So, I know I haven’t been keeping up with all of the small developments, especially during the government shutdown, but frankly, I didn’t think anything super noteworthy happened that was appreciably different than previously.
ICE, DHS, and CBP continue to act like warrantless SS officers, doing whatever they want without review, redress, or constraint. Or, if you prefer, an invading army. I didn’t post about everything they’ve done because if I did, that is all this blog would ever be. That isn’t to say it isn’t important, but there is a limit to what I am able and willing to spend time on.
The admin continues to be a nest of vipers the corruption of which would stagger even Caligula and Nero – for instance, the carve out in the CR to fund the government includes a proviso to let 8 republic senators sue to the DOJ for investigating them for their January 6, 2020 actions, essentially cravenly handing them between 500k and a million dollars each.
I mean, it’s fucked, but it’s the same flavor of fucked it has been.
Now, I’m gonna do something I generally don’t want to do here and that is to speculate on future events.
You see, more of the Epstein Files have been released, and the house is poised to release all of them – or at least most – because now the “yeas” for it have a majority: Adelita Grijalva has been sworn in, and is voting to release the files. What’s more, ghoul monsters like Majorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have refused to cave and are ALSO voting to release the files. I guess they know their constituents will probably have their heads if they don’t.
So what’s Trump gonna do?
Well, there’s good money on him deciding to invade Venezuela.
They actually moved a carrier group there last month, and were also weighing ground attack options as well.
I’m no military expert, so I don’t know all of the background movers in this particular case – like who’s propping this up as a good idea vs bad idea. But you can bet your bottom dollar that Trump will find SOMETHING to try to distract from the Epstein files if he can. And this is a ready made distraction.