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David Warburton's avatar

Johnson - as is his wont - misspoke. What he MEANT to say was that Trump was an FBI "TARGET," not an "INFORMANT." Happy to clear that up for him. :)

Ada Fuller's avatar

Have you ever noticed with Johnson, that when he’s telling a whopper, he speeds up his speech? As I’ve seen video of these comments, it has seemed like it’s sped up quite a bit! Also, we all know trump would never do anything like help the government out of the goodness of his heart — he only does things that make him quick cash.

Jay Kuo's avatar

Consciousness of deception.

Betsy L's avatar

Another thing is that the FBI would only accept Dumpy as an informant if his information were credible. Even back in the 2000s the FBI knew that Dumpy lied as often and easily as he breathed, and it wasn't staffed with sycophants like Bondi and Patel.

Mike A's avatar

Dumpy! Love it! 😄 🤣

Stephen Brady's avatar

Now, I’m sure Little Johnson believes with all his heart that The Orange One is only acting on the side of truth, justice, and The American Way…

Ben Reynolds's avatar

Entirely in bad taste, you have suggested the next good meme: Trump has a little Johnson.

I apologize, Jay and everyone, for being the guy who had to say it.

Ben Prickril's avatar

You are a terrible human being Ben Reynolds 🤣

Richard Waddell's avatar

aka, The Caped Crusader.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Seems to me he has a squeaky Johnson, too. Maybe it's not been oiled in a while.

Purobi Phillips's avatar

Squeaky, little Jhonson that can not stand on its own....Hey, you guys/gals started it.

Altamama2's avatar

Ha! somebody had

to.....

Linda Silfven's avatar

Oh my god, this is great. Thank you for a good laugh, and so appropriate I can’t imagine why nobody thought of it before this.

Aocm🇨🇦's avatar

Sounds like you’re talking abt someone I call Tiny Johnson🤡

Carol Taylor Boyd's avatar

I wish there was an laughing emoji on Substack!

Richard Waddell's avatar

Like a fast-talking voice-over at the end of a 'blip•vert' [thank you Max H.] for some

OTC ointment, detailing the possible health side-effects. And 'side effects' seem to be all this administration can deliver, namely, problems after ingesting.

Altamama2's avatar

Oh yes it's obvious he was nervous, talking a mile a minute, hands going, even eyes darting back and forth!

Lady Emsworth's avatar

The more he lies to cover trump's lies, the ore I think we should start calling him "Alvin."

Concerned Citizen's avatar

And his eyes bounce around and can’t fully look people in the eye. Another sure sign of lying.

Linda Weide's avatar

Let us keep up with the Epstein Story. We need to insist that they release the full files.

I am in Chicago. We are victims to Trump's efforts to distract the nation from the Epstein files, as were the people murdered in the boat in Venezuela.

Here are some articles on how Chicago is handling ICE. This is what distraction looks like for us.

Here is the Chicago Sun-Times report on what happened over the weekend. 3 people arrested is a low number. I would attribute that to the preparation the city has and how we are informing, protesting, and trying to shield people by making it harder to find them. https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/09/07/trump-border-czar-on-cnn-says-to-expect-action-in-chicago-this-week-but-doesnt-give-specific-details?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090825%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=090825%20Morning%20Edition+CID_c33f30ce3783e17ea56d41f0ea080a3a&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=ICE%20agents%20make%20arrests%20Trump%20official%20warns%20of%20more%20action%20while%20Chicagoans%20protest%20and%20parade&tpcc=cst_cm

This is an article about a protest blocking an ICE detention facility in a Chicago Suburb. I don't think they have any in the city itself. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/05/ice-broadview-immigration-detention-center-enforcement-trump?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090825%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=090825%20Morning%20Edition+CID_c33f30ce3783e17ea56d41f0ea080a3a&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=staged%20a%20sit-in%20blocking%20apparent%20ICE%20agents&tpcc=cst_cm

Here is another article about the rally in Chicago on Saturday against ICE and Trump's troops. It has great pics. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/06/ice-raids-chicago-immigration-saturday-trump?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090825%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=090825%20Morning%20Edition+CID_c33f30ce3783e17ea56d41f0ea080a3a&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Thousands%20of%20people%20marched%20Saturday%20evening%20through%20the%20Loop%20to%20express%20their%20opposition%20to%20a%20potential%20federal%20presence&tpcc=cst_cm

This is about using Salt trucks at the Chicago rally not being meant to block ICE, but I think that they might be after reading it. Especially the part about them being in all the lanes on the way to the city. I have said that it is a long drive to the city center from the Great Lakes Naval Base, and the traffic tends to be bad. https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2025/09/07/chicago-salt-trucks-ice-protest?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=090825%20Morning%20Edition&utm_content=090825%20Morning%20Edition+CID_c33f30ce3783e17ea56d41f0ea080a3a&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=salt%20trucks%20were%20not%20strategically%20blocking%20federal%20immigration%20enforcement%20activity&tpcc=cst_cm

Susan's avatar

Thank you for all that information. I love your governor! Hang in there.

I'm with you 100% and so are many others.

Linda Weide's avatar

Thank you Susan! Solidarity! ✌🏽

elliemae.padme66's avatar

Have a son that lives in Richmond Park, so appreciate the Sun Times articles.

VT_Maid's avatar

Using all the DOT maint and construction trucks, not to mention strategically located end-of-season road construction projects to reroute, detour, and otherwise send them all over creation is a great idea.

Linda Weide's avatar

Agreed! As my friend calls them, Urban Tanks. We need to invest in more of those. Everyone should be using this strategy.

Bambi Vargo's avatar

Stand strong, Chicagoans!

Karen Charest's avatar

Thats pure bs! Johnson is such a suck up he needs to go! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙

Jacobs-Meadway Roberta's avatar

If he were only just a suck up instead of a willing participant in the dismantling of the federal government in the service of a vicious and greedy wannabe king …

Ben Prickril's avatar

They ALL need to go

Jen Dunn's avatar

Best. Title. Ever.

Jay Kuo's avatar

Thanks it came to me suddenly in a pique of WTF.

Holly Kerfoot's avatar

It was succinct, to the point and spot on! Why pull punches?

Katharine Hill's avatar

We can always count on you, Jay, to untangle this web. So glad you continue to be the voice of truth (the real stuff—not the gilded lies).

Robert Israel's avatar

Seriously everything that comes out of the mouths of these assholes is a lie -yet the mainstream press always reports these lies like they are the words of god himself-

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

You are SO right. Heard an NPR story recently of how the new Administration is even shaping culture in our country!! How fascinating!!

Yeah, right stupids--he's trying to ruin my Smithsonian! After he's already ruined the Kennedy Center. What a bunch of airheads!

Linda Donahue's avatar

Airheads! You are too kind.

Celeste Myslewski's avatar

You're right! Let me try..... enablers!!

I get so angry.

jb101's avatar

How can he be an “informant” of a hoax?

Kathleen Fernandez's avatar

Good question! It was a hoax that he was an informant. There, fixed it.

VT_Maid's avatar

I'm sure he's 1400% sure of the facts he's informing them about.

Scott Gilbert's avatar

Jay takes us for a walk through Holy Mike's Bullshit Garden.

AMCottingham's avatar

I guess he alternated between grabbing girls by the pussy and “protecting them, right?

Doug's avatar

I feel like we need to bring back Jon Lovitz' SNL character Tommy Flanagan from "yeah... that's the ticket" fame.

VT_Maid's avatar

I really figured he'd be back playing George Anthony Devolder Kitara Ravanche Santos at some point, but having him show up as Mikey's cousin or something would be great. We need the Church Lady there too though.

Diana Lindquist's avatar

As much as I dislike them and believe they were pedophile clubbing together, it looks like the photo of Trump and Epstein (with a young woman or girl on either side of them) is somehow doctored. There are too many male arms in the photo, as well as a mysterious tan blob just below Epstein’s left shoulder.

Maybe another photo could be a better example.

Jay Kuo's avatar

I removed it as it doesn’t really add anything to the piece and looks suspicious, I agree.

Diana Lindquist's avatar

Thanks for the reply - I surely didn’t expect one!

April Christensen's avatar

Thank you for removing it. It was definitely AI and reduces the legitimacy overall. Thank you for what you do!!

Charles Bastille's avatar

There are hundreds of these fake images. It sucks, because the sheer number of photos showing these two predators together is enough to show that they were very good friends. It's good that you called this out -- we need to do it whenever we see these on our side.

I wish there was a way to stop the jerks who create these images from doing so. I sometimes wonder if it's part of the ongoing Internet Research Agency (Russia) effort to sow confusion. It would be just like Putin's propaganda machine to create these photos and distribute them as if they are being distributed by anti-Trumpers as part of an effort to delegitimize us.

But there ain't no way to delegitimize Jay! :-)

Pat Donaldson's avatar

Epstein's legs oddly disappeared from this photo.

Susan's avatar

I love your last sentence that the subject has morphed for the epsteinth time!😁

What will the next narrative be or should I say lie. I'm worried the files are being systematically destroyed.

Vickie Berry's avatar

Yes, destroyed or altered.

Morgan Patterson's avatar

The first image with Trump and Epstein appears to be a fake to me, Epstein's legs are missing and the arms around his left shoulder dont make much sense. Looks like AI screwup to me.

Janet Eubanks's avatar

I agree. Too many arms and Epstein’s legs do appear to be missing. Although I have no doubt something similar happened, this one looks like a bad Photoshop.

Frau Katze's avatar

It’s been removed: another commenter said the same thing.

Wis's avatar
Sep 8Edited

What I’d like to know is how mainstream American hears this news, if they hear it, and the tone/bias with which it is presented (ie, as totally plausible, or, as you present it, Jay, as flat-out misleading and inaccurate, given the facts).

I ask this after seeing an ad on tv yesterday for a “non lethal gun”, Byrna (in which everyone holds a banana instead of the product); I didn’t pay much attention, but I caught in one version of the ad this woman saying something like, “With all these riots happening everywhere, I don’t feel safe, so I carry… blah blah blah”. I did a double take when I heard that. I don’t watch mainstream news but hearing this, I realized that all of our peaceful protests are being called RIOTS. I’m outraged! I’ve participated in at least five so far, and not ONE could *remotely* be characterized as a riot!!! So, God knows what twisted sh*t Americans hear and believe anymore. Trump has painted dems as so supremely evil (he’s projecting yet again), maga and a huge number of “regular” news-watching Americans, who don’t seem to think critically or question, BELIEVE him…!

So, I’m discouraged. If trump slithers out of accountability with the Epstein files, I will start thinking he truly made a pact with Satan.

Sorry so long winded! I’m just incensed.

Judy Shaffer's avatar

I have a question about the first picture of Trump & Epstein with the young girls: where are Epstein's legs?

Jay Kuo's avatar

Yeah, on further viewing that photo doesn’t seem legit. I’ll remove it.

Vickie Berry's avatar

Yes that and then the arms and hands on Epstein’s left side that seem to come from nowhere…🤷🏻‍♀️

I don’t know the source of this photo but something seems amiss.

Iris silk's avatar

The head behind Epstein could pass for Trump as well. If that's Epstein's right hand on the arm of the girl on the left, he had incredibly long arms! Pretty sure that's a doctored photo. But as others have noted, there are plenty of legitimate ones out there.

KB in AZ's avatar

I think j.e. is kneeling behind the two chairs that *rump and the girl are sitting on. That’s why you don’t see his legs.

Judy Shaffer's avatar

Possible, but that doesn't explain the extra hands & arms on Epstein's left side, as Vickie Berry pointed out (above).