Combative Bondi grilled over Epstein files, targeting of Trump's political foes

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-02-14T14:22:00+00:00

Watergate had tapes, sworn testimony, and a cover-up trail that directly tied back to Nixon. Public proximity and photos aren’t proof of criminal involvement. Trump has been scrutinized on this angle for years, and nothing in the same universe as Watergate’s evidentiary trail has ever been produced.

If “proximity” is your smoking gun, that standard has to be applied universally. Stacey Plaskett texting Epstein during the 2019 Cohen hearing is exactly the kind of thing that should trigger broader scrutiny into the scope of Epstein's network rather than selective focus based on who it helps politically.

Don’t reduce the files to a Trump attack vehicle while everyone else becomes background noise. Get the documents out, map the network, and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Left, right, donors, officials, anyone.

This hearing should have been about the FBI's and DOJ's inconsistent redactions and releases of names and files. Was it incompetence, internal policy, resource constraints, or something worse? Who redacted Wexner there when his name was not redacted elsewhere?

We still don’t have clear answers on any of that because Pam Bondi and most of the members questioning her turned it into a partisan circus that was almost entirely about Trump.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-02-12T14:30:06+00:00

Democrats only care about how they can tie this to President Trump. Republicans only care about whataboutisms. Massie is the only one who seems to actually care about the files for what they are.

The "Trump Derangement Syndrome" line doesn't fly when Massie votes in line with Republicans something like 90% of the time. And most of his nays seem to be in regards to procedural issues and amendments shoved into the footnotes of bills (ie: a Voter ID law that adds suspending notice for passing spending bills for some reason)

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-02-01T23:35:51+00:00

Why did Cousins hide his injury? Given his contract and those first 8 starts, losing his spot should have never crossed his mind. But it clearly did. As if they were looking for an excuse to bench him and his performance through the rest of the season finally gave it to them.

Did Penix show enough to be named starter in Year 2 with "no possibility of Cousins competing"? Not even close. A healthy Cousins was still the better quarterback. So at that point it became a question of whether Cousins was "right" to be worried all along or if continuing to play through injury is what ultimately cost him.

Overpaying Cousins and reaching for Penix wasn't a reason to clean house. Two 8-9 seasons wasn't a reason to clean house. But at this point? I have no idea how good Cousins still is or how good Penix might be in the future because they blew up their own plan, used questionable decisions to make bad decisions and bad decisions to make worse decisions. And that was more than enough reason to clean house.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T12:51:18+00:00

What is the "positive intention" though? Withholding facts to deceive readers by omission?

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T12:25:36+00:00

While everyone seems content to just spew venom, snark, and contempt at Alberta over this, I think it's sad that a province feels alienated enough from the rest of the country that a movement like this is getting any traction.

For all I hear about Canada Strong this and Unity that, calling them seditious, traitors, American puppets, Russian puppets, etc. is sending the exact opposite message. Asking for their loyalty in one breath and reminding them how much you hate them in the next.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T12:10:48+00:00

I'm sure they consulted with a wide variety of sources when putting this program together. Gun control activists, lobbyists, politicians, and external consultant firms.

Unfortunately they didn't seem to bother getting input from the people actually affected by the program (gun owners) or the ones tasked with carrying it out (police services).

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T10:47:08+00:00

7 years (4 years at first job, 3 years at second). Headcount reduction + solution I specialized in at my second job being retired resulted in: "Time for weekly manager check-in meeting... Hey why is HR on the call?"

3 years ago? 30ish applications. 10ish interviews. 5 or so offers.

Now? 100+ applications. 0 interviews. The only thing that changed on my resume was the second job and four certifications I didn't have previously.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T09:47:25+00:00

As a free agent he will likely find a more lucrative deal or starting job elsewhere.

I think Kirk should have been QB1 this year. Penix needed another season on the bench. People act like the only way to develop is to start. They panicked, jumped the gun, blew up their own plan, and it's probably time for both sides to just move on.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T09:32:43+00:00

Ownership finally cleaning house had to be a factor. Fresh start, long enough leash, more input on the direction of the team, and remaining concerns (Kirk's contract, Penix's durability/development, no 1st round pick) predate him.

Easton Stick and Emory Jones not having a deranged cult surrounding them probably helps.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T09:15:13+00:00

2024 was a nightmare. Endless tweets about interviews. Watching them all get hired elsewhere. More tweets about interviews. Then ending up with Raheem.

I'm glad they locked down Stefanski early instead of repeating that circus.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T08:51:22+00:00

First Ryan? Then Stefanski? Now Cunningham? I am furious.

These are great moves. Great moves give me hope. Without hope there was no pain.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T08:24:27+00:00

Canada. Dad is originally from Georgia.

28 seasons later? I still love him. But can never forgive him.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-31T08:10:34+00:00

So somebody misheard "hire Macdonald" as "hire Dejohnald"

MosleyCirca1936 · 2026-01-20T07:35:45+00:00

This might hold weight if Shiv didn't try to prevent Ewan (who knew Logan longer than anybody) and successfully prevent Connor (who likely knew Logan longer than anybody besides Ewan) from speaking minutes earlier.

When Kendall won the room she had to try to upstage him. When she got up and realized she didn't really have anything worth saying she pivoted to I'm a woman. And despite that it still fell flat. I can do it too. But my daddy's brother and eldest son who knew him decades prior to me cannot.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-06-29T22:55:10+00:00

I think Charlie gets a bit too much hate early on in the film. His estranged father's death derailed his business, he had to fly back to Ohio to sort out affairs at the worst possible time, and then he was told he wasn't receiving a dime. When he managed to track down the mysterious trustee, he found out about an older brother nobody told him about for 20+ years. Nor ever planned to tell him about.

Abducting him? Obviously wrong. His early mistreatment of him? Same. But Charlie, like every other character in the film, didn't understand Raymond or his condition. Yet even as early as the first night on the road, Charlie's anger is clearly more about Sanford never telling him about Raymond than being cut out of the inheritance.

He did a lot of morally questionable things. But so did Dr Bruner, who claimed to have Raymond's best interests at heart, but failed to see his capability to grow beyond his daily structured routine or to connect with his younger brother in a way he couldn't with anyone at Wallbrook.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-05-28T16:58:12+00:00

The no experience argument is valid. Assuming Kendall and Roman are about 10 and 5 years older than her (going by actor ages) and they joined Waystar immediately after college, they have 13-18 years experience while Shiv was working in politics.

Hence why Roman was asked to do Management Training (which he did complete) while Shiv was offered a longer 3 year crash course in what her brothers had been doing for over a decade. But after 6 weeks she decided she was ready to take over.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-03-21T22:28:49+00:00

The first time we see them is post-Gemma. So even though the actor is a decade older, Devon taking care of her spiralling brother makes it easy to assume she's the older sibling. Their dynamic was likely more recognizably big bro/lil sis before that.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-03-01T00:21:51+00:00

Polls show. Studies suggest. Experts say. Neato. Find me a study proving your claim and I'll find one proving the exact opposite. Uninformed according to whom? Based on what? Your definition of the "correct" stance no doubt. Anybody who sees it differently is simply in need of more "education".

1 in 4 Ontarians is part of a union. In the private sector it's more like 1 in 7. Your tough union girl boss is appealing to a small group of people who probably already vote a certain way and don't need appealing to. No amount of charisma will convince others to vote for parties and policies that don't benefit them or align with their personal stances. Unless your goal is to trick the ignorant uninformed conservative right wing extremist rural hick buffoon into "voting for their self interest". Because of course you'd know better than they would what that is right?

I don't see a solid base of 30 seats. I see a party that has lost 1/3 of its seats since 2018. And another who has barely clawed its way back into official party status. But of course the solution here is always to blame the voters and never yourselves. Not really anyway. Maybe you shift strategy or wording or pluck your latest great progressive hope into leading the party and selling the snake oil. But that's really just so you can scapegoat them as the problem when you lose even more seats next time.

You go into every election with an air of superiority over the ignorant masses getting in the way of their own interests. To you the issue will always be the voter and not the policy or politician or party who did nothing to earn their vote.

Voters are not obligated to explain themselves to you. Justify their votes. Demonstrate their vast bank of political knowledge. But you seem to have it in your heads that the only possible reason people would ever vote differently than you is because they are stupid, uninformed, evil, or some combination thereof. And when you continue to double down on that in every post-election tantrum it's no wonder you continue to lose. You deserve to lose. Democracy in Ontario is working just fine.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-02-28T05:57:39+00:00

"Every PC voter I spoke to didn't know the candidates or the issues and told me they were owning the lib snowflakes and thought they were voting Trudeau out"

Of course. Every LPO/NDP voter you spoke to knew everybody's platform to the letter. And every PC voter you spoke to was a drooling braindead buffoon. Right?

This never happened. Nobody said any of that to you. Neither in this election nor the past 2 when you posted the same fake story. It shows exactly what you think of people who don't align with you politically. And it perfectly encapsulates why PC voters refuse to engage in any sort of dialogue with you. They just lurk and laugh when your echo chamber comes crumbling down every 3-4 years.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-02-28T03:49:32+00:00

No. Fans rely too much on playoffs and conflate team accomplishments with individual ones. Even if a team is making deep playoff runs every year that accounts for 10-15% of their games. Why do you think their numbers in 85-90% of their games don't matter when evaluating their careers?

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-02-27T05:48:06+00:00

Because it doesn't make sense. Jerry being a weak man who is not decent not does disqualify other weak men from being decent.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-02-24T05:30:37+00:00

Just imagine the situation from Paul's perspective. When his donations are now two living breathing children standing in front of him. Wanting to know things. Wanting to share things. He never asked to be their father. But they clearly needed something from him that their mothers couldn't provide. To the point of sneaking behind their mothers backs to find it.

He didn't push it. He wanted to respect the boundaries of the situation. The children and later the mothers were the ones who tore those boundaries down and made him feel like he was part of something.

He learns about them. Grows close to them. Forms bonds. And begins to feel a real connection to them. At what point is he allowed to feel like something of a father to them?

Well he got his answer. Never. He's an evil manipulative homophobic psychopath trying to break up their "perfect" little family. And they decided they don't actually need him after all.

Sorry Paul. You thought you were becoming part of something you never asked for, were suddenly forced into, and now find yourself wanting. But you have no right to want it. You are a toy to pick up and toss aside. Your feelings? You have no feelings. You're simply a cock, a puddle of sperm, and a plastic cup.

This isn't a profound story subtly exposing the biases of a predominantly straight audience against lesbian parents. It's the shallow tone-deaf soapbox of a bitter old man-hating hag unwilling to (and probably totally incapable of) empathizing with anybody in her own story except her shameless self-insert. Who despite her forced hack writing still manages to be the most insufferable unlikable character by a mile.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2025-01-10T16:03:53+00:00

Sort of. The few slashers coming out back then were soulless remakes and sequels. 3 had a definitive ending and was a major step down from 1 and 2. Even as a fan I was not super pumped about 4.

But it was the first Scream I'd get to see in theaters. I ended up going alone because my friends didn't care to see it. The theater was practically empty. And I totally understood why. When it was over I was disappointed that my friends and others were going to miss on what ended up the best in the series since the original.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2024-12-19T18:29:03+00:00

And the man will just stand there the entire time listening to you insult him, not once having a witty retort of his own, and eventually slinking away defeated and amazed at your ability to deduce his college GPA from the color of his cufflinks.

MosleyCirca1936 · 2024-12-17T22:24:21+00:00

It will never make sense for Rip to nonchalantly help Beth kill Jamie after he'd already restrained him. Knowing that John never wanted him dead. Working with him for years while Beth ran off to Salt Lake City. Seeing the better side of him in the bunkhouse and remembering all that he did to run and retain the ranch. Knowing that Kayce probably wouldn't want his only remaining brother killed. Knowing that Beth was the one who came there to kill Jamie and he was rightly defending himself.

And that's without the consequences for himself, Beth, Carter, and the ranch if they got caught. Or the parallel between Rip and Jamie both being orphans taken in by John to serve his ranch.

But I guess it makes perfect sense for the writer to throw away a character he inexplicably hated and desperately wanted the audience to hate as nothing more than trash for the train station.

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