growing up in thee 1960s, I used all kinds of words that are now considered slurs. everyone did. it wasn't just acceptable, it was encouraged. yet, I've never found it all hard or burdensome to stop using them once they became offensive. it's just not that hard. I really don't get what the big deal is
I am so fucking tired of white male (little but I want to have a big one) dick energy. Every day I get closer and closer to going off the grid and hanging with my dogs and cat in the mountains. I am living with a lovely white man who agrees with me whole heartedly that being a dick is unacceptable behavior. And of course, all of you white men in this community who remind me that not all white men are walking talking dicks. As Jeff closed with yesterday “it’s going to be a long four years”. Indeed it will be. Thank you everyone here for keeping me on the right side of sane.
Of course he won't leave, (assuming he's still alive). The whole point in his Secretary of Defense, is for that unqualified person, to amass a 50,000 strong private/deadly executive army to carry out the 'orders' of the cult leader, however deadly, illegal, or otherwise. Put a pin in this.
Everyone here is thoroughly disgusted by the little limp dick connards demands for more masculinity by our corporate overlords Jodi…planning an escape route is essential!!
I truly hope that people around the globe have access to and are reading Jeff’s Substack. I want them to know how we really feel about the biggest dick with the littlest dick. May the world keep in mind that there was only a tiny difference in the numbers of us who loathe the orange bag of shit as the dumbasses who voted for putting feces back in the WH. Now we’ll have to be disgusted, appalled, horrified and embarrassed every single day hour by hour. Ugh!
My strategy is to spend as much time as I can afford to abroad, and engage the locals in their own language* if possible. This year I am considering going back to Denmark.
*From the moment I step aboard the outbound plane I turn English off. I find that most people in central and northern Europe speak German or French or Italian.
And thinks the rest of the world should speak it too. Why should 'Murricans have to learn to speak other people's languages? I can't tell you how many times I've overheard entitled Americans in Europe whine about "weird food" or "why can't these people speak English?"
Do you remember when they were called “the ugly Americans”. I’ve always wondered why some American think the people and cultures of foreign countries are inferior if they don’t relent to those peoples wants and beliefs. What’s the point of traveling to other countries if you want them to be an alien clone? To me the whole point of going to another country is to experience cultures other than our own.
I’d love to join you Stephan, but shit may hit the fan in Denmark, when Trumps Brownshirts invade Greenland… far south of the border suits me just fine!!
Not sure that will work if the “Chinese Conspiracy” of climate change continues. Almost all the rest of the world knows it’s a fact, and the closer one gets to the equator, the worse the *immediate* consequences will be. Obviously, it’s the whole planet that’s in trouble.
Went to Portugal in 2024 (3rd trip) and worked to speak at least a little wherever we went. People were always demonstrably pleased, even with goofs, but the Portuguese are like that. Even the graffiti is nice (Eat more natas!)
The perspective around the world is of importance to me! The friends outside this country I’ve spoken with, are equally appalled and shocked, by the misogyny, racism, and ignorance that exists in this country Sarah!!
That so many bought the lies and who did not pay attention to the facts of the economy and the forces that drove higher prices apparently remember when COVID came.. If you voted because egg prices went up will really come to understand what a "trump" economy will really mean. Biden and Harris revived the economy. The claims that schools would do sex changes when students cannot be given a Tylenol shows the level of lying and misinformation people bought into.
Fragile, insecure men cannot tolerate being told what to do. They’re butt-hurt they were told not to use the word “pussy” while at the same time it remained ok to call them “dicks.” Life is SO UNFAIR to them and only them! 🙄
We're from a different time & generation. Remember "Polish jokes". I told many, and I'm of Polish/Ukranian heritage. Stuff like that was used by all. We did respect girls. Very seldom cursed in front of them. Now, teen age girls curse like sailors on leave. I'm so glad I was in my teens - 20's from the mid 50's thru the 60's. Better world
Jeff, I see that Speaker Holy Moses Mike removed the chair of the House intelligence committee Mike Turner. Turner backed Ukraine, Turner was a hawk in respect to Vlads Russia. Holy Mike was instructed by Donald who was instructed by Vlad to get rid of Turner…Logically all of us can see this straight line of command. Folks remember… Authoritarian-Fascism begins slowly then speeds up so much it will turn your head… the speedy part begins Monday when we will witness the destruction of our Democracy… and yet we warned folks….. Asking MAGA.. how are those grocery prices now? Tuesday I will be asking my MAGA golf partners.. should “be wild”. ⛳️
I looked up how to make dried, powdered eggs yesterday. Assuming my hens don't die from bird flu, once they start laying again this spring, that's how I'll preserve the excess. I also forage for wild foods.
Bet your idiot MAGA golf partners have a handy excuse. Like all of a sudden how the president doesn't control corporate pricing. Or supply and demand. Duh. Fucking idiots.
Trump has already said he CANNOT bring prices down. Only MAGA men truly thought he could and not one of them has been in a grocery store since they were young enough to ride in the grocery cart!
Feels like we’re all sitting on death row waiting for our names to be called to execution. That no one with power is willing to say we cannot allow this to happen and then stop it…no words.
Madeline Albright said FASCISM was like plucking a chicken , you don't pull out all the feathers ( rights ) at once, you do it little by little. Our chicken
But why did they spend all that time and energy getting to the top of the financial food chain if they still have to treat other people like they matter?
That's how they got to the top of the food chain. By being a dick. The circle jerk never ends. I'm making an up and down motion with my hand right now.
Donnie and the Dicks but they'll never make any music that turns into a big hit. First, they praise his phony demented ass, send a shit ton of cash his way and then presto, you have another four years of a bought and paid for convicted felon president who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. That insane amount of cash controls the strings and will continue to do so as long as Muskrat, Bozos, Fuckerberg and others keep the flow going. Just ask the Extreme Court.
I know women who have more balls than most men. This is what happens when generations of men refused mental health help. Being a dick, says, I'm a bully. No matter how much money these dicks have, it will never buy them class. Poor ass billionaires. Emotional intelligence is a foreign language. It interferes with their criminal grifting mindset.
My male leadworker for my unit at a NW tech firm in the late 90’s confirmed to be that I didn’t have the “right equipment” to work with my male clientele within the firm. I was criticized for not reaching out to him for his upcoming projects that I would be managing, then i was told my meetings with him were canceled at the last minute only to find my lead and male managers meeting behind my back. I had 16 years of stellar management experience in contracts working with men, individually as well as in groups of 30 men, and was highly respected at all previous jobs. I left before being forced out, landing a perfect job created for me. Not the right equipment eh? Btw, my lead, a stellar co-worker, my boss and my VP were ousted within 3 months after I left. Hmph.
We got our finances in order. Made our necessary purchases last month. Furnace went out and my freezer. I can't afford Republicans in office. The damage control took years to recover from. I said yesterday, 10 out of 11 Republican administrations have ended in a recession. Buckle up. It's coming.
If you need appliances, buy used. Habitat for Humanity has wonderful inventory. I bought a beautiful sink/vanity for $60. I am eying their stoves and washer/dryers now.
The freezer was cheap enough. I told my husband we needed a big one so I could stuff him in there to keep collecting his social security and pension benefits when he's gone. Just kidding. 🤭 I got the smaller one.
We're getting a new heat pump Charlie copper stove top and convection oven. Made about eight blocks here in Berkeley! Will run off the roof, not on gas. And we're getting a battery in February to save energy from the solar on the roof. Installed by the company four blocks away who did the original installation.
The newly elected city council here tried to kick the library out of its building, which the library rents for a nominal sum. I’ll leave you to guess which political party these non-partisan folk represent (but the signs supporting them were in the same yards as those supporting LDFF…). The citizens rose up with a large I DON’T THINK SO! and there was considerable backtracking 🎊🎉🎊
Bought and paid off a new car that should last me for a decade, get my food from the CSA and co-op, by my clothes & appliances from thrift shops. So, I'm with you guys!
Right on!! Me too. Growing what we can in a snow zone but eggs are getting ridiculously expensive when it’s easy and eventually cheaper to to have a chicken coop.
I made that decision soon after the dumpster was elected. Living in 🇨🇦 gives me more options than living in the 🇺🇸. I can stay at home or travel to Europe and when it comes to food or clothings, anything that says USA is off my list. I thought long and hard about this as I have family in the US, but I can’t for the life of me part with my hard earned retirement fund to support someone hell bent on destroying the richest nation in the world and one who threatens to invade my country. The choice is simple.
I’m on board with you CAM. BC’er here and I made a conscious decision in the first Trump admin to boycott travel to the U.S. I have family and friends in the U.S. but they’ll have to travel up here if they want to see me while Traitor Trump is calling the shots down there, or Elon, or Putin. Looks like I might have to boycott Alberta now too, until they ditch Danielle Smith. What a time to be alive! 🇨🇦
So nice to meet a BC’er, I’m a Franco Ont and happy to read that I’ve got company. Yes, I understand about Alberta. Great that when driving cross country all can get through Alberta in about 5-6 hours, unlike getting through Ontario that takes 3 days. 😉
I’ve travelled in Europe and I lived in Lyon for a summer and was never mistaken for an American. And to be sure, I never used the Eh statement. We have a very different manner of speech distinguishable by even the least attuned to the American manner of speech. But thank you for your warning.
You must be from the western part of Canada then. Have spent more time in Ontario around Hamilton and so got used to the speech pattern there. Spent some time in BC(loved it!)and a bit in Alberta. Quebec is a province unto itself but was there on 9/11 and the could not have been nicer. My late husband played ball for the TiCats until he got a career-ending injury so went there quite often. I loved all the Canadians I had the privilege of meeting in our travels.
No, I’m from and still live in the nation’s capital and I’ve had the good fortune of having learned both languages from a very early age. My career took me to every major city in our great country and I’m grateful for the friends that I’ve made along the way. The thing that I remember the most about Hamilton and the TiCats is the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.
Nah, I don’t think I could make the switch. There’s something quite distinct about maple syrup. In fact I often roast vegetables with it along with a really good quality balsamic vinegar, aged at least 12-15 years. Try it on carrots, Brussels sprouts and rutabaga. And then there’s maple sugar pie - a must during Christmas season.
I'll tell you what I told Lucas Kunce and what my parents believed. We're smarter and tougher than millionaires because we've had to think more and do more.
I like this and I am trying to be conscious of where I make a purchase, like nothing from Amazon, etc. Yesterday I drove to a local bike shop and bought a 12 dollar safety light from a local proprietor because he has to pay for fucking eggs too!
I'm 6'6 316 lbs have self defense training and can bench press at least 250lbs. If one of these assholes called me a pussy and I beat the holy hell out of them, they'd be the first ones to decry my aggression.
We're gonna suffocate under the weight of all this hypocrisy.
To clarify: I'm not advocating violence. Just pointing out that people like this are perfectly fine with being able to say or do what they want without consequence as long as they're the ones being aggressive. But, much like the rotting pumpkin of a man they're so enthusiastic about, when they're on the receiving end, they're suddenly all in on civility. The schoolyard bullies are in charge. But I think they're going to find the people they used to push around have learned how to hit back.
The white guys always assume they're the smartest, most qualified for the job. I've spent 40 years in health care and been subjected to plenty of toxic masculinity. DEI= Didn't Earn It. Hat tip to Ben Meiselas.
Real world experience: I'm a white male. I have literally proven through research on at least two separate occasions that I was passed over for a job because the employers wanted to hire a female POC. These were candidates who had no work experience in a position I had worked in for a different company for over a decade, performing precisely the same duties as the position called for. It was blatant. I don't oppose DEI initiatives, but there's no question they've at times been used as an excuse to discriminate against white people. That fact may make some people reading this uncomfortable, but it doesn't make it any less real.
I have to admit, as a white woman I have been passed over for jobs so black women could get them. But in most cases I feel that if those women can improve their lives with better salaries, we're all better off.
I like your attitude and agree with everything you said except for one thing... I really don't think Democrats, or any "anti" types know how to effectively push back. The Hegseth hearing was a joke, the J6 trial in Florida was a joke enabled by Merritt Garland's failure to start an investigation on January 7th, all the women and their pussy hats and marches didn't do anything, Democrats have ignored a lot of good advice offered by ex-republican political hacks, the national media ask stupid questions and "sane-wash" what's happening, and working people who are extremely high on the Trump cult Kool-Aid continue to be like sheep, toiling away like zombies doing (mostly) nothing to unite to improve their incomes while they work for corporations earning record profits, etc. etc. I don't see how this changes until the Kool-Aid wears off and the cult members wake up to find it's their asses getting g*&^- banged by the imbecilic cult leader and his friends. (That last sentence is hyper masculine in keeping with today's topic).
And who is the biggest DICK of all???????? Little Donny Fuck Face! Followed very closely by the billionaire ass kissers, republican ass kissers, and maggot ass kissers. Man, I’m full of it today! Heed Jeff’s words America: “be nice to people. be considerate. address then the way they want to be addressed. and if you fuck up, say you’re sorry and try to do better.” Great advice Jeff-that should go on billboards…..(with “don’t be a dick” right before “be nice…….) 😊
My dream: Musk and Zuckerberg have their fight and beat each other's brains out. They spend the rest of their natural lives in a coma, and the rest of us can breathe again. Oh well.
So here we are in another Gilded Age. The first one was followed by the Progressive Era that brought us some decent regulations and labor unions - but not without a lot of struggle, beatdowns and cracked skulls. The current situation is unsustainable, intolerable. Something's gotta give and it probably will, but what that will look like, who knows?
This time, if the oligarchs want to maintain their gilded age, they really ought to remember "Don't be a dick." If they amass fabulous wealth but throw a few bones and show a little consideration to the regular people, it will take longer for the uprising. If they vacuum up all the money AND are openly dickish, people will get tired of them a lot faster.
We survived a gilded age once Ann, the robber barons were held in check by laws that have been destroyed, there’s much work to be done, breaking skulls and a show of testosterone shouldn’t be the path forward. Jeff’s message is poignant!!
There are a lot of things that shouldn't happen, but the powerful don't give up power without a fight, and historically they're not sqeamish about violence.
Geez, I never woulda guessed that being able to use derogatory and insulting terms, acting falsely aggro in corporate offices, and taking more dessert than underlings is masculine energy.
Doc, for some reason, Convict two scoops when everyone else gets one scoop of ice cream outrages me as much as making fun of a disabled man. It just defies credulity that someone is so petty, so insecure, so "I am the most important person at this table." And chocolate cream pie with ice cream? Dig in Convict! Clog those arteries!Have two pieces of that pie. Huh. Rhymes with die.
And why are so many such humongous sycophants as to put up with the childishness and being demeaned so? Yeah, come on, cholesterol! Where you been all this time?
Suck Zuck is a 98 lbs. weakling walking around in a T-shirt! The muskrat is a ketamine addict fat boy who has admitted using weight reducing drugs. Bozo Bezos is a little runt. The demented fat boy OAF (Orange Asinine 34x Felon) weighs over 300 lbs. and could not walk 0.5 miles without stopping to rest and is an adderall addict. These are the four “horsemen of the apocalypse” predicted in the Bible’s Book of Revelation who represent conquest, war, famine, and death. The irony is the stupid MAGA who voted in the fat boy OAF will be the first victims of the four horsemen!!!
Jesus almighty, all we need is MORE of their version of alpha male warrior masculinity 🤦🏻♀️ And Trump is a man’s man the way he’s a businessman’s businessman… just a bloviating bluster of nastiness, jealousy, bankruptcy, and abject failure. It’s going to be 4 years of dick waving, pissing contests, and white supremacy tattoos. And to think businesses are going to be soooo much more successful because their CEO can scream the words pussy and retard at their employees and competitors! That’ll be some kind of trickledown….
The corporate dicks are signaling that they are about to start firing anyone who is not a straight White Christian male. Good luck with using the courts to prevent it.
So the schmucks on Wall Street and in corporate America wanna be Logan Roy, patriarch of "Succession." They should remember that he died sitting on the crapper and all his kids turned out to be not-serious fuckups who feared and even hated him. Good luck with that.
Many of the biggest "dicks" in behavior are nearly dickless in actuality. So....nah, I think having dickless men would be hell for the rest of us. Hmmmm....unless they were dickless and all consigned to their own exclusive area.... But I'm getting waaayyyy too far out there!
I got nothing. The level of all the shit that we are seeing is just so glaringly obviously pathetic and unnecessary… how the fuck do people end up like this? I’m ready to vote for Kang or Kodos.
Well now truth be told those people who want to say those things could always say words like retard and pussy... After all, this is America and freedom of speech is a foremost right. However, by the same token, people who don't normally talk like that can call out those people that do and remind them of the scumbags that they are for using that kind of language and that's what they should do. Ceaselessly
Earlier this week, I saw a brave soul with a bumper sticker that read "Trump is a piece of shit". There are probably others scattered around the nation because it's really hard to make just one bumper sticker. Maybe I'll start seeing "Trump is a dick" soon.
It's actually NOT that hard to have one bumper sticker made-I've done it. There are dozens of options for custom printing them. So... pick your sentiment and let it fly. (or drive, in this case)
Yup, anybody with a printer and the right type of adhesive-backed vinyl, for the frustrated crafter. Creative, determined crafters can make alllll kinds of things.
Ask me about the dick candles I made (and burned) back when Donny Dickwad was impeached the first time.
I apparently didn't invoke the correct deity, or burn enough of the dick candle, or something.
Probably should've invoked someone with a little more oomph than Anoia--Goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Drawers.
Good for you, Lara! I've been pondering what to burn on Monday. Perhaps just a whole fleet of white candles, for purification. But I'll check my candle book.
growing up in thee 1960s, I used all kinds of words that are now considered slurs. everyone did. it wasn't just acceptable, it was encouraged. yet, I've never found it all hard or burdensome to stop using them once they became offensive. it's just not that hard. I really don't get what the big deal is
I am so fucking tired of white male (little but I want to have a big one) dick energy. Every day I get closer and closer to going off the grid and hanging with my dogs and cat in the mountains. I am living with a lovely white man who agrees with me whole heartedly that being a dick is unacceptable behavior. And of course, all of you white men in this community who remind me that not all white men are walking talking dicks. As Jeff closed with yesterday “it’s going to be a long four years”. Indeed it will be. Thank you everyone here for keeping me on the right side of sane.
Toxic masculinity is poison. It is the primary indicator of low self-esteem and lack of confidence. Pathetic.
Sick Dick Energy, stay away from me!
A reminder that forced sex in a relationship is still known as rape and is illegal in all 50 states.
And we're all going to feel raped in another four days, CAM.
I've ironed my pirate flag to hang out on Monday.
What makes anyone think it will only be 4 years? He will (again) not leave and this time it will be harder to force him out! Dictator for life
Of course he won't leave, (assuming he's still alive). The whole point in his Secretary of Defense, is for that unqualified person, to amass a 50,000 strong private/deadly executive army to carry out the 'orders' of the cult leader, however deadly, illegal, or otherwise. Put a pin in this.
If he’s still cognizant by fall, I’ll be surprised.
That's what I keep saying!
Praying he dies in office, every day.
Yup. Keep that nasty shriveled thing away from me.
I call it swinging dick, but hey, same thing.
Everyone here is thoroughly disgusted by the little limp dick connards demands for more masculinity by our corporate overlords Jodi…planning an escape route is essential!!
My husband was a strong and kind man for fifty two years. He knew when to use male energy and when to be tender. So sad to lose him last year.
I truly hope that people around the globe have access to and are reading Jeff’s Substack. I want them to know how we really feel about the biggest dick with the littlest dick. May the world keep in mind that there was only a tiny difference in the numbers of us who loathe the orange bag of shit as the dumbasses who voted for putting feces back in the WH. Now we’ll have to be disgusted, appalled, horrified and embarrassed every single day hour by hour. Ugh!
My strategy is to spend as much time as I can afford to abroad, and engage the locals in their own language* if possible. This year I am considering going back to Denmark.
*From the moment I step aboard the outbound plane I turn English off. I find that most people in central and northern Europe speak German or French or Italian.
While most of white amurika can barely speak English or something akin thereto.
And thinks the rest of the world should speak it too. Why should 'Murricans have to learn to speak other people's languages? I can't tell you how many times I've overheard entitled Americans in Europe whine about "weird food" or "why can't these people speak English?"
Do you remember when they were called “the ugly Americans”. I’ve always wondered why some American think the people and cultures of foreign countries are inferior if they don’t relent to those peoples wants and beliefs. What’s the point of traveling to other countries if you want them to be an alien clone? To me the whole point of going to another country is to experience cultures other than our own.
I’d love to join you Stephan, but shit may hit the fan in Denmark, when Trumps Brownshirts invade Greenland… far south of the border suits me just fine!!
Not sure that will work if the “Chinese Conspiracy” of climate change continues. Almost all the rest of the world knows it’s a fact, and the closer one gets to the equator, the worse the *immediate* consequences will be. Obviously, it’s the whole planet that’s in trouble.
I will be in Portugal but it is a tough language, as is Danish which I tried to learn before trips in the last few years. Good luck!
Went to Portugal in 2024 (3rd trip) and worked to speak at least a little wherever we went. People were always demonstrably pleased, even with goofs, but the Portuguese are like that. Even the graffiti is nice (Eat more natas!)
Better start studying.
The perspective around the world is of importance to me! The friends outside this country I’ve spoken with, are equally appalled and shocked, by the misogyny, racism, and ignorance that exists in this country Sarah!!
That so many bought the lies and who did not pay attention to the facts of the economy and the forces that drove higher prices apparently remember when COVID came.. If you voted because egg prices went up will really come to understand what a "trump" economy will really mean. Biden and Harris revived the economy. The claims that schools would do sex changes when students cannot be given a Tylenol shows the level of lying and misinformation people bought into.
I think you homed in on the oligarchs’ problem in your second to last sentence above, and it’s physiological.
“It’s just not that hard.”
Or that BIG.
It's something people seem reluctant to grasp . . .
Ewwww 🤭
🤣😂🤣
I'm with you Jeff, but some people just don't wanna turn in their gun— verbal or hardware.
Sad News: Bob Uecker, baseball's funniest announcer just died at age 90. That officially makes Jeff the funniest guy in the world.
“The easiest way to catch a Knuckleball was to wait until it stopped rolling and just pick it up.” - Bob Uecker
😂😂😂Uecker was hilarious. I remember him and Johnny Carson cutting it up on the "Tonight Show"
Damn! I'll miss him. I love baseball on the radio.
He must be in the front row.
Yes!!!!!
Hah! Uke was one in a million, RIP!!
Fragile, insecure men cannot tolerate being told what to do. They’re butt-hurt they were told not to use the word “pussy” while at the same time it remained ok to call them “dicks.” Life is SO UNFAIR to them and only them! 🙄
But see, that's because you actually acknowledge the existence of other people in the world. Cut that wussy shit out!
You are obviously not a member of the 'dicktocracy'...
Clearly run by a DICK Tater🥔🥔🥔!
😂😂
How many people here have read Dick T. Kathleen??
Dunno.
We're from a different time & generation. Remember "Polish jokes". I told many, and I'm of Polish/Ukranian heritage. Stuff like that was used by all. We did respect girls. Very seldom cursed in front of them. Now, teen age girls curse like sailors on leave. I'm so glad I was in my teens - 20's from the mid 50's thru the 60's. Better world
A guy in my high school class called me a “foxy paddy chick.” How’s that for 60’s slang that was meant as a compliment?
It’s a way to prove fealty to Trump and their public conversion to MAGA. Anything to appease the group that lives to own the libs.
Children often have oppositional defiance disorder, intelligent people realize how dumb that is, and grow out of it. Others never do.
It's not hard at all, for human beings. For the dickardly, it is suicide.
Please please who is that “top banker”?
And I call it “spun urine”.
And I don’t need to clarify do I?
That is because you aren't a big fucking dick, Jeff.
Jeff, I see that Speaker Holy Moses Mike removed the chair of the House intelligence committee Mike Turner. Turner backed Ukraine, Turner was a hawk in respect to Vlads Russia. Holy Mike was instructed by Donald who was instructed by Vlad to get rid of Turner…Logically all of us can see this straight line of command. Folks remember… Authoritarian-Fascism begins slowly then speeds up so much it will turn your head… the speedy part begins Monday when we will witness the destruction of our Democracy… and yet we warned folks….. Asking MAGA.. how are those grocery prices now? Tuesday I will be asking my MAGA golf partners.. should “be wild”. ⛳️
the purity purges now going on will probably be the topic of tomorrow's post
Thank u Jeff for using “purge” as the operative word, whereas legacy media will not.
I’m assuming you mean Orange Fuckwit’s jackboots going around asking questions of federal civil servants?
Those civil servants just need to study tapes of Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth on how to not answer a question.
They just need to learn the phrase, “anonymous smears” and all should be fine.
I looked up how to make dried, powdered eggs yesterday. Assuming my hens don't die from bird flu, once they start laying again this spring, that's how I'll preserve the excess. I also forage for wild foods.
Yes, I was looking at my nasturtium leaves yesterday.
I grow nasturtiums too and am looking to grow more edible flowers
The leaves are edible too, very peppery.
Letters have already gone out to top military leaders that the woke purge is coming for them.
Peter Principal Hedgeseth disavowed all knowledge of this.
No one seems to know who is behind this.
Bet your idiot MAGA golf partners have a handy excuse. Like all of a sudden how the president doesn't control corporate pricing. Or supply and demand. Duh. Fucking idiots.
Trump has already said he CANNOT bring prices down. Only MAGA men truly thought he could and not one of them has been in a grocery store since they were young enough to ride in the grocery cart!
Yup, from Vlad's mouth to Donny, Elon, Viv, Tulsi's, etc mouths.
We are in so much trouble. One would have to be blind not to see the MAGA operatives working for Putin
Clearly here, it is the blind leading the blind.
Feels like we’re all sitting on death row waiting for our names to be called to execution. That no one with power is willing to say we cannot allow this to happen and then stop it…no words.
Madeline Albright said FASCISM was like plucking a chicken , you don't pull out all the feathers ( rights ) at once, you do it little by little. Our chicken
( country ) is nearly naked.
Oh, PLEASE let us know how Tuesday's golf game turns out!!!
I will be happy to write another chapter, Golf with MAGAS, probably Wednesday or Thursday.. thank you for your support.
Take ALL their money, Fredo! (Practice your short game.)
We are in so much trouble. One would have to be blind not to see the MAGA operatives working for Putin
Eggs by me:$6.99/dz
gotta check Aldis
My eggs cost $2 a dozen. I get them directly from the farmer. Just shows you how much markup the corporations are making. Eat the Rich.
My eggs are $00 a dozen. I get them directly from my neighbors.
Hee hee--I hope you chip in for the feed :-)
I babysit their chickens when they're away.
Yippee! That's a great trade!
Chicken sit
Joyce Vance gets them from her back yard!
We'll be looking for a report, Fredo!☺️
The question to ask your MAGA golf partners is will they put you on a train to that nice holiday camp
Today’s inspirational quote: Don’t be a dick!
But why did they spend all that time and energy getting to the top of the financial food chain if they still have to treat other people like they matter?
That's how they got to the top of the food chain. By being a dick. The circle jerk never ends. I'm making an up and down motion with my hand right now.
You’ve got a bit of George Carlin in you I see Lisa!!
I've been accused of that before. 🤣🤣
And the biggest dick has got to the very pinnacle- the Oval Office
The Mushroom Dick, according to Stormy.
Donnie and the Dicks but they'll never make any music that turns into a big hit. First, they praise his phony demented ass, send a shit ton of cash his way and then presto, you have another four years of a bought and paid for convicted felon president who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. That insane amount of cash controls the strings and will continue to do so as long as Muskrat, Bozos, Fuckerberg and others keep the flow going. Just ask the Extreme Court.
For decent people, yes. For conservatives, they really don't care. Do U?
Wait a moment Jeff— isn't DICK the very essence of masculine energy??? Isn't that what women are lacking? Nothing dangling between their legs???? /s
I know women who have more balls than most men. This is what happens when generations of men refused mental health help. Being a dick, says, I'm a bully. No matter how much money these dicks have, it will never buy them class. Poor ass billionaires. Emotional intelligence is a foreign language. It interferes with their criminal grifting mindset.
Barbarians. That is the appropriate term.
Agreed Lisa!!
My male leadworker for my unit at a NW tech firm in the late 90’s confirmed to be that I didn’t have the “right equipment” to work with my male clientele within the firm. I was criticized for not reaching out to him for his upcoming projects that I would be managing, then i was told my meetings with him were canceled at the last minute only to find my lead and male managers meeting behind my back. I had 16 years of stellar management experience in contracts working with men, individually as well as in groups of 30 men, and was highly respected at all previous jobs. I left before being forced out, landing a perfect job created for me. Not the right equipment eh? Btw, my lead, a stellar co-worker, my boss and my VP were ousted within 3 months after I left. Hmph.
Being bigoted is bad for business, but they're too dumb to know it.
Are you talking about the ones who drive huge pick-ups and park in 2 spaces right in front of the downtown bank?
Corporate America is practically falling all over one another to see who can be Biggus Dickus.
Our family is focusing on ‘Buy Nothing’ after Jan. 20. We are trying to ‘out-create’ each other. It’s the only way to fight these Dicks.
Same here. I refuse to buy anything except groceries. What I can grow myself, I will. I have enough books to last quite a while.
We got our finances in order. Made our necessary purchases last month. Furnace went out and my freezer. I can't afford Republicans in office. The damage control took years to recover from. I said yesterday, 10 out of 11 Republican administrations have ended in a recession. Buckle up. It's coming.
If you need appliances, buy used. Habitat for Humanity has wonderful inventory. I bought a beautiful sink/vanity for $60. I am eying their stoves and washer/dryers now.
The freezer was cheap enough. I told my husband we needed a big one so I could stuff him in there to keep collecting his social security and pension benefits when he's gone. Just kidding. 🤭 I got the smaller one.
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Sounded like a plan. Wish I thought of that when my spousal unit died. He would approve.
I'm sure your husband appreciated your forethought.
Thatta girl! 😂😂😂😂
That’s through ReStore if memory serves.
Excellent suggestion, Mary.
We're getting a new heat pump Charlie copper stove top and convection oven. Made about eight blocks here in Berkeley! Will run off the roof, not on gas. And we're getting a battery in February to save energy from the solar on the roof. Installed by the company four blocks away who did the original installation.
I have three GREAT Public Libraries that I can access! SO lucky.
I only have one but it’s a good one so can’t complain.
The newly elected city council here tried to kick the library out of its building, which the library rents for a nominal sum. I’ll leave you to guess which political party these non-partisan folk represent (but the signs supporting them were in the same yards as those supporting LDFF…). The citizens rose up with a large I DON’T THINK SO! and there was considerable backtracking 🎊🎉🎊
👏🏼👏🏼 Libraries will a bastion against the incoming nightmare.
He left River City the library building but he left all the books to her: Chaucer, Rabelais, Ballllllllzac...
Bought and paid off a new car that should last me for a decade, get my food from the CSA and co-op, by my clothes & appliances from thrift shops. So, I'm with you guys!
Agreed. Local thrift shops will still get my business.
Thrift shops and estate sales!!!
My husband's leasing a GM Equinox and my son has had his Chevy Bolt since 2016. We fuel both of them off the roof.
(Never enough books 🤣)
Truth
The Libby app has thousands of free books you can "check out". Gutenberg.org has rare & out of print free books to read too.
And magazines! I was able to unload all my mag subscriptions for Libby.
Buy used books through abebooks.com, and buy new books through bookshop.org.
Love abebooks. I often had to buy older editions of titles for work and they were my go to.
What about thriftbooks.com?
Thriftbooks is one of many sellers on abebooks.
Linda I've had good success with thriftbooks.com. I'll check out abebooks! Thanks!!
Thriftbooks is one of many sellers on abebooks.
Good to know!
My favorite bookseller on abebooks is Better World Books. They donate a portion of their proceeds to literacy programs.
Right on!! Me too. Growing what we can in a snow zone but eggs are getting ridiculously expensive when it’s easy and eventually cheaper to to have a chicken coop.
My dog is what keeps me from chickens. Even in a coop, they’ll probably keel over from fright.
I made that decision soon after the dumpster was elected. Living in 🇨🇦 gives me more options than living in the 🇺🇸. I can stay at home or travel to Europe and when it comes to food or clothings, anything that says USA is off my list. I thought long and hard about this as I have family in the US, but I can’t for the life of me part with my hard earned retirement fund to support someone hell bent on destroying the richest nation in the world and one who threatens to invade my country. The choice is simple.
I am glad for you. Wish I could be Canadian.
I’m on board with you CAM. BC’er here and I made a conscious decision in the first Trump admin to boycott travel to the U.S. I have family and friends in the U.S. but they’ll have to travel up here if they want to see me while Traitor Trump is calling the shots down there, or Elon, or Putin. Looks like I might have to boycott Alberta now too, until they ditch Danielle Smith. What a time to be alive! 🇨🇦
So nice to meet a BC’er, I’m a Franco Ont and happy to read that I’ve got company. Yes, I understand about Alberta. Great that when driving cross country all can get through Alberta in about 5-6 hours, unlike getting through Ontario that takes 3 days. 😉
I said the same thing about Trump when he came down the golden escalator. Me thinks you’re much more in danger of losing your democracy. 😥
Don’t leave your “Eh?” behind when you travel or you might be mistaken as one of us.
I’ve travelled in Europe and I lived in Lyon for a summer and was never mistaken for an American. And to be sure, I never used the Eh statement. We have a very different manner of speech distinguishable by even the least attuned to the American manner of speech. But thank you for your warning.
You must be from the western part of Canada then. Have spent more time in Ontario around Hamilton and so got used to the speech pattern there. Spent some time in BC(loved it!)and a bit in Alberta. Quebec is a province unto itself but was there on 9/11 and the could not have been nicer. My late husband played ball for the TiCats until he got a career-ending injury so went there quite often. I loved all the Canadians I had the privilege of meeting in our travels.
No, I’m from and still live in the nation’s capital and I’ve had the good fortune of having learned both languages from a very early age. My career took me to every major city in our great country and I’m grateful for the friends that I’ve made along the way. The thing that I remember the most about Hamilton and the TiCats is the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.
I'm doing the same thing. I am buying nothing. I had to have my car fixed this morning, but groceries and wine and thats it!
No Gummies Susan, the real stuff is better for you anyway, and is easy to grow!!
Also, my home made spiked cookies are better than the commercial gummies!
Agreed.
My daughter makes me some stuff homemade and knocked me on my ass.. Fvck I was drooling on myself buy I passed the F out and finally got some sleep..
Sorry, but if you want to make a statement you need to stop buying maple syrup! 😝
After about 65 years I found date syrup. Not as sweet and not as expensive.
Nah, I don’t think I could make the switch. There’s something quite distinct about maple syrup. In fact I often roast vegetables with it along with a really good quality balsamic vinegar, aged at least 12-15 years. Try it on carrots, Brussels sprouts and rutabaga. And then there’s maple sugar pie - a must during Christmas season.
Well you do have a patriotic mandate to use it. Don't get me wrong. I used gallons, but now I'm old and my stomach objects.
Brilliant. I think I'm going to hop onto that "buy-nothing" bandwagon.
I've been on the buy nothing bandwagon all my life. My parents' motto was 'waste not, want not'.
I am on that bandwagon because life didn't go according to plan. The universe had other ideas. 🤷
I'll tell you what I told Lucas Kunce and what my parents believed. We're smarter and tougher than millionaires because we've had to think more and do more.
I like this and I am trying to be conscious of where I make a purchase, like nothing from Amazon, etc. Yesterday I drove to a local bike shop and bought a 12 dollar safety light from a local proprietor because he has to pay for fucking eggs too!
You get five likes!!! Biggus Dickus, the greatest Roman of them all!
Donny is Penis Minimus.
The Orange Shitstain has Brainus Minimus and Minimus Dickus
Someone on another thread called him Count of Mostly Crisco!
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"Silence! This bwave man commands a cwack legion! His wank is as high as any in Wome!"
Thanks for the hearty laugh. I needed that.
I'm 6'6 316 lbs have self defense training and can bench press at least 250lbs. If one of these assholes called me a pussy and I beat the holy hell out of them, they'd be the first ones to decry my aggression.
We're gonna suffocate under the weight of all this hypocrisy.
To clarify: I'm not advocating violence. Just pointing out that people like this are perfectly fine with being able to say or do what they want without consequence as long as they're the ones being aggressive. But, much like the rotting pumpkin of a man they're so enthusiastic about, when they're on the receiving end, they're suddenly all in on civility. The schoolyard bullies are in charge. But I think they're going to find the people they used to push around have learned how to hit back.
Next will be refusing to hire women and POC and LGBTQ+ folks and daring anyone to do anything about it.
Because if you don't assume a white man is always the most qualified person for any job, you're being "woke" and doing DEI.
The white guys always assume they're the smartest, most qualified for the job. I've spent 40 years in health care and been subjected to plenty of toxic masculinity. DEI= Didn't Earn It. Hat tip to Ben Meiselas.
Take a look at the managers you've had all your life. They're never the smartest or most qualified.
Real world experience: I'm a white male. I have literally proven through research on at least two separate occasions that I was passed over for a job because the employers wanted to hire a female POC. These were candidates who had no work experience in a position I had worked in for a different company for over a decade, performing precisely the same duties as the position called for. It was blatant. I don't oppose DEI initiatives, but there's no question they've at times been used as an excuse to discriminate against white people. That fact may make some people reading this uncomfortable, but it doesn't make it any less real.
I have to admit, as a white woman I have been passed over for jobs so black women could get them. But in most cases I feel that if those women can improve their lives with better salaries, we're all better off.
My money is on civil right right act of 1964 in the cross hairs within the first 100 days
Yes. And what's left of the Voting Rights Act.
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Hopefully other socially progressive companies will hire from a larger, more diverse pool of applicants to help level the employment pool.
Yes, and Teri, if anyone wants to know what companies I worked for that had such bad management, just ask.
I like your attitude and agree with everything you said except for one thing... I really don't think Democrats, or any "anti" types know how to effectively push back. The Hegseth hearing was a joke, the J6 trial in Florida was a joke enabled by Merritt Garland's failure to start an investigation on January 7th, all the women and their pussy hats and marches didn't do anything, Democrats have ignored a lot of good advice offered by ex-republican political hacks, the national media ask stupid questions and "sane-wash" what's happening, and working people who are extremely high on the Trump cult Kool-Aid continue to be like sheep, toiling away like zombies doing (mostly) nothing to unite to improve their incomes while they work for corporations earning record profits, etc. etc. I don't see how this changes until the Kool-Aid wears off and the cult members wake up to find it's their asses getting g*&^- banged by the imbecilic cult leader and his friends. (That last sentence is hyper masculine in keeping with today's topic).
Agree. The DNC leaders have a lot to answer for but probably wont change. Garland’s “fair play” gentle civility has led to disaster.
Like conquers like. Be like them, when attacking them.
Agreed. These sad clowns can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Amen! These are the kids who got beat up for their lunch money and want yo take their anger out on us.
D.S. - 💯💯💯I have faith that there are more of us who can choose the venue in which to fight & give them a great way to go!
Exactly. These 'men's men' immediately start crying when anyone else is 'mean' to them.
Leon was begging for "civility" on his dumpster fire of a platform.
And who is the biggest DICK of all???????? Little Donny Fuck Face! Followed very closely by the billionaire ass kissers, republican ass kissers, and maggot ass kissers. Man, I’m full of it today! Heed Jeff’s words America: “be nice to people. be considerate. address then the way they want to be addressed. and if you fuck up, say you’re sorry and try to do better.” Great advice Jeff-that should go on billboards…..(with “don’t be a dick” right before “be nice…….) 😊
These people have lit an exploding cigar, and they're taking the first self-satisfied drag off of it.
That exploding cigar's gonna be up their asses when it goes off - ala Bugs and The Road Runner:-)
Well there is a lot of unconsciousness homoeroticism around a “man’s man” who spends so much time on his hair and makeup
My dream: Musk and Zuckerberg have their fight and beat each other's brains out. They spend the rest of their natural lives in a coma, and the rest of us can breathe again. Oh well.
But before that I just wanna see Zuck suck Drumps ass live on TV, because that’s what he’s doing now , the low life cretin.
Take a look at this:
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/you-cant-get-good-help-anymore
So here we are in another Gilded Age. The first one was followed by the Progressive Era that brought us some decent regulations and labor unions - but not without a lot of struggle, beatdowns and cracked skulls. The current situation is unsustainable, intolerable. Something's gotta give and it probably will, but what that will look like, who knows?
This time, if the oligarchs want to maintain their gilded age, they really ought to remember "Don't be a dick." If they amass fabulous wealth but throw a few bones and show a little consideration to the regular people, it will take longer for the uprising. If they vacuum up all the money AND are openly dickish, people will get tired of them a lot faster.
Maximum dickishness is a safe bet, imho.
We survived a gilded age once Ann, the robber barons were held in check by laws that have been destroyed, there’s much work to be done, breaking skulls and a show of testosterone shouldn’t be the path forward. Jeff’s message is poignant!!
There are a lot of things that shouldn't happen, but the powerful don't give up power without a fight, and historically they're not sqeamish about violence.
Eat the fucking rich
Feed the rich to the hungry .
Geez, I never woulda guessed that being able to use derogatory and insulting terms, acting falsely aggro in corporate offices, and taking more dessert than underlings is masculine energy.
Where the fuck have I been?
Doc, for some reason, Convict two scoops when everyone else gets one scoop of ice cream outrages me as much as making fun of a disabled man. It just defies credulity that someone is so petty, so insecure, so "I am the most important person at this table." And chocolate cream pie with ice cream? Dig in Convict! Clog those arteries!Have two pieces of that pie. Huh. Rhymes with die.
And why are so many such humongous sycophants as to put up with the childishness and being demeaned so? Yeah, come on, cholesterol! Where you been all this time?
Wouldn’t you just love to smash that cream pie + 2 scoops right onto his smirking face?
Fat Donnie Two Scoops has been my go to Nick for the orange ass wipe since I heard the two scoops story concerning a State Dinner at the WH.
Who else on earth could be this petty but trump?!?
Suck Zuck is a 98 lbs. weakling walking around in a T-shirt! The muskrat is a ketamine addict fat boy who has admitted using weight reducing drugs. Bozo Bezos is a little runt. The demented fat boy OAF (Orange Asinine 34x Felon) weighs over 300 lbs. and could not walk 0.5 miles without stopping to rest and is an adderall addict. These are the four “horsemen of the apocalypse” predicted in the Bible’s Book of Revelation who represent conquest, war, famine, and death. The irony is the stupid MAGA who voted in the fat boy OAF will be the first victims of the four horsemen!!!
This comment makes me want to be a believer !
Mark - With no shame, I admit to waiting with glee to their demise & the magats misery…
Jesus almighty, all we need is MORE of their version of alpha male warrior masculinity 🤦🏻♀️ And Trump is a man’s man the way he’s a businessman’s businessman… just a bloviating bluster of nastiness, jealousy, bankruptcy, and abject failure. It’s going to be 4 years of dick waving, pissing contests, and white supremacy tattoos. And to think businesses are going to be soooo much more successful because their CEO can scream the words pussy and retard at their employees and competitors! That’ll be some kind of trickledown….
The corporate dicks are signaling that they are about to start firing anyone who is not a straight White Christian male. Good luck with using the courts to prevent it.
Too bad I'm a woman. Maybe I'd get hired, but fortunately I'm not looking for work.
HR departments are not going to stand for name calling. They have to protect the company from lawsuits.
Hopefully minority employees, which includes all women, will only take so much of this swinging dick shit.
So the schmucks on Wall Street and in corporate America wanna be Logan Roy, patriarch of "Succession." They should remember that he died sitting on the crapper and all his kids turned out to be not-serious fuckups who feared and even hated him. Good luck with that.
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dump down
Donny is a dick. Zuck is a dick. This whole country has gone topsy turvy.
dicksy durvy!
peenusy weenusy!
prickly dickly!
dick über alles
Dick dick GOOSE
We’re living in a country where castration should be mandatory!
Well now let’s not go that far. I for one wouldn’t want to live in a country with dickless men.
Sound interesting to me,it would be more difficult to rape women & girls .
Most men are not rapists. And sometimes women want to have sex. Just sayin’.
WHAT !? Like I don't know that. 🙄
I've had many male friends, I was only raped by the RAPEY ones.
For me it's most of the time. Just sayin'. I be bored. Or just horny.
(my husband had the nerve to die on me. Not literally).
Mine did, too. I’m still pissed off at him for doing that.
Many of the biggest "dicks" in behavior are nearly dickless in actuality. So....nah, I think having dickless men would be hell for the rest of us. Hmmmm....unless they were dickless and all consigned to their own exclusive area.... But I'm getting waaayyyy too far out there!
The bigger the truck, the smaller the dick. Fact.
Dick extenders, like their guns.
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I got nothing. The level of all the shit that we are seeing is just so glaringly obviously pathetic and unnecessary… how the fuck do people end up like this? I’m ready to vote for Kang or Kodos.
An epidemic of ignorance has spread far beyond one career criminal Neal!!
Well now truth be told those people who want to say those things could always say words like retard and pussy... After all, this is America and freedom of speech is a foremost right. However, by the same token, people who don't normally talk like that can call out those people that do and remind them of the scumbags that they are for using that kind of language and that's what they should do. Ceaselessly
It hasn't been okay in the workplace for a long time.
Earlier this week, I saw a brave soul with a bumper sticker that read "Trump is a piece of shit". There are probably others scattered around the nation because it's really hard to make just one bumper sticker. Maybe I'll start seeing "Trump is a dick" soon.
I'm planning to wear my MAGA T-shirt on Monday. MORONS ARE GOVERNING AMERICA, that is 😁
Oh Elaine I need that T-shirt too
Trump WISHES he was The Biggest Dick, but we know he's a fungus.
There IS stuff like Tinactin--and systemic antifungal medication--for overgrowths like that. Just saying.
Or Tag Away, it smells like gasoline but it'll turn that bippy black and fall off.
Fck I can’t stop laughing thank you Kristy!! I needed that 😂🤣😂
Orange toadstool...
It's actually NOT that hard to have one bumper sticker made-I've done it. There are dozens of options for custom printing them. So... pick your sentiment and let it fly. (or drive, in this case)
Yup, anybody with a printer and the right type of adhesive-backed vinyl, for the frustrated crafter. Creative, determined crafters can make alllll kinds of things.
Ask me about the dick candles I made (and burned) back when Donny Dickwad was impeached the first time.
I apparently didn't invoke the correct deity, or burn enough of the dick candle, or something.
Probably should've invoked someone with a little more oomph than Anoia--Goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Drawers.
Lara, I wish we could hang out and not clean out our junk drawers together. I too will craft anything.
That WOULD be fun.
Good for you, Lara! I've been pondering what to burn on Monday. Perhaps just a whole fleet of white candles, for purification. But I'll check my candle book.
My dick candles will be burning. Time to use them up. I can always make more.
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Teri, is it cold up there?
Upvoted for the Terry Pratchett reference
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At least with Donnie back in office, we can now say “don’t be a dick” again.