Transgressive reading, Part 9: Don't forget about Epstein

 I went to the bookstore this afternoon and found Virginia Roberts Giuffre's book, Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. I bought it, of course. I've been waiting for it. It appears to be selling briskly, which is a good thing.

As everybody probably already knows, Ms. Giuffre took her own life, which shows the effect behavior that Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, and former prince Andrew indulged in can have.

Trump, of course, is indulging his own infantile behavior in so many ways lately, and nobody seems to have the will to stop him. President Doo-Doo is tearing down the White House because the East Wing ought to be tackier; he is murdering fishermen in what I'm calling the Gulf of Venezuela today (we can call the Gulf anything we want to, is Baby Donnie's lesson); he is bragging about stopping (how many is it now?) wars that, if they exist outside of his mind, are probably still going; he has apparently brought all of those wars home, since he is waging a war on Blue cities; he is insulting as many foreign dignitaries as he can.

Anyhow, he doesn't seem to fear reprisals for any of these things, but he does seem to fear the Epstein story.

I just got the book home, so I haven't had a chance to read it, but I recommend you buy it. Women's stories need to be told. Epstein's name needs to be kept out there. Trump needs to be ousted.

President Turdbomber: How much embarrassment can Republicans stand?

 The latest bit of news about the infant in the White House is that he has used artificial intelligence to make the fantasyland in his two-year-old's brain real. Yes, baby boy Trump has showered his detractors in AI-generated doo doo. Bad little Donnie!

In a sane world, it would be time to enact the Twenty-fifth Amendment, because the president is not in his right mind. I would suggest to J.D. Vance that if he'd like to be president, now is the time to set the wheels in motion.

Of course, the cabinet being what it is, I don't suppose Vance would be guaranteed success. After all, this is a government in which the press secretary and the White House communications director answered a reporter's question with "Your mother!" So, the maturity level is not high in the White House as a whole.

If J.D. doesn't want to give it a go, the House could try a third impeachment for high embarrassments and misdemeanors. But I really don't think any of this will happen. The Republican Party seems to be willing to suffer any humiliation to retain power.

This is where we are one day after the No Kings rallies.