Robin Messing

[Note: Please read this  through to the end. The September 20 update is VERY important.]

ABC and its affiliates were pressured by Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fire Jimmy Kimmel yesterday over what the Trumpists are characterizing as an outrageous and insensitive lie. Here is the clip in question that got him suspended indefinitely.

Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated:

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— Yashar Ali  (@yashar) September 18, 2025

Now may be the best chance we will ever have to pass an amendment limiting presidential abuse of the pardon power. Amending the Constitution is hard—it requires a 2/3 vote in both the House and the Senate, followed by ratification in ¾ of the states. Alternatively, 2/3 of the state legislatures can call for a Constitutional Convention, with ¾ of the states needing to approve any amendments drawn up at the convention. (See Article V of the Constitution for more details.)
 

The second method via Constitutional Convention is riskier than the first because a Convention could pass many amendments—some of which could destroy basic fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution. That is why none of the Constitution’s 27 amendments have been passed via Constitutional Convention. There have been no amendments passed in 33 years
 

It may seem crazy to think that we could pass an amendment now in the hyper-partisan environment that we are in. It is impossible to get the Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything, much less get 2/3 support in both the House and the Senate. But there is ONE issue that may unite Democrats with MOST Republicans—Pedophilia is bad. And pardoning a pedophile in return for getting possibly false testimony may be a bridge too far, even for some Republicans. This provides us an opportunity to pass an amendment to prevent future corrupt pardons and potentially reverse previous corrupt pardons.

Why is Trump's former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, visiting Ghislaine Maxwell in prison? The obvious answer is that he is negotiating a dirty deal with Maxwell--she testifies that St. Don the Immaculate is pure as the driven snow in return for Get-Out-Of-Prison free pardon.

Here is my guess how this will play out. Maxwell won't get her pardon right away. It would be too obvious that a dirty deal was done if she exercises her pardon and leaves prison right after she testifies in favor of Trump.

What Is Alligator Alcatraz and Who Will Be Sent There?

Take a look at the video in this post. It is the inside of a tent of Alligator Alcatraz, a concentration camp designed to hold 3,000 undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades while they await deportation. Proponents of this camp delight in the fact that anyone trying to escape the camp is likely to be eaten by an alligator or a python.

I am disturbed by recent reporting that Elon Musk is being given a briefing at the Pentagon on our detailed plans should we end up going to war with China. Two anonymous U.S. officials have told the New York Times that the meeting was to discuss our war plans. A third anonymous official said the briefing would be focused on China. And a fourth confirmed that Musk would be at the Pentagon. Donald Trump and other Pentagon officials have denied that the meeting would be about the military’s plan to fight China.

Congress needs to investigate this thoroughly and determine just what Elon was told. Elon Musk is a national security risk, and we must assume that anything he is told will end up in the hands of the Chinese.

The Democratic Party should release the following statement:

We are alarmed by the threats and the pressure that Donald Trump is applying to Canada. We could not have asked for better allies, and we could not have better neighbors to the North. We would welcome Canada as our 51st state IF Canada chooses to join us without pressure and under its own volition.

Tim Walz should not have played the nice guy with J.D. Vance during the debate. He was debating a monster who has dressed himself up as a smooth politician. Walz should have knocked Vance out at the beginning. It is too late to advise Walz on how he should have handled Vance’s claim that Haitians in Springfield Ohio were eating cats and dogs, but I hope this analysis will help Democratic candidates running for Congress in any debates they may have against Republican opponents who have pushed the same lie and have not retracted their statements with a sincere apology to the Haitian community. I am writing this while thinking about the race for the NY19 District between Democrat Josh Shapiro and his Republican opponent, Marc Molinaro. This post will include some details specific to that race. I will use red letters to indicate parts that are spefic to the Molinaro/Riley race. Other Democratic candidates will have to adjust these passages accordingly.

Instead of playing the non-confrontational nice guy during the debate, Walz should have looked Vance straight in the eye and said:

Donald Trump has used the Justice Department to go after his political enemies in the past, and he will do so with greater gusto and efficiency if he is elected again. Let's first look at his past abuse of the Justice Department. Then we'll look at his promise to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. And finally we'll contrast that with Joe Biden's Justice Department which the Republicans accuse of going after Biden's political enemies.

I guess falsely accusing Haitian Immigrants who are LEGALLY in Springfield Ohio of eating cats and dogs is not enough for Marc Molinaro Now he is demonizing undocumented immigrants by tweeting out an article from Fox News.

600,000 murderers, rapists, criminals who shouldn’t be here, shouldn’t get free housing and healthcare, and should be deported. @JoshRileyUE’s policy puts illegal immigrants ahead of us. https://t.co/w16pwUuOCS

— Marc Molinaro #NY19 (@marcmolinaro) September 28, 2024

The article states:

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sex offenses and homicide convictions could be loose on the streets, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data provided to lawmakers this week.

The agency provided data to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, about national data for illegal immigrants with criminal charges or convictions. The data, as of July 2024, is broken down by those in detention, and those who are not in detention -- known as the non-detained docket.  The non-detained docket includes illegal immigrants who have final orders of removal or are going through removal proceedings but are not detained in ICE custody. There are currently more than 7 million people on that docket.

The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals and 222,141 with pending criminal charges.

ICE NON-DETAINED DOCKET EXPLODES TO 7.4M CASES

Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions.

My bullshit detector went off immediately. This is how I responded to Molinaro's tweet. I've made few minor changes for consistency and to correct the spelling and grammar in my tweet.

I have designed five flyers that could be used in Josh Riley's campaing for the NY

I have included my information sources for each flyer. These sources are often on the third page, so they obviously won't fit on a two-page flyer. That's fine. Most people won't want to see the sources anyway. I am including them so you can provide them to anyone who questions the facts in these flyers.