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And So It Goes

Today is Thursday, October 9, 2025. Today is another sad day of mourning in America, as the Orange Turd ratcheted up his campaign of terrorism against his political adversaries by now indicting New York Attorney General Letitia James on – forgive the pun – trumped-up charges, which should outrage every American again, as this is now the second person indicted under Dictator Don’s vengeance campaign. The first was former FBI Director James B. Comey the other day. This sad story is offered in a CNN online article by Kristen Holmes, Hannah Rabinowitz, and Kara Scannell entitled “Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department.” The sorry details follow below.

Ms. James was indicted today in Alexandria, Virginia, allegedly on charges of mortgage fraud. She has been under investigation since May over a 2023 mortgage she took out to buy a home in Norfolk, Virginia.

The grand jury returned two felony charges: bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Her first court appearance is scheduled for October 24 in Norfolk.

Comey has already pleaded not guilty yesterday to allegedly making a false statement in a congressional proceeding. Naturally, this Orange Turd has others on his political “hit list,” and they include former Chump national security adviser John Bolton and California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, plus others.

James herself had choice words for this pointless indictment: “These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.” She added, “The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties.”

As you must know, James’ relationship with the Orange Menace has been adversarial for years as she campaigned on promises to investigate Dictator Don and ultimately won a civil fraud case against the Manhattan real estate “mogul,” his adult sons, and his real estate business. A judge found them liable for fraud for inflating the value of their properties and ordered Dump to pay $355 million in penalties.

Unfortunately, a New York appeals court tossed the penalties (which I had forgotten) and Dump has appealed the verdict. So what the fuck is he still angry about? That a Black woman bested him in court? That’s the true reason.

During the 11-week trial, Dump’s anger toward James was very palpable. He railed against her in the courthouse hallways and from the witness stand. Drumpf testified as James sat across from him in the courtroom galley.

However, last month CNN reported that Justice Department prosecutors in Virginia, led at the time by Erik Seibert, interviewed dozens of witnesses and did not believe they gathered enough evidence to support criminal charges against James.

Get this? That prosecutor Erik Seibert resigned after he was pressured by the Orange Turd to bring charges against his political foe, Letitia James. He was then replaced by the most unqualified, incompetent former personal attorney of Dump, Lindsey Halligan, who was raked over the coals last night by Lawrence O’Donnell on his show for her glaring lack of knowledge regarding the law.

This idiot said in a statement, “No one is above the law [rich thing for her to say when she should really be looking in the direction of the person sitting in the White House]. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust.” She added, “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.” Pure bullshit, in my opinion.

As for those allegations, her lawyers provided a document to the Justice Department in April to push back on what they called “threadbare” charges.

They said that one document in the mortgage application “mistakenly” said the property would be James’s primary residence. But they submitted other documents to argue there was no fraud. James actually checked a box on her mortgage application that indicated the property would not be her primary residence. So these “allegations” seem just as false as the ones attributed to James Comey.

I’ve seen pictures of this Lindsey Halligan who is the prosecutor in this case and she looks like the beauty queen contestant that she actually was before getting her law degree at the University of Phoenix. Actually, she didn’t go there. I was just teasing you. She has never prosecuted a case before getting this high-profile case, and James’s attorneys will shred her to pieces if it ever goes to trial. It will be a resounding humiliation for the man in the White House, that’s for sure!

These new developments in the politicization of the Justice Department will sadly continue until there is pushback against this bastard in the White House from members in Congress, and I still don’t see anything remotely approaching that kind of resistance. That is why we the people must resist this perverted regime – on the streets and in the courts.

If this is not an authoritarian regime operating in America at the moment, then I don’t know what else to call it!

In the meantime, Attorney General Pam Bondi and many others are protecting this pedophile in the White House, refusing to release the Epstein files. What is this House afraid of then?

Today I got my latest COVID booster at CVS around 2:45 p.m. So far, I have no side effects from the inoculation.

Also, our television guy “Ernest” returned for one last time to restore my streaming services to the Sony which took as long as 2 hours since I had to reregister for many of the services, and I had quite a few problems with inputting my data, including email and passwords for several of the apps. Ernest actually had to calm me down when the process didn’t work. Don’t you hate it when there is such an extra layer of security involved with getting anything these days? Like when you are told a code will be sent to your phone or email and you have to rush to get that code before it expires and before you have to do it again. I was losing the screen with the code and the screen where you had to register, so Ernest had to intervene and show me the proper way to do it. But now I believe I have all of the apps that existed on the set before. Ernest also helped Elliot erase over thousands of emails which he never deleted over an extended length of time. That took time also.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Thursday, December 19, 2024. Today my blog takes you across the pond, this time to the land of Notre-Dame and the Champs-Elysées, to the town of Avignon where a supercharged trial has upended French society and prompted some deep soul-searching about sexuel violence and consent: the Pelicot mass rape case. You might ask, “what is this?” if you haven’t heard of it before. This gruesome case received full coverage in an online CNN analysis by Saskya Vandoorne entitled “France’s landmark mass rape trial is over. But the Pelicot case demonstrates that systemic violence against women runs deep.”

At the epicenter of the trial were 51 men, all who lived within a 30-mile radius of one another. At the center of the trial was Dominique Pelicot, married to the victim, Gisele, who drugged and invited those strangers to assault and rape his then-wife, Gisele, for over a decade. Just reading about the details of this case makes one wonder and shrug one’s head in total disbelief! And to find out that this outrageous situation didn’t occur right here in the United States which also has a big problem with misogyny. Just witness the last election as proof of this.

In this small province, forty-nine of the men were convicted of rape. Two were convicted of sexual assault. Four of the men were also convicted for possessing child sex abuse imagery.

The men were dubbed “Monsieur-Tout-Le-Monde,” or “Mr. Everyman,” as they’ve come to be called – not career criminals. The males, aged 26 to 74, worked in various jobs like nursing, the military, journalism, and in the prison system.

The stark horror of the crimes, coupled with the idea that they were carried out by “Mr. Everyman,” has pushed forward a national conversation on the normalization of sexual assault.

The husband, or architect of this terrible crime, Dominique, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum for his transgression. The other men received jail terms of between three and 15 years. Some, meanwhile, have walked free after completing suspended sentences.

Many onlookers feel the sentences were not even harsh enough, that they do not take into consideration the magnitude of the crime. And despite the prison sentences, without any concrete changes, the women of Mazan – the southern French village where the crimes occurred – say they could still happen tomorrow.

The victim here, Gisele Pelicot, hoped that by waiving her anonymity – and therefore opening the trial to the public – she would help to change rape culture, however painful it was to watch the harrowing evidence of her long-term abuse at the hands of her own husband and 50 other strangers.

Talking about Gisele’s choice here to make the trial public, Sarah McGrath of Women for Women France told CNN, “It was a choice to make it public. And she’s done that in service of other women.”

It was that service, courage, and defiance that transformed her into a feminist hero, one who is determined to make “shame change sides.”

In light of this trial’s outcome, data show that survivors of sexual violence don’t tend to come forward in France. Only 10 percent of rape victims even report the crime to the justice system. And of those reports, only 1 to 4 percent end up with a conviction, McGrath said.

Gisele Pelicot has now inspired these very victims to come forward and push for change. This very important trial has spurred people across France to be introspective and to consider what constitutes consent. The trial has forced people to discuss rape culture and how to change it.

Women’s rights activists are riding the wave of Gisele’s call to action – and optimism.

As she left the courthouse today, she said that the trial showed to her that a “future where women and men can live in harmony and mutual respect” is in fact achievable.

Now it’s up to France to seize this moment and make it a reality.

Sorry about my not reporting on things here in the United States. I’m just disgusted with the news these days, as you all can figure out why. I’m hearing terrible things now about the outsized influence this South African, Elon Musk, has on the new president of the United States and that he’s interfered in these House discussions to keep the government open, and now it seems that it could be a fucking reality tomorrow if Congress cannot pass a stopgap spending bill in time. Just in time for the fucking holiday, everyone! What a joke these repugnicans are and Musk is now being called the real president. Hey, I didn’t know that Musk’s name was on the ballot this November, did you? Even more fucking ridiculous! Boy, did we screw ourselves by voting this bastard back in. It’s already appalling now before he even gets inaugurated next month. I don’t know how we will ever survive his second term!

And so it went!