MONDAY: Adebayo goes for 83...

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2026

...and then keeps getting it right: We didn't even know that the appearance had occurred! We refer to the PBS performance which you can still watch right here:

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 
Alanis Morissette 
Season 49 Episode 4912 / 53m 25s

Alternative rock icon Alanis Morissette thrills with a career-spanning set on her ACL debut.

Who knew? The session originally aired in February 2024. Yesterday afternoon, we stumbled upon a rebroadcast on one of the seven (7) PBS channels which festoon our cable lineup. 

We well remember the first time we saw Morissette perform. In the middle of the night, probably in 1999, we stumbled upon a broadcast of her MTV Unplugged appearance.

The program featured this performance of That I Would Be Good. We especially recall the cry to the cosmos which followed these lyrics:

That I Would Be Good

[...]

That I would be loved even when I numb myself
That I would be good even when I'm overwhelmed
That I would be loved even when I was fuming
That I would be good even if I was clingy
That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good whether with or without you

There follows that memorable cry to the heavens, well past the balcony's back row. For full lyrics, click here.

"Black Jesus," we quickly told the youthful analystsand we've never changed our assessment concerning the unbelievably good advice this young woman was inferentially dispensing, perhaps especially to young women but also, without question, to the young men who were wise enough to hear it and receive it. 

(Some of her songs about gender relations were considered pretty tough. We thought those angry songs were basically right on target, not unlike the 2020 film, Promising Young Woman.)

To our ear, Morissette dispensed a ton of good advice, accompanied by a form of reassurance:

You learn

[...] 

You live, you learn
You love, you learn
You cry, you learn
You lose, you learn
You bleed, you learn
You scream, you learn
You grieve, you learn
You choke, you learn
You laugh, you learn
You choose, you learn
You pray, you learn
You ask, you learn
You live, you learn

Within the larger context of the full performance, that's unbelievably good advicewith the suggestion that the unavoidable process of becoming yourself will, with any luck at all, turn out well in the end.

Don't even ask us about "Thank U (India)!" With that, we turn to Bam Adebayo, who shocked the world last week in a very unusual way.

Last Tuesday, Adebayo scored 83 points as the Miami Heat defeated the admittedly hapless Washington Wizards. It's the second most points any player has ever scored in an NBA game.

As happenstance had it, it happened to be the first Heat game Adebayo's girl friend had been able to attend. We're speaking of A'ja Wilson, a major WNBA star.

After the game, Adebayo offered some spectacularly good inferential advice to teenage boys and young men. People magazine quotes him at the start of its report:

All About Bam Adebayo and A'ja Wilson's Relationship

A'ja Wilson was there to celebrate boyfriend Bam Adebayo's latest basketball milestone.

At the Miami Heat's March 10 game against the Washington Wizards, Adebayo scored 83 points, surpassing the late Kobe Bryant. Wilt Chamberlain still holds the record at 100 points. During a press conference that followed, the NBA star said he is "inspired" by his girlfriend.

"To have 83 the first game she's here is very special ... the behind-the-scenes, the workouts, the conversations, they're very motivating, and obviously you see what she does ... you get inspired by that. I'm thankful to have her in my life," he said in a video shared by the NBA on X.

And so on from there. Also, though, good God!

You almost never see famous menfamous male rock stars; famous male athletesspeak that way about their girlfriends or their wives. A few days later, along came that rebroadcast of Austin City Limits, and the circle was completed, at least here on this campus.

Adebayo set a spectacularly good example that day for hetero boys and young men. At 10 o'clock each weekday night, the Fox News Channel airs an unbelievably fetid counterexample, in which a bunch of lunkheads are paid to sit around comparing women to cows. (It goes downhill from there.)

The corporation puts it on the air; Blue America looks away. We Blues! We act like nothing is happening when such destructive swill is aired. On balance, this increasingly seems to be who we secretly are!

Adebayo went for 83, then kept getting it right. That said, we're still leaving Morissette at the top of the heap. Our favorite of her lyrics can be found lurking here:

Thank U (India)

[...]

How about no longer being masochistic?
How about remembering your divinity?
How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out?
How about not equating death with stopping?

Thank you India
Thank you providence
Thank you disillusionment
Thank you nothingness
Thank you clarity
Thank you, thank you silence...

To hear a performance, click this.

How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out? In the appropriate circumstance, we'd call that good sound advicebut in the main, we just like the way it sounds!

In our view, Morissette gave a lot of young people a lot of extremely good advice in those early songs. Last week, to the world's surprise, along came the widely admired Bam Adebayo, who we're going to call a "real man."


BATTLES ALL AT ONCE: We've reached peak hatred, David French says!

MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2026

It's everywhere all at once: In his column in Sunday's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof voiced concern about the president's language. 

We can't exactly say that Kristof's concern is misguided. Headline included, here's part of what he wrote, with a bit of Hegseth thrown in:

Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State? 

[...]

I worry that if Trump grows increasingly frustrated and exhausts the target lists, he may be tempted to strike dual-use civilian infrastructure, such as the electrical grid or highways and bridges, so as to punish Iran and inflict broader misery that might provoke unrest.

Indeed, the president and those close to him seem to be telegraphing such an approach.

“We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world, if they do anything,” Trump told reporters. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denounced “stupid rules of engagement” and dismantled the Pentagon office that sought to reduce civilian casualties in war. Senator Lindsey Graham boasted that “we’re going to blow the hell out of these people.”

On social media, Trump warned that if Iran obstructs the Strait of Hormuz, the United States “will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again—Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them” (his spelling and capitalization).

As Phillips O’Brien, an American scholar of military strategy, put it, “One might say he was threatening to commit one of the greatest war crimes in history.” 

Friend, can you imagine something like that? Can you imagine the sitting president engaging in conduct which would constitute "one of the greatest war crimes in history?” 

Everything can be imagined! But can you imagine that?

As readers may know, we've long suspected that the president may be in the grip of certain medical conditionsconditions the Blue American upper-end press has uniformly refused to discuss. 

We've also suggested this:  

Presumably, people who are (seriously) "mentally ill" never chose to be so afflicted. That doesn't mean that they may not end up heading down a profoundly unfortunate path. 

In the passage we've posted, Kristof included a dab of language from the Secretary of Defense. (He prefers to call himself the Secretary of War.) It seems to us that some of the secretary's language during last Friday's press event is worth recording here.

Here's some of what the secretary said. We work from the transcript provided by the invaluable Rev:

Pentagon Press Briefing for 3/13/26

Good morning. I'll start, as we often do here at the Department of War, with the bottom line upfront, for the world to hear and the press to actually admitthat the United States is decimating the radical Iranian regime's military in a way the world has never seen before.

[...]

Soon and very soon, all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed...Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground. Cowering. That's what rats do. 

[...] 

With every passing hour, we know, and we know they know, that the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling. They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate. They're confused, and we know it. Our response? We will keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies. 

Hegseth started with an insinuation about the dishonesty of "the press." When it comes to the "rats" in Iran, different people will have different reactions to the language in question. 

Also, some have said that the pledge to have "no quarter for our enemies" flirts on the border of war crimes. Presumably, others disagree with that. 

At that point, continuing directly, the secretary went after the group the sitting president has described as "the enemy within." Increasingly, the secretary doubles as a press criticand a very harsh critic at that:

[continuing directly from above]
Yet some in this crew, in the press, just can't stop. Allow me to make a few suggestions. 

People look up at the TV and they see banners, they see headlines. I used to be in that business. And I know that everything is written intentionally. 

For example, a banner or a headline, "Mideast War Intensifies," splashing on the screen the last couple of days, alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that's what they do. What should the banner read instead? How about "Iran Increasingly Desperate"? Because they are. They know it, and so do you. Admit it. 

Or more fake news from CNN: reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do, hold the strait hostage. 

CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unserious report. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. 

Possibly in a bit of a lather, the secretary misrepresented what that CNN report had said. Later that day, the Wall Street Journala Murdoch org!published this news report about this very same topic.

(Headline: "Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War." According to the Journal's report, General Caine had warned the president about the likely closing of the straitbut the sitting president disregarded the general's warning.) 

Back to Hegseth's briefing! The secretary wasn't finished with his unusual formulations at the point where we left off. Still in his opening statement, he now offered these thoughts:

We will stop at nothing to win. War is hell, war is chaos.

This nation is planning to stop at nothing! That's what Hegseth saidand now, we'll voice our own points of concern:

We think there's room for concern when the ultimate decision makers start describing the enemy as "rats." 

Others will disagree with that assessment. At this site, we think there's room for concern. 

(We had a similar reaction to Rachel Maddow's recent speech in British Columbia. That's why we cited that speech in Friday afternoon's report.)

At this site, we don't have confidence in the emotional makeup of the two officials we've cited. Other people do have confidence in what they're proceeding to do.

We also don't have a lot of confidence in the capability of major Blue American elites. To cite one recent example, we'll show you, in tomorrow's report, what Jonathan Capehart recently said about the so-called SAVE Act.

Kristof voiced a startling concern in yesterday's New York Times column. David French voiced a related concern in his own most recent column:

Here in this nation, we've entered a state of peak loathing and hatred, he said. "We Have Reached End-Stage Polarization," the headline on his piece says

At present, the battles are everywhere all at once as these syndromes play themselves out. It's one tribal battle after another, pretty much all day long.

At this site, we have no way of knowing how the war in Iran will end up. But the loathing is everywhere all at once, especially, it seems to us, in an array of ill-advised programs aired by the Fox News Channel.

French didn't mention that "cable news" channel. David French, listen up! Turn on your TV set!

Tomorrow: In French's view, it's tribal hatredand the resultant battleseverywhere all at once! 


SATURDAY: No one will ever ask these lowlifes...

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026

...why they behaved as they did: No one will ever ask the children why they did what they did. 

Also, no one will ever report or discuss the remarkable fact that these very bad boys and girls went on TV and did it!

We refer to the way the children behaved on Tuesday, March 3first on The Five, then five hours later on Gutfeld! In fairness, they behave like clowns every day of the week, but their behavior this day was remarkable, even for them.

Even for pigeons like "Tyrus" and Timpf! They're two of the very naughty youngsters to whom we make reference this day. One last time, let's call the roll:

The Five panelists: Tuesday, 3/3/26
Emily Compagno: co-host, Outnumbered
Jessica Tarlov: twice-weekly punching bag
Jesse Watters: host, Jesse Watters Primetime
Dana Perino: co-anchor, America's Newsroom
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Gutfeld! panelists: Tuesday, 3/3/26
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Dave Landau: comedian
Mike Benz: Foundation For Freedom Online

Nine (9) naughty children in all! No one is ever going to ask them why they did what they did. 

No one will ever ask Timpf why she said the things she said. No one will ever ask the blowhard Tyrus why he was on the nation's most-watched "cable news" program even though he didn't know the first f*cking thing about the events of four and five days before.

By now, it has been eleven days since Timpf said the things she said. She has never corrected, apologized or explained. 

Along with all the rest of these mugs, she has never explained why she acted like something amazingly seamy had happenedwhen in fact, it just plain never did.

These mugs are never going to explain. Last night, the one guy even got permission to go ahead and say this:

GUTFELD (3/13/26): And finally, the new supreme leader of Iran said they will obtain compensation from America.

In a gesture of good faith, Trump offered his five biggest cows:

[PHOTO, the five co-hosts of The View]

AUDIENCE: [Laughter, hooting, applause]

There! After weeks of self-denial, saying that felt really good!

Back to Tuesday March 3! No one will ever report what those "Unrecognizables" did. You won't read about it at The Atlantic, or in the New York Times.

No columnist will note what they did. Everyone knows that it just isn't donethat the Fox News Channel's actual friends are the posers in Blue America who enable its grisly procedures.

Meanwhile, an interesting moment, or set of moments, occurred in Bill Clinton's deposition on Friday, February 27. Before we show you the relevant text, let the word go forth to the nations:

As every sane person must know by now, Attorney General Bondi has been refusing to obey federal law with respect to "the Epstein files." 

The release of those files has been unlawful. Also, it has been targetedand as every sane person must know by now, Bondi started out by releasing what she had about former president Clinton.

In all candor, she didn't have much! Excitingly, there was one photo of a fully dressed Clinton, sitting upright in a metal chair, receiving some sort of neck rub from a fully clothed, youngish woman.

That had been a moment from one of those flightsfrom one of the flights in which Bill Clinton was creating the global network which (insert yawn here) would eventually save as many as thirty million lives worldwide in the war against AIDS.

Clinton described that effort in his testimony. We'll wait while you finish your yawn.

Along the way in the deposition, Clinton was asked about the only thing that actually matters to people like us. He was asked about that troubling neck rub.

Whatever a person may think about any of this, we'll show you what Bill Clinton said. We'll identify the questioners to the extent that we're able.

As you can see in the Rev transcript, the first exchange about the rub proceeded as shown below. For full videotape of the deposition, you can just click this:

ATTORNEY (2/27/26): My next question for you is, have you ever had contact with an individual by the name of Chaunte Davies?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Chauntae wasthat's a distinctive name. So I think that was the name of one of his flight attendants.

‍ATTORNEY: Okay. She's been described on being on a 2002 Africa trip and providing massages. Was she or any other young female on that trip underage at that time?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Not that I'm aware of.

‍ATTORNEY: Okay. Did you ever receive a massage or have physical contact from her or anyone else on that trip?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: You've seen the pictures. There was one time when I was sitting up, and I got a back ruba neck rub. And I think Chauntae did it, but I'm not sure. 

For the record: 

According to a report by Snopes (link below), Davies was 22 at the time. Later in the deposition, a second exchange occurred:

QUESTIONER: I think it was discussed in the previous round, but that well-known photograph of yourself and Ms. Davies

 What is your recollection of the extent of your interactions with Ms. Davies on that trip?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Where were we?

QUESTIONER: In Africa. I think it was at the airport, on the way to

PRESIDENT CLINTON: That's it. We had a good relationship, but it was entirely proper. I never had any personal contact with her, if that's what you imply.

QUESTIONER: Am I right that while on that trip, whether the trip or the flights, did you ever witness or become aware of sexual abuse of any kind?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I did not.

QUESTIONER: Thank you.

Incredibly, we were now being asked to believe that the former president hadn't abused this young woman! Later, there was also this:

REP. MELANIE STANSBURY (D-NM): The third person I want to talk about briefly is Chauntae Davies. I know we've already mentioned her here today. I know you've already mentioned that she was listed as a flight attendant on the trip to South Africa in 2002 that you took with Jeffrey Epstein. 

Are you aware that Chauntae Davies is a survivor who claims she was abused for three years, including during that time period?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I am now.

REP. STANSBURY: Are you aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited his victims through calling them masseuses?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: No.

REP. STANSBURY: You're not aware that Jeffrey

PRESIDENT CLINTON: No. But it doesn't surprise me. But I didn't know that, no.

REP. STANSBURY: Knowing that Jeffrey Epstein recruited hundreds of minors as masseuses to massage him. and knowing that this victim who was a survivor of three years of his sexual abuse as a masseuse was on the plane, does that make you think about the massage you received from her differently?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Have you seen the picture?

REP. STANSBURY: I have a copy of it right here. Yes.

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Well, I'm sitting up in the

REP. STANSBURY: I'm just asking if now that you know that Jeffrey Epstein recruited girls as masseuses, does that reframe that photograph? And knowing that there were girls on the plane that were being abused?

Were there actually girls on the plane who were being abused? We aren't real sure about that. See below.

At any rate, Rep. Stansbury continued with a line of questioning which strikes us as slightly peculiar. Eventually, this exchange occurred:

REP. STANSBURY: Part of what I'm trying to do is to ask youwe know there was a survivor that was on the plane. You've stated that you didn't know she was a survivor. I understand that. 

But I am asking, now that you are aware that Epstein was recruiting survivors as masseuses, does this make you rethink what you saw as you were traveling and interacting with him?

PRESIDENT CLINTON: I wish Chauntae had told me. I liked her. But I didn't think it was anything unusual and I can't tell you how many airplanes I've been on where rich people ask me to go, and they had someone offering massages. 

All these boats that you go on and all that, they all do that. Usually, I don't do that. I'm not into this.

REP. STANSBURY: Well, that certainly raises some other questions about people offering free massages and boats, et cetera.

So said the former president. As he did, Rep. Stansbury hurried off to investigate the entire rest of the world.

Back to President Clinton. He had received a neck rub from Chauntae Davies, age 22, while sitting upright, fully clothed, on a metal chair at an airport. 

He said he liked Chauntae Davies. He said he had a good relationship with her on that flight. He said he wished that she had told him that she already was, at that point, a victim of sexual abuse. 

He also said that he hadn't seen any evidence of such abuse. With that, we turn to several things Chauntae Davies, a good decent person, has said in recent years.

Her remarks are quoted in this fact check by Snopes. First, Snopes reprints this part of a 2020 news report by The Daily Mail:

Davies acted as an air stewardess on the flight and described being shocked when Clinton boarded the plane, saying he was "charming and sweet."

Davies, now in her early 40s, said of the massage pictures: "Although the image looks bizarre, President Clinton was a perfect gentleman during the trip and I saw absolutely no foul play involving him."

She explained the massage happened when "we had a stop-over for the jet to refuel and while we were in the terminal the ex-President was complaining of stiffness from falling asleep in his chair.

"Ghislaine chimed in to be funny and said that I could give him a massage.

"Everyone had a little chuckle but Ghislaine in her prim British accent insisted and said I was good. The President then asked me, 'Would you mind giving it a crack?' "

Davies was quoted saying that by The Daily Mail. Later, Scopes reports, she made the following poignant statement as part of the Netflix series, "Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich:"

I went from being just the masseuse to being asked to be a personal assistant on this trip. So I was blinded by the opportunity of it. I hadn't gone anywhere really, and to go to Africa was like a dream come true. 

I flew from L.A. to New York, the plane was ready on the tarmac when I got there, and I took a seat. Then our guests arrived. It was Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. I was blown away, like oh my God, it was surreal. 

The trip was about the AIDS organization that Clinton had started. This trip to Africa is probably the single most amazing moment of my life, and I remember having this false belief that the abuse had stopped because nothing had happened in Africa. Thinking that maybe it just wasn't going to happen anymore. 

But after the Africa trip, the abuse started all over again, and it never stopped after that.

According to Snopes, that's what this good person said. She seemed to be saying that Epstein turned off the abuse when Bill Clinton was aroundbut the abuse started up all over again after that. 

Clinton said he didn't see any abuse. Davies seemed to say that no abuse occurred on that flight.

She was 22 years old at the time. You can see the photo of the shoulder massage, with the fully clothed Clinton sitting upright on a metal chair during a stopover inside an airport terminal.

The exchanges about Davies struck us as the saddest and most interesting part of Bill Clinton's deposition. Those exchanges leave you, and all the rest of us, facing a set of question about ourselves:

Are you able to believe that Bill Clinton, age 56, actually "liked" this 22-year-old woman, but didn't sexually assault her?

Also, are you able to believe that he "acted like a perfect gentleman" during that trip? That he didn't engage in the kind of conduct the snarling mutts of the Fox News Channel like to go on TV and dream up stories about?

Are you able to believe that the trip in question was about AIDS prevention, not about the joys of sexual assault? 

Admittedly, AIDS prevention is boring. But are you able to imagine that AIDS prevention is the actual reason why Bill Clinton was on that plane? 

This is why we ask:

We live in a smarmy, unintelligent, failing culture which has only one thing on its mind. 

Our culture doesn't much care about saving lives around the world. Instead, our culture enjoys the lurid dreams voiced by Gutfeld and Timpf and the rest of the mutts on Tuesday evening, March 3. 

On that astonishing occasion, a passel of circus clowns spewed the bullsh*t inside their own empty heads about a lurid, tribally thrilling eventabout a lurid, tribally thrilling event which simply never happened.

These sex tales have thrilled us for more than thirty years nowthe fight against AIDS not so much. By now, it's all we secretly want to hear. By now, it may be the only we know how to believe.  

This is the way a society endswith a bizarre TV host who seems to loathe women, and with the array of undisguised nut-balls his gong-show program employs.

On March 3, they invented an utterly bogus claim about President Clinton's behavior during his deposition, and then they began to clown. Eleven days later, no one has asked them why they did that, and nobody ever will.

No one at the Times will ask, no one at The Atlantic. Timpf hasn't corrected what she said, and people like her never will.

Last night, they continued their gruesome behavior in too many ways to spend time on. That said, the women of The View are cows once again!  The pay is good at the Fox News Channel, and the mutts have all clambered aboard.

In our own Blue America, no one will ever report or discuss what those lowlifes did on March 3. They're very naughty boys and girls, and the giants we Blues are told to trust race to get out of their way.

FRIDAY: Trump and Maddow and Compagno oh my!

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026

An age of unusual statements: Stating the obvious, Blue American media are never going to report or discuss the possible medical state of the sitting American president. In that sense, his possible medical state qualifies as the prevailing threat to the world our own Blue Silo has chosen. 

That said, the sitting president really went off last night. This Truth Social post strikes us as a potentially disturbing manifestation from someone who might possibly seem to need help:

Truth Details

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

We are totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise, yet, if you read the Failing New York Times, you would incorrectly think that we are not winning. Iran’s Navy is gone, their Air Force is no longer, missiles, drones and everything else are being decimated, and their leaders have been wiped from the face of the earth. We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time - Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

There are very few stone-cold pacifists within the American population. That said, declaring it an honor to be killing all the scumbags strikes us as a potentially dangerous sign.

For David Gilmour's report at Mediaite, you can just click here

That said, the thunder has been general over the nation of late. Yesterday afternoon, Greg Owens dropped this account of a recent speech in the 51st state. His report appeared beneath this dual headline:

Rachel Maddow drags Trump’s poor health in blistering speech
The MS NOW host’s colorful tour of the president’s rotting body had jaws dropping in Canada.

Within that report, you can click ahead to videotape of that colorful tour. 

In his report, Owens offers this account of what Maddow said. This also strikes us as possibly unwise and unhealthy:

“I reject the inevitability and the supposed indefinite rule of Trump and Trumpism,” she told the Canadians, before pausing for effect and adding, “not because I believe the cheeseburgers will ultimately win.” That got a laugh from the knowing Canucks.

Then, like an attending physician leading her medical students on rounds, Maddow took her audience on a grand tour of the president’s decaying body.

“I mean, it’s not just that he’s the oldest person elected to the presidency, and he is obese, and he has gigantically swollen ankles, and he drags his leg, and he now puts more makeup on his hands than even what he puts on his face, and he puts so much on his face on a good day that he looks like he’s been well-embalmed,” she shared to jaw drops and whoops.

“He also—on top of that!—has a gnarly new bright red, lumpy neck rash on the right side of his neck, which makes it look like he was attacked by a particularly lusty sea lamprey that someone ripped off of him too fast after it had sunk hundreds of its gritty, dull, dirty little teeth into to the wrinkly fleshy plane just below his right ear.”

The crowd roared their approval of the rotting diagnosis, but there was a coda.

“It really is,” Maddow finished, over exhausted laughs. “It’s bloody bright red and crumbly. And it has holes in it. It looks like clumpy spaghetti sauce burned onto a baking sheet.”

“It’s not good!” she added brightly.

That strikes us as possibly counterproductive, not that there's any way out.

Adding a bit of comic relief, Emily Compagno was drifting back toward The Hotsy Totsy on last evening's Gutfeld! program. 

As will sometimes happen, the gang got tired of all the "hard news" stuff, so they devoted a segment to a news report about a guy who didn't want to pay for the sixteen lap dances he had received at a strip club. 

Here's the "news issue" the savants tackled:

Why shouldn't a gentleman be required to pay for the service in question before he receives it? 

That was the news debate. Perhaps a bit surprisingly, Compagno leaped in with this:

GUTFELD (3/12/26):  I don't know what I'm saying, Emily. But you're a lawyer.

COMPAGNO: Everybody should just pay before— Like, I don't understand why

GUTFELD: Pay ahead of time?

COMPAGNO: Yes!! You can't do anything nowadays without paying first! 

I don't know why they're not paying first, A. And B, all you have to do is buy a chick a drink at any club, or any bar, and she'll give him a lap dance for free. 

So like, I feel like it's outdated.

Emphasis on any club, or any bar, live and direct from Compagno. Seconds later, the lady expressively jumped back in:

COMPAGNO [waving her arms]: That came out wrong!!! I don't mean me! I don't mean me, everyone. It came out wrong.

As we said, it was a bit of (somewhat strange) comic relief!

For the record, a lot of things "come out wrong" on Fox News Channel programs. Our nation's "news culture" is changing fast. Possibly timorous Blue elites have agreed to avert their gaze from what takes place Over There.


SOCIETAL REMAINS: This is the way a society ends!

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2026

Not with a bang but a poser: "Nothing beside remains." 

It's a famous line from "Ozymandias," a famous poem by the famous Shelley about what happens to fame. 

Also, about what happens to societal power, and possibly just to societies. 

By the end of the sonnet, nothing is left of the greatness enjoyed, long before, by the mighty Ozymandias (the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, 1303 BC – 1213 BC).

"Nothing beside remains," we're told at the end of the offering. "Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck"in its day, it had been a free-standing statue of the mighty pharaoh"...The lone and level sands stretch far away."

To our eye, it's a bit like that when we watch what happened last week on The Five. And then again, five hours later, on Gutfeld! (and elsewhere in Red America). 

Also, it's a bit like that when we consider the fact that publications like The Atlantic have no plan to discuss the way the very possibility of the American project is being worn away, buried deep in sand.

The numbing stupidity we witnessed last week is (almost) all that remains of the American project (such as it has been). All that remains is that stupidity, enabled by the self-protective silence of Blue America's imitation of a journalistic elite.

Tomorrow, we'll show you something that's massively bettersomething involving President Clinton and one of Jeffrey Epstein's survivors. (She was 22 at the time.) 

Tomorrow, something much better! Sadly, though, the mugs were clowning hard, and having big fun, on the Fox News Channel last week. 

They were having major tribal fun as millions of misled people watched. They were having big fun about a pleasing eventabout an event which never happened.

With that, we briefly return to what happened on The Five on Tuesday evening, March 3. 

No, Tyrusand Jesse and Emily! We're sorry, but no! There was no time in his deposition on Friday, February 27 when former president Clinton behaved in the way your corporate owners instructed you to pretend that he had behaved.

It's as we explained in Monday's reportas you can plainly see if you simply look at the line of questioning being pursued in the moments at issue. The questioning at that time actually went like this:

President Clinton and his attorney, Cheryl Mills, had been handed a New York Times article about the many celebrity photos found inside Jeffrey Epstein's squalid Gotham mansion.

As you can see by clicking here, there were many celebrity photos on display inside that broken-souled mansion. There was even a photo of Jeffrey Epstein with the former pope! 

Also, there was one photolet's repeat that rather small numberof Epstein with the former president. There was one such photo on display, among the many others.

During the deposition in question, the chief counsel for the House Oversight Committee had questioned Clinton about that one photo. His line of questioning had been quite inconsequential. It had basically taken things nowhere. 

As the chief counsel considered his next line of questioning, Clinton and Mills perused the material they had been given during that line of questioning. They were perusing a copy of the New York Times report about all the celebrity photosand at that point, the CEO of the Fox News Channel decided to let the mutts out.

In they rushed, tongues exposed, bushy tails a-waggin'! Four nights later, on the Gutfeld! program, the nutty host of that program teased the segment like this:

Up next! Bill's trip down memory lane!

After a commercial break, the strange man began pretending. We're sorry, but the very possibility of the American project can't survive moral and intellectual disorder this vast and this astounding.

"Bill really enjoys the deposition," he soon sang, introducing the segment. Then, as a brief bit of video played, he proceeded to pretend that this is what was happening as Clinton and Mills looked at the material in question.

He was doing a Clinton impression as he behaved this way:

GUTFELD (3/3/26): "I did that one. I did that one! I remember her! She was wild!" 

The lid had been pried off the garbage can, as occurs on this primetime "cable news" program most nights.

As we've noted, someone has told this program's host that he had to stop comparing the women of The View to cows and pigs and horses and whales and to generic "livestock." But he's still encouraged to behave in the way he behaved this nightand as his studio audience laughed, the nutcase now turned to one of his panel's halfwits:

GUTFELD: So Mike, that was Clinton flipping through old Epstein pictures, smiling and nodding at the deposition last week. His attorney even had to pull the damn thing away from him! How can you not like him! 

[LAUGHTER]

To whom was this disordered man speaking? Let the word go forth to the nations! This was the pig-pile that night:

Gutfeld!: Tuesday, 3/3/26
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Dave Landau: comedian
Mike Benz: Foundation For Freedom Online

So read the list of the helpmates.

As Gutfeld turned to the hapless Benz, he was describing a pleasing eventan event which hadn't happened! Joining the assault on societal possibility, the panelist knew how to play it:

BENZ: Look, it's crazy, because Bill Clinton kind of is what— If Jeffrey Epstein became president, it would be Bill Clinton...They are kind of a perfect fit.

What are the odds that two people like this wouldn't [find each other]? You have like the perfect embodiment.

GUTFELD: He doesn't care, Kat, any more. Look at him! He doesn't care if you think he's an old horn dog.  Look at that

AUDIENCE: Laughter

(Returning to his Clinton impression]

"Look at that! Let me see that again!"

Once again, it must be saidnothing like that was actually happening in the videotape that was playing on the Fox News Channel screen. Gutfeld and his gruesome guest were staging a remarkable slandera remarkable slander which was being performed for millions of misled viewers. 

Nothing like that had actually happened! It fell to the horrendous climber Timpf to take us all the way down Frost's "seven levels of the world."

"The lovely shall be choosers," Frost wrote. Horrendously, Timpf made her choice:

TIMPF: Honestly, he is probably the first person ever if the history of depositions who wishes he took a Cialis first.

GUTFELD (stage laughter): Ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa! He also is probably the only one at a deposition who wishes it had gone longer.

AUDIENCE: Laughter 

TIMPF: Yeah. Yeah.

GUTFELD [performing Clinton impression]: "Do you have any more pictures?"

TIMPF: Yeah. He was like, "Can I take these home? Can I go to the bathroom for a few minutes? But with these?"

The children were happily playing. Moments later, Timpf even chose to say this: 

TIMPF: You know, I'm not sure, but I'm starting to suspect that he might like to have sex with really young women.

GUTFELD: Not underage women, butwhat did he say? Underage females! "I will not have sex with underage females." That's what he said.

Needless to say, that isn't something the former president actually said. Meanwhile, it's time for the poser Timpf to just go home and stay there. 

Her posing has gone on and on. It's time for the roadshow to stop.

These corporate tools were describing a pleasing set of eventsa tribally pleasing set of events which actually hadn't occurred. They were doing so on one of the most watched shows in American "cable news"on a show whose audience is more than twice the size of the typical primetime MS NOW audience.

Gutfeld now turned to a former "wrestler"to a news analyst who still had no earthly idea concerning the basics of what had happened four and five days earlier. 

He was on the show to discuss news events. Monster truck blowhard that he is, he still didn't have the first f*cking idea concerning what had happened.

First on The Five, then on this show, it was clear that "Tyrus" thought that Bill and Hillary Clinton had been deposed during a single joint session. In fact, Hillary Clinton had been deposed on Thursday, February 26. Her husband was deposed one day later.

"Tyrus" didn't quite know that! Four and five days later, the giant blowhard began faking it hard after Gutfeld said this:

GUTFELD: Tyrus, that was a trip down memory lane.

At that point, the giant blowhard started faking it hard. He pictured a car ride home from a joint depositiona car ride straight out of an earlier age, an age in which the shrewish wife is constantly banging the henpecked husband upside the poor guy's head.

"Tyrus" routinely paints such pictures on this throwback "cable news" program. At one point on this particular evening, he explained what Bill Clinton would do "if he has any brans in his head." 

We're going to let that stupidity sit right there. Please don't ask us to comment.

The giant blowhard went on and on about the shrewish wife of his own inner torments. Finally, let the word go forth to the nations! At long last, the time had come for the male comedian to explain what had occurred!

When Gutfeld threw to the fellow in question, this is what Gutfeld said:

GUTFELD: You know, Dave, this could actuallythis is my theoryprove his innocence! 

He's looking at these pictures and he's like, "How did I miss this?" He's like looking like, "This wasn't here when I was there! Wait a minute! I never had that! That wasn't even on the menu!"

By "this" and "that," this woman-loathing older man was referring to the various underage females whose enticing photos Clinton was supposedly ogling.

They could have been "on the menu" when Clinton took his trips on Epstein's plane! Regrettably, though, they weren't! That's the way this underdeveloped guy still pictures this realm of two genders.

That was the "theory" this monster threw out. When the comedian took his turn, this is the garbage which started to seep from the Fox News garbage can:

LANDAU: I think he's looking at it like the first time you see a Playboy. He's just so excited he doesn't know what to do.

This world-class numbskull continued from there. Soon he was offering this. Could someone give him a Cialis?

LANDAU: This is actually quite an admission of guilt, if I'm being honest...I don't blame him for going to a sex island. I'm not saying you should go with underageI'm saying, Hillary!

GUTFELD: Yeah!

LANDAU: I mean, he's been crawling into bed withI don't think they even share a bed. I'm pretty sure she sleeps in a coffin.

AUDIENCE: Laughter, applause

TYRUS: After that testimony, that coffin was built for him.

This is who, and this is what, these underfed fellows are. We know that they could do much betterbut at Fox, they're paid to do this.

By the eternal rules of the game, the time had come to pity Bill Clinton for being married to Hillary Clinton. On this gruesome show, the host never tired of insulting liberal women in their 80s for not being sexy enough.

We've entered the realm of the throwback brigadethe angry men who, for whatever reason, haven't been willing or able to keep up. Now, the comedian had trashed Hillary Clintonand he had explicitly said that her husband had, in fact, gone to Jeffrey Epstein's "sex island!"

From the start, that claim has been flatly denied. These children are paid not to quit it.

Soon, the children were saying this:

LANDAU: It's bad that he's mouthing their names.

GUTFELD: Yes! Ha ha haaaaa! Oh, that's my favorite video. I could watch this for daysand I will!

We don't doubt that he'll do that! In fairness, we've said many times that he could certainly do much better, and that his employer should be getting him some much-needed help. 

At any rate, this is the garbage this "cable news" channel sends out every night. Over at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg isn't willing to report the fact that this occurs. 

The New York Times is also committed to the act of averting its gaze. I our own view, it's hard to believe that a large modern nation can expect to function, to survive, in this way.

With great tribal joy, the island of misfit cable news messenger children had described a tribally pleasing eventan event which hadn't occurred. 

Over here in Blue America, this is the dangerous garbage our cowardly lions have chosen to avoid. As with Ozymandias, so too here:

This is the downfall they've chosen

Tomorrow: The Epstein survivor's (beautifully heartfelt) tale.

Though also, a word about lizards