In an alternate universe where Trump lost the election the ony publications bothering to waste cyber-ink on him would be those covering the entertainment industry like Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and WWE Online, the latter current paying homage to Trump’s darling:
Still we have to try to get some satisfaction from Trump suffering from the persistent pox of Epsteinitis the itchy rash that won’t go away.
South Park’s making the news with their micropenis Trump also provided a moment of welcome comic releif. They managed to hit him below the belt and despite their network, Comic Central, being owned by Paramount they not only got away with it but the show was renewed for 50 epidoses. Literally, the phase “stay tuned” is applicable here. Consider this article in Variety:
South Park airs on Comedy Central which is owned by Paramount. That network just merged with CBS. South Park makes so much money that, despite their skewering Trump with biting satire, there’s no way they will be censored or forced off the air.
It is telling that while Trump has been on a rampage attacking Stephen Colbert and other late night TV hosts so far he’s avoided going after South Park like they are The Plague. Trump doesn’t care a whit that when he attacks a late night comic he only piques the curiosity of the public and may actually lead to more people tuning in to their shows. Whether or not he will attack cartoon characters like Cartman and Kenny remains to be seen. He could go after SP creators Andy Samberg, Mike Judge, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. I’m familar with the first two but most people who aren’t fans don’t know who they are.
Meanwhile, on the subject of fantasy images, there’s this (see article):
This leads me to ask the question “which depictions of Trump are are more realistic, a cartoonish Trump or a lousy photoshop?”
Then in a nauseating but not unexpected development we have the Emil Bove’s appointment to the Third Circuit confirmed by the Senate.
This shows that the Republicans in the Senate would confirm a Magic Eight Ball to make decisions on any court as long as they always favored Trump.
I don’t know why I bother writing about such trivial matters, even the Bove vote, is trivial when we have stories like this:
Now that he’s free, Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him if he didn’t kneel alongside other inmates and lick their backs.
Now that he’s free, Juan José Ramos Ramos, 39, insists he’s not who President Donald Trump says he is. He’s not a member of a gang or an international terrorist, just a man with tattoos whom immigration agents spotted riding in a car with a Venezuela sticker on the back.
Now that he’s free, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla, 40, said he wondered every day of his time in prison whether he’d ever hold his mother in his arms again. He’s relieved to be back home in Venezuela but struggles to make sense of why he and the other men were put through that ordeal in the first place. Continued.
More proof that Trump has Epsteinitis came late last night when he reposted this post from a QAnon believer who describes herself as a “Proud American, born and raised, a Woman for Trump. I believe in Q, The Great Awakening and Holding the Line!❤️ WWG1WGA!.” The initials stand for “where we go one, we go all” which is a slogan of QAnon believers. (Read article in RawStory)
It’s possible, perhaps likely, that Trump doesn’t know that "the storm" refers to what conspiracy theorists believe will be a day of reckoning when the "Deep State" will be brought to justice and imprisoned and possibly executed at Guantanamo Bay. He may just have liked the AI image of himself and the text.
You have to scroll down the Fox News wesbite to find this story, middle right below, about Epstein: Schumer calls on FBI to conduct counterintelligence threat assessment on Epstein files.
If Trump watches MSNBC there is unrelenting coverage of the story.
They show how close he was with Ghislaine Maxwell.
They also report on the so-far missing minute of video surveillance of Epstein, supposedly dead by suicide, was found. This led to the conspiracy theory that someone had him killed.
He does not look like a happy camper:
That’s it for today. It’s a mixed bag of Halloween candy which includes some tasty treats and apples with razor blades in them. Remember how that story broke?
Updates:
I wrote about Trump not being able to sue actual cartoon characters. Now South Park has a new episode about him suing the town of South Park. Excerpt:
One of the episode's main plot lines was Trump suing the town of South Park.
"By the end of the episode, the town agrees to do pro-Trump messaging as part of a settlement. The show then cut to a faux public service announcement showing a live-action depiction of Trump taking off his clothes and crawling through a desert."
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told USA Today that the show by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, "hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention."
While I don’t like using X I did post this there:
Then I looked up Epsteinitis and saw that a large number of people are using that term (see link to X) They are both anti-Trump and pro-Trump accusing Democrats of having it.
