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Monday, February 16, 2026

The charm of ambiguous prior referents.

Politico - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/15/massie-lost-confidence-pam-bondi-00782632

Okay, is it a case of "What took you so long," or not?

Did he loose faith in Bondi, only after the hearing; or did he say he's lost faith after the hearing, while having lost any/all faith well before the hearing when he had to cosponsor a bill to force the intransigent official off the dime to FULLY release the Epstein Files.

You could read it either way, but really, having to blast that bill through is an indication of loss of faith prior to the point of bill sponsorship.

The screen capture shows the ambiguity in the headline and in the part of the opening paragraph shown.

What is certain, the "he said" was after the hearing, that's as reported, but the Crabgrass bet is that any/all faith ever in Bondi was error.

If you pay attention often there is an ambiguous referent in online content, but where one reading fails, in context, to make sense. Crabgrass feels that's almost the case here. Massie's bill cosponsorship is clearly from months before the hearing, since the Bondi banter was a stupid event, but well after any sentient person would have held a "no faith" opinion in Bondi from the Trump University monkey-business, i.e., from the start, beyond belief in the troubling fact she is/was/will be a Trump syncophant to the grave.

It pays her bills. It enlarges her narcisstic self-esteem. She needs that sycophancy as a fundamental part of being Pam Bondi - The AG of the USA. Whoopie!

It feeds her several ways.

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Worth noting, the Politico report main body adds -

Bondi sent a legally required report to Congress on Saturday in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandated the DOJ supply lawmakers with a summary of all redactions made, including the legal basis for doing so, and a list of government officials named in the documents.
In the letter, Bondi cited “deliberative-process privilege” as one justification for redacting certain documents, a common-law principle that allows the federal government to withhold documents revealing internal decisionmaking.
“The problem with that is the bill that Ro Khanna and I wrote says that they must release internal memos and notes and emails about their decisions on whether to prosecute or not prosecute, whether to investigate or not investigate,” Massie said on ABC. “It’s important they follow that, because then we could find why they didn’t prosecute Leslie Wexner. What was the decision tree there?”
The release of unredacted prosecutorial and investigative documents could also shed light on the 2008 plea deal under which Epstein avoided severe federal charges and pleaded guilty to lesser state charges in Florida, Massie added.
The Kentucky Republican also criticized Bondi for refusing to face several victims of Epstein’s abuse who attended the hearing. When Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) asked Bondi to turn around and apologize to the victims for what the Justice Department had put them through during the hearing, Bondi replied: “I’m not going to get in the gutter for her theatrics.”
At one point, Jayapal also asked the victims if they had not been able to meet with the Justice Department to share their stories, and each of them raised their hand.

In short, Bondi is a heartless and mean spirited blond dragon, as well as AG of the USA!

Arguably the sack of Rome was a bigger event for the Western Empire than the Siege of Minnesota has been for U.S. hegemony. But there are parallels. Ill behaved outsider barbarians raising havoc with a peaceful scene, there is most certainly that. As with saying the Siege and the DHS gulags are like the Holocauset, we see overstatement clearly - while hyperbole has a place.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Genseric_sacking_rome_456.jpg --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(455)

Wiki excerpt:

The Sack of Rome in 455 and the Visigothic sack of 410 shocked the Roman world and symbolized the decline and impending fall of the Western Roman Empire, marking a pivotal moment in European history.

Background
Since its founding in 395 AD, the Western Roman Empire was in a prolonged state of decline. One of its major issues was a mass migration of Germanic and other non-Roman peoples known as the Migration Period. [...]
Rome had ceased to be the capital of the empire by the beginning of the 4th century and a multitude of cities served as the capital of the western empire.^[7]

Sack

The Vandals landed at Ostia, located at the mouth of the Tiber only a few miles southwest of Rome. Maximus tried to flee Rome, but was spotted by an angry mob and stoned to death before being thrown into the Tiber.^[11] Before approaching, the Vandals knocked down the aqueducts that supplied water to the city.^[12] Pope Leo I was able to convince Gaiseric to spare those who did not resist, protect buildings from fire, and to not torture captives.^[13] [...]
The Vandals sacked the city for two weeks^[13] before returning to Africa, during which the imperial government of the Western Roman Empire was effectively paralysed. They marched south through Campania, devastating the region, and attempted to sack Neapolis but failed as the city had better defences.

Aftermath
[...] The two-week Vandal sack of 455 is generally considered more destructive than the three-day Visigoth sack of 410.^[18] Victor of Vita records that several shiploads of slave captives arrived in Africa from Rome, who were then divided between the Vandals. Deogratias, the Bishop of Carthage, bought the freedom of some of the Romans by selling all of the valuables from his church. Deogratias hosted and fed them in larger churches in Carthage until they could be repatriated back to Rome.

So, a bare two week siege, not what Minnesota suffered, two months in length.

Slaves taken. Transported. Some church actions lessened the plight of some of those seized.

Moving on, PiPress carried an NYT post about the mess after, and, what goals of the marauding Vandals were met. (No paywall.) See, also, carried postings here and here.

The main focus of this post now shifts to another PiPress AP carry:

Minneapolis left to decide future of streetside memorials to 2 people killed by federal officers

The public grieving spots echo the community-driven memorial to George Floyd, who was murdered in 2020

Crabgrass does support such two monuments to what was done, with a suggestion. Each should include a bronze plaque, headlined, "TRUMP KILLED - THEN LIED" and then being followed by detail, including a clear statement that it was a naked act of politics to invade Minnesota with barbarians because Minnesota at the time was a Democratic State and had voted each of three times for whoever was running against Trump; 2016, 2020 and 2024. Beyond that, further detail is less essential. But it should include the fact that Trump lied about the deaths and citizen observation proved the lie beyond any doubt; and that JD in particular said egregious things

The fucking bastards . . . NEVER FORGET

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Pam Bondi, Erika Kirk, which is the more puke-worthy?

Bondi is more aggressive, Kirk is the more vapid.

Bondi is even harder to listen to than Kirk. That takes a special talent.

Bondi wins on the shut-the-fuck-up index, but it is close.

Then there is Mackenzie Scott, a wonderful human. Who says little and is not disliked.

The three seem about the same age.Bondi is the savage of the three. She comes across as warm and human and bright as Stephen Miller.

The Republicans should run a Bondi - Miller ticket.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

“I am on a carnivore diet, so I just eat meat and ferments,” RFK Jr said.

When asked about Super Bowl snacking the headline gives Sec. Kennedy's answer. See, e.g., here and here.

He mentioned yogurt. But ferments is bigger than that. My question is would he consider sauerkraut for his Super Bowl friendship group?

And, can we call him "a Kraut?" Or "a Kimchi?"

I'd like to do that, if it's appropriate. I'd even like to call him "an ignorant Kraut." The "ignorant" part is an opinion and the Kraut part would be by admission.

With a promise federal goons in Minneapolis streets will be reassigned, meaning someone else will have a load of grief dumped on them, which killing was worse, Renee Good or Alex Pretti?

Not a trick question. The single shooter event was premeditated, Ross silently walking around the auto and placing himself in a position where he could bleat "self-defense" when the agency protocol said not to do so, and then the second and third shots into the passing auto; that was premeditated murder, or do you infer differently from the total of online video we've seen.

The Pretti shooting was gross. This is not to say otherwise. But premeditation can arguably be said to have been absent in that senseless killing.

Beyond those paragraphs, the end of the story will be written other than here.

Enough has already been said, so closing Trump is a fascist narcissist. In apparent mental decline toward incapacitating narcissistic dementia. Let's close on that. The thing curiously in parallel with his pulling Bovino out of Minnesota and sending Homan was his crashing in polling, to where one can infer but for the polls, Bovino would still be strutting town in his particularized way. Prove me wrong. If you can.

It is a nice day outside. There is cause to enjoy it. More posting in following days.