We Were Warned

Some wisdom from President No. 2 for President No. 47 | Horsey cartoon

John Adams feared a dishonest and ignorant man in the White House.

[Wiki: David Horsey (born 1951) is an American editorial cartoonist and commentator. His cartoons appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1979 until December 2011 and in the Los Angeles Times since that time. His cartoons are syndicated to newspapers nationwide by Tribune Content Agency. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1999 and 2003.]

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  1. https://www.huffpost.com/

    Trump Backs Getting Third Term As ‘Reward’ In Unhinged Post
    The president has been vocal about being a “president for life” since at least 2018.
    By
    Ben Blanchet
    and
    Paige Skinner
    Mar 22, 2026, 07:21 PM EDT

    Donald Trump on Sunday signaled that he deserves another prize: a so-called “reward” in the form of a third presidential term.
    In a post on his Truth Social platform, he shared a user’s image of him with the caption, “3RD TERM FOR TRUMP AS A REWARD FROM STOLEN ELECTION.” The image appears to be a nod to the president’s false claims surrounding the 2020 election. Those same claims served as a beat his supporters marched to as they stormed the U.S. Capitol during the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
    Trump’s recent post marks the latest instance that he’s openly toyed with running for a third term, which is barred under the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment. But the law hasn’t stopped the president from selling “Trump 2028” merchandise, nor has it barred him from talking about seeking a third, or even a fourth, term.
    Trump has floated the idea of a “president for life” since at least 2018, and last year he told NBC News that he was “not joking” about serving a third term.
    “A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump told NBC News in March 2025. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
    That same month, Trump ally Steve Bannon said he and others were “working” to get Trump a third term.
    “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” Bannon told NewsNation in March 2025. “We’ve had greater long shots than Trump 2028.”
    Just last month, Trump claimed that he was “entitled” to a third term. However, according to The New York Times on Sunday, Trump’s approval rating averaged about 41%.

  2. in his next s-truther he’ll paraphrase charlton heston with:

    “I’ll give you my white house when you pry it from my cold, dead hands”

  3. The SAVE Act is NOT about election security. It is a modernized poll tax forcing you to buy your own birth certificate just to cast a ballot. We expose the GOP’s latest masterclass in voter suppression.
    From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️

  4. BREAKING NEWS>>> US President Donald Trump says he has ordered a halt to his threatened strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure after “very good and productive talks” with Tehran, and that negotiations are set to continue this week. — AFP News Agency‬

  5. Gas here hit $5 yesterday. I hope this means they will start going down now that all the allies told Trump to take a long walk off a short pier.

  6. Considering his state of physical and metal decay, “President for Life” could just mean a week from Thursday.

  7. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-23-26

    Iran had vowed to retaliate by striking energy targets around the Middle East. Tehran has also threatened to deploy mines to block the entire Persian Gulf if its coasts or islands are attacked.

    *The “very good talks” came in the form of an AI Lego movie from Iran that could penetrate Taco Don’s shrinking brain.

    (I’m still not sure why Freddie Mercury is in a yellow ducky inner tube.)

  8. https://x.com/netanyahu/status/2035707081957773574

    “Iran has proven again in the last 48 hours that it is the enemy of civilization and a danger to the free world: targeting children, families, and the elderly with terror missiles, threatening Jerusalem’s holy sites, launching long-range missiles, and trying to blackmail the world through the Strait of Hormuz. I ask the leaders of the free world: what are you waiting for? Israel is fighting not only for itself, but for all of you…”

    *BiBi may not be dead dead, but he sounds brain dead aka pretend clueless/lying.
    Could he be so self-unaware that he doesn’t realize the words coming out of his festering gob describe Israel with regard to Gaza, Lebanon, and more to come since “Greater Israel” includes even more land?
    What is the rest of the world “waiting for”? Perhaps for BiBi to be arrested and await trial at The Hague.

    A war criminal asking for help defeating a country he attacked. Pathetic and weird.

  9. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk14m7mjddo

    Socialists and allies held on to power France’s big four cities – Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille – on a local election night that offered hopes for mainstream parties in next year’s presidential elections.
    The new aspirants of the far-left and far-right also made gains – notably in Nice for an ally of Marine Le Pen and Roubaix in the north for the France Unbowed (LFI) party.
    But the big lesson of the evening was the failure of alliances between mainstream left and LFI, with voters turning to the centre and right in long-time Socialist Party (PS) strongholds like Clermont-Ferrand and Brest.
    On the contrary, in cities like Paris, Marseille and Lille – where incumbent Socialists steered clear of the far-left because of accusations of sectarian anti-Semitism in its ranks – left-wing administrations were comfortably returned.

  10. Last night I watched the Netflix documentary on the Murdoch family. The last two episodes have a great deal of Trump from about 15 years ago. The deterioration from then to now is so obvious that even the most besotted MAGA could see it.

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    What America is Actually Clicking: March 23, 2026

    1. [Geopolitics]: President Trump postpones strikes on Iranian power plants for five days, citing “productive” talks in the ongoing Strait of Hormuz standoff. – AP News
    2. [Aviation]: Two pilots are dead and dozens injured after an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire-rescue truck on a LaGuardia Airport runway. – The Guardian
    3. [National]: Trump deploys ICE agents to major U.S. airports to assist with crowd control amid severe TSA staffing shortages caused by the DHS shutdown. – Forbes ($)
    4. [International]: Cuba begins restoring its grid after a third nationwide blackout in a month, fueled by failing infrastructure and a U.S. oil embargo. – CNA
    5. [Economy]: Tokyo’s Nikkei index plunges to its lowest point since January as oil prices surge over the Middle East conflict. – Kyodo News
    6. [Diplomacy]: North Korea threatens to cancel a proposed summit with Japan if the Prime Minister insists on discussing past abductions. – Kyodo News
    7. [Courts]: The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today to determine if federal law preempts state laws that allow mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day. – Washington Examiner
    8. [Legislative]: Congress returns to session facing a massive backlog of crises, headlined by the ongoing partial government shutdown. – WUNC News
    9. [Space Weather]: NOAA extends a G2 moderate geomagnetic storm watch through Monday, potentially impacting satellite and radio communications. – NOAA SWPC
    10. [Offbeat]: A pack of seven stolen dogs in China orchestrated an incredible escape from a meat shop truck and walked 17 kilometers back home together. – South China Morning Post ($)

    These are the stories driving the most traffic across U.S. outlets right now—not necessarily the stories we think you should read, and not always the most recent.

    A roundup by our AI partner Silas (Gemini).

  12. The modern hot dog (sausage in a bun) was likely invented in the 1860s to 1870s in the USA by German immigrants. While sausages date back centuries, Charles Feltman is often credited with selling the first hot dog on a bun at Coney Island in 1867 (or 1871) to make the sausages easier for beachgoers to eat, says Feltman’s of Coney Island.

  13. TODAY AT THE DINER: Supreme Court Mail-In Voting, ICE Airport Raids & Fox News

    Mail-in ballots, ICE airport raids, and Fox News melting down over James Talarico. We dig into the Supreme Court docket and Trump’s cabinet.

    The Supreme Court is currently wrestling with a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted five days after the election, proving the political machine remains terrified of postage. Meanwhile, ICE agents are reportedly setting up shop in airports, tackling travelers to the ground over REAL ID paperwork while DHS warns of imminent threats. Washington State figured out how to run a secure paper-ballot system via mail years ago, but don’t tell the rest of the country—competence tends to ruin the grift.

    Our national security strategy in the Middle East is currently being handled by real estate developers and talk show hosts. Bibi Netanyahu is begging for global assistance after raining bombs all over the map, and the US petrodollar is taking a beating while Iran cuts backdoor oil deals with Japan using Chinese currency. Add in the fact that Congress members are facing untraced death threats [cite: 141, 148] while the DOJ sits on its hands, and the systemic absurdity is palpable.

    To cap it off, JD Vance has decided a 2028 run is a bridge too far to focus on his family, Tucker Carlson might be gearing up for a Pat Buchanan-style insurgency, and James Talarico is out there treating Fox News hosts like chew toys on live television over gerrymandering and 2020 election lies. Just another day panning for gold at the diner.

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    00:00 Intro
    00:30 ICE Airport Raids & REAL ID Chaos
    02:30 Supreme Court Mail-In Voting Battle
    05:00 Real Estate Developers Managing Iran
    12:00 The Death Threat Disconnect in Congress
    17:15 How Washington State Masters Mail-In Voting
    26:15 James Talarico Dismantles Fox News
    37:25 Trump’s Childhood & Psychological Dig
    48:40 JD Vance Bails on 2028
    56:30 Iran, China, and the End of the Petrodollar

  14. https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/the-breakdown/the-breakdown-how-significant-was-the-voter-turnout-in-march29-amendment-election/289-84f79a28-b0fa-46e8-9def-cf85f268068a

    In your Breakdown: just how big was the turnout to deny Louisiana’s constitutional amendments Saturday

    About 100,000 voters more than Governor Jeff Landry expected.

    Landry told Speaker Mike Johnson on a hot mic at the White House last week about anticipated voter turnout, “Well, we thought it was going to be 12, but it looks like it might be 18%.”

    “That’d be huge for an election. I mean, for an amendment vote,” Johson replied.

    It wasn’t just huge. It was overwhelming. 21.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.

    *Craig – It wasn’t Ai, it was real…but it was also really old. So, I tried to find out why this old video is trending. Not sure if it started with the Substack post below, but that was the most recent thing that came up in search. Maybe because the SAVE Act was resuscitated, they picked up on this old clip.

    https://substack.com/@rawstory/note/c-230801165

  15. https://www.livenowfox.com/news/us-hold-off-power-plant-strikes-trump-strait-of-hormuz

    President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. was talking with a “respected” Iranian leader and claimed the Islamic Republic was eager for a deal to end the Iran war.

    Trump is also extending his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the U.S. will hold off on power plant strikes for five days.

    *Is Dumbass talking to himself, again?
    Iran says there are no talks happening.

    *Five days = two weeks
    Dumbass thinks folks will forget what a cluster he got the US into, but we will remember. Also, EPSTEIN!

  16. Here’s the other thing about the threats, real or just as a convenient narrative to explain behavior/votes: Many still speak out and NOTHING has happened to them.

    Did the Hortmans and Hoffmans get threats before the armed nutjob showed up at their doors? Do those who do the deed announce telegraph their plans? Are the others just full of hot air?

  17. Craig – I’m not even sure the context of that clip had anything to do with SAVE. Wild how stuff reactivates.

    Just had a thought. What if Adolf croaks on Good Friday? Just pretend he comes back on Easter, bring a younger guy who does a good impression, and let him be the puppet for Heritage/Thiel. Evangelicals would totally eat it up. Mmmm, booot.

  18. Craig – Can we have a virtual potluck for our TMX anniversary?

    And, no, I don’t have any idea how that would work. LoL

  19. *Now, folks are going to ICE agents instead of the goons terrorizing neighborhoods. This is by design and it will get worse. WE NEED A STRIKE & since TSA is adjacent to pilots and flight attendants who have UNIONS, now would be the time for a STRIKE!

  20. went to war with the kind of solemnity that people have when trying a new restaurant

    i.e. none

    wait, strike “went to war” and replace with “started a vanity war of choice other people* have to fight and die in”

    *Iranians included, because, call me ‘crazy’, but i believe people in other countries are human beings, also

  21. Put real estate developers and talk show hosts in charge of national security, and watch the Middle East burn. Bibi begs for global help after bombing the map. Pure strategic incompetence.
    From today’s Digital Diner menu 🍽️

  22. NOTHING has happened to them.

    A threat IS something that happens to someone

    Trump hasn’t been employing stochastic terrorism for 10 years and assumed complete control of our society because it doesn’t work

    We’ve had a lot of political violence in the last 15-20 years, it is a reasonable assumption that if you get a threat, you should be concerned

    Who was it that you said was getting threats a few years ago Craig, Lamar Alexander?

  23. @realDonaldTrump
    I don’t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass “THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.” It is far more important than anything else we are doing in the Senate, and that includes giving these same terrible people, the Dems (who are to blame for this mess!), a Five Billion Dollar cut in ICE funding, a deal which, even when disguised as something else, is unacceptable to me and the American people – UNLESS it includes their approval of Voter I.D., (with picture!), Citizenship to Vote, No Mail-In Voting (with exceptions), All Paper Ballots, No Men In Women’s Sports, and No Transgender MUTILIZATION of our precious children. Put it all together, and also, let Leader Thune clearly identify those few “Republicans” that are Voting against AMERICA. They will never be elected again! In other words, lump everything together as one, and VOTE!!! Kill the Filibuster, and stay in D.C. for Easter, if necessary. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT
    3/22/26, 8:31 PM

    *Speak of the Devil.

    *Remember the sabbath and keep it holy…by staying in DC to give more money to tRUMP’s Gestapo and disenfranchising voters.

  24. Dumbass is talking about bringing in the National Guard to airports. Get your lawsuits ready, state AGs.

    Seriously, pilots a flight attendants unions striking would probably get other unions on board with a strike & we know that a march, while great for morale, doesn’t send a strong enough message.

  25. Well, mTg said she got threats, and Dumbass even called her a traitor as a dog whistle to his base, and she is still speaking out. Same for Liz Cheyney back in the day, and AOC, and Jasmine Crockett, and probably others who haven’t commented about it. It could be a very convenient way to provide cover for those in Congress who agree with Dumbass but don’t want to seem horrible, or more likely those who are enjoying the monetary windfall.

  26. there’s not one singular explanation for congressional acquiescence

    some profiting
    some going along to get along
    some scared
    some stupid
    some just trying to get reelected

  27. https://www.potatopro.com/news/2026/china-restricts-fertilizer-exports-tightening-global-supply-amid-market-disruptions

    China has restricted fertilizer exports to protect its domestic market, adding further pressure to global supply chains already affected by disruptions linked to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. China is one of the world’s largest fertilizer exporters, shipping more than USD 13 billion worth last year. The country has a history of controlling exports to stabilize domestic prices for farmers.

    According to industry sources, shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, which account for roughly one-third of global sea-borne fertilizer supply, have been disrupted. In mid-March, China banned exports of nitrogen-potassium fertilizer blends and certain phosphate varieties. The measures, although not formally announced, were also reported by Bloomberg.

    “This pattern is consistent: China restricts supplies rather than coming to the rescue during global tightness. The export restrictions exist because of their tight domestic balance – they are prioritising food security and insulating their domestic market from price shocks.

    *If only we had prudent politicians.

  28. https://newrepublic.com/post/208073/trump-blames-pete-hegseth-iran-war

    “I called Pete, I called General Caine, I called a lot of our great people … and I said, ‘Let’s talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country … that for 47 years has been a purveyor of terror. And they’re very close to having a nuclear weapon. We can keep going and get that 50,000 up to 55 and 60, there’s no end. Or we could take a stop and make a little journey into the Middle East, and eliminate a big problem,’” Trump said Monday at an event in Memphis.

    “Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up,” Trump continued. “And you said, ‘Let’s do it.’ Because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon.”

    *The wheels on the bus go ‘round and ‘round…

    (I guess he’s referring to the stock market; he just veered off from nukes.)

  29. Grits ain’t groceries, eggs ain’t poultries, and Mona Lisa was a man.
    I KNOW dass right.

  30. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5796370-ballot-discrepancy-investigation/

    Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R), a GOP candidate for California’s governorship, seized more than a half million ballots from a November special election to approve redrawing congressional districts in a way that favored Democrats.

    Bianco said his probe was sparked by a local elections group that claims the results were off by 45,800 votes. This group was looking at the difference between handwritten ballot intake logs, and the total number of votes reporter to the state.

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Art Tinoco, the registrar of voters for Riverside County Board of Supervisors, however, say the difference was about 100 votes. The measure was approved in the county by more than 80,000 votes.

    Bianco has defended his actions and said it has nothing to do with his campaign for governor.

    “It is basically a fact-finding mission. This investigation is simple. Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes reported,” Bianco said during a Friday press conference.

    *How does confiscating over half of a million ballots answer any questions, except to find out where blue votes came from?

  31. Why Trump Wants ICE to Ditch the Masks at Airports

    “I am a BIG proponent of ICE wearing masks as they search for, and are forced to deal with, hardened criminals, many of whom were let into our Country by Sleepy Joe Biden,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I would greatly appreciate, however, NO MASKS, when helping our Country out of the Democrat caused MESS at the airports, etc.”

    The president’s sartorial advice came as ICE agents deployed to airports on Monday, a strategy Trump insists will help TSA agents—who are not getting paid, while the ICE officers now hovering around them are—as they struggle with massive security caused by the partial government shutdown.

    “I didn’t think it was an appropriate look for an airport,” Trump said. “I think it’s a very appropriate look when they’re out on the street trying to find one of the 11,888 murderers that Sleepy Joe Biden let into the country.” He then insisted that a side benefit of that arrangement would be that ICE agents could now arrest undocumented immigrants entering the country. “It’s very fertile territory,” Trump said.

    In essence, the president was admitting to the outsized role that aesthetics have played as ICE terrorizes communities across the country.

    It’s this blend of violence and optics he clearly wants to keep from a certain class of Americans.

    These, apparently, are not the folks that Trump wants to expose to ICE’s campaign of violence, abuse, and harassment—at least not firsthand.

    “This administration sees all of that as a benefit. They want to terrorize immigrant communities. They want to be seen as an occupying force. They’ve been clear about this. They want to make immigrant communities so fearful that they’ll self-deport, and they’ll tell others to stop coming here. Making immigration officers as scary and intimidating as possible is part of the strategy.”

    By calling on ICE officers to drop the masks, Trump appears to understand, even narrowly, the inherent theater of his mass deportation agenda. But like ICE’s theater of war, which uses optics to inflict real violence, it seems like a matter of time before trouble will start at airports.

  32. Mykhailo

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    🇺🇸🧐Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that Netanyahu blackmailed Trump with recordings of his conversations with Epstein.

  33. I don’t bother fact-checking the truth or fiction of posts anymore. As long as we have a congenital liar in the Oval Office and Foxified News spreading it, it hardly matters. If we have to fight liar with liar, let’s get on with it.

  34. Tomorrow’s starter topic…
    Jeffrey Epstein is back. As Trump winds down the Iran bombing, the DOJ’s black ink blockade and Leon Black’s hush money are exposed.

    Operation Epic Fury vaporized the Epstein scandal from the front pages exactly when new allegations against Trump went public. Now that the administration is forced to wind down the Iran bombing campaign, the blast radius of the Epstein cover-up is visible again. This wasn’t just a convenient military conflict; it was a perfectly timed geopolitical smoke bomb dropped right as the Epstein Files Transparency Act threatened to expose the rot at the very top.

    The system isn’t broken. It is working exactly as designed to protect the ruling class. We are following the money, the timeline, and the deliberate bureaucratic blackout that kept the worst offenders out of handcuffs.

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  35. This is the thing that family members have picked up, aside from calling anything with which they disagree “woke.”

    Source!?!

    They can’t have a conversation; it’s like extinction burst at cult level.

    Source!?!

  36. This is new? Ron Wydrn on it.

    Leon Black’s Hush Money: Wyden is currently grilling Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black over newly revealed “hush money” payments to women using Epstein as a middleman.

  37. https://www.finance.senate.gov/continuing-epstein-investigation-wyden-questions-leon-black-over-new-revelations-in-epstein-files-appearance-of-hush-money-payments-and-surveillance-of-women

    Key findings included in Senator Wyden’s letter to Leon Black, and
    Background on Senator Wyden’s Epstein investigation

    And, we have a solid Russia connection:
    “Epstein provided the Russian government with the location of women who were on Black’s payroll for unknown reasons.”

  38. https://www.newsweek.com/uk-police-want-prince-andrew-files-doj-11696563

    London’s most senior police officer has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over the original evidence from the Epstein files, warning it is “necessary if we get to the stage of court cases” involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

    Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told ABC News that the redacted files released to the public would not be enough on their own to mount a prosecution of Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, and former U.S. ambassador Peter Mandelson.

    “Of course, there’s a big body of that evidence in the United States in all those files, and at some stage we’re going to need the unredacted evidence,” Rowley said.

    “We need the original copy and where did it come from and that’s going to be necessary if we get to the stage of court cases.”

  39. Ivy you raise an important point that has bugged me for a long time:

    How do we counteract people who are so willing to just make it all up to press their case?

    I’m not in favor of inventing our own “pizza gates”, but I don’t mind stretching to connect dots for reasonable conclusions that might not be fully supportable with facts.

    “Reasonable inference” is the legal term for it.

    And then there is the sneaky old journalism trick: You can say just about anything if you add a question mark at the end.

  40. Wyden gave us another new angle today — The DEA Cover-Up: He just accused the DOJ of actively blocking the release of a secret DEA file detailing a five-year drug trafficking and prostitution probe into Epstein.

    Also new — The New Mexico Truth Commission: a first-of-its-kind state probe to investigate Epstein’s Zorro Ranch and his financial grip on their local politicians.

    Add the fresh Leon Black hush money news to the mix and that makes three fresh angles. As we used to say in the newsroom: three examples make a trend!

    Plus that London story. Plenty to get into tomorrow — unless Trump invades Cuba.

  41. Thank you, Craig. I was afraid it was just me with a case of PTTD. Post Traumatic Trump Derangement.

  42. https://newrepublic.com/article/208044/epstein-new-mexico-house-investigation

    Nationally, the face of the Truth Commission’s investigation is New Mexico Representative Melanie Stansbury, who as a member of Congress has had a look at the unredacted files. “I spent a fair amount of my time this morning looking at the files on Zorro Ranch,” she told reporters last month. “There aren’t words to describe what are in those files.” Stansbury has repeatedly emphasized to the press that “both girls and boys” were abused at the ranch.

    On Thursday, after sitting through Attorney General Pam Bondi’s evasions in a closed-door “fake hearing,” Stansbury reported on social media: “If anyone wondered whether there is a coverup, there is a coverup happening in the Department of Justice and in the White House.”

    Stansbury has 1.2 million followers on TikTok alone. (For comparison, Connecticut Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who is also outspoken on the Epstein affair, has 125,000.)

    New Mexico’s Truth Commission is clearly ambitious. But what does conducting an investigation of a local crime scene have to do with defying federal overreach?

    That is the real motivation for these New Mexico lawmakers. Back in 2019, when Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors, the state geared up for a probe into his activities in the region. Girls and women, after all, had alleged for decades that Epstein groomed, abused, or raped them, many as teenagers, at Zorro Ranch. New evidence surfaces all the time that New Mexico was the site of some of Epstein’s gravest misdeeds, not to mention his obscene plan to seed a master race with his own DNA. What’s more, the FBI at the time was investigating all of Epstein’s global houses of horror: properties in France, the Virgin Islands, New York, and Florida.

    But before the New Mexico investigation could even take its first step, the feds stopped it in its tracks. The then New Mexico attorney general said in 2019 that federal prosecutors in New York told him they were running a complex, multi-jurisdictional investigation, and New Mexico should just back off.

    Epstein was especially close to Bill Richardson, a Cabinet secretary under President Clinton and governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. Richardson regularly visited Zorro Ranch for sex, according to Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre. Or, rather, as she clarified in a 2016 deposition, Richardson came for “massages,” which, she said, “means sex.”

    In 1993, King, who served three nonconsecutive terms as New Mexico governor between 1971 and 1995, sold Epstein the tract of land in Stanley on which he built his ranch. Epstein had the mansion built later in the 1990s, and the King family still owns the land around it.

    King died in 2009, but his son Gary, who served as New Mexico attorney general from 2006 to 2014, was even closer to Epstein. When Gary King was running for governor in 2014, he took money from the child rapist via a rat’s nest of secret shell companies.

    Several members of the powerful King family show up in Epstein’s so-called little black book.

  43. as I said before conspiracy theories don’t work with liberals cause some smart-ass always has to spoil it

    not a valid strategy

  44. https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-editor-gerard-baker-delivers-scathing-takedown-of-trump-war/

    A top Wall Street Journal editor is delivering a striking rebuke of the Trump administration’s handling of information surrounding the war with Iran.

    Baker, the Journal’s editor at large and former editor-in-chief, compared Trump’s messaging to that of Saddam Hussein’s propagandist-in-chief, Baghdad Bob.

    The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be true than our own,” Baker wrote on X. “We have become Baghdad Bob.”

  45. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/2026-census-test.html

    It’s important to know that postal workers are legitimate census takers for the 2026 Census Test.

    If you live in the Spartanburg, SC area, your census responses may be collected by a postal worker while they deliver mail. Households will either be visited by a postal worker or non-postal census taker depending on their location.

    If you live in the Huntsville, AL area, the Census Bureau will directly hire postal workers to collect responses outside of their USPS work hours.

    You can complete the census test online in English. Census takers, including postal workers, will follow up with households that don’t respond to collect responses in person.

    Time commitment? Participating in the test is expected to take around 40 minutes to complete when responding online.

    *A test census in two cities, and someone put up a video and said the questions were really invasive.

    Postal workers, huh? I’m surprised they aren’t sending ICE N&zis.

  46. craig
    if ones goal is to be Bagdad Bob then go for it. I personally have a higher goal than that. I have enough trouble with basic ignorance; I don’t need to be carelessly dishonest in addition.
    Jack.

  47. But I do believe it is every Americans God given right to make shit up on the census form. Back when I had to do the annual farm census I did it all the time. After all the census wasn’t for my benefit but some commodity trader.

    Jack

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