DL Open Thread: Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026

If there’s any justice, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, and the entire crew who have literally criminalized the DOJ will find themselves serving time.  Preferably in a facility that also houses, as Trump has said, ‘the worst of the worst’.

Trump Is A Front Man For The ‘Super-Predators’.

Donald Trump isn’t a lone wolf. He’s a front man. Behind him—and all around him—is a classless, venal, vicious crop of billionaire predators who feast on jobs, pensions, and democracy, and this week they all popped their domes out of their holes at the same time.

For years, we’ve been sold a comforting fairy tale: America’s worst predators come in different species. There are those predators; sex traffickers, monsters, villains in Netflix documentaries and then there are these predators; the respectable ones in fleece vests who “optimize” companies, “disrupt” democracy, and somehow always end up with your pension money in their carry-on.

Beside rolled-up tinfoil sporting someone else’s cocaine. I mean, c’mon, they totally have no idea how it got there!

This week blew the lie straight to hell that those with bloodlust for bankrupting their neighbors and our country are different than those who prey on young girls. The only difference is we’ve allowed the first to become respectable since the Reagan days (remember when they were called “corporate raiders?” Private equity sounds more thoughtful. Kinder.).

It turns, out destroying people’s lives and livelihoods with no allegiance to anything but your own wealth and power is always evil. So, it turns out, it’s the same guys. Same billionaires. Same vibes. Same moral black hole—just different crimes on different days.

Not street criminals. Not migrants. Not protesters. The real predators wear bespoke suits, run private equity funds, and treat American workers as something they’d wipe off their Prada brushed leather lace-up shoes.

Did I mention that this is a piece about Jeffrey Epstein and his enablers?  Now I have:

Let’s begin with the man who somehow became a social connector for some of the most powerful creeps on Earth: Jeffrey Epstein. The newly resurfaced photo of Mark Zuckerberg—risking it all without his protective pigeon poop on his nose—dining with Epstein isn’t about canceling Zuck for a bad RSVP from years ago. It’s about reminding people that Epstein wasn’t some fringe oddball lurking on the margins—he was a network node. A guy who moved easily among the same elites who now control your information diet, your job security, and your democracy.

Epstein didn’t crash these parties. He was the party. And nobody accidentally keeps ending up at the same parties unless the guest list tells you something ugly and true. 

And floating above all of this like a weepy, sweaty, Truth-Social-diarrhea-spewing carnival barker is Donald Trump—the frontman for America’s Superpredators. Trump didn’t just know Epstein; he shows up in The Epstein Files more times than in his own books he didn’t write. He owned beauty pageants where he bragged about peeking in on girls changing. Talked about dating his at-the-time young daughter.

I strongly encourage you to read the entire thing.  However, I think the article deliberately downplayed the fact that many Democrats of the Clintonian era, including President ‘I Feel Your Pain’, were equally wrapped up in this cruel fraternity of super-predators.  Of course, it’s only fitting that their names have been leaked by DOJ while several others remain buried.  Me?  I don’t feel their pain.

Will Governors Meyer And Sherrill Do The Right Thing?  They can–if they want to:

A bi-state government authority that oversees the Wilmington Airport could ink a deal next week with a company whose executives are profiting from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations.

Activists and Delaware Senate Democrats say they want Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer and New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill to publicly oppose the proposed lease to Daedalus Aviation. The Delaware River and Bay Authority said federal law mandates approving a lease agreement at Wilmington Airport with Daedalus.

Daedalus earned $140 million last year selling planes to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to conduct ICE deportations. Top company officials also control a separate company with a nearly $1 billion contract to support “self deportations.”

Delaware state Sen. Ray Seigfried, who met with DRBA Executive Director Joel Coppadge last week, said both states’ governors have veto power over the decisions of the board of commissioners. But he said it’s unclear whether federal law would require the authority’s approval of the hanger lease agreement. A DRBA spokesman confirmed the governors have statutory veto rights.

Full stop.  They have veto power.  They can stop this project.  Gov. Meyer’s weak rationale cannot be the basis for allowing these enablers of human suffering to profit:

He said if the state were to boycott any company working with ICE, state officials would need to look at “every company working with ICE, and let’s make sure that not a single penny of state money is going to work with any entity doing any business with ICE,” he said. “Because it’s a lot more than just Daedalus. It’s probably a lot of companies that you and I see every day.”  (Oh, please.)

Meyer also appeared to indicate the state could consider working with Daedalus under certain conditions.

“Daedalus has committed, not in the lease, but verbally, and I think publicly, to use the Wilmington airport facility for VIP transports, not for deportation transports,” he said. “Number one, that absolutely has to be in any lease.”

Is this mic on?  It doesn’t matter!!  Daedalus profits from transporting helpless people to places where they will likely be killed, or incarcerated.  We will soon learn whether Meyer is serious about standing up for those threatened by ICE.  He can and must veto this proposed deal.

What do you want to talk about?