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welcome to the time machine

 
 

 

while searching for the ghost of christmas past we accidentally set the controls for christmas in the year 2025 and find a world controlled by the warlike factions of ELONS 


and MURDOCHS 

 
 




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Monday, February 2, 2026

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

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Don’t You Dare ‘Misinterpret’ Elon Musk’s Epstein Emails. Just the Facts Are Bad Enough

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Don’t You Dare ‘Misinterpret’ Elon Musk’s Epstein Emails. Just the Facts Are Bad Enough

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“No one pushed harder than me to have the Epstein files released and I’m glad that has finally happened,” Elon Musk wrote on Saturday. He also now claims, “I had very little correspondence with Epstein and declined repeated invitations to go to his island or fly on his ‘Lolita Express’, but was well aware that some email correspondence with him could be misinterpreted and used by detractors to smear my name.”

Sorry but “misinterpreted”? Even if you do your absolute damndest to read this guy’s freshly released Epstein emails in a positive light, what you get is the story of a tech tycoon stating unambiguously that he wanted to attend an absolute rager on a sex criminal’s private island.

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Elon Musk asked Jeffrey Epstein on on Nov. 25, 2012. 

In 2019, Musk told Vanity Fair that in their past interactions, he had detected that Epstein was “obviously a creep.” Indeed, it wouldn’t have taken much sleuthing to pick up on this attribute of Epstein’s back in 2012. He already had a conviction on his record at the time for soliciting prostitution, and it was also widely reported in the media that the prostitution conviction stemmed from a generous plea bargain, and that the charges Epstein had been facing included sexual relations with minors.

So with that in mind, here’s what Musk and Epstein wrote as they attempted to make plans in 2012 for Musk to visit Epstein’s island with British actress Talulah Riley, Musk’s wife at the time (typos and other text issues are left intact. I don’t want to be accused of misinterpreting):

Epstein: you are welcome to stay or just come for the day, plenty of rroom i will=send heli to get you

Musk: Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity th=s year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hi= the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose. The invitation is=much appreciated, but a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what=l’m looking for.

Epstein: Understood, , I will see you on st Barth, the ratio on my island might m=ke Talilah uncomfortable

Musk: Ratio is not a problem for Talulah

It may be true that Musk declined one or more invitations to visit, but he also tried to make plans to visit multiple times. In addition to the aforementioned change, he emailed Epstein on December 14, 2013 saying he was going to be in the Virgin Islands “over the holidays,” and asked “Is there a good time to visit?” In my opinion it sort of undermines the inherent morality of rejecting offers to be taken to Epstein’s island if you also repeatedly attempt to visit Epstein’s island.

Also, his tune has changed on this I’m-the-guy-who-declined-Epstein narrative. When he phrased this in the past, he said “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED.” He may have never gone, but “REFUSED” overstates things at best.

There’s certainly no proof of a crime having been committed here, and as others have noted it looks from the emails like the timing didn’t work out for Musk to visit the island. At times Musk really did demur, but at one point it was Epstein who called off the plan. And Epstein did persist into 2014 trying to get Musk to visit the island, which it appears he never did.

But there can be little doubt that the record from earlier years shows strong evidence of a guy wanting to party his ass off on an island he knew to be overwhelmingly full of females of one age or another, and that these females were there at the pleasure of a convicted solicitor of prostitutes and accused underage sex-haver. Disputing this would involve some fascinating counter-narrative, perhaps about Musk being a mole for that anti-human-trafficking militia from the movie Sound of Freedom or something like that.

On Saturday morning, Musk did not proffer any such counter-narrative that could repair the supposedly false interpretations of his detractors—just a call for the real evildoers to be brought to justice in what is now his pinned post on X:

“What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein. When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction.”

But until he furnishes the public with a plausible excuse, his ass is hanging out quite a bit unfortunately, and he could, at the very least, spare us all from his highroading and grandstanding.

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Democrats' blowout victory in special election spells doom for GOP

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Democrats' blowout victory in special election spells doom for GOP

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Texas state Sen.-elect Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat, speaks to local news on Jan. 31, 2026 after winning his special election.

Democrats on Saturday night not only flipped a state Senate seat in Texas that President Donald Trump had won in 2024 by 17 percentage points, but they won the special runoff election by a staggering 14 points—a massive victory that has Republicans even more panicked about November’s midterm elections.

The 32-point swing (after rounding) is one of the biggest special election performances Democrats have had since Trump’s 2024 victory, and it’s the latest blowback to Trump's mishandling of the economy and his deadly immigration crackdown, among other chaos he’s unleashed.

The Texas win is not only important for how large it was, but also for how it happened.

Republicans tried to write off the loss as an aberration, saying it happened merely because it was a low-turnout special election during a cold streak in Texas.

“The success of a rain dance has a lot to do with timing. And what happened is there was a huge snowstorm—ice storm, really—that hit north Texas and central Texas,” Rep. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, told CNN on Monday morning, trying to explain away the loss. “Special elections are special, and what happened is there was, as I understand it, one Democrat and two Republicans that were running against each other, and it was a battle between the two Republicans and a group of people simply decided they were not going to come participate.”

But Sessions' read of the election is totally wrong.

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The Texas State Capitol in Austin, shown in 2021.

Turnout wasn't low like other special elections. Nearly 95,000 people voted, with 95% of the estimated vote reporting as of Monday morning.

And a Texas-based pollster did an analysis of the turnout and found that the Democrat who won—veteran and machinist Taylor Rehmet—pulled off the victory because Republican voters crossed party lines to vote Democratic. That's a stunning outcome in the polarized political times in which we live.

"Republicans did not lose the TX SD-9 runoff because of low GOP turnout: they lost because almost all of the independents and some of the Republicans voted Dem," Ross Hunt, the Dallas-based pollster, wrote in a post on X. "Of those who voted in the TX SD-9 runoff, 50%+  were GOP primary voters or at GOP HH [householded]; only 35% were Dems or at Dem HH."

Even worse for Republicans is that their typical playbook of nationalizing a race to scare Republicans into voting didn't work here. 

Republicans outspent Democrats by well over $2 million dollars in the race. And Trump sent multiple Truth Social posts imploring Republicans to vote for the now vanquished Republican nominee, right-winger Leigh Wambsganss. 

“Leigh Wambsganss, a Republican running for the State Senate in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas, will be a GREAT Candidate and has my Complete and Total Endorsement. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!” Trump wrote on Friday.

On the day of the runoff, Trump sent this flop-sweat-soaked post:

I am asking all America First Patriots in Texas’ 9th State Senate District to please make a plan to GET OUT AND VOTE on Election Day, Saturday, January 31st, for a phenomenal Candidate, Leigh Wambsganss. She is a highly successful Entrepreneur, and an incredible supporter of our Movement to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. My very good friend, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, needs a strong conservative Republican in SD-9 to KEEP TEXAS RED! The Radical Left Democrats are spending a fortune to beat a true MAGA Warrior, Leigh Wambsganss. You can win this Election for Leigh, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement. PLEASE MAKE A PLAN TO GET OUT AND VOTE FOR LEIGH WAMBSGANSS IN THE JANUARY 31ST SPECIAL RUNOFF ELECTION! Find your closest Polling Location here. Leigh will NEVER let Texas, or the USA, down!

Of course, on Sunday, Trump said he “had nothing to do with” Wambsganss’s loss.

In fact, data suggests the GOP candidate did worse on Election Day than in the early-voting period—a sign Trump's endorsement likely didn’t help (and may have even hurt) the Republican nominee.

If even Trump can't pull his party over the finish line in a seat he won by double-digit margins, then Republicans are in deep trouble this fall.

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President Donald Trump, shown on Jan. 29.

What should also shake Republicans to their core is that Hispanic voters—who had swung hard toward Trump in 2024—swung hard toward the Democratic candidate.

Given that Texas Republicans' corrupt redraw of their congressional map hinges upon Hispanic voters remaining in the GOP's camp, their gerrymander could come up short of its expected five-seat gain for Republicans, according to elections-handicapping outlet Inside Elections.

Nevertheless, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who called a special session of his state’s legislature to further gerrymander its own U.S. House map for Republicans—may be having second thoughts now.

“Special elections are quirky and not necessarily projectable re: a general election. That said, a swing of this magnitude is not something that can be dismissed,” DeSantis wrote in a post on X. “Republicans should be clear-eyed about the political environment heading into the midterms.”

Democrats, for their part, made this point as they celebrated their win in Texas.

“Dear @GovRonDeSantis: I dare you to do redistricting in FL. The only way to draw more lean GOP seats is to make existing incumbent GOP congressional districts weaker,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote in a post on X. “Democrat Taylor Rehmet just flipped a ruby red state district in TX in a 30+ point shift. See you in November.”

See you in November, indeed.

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