'Quiet, Piggy' [View all]

"Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, pedophiles, tumbling polls, charming Marxists, almost everything he’s done declared illegal and defiant Democrats threatened with death for, um, defending the rule of law. Sen. Chris Murphy’s message to those still complacent before the growing dangers posed by a cornered, venal, fascist loser: 'Maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.' "

"Over the last bungled weeks of a shambolic presidency that’s transmuted America into dark, ugly chaos, the wannabe king has suffered enough losses - electoral, legal, political, economic - some observers argue he’s finally losing his mystifying 'air of impenetrability,' with polls showing him underwater on every issue, including immigration. As U.S. consumer sentiment falls over 7 points to record lows - thanks disastrous tariffs! - he has a lame 26% approval rating on the cost of living, 76% of Fox viewers say the economy is bad, and even cult members shopping for the holidays are starting to notice the dissonance between his gold ballroom and their unaffordable 'groceries,' even if he did invent the elegant word. Hell, they might even spot the idiocy of a guy who recently revealed he had an MRI, insisted it had 'the best result,' but when asked if it was for his brain raved, 'I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.' "

"They’ve also finally noted his stonewalling on what is evidently, universally unpopular pedophilia, with 80% of voters blasting his handling of his dead bestie predator’s files and the 'wonderful secret' they shared. Even as Congress voted to release the Epstein files and Trump signed off on it, he continues whining it’s 'time to move on' from 'a Hoax' that just deflects from his 'Great Success (with) Affordability (where we are winning BIG!)' and 'gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment' and 'stopping Transgender for Everyone.' Hmm. A tad suspiciously, he then ordered his Dept. of Justice (sic) to newly investigate any creepy Democrat pedophiles though they already said there’d be no more investigations; asked about that disparity, a robotic Pam Bondi declaimed there is 'Information...new information' but not to worry because they will 'follow the law' with 'maximum transparency,' weirdly epeating, def not from a script, 'follow the law, maximum transparency,' 'follow the law....' "

"Finally, desperately cornered into 'maximum transparency' after months of dissembling and deflection and lies, Trump has taken in stride the new reality with the calm compliance of any adult who knows he’s doing the right thing. Just kidding. Because nothing says ‘I’m definitely not worried about the Epstein Files’ like telling a female reporter, ‘Quiet, Piggy,' that’s what he now famously did last week during a press gaggle on Air Force One en route from D.C. to Mar-A-Lago (again). Asked by Catherine Lucey, a senior Bloomberg reporter who’s covered national politics for over 20 years, what Epstein meant when he said Trump 'knew about the girls' - duh - he said, 'I know nothing about that' but insisted on his 'very bad relationship' with his longtime bestie. When Lucey began a very sensible follow-up question - 'If there’s nothing incriminating in the files...' he lost it. 'Quiet! Quiet, piggy,' he snarled, jabbing his stubby, rancid, little finger in her face."

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