It’s Monday, which means it’s time for another fat pipe!
As a reminder, I will be off on a much-needed adventure and break from July 24th through August 3rd.
Trump and Epstein
How bad is the Epstein debacle going for Trump? So bad he got ratioed hard on his own Truth Social platform:

(Source – Truth Social)
Here are the first three comments that appeared for me when I clicked the post:

Trump’s Boomer wall-o-text did not land very well among…well, anybody except maybe Catturd and a rapidly dwindling pool of “6D chess Trump was sent by God” devotees.
We’re all mentally making the same translation:
Lots of people feel this way:
You know it’s bad when the next topic is trending:
Burning The MAGA Hats
This seems to be something of a trend:
Ukraine
Don’t look now, but Russia has taken off the gloves.
Truly massive drone wave-attacks are systematically dismantling Ukraine’s infrastructure:

The US under Trump is proving to be no different than under Biden:
This would be one of Russia’s ‘red lines’ (which have proven to be somewhat more malleable and forgiving than that term might imply).
Putin has noticed:
This was a very important interview that I think marks a true ground-shift in Russia’s stance, which has potentially profound implications for peace in Europe…none of them good.