He's a (Very Good) Friend Of Epstein (Oh, Yes He Is) - Trump Thread #149

[Spandauer]

Taking paracetamol doesn’t give you autistic babies but voting for Trump definitely gives you a festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair.
(Description of Trump courtesy of Oliver Kornetzke 18/8/25)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5408426-on-and-on-and-on-it-goes-trump-thread-148

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This is so incredibly sad 😢

wrong thread

Trump is reportedly very happy that Epstein is out of the headlines this week but hopefully he'll be baaaack soooooon...

‘F*ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments.
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-jeffrey-epstein-howard-lutnick-blackmail?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.
Want to know why?
Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.
bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3m2ctric3pk2l

Trump is reportedly very happy that Epstein is out of the headlines this week

Not on The News Quiz. Which said that the only reason the Gaza peace deal was a "list of 20 points" was to move the word that "list" was appearing next to in the headlines this week ....

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/federal-workers-government-shutdown-emails-partisan

Some creative ideas in the comments

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ice_contractors_social_media_spy/

I don't entirely understand that "out-of-office" blame-game message, because the Republicans have a majority in Congress and the Senate, and there is a "Republican" in the White House, so I don't quite see how the Democrats voting against their bill prevents it passing. The opposition parties in this country generally vote against the majority party's bills, and that doesn't stop those bills from passing.

Police in Portland.....policing???

https://bsky.app/profile/realturkana.bsky.social/post/3m2djmdvyds2g

This is why it's important for the Republicans to flood all mediums with a message that its the Democrats' fault. Somehow.

I mean, it's just messaging. It's not like the current Republican Party cares if there's any truth in it. Should be a golden opportunity for the Dems to change the messaging, but they seem frustratingly incapable. At this point, I despise Schumer and Jeffries almost as much as Trump. Maybe more because I expected something from them.

@PerkingFaintly Snap 😁

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-appeals-court-decision-birthright-citizenship/

There are some posters on MN who will peddle a line that Brexit is all Labours fault. Despite the Tories being in government 2010-2024.

Yep. And lots of Republicans seem to be convinced that Biden was in office in 2018.

*Although, to be fair, I don't recall Corbyn exactly knocking himself out to oppose Brexit, although I suppose that's not what those posters mean 🤔

Save the date: On Oct. 8, Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a press conference — joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse — to discuss the discharge petition to force a vote on Khanna and Massie's bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

https://bsky.app/profile/kylegriffin1.bsky.social/post/3m2et5cuhxc2d

Corbyn isn't that bright and hoped to have a Brexit (which he personally supported) without being blamed for it.

Now Hegseth's blown up another Venezuelan boat. POW! Got it! Am expecting SuperMario to put in an appearance next. Someone rid us of these fools, please, they're barely fit to cross the road alone.

Some incidental fact-checking from an unrelated article in the Times about surgeons repairing rape victims’ injuries in the DRC:

”The Congo war is one of seven that President Trump claims to have resolved, describing a deal signed in the Oval Office on June 27 (after mediation by Qatar) as a “glorious triumph.” It was, however, little more than a statement of intent and only included the DRC and Rwanda, not M23, and fighting has resumed. M23’s political chief Corneille Nangaa, former head of the DRC Electoral Commission, told CNN last week that they will not stop until they reach Kinshasa. “We need to liberate our country,” he said.”

The article is a hard read (child victims) but important.

Sophie makes high-risk return to war zone to highlight rape crisis.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/58cbcf65-9b4d-46b9-8a53-d9e1f9997b12

Proper link for the article above & archive version:

https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/sophie-duchess-congo-rape-victims-fj7s0vm3q

https://archive.ph/HnCeT

If a load of American tourists take a 'pleasure boat' out of Venezuela and get blown up, what happens? (Rhetorical question, I guess).

Thoughts 'n' prayers.

SNL is back...

And something else for Vance to find the humour he's so fond of in.

Meanwhile there will be an ICE trawl of the superbowl

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/10/01/ice-will-be-on-patrol-at-bad-bunnys-shameful-super-bowl-halftime-show-trump-adviser-says/

And law by decree -

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-issues-ultimatum-american-flag-burners-10828800