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We’ve all known one of those people whose pinched little faces and nasally whiny voices and know-it-all attitudes just make you want to punch them in the mouth for no particular reason.
Ben Shapiro is one of those people.
The way Ben tucks the chinless eggplant he uses for a head, with his arched eyebrows trying to look severe and authoritative; and his scraggly beard trying to give him a jawline and a dash of gravitas; and his annoying, dweezel voice sounding like fingernails on a chalkboard (remember that sound?); and his superior attitude like he has anything of value to say all make me want to grab him by the throat and hammer my fist into his pie-hole.
Thanks for letting me vent. I needed to get that out of my system.
So, where were we? Ah yes, Trump’s self-immolation in front of the entire world.
It is absolutely astounding to see Trump completely destroy his base in a matter of two weeks. I said years ago that he was set up to finally destroy the Perot/Paul uprising, and here we see it happening in real time.
The “anti-war” president immediately adopted one existing war from the previous administration, and is funding and enabling new ones in the Middle East, while hitching his wagon to Bibi Nuttyahoo, one of the most evil and dangerous characters on the planet today, along with Bibi’s ideological brothers Soros and Analschwab.
Let’s not forget that Bibi Nuttyahoo is a Polish immigrant, whose family name is actually Mileikowsky, and that his attacks on Gaza are the real anti-Semitism, since Palestinians really are Semitic people, and Bibi is not.
Nothing, however, is more egregious than Trump’s handling of the Epstein case. He made the case a central issue in the 2016 election cycle. He oversaw the Justice Department that arrested and killed Epstein. He hired as Attorney General the son of the man who gave Epstein his start in the 1970s. And now he’s telling us that anyone who wants to see the evidence against Epstein is “stupid”.
This is not 4-D chess. It’s 3-D war on reformists and populists.
It’s all a game of semantics. Maybe the terms “blackmail” and “list” aren’t the correct legal terms. Perhaps Epstein wasn’t an “asset” or “employee” of intelligence operations. Lawyers love to play these games, where they use specifically defined terms, rather than words with plain and common meanings.
Maybe it’s not a “list,” but a “compilation” or “summary”. Maybe Epstein wasn’t an “asset” or “employee,” but a “partner,” “source,” or “volunteer”. If you don’t use the correct term, you won’t get the information you want. Maybe the internal documentation spelled the name “Epstien” instead of “Epstein”. The Mueller Report hid the crimes of James Comey by spelling his name “Corney,” which looks similar but would not register on a word search.
After all, in German phonetics, “epstien” is pronounced “steen,” while “epstein” is pronounced “stine”. Simple and common mistake, right?
I grew up with a politician father. The experience left me a political atheist, unwilling to participate in the political system until Ross Perot ran for president in 1992. I was lured out of the wilderness for one brief season, and then I withdrew again, and this time forever.
I was tempted to vote in 2024, for the first time in decades, for the sole purpose of making sure Kamalto Harris did not become president. Ultimately, the stakes could not overcome my revulsion against politics and governments of any kind. I see now that my instincts were spot on, as usual.
I figure let the world destroy itself. From my perch up in the mountains, I will rest assured that I had tried to wake humanity up, but humanity was happy being a caged pet of the Overlords. Like the climactic scene in Ghostbusters (1984), humanity was told to “choose the form of the destructor.” They did, so let them enjoy the truckloads of marshmallow cream pouring down on their heads.
Ben Shapiro is of Eastern European, not Semitic roots. Ben Shapiro is a squeaky know-it-all . Ben Shapiro has no chin and head shaped like an eggplant. Ben Shapiro tries to look like Alistair Crowley, so people will take him seriously. Ben Shapiro needs to have his teeth removed with a hammer.
And then it hit me…
If I wanted to bribe the president of the United States in broad daylight with millions of dollars, and no one would ever suspect a thing, how would I do it? Easy. Publish an outrageously defamatory and ridiculously unbelievable hit piece, like the Wall Street Journal’s laughable Doodlegate silliness. Then when he sues for billions, settle out of court for millions and it all looks legit. It’s even tax free, as most legal settlements are.
And the world rolls on.
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In keeping with the theme of clandestine farce, I am recommending The In-Laws (1979), with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin at their comedic best. Arkin’s daughter’s fiancée turns out to be a CIA agent, and hilarity ensures as Arkin is dragged into an international sting operation.
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Sigh, like Rufus, I also gave up on voting and all that crap. I even had my name taken off the voter rolls in Sonoma County. They seemed happy to see me go.
I always liked "The In-Laws" until it happened to me. My in-laws are insane and very irritating.
Anyone who trusts a rich old Yankee from the New England states is a fool. They are all the enemy. New England is England.
Thanks for the underhanded bribery theory, which is entirely plausible. I couldn't get the Doodlegram link to work. It's just this low budget cell phone, probably, but I'd already seen the WSJ article was written by an immigrant with a semi-pronouncible, gender-obscured name, who doesn't have much of a resume. Maybe s/he was specially hired to be the sacrificial lamb of the operation. No editorial brass will be harmed in the final outcome, I bet.