Deportation alone will sink the economy, these tosspots don’t understand who builds their houses, puts food on their tables and keeps the country humming. Invincible ignorance will be the knife to the heart of democracy Jeff, regardless of the vacuous fuckery of his katana wielding wastrels!!
As far as the Latino Voter’s concern goes, you know , the one who voted for the orange stain, Just his accent alone heard in that CNN clip is enough for ICE to deport him on the spot with no questions asked… what was it about Kamala Harris that was so bad that a dangerous felon, racist, rapist dictator would be more beneficial?
I read an article saying there is a MAGA spanish language radio station that hispanic men listen to that is all about trans operations and things that cause castration anxiety.
You'd think congratulations from the Taliban about anything would give the incoming administration some pause. But we ARE talking about the orange dipshit here. He's definitely on the side of the Taliban about most things -- something I once thought would be completely disqualifying in a President.
Trump and his Heritage Foundation extremists are wannabe culturally post Protestant Reformation Christo fascist Taliban. I call the equivalent patriarchal terrorists over here in Northern Ireland The Caliban. Referencing both the simple minded brute from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and their historical roots in puritan Calvinism.
Yes the article was specifically talking about hispanic gardeners and landscapers listening to the station all day while they were working...I donʻt want to generalize but I expect quite a few are undocumented.
I think that it was the fact that Trump successfully made her share the blame for Biden's "failures." He made her responsible for them as if she was the president. And it's been pointed out many times that most voters don't follow any news.
What was so bad is that the Oligarchs own the media, and the social media and they did not want to pay taxes. So, they amplified Trump's messages, and twisted Biden's and Harris' with advice from the master disrupter himself, Putin. The only thing that is going to make this whole situation more interesting is that while Putin will run the White House, Xi Jingping runs Putin. However, this voter is going to join a whole lot of others in misery. Of course the Oligarchs will amplify the message that their problems are caused by Biden and Harris, and these folks probably won't be seeing any counter messages, unless China (Xin ping)gets sick of Putin and Trump and uses TikTok to amplify something else.
They hated “defund the police” & they hated being told to use a person’s correct pronouns; plus they were fed about $30M worth of anti trans ads everywhere men tend to watch, sports games, etc.
Please notice that the scare tactics are almost 100% aimed at born male transitioning to female; rarely did I see or hear fear-mongering regarding a birth female transitioning to male. It is a deep seated psychological thing about power; like “why would a male, a MAN, even think of removing his penis, give up his power, to become the “weaker” of the species, the one they know in their hearts they view as lesser, that they oppress? It’s so foreign to their psyche. The only way they can justify it in their minds is that the male just has to be faking it to gain access to female spaces, bathrooms, locker rooms, sports where the male body would have the advantage to WIN, because of course winning is everything.
Conversely, a female wanting to add a penis, add male hormones, gain power, gain respect & advantage; that they can understand & so no need to fear-monger about that. This same psychological thing exists in many women in the patriarchy.
And yes, many people just could not bring themselves to trust a woman with that much power & authority, & especially not a biracial woman.
And just remember, without doing a thing, the economy will now be great - the best ever - on January 20th, because the RW disinformation media ecosystem will declare it so.
The economy is good—and the Orange Dipshit is going to take credit for that like he always does. This loser has never succeeded in anything except avoiding jail. That’s his super power.
Speaking of building houses, fully 21% of construction workers are migrants, legal and illegal. Watch the costs rise when they are pulled off the job and deported.
Why do the owners of these construction companies never get fined or jailed for hiring the illegals who work for them? It's the poor migrants who are doing the jobs Americans won't do who will be deported & suffer.
Because some state legislatures (Texas) won't make the e-verify system mandatory for employers. Cheap labor helps their wealthy cronies get more wealthy, and is great for the stockholders (also mostly wealthy). They like that free prison labor, too.
It could also lead to food shortages, as we in California are the number one agriculture-producing state in the country and it's sure as shit not MAGA white guys picking the crops. They don't want to do these jobs, but they also think immigrants are taking their jobs, soo???. Some crops, like almonds and grapes, are only grown in California (at least domestically, but the trade war will mean imports aren't going to save us either).
And we won’t be eating chicken, beef or pork because there will not be anyone working in meat packing plants or chicken processing plants because all the immigrant workers have been deported.
Good, fuck the greedy-ass developers who are ruining Florida and are now killing the watershed environmental protection areas, and shrining the buffer zones..
Mar 20, 2024 — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sharply criticized a Texas law that would empower state law enforcement authorities to arrest ...
Mexico Condemns Texas Law, and Says It Will Not Accept ...
While I appreciate the sentiment, Mexico certainly didn't take any action to prevent tent cities from popping up all along the border under the bullshit Remain in Mexico policy.
If Mexico in fact intends to resist, I envision the border patrol dropping people on one side of a bridge, Mexico refusing g on the other & people literally getting stranded in the middle.
It'll only take a few hundred people stranded in the middle of a bridge to totally block all commerce between the United States and Mexico. That will mean that no Mexican fruits and vegetables will get to US grocery stores. I think people will notice the empty shelves.
They have to accept their own citizens unless they've been convicted of a felony in the US. Texas is a state; it does not have the power to expel anyone to Mexico. Only the US government can do that.
That's not quite right. No country has to take their citizens back - there are countries on the "recalcitrant" list (e.g. Laos) that the 1st regime tried to pressure into taking deportees back, as they have refused to do so for years.
Mexico and any other country on the face of the earth can refuse to accept deportees from the United States. Can you imagine Britain accepting anyone we chose to deport there?
Right you are, though most nations take their deportees (who are often deported for criminal records). There are very few "recalcitrant" countries that refuse.
And, the immigration law allows deportations to alternate countries if the country of origin won't accept them, though that rarely happens - I've heard of that happening once in the past 25 or so years of practice
They'll just put them on a bus or plane and have them dumped wherever, just like Abbott and DeSantis did. Detention camps are already in place from the first trump administration, too - perfect setup for forced labor, and lots of profit.
Jeff, are you or anyone here looking into moving their savings/ retirement out of the country before Trump and Musk crater the stock market and the economy as Musk has promised to do? I don’t know what to do.
if you have a stock broker, I would call him or her and ask what they think. It's their well being and livelihood on the line, too... My mother has a lot invested..Im worried, too
Thanks James. I’ve called my stockbroker and I’m waiting for a call back.
I have a feeling that he’s going to be all sunshine and light, but I’m hoping that he can help. I’ve also been thinking about sending my savings off shore, but I don’t know very much about that.
I do know one thing, I’ll be damned if I let Musk & Trump destroy years of savings!
Susan, no! If you're worried about a market crash in the future (I think one's coming , but I'm TERRIBLE at timing these things), just have your adviser (or yourself) move your savings out of the market and into any sort of relatively high-earning money market or bank CD or short term treasury investment. Do NOT invest in equities outside the US market in this time of potential tariff calamity.
Chaos is bad for the stock market and Trump is 💯 chaos. I emailed my financial advisor this morning and I'm guessing lots of investors are in a panic and these advisors are coached to feed us blah blah blah. When he told me to be positive I knew this wasn't the usual way for him to speak. I'm grateful he responded right away to my email but I need to go in for a meeting after I do my homework.
Individual stocks may be in for a big fall. Mutual funds at least own many stocks and are less volatile. Then there are funds that own dividend paying companies. I find these perform well. It all depends on your horizon. If you are younger and have a long time to invest, short term volatility doesn't matter much because you can hold on over the short term gyrations. Middle years means going more toward less aggressive products, and maybe more bonds. Later years means safer cash-type
things like CDs and money market funds, although these provide no growth potential. The best for any stage is to diversify into a blend of products and strategies-some aggressive for future appreciation, some steady for lower growth but less volatility, and some very safe to protect principle. Best wishes!
Umm, that’s kinda what they’re literally paid to do. They use all kinds of sophisticated mathematical techniques to predict how the market is going to work tomorrow, a month from now, 6 months, a year. It’s their bloody job.
They can only prognosticate wishfully. If anyone tells you with certainty that they can say where the market is going and that they are always right, run.
I’m not saying they’re successful, but that is their basic job description. They ask you what you want to do with your money (retire? Build wealth for kids to inherit? Travel? Whatever) and then try to get your investments to provide for what you say you want.
I’m just a 74 y/o retired RN & I manage my own portfolios. I opened an account with Interactive Brokers to be able to easily invest in international stocks several years ago. Own things in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Europe, etc
But, if Trump tanks the U.S. economy we have to assume that will have ripple effects all over the world. I have sold & taken profits in a good chunk of things in anticipation of what’s coming.
I talked to my broker and he suggested that I move my pretty aggressive stock portfolio into saver investments. Boring because they don’t yield high returns, but at least they are safe and I can live off of them. How we do it without a huge tax payment I don’t know yet. Good luck to you.
Rebalance into safer investments. In fact, thanks to many investors being greedy idiots, they're driving the market up right now. It may be a good time to sell equities and take profit before his idiotic tariffs and deportations bring the market down.
If you can afford to hold long term (meaning until he's gone) then hold. Paper losses don't matter if you don't sell low. For me, the blue chips like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia are holds for years.
The stock market will be fine until the recession hits. But we've weathered these before. Invest in solid, dividend-paying stocks and hunker down. Net worth will take a hit, but you'll be paid to wait for the inevitable recovery.
It may be a good time to move at least some holdings into lower yielding but safer vehicles like CDs and money market funds, especially if your Mom is retirement aged. Income funds tend to also be less volatile and lower yielding.
There are other countries in the world. It’s easy to forget that, and we are good at forgetting. Pandemic deaths? Not as big a deal as being “forced” to wear a mask.
I read that Warren Buffet converted a lot of his to cash. People with cash can buy struggling companies at fire sale prices. And probably houses of deported people, too, as happened to Japanese people when sent to internment camps in WWII.
I retired in January 2020, right before COVID hit. After the stock market started to tank, I converted most of my 401(k) into a money market account, because I didn’t want the risk. Due to higher interest rates, it’s now worth more than when I retired - probably not as much as if I’d left it in equities, but at least it’s not my 401(k) that keeps me up at night.
Now, for everything else about a 2nd Trump term, that’s another story.
Buffet is an acolyte of Benjamin Graham. the guru of value investing. I'm sure Mr. Buffet is anticipating some great bargains when president idiot causes a market crater with his stupid ideas. So Berkshire Hathaway will use their ready cash to buy good stocks temporarily beaten down at low prices. Value investing 101
The internment is a whole story in itself. I have known people who lost everything when they were interned. Yes, there were bargain hunters who scooped up assets for pennies on the dollar. Vultures. Buffet is not a vulture.
That’s an interesting question Susan, I’m not sure who’d have a qualified answer unfortunately, we do know that there’s limited time before the tyrannical treasonous tosspot’ inauguration!
Remember the Republicans trying to pick a speaker of the house? Then they ousted him and the best they could come up with was Mike Johnson? What exactly have they gotten done in the past two years besides nothing? Hoping the Republican Party explodes on itself...I'm gonna make popcorn...
Won't matter. None of these policies are going to be implemented in any fair and balanced way. People who are privileged and brown will have no problem not being deported. JDumbass's wife is a millionaire too. No one's going to deport her or her parents. I don't see Vivek Ramaswamy being kicked out, either, or Marco Rubio being sent back to Cuba.
It's going to be working people with few assets that are going to be deported. I'd even bet there will be some new "regulations" saying that the government can confiscate any assets they do have. Gonna need some income to make up for the tax breaks to the uber-wealthy, you know!
I just don't think the dumbasses understand to what degree those lowly laborers support the economy, food availability, and so much more. And there are a lot of idiots who voted for them instead of for a WOMAN (horrors!) will be among the first ones rounded up. They may deserve it, but their families don't.
If he tries to invalidate the Constitution, there will be pushback. I hope it doesn't come to that, but no, many will not stand for him trying to be king.
I think we have some guardrails in place that didn’t exist in other countries like Germany and Italy. Our court system, even SCOTUS, will balk at some of the things he wants. They do want to keep their power, so they will block some of his worst tendencies.
I watched a video with Harvard Law professor Lawrence Tribe who said that the US Constitution is much stronger than that of other countries that were taken over by a dictator, but it still doesn't make me feel any better.
States can take revenge in many ways. I wrote about this in my Substack. California is the 5th largest economy in the WORLD!!! Let them try to fuck around with that. Perhaps some of the Fascists will have accidents…In Russia, some people fall off buildings! Hmmmmm. Our Intelligence community does NOT like trump, what a shame…🤔
They won't have to pass any legislation if Donny convinces both houses to simply pass it up to the Oval Office. Besides, the bigger danger is in what Trump chooses to undo.
And yestrday I read that my county's education head is in favor of getting rid of the US Dept. of Education. I live in NY. Don' any of these imbeciles understand that school districts all over the US get federal money, and without it, schools will go under?
That’s correct Ethereal, the majority of trump voters are under educated & don’t understand much other than the directions on a package of ramen noodles or a box of Kraft macaroni & cheese. 🙁
I’ve been thinking about JDVance as our soon-to-be new “president,” and how it seems like even the MAGAts in the House and Senate hate his guts. Maybe we will be entertained by spectacular cat-fights between Elise Stefanik and MTG. These jerkoffs are going to suddenly start getting along and work together to do anything done?
Actually, that may be a good thing. We can at least derive a smidgen of schadenfreude by sitting back and watching these soulless freaks destroy each other.
It won’t be too long before they begin the infighting for power. None of them want to have to share it, so if we let them at each other, we will be the beneficiaries in the end.
I highly recommend Oligarchs Island. (Gilligan’s Island with oligarchs as all the characters. Guess who Trump is? Spoiler: not Gilligan.) It’s funny but very informative from Timothy Snyder.
Incompetence on parade, for sure. Part of that incompetence though I think is that they’ll fuck up so spectacularly that they’ll do an awful lot of damage. Then when shit hits the fan — lost jobs, no health care, actual inflation — they’ll be clawing each other’s eyes out trying to shift the blame for the disastrous consequences. They’re gonna fuck around, and we’ll be the ones to find out.
To be fair, the House was getting ready to Do a Thing, but Trumpy Wumpy told Mikie nononono so Trumpety could have immigration to l̵i̵e̵ ̵a̵b̵o̵u̵t̵ run on. And it worked, because some people who voted for the vulgar talking yam* don't have the least idea how gummint things work. Or the least inclination to find out.
* H/T to Charles P. Pierce, columnist extraordinaire of Esquire magazine.
First, thank you for saying "graduated from high school" instead of the almost-universal "graduated high school", which makes no sense. Sorry: pet peeve.
I think it would be a good idea to teach civics not only to HS students, but as a remedial class to adults--especially after this election. Add economics, ecology, physics, and a foreign language elective* to that. If it were a graduation requirement, I think there would be 35 year old students still in HS. See my comment about inclination.
* another pet peeve:
"Wer keine fremde Sprache spricht
Kennt seine Muttersprache nicht." -- Goethe
"Whoever doesn't speak a foreign language does not know his own."
Not just civics. I think geography should be taught intensively. And retroactively, speaking for myself. Not just names of capitals. What resources come from which places? How do people make their livings? Who trades with who? Who depends on who for what resources?
By the way, to get CA teacher’s credentials, you must pass a history and government test, or did, circa 1990.
And how to recognize what is likely propaganda. One such technique is to make you angry by telling you that someone else is getting something you are not getting. Then you listen to whoever told you this with less skepticism than you might have otherwise.
No one who is a Rethuglican at this point should be considered "normal" but it's fair to call them an uninformed, stupid, jerkhole, racist, misogynist, and a good little German.
I guess it makes sense in the context that the GOP doesn't like to actually do things. They are obstructionists – actual governing doesn't really interest them. This current crop are even more extreme.
Three or four times a year, I have a dream where I know I’m asleep and dreaming, but I’m stuck inside it and can’t get the fuck out. It’s a phenomenon called a “lucid dream” - you can look it up. All I can manage is some vocalization, that sounds to my wife like muffled screaming, so she proceeds to shake me in order to get me to awaken from it.
Now I’m stuck in something called a Waking Nightmare. I’m screaming, but no one is getting me out of it.
I have those ALL THE TIME, as well as sleep paralysis episodes, which are terrifying. My husband records me. It's creepy to listen to. And yes, I am internally screaming 24/7 now "help, help me, WAKE ME UP!"😳
With this elite list of some of the most toxic perpetrators of the GOP, how could much be accomplished but mass chaos? This morning, it was mentioned that Tim Scott and Byron Daniels will he thrown into this list of the ass-kissing dumb shits who will only add to this trash heap. Got a great laugh from that very fitting meme of that dickhead, Goebbels the II.
Another fine example of dear leader surrounding himself with the finest people. It's one more appointment for someone who will continue to wear his worn out knee pads.
Hegseth is despicable. Iron Cross & other Nazi tats all over arms & torso. Believes women don’t belong in combat areas of the military, I’d defer to Senator Tammy Duckworth on that, he doesn’t believe Black people belong in the very senior ranks of the military. I’m sure he’ll not only get rid of all transgender folks, & probably all lgbtq persons.
I just can’t imagine his moral character that he would lobby Trump to pardon the war criminal soldier who stabbed a sedated 17 y/o POW to death; that’s so really sick shit. Married 3 times, cheated on them all, used cocaine a lot, maybe still does. Smdh
Wish I could join you there. "Move fast and break things" was Zuck's motto -- how quaint back then, said with the usual tech-bro smugness. Now with is nemesis/alter ego Musk running things, it will be the executive-order replacement of every instance of "E pluribus unum."
IDK, Putin seems to be pretty efficient when it comes to murdering people. We'll see what he decides to do. I think he's tired of the bloated yam, too.
They have two years to make some positive change for mass of fools who voted for him. Soon they will realize that like that Turkish saying, the trees thought the axe was their friend because it's handle was made of wood so they thought it was one of them so they trusted it....imagine. Too much Fox News racist babble into the ears and then it stays in the clay of their heads and it just keeps coming cause they never turn it off!
It should already dawned on MAGAts that now he's in office there's nothing they can do for him. He has already begun to turn to his real base: the wealthy, tech bros and corporate leaders who stand to gain from this administration.
I thought that he’d concentrate on things that boost his bottom line or his ego, until someone reminded me that he is the puppet for the Heritage Foundation. I do hope that the chaos keeps his plans at a minimum though.
They had a trifecta in 2017, but due to lack of trust, the only thing they accomplished was tax cuts for the oligarchs. There will be nothing done except those tax cuts again. All of us are prepared for him to refuse to leave office this time (if he’s still around in 4 years). We have to plan to end his fascist dictatorship.
Dotard learned a lot about out how things work in government during his 1st term. I don’t hold out hope for chaos & stalling with these criminals appointed
Lynne, I don't know if you have ever seen Gilligan's Island, but Prof. Timothy Snyder wrote this piece today in which he uses it as an analogy for the incoming administration called, Oligarchs' Island.
If you have never seen it, here is a link to the Gilligan's Island movie. It is really stupid, so you might not be able to watch much, but it helps flesh out the story if you have never seen it.
On July 3, I wrote a long post on FB about how this election was not just about electing a president, it was also about electing their administration, and reminding everyone of the parade of deplorables that made up Trump's first term -- and pointing out that in a second term, they would be exponentially worse. TO QUOTH MYSELF:
"People who not only lack any meaningful qualifications for whatever job Trump shoved them into, but who lack any meaningful qualifications beyond the biological for being a human being. People whose only interest in taking the job would be the abuse they could inflict on the citizenry and the country and the world through the power they would now hold. People who in every sense of the phrase do not think the law applies to them, and who would be supported in that belief by the Supreme Court. People who do not think your life and freedom matter. And people who would have no compunction whatsoever about taking either or both from you, by whatever means necessary."
Usually I like being right but this time it fuckin sucks.
I'm hoping it's quiet for a reason and there is investigating going on, but hard to be waiting for a gotcha moment all these years - trump choking on a chicken sandwich, nailed by Mueller, Senate impeachment, the list goes on to shuttered criminal trial for insurrection and sentencing delayed today on 34 counts and we're hoping Kamala has our back? That's a lot of pressure for one woman not in actual control of the gvmt...but if Biden were to step aside now maybe, just maybe...
The bright spot in my morning was reading that Jesse Watters' mom disinvited him to Thanksgiving dinner.
Poor Tim Scott whored himself out to Trump (and even got married) and will be left in the dirt.
I only hope that Trump keeps appointing House republicans to his admin so that maybe we have a chance to recover the house as A LOT of people have begun to understand the consequences of their actions when they voted for the fascist fuck Trump. Please give MTG a part so I can have a chance to have a decent rep in GA-14, even if it's a Republican it can't get worse than her.
Stefanik is too much of a dense choad to realize that standing in front of the UN Assembly and having to rationalize Trump's fascism (and his complicity with Putin) will be her worst nightmare.
Selling obvious bullshit to the rest of the world is a sucky job for sure. Poor Colin Powell eternally regretted telling the UN that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. But he had character. Stefanik does not.
Yeah, it looks official now. Though with Gaetz resigning and other GOP House members being tapped for the upcoming Terrifying Clown Show of Destruction Part Deux, it may change since the margin is so thin.
Actually, Jeff, disengaging from your posts and the comments is the last thing one should to do—I won’t. My experience in high stress jobs (I was Air Boss on an Aircraft Carrier) is when the shit hits the fan, a hearty what the fuck keeps one’s sanity. I find it no different: exasperation, expletive, action. So keep your posts, and I will offer my witless comments. We are in for some high seas, heavy rolls, and pitching decks. But I must say, Kristi Noem? WTF!
I get it. I stopped drinking alcohol about 15 years ago because even a few sips irritated my stomach. There have been many days since then (especially since 2016) when I wished I could still partake.
I'm 88 and in Canada; wish I could just sit back and watch the shit show (bound to be entertaining moments), but I worry about my retirement-age kids, Gaza, Ukraine, various other places we seldom hear about (Sudan, etc.), the ever accelerating climate crisis - the existence of human life and culture...oh, and the wellbeing of our neighbours to the south (but HANDS OFF THE GIANT FAUCET)
I mentioned this on another site, but when I was at the market the day after the election, there were more people than ever at an off hour and the shelves looked a little empty. A lady in front of me said “I think people are prepping”. We both laughed. Whether she meant for civil war or the Madness of King Fuckwit, I cannot say.
Some reports are that employers are cancelling Christmas bonuses in anticipation of Turd tariffs. Some cos. are pre- buying things now for warehousing to avoid tariffs.
I've heard similarly. Really goes to show how completely fucking backward people have it that they believe that Republicans are better on the economy (this has been true at least since the 80s, but it's unavoidable now).
They're good for the big corporations and billionaires, sure, but it's always at the expense of everyone else.
US companies that can fill the void for products that will be heavily tariffed will also just raise their prices because why wouldn't they? Maybe not as high as the product with the tariff, but definitely higher. The idea that it would reduce prices for anything is so goddamn asinine.
My Fresh Farm produce service in San Diego failed to make its scheduled twice-monthly delivery this morning, the first time that's happened since I starting subscribing. Expect farmworkers to flee in advance of the Day 1 Dictatorship.
Ha! Battling squirrels sounds rather amazing, people down south eat them for their protein… tree rats never sounded very appetizing, plus they’re sorta’ cute and fun to watch as long as they stay outside and out of the bird feeders. Kay-EI!
Oh man that’s what happened last night! I have my groceries delivered cos it’s only like $10 more than if I went. The Uber Eats woman said she couldn’t believe it! She took pix of the shelves and they only had potato salad on them.
She asked, “What is going on?”
I eat a lot of salads and she grabbed the last two.
Happy to see a majority of my fellow Arizonans voted against Krazy Lake as we did in 2022 but for the life of me cannot understand how the orange turd won our state. 🤯
I keep remembering Karl Rove and the group Anonymous back in 2018 when Obama was elected to his first term. The republicans were screwing with us then, and I absolutely believe they’ve done it again.
I'm going to help where I can (mostly local), but I'm also going to let these people get to the "find out" stage of FAFO. Sarah Longwell at The Bulwark had a great analogy: "If a person keeps trying to touch a hot stove, because he's been repeatedly told it's safe, and he disregards your repeated warnings. It no longer becomes your responsibility to tell them not to touch it; they may have to touch it to learn not to touch it."
Clownfuckery is right…these people suck up to trump and then get a role in his administration, after former people in his admin can’t stand him. What in the hell is going to happen? I can’t sleep either-praying for some miracle to happen. Trump meets Biden tomorrow-can the election fraud be found by then so he can be arrested?? (wishful thinking)….sigh
The investigation into fraud is ongoing Tess, there’s far too many abnormalities to let this shitshow continue… Musk knew the results 4 hours prior to the announced call with his app! With what was at stake for Trump its hard to believe a career criminal with the help of his tech bros couldn’t find a way to fix the election Tess!!
If that is the case, I feel like she shouldn't have conceded. I get doing it on the low down, it will just be really hard if not impossible to turn the tide back now.
Trump is surrounded himself with thugs and criminals, like himself. He wants to out-Mafia the Mafia. He wants to out-Kim Kim. He wants to out-Putin Putin, but Putin isn't having any of it. Putin has dirt on Trump and has let the world know.
If anyone asks me who I voted for, I didn't vote for Putin.
Trump is too much of a chaotic Adderall-huffing squirrel to out do any of those people. One can only hope that he's not capable of picking people who can do it for him.
This has to the Absolute Worst of the Worst among us. My skin crawled reading your piece this morning ☕ and that's saying something coming from You ?!!😱 Thank You, Jeff, and the only thing I have to hang on to is the fact that they eat their own. Will reStack ASAP 💯👍😶🌫️
I think that the UN is a great place for "E-lies". There she will be able to say (scream) all the stupid disgusting things that her puppet master directs her to say (scream) and nothing will result.
if the justices and (CURRENT) leaders of our country care anything about the people and the future of our nation, they will not allow this to happen. A republican president is fine, we all survive them. Not this one. His mission is to destroy us.
Just wondering. If all the countries they intend to deport people to say "Fuck you Donnie-boy", what then? I am sure they will plan to put them all in their private prisons and bill the American people bigly for it. Another grift from the Grifter-in-chief
The only thought that keeps me from despair is that, in the chaos to come, not much gets done.
that's what I keep telling myself, too
Deportation alone will sink the economy, these tosspots don’t understand who builds their houses, puts food on their tables and keeps the country humming. Invincible ignorance will be the knife to the heart of democracy Jeff, regardless of the vacuous fuckery of his katana wielding wastrels!!
As far as the Latino Voter’s concern goes, you know , the one who voted for the orange stain, Just his accent alone heard in that CNN clip is enough for ICE to deport him on the spot with no questions asked… what was it about Kamala Harris that was so bad that a dangerous felon, racist, rapist dictator would be more beneficial?
I read an article saying there is a MAGA spanish language radio station that hispanic men listen to that is all about trans operations and things that cause castration anxiety.
Heather Cox Richardson reports that the Taliban has congratulated America for not electing a woman.
You'd think congratulations from the Taliban about anything would give the incoming administration some pause. But we ARE talking about the orange dipshit here. He's definitely on the side of the Taliban about most things -- something I once thought would be completely disqualifying in a President.
Trump and his Heritage Foundation extremists are wannabe culturally post Protestant Reformation Christo fascist Taliban. I call the equivalent patriarchal terrorists over here in Northern Ireland The Caliban. Referencing both the simple minded brute from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest and their historical roots in puritan Calvinism.
I read that too. Buckle up, America.
I hope they can catch that broadcast in Mexico or central America, wherever they will be deported to
Yes the article was specifically talking about hispanic gardeners and landscapers listening to the station all day while they were working...I donʻt want to generalize but I expect quite a few are undocumented.
I believe that, some dicks will panic vote because that end does the thinking.
That radio station and many others were probably on Musk's propaganda list.
I think that it was the fact that Trump successfully made her share the blame for Biden's "failures." He made her responsible for them as if she was the president. And it's been pointed out many times that most voters don't follow any news.
What was so bad is that the Oligarchs own the media, and the social media and they did not want to pay taxes. So, they amplified Trump's messages, and twisted Biden's and Harris' with advice from the master disrupter himself, Putin. The only thing that is going to make this whole situation more interesting is that while Putin will run the White House, Xi Jingping runs Putin. However, this voter is going to join a whole lot of others in misery. Of course the Oligarchs will amplify the message that their problems are caused by Biden and Harris, and these folks probably won't be seeing any counter messages, unless China (Xin ping)gets sick of Putin and Trump and uses TikTok to amplify something else.
Yes. It is shocking.
She peed sitting down.
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They hated “defund the police” & they hated being told to use a person’s correct pronouns; plus they were fed about $30M worth of anti trans ads everywhere men tend to watch, sports games, etc.
Please notice that the scare tactics are almost 100% aimed at born male transitioning to female; rarely did I see or hear fear-mongering regarding a birth female transitioning to male. It is a deep seated psychological thing about power; like “why would a male, a MAN, even think of removing his penis, give up his power, to become the “weaker” of the species, the one they know in their hearts they view as lesser, that they oppress? It’s so foreign to their psyche. The only way they can justify it in their minds is that the male just has to be faking it to gain access to female spaces, bathrooms, locker rooms, sports where the male body would have the advantage to WIN, because of course winning is everything.
Conversely, a female wanting to add a penis, add male hormones, gain power, gain respect & advantage; that they can understand & so no need to fear-monger about that. This same psychological thing exists in many women in the patriarchy.
And yes, many people just could not bring themselves to trust a woman with that much power & authority, & especially not a biracial woman.
And just remember, without doing a thing, the economy will now be great - the best ever - on January 20th, because the RW disinformation media ecosystem will declare it so.
The economy is good—and the Orange Dipshit is going to take credit for that like he always does. This loser has never succeeded in anything except avoiding jail. That’s his super power.
On tRump’s Inauguration Day, the economy will be magically GREAT AGAIN
Speaking of building houses, fully 21% of construction workers are migrants, legal and illegal. Watch the costs rise when they are pulled off the job and deported.
Why do the owners of these construction companies never get fined or jailed for hiring the illegals who work for them? It's the poor migrants who are doing the jobs Americans won't do who will be deported & suffer.
Because some state legislatures (Texas) won't make the e-verify system mandatory for employers. Cheap labor helps their wealthy cronies get more wealthy, and is great for the stockholders (also mostly wealthy). They like that free prison labor, too.
Unfortunately, that's a feature not a bug.
It could also lead to food shortages, as we in California are the number one agriculture-producing state in the country and it's sure as shit not MAGA white guys picking the crops. They don't want to do these jobs, but they also think immigrants are taking their jobs, soo???. Some crops, like almonds and grapes, are only grown in California (at least domestically, but the trade war will mean imports aren't going to save us either).
Gavin Newsom is not planning to let in any federal force to arrest and deport people here
Biden should right now cancel all the government contracts with the people planning to build huge detention camps in every state they can ge into.
$$$$$$$ They are generous donors to the rapacious republicans.
Yes, the companies who hire them should be punished too. You know damned well those employers know they are hiring undocumented people!
Around Chicago it’s prob 90%
You need a new roof? Gonna wait 10 months or longer!
And we won’t be eating chicken, beef or pork because there will not be anyone working in meat packing plants or chicken processing plants because all the immigrant workers have been deported.
Good, fuck the greedy-ass developers who are ruining Florida and are now killing the watershed environmental protection areas, and shrining the buffer zones..
NO COUNTRY has to accept the people that Trump wants to deport.
See the following:
Mexico won't accept deportations from Texas, calls law ' ...
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-wont-accept-deportations-texas-calls-law-dehumanizing-2024-03-20/
Mar 20, 2024 — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sharply criticized a Texas law that would empower state law enforcement authorities to arrest ...
Mexico Condemns Texas Law, and Says It Will Not Accept ...
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/us/mexico-texas-border-immigration.html
Mar 19, 2024 — Mexico will not accept deportations made by Texas “under any circumstances,” the country's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
While I appreciate the sentiment, Mexico certainly didn't take any action to prevent tent cities from popping up all along the border under the bullshit Remain in Mexico policy.
If Mexico in fact intends to resist, I envision the border patrol dropping people on one side of a bridge, Mexico refusing g on the other & people literally getting stranded in the middle.
It'll only take a few hundred people stranded in the middle of a bridge to totally block all commerce between the United States and Mexico. That will mean that no Mexican fruits and vegetables will get to US grocery stores. I think people will notice the empty shelves.
One would hope.
They have to accept their own citizens unless they've been convicted of a felony in the US. Texas is a state; it does not have the power to expel anyone to Mexico. Only the US government can do that.
That's not quite right. No country has to take their citizens back - there are countries on the "recalcitrant" list (e.g. Laos) that the 1st regime tried to pressure into taking deportees back, as they have refused to do so for years.
And we know Texa
Would you care to provide some links to support that? That is not my understanding.
8 u.s.c. 1231(b).
Texas is a state, not the US government.
Mexico and any other country on the face of the earth can refuse to accept deportees from the United States. Can you imagine Britain accepting anyone we chose to deport there?
Right you are, though most nations take their deportees (who are often deported for criminal records). There are very few "recalcitrant" countries that refuse.
And, the immigration law allows deportations to alternate countries if the country of origin won't accept them, though that rarely happens - I've heard of that happening once in the past 25 or so years of practice
They'll just put them on a bus or plane and have them dumped wherever, just like Abbott and DeSantis did. Detention camps are already in place from the first trump administration, too - perfect setup for forced labor, and lots of profit.
And we know Texas is Firmly on the side of obeying all Federal laws, especially if they concern minorities and women.
They also pay taxes including social security, which will be an even bigger strain on Social Security, making it insolvent so much sooner.
Jeff, are you or anyone here looking into moving their savings/ retirement out of the country before Trump and Musk crater the stock market and the economy as Musk has promised to do? I don’t know what to do.
if you have a stock broker, I would call him or her and ask what they think. It's their well being and livelihood on the line, too... My mother has a lot invested..Im worried, too
Thanks James. I’ve called my stockbroker and I’m waiting for a call back.
I have a feeling that he’s going to be all sunshine and light, but I’m hoping that he can help. I’ve also been thinking about sending my savings off shore, but I don’t know very much about that.
I do know one thing, I’ll be damned if I let Musk & Trump destroy years of savings!
Susan, no! If you're worried about a market crash in the future (I think one's coming , but I'm TERRIBLE at timing these things), just have your adviser (or yourself) move your savings out of the market and into any sort of relatively high-earning money market or bank CD or short term treasury investment. Do NOT invest in equities outside the US market in this time of potential tariff calamity.
Chaos is bad for the stock market and Trump is 💯 chaos. I emailed my financial advisor this morning and I'm guessing lots of investors are in a panic and these advisors are coached to feed us blah blah blah. When he told me to be positive I knew this wasn't the usual way for him to speak. I'm grateful he responded right away to my email but I need to go in for a meeting after I do my homework.
Individual stocks may be in for a big fall. Mutual funds at least own many stocks and are less volatile. Then there are funds that own dividend paying companies. I find these perform well. It all depends on your horizon. If you are younger and have a long time to invest, short term volatility doesn't matter much because you can hold on over the short term gyrations. Middle years means going more toward less aggressive products, and maybe more bonds. Later years means safer cash-type
things like CDs and money market funds, although these provide no growth potential. The best for any stage is to diversify into a blend of products and strategies-some aggressive for future appreciation, some steady for lower growth but less volatility, and some very safe to protect principle. Best wishes!
Like a stockbroker can see into the future?
Umm, that’s kinda what they’re literally paid to do. They use all kinds of sophisticated mathematical techniques to predict how the market is going to work tomorrow, a month from now, 6 months, a year. It’s their bloody job.
They can only prognosticate wishfully. If anyone tells you with certainty that they can say where the market is going and that they are always right, run.
I’m not saying they’re successful, but that is their basic job description. They ask you what you want to do with your money (retire? Build wealth for kids to inherit? Travel? Whatever) and then try to get your investments to provide for what you say you want.
I’m just a 74 y/o retired RN & I manage my own portfolios. I opened an account with Interactive Brokers to be able to easily invest in international stocks several years ago. Own things in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Europe, etc
But, if Trump tanks the U.S. economy we have to assume that will have ripple effects all over the world. I have sold & taken profits in a good chunk of things in anticipation of what’s coming.
I talked to my broker and he suggested that I move my pretty aggressive stock portfolio into saver investments. Boring because they don’t yield high returns, but at least they are safe and I can live off of them. How we do it without a huge tax payment I don’t know yet. Good luck to you.
Wow! Unbelievable. Keep me posted on how you’re doing.
I sure hope he isnt stealing from you.
if you transfer out I hope he gives you every red cent that is owed to you
Rebalance into safer investments. In fact, thanks to many investors being greedy idiots, they're driving the market up right now. It may be a good time to sell equities and take profit before his idiotic tariffs and deportations bring the market down.
I’ve lost a lot of money just this morning.
If you can afford to hold long term (meaning until he's gone) then hold. Paper losses don't matter if you don't sell low. For me, the blue chips like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia are holds for years.
That is exactly my thinking & what I have done. Stocks can’t go up forever
The stock market will be fine until the recession hits. But we've weathered these before. Invest in solid, dividend-paying stocks and hunker down. Net worth will take a hit, but you'll be paid to wait for the inevitable recovery.
That's our plan we live off the dividends and his pension.
It may be a good time to move at least some holdings into lower yielding but safer vehicles like CDs and money market funds, especially if your Mom is retirement aged. Income funds tend to also be less volatile and lower yielding.
The risk-reward curve unfortunately is inviolate.
Our economic shock is going to affect everyone. It won't be confined to this country.
There are other countries in the world. It’s easy to forget that, and we are good at forgetting. Pandemic deaths? Not as big a deal as being “forced” to wear a mask.
I read that Warren Buffet converted a lot of his to cash. People with cash can buy struggling companies at fire sale prices. And probably houses of deported people, too, as happened to Japanese people when sent to internment camps in WWII.
I retired in January 2020, right before COVID hit. After the stock market started to tank, I converted most of my 401(k) into a money market account, because I didn’t want the risk. Due to higher interest rates, it’s now worth more than when I retired - probably not as much as if I’d left it in equities, but at least it’s not my 401(k) that keeps me up at night.
Now, for everything else about a 2nd Trump term, that’s another story.
Buffet is an acolyte of Benjamin Graham. the guru of value investing. I'm sure Mr. Buffet is anticipating some great bargains when president idiot causes a market crater with his stupid ideas. So Berkshire Hathaway will use their ready cash to buy good stocks temporarily beaten down at low prices. Value investing 101
Thanks Carol. This whole situation makes me sick.
He did, they don't call him "the Oracle of Omaha" for nothing!
The internment is a whole story in itself. I have known people who lost everything when they were interned. Yes, there were bargain hunters who scooped up assets for pennies on the dollar. Vultures. Buffet is not a vulture.
Yeah, I call them "vulture Capitalists".
That’s an interesting question Susan, I’m not sure who’d have a qualified answer unfortunately, we do know that there’s limited time before the tyrannical treasonous tosspot’ inauguration!
And may I say: reading your letters is kinda my self care.
Hope you are right, but, I am not so sure!
Remember the Republicans trying to pick a speaker of the house? Then they ousted him and the best they could come up with was Mike Johnson? What exactly have they gotten done in the past two years besides nothing? Hoping the Republican Party explodes on itself...I'm gonna make popcorn...
They’ve blocked a lot of decent legislation to keep the Ds from getting anything done as well.
Trust me, there will not be any decent legislation for 4 years.
Yes, only the worst kind of legislation will be passed. Are the parents of JD Vance's wife legal? Is she?
She’s brown…suspect list. Even rescumliCons who first saw his wife commented a surprised, “He’s married to a brown!?”
As Jeff Tiedrich wisely noted, “when you have to defend your wife from your own racist supporters, you’re on the wrong fucking side.”
Won't matter. None of these policies are going to be implemented in any fair and balanced way. People who are privileged and brown will have no problem not being deported. JDumbass's wife is a millionaire too. No one's going to deport her or her parents. I don't see Vivek Ramaswamy being kicked out, either, or Marco Rubio being sent back to Cuba.
It's going to be working people with few assets that are going to be deported. I'd even bet there will be some new "regulations" saying that the government can confiscate any assets they do have. Gonna need some income to make up for the tax breaks to the uber-wealthy, you know!
I just don't think the dumbasses understand to what degree those lowly laborers support the economy, food availability, and so much more. And there are a lot of idiots who voted for them instead of for a WOMAN (horrors!) will be among the first ones rounded up. They may deserve it, but their families don't.
4 years? Trump is not going to step down for anyone else unless Putin chooses his replacement. This may go on for decades. 😭
If he tries to invalidate the Constitution, there will be pushback. I hope it doesn't come to that, but no, many will not stand for him trying to be king.
no lies detected, there
Or if Putin comes knocking telling drumpf he's no longer needed 🤨✌🏻💙🇺🇸
Or for much longer than that, possibly into infinity.
I think we have some guardrails in place that didn’t exist in other countries like Germany and Italy. Our court system, even SCOTUS, will balk at some of the things he wants. They do want to keep their power, so they will block some of his worst tendencies.
I doubt it.
I watched a video with Harvard Law professor Lawrence Tribe who said that the US Constitution is much stronger than that of other countries that were taken over by a dictator, but it still doesn't make me feel any better.
Yeah, just keep on telling yourself that.
more than 4 years Im so afraid....
Nice.
States can take revenge in many ways. I wrote about this in my Substack. California is the 5th largest economy in the WORLD!!! Let them try to fuck around with that. Perhaps some of the Fascists will have accidents…In Russia, some people fall off buildings! Hmmmmm. Our Intelligence community does NOT like trump, what a shame…🤔
I think he has the "Dan Quayle defense" As in nobody wants that dumb-ass in charge.
They won't have to pass any legislation if Donny convinces both houses to simply pass it up to the Oval Office. Besides, the bigger danger is in what Trump chooses to undo.
And yestrday I read that my county's education head is in favor of getting rid of the US Dept. of Education. I live in NY. Don' any of these imbeciles understand that school districts all over the US get federal money, and without it, schools will go under?
No, they don't understand anything.
That’s correct Ethereal, the majority of trump voters are under educated & don’t understand much other than the directions on a package of ramen noodles or a box of Kraft macaroni & cheese. 🙁
I’ve been thinking about JDVance as our soon-to-be new “president,” and how it seems like even the MAGAts in the House and Senate hate his guts. Maybe we will be entertained by spectacular cat-fights between Elise Stefanik and MTG. These jerkoffs are going to suddenly start getting along and work together to do anything done?
Actually, that may be a good thing. We can at least derive a smidgen of schadenfreude by sitting back and watching these soulless freaks destroy each other.
It won’t be too long before they begin the infighting for power. None of them want to have to share it, so if we let them at each other, we will be the beneficiaries in the end.
That’s the only thing to look forward to in this gigantic clusterfuck.
I highly recommend Oligarchs Island. (Gilligan’s Island with oligarchs as all the characters. Guess who Trump is? Spoiler: not Gilligan.) It’s funny but very informative from Timothy Snyder.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/oligarchs-island?r=m52qv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Timothy Snyder is a very wise person
Elon, not JD, will be in charge, but behind him will be Putin.
Trump says he talked to Putin about Ukraine. Putin denies it. Russian TV shows Melania’s nude photos the next day.
Elon can’t be the figurehead, though. That’s JD’s role.
Agree, the figurehead is JD.
Hopefully their incompetence, renders them feckless ? Eh, maybe , pfft . .
Incompetence on parade, for sure. Part of that incompetence though I think is that they’ll fuck up so spectacularly that they’ll do an awful lot of damage. Then when shit hits the fan — lost jobs, no health care, actual inflation — they’ll be clawing each other’s eyes out trying to shift the blame for the disastrous consequences. They’re gonna fuck around, and we’ll be the ones to find out.
None of that shit will matter.
To be fair, the House was getting ready to Do a Thing, but Trumpy Wumpy told Mikie nononono so Trumpety could have immigration to l̵i̵e̵ ̵a̵b̵o̵u̵t̵ run on. And it worked, because some people who voted for the vulgar talking yam* don't have the least idea how gummint things work. Or the least inclination to find out.
* H/T to Charles P. Pierce, columnist extraordinaire of Esquire magazine.
Wouldn't be a bad thing to resume teaching civics to the kids. We couldn't graduate from high school unless we passed a state civics test.
First, thank you for saying "graduated from high school" instead of the almost-universal "graduated high school", which makes no sense. Sorry: pet peeve.
I think it would be a good idea to teach civics not only to HS students, but as a remedial class to adults--especially after this election. Add economics, ecology, physics, and a foreign language elective* to that. If it were a graduation requirement, I think there would be 35 year old students still in HS. See my comment about inclination.
* another pet peeve:
"Wer keine fremde Sprache spricht
Kennt seine Muttersprache nicht." -- Goethe
"Whoever doesn't speak a foreign language does not know his own."
Not just civics. I think geography should be taught intensively. And retroactively, speaking for myself. Not just names of capitals. What resources come from which places? How do people make their livings? Who trades with who? Who depends on who for what resources?
By the way, to get CA teacher’s credentials, you must pass a history and government test, or did, circa 1990.
And critical thinking.
And how to recognize what is likely propaganda. One such technique is to make you angry by telling you that someone else is getting something you are not getting. Then you listen to whoever told you this with less skepticism than you might have otherwise.
Jeff and Charlie Pierce, two of my favorites 😍
Are there enough normal Republicans left though to stop the insanity?
Nope.
No....they became extinct in 2014
NO.
No one who is a Rethuglican at this point should be considered "normal" but it's fair to call them an uninformed, stupid, jerkhole, racist, misogynist, and a good little German.
No. The sane rats left the sinking ship already
No.
No
Dubious Trisha, most of them are spineless as well!
How about Susan Collins?🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, good ol’ “I think he’s learned his lesson, Susan.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No
Haven't they been the least productive House in history (or at least since like 1900).
useless, and just got re-elected.
I guess it makes sense in the context that the GOP doesn't like to actually do things. They are obstructionists – actual governing doesn't really interest them. This current crop are even more extreme.
But still, the mind boggles.
I think it will implode. Sad that it took another Trump administration to make it happen.
🙏🏽
Nothing was done, except when democrats voted with them. It is such a shame what he’s going to do to this country…
They failed, and dumb zombies voted for them.
Three or four times a year, I have a dream where I know I’m asleep and dreaming, but I’m stuck inside it and can’t get the fuck out. It’s a phenomenon called a “lucid dream” - you can look it up. All I can manage is some vocalization, that sounds to my wife like muffled screaming, so she proceeds to shake me in order to get me to awaken from it.
Now I’m stuck in something called a Waking Nightmare. I’m screaming, but no one is getting me out of it.
Bob, I call them daymares.
I have those ALL THE TIME, as well as sleep paralysis episodes, which are terrifying. My husband records me. It's creepy to listen to. And yes, I am internally screaming 24/7 now "help, help me, WAKE ME UP!"😳
My weak whining while in sleep paralysis is pitiful, and frightening.
I actually learned to yell "wake me up", then told my husband don't ACTUALLY wake me up immedately, get a recording first. I'm a dream masochist. 😂
SAME !!
I'm with you Bob 🥺
I think it was James Joyce who said "History is the nightmare from which we cannot awake." Well, that history is being made now.
Ok-that can be my new thought…not much gets done…let’s hope for that at least!!
With this elite list of some of the most toxic perpetrators of the GOP, how could much be accomplished but mass chaos? This morning, it was mentioned that Tim Scott and Byron Daniels will he thrown into this list of the ass-kissing dumb shits who will only add to this trash heap. Got a great laugh from that very fitting meme of that dickhead, Goebbels the II.
Just saw who’s 47’s pick for Secretary of Defense. If there were any room, I’d be floored.
Another fine example of dear leader surrounding himself with the finest people. It's one more appointment for someone who will continue to wear his worn out knee pads.
Hegseth is despicable. Iron Cross & other Nazi tats all over arms & torso. Believes women don’t belong in combat areas of the military, I’d defer to Senator Tammy Duckworth on that, he doesn’t believe Black people belong in the very senior ranks of the military. I’m sure he’ll not only get rid of all transgender folks, & probably all lgbtq persons.
I just can’t imagine his moral character that he would lobby Trump to pardon the war criminal soldier who stabbed a sedated 17 y/o POW to death; that’s so really sick shit. Married 3 times, cheated on them all, used cocaine a lot, maybe still does. Smdh
Definitely another major dirtbag who meets Trump's sick qualifications.
Wish I could join you there. "Move fast and break things" was Zuck's motto -- how quaint back then, said with the usual tech-bro smugness. Now with is nemesis/alter ego Musk running things, it will be the executive-order replacement of every instance of "E pluribus unum."
We all hope that, but we better be ready for the worst. All his appointees are not idiots - Nazi's, sure - but not idiots.
Remember, anything that does go wrong they will blame on us; and the cult members will believe it.
IDK, Putin seems to be pretty efficient when it comes to murdering people. We'll see what he decides to do. I think he's tired of the bloated yam, too.
They have two years to make some positive change for mass of fools who voted for him. Soon they will realize that like that Turkish saying, the trees thought the axe was their friend because it's handle was made of wood so they thought it was one of them so they trusted it....imagine. Too much Fox News racist babble into the ears and then it stays in the clay of their heads and it just keeps coming cause they never turn it off!
It should already dawned on MAGAts that now he's in office there's nothing they can do for him. He has already begun to turn to his real base: the wealthy, tech bros and corporate leaders who stand to gain from this administration.
The young have Joe Rogan, etc. Fox is for old people, who still watch TV.
I thought that he’d concentrate on things that boost his bottom line or his ego, until someone reminded me that he is the puppet for the Heritage Foundation. I do hope that the chaos keeps his plans at a minimum though.
The difference this time is they have the Senate. And the White House.
They had a trifecta in 2017, but due to lack of trust, the only thing they accomplished was tax cuts for the oligarchs. There will be nothing done except those tax cuts again. All of us are prepared for him to refuse to leave office this time (if he’s still around in 4 years). We have to plan to end his fascist dictatorship.
Don't bet on it. It's not about what he does but what he intends to undo.
Both.
Iʻm going to re-read Wolf Hall, except everyone in Trumpsʻ world is awful so there are no heros. But there will be chaos and worse.
Same ...
Dotard learned a lot about out how things work in government during his 1st term. I don’t hold out hope for chaos & stalling with these criminals appointed
Lynne, I don't know if you have ever seen Gilligan's Island, but Prof. Timothy Snyder wrote this piece today in which he uses it as an analogy for the incoming administration called, Oligarchs' Island.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/oligarchs-island?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
If you have never seen it, here is a link to the Gilligan's Island movie. It is really stupid, so you might not be able to watch much, but it helps flesh out the story if you have never seen it.
https://youtu.be/DtPnUOO-5UU?si=JZYMbIgfhEJiJ2oe
On July 3, I wrote a long post on FB about how this election was not just about electing a president, it was also about electing their administration, and reminding everyone of the parade of deplorables that made up Trump's first term -- and pointing out that in a second term, they would be exponentially worse. TO QUOTH MYSELF:
"People who not only lack any meaningful qualifications for whatever job Trump shoved them into, but who lack any meaningful qualifications beyond the biological for being a human being. People whose only interest in taking the job would be the abuse they could inflict on the citizenry and the country and the world through the power they would now hold. People who in every sense of the phrase do not think the law applies to them, and who would be supported in that belief by the Supreme Court. People who do not think your life and freedom matter. And people who would have no compunction whatsoever about taking either or both from you, by whatever means necessary."
Usually I like being right but this time it fuckin sucks.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it”
Alison… the apocalypse is what the religious right have been praying for, their demagogue won’t let them down, or be denied!!
The reports of Musk’s fraudulent Starlink behavior in this election is awfully quiet today…
I hope Kamala's team is doing a deep dive on Eloon's sketchy satellite and all of the other weird fuckery that happened.
The information is on her site now Mary
Only one pre req for a position in the orange turd's admin... able to say "thank you sir...may I have another!"
The information of a recount was on her site last night, the investigation is likely on going and covert knowing her background as a prosecutor Mary!!
I'm hoping it's quiet for a reason and there is investigating going on, but hard to be waiting for a gotcha moment all these years - trump choking on a chicken sandwich, nailed by Mueller, Senate impeachment, the list goes on to shuttered criminal trial for insurrection and sentencing delayed today on 34 counts and we're hoping Kamala has our back? That's a lot of pressure for one woman not in actual control of the gvmt...but if Biden were to step aside now maybe, just maybe...
Those cabinet picks sound like something out of a bad Saturday Night Live skit.
True dat Veronica!!
Christy fucking Noem, I just can't.
Christ on a Cracker she murders puppies. Well dogs. She’s a Sociopath. Tell tail sign of her Sociopathy murdering small animals.
While you can...
At least Kari Lake won’t be Senator!
Alex Jones is throwing his hat in the ring for press secretary. At this point I am unsure how exactly they can make this all worse. But they will.
The shit show has begun, and boy is it smelly.
The bright spot in my morning was reading that Jesse Watters' mom disinvited him to Thanksgiving dinner.
Poor Tim Scott whored himself out to Trump (and even got married) and will be left in the dirt.
I only hope that Trump keeps appointing House republicans to his admin so that maybe we have a chance to recover the house as A LOT of people have begun to understand the consequences of their actions when they voted for the fascist fuck Trump. Please give MTG a part so I can have a chance to have a decent rep in GA-14, even if it's a Republican it can't get worse than her.
Stay sane. Peace
Yep. eLiesSteFascist is the “rep” for #NY21 (my district) and I can’t wait for her to be gone already
Stefanik is too much of a dense choad to realize that standing in front of the UN Assembly and having to rationalize Trump's fascism (and his complicity with Putin) will be her worst nightmare.
Selling obvious bullshit to the rest of the world is a sucky job for sure. Poor Colin Powell eternally regretted telling the UN that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. But he had character. Stefanik does not.
I think she has already risen to the occasion 😞
I hope his mom cuts him out of her will. He makes a shit ton of money lying on Fox anyhow.
"it can't get worse than her." The Republicans will take that as a challenge.
Hey good point, so much hubris maybe they'll wreck their own numbers assuming the same districts will roll over twice in a row for special elections.
Damn.
Ohh fuck
Fuckity fuck fuck! The one day I haven’t been checking on House majority and it happens.
Where are you seeing that? It's still not called according to AP and I need to hold out some hope lol
Yeah, it looks official now. Though with Gaetz resigning and other GOP House members being tapped for the upcoming Terrifying Clown Show of Destruction Part Deux, it may change since the margin is so thin.
Not seeing that report anywhere...
Actually, Jeff, disengaging from your posts and the comments is the last thing one should to do—I won’t. My experience in high stress jobs (I was Air Boss on an Aircraft Carrier) is when the shit hits the fan, a hearty what the fuck keeps one’s sanity. I find it no different: exasperation, expletive, action. So keep your posts, and I will offer my witless comments. We are in for some high seas, heavy rolls, and pitching decks. But I must say, Kristi Noem? WTF!
Thank you David
Cosmetic procedures are de rigeuer for MAGA world. Wonder if larger kidneys are next for her
Their accusation that Kamala "slept her way to the top" is another act of projection.
I’m thinking little puppy and gravel pit. Perfect choice for DHS.
I picked the wrong week to reduce my alcohol intake from the increase over the past nine years. I love your commentary. Keeps me sane for the moment.
SAME!!!!!
No, keep it up! You need to be here, healthy in 2028. 🧡
I know. I was being a little sarcastic, although it’s really hard given what is happening.
I get it. I stopped drinking alcohol about 15 years ago because even a few sips irritated my stomach. There have been many days since then (especially since 2016) when I wished I could still partake.
Picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
SAME!!!!!
I'm 88 and in Canada; wish I could just sit back and watch the shit show (bound to be entertaining moments), but I worry about my retirement-age kids, Gaza, Ukraine, various other places we seldom hear about (Sudan, etc.), the ever accelerating climate crisis - the existence of human life and culture...oh, and the wellbeing of our neighbours to the south (but HANDS OFF THE GIANT FAUCET)
He really IS that STUPID! 😤😳🤪😵💫😬
Gina, re giant water faucet. He should have been 5150'd for that lunatic comment.
so many totally disqualifying things
I mentioned this on another site, but when I was at the market the day after the election, there were more people than ever at an off hour and the shelves looked a little empty. A lady in front of me said “I think people are prepping”. We both laughed. Whether she meant for civil war or the Madness of King Fuckwit, I cannot say.
The first thing I thought of Wednesday morning was toilet paper and paper towels...
Some reports are that employers are cancelling Christmas bonuses in anticipation of Turd tariffs. Some cos. are pre- buying things now for warehousing to avoid tariffs.
I've heard similarly. Really goes to show how completely fucking backward people have it that they believe that Republicans are better on the economy (this has been true at least since the 80s, but it's unavoidable now).
They're good for the big corporations and billionaires, sure, but it's always at the expense of everyone else.
US companies that can fill the void for products that will be heavily tariffed will also just raise their prices because why wouldn't they? Maybe not as high as the product with the tariff, but definitely higher. The idea that it would reduce prices for anything is so goddamn asinine.
Insert, *sigh* of course they will bc capitalism. I'm doing major stock ups, have for months, in case of tariffs, to avoid supply chain problems.
A huge portion of the farm labor force are immigrants, when they’re gone what’s for dinner Kay-EI?
My Fresh Farm produce service in San Diego failed to make its scheduled twice-monthly delivery this morning, the first time that's happened since I starting subscribing. Expect farmworkers to flee in advance of the Day 1 Dictatorship.
I think the terror/attrition strategy is a big part of this.
I’m certain many farm laborers are already packing up their bags, assuming that Trumps rhetoric wasn’t just a veiled threat!
After I eat my earthquake kit food? Not sure, Patrick. I do grow veggies and I guess I’ll fight the squirrels for their tree nuts as protein.
Ha! Battling squirrels sounds rather amazing, people down south eat them for their protein… tree rats never sounded very appetizing, plus they’re sorta’ cute and fun to watch as long as they stay outside and out of the bird feeders. Kay-EI!
Oh man that’s what happened last night! I have my groceries delivered cos it’s only like $10 more than if I went. The Uber Eats woman said she couldn’t believe it! She took pix of the shelves and they only had potato salad on them.
She asked, “What is going on?”
I eat a lot of salads and she grabbed the last two.
“But I voted for the man”. JFC. This is a nightmare.
I feel like throwing up.
But at least Lake the lunatic lost. 🙄
Worse. She’ll be in the Cabinet.
Probably press secretary...she's great at bullshit! She would make Huckabee look "smart and fair".
Happy to see a majority of my fellow Arizonans voted against Krazy Lake as we did in 2022 but for the life of me cannot understand how the orange turd won our state. 🤯
Malfeasance. I truly believe there was manipulation of the electronic voting systems. Between us and Russia there are some very skilled tech people.
I keep remembering Karl Rove and the group Anonymous back in 2018 when Obama was elected to his first term. The republicans were screwing with us then, and I absolutely believe they’ve done it again.
I totally agree Arne
Yes, the Elections folks need to make. sure those millions of Dems didn't vote. Something's wrong.
Rigged.
So thankful Ruben Gallegos (D-AZ) beat crazy Kari Lake.
I'm going to help where I can (mostly local), but I'm also going to let these people get to the "find out" stage of FAFO. Sarah Longwell at The Bulwark had a great analogy: "If a person keeps trying to touch a hot stove, because he's been repeatedly told it's safe, and he disregards your repeated warnings. It no longer becomes your responsibility to tell them not to touch it; they may have to touch it to learn not to touch it."
George Carlin said, if a bench has a WET PAINT sign on it , idiots will still touch it to be sure.
Clownfuckery is right…these people suck up to trump and then get a role in his administration, after former people in his admin can’t stand him. What in the hell is going to happen? I can’t sleep either-praying for some miracle to happen. Trump meets Biden tomorrow-can the election fraud be found by then so he can be arrested?? (wishful thinking)….sigh
Wait. Doesn't the president have ultimate power.... so when Trump comes to visit....
YES! EXACTLY!
Biden has immunity, he should activate SEAL TEAM SIX, STAT !
And he can’t be prosecuted because it’s an ‘official act.’
The investigation into fraud is ongoing Tess, there’s far too many abnormalities to let this shitshow continue… Musk knew the results 4 hours prior to the announced call with his app! With what was at stake for Trump its hard to believe a career criminal with the help of his tech bros couldn’t find a way to fix the election Tess!!
The information of the recount was on her site last night Vickie… she’s a prosecutor by profession and the investigation is ongoing and covert!
If that is the case, I feel like she shouldn't have conceded. I get doing it on the low down, it will just be really hard if not impossible to turn the tide back now.
I don’t see how it’s going to be possible to find the votes we needed in those red electoral states. Sorry to be a downer.
Sadly, I agree. If it was one state, maybe, but not 5 swing states. This shitshow is barreling down on us for sure.
Trump is surrounded himself with thugs and criminals, like himself. He wants to out-Mafia the Mafia. He wants to out-Kim Kim. He wants to out-Putin Putin, but Putin isn't having any of it. Putin has dirt on Trump and has let the world know.
If anyone asks me who I voted for, I didn't vote for Putin.
Trump is too much of a chaotic Adderall-huffing squirrel to out do any of those people. One can only hope that he's not capable of picking people who can do it for him.
Dont Mafioso rub out each other? 🤔
This has to the Absolute Worst of the Worst among us. My skin crawled reading your piece this morning ☕ and that's saying something coming from You ?!!😱 Thank You, Jeff, and the only thing I have to hang on to is the fact that they eat their own. Will reStack ASAP 💯👍😶🌫️
Gonna try to, gonna force myself to sleep more. It ain’t easy, but the very jackassery and overreach by the idiot squadron is sorta giving me heart.
I'd like to take some mushrooms or something and sleep for 4 years.
I almost feel like a want to " wake up " dead.
I'v never been so grateful for ☕ coffee! My first thought on waking. Anyone else noticing the little things that bring you joy?
Rip van Winkle was lucky.
I think that the UN is a great place for "E-lies". There she will be able to say (scream) all the stupid disgusting things that her puppet master directs her to say (scream) and nothing will result.
wish the UN can come in and save us all...
if the justices and (CURRENT) leaders of our country care anything about the people and the future of our nation, they will not allow this to happen. A republican president is fine, we all survive them. Not this one. His mission is to destroy us.
Just wondering. If all the countries they intend to deport people to say "Fuck you Donnie-boy", what then? I am sure they will plan to put them all in their private prisons and bill the American people bigly for it. Another grift from the Grifter-in-chief
Mass incarceration/indefinite internment, with the private prison industry raking it in—their stocks are already soaring.
I'm quite sure that's the plan. More profit for oligarchs.
Exactly Robyn!!