WHEN MONSTERS WRITE THE ENDING

 

When Monsters Write the Ending

The party of Trump crowned a trafficker as truth-teller, erased the victims, and marched our democracy one step closer to the abyss.

JoJoFromJerz

Aug 26, 2025

 

The truth isn’t disappearing by accident — it’s being buried alive with a predator’s grin. That’s the second season of this Trump shitshow: an endless mudslide of corruption, cruelty, and circus-grade distractions. Raids on enemies. Goons on the street. Manufactured meltdowns about autopens and football teams. It never stops. One atrocity piles on another until you’re gasping for air.

And that’s the point. They want you suffocating. They want you broken. They want you too tired to notice when Trump teases America about “needing a dictator,” and the crowd laughs like he’s delivering a punchline instead of a confession. They want you too numb to fight. Too overwhelmed to scream. Too exhausted to remember.

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And in that blur, the story that should stop the nation cold is being drowned out: the United States Department of Justice, under orders from Donald Trump, sat across from Ghislaine Maxwell — a predator in designer heels, a monster who hunted girls in gyms and malls, who promised them opportunity and delivered them into hell, who groomed them, trained them, broke them, then handed them to Jeffrey Epstein like offerings on a platter — and handed her the keys to rewrite history.

Picture it: a sterile prison room, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, a tape recorder blinking red. Across the table: Maxwell, convicted of luring children into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit of velvet and violence. And opposite her, not a prosecutor. Not an FBI agent. Not anyone sworn to stand with the victims. Opposite her sat Todd Blanche — Donald Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer, now installed as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.

That’s the scandal inside the scandal. Blanche wasn’t there to serve justice. He wasn’t there to defend survivors. He was there for Trump — to secure a line, a soundbite, a scrap of theater he could parade as proof of innocence. Not innocence for the country. Not truth for the record. Innocence for one man.

And Maxwell gave it to him, with the smirk of someone who knows her leverage: “He was always a gentleman.”

One line from a convicted trafficker, and suddenly Trump had his shield. Within hours, Fox News was running it in banners. Marjorie Taylor Greene was tweeting it like gospel. MAGA influencers were calling it vindication. The same people who once demanded Release the files! now waved a predator’s blessing like a crucifix.

Because that’s what this was always about. This wasn’t an investigation. It was a cover job. Trump sent his fixer into a prison to wring out the one thing he believed could bury the Epstein story forever — the one thing he could brandish to silence the demands for the truth he promised years ago.

And I am fucking sick of it. I am sick of watching the predators rewrite the script while the victims get erased. I am sick of watching the bad guys get away with bad things, over and over, while the people who were broken by them are told to sit quietly in the dark. I am sick of half of this country pretending not to see it.

But the survivors do see it. They always see it. They live with the weight every single day. They carry the memories in their bones, in their nightmares, in the silence they were forced into. They don’t get to forget — and that’s what makes it obscene that this government would hand the microphone to their trafficker and let her rewrite the story.

“It’s like letting her rewrite history while we watch,” one victim’s family member said, stunned at the spectacle. Another survivor put it even plainer: “It’s like being erased all over again.”

Even hardened DOJ veterans flinched. One called the meeting “bewildering.” Another admitted it was “not a vigorous interrogation.” Everyone knew what they were watching. It wasn’t justice. It was propaganda — Maxwell playing oracle, Blanche masquerading as a prosecutor while really acting as Trump’s defense attorney in government drag.

This wasn’t accountability. It was desecration dressed up as due process — a government in disgrace handing a trafficker the microphone and telling survivors their truth doesn’t matter.

Because this was never about evidence. It was about theater. Propaganda dressed up as transparency, spoon-fed to a public they think is too exhausted to resist.

Maxwell wasn’t confessing. She was bargaining. She wasn’t exposing crimes — she was covering them. She dangled absolution like bait, knowing Trump’s machine would bite, knowing loyalty was the only currency that mattered. And sure enough, the payoff came. Weeks later, she was quietly moved to a minimum-security camp in Texas — a transfer corrections experts called “unusual” for a convicted child sex trafficker. Reports even suggest she now has work release. Imagine that: a woman who hunted children for Jeffrey Epstein now strolling in and out of prison while the girls she destroyed remain trapped forever in the cages of memory.

That isn’t justice. That isn’t mercy. That is treason against every child who ever begged to be believed. It’s betrayal carved into the seal of the United States, a government signing its name to the erasure of its own daughters. It’s America spitting in the faces of survivors, telling them their pain is negotiable, their trauma disposable, their truth a bargaining chip to be traded away if it keeps Donald Trump safe.

And Republicans? They cheered. They applauded. They clapped not for truth, but for cover. Not for justice, but for survival. They clapped for the erasure of survivors because erasure is what loyalty to Trump now demands.

And the hypocrisy is obscene. Who leapt to endorse Maxwell’s word? Rep. Jim Jordan. Jim fucking Jordan — the man accused of ignoring sexual abuse at Ohio State while he was an assistant coach. The man who looked away while wrestlers were assaulted now looks America in the eye and declares he believes Ghislaine Maxwell. Think about that: a man accused of protecting an abuser choosing to sanctify the lie of a convicted trafficker. Not because she’s credible. Not because it’s justice.

But because her lie shields the madman he serves.

This isn’t coincidence. This is the blueprint. An administration that rewards predators with power. The man who bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy” sits in the Oval Office. The man accused of ignoring wrestlers being molested chairs the Judiciary Committee. The woman who trafficked girls is treated like a credible witness. The man found liable for sexual abuse presides from the Resolute Desk while his fixer-turned-DOJ-executive engineers the cover-up.

This isn’t government. This is a carcass dressed up in ceremony, democracy hollowed out and stinking of rot — a grotesque theater where predators are crowned and survivors are erased.

And through it all, Donald Trump sneers and spins — one day dismissing the Epstein files as a “Democrat hoax,” the next promising lists of names he never produces. The photographs are everywhere: him and Maxwell, smiling, orbiting each other for decades. They were not acquaintances. They were friends. Personal friends. And when Maxwell was arrested, when she was convicted, when the world saw her for exactly what she was, Trump didn’t condemn her. He wished her well. Three separate times.

Not once has he denounced her crimes. Not once has he spoken for the girls she trafficked, the lives she shattered. Instead, he lets her play redeemer — her words treated like scripture while the testimony of hundreds of broken lives is shoved into a locked drawer.

Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is no “gentleman”. He is a devourer draped in power, trailed by the accusations of more than two dozen women — their stories rising like a chorus of ghosts he cannot silence, no matter how loudly he rants. He is a man found liable for sexual abuse in a court of law, branded by the very system he spits on. He is not misunderstood. He is not falsely maligned. He is a beast who bragged — with the feral grin of entitlement, with the pride of a man who believed himself untouchable — about grabbing women “by the pussy.” Not in shame. Not in regret. But in triumph.

And now we’re supposed to believe that one line from a trafficker erases all of it. That Ghislaine Maxwell’s word is stronger than verdicts, stronger than survivors, stronger than history itself. That’s not hypocrisy — it’s surrender. It’s the Republican Party looking the country in the eye and saying: we will side with the predator if it keeps our guy in power.

And if you’re exhausted, I get it. I’m tired too. There are a million fires burning at once. It’s impossible to keep up with all of them. But that’s the plan. They are marching this democracy off a cliff, and in the avalanche of distraction, this story — of all stories — cannot be the one that fades.

Because if this story fades, so do the faces. The faces of fourteen-year-old girls, lured with promises of opportunity, vanish into shadows. The testimonies they gave — trembling hands, broken voices — gather dust in file drawers while predators rewrite the record in real time. The cries that once filled courtrooms are drowned out by applause for a trafficker calling a president a “gentleman.”

If this story fades, history itself is corrupted. Survivors become footnotes. Their scars invisible. Their courage erased by propaganda. The predators don’t just win in courtrooms. They win in memory. And what is memory, if not the foundation of justice? What is justice, if not the refusal to let monsters edit the record of what they did?

This one matters. It matters more than a thousand petty scandals, more than the churn of daily outrage. It matters because it tells every survivor in this country that their pain can be bartered away, their trauma is expendable, their truth disposable if it inconveniences power.

And I say this as a survivor myself: I know how isolating it can be, how dark and lonely it feels to carry something unspeakable inside you while the world looks away. I know the silence that sits like a stone on your chest, the shame that was never yours to begin with, the nights when it feels like no one will ever believe you, no one will ever stand with you. That is what makes this moment unbearable — to watch a government hand a microphone to a predator and let her erase the voices of those she abused, the voices that already had to fight like hell just to be heard once.

And if we let that slide — if we shrug it off, if we scroll past it, if we let ourselves believe it’s just another grotesque episode in the Trump circus — then we are complicit in the silence predators depend on.

This is the line in the sand. This is the scandal that cannot be forgotten.

I am sick of the bad guys winning, and I will not stop until every fucking one of them is dragged into the light. History will not remember the excuses — it will remember those who shielded the monsters, and it will remember those who had the courage to confront them instead.

I love you guys.

Stay safe, stay strong, and keep demanding the answers these survivors deserve.

💙 Jo

SIX CORRUPT SCUMBAGS ARE KILLING OUR COUNTRY AND ENABLING THE ORANGE MONSTER EVERY DAY

 

New INC. Magazine column from Howard Tullman 4 Reasons You Need to Right-Size Your AI

 

4 Reasons You Need to Right-Size Your AI

Sometimes it’s smart to be careful—and slow—when you’re dealing with new technologies.

EXPERT OPINION BY HOWARD TULLMAN, GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER, G2T3V AND CHICAGO HIGH TECH INVESTORS @HOWARDTULLMAN1

Aug 26, 2025

This is a very complex and challenging time for startups and small businesses in terms of how they should be addressing all of the issues and concerns around artificial intelligence and, more specifically, how they can incorporate the new AI tools and technologies into their own businesses. I realize that every startup in the world already professes to have built AI into their current offerings as well as into their future plans but, at best, many of these claims are nothing more than adaptations of machine learning or pattern recognition with a new shiny coat of paint and some text prediction capability. Sometimes it’s smart to be careful and slow when you’re dealing with new technologies. The last thing you want to do is be the latest victim of the fake-it-‘til-you-make-it disease.

It’s not remotely clear that a surface-level solution built on top of a generic large language model system will be of much value or benefit to many midsize businesses with very specific needs and nuanced market dynamics. One size almost never fits all these days. The implementation and operating costs alone of many of these systems would likely exceed any concrete internal improvements that addressed the user’s real needs. On the other hand, a smaller, more targeted, and clearly focused system whose objectives and functions the company’s management understands could be a valuable aid and time-saver if properly deployed.  

A side note that should be obvious but is often overlooked in top-down implementations of new tech is that you must secure buy-in from your key management and other pivotal team members and address in advance their concerns and the typical misunderstandings they may have about the plans, the short- and long-term job consequences, and other implications of the new systems and their roles in the process. 

We’re all rushing to employ these things before we fully understand them and, worse yet, it’s easy to come to depend on these seductive tools even when we know in our hearts that we’re not fully in control of them. You don’t need to cross the chasm in a single bound. Hallucinations and biases are only two of the most obvious risks and concerns when you start looking under the hood of some of these programs and discover that even their makers have only a passing idea of how they really work. 

The big guys in the corporate world can now rush to join the line of lemmings willing to pay OpenAI a consulting fee starting at $10 million to send a team of its eager engineers into their shops to build them custom solutions based on its GPT-4o technology. You would think that—given the havoc that the DOGE monkeys and minions brought about across our entire government—these corporate honchos would take a breath or two and ask themselves whether turning over the keys to their futures to Sammie’s smarties is the wisest course or whether it’s roughly akin to giving expensive whiskey and your car keys to the neighbor’s teenage son and wishing him well on his journey. 

If there’s a single statement that says it all for me right now, it’s the various versions of the observation that no one’s going to lose their business to AI, but most will lose their businesses to competitors who are more effectively using AI to streamline and accelerate their operations, to reduce their headcount without sacrificing customer connections and satisfaction, and to give them a far broader and more accurate overview of their marketplace, their competition, and timely intelligence and data to react to emerging positive and negative trends. 

The best and quickest of the players will rapidly realize that the hours and days they previously spent pouring over voluminous market data, analyzing their often incomplete and delayed compilations, and attempting to extract actionable information from the mess will now be replaced and made available in real-time detailed summaries crafted by young and clever prompt engineers.

The truth is that—with regard to the introduction of any new and disruptive technology—it will take every business a significant amount of time to learn how best to deploy it and how to deal with the displacements, interruptions, and new responsibilities and job descriptions that will accompany it and inevitably cause problems.  

Walking before you run—especially if you’re trying to do this development and implementation basically on your own—is the only rational and cost-effective course. It’s critical to keep in mind that you can always circle back and build better and more robust versions of what you’re initially experimenting with. It’s not likely to be an overnight project or an overnight success, but each iterative step will teach you a great deal, further empower you, and also help you to better understand the capabilities of the tools you are using—even as those abilities continue to grow and expand every day.  

What’s most important is for you to take the time to gather your team and review your operations and outline the areas where some intelligent automation could speed and simplify your own processes and actually produce a better result. In the first instance, none of this needs to be rocket science. Guesty is a legitimately AI-assisted property management system that was designed specifically for short-term rentals handled by Airbnb owners and operators.  

While this sounds about as mom-and-pop as can be, these folks face many of the same issues you do in your businesses—albeit at perhaps a smaller scale. The point is that, if this kind of simple use-case can show dramatic improvements in their metrics and their bottom lines, then shame on you if you haven’t figured out how to replicate these tools and techniques in your own shop.  

Here are four simple examples that a satisfied Airbnb operator told me has increased his yield and profit, dramatically decreased the time he was spending each week on his side business, improved his ratings and rankings with Airbnb, and led to repeat business and referrals from satisfied customers. And to be clear, I think he spends about $30 a month for the app. Eat your heart out.  

1. Hundreds of stored FAQ responses are delivered automatically in context-sensitive and narrative serial fashion 

You would be surprised and possibly shocked to learn how many times a day your team members waste their time repeatedly responding to and answering the same questions over and over again. Often, they do it slowly or inaccurately and eventually they do it impatiently—human nature being what it is—and none of this is good for your business. Automated responses can satisfy a significant number of callers who have simple, redundant inquiries and, more importantly, can deflect the wrong callers by simply and quickly making it clear to them that they are looking in the wrong place. 

Pricing is dynamic 24/7 and throughout each week based on a variety of factors and competitive offerings in the market as well as available capacity 

While in theory you could spend your entire day checking out competitive offerings and prices and adjusting your offers accordingly (and clearly Amazon does its pricing in this fashion every minute) and you could also constantly check your bookings through the week and determine whether price reductions might absorb available and empty units, rooms, or beds (just as American Airlines does all day long), the fact is that neither you nor anyone on your team has the time or interest to do anything like this, but the Guesty system does it automatically for you according to your guidelines and parameters instantly every day.  

Publish and sync your listings in real time across more than 50 major listing services including all the major sites  

You may use programmatic tools (with very little actual accountability) to get your messages out to the masses, but, in truth, you have little idea of who is seeing them and absolutely no real time ability to change or update the content or distribution plan. Intelligent systems using open APIs across multiple platforms give you a one-stop solution to precisely target and deliver your messages to qualified, interested viewers in the proper context with the ability to vary and alter any portion of the listings that you wish at any time.  

Responses to every inquiry are immediately replied to even if the reply is merely a placeholder and conversation starter 

Not surprisingly, response time is a measurable metric that firms like Airbnb use to evaluate the owners and operators on their site who use their services. Automated intelligent systems can respond instantly to every inquiry even if the response isn’t a substantive answer, but only a request for further info, details, or specificity to continue the conversation. In addition to managing the Airbnb metric, this immediate reply improves customer satisfaction and engagement without consuming any incremental resources until the lead is further qualified.  

Bottom line: While these examples may not directly apply to your company’s needs and current operations, each of them is an invitation and a suggestion to explore similar kinds of concerns and friction within your own organization and to see how AI and intelligent automation can help to address and improve things.  

PEDO PREZ

 

 

TEXAS IN THE TOILET

 

KUSHER LETTER TO MACRON ABOUT FRENCH ANTI-SEMITES

 

Open Source Intel

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U.S. ambassador to France Charles Kushner in an open letter to Macron. Dear President Macron, On the 81st anniversary of the Allied Liberation of Paris, which ended the deportation of Jews from French soil, I write out of deep concern over the dramatic rise of antisemitism in France and the lack of sufficient action by your government to confront it. Antisemitism has long scarred French life, but it has exploded since Hamas’s barbaric assault on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, pro-Hamas extremists and radical activists have waged a campaign of intimidation and violence across Europe. In France, not a day passes without Jews assaulted in the street, synagogues or schools defaced, or Jewish-owned businesses vandalized. Your own Interior Ministry has reported antisemitic incidents even at preschools. Public statements haranguing Israel and gestures toward recognition of a Palestinian state embolden extremists, fuel violence, and endanger Jewish life in France. In today’s world, anti-Zionism is antisemitism—plain and simple. President Trump and I have Jewish children and share Jewish grandchildren. I know how he feels about antisemitism, as do all Americans. He directed the Education Department to enforce civil-rights protections for Jewish students on university campuses, making clear that harassment and discrimination won’t be tolerated. He expanded resources for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security to safeguard synagogues and Jewish schools. He ordered strict vetting to bar entry for foreigners espousing antisemitic hatred and revoked visas for foreign agitators. He oversaw the deportation of Hamas sympathizers and cut funding to organizations promoting antisemitic incitement. And by crippling Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, he struck directly at the world’s leading state sponsor of antisemitism and terror and saved millions of lives. These measures prove that antisemitism can be fought effectively when leaders have the will to act. Today, many French Jews fear that history will repeat itself in Europe. Parents encourage their children to emigrate; surveys show most French citizens believe another Holocaust could happen in Europe. Nearly half of French youth report never having heard of the Holocaust at all. What are children being taught in French schools if such ignorance persists? Mr. President, I urge you to act decisively: enforce hate-crime laws without exception; ensure the safety of Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses, prosecute offenders to the fullest extent; and abandon steps that give legitimacy to Hamas and its allies. As U.S. ambassador to France, I stand ready to work with you and with leaders across French society to forge a serious plan that addresses the roots of antisemitism and defeats it.