Tea and Vitriol

Just as an aside, the word "gift" translates into German as "poison." And poisonous the Epstein files are!  Jeffrey Epstein was the shady billionaire who acted as financial advisor, piggy bank, fixer and pimp to the world's celebrities, the rich, the powerful and international political acrobats. Epstein died in police custody in 2019. His death was promptly ruled a suicide. It probably wasn't. Too many people the world over would sleep more easily if their relationships with the convicted pedophile were silenced by his death. Furthermore, the night of his death, two of the three closed-circuit cameras set to monitor his section of the jail in New York City were either not functioning or turned off! Further still, the security guards that were to monitor Epstein later changed and falsified their records that night! Ruling Epstein's death as a homicide would have caused an investigation as to why and who, implicating a lot of his former clients among the ...

Melanija Knavs is a Slovenian-born immigrant who came to America thirty years ago to become a "fashion model." I use that term politely. Most of the clothing she modeled could be found in exclusive catalogs and would be sent in plain brown wrappers. They left little to the imagination, and she happily displayed her breasts, buttocks and beaver in pursuit of her career. Since Slovenia wasn't nearly big enough to contain her, she set off for Paris and Milan, where she changed her name to "Melania Knauss" and there met Paolo Zampolli, a businessman based in New York City. It was Zampolli who hired Melania and brought her to Manhattan, arranged for her Green Card and whereupon he introduced her to multi-millionaire Donald Trump, who was then between wives. The Donald, with a taste for flashy women and prostitutes, eventually made her his third wife in 2005. Like any self-respecting pimp, Zampolli was later awarded political appointments by The Donald, once he had be...

Of balls, that is! Who woulda thunk it? Less than a week ago, US President Donald Trump was at his most bellicose, claiming that he would have Greenland, regardless of what anyone said. The Donald did NOT rule out a military invasion of that island. Furthermore, he slapped more tariffs against 7 European states that loudly opposed his intentions regarding Greenland. Those 7 nations sent a token number of military personnel to show solidarity with the native Greenlanders, who do NOT want to be part of the United States. That fact pissed off The Donald more than somewhat, because the European Union had been capitulating to his demands since he returned to the White House last January. The Donald, as we all know, demands to be obeyed. Yet, 48 hours ago, The Donald stated that he was ruling out military conquest of the island and its annexation to the United States. Instead, he supported extending the status quo regarding American military presence in Greenland, which would permit the Unit...

 " Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne!" "That is how it is going to be, grumble though they may." This is clearly the motto of The Donald's imperial presidency...on a global scale. While I am the first to admit that I voted for Trump for president the last three times, and I agree with most of his domestic policies, it is his global adventuring that, at best, leave me muddled. At worst, I am opposed to many of them, since they are making enemies of our erstwhile friends. In a sense, The Donald's international blustering, bullying and threats ARE understandable, compensating for the disastrous four years of Sloppy Joe Biden's dismal regime, that made the US a laughingstock on the international scene while remaining the world's piggy bank. But there IS such a thing as overcompensating, which is what The Donald is now doing on a global scale. He is scaring the shit out of most of the "leadership" of the European Union, who are heavily dependent u...

Ahh, Christmas is upon us. The season of peace and good will towards men. Which, of course, is a lovely fairy tale with no basis in reality. Particularly in Ukraine, where the war keeps dragging on, despite US President Donald Trump's campaign promise that he could end the war in one day. The Donald, once inaugurated for his second term as president, didn't. And couldn't. When push comes to shove, the Donald is basically an elitist who likes to play with the "Big Boys" among political and business leaders. It is only with lesser and weaker people does he feel confident to throw his considerable weight around. It's only with countries like Venezuela that he can afford to threaten to make war. Such is the typical behavior of bullies, which is why Hsi and Putin laugh at The Donald's bluster and are not particularly frightened of him. In fact, it is The Donald's peculiar bromance with Putin, to wean him away from Hsi, that has become a source of hilarity a...

Well, there goes the neighborhood! President Trump received the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. It was a public relations attempt to rebuild the Crown Prince's sordid reputation and tarnished image. By seeking the approval of the most powerful man in the world, our own president, it was thought that the Crown Prince would gain respectability in the eyes of the world. Because the Crown Prince was not only notorious as a wife beater but as a murderer as well, having ordered the execution of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Khashoggi had fled Saudi Arabia in fear of his life and was then living in Istanbul, Turkey. That was a rather odd choice, since the Turkish President Erdogan is no fan of dissident journalists criticizing HIS regime and usually jails them. The Saudi Crown Prince thereupon ordered a fifteen-man Saudi hit squad to execute Khashoggi by luring him to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then dismembering his body, p...