Over the last three days, I have tried to steer myself away from the Jeffrey Epstein story. I thought that I had my say on Tuesday, that we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the “client list” story should really be about the victims, the underage girls – up to a thousand of them, according to one story I read – who were sexually assaulted and abused by adult men, many of them, it was said, powerful and prominent.

But here we are on Friday, and the story has blown up as big as anything I’ve seen about Trump and his administration this time around. A lot of the coverage has been about what they’re calling the “MAGA war,” the dispute between right-wing supporters of Trump, many angry with what appears to be a coverup, others going along with Trump and Bondi and following the party line that it’s over, there was no “client list,” and Epstein killed himself.

Yes, the MAGA war is happening, but it’s not the crux of the story, which is that Trump has lost control of the narrative. Trump made a pathetic attempt at the cabinet meeting on Tuesday to castigate the press for wasting time on Epstein: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years," Trump said. "Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.” His statement was interpreted by the press as an attempt to save Pam Bondi, who was facing questions about her previous remark that she had the client list “on my desk for review.”

Nope. He wasn’t saving Bondi. He was trying to save himself.

Today, things got worse when it leaked that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino blew up at Attorney General Pam Bondi during a White House meeting about her handling of the Epstein case and “stormed” out and went home instead of back to his office. Later stories said that Bongino is so angry that he is considering resigning from his job. At least one story noted that FBI Director Kash Patel – I can’t believe I’m typing that name and title – was also angry with Bondi during the meeting.

Laura Loomer jumped at the opportunity to take another Trump administration scalp: “Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are LIVID with Pam Bondi over her DOJ memo and the lack of transparency from her office regarding the Jeffery Epstein files,” she wrote on X, confirming the rumor that Bongino had gone home from the White House and was taking the day off to consider his options. Then she dropped this bomb: “Kash Patel and Dan Bongino should call for Bondi’s public resignation today to save themselves and to also push for full transparency into the Epstein files. This is an issue the American people care deeply about. Someone needs to be fired for this. Giving Blondi courtesy to resign is more than she deserves. Trump should just FIRE her.”

Loomer met with Trump in the Oval Office earlier this year, and afterwards, a half dozen staffers were fired from the National Security Council, and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz was let go and later landed a nomination to be U.N. Ambassador. Having Loomer, whom the press took to calling one of Trump’s “enforcers,” on your case is not good for your career, to put it mildly.

The White House attempted to spoon pablum over the whole thing, responding to questions about whether Trump still has faith in Bondi with a statement from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “President Trump is proud of Attorney General Bondi’s efforts to execute his Make America Safe Again agenda, restore the integrity of the Department of Justice, and bring justice to victims of crime.”

The Jeffrey Epstein story is blowing up right there in the White House, and that is what they think will put a lid on it?

This whole story is dangerous to Trump on multiple levels because it brings up his unsavory past as a – how can I put this? – cocksman around town in New York and Palm Beach in the years before he even thought about running for president. This isn’t like the Access Hollywood tape. It isn’t even like the list of twenty-some women who came forward in 2016 and described incidents when Trump sexually assaulted or harassed them. It’s even worse than the case E. Jean Carroll filed and won against Trump for slander when he called her a liar for telling her story about being sexually assaulted by Trump in a department store dressing room.

Trump claimed that anything he may have done with adult women who were not his wife was “consensual,” but in the Epstein case, there can be no consent given by a minor.

Some commentators have made the point that Trump’s immunity to attacks on his character is so absolute, he could weather any revelation that might emerge about him from the Epstein files, and that is probably true. He did say, way back when, that he wouldn’t lose a single vote if he shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and we have long since seen the accuracy of that claim in action.

But the Epstein case isn’t about his vulnerability to criminal prosecution or even about the damage his reputation might suffer if something were to come out linking the names “Trump” and “Epstein” in an even more repugnant manner than already exists.

It is becoming clear that there is only one reason that Bondi issued her lid-shutting memo attempting to put the Epstein story to rest: Trump’s name is in the files, and it’s in there repeatedly. I saw an image today of a flight record from Epstein’s private jet, and there were several redactions – black blanks – in between some recognizable names such as Alan Dershowitz and others. What reason would there be to black out any other name than Trump’s?

The Epstein files themselves would fill a room, according to Julie Brown, the Miami Herald investigative reporter, who was interviewed by former TV news reporter Jim Acosta, who now writes a Substack, “The Jim Acosta Show.” Brown wrote the stories that reopened the federal investigation of Epstein in 2018 that led to his indictment and imprisonment in Manhattan pending trial. Brown found the names of as many as 80 underage victims of Epstein and exposed the corruption behind Epstein’s plea in 2008 to state-level prostitution charges, which led to his confinement on a work-release basis that let him out of jail all day. Epstein had been under federal investigation for sex trafficking underage girls. That investigation was shut down as part of the state plea deal with Epstein. Brown established that the original investigation of Epstein in 2008 had granted immunity to multiple co-conspirators who were also never charged and reportedly included the names of powerful men.

Stories I read today referred to a “rabbit hole” involving the Epstein suicide because Wired magazine reported that metadata from the prison surveillance tape released by Bondi that was said to be “raw footage” from the Manhattan jail had been tampered with and was not from one source but two, meaning that the so-called “missing minute” might end up containing evidence that Epstein was murdered.

The Epstein story may be filled with rabbit holes, but it has turned into a rat’s nest for the White House. Trump went to Texas today to tour the terrible damage done by the Guadalupe River flood, hoping the Epstein story would go away, but back in Washington D.C., the Epstein story was still very much alive with the news of Bongino’s angry exit from the White House after his fight with Bondi over what? The Epstein files.

It seems reasonable to conclude that the Epstein “files” may include box after box of evidence and testimony from the original federal investigation in Florida in 2008, as well as the 2018 investigation of Epstein that led to his indictment and pre-trial confinement and suicide, if that is what actually happened.

The problem Trump has is that he got himself elected president with the assistance of years of agitating by right-wing podcasters and pundits and activists who screamed bloody murder about Epstein on the theory that the files would end up proving what “Pizza-gate” had alleged, that Democratic Party politicians and celebrities were the ones who buddied-up with Epstein and partook in his illegal doings with underage girls.

Trump’s MAGA supporters kept agitating for the release of the dirt on Democrats in the Epstein files, so Bondi took the bait and opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box and had a look at what was inside and slammed it shut with a thud that is still reverberating. The Epstein story is going to get worse before it gets better. Trump can’t kill it. All those days and nights of fun Trump had with his pal Jeffrey in New York and Palm Beach are going to be gnawing at his ankles and keeping him up at night for months. Every time he walks across the South Lawn of the White House heading for his chopper and a trip to go golfing in Bedminster, reporters are going to be yelling questions at him about Jeffrey Epstein. It’s going to be delicious.

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Yeah…best mark this date on the calendar because it’s not going to happen again anytime soon. Marjorie Taylor Greene said something I agreed with. Sort of. Kind of. Indirectly. God, I want to claw my eyes out of my head.

Please don’t hate me forever and let me explain.

Ok, first, here’s the thing the witless fuckstick said and let me front load it by pointing out that she’s a fucking moron saying it for the worst possible fucking reasons.

This tweet was in response to the deadly flash floods that have killed over 120 people in Texas so far, with at least another 50 missing. Among the dead are dozens of children, and while even a fully functioning alert system would not have saved everyone, the loss of life would have been far less.

But we no longer have a fully functioning alert system. Or a fully functioning weather service. Or a fully functioning fucking ANYTHING courtesy of Marjorie Taylor Greene and her replusive Republican death cult. They fired the people in charge of issuing alerts. They fired the people in charge of tracking the weather. They defunded the agencies responsible for tracking dangerous storms.

Kristi Noem took the weekend off so FEMA couldn’t respond for Three. Fucking. Days. People were dying, and the federal government sat by and did nothing because Kristi Noem was sleeping in and didn’t feel like working on her day off.

Populism, baby!! For the people!

Now, Marjorie Taylor Greene knows this all looks terrible for her shitty party and blaming Democrats for a disaster in Texas is a non-starter. Thus, time to roll out the conspiracy handbook for morons. THAT’S what her tweet was about.

Greene was far from alone in pushing this bullshit:

“I NEED SOMEONE TO LOOK INTO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS,” posted Pete Chambers, a former special forces commander and frequent fixture on the far right who once organized an armed convoy to the Texas border, along with documents he claimed to show government weather operations. “WHEN WAS THE LAST CLOUD SEEDING?”

Far FAR from alone:

“Anyone able to answer this?” wrote retired general Mike Flynn, a former national security adviser in the Trump administration and who helped legitimize QAnon after pledging allegiance to the movement in 2020, reposting Chambers.

Conspiracists and grifters on other platforms joined in. One YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers posted breathless coverage of what he called “The TRUTH of WEATHER MANIPULATION” in a segment which earned him close to 200,000 views alone.

You see…maybe JUST MAYBE, the floods were caused by weather control and geoengineering. MAYBE it was caused by “THEM” and that means the responsibility for all those dead kids lies with “THEM” and not with the GOP and the delayed response and their incompetence. Who is “THEM?” Who knows?! The deep state? The government? The Jews?!!?!? We may never know but as long as there’s some doubt, we can’t point fingers, so let’s just move on, yes?

It’s gross. It’s vile. Fuck every last one of these soulless monsters with a 2x4 covered in spliters until they beg for the sweet release of death.

So, why in the name of all that’s holy am I agreeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Well, it’s certainly not because I think someone manipulated the weather for nefarious reasons. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a lying ratfuck but she accidentally stumbled onto a bigger truth. You know the saying: A broken clock and all that.

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The Ogre think MTG is a cuckoo clock.

The funny thing is, a decade or so from now, I’ll bet good money she’ll be 100% in favor of geoengineering because the fossil fuel industry will be paying her to be in favor of it and that’s a very very bad idea.

OK, so if you’ve been reading me for a while, you should know that one of the things I try to do is look down the road to where we are heading and try to figure out where that leads. This is one of those times and like with the neo-Nazis and pedophiles and drones, I really REALLY want to be wrong but I’m pretty sure I’m not.

Geoengineering is unbelievably dangerous. It sounds good on paper but it can go wrong in so many ways it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

Geoengineering, specifically as a solution for climate change, is us, humans, doing something on a global scale to regulate the temperature. Some of these are not terrible ideas: Large-scale carbon capture will be necessary eventually anyway to repair the damage we’ve already done (I’ll circle back to the problems with this). But others are to mitigate the damage now and have a host of potential consequences we cannot anticipate.

Here are a few:

Solar Radiation Modification Or Manipulation (SRM)

SRM techniques attempt to reflect sunlight back into space to cool Earth. Methods include releasing large amounts of tiny reflective particles (e.g., sulfur dioxide) into the stratosphere, deploying mirrors in space, or modifying clouds, ice, and plants to make them more reflective.

The mirrors aren’t the worst idea. If there’s a problem, we can always move them or push them off into space. We can even blow them up if we really really have to. But the rest? Injecting enough reflective particles into the atmosphere to make a difference means if something goes wrong, we would have no way to clean it up. What if we go too far and lower the temperature too much? What if there’s an unanticipated reaction and we poison the air or erase the Ozone Layer? There’s no way to fix it. We simply are not smart enough to reliably manipulate the atmosphere on this scale and guarantee nothing will go wrong. And there is no Plan B if something does.

And that’s just the nerdy science problems. Here are just two of the more practical issues associated with geoengineering (there are more):

• Who gets to control the “thermostat?” - I hadn’t considered this previously and was incredibly annoyed once I came across it because it was so goddamn obvious.
  
  Industrialized western nations might want to go back to the norms of 75 years ago but warmer weather won’t be all that terrible for colder northern countries. Sure, OK, now how about all of the southern countries that could benefit from lower temperatures? Even a degree or two from pre-industrial norms would make the equatorial regions more hospitable, wouldn’t it? So who gets to decide?
  
  Have fun hashing that out in the UN.

• The crisis doesn’t actually go away - Mitigation isn’t a solution. Taking painkillers so you’re not in agony as the cancer consumes you isn’t really a long-term solution, is it?
  
  This is why I firmly believe that a decade or so from now, as the effects of the climate crisis become so pronounced that even the dimmest dimbulb MAGA imbecile is complaining about it, the fossil fuel industry will invest a lot of money in selling geoengineering as a “solution.” Not that they’ll actually want to DO the geoengineering, but convince people that it will save us from the greenhouse gas pollution. That means Republicans will turn on a dime from being deeply suspicious of cloud seeding and weather manipulation to HUGE fans of it. Because they’re whores who will do whatever they’re paid to do.
  
  This is why carbon-capture, while inevitably necessary, will not be a solution. It’s akin to continuing to smoke during chemo. You’re not addressing the root cause of your disease, stupid.

That’s just a light overview of why geoengineering is not the way to go and why I agree (blech barf gag) with MTG. If you want to get deeper into this, read up on the problem here, and for the really geeky stuff, here.

But when Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s been “researching,” I promise you, this ain’t what that knuckledragging dirtbag is talking about. She’s yapping about “chemtrails” and fucking “Jewish space lasers.” PEW PEW!!! ZAP ZAP, you schmuck!

Let a shit-flinging monkey smash her abnormally thick forehead against a keyboard long enough, though, and she’ll accidentally bang out a coherent sentence or two. And that’s exactly what’s happened here. Give the monkey a banana and then go back to ignoring her.

In the meantime, as tempting as a tech solution may seem, this is not the road to go down. I love science as much as any nerd out there and I believe the geeks in lab coats will be the salvation of the human race but this one is on us. We’re going to have to save ourselves from both the fossil fuel industry and their pet fascists.

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Let’s try to imagine ourselves into the mind of Donald Trump. I know, I know…you don’t want to go there, and neither do I, but I don’t want you to contend with every dark corner of the echoing cavern of his madness, I just want you to ask yourself, what could he have been thinking when he came up with the idea that he could get along with Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin?

Last year, when Trump was running for president, he took nearly $300 million from Musk to help him win key battleground states, and he bathed in Musk’s daily X posts and re-posts attacking Biden and puffing up his pal Trump. In return, upon taking office, Trump basically turned the government over to Musk and his video game playing cohorts whom he hired to staff DOGE and let him run amok for the first few months of his administration, slashing budgets, firing people, even closing completely an entire department of the federal government, USAID.

When it came to his buddy, Vladimir, Trump made ending the war in Ukraine the linchpin of his “America first” foreign policy agenda, bellowing from rally stages again and again that he had such a wonderful relationship with Putin, he could get the war in Ukraine ended “in a day.”

There is a popular phrase that springs immediately to mind: how did that work out for you?

What was really behind all that buddy-buddy talk about Putin and Trump’s real, in person, buddy-buddy behavior with Musk? I mean, how could Trump thank him? What can you give the world’s richest man? You can’t buy him anything. He’s got all the Gulfstreams he wants, all the fertile girlfriends he can handle, more children than Noah had animals on the ark, he owns X, and he’s got the majority of satellites that orbit around the earth, more than any other country including the United States.

So, he does something no other president has ever done in the 249 years of our history. He turns over the most precious square footage of real estate in the world to Elon to put on a show for the media with his son, engaging in a spew of braggadocio that left Trump sitting there at Abraham Lincoln’s desk with a blank look on his face.

Trump didn’t even wait to move into the Oval Office to start talking to Putin. He was chatting up the Russian axe-murderer during the campaign, the transition, from Mar a Lago, he even brought Musk in on a Putin conference call. What do you think he figured he could accomplish? Did he really believe he could talk Putin into anything, much less ending the war that has come to define the man’s power over the country of Russia?

I think Trump wanted their respect, Putin’s and Musk’s. If he got their respect, then the world would respect and fear him, all those European priss-pots in their hand-tailored suits and ferriner attitudes. Even his fellow despots like Erdogan and Orban would look up to him.

But it fell apart, didn’t it? And fast, when you think about it. He’s a little more than five months into his presidency, and he’s having a hell of a time making stuff happen the way he wants it. Look at the train-wreck this week over aid to Ukraine! Somebody suspended it. Trump doesn’t know who. He answered a question from a reporter in the White House with “I don’t know. You tell me.” Another reporter asked him today if he had been able to “figure out” who cancelled the Ukraine aid. Here is Trump’s reply: “Well, I haven't thought about it because we're looking at Ukraine right now and munitions, but I have—no, I have not gone into it." The same reporter asked, “What does it say that such a big decision could be made inside your government without you knowing?” Trump looked flummoxed: “I would know. If a decision was made, I will know. I'll be the first to know. In fact, most likely, I'll give the order, but I haven't done that yet."

This after reports in the press that defensive weapons are back in the pipeline, that 30 Patriots are sitting in Poland ready to cross the border, that shipments of artillery shells have resumed.

The matter of the Epstein files, something he and his supporters promised would blow the lid off all the pedophiles in the Democratic Party they’ve been yapping about since Pizzagate, has blown up in his face. Nobody is happy. The MAGA base is screaming. Steve Bannon is sweating through his three shirts in his air conditioned studio. Trump’s favorite suck-up, Pam Bondi, is left sitting there telling the same lies they’ve accused the Democrats of telling, that there is no there there with Epstein, and nobody from Biden World or anywhere else got into the Manhattan jail and murdered him.

And then the heavens open up in central Texas and his whole fire-em-cut-em-and-forget-em strategy about that damn guvmint the right has been screaming about for 40 years got drowned in 30 feet of water along with more than 100 bodies, and counting. The NOAA was a hotbed of global-warming libs! We’ll take care of them. We’ll fire ‘em and reassign’em and close their offices and tell ‘em to stop sending up all them weather balloons, ‘cause we’ve got Mr. Sharpie in the Oval Office! The man can turn a hurricane around with the stroke of his pen!

Can’t a guy get up in the morning and have something go right? His pal Musk is threatening to form a third party, and that MF’er is the one who said Trump was in the Epstein files in the first place! And Putin! Jeez, you call the guy up and ask him to lay off Ukraine and start thinking about what kind of deal we can make, and 30 minutes later, he launches one of the biggest barrages he’s ever fired at Ukraine’s population centers! “He’s not treating human beings right. He’s killing too many people.”

If it’s not the floods killin’ em, it’s the measles, and that blows up the whole anti-vax thing he kept hinting at, wink-wink, maybe try some bleach and vitamin A, wink-wink, I’ve got RFK Jr. in my pocket, wink-wink, and if it’s not the measles, it’s Putin’s fucking drones killin’ em, and take a look at what he’s saying about his pal Vlad now: “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”

Duh.

Mel Brooks had it only partly right. It’s good to be king, but it’s hell to be president.

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