Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude: the grifting widow and general hospital

12/13/2025

the grifting widow and general hospital

the grifting widow kirk continues to be seen for what she really is. niko mann ('distractify') reports:

Former Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn delivered an epic diss of Erika Kirk on X, and the MAGA crowd lost their minds over the post. Erika's husband, Charlie Kirk, was murdered on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, during a speech on gun violence, and his wife has been on a lengthy media tour ever since to promote her husband's racist organization, Turning Point USA.

The white nationalist organization was founded by the late activist in 2012 to advocate for conservative politics in high schools and colleges, and his wife has continued in his place. The couple shares two small children, and Erika has been called out for advocating for her Christian values while living an un-Christian lifestyle.

On Dec. 10, Christine took to X to call out Erika for her seemingly ongoing media tour. On Dec. 3, Erika spoke at an event for The New York Times, and she made some questionable comments about women relying on the government.

“What I don’t want to have happen is women, young women, in the city look to the government as a solution,” she declared. "To put off having a family or a marriage, because you’re relying on the government to support you, instead of being united with a husband."”

Christine took to X to share her opinion on the matter, and her message was to the point. "Erika Kirk be everywhere but with her kids." The post has been viewed nearly two million times, and folks responded in the comments section. Several agreed with Christine and noted her late husband's misogynistic views.

"Charlie told women to stay at home and raise kids," wrote one. "And his wife be doing the complete opposite dfkm."

martha ross ('mercury news') reports:

With two splashy new movies to promote, including one that could nab her a second Academy Award nomination, Amanda Seyfried might be expected to steer clear of any controversy that could alienate potential audiences.

But that’s not what Seyfried is doing, as the star of the upcoming “The Housemaid” and the Oscar-buzzy “The Testament of Ann Lee” is refusing to apologize for comments she made on one of the most shocking and politically charged acts of violence in recent times: the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

While many reacted to Kirk’s murder by praising him as hero of free speech and a galvanizing young voice in conservative politics, others, like Seyfried, took to social media to point out his history of controversial comments about abortion, immigration, women and Black people — rhetoric that The Guardian said “advocated bigotry, intolerance, exclusion and stereotyping.”

In response to one Instagram post immediately after Kirk’s death, the “Mean Girls” star replied from her verified Instagram account: “He was hateful,” the New York Post reported. According to another screenshot of Seyfriend’s Instagram Stories, cited by the Post, she wrote: “You can’t invite violence to the dinner table and be shocked when it starts eating.”

In a new interview published Wednesday, Seyfried addressed the social media backlash she faced over her Kirk comments and she said she’s not sorry. Actually, Seyfried more emphatically said: “I’m not (expletive) apologizing for that.”

“I mean, for (expletive) sake, I commented on one thing,” Seyfried said in the interview for the Who What Wear fashion publication. “I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course. Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and re-contextualized — which is what people do, of course.”

good for amanda. good for all of us who refuse to glorify a racist who preached hate.

and who refused to be tricked by a con artist working her grift.

'general hospital.'

sonny is working up a way for him and laura to beat the mobster trying to blackmail them over dalton's death.

ana devane. we saw her twice this week. she was kidnapped weeks ago and this was the 1st time since then. she's being held. she has no idea by whom. she is planning what to do next.

willow. i hate her. i don't like dish rags as a rule. they arrested curtis in drew's shooting. so willow thought she was free. her mother said so. but alexis kept cautioning them.

alexis is right to caution. friday's show revealed willow was going to trial. they found camera footage placing her near drew the night he was shot - and that blew the cover story/lie she's been telling. she doesn't know yet that she's still going to trial.

portia had a pregnancy scare and every 1 at the hospital was busy so asked brit to help. brit is trying to get her medical license back - she was 'dead' and lost it during that time. brit found it was stress and dehydration. next week - which might be 4 weeks in 'general hospital' time, she says she's taking a pregnancy test to find out whether or not curtis is the father of her child to be.

willow remaining on trial means curtis got released. prior to that, he and drew had a talk and drew said if they did move forward with a trial against curtis, he'd come forward claiming to 'suddenly remember' who shot him. i took that to mean, he would come forward to insist michael was guilty.

let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'

Friday, December 12, 2025. Another day, another million or so Chump scandals. Kristi Noem refuses to recognize the sacrifices of some veterans of the US military, Chump continues to flounder in the polls, Pam da Bimbo Bondi remains ignorant of the law, Pete Hegseth remains unfit for his job, and much, much more.

Something to remember as we're on the verge of the weekend, "Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee," reports Paul Wiseman (AP). Daniel Orton (NEWSWEEK) notes:

Republican voters are growing noticeably less confident in Donald Trump’s economic stewardship, a troubling shift for a president who has long cast himself as the party’s chief dealmaker and financial fixer.

A new AP-NORC poll shows GOP approval of Trump’s handling of the economy has dropped 9 points since March—from 78 percent then to 69 percent now—as overall public approval of his economic agenda sinks to a record low of 31 percent. The erosion suggests that frustration with persistent inflation, concern over Trump’s escalating tariff strategy, and pessimism about the pace of economic recovery are cutting into his base’s support.

Ben notes the polling numbers this morning on MEIDASTOUCH NEWS.

And despite those and other realities, Chump's trying to renamed the Republican party to Tpublican. Is that pronounced T-P-ublican for toilet paper? Adam Lynch notes:

Former Illinois Lt. Gov. Bob Kustra (R) says he is surprised President Donald Trump is mulling naming the Republican Party after himself at a time when the party should be going out of its way to avoid him.

“Some will write off Trump’s ruminations about changing the name to ‘Tpublican’ ... as another of his egomaniacal rants to distract the media from learning about playboy Trump’s earlier years with Jeffrey Epstein,” said Kustra. “Yet, few believed Trump would tear down the entire East Wing of the White House to create a Mar-a-Lago North."

“This is the American president who has plastered the Oval Office with gold, now converted to the Trump family cash register with real estate deals and crypto scams ringing up sales for the billionaire family,” Kustra added. “Most Americans would not expect a sitting president to approve a new dollar coin with his portrait on it, but it is in the planning stages. There seems no end to Trump disgracing the office of the presidency with his monumental ego and tacky taste.”

Instead, Kustra argued Trump’s latest attempt to stamp his name on the party ought to be the spark that finally “ignites a serious reconsideration of just what the Republican Party stands for and what the future holds for” the GOP.

Turning to that wet mess Pete Hegseth

Before he was facing allegations of War Crimes but after he was a TV personality, Secretary of Defense Pete was using his blabber mouth in texts -- a non-secure text -- and blabbing all the plans of when to bomb. Those actions were supposed to result in serious reviews. Oops! Wet mess Hegseth cut a few corners yet again. Zachary Cohen and Haley Britzky (CNN) report:

The Pentagon did not conduct a routine investigation into the impact of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of sensitive military information in a group chat on Signal earlier this year and whether it damaged national security – in part because Hegseth never authorized it, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

A classification review and damage assessment would typically be initiated following any unauthorized disclosure of sensitive defense information, in part, to examine whether sources and methods or ongoing US military and intelligence operations have been compromised in a way that would require mitigation.

Hegseth did not order an assessment, two former senior officials who were working at the Pentagon at the time and a current US official with knowledge of the situation said.

After the Signal messages came to light, Hegseth, instead turned his attention inward and focused on formally investigating suspected leakers on his own staff, even threatening to polygraph defense officials he believed were disclosing potentially embarrassing details about him, multiple current and former officials said. Those threats had a “chilling effect” among DoD officials who became increasingly wary of doing anything that could be perceived by Hegseth as an attempt to undercut him, according to those officials.

Let's stop for a moment because what Hegseth did was wrong. I know it. You know it. But Pam da Bimbo Bondi doesn't know it. She's an idiot.

And what's even sadder? That doesn't make her stand out in this administration because there are so very many idiots.

This week da Bimbo Bondi raged to the press about how 'activist judges' were hurting the country. No, Pammy, you and the other idiots are hurting the country. Don't become Attorney General of the United States when you're both an idiot and a serial liar.

Earlier this week, UPI quoted da Bimbo:

Bondi then posted on X: "Following the flawed Third Circuit decision disqualifying Alina Habba from performing her duties in the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of New Jersey, I am saddened to accept Alina's resignation. The Department of Justice will seek further review of this decision, and we are confident it will be reversed. Alina intends to return to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey if this occurs."

Farrah Tomazin (THE DAILY BEAST) quoted that and the following:

“The court ruling has made it untenable for her to effectively run her office with politicized judges, pausing trials designed to bring violent criminals to justice.

“These judges should not be able to countermand the president‘s choice of attorneys entrusted with carrying out the executive branch’s core responsibility of prosecuting crime.”

Pam is a highly stupid woman. The judges are doing their job: Judicial Review. Do we need to hire a tutor for Pam? If we did, would she just try to seduce her tutor?

Every administration requires judicial review. Most of the time, when judicial review finds something wrong you can consider it an innocent mistake. There are no innocent mistakes in the Chump administration. Which makes judicial review all the more important.

Alina Habba, by the way, is what had da Bimbo so bent out of shape. Habba did not quit this week. Habba did not have a job. The court ruled it. So all she did was comply with a court order and that should have been the headline: Someone In The Trump Administration complies with a court order finally. But instead the press offered headlines like "Habba Quits" -- no, she wasn't quitting. They, the administration, were breaking the rules. She did not get confirmation -- because of her problems as a Kurd with a family back in Iraq linked to violence -- and the Turkish government has said terrorism -- from the Senate. She's inexperienced and was put in place for a limited amount of time. Per the law you can do that.

But her days were up. And then some. And Pam Bondi, the bimbo playing at Attorney General, ignored the law and tried to keep her in place.

Activists judge, da Bimbo, try unqualified Attorney General.

And time to talk about another of your 'brilliant' employees, da Bimbo. Remember Lindsey Halligan? She was completely unqualified. "Chump wanted her!" You're the Attorney General and should have pointed out she wasn't qualified.

Having failed at that, Pammy, you failed further by letting her appear before her first grand jury alone. Did you not understand that, Pam?

We've all made jokes about Hiligan but, da Bimbo, you are the AG, having gone along with making this unqualified person an AG, you damn well should have held her hand and walked her through. You've been allowed to define your duties which just goes to how lousy a president Chump is. You are reckless and you are offensive. And when you're gone people in law schools will never stop laughing at you.

You've made clear that you are highly and overly concerned about your looks but you don't see to give a damn about the Constitution. And, I know we've already pointed this out once again, but for the Attorney General of the United States to reference hate speech laws and not grasp that's Canada in North American, not the United States? What the hell do you even know about our country's history?

You will forever be mocked for your tantrum in front of the Senate and for showing up with a notebook of pre-written insults and accusations -- accusations that weren't correct. You got on your high horse at one point to tell Adam Schiff that he couldn't understand what you do because you are a lawyer and -- And you were shocked to discover that he is an attorney. Now as I noted in the snapshot covering that hearing, I didn't know Adam had been an attorney. But here's the difference, I didn't sit in front of cameras and insult him for not being an attorney when he was in fact an attorney.

How stupid are you, Pam? Seriously, how stupid are you? You prepared that attack ahead of time, wrote it out ahead of time.

And yet you didn't even have the facts right?

And you think your actions don't require judicial review?

You aren't just an idiot, Pam, you're a f**king idiot. ATLANTA BLACK STAR NEWS explains:

Attorney General Pam Bondi barreled into controversy on Thursday when she walked straight into a reporter’s trap and tried to match President Donald Trump’s signature rage—only to unleash a tirade so over-the-top it immediately raised questions about how far she’s willing to go for him.

What should have been a routine Fox News appearance turned into a constitutional faceplant as Bondi began echoing Trump’s attacks on critics and threatening consequences for anyone who crossed them.

It happened during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” where a leading question about progressive backlash to Trump’s National Guard deployments sent Bondi into a spiraling monologue.

Instead of answering, she launched into a sweeping denunciation of unnamed “lawmakers” and “news anchors,” accusing them of endangering the country and hinting the administration was now scrutinizing “everything they have said.”

[. . .]

They should be praising our men and women in law enforcement,” she demanded.

“And we are looking at everything they have said and why they said it and if they encouraged acts of violence,” the attorney general firmly threatened.

“But it is, it’s actually sad what our country has come to with these progressive left idiots,” she added in an elevated tone and emphasized speech.

No, dear, what is sad is that a dumb and unqualified bimbo is now our Attorney General.

“I’ve never liked her, but this is just laughable and sad. Like, is she ok? It’s so unserious and lacks any sort of power. Is she high? Is she drunk? Has her soul left her body? This does not seem like a human,” this Threads user wondered.

The whole country laughs at you. And you've never understood Ka$h so let me explain him to you: One way or another, he will bury you. And it will be the most hilarious thing in the world to watch.

In the meantime we register your attacks on six members of Congress for stating the law -- it is illegal to follow unlawful orders. You have attacked them and lied about them. Yet? Let's turn it over to Adam Liptak (NEW YORK TIMES):

When six Democratic lawmakers issued a video last month telling members of the military that they must refuse unlawful orders, President Trump said they had committed “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

But Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said the same thing as the lawmakers last year in a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court as a lawyer for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that represented three former military leaders.

“Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders,” she wrote.

She elaborated: “The military would not carry out a patently unlawful order from the president to kill nonmilitary targets. Indeed, service members are required not to do so.”

The brief was filed in support of Mr. Trump, who was asking the Supreme Court to grant him immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election. It was, more specifically, an effort to address a statement by one of Mr. Trump’s private lawyers, D. John Sauer, now the solicitor general, at an appeals court argument in January 2024.

See? You're unfit for your job, you're unfit for any job, pretty much.

When I think of the battles Janet Reno had to fight -- and win -- in order for women to be taken seriously as the Attorney General of the United States only for us to end up with you, I just shake my head in disbelief over Pam's lazy and ignorant approach to the law.

Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett and Glenn Thrush (NEW YORK TIMES) note:

A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., declined on Thursday to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, the second time in a week that jurors had rejected the effort — a rebuke of President Trump’s bid to order up prosecutions against his political enemies.

The jury refused to charge Ms. James, who had brought a civil case against Mr. Trump, in connection with making false claims on a mortgage application, according to people familiar with the matter, exactly one week after another set of jurors did the same.

The back-to-back failures by prosecutors to secure an indictment amounted to a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign. It highlighted the Justice Department’s unusual strategy of pursuing second indictments despite earlier failures in court and suggested the department would face major hurdles in bringing charges against President Trump’s foes.

da Bimbo, your department is a joke. And if you yourself are not the biggest joke in the administration, it's due to the fact that the administration also includes Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, Robert Kennedy Junior, Tom Homan and so many other idiots and fools. In fact, let's catch up on the H*A*R*L*O*T of Homeland Security. Because she was at a Congressional hearing yesterday. And at that hearing? She made news for all the wrong things.

Sarah Ewall-Wice (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brought her husband Bryon to her grilling on Capitol Hill after a report that Donald Trump is considering firing the top administration official over her problematic alleged lover.

Noem showed up before the House Committee on Homeland Security with members of her family in attendance on Thursday.

One person who did not appear to be in the hearing room: Corey Lewandowski.

Lewandowski has been referred to as the secretary’s “gatekeeper,” and their alleged affair has been referred to as Washington, D.C.’s “worst-kept secret.”

“I have my husband Bryon, who’s with me, and also two of my children,” Noem shared in her opening statement. She noted that her daughters’ husbands and one grandchild had also joined her there.

Bryon Noem was also in attendance, sitting just behind Noem, as she testified on Capitol Hill in May.

Byron Noem was spotted? Well thank goodness for that, he was becoming the most noted missing person since Shelly Miscavige.

As Nicole Wallaces noted on MS NOW yesterday, Kristi ducked on the hearing but not before making clear that she intended to continue deporting veterans.

And grasp that she refused to acknowledge the service veterans of the military have contributed to this country.

Let's go back to Pete, then one more topic so we can wrap up this morning. THE DAILY BEAST notes:

The secret adviser who is guiding Pentagon Pete Hegseth’s hardline “warrior” approach to the U.S. military is a retired colonel with a controversial past, The Swamp can reveal.

Michael Steele, who led the 3rd Brigade, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, has been described by Hegseth as a “certified bad a--.” But while his men adored him, Steele, now 65, was regarded with suspicion by his superiors for his uncompromising approach.

The “Screaming Eagles” commander, who led the 1993 U.S. mission in Mogadishu immortalized in the book and movie, Black Hawk Down, is infamous in Army circles for his tough-as-nails approach and was said to have inspired the use of “kill boards” for troops to tally how many enemy soldiers they killed.

It may come as no surprise that Hegseth’s military posturing is heavily based on his fanboy admiration for his old boss. Hegseth was a platoon leader under Steele. In his 2014 book, The War on Warriors, the Pentagon chief wrote of his former boss: “He suffered no fools. If you engaged the enemy and destroyed it under his command, you got a ‘kill coin’.”

[. . .]

The idea that Steele is now playing a key role in reshaping the U.S. forces in his image will shock many—even those within the military—because he left under a cloud after four of his men were charged with murdering unarmed Iraqis. In sworn statements, members of a combat unit under Steele’s command claimed at a military hearing in 2006 that he “ordered them to kill all military-age males.” Steele denied giving the order and was never charged, but he was formally reprimanded.

A clue to Hegseth’s loyalty to his hero was revealed in a dig he made after getting all his generals to travel to Quantico so he could lecture them about warcraft in September. He specifically called out retired U.S. Army General Peter Chiarelli, Steele’s nemesis—the senior officer who reprimanded him over the “kill order” deaths. “The new compass heading is clear—out with the Chiarellis, the McKenzies, and the Milleys. And in with the Stockdales, the Schwarzkopfs, and the Pattons,” Hegseth told the generals.

Gen Peter Chiarelli had more awareness and wisdom in deep sleep than Hegseth has at anytime during the day -- even before he starts one of his drunken benders. Asleep. Chiarelli truly cared about the troops under his command and his desire to learn about PTS and his efforts to champion it as PTS were praiseworthy and we noted that in real time.

If you're late to the party, we use PTS. It is conduction, you become hyper aware as a result. I grasped it the first time I spoke with veterans -- "disorder" was the wrong term and would make some not seek treatment. So Chiarelli championed Post-Traumatic Stress and that's how I heard of him because that's the term we were using when we spoke to groups including veterans and service members. By removing the stigma, you could understand what it was -- you were in a dangerous place and your body helped keep you alive by making you hyper aware. Now that you were back home, you just needed some help on learning how to handle this g

Next topic?

Oh, how sweet. Just like his father, Barron Trump is drawn to sexual predators. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell remain in the news. Yes, Donald's close friends remains in the news -- despite Epstein being dead and Maxwell vacationing behind bars. Adam Van Eekeren (EXTRA.IE) reports:

Less than six months after being transferred to a low-security prison in Texas, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is set to go before a judge and request that she be released. According to a letter from her high-powered attorney, Maxwell will represent herself in the matter.

Former lover and accomplice to Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell was originally transferred from Florida to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in August after she agreed to be interviewed by Attorney General Todd Blanche. Previously released letters from a prison nurse revealed that the Texas facility was treating Maxwell to a life of luxury.

It was alleged that Maxwell was being waited on ‘hand and foot’ at Camp Bryan, even receiving ‘customized and prepared’ meals that were delivered straight to her cell. The nurse's letter claimed that the convicted sex trafficker was also allowed to play with a puppy while in her cell.

Ari provided a strong overview of this Chump scandal yesterday on MS NOW.