The Dog That Didn't Bark 🐶🤡 😱 ✡️🌻😱 🤡 🐶

Open Sesame:   The government shutdown is finally over, for now.  With the votes of six Democrats the resolution that funds the government through January, made it through the House and was signed into law by Trump.  The six included Maine’s Jared Golden, Washington’s Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez, Texas’ Henry Cuellar, California’s Adam Gray, North Carolina’s Don Davis,  and New York’s Tom Suozzi.  Their votes weren’t critical to the resolution’s passage since all Republicans except Kentucky’s Thomas Massie and Florida’s Greg Stuebe also voted yes but with the exception of Golden who has announced his retirement, may be critical to their reelection since they’re mostly from swingy districts that in some cases have been redistricted into lean red districts. The government reopening and those Democrats breaking from their caucus were supposed to be the story of the day, or at least that’s what Trump had planned but unfortunately for him it wasn’t because while Jeffrey Epstein may or may not have killed himself, he remains dead and his ghost is still out there, in full haunt mode so  to blunt the passage of the continuing resolution and also to bring Epstein back into the headlines a few wily Democrats released some implicating tidbits from the part of the huge Epstein file trove that they had access to.  Those emails landed with a big thunk and are now reverberating through the orange man’s head.

Epstein, Epstein, 🐶:  Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva whose swearing in had been held up for seven weeks has finally taken her oath of office.  As expected, the new Congresswoman immediately provided the 218^th signature on the discharge petition that forces a floor vote intended to compel the Department of Justice to release their complete set of Epstein files.  Those files should not be confused with the files that the Epstein estate has released or the set of files already in the hands of the House Oversight Committee some emails from each were just made public. Reluctantly, Speaker Johnson has now scheduled a vote on the DOJ files for next week when it’s expected that somewhere around 50 Republicans will join all the Democrats in voting for their release.  Those additional Republicans are expected to join in to avoid being labeled as abettors of the sex abuse of children, a bad look among many of their MAGA voters who have spent the past few years searching for child molesters in pizza parlor basements.  It’s still not clear whether Senate leader John Thune will hold a similar vote so the release of the DOJ’s complete set of Epstein files is not imminent. The content of the emails from the Epstein estate that were just released goes far to explaining why Trump spent part of this week trying to convince at least one of the three Republican Congresswomen, a group that includes Margie Q, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace who had joined Republican Thomas Massie in signing onto the discharge petition, to remove her signature from the petition. His efforts failed. Though the released tidbits don’t fully implicate Trump in participating in Epstein’s most horrific activities, they reveal that he was well aware of what Epstein was up to, spent some “quality” time with at least one of Epstein’s underage girls, and that Epstein and his partner in sex trafficking and molestation Ghislaine Maxwell were, together with the guidance of writer Michael Wolff, plotting ways to use what they knew about Trump to their benefit. In one email Epstein wrote to Maxwell “I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” a reference to one of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries where the dog didn’t bark at the killer because the killer was known to the dog.  The 🐶 insinuation being that for years Trump didn’t condemn Epstein’s heinous acts because he was implicated in them.  The released emails also shine light on just how questionable Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s “interview” of Maxwell was because they provide further evidence that she lied to him and that he willingly bought her lies hook, line, and sinker all to appease Trump. No wonder that Trump has Secretary of War and Beer Hegseth ramping up hostilities against Venezuela and those “drug” boats.  He’s desperately in need of a distraction.  

More 💩:  Senator John Fetterman was hospitalized yesterday after injuring himself in a fall that occurred as a result of him becoming “light-headed” during a ventricular fibrillation episode. As of last night, the bruised Senator was staying in the hospital to have his heart medications adjusted. Trump’s Federal Housing Agency goon, Bill Pulte has referred Congressman Eric Swalwell to the Justice Department, claiming that he’s another one of Trump’s enemies who committed mortgage fraud. It’s fair to assume that Swalwell did not but that’s not the point because he is a vocal Trump critic and that’s all that matters. In other Pulte news, the AP reports that he’s been freaking out staff by sharing confidential Fannie Mae information with its competitor because rules don’t apply to him.  Former Fox host/current podcaster Megyn Kelly who may or may not have a heart and also writes her own rules has been known to defend black face.  Now she wants everyone to know that older men like Epstein and maybe even Trump having sex with underage teens doesn’t count as abuse unless the girls in question are under 15 and are someone other than her teen daughter.  As detailed in the NY Times, the 17-year-old high school junior that former Florida Congressman, one time Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz allegedly had sex with during a party came from a broken home, was emotionally damaged and got involved with Gaetz and his middle-aged male friends to raise money for braces for her teeth. And lastly, yesterday Trump appointed Paul Ingrassia the lawyer who couldn’t get Senate confirmation to lead the Office of Special Counsel because of his Nazi affinity and his disdain for Martin Luther King to be the Deputy General Counsel for the Government Services Administration (GSA) because apparently the only anti-Semites and bigots worth condemning reside on the left. Only the best in the Trump universe.