OK, Now We're Just Winging It

How panicked is the President over the steady drip, drip of Jeffrey Epstein information about him? He's Invade Venezuela panicked. He's send the Justice Department after a former President panicked. He's reviving the Obama birther nonsense panicked. Send soldiers into American cities panicked. And he is this panicked.

Representative Thomas Massie is a Republican Congressman from Kentucky. He is also the author of the so-called "discharge petition" that now has enough signatures to force a vote on the House floor to release all the Epstein files.

He is also a widower as his wife of 31 years, Rhonda Massie, died in 2024. They had 4 children together and he was very public in his grief. Now, almost 2 years later, he has found love again and remarried.

But, as no doubt many of his friends are happy when someone picks up the pieces of their life and moves forward, the sin of the Epstein files petition is too much for the Chief Executive...

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Did Thomas Massie, sometimes referred to as Rand Paul Jr., because of the fact that he always votes against the Republican Party, get married already??? Boy, that was quick! No wonder the Polls have him at less than an 8% chance of winning the Election. Anyway, have a great life Thomas and (?). His wife will soon find out that she’s stuck with a LOSER!

Yeah, this post on his social media platform Truth Social was his form of congratulations. Now, look, I can be as petty as the next guy, but this was too much even for his former lawyer in the 2020 election scam investigation. Jenna Ellis ended her response with this...

"Some things are still sacred and should still be beyond this kind of political mud-slinging."

But, you know, President Trump may have a point. You have to get these things in the proper order. Marry first wife, have affair with second wife, have affair with third wife, a nude model, and when she is pregnant, have an affair with Playboy model and porn star. The right sequence is everything.

And now, he has lashed out at former supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene because she, too, wants the files released. The Presidential response was so harsh, Green may have a new friend...

We have seen this kind of sexual predicament before. Of course, there was Clinton, FDR, Jefferson, the open secret of George H.W. Bush and Jennifer Fitzgerald, even Ike and Kay Summersby in WWII. But this reminds me most of John Profumo and what is called "The Profumo Affair."

Here is the Britannica summary of the whole thing...

At a party at the country estate of Lord Astor on July 8, 1961, British Secretary of State for War John Profumo, then a rising 46-year-old Conservative Party politician, was introduced to 19-year-old London dancer Christine Keeler by Stephen Ward, an osteopath with contacts in both the aristocracy and the underworld. Also present at this gathering was a Russian military attaché, Eugene (Yevgeny) Ivanov, who was Keeler’s lover. Through Ward’s influence, Profumo began an affair with Keeler, and rumours of their involvement soon began to spread.

In March 1963 Profumo lied about the affair to Parliament, stating that there was “no impropriety whatsoever” in his relationship with Keeler. Evidence to the contrary quickly became too great to hide, however, and 10 weeks later Profumo resigned, admitting “with deep remorse” that he had deceived the House of Commons. Prime Minister Macmillan continued in office until October, but the scandal was pivotal in his eventual downfall, and within a year the opposition Labour Party defeated the Conservatives in a national election.

Another parallel is that Stephen Ward, about to be convicted of being a pimp, killed himself with an overdose.

It was such a topic of derision that McMillan's temporary successor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who had no connection to the affair, was a victim of the rampant jokes.

There were two pronunciations of his last name, Home or Hume. In an episode of the comedy show "That Was the Week That Was", host David Frost announced that the Prime Minister missed a session of Parliament as...

"Prime Minister Hume was in bed with flu. Or if you prefer, Prime Minister Home was in bed with Flo."

Take that, Jimmy Kimmel.

Trump's gerrymandering requests have ramped up, but not every governor is as servile as Greg Abbott, and some have said no. His healthcare plan seems to amount to "I'll send you some money. Go buy insurance."

Dr. Oz says that now that some drugs are cheaper, that evens out having your healthcare premium double, right?

You have to ask, why can every other industrialized nation manage this, but we can't?

This will be a real test of the "I can shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose a single vote..." belief.

It is especially ironic since the devotees of the Q-anon conspiracy fantasy thought there was some sort of deep state pedophile ring out there, and Trump was going to take care of it. My lord, they were even cannibals to boot. One has to wonder how they are taking all this.

And the desperation is such that Bondi and the rest aren't even bothering to pretend they aren't just blindly following orders. Come one, Pam, you owe us at least some kind of performance.

So, expect lots more distractions and defections in the next few weeks. As the economy and his approval rating remain wobbly, the President has now decided to remove tariffs on some items to bring down prices, thus confirming that tariffs raised prices. I refer you to my last piece "Hey, I Put Out the Fire...I Started."

Well, there goes my $2000 tariff refund. And I don't seem to have gotten my DOGE premium check either. I'm beginning to think something isn't on the up and up.