Pam Bondi Shirks Responsibility for Criminal Neglect

Pam Bondi gets the award for coming up with the worst excuse ever made in all of history. At the hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, various Democratic Representatives asked her if she would apologize for the Justic Department’s failure to redact names of Jeffrey Epstein victims who were sitting just in back of her. She shouted back at the Democrats asking ‘have you apologized for the criminal charges you leveled against the greatest president in U.S. history for supposedly attempting to rig the 2020 presidential elections?’ Anybody who doesn’t see the pathetic nature of Bondi’s response, let me recommend an undergraduate course in “Introduction to Logic.”

 

Yesterday’s Superbowl: A Demonstration of the Inequalities of Football

Football teams have 22 players in addition to punters and kickers. Of those 22, one player, the quarterback, gets 60 % of the attention and credit (and blame) for a team’s performance. Five other players (the backs and the two ends) get 35% (in other words each get 7%) of the attention. The remaining 5% goes to the 11 members of the defensive team (that is, each get less than a half of 1%). The 5 members of the offensive line (excluding the ends) get 0%. Why is that? The performance of the defensive line can get measured by the number of tackles, sacks and fumble recoveries. But all the offensive line does is block. How can you measure that?

 

Drake Maye got all the blame for the Patriot’s poor performance. But the game was really about Seattle’s defensive line which didn’t give Maye time to throw, and sacked him a record number of times for a Superbowl. They deserved most of the credit for Seattle’s victory. And the team’s head coach recognized their performance on stage when the Vince Lombardi trophy was presented. But who were the two players on stage who got to speak for the team? Seattle’s quarterback Sam Darnold and running back Kenneth Walker. And it was Walker who received the trophy.

 

Today’s controversy: 'Walker didn’t deserve the trophy, but rather kicker Jason Myers who broke an NFL Super Bowl record with 6 field goals.' That controversy may have been a manifestation of racism. Kickers are white possibly without exception. But what about the Seattle’s defensive linemen? Those who criticized the choice of Walker didn’t even consider that maybe the defensive linemen should have been given the trophy. Maybe all 5 of them collectively.

And poor Maye got all the blame for the Patriot’s defeat. But shouldn’t most of the blame have gone to the offensive linemen? I suppose if quarterbacks get most of the credit for victories, it’s only logical that they receive the brunt of the blame for defeats. It all shows how unequal and unfair football is. 

 

 

What Trump Says about Minnesota Brings to Mind the U.S. Capitol on January 6…. and, Is the U.S. Capitol a Federal Building?

Trump has issued the following statement on Truth Social: “We will guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists. There will be no spitting in the faces of our Officers, there will be no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, and there will be no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles or at our Patriot Warriors. If there is, those people will suffer an equal, or more, consequence.”

 

What about the U.S. Capitol and the January 6 mob? Trump has repeatedly alleged that January 6 rioters were given a bad rap, as they were really "political prisoners" and “patriots.” Indeed, he pardoned them. Trump kicked off his first rally of the 2024 campaign with a rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" recorded from a phone by Jan. 6 defendants in prison, including an alleged Nazi sympathizer. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he called January 6 a "day of love," notwithstanding the fact that, according to Prosecutors, 140 officers were injured that day.

 

Trump and his allies (including the Republican Senators who blocked the creation of a National Commission to investigate January 6) claim that January 6 rioters were denied due process and that the Department of Justice under Biden had weaponized the incident. For Trump, the victims of the January 6 riot (including police officer Brian Sicknick who was assaulted with pepper spray that day and died due to injuries inflicted by the rioters) were the perpetrators and the perpetrators (namely the rioters) were the victims. Thus, in Trump’s words: "the cops should be charged and the protesters should be freed." Furthermore, Trump blamed the FBI for infiltrating the crowd of rioters with 274 agents who allegedly provoked the violence.

 

The turnaround of Trump and his allies from defending the January 6 rioters to accusing peaceful demonstrators of being “terrorists” can only be considered cynical. Talking to people I realize I’m not the only one asking ‘does this guy really believe what he says?’

 

 National Deputy of Spain Gabirel Rufián: “The dignity of María Corina Machado doesn’t exist.” He then draws a logical conclusion. If Machado can't rule in Venezuela because, in Trump's words, she lacks the “respect” of Venezuelans, how can one think that her candidate won the last presidential elections with as many as 70% of the vote, as she claims?

The False Media Narrative that the Chavista Leadership in Venezuela is about to Implode

A false narrative has been put out there by the mainstream media ever since President Maduro’s and Cilia Flores’ kidnapping on January 3, namely that the Chavista government is divided, and that there are “traitors” in the government. Today’s article in the NY Times titled “Splits Emerge Among Venezuelans as Revolutionary Dream Fades” attempts to build on this narrative, but without providing any concrete proof that there's tension and infighting among the Chavistas. The mainstream media played on the same narrative in 2013 following Chávez’s death when they predicted that Diosdado Cabello and Maduro were about to lock horns in a battle for leadership. None of that happened then, and there is no evidence that it’s about to happen now.

 

CORPORATE MEDIA'S WEAPONIZATION OF SEMANTICS

The corporate media’s use of the term “illegal” transportation when referring to the export of Venezuelan oil is a good example of the weaponization of semantics. The shadow (or “ghost”) fleets that transport the oil to circumvent the U.S.-imposed sanctions are owned by companies that change their names. They use fake flags and turn off tracking in order to avoid being seized, as is happening today in the Caribbean. But does that make them illegal? Maybe by U.S. law they can be considered illegal, but the high seas are not U.S. territory. By calling this activity “illegal” the corporate media is reinforcing Trump’s discourse based on the notion that the U.S. owns the world.

 

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ISSUED AN INDICTMENT TODAY: It was an indictment of Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and the corporate media.

Today the DOJ recognized the non-existence of the Cartel de los Soles. How many hundreds of thousands of times has the Cartel de los Soles, allegedly headed by Nicolas Maduro, been referred to by the Trump Administration and the corporation media? The corporate media, unlike with their references to the allegations of electoral fraud in 2020, never - not once - called the accusations against Maduro a lie. The truth has come to light for all to see, namely that the claims about the Cartel de los Soles are as fallacious as claims of electoral fraud in 2020. The media should recognize their failure to explicitly state that the claims regarding the Cartel de los Soles were completely false. 

The DOJ is now saying that the “Cartel de los Soles is a culture. Does that mean that Maduro heads a culture? Makes no sense. Saying that a cartel is a culture is like saying that a banana is a moon. It’s semantic nonsense.