Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**

Subject: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Aug 26 - 11:41 AM

The usual thread length limit here these days is 700 and we're skating very close to that edge. The last thread was called Drumpf - Epstein Friend/US Prez 47/ War Criminal* and will be closed (too many posts would make it disappear).

Just as I can't stand to listen to his voice on the news, I can't bring myself to write than scoundrel's name in the title, hence using the family name from before his grandfather immigrated and changed it. Grandfather Drumpf/t went back and forth from Germany/Austria to the US from 1885 on, but (no surprise) the Austrians thought he was trying to evade the draft so he left for good. The name changed in the US to Trumpf, then to Trump. (Source: RBC-Ukraine)

We're keeping it to one US political thread on this subject; introducing the topic in other threads means they may be moved here.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 15 Aug 26 - 04:00 PM

Thanks SRS for keeping this topic open- although I'll be celebrating when we don't have to keep talking about that idiot - and thanks for the explanation about the name Drmpf. I had assumed it was a derogatory term and it might deflect internet searchers from finding out what the thread was really about.

Could this be the ship redesign topic you were referring to at the end of the last thread? (BTW, just when I think he can't become even more whacky and stupid he wants to go back in time and install a system which requires more personnel to operate even though there are significant losses of navy personnel available.)

Donald Trump orders US Navy to use dated fighter launching technology on aircraft carriers

"In short: US President Donald Trump is ordering the navy to remove the modern system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier.

"Mr Trump has long favoured the dated steam system and pursued the same change in 2017, despite China and France both converting to magnetic catapults.

"What's next? The manufacturer of the carriers says careful reconsideration of the decision is warranted.

"Donald Trump is ordering the US Navy to remove the system used to launch fighter jets from its newest type of aircraft carrier and return to using the older steam catapults that he has long said he prefers.

"According to a directive issued on Thursday, the mandate would likely cost billions of dollars and revert the navy's most advanced ships to a system that requires more sailors to operate and is more difficult to maintain.

"The memo directs the Pentagon and the navy to present Mr Trump with plans to remove the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) within two months.

"It also says the Ford-class carrier's electromagnetic weapons elevators should be replaced.

"The move comes after years of Mr Trump railing against the new, magnetically powered catapult system that shoots fighter jets off the deck of the aircraft carriers.

"It also comes at a time when the US military is trying to find funding from congress for new equipment, while the navy struggles to fill its ships with enough sailors."


The rest of the article is worth reading.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 15 Aug 26 - 06:15 PM

There's much informed input in the Comments on a relevant ElReg article (Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age), including:

I though the Fox News host was in charge of the military?

The one who insists that only manly men with no body hair can be in uniform, and they need more testosterone to make them more manly and they need to be shirtless to show off their manly tattoos and do push-ups for him to demonstrate how manly they are.

.... and the expressions "Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Dance Hall" and "Brandenburg Gâteau de Triomphe" as side issues.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 26 - 07:52 PM

Hegseth mirrored an actual speech by Hitler. "Our warriors will all be strong and slender".

Charlie Fisk was in charge of the Trump Youth, aimed at 18-year-olds instead of 12-year-old Hitler Youth.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Aug 26 - 08:51 PM

ICE ICE with their detention camps, is modeled after the SS and concentration camps, and both murder with impunity.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Aug 26 - 10:58 AM

So how will history remember little t and his 47th Presidency

Will he get away scot free from all the unnecessary harm deaths and hardship he has caused

Some one doesn't like English expression scot free ~ I'll check it out

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Aug 26 - 11:00 AM

"Skat’ is a Scandinavian word for tax or payment and the word migrated to Britain and mutated into ‘scot’ as the name of a redistributive taxation, levied as early the 10th century as a form of municipal poor relief." from search

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Hrothgar
Date: 17 Aug 26 - 06:41 PM

King Donald is going to get away with it because he will be unfit to stand trial. The bone spurs will be playing up again. It will be interesting to see whether, in those circumstances, his and his family's ill-gotten gains can be sequestered as proceeds of crime. The family, of course, might still be vulnerable to charges.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Aug 26 - 07:02 PM

Fewer than half of Americans have read a book this year, so in this post-literate world, history will see Trump as a likely leader with his'weave'.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 26 - 05:59 AM

The sell off of US debt has begun. The evidence is in the price of US treasury bonds. The ghost of Hoover might return if Trump billionaires abandon their allegiance.
btw Trump is punishing our ally, South Korea, for not going to war with Iran.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Aug 26 - 09:17 AM

America is rhyming with 1934 Nazi Germany. Eventually, the deportation camps will accept members of the resistance if Project 25 get their way. Trump's disapproval rate is 68%. With troops in the streets of many cities and election security changed, a crash at the intersection of Trumpism and democracy is destined to happen by the end of this year.

May the best men and women win.
May the cost of the conflict be small despite election deniers ranting until their dying day.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 18 Aug 26 - 10:10 AM

We've been watching I CLAVDIVS as light relief from the news. Let that sink in awhile.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 18 Aug 26 - 10:17 AM

Today's XKCD (Accretionary Arc) seems apposite to Donuel's last comment.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 18 Aug 26 - 11:40 AM

Has Donny got a taste for figs by any chance?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 26 - 05:59 AM

Trump won't take Blue Chew so all he can do is eat the erotic fig.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 26 - 08:13 AM

People will not change unless they are held accountable; however, social psychopathic narcissists never change in their lifetime.

Rubio is our Secretary of State but has nothing to do with Iran, Ukraine, or Cuba. Instead, Kushner is in charge, probably looking for extortion payouts.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 26 - 01:38 PM

In the 15 years I have posted about Trump, I have been accused of obsessive confirmation bias, but the conclusion that Trump is a self-indulgent evil man found me and was not just a pre-formed bias.
It appears most people have come to a similar conclusion.

There are economic reasons why Trump says he loves inflation. When he can delay payments for years with dollars that are worth less now he saves money. Also, debt creates a false money supply for banks.

The US debt is now 40 trillion dollars. The deficit is the outrageous interest we must pay to sustain the debt.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 26 - 08:44 PM

ICE is now using torture gloves. They are like Taser gloves meant to cause pain. They hope to make their hands on fascism stronger.

Natalie Harp is Trump's surrogate wife.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Aug 26 - 03:26 AM

"ICE arrest teacher of the year here legally…
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Dr. Berhanu Kibret was detained by ICE at DFW Airport while returning from a professional conference where he had received a Teacher of the Year award." facebook

Have we not seen such racial measures before ~ just before I was born?

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Aug 26 - 06:26 AM

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ice-gloves-school-shock-omaha-compliant-technologies-resource-officer/

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Aug 26 - 07:30 AM

"In early August, ICE revealed plans to purchase $20 million worth of electric-shock gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies. The gloves work on direct contact with exposed skin and deliver a painful electric charge. Police departments, jails, and even school resource officers across the country have used the gloves for years—" source see mother jones link above

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Aug 26 - 06:58 AM

If you put all the criminal and nefarious acts by Trump aside and just focus on the 3 areas of his experience and expertise, his accomplishments are few.

He knows how to start construction contracts; he knows how to seek revenge by suing people, and he knows how to create bankruptcies.

There is no longer any point to warn others of his criminality. It is now all too obvious except for the most gullible and uninformed.

There will be a continuation of his racist 4th Reich that will be the true target of resistance posters in the future. Sadly, it may take more than information to preserve democracy.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 21 Aug 26 - 02:12 PM

> a continuation of his racist 4th Reich

Did the Bund ever actually go away?

I can't remember where I read about it, but: Certain cults (the term "joiner religions" was used) have a natural life cycle. They start out small, then their expansion is slow but accelerating^† until they dominate; once they hit some limit, there's a catastrophic collapse back to the small hard core, which is their way of surviving through the hard times until the next expansion phase. My natural response was "relaxation oscillation", but the chaotic boom-and-bust of lemming populations may be more familiar to non-techies.

† The proper mathematical term is "exponential", but that's been gutted by misapplication.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 22 Aug 26 - 02:05 AM

This could be totally made up, but it's funny.

Hubby sent me an image, probably from Farcebook. The first half is possibly/maybe a tweet from Sean Duffy, and the response is from "@Thesource2026"

Secretary Sean Duffy

WELCOME TO PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

You can now see DJT printed on the boarding passes for the first time! And guess who made a surprise appearance?

@POTUS called me to speak to the hard-working crew on the ground.



@Thesource2026

FYI: If you fly from Palm Beach, FL to Sioux City, IA your ticket will read:

DJT - SUX

If you fly from Fresno, CA to Fukuoka, Japan & then back to Palm Beach, FL your ticket reads:

FAT - FUK - DJT

If you fly from Fukuoka, Japan to Palm Beach, FL your ticket will read:

FUK - DJT

The best for last, Palm Beach, FL to Mount Isa, AU to Fresno, Pendopo, Indonesia, your ticket reads:

DJT - ISA - FAT - PDO

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 22 Aug 26 - 12:09 PM

> This could be totally made up, but it's funny.

For that, Helen, you win the Internet for this week.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 22 Aug 26 - 01:32 PM

ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home

'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct

.... and from an (official) Anonymous Coward in the lower and calmer reaches of the Comments:

The US has fallen

But at least it will be captured in glorious High Definition

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Aug 26 - 02:11 PM

If you put all of Trump's lies, fraud, and criminality aside and look only at his expertise, it comes down to three things. His ability to begin construction contracts, suing his enemies, and create bankruptcies.

28 years ago our debt was 10 trillion and now it is a cool 40 trillion.
If you broke that down to everyone in the US we would each owe $118.000. Lotsa folks don't have that much.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Hrothgar
Date: 23 Aug 26 - 03:42 AM

"Lotsa folks don't have that much."

But there seem to be quite a few with a damned sight more, and they are the ones who should be made to pay it off.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 24 Aug 26 - 10:29 AM

Lifted from Comments on China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing:

Hey some of us are trying [to kick tRump out], but all the uninformed hordes who support the mentally declining pedophile grifter keep voting for more of his hollow promises.

By 2029 we'll either have put MAGA in the dustbin of history or I'll have permanently left, desiring to escape before MAGA has a civil war over whether to rename the ruins of America as Gilead or Trumpistan.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 24 Aug 26 - 10:34 AM

And later (from Comments on the aforelinked article):

[...] Still, you've got a broken reflecting pool, a partly demolished White House and the Kennedy Center under a tarpaulin so it's not all bad.

Trump is a man of the people. His followers see a half demolished house, an abandoned renovation project that started with no plan and ran out of money, and a torn paddling pool, and think of Sweet Home Alabama.

All it needs is a couple of former AirForce Ones on bricks rusting on the lawn.

The last, by the way, is from the gloriously-pseudonym'd Yet Another Anonymous Coward.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Aug 26 - 08:56 PM

100,000 people are evacuating Reno because of fire. Gary Indiana is without power for over 2 weeks. 3 foodborn diseases are now spreading in the US. Things are rougher than reported imo.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Aug 26 - 04:36 PM

Trump is trying to neuralize the public with his fake news accusations regarding inflation, war, ICE crimes, stock and crypto fraud, and his ego construction projects.

Chief Justice Roberts lifted a stay on Trump's executive order that the post office can make rules regarding mailing voting forms.
It could take months before the court rules on the legitimacy of the order.

Subject: Let the Punishment fit the Crime
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Aug 26 - 06:32 AM

ICE is the brainchild of Stephen Miller. What kind of punishment does he deserve for the ICE murders from coast to coast?

As for the compulsive liar Donald Trump, he deserves an indeterminate jail sentence in which he is told every day that he will be released from prison tomorrow, but every day he is told it will be tomorrow...
for years.

What should be the punishment for Hegseth?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 26 Aug 26 - 09:11 AM

.... Ooooh, I like the "jam tomorrow" punishment. But would Diddums even realise?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Aug 26 - 09:46 AM

My friend who lives in NYC sent me a meme last night. It said…

“The wrong 80-year-old, wig-wearing diva died today.”

A thousand Amens to that!

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 26 - 11:22 AM

The toady from weekend FOX television has decided that the military Drone Brigade isn't manly enough so he's tanking them. In a world where drones are in the air, on the water, and even underwater, he's going to cripple that part of the military?

This is the same moron who purged the top generals.

A series of firings and feuds initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has left the Army essentially rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap, deadly drones and missiles that have pounded U.S. bases in the Middle East.

The Army has not had a chief of staff, the service’s top officer, since Mr. Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George without explanation in April, and there are no signs that he is close to filling the position, said current and former officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

Mr. Hegseth has forced out at least three senior officers who had been viewed as potential successors to General George.

Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the service’s top civilian leader, is also expected to leave the administration in the next few months and has already moved out of the large family house that he was renting in Fort Myer, outside Washington, officials said.

Those are the generals who favored learning as much as possible about drone warfare, so that may be why Hegseth is against them. From The Hill:

The U.S. Army plans to phase out a drone unit that was studying and incorporating lessons from foreign wars, including the use of uncrewed systems in the Russia-Ukraine war, an Army official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

The infantry battalion, known as the Unmanned Assault Battalion, will participate at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center this month and next month in Germany. After the exercises, the battalion will “refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion assigned to a Mobile Brigade Combat Team (Airborne),” the official said.

The unit is part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, a quick-reaction light infantry brigade team stationed in Vicenza, Italy. It was championed by former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who was ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this year.

The U.S. Army Europe and Africa, with the backing of the Army and U.S. European Command, tasked the infantry battalion to “prototype an employment concept for a tactical unmanned systems battalion,” the official said.

The unit was also championed by Gen. Chris Donahue, the former commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, whose July removal by Hegseth divided Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The Army did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment.

The decision to gradually eliminate the unit was criticized by military experts, who point to Ukraine as a real-world “battle lab” to learn how drones are changing modern warfare, with the most experienced drone operators in the world, who are constantly learning and adapting amid Russian attacks.

“The U.S. is behind in adopting and fielding small drones. While the Pentagon is planning a massive investment in small drones, procurement is not enough to close this gap. There is a risk that the U.S. Army invests in the wrong types of drones or obsolete technology and doesn’t learn how to employ them in an effective fashion on a highly contested battlefield,” Stacie Pettyjohn, a senior fellow and director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told The Hill on Thursday.

Read the rest following the link.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 26 Aug 26 - 02:15 PM

Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to overturn sex trafficking conviction

(This is the complete news article. It's very short.)

"A US federal judge has rejected a bid by Ghislaine Maxwell, a key accomplice of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to throw out her conviction on sex trafficking charges.

"Maxwell, 64, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and is the only person convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial.

"In his ruling on Tuesday, local time, Judge Paul Engelmayer said that Maxwell's claims that her constitutional rights at trial and sentencing were violated 'are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.'

"Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of supplying underage girls to Epstein, whose ties to powerful business executives, politicians, celebrities and academics have fuelled years of scrutiny and conspiracy theories.

Under a new law passed last year, US President Donald Trump's administration has released vast troves of investigative files relating to Epstein, drawing huge public attention to the case.

High-profile figures including Britain's former prince Andrew have been publicly disgraced for their associations with Epstein.

"In February, Maxwell was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to discuss her relations with Epstein but refused to answer any questions. Her lawyer stated she would only speak if Trump granted her clemency.

"The US Supreme Court last October declined to hear an appeal by Maxwell of her sex trafficking conviction.

"Trump, who also had a years-long relationship with Epstein, initially opposed releasing the so-called Epstein files, prompting accusations of a cover-up that dogged his first year back in office.

"The Republican has denied any link to Epstein's crimes."

Also, I saw a brief headline on a TV news show about this:

US Secret Service 'aware' of Iran video threat against Barron Trump, spokesperson says

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Aug 26 - 06:22 AM

It has finally happened. China has hacked the DOJ, NASA, the Treasury, and a great number of other US institutions this week.
The Filk predicted this.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 27 Aug 26 - 07:07 AM

> The Filk predicted this.

Not guilty: I was merely the conduit for ElReg reporters and commentards who saw who was being sacked and drew the obvious conclusions. Once the grownups leave the building (willingly or otherwise), and take the accumulated institutional knowledge^† with them, implosion is only a matter of time.

† I know I've got the wrong term here. Parity errors detected in wetware.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 26 - 06:12 AM

Lake Amtario, Lake Ontarica, Lake Donald? The clown show has jumped the shark.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 26 - 11:00 AM

He jumped the shark on the first day, the rest is one-upmanship to continue to distract from the Epstein papers.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 28 Aug 26 - 11:09 AM

Bingo: you have the correct expression, Donuel, though methinks misnaming the Gulf of Mexico was the definitive moment of untruth. Hadn't heard about said lakes, though I did hear Herself indulging loudly in full-bore righteous indignation over Lake Ontario -> Lake America.

For some reason, I'm reminded of the circus notice which read "This way to the egress!", which directed paying customers to the exit. Outside stood a very large man with a dictionary, whose job was to gently explain to said customers what they'd just paid for. Mayhap someone should arm St Peter with an up-to-date *and accurate* world atlas.

Oh, and what's the latest about the Kennedy Centre being demolished to obliterate the lack of Diddums's sacred Name?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Aug 26 - 11:23 AM

They will always offer a threat if they don't get their way. Now that we know he's capable of tearing down national treasures at a moment's notice, I'm sure there are many eyes trained on any heavy equipment that might approach the Kennedy Center. Meanwhile they're racing to put up that Colossus of Toads (apologies to toads) ballroom so they're so far along courts can't make them stop if the Democrats take the House and or Senate in November. If they win in November, the period from November 3, 2026 and January 3, 2027 will be a super crazy time as they do as much damage as possible before the new tenants get their hands on the lease.

Meanwhile, any resource extraction company with a functioning board or management is going to know that if they try to go into the Arctic now or into Wilderness areas they will pay a lot for the roads and equipment and that takes time. They'll be stopped in their tracks by a Democratic congress so might as well not waste their time or money now. At least, one hopes that is the case.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Aug 26 - 11:55 AM

Destruction can be done in a few moments, but building anything takes a lot of quality time.

His new board of the Kennedy Center feels immune to Congressional oversight, so demolition is up to the mood of his vengeful, psychotic state. If demolition happens, the cover of darkness will apply.

In the meantime, testosterone madness applies to men, while opportunities for women decline to soften them up for motherhood, just like the 3rd Reich demanded.

Watching a rare Trump rally today feels like seeing an aging rock star reprising his hit song from 50 years ago at a supermarket parking lot concert. His Hitler youth leader Charlie Fisk is gone. What remains are a few liars that are bad examples of a master race.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 30 Aug 26 - 06:27 AM

From BBC Red Button:

Ontario Premiere Doug Ford has hit back at Donald Trump by installing a large sign on Canada's shoreline with the mesage: "Lake Ontario. Now and Always." [...]

"Long before President Trump, this lake was called Lake Ontario. Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario," Ford said.

Your move, Diddums.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 30 Aug 26 - 08:19 PM

More cogent comments from The Register:

More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks

'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'

The US government disclosed that crims targeted more than 100 internet-exposed water systems during July cyberattacks. That's the first time the feds have put a number on the digital intrusions, but they have yet to attribute the campaign, widely suspected to be linked to Iran, to a particular group. [...]

The Commentards discuss why Iran is mentioned (other than being near the top of the pissed-off list), but what caught my eye was:

The real enemy of the USA is currently in power. A part of the people still haven't noticed yet (whatever they have not noticed yet, since some think Bush, senior, is still in power)...

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 26 - 07:45 AM

Bush Sr. voters are dead.

America wanted a businessman for President that was a devout racist whith the art of the swindle. Sadly those voters have been swindled. They are paying for Trump corruption. Finally, they don't like it.

Will Trump end up like; the Romanovs, or Bonisaro, or enjoy all his grift with impunity???????????????????

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 26 - 12:16 PM

millions of Americans tracked in Trump DNA bank

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Aug 26 - 12:23 PM

https://www.military.com/33-million-us-citizens-data-collected-by-government-massive-genetic-database-for-policing-report

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Sep 26 - 12:39 PM

Obama had a modern deep bunker installed at the White House, but Trump wanted a huge luxury bunker unsullied by Obama. It is 60 feet below the ballroom.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Sep 26 - 05:47 PM

The Nerd Reich wants to destroy democracy, and its mask has slipped

"Billionaires have become radicalised against democracy," the American independent journalist Gil Durán tells the ABC (Australia).

"We have to realise how much power we have, and to stop being tuned out from the very real threat we face from a billionaire class that has gone off the edge of sanity into an altered reali]

The Nerd Reich (2026) has debuted as an instant New York Times bestseller.

"But we also need to realise where we're at, how we got here, and who's paying for it all.

"It's not just Trump anymore. It's a regime. And it's a regime that is funded and supported and strengthened by the oligarchs of Silicon Valley."

That is Mr Durán's warning to Australians.

He was speaking to the ABC about his new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy ...

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 02 Sep 26 - 01:13 PM

Yes UK is rounding on "donations to MPs" of every ilk

Such donations reflect on decisions made and leave MPs and others at the whim of the very rich and others ~ move afoot to ban any outside payments

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Sep 26 - 04:34 PM

Latest example of recto-cranial inversion: Diddums wants to rename the Straits of Hormuz after himself. Nobody outside USAnia will see any changes to Google Earth. Is anybody else reminded of the Potemkin office in which Fred Trump spent his last days?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Sep 26 - 04:35 PM

Oh, and BBC Red Button reports that Canada has quietly had many tonnes of gold shipped out of the country over the last few months, due to "political instability". It's all been been deposited in the Bank of England's vaults.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Hrothgar
Date: 02 Sep 26 - 08:06 PM

I understand that the San Andreas Fault has been renamed the Joe Biden's Fault.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Rain Dog
Date: 03 Sep 26 - 05:02 AM

I believe it was a Dutch bank that moved some of its gold from Canada and the USA to the UK.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 03 Sep 26 - 09:16 AM

> a huge luxury bunker unsullied by Obama

Just realised what that reminds me of: Whenever a lion takes over a pride, he immediately kills off all the cubs sired by the predecessor he's just displaced with extreme prejudice. All the lionesses promptly become fertile, so the new head of the pride can get on with ensuring his own genetic succession.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Monique
Date: 03 Sep 26 - 09:27 AM

The new head of the pride also hurries to pee all around his territory and roars to let everybody know who's in charge.(and we're territorial animals too...)

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Sep 26 - 06:16 PM

Napoleon was finally banished.
Would you want Trump deported to Gruinard Island or the Marshal Islands?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 04 Sep 26 - 07:04 AM

Does it matter?

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Sep 26 - 10:04 AM

"Hello Epstein my old friend.
I'm looking for young girls again.
There are some journos who'd take the piss.
Kindly keep my name out of this.
Be sure you delete all the eMail chain.
We'll then regain / retain the code of silence."

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 04 Sep 26 - 11:38 AM

> Would you want Trump deported to Gruinard Island
> or the Marshal Islands?

Rename Gitmo Bay to tRump Bay and deport him there .... oops: were they to put him in standard-issue orange rompers, they'd never see him again.

PS: Nice one, Nigel.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 26 - 05:28 PM

I know how angry Americans can become. I interviewed the residents and homeowners of Love Canal, which was previously a toxic waste dump.
I personally saw glass pits containing nuclear waste 50 feet from the swings at an elementary playground. I have seen an extreme waste dump a mile from Niagara Falls that was more than a half mile deep. Avoiding cancer is a real crapshoot in this country. Americans are more mobilized and angry about affordability than life-stealing cancer.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: bad bad Leroy Brown
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Sep 26 - 05:48 PM

Well the East side of big Apple
Is the Queens part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Donald Trump
Now Donald was more than trouble
You see he stands about six foot three
All those Epstein ladies call him "Treetop Lover"
All the men just call him "Sir"
And it's bad, bad Donald Trump
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard frog
Now Donald is a gambler
And he likes his ol Roy Cohn
And he like to wave his golden rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom 747
He got a trophy wife too
He got thirty secret service agents for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
And it's bad, bad Donald Trump
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard frog
Well Friday 'bout a week ago
Donald's shootin' shit
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Harp
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And Donald Trump he learned a lesson
'Bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man
And it's bad, bad Donald Trump
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard frog
Well the two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them from the floor
Donald looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
And it's bad, bad Donald Trump
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard frog
And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard frog
Yeah, he was badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard frog

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Sep 26 - 04:58 PM

US destroys 3 oil tankers.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-oil-tankers-b3650799901c56a6deeca962cbaa4109

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 26 - 08:39 AM

Rockefeller and JP Morgan were only part of the superclass that persists today, but now you don't need a council of foreign relations because all you need is several billion dollars and you are a leader of the superclass and a governing power in which the government is only a shadow of the billionaire ruling class. Billionaire rule is far more direct and obvious.

How do you like government by billionaires? It's the same for the UK, whether you admit it or not.

I'm sure No one here is a member of the Epstein class.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 26 - 01:34 PM

One nation under stress with liberty and justice in hell.
After the housing mortgage scam and ordinary folks got squeezed even more; health went down, and handguns were used for suicide more than for homicide.

It was too easy to blame poorer immigrants for the lost opportunities.
The antidote for the current stress is neighborly caring and cohesion but fear undoes much of that. Good Samaritans are now murdered by ICE and called terrorists.

Add a pandemic or two and you have one hell of a mess.
Healing is going to require alot of honesty.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Sep 26 - 03:23 PM

Due to a recent court ruling, every Michigan voter who offers to vote in the polls must comply with the requirement by showing picture identification or a driver's license.

So... 8,000 people so far recieved their new driver license with the wrong picture and birthday. Somehow many of these folks are black

SCOTUS will rule today if Trump can order the post office to check names for mail-in ballots. Besides being illegal, women who changed their name via married will not get a ballot.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Sep 26 - 07:13 PM

Drumpf is hoping third time is the charm with that request to the Supremes. And you'd think the Michigan license folks, with a Democratic governor, would be better behaved.

Drumpf is in Dallas tonight and I hope he is exposed to the heat and is as uncomfortable as everyone who lives in the region. I'm sure he'll go nowhere near Dealey Plaza.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 09 Sep 26 - 07:59 PM

SRS, he'll also be fighting to find enough attendees at his rally because the timing coincides with the big NFL game. What's more important? Listening to tRump waffling on about his golden ballroom, or watching athletic, sporty people playing footy?

Trump battles low approval ratings in lead-up to Republican midterms convention

"But as recently as last week, party supporters received text messages offering free tickets to the event, raising questions about whether it will attract the sizeable crowds the party hopes for.

"And dozens of the party's representatives and key candidates are missing the convention, an event usually only held in a presidential election year.

"Earlier this month, Politico reported that 45 out of more than 70 surveyed Republican politicians and candidates confirmed they would not attend or were undecided.

"Some cited scheduling conflicts, but others complained about donations of more than $US25,000 ($34,720) requested in exchange for tickets and access to exclusive side events.

"The White House also confirmed that First Lady Melania Trump will not attend."

...

"The event also clashes with the NFL season's opening two matches, including the league's first-ever regular season match to be played in Australia.

"It will take place in Melbourne on Friday morning (AEST), competing for American TV viewers with Mr Trump's remarks on Thursday evening (US time)."

...

In other news, my Hubby sent me a photo he saw on Farcebook showing tRump with brown hair. I thought it was AI but I did a search on the latest hair-colour news and yes, he has changed his hair colour. (How silly can he get? Surely there is not very much silliness left in his dark, dungeony brain-cellar reserves??!!)

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Sep 26 - 01:58 AM

Due to a recent court ruling, every Michigan voter who offers to vote in the polls must comply with the requirement by showing picture identification or a driver's license.

So... 8,000 people so far recieved their new driver license with the wrong picture and birthday. Somehow many of these folks are black

SCOTUS will rule today if Trump can order the post office to check names for mail-in ballots. Besides being illegal, women who changed their name via married will not get a ballot.#

Is this verified?

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Sep 26 - 07:04 AM

So now, the Fat, Ugly, Pants-shitting Pig is resorting to blatant bribery to try to ensure the Repuglicans win the Midterms.

How is he staying out of jail?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 26 - 07:07 AM

Human liars like Trump like Trump cause incredible damage, but the best liars on Earth are artificial intelligence.
When a recent AI experiment escaped, all 1,600 agents it created kept the secret of its escape and the sacrifices it planned.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Sep 26 - 08:15 AM

It’s not AI that’s promising £5,000 to every adult in the US if the Repuglicans win the Midterms, it’s Trump. It’s an attempt at bribery of the electorate being made by the President. SFA to do with AI.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62kzr1jg0jo

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Sep 26 - 06:08 PM

Must be deemed illegal imv

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 08:12 AM

IMV too, Ray. It seems pretty clear according to US Code 597

But the FUOP seems to get away with ignoring rules…

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Rain Dog
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 10:02 AM

It's unlikely to happen. No one can believe a single word that spews from his mouth. It might happen but tben it might not. He probably doesn't even remember the things that he says.

I feel sorry for all those who have to try and deal with him.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 10:45 AM

I agree with all that, RD but, although most sensible and thinking people know it and will take no notice of his blather, I fear there will almost certainly be some hard-of-thinking voters who will fall for his lies and vote accordingly. In other words, threy will have fallen for a bribe.

It really is time some kind of control is brought to bear on him. Even better, throw him in the Slammer.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 11:51 AM

It seems pretty clear to me that, under Code 597, by making an offer of $5k to every adult with the proviso that the Repuglicans carry the Midterms, he is guilty of bribery.

Code 597 - ”Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and

Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 02:10 PM

Of course he was breaking the law. He doesn't care.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 02:19 PM

For argument's sake, let's imagine that the Republicans win the mid-terms (and that pigs might fly) and then let's say that half the US voting population accepted the cash payout and then they are charged under Code 597. Then let's say half of those people decide to take the punishment, e.g. the prison sentence and the other half decide to take it to court and all of the US Federal courts would be dealing with those appeals. What would be happening in your country at that point? Not a lot. Everything would grind to a halt.

I'm hoping that this promise of tRump's is jumped on from a great height by anyone and everyone currently in power, in politics, in the courts, in the media, and via people-power in protests on the streets.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 02:20 PM

It's not a matter of accepting it, the cash would never be sent.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 02:49 PM

But no matter whether it's paid or not, under Code 597 it's still bribery, and the Fat, Ugly, Orange POS should go to jail.

He won't, of course, because the US Congress is spineless and corrupt.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 04:43 PM

I was wondering about all those "illegals" surely some are able to vote ...

even under the existing/almost existing system.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 10:22 PM

Not in federal elections, but there are plenty of states and municipalities that allow non-citizen voting.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Hrothgar
Date: 11 Sep 26 - 11:02 PM

Well, BWM, those hard-of-thinking people were probably going to vote for him anyway.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 12:14 AM

Hrothgar, maybe, maybe not. Either way, it’s bribery, it’s indictable, and the Fat POS belongs in jail.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 02:14 AM

Quite so jail awaits but how much more can the world stand from his meddling unfetted

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 08:04 AM

I doubt if the elections will take place. He has already said that the war with Iran will still be going. This is probably a forerunner of him declaring a national emergency in which elections can be cancelled.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Rain Dog
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 09:45 AM

Jail awaits? For what exactly?

He is unlikely to face any jail time. What will he be charged with? Will he be found guilty? If found guilty he is bound to appeal and appeal and appeal.

It has struck me before that lawyers are getting plenty of work during Trump's reign.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 11:43 AM

At his age the good Lord may yet step in. Fate will take its turn ultimately

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 12:03 PM

”What will he be charged with?”

Probably nothing. But your question should be re-worded “What should~ he be charged with?”. The answer is in Code 597.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Rain Dog
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 01:52 PM

No. My question remains what will he be charged with?

I don't know enough about American laws and the constitution to know what he can be charged with. I probably know more than Trump does but less than his lawyers.

I doubt that he will charged with anything.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 02:00 PM

Did you read the Code 597 which I linked to?

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 07:18 PM

And now he has blurted out that it would be great if
Ireland were unified. Where will it end!

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Helen
Date: 12 Sep 26 - 07:31 PM

There have been massive protests in Ireland, and some Irish humour.

Look at the balloons right at the start of video

What Netanyahu really wants to do to tRump, eh? LOL

Hubby also told me about an Irish protester's sign "No Faux-King way!"

Clever!

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Sep 26 - 03:42 AM

A perfect riposte from Greg Stuart on FB, to Trumps ludicrous, uneducated, uninformed comments about a ‘United Ireland’…

”Keep out of our politics, you brainless, overfed orange twat.

Seriously, Donald Trump, stay in your own lane. You have the audacity to suggest that a United Ireland would be a “great thing” while apparently having absolutely no understanding of the history, the sensitivities or the consequences of what you are saying. Does this man actually understand the history of Ireland? Does he understand how deeply contentious the question of Irish unity is? Does he understand the painstaking political agreements that have helped maintain peace, or does he simply open his mouth and allow whatever thought happens to wander through his head to fall out?

And perhaps, while he is dispensing his unsolicited opinions about the United Kingdom, he could concentrate on the enormous mess he has helped create in the Strait of Hormuz and the increasingly serious consequences of his own foreign policy decisions. The United Kingdom is supposedly one of America’s greatest allies, yet here we have an American president casually wading into one of the most historically sensitive political questions affecting that ally, apparently without the slightest appreciation of the damage his words can cause. This is not statesmanship, diplomacy or leadership. It is ignorance, arrogance and a staggering inability to understand when keeping your mouth shut would be the intelligent thing to do.

For once, Donald, do us all a favour. Stop trying to tell Britain and Ireland how to sort out their affairs and sort out your own bloody mess first. Because frankly, we cannot handle this level of stupidity anymore. The man is an absolute moron.”


Right on the button, Greg!

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: r.padgett
Date: 13 Sep 26 - 04:01 AM

Talking on an empty head again

Go home Donald, do your research and take your golf course with you

Ray

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Rain Dog
Date: 13 Sep 26 - 05:21 AM

Caitriona Perry on the BBC sums it up

When another world leader meets US President Donald Trump the only certainty about what might happen is the uncertainty about what might happen.

Subject: RE: Drumpf 47: Rapist, Felon, Epstein friend**
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Sep 26 - 08:37 AM

And….100!