The Good News is...

      ...no one's talking about the failed bomb attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, any more.

      The problem is, with Trump, when a horrible news item gets pushed off the front pages, another, often worse one, takes its place. Or, in this case, two.

      Let's start with the flash floods in south central Texas that have killed over 100 people, with about 170 still missing. Earlier today, Trump sat next to Greg Abbott and held a press conference. A reporter from a local CBS affiliate asked Trump, "Several families we've heard from are obviously upset because they say that those warnings, those alerts, didn't go out in time. And they also say that people could have been saved. What do you say to those families?"

     Typically,  he went on the offensive, insulting the reporter and refused to answer the question. This is what he said:

      "Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you. I don't know who you are, but only a very evil person would ask a question like that. I think this has been heroism. This has been incredible, really, the job you've all done, it's easy to sit back and say, oh, what could have happened here? There? You know, maybe we could have done something differently. This was a thing that has never happened before, and nobody's ever seen anything — I've never seen anything like this."

     Except that the same thing happened just 38 years ago in the same exact spot in 1987, which has long been known as "Flash Flood Alley." The fact is, there's plenty of blame to go around, starting with Trump himself for ordering the Defense Department to stop sharing crucial weather data and axing 560 jobs from the National Weather Service just before the July 4th flood. In fact, the San Antonio and San Angelo NWS offices were completely vacant when the flood hit.

      In fact, as of last February, 1300 layoffs at the NOAA were announced back when DOGE was still a thing. 

     Of course, Trump doesn't want to talk about that because he's a guy who's genetically incapable of accepting blame for a Goddamned thing. And when someone in the media asks him a pointed question, his default response is to attack the reporter.because he loses his shit when he's caught with his pants down, which seems to be always.

     The other news item is Pam Bondi's amazing announcement that the Epstein client list never existed, after all, and that there's no evidence that Epstein didn't commit suicide (despite the fact there's a missing minute in the video security footage that just coincidentally happened to be around the time Epstein died).

     This set off a firestorm on both sides of the ideological divide. Liberals were outraged because it became obvious that Bondi was covering for Trump because his name was obviously all over that list. MAGAts lost their minds because they saw it as proof that Bondi was covering for the Clintons and other Democrats that MAGA World has been conditioned to hate, despite the fact that Bondi has never expressed any support or sympathy for the Clintons or any Democrat.

      This touched off a dumpster fire in the Department of Justice where's it's been reported that FBI Deputy Director Danny Bongos had a screaming match with Bondi over the suddenly disappeared Epstein client list. That and the internal belief that Bongino leaked sensitive information abut the Epstein list (although there's no evidence he did any such thing) led Bongino to leave DC and take the rest of the day off so could decide whether or not he wants to resign.

     The flash flood and the names of the victims will, sadly, fade from the headlines but the Epstein case is still so radioactive that it's proven to be one of those zombie news stories that never dies. MAGAts are outraged that Bondi deep-sixed the Epstein list list because it denies them the chance to go after Democrats. But what these MAGA morons don't realize is that Bondi, and Kash Patel, did so because Trump's name was all over it. They refuse to even entertain the possibility that their boy Donne is himself a pedophile and one who was compromised by his own friend.

     Let's face it, Trump was a friend of Epstein for at least 15 years. We know he was on the Lolita Express at least seven times (Trump even used it on the campaign trail when his private jet was down for repairs). 

     And, when Bondi was asked about the client list, Trump wouldn't let her answer and instead said, "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable." Well, yeah. People will still talk about Epstein and his list as long as the questions aren't being answered and if the Attorney General is engaging in spoliation on an Olympian level.

      I can't wait to see what breaks next week.