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

I think I prefer to live in the understanding that they never say what influenced their thinking. They never explained about Obama, did they? Or did they?

It's only conjecture about Biden hence the 'allegedly'

If Trump gets a Nobel prize for peace, it will forever devalue the award as a laughing stock.

I’m hoping the Norwegians have sense enough to understand this. Mind you, can you imagine the tantrum the tangerine toddler will have? He’ll probably declare war on Norway. Prat.

I thought that happened when it was awarded to Henry Kissinger. Tom Lehrer said so, anyway: he said that was the death of satire, because nothing could ever be as absurd again.

He has problems reading so we could probably give him the no bell piece prize

WTF

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/06/cdc-endorses-vaccine-panel-changes-to-covid-mmrv-shot-recommendations-00594763?utm_content=topic/news&utm_source=flipboard

CDC has endorsed RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel recommendations.

The Trump administration’s move formalizes advice to soften or eliminate previous Covid and MMRV shot guidance.

@DuncinToffee - have you seen who’s in charge, in the interim at least, at the CDC now, though? A hasty Trump-following replacement for all those who left in disgust at Kennedy/Trump’s idiotic health claims. Oh, and with no medical qualifications, as far as I can see, he’s described as an American science and technology INVESTOR. So no surprise there, really, then.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5478188-who-is-jim-oneill-trumps-new-cdc-director/

Terrifying

Some states on both the West and North East coasts of the US have formed alliances to act together on medical matters, I think having decided to ignore the CDC’s bullshit. I’m not sure how many, though, nor whether Red states inland have decided to do the same or are still drinking the vaccination Kool-Aid.

It wasn't me bro

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/theo-von-joe-rogan-manosphere-influencers-trump-1235441563/
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him

Creators like Theo Von and Adin Ross are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House

Can you assume the ship is sinking if you see the rats leaving?

And they said irony is dead.

Up late, Trump posted a purported 1963 RFK letter justifying President Kennedy federalizing the Alabama National Guard to desegregate the University of Alabama.

Trump is trying to compare what he is doing now to confronting George Wallace and segregation.
https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3m2omvguu3c22

After Hesgeth's message to the Generals about wanting them to look fit and slim,
the pictures of the Texas National Guard are splendid
https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-texan-national-guard-troops-arrive-at-army-base-near-chicago-13446750

Yesterday a reporter asked Trump whether he'd consider a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell for her conviction of child sex trafficking.

Trump's response: "You know, I haven't heard the name in so long. I can say this, that I'd have to take a look at it. I would have to take a look.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-diddy-pardons-b2840507.html

Trump posted on TS that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker "should be in jail."

Comey pleads not guilty to Trump Justice Department case accusing him of lying to Congress. Trial date is set for 5th Jan.

NO idea how true this is. But sometimes we just need hope

https://bsky.app/profile/angrystaffer.bsky.social/post/3m2oq3zh4mk23

If Trump goes we get Vance
who is equally under the control of Voight and Miller
and the mid terms and next election are even more at risk

I remember a thing called 'hope' when Robert Mueller was appointed...

If JD Vance wants two consecutive terms as POTUS, he's going to have to rein it in.
No Nobel Peace Prize.

If they 25th amendment the orange rump and JD finishes out the term, is he allowed two more? The mind boggles.

@Spandauer Yes, hope has burned me way too many times since Nov 2016. I refuse to go there any more.

Can you see Vance staying the course, though? Without MAGAts, where will he be? Or am I just being naive and not fully comprehending that the US Constitution has been corrupted by Trump and will never be the same, they’re going back to the days of cowboys and Indians and the Wild Mid-West?

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom I think that Trump's second presidency has seen a step change in world politics and the power of the US President that will take WWIII to reset.😢

@logicisall - I sincerely hope you’re wrong and fear you’re not. No, sorry, rethinking that, I’m afraid civil war is inevitable in the so-called United States of America, but I hope that with any luck, the rest of us won’t have to participate in it, as they surely can’t wield as much power on the international stage whilst participating in internecine wars? The rest of us should not give them that power.