Today's Substack goes from humor to horror in a country gone crazy. By Hal M. Brown

 

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. 

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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. 

I wrote about this here:

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.

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Jeffrey's Black Book: Is it real or will it turn out to be like H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon? By Hal M. Brown.

 

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The Necronomicon is…

also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound",^[1] written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City".^[2] Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them. See Wikipedia for more.

There is currenlty an infamous “we know or think it exists, but we don’t know exactly what’s in it” Jeffrey Epstein Black Book. At least we, meaning everyone paying attention, believes it is a real, actual book that may or may not be black. It may look something like one of those in the Perchance AI images above. On the other hand it could be the modern version of a book, just a thumb drive or folder or folders on a computer. 

I hope it is what we’d call a book book, something we can at least can see photos of. I want to see an actual book that Epstein and Maxwell wrote in.

We won’t ever see pictures or PDFs of entire unmodifed pages, since if it ever is published all the names of victims and their identifying information will have been redacted. We may, however, see parts of it.

If the book is ever made public it may turn out to be a big ho-hum even if there are many well-known people there. Unless Epstein or Maxwell wrote about what they actually did of a sexual nature with minors it won’t be of particular interest. It may offer observations about a celebrity - so and so has bad breath, body odor, or flatulence - for example but people really want to hear about sex.

I’m starting to write this on Thursday so it’s anybody’s guess who will turn up in the news about who spent time with the most perverse power couple in American history, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Just now it’s the embarrassment to everyone in the Kennedy clan, RFK Jr.

Above is from Daily Beast, subscription, but you can read a summary of their article on RawStory here.

This article refers to a little black book:

According to The Daily Beast, in addition to taking trips on Epstein's private plane, recently resurfaced pictures "show RFK Jr. at a New York Academy of Art gala with Epstein in in 1994, while files from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office show a listing for 'Kennedy, Bobby & Mary' in Epstein’s 'little black book,' which featured contacts for socialites and politicians, as well as the girls he sexually assaulted."

RFK Jr. was about 40 years old in the photo above. He’s admitted that he and his wife associated with Epstein and Maxwell a few times. It’s not clear which wife this was. It wasn’t his current wife, actress Cheryl Hines, since they were married in 2014. It was either Emily Black ​( m. 1982; div. 1994)​ or Mary Richardson ​( m. 1994; died 2012)​.

So whether he’s lascivious or just loony, that RFK Jr. was in the same room with Epstein at a gala, and as reported, on the same private plane with him twice isn’t the point. It would be mildly interesting to me if there were an entry about RFK Jr. saying he was a privileged asshole sullying the family name or already showing signs of having a brainworm.

It would be far more interesting if there were entries saying Trump was well aware of the sex trafficking of minors. This would be strong evidence he was part of a cover-up. It would be less interesting, but still satisfying, if there were disparaging entries about Trump. For example he could be called, in various way, a braggart who thought he was the smartest person in the room but was basically so stupid he needed help tying his own shoelaces.

Although it’s been reported that Bill Clinton knew Jeffrey Epstein and flew on his private jet several times for charitable work, he has denied ever visiting Epstein's private island and expressed regret about their association. He stated that he was unaware of Epstein's criminal activities at the time they interacted. Still if there was an entry in the black book that said something like “G. (referring to Maxwell) said Bill C. had the most charisma and was the sexiest man she ever met” it would gall Trump.

At this point people are so jaded that stories about the sordid sex lives of the rich and famous, even about Trump, elicit yawns. Most people don’t care about whatever depraveties they committed, even with minors. 

It would take revelations about self-righteous holier than thou figures, I won’t name names to use as examples, proving them not only to be world class hypocrites but also predatory perverts, to pique the public interest.

The Other Book:

This book is most likely an actual book. We don’t know what it looks like though it could resemble any of those in the AI images above. It is the book given to Epstein to mark his 50th birthday. It is the one that Trump allegedly drew a picture in of the outline of a naked woman with his first name over the pubic area. Reports of this led to the best one-liner of this entire scandal. Steven Colbert said that because of this he can no longer look at Trump’s signature without seeing pubic hair.

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