Another day of “trump” on tap
Geesh!!
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Brief, intense, and remembered in a much more flattering light than in reality. The vacation hook-up.
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I am way past hoping that Russia, Israel, or any of the other countries/orgs that MUST have duplicate or even separate piles of dirt, will unload them while Chump is still prez.
I don’t know why they have been so tight, and unwilling to leak in the last 10 years…except it must have been so useful to them this whole time. I guess the #1 reason that Israel has been running perhaps the world’s most aggressive kompromat collection, or Putin has relied on it to such an extent is to NOT make them public. Helping the little people or making sure dirty pols/leaders pay for their indiscretions was never the object. Getting the dirty fuggers to do what THEY want is the goal, not exposing them.
And, of course, them leaking or divulging the information (finally) would expose their Kompromat Kollection system and ruin their ability to keep it chugging along.
So my only hope is that somebody, somewhere in the stew of various countries/intel units will leak it after Chump is gone. Some kind of spasm of goodwill to the globe…so that Chump doesn’t get the Reagan treatment for the next 40 years.
In some ways it will be the most important piece in geopolitics…we are becoming an oligarch world and it seems one of the only controls on these types of powerful people is blackmail and polonium.
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This is some pretty good snark from David Holmes of Esquire. Archive link below:
Why Is No One Talking About the Most Ridiculous Part of the White House UFC Fight?
No, not Joe Rogan’s awful tie. But that certainly didn’t help.
By Dave HolmesPUBLISHED: JUN 16, 2026 12:56 PM EDT
There was a lot going on at Sunday’s Freedom 250 UFC at the White House event. A lot to take in, a lot to consider, a lot you never imagined you’d throw up about. The United States Marine Band covering AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” for example. Ads for Crypto.com and Polymarket and CrowdStrike and, I don’t know, LibertySpank studding the borders of the makeshift UFC arena, framing the faces of the ticket holders and government officials and Trump family members who are financially entangled in them. And whatever the fuck Joe Rogan’s tie is supposed to be doing.
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What’s going on with Joe Rogan’s tie here?
It was real gross, and I didn’t last long before firing up Peacock to enjoy the relative dignity of Love Island USA. If you missed it completely, good for you. But there is one part of it that you really should see (and read and feel and throw up about). The introductory package showed images of past UFC glories and gories projected against Washington, D.C., landmarks. It featured a stentorian monologue by actor Ron Perlman, longtime voice of the UFC and, I would bet my last dollar, the only actual human being who interacted with this copy at all. Five seconds in and you know for sure this was written by a large language model that was trained on protein powder.
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Os(jerk!)off? Is there anything that Trump says that is either not cringe, sexual, or both?
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I think if Netanyahu was holding Epstein blackmail material it would have been used by now, or we wouldn’t be this far along in the process of winding down the war. Bibi’s leverage is more practical; a threat to start attacking Beirut again if he doesn’t get what he wants in a final agreement.
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It seems to be retreating from his waist for some reason.
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Quite possible, even likely. He’s out of his comfort zone and doesn’t get to control the agenda or how long he has to be away from his bathrooms and wet-wipe stations.
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Trump on Egyptian President el-Sisi: “He was in a hotel and I met him. We fell in love, deeply in love … we didn’t know each other before that. We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to.”
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I did not know that trump had it in him for a brief fling as a gay man. I’m actually stunned at this.
The whole point (see my comment above) is to use it on the victim, not to make it public. And we have EVERY indication they have been employing it that way in spades for a long time on Chump.
Yes, making it public COULD be the final play, the final usage of the kompromat. But as I said above, that scotches their whole operation. Not just Chump kompromat, but all the other leaders/wealthy people they’ve been collecting for many, many decades. It exposes THEM and their methods. So the leverage is applied in private. The fact that they might make it public is the ultimate threat, but having it never reach that point far outweighs their desire to make an example of any one target. They use it as they can, they get what they can from it behind the scenes…but the decision to go public with it almost never is needed nor is it desired.
For example, most everyone agrees Israel has been doing this longer than many of us have been alive. Maxwell is an old lady and she is 2nd generation. If making this stuff public was a goal of theirs, in the last 60 years or so…how come we haven’t heard of them using it?
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He is among human beings with their own thoughts, ideas, and feelings, and they’re not fawning over his every utterance. He’s out of his element.
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Every indication? I don’t believe that, because Occam’s Razor says the dynamics don’t require anything as complicated as blackmail. Trump has a fawning admiration for authoritarian strongmen, which explains most of his relationships with Bibi, Putin, and Xi. Kompromat just isn’t necessary.
Besides, Bibi and most Israelis hate how Trump is winding down the war, or trying to. There is no indication that any pressure Bibi is putting on Trump is actually working.
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Chump was attached AT THE HIP to Epstein and Maxwell for 2 decades. Up to his eyeballs in sickening behavior…they weren’t just playing checkers and competing over real estate. There is EVERY indication that those two were collecting blackmail and working with Israeli and other Intel orgs.
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How does California Dreamin’ break news?
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Nobody knows what it is? Nobody. Not even me. But it is very strong.
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After facing unprecedented bipartisan backlash, Trump backed off his controversial nomination of Bill Pulte for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and instead nominated Jay Clayton for the role, whose confirmation hearing was expected to take place on Wednesday. In an early morning post on Truth Social, however, Trump announced he was “cancelling” that hearing – despite having no authority to do so – and that Pulte would remain as the acting DNI.
“He wants Pulte in there for a specific reason at this specific moment and the Senate GOP just created the unforced error giving him that option,” reads a statement from the polling firm Rasmussen Reports published on social media Wednesday. “The reason we suspect is related to the theft of the 2020 election but we will all soon see.”
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Nobody knows what it is? Nobody. Not even me. But it is very strong.
Bluesky Social – 17 Jun 26
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Trump on his Iran deal: “It’s a very strong deal. Nobody knows what it is, but it’s very strong.”
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Does trump know? Mebbe not, nobody knows for sure…but it’s strong!!
When trump wants something he doesn’t worry about “authority” or if he is allowed… he just does it. War with Iran despite no vote from Congress is a prime example. He should’ve been impeached for it except that Congress’s balls are missing.
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His favorite song is YMCA…
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When you’ve lost the WSJ editorial board.
Journal editorial board
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