Today is Monday, November 17, 2025. Epstein fever is in the air, as the House isthissclose to voting to release the sexual trafficker’s infamous files tomorrow. Today the pedophile in chief capitulated on his stand against releasing the files which definitely shows his weakness in the wake of this ever-engulfing scandal. It is comparable to Nixon’s Watergate imbroglio, I believe, and this is Drumpf’s own Waterloo, in my opinion. An analysis by Aaron Blake for CNN reveals how Dump has been rendered vulnerable by this sordid scandal in his piece entitled “Trump’s Epstein files capitulation betrays a rare weakness.” He discusses the implications of Dump suddenly changing his mind regarding the measure of releasing the files which he has vociferously been blocking up to now.

Blake states, “But regardless of how it [the Epstein files saga] shakes out, the drama around the files has punctured Trump’s aura of invincibility within the MAGA movement in a way few, if any, things have before. And it has proved a massive unforced political error by Trump.”

He also cites this sobering fact of how this man has dominated his awful base all these years – but not at this moment. “The man who has for a decade dominated his base and told it what to care about has backed down when that base decided its priorities didn’t align with his own,” Blake points out. He concludes, “That’s a remarkable political moment – and an inauspicious one for Trump, particularly right now.”

Trump’s reversal now, Blake contends, “suggests he is throwing in the towel on something he’s fought for months.”

Just last week, Drumpf and his bulldog fool Speaker of the House MAGA Johnson have fought relentlessly against the discharge petition that ultimately forced this vote. Drumpf threatened Republicans last week who signed on to it, calling them “stupid” and accusing them of playing into Democrats’ hands. The Epstein files were the central issue in Dump’s recent rift with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Who would have thought that this formerly Dump loyalist would split with him so forcefully on this one issue and that she is actually sounding normal for once in her pronouncements against Drumpf’s handling of this crisis?

The Epstein files saga has shown that the base’s willingness to abide Drumpf has its limits – or at least, it does when the base feels strongly enough and when the president’s political capital starts to wane.

This is what I love hearing: “The context of all of this is the apparent fracturing of the MAGA base,” according to Blake. Music to my ears!

Some within this seemingly unified base, but is now fracturing day by day, are expressing unease over Dump’s “America First” agenda, especially when they see him for no reason bailing out Argentina and threatening to go to war with Venezuela. Others within the base are concerned with his cozy ties with Big Tech.

Drumpf’s squabbling with Greene right now is proving to be a bigger headache for the wanna-be autocrat because she is boldly bucking him head on and not meekly fading away. She’s also doing so from a position of credibility within the base.

Over the weekend, there were a number of prominent MAGA and MAGA-adjacent influencers on social media who started to distance themselves from their Supreme Leader’s agenda. This represents a seismic crack in MAGA world without a doubt.

Republican losses on Election Day this month reinforced Drumpf’s looming lame-duck status and crystallized the party’s very real problems in a post-Dump political world.

This scandal has also been spurred by many ordinary Americans who are expressing their disproval of this administration’s handling of the crisis, where 77 percent want all of the files released. That’s some majority, folks.

I say it’s about time that a vigorous resistance movement starts to rise up against this peculiarly virulent anti-American president. And it appears it’s happening right now.

In light of this breaking situation, I’m considering attending an in-person meeting of Forest Hills Indivisible this Wednesday at 7. It’s being held at some church near our apartment building. I won’t state the location since agents of Drumpf might be reading this.

Tomorrow I’m accompanying Elliot downtown for him to have Mohs surgery on some squamous cell carcinoma on his scalp. He’s expected to have the procedure at 10 and it’s being done on an inpatient basis. I intend to bring my gay men’s reading club section with me to read tomorrow if I have to wait a long time for him. I just started reading it a day or so ago and I’m already 100 pages into it. The book’s name is Disorderly Men, and it’s by Edward Cahill. It’s his first book. I find it very fascinating, as it details the lives and sorrows of a group of gay men living in New York in the early 1960s when acting out one’s homosexual impulses could get you jailed, fined, and even fired from your job if details of your arrest ever appeared in newspapers.

And so it went!