. No audits support it. No numbers support it. It’s just racism with a broken calculator. If Trump had proof, he’d show it.


Instead, he racializes crime, because facts don’t poll well with his base. And again, the man has to distract from the fact that every single day he is covering for, y’know, child rapists.

Lie #3 - Minnesota permits widespread fraud

This wasn’t ‘Minnesota corruption.’ It was a nationwide COVID-era vulnerability.

Fraud expanded during COVID because safeguards were loosened everywhere to get aid out fast. Red states, Blue states. All of them. Minnesota wasn’t unique — it was caught.

And when evidence emerged, Minnesota prosecutors did their jobs. 

The Feeding Our Future case led to convictions, including for conspiracy and money laundering. That’s accountability — not a cover-up.

Cover-ups don’t end in convictions. This one did. And they’re counting on FOX News viewers not knowing this; and not much caring if they did.


MAGA Influencers: Wrong, Loud, and Proud of It

Right-wing influencers spread viral lies about $35 million in Somali political donations — claims that were later proven false.  And Right-wing influencers spread provably false claims — and admitted they didn’t care.

  • Viral claims about $35 million in Somali political donations were false.

  • Even after admitting the error, propagandists refused to correct it.

  • Elon Musk amplified it anyway.

They admitted it. Then refused to correct it. 

They didn’t care that it was wrong, just like they didn’t care that the Haitians were lied about. Because it’s only about power with these folks.

Also: YouTube stunt videos by petulant douchebags are not, in fact, audits.
Filming childcare centers without notice proves nothing — especially when recent state inspections already confirmed children were present.

Trump doesn’t fight fraud — he protects and pardons it.

This smear campaign to destroy Tim Walz and scapegoat African refugees comes from a party that finds fraud deeply acceptable. This is the same party whose leader just pardoned convicted fraudsters like Pokémon cards:

  • Philip Esformes — $1.3 billion in Medicare fraud

  • Michael Duran & Hector Negron — $205 million

  • Salomon Melgen — $42 million

  • Randall Davis — modest by GOP standards at $750,000

And Trump’s administration has weakened fraud detection nationwide

  • Trump cut IRS enforcement targeting tax cheats.

  • He gutted the CFPB’s anti-fraud units.

  • He fired inspectors general — the government’s fraud watchdogs.

  • He pardoned dozens of convicted fraudsters.

And Trump himself, let’s recall:

  • $26 million education fraud

  • $2 million charity fraud

  • Felony convictions for bank and insurance fraud

  • And a violent attempt to literally defraud American voters on January 6.

So, yeah — Republicans are deeply concerned about fraud.
Just not when they’re the ones doing it.

And people who knowingly vote for a felon who committed fraud against American citizens don’t really get to pretend they care about fraud.

The Real Structural Problem Republicans Won’t Touch

It’s a pattern: privatization without oversight.

Conservatives demanded outsourcing to private companies.
Then they underfunded auditors.
Then cut fraud detection.
Then fired inspectors general.
Then pardoned fraudsters.

Guys, if you outsource public services, you’re supposed to invest in auditing. 

And now their solution is to freeze childcare funding — punishing kids instead of criminals — while over 96% of spending is legitimate.

That’s not accountability. It’s exactly the kind of cruelty MAGA Christianity voted for.

And One Last Thing MAGA Won’t Say Out Loud

Freezing childcare funding punishes kids, not criminals.

Somali Minnesotans are victims here too. Every stolen dollar meant less food, less housing, fewer services for their community. Poor families will suffer first.

Grifters stole from Somali families — and now Trump blames Somali families.

That’s not anti-fraud. That’s racist scapegoating.  MAGA attacks the very people harmed by the fraud.

And the real scandal isn’t that fraud happened.
It’s that Republicans are using it to starve children, smear refugees, and protect the biggest fraudsters of all — themselves.


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