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Doug Lockwood

Sunday, November 23, 2025

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Recap of this week in the revolution: Congress votes to release Epstein files and MTG will resign. Corporations could lose millions as minting of pennies halts. Unqualified Trump regime attorney mishandles Comey case, 97% of ICE detainees in Chicago have no criminal record, and White House offers MBS red-carpet welcome.

The good...

House approves release of Epstein files 247-1 [Link]

Protesters holding a sign reading 'Release the Jeffrey Epstein Files NOW'

Image by Geoff Livingston from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Donny 2-Dolls continues to call the Epstein files a Democrat hoax, but has now signed a bill into law requiring the DOJ to release all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days.

For months, the Trump regime has adamantly refused to release these files, fighting tooth and nail to keep the documents classified, drawing ire from Republicans as well as Democrats. They officially lost the fight with the election of Adelita Grijalva to the House of Representatives because she promised she would provide the final signature needed on a petition to force a vote on releasing the files. Mike Johnson delayed her swearing-in for weeks in a desperate attempt to delay the signing of this petition, but eventually had no choice but to swear her in.

Upon realizing that Congress would inevitably vote to release the files, Donny 2-Dolls reversed his position and told his bootlickers that they should vote to release the files. Ever loyal to their Fuehrer, they did not disappoint. The House voted 427-1 to pass the bill, and the Senate passed it unanimously.

It is expected that the Trump regime will try to exploit a loophole that allows Pam Bondi to withhold or redact documents that jeopardize an active federal investigation or national security. Donny 2-Dolls has already ordered Bondi to open an investigation into Epstein's associates, and this investigation will probably be used as an excuse to withhold incriminating files. Our prediction: before the year is out—even while withholding the majority of the documents under this loophole—Donny 2-Dolls will be taking sole credit for releasing the files and claiming that makes him the most transparent president the world has ever known.

Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign in January [Link]

Noted conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene has been one of the Trump regime's strongest supporters. She frequently appeared on stage with Donny 2-Dolls at his campaign rallies wearing her MAGA hat and singing Trump's praises.

But Greene ultimately failed Trump's loyalty test when she refused to toe the party line on the genocide in Gaza and the release of the Epstein files. True to his nature, Donny 2-Dolls went from praising Greene to chastising her to openly threatening her. He called her a traitor and a ranting lunatic for saying that he should release the Epstein files, even though a week later he ordered all Republicans to vote to release the files.

Greene seemed surprised that Donny 2-Dolls would turn on her, despite the fact that he has never treated his supporters any better than his enemies. Let this be a little life lesson to Greene: If you're going to cheer for a bully, don't be surprised if he turns around and starts to bully you.

Social media post from Donny 2-Dolls: 'Wacky Marjorie Traitor Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown where theer is ROT involved!) is working overtime to try and portray herself as a victim when, in actuality, she is the cause of all of her own problems. The fact is nobomdy cares about this Traitor to our Country!'

The bad...

Trump regime's bungling could cause massive corporate losses [Link]

For years, the United States has been considering abandoning the penny because it costs more to mint that it's worth. Other countries facing similar issues have opted to make their low-value coins out of cheaper materials or eliminate them altogether. But either way, they planned for the inevitable consequences.

Not the Trump regime, though. They just decided to stop minting the penny, and provided no explanations, nor any rules or guidelines for how future transactions should be handled. Many states have laws saying credit card customers can't be charged less for a purchase than cash customers, so businesses can't just round up their transactions to the nearest nickel without facing potential lawsuits. And if they round all their transactions down, they stand to lose millions of dollars in revenue.

Then there's the banks...if they cash a check and don't have exact change, they are required to round up, not down so they don't short-change the customer. Same goes for businesses that pay employees in cash.

And on, and on, and on, all throughout our already-crumbling economy.

They just said 'Let's get rid of it' and moved on, but they've created a train wreck...

There's been no announcement as to why, This was done without any planning or forethought as to what would happen and how it would cascade through the economy.

Bill Maurer, director of the University of California, Irvine's Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion

The ugly...

Trump's handpicked attorney mishandles Comey case [Link]

Lindsey Halligan, September 2025

Back in September, Donny 2-Dolls ordered US attorney Erik Siebert to bring criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey for lying to Congress. But Siebert found insufficient evidence to file charges against Comey and eventually resigned before he could be fired. Trump then replaced him with a completely unqualified insurance lawyer named Lindsey Halligan, who has no experience prosecuting criminal cases and apparently not enough integrity to turn down the appointment she is woefully unqualified for.

While seeking a grand jury indictment of Comey, Halligan showed "a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps," according to Judge William E. Fitzpatrick. As a result of Halligan's bungling, Fitzpatrick has had to go to extraordinary lengths to provide Comey's defense team with all grand jury materials pertaining to the case. This information is typically sealed until the trial commences, but Halligan's mistakes jeopardized the integrity of the proceedings and could potentially be viewed as misconduct, which may lead to the entire case being thrown out without a trial.

97% of ICE detainees have no criminal record [Link]

Protesters holding a sign reading 'Stop kidnapping our neighbors

Image by Paul Goyette from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

The Trump regime has repeatedly claimed that their extreme anti-immigrant policies are laser-focused on getting the "worst of the worst" criminals out of our country. But the facts tell a different story.

Of the 600 individuals still being detained after months of brutal raids across Chicago over the past few months, only 16 (2.6%) had any criminal history at all, and none of those criminal charges included offenses that the Trump regime has previously described as the "worst of the worst" (such as rape and murder).

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings has stated that he will order the release of these detainees if the government cannot provide compelling information that they pose a credible threat to public safety.

Chicago residents are infuriated over the violent ICE raids in their communities. They have watched their neighbors, including school teachers, childcare providers, and day laborers, targeted and disappeared in front of their eyes. This includes US citizens, legal residents, and undocumented immigrants who are in the US legally awaiting court cases.

Trump rolls out red carpet for Saudi prince suspected of ordering the murder and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist (among others) [Link]

Mohammaed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, recently visited the White House for the first time since the CIA determined that he ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist and human rights advocate Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 (and committed other human rights violations). But the Trump regime literally rolled out the red carpet to welcome the prince into the White House.

When a reporter asked bin Salman about his involvement in the murder of Khashoggi, Donny 2-Dolls interrupted, accusing the reporter of promoting fake news and brushing off Khashoggi's murder by saying "A lot of people didn't like that gentlemen that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen."

Bin Salman handled the question more politely and diplomatically, stating that Khashoggi lost his life for no purpose and that Saudi Arabia has taken steps to prevent such a thing from happening again. He has previously denied involvement in the murder, though he also stated that he takes full responsibility for the act as a leader in the Saudi government.