The Trump administration and the Tate brothers:

 

Allen Clifton:

Andrew Tate, a well-known “manosphere influencer” and friend of Donald Trump Jr., along with his brother, were arrested in Miami on 59 charges they’re facing in England — charges that include sexual assault and human trafficking.

Why were they in Miami?

Because the Trump administration put pressure on Romanian officials to allow them to leave the country after they were arrested and placed under house arrest for sexual assault, human trafficking, and other terrible and disgusting alleged crimes there.

Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, and the Tate brothers were freed and arrived in the United States less than two months later. That’s how quickly this happened.

Yes, the same administration led by Donald Trump, who’s covering up the Epstein files, moved Ghislaine Maxwell to a cushy minimum-security prison she’s not qualified to be at due to the heinous nature of her crimes, is also the same administration that helped bring the Tate brothers back to the United States — a move even Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis denounced.

You don’t really need to use a whole lot of mental energy to realize that there’s a clear pattern with this president and how comfortable, if not outright encouraging, he is around people who abuse women.

Whether it’s the nearly 30 women who’ve accused him of sexual assault, his defense secretary, who settled a lawsuit with a woman who accused him of sexual assault and whose own mother called him an abuser of women, his 15-plus-year friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the fact that Matt Gaetz was his first pick for attorney general, or his help in bringing the Tate brothers back to the United States — there’s clearly a pattern.

Yet MAGA will just keep making excuses for Trump because that’s what they’ll do for the guy who’s literally on video bragging about sexually assaulting women and showing a clear level of comfort with and support for others who abuse and assault women.

What Actually Happened

• Diplomatic Pressure: In early 2025, foreign policy envoys and officials within the Trump administration (including Special Envoy Richard Grenell) raised the Tate brothers' case with Romanian officials.

• Travel Ban Lifted: Shortly after these diplomatic talks, Romanian courts unexpectedly lifted the travel restrictions keeping the Tates in the country, allowing the U.S. citizens to fly to Florida while still under indictment in Romania.

• Subsequent Arrest in the U.S.: Upon arriving in Florida, the brothers were taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in connection with an extradition warrant from the United Kingdom regarding separate sexual assault and trafficking allegations.

Why the Admistration intervened

Administration Ties: Paul Ingrassia, a former lawyer for the Tate brothers, was appointed as White House Liaison for the Department of Justice under the administration. He and other prominent figures in conservative media had actively advocated for the brothers.

Political Support: Members of the administration's inner circle, including Donald Trump Jr., publicly criticized the Romanian government's detention of the Tates, calling their arrest unjust.

Consular & Passport Claims: U.S. officials framed parts of their outreach around recovering the brothers' U.S. passports and ensuring two American citizens were not subjected to unfair foreign detention.

Why is this administration bothering to help these two men who've been charged with human trafficking and rape? Why would this administration want to be even associated with these two people?

New documents detail rape charges against the Tate brothers in the UK. Here’s what we know

THE OFFICIAL SPANISH PHOTO OF THE WINNERS OF THE WORLD CUP

 

Trump, the malignant narcissist, was photoshopped OUT of the official photo:

They took out the man who was mercilessly booed at the World Cup:

HOW YA GONNA KEEP 'EM DOWN ON THE FARM (and preggers) AFTER THEY'VE COMPETED IN SPORTS?

 

Heritage Foundation now targeting women’s sports after SCOTUS’ anti-trans sports ruling 

 Project 25 (formally known as Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation) does not explicitly call for eliminating all women's sports, but its architects advocate for fundamentally restructuring Title IX to deemphasize equal funding and competitive parity. 

The blueprint specifically aims to curtail federal support for reproductive freedoms to prioritize family structure and fertility.

An analysis of these specific proposals reveals the following intentions:

Focus on Women's Sports & Title IX

De-emphasis on Competitive Equality: Key architects, such as Scott Yenor at the Heritage Foundation, argue that Title IX's push for engineered parity in competitive varsity sports harms men's programs. They recommend that the law be rewritten to remove requirements for strict numerical equality between men's and women's collegiate programs.

Re-evaluating the Purpose: Architects have expressed the view that sports promote aggression and independence. They argue that policies should instead cultivate more "feminine graces", prioritizing domestic focus and fertility over high-intensity, competitive athletics. 

Focus on "Feminine Graces": 

Heritage Foundation fellows and architects of the document, such as Scott Yenor, have criticized women’s sports for allegedly harming "feminine graces" and breeding "aggression," promoting the view that federal policies should instead foster traditional, family-centric gender roles.

Broader Reproductive Policies: While the text does not directly link athletics to fertility rates, Project 2025 does push for pronatalist policies focused on traditional nuclear families. It aims to reshape federal health policy away from broad reproductive rights, replacing them with "fertility awareness" and holistic medicine to encourage pregnancy.

NOTE:  "Feminine graces" is a cultural construct, not a natural one. While physical sex differences are biological, the specific behaviors, mannerisms, and aesthetic expectations labeled as "graceful" are shaped by historical, social, and ideological influences rather than hardwired genetics.

Nikki Morris on Facebook:

The argument goes something like this: “Many women enjoy the thrill of competition, as the joy on the faces of victorious female athletes shows. Women also benefit from activities that build health, good habits, vigor, bodily toughness, agility, confidence, social connection, teamwork, and beauty. 

Moderate exercise supports fertility and mental well-being far more reliably than does the high-intensity, elite model of sports, which, as science shows, produces...elevated rates of menstrual disruption in many top-notch female athletes." 

It gets better: "Feminism aimed to make women more independent and even dominant and less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces,” and as a result, “Title IX evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates.”

AI Overview:

The Heritage Foundation’s proposed changes to Title IX would significantly jeopardize athletic opportunities for women by eliminating the legal mandate that guarantees equal funding, scholarships, and team placement in collegiate and school sports.

Legal experts, civil rights organizations, and sports advocates warn that if these proposals are fully implemented, women’s sports would face severe structural vulnerabilities.

Loss of Athletic Scholarships: 

Title IX currently mandates that schools provide athletic scholarships proportional to the participation rates of male and female students. Removing "engineered parity" means universities could drastically cut funding for female scholarships to prioritize high-revenue male programs.

Reduction of Teams and Roster Spots: 

Under current rules, schools must maintain a fair balance of athletic opportunities. If the mandate for numerical equality is eliminated, universities would no longer be legally obligated to sustain non-revenue-generating varsity women's programs (such as softball, track, rowing, or gymnastics), leading to team cuts.

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

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Meet Kelly Boesch:

Jim Wright explains Trump’s speech last night.

Highest inflation in the G7. Explosive diarrhea. Can't afford meat. Can't afford gas. Can't afford rent and sure as hell can't afford to buy a house. The country is at war, again, still, whatever the term is for this shitshow. Farms in foreclosure because farmers can't sell their crops, can't afford seeds, can't even get fertilizer. Government goons kicking in doors without a warrant, detaining people without due process, murdering citizens in the street. Rich getting rich and the poor getting poorer. 

And Trump goes on TV to complain about imaginary fraud in an election six years ago where the only provable fraud was Trump himself attempting to extort a state into "finding" him enough votes to win. 

That's where we're at. 

Highlights include:

- Trump thinks mail-in ballots are totally corrupt. But he himself along with his family vote by mail-in ballot every year. 

- Trump says the 2016 election and the 2024 elections that put him in office were fine, but the 2020 election where he lost was corrupt. Obama was president in 2016, Biden was president in 2024, TRUMP was president for the alleged corrupt 2020 election. Trump is literally saying the only corrupt elections were under his watch.

- Trump says he ordered certain intelligence documents to be declassified and uploaded online to prove his claims. Literally NONE of those documents prove ... well, anything. Not a single bit of the "evidence" would stand up in a court of law, even under a judge appointed by Trump. He might as well have referenced YouTube conspiracy videos.

- Trump says because of "the Deep State" his own intelligence service hid from him the fact that China was trying to influence our elections. Except Trump's own national security expert, Miles Taylor, who served as DHS Chief of Staff in Trump's first term went online last night after Trump's speech to remind Trump that the Intelligence Community, including Taylor personally, briefed Trump EXTENSIVELY on that very threat not once but repeatedly over several years beginning in 2018 in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. There are records of those meetings. And, ironically, one of the documents released by Trump has a section that specifically notes China targeted Biden's campaign, not Trump's.

- Trump claims there are 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls. Given that many states, including red states, refused to cooperate with Trump's various election investigation by refusing to hand over their voter rolls, it's hard to determine where Trump got that number from other than the obvious "out of his ass." And in fact, Trump's own government's sources categorically refute that number. There is no record of any non-citizen voting in our elections, certainly not in any significant volume. Those few that attempted to do so were caught and prosecuted. 

Even Fox News wasn't buying it. 

Again, this is a president who has confused "political asylum" with "insane asylum" and who just this week confused "transistors" for "transgenders" when ranting about the manufacture of microchips. This is a guy who thinks windmills cause cancer and who once gave a bizarre unhinged speech about electric boats and sharks. This is a guy who just last week claimed he actually spoke to Teddy Roosevelt and joked about having a "threesome" with his sons. 

What I'm saying here is that maybe this guy is nuts. 

Maybe he's a self-involved narcissist who is suffering from increasing dementia who spends all day imagining persecution to make himself feel better about being such an insecure louse of a human being and his utter humiliation at being defeated by someone he considers inferior. 

I'll say this though: Remember all those QAnon people who were absolutely convinced JFK Jr. staged his own death in 1999 by faking being an inexperienced pilot who should never have been flying over water at night, and how he was going to miraculously return as Trump's VP in 2021 and when he didn't they still show up every year in Dallas all glassy-eyed and expectant to await the return of Republican Jesus?

I'll bet they loved every word of Trump's speech last night.