Patterico

Knew it was coming, but still, what a hard blow. I've been a megafan of his since I was a kid.

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Tom Lehrer was the best. R.I.P.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, a powerful group of D.C. politicians would conspire to protect those who sexually exploit young children.

And they were right!

Also an excellent question.

He has been asked many stupid questions, but few like this.

Has anyone asked him about firing Ghislaine Maxwell's lead prosecutor a few days before she became so belatedly important his former defense attorney went to interview her?

Has anyone asked Trump about the triple murderer he freed from Venezuela?

Needless to say, if Trump’s DOJ is seeking to meet with Maxwell, that would be in service of the coverup not the truth, of collusion not investigation. Sen. Durbin and others should scream bloody murder about this.

Anything not to release the files. I’m sure this woman they literally hold in custody and have total power over will tell it completely straight. Lol.

Trump is gonna destroy the Epstein files

And any other files about his criminality

He may have already done it for all we know

JFC this story. Guy survived torture under Pinochet and was granted asylum in 1987. Went to replace his green card after losing his wallet & was disappeared and deported without explanation.

The other day an old friend dismissed reports of ICE disappearances as "sob stories" and said there was always something in paragraph 17 that made you realize you shouldn't have swallowed it. I wonder what the sticking point is supposed to be here.

Come on guys, the card and the “wonderful secret” it mentioned had nothing to do with sex or underage girls.

That’s why Trump signed his name in the pubic region of a sketch of a naked girl

And Trump was famously secretive about his romps with adult women

When I hear one shoe drop, my working assumption is that there is a second shoe

Releasing “pertinent grand jury testimony as long as it does not implicate Donald Trump” is not the same as releasing the full Epstein files.

The Starve Hundreds of Thousands of Foreign Children to Death and Expand China’s Global Influence Bill has passed the Senate and is on its way to becoming law.

Maybe this victory for evil will stop everyone talking about the Epstein files.

If there has been a walkback of these ridiculous criticisms — indeed, if her podcast has even mentioned the earth-shattering revelations of Reuveni’s disclosures — I have missed it. But I’ll admit I no longer listen to that podcast as consistently as I once did.

(Isgur’s view was that Reuveni should have dodged the judge’s questions perhaps four times before answering with the truth. She said it was bad advocacy for him to avoid this sort of slippery presentation and simply tell the truth the first time.)

Erez Reuveni has performed an invaluable service revealing the dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law shown by DOJ officials and judicial nominees.

Sarah Isgur criticized Reuveni on a podcast for too readily telling the truth to a federal judge.

Trump's gonna fire Powell for cause over cost overruns at the new Fed HQ

Sure, Jan

If a plaintiff in a normal employment termination case had the same kind of evidence of impermissible motives for a termination that Jerome Powell has, you'd have to get a mop to clean the drool

hoax
noun

US /hoʊks/ UK /həʊks/

a thing that is true, but that Donald Trump wants you to believe is false

The power has been removed from the word so thoroughly that the little garden gnome is scared to say it

Some folk’ll never lose a toe
But then again some folk’ll

Do you think you are disagreeing with me?

The reality of the tariffs' effect on the economy is settling in. It is happening slowly, but it is happening.

If I am sent to Hell, my greatest punishment would be if the Devil refused to let me watch Trump and Rubio roasting there too

I disagree with Will Sommer’s implication that Ringer Stone’s audience was rebelling against him. He went on about how important Epstein was but still led the audience in a chant minimizing the point. They were with Stone all the way. Totally manipulable.

It took forever to get us to where we are with politics and media. But AI moves fast.

In a world where Google deliberately ruins their search capability to keep you on their page longer for ads, your attention is the prize.

And reinforcing your prejudices keeps your attention like nothing else.

I *think* they see themselves as agreeing with me but … you can’t always tell.

I feel like we’re months, maybe weeks, maybe even days, away from all AI being fully bubbleized to the point where there’s one AI for the left and one for the right. I know it seems like we’re already there with MechaHitler Twitter Grok but it can get worse and I think it can get way worse fast.

People do understand that I am criticizing NRO here, right? I have a lot of responses explaining that the NRO piece is garbage, which was my point. Sometimes I can’t discern tone well on social media.