In the Appendix to ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ by Frederick Douglass (Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845), Douglass wrote:
“I find, since reading over the foregoing Narrative, that I have, in several instances, spoken in such a tone and manner, respecting religion, as may possibly lead those unacquainted with my religious views to suppose me an opponent of all religion. To remove the liability of such misapprehension, I deem it proper to append the following brief explanation. What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐โ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference โ so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐, ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ: ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ญ, ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง-๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐-๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐. [Emphasis mine]. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”
The entire appendix – nay, the entire book, but the appendix is a representative summary of Douglass’ thought – is a short but compelling read, and I recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand the foundation of hate in Christian Nationalism.
The following text is a representation of how this attitude showed up in 1965, and which persists today, to the great shame and detriment of our society.
“The hate stare was everywhere practiced, especially by women of the older generation. On Sunday, I made the experiment of dressing well and walking past some of the white churches just as services were over. In each instance, as the women came through the church doors and saw me, the “spiritual bouquets” changed to hostility. The transformation was grotesque. In all of Montgomery only one woman refrained. She did not smile. She merely looked at me and did not change her expression. My gratitude to her was so great it astonished me.” Griffin, John Howard, Black Like Me.ยน
Given the gross disconnect between the Christianity found in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, and the behavior of far too manyยฒ of those who profess to be followers of Christ in the current timeline, it is no wonder that so many people are turning away from mainstream Christian churches, citing loss of belief, negative experiences, LGBTQ-related concerns, scandals, and politics.
As a nation, we must do better if we are to have a country that works for everyone, with no one left out. R. Buckminster Fuller expressed this idea in what came to be known as his “World Game,” after which this blog is named:
โMake the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.โ
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Footnotes
ยน Black Like Me, first published inย 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalistย John Howard Griffinย recounting his journey in theย Deep Southย of the United States, at a time whenย African Americansย lived under theย Jim Crow laws. Griffin was a native ofย Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man. He traveled for six weeks throughout theย racially segregatedย states ofย Louisiana,ย Mississippi,ย Alabama,ย Arkansas, andย Georgiaย to explore life from the other side of theย color line.ย Sepia Magazineย financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles.(Wikipedia)
John Howard Griffin as a Black man, walking under an arcade in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photograph by Don Routledge.
ยฒ It goes without saying that there are countless people in all Christian denominations who do their best to emulate the teachings of Jesus and go about, in a quiet and unassuming way, doing good. These are they who form a bulwark against the flood of openly-practiced hate and division of the hypocritical Christian Nationalists.
It is almost impossible to describe how primitive Trump’s approach is and how much joy it brings to the enemies of the USA: After his suicide as a superpower, America will find it difficult to regain its status.
Guest post by Timothy Snyder in the Sรผddeutsche Zeitung
The United States is spending billions of dollars to lose a war against Iran that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes its citizens, damages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. The war reveals a guiding principle of US President Donald Trump ‘s foreign policy : superpower suicide. Empires rise and fall, but to my knowledge, no state has ever intentionally and systematically destroyed its own powerโcertainly not with such speed.
Note: The original Article in English – “America’s Superpower Suicide” – is at Project Syndicate, but is behind a paywall. This is a German translation by Jan Doolan.ย (Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2026) which has been back-translated by Google translate. It’s a poor substitute for the original English, but the text is important enough that I felt it should be shared.
This strategic suicide is hard to admit: one still hopes that Trump’s failures are based on some understanding of the US national interest . They are not.
A superpower must at least be a modern state thatโthrough the rule of law and other institutionsโencompasses a substantial number of citizens committed to a common goal. But the Trump administration treats the US not as a modern state, but as a business opportunity for a select few.
To remain a superpower, a state must also be able to sustain itself over time. Continuity depends on a principle for the transmission of political authority. By striving to remain in power indefinitely and undermining trust in elections, Trump is challenging the very principle that enables political succession in the United States. There are, of course, other ways to achieve this, such as dynastic rule or a politburo decision. A transition to either of these formsโone could imagine the circle of tech oligarchs responsible for the rise of Vice President JD Vance as a capitalist politburoโwould spell the end of the American republic.
The Trump administration has gutted the civil service and replaced the military leadership.
Ensuring the right people are in positions of power is crucial for a state to gain and maintain power. Throughout history , powerful states have found various ways to identify qualified individuals and promote them to leadership positions, regardless of their background. Ancient China had a system of examinations. Napoleon established the principle of merit in both civilian and military life. The US, for its part, once had a civil service the world envied, as well as a highly merit-based military. But the Trump administration gutted the civil service and replaced the military leadershipโa process overseen by people unqualified for the positions they held. The fact that Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth are now Director of National Intelligence, FBI Director, and Secretary of Defense, respectively, is a clear indication that a superpower is committing suicide.
In a deeper sense, a superpower must have an education system that prepares its population, and thus its political leaders, to face global challenges. But in Trump’s USA, public education is being defunded, universities face reprisals if they defend academic freedom, and school libraries, including those at military academies, are being purged of useful books.
Similarly, the appreciation of science, which fueled the rise of many great powers, has come under attack in Trump’s USA. Like the ancient Mesopotamians, whose astronomers developed scientific methods for mapping the heavens, and the Romans, who used the scientific knowledge of the Greeks to build an empire, the USA became a superpower by creating government institutions to fund science and attract scientistsโoften immigrants.
However, the Trump administration has launched a shocking offensive against science. It is withholding research funding for political reasons, preventing aspiring and established scientists from moving to the US, and questioning fundamental scientific findings such as human-caused climate change.
Even if Trump’s new battleships were built, they would be completely unsuitable for modern warfare.
As a result, the Trump administration abruptly halted the energy transition in the US and instead increasingly subsidized ecologically and economically obsolete fossil fuels. As a superb forthcoming book demonstrates, societies that embrace new forms of energy rise; those that do not perish. This may be the most profound truth in human history and makes Trump’s decision an existential error that will accelerate the decline of the US and empower Chinaโits main competitor and the global clean energy superpower . The same applies to the technology and innovation that underpin military power. The US has always spent enormous sums on armaments. Yet the administration is focusing on equipment of the past, including a new class of battleships to be named after Trump . The plan is a complete pipe dream. Even if these battleships were somehow built, they would be utterly unsuitable for modern warfare, the contours of which have been laid bare by the high-tech war between Russia and Ukraine. They can be considered doomed from the moment they are launched.
The Ukraine war is a prime example of how the Trump administration disregards the art of diplomacy in favor of “deal-making.” Yet there is ample evidenceโincluding his kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putinโthat Trump doesn’t know how to negotiate. Furthermore, US allies are vilified and ostracized for no other reason than personal grievances .
Without a sense of national interest, there can be no understanding of the purpose of alliances. Nor can there be any appreciation of the international systemโthe laws, rules, and norms that underpin US global dominance. It is almost impossible to describe how primitive Trump’s approach is and how much pleasure it brings to the enemies of the United States.
The war against Iran is a strategic defeat; to the extent that the US had any objectives at all, they were not achieved.
This brings us back to Iran. In international confrontations, a superpower wins at least sometimes. But the Trump administration loses time and again. The war against Iran is a clear strategic defeat; to the extent that the US had any objectives at all, they were not achieved. Trump’s policies have resulted in more enriched uranium remaining in the hands of an even more radical Iranian regime, which possesses new sources of economic power (control of the Strait of Hormuz; intimidation of the Gulf states), and have made it virtually impossible for the US to exert any influence on Iranian society. The government also celebrates defeats in symbolic ways, as is characteristic of declining states. Consider Hegseth’s comparison of the rescue of a downed US pilot to the resurrection of Jesusโa blatant blasphemy that could distract us from the underlying strategic helplessness. Such Christological imagery is used to transform a defeat in the real world into a victory in an imaginary one. Polish Romanticism, for example, viewed the collapse of a republic (primarily due to wealth inequality) as proof that Poland was the “Christ of nations.”
Finally, many states are losing power because they simply cannot afford to maintain it. For the first time since 1945, US national debt is higher than gross domestic product. A useful point of comparison: large deficits are normal when facing a challenge like World War II. But the Trump administration is running these deficits for a very different reason: to avoid taxing wealthy individuals and corporations. This approachโwhich views the government as a service provider for the super-richโis incompatible with winning wars or maintaining the social services that make a modern society function.
Reforms and corrections are no longer relevant, because the suicide of the US as a superpower under Trump is a symptom of the democratic distortions and inequalities that enabled such a world-historical strategic folly in the first place. What made the US a superpower also enabled the current attempt at self-destruction. Instead of striving for a return to the former status quo, intensive efforts must now be made to reshape US policy so that people are given more power to create a more just future.
This sad love letter to the USA was written by one of our civilized Aussie mates and posted on Facebook. The good folks down under like to use a lot of spicy language for emphasis, but I try to keep my shares family-friendly so I’ve taken the liberty of bowdlerizing this entry, and I hope I’ll be forgiven. But if you want to read the essay in all it’s glory, you can click here.
You might be cool, but youโll never be purple safari suit cool.
Dear USA: When You Were Awesome
A letter to America from the boy in western Sydney who was once your biggest fan
May 14, 2026
I was 5 years old at Saint Maryโs South Primary School when I first fell in love with you.
Her name was Miss Hess. Blonde hair. An accent Iโd never heard before in my whole short life. I remember her standing at the front of our kindergarten classroom and being absolutely mesmerised. I asked her where she was from. She told me she was from the United States of America. Somewhere down south. Alabama, maybe. I donโt remember exactly. I didnโt even know what a United States even was at the time. What I remember is the way the words came out of her mouth. The roll and lilt and warmth of them. They sounded like the films weโd already started watching. They sounded like everything good.
A 5-year-old in western Sydney doesnโt have the words for โI am infatuated with my kindergarten teacher because sheโs from a magical place.โ But I was. Completely. And from that moment, you had me.
Thatโs how it started. With a blonde American lady at the front of a New South Wales classroom, telling a barefoot Aussie kid about the country sheโd come from.
You can build the rest of a life on a foundation that small. I did.
Because you were the greatest country on the face of the bloody earth. Everyone knew it. Everyone said it. The dream was to go there one day. To stand under the Statue of Liberty and look up. To stand on the rim of the Grand Canyon and look down. To walk over the Golden Gate Bridge. To get a photo at the Empire State Building. To lose your shirt at a Las Vegas card table. To take your kids to Disneyland. To eat a hot dog in Times Square.
You sent us Hollywood and we ate it whole. You sent us Indiana Jones and Marty McFly and Han Solo. You sent us Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin. You sent us the moon landing on grainy footage and we watched it in school assemblies. We were hypnotised by the technologically of an advanced civilisation as if we were still rubbing two sticks together trying to discover fire.
When Crocodile Dundee went to New York, I went with him. Every Aussie kid did. We sat in our lounge rooms half a world away and walked the streets through Mickโs eyes and the whole thing felt close enough to touch. Like maybe one day, weโd get there too.
When I was a teenager, my uncle bought a Rambler Matador. Big American sedan. Chrome you could see your face in. Then a Rambler X. Big two-door coupe. He called it the big American job and Iโd run my hand down the panels like I was touching a piece of the country itself. I felt so proud sitting up in that front seat turning heads everywhere weโd go.
Heโd go to Vegas every chance he got. Come back with stories. The casinos. The lights. The buffets the size of a school hall. The way the air conditioning hit you when you walked into a hotel lobby. The way the dealers called you sir. The way the whole place seemed to exist on a scale Australia couldnโt compete with.
Iโd sit there as a teenager and listen to him with the same wide-eyed awe a 5-year-old had for Miss Hess. You were still the dream. Still the place. Still everything good and big and possible. The richest people on the face of the earth. Wall Street. Manhattan. Texas. California. The kind of country a kid from western Sydney could only get to by saving every coin for a decade.
Friends would come back from their own trips with their own stories and Iโd absorb every one of them. The skyline at night. The redwoods. The size of a steak. The taste of a Coke from a glass bottle. You were a country, and you were also a feeling, and you were also a promise.
And then one Tuesday morning your towers fell.
I remember exactly where I was. I remember the heaviness in my chest that didnโt lift all day. I remember the pounding headache that wouldnโt quit. I remember feeling physically ill in a way I couldnโt put words to, because what I was feeling wasnโt shock or fear, it was grief. The grief of a kid watching the older brother he idolised get sucker-punched on live television.
We watched the people jumping. We watched the firefighters running in. We watched a country built on optimism take the worst hit of its history. And we cried for you. Not the polite kind of crying. The proper, shoulder-shaking, canโt-believe-this-is-happening kind.
We had our own dead in those towers too. Australians who were just there for work, for love, for a long weekend. They died with your dead and we mourned them together.
It was the Musketeer thing. All for one. One for all. Thatโs what we were to you and thatโs what we believed you were to us.
And when you went to war, we went with you. Bush invaded Iraq on the back of a lie about weapons of mass destruction and somewhere deep down a lot of us knew it was a stretch. But the wound of 9/11 was still raw and we were not going to leave our mate alone in a dark room. So we went.
Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Three of the bastards. Wars you started. Half of which were wrong before the first boot hit the dirt.
But we didnโt cut. We didnโt run. We sent our blokes, our brothers, our dads, our cousins, our schoolmates, to fight beside yours. We buried our diggers under flag-draped coffins. Long Tan. Tarin Kowt. The whole bloody mess of it. We stood with you because thatโs what mates are meant to do. Even when youโd screwed it up. Even when the cause was wrong. We showed up.
Because thatโs what the little boy at Saint Maryโs South had been taught to do. That America was worth dying beside. That the bond was real.
But somewhere along the way, you started losing your mind in public.
It happened gradually at first. The kid from the kindergarten classroom, now a grown man, didnโt notice it straight away. He noticed Hollywood went a bit dark. He noticed your news started screaming. He noticed your politicians stopped looking like leaders and started looking like grifters. He noticed your churches got loud and your guns got louder. He noticed the kids getting shot in their classrooms while you did nothing. He noticed Charlottesville. He noticed Ferguson. He noticed the slow grinding way you couldnโt seem to fix the things you used to be so proud of fixing.
The boy from Miss Hessโs kindergarten was watching his older brother slowly come apart on the kitchen floor.
And then you elected him. Twice.
A man found liable in your own courts for sexual abuse. An adjudicated rapist. A convicted felon. An insurrectionist who sent a mob to murder his own vice president and then watched it on the telly with a Diet Coke. A thrice-bankrupt steakhouse hustler. A spray-tanned pardoner of pedophiles who took his pen, once back in the Oval Office, and walked rapists and child abusers out of prison because they wore the right hat on the right day.
This is who 77 million of you chose. Not once. Not Twice. Third time the charm. With more votes the second time than the first.
The boy from Saint Maryโs South could not believe it. Refused to believe it the first time. Wept the second.
And how did this bloke repay the country that bled beside you for half a bloody century? He disparaged the free trade deal weโd signed in good faith. Slapped tariffs on Australia. On Canada. On Britain. On every mate whoโd showed up when it mattered.
After Long Tan. After Tarin Kowt. After every coffin we sent home from a war you started. He treated us like an enemy.
And then he set about the rest of the world. Threatened to annex Canada like it was a Monopoly square. Threatened Greenland. Belittled prime ministers in the Oval Office on camera. Disparaged NATO. Cuddled up to Putin while telling Ukraine they were on their own. Shook down friends. Rewarded dictators.
The little boy who loved you would not have recognised the country youโve become. He would have closed his picture book and asked Miss Hess where the real America had gone.
But before I go any further, I need to say this clearly. Because thereโs a version of this letter that lumps every single one of you in together, and that version is not just unfair, itโs wrong.
I am not talking to the critical-thinking Americans.
I am not talking to the millions who saw this coming and tried to stop it. I am not talking to the women who marched in Washington. I am not talking to the unions. I am not talking to the teachers showing up in red states to teach actual history. I am not talking to the lawyers fighting this in court. I am not talking to the doctors quietly performing the procedures youโve made illegal. I am not talking to the journalists getting fired for telling the truth.
I am not talking to Jimmy Kimmel. I am not talking to Stephen Colbert. I am not talking to Seth Meyers and John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon. I sit on the other side of the Pacific and I watch your monologues at 8 oโclock in the morning over a long black and I laugh and I cry and I say out loud to Mitzy, โThese bastards still get it. These bastards are still in the fight.โ
You critical-thinking Americans, you are not the country Iโm writing this letter to. You are the country I still love. You are the country Miss Hess told me about, before things went sideways. You are the version of America the little boy in the kindergarten classroom was infatuated with. You havenโt gone anywhere. Youโre still in there, fighting like buggery, and I love you for it.
Iโm with you. The rest of the world is with you. We see you. We hear you. We feel your pain. We are not turning our backs on you.
But we are turning our backs on the 77 million.
We are turning our backs on the brain-dead imbeciles. The Fox-marinated cousins. The QAnon mothers. The church-going hypocrites with the gun safe in the rec room. The Confederate-flag-flying pensioners. The silent-majority golf-cart Republicans who knew exactly what he was and voted for him anyway. The 77 million morons who looked at a man bragging about grabbing women by the pussy and a list of 30-something felony convictions and said yes, this bloke, this one, this is the one I want running the country my children will inherit.
And yes. The good Americans are going to suffer too. The tariffs will hit your blue-state retirees. The recession will hit your union households. The collapse of soft power will hit your students abroad. We know that. We donโt want that. It breaks our hearts. But there is no version of the worldโs response that punishes only the guilty and spares only the innocent.
Weโre all suffering. Weโre all going to keep suffering. And if it takes the rest of the world turning its back to make the 77 million finally understand what they have done, then so be it.
We have tried polite. We have tried diplomatic. We have tried hand-wringing. None of it has worked.
So the world is going to send the only message left. Withdrawal of trade. Withdrawal of trust. Withdrawal of admiration. Withdrawal of immigration. Withdrawal of tourism. Withdrawal of the assumption that you are the leader of the free world. The kind of message that gets through skulls thicker than two short planks.
And it might, just might, drag a few of the lazy non-voters off the couch next time. The ones who werenโt going to vote for him but couldnโt be arsed voting for anyone else. The ones who let this happen by sitting it out. Maybe when they see how bad it gets, theyโll find their way to a polling booth in 2026 and 2028 and actually do their bit.
And thereโs one more thing I want to say, and itโs to the Democrats.
When you win it back, and you will, you have to actually fix it this time.
You donโt get to go back to the way things were. You donโt get to coast on the relief of him being gone. You donโt get to spend the next 4 years patting yourselves on the back for being the adults in the room.
Because what made him possible was 40 years of neoliberal rot. 40 years of offshoring. 40 years of stagnant wages. 40 years of healthcare bankruptcies. 40 years of pretending trickle-down was real economics and not a hostage note from the donor class. The germination of Trumpism is in the soil you helped till. You and the Republicans both, but you, the Democrats, were supposed to be the bulwark, and you sold out to the same donors and now here we are.
So when you get the keys back, you have to dig the rot out. Tax the bastards. Break up the monopolies. Fund the schools. Cancel the medical debt. Build the housing. Stop pretending Wall Street is the economy and Main Street is just there to applaud.
And throw a boatload of criminals in prison.
Him. His cabinet. The lawyers who helped. The senators who looked the other way. The donors who funded the coup attempt. The judges who shielded him. Build the cages and fill them. And keep them in there, year after year, in their orange jumpsuits, so that the next would-be Trump, and there will be a next one, knows exactly what is waiting for him at the end of the road.
Accountability is not optional. Accountability is the only vaccine.
The grief is the worst part. Not the rage. The grief.
Itโs the grief of a man in the Blue Mountains who used to be a 5-year-old in Miss Hessโs kindergarten, sitting at his desk, trying to explain to his readers why the country he grew up loving is now the country he canโt bear to watch. Itโs the grief of an older brother going off the rails and not being able to drag him back. Itโs the grief of watching the Statue of Liberty become a hollow joke. Itโs the grief of watching Captain America turn into the bloke he was created to fight.
You used to be awesome. You really did. And we loved you for it. Not as a satellite state. Not as a junior partner. As a friend. As a mate. As something close to family.
But the little boy is grown now. And the older brother has lost the plot.
So the rest of us, the Aussies, the Kiwis, the Canadians, the Europeans, the Japanese, the South Koreans, all the kids who used to look up to you, weโve had to grow up too. Weโve had to become the adults in the room. We have to hold the line on democratic norms. We have to keep climate policy alive. We have to stand with Ukraine. We have to defend the rules-based order that you wrote and are now spitting on.
The student has become the teacher because the teacher has had a stroke and is yelling at the wheelie bins.
And it breaks my heart. It really does. Because somewhere in me there is still a 5-year-old at Saint Maryโs South Primary School, looking up at a blonde American kindergarten teacher with stars in his eyes, wanting you to come back. Wanting Miss Hess to be from a country I still admire. Wanting the McDonaldโs and the moon landing and the Bruce Springsteen songs to belong to the country I loved. Wanting Captain America to be a hero again. Wanting to look up.
But the boy is a man now. And the man is sad. And the country he grew up loving is gone.
We will love what you used to be for as long as we can remember it. And we will mourn what youโve become for the rest of our lives.
And when you come back to us, if you come back to us, we will be here. Heartbroken. Tired. Older. But still your mates. Because in the end, that is what we are.
A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to โcheatโ Black voters out of political power.
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“I have no doubt in my mind that the map’s going to pass, if y’all could give us less than zero seats you would do it.ย
Y’all do this under the orders of someone who says the civil Rights act was harmful to white people, that it caused Reverse racism.ย
RFK [Jr.] said that black children are overfilled on antidepressants and that they need to be re-parented on different forms, all of them.ย
Pete Hegseth constantly brings Doug Wilson to the Pentagon to give a prayer service. Doug Wilson is the same pastor that said slave owners were on strong spiritual ground.
I don’t have no belief on no morality on anybody that follows Donald Trump.
If you wasn’t with this map, you wouldn’t be underneath this President, you wouldn’t be in your party.
You would stand up, you would stand against it, you would speak out about it.ย
So as far as I’m concerned, if you here as one of these Trump Republicans, you already showed us who you are. You showed us what you want to do. And I believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party.
Y’all are in a death spiral. That’s why you have to redistrict. That’s why y’all have to cheat. That’s why Trump got to go to Texas and say he entitled to five more seats. It because y’all know what y’all is doing is abhorrent.ย
We letting our people die in Iran based on false pretense, that Tulsi Gabbard and Joe can’t say it ain’t real.ย
Y’all okay with all that. So I’m positive that y’all goin’ be ok with the map. But the beautiful thing is, the children that y’all have made, and the people that’s younger than y’all, don’t support none of this racism that y’all want.
The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy, and I’ll be happy to see the millennials and gen z bury y’all. There will be no more of your party. The midterms gonna come and y’all gonna get wiped out.ย
Trump gonna get dragged out of the White House, and I’m gonna love every second of it. Because y’all loved every second of the suffering that he caused to everybody in this country, and worldwide.
We starvin’ Cuba. We bombed Nigeria. We holdin’ Zimbabwe and Zambia hostage for they minerals. We don’t want to give them AIDS support. The pro-lifers that say “all life is special,” y’all letting kids die of AIDS. What part of your Bible say that? Point out the scripture. I think everybody would love to see it. And we would love to see y’all in the midterms.”
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After this powerful speech, the Republican in charge tried to hit back with this weak-sauce “neener neener” response: “Your hat says, ‘Trump was wrong about everything.’ It should say ‘You are wrong about everything.’ “
This beautiful letter was written by “Lucinda Law” (@Cindy Lineberry) and published on Facebook. It deserves wider exposure, so I repeat it here in its entirety.
Dear Justice Roberts,
It has come to my attention through your various media appearances that your feelings are hurt โ that people view you and your Court as political actors, which you insist is not an accurate understanding of what the Court does.
So let me resolve the confusion: the misunderstanding is yours, not ours.
People believe your Court is political because it is and acts so in plain view of the nation.
You unleash unlimited corporate money into elections by inventing constitutional protections for concentrated wealth. You dismantle voting protections while dining with the very political movement that benefits from their destruction. You expand presidential immunity in ways conveniently favorable to a corrupt executive you have rewarded with extraordinary deference, 90% deference. And then you perform public astonishment when Americans recognize your pattern.
Your Court did not merely โinterpretโ the Constitution. It selectively hollowed it out whenever democratic participation threatened entrenched power.
Citizens United accelerated Americaโs transformation into an oligarchy where billionaires and corporations wield more political influence than millions of citizens combined. Shelby County gutted the Voting Rights Act, after which states moved with remarkable speed to burden the very voters the Act was designed to protect. The immunity ruling signaled that sufficient power can place a president beyond meaningful accountability.
Then you publicly mourn the collapse of trust. What exactly did you think would happen?
Legitimacy is not something a court grants itself while issuing ideologically convenient outcomes wrapped in constitutional language โ when the public is fortunate enough to even receive a full opinion instead of another consequential ruling buried in the shadow docket.
Legitimacy is earned through restraint, consistency, ethical seriousness, and fidelity to principle even when principle is inconvenient to power.
This is precisely the credibility your Court squandered. We understand perfectly well what we have been watching. We all see you and your court and its role in what our nation has become.
And we are furious โ not because we are too ignorant to understand constitutional law, but because we are capable of reading the Constitution you claim to defend- while watching this Court repeatedly twist it to serve its own ideological will.
History will remember this era. And it will remember you and your Court- not as a guardian of constitutional democracy, but as a key institution that eroded it. That is already your legacy, so stop whining- you earned a nation’s scorn.
I wholeheartedly endorse this letter to the chief justice of the most illegitimate, compromised, partisan SCOTUS that has existed in my ยพ century of life. Only three of the justices currently strive to interpret the Constitution as it was written – a document designed to create a world that works for everyone, with no one left out. The other six? Well, not so much.
These six are determined to turn the United States into a Christian Nationalist Autocracy, and have ruled in favor of Trump and MAGA and the Heritage Foundation’s agenda in more cases than I ever thought possible. When this regime falls, as fall it must, they will be remembered with the kind of historical opprobrium reserved for the worst societal outcasts – people like Joseph McCarthy, Boss Tweed, or Andrew Johnson.
“Sir, are you trying to show your contempt for this court?” “No, your honor, I am doing my best to conceal it”
“What the is happening? What the [bleep] is happening in this country? From Minnesota to Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia to Philadelphia. Well, well, oh, I’m sorry. Not all the news was bad. Why is the president of the United States declaring on Wikipedia that he is now the president of Venezuela? That’s real. Why is our Fed chairman making what appears to be a hostage video? How does steak become the healthiest food in the country? What is happening? We are on the Donald Trump gravitron. We don’t know what up or down is. We just know it feels like we’re all going to vomit.
Each moment brings another event with cataclysmic implications and consequences. And the guy at the center of it, the instigator, the catalyst of all this chaos and confusion, he’s just out there TGIFing it. Oh, hey, what’s up everybody? Hey, see you soon. Not if I see you first. Boom, boom, boom. Just look at Venezuela. We took it over what, 3 days ago, four days ago, 5 days ago, I don’t remember. Meanwhile, our State Department says if you’re an American, there are armed gangs in Venezuela trying to kill you. So, you would think that maybe this calls for a little gathering in the situation tent or wherever is operationally right for talking about Venezuela right now.
But the president had a different idea. President Trump convening top oil executives at the White House to talk about diving up Venezuela’s oil. What the [bleep] is happening? He has a meeting of all of the most important stakeholders. Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton, and of course the guy from Dune who lives in the oil bar. By the way, I think you can tell I don’t use that treatment. And by the way, lest you worry that Donald Trump is in any way feeling the burden of this moment, the terrifying responsibility of so many lives held in his hands, let me reassure you, he’s fine. Here we are.
And if you, in fact, if you look, come to think of it, well, I got to look at this myself. [Trump gets up and walks to the window]. Sir, and we’re trying to have an urgent meeting on possibly the collapse of a pro state. You just got to walk over to the window, and look at look at Rubio and Vance. Look at look at the faces on Heckle and Jeckle over there. Just look at him smiling like “oh pawpaw, he’s so cute you should see him when the ice cream truck goes by.” What a what a view this is, the door to the ballroom, well, what a job! Really this meeting is the moment for your funny ballroom act them out armed gangs are roaming freely through both of the countries you say you run right now. But go ahead, take a moment to look at what might be through the window. You’re like the Walt Disney of chaos. All it takes is imagination.
And by the way, if you’re getting up and walking through the window and you don’t think that’s enough of a doddering old man move, old man, old cankles McGee had one more chewable Tums up his sleeve. You’re all going to do very well. I think really very well. Marco just gave me a note. Go back to Chevron. They want to discuss something. Go ahead. I’m going back to Chevron Mark. Thank you, Marco. Does anyone else have a private note they’d like me to read aloud? Anybody? Now, by the way, there was an oil company, Exxon, that expressed some reservations about investing money in rebuilding the infrastructure of a country that is uh, and I quote, not ours and is somewhat volatile at the moment. How did the president handle this somewhat rational cost benefit analysis? I’d probably be inclined to keep Exxon out. I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute. They’re playing too cute. You just made yourself the president of Venezuela on Wikipedia, but they’re the ones that are being glib. Do you see how [bleep] up everything is right now? First of all, I have to offend the good faith of an oil company because they don’t think they can safely extract another country’s resources in as cost-effective a manner as might benefit their shareholders. Who am I anymore? And by the way, Donald, why are you the president of Venezuela? Doesn’t your oath of office to America have a non-compete? What are we doing? What are you just trying to pick up a few extra hours? What? The holidays hit you hard. I just need a little couple extra bucks until like February, March. That ballroom’s not going to pay for itself.
Meanwhile, in Iran, protesters have taken to the streets tired of the totalitarian rule of the Mullahs and have been gunned down in the streets. Protests and violence have broken out throughout that country. It is chaotic and fragile. So, guess who’s thinking about stepping right in? That’s right, the president of Venezuela. I have options that are so strong. So, I mean, if they did that, it’ll be met with a very, very powerful force. I have options. Did you hear what he I have options? Not Congress, not the American people. I apparently Trump is the sole factor in all decisions everywhere throughout the world. Now he just wants to take a little more time staring out the window before he lets us know what fresh hell he will unleash next. And the most confusing thing about his reason for intervening in Iran is his reason.
President Trump has warned of striking Iran if the regime kills protesters. There seem to be some people killed that aren’t supposed to be killed. We may have to bomb Iran to prevent Iran’s government from shooting protesters. Look directly into camera with an expression of half bewilderment and despair. P.S. John. Don’t read this part. And if that’s not enough, in the middle of all this, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way. It’s Greenland. Based on my knowledge, everything there is done the hard way. You know, when you order food in Greenland, Uber Eats takes eight days and they don’t deliver over fjords. So, the point is, people, don’t fill up on Iran and Venezuela and Minneapolis. You got to save room for this other invasion. It’s like a WHOLE MUKBANG OF CATASTROPHIC POSSIBILITIES. It’s exhausting. This is all just one weekend. And why do we even need Greenland? We need Greenland very badly. Why? And why do we suddenly need all of Venezuela’s oil and whatever is buried under Greenland? What is Can I ask a question? Are we broke? Is that why we have to do all this? Did you lose your job? Did you somehow Trump casino the United States? Cuz if the country needs money, we can all get second jobs. We’ll all be presidents somewhere. If Wikipedia will have us. I don’t unerstโฆWhy do we have to take over Greenland? “If we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.” We’re already [bleep]. Russia’s already our neighbor. This is where Greenland is. Russia’s closer. Unless in your mind you think Alaska lives in a box next to Hawaii. No, no, no. I get it. I get it. I get it. We don’t want Russia or China to take over Greenland. Oh, you know what we could do to deter it? Not through arrogance or conquest, but what if we formed like kind of an alliance with Denmark and Greenland? We could include all the North Atlantic nations. What would we call this? like almost like a North Atlantic treaty organization that weโฆ I don’t know what we could I guess we’ll never know. But again, since we all now dance to the tune of one piper, what possible justifications could you have for just taking someone else’s land? And please, if you would irony proof your answer. I’m a fan of Denmark, but you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land. Can someone pass him a note? How do you think we got our land? We landed here on a boat 500 years ago and it was ours. And you’re out there. Hey, Denmark doesn’t own it because they landed on it 500 years ago. That’s like the argument you make when you want to give land back to the people who were already there, not for you to then take it because you’ve got a bigger boat. You’re doing some weird reverse woke land acknowledgement. I would like to acknowledge that Greenland sits on colonized and conquered indigenous people’s land. And I would also like to say dibs. Why am I even trying, by the way? Why do I even care to figure this out? It’s not like anyone on your side ever takes the effort to convince all of us on uh the United States long-term policy goals. It all just appears to be like a lazy Susan of vengeful whims from our all powerful mad king.
Did you know Trump doesn’t like Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell? Because Trump wants to be able to dictate our country’s interest rates himself. Now this poor Jerome Powell. Now you got him looking like he’s broadcasting from Taliban territory. The Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings. Can someone get this mother a glass of water? And by the way, I don’t feel good about this next joke, but I’m about to do it. It’s not It’s not politically incorrect. It’s just inside finance. So, anyone who doesn’t listen to Bloomberg surveillance in the morning, you can just leave the room. I’ll wait. Okay. Wow, that dude, he’s struggling. It appears the chairman of the Federal Reserve is having a liquidity crisis. That’s going to kill at the terminals!
I’m going to remind you all of this is happening in one weekend. All of it. One weekend. This president has made monumental changes to the manner in which this country operates. And the American people are rightfully feeling a vertigo about how a country born on self-determination and constitutional republic principles can turn into “whatever you say boss, sounds like a good idea boss.” So I think the American people reasonably have questions. But when the American people raise those questionsโฆ “Do you think Iran takes your threats seriously.” [Trump:] “What a stupid question. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? It’s a stupid question. Just a terrible question. You are a terrible reporter. You’re a terrible person and a terrible reporter. You know nothing about love. You fake news. Quiet, quiet Piggy.”
How dare we? How dare we? How dare we question his Excellency? I don’t know what we were thinking. You know what? I’m so We owe you an apology, sir. Mr. President, sir, we are so deeply sorry to have questioned your singular and delicate genius. It’s just that this is a kind of an adjustment for us because we’ve all been raised in the American system of government. I’m not going to get into the weeds with it. three co-equal branches of government checks and balances something about quartering soldiers. I think it’s quartering. It’s in cursive. The Q could be a P or an S. The point is this. That’s what we’ve been operating under for the last 250 years. If you want to learn about it, President Trump, you can ask all your acolytes. They say they keep it in their pockets. I guess it’s kind of a relic. So just have to give us some time to adjust to this new world of total compliance so we can understand the rules because you know it’s confusing. Like for instance, we all watched the footage of January 6th. But I think we may have gotten a very different interpretation of it rather than the correct interpretation of it, which of course is yours. So help me out here. We’ll play a game.
On January 6th, a bunch of they were peaceful people. These were great people went to the capital peacefully protesting a stolen election. I have never seen such spirit and such passion and such love. But while they were there, Capitol Hill police officers instigated the violence that day. So the people we saw earlier beating the [bleep] out of police officers were hardworking, loving people provoked by law enforcement and ultimately they deserve a full pardon. Got it. Don’t agree that’s what actually happened or what should have happened afterwards, but at least it sets a precedent.
But now let’s jump ahead. I don’t know a day to January 7th. We’ve all seen that footage. I think I know what I saw that day, too. But let’s go through it again with the correct interpretation. On January 7th, a highly disrespectful, deranged lunatic woman, professional ICE agitator, domestic terrorist, did what? This woman used her car as a weapon and tried to run over an ICE agent, an attempted murder, and so she was shot and killed. So while very little of the descriptions that you were saying matched what we all saw on the tape, the important lesson here is what she brought it upon herself. Mother, we are in a confusing dark place and this is where quite frankly rule of law and institutions are kind of an important framework. But now that those are gone, what’s our north star? Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you if you wanted to? Yeah, there’s one thing. My own morality, my own mind. So, nothing. But thank you. I’m no longer confused. Couldn’t be more clear. In America today, Donald Trump is the sun. And if you revolve around him and worship him, his warmth shines upon you. You could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his support as long as it’s done on his behalf. But if you do not support him, if you live in the darkness of what I guess we will refer to from now on as blue states, fearing the day he turns his terrible wrath towards you, whether you’re a single human woman on a side street somewhere in Minneapolis or a sovereign nation that happens to have land and resources that we, a larger sovereign nation, think we also might want. And so his people are making a bet that adhering to a principle of forced compliance and coercion will give us a more stable and prosperous America than a principle of shared alliance and common interest. It’s kind of a tough bet because uh I read somewhere I don’t know where that people have inalienable rights granted by a creator not a king. So holding that coerced world together it’s going to be kind of a tall task. But if anybody’s up for it, it’s Donald Trump. A man with unrivaled focus and discipline. Actually, you know what? Could you give me a second? I’m just, you know, I’m so curious. [Goes to window] I just want to just go and seeโฆ.”
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If America – including Congress – does not rise up and put an end to this madness, our Republic, which was handed to us by the founders, will have truly been lost. We’re already on the cusp of losing it, by having elected this mad conman not once, but twice. May God have mercy on us all.
“Arnulf รverland (1889 โ 1968) was a Norwegian author, poet, and nationalist. “Du mรฅ ikke sove” (You Must Not Sleep) was published in 1937, and is seen as a warning against Nazism and what was to come.
During the war, รverland wrote several famous resistance poems, and was imprisoned in Mรธllergata 19, Grini and Sachsenhausen. He survived all three, and after the war became involved in the Norwegian language struggle as chairman of the Riksmรฅlsforbundet (“The Riksmaal Society – The Society for the Preservation of Traditional Standard Norwegian”).”
We should be paying attention to what is happening in America today, instead of sleeping. This is reminiscent of Ben Franklin’s warning, “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Original Norwegian and English translation side-by-side
The Old Wolf has nothing more to say, รverland has said it all.
This video by Ronan Farrow clearly delineates the main far-right movements current in America. There are others, but these are the dominant ones infesting our society, and it helps to understand them.
Ronan Farrow
Below you will find the transcript of his remarks:
“In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination there has been a lot of discussion about the “far right” movement he was part of. But the “far right” is a spectrum of different movements, and understanding them might help you understand what is happening in America.
First, Christian Nationalism. This group’s leaders, like Kirk and Marjarie Taylor Greene, tap into valid frustrations with broken systems, but also exploit xenophobia and racism. They believe that the US was founded as, and must be restored to a Christian State. For many of them, that means white dominance and nonwhite immigration and multiculturalism are threats. Kirk himself said, “You cannot have liberty if you do not have a Christian population” and called the Civil Rights Act a “huge mistake.”
The movement works within the system, and its leaders don’t openly call for violence, but their rage baiting rhetoric has inspired it, with adherents participating in the January 6th attack.
A different strain is the Techno-authoritariarian or Dark Enlightenment movement, pushed by Curtis Yarvin and Silicon Valley billionaire supporters like Peter Thiel.
They hold that democracy has failed, and want an authoritarian society run like a corporation, by an unelected CEO-monarch and enforcing a stratified racial hierarchy based on pseudoscience.
Finally, a view gaining ground across the far right is accelerationism. That’s the belief that society is byond saving and its collapse needs to be hastened.
This view is held by many within the Groyper movement, which is led by Nick Fuentes and seeks to establish a white, Christian, anti-Semitic, authoritarian state.
It’s named after its racist meme toad mascot. Fuentes avoids direct calls to violence, but his followers rely on online harassment, including threats of violence against political opponents and minorities. Some were also charged for their rรดle on January 6th.
The Boogaloo movement on the other hand explicitly calls for violence against the government. Its name drawn from memes about the ’80s movie “Breaking 2, Electric Boogaloo” is a reference to a second civil war. Self-described ‘boogaloo bois” have been convicted of domestic terrorism plots and murders of government officials.
A more personal nihilism is embodied in the Black Pill worldview, which cuts across these movements. Its adherents often identify as incels and they want to destroy the progressive society that empowered women to reject them. The name comes from The Matrix, which is ironic. Since that film’s directors have said that the pills were a trans allegory.ยน Black pill followers are mainly misogynistic, but they have a lot of natural overlap with white supremacists
Most are passive, but the philosophy has inspired several mass murders.
People in this country are hurting. They are frustrated with systems that are rigged against them. You can see how those anxieties are exploited in these groups and their visions from building an authoritarian state to just watching the world burn.
What follows is the transcript (auto generated) of the interview with Katie Johnson regarding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It has not been edited except to remove the time stamps. Because of auto-generation of captions, there may be some small discrepancies between the text and what was actually said.
Warning: Graphic description of sexual abuse of children
Edit: There is no conclusive evidence proving the video is real or that the woman depicted is genuinely “Katie Johnson” from the lawsuit. The testimony matches the language in a now-dismissed legal complaint but has not been independently authenticated by credible news outlets, fact-checkers, or investigators. The veracity of both the accuserโs identity and her allegations against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein remains unproven and highly disputed.This transcript and the link to the video are presented here as a part of the whole.
I came to this interview on my free will no there was nothing promised to me for doing this interview excellent yes everything that I say at this interview will be the truth um I met Donald Trump um at some parties I attend um that I was working um for Mr Jeffrey Epstein um there was about three or four times that I um had encounters with Donald Trump I was 13 the first time that I met Donald Trump uh was at uh a party at Jeffrey Epstein's um Mansion uh we were he was there was a um an orgy going on and he was kind of watching off in the distance um and and he basically asked um if I could come over and give him um give him a hand job and at first I wasn't very comfortable with it this was like my first you know first party and I I didn't you know I didn't think that that was my responsibility uh but my recruiter told me that I needed to do it um so I agreed to and um then he you know I said I began to sorry this is um a little difficult but um before I gave him a hand job he kind of slapped my hand away and said um you need to use a glove and the recruiter ran over and handed me a glove and said no one touches Mr Trump's penis without a glove so I needed to use a glove I um gave him a hand job and then um immediately after you know he had an orgasm he left and I didn't see him again at that party Jeffrey Epstein um is a billionaire friend of Donald Trump's that um was responsible for throwing the sex parties um there was um I originally um came to New York trying to be a model and um in my travels I met a girl named Tiffany there um who um was very interested in me and said that you know she that's what she did is that she helped girls you know get what they wanted and and and she could help me get get into modeling that she knew a lot of um people that were that were higher ups and that it would be no problem um and so that's why you know she but I would just basically have to come model um at a couple of events and meet some people there would be no sweat so um of course I went you know that sounded like no big deal um and she was recruiting the girls to come to these parties um and and they all looked I mean most of them were you know my age there was you know maybe a couple girls that were maybe 14 or 15 but it seemed to me like we were all very young so okay um Jeffrey Epstein knew that I was um 13 years old uh when he interviewed me um he asked me to get um down to my BR my just my panties and I thought that was weird but I mean modeling maybe it was something about my figure um and he asked that I give him a massage so he then he asked me my age he asked me and I told him you know told him that I was 13 I told him why I was there um and and he basically said well you'll do you know I'm sure that you'll you'll fit pretty nicely here and then he he tried to uh basically um slip himself inside of me and I I pushed him away and I said you know I'm I'm cuz at that point in time I still believed that there was models and then there was the girls that did that like I thought there was a sep ation so um I I told him that I wasn't interested in that but he said that I would do um and as far as Donald Trump um he knew that I was 13 and I believe that Tiffany told him he seemed to take a liking to me because I was a I was so young um and um I was also a virgin so I don't know he's it seemed like he wasn't really into having um having girls that that were liked by the other guys he kind of you know the whole glove he kind of liked things to be his first you know that for lack of you know a better term but he was the one who wanted to um get to get to a girl before everyone else did Donald Trump knew that I was 13 um because the first the first night that I was there uh Tiffany actually suggested that and she had a whole bunch of different wigs and I express interest in them you know I always told her that I would love to walk around with blue hair and so I tried some on and um there was a blonde wig that that that she said that looked great on me so I wore that wig um and Donald Trump had specifically asked about me because I remind him of his daughter and she said well she's 13 as well so he knew the first time that he saw me but he took a liking to me because I look like his daughter the reason I'm coming out now um is when it happened originally I just wanted to forget about the whole incident uh and when I saw that he was running for president um I felt it was my responsibility to come out and tell our country um what kind of man this person is um I don't think that he should even be the dog catcher let alone running uh the greatest country in the world after I met Tiffany at the bus station um she took me to basically went to her house her apartment and got ready um I put on a blonde wig because it seemed fun to pretend to be someone different but uh we went to the party that that I was basically inter interviewing for um and Jeffrey Epstein was the one that was running the party um he had a quick meeting with everyone that was um employed there and then um he had um a private interview with me the first time that I met Jeffrey Epstein um he did try to force himself um inside of me without getting to go ahead or anything um and then um on the it was probably about the third or fourth party is when um he basically um uh forced was it was another massage and it was basically like it wasn't sex um but it was there was penetration and I told him that I didn't want that but um he kind of got a little irritated so I don't know there was something about him that um I guess I kind of um held him like I held a lot of resentment towards him by that time that that happened I I kind of already started catching on that maybe I wasn't there for modeling and maybe I was just getting used for things and I felt that kind of held him responsible um I did receive money to go to these parties after every um party um I was paid by Mr Mr Epstein there wasn't out of all the girls that were there with me I never I've most of them were 13 14 I think the oldest one might have been 16 just but just turned 16 um and she'd been there for a while um it was actually it was Tiffany um he was it he was he he liked to watch other people have sex I I I it was must and he he's a germ doesn't like germs so he rather than partaking he just watches so um and Tiffany had informed him that I was the Virgin um and so he was I was basically um sorry I I I so it was Tiffany who introduced us okay second time that I saw Mr Trump um was same scenario he was uh on looking some at an orgy and uh Tiffany came over to me and said that Donald Donald Trump had requested that I perform oral sex on him um and and never I'd never done something like that with anybody so I was a little nervous um so I walked up to him uh and and he was standing sitting there very proud like and I just kind of moved in that direction and he kind of slapped me away and said what are you doing you know you need to put a condom on like I was some like dirty filter or something without a condom and Tiffany ran over um and handed him a you know me a condom and apologized you know profusely and said that would never happen again um that that and she looked at me and and scolded me basically like a child and said that that's not how you know Donald Trump always you know any time you touch his penis it needs to have a condom on or glove you know you owe and especially when it comes performing oral sex so um I apologized and then um I performed oral sex on him and once again once he was done he hopped up and that's the last I saw of him at that party it's like once he's done out so okay okay sometimes before the I some of the things that I noticed that were weird with him was sometimes before the parties he would come over um and him Jeffrey Epstein and himself would kind of banter back and forth and he was very uh Donald Trump was very racist he said a lot of racist things like there was uh there was a lot of comments um towards Mr Epstein about you know being Jewish um and you called him a Jew bastard you know so that he was Chap and there was some words I didn't even understand something about um his his P you know the shape of his penis um being directly related to his mole or I mean I'm I'm not too familiar with the Jew you know the Jewish tradition so but I'm pretty sure that whatever he was saying wasn't very nice um also referred to you know people of Hispanic or you know Hispanic n they called him spicks um was that was around the first time that the World Trade Center had gotten the bombed in the in the '90s um and he was you know talking about the towel heads and how you know we would just be better off if we you know uh didn't let him in or you know basically got rid of everyone every single one that was already here and I thought I just that it made me really uncomfortable really really uncomfortable he also loved to to call black people um [ __ ] and he um Arabic people he called sand [ __ ] um the only time that um that he tried to give me some money was the last our last encounter together um where he acted out of rape fantasy um it just um I was forced to I was forced to give that money back because uh Jeffrey Epstein paid us um after the party so but he just gave me the money I I don't even know why he gave it to me maybe to make me feel more cheap but it was um it was a pretty I it was a rap fantasy to him but I I wasn't playing so there was those there was those two times um and then there was after the next the next thing that was that Tiffany approaching with was that he had a fantasy where he walked in on his maid um Maids basically making out and that he it was some type of fantasy for him so she asked I mean I was at that point I was like I don't want to be involved with anything that has to do with him but she's like you were just basically the the other one so there's nothing that you will have to do just don't you know just he wants he's requesting you to be involved so um I reluctantly I mean I don't I I felt like I didn't have a choice there but um it was basically he's walking in his two Maids I was one of the maids I was the white maid and there was um a Spanish girl U Maria who was the Hispanic maid and we were making out and he walks in and he gets really angry and threatens to send call Immigration on Maria if she doesn't come over and make things right and give him a [ __ ] so while she is over there giving him a [ __ ] I am just look trying to you know I'm supposed to look scared like oh oh no you know and you cleaning try to cleaning up things and pretending like I'm trying to go back to my job as a maid um and then he he's being so rude to Maria I felt so bad for her um even though I guess it just didn't seem like a fantasy it didn't it didn't seem like it it's the weirdest fantasy as far as that you know he was threatening he was threatening to call Immigration on her you know so that she didn't know how to you know she went to she wasn't even near going down to give him um perform oral sex on him before he slapped her away and said you know what are you doing you know you need to put a condom on and and she's trying to M you know I'm so sorry and he's like you can't even can't even understand what you're saying you know just you speak English you know called her derogatory um comments um and then he's like you know what you don't know what you're doing have her come over and show you how it's done and so I again I said that I didn't you know I had to go over there or else he was going to call Immigration on Maria I didn't know if it was true or not but I felt that you know he said that if I wasn't if I didn't show her how to perform oral sex on him then he was going to um call Immigration on her and then get rid of us both you know it was anything that was in relation to him getting off or being satisfied or happy had to do with him being in power but extreme power and it's it's very um it's very hard to even it was it was always intimidating when he was like that it was always you didn't really know if it is true or I mean like if you refuse to play along would he really call Immigration on Maria would he really get rid of us both and I didn't even want to know what that meant you know I always didn't it wasn't a game it just felt like it wasn't a game yeah the one night that I had the blonde wig on um he mentioned that I looked like you know I looked like to you know that I reminded him of his daughter um and actually the the the maid fantasy I didn't have a blonde wig on I was trying to stay away from blonde wigs since the time but he actually requested told Tiffany that that's what he wanted me to wear like he wanted it and he's and anytime I put it on anytime I had it on and he'd see me he would say oh man you look just and it wasn't like a oh you remind me of my daughter it was this sick evil like H you remind me of my daughter it was just this weird pleasure sick smile like I I don't even want to know what he was thinking about I I could imagine what he was thinking about after the parties would end uh we were to report to Mr Epstein and basically tell him everything that happened uh with who um what they liked what they disliked if there was any requests if there was any um talk about anything uh that's what you know we told Mr abstein everything and then he paid us and then we got to go home and most with me you know I would either you know I normally got taken taken to the airport you know so to go back home the fact that Trump has a chance to be the next president makes me feel disgusting inside I've always been proud to be an American I think we live in a beautiful country but I just see him ruining everything he's a horrible what he portrays on the outside isn't even that great but people don't even know the half of how evil how sick and twisted that man is I have a friend that's been my friend ever since the school year that I stopped going you know the the eighth grade I confided her and she knows all about it she knows everything I mean I I destroyed everything of like you know any planes to I didn't I couldn't risk my my dad finding out um and now I think I'm old enough to where I think I don't think you I at that point I didn't want to not be his little girl you know I didn't want to lose my dad basically I I any I would never uh as far as keeping proof of any of the trips um the only person I never told my parents you know I there would be no happy you know there would be no good outcome of telling my parents you know they would have grounded me um I would have never been allowed of the house you know my my father would have come unglued um I did tell a friend my best she's still my best friend of this day she knows everything she knows it all I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to save the country that I believe that we have I know what he does behind P like closed doors like if it if that's all I'm willing to sacrifice my life to put our country back to in the right like going maybe in some type of positive direction not even there's no right or wrong but a positive direction this guy's not going to take us anywhere positive you know as far as um my life changing by coming out with this information I've thought long and hard about um whether or not I should uh and I've gone back and forth um but I think that I I can't I think that the American people need to know what kind of man this person is um and if my life changes because of that then so be it but the American people need to know what they're dealing with if I had the chance to talk to Donald Trump I would run the other way I'm scared of him like I've never been scared of any anything else in my entire life I I I can't I can't explain it to you but I just the fear of him even being in the Next Room make I have a panic I would have I have a panic attack um the last encounter that I had with Donald Trump um Tiffany approached me about um a rape scene that was supposed to be played out and I didn't like I didn't like the sound of that at all but um Tiffany prom ured me that it wasn't going to be if I if it was anything I wasn't comfortable with we could stop um that she would be right there and that um it would it wouldn't get out of it wouldn't get out of hand and that um it was just it was a fantasy like it wasn't really going to happen um and so she I told her that I would uh she she basically I mean Tiffany was always nice to me she wasn't that I felt I trusted her else I you know and I wouldn't always trusted her or done what she asked me to but um she was there and uh he came in and I was basically tied to a bed um with panty hose uh and he tied him there were so tied I could it hurt to even like lay there and I tried to you know triy to say something and it was like you know he's just you know shut up you shut up [ __ ] you know this is was basically like he was he was being really really rough and and I understand I don't I mean just didn't seem like a fantasy um and I started to get scared and and he was you know basically like ripping my clothes off and and I was actually really I started I got freaked out and um I told him that I didn't want to do this I was you know I screamed over for Tiffany you she was like Mr Trump she's only you know she's not she's this is scaring her and he's like oh you shut up too he just turned into this animal it was like a completely different um completely compl different person um it was like everyone in the room was scared of him and uh I was um it was like I uh I couldn't do anything about it and he ripped off all my clothes and he started to basically have sex with me and I screaming cuz I'd never had sex before it was my first time and Tiffany was yelling at him too she she was saying I was a virgin and he told us to just shut the [ __ ] up and just basically took my virginity while I was crying and telling him to stop and that's basically begging for him to just stop uh and I don't I Tiffany was didn't know what else to do either she no one was there to help us or me um and [Music] so so after the fact he he he basically finishes it you know didn't it didn't take that long um at all I mean it but it was just it felt like it was like 5 and 1 half hours like it was a eternity like I don't even know how long it was but um he was done and I was crying and Tiffany was Consulting me and she was you know apologizing she told me that she would never she didn't she just never put me in that situation again but uh he comes over mad because I was crying and so that I should be thankful that someone like Donald Trump took my virginity but he basically didn't say took my virginity he said I should be glad that someone like Donald Trump popped my cherry and not some pimply little 14-year-old and I just was like What if I I I said what if I get pregnant not even talking to him I didn't want to talk to him I was talking to Tiffany and he said well you'll get an abortion then [ __ ] and then just walked away um and I I I asked I I I went I told Tiffany I needed to go home I never went back again I guess um I guess it's for you to decide you know I mean if I don't have any kids myself um because I'm afraid to have kids because I who knows what kind of damage they can get into but if you have a 13-year-old daughter and you're I mean would you be okay with the person person who's running our country doing that to your little girl and I just I don't know I just want people to know I think that I I have I have a faith in our in our society that we'll make the right choice he seemed to be taking uh great pleasure and like dominance and control and and just the more I screamed the more I got scared the more he was enraged and like power enraged with power and and it was like he was just charged with it it was scary my experience um with Donald Trump and has made it to where um I I can't be in a healthy relationship much less I can't be in a relationship without um without myself sabotaging it I don't um I don't do well I I mean I I've I've been in I've been in a couple of relationships I mean they never of interest to me normally but one in particular that was a a wonderful he was a wonderful man and I completely knowing I I I I had like subconsciously it I couldn't even control myself it was like I had to get him out of my life because you know I don't I don't know why it was like anytime anyone loves me I don't feel worth it or you know um I've I mean i' I don't even know how to explain it like I can't friends I can have acquaintance that guys that are acquaintances but I just you know anytime it's maybe someone express any else besides that I can't I take some type of pleasure not some type of I don't take pleasure in it but subconsciously whether I mean to or not sometimes I've meant to it's like i' i' I've purposely hurt their feelings um just so they'll never talk to me again like I make sure that it's not ever a possibility and Donald Trump Donald Trump destroyed my feeling of selfworth and my self-esteem when it was still like when it was when it just bloomed it hadn't even had a chance to experience anything um I have I have only spoken to to one therapist about this just recently actually um I for the long time I just really just tried to forget about it just tried very hard but um I've been to counseling for other things um and I went to counseling for a previous the previous relationship that I was sabotaging and my counselor said something has happened to you that where you were just you need to deal with that that's actually what kind of was like hm he knew that there was something that had happened where I was self self Saab you know sabotaging these relationships but you know he said that it was my responsibility to deal with it of course uh this the situation with Donald Trump has has left it destroyed my self-esteem and and it's made it to where I feel like it's destroyed part of my life um I haven't the only he healthy relationship I've completely demolished um and I love to choose the dysfunctional ones that I know I can just push away uh he after what happened with him I can't trust a man ever again I thinking about it just makes me sick to my stomach someone when something so traumatic happens to someone that's so young you never ever really get over it
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Release the Epstein Files.
The Old Wolf has spoken, but Katie has spoken more loudly, and her words need to reverberate around the world until these child rapists are brought to justice.
This amazingly on-target video was created by Instagram user @somethingblackmade. It’s fairly long, so if you prefer to read instead of watching, here’s a full transcript of what he says.
It’s a challenge to the alt-right to really think about what they’re saying when they call for the death of anyone who disrespects the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Note: I do not condone political violence of any sort against any person. Civil disobedience, resisting, and protesting are not political violence.
White Conservatives, I get you now.
The double standard and selective outrage.
I understand it, now I get it.
Y’all can’t stand the mirror that’s been put in front of your face.
All of the [censored] that y’all have been serving for the last few decades now against minority communities, y’all can’t stand having to look at it when it affects you.
See that’s the thing, I finally get it. It took me a lot of time because I’m thinking, “Why are people reacting so violently to this?” And it reminds me of the very first event that I had when I was escaping the alt-right pipeline and changing my mindset of that; [it] was that anger and violence. Because here’s the thing, here’s the thing you really don’t understand because you refuse to put yourself in other people’s shoes and actually be empathetic to other people’s situations.
How do y’all think the Black community has felt for the last five yearsยน since George Floyd has died? All the memes y’all shared about that? How do you think they felt about all the memes about Breanna Taylor – you know, the woman who was gunned down in her sleep during a no-knock raid?
How do you think the Latino community has felt with y’all cheering Trump for his deportation efforts and buying merch for Alligator Alcatraz and egging it on that human suffering is a great thing for this country?
How do you think that the gay community felt with all the jokes y’all made about the Pulse nightclub shooting a few years back in Orlando that killed 50+ people in like a predominantly gay club? You are truly experiencing for the first time how it tastes.
The hatred you have been spilling out of your guts for years finally comes back at you and that’s the thing you don’t like.
But you know what the funny thing about all of it is? Where’s the black community calling for war with how you’ve treated them? Where’s the Latino community going up in arms and calling for war – and no, fighting off ICE and protesting, that is not war, that is civil disobedience – and that is our First Amendment right. But calling for the death of innocent civilians because they make jokes about a dead man who spent his entire political career actively making these communities worse with his rhetoric, and their situations worse, where’s their calls for war?
See, you’re just now kind of coming out of the illusion that your hatred and bigotry, that you claim is “free speech,” is free of consequences from the actions of what you just said because you only ever say it online, because when you do say it to someone’s face you almost always outnumber them five to one; you almost always catch people in situations where they are at a disadvantage, so when you say these things you’re protected.
But now with Charlie and his situation you’re having to come to reality for the first time of the vile and awful things that you believe in, and you don’t like it. You’re having to eat that. You’re having to stare that in the face. And what’s your first response? To be violent and angry to innocent people. Because you scream that “everyone’s entitled to their opinion.” You love dark humor but the second you see people making jokes about Charlie Kirk being gone, “Oh, that’s too far!” Oh, that’s too far?
The Hallowe’en costumes of George Floyd being strangled to death? Let’s not even glaze over the fact that I’m seeing a bunch of posts saying “Congratulations George Floyd for being five years sober.” Because he’s dead. But now you want us to care. You’re now noticing just how little actual emotion, like how little actual empathy and sympathy exist amongst your own ranks. Because the funniest thing about this entire situation is the fact that it was one of your own that killed him.
It was a 22-year-old white kid from Utah who came from a conservative GOP family that love Trump, and he was a registered Republican. [Fact Check: the shooter himself was not affiliated with either party, and did not participate in the last two elections, but his family did glorify firearms.]
So if you really, really, really think you want war or bloodshed with innocent people, how about you look in a mirror, and won’t you sit there for a few days and actually digest and break down your beliefs? Because I’m sure it’s screaming at you from the inside. I remember feeling that a long when I was younger and in the alt-right. When there’s this interior voice that is screaming at the things you are saying and doing are wrong, but you don’t care because it’s getting you brownie points with the people around you because you’ve surrounded yourself with hateful people.
How about you actually – actually think – for a few days on your politics and your beliefs. Because at the moment, y’all are disgusting. Y’all call us disgusting for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death, well, we think you’re disgusting because really Charlie Kirk is no different than any child that has been shot in school for the last [censored] two decades. [Emphasis mine]
The things we have been trying to prevent, the things we’ve been trying to stop, the pain that these incidents cause families, how about you think about which side you’ve been fighting on that for a while.
Charlie Kirk was a human being with a family and friends and loved ones, and they are understandably sad and angry and outraged about their loss. I have nothing but condolences for them. But it must be remembered that Charlie Kirk preached, publicly and repeatedly, some terrible things. Things that a true follower of Christ would never espouse, things that a compassionate person would repudiate entirely, and in the end, those things came back to bite him.
MAGA have found a martyr for their cause, and they will politicize his death to the utter hilt… but God forbid any liberal should do the same. The sad fact remains that if there is political violence in this country, the vast, vast majority of it has been perpetrated by the right wing of the Republican Party. And you wonder why?
Playing in the World Game 