RAWSTORY.COM • 2026-01-26

Trump makes major U-turn as he lavishes praise on Tim Walz

Amid the ongoing chaos in Minnesota thousands of federal immigration officers continue to swarm the state, In a Machiavellian performative pseudo-alliance President Donald Trump 'revealed' that he had a "very good call" with Gov. Tim Walz.  Fantasy made into reality in real time.

Amid the chaos of "Operation Metro Surge" in Minnesota, Donald Trump's claim of a "very good call" with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz isn't an olive branch. It is deception from a grifters handbook. Pretend to be the friend of your enemy.  That is Trump's game. Facing blistering legal and political blowback for deploying thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis, Trump needs to silence critics. Pretending to be Tim's friend is the Trump way to do it.  The murdering warmonger claims he should get a peace prize, so lies concerning a "very good call" are natural to Trump.

Walz's office states Trump's call was brief and transactional. The call was initiated by Trump. Governor Walz advocated for federal disaster aid in the call following severe storms and tornadoes that struck Minnesota in response. An official from Walz's office emphatically rejects the Trump characterization of a "very good call" as implying any political alignment or agreements.

Walz's office confirms the call was brief, focused on securing federal disaster aid after severe storms.  A governor doing his job in an awkward moment. But in Trump's alchemy, that routine request was spun into gold, an illusion of consensus.  It did not really matter what Tim Walz said.  Trump twists events to his own purpose.

Real time Machiavellian politics. The substance of the conversation was irrelevant. The utility of the conversation is everything.    By fabricating a public facade of cooperation with governor Walz, Trump aims to achieve three goals.  Normalize the unprecedented abuse of power, confuse and fracture public resolve, and legitimize murder by distraction.

Normalize the unprecedented. This deployment of a domestic army of ICE and CBP agents is terrorizing Minnesota. Their occupation vastly outnumbers the Minneapolis police force. Re-framing the interaction as a "very good" chat deflects Trump's radical assault on state sovereignty into being just another day's business.

The message to Minnesotans is that your governor and I are getting along, so how bad can this really be? Trump sows doubt, he fractures resolve. He blunts the condemnation of his critics.  He does this with intent. The Trump occupation is mired in lawsuits and clear video evidence shows two people murdered. The "good call" narrative is a planned distraction. It pushes the cold-blooded murder of Alex Pretti and Renee Good out of the headlines. Replacing Trumps brutality with a staged show of control is meant to confuse the public and legitimize the illegitimate.  It is a weaponized lie.

Trump is a cult leader. A cult leader like Jim Jones and America is Trump's Jonestown. Like Jones, Trump stages a public persona of compassion and alliance. He performs for politicians and press in a meticulous performance.  Fabricating the perception of widespread acceptance to silence skeptics and disarm critics. Trump followers like sheep to slaughter trust their Trump curated reality over what their own eyes see. Trump's "very good call" is a performance of consensus, designed to discredit the actual verifiable reality of fear, occupation, control, and grief playing out in Minnesota. Trump demands the public drink from the poison cup of his false narrative to ignore the bitter truth of his occupation which can be clearly seen from multiple angles.

The people of Minnesota aren't confused. They see the agents in their streets. Their businesses are closed, and they live in fear. But Minnesota is only one State, and Trump performs on the national stage, for the whole country.  National deception.

THENEWCIVILRIGHTSMOVEMENT.COM • 2026-01-26

Trump Shifts Minnesota Messaging After Second Deadly Shooting Sparks Backlash

President Donald Trump seeks to deflect nationwide condemnation of the actions of federal agents in Minnesota after the second killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis.

Cui Bono?  Who benefits from Epstein's death?  Who has enough money to bribe the people necessary to pull it off?  Who has goobermint connections and access to the full list of staff, schedules, floor plans, cell assignments etc?  What does Occam's Razor say?

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 06, 2026, 09:41 PMEh huh, funny yes, and a rube-Goldberg assembly of disconnected facts.  Much ado about nothing.

I didn't use much of any facts. I just used an example to make a point. I could do a dissertation with a ream of footnotes on how this has been done on the interenet forums I've perused over the years.

Of course I expect better from an EE.

Quote from: K-DogTo the ignorant there are obviously no connections to be made.

Not necessarily true. Peak oilers, ignorant of oil, geology and the geosciences at large, were happy to make connections. As are conspiracy folks at large. Some could argue that ignorant and conspiracies go easily hand in hand. I could probably put that correlation just from memory in the peak oil world.

I can NOT necessarily extrapolate that experience with the ignorant and/or uninformed making connections into other topics.

Quote from: K-DogTo the ignorant everything in life is a weird conspiracy theory made from magic and disconnected facts.

To the ignorant everything in life can be a weird conspiracy, or they can be so ignorant that don't have a clue what one might be. Such is the nature of ignorant....and interestingly, I have become convinced that ignorant is not required to be correlated with intelligience. I can name some smart PhD types that prove it.

Quote from: K-DogThink about it, their ground must always move.  Nothing solid.  They can't make, refine and possibly disregard theories in the face of new evidence.  Evidence What's that.  Nothing solid enough for analysis in their sphere, or in contrary reality is for them as solid and unmovable as rock and nothing can change.  Take your pick.

I agree. And can name and have argued with PhDs who fit your description. Belief in something, be it religion or conspiracies, is  powweful thing, and can negate facts, logic, math and even interfere with the ability to think logically, when a given belief is contradicted by evidence.

Quote from: K-DogThe safe path is the middle ground.  In this case X is very important.

I completely agree. Few have the ability to speak truth to the power, and being punished by the Forum Gods for daring to fight back against the a commonly espoused idea is the usual response for those who do. So folks muddle around in the middle because....it is encouraged, socially acceptable, and most folks don't have what it takes to just.....dare.

When bored in retirement one day, I have considered writing a book on the topic.

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 01:29 AMCui Bono?  Who benefits from Epstein's death?

About every rich child molesting cheating scumbag he ever met.

Quote from: REWho has enough money to bribe the people necessary to pull it off?

About every rich child molesting scumbag he ever met.

Quote from: REWho has goobermint connections and access to the full list of staff, schedules, floor plans, cell assignments etc? 

Just about every rich child molesting scumbag he ever met.

Quote from: REWhat does Occam's Razor say?

RE

He killed himself.

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 01:29 AMCui Bono?  Who benefits from Epstein's death?  Who has enough money to bribe the people necessary to pull it off?  Who has goobermint connections and access to the full list of staff, schedules, floor plans, cell assignments etc?  What does Occam's Razor say?

RE

Exactly - And it turns out the noose was not around the body.  Forensic evidence establishes that he was strangled.  Hyoid bone injuries. 

There is your razor pivot point Mr Occam.  Forensic evidence knows the difference  between being strangled to death and being choked by a noose.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 08:43 AMExactly - And it turns out the noose was not around the body.  Forensic evidence establishes that he was strangled.  Hyoid bone injuries. 

There is your razor pivot point Mr Occam.  Forensic evidence knows the difference  between being strangled to death and being choked by a noose.

Absolutely.  Besides that, his political power as POTUS giving him hiring and firing power and promotions and job assignments puts him far ahead of other wealthy pedophiles.   The CIA gives him access to the assassin needed to do the job.  Finally, his personality profile isn't consistent with being suicidal.

Suicide is a possibility, but unlikely considering the forensics and taking into account the threat he posed to Trumpolini as long as he was alive.  Anyone that much of a threat HAS to be eliminated.

Finally with suicides that are this convenient



RE

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 08:43 AM

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 01:29 AMCui Bono?  Who benefits from Epstein's death?  Who has enough money to bribe the people necessary to pull it off?  Who has goobermint connections and access to the full list of staff, schedules, floor plans, cell assignments etc?  What does Occam's Razor say?

RE

Exactly - And it turns out the noose was not around the body.  Forensic evidence establishes that he was strangled.  Hyoid bone injuries. 

There is your razor pivot point Mr Occam.  Forensic evidence knows the difference  between being strangled to death and being choked by a noose.

So between your EE and my precognitive abilities when it comes to oil and whatnot, you figure that the Chief Medical Examiner lied?

QuoteChief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said she stands "firmly" behind her findings in the August autopsy report, which ruled Epstein hanged himself and temporarily quelled much of the speculation surrounding the financier's death.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/medical-examiner-dismisses-doubts-about-epstein-autopsy

What conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I'll stick with Occams Razer because it is still working fine. Unless you've collected a decent forensic pathology certification along the way somewhere? And then reviewed the evidence?

Hey, I'll take your word for EE stuff without much quetion as long as it matches my basic courses in the same, and I'll trust RE's microbiology opinion.

But we are talking about a conspiracy again. I am trying to get past Toothpaste + electrical current and a splash of pepper = steak.

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 12:34 PM

RE

Can't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck. Maybe Monsta or someone we know has some decent forensic pathology experience and can review the evidence? As opposed to...you know....ducks being involved somehow.

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 07, 2026, 06:10 PMCan't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck.

The analogy doesn't reference & compare Epstein, it references & compares Suicide.  I taught Analogies on the LSAT for The Princeton Review.  You would not have scored well.

RE

QuoteWhat conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I can't believe this is serious.  When I was 12 years old I believed stuff like that too.  Besides which there was nothing to risk,  much more to risk by defying the wishes of the men in black.  Orders of magnitude more risk.  Risk or a nice gift. 🎁  Maybe they told her that national security was at stake.  That going with the flow would save western civilization.  Going with the flow feels like it does.  The warm fuzzy feeling of doing what somebody important tells you to do.  Makes it not hard to do.  Like you are part of things.

MSN.COM • 2026-02-03

Sickening Jeffrey Epstein autopsy photos reveal staggering neck injuries

Images from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy documentation exposed the devastating severity of the convicted sex trafficker's neck trauma.



"The postmortem examination revealed that Epstein's alleged suicide resulted from multiple fractured bones in his neck. While bone breaks can occur in hanging cases, forensic specialists note they appear more frequently in strangulation homicides. The report documented that investigators observed numerous "hemorrhages" extending from Epstein's lips to his eyebrows."

Quote from: RE on Feb 07, 2026, 06:53 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 07, 2026, 06:10 PMCan't disagree with this meme. Oh...but Epstein wasn't a duck.

The analogy doesn't reference & compare Epstein, it references & compares Suicide.  I taught Analogies on the LSAT for The Princeton Review.  You would not have scored well.

RE

Really? Well...an interesting factoid. And I doubt the Duck analogy is limited to just suicide. Never had any teachers or instructors from Princeton....I learned from Harvard grads. Lawyers, mathematicians, and a very particular resource geologist running an E&P.

His story on why he accepted Harvard was very interesting. He interviewed with several Ivys, including Princeton, Yale and  Brown. Stanford just for fun. He said they all touted the quality of their professors and their accomplishments, how many Nobel prizes, their facilities, accomplishments, and future potential.

Harvard didn't say a single word about anyone else. Those at the top of the heap don't have to pimp themselves.

Among my graduating class in high school, the most popular destination were the military academies. Out of the 40 of us 8 went to Annapolis, 1 to West Point and 1 more to Air Force Academy. Everyone I've ever worked with from BCG were Harvard grads. No more than another 10 in my high school went to various Ivys.

Deffeyes got his PhD from Princeton. You know....Mr "Peak Oil Happening Thanksgiving Day 2005".

Forgive my looking askance at what anything related to Princeton. Other than they get kudos for having Einstein and Oppenheimer hanging around at one point.

 

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 07, 2026, 10:01 PM

QuoteWhat conspiracy accounts for someone of high moral fiber and expectations as well as experience deciding to risk it all?

I can't believe this is serious.

Well, I haven't found any evidence that the medical examiner was in on a conspiracy. Have you? The only part of your quote that matters is:

"forensic specialists note they appear more frequently in strangulation homicides"

Being one of those experts that chips in, in my field of expertise, I am quite willing to allow another most certainly certified expert venture their official opinion and in order to contradict it, you need more than "more frequently".

Quote from: K-DogWhen I was 12 years old I believed stuff like that too.

Not sure what "like that too?" is referring to. That accredited experts know more about their topic than amateur hour folks?

The three of us here are all smart guys. None of us are forensic pathologists. I don't argue with you about EE issues, no one here is qualified to argue with me about the geosciences, and I don't tend to argue with RE about genetics and microbiology stuff.

<shrug>

So....what does another forensic pathologist say? "Appear more frequently" isn't even a reasonable statistic expression for anyone educated on calculating probabilities...which is where experts come in to make the call. One fully capable professional did that. So....how have you discredited HER or involved HER in your conspiracy angle?

And I wasn't 12 when I learned how to do statistical investigations, so you must have been quite precocious as a youngster. I was took busy learning to feed my family back at that age by hunting and trapping and whatnot. World class statistical analysis and stochastic modeling didn't happen until after I was out of college, learned it as a lark.

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 08, 2026, 07:18 AMThose at the top of the heap don't have to pimp themselves.   

Then you must be at the bottom of the heap.  You've barely taken a breath between self pimping posts for the last decade.

RE

Quote from: RE on Feb 08, 2026, 09:24 AM

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 08, 2026, 07:18 AMThose at the top of the heap don't have to pimp themselves. 

Then you must be at the bottom of the heap.  You've barely taken a breath between self pimping posts for the last decade.

RE

I would say last 7 years. Name anyone else who solved all future peak oils. What is amusing is how by the time I did it, those who couldn't, had managed to discredit the entire concept, and themselves, in the process.  And what I had done went virtually unnoticed. Sort of.

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 09, 2026, 04:26 PMName anyone else who solved all future peak oils.

Nobody has "solved" Peak Oil, anymore than they have solved the problems of the Atmospheric CO₂, the Federal Deficit, Palestinian Genocide, Falling Birthrates or Donald Trump.

RE