no, I missed that. UGH. I did read that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are proposing real estate development in Tehran as part of their peace deal. DOUBLE UGH
There is only one "man" who would trade American lives and treasure, as well as murder citizens of another nation, in order to enhance his real estate holdings.
The daily beast has a full write up, apparently it’s not just that — bc ofc it’s isn’t — a lot of the land is farm land/livelihood for the Vietnamese that inhabit the area.
Most have been given $12/ foot for their land — and no choice about moving and making way for a Cheeto Pedo Fun Land.
And one man was given only $3k to move 5 members of his family from the graveyard.
WHY do they even care about tariffs? The U.S. importers have to pay them. Would anyone be surprised or even shocked if it turned out "tariffs" are just a cover excuse to shake down smaller countries by using said "tariff negotiations" to make thinly-veiled threats to bomb the hell out of their country if they say no to his demands?
I can see the new Ayatollah going for that, and then waiting until Trump and his family are in there, and then a Shaheed will find its way there. Vengence on Trump killing his dad, wife and children. Are they out of their minds.
I hope so. It took them 30 years to get Salman Rushdie for writing a book!.Just when you think nothing could ever possibly happen.....they don't forget and they will wait forever.
Is anyone here planning on running to Trump Tehran, Trump Gaza, Trump Serbia (oh, looks like that one was cancelled).for their next vacation? .Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff ( and Witkoff's kids) hopefully will die in a Supermax for what they have done.
Me either. I read a lot less than I used to and am also angrier which of course is not good. I read Jeff, Richardson and Krugman, peruse a few headlines in The Guardian and then go do something creative.
Leigh, I spend too much time reading news in Substacks and other sources, and not enough reading books. The books I am reading are mostly for my book club which are all political. My daughter who reads lit all the time, she was saying that I need to read more novels. I have some to read, so I should read them.
I also lead an Indivisible Abroad group, am on an Indivisible Abroad Working group as well, and am active in Democrats Abroad. I do have a life with my family and friends as well. However, I would like to be in a choir again, and start making art again. It is good to have plans.
Reading or in my case listening (audiobook) to a good novel can really take your mind off things. Sounds like your plate is very full, kudos to you for all of your activism!
My husband and I also have been watching an episode or two of a PBS series before bed. We are choosing things that feel wholesome. Just finished watching All Creatures Great and Small. We looked forward to the overall niceness of people.
You are wonderfully busy while contributing to restoring our Democratic Republic. I read and enjoy (and agree with!) your comments often. I pick up hobbies to stay sane. Right now I'm teaching myself stained glass, and spend time in my art studio, listening to music while I struggle with art. :). I'm a firebrand otherwise.
Leigh, one year when I was taking Intaglio, another student was a woman who made stained glass pieces, and was trying her themes in a different medium. We became friends, but I lost touch with her in the winter. She would go to Mexico for the winter, and otherwise lived in a loft in a dicey neighborhood with some roommates, and could afford to go to Mexico for 4 months, because she lived cheaply in Chicago. She made lovely pieces. I think of her everytime I go into the local restaurant because she made the piece above the door. It is a lovely art. Yours sounds like a lovely existence.
I keep Meidas for Ron Filipkowski's daily newsletter and Legal AF with Popok and they partner with Adam Klasfeld and Katie Phang and now Scott McFarlane who I love. The only youtube video of theirs I watch faithfully is Uncovered on Wednesday with Ron and the great Anthony Davis (British. I don't even FF during his commercials. He could read me the phonebook. What a voice.) I stopped with Ben's videos. Every single video from Ben starts "Donald Trump is having a terrible day blah blah blah" . Can't be any fucking worse than mine Ben! 🙄
Sandy, Exactly! Each day I am not surprised, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
I don't find that most of the American population is accepting his behavior. I believe most reject it. What I find stunning is the collapse of the Supreme Court and Congressional Republicans, the blind loyalty of the military, the DOJ, etc.
Our government has collapsed - so does it matter that we have 36% of Americans who support Trump? Logically, obviously not. If they cared, they would understand that the majority of Americans are against him, with the exception of uber-red districts and states. And those polling gaps are closing in on Republicans.
I look at each branch and bureaucracy of government and try to figure out what their motivation is. It's not just blind loyalty to Trump. That doesn't make sense. I look at their backgrounds and religious affiliations.
I'm in GA, and while not in MTG's district (mine rep is worse if you can imagine it) I saw Shawn Harris take on the Trump-backed Republican candidate and significantly close the Dem/Rep voting percentage gap in the most red district in GA. Harris lost, but he came close.
I do. For one, most of the people I know who are in the US, and I am not friends with any MAGAs, are in major denial about what is going on. Even those who are going to some protests, but are mostly focused on their lives as if nothing has changed.
I am in Germany. Katherina Reich (minister of economy and environment) is supporting the building of new fossil fuel energy using stations, there is a climate camp for a week, and there will be a big demonstration in the city Hamm, where the most of these plants are going to be near, and people will come from all over Germany. It is also reported in the mainstream media.
Since our No Kings rally, in our city here in Germany which my Indivisible group held, I have been to 4 demonstrations, and 3 meetings to plan future actions, one will be next Saturday against the AfD. I am not going to the climate protest in Hamm, because I am attending a hybrid conference from DA online. I have posted support for it and meet up info on our Mastodon site.
These are German actions on German issues, but these issues are global. My city in Germany had around 1300 Demonstration in 2025. Things are starting to rev up now, because the center and left are pushing back against the far right. No one wants their country investing in fossil fuel infrastructure during a war that reminds us that fossil fuels means wars. Also, there is more organizing to protest the far right locally and internationally.
Even burnt out from so many demonstrations, and that often means organizing a march as well as the stationary demonstration, people are not looking at actions from politicians as okay. I just feel like the Substack groups are unusual in their activism, not typical. However, you are in Situ. I will take your word for it that most people are not in denial.
My doctor asked me to check my BP daily. I take BP medication. I keep forgetting. It may have something to do with ny husband passing away in February following his 2nd stroke. I digress. I've taken my BP twice in the space of an hour and, surprise! It's high. Hoping 3rd time's the charm. But first I have to look at pictures of kittens and stop holding my breath. God, this is the worst fucking timeliness ever.
I'm not Vietnamese, but I know a couple of things. One is that the religion there is largely an admixture of Buddhism and shamanistic and animistic faiths like Đạo Mẫu. Ancestor reverence is really big. Therefore, the faithful tend to be very ghost-y and feel their ancestors live alongside them. All this to say, this may not go as swimmingly as the Trumpistas think.
Anyone from Vietnam, please weigh in on any errors here.
I have a suggestion for the displaced Vietnamese.....One Halloween (while the parental units were not home), my brother climbed out his bedroom window and onto the garage roof; he set up camp behind the roof peak with a speaker and a microphone and, every time a kid approached the house to trick-or-treat, he would make OOOOOOOooooo sounds. My mother, when she got home, wondered why we had so much candy leftover.........
One year my dad hooked up a vacuum cleaner motor to a white sheet-covered bucket with red lights for eyes that he would turn on whenever kids came to the door. They ran away screaming.
That must be his thing now! He’s turned one of his own into a graveyard by burying his 1st ex-wife’s ashes in a coffin that took TEN men to carry! Human ashes are heavy, but not heavy enough to warrant TEN pallbearers. Now he gets a tax break because he can call it a cemetery. I wonder if Vietnam has the same tax incentives for graveyards.
When you start sundowning, you go back to your youth. What did he do in his youth? Property development. What do all of his recent side quests have in common? Property development.
The next Democratic Secretary of Treasury should announce they will be withdrawing and destroying all currency with Trump's name and/or picture on it. Everything he thinks is cementing his legacy must be eradicated.
I always carry cash because I like to buy local, and nearly all of my local merchants now charge extra if you don’t because the effing credit card companies are charging them fees and merchants now pass those fees onto customers. That’s why.
It's already happening. I keep encountering businesses -- airport food courts, hotels, arenas -- that simply refuse to accept cash and insist on a credit/debit card. Literally. I was at the Springfield (Mass) arena and ordered a slice of pizza and they would NOT accept paper money.
There are some businesses near me that do the same. I think some of it started during Covid when businesses didn’t want to touch money that had touched so many other hands. I get that. And I like the cashless options. BUT I pay far less attention to the amount I’m spending with cashless purchases. With cash..you have the limit in hand.
As always from our tax dollar base. We need military to take action against this seditionist regime. Our tax dollars are being used for vanity projects for a criminal in the White House. The felon inciting and participated in a deadly seditionist attempt to stop Biden from taking office. Where the hell is the military, the Army Marshal or whoever is supposed to protect us from Domestic Terrorists!
Outdoorluvr, they are doing a “great” job of destroying the value of our dollar. The U.S. is as isolated from the rest of the globe (except for Israel’s own criminal, Netanyahu) and won’t likely gain trust back from many. Now the Convict/pedophile regime is working on wasting military spending.
Never!!! Cash is king. Look at what happened in Sweden when electricity cuts / bugs / hackers paralysed their payment system. No cash was their motto. Now the gov changed its mind. Lol
I’ve learned not to get excited about “Judge Temporarily Blocks” (Orange Shitler) headlines. I also just shrug at being called offensive names, but
“I don’t know about you, but I get my funding from a magical leprechaun who gives me enchanted beans, which I then take to the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, where I can trade them in for AntifaBucks™“ throws me a real curveball. Up to now, no one has ever accused me of being a magical leprechaun
Yes. The first one was The Facts of Life. I'm doing these from memory, so there won't be too many more. I've already written the one for The Office though. That one was easy.
Great comments on Sec of Treasury Bessent! He's a walking talking law breaking enabling tool of the Trump Family. Bessent approved the $1.8 Billion fraudulent transfer of taxpayer money from the Treasury to the Trump Family. Some future DOJ will prosecute this conspiracy to steal public funds. Scott will be in the mix of the planners, connivers, flim flammers, hornswagglers, bamboozlers and deceivers. Don't get distracted by the rioter payoff fund. The crime was the phony, fraudulent "settlement". Which is a fraudulent conveyance of taxpayer money to the Trumps. Their announced plan to setup the rioter fund is just an element of the felony fraud scheme.
I just don't know why Trump doesn't print up his own gold bucks and sell them to his MAGA friends for multiple times the face value. I am sure they would buy them because they are that stupid. To them buying Trump merch is like buying tickets to a football game. They are willing to spend all their money on supporting their team. Trump knows it so why doesn't he go make some money off of this idea. Otherwise I have a feeling that a lot of US money is going to get burned.
Aside from the fact that the thought of Fat Hitler's ugly puss on money makes me boke, there is a practical side to this abomination. I work for a company that supplies currency to credit unions, banks, retailers. Customers place their orders with us online. There is no place for $250 bills. I'm no genius, but I know it would cost a lot to update the website just to accept the orders. Then there are a multitude of other spots that would need to be upgraded. We are a smallish outfit, but I am sure Brinks, Loomis, etc. would have to do the same updates at a much greater cost. How in the fuck is that fair? Cost businesses money in order to soothe his fat, greasy, smelly ego? Why can't the Franklin Mint print them up and let his idiots order as many as they want to? Slap a NOT REAL LEGAL TENDER stamp on it and done. Fuck him and fuck his enablers. If I die before this prick does I will haunt his ass.
SSI, I had said something similar. Why not let him print his own Gold Trump bucks, and charge his loyal following a lot of money for them. That way he makes money, and everyone who wants them will be happy. Of course, he is not happy unless he is stealing our money. I cannot wait until he has to pay the piper. There are people keeping track of all his criminal doings.
In fact, I would make a gold Trump Monopoly Game where every time you pass Go you have to pay a percentage of your money in tariffs depending on what country you buy something from. There will be cards where items go down if the country pays Trump a bribe, and cards where items go up because of his actions. Iran war will definitely be an action. Actually, I should call it TRUMP SURVIVAL so I can sell it to his fans.
Each new thing does not surprise me, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
BUT a Federal Judge ruled that his fucking NAME has to come off the Kennedy Center AND they cannot shut down for two years! - so let's see IF he gets to try to do an end-run around that one. OUR lawyers are doing yeoman's work in taking all his shit to courts and WINNING. I've also heard that IF he tries to still pay out that $1.8 billion to the insurrectionists, OUR side will tax them 100% so they will get NOTHING - except outing themselves AS those who trashed our Capitol Building, killed Capitol police AND shit all over the walls, let alone screamed to hang Mike Pence (as well as our Democratic Lawmakers), as well as attempting to stop a transfer of power which their orange moron LOST but refused to admit.
There is a briefing schedule for a June 19 hearing. The Northern District of Virginia is called the "Rocket Docket" because the judges donʻt dilly dally.
There is this, which is totally unprecedented: A bipartisan group of 35 retired judges filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, arguing that the out-of-court agreement may have been an act of fraud designed to deceive the court.
If Johnson tries to shove this trump $250 bill down our throats, we should have a couple conditions- a $500 Joe Biden bill and a $1000 Obama bill to be released simultaneously. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I sort of figured that was how they were going to get around the "no living president" law: maybe they know something we don't about the three annual physicals this year.
They won't get past the Senate. And nobody is going to want to bother with it after he's gone. It's purely for sucking up to Donnie, and what's the point of sucking up to dead Donnie?
'try' to get around. Even the 6 idiotic scotus who're all in for him can't buy that one. NO person until dead, is on our money. Period. Of course then they'd have to prove they've been using body-doubles to pass illegitimate 'executive orders' and laws if he's already dead. Quite the quandary. ;)
He was and will always be a very stupid NY mob boss. His dad knew this and got him Mob Lawyer Roy Cohn to be his major fixer. He taught tRump how to game the system - so long as he had an army of fixers to clean up the mess.
little boys whose parents were paid millions - along with the other victim survivors? Some of them - now grown have ALSO spoken out. No doubt they can be found somewhere in the heavily redacted Epstein Files he's now so desperate not to have 'outed' - despite running on releasing them.
Stephen: 'wanna-be' mob boss. He's even too stupid for the mafia who laughed at him trying to pretend he understood ANYTHING about how they 'did business'. IF the Russian mob (who moved in later) had any dealings with him - he wouldn't still be around or ever made it into our White House. THEY 'don't play' with flim-flam conmen who 1) imagine they're superior to anyone, and 2) don't pay their bills in FULL.
'Maybe why he is so paranoid about eating anything anything which could possible be poisoned... Besides he laundered all the Mob's ill-gotten gains into cheaply-built, but expensive condos.
You DO have a point. It's been mentioned elsewhere that this is why he so loves McDonald's since they churn out so many sandwiches it would be very difficult to tamper with his. Also, HE ordered the use of the cheapest (ergo the least safe) concrete for whatever he'd leant his name to (never actually building ANYTHING) because he's always been a cheapskate conman. I'll never forget when NYC passed a law requiring sprinklers in buildings (tenant and commercially occupied) above a certain height - might've been 30 stories? he refused outright, might even have taken it to court against the retrofitting because it would have to come out of his pockets. He's always, always, always been the cheapest POS...so WHEN the next fire occurred in a building with his name slapped on it and a long-time male tenant DIED because as usual, the FD couldn't get their hoses up high enough, he was fined. FINED! Never charged with manslaughter or what any other delinquent landlord would have been arrested for. NY was up in arms when he slithered away from that one and cemented the hatred we have for him. Sadly, I suppose sufficient new people had moved in who didn't know what an unfeeling monster he's always been - to give him a cult base for the WH.
Karma can take a very long time - could be she's planning something especially fitting? I only want it to happen in public with hundreds of cameras as witnesses - and NOT by another's hand, but 'natural', hopefully naturally very painful (as he wishes on others).
AB-solutely! And with extreme humiliation. I inadvertently omitted that part. Thanks! (Each time I even begin to question why I feel such deep loathing for him, I remember Paul Pelosi being smashed in the head with a hammer - and this HORRIBLE POS laughing about it - purely because Paul is married to our longest running Speaker of the House Nancy, who bested him so often - 'dancing backwards in high heels'). He's vile beyond belief. And of course the perpetrator is yet another of his magat cult supporters who was out to 'get' Nancy.
nobody on THEIR side. OUR people are doing everything possible within the law, which, so far IS helping stop him. He has lost case after case after case. One of the reasons he goes after those he 'hates' is to ruin them financially (his first Roy Cohn lesson). Even WHEN he loses, he's cost them a ton of legal fees. I'd suggest that we should have a special fund (taken from his latest fraud) specifically to pay the legal fees of those he targets vindictively. We ALL know who they are: the Prosecutors who won convictions in Court; targeted reporters, late-night hosts...anyone who once worked for him but who then spoke out against his lies and scams. It's not a difficult list to make...every one of them should be eligible for not only their legal fees but also top-notch attorneys to represent them.
Let him make his stupid easily counterfeited bill. Let's see how many banks or businesses take them. Honestly it's probably just going to be used by rich guys to bribe each other.
If the Bureau of Engraving and Printing issues a bill marked "Legal Tender," does that not oblige businesses and banks to accept it, whether they want to or not? Can a business be selective about which bills/coins they accept? I really don't know, so I'm asking more informed peeps.
Yes, a business can refuse to accept cash altogether. Plenty of convenience stores refuse to accept any bills over a twenty because larger bills are more frequently counterfeited.
Well, it is possible the Reich is working feverishly behind the scenes to make sure this requirement is fulfilled before any notes come off the presses.
Post death I don't think anyone will agree to this, but what do I know. Wonder how long after his death his followers will worship him. They are all disturbed people.
Who knows? Maybe Trump is just two steps ahead, as usual, and understands that under his economy, in a couple years everyone will need a bill that large just to buy a tube of toothpaste and enough cat food to get them through the week. Then they can brag about how no one had ever touched a $250 bill under Biden.
I read recently that a long haul trucker said it used to cost $700 to fill the tank, but with the oil prices spiking it was costing $1800. So, think of that cost tacked on to the price of things, along with tariffs. And, I still cannot get over the Vietnam thing with them building the Trump hotel on graves. Who will go to it? Is Vietnam a destination for Trump fans? Will it be? Does Vietnam care?
Since magats will be the only ones to use it, I look forward to having them deemed not legal tender and watching them complain about Biden or Obama making them do it. And dems cannot reimburse them for their stupidity!
You may get the chance to see the $250, provided it’s printed on Charmin. Then Donnie can claim a royalty for every time someone puts his corrupt face to appropriate use.
They won't be ready for July 4. But the grifter will offer "Mint Condition! Uncirculated!" bills for $500. Buy now while supplies last. The rubes will buy them up sight unseen. And wait, like for those fucking phones.
My cousin works for a currency printer. There is so much work and so much security built in before they get to a finished product. Rushing this will make it easy to counterfeit, and the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians will flood the world with them. They won't be accepted as legal tender within months--too risky.
It's probably just one more scam where people will scrape together and pay $250 plus S&H real hard-earned money to have "one of the first limited edition" Trump250 bill of their very own (w/gold-leaf frame for an extra $50). And then wait... and wait... and wait... ...
That 96% of the population would include me. But, if I were wealthy enough to ever lay hands on a $250 bill, if that ugly mug shot crossed my palm I’d burn it. I swear.
Every day a fresh dose of rage. I meditate, I exercise, I smoke copious amounts of weed, and yet I will not be surprised if at some point I develop a Trump-induced eating disorder. There's only so much bad feeling I can stuff down each day. As for Mrs. Miller, she'd be lucky to be a childless cat lady, a description that's a whole lot less insulting than she thinks. That was my life before I married and if I outlive my husband, it will be my life again. What the Nazi lady doesn't get is that liberal women don't tie their happiness to a wedding ring and child-bearing.
I put this comment in the wrong place, but I agree the "I've Had It" ladies are fantastic and you will love their smart, profane take on this shitty timeline. They're the ones who came up with "Cankles McTaco Tits" or just "Canks" for short. Hilarious.
Hmm, been thinking about Stephen Miller and how truly unappealing he is…by every possible measure. And I’m talking about a universal standard here. And yet there’s his wife, four children and all that sexual coupling…nope, not going there, too disturbing. But come on, how is it possible? What’s wrong with her?
I’ve been looking through books on Brutalist monuments in former Yugoslavia, in Korea, all over. And they all seem intensely graceless, but at least attempt to bring something original to the table. These mugs trying to wreck the nation’s capitol haven’t an ounce of style or wit, obviously, but their aesthetic is that of a carnival midway, trash for trash’s own sake, to celebrate trashiness itself as an ideal. Every single fucking thing about this admin is either clearly destructive or at best simple littering. The deus ex machina we will need after this is a huge cosmic broom, a giant Dustbuster wielded by the gods themselves.
It's just pure vandalism. And are taxpayers going to pay twice, the first time for the clown-brained destruction and the second time to mitigate it? Billions upon billions pissed away is A-OK, evidently. And it's all borrowed money.
I think if Trump's face is going to be on a bill the $3 one would be appropriate. On a side note, at what point can we stop calling it the "Justice Department"?
I was just at a dollar store behind a non English speaking immigrant trying to use a $50 bill. The clerk didn't have enough change to break it. She didn't understand, but we eventually helped her buy a couple more items so he could make change.
That was a $50. Who would ever carry a $250 bill? Who even uses cash?
I do know if I come across his signed bills, I'll just write "Pedo" next to his signed name, or "sucks" after his signature.
If it ever comes out, I'm getting a rubber stamp that says "is a pedophile". Then I'm going to my credit union, getting 2 of them at the counter, stamping them and depositing them at the ATM, then going back and getting 2 more at the counter.
Everything he touches dies….ummmm….so can we send a zillion mosquitos to the WH and land on him so he itches (touches) himself??? Lord have mercy-the guy is nuts! Thanks for the great descriptions Jeff-you didn’t miss a beat!! Love Claudia pics!!! Have a nice weekend to all!
Great idea with the mosquitoes, but send them the night of the UFC debacle so all those MAGAts that attend will enjoy them along with the “macho” spectacle taking place. Seems fitting.
Can we ensure that every mosquito is carrying the virus that causes you to realize what a pathetic piss baby you voted for? I hope they never find a cure for it.
There have actually been complaints about swarms of gnats all around the Epstein patio area and the White House grounds in general, so it will probably be soaked in Round-Up by June.
" I would rather be a barren, never-having-had-sex liberal woman, than fuck Stephen Miller on all the sex drugs Amsterdam can provide. so enough, Katie Miller.” - that made my day!
"he’s just so unctuous — as well as haughty, arrogant and condescending." Unctuous is a terrific word to describe that POS Soybean Scott. Trying to stay calm over in redneck Missouri, where I laugh when I drive past the house where "Trump was Right" signs were all over the front yard. 🙄
“he knows that you know that he knows he’s lying. but he lies anyway because what the fuck are you going to do about it?” Jeff’s best description ever! And at this point I think we’ve all grown to love and need our Daily Claudia. Thank you, Jeff!
Soybean Scott is jaw-droppingly weird looking, like his face was made in a lab. Junior lab tech poured the silicon into the wrong mold..."Whoops! Ah, whatever, I'll call it 'Snot' and put it in the clearance bin."
You're lucky - I have to drive past a house that is back to displaying not one, but two "Veterans for Trump" signs. Deep breaths and bird-flipping every time.
I haven't been to Missouri in a while, but things have shifted here in the Peach State. Trumpy enthusiasm is definitely on the wane and the yard signs have dried up in a big way. There's a jamoke down the road from me who had *multiple* ginormous signs of all things Trump on his fence, planted in the yard, Trump deco festooning his house. Now he's got 3 little yard signs.
It might not be his change of heart. It's reasonable to think that city Code Enforcement dropped by for a little tea. But still.
What the fuck is ‘Trump was right’ mean and no, no matter what they refer to. That’s farm country they are not happy, soy bean man himself sort of disagrees but he will pass a bill for farm relief=subsidies.
Jeff, I’m Canadian - can you please explain all of this nonsense- how can people, elected or non elected, continue to support this deranged numpty? I sit here and am just amazed at the impunity of people to lie for a person who is obviously seriously ill. It would appear that the US is headed for another civil war.
We're faced with the very real threat of martial law. One wrong move and Trump declares it, and our military is itching to police the U.S. population. Thousands of people are being put into concentration camps. People are dying under their "care". Please understand that every corner of our government has been corrupted, and every branch of government has collapsed. Democrats in office are trying hard as are the lower courts, whose rulings get overturned by MAGA judges.
We're trying to save the Constitution and restore the rule of law. We can't do that by ignoring the Constitution and breaking the law. It won't be a civil war though. What will happen is that so many people will suffer that the vote is so overwhelming that Republicans can't cheat.
It’s why I stay out of NYTs, WaPo, etc. Cancelled all subscriptions. I won’t even click on a link to those types of media outlets. They measure that stuff almost as much as they measure how many paid subscriptions they have. I won’t give those f’ers a dime.
I have no idea. I think a large part in that is right wing media.
As of today approximately 90% of US mainstream media is controlled by a concentrated group of just five major conglomerates. These corporations dominate television, film, publishing, and digital news. They are billionaires and support Trump.
It's not support as much as opposition. Opposition to the haughty, sneering, imaginary Leftists who they feel have been lecturing to them and keeping them down all their lives. It doesn't matter that their greatest stated fears aren't real, just that they sound scary, like trans BLM Antifa commies hiding under their beds.
Theirs is a last stand. Their lives, and the futures of their children are dimming rapidly. They have no value in our society and so prefer to just burn it down by spreading accelerants.
There is no end of amazement to be had. As far as a civil war, it's anybody's guess. A reading of the history, though, could shed some light on it. The original Civil War was fought by an organized South as attempt to break off and found a sovereign nation, it had a goal, of sorts. That is not true now with the Trumpistas. A blind adherence to whatever Trump (incoherently) says and a mindless spewing of hate and violence is all they have. Aside from the regime's projects, like cage matches and defaced currency, there's not much there, there. Most of the outrage comes from specific crimes to benefit the wallets (grift) or psyches (brutalizing brown people) of specific individuals. The larger, and ancillary, attempt to roll the country into a "Gilead-like" reality is relatively specific, but nebulous. It has structural issues, too. The prevalence of educated women (about 40% of women age 25+ have at least one college degree) means that, for that vision to prevail, it would require massive and sustained violence. That would be a whole nother level to what's going on now. They talk a good game, but they're not organized for it.
We no longer get our news from a common source, the three broadcast networks and PBS. So we no longer have a shared set of facts and reality delivered to us by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, or whoever. It's possible, now that there is a whole right-wing media ecosystem, to consume news and information that is entirely pro-MAGA and divorced from reality.
Rather than a civil war, I see a disintegration of the rule of law, with disputes increasingly settled by private violence, and nuts committing mass murders even more frequently than we have become benumbed to.
Each day I am not surprised, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. From his trying to subvert the rules of who gets to have their face on US currency, to not being able to end a war that he started which is destroying the global economy. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
At the present time there’s no such thing as a $250 bill. At the present time they’ll have to conjure one up. At the present time, with prices the way they are, who would spend $250 to get a $250 bill with Trump’s fugly mug on it. At the present time I rarely carry cash and I sure as hell wouldn’t carry that.
I have to disagree that this populace didn't ask for any of this. The 49.8% of voters signed up for this. The problem is the other 50.2% have to put up with this clownfuckery every day.
The 50.2% are of votes that were cast. I blame those who sat home and said their vote didn't matter or they were pissed at Democrats and boycotted the election. And also the 77,302,580 that cast a vote for their cult leader. And none of those voters gets to say "I didn't know . . ."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Judge temporarily blocks DOJ’s $1.8 billion payout fund"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/29/judge-temporarily-blocks-dojs-18-billion-payout-fund/
good, but you know they'll just go running to some MAGA judge who will unblock the block
Jeff did you see this other shit that broke? Trump is building another trashy golf motel in Vietnam — ON A FUCKING GRAVEYARD!!
Vietnam is demolishing graves and moving its dead to make way for a $1.5 billion Trump Organization golf course.
How much you wanna bet they move the headstones and leave the bodies?
no, I missed that. UGH. I did read that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are proposing real estate development in Tehran as part of their peace deal. DOUBLE UGH
God, I hate these fucking assholes!!😰
There is only one "man" who would trade American lives and treasure, as well as murder citizens of another nation, in order to enhance his real estate holdings.
I wish that was true, but I’m sure there are more than one. Remember these are real estate developers. Bottom feeders all.
so well said
The daily beast has a full write up, apparently it’s not just that — bc ofc it’s isn’t — a lot of the land is farm land/livelihood for the Vietnamese that inhabit the area.
Most have been given $12/ foot for their land — and no choice about moving and making way for a Cheeto Pedo Fun Land.
And one man was given only $3k to move 5 members of his family from the graveyard.
Why is the Vietnamese government letting this awfulness in? This money ain't free
It is happening literally BC of the Vietnamese govt, they are trying to appease Dear Leader.
They are cutting this deal to only have a 20% tariff imposed VS a 46% tariff imposed.
Someone call Susan Collins and ask how well Donnie has “learned his lesson” about Quid Pro Quo’s.
I’m sure she’s wringing her hands over it as we speak.
Dear Lord how I hope that cow goes down this election cycle. I don't even care if Platner is a Nazi.
Of course! Thanks. Apologies to the people of Viet Nam. Again.
WHY do they even care about tariffs? The U.S. importers have to pay them. Would anyone be surprised or even shocked if it turned out "tariffs" are just a cover excuse to shake down smaller countries by using said "tariff negotiations" to make thinly-veiled threats to bomb the hell out of their country if they say no to his demands?
👏👏👏Well said Unity
I used to work in the garment center.. Tariffs must be killing them.
They make me sick.
I can see the new Ayatollah going for that, and then waiting until Trump and his family are in there, and then a Shaheed will find its way there. Vengence on Trump killing his dad, wife and children. Are they out of their minds.
That sounds like a terrific plan!
Maybe they'll accept contributions....
I think the Trump family are al talk. They talk a lot of shit.
They talk a lot of shit only because they are shit.
Res ipsa loquitor.
I'm learning some Latin from you!
I hope so. It took them 30 years to get Salman Rushdie for writing a book!.Just when you think nothing could ever possibly happen.....they don't forget and they will wait forever.
Is anyone here planning on running to Trump Tehran, Trump Gaza, Trump Serbia (oh, looks like that one was cancelled).for their next vacation? .Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff ( and Witkoff's kids) hopefully will die in a Supermax for what they have done.
They want to make Gaza a resort area. Once again the people are being pushed out by colonialism? WTFFFFFFF
And they are back bombing hospitals! WTF!
Call it a Shaheed dodging resort.
I knew someone in Trump's circle was going to get a payoff. That's why the deal took so long.
Everything is about real estate for them and turning everywhere into some gaudy shithole.
I just can’t with these fuckers!!😖
So nasty. I am with Sue below.
Jesus Christ - I just can’t take this
Me either. I read a lot less than I used to and am also angrier which of course is not good. I read Jeff, Richardson and Krugman, peruse a few headlines in The Guardian and then go do something creative.
You can’t dwell on it or it will eat you alive.He has definitely had a horrible effect on my quality of life.
Leigh, I spend too much time reading news in Substacks and other sources, and not enough reading books. The books I am reading are mostly for my book club which are all political. My daughter who reads lit all the time, she was saying that I need to read more novels. I have some to read, so I should read them.
I also lead an Indivisible Abroad group, am on an Indivisible Abroad Working group as well, and am active in Democrats Abroad. I do have a life with my family and friends as well. However, I would like to be in a choir again, and start making art again. It is good to have plans.
Reading or in my case listening (audiobook) to a good novel can really take your mind off things. Sounds like your plate is very full, kudos to you for all of your activism!
My husband and I also have been watching an episode or two of a PBS series before bed. We are choosing things that feel wholesome. Just finished watching All Creatures Great and Small. We looked forward to the overall niceness of people.
I've noticed on Bluesky that so very many now are posting their arts and crafts to try and keep sane.
You are wonderfully busy while contributing to restoring our Democratic Republic. I read and enjoy (and agree with!) your comments often. I pick up hobbies to stay sane. Right now I'm teaching myself stained glass, and spend time in my art studio, listening to music while I struggle with art. :). I'm a firebrand otherwise.
Leigh, one year when I was taking Intaglio, another student was a woman who made stained glass pieces, and was trying her themes in a different medium. We became friends, but I lost touch with her in the winter. She would go to Mexico for the winter, and otherwise lived in a loft in a dicey neighborhood with some roommates, and could afford to go to Mexico for 4 months, because she lived cheaply in Chicago. She made lovely pieces. I think of her everytime I go into the local restaurant because she made the piece above the door. It is a lovely art. Yours sounds like a lovely existence.
I do exactly the same. I dropped Meidas mainly because of the screaming headlines every single day. Boys crying wolf ad nauseum.
I never subscribed to Meidas for exactly the same reasons. They weren't wrong, but they live in almost hysteria. And they say women are emotional...
Same.
I keep Meidas for Ron Filipkowski's daily newsletter and Legal AF with Popok and they partner with Adam Klasfeld and Katie Phang and now Scott McFarlane who I love. The only youtube video of theirs I watch faithfully is Uncovered on Wednesday with Ron and the great Anthony Davis (British. I don't even FF during his commercials. He could read me the phonebook. What a voice.) I stopped with Ben's videos. Every single video from Ben starts "Donald Trump is having a terrible day blah blah blah" . Can't be any fucking worse than mine Ben! 🙄
And Jonathan Larsen.
Sandy, Exactly! Each day I am not surprised, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
If you are a US citizen or have US residency, would you please read my piece explaining the Free Speech for People campaign to impeach Trump AND his cabinet and help them get 2 million signatures by signing the petition in it? https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-abroad-supports-the-impeach?r=f0qfn
If you can't find the link to the petition in the above piece, here it is. Just scroll down and you will find it.
https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
I don't find that most of the American population is accepting his behavior. I believe most reject it. What I find stunning is the collapse of the Supreme Court and Congressional Republicans, the blind loyalty of the military, the DOJ, etc.
Our government has collapsed - so does it matter that we have 36% of Americans who support Trump? Logically, obviously not. If they cared, they would understand that the majority of Americans are against him, with the exception of uber-red districts and states. And those polling gaps are closing in on Republicans.
I look at each branch and bureaucracy of government and try to figure out what their motivation is. It's not just blind loyalty to Trump. That doesn't make sense. I look at their backgrounds and religious affiliations.
I'm in GA, and while not in MTG's district (mine rep is worse if you can imagine it) I saw Shawn Harris take on the Trump-backed Republican candidate and significantly close the Dem/Rep voting percentage gap in the most red district in GA. Harris lost, but he came close.
I do. For one, most of the people I know who are in the US, and I am not friends with any MAGAs, are in major denial about what is going on. Even those who are going to some protests, but are mostly focused on their lives as if nothing has changed.
I am in Germany. Katherina Reich (minister of economy and environment) is supporting the building of new fossil fuel energy using stations, there is a climate camp for a week, and there will be a big demonstration in the city Hamm, where the most of these plants are going to be near, and people will come from all over Germany. It is also reported in the mainstream media.
Since our No Kings rally, in our city here in Germany which my Indivisible group held, I have been to 4 demonstrations, and 3 meetings to plan future actions, one will be next Saturday against the AfD. I am not going to the climate protest in Hamm, because I am attending a hybrid conference from DA online. I have posted support for it and meet up info on our Mastodon site.
These are German actions on German issues, but these issues are global. My city in Germany had around 1300 Demonstration in 2025. Things are starting to rev up now, because the center and left are pushing back against the far right. No one wants their country investing in fossil fuel infrastructure during a war that reminds us that fossil fuels means wars. Also, there is more organizing to protest the far right locally and internationally.
Even burnt out from so many demonstrations, and that often means organizing a march as well as the stationary demonstration, people are not looking at actions from politicians as okay. I just feel like the Substack groups are unusual in their activism, not typical. However, you are in Situ. I will take your word for it that most people are not in denial.
My doctor asked me to check my BP daily. I take BP medication. I keep forgetting. It may have something to do with ny husband passing away in February following his 2nd stroke. I digress. I've taken my BP twice in the space of an hour and, surprise! It's high. Hoping 3rd time's the charm. But first I have to look at pictures of kittens and stop holding my breath. God, this is the worst fucking timeliness ever.
AgreeSandy. It’s completely exhausting 😣
Good. Let the poltergeist deal with anyone vile enough to play at a Trump golf course.
YOU MOVED THE HEADSTONES AND NOT THE BODIES?!?!
lol 😂 sorry, I gotta go rewatch Poltergeist now, it’s been at least 20 years lol
It holds up surprisingly well! I rewatched it a few months ago.
Scared me to death. Had to sleep with the lights on. Gotta re-watch. LOL.
I saw that too...it makes me sick. 🤮
Susan, Like a broken record they hear a city and knee jerk is shitty golf motel! Let’s do it!
I'm not Vietnamese, but I know a couple of things. One is that the religion there is largely an admixture of Buddhism and shamanistic and animistic faiths like Đạo Mẫu. Ancestor reverence is really big. Therefore, the faithful tend to be very ghost-y and feel their ancestors live alongside them. All this to say, this may not go as swimmingly as the Trumpistas think.
Anyone from Vietnam, please weigh in on any errors here.
I have a suggestion for the displaced Vietnamese.....One Halloween (while the parental units were not home), my brother climbed out his bedroom window and onto the garage roof; he set up camp behind the roof peak with a speaker and a microphone and, every time a kid approached the house to trick-or-treat, he would make OOOOOOOooooo sounds. My mother, when she got home, wondered why we had so much candy leftover.........
One year my dad hooked up a vacuum cleaner motor to a white sheet-covered bucket with red lights for eyes that he would turn on whenever kids came to the door. They ran away screaming.
If the Vietnamese gubmint disses their ancestors that enormously, the people should rise up in a revolution. Haha, commies get overthrown.
He can't even stay out of viet nam???
Right? I thought his bone spurs prevented him from ever stepping a cankle into Vietnam — they must have cleared up.
Christ you'd think they'd have learned to keep the us the eff out after the last round.
You'd think we'd have learned re Cuba after the Bay of Pigs. But evidently not.
He thinks there's great ocean front property to develop in North Korea. Said so to the dear leader during his 1st term.
That explains the new Stephen King novel, “Viet Semetary.”
Bahahahahaha! Good one!!
The walkways will be branded the “Whore She Mine” trails by the clown who couldn’t get it up for Stormy Daniels
That must be his thing now! He’s turned one of his own into a graveyard by burying his 1st ex-wife’s ashes in a coffin that took TEN men to carry! Human ashes are heavy, but not heavy enough to warrant TEN pallbearers. Now he gets a tax break because he can call it a cemetery. I wonder if Vietnam has the same tax incentives for graveyards.
When has he ever paid TAXES?
Probably never. At the very least, he’s not paid enough!! MAGA still thinks he doesn’t take a salary, or if he does, he donates it to charity. 🤣
Wow! Seems like there’s LOADS of time for extra-curriculars? :/ That would bother me if I was a R voter 😳
I guess if you prioritize correctly you can get a lot done between endless lawsuits / appeals
When you start sundowning, you go back to your youth. What did he do in his youth? Property development. What do all of his recent side quests have in common? Property development.
Being president is just to stay out of prison.
That is the ONLY reason he ran again. It was the only way he could avoid prison. What a effing POS.
70+ MILLION lent a helping hand :/
I seriously doubt it was that many.
WITH the R Congress’ constant rubber stamping- making ALL OF IT possible!!!
That was Vietnam’s deal with tRump to get tariffs removed
But yet his golf course became a sacred area when he planted a body there….
She must have loved golf.
That worked out well in Poltergeist.
I'll bet you $250.00 that they'll do just that.
Holy Shit!
Whatever is the cheapest way is the way they will go.
No doubt. And as for the play money, maybe I can use my Harriet Tubman stamp over his face. Wait - I spent all my money on gas and eggs
I predict that trump money will be the World's Most Expensive Toilet Paper. It will even be washable, so it can be reused for years!
Ick.
They're doing a coin too. They'll be finding that in the rubble for thousands of years.
Well my saving grace is I will never have a $250 bill. Don't know many who will.
I'm not going to fret over this one, as it will never get printed.
I've never been so glad that I rarely use cash, and even then, only in small denominations.
Seriously, I'm always gobsmacked when I see people pulling out Benjamins. You walk around with that kind of cash on you?
The next Democratic Secretary of Treasury should announce they will be withdrawing and destroying all currency with Trump's name and/or picture on it. Everything he thinks is cementing his legacy must be eradicated.
I always carry cash because I like to buy local, and nearly all of my local merchants now charge extra if you don’t because the effing credit card companies are charging them fees and merchants now pass those fees onto customers. That’s why.
Let’s eliminate paper money. But I don’t think stopping the printing presses for trump will work, but we never know for sure.
It's already happening. I keep encountering businesses -- airport food courts, hotels, arenas -- that simply refuse to accept cash and insist on a credit/debit card. Literally. I was at the Springfield (Mass) arena and ordered a slice of pizza and they would NOT accept paper money.
There are some businesses near me that do the same. I think some of it started during Covid when businesses didn’t want to touch money that had touched so many other hands. I get that. And I like the cashless options. BUT I pay far less attention to the amount I’m spending with cashless purchases. With cash..you have the limit in hand.
Excuse my ignorance but where's the money behind the printing phony money that he's proposing?
As always from our tax dollar base. We need military to take action against this seditionist regime. Our tax dollars are being used for vanity projects for a criminal in the White House. The felon inciting and participated in a deadly seditionist attempt to stop Biden from taking office. Where the hell is the military, the Army Marshal or whoever is supposed to protect us from Domestic Terrorists!
Trump and Co. are already trying to do that - force cryptocurrency on the entire globe, by crashing the value of the U.S. dollar.
Outdoorluvr, they are doing a “great” job of destroying the value of our dollar. The U.S. is as isolated from the rest of the globe (except for Israel’s own criminal, Netanyahu) and won’t likely gain trust back from many. Now the Convict/pedophile regime is working on wasting military spending.
Never!!! Cash is king. Look at what happened in Sweden when electricity cuts / bugs / hackers paralysed their payment system. No cash was their motto. Now the gov changed its mind. Lol
Good point. I hadn’t heard this. Anything that can be hacked, will be!
He can have his $250 bill. But. He has to be dead first.
I can use my FDT stamp all over it
I’ve learned not to get excited about “Judge Temporarily Blocks” (Orange Shitler) headlines. I also just shrug at being called offensive names, but
“I don’t know about you, but I get my funding from a magical leprechaun who gives me enchanted beans, which I then take to the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, where I can trade them in for AntifaBucks™“ throws me a real curveball. Up to now, no one has ever accused me of being a magical leprechaun
No, the world don't move
Just because you took a dump
While sleeping on the job
And dozing in a slump
A man is bored
And he's feeling mean
Then along come shakes
Aides are jumping in to clean
'Cause he's got, mini-strokes
And it takes, many folks
To give him, many jolts
To fuel this turd
Everybody's got a "special" kind of story
Everybody finds a way to lie
Use the facts, it's what we got
And it's a lot, so what
He'll take yours
He'll take theirs
And he'll take mine
And his brain is fuckity-bye
Then back to, mini-strokes
He's got a, dumbass cult
And they will, all be dolts
It's so absurd, so absurd
'Cause he's got, mini-strokes
Followed by, bloody chokes
And then he'll
Wind up in the underworld
(Oooooh!)
Is that to Diff'rent Strokes?
Yes. The first one was The Facts of Life. I'm doing these from memory, so there won't be too many more. I've already written the one for The Office though. That one was easy.
Very good! Creative!
Great comments on Sec of Treasury Bessent! He's a walking talking law breaking enabling tool of the Trump Family. Bessent approved the $1.8 Billion fraudulent transfer of taxpayer money from the Treasury to the Trump Family. Some future DOJ will prosecute this conspiracy to steal public funds. Scott will be in the mix of the planners, connivers, flim flammers, hornswagglers, bamboozlers and deceivers. Don't get distracted by the rioter payoff fund. The crime was the phony, fraudulent "settlement". Which is a fraudulent conveyance of taxpayer money to the Trumps. Their announced plan to setup the rioter fund is just an element of the felony fraud scheme.
I just don't know why Trump doesn't print up his own gold bucks and sell them to his MAGA friends for multiple times the face value. I am sure they would buy them because they are that stupid. To them buying Trump merch is like buying tickets to a football game. They are willing to spend all their money on supporting their team. Trump knows it so why doesn't he go make some money off of this idea. Otherwise I have a feeling that a lot of US money is going to get burned.
Aside from the fact that the thought of Fat Hitler's ugly puss on money makes me boke, there is a practical side to this abomination. I work for a company that supplies currency to credit unions, banks, retailers. Customers place their orders with us online. There is no place for $250 bills. I'm no genius, but I know it would cost a lot to update the website just to accept the orders. Then there are a multitude of other spots that would need to be upgraded. We are a smallish outfit, but I am sure Brinks, Loomis, etc. would have to do the same updates at a much greater cost. How in the fuck is that fair? Cost businesses money in order to soothe his fat, greasy, smelly ego? Why can't the Franklin Mint print them up and let his idiots order as many as they want to? Slap a NOT REAL LEGAL TENDER stamp on it and done. Fuck him and fuck his enablers. If I die before this prick does I will haunt his ass.
Hopefully along with all the ghosts from his "new" Vietnam Golf Course/Cemetary
SSI, I had said something similar. Why not let him print his own Gold Trump bucks, and charge his loyal following a lot of money for them. That way he makes money, and everyone who wants them will be happy. Of course, he is not happy unless he is stealing our money. I cannot wait until he has to pay the piper. There are people keeping track of all his criminal doings.
In fact, I would make a gold Trump Monopoly Game where every time you pass Go you have to pay a percentage of your money in tariffs depending on what country you buy something from. There will be cards where items go down if the country pays Trump a bribe, and cards where items go up because of his actions. Iran war will definitely be an action. Actually, I should call it TRUMP SURVIVAL so I can sell it to his fans.
I tell MAGAts to send Trump all their money. He needs it more than they do.
They have, he has a coin that he and Melania have used to steal from the rubes.
Of course they do.
Each new thing does not surprise me, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
If you are a US citizen or have US residency, would you please read my piece explaining the Free Speech for People campaign to impeach Trump AND his cabinet and help them get 2 million signatures by signing the petition in it? https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-abroad-supports-the-impeach?r=f0qfn
If you can't find the link to the petition in the above piece, here it is. Just scroll down and you will find it. https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
BUT a Federal Judge ruled that his fucking NAME has to come off the Kennedy Center AND they cannot shut down for two years! - so let's see IF he gets to try to do an end-run around that one. OUR lawyers are doing yeoman's work in taking all his shit to courts and WINNING. I've also heard that IF he tries to still pay out that $1.8 billion to the insurrectionists, OUR side will tax them 100% so they will get NOTHING - except outing themselves AS those who trashed our Capitol Building, killed Capitol police AND shit all over the walls, let alone screamed to hang Mike Pence (as well as our Democratic Lawmakers), as well as attempting to stop a transfer of power which their orange moron LOST but refused to admit.
Supreme Court shadow docket on line 1.
There is a briefing schedule for a June 19 hearing. The Northern District of Virginia is called the "Rocket Docket" because the judges donʻt dilly dally.
There is this, which is totally unprecedented: A bipartisan group of 35 retired judges filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, arguing that the out-of-court agreement may have been an act of fraud designed to deceive the court.
If Johnson tries to shove this trump $250 bill down our throats, we should have a couple conditions- a $500 Joe Biden bill and a $1000 Obama bill to be released simultaneously. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
A billion dollars? almost 2 Billion Dollars? I want to vomit.
Here’s the irony about the $250 bill (that will never be printed).
The picture of the man on the $250 bill is the one keeping 96% of the population so poor they will never see one.
100%
You’re not wrong about the law, Jeff. Donnie’s law is “try and stop me”.
He'll be dead soon before he ever sees that bill. HOW ABOUT TODAY???
Don't tease me with a great day.
I sort of figured that was how they were going to get around the "no living president" law: maybe they know something we don't about the three annual physicals this year.
They won't get past the Senate. And nobody is going to want to bother with it after he's gone. It's purely for sucking up to Donnie, and what's the point of sucking up to dead Donnie?
'try' to get around. Even the 6 idiotic scotus who're all in for him can't buy that one. NO person until dead, is on our money. Period. Of course then they'd have to prove they've been using body-doubles to pass illegitimate 'executive orders' and laws if he's already dead. Quite the quandary. ;)
Today works for me.
✌️😂😂😂 Then we can have lunch!
He was and will always be a very stupid NY mob boss. His dad knew this and got him Mob Lawyer Roy Cohn to be his major fixer. He taught tRump how to game the system - so long as he had an army of fixers to clean up the mess.
Cohn is #1 in my personal "worst person not a murderer" Hall of Pieces of Shit
I looked it up and most people disapprove of the destruction of the white house and the Rose garden.
#1? ...ahead of Mitch?
Mitch is 1A. Not A1, McMahon.
Cohn may also be responsible for Trump's love of beautiful men. Who knows?
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” - Jerry Seinfeld
The exception being Lindsey Graham
little boys whose parents were paid millions - along with the other victim survivors? Some of them - now grown have ALSO spoken out. No doubt they can be found somewhere in the heavily redacted Epstein Files he's now so desperate not to have 'outed' - despite running on releasing them.
Stephen: 'wanna-be' mob boss. He's even too stupid for the mafia who laughed at him trying to pretend he understood ANYTHING about how they 'did business'. IF the Russian mob (who moved in later) had any dealings with him - he wouldn't still be around or ever made it into our White House. THEY 'don't play' with flim-flam conmen who 1) imagine they're superior to anyone, and 2) don't pay their bills in FULL.
'Maybe why he is so paranoid about eating anything anything which could possible be poisoned... Besides he laundered all the Mob's ill-gotten gains into cheaply-built, but expensive condos.
You DO have a point. It's been mentioned elsewhere that this is why he so loves McDonald's since they churn out so many sandwiches it would be very difficult to tamper with his. Also, HE ordered the use of the cheapest (ergo the least safe) concrete for whatever he'd leant his name to (never actually building ANYTHING) because he's always been a cheapskate conman. I'll never forget when NYC passed a law requiring sprinklers in buildings (tenant and commercially occupied) above a certain height - might've been 30 stories? he refused outright, might even have taken it to court against the retrofitting because it would have to come out of his pockets. He's always, always, always been the cheapest POS...so WHEN the next fire occurred in a building with his name slapped on it and a long-time male tenant DIED because as usual, the FD couldn't get their hoses up high enough, he was fined. FINED! Never charged with manslaughter or what any other delinquent landlord would have been arrested for. NY was up in arms when he slithered away from that one and cemented the hatred we have for him. Sadly, I suppose sufficient new people had moved in who didn't know what an unfeeling monster he's always been - to give him a cult base for the WH.
So far, it’s worked. No consequences!
He does have a guardian angel at his shoulder. Unfortunately for us, it's the angel named Satan.
Karma can take a very long time - could be she's planning something especially fitting? I only want it to happen in public with hundreds of cameras as witnesses - and NOT by another's hand, but 'natural', hopefully naturally very painful (as he wishes on others).
Yes, naturally, but with inclusion of extreme agony thrown in just for fun. Our fun.
AB-solutely! And with extreme humiliation. I inadvertently omitted that part. Thanks! (Each time I even begin to question why I feel such deep loathing for him, I remember Paul Pelosi being smashed in the head with a hammer - and this HORRIBLE POS laughing about it - purely because Paul is married to our longest running Speaker of the House Nancy, who bested him so often - 'dancing backwards in high heels'). He's vile beyond belief. And of course the perpetrator is yet another of his magat cult supporters who was out to 'get' Nancy.
And then nobody does try to stop him.
nobody on THEIR side. OUR people are doing everything possible within the law, which, so far IS helping stop him. He has lost case after case after case. One of the reasons he goes after those he 'hates' is to ruin them financially (his first Roy Cohn lesson). Even WHEN he loses, he's cost them a ton of legal fees. I'd suggest that we should have a special fund (taken from his latest fraud) specifically to pay the legal fees of those he targets vindictively. We ALL know who they are: the Prosecutors who won convictions in Court; targeted reporters, late-night hosts...anyone who once worked for him but who then spoke out against his lies and scams. It's not a difficult list to make...every one of them should be eligible for not only their legal fees but also top-notch attorneys to represent them.
Trump's face on US money? Not even Hitler or Stalin ever put their face on the money back in the day. Don't tell Donnie!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark
The lifelong conman and shill
Now wants his ugly mug on a bill
But most people don't dig
That beady-eyed pig
Whose mug shot is his favorite still
🤪
They took his mugshot and fancied up is hair ala his idol the racist Andrew Jackson
👏👏👏😂
Excellent!🎉
Let him make his stupid easily counterfeited bill. Let's see how many banks or businesses take them. Honestly it's probably just going to be used by rich guys to bribe each other.
Toilet paper.
Nothing with his picture on it is going to get near my nether regions. Nope!
No, although I do have his face on my dog poop bags.
Ha! Thank you! I needed that! 🤣👏🏻
The best version I saw was with Orange Hitler’s mug shot behind bars
If the Bureau of Engraving and Printing issues a bill marked "Legal Tender," does that not oblige businesses and banks to accept it, whether they want to or not? Can a business be selective about which bills/coins they accept? I really don't know, so I'm asking more informed peeps.
Yes, a business can refuse to accept cash altogether. Plenty of convenience stores refuse to accept any bills over a twenty because larger bills are more frequently counterfeited.
Lots of places refuse 100 bills so I assume businesses don't have to take it.
So true Mike! Will be be jinxing himself by forcing something that only happens to dead people?
Well, it is possible the Reich is working feverishly behind the scenes to make sure this requirement is fulfilled before any notes come off the presses.
Exact same thought Linda… the moment I heard of his desire to place his ugly mug on currency, I thought he needs to die first.
Post death I don't think anyone will agree to this, but what do I know. Wonder how long after his death his followers will worship him. They are all disturbed people.
Who knows? Maybe Trump is just two steps ahead, as usual, and understands that under his economy, in a couple years everyone will need a bill that large just to buy a tube of toothpaste and enough cat food to get them through the week. Then they can brag about how no one had ever touched a $250 bill under Biden.
It will come in handy for MAGA dumbshits to haul down to the dealership for their monster truck down payment. Or to buy one full tank of gasoline.
Three quarters of a tank at the current rate.
I read recently that a long haul trucker said it used to cost $700 to fill the tank, but with the oil prices spiking it was costing $1800. So, think of that cost tacked on to the price of things, along with tariffs. And, I still cannot get over the Vietnam thing with them building the Trump hotel on graves. Who will go to it? Is Vietnam a destination for Trump fans? Will it be? Does Vietnam care?
Since magats will be the only ones to use it, I look forward to having them deemed not legal tender and watching them complain about Biden or Obama making them do it. And dems cannot reimburse them for their stupidity!
You may get the chance to see the $250, provided it’s printed on Charmin. Then Donnie can claim a royalty for every time someone puts his corrupt face to appropriate use.
Ooh, I see an opportunity for souvenir toilet paper.
Soon we’ll need them to pay for a tank of gas.
And it will be called MAgas
They won't be ready for July 4. But the grifter will offer "Mint Condition! Uncirculated!" bills for $500. Buy now while supplies last. The rubes will buy them up sight unseen. And wait, like for those fucking phones.
It’s hard to tell which is trashier. The MAGA or the junk Trump merch they buy.
My cousin works for a currency printer. There is so much work and so much security built in before they get to a finished product. Rushing this will make it easy to counterfeit, and the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians will flood the world with them. They won't be accepted as legal tender within months--too risky.
This is true. I never get anything higher than a $50.
It's probably just one more scam where people will scrape together and pay $250 plus S&H real hard-earned money to have "one of the first limited edition" Trump250 bill of their very own (w/gold-leaf frame for an extra $50). And then wait... and wait... and wait... ...
My thought exactly, I know I will never see one, nor have one in my pocket.
That 96% of the population would include me. But, if I were wealthy enough to ever lay hands on a $250 bill, if that ugly mug shot crossed my palm I’d burn it. I swear.
I was thinking just that 👆🏻!!👹
Every day a fresh dose of rage. I meditate, I exercise, I smoke copious amounts of weed, and yet I will not be surprised if at some point I develop a Trump-induced eating disorder. There's only so much bad feeling I can stuff down each day. As for Mrs. Miller, she'd be lucky to be a childless cat lady, a description that's a whole lot less insulting than she thinks. That was my life before I married and if I outlive my husband, it will be my life again. What the Nazi lady doesn't get is that liberal women don't tie their happiness to a wedding ring and child-bearing.
Childless cat ladies represent!
I alas, seem to have succumbed.
Only temporarily…
:-(
"Don't get to high your head gets dumb"
-V.I.S. by Portugal. the Man🎶
(just a Lil)
Love you Ann ✌️
I'm trying to get dumb but it's not working. Dumb sounds positively restful.
Right!!?
Hahaha! I LOVE that you included Pumps and Ms Welch today! Those ladies deserve the “what the fuck is wrong with you” Pulitzer Prize imo!
Also, Miller is absolutely an ugly fuck — and not one person on either side disagreed or debated that point lol!!
I'd never heard of them before that video showed up in my bluesky feed yesterday. I'm going to have to find them time to give them a regular listen
You’ll love them! They never hold back — they are like the female version of you!
I put this comment in the wrong place, but I agree the "I've Had It" ladies are fantastic and you will love their smart, profane take on this shitty timeline. They're the ones who came up with "Cankles McTaco Tits" or just "Canks" for short. Hilarious.
They're here: IHIP News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zm7nTQpaoc
I just found Pump and Mrs Welch on Substack!! Yay!!!
Hmm, been thinking about Stephen Miller and how truly unappealing he is…by every possible measure. And I’m talking about a universal standard here. And yet there’s his wife, four children and all that sexual coupling…nope, not going there, too disturbing. But come on, how is it possible? What’s wrong with her?
There is this Halsey (the singer) album named, " If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power."
I'm sure she believes something like that.
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I watch when I can they are really good and come the closest to the prize winner, they are good at it.
I’ve been looking through books on Brutalist monuments in former Yugoslavia, in Korea, all over. And they all seem intensely graceless, but at least attempt to bring something original to the table. These mugs trying to wreck the nation’s capitol haven’t an ounce of style or wit, obviously, but their aesthetic is that of a carnival midway, trash for trash’s own sake, to celebrate trashiness itself as an ideal. Every single fucking thing about this admin is either clearly destructive or at best simple littering. The deus ex machina we will need after this is a huge cosmic broom, a giant Dustbuster wielded by the gods themselves.
The temufication of Washington DC
Cheap Temu knockoffs are of better quality than anything trump
Excellent point. The trouble with Temu is that everything is so small.
The trouble with anything trump is that they are self-aggrandizing and blatantly flashy but have little to no substance and definitely no quality.
Yup.
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It's just pure vandalism. And are taxpayers going to pay twice, the first time for the clown-brained destruction and the second time to mitigate it? Billions upon billions pissed away is A-OK, evidently. And it's all borrowed money.
Use them $250 notes they ain’t never gonna be circulating.
And an ocean of karmic bleach.
I think if Trump's face is going to be on a bill the $3 one would be appropriate. On a side note, at what point can we stop calling it the "Justice Department"?
Thereby popularizing the phrase, "Phonier than a $3 bill"
I've seen it referred to as the "Demons of Jeopardy" in light of the E. Jean Carroll retaliation.
Is yesterday too soon?!
I was just at a dollar store behind a non English speaking immigrant trying to use a $50 bill. The clerk didn't have enough change to break it. She didn't understand, but we eventually helped her buy a couple more items so he could make change.
That was a $50. Who would ever carry a $250 bill? Who even uses cash?
I do know if I come across his signed bills, I'll just write "Pedo" next to his signed name, or "sucks" after his signature.
If it ever comes out, I'm getting a rubber stamp that says "is a pedophile". Then I'm going to my credit union, getting 2 of them at the counter, stamping them and depositing them at the ATM, then going back and getting 2 more at the counter.
I'll make a day of it.
Ooooh, we could carpool, considering the cost of gas and all. call me.
This is noble.
Great idea!! Count me in!!
I’m laughing so hard at this 🥰
Don't forget to add horns.
....and a forked tongue 👅
In Roman numerals, 250 is written as CCL.
CCL = Chinese Communist Lapdog
Its just for his wealthy donors so they can look cool. Like adolescent boys.
The potential for abusive messages is the one upside to this vanity plan. Well, along with the counterfeiting.
Everything he touches dies….ummmm….so can we send a zillion mosquitos to the WH and land on him so he itches (touches) himself??? Lord have mercy-the guy is nuts! Thanks for the great descriptions Jeff-you didn’t miss a beat!! Love Claudia pics!!! Have a nice weekend to all!
Great idea with the mosquitoes, but send them the night of the UFC debacle so all those MAGAts that attend will enjoy them along with the “macho” spectacle taking place. Seems fitting.
Can we ensure that every mosquito is carrying the virus that causes you to realize what a pathetic piss baby you voted for? I hope they never find a cure for it.
There have actually been complaints about swarms of gnats all around the Epstein patio area and the White House grounds in general, so it will probably be soaked in Round-Up by June.
Round up is not an insecticide.
Ebola anyone?
A perfect spot!!!!
I wonder how the White House bees are going to like Daddy's cage match? I hope they are madder than hell. Lord knows the fuck I am.
Love this idea!
If it’s humid in D.C., ( as if it wouldn’t be), trust me, they’ll be there!!
How about Murder Hornets?
" I would rather be a barren, never-having-had-sex liberal woman, than fuck Stephen Miller on all the sex drugs Amsterdam can provide. so enough, Katie Miller.” - that made my day!
I concur.
Me too! 🤣
I for one applaud trump's diversion from his failed war, failed economy and the fact that he's a pedophile by reminding us he raped a woman. Clever!
"he’s just so unctuous — as well as haughty, arrogant and condescending." Unctuous is a terrific word to describe that POS Soybean Scott. Trying to stay calm over in redneck Missouri, where I laugh when I drive past the house where "Trump was Right" signs were all over the front yard. 🙄
More wonderful Claudia photos! Thank you!
“he knows that you know that he knows he’s lying. but he lies anyway because what the fuck are you going to do about it?” Jeff’s best description ever! And at this point I think we’ve all grown to love and need our Daily Claudia. Thank you, Jeff!
Soybean Scott is jaw-droppingly weird looking, like his face was made in a lab. Junior lab tech poured the silicon into the wrong mold..."Whoops! Ah, whatever, I'll call it 'Snot' and put it in the clearance bin."
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You're lucky - I have to drive past a house that is back to displaying not one, but two "Veterans for Trump" signs. Deep breaths and bird-flipping every time.
Is that not an oxymoron now:
Veterans for Trump
His admin pisses on Vets
I haven't been to Missouri in a while, but things have shifted here in the Peach State. Trumpy enthusiasm is definitely on the wane and the yard signs have dried up in a big way. There's a jamoke down the road from me who had *multiple* ginormous signs of all things Trump on his fence, planted in the yard, Trump deco festooning his house. Now he's got 3 little yard signs.
It might not be his change of heart. It's reasonable to think that city Code Enforcement dropped by for a little tea. But still.
What the fuck is ‘Trump was right’ mean and no, no matter what they refer to. That’s farm country they are not happy, soy bean man himself sort of disagrees but he will pass a bill for farm relief=subsidies.
Jeff, I’m Canadian - can you please explain all of this nonsense- how can people, elected or non elected, continue to support this deranged numpty? I sit here and am just amazed at the impunity of people to lie for a person who is obviously seriously ill. It would appear that the US is headed for another civil war.
We're faced with the very real threat of martial law. One wrong move and Trump declares it, and our military is itching to police the U.S. population. Thousands of people are being put into concentration camps. People are dying under their "care". Please understand that every corner of our government has been corrupted, and every branch of government has collapsed. Democrats in office are trying hard as are the lower courts, whose rulings get overturned by MAGA judges.
We're trying to save the Constitution and restore the rule of law. We can't do that by ignoring the Constitution and breaking the law. It won't be a civil war though. What will happen is that so many people will suffer that the vote is so overwhelming that Republicans can't cheat.
I hope you are right about the vote. They are really excellent at cheating (see Musk manipulates the votes).
And right wing oligharchs now control 90% of the media.
It’s why I stay out of NYTs, WaPo, etc. Cancelled all subscriptions. I won’t even click on a link to those types of media outlets. They measure that stuff almost as much as they measure how many paid subscriptions they have. I won’t give those f’ers a dime.
The NYT is still privately owned by Ochs- Sultzburg family.
I have no idea. I think a large part in that is right wing media.
As of today approximately 90% of US mainstream media is controlled by a concentrated group of just five major conglomerates. These corporations dominate television, film, publishing, and digital news. They are billionaires and support Trump.
It's not support as much as opposition. Opposition to the haughty, sneering, imaginary Leftists who they feel have been lecturing to them and keeping them down all their lives. It doesn't matter that their greatest stated fears aren't real, just that they sound scary, like trans BLM Antifa commies hiding under their beds.
Theirs is a last stand. Their lives, and the futures of their children are dimming rapidly. They have no value in our society and so prefer to just burn it down by spreading accelerants.
There is no end of amazement to be had. As far as a civil war, it's anybody's guess. A reading of the history, though, could shed some light on it. The original Civil War was fought by an organized South as attempt to break off and found a sovereign nation, it had a goal, of sorts. That is not true now with the Trumpistas. A blind adherence to whatever Trump (incoherently) says and a mindless spewing of hate and violence is all they have. Aside from the regime's projects, like cage matches and defaced currency, there's not much there, there. Most of the outrage comes from specific crimes to benefit the wallets (grift) or psyches (brutalizing brown people) of specific individuals. The larger, and ancillary, attempt to roll the country into a "Gilead-like" reality is relatively specific, but nebulous. It has structural issues, too. The prevalence of educated women (about 40% of women age 25+ have at least one college degree) means that, for that vision to prevail, it would require massive and sustained violence. That would be a whole nother level to what's going on now. They talk a good game, but they're not organized for it.
We no longer get our news from a common source, the three broadcast networks and PBS. So we no longer have a shared set of facts and reality delivered to us by Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, or whoever. It's possible, now that there is a whole right-wing media ecosystem, to consume news and information that is entirely pro-MAGA and divorced from reality.
Rather than a civil war, I see a disintegration of the rule of law, with disputes increasingly settled by private violence, and nuts committing mass murders even more frequently than we have become benumbed to.
The 80's-"Don't take any candy from strangers."
The 90's-"Don't take any drugs from strangers."
Now-"Don’t take any funny money from some fucked-up flim-flam man."
Thanks for looking out for us, Uncle Jeff!
"Don't take any Pedo-Bucks."
80s: don't accept a ride from a stranger
2000s: don't trust people you only know from the Internet
2020s: use the Internet to call up strangers to give you a ride
Each day I am not surprised, but I am shocked by the corruption of Trump. From his trying to subvert the rules of who gets to have their face on US currency, to not being able to end a war that he started which is destroying the global economy. Part of the shock is the American acceptance of his bad behavior. There seems to be a stupor with people not knowing what to do, at least not legally.
If you are a US citizen or have US residency, would you please read my piece explaining the Free Speech for People campaign to impeach Trump AND his cabinet and help them get 2 million signatures by signing the petition in it? https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-abroad-supports-the-impeach?r=f0qfn
If you can't find the link to the petition in the above piece, here it is. Just scroll down and you will find it.
https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/
At the present time there’s no such thing as a $250 bill. At the present time they’ll have to conjure one up. At the present time, with prices the way they are, who would spend $250 to get a $250 bill with Trump’s fugly mug on it. At the present time I rarely carry cash and I sure as hell wouldn’t carry that.
Does he not comprehend at all how repulsively ugly he is, and that that photo only underscores his ugliness?
My father would've observed that Donnie Demento has "a mouth like a duck's ass on a frosty morning."
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It would possibly be the only national currency with a mugshot on it. Just saying.
Another Trump first. Wow.
He's had too many firsts to recall, and all of them bad, unconstitutional, destructive, in poor taste, just plain stupid, or all of the above
Fully agree, Kay-El. At the present time, in the future times, to infinity and beyond. Fuck him and fuck his fake money.
I have to disagree that this populace didn't ask for any of this. The 49.8% of voters signed up for this. The problem is the other 50.2% have to put up with this clownfuckery every day.
The fairly large slice of the 50.2% that couldn't be bothered to vote deserve a lot of blame
The 50.2% are of votes that were cast. I blame those who sat home and said their vote didn't matter or they were pissed at Democrats and boycotted the election. And also the 77,302,580 that cast a vote for their cult leader. And none of those voters gets to say "I didn't know . . ."
It was never a fair and honest election. There was fuckery, as Jeff would say.
100%
If they have their way, this mid-term election won't be fair nor honest.