While Mason Gooding wanting to go gay for pay and soap star Alexander Torres’ sun-soaked photos took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things while nobody was looking. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it…
DON’T SAY GAY MARRIAGE: Nine years after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law of the land, Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is still butthurt that churches …haven’t been affected by the ruling at all. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
THE DEVIL WEARS MAGA: Lara Trump somehow got her father-in-law’s red hat mafia pointing their pitchforks at her sparkly, low-cut Dancing with the Stars-esque New Year’s Eve gown. [See and read all about it on Queerty]
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NEVER FORGET: On the eve of the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, President Biden unified the country by reminding all Americans what a POS the one-term, twice-impeached, four-times indicted ex-president was that day (and every day).
ROE V. SANDERS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders kicked off 2024 with another shameless publicly stunt aimed at the military. [Read all about it on Queerty]
YOU ARE WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE: Surprise, surprise! Donald Trump was “very close” with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the disgraced ex-president’s lesbian niece. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
FOOT-IN-MOUTH SYNDROME: After forgetting to mention slavery during her Civil War gaffe, Nikki Haley failed miserably to do damage control by continuously talking about having “black friends” and no one is enjoying her derailment more than DeSantis’ struggling campaign.
FAMILY FEUD: Kellyanne Conway got dragged by her liberal lesbian daughter ahead of the third anniversary of January 6 attack and it was patriotic AF. [Read all about it on Queerty]
THE OG GAY AMERICAN: Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 upon admitting to having an extra-marital affair by coming out of the closet, is ready for his comeback and wants to be the Martha Stewart of politics. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
WELCOME TO THE MAGA-VERSE: Trump’s most die-hard cult members are living their best lives three years after pledging allegiance to the world’s worst occupant of the White House.
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Ronbo
Does anyone wonder why convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein managed to stay so active in politics? I guess when you have video recordings of powerful people, you can continue doing what you love to do.
And now it’s leaking that he was involved with Intelligence Agencies!?!? Seems that there are more stories to be told. Just where did those recordings go? One doesn’t have to have the originals because copies will do just fine.
Kangol2
With the Clintons effectively out of politics, it appears that Epstein’s ties extended to two of the current 2024 contenders, Don the Con, a longtime pal of Epstein’s, and RFK Jr., who Epstein’s butler is alleging was down in that Miami horror house.
We’ll probably never learn the full extent of the CDs and DVDs that were taken from Epstein’s various homes, or even learn how he actually made so much money (allegedly over $500 million at one point), and if it turns out that he really was involved with intelligence services, we really won’t learn a thing–at least not anytime soon.
dbmcvey
He had powerful friends (or, clients) from all over the place. Corruption Ronbo. It feeds the monster.
Ronbo
Reading that Epstein worked with the Clintons creating their Global Initiative might explain their constant and regular communication and travels. But the sleepovers? Has anyone here ever had a sleepover with your financial advisor?
Even Dershowitz has admitted that Epstein didn’t turn off the multiple video recorders, open the cell, release Epstein’s cellmate and hang himself. Breaking Points on you-tube is a great source of what those in power do NOT want you to think about.
dbmcvey
Bill Clinton is a proven creep. He and Donald Trump were great friends up until Trump won the nomination. There is even a rumor that Bill convinced Donald to run. Boy did that backfire.
abfab
Will all of her old black friends, please stand up, come forward and state your names please.
bachy
Mary Trump is a gay American hero. Where her other family members have latched on and funneled as much personal gain from the Trump grift as possible, Mary has worked tirelessly to bring down the Trump juggernaut, and at great personal risk.
abfab
Hitmen are ready to push her down a staircase. Watch out, Mary!
still_onthemark
I hope Mary doesn’t live any higher than the second floor.
Georgeiv2
Please Miss DeSantis Drag your self loathing ass away into some dark corner with that ugly beard you live with , Do the world a favour and shut the F**** Up ( P.S. Happy New Year )
Ronbo
Misgendering as an attack or intended insult, insults and hurts our own trans community. THEY are the people reading and consuming this site. Being woke is being kind and respectful to even those whom you detest. It’s especially denigrating to OUR good and kind trans brothers and sisters.
ShaverC
Trump stayed away from Epstein. Bill Clinton, however, visited the island numerous times and was mentioned 50 times in the papers that were just exposed. Mary doesn’t know anything about her uncle or his family because they don’t talk.
Kangol2
Wrong, wrong, wrong about Don the Con and his “terrific guy” buddy Jeffrey Epstein!
Bosch
Mary doesn’t know anything about her uncle, but ShaverC knows lots about him. Source: dude, trust me.
KyleMichelSullivan
Yeah, right, honey. All those photos of #Skunk45 and Epstein chatting it up and flying around and having a laugh, and the occasions where his orangeness praised the man are not real. It’s AAAAAALLLLLLLLL Democrats. Got it.
God, you’re ridiculous.
cuteguy
@ShaverC is an obvious GQP troll. Don’t these MAGA losers have anything else better to do with their time? Bc we ALL know Don the Con is not paying him. MAGA and the GQP is a cult like the Nazi Party
Ronbo
tRump and most of the politicians who associated with Epstein KNEW what was going on. You don’t say things like “he likes his girls young” without knowing that he was a pedophile.
The problem that I see is that most of them went along with it. I can somewhat understand the scientists seeking financial grants and gifts. But the grifting off his little girls puts politicians into the ‘I can do what I want and never pay a price’-type thinking is repugnant. If Epstein’s tapes ever come out – you can be sure that Alan Dershowitz will lead the charge calling them “Deepfakes”.
I’m certain that one person will repeat the famous line… “I did not have sex with that
womanchild” You’d think that the girls would have known about the little blue dress.I’ve been a registered and voting Democrat all my life. However, because I hold my people and my party responsible for the “truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” I expect more from them (and this community). You shouldn’t slash the tires of man who cheats with your husband/wife – you should hold your spouse responsible. Right?
dbmcvey
If Trump stayed away from Epstein how do you explain the photos of the two of them together?
Kangol2
WRONG, as usual! Trump was repeatedly linked to Jeffrey Epstein! Of course you’d minimize Don the Con’s links. Trump was friends with Epstein for years. YEARS.
Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, said this to the New York Post: ““Here’s a direct quote: ‘If I said what I know about both candidates [Don the Con Trump and Hillary Clinton], they’d have to cancel the election.’ That’s what Jeffrey told me in 2016.”
Jeffrey Epstein alleged before he died that he had introduced Trump and Melania Knauss, and there are photos of them all palling around in 2000.
Trump on Epstein, to New York Magazine, 2002: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it—Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
From New York Magazine January 4, 2024: “In 2016 a woman who went by the pseudonyms “Katie Johnson” and “Jane Doe” in legal filings accused Trump of raping her in 1994, when she was 13, during an orgy held at Epstein’s home in Manhattan. She accused Epstein of raping her as well.
Trump was on Jeffrey Epstein’s Lolita Express: He flew on it least four times in 1993, once in 1994 and once in 1995, as well as in 1997.
Trump appointed Alexander Acosta, the vile Bush US Attorney for Florida who gave Jeffrey Epstein a slap on the wrist for his numerous sex crimes in 2008 as his Secretary of Labor in 2017! Of all the Republicans, why would Trump pick someone who’d essentially let Jeffrey Epstein off the hook?
Trump initially said about Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime co-conspirator, “She say anything about me?”” and later, after she was arrested, “I wish her well.” Who says that about a sex abuser, trafficker and enabler?
From CNBC, January 5, 2024: “Donald Trump sometimes ate meals at the Florida home of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, a housekeeper for Epstein once testified, according to court records unsealed in New York.”
Trump was President when Jeffrey Epstein died, under bizarre circumstances, in a Manhattan federal prison, in 2019, the day before a second tranche of names was to be released to the public.
ShaverC
As far as I know, there is no evidence that Trump went to Epstein’s island. He used Epstein’s jet a number of times but only within the US (Florida, NYC, ect). Rich people often loan out perks hoping for perks back… and at the time Epstein was known as a “financer” or someone who could make people money. Trump was the one who actually told people “Epstein likes them very young… much younger than me”
dbmcvey
They’re all corrupt slime Shaves. Trump, Bill Clinton, Dershowitz. I’m sure it will be a who’s who of that era.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, I agree. So why are you so opposed to believing that the Bidens are just as corrupt?
still_onthemark
@Kangol2: Yeah, I love how the Trumpanzees are all sure “the Clintons had Epstein murdered!” at a time when he was in a federal prison and the president was Trump.
@ShaverC: If Joe Biden is so “corrupt,” where did the money go? That pokey beach house in Delaware, and another house in Delaware, and… um… what, is he saving up for his old age?
As the late-night comedians have pointed out, parents of cocaine addicts are always THRILLED to find out their son is a cocaine addict. Because that’s when the money starts rolling in!
Bosch
Sure ShaverC, everyone on the list is complicit, except for trump. Makes sense, he’s such an honest, upstanding guy.
abfab
George (Baron Wiseman) Santos is angry because his name is not on the list.
ShaverC
Still_onthemark, We have to dig around to find the money. 1. how did a career politician making at most around $200,000 (just recently) afford two multi million dollar homes? 2. Money is hidden in LLC’s and off shore accounts, just like many money launderers do.
still_onthemark
@ShaverC: Yeah, it’s like Rudy said – you guys have a lot of theories, you just don’t have the evidence! Meanwhile there’s plenty of evidence against 45 but you ignore all of it.
dbmcvey
Well Shaves, there’s no proof of the Biden corruption claims, while Trump has already been found guilty of corruption in NYC, and we’ve seen that proof. I’m not opposed to believing it, but I don’t believe things based on unfounded charges by truly insane Republican Congresspeople.
dbmcvey
Was anyone surprised that Trump, and Bill Clinton, for that matter were on the Epstein list? They’re all corrupt slimebag creeps. I wouldn’t be surprised if the list is full of millionaires, politicians and businessmen from that era.
dbmcvey
And, of course, lawyers.
quantum
Like Matt Groening for some reason!
bachy
I think many people are overreacting to the list of Epstein’s so-called “friends.” Epstein was tirelessly courting all of those people with parties, donations, favors, introductions. He wanted to be surrounded by, connected to the Big Players. I am certain he wasn’t sending cold invites to jailbait orgies on Day One.
abfab
Bachy Big Playa! She would know.
Ronbo
Bachy,
By “courting” do you mean getting them on video so that his associates could “influence” their subsequent decisions? Was it the CIA or FBI that gathered them and now has the “influence”?
Masood/Israel has recently had a big influence in American Politics; we are sending them 2,000 pound bunker busters for free! Twenty-eight dead pre-teen Palestinian kids were dug out of the rubble in one basement; no wonder their right-wing government is simply bulldozing over all the others. Kids, don’t hide in the basement.
inbama
Even though no evidence has turned up that either Trump or Clinton were serviced by the underage girls, our hypocritical resident castrator can’t resist smearing anyone who’s been to Epstein’s island with the same slur DeSantis uses against us.
Ronbo
inbama,
When the subject of … he likes them young… is said by and of those around Epstein, they were AWARE. Yet, they maintained association and supported Epstein. Aiding and abetting a pedophile is absolutely WRONG.
Alex Acosta worked hard to minimize the charges against Epstein – even allowing him freedom to come and go during the day; does anyone know why?
dbmcvey
Oh inbama, you’re so stupid.
Whether they were serviced or not, we already know Clinton and Trump are sleazy. They both have had enough peccadillos, and let’s remember Trump walking in on underage beauty contestants and saying one day that a little girl who was walking by would be his wife. As for corruption, Trump lied on bank, tax and insurance documents and didn’t pay his contractors. Stop being such a fool.
Magnus1999
Nikki Haley
“I’m not a racist. As a kid, I had a color TV”
cuteguy
“Leave my color tv out of your voice”
dbmcvey
Bravo Magnus!