Tuesday, February 10, 2026

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 117th Edition. Sen. Lummis wakes up from a long winter's nap.

I'm shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!

Captain Renault, Casablanca.

Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!

Retiring Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis.

About fucking time.

It's frankly very difficult to credit this comment.  A pack of rich men, and 30 members of the current Trump interregnum, are mentioned in the Epstein files, including Trump, and she didn't see what the big deal was?  As if the rich and powerful buying underaged sex slaves on U.S. territory, pretty openly, isn't a big deal.

That would be the viewpoint of a complete moron.

Lummis isn't a moron.

She's also not running for office again either.

Either she's really checked out, which at age 71, and admittedly now too worn down to do her job, she may very well be.  Maybe she just isn't paying any attention.

Or maybe her lifetime in politics has simply numbered her to stuff like this, which should worry us all, as that would suggest some pretty gross filth is pretty common.

Or, maybe retiring, and after having realized that a tsunami of filth is coming, she decided to get out of the water.


Now, if only we could draw some candidates for her replacement who never sipped the Koolaide.

And maybe now somebody will confront Barrasso whose only purpose seems to be to stand behind Trump and company and give stern looks.

Last edition:

CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 116th Edition. Dissing J.D., What's the point of the National Prayer Breakfast?, Drip.

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