Tuesday Cartoons: No More BS
Posted: July 22, 2025 Filed under: just because 12 Comments
Good morning, so sick of everything lately…let’s just keep it cartoony today.
Via Cagle:
He is so disgusting.
You all stay safe.
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‘Pathetic crybaby’: Self-described ‘fascist’ begs for donations after losing his job
Progressive firebrand and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan recently debated “20 far-right Republicans” as part of the Jubilee series “Surrounded.” One of them went way beyond identifying as conservative and admitted to being an outright “fascist.”
When Hasan asked Connor, who goes by “Pinesap” online, if he considered himself a fascist, he replied, “Yeah, I am.”
Connor also told Hasan he supports “autocracy” and said, “I, frankly, don’t care being called a Nazi at all.”
It seems this guy never had a job to begin with. He just grifts off other manchildren.
He has the face and demeanour that not even a mother could love. He opened his mouth and put that smug look on his face and I just wanted to slip the shit out of him. Sheesh. If he’s not a virgin then he paid for it certainly. He’d never get through the first interview with me.
Senate Dems Question Potential “Secret Side Deal” in Trump Paramount Settlement
Trump has suggested that his $16 million settlement is worth twice as much as the publicly reported amount.
Atrio of Democratic U.S. senators on Monday launched a probe into reports that President Donald Trump’s legal team struck a secretive side deal with Skydance — the prospective owner of CBS — that includes millions of dollars worth of “broadcast transmissions” supporting right-wing causes.
In a letter to Skydance CEO David Ellison, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote that Trump himself appeared to confirm the existence of the side deal in comments to reporters about his $16 million settlement with Paramount, the current owner of CBS that is seeking federal approval for its pending merger with Skydance.
Trump suggested the settlement was worth twice as much as the publicly reported figure, saying, “We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million—or maybe more than that in advertising… So it’s like $32 to maybe $35 million. I think that’s what they did.”
The senators described the alleged side deal as a “potential secret Trump payoff.”
“This admission appears to corroborate reporting that claims you reached a ‘side deal’ with the president, the terms of which involve CBS airing public service announcements ‘and other broadcast transmissions’ worth between $15 million and $20 million that ‘support conservative causes supported by President Trump.’ The nature and existence of this arrangement are uncertain, with at least one anonymous source calling the reports ‘false.’”
Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client
Trump Defense Attorney Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi just announced that Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell and discuss potential cooperation deals with her.
So here’s what happened.
Maxwell delayed her appeal to SCOTUS until after the inauguration. Trump’s DOJ twice delayed the decision whether they were going to defend the appeal, finally filing their response on Monday.
That day, Maxwell’s defense attorney, David Markus, insinuated that Trump was reneging on a deal.
The next day, Tuesday, WSJ moved forward with a story implicating Trump in “daily secrets” with Jeffrey Epstein.
The following day, Wednesday, Pam Bondi fired Maurene Comey, the prosecutor who would be competent to assess any cooperation offered from Maxwell.
Friday, in a false show of transparency, Todd Blanche (filing under his defense attorney identity) moved to unseal grand jury transcripts that DOJ has in a form it could release immediately.
Meanwhile, Trump’s DNI Tulsi Gabbard created a false diversion to distract his rubes.
Yesterday, the Speaker of the House ceded his majority for a week to give Trump “space” to cover up his pedophile problem.
And today, Trump’s Defense Attorney Todd Blanche announces he will meet with Maxwell soon to make the kind of deal that could excuse releasing her early. Probably, he’ll ask her to implicate someone like Bill Clinton.
Absent that deal, it seems clear, the WSJ will continue to publish stories implicating the President in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking.
Update: Markus, in his Tweet about the deal, does Trump a real solid by suggesting Trump is taking action to “uncover the truth.”
Update: Oversight just agreed to subpoena Maxwell for a deposition in a voice vote. This could complicate Blanche’s plans.
Timeline:
February 16, 2017: Alex Acosta nominated Secretary of Labor.
July 2, 2019: Jeffrey Epstein indicted.
July 12, 2019: Alex Acosta resigns.
August 10, 2019: Epstein dies by suicide.
June 20, 2020: Geoffrey Berman fired.
June 29, 2020: Ghislaine Maxwell indicted.
March 29, 2021: Superseding indictment.
November 16, 2021: Jury selection begins.
December 29, 2021: Maxwell convicted on 5 of 6 counts.
February 28, 2023: Maxwell appeals.
September 17, 2024: Second Circuit rejects appeal.
January 15, 2025: Maxwell delays appeal.
February 10, 2025: Dan Bongino promises he’ll never let Epstein story go.
February 21, 2025: Pam Bondi claims Epstein client list is on her desk.
February 27, 2025: Bondi orchestrates re-release of previously released Epstein files.
March 4, 2025: James Dennehy forced to retire.
March 14, 2025: Pam Bondi conducts emergency review of Epstein and Maxwell documents.
April 10, 2025: Maxwell files cert petition.
May 7, 2025: John Sauer delays response; Bondi claims there are thousands of videos.
May 18, 2025: Kash Patel and Dan Bongino affirm that Epstein killed himself.
May 22, 2025: Epstein prison video created.
June 6, 2025: John Sauer delays response.
July 7, 2025: Pam Bondi claims there’s no there there.
July 8, 2025: Trump loses it over questions about Epstein.
July 12, 2025: Trump attempts to claim Epstein is a Democratic plot.
July 14, 2025: DOJ defends Maxwell prosecution; David Markus suggests Trump is reneging on a deal.
July 15, 2025: WSJ interviews Trump about Epstein book.
July 16, 2025: Pam Bondi fires Maurene Comey, on Trump’s personal authority.
July 17, 2025: Trump yells at supporters who won’t move on from Epstein. WSJ publishes story.
July 18, 2025: Todd Blanche files to unseal grand jury materials; Trump sues WSJ.
July 21, 2025: Mike Johnson dodges week of work to give Trump “space” to fix his Epstein problem.
July 22, 2025: Blanche announces he’ll meet with Maxwell; Oversight votes to subpoena Maxwell for deposition.
Bypassing Habba, Judges in New Jersey Name New Top Federal Prosecutor
Alina Habba’s term as interim U.S. attorney was set to expire on Tuesday. New Jersey’s two Democratic senators had accused her of pursuing “frivolous and politically motivated prosecutions.”
A panel of federal judges in New Jersey on Tuesday blocked Alina Habba from staying in the job as the state’s interim U.S. attorney and instead invoked a rarely used power to select a candidate of their own to take over as the state’s top federal prosecutor.
The judges announced that they had appointed Desiree Leigh Grace, a seasoned prosecutor whom Ms. Habba named as her first assistant soon after she took over in March. The appointment is effective as of Tuesday, according to an order signed by the district’s chief judge, Renée Marie Bumb.
The unusual decision by the district court judges came hours before Ms. Habba’s 120-day temporary term was set to expire and could be undone by President Trump, who selected Ms. Habba for the job and has assumed closer control of the Justice Department than any other president in the past half century.
A similar showdown took place last week in a federal prosecutors’ office in Albany, N.Y. There, after judges refused to extend the temporary term of John A. Sarcone III, another embattled top prosecutor appointed by Mr. Trump, the Justice Department named him “special attorney” to Pam Bondi, the attorney general.
Trump stacking the courts with cronies again.
Somebody just fired Grace.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/kfile-trump-epstein-photos-footage
Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trump’s past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now.
In addition, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event. CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed.
The new footage and photos, which have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s known legal issues, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trump’s past relationship with Epstein. The Justice Department’s recent decision not to release long-promised files related to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trump’s MAGA movement, where people developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.