Week of Bad Economy, Horrible Epstein
Victims Mocked, Denials, Trump Healthy, Collins Concerned, Medal for Rudy, Ike Liked, Katrina Recalled

I have a thought:

News Corpse briefly mentions and destroys each sloppy falsehood in the Trump screed.

Key political courage:
There are not many true heroes in politics these days, but they do exist. Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have been leading a campaign to force the release of the real information about Epstein’s clients that the Trump administration is determined to keep hidden.

Key strange reaction (To discharge petition demanding release)
Yesterday a White House official declared that any Republican who signs it “will be seen as committing a hostile act” against the Trump administration.

Key attempted disruption:
He [Trump] also arranged a low overflight of fighter planes that drowned out parts of the press conference.

Key focus:
Let’s be absolutely clear about what we are witnessing in these moments because it almost defies credulity: women who have experienced unspeakable trauma, women who have largely had to carry their injuries in silence and solitude because of the way our culture so often blames the victim, are having to step out into the raking light of the entire world’s invasive gaze, because our government is fighting like holy hell to protect their abusers.

Key horror:
The worst thing about it is the laughter. That’s the part that the news reports haven’t told you about. There was a lot of laughter. They all laughed.
 
And no one laughed more than Ghislaine Maxwell. In nine hours of what turned out to be casual conversation spread over a Thursday and a Friday in Florida, the single sickest reaction you could have in that discussion of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex crimes was laughter. And they all did it. Ghislaine Maxwell laughed the most, joined by her three criminal defense lawyers. And their laughter was joined by the four people from the Trump Justice Department sitting in that room with a convicted sex trafficker, an indicted perjurer, and they laughed the day away with her two days in a row.

Yeah, I’m trying to get my mind around the idea of giggles and guffaws as they talked about children subjected to sex crimes.

Key assurance:
He’s quite sane, which you’d know if you follow the “mainstream media.”

Turns out some worker put a scratch on the limestone path Trump had installed to cover the original grass.

Key caveat:
The spare use of random CAPITALIZATION and the lack of spelling errors almost makes us think a staffer or perhaps an AI program did this.

Not much mention of Epstein or files mentioning his partners in child molestation.

Key Jesse Watters hilarity:
(During a discussion of Cracker Barrel logo changes)
The only thing that could have been worse if they had made it ‘Blacker Barrel,’ you know.

Tee hee.

More details are available in Juliet’s audio version.

Key reason it matters:
When an entire country indulges a leader in their delusions and illusions, the country itself risks severe consequences.

Congress had passed a law specifically to shield vulnerable children from deportation who could be in danger in their home countries. The administration snatched the children from custody of the agency Congress had set up to protect them, and tried to spirit them out of the country in the predawn hours of Sunday over Labor Day weekend, before anyone would notice they were gone.

After midnight on Sunday, a problem came up. Someone noticed.

Key legal stumble:
At about 1:00 in the morning, Eastern Time, on Sunday, August 31, advocates for the children filed a suit to prevent the administration from removing them. Shortly after 2:30 in the morning, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan got a phone call about the case, and by 4:00 she had issued an emergency order blocking the removal and scheduled a hearing for 3:00 that afternoon. She moved it up to 12:30 when she learned that the administration was already moving some children out of the country.

The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.

And she has more information here:

Key additional order:
…that Cabinet members use a hammer to create bruises on the back of their hands.

Why? Because Trump really, rea-a-ally wants that Nobel Prize, and India won’t lie to help him get it.

Key motive:
…all because the World’s Oldest Syphilitic Toddler suffered a case of butthurt

Well…
      …yeah, there is that…

But suggests Democrats just might develop the ability to do more than one thing at a time.

As in: ICE is training snipers?

I have a thought:

The answers Prager thinks are correct are often bogus and the questions themselves are bereft of intelligence.

But there is a big bonus. It turns out nobody has to cheat because the test cheats for you!!

Key trick:
If you get a question “wrong” (“wrong” as defined by PragerU often means “correct” by reasonable, rational people) it tells you, and gives you the opportunity to change your answer. You can just randomly guess, and it will guide you to the answer Dennis Prager wants.

And ending with Charlie Kirk on the engagement of Taylor Swift:

Key Charlie:
Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.

Key hatred:
New York City is going to elect a Muslim mayor. They say, ‘We’ll never forget 9/11.’ Well, somebody forgot and they’re about to make a horrific mistake.

I think it’s somewhat unfair to assign homework to an elderly person, but I went ahead and looked it up.

It means the ingredients will separate over time. You know, like oil and water. I suppose that means I’ll have to keep my mayo refrigerated between uses from now on.