The Frolicking Gadfly
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If anyone is wondering, and without getting into too much detail, I am a 60ish, curmudgeonly grandpa, IT guy, veteran, and part-time internet political junkie who was weaned on Bartcop's blog yonder a century ago, and if you know who Bartcop was and grokked his style, then we'll get along just fine.
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It's still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It always will be.
It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.
It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It's still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It always will be.
It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.
It's still the Department of Defense. It always will be.
It's still the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.
The highest law enforcement agency in this country are now lawbreakers. Let that sink in. 🫤
NEW: The DOJ appears poised to miss a deadline to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, violating a new federal law explicitly requiring the documents to be turned over for the public.
DOJ Chickens Out on Epstein Files Release in Violation of New Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The highest law enforcement agency in this country are now lawbreakers. Let that sink in. 🫤
Doesn't the word "memorial" in the existing name of this venue imply it was built in memory of JFK, who was slain while in office? Is the filthy old, orange narcissist equating his magically healed "half shot off" ear lobe with Kennedy's murder and trying to horn in on JFK's death glory? How sick. 🫤
One final update/correction, based on what I'm seeing in the most recent Getty pictures: The workers seem *not* to have removed the first "The" before JFK's name. So it now reads—very weirdly—"The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Doesn't the word "memorial" in the existing name of this venue imply it was built in memory of JFK, who was slain while in office? Is the filthy old, orange narcissist equating his magically healed "half shot off" ear lobe with Kennedy's murder and trying to horn in on JFK's death glory? How sick. 🫤
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Seriously, though, Elise Stefanik is an excellent example of how evil frequently promotes mediocrities to temporary prominence. She’s part of the Legion of Meh.
Elise Stefanik announces plan to leave politics in order to remove the scourge of antisemitism from the flawed and biased curriculum in the homeschooling in her house
December 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Seriously, though, Elise Stefanik is an excellent example of how evil frequently promotes mediocrities to temporary prominence. She’s part of the Legion of Meh.
He/she who lie down with mangy dog, get up with fleas. Sayonara Elise. I sure hope you enjoy the denouement of your legacy, which will be nothing more than a desolate footnote in American political history. 🫤
I wonder how she's feeling about her political career. She sold out everything she once valued, debased herself, placed herself on the side of evil, all in a crude grasp at power, and in return, she got shunted to the side & forgotten. Pathetic, richly deserved, but also, wooooof.
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
He/she who lie down with mangy dog, get up with fleas. Sayonara Elise. I sure hope you enjoy the denouement of your legacy, which will be nothing more than a desolate footnote in American political history. 🫤
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Steve Wynn is a horrible person who had to pay $10 million to women who accused him of sexual assault and who's wife helped drive the renaming of the Kennedy Center farce and anyway, you don't ever have to visit their casinos!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Steve Wynn is a horrible person who had to pay $10 million to women who accused him of sexual assault and who's wife helped drive the renaming of the Kennedy Center farce and anyway, you don't ever have to visit their casinos!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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How NYT and David Brooks systematically obscured and then covered up Brooks' relationship with Epstein—a thread on the Gray Lady's deplorable journalistic ethics on everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20017...
Thread by @capitolhunters on Thread Reader App
@capitolhunters: To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what i...
threadreaderapp.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
How NYT and David Brooks systematically obscured and then covered up Brooks' relationship with Epstein—a thread on the Gray Lady's deplorable journalistic ethics on everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20017...
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I'm not sure why folks are shocked DOJ will not be fully complying with the Epstein Transparency Act today.
The thing was way too weak with respect to enforcement. It basically handed all discretion to DOJ with a "we expect you to be good boys and girls" line at the end.
The thing was way too weak with respect to enforcement. It basically handed all discretion to DOJ with a "we expect you to be good boys and girls" line at the end.
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I'm not sure why folks are shocked DOJ will not be fully complying with the Epstein Transparency Act today.
The thing was way too weak with respect to enforcement. It basically handed all discretion to DOJ with a "we expect you to be good boys and girls" line at the end.
The thing was way too weak with respect to enforcement. It basically handed all discretion to DOJ with a "we expect you to be good boys and girls" line at the end.
It will make it all the more enjoyable seeing that execrable name ripped off the facades of those buildings once he and his criminal administration have been removed from power. 🫤
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It will make it all the more enjoyable seeing that execrable name ripped off the facades of those buildings once he and his criminal administration have been removed from power. 🫤
This country is controlled by a lawless regime. Once these bastards are out of power there needs to be a full, no holding back accounting of ALL their crimes and assaults on our democracy. 🫤
NEWS: Deputy AG Todd Blanche says the DOJ will only release a partial batch of the Epstein files today, rather than all of them. Blanche says DOJ needs more time to make redactions.
December 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This country is controlled by a lawless regime. Once these bastards are out of power there needs to be a full, no holding back accounting of ALL their crimes and assaults on our democracy. 🫤
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Just amazing how many lies were posted online over the past week by right-wing grifters about the Brown shooter, and it’s the same people every single time. Minutes and hours after the next one they will be right back at it with lots of theories & “sources” - but none of it true.
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just amazing how many lies were posted online over the past week by right-wing grifters about the Brown shooter, and it’s the same people every single time. Minutes and hours after the next one they will be right back at it with lots of theories & “sources” - but none of it true.
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This is not how math works. And Lutnik knows it. Is it any wonder that Donald Trump bankrupted several casinos and had to steal, lie, and cheat to ever make money
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is not how math works. And Lutnik knows it. Is it any wonder that Donald Trump bankrupted several casinos and had to steal, lie, and cheat to ever make money
If the west had competent, courageous leadership (hint: they don't) this mass murdering sonofabitch would have been decisively dealt with long ago. 🫤
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Live updates: Vladimir Putin tells NBC News the ball is in Ukraine's court to end the war and signals no new compromise
Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on Ukraine, peace, war and Trump.
www.nbcnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If the west had competent, courageous leadership (hint: they don't) this mass murdering sonofabitch would have been decisively dealt with long ago. 🫤
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
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The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the authoritarian playbook. My piece in TIME explores the chilling implications.
Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History
"The campaign to defund the arts, capture our museums, and rewrite our history is a prelude to silencing dissent."
time.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the authoritarian playbook. My piece in TIME explores the chilling implications.
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It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
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The DNC announced that it will not release its internal autopsy of the 2024 election (and what went wrong).
Well, I have some thoughts.
If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
Well, I have some thoughts.
If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The DNC announced that it will not release its internal autopsy of the 2024 election (and what went wrong).
Well, I have some thoughts.
If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
Well, I have some thoughts.
If Democrats ever want to take America back from Trump and his cronies, here are eight things they must do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzc57eD3cWI
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Assuming a Democrat can ever regain the White House, Washington DC is going to undergo an overhaul that will rival the de-Bathification of Baghdad.
December 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Assuming a Democrat can ever regain the White House, Washington DC is going to undergo an overhaul that will rival the de-Bathification of Baghdad.
He's like an old, incontinent feral cat, marking his conquered territories by pissing all over everything. 🫤
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
He's like an old, incontinent feral cat, marking his conquered territories by pissing all over everything. 🫤
In a sane America, Ivan Raiklin's Putin fellating, dwarf ass would be sitting in the defendant's chair in a court of US law watching Jack Smith present evidence to a jury of Raiklin's American peers of his treasonous role in Drumpf's ascension to power. 🫤
www.rawstory.com/ivan-raiklin/
www.rawstory.com/ivan-raiklin/
Jack Smith heckled on Capitol Hill by Trump's self-described 'secretary of retribution'
A former U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and Green Beret who has become a far-right political operative and activist recorded himself heckling former special counsel Jack Smith on Capitol Hill, f...
www.rawstory.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
In a sane America, Ivan Raiklin's Putin fellating, dwarf ass would be sitting in the defendant's chair in a court of US law watching Jack Smith present evidence to a jury of Raiklin's American peers of his treasonous role in Drumpf's ascension to power. 🫤
www.rawstory.com/ivan-raiklin/
www.rawstory.com/ivan-raiklin/
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It’s been 15 years since the Affordable Care Act became law. It’s been 15 years since every member of the Republican Party said they have an alternative that’s better. It’s been 15 years and Republicans haven’t even shown Americans a single word of their great plan.
The GOP can FRO!
The GOP can FRO!
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s been 15 years since the Affordable Care Act became law. It’s been 15 years since every member of the Republican Party said they have an alternative that’s better. It’s been 15 years and Republicans haven’t even shown Americans a single word of their great plan.
The GOP can FRO!
The GOP can FRO!
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These are tough jobs meant for serious, experienced professionals…not whiny podcasters who like to cosplay law enforcement.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
These are tough jobs meant for serious, experienced professionals…not whiny podcasters who like to cosplay law enforcement.
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An Open Letter To Donald Trump
A List of Some of Your Reactions to Human Suffering
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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I've seen enough clips. That speech is proof we are in a national emergency. The guy with the nuke codes is stark raving mad.
December 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I've seen enough clips. That speech is proof we are in a national emergency. The guy with the nuke codes is stark raving mad.
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Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.