The Crime Wave Is Coming from Inside the [White] House
As most of you have noticed, I’ve been trying to do videos summarizing more of my work, because it’s far more accessible than what I do here. As with the Ball of Thread podcast I did last year, I’ve been doing this work with LOLGOP.
He and I are discussing how to keep this effort going long-term. So, in addition to sharing this latest video (which I think is one of our best), I wanted to set up a post for feedback on the videos and — just importantly — to put a tip jar for LOLGOP.
Please consider recognizing his work on these videos with a contribution here.
Thank you! And thanks to LOLGOP for the hilarious editing of Jeanine Pirro boasting about the subway guy.
I appreciate these very much. Most of the time because my work + commute makes it so that listening to something can fit in better with my work.
Also – It can make something that you’ve been cataloguing for a while be sewn up – so you can reference a timeline you’ve been keeping up here in to a larger narrative. And considering how often things are happening, tie-up posts / videos are so necessary.
(Another “Also” – thanks for being a website that still uses RSS. I know that sounds dumb, but I feel like it’s becoming less and less utilized on the front end of websites.)
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Good luck with it.
I love these videos and the Ball of Thread series. They are like mini documentaries, helping to keep track of complex details.
[Also when I click on the link it just says this: “You’re all done here
You’ve either completed your payment or this checkout session has timed out.”]
[ditto on the link error]
Q: is donating to “The Farce” the same as donating to LOLGOP? If so, I’m able to access the donate page at their website.
I found Marcy’s characterisation very astute that the Trump-Miller regime (besides whatever other malignity it is engaged in) is exerting itself to criminalise ordinary citizens who are merely exercising their civil rights as a deliberate PR attempt to “equivalence away” the (scandalously pardoned) Jan 6 insurrectionists.
But this is not new. After Nixon’s disgrace, the GOP has striven mightily to achieve the same with any later Democrat president, rightly or wrongly. To “level down” in the public’s eye via deliberate enshittification. Starting with Bill Clinton. They “threw spaghetti at the wall” in that case in the hope that something would stick, and when their original intent flopped, desperately clutched onto whatever straw they could find instead, and merely achieved some personal embarrassment. The latest attempt being Trump’s additional personal vendetta against Biden, merely because he beat Trump fair and square.
Trump is simply the decaying GOP over the last several decades made grossly manifest. A fungal body that has sprouted out of very rich manure.
Perhaps no one has fallen out a window yet, but Ivana Trump did fall down the stairs in her own home on the day before her children were to testify in Trump’s NY fraud trial. Coincidentally, Matthew Calamari, Trump’s former bodyguard, and his son controlled access to her residence on that day.
Well, at least there is this for some good news:
“Supreme Court Kills Ghislaine Maxwell’s Desperate Appeal” – The New Republic, 10/6/25
https://newrepublic.com/post/201371/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell