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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Don Trump is a Jew named Roy Cohn


Trump’s threatening ramble at the UN, his minions defend news ban censorship
CNN Hound dog Kaitlan Collins
Jimmy Kimmel Live(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 22, 2026: Dick-tater Trump is now polling at the miserable low of 29%, his decision to ban major networks from covering him in the White House has resulted in him not being on TV, much to his dismay CNN's Kaitlan Collins got invited by the UN to cover him this morning, all of Trump’s minions have been bending over backwards to try to please their master and explain away Don Fuhrer Trump’s decision, his UN speech threatening to annihilate Iran (another war crime on top of his other genocidal promises and terroristic threats) was a rough and threatening ramble, he demonstrated his low intelligence by mispronouncing the names of countries he likes, and the show goes live to the set of Dancing with the Stars to talk to Guillermo and his partner Witney Carson. #Kimmel

Trump's rampant corruption, bribes, Zionism, Iran war crimes, soaring gas prices
I will Make Israel Great Again (MIGA), Roy.
In a new biography of Trump's creator, Jewish lawyer Roy Cohn, lead author Kai Bird (who also wrote American Prometheus about Jewish arms manufacturer Oppenheimer, the source material of the eponymous film) looks at how the scheming lawyer taught his apprentice President Don Trump to lie, deny, delay, attack, sue and countersue, never admit defeat or confess to being wrong about anything, sidestep paying any bills, and avoid leaving a paper trail that could be used against you to prosecute you in court. Bird's book with his wife and co-author Susan Goldmark is American Scoundrel. Here he speaks with Fresh Air Host Terry Gross about it. (Ken Tucker also reflects on three of Dolly Parton’s performances that he says demonstrate her range and her unique takes on romance and heartbreak).
Who is Roy Cohn (pronounced Cohen)?

Don Trump knew I was gay.
Roy Marcus Cohn (Feb. 20, 1927–Aug. 2, 1986) was born into an affluent Ashkenazi Jewish family in the Bronx (NYC) and became a corrupt, hypocritical, American lawyer, a closeted AIDs-stricken homosexual Republican, prosecutor, Mafia enabler, conservative GOP political activist, and the most special friend and mentor Don John Trump ever had.

He first gained notoriety and infamy as the lawyer son-of-a-judge, a prosecutor of fellow Jews Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials (1952–1953) and as Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. What we now call McCarthyism should really be termed "Cohnism."

I love Jews. I was trained by Roy Cohn.
Cohn pushed for McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a prominent legal and political "fixer" in New York City [1, 2]. He mentored and represented corrupt landlord and real estate developer Donald J. Trump during the dimwit's early attempts at a business career [3] no longer able to rely on his daddy's handouts and help.

Cohn was born in the Bronx in NYC and educated at Columbia University. He rose to prominence as a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor at the espionage trial of fellow Jews Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, where he successfully prosecuted them, much as the homosexual Cohn would later pursue, prosecute, and destroy many gay Americans. This led to the Rosenberg's execution in 1953.

I'm not evil; I'm just smart, Ashkenazi smart.
After his time as prosecuting chief counsel during the McCarthy trials, his reputation deteriorated during the late 1950s to late 1970s as he settled in NYC and became a private lawyer to many clients, including the Mafia (Italian mobsters, known murderers, organized crime families), real estate magnates, political operatives, and child molesting gay Catholic clergy.

In 1986, Cohn was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the NY State Supreme Court for unethical conduct after attempting to defraud a dying client by forcing him to sign a will amendment leaving his fortune to Cohn [4].

Cohn is the cowardly bully who created "Trump"
Cohn died five weeks later from AIDS and related complications, having all along always vehemently denied that he was gay, HIV-positive [5], or dying of AIDS, claiming instead that he just had liver cancer. Cohn has been the subject of many media portrayals before and since his death.

Creating the Don Trump we all know
You like Roy Cohn, Bibi? - I love him; he's one of us. - What, a Jew? - No, a U.S. Zionist.
Roy would be so proud of me as his partner.
In 1971, Don Trump first tried to negotiate large construction projects in Manhattan [72]. By 1973, the Department of Justice accused him of violating the Fair Housing Act at 39 of his properties [73].

The government prosecuted Trump because his corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions and made false "no vacancy" statements to Black applicants for apartments it managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island [74].

Sleazy attorney Roy Cohn, representing Trump, filed a baseless countersuit against the government for $100 million (to make a splash in the media), asserting that the charges were "irresponsible and baseless" [73, 75]. This countersuit failed [76], but it served to boost Trump's image and esteem for corrupt Cohn.

Hi, I'm Don. Meet Mini Me, Roy. - No, you're Mini Me, dummy!

So Trump -- as Cohn taught him -- settled the charges out of court in 1975, saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant" [73].

The Trump corporation was required to send a bi-weekly list of vacancies to the New York Urban League, a civil rights group, and give the league priority for certain locations [74].

He-he, yeah, I did biz with Trump
By 1978, the Trump Organization was again taken to court for violating terms of the 1975 settlement; Cohn called the new charges "nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple of planted malcontents." So Trump denied the charges [74, 76, 77], following the Cohn teaching to deny deny deny and delay delay delay, cutting a corrupt deal later rather than going to court.

While representing Trump, Cohn started representing Italian American mobster Anthony Salerno, who along with other Mafia members controlled the concrete unions in New York. Cohn is alleged to have introduced Salerno to Trump, which later led to Salerno's aiding Trump in the construction of Trump Tower by providing concrete at reduced prices [78].

It's possible he's never read it.
In Trump's ghostwritten 1987 book The Art of the Deal -- which was wholly Cohn's idea and project, asking a favor of a publishing company to create it by someone else to give Trump a boost as a competent businessman, which Trump later parlayed into the TV show The Apprentice.

Trump in writing said, "[of] all the hundreds of 'respectable' guys who made careers out of boasting about their uncompromising integrity but have absolutely no loyalty….What I liked most about Roy Cohn was that he would do just the opposite" [all loyalty and no integrity] [79].

Trump, who was a good student learning from his Jewish mentor, is often described as having abandoned closeted gay hypocrite Cohn once he found out that Cohn was dying of AIDS.

A version of this view of "Roy Trump" (aka "Donald Cohn") is summed up in a remark attributed to Roy Cohn: "Donald pisses ice water."

You gotta support all Zionists no matter what
In the tell-all book American Scoundrel (2026), researchers Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark argue that this is only partly accurate. Citing Chris Seymour, a switchboard operator at Cohn's Manhattan law firm, they write that Trump began to keep his distance and relied on Cohn less as a lawyer, the calls between them becoming fewer, but did not cut his gay best friend off completely.
  • [After all, if Trump was molesting children with Jewish super-spy and Zionist-asset for Israel Jeffrey Epstein, what would he care if his other Jewish mentor is a flamboyant gay hypocrite dying of AIDS as he outs, prosecutes, and ruins other gays?]
In fact, in March 1986, five months before Cohn's AIDS death, rich Trump hosted a farewell dinner for his beloved mentor Cohn at Mar-a-Lago.
A witness reported seeing Donald Trump weeping at Cohn's memorial service [61], such was their manly/gay love for one another. More
Criminal indictments
Roy, they finally got me! - Good for them, Don.
Cohn was indicted three times in six years on various charges in the 1960s by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Robert Morgenthau. He got himself acquitted on all charges [8].

Cohn and fellow shady attorney Murray Gottesman were indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in September 1963, alleging that they had obstructed a federal investigation into allegations that Samuel S. Garfield and others defrauded United Dye and Chemical Corporation out of $5 million [51, 52]. On July 17, 1964, Cohn and Gottesman got themselves acquitted of all charges [53].

In January 1969, lawyer Cohn was again indicted for conspiracy, extortion, and blackmail. According to that indictment, Cohn had blackmailed some of the shareholders of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines into selling their shares, which led to the B.S.F. Company (a holding company headed by Victor Muscat) taking control of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines's bus routes [54]. Judge Inzer Bass Wyatt dismissed the blackmail charge against Cohn [55] and lucky Cohn was acquitted [56].

Did all the indictments and near misses slow Cohn down or make him question his life choices? No, like his protege Trump, they only invigorated him and pushed him to ethically dubious and criminal activity until he died prematurely.
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Saturday, August 29, 2026

The Dali Parton: Dolly Bodhisattva?

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The Backwoods Barbie Doll Dolly 
At dollypartonsamerica.com, thanks to Jad Abumrad of Radio Lab, there is a 9-part series of interviews on America's favorite bra owner, The Dali Parton, Goddess of Kindness, a kind of cultural icon and bodhisattva (a "being destined for enlightenment/awakening" by the marriage of compassion and wisdom) for the benefit of us all. Feminist, activist, Buddhist Rebecca Solnit says it quite well:
Who cares about this American singer? She's just a singer! Or was she much more? (FB)
In praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, our Goddess of Kindness (Rebecca Solnit)
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Dolly Parton, the "unicorn of unicorns"
How many authors can capitalize?
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Saturday, August 22, 2026

How to be an influencer; win friends (NPR)

(Hannah Alonzo) Catching influencers lying about lifestyles: It's fake | Influencer Insanity Ep. 4

How to win friends: Can an app fix the "friendship recession"?
How to make friends and be an influencer
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I have no idea why people follow me
Amidst what some researchers call a "friendship recession," apps and services have been proliferating to connect Americans. We hear from people who have already tried them or use them regularly to reflect on what about them has worked and hasn't.

TRANSCRIPT
HOST SCOTT SIMON: Many of the old places where friendships formed -- the office, houses of worship, maybe the VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars, a.k.a. degenerate bars] -- may have become less central to people's lives.

Just react to things with opinions!
It's part of what's been called a friendship recession: Americans spending dramatically less time with friends than they did a decade ago. As Leslie McClurg of member station KQED FM [San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento] reports, a growing number of apps and services are trying to bring people back together.

BYLINE LESLIE MCCLURG: When Jen Hobbs moved to Oakland last summer, she assumed friends would come naturally at the coffee shop or after an exercise class, but six months in...

JEN HOBBS: And on New Year's, I was kind of reflecting on things, and I realized I still don't have any friends.

Talk about fitness on TikTok with a hot bod!
MCCLURG: She made it her resolution to fix that and downloaded every friendship app that she had seen advertised on Instagram. Some are simple, like "Bumble For Friends" (BFF: Bumble For Friends), which works much like the company's dating app.

But instead of swiping for lovers, you're swiping for pals. Others, like Timeleft [or Friend Cult], go further by matching users with like-minded strangers for a meal. [SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING]

UNIDENTIFIED COMMENTATOR: In restaurants across the country [LAUGHTER] total strangers are gathering for conversation and community over shared meals. More
Mr. Beast, what's an "influencer"?
(Blood and Alibis) Deny everything? Ego and influencing can get way out of control. Woe.

Mr. Beast is the biggest influencer
An "influencer" has the ability to alter the attitudes, shopping behavior, or shopping decisions of others through knowledge, position, authority, or the because of an audience relationship.

This ability is either inherent to one's personality or is completely constructed by others for some benefit: social, personal, or economical [1].

The term "influencer" is used in media, business, religion, politics, and communication, referring to folks like social media influencers, podcasters, public speakers, religious influencers, writers, and newsletter writers who have dedicated followings [2, 3].

One writer defines influencers as those "who exercise influence over the organization and its potential customers" [4]. Another defines them as someone "who significantly shapes the customer's purchasing decision" [5]. According to another writer, influencers are "well-connected, create an impact, have active minds, and are trendsetters" [6].

What does every American want?
Just because someone has many followers does not necessarily mean that person has much influence over them [7, 8].

In contemporary usage, it means a social media influencer [9, 10, 11] or an online influencer [12, 13, 14] who builds a grassroots online presence through engaging content such as photos, videos, and updates.

This is done by using direct audience interaction to establish authenticity, expertise, and appeal by standing apart from traditional celebrities by growing a platform through social media rather than pre-existing fame [15, 16].

The modern term is commonly a paid role in which a business entity pays for social media influence-for-hire activity to promote products and services, known as influencer marketing [17].


As such, an influencer effectively acts as a modern salesperson or a marketer.  A 1% increase in spending on influencer marketing can lead to a 0.5% increase in audience engagement [18] for a company or corporation.

Types include fashion influencer, travel influencer, virtual influencer, content creators [19, 20, 21], and streamers [22, 23, 24]. More

How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to be an influencer? Keep talking until someone breaks your jaw like Jake? Read a book?
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This classic self-help book written by Dale Carnegie came out in 1936. Worldwide, over 30 million copies have been sold since, making it one of the best-selling books of all time [1, 2].

Dale Carnegie had been conducting business courses in New York since 1912 [3]. In 1934, Leon Shimkin (Simon & Schuster) took one of Carnegie's 14-week courses on human relations and public speaking. He later persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication [3].

The initial 5,000 copies of the book sold exceptionally well, going through 17 editions in the first year [3]. In 1981, a revised edition containing updated language and anecdotes was released [4]. The revised edition reduced the number of sections from six to four, eliminating sections on effective business letters and improving marital satisfaction. In 2011, it was Number 19 on Time's List of the 100 Most Influential Nonfiction Books [5]. In 2022, a newly revised edition was published.

Author Dale Carnegie
I know what people want (Carnegie)
Before How to Win Friends and Influence People, the self-help genre had other successes. Authors like Orison Swett Marden and Samuel Smiles had sold well with their self-help titles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dale Carnegie began his career teaching night classes at a NY YMCA, later expanding to YMCAs in Philadelphia and Baltimore [6]. He then taught independently at hotels in London, Paris, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, writing small booklets to go along with his courses [7].

When evolution gets us
After one of his 14-week courses, publisher Leon Shimkin of Simon & Schuster approached him [8]. Shimkin urged Carnegie to write a book, but he was not initially persuaded. Shimkin then hired a stenographer to type up one of Carnegie's long lectures and presented that transcript to Carnegie [9], who edited and revised it into its final form [10].

To market the book, Shimkin sent 500 copies to former graduates of the Dale Carnegie Course, with a note that pointed out the utility of the book for refreshing students with the advice they had learned [11]: 141.

Or just work out until you have a hot bod. See?
The 500 mailed copies brought orders for over 5,000 more copies, so Simon & Schuster had to quickly increase the original print order of 1,200 [11]: 142.  Shimkin also ran a full-page ad in the New York Times complete with quotes by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller on the importance of human relations [12].

Originally published in Nov. 1936, the book reached the New York Times best-seller list by the end of the year and stayed on it for the next two years [11]: 141.

Simon & Schuster continued to advertise the book, relying heavily on testimonials as well as the testable approach the book offered [12]. More

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

White women are always right? (NPR)

Journalist Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism and The Genius Myth
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Understanding 'masculinism,' a movement to restore the primacy of men
FA
(Fresh Air) June 24, 2026: Terry Gross interviews Helen Lewis. Masculinism is a belief that feminism emasculates men [making them less masculine], and men should be in control while women stay at home [barefoot and pregnant or] raising children. The Atlantic writer Helen Lewis says the movement is becoming mainstream. More

Online movement to silence women

The men who want women to be quiet
The Genius Myth
(The Atlantic) [Jordan Peterson mansplains. Patriarch, theologian, and right-wing Christian Pastor] Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life:

He wants to repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the vote.

Difficult Women
In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently. “And that is, we vote by household.”

Wilson is a co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, based in Moscow, Idaho. Over the past five decades, he has built a small empire there, dedicated to disseminating his theocratic vision for the United States: a publishing house, a school, a liberal-arts college, and a video-streaming service.

Blame it all on women???



What TRT can do for you. Inject it now.
His denomination, which has about 170 affiliated churches, counts [macho drunkard] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member, and Wilson was invited to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon in February. So when the pastor casually suggests disenfranchising half of America, people listen.

  
Get in the cage, okay? 😀
When I asked him about this position, Wilson said it wasn’t his top priority—“We have bigger fish to [kill and] fry”—but something he sees happening in perhaps 200 years’ time.

I found this intellectual footsie maddening. “If I said to you, ‘I think all white men should be put in cages—but not now; it’s not my aspiration for now,’” I suggested, “then you wouldn’t be interested in a single other thing that I had to say at that point.”

Wilson chuckled. “Oh, I know you’d probably have all my attention.”

Bibi meets Petey to talk about more genocide.
This is twinkly, avuncular Douglas Wilson, the guy who joined a hippie congregation fresh out of the U.S. Navy because he liked to play guitar and ended up leading church services once the regular pastor moved on. This is the same guy who once went on a multicity debating tour with the New Atheist Christopher Hitchens, and bonded with him over their shared love of... More


WQ gets it; we're not wrong
AUTHOR: Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights and The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea. She is host of the BBC’s long-form interview series, The Spark. At The Atlantic, she writes about the intersection of politics, society, and digital culture.
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