SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC

 

Tracy Chapman

"Change"

JUST A REMINDER:

 

This is the sick creep MAGA chose to have as alternate entertainment for last week's Super Bowl, because they couldn't deal with a Puerto Rican American singing in Spanish.

They chose this piece of living dirt. 

This is just ONE example of why powerful rich men felt no shame in being pals with and enjoying whatever they could get from Jeffrey Epstein. This kind of "humor" is considered "funny" in a sick male's world, and condoned not by just an American, but by a worldwide cabal of men who felt they would be legally untouchable while sexually assaulting/raping little girls.

Disturbing video of Kid Rock has resurfaced, as he wonders why American men were waiting for the then-14 year old Olsen twins to turn 18. "if there's grass on the field, play ball!"

 

If your hair isn't on fire, you're not paying attention!

 

Listen to Senator Kelly. He's not the canary in the coal mine; he's the alarm/fog horn/siren warning us all to wake up and understand the authoritarian/fascist regime in front of our noses!

"Pam Bondi is the product of a diseased system."

 

Pam Bondi is a disgusting embarrassment to our country. She's protecting pedophiles and ignoring Epstein's victims.  Bondi, it is clear, does the bidding of Trump, who's named in the Epstein emails/files over a million times. Her loyalty is to a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, not to the law and the Constitution or her country. All she has is bluster, bullying, and tantrums.

Bondi's a failure. Her fall from power will be epic.

BREAKING: “You washed-up loser lawyer!” Pam Bondi throws a FURIOUS tantrum after Rep. Jerry Nadler confronts her on letting Epstein’s cronies walk free!

Attorney General Pam Bondi was called before the House Judiciary Committee this morning to face the music for orchestrating a cover-up of the Epstein files and protecting the powerful pedophiles whose identities are hidden within…and when confronted with the facts, she blew her top in a transparently Trumpian projection of guilt.

Nadler got right down to the point, and immediately made it clear that he wasn’t going to put up with her deflection shenanigans.

NADLER: “How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators are you even investigating?”

BONDI: First, you showed it. I find it—

NADLER: How many have you indicted?

BONDI: *angrily* Excuse me! I'm going to answer the question.

NADLER: Answer my question.

BONDI: No, I'm going to answer the question the way *I* want to answer the question.

NADLER: No, you're going to answer the question the way I asked it.

BONDI: Chairman Jordan, I'm not going to get in the gutter with these people, but I'm going to answer the question.

NADLER: How many have you indicted?

BONDI: I think it's very interesting. I think it's very interesting that he talks about they indicted— The president said they indicted him twice —

JAMIE RASKIN, INTERJECTING: Mr. Chairman, please stop the clock and restore his time.

BONDI: Oh, okay. Here we go with these theatrics!

RASKIN: You can let her filibuster all day long, but not on our watch. Not on our time. And I told you about that, Attorney General, before you started.

BONDI: YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP, LOSER — not even a lawyer.

NADLER: All right. My time. The answer to my question, how many of Epstein's co-conspirators has she indicted, is zero.

Bondi and the rest of the Trump team have no explanation and no possible justification for what they’ve done and are continuing to doing on behalf of powerful pedophiles — so bluster, bullying, and tantrums are all they have.

What a disgraceful show by our nation’s most senior law enforcement officer. She must be impeached as soon as possible. and brought to justice — along with every single one of the pedophiles she's protecting.

"These are Epstein's victims who raised their hands when asked by the Congressional Democrats who has NOT been contacted by Pam Bondi's DoJ to give their first-person evidence of who the powerful rich men were who sexually abused them."

WHY HASN'T SHE INTERVIEWED THE VICTIMS SO THEY CAN TELL HER WHO SEXUALLY ABUSED THEM? IS BONDI PROTECTING PEDOPHILES?

‪Skye‬ ‪@simplyskye.bsky.social‬

· 52m

Pam Bondi gave a disaster-class in how NOT to testify to Congress — combative, smug in the presence of survivors, & likely perjuring herself in the process — she’ll be resigned to the annals of worst AGs in history

Amee Vanderpool‬ ‪@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social‬

· 39m

Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge the Epstein victims who stood up behind her calling it "theater." Nothing more infuriating than watching a woman attempt to demean and degrade other women all to serve the agenda of sexual predators who she allows to control her.

Just Jack‬ ‪@just-jack-1.bsky.social‬

· 7m

Pam Bondi is the product of a diseased system. A system that is so corrupt and beholden to the wealthy class, it cannot hold them accountable no matter what they do, even if it’s raping little girls on private islands. This is why the oligarchs got behind Trump. To reside safely above the law.

BONDI: The stock market is doing great under Trump! We should be talking about that instead of the worst worldwide sex trafficking and rape of children scandal which emails from the Epstein files include Trump's name over a million times!

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Faith, Family, and Immigration Double Standards

Facts… The Trump administration and several allies in Congress have called for ending or restricting birthright citizenship, despite the 14th Amendment’s long-standing interpretation by courts as guaranteeing citizenship to nearly all people born on U.S. soil. Supporters argue—contrary to settled precedent—that the Constitution allows exceptions for children of undocumented immigrants.

President Trump has framed immigration as an existential threat, warning that the nation cannot survive if children born to undocumented immigrants become citizens. He has also spoken with open contempt about immigrants from certain regions, referring to some countries as “shithole countries” and questioning why the United States should accept people from them.

A significant share of Trump’s most loyal political support comes from self-identified Christians, particularly white evangelicals. Also part of this coalition are Catholics, Mormons and Jews.

At the same time, Trump has used language claiming immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country and has portrayed outsiders as a danger to America’s identity. That rhetoric echoes America’s nativist past and poses a profound moral challenge for people of faith who profess commitments to human dignity and love of neighbor.

Now consider… Melania Trump, born Melania Knauss, first entered the United States on a visitor visa, which generally does not allow paid employment. Reporting later showed she earned money from modeling shortly after arriving, before obtaining a work-authorized visa. While her representatives deny any wrongdoing, critics have pointed to her case as an example of how immigration rules can be applied unevenly.

Melania later received permanent residency through the EB-1 “extraordinary ability” visa category, often associated with elite scientists.

The Trump administration, ICE and MAGA supporters have argued that immigrants who violate visa conditions or enter under false pretenses should face removal, and have questioned birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, calling them “anchor babies”.

The parents of Usha Vance immigrated to the United States under legal pathways expanded after 1965—pathways that the Trump administration and allies like Vice President JD Vance have repeatedly criticized and sought to restrict. JD Vance’s marriage to a woman of color who practices a different religion has drawn criticism from the fringes of the MAGA right. Many evangelical churches teach the biblical call to avoid being unequally yoked, instructing believers not to marry outside the faith, and some far-right interpreters, who are MAGA supporters, extend this principle to race and ethnicity.

Bottom line… There is a well-documented impression, based on public actions, statements, and policies, that President Trump, Vice President Vance, and their administration are hostile to immigrants. Yet many of the policies they promote stand in stark contrast to their personal lived experiences, which include close family ties to immigrants and communities that their rhetoric and proposals often portray as threats.

This is what most people would call hypocrisy.

 

BREAKING

“A federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict six congressional Democrats who drew President Trump's ire last year by taping a video telling members of the military that they must reject ‘illegal orders,’ according to three sources familiar with the matter, including one within the Justice Department.”

I'm posting one more take...

 

on Bad Bunny (Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio), since his performance at Super Bowl LX is still in the news, and I think it is worthwhile to read Alisa Valdes Rodriguez's post from Facebook:

Alisa Valdes Rodriguez:

"I haven’t written about Bad Bunny because I’m tired. Tired of saying the same things for 30 years. Tired of screaming things like “Puerto Rico is part of the United States” for thirty [effing[ years. First, as a reporter at the Boston Globe, where my editor, Nick King, a Harvard graduate, did not realize Puerto Rico was part of the United States nor that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. Then again at the LA Times, where I was the first mainstream US reporter to cover the Latin music industry, and the first to cover the Latin Grammys, back when Ricky Martin was “exploding” and I had to explain, yet again, to millions of readers, that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. 

Then again as a novelist, where I wrote the Nick King incident into fiction in my bestselling novel THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB, a book that was optioned by Jennifer Lopez but for which I would have to explain over and over in Hollywood meetings that, yes, Puerto Rico is part of the United States. And again, and again, and again, in book after book after book, in meeting after meeting after meeting. To now live in a country where public insight and discourse has not only NOT progressed, but regressed to absolute idiocy, is exhausting. I’m exhausted. 

I’ve been screaming into the same well, but most of the nation remains stupid. Even those who shouldn’t be stupid about Puerto Rico are stupid about Puerto Rico. I love Josh Johnson. I do. But his bit, which went viral, about racists being mad about Bad Bunny while eating guacamole was stupid, because guacamole is not from Puerto Rico. Guacamole is Mexican. I am exhausted by the endless conflations of these distinct and different cultures by Americans who should not be this [effing] stupid. 

Arroz con gandules, cuchifritos, habichuela, tostones, cocquito, pernil — Puerto Rican food. New York is a Puerto Rican city. So is Boston. Hartford. New Haven. There is no excuse for the nation to be so clueless, except the gatekeeping done by Hollywood.

 Americans only know what they’ve seen in a movie or TV show. And for 25 years voices like mine have been systematically shut out. So, I’m tired of saying this. I’m tired of writing books about it that sell well to American Latinos, only to have my voice silenced beyond a certain group. Tired of the lies. Tired of the racism. The racism. 

The United States colonized Puerto Rico and forcibly sterilized its women, dropped nuclear bombs on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for practice, took all the natural resources, hurt the Puerto Rican people in every way imaginable, only to have the conman felon racist piece of shit president posting insults about Bad Bunny, who is more American than Trump is. 

I’m effing exhausted. Tired of people forgetting Lolita Lebron. Tired of MAGA celebrating Colombus and never realizing the first place he effing landed was Puerto Rico, where he was met by the Taino people, who welcomed him and fed him and were kind, and Columbus, who landed there FOR SPAIN, enslaved and murdered most of the native people of that island. 

Tired of the ignorance. Tired of the ahistorical nonsense. Tired of Kid Rock’s ass crack and all their noses stuck in it for a whiff of “freedom.” Tired. Tired of being told every 20 or 30 years that Latinos have finally made it, only to have them trample us again. 

Before Bad Bunny, it was Ricky Martin. Before Ricky Martin, it was Jose Feliciano. Before that, it was Iris Chacon. Hector Lavoe. Ismael Rivera. Tito Puente. How quickly this United States forgets its own geniuses. How easily it squeezes the lifeblood out of Puerto Rico yet erases its people. Its culture. The Puerto Rican culture is incredible. It tells the entire story of the Americas, if you listen. 

Tired of you not listening. Tired of the way this country erases us all, all Latinos, over and over and over again, perpetually portrayed as outsiders in our own nation. Tired of having my song stolen from me the moment it leaves my mouth. Tired of singing."