programming note: I've replaced the original Hassett clip with a better edit that includes him hallucinating how about much money everyone has. it now goes:
"and so the consumer is really, really firing on all cylinders. they’re doing that because they have so much more money. in their pockets. in fact, I had the head of one of the Big Five banks in my office yesterday, going through the credit card data, and just as Secretary Bessent said, credit card spending is through the roof. they’re spending more on gasoline but they’re spending more on everything else, too."
And, given that Donald Trump insulted his financial backer in Saudi Arabia, the US is not going to be able to have its war on Iran, so now the ships will all just be stuck there, because Trump has no leverage to end it. I guess Xi will tell him what to do when he go visits, just like Putin usually does, because Iran already visited with Xi and afterwards Xi said he wanted the war to end. So, if Trump says that Xi, is kissing his ass in public too, I think he is going to set the US up for a major hackathon, and if he is in China when he does it I think they will cut all access to the internet off for him.
Everything was on the mend until-Orange numb nuts got in office. He is first Narcissistic psychotic in my life I’ve ever witnessed. Tricky Dick? He got out in time.
I’m glad you haven’t had to deal with any narcissists before this jerk. They all have the same playbook and differ only in degree of severity. What’s missing is the most basic sense of common decency.
yes, but a narcissistic psychopath is another critter entirely (like the orange one we're all now dealing with). Narcissists come a dime a dozen but the psychotic ones are a bit more rare and the true psychopaths among them do
such incredible damage: human wrecking balls, basically.
I just LOVE how Hassett and Mr. Banker keep referring to us, the great unwashed masses, as “they,” leaving no doubt about how they see the American populace — and that we are clearly the have-nots.
Serfs-exactly. Fascists don’t care at all if 75 million people protest in the streets. They are in a tiny cult world and have zero ability for sympathy, empathy…humanity. But we feel the power of that and the world sees it…so it matters!
We have to fight back. We have to vote in numbers to big to ignore. We can't give up. We are Americans we don't take shit.....so instead of feeling defeated resist. Where is our resistance. Where are what should be massive protests, not one every few months....we can't just lay down and play dead. America you are becoming apathethetic and that is what they want.
They want you tired and worn so they can turn America into Russia.....trust me I have a friend who is Russian and lives in Moscow she can't say what she really feels its not allowed ....she said living here is not good. She has a job is a single mom and said there is nothing she can do......are we going to let that happen here where we become defenseless? Get up and fight back.
You are correct. People with their, see what I did there, level of income and access have no understanding of or concern about the average American. They believe that if we weren’t so dumb and lazy we could be like them so our plight is on us not related to the brilliant things they are doing. Trump believes he’s a genius because he’s been able to acquire huge sums of money. He’s not a genius of course, rather he’s a cunning, evil, sociopath which I guess redundant. We are nothing more than fodder for their revolutionary dreams.
I wonder how the morale is for the Thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne who have been floating around the Med for two months now? They aren’t sailors and not used to being on a ship.
Also all the crew of the hundreds of Navy ships who have been out there twice as long are probably ready for a little shore leave about now.
A tip of the hat to all those poor War fighters who are subject to the Orange shit stain’s demented wishes.
True, yet but after watching the "game" in China, they won and we lost! UNO? Seriously? He can't play that game successfully. Not a gamer, that is for sure.
Jeff, normally I just read your transcript of the asshole’s videos but when I read it, I thought this was one that was too good to pass up. I wasn’t disappointed. He is so mentally fucked up at this point, the more he shoots his mouth off the more obvious his mental deficiencies are. We are in deep doodoo with all these assholes.
Sweet picture of Claudia and your daughter. It’s pictures such as these that help get you through one more day and that’s all we can do at times. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹.
Oh god, I just want to grab him by the lapels and drive my knee up sharply into his groin. Fucking moron. Of course people are using their credit cards more now. WE. DON'T. HAVE. THE. FUCKING. CASH. TO. COVER. THE. BASICS.
EXACTLY how I reacted when I read it - and yelled 'this' to my husband (with a few WTFUCKS) added on for emphasis. Just imagine those folks who get those 'offers of a $1,000 credit card) in the mail - my neighbour does AND makes use of them (smdh). WHEN she can't then pay the bills when they come due with the usurious interest added is when SHE begins cursing up a blue streak, claiming she's been 'ripped off'. She's a magat cultist...still won't budge from her hero worship. It's all the Democrats' fault.
I love the pic of Claudia and your daughter Katie. I assume you took it. ❤️
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Please keep us posted......he needs to die and then there will be a scramble for the next maybe real leader. Vance has been belittled and shit on by Trump
Impeaching Trump now is a waste of time and effort unles you can explain how you get to 67 votes to convict in the Senate. If you can't, then it's a process that will only leave him stronger in the end.
As I said, the second time they have brought the bill forward they have gotten more support and they expect it to grow. I also pointed out what Erica Chenoweth says, which is to try everything. As I pointed out to Dick Durbin, not that he listened either, it makes a statement to do this, and points out to everyone that there are plenty of people who do not find what Trump does is normal. It seems to me that you did not read the reasoning for doing this, or do you not do anything just because it is the right thing to do?
<sigh> Those first two impeachments worked out SO well, didn't they?
First, there probably aren't the votes in the House, especially after the Indiana primary. Second, if by some miracle there were, there is NO WAY there are 67 votes to convict in the Senate. Result? Trump emerges STRONGER. No, this is a complete waste of time. Let's see where we are in January after the midterms seat a new Congress.
I just do not agree with you about rolling over. When my daughter was 3, she was saying that 2 boys in her nursery school class should marry each other. This was part of a longer story, and my husband asked if we should let her think this would be allowed because at that time same sex couples could not marry. I told him no, because there were places in the world where it could happen and things could change. It was just a few years later where it worked. You see the glass half empty I see it half full. Even if we don't impeach him is no reason not to try. You cannot wait until then, you need to start it now. Does it hurt you to sign the petition? Do you think he legally should be impeached? Does he fit the criteria? They are listed in my article. Argue against those points please, not what can or cannot happen. Last year, no one thought someone could oust Orbán either, or Ukraine could be ahead in the war, now those tides have turned. It wish you were not feeling so hopeless Daniel.
There are NOT 67 votes to convict in this Senate. THAT is the reality. Going though the motions so he can falsely claim he was "exonerated" helps no one. I want to take actions that will have an effect, not that will leave him stronger. And I really don't care how strong you imagine your arguments are. He led an insurrection against our government and the Senate refused to convict. My focus is on the midterms and in resisting his actions as much as possible, not engaging in nonsensical attempts that will go nowhere but will make you feel good about yourself.
As Robert Reich explained it the other day, the stock market is high because corporate profits in general are high. We've seen all the recent headcount cuts, and prices that went up because of supply line snags during the pandemic have only continued to increase, despite the elimination of those snags (= even higher profit margins). So....until either the crypto and/or AI bubbles burst, OR people simply can't buy anything anymore, OR the EU stops investing in the U.S. altogether, the stock market won't see more than temporary small losses.
the worst of it is that the Dear Leader's wealthiest cash cows are often not supplying any goods consumers can purchase, so they don't give a damn if people are broke. This includes the odious Peter Thiel, Sergei Brin, the CEO's of the vile private prison industry, as well as all the security and war profiteers. Consumer goods are becoming secondary to massive amounts of cash flowing through no-bid contracts to these criminal enterprises. The Democrats have also been engaged in the inflation of the ever growing war budget. This has to end.
“He can’t make up his mind” Hey Doc another wonderful limerick… However, you are assuming that guy has a mind that is not instant oatmeal… I beg to differ… The dude is gone, he ain’t never coming back..it’s only that fucking dance hall that keeps him… intact😄.. my feeble attempt at a rhyme…
Sorry to be pedantic, Friend Fredo, but a limerick is a five line poem in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The one above is easier because the "every other line" rhyme is more flexible. Limericks are very challenging since many of the adjectives and nouns germane to him are very difficult to rhyme, like asshole, douchebag, dipshit, idiot, . . .you get the idea. The poems from Frosty and me below are limericks.
Yes, a set structure like a haiku, which is a three line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables but not required to rhyme. In my limited understanding of the Japanese language, rhyming is virtually impossible anyway.
Why dont we just leave the area. Say we won, we're going to leave. When the Iranians open the Strait, Trump can say he opened it and pat himself the back. Have a parade.
And Trump wants his cut of that money. When the Strait opened and Iran announced a toll, Trump immediately sent ships to close the Strait. Why? Because he thought it was unfair? No, because he wants his cut of the 2 million dollars toll per ship. No one can tell me thats not the way looks at it..
I agree, they lie about everything, they gaslight on a professional level so just lie and gaslight your way out of this. Say we won, that you taught the Iranians a lesson, blah blah blah and let our military come home already!
Trump is Mad Captain Ahab, demonically persuing his devilish White Whale across the globe. No regard for his crew. Just revenge and his just retribution. Somewhere along the path of this mad pursuit, America's current Ahab will find his end out in the void and the world can return to a quieter state of conflict
Trump’s demise will be epic when we run out of oil while the republicans keep telling us we produce enough here to supply the country for eleventy billion years. It might be a little tough to lie about Americans not being able to buy gas because there is none. Based on their shameless ability to lie about pretty much everything, I’m sure they’ll give it a shot.
And, Peace, let’s not forget the oil companies who, instead of doing the patriotic thing of serving the American public with affordable gas are instead selling our oil on the open market to line their pockets. Our oil companies have never been loyal or patriotic— just scum of the earth. Full stop.
I’m so glad I drive a fully electric car now & our house runs off of solar energy, albeit, I’m in the UK, but what Trump has done has pushed up our gas prices too! It’s almost £1.50 a liter. I’m too mentally drained to convert that into gallons & then $$ or $$ then gallons. I’m having severe brain fog today.
Thank you for that. I’m a former middle school math teacher, but I suffer from chronic pain & recently had neck surgery along with other health issues. Brain fog is a very real thing!! My husband & I often play a funny version of charades because there are A LOT of instances where I can’t come up with the name of things. Once I couldn’t recall the “shiney thing on the counter that browns toast!” 🤦🏻♀️🤭
likewise (HS-CC Bio); did you have vertebrae fused? am a few years out from that yet, but part of my brain fog is self medication for chronic pain- so yeah, get that.
Yes, C3 & C4, & my surgeon said the whole left side is riddled with arthritis! I’m only 56! This surgery was the most painful one I’ve ever had, & I’ve had my pancreas along with my spleen removed, part of a lung, gallbladder, hysterectomy in two parts, carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve, tarsal tunnel & a c-section! I have to have surgery done on my back sometime in the near future too. I was shocked to learn a couple of weeks ago that your C3 is connected to your breathing! That explains why they got me in so quickly. I developed fibromyalgia in Sept 2019, but it was when I started having horrific pain in my neck 3 years ago that the brain fog got really bad along with my short term memory. I’ve always had an exceptional memory, & now I can’t remember tv shows I watch with my husband. 🤦🏻♀️ We have a wicked sense of humor about my health problems. 🤭 Sorry, you’re a few years out from having had your neck fused or are going to have your neck fused?
diesel is ~ $7USD / gallon along the main north-south corridors in California, where gasoline is $5. big logistics have reserves and LT contract prices, but I am sure the Spirit Airlines of small trucking companies is already out there.
Living in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. We paid 194.9 per litre yesterday, which works out to $7.36 CAD ($5.40 USD) per gallon. Our next vehicle will be electric. Over the past 5 years, enough charging stations have been installed to make owning an EV a realistic option in more rural areas now.
The USA should have to convert to the metric system to atone for causing so much chaos and suffering with the second Drumpf administration. That could be a start.
Why can't they understand that everything, everything is delivered by diesel trucks. If there is no gas there is no food, no beer (oh, Lord!), no diapers. Well, you get the idea. I was just thinking, maybe Budweiser will bring the horses to deliver beer. That would be awesome.
Don’t you think they would love to fuck with California? Then it would be drill, baby, drill, and wait for the oil slicks in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Trump's team wants to force oil exploration off the coast of CA. Most of the refineries in the state are aging relics. But the jerk has been a gift to the EV industry he's tried to crush here. Except no one wants a Tesla.
The oil companies have also been drooling over offshore drilling in Florida--which, by the way, is another reason Donnie Demento's handlers want to conquer Cuba (King Rubio Big Shoes I), so there's no messy squabbling over borderlines.
Of course, Florida's entire economy is tourism......Even the Republicans nearly passed out from fear caused by the Deepwater Horizon debacle.
Amazing. First this idiot makes Americans think twice before buying cheap crap they don’t need from China, now he’s going to force us all to reduce our fossil fuel consumption. Biden… is that you?
Groceries, cat food, and booze are the three things we NEVER put on the cc because it fucking DUMB to pay interest on any of those in the rare case that the cc doesn't get paid down in full every month. 🙄
I’m dyin’ here. I told myself I’d be quiet today. Not get myself all worked up. Well, screw that. I can’t stop repeating that ditty in my head and giggling.
I’m no economist, but maybe a REAL financial expert should explain to these clowns that instead of measuring the health of the economy by how many people are using credit cards (which has increased) they should look at how many people are paying off their balances each month (which I’m sure has decreased).
And btw, I love the addition of “the daily Claudia.”
Only a conservative can think that people having to buy food on credit cards with interest rates of 17%, 18%, and up is a sign that the economy is doing well. Just like only a conservative can stump for trickle down economics like it actually works. Delusional, avaricious assholes
High credit card usage lowers one's FICA score. So the folks using their cards to live paycheck to paycheck will pay higher interest rates when they actually need to finance something. And Hassett will be smiling and swimming through the air.
I doubt there has been a lack of 'splaining available to these quacks. Their minds don't work in objective facts, they attempt to twist reality into a form that *sounds* more beneficial for themselves. And it works fine, until it doesn't. They live in a perpetual 'now' Zen-state. History has no meaning for them, so the fates of all the other lying shits that came before them is wholly unknown.
I have one card that I've been paying off in full every month for ages. The other day I tried to charge an Amtrak ticket on it. It was declined. I had to call -- and jump through several hoops -- to assure them this was real. They tried to tell me this was security and they were protecting me. I think the banks are getting really nervous about the coming wave of defaults.
Despite the bone-deep stupidity of our current regime, I'm seeing hopeful signs from former MAGAs who finally feel some personal pain from their shitty decisions. Protest and parody songs are all over YouTube today. Ex-MAGA is owning their stupidity and it's very encouraging. When that group reaches critical mass, a change is gonna come.
Hanta virus arriving just about the same time as a golden statue appears in Florida is kinda Exodus shite writ large with a fat Sharpie™. Add to that just about everything else that’s happening… and I’m thinking about lotsa stuff.
My kiddo was just telling me about this. He said the on-line (Tik-Tok) consensus is to let everyone on the ship die rather than bring Hanta virus on shore. I tried to explain things like penetrance and contagion. I think the impression that everyone on the ship is rich is contributing to the sentiment.
I love to see the photos of your Claudia. ❤️ Today, my Tim left me five years ago today. I miss him more than I can say because if he was here he would help keep me calm during our current chaos. Damn colon cancer. Please, everyone.... get a colonoscopy.
And you are so right...NONE of this is normal. I need to remind myself of this.
Personally, I appreciated his lesson about the difference in "see" and "sea". It always baffled me. Hoping that today he'll explain the difference between "be" and "bee". Another head-scratcher.
My goodness, the sweetness captured in that photo is the perfect way to pull us down out of the rafters after reading your thorough description of the insanity in the completely unqualified people who are running our country. Into the ground.
Snickering. Smug. Drunks. Truly the wheel of moron. I’d like to get off now.
I share your daughter's grief. I lost my mom not too long ago. Sure, keeping busy is a distraction until the dark stillness of night releases the grief.
Grief is a long process. Yet my heart is warmed every day I read your posts, especially when they include these beautiful pictures of your family. Thank you Jeff!
SO this, Polly - thank you for giving Jeff the credit he deserves. Their wedding photo - the love shining in his face as he gazed at his gorgeous bride was nearly too much for me, knowing he'd just lost her. Then her with their brand-new infant Katie - AND Kate as an adult with her Mom. These are marvelous photos which do MY heart good. To be honest, I'm unsure which of the two women (Claudia and her best friend Kathy) are which, in their photo, they look so much alike! AND both so filled with love, joy and their happiness at being together. It broke me - missing my own best friend who's all of 5ft with me around 5'8" so I always called us 'Mutt and Jeff'. She had the grace to wear 4-5 inch heels to try to appear taller but was so tiny-framed it never worked. Strangely I can't get the photos today - just that weird blue thingie which doesn't bring me to a photo or video. :( We all already feel we know Jeff through his writing, but now with these wonderful photos, he's become our friend/brother/bestie. I only hope posting the photos doesn't hurt his heart more than it is. It helps ours, for sure.
THIS gladdens my heart. Something tells me she inherited writing skills from both of
you whether or not she's begun to focus on them - yet. But she still has you, thankfully, although young women tend to have different conversations with their mothers (assuming they have good relationships) than they do with their Dads...I have a feeling that isn't an issue with you two. MY mother was so horrid to me but I so enjoyed conversing with my Dad on the phone, yet she'd grab the phone out of his hand which drove me nuts when I was in my 30's...he never argued which still bothers me - we missed out on so much 'connection'. He died shortly after that and I still miss him so much---too much left unsaid. I hope he knew how much I really wanted him to come to live with us.
programming note: I've replaced the original Hassett clip with a better edit that includes him hallucinating how about much money everyone has. it now goes:
"and so the consumer is really, really firing on all cylinders. they’re doing that because they have so much more money. in their pockets. in fact, I had the head of one of the Big Five banks in my office yesterday, going through the credit card data, and just as Secretary Bessent said, credit card spending is through the roof. they’re spending more on gasoline but they’re spending more on everything else, too."
Gee Kev, could it be that spending is through the roof because prices are through the roof? Fuckwit 🙄
And, given that Donald Trump insulted his financial backer in Saudi Arabia, the US is not going to be able to have its war on Iran, so now the ships will all just be stuck there, because Trump has no leverage to end it. I guess Xi will tell him what to do when he go visits, just like Putin usually does, because Iran already visited with Xi and afterwards Xi said he wanted the war to end. So, if Trump says that Xi, is kissing his ass in public too, I think he is going to set the US up for a major hackathon, and if he is in China when he does it I think they will cut all access to the internet off for him.
Everything was on the mend until-Orange numb nuts got in office. He is first Narcissistic psychotic in my life I’ve ever witnessed. Tricky Dick? He got out in time.
I’m glad you haven’t had to deal with any narcissists before this jerk. They all have the same playbook and differ only in degree of severity. What’s missing is the most basic sense of common decency.
True for sure but I have met a few. 🙄
yes, but a narcissistic psychopath is another critter entirely (like the orange one we're all now dealing with). Narcissists come a dime a dozen but the psychotic ones are a bit more rare and the true psychopaths among them do
such incredible damage: human wrecking balls, basically.
Re Nixon: It was either that or a trial he would have lost, but your point is well taken
Thanks at least we got him out!
I salute you
I know we are doing our part in exploding our credit cards all it means is debt is going bonkers, Donny knows that so does kev.
I just LOVE how Hassett and Mr. Banker keep referring to us, the great unwashed masses, as “they,” leaving no doubt about how they see the American populace — and that we are clearly the have-nots.
Serfs, that’s how they see us all.
Serfs-exactly. Fascists don’t care at all if 75 million people protest in the streets. They are in a tiny cult world and have zero ability for sympathy, empathy…humanity. But we feel the power of that and the world sees it…so it matters!
Peons!
Exactly
We are consumers and voters, sometimes collateral damage, nothing more. Things to be manipulated and controlled.
We have to fight back. We have to vote in numbers to big to ignore. We can't give up. We are Americans we don't take shit.....so instead of feeling defeated resist. Where is our resistance. Where are what should be massive protests, not one every few months....we can't just lay down and play dead. America you are becoming apathethetic and that is what they want.
They want you tired and worn so they can turn America into Russia.....trust me I have a friend who is Russian and lives in Moscow she can't say what she really feels its not allowed ....she said living here is not good. She has a job is a single mom and said there is nothing she can do......are we going to let that happen here where we become defenseless? Get up and fight back.
*eaters, too 😒
You are correct. People with their, see what I did there, level of income and access have no understanding of or concern about the average American. They believe that if we weren’t so dumb and lazy we could be like them so our plight is on us not related to the brilliant things they are doing. Trump believes he’s a genius because he’s been able to acquire huge sums of money. He’s not a genius of course, rather he’s a cunning, evil, sociopath which I guess redundant. We are nothing more than fodder for their revolutionary dreams.
We're the 'expendables' in the donnyverse, that's for sure.
IOW, the floggings will continue until morale (or T💩p's poll numbers) improve.
I wonder how the morale is for the Thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne who have been floating around the Med for two months now? They aren’t sailors and not used to being on a ship.
Also all the crew of the hundreds of Navy ships who have been out there twice as long are probably ready for a little shore leave about now.
A tip of the hat to all those poor War fighters who are subject to the Orange shit stain’s demented wishes.
And they aren't even being fed properly.
Their supply ships can't get to them. Food and necessities are running out.
Do we know if they are getting any mail, or is that still be stopped?
Good point about the 82nd Airborne, Ole. Morale has to be in the sub-basement.
Imagine if one of THOSE was the ship with hantavirus?!?!? 😟
That was one of the things Dean and Ken were discussing in their podcast today.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/deans-live-ken-harbaugh-on-the-project?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Understatement here from me-Our military is probably hungry! Didn't Knucklehead stop postal deliveries to our troops also?
*good one
True, yet but after watching the "game" in China, they won and we lost! UNO? Seriously? He can't play that game successfully. Not a gamer, that is for sure.
Hasset was giving head to the chair of one of the big 5 banks. That is his only marketable skill in this generational clown fuckery.
Here’s a funny edit, “Hasset was giving chair to the head of one the big 5 banks” and we’d still know what was meant. 🤣
I think Scott Bessent would be better at giving head. 🤣
🤮
They all know how to blow and that is for certain. Sucks, don't it? 🙄
Just ewwww
lol
Jeff, normally I just read your transcript of the asshole’s videos but when I read it, I thought this was one that was too good to pass up. I wasn’t disappointed. He is so mentally fucked up at this point, the more he shoots his mouth off the more obvious his mental deficiencies are. We are in deep doodoo with all these assholes.
Sweet picture of Claudia and your daughter. It’s pictures such as these that help get you through one more day and that’s all we can do at times. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹.
My sentiments exactly! Hugs as always!
Oh god, I just want to grab him by the lapels and drive my knee up sharply into his groin. Fucking moron. Of course people are using their credit cards more now. WE. DON'T. HAVE. THE. FUCKING. CASH. TO. COVER. THE. BASICS.
They are clueless & corrupt.
EXACTLY how I reacted when I read it - and yelled 'this' to my husband (with a few WTFUCKS) added on for emphasis. Just imagine those folks who get those 'offers of a $1,000 credit card) in the mail - my neighbour does AND makes use of them (smdh). WHEN she can't then pay the bills when they come due with the usurious interest added is when SHE begins cursing up a blue streak, claiming she's been 'ripped off'. She's a magat cultist...still won't budge from her hero worship. It's all the Democrats' fault.
I love the pic of Claudia and your daughter Katie. I assume you took it. ❤️
I am currently supporting a campaign to impeach Trump again, and his cabinet. Here is my piece on that. Please consider reading it and signing the petition.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-abroad-supports-the-impeach?r=f0qfn
Yes, a beautiful picture of Claudia and Katie.
Please keep us posted......he needs to die and then there will be a scramble for the next maybe real leader. Vance has been belittled and shit on by Trump
Impeaching Trump now is a waste of time and effort unles you can explain how you get to 67 votes to convict in the Senate. If you can't, then it's a process that will only leave him stronger in the end.
As I said, the second time they have brought the bill forward they have gotten more support and they expect it to grow. I also pointed out what Erica Chenoweth says, which is to try everything. As I pointed out to Dick Durbin, not that he listened either, it makes a statement to do this, and points out to everyone that there are plenty of people who do not find what Trump does is normal. It seems to me that you did not read the reasoning for doing this, or do you not do anything just because it is the right thing to do?
<sigh> Those first two impeachments worked out SO well, didn't they?
First, there probably aren't the votes in the House, especially after the Indiana primary. Second, if by some miracle there were, there is NO WAY there are 67 votes to convict in the Senate. Result? Trump emerges STRONGER. No, this is a complete waste of time. Let's see where we are in January after the midterms seat a new Congress.
I just do not agree with you about rolling over. When my daughter was 3, she was saying that 2 boys in her nursery school class should marry each other. This was part of a longer story, and my husband asked if we should let her think this would be allowed because at that time same sex couples could not marry. I told him no, because there were places in the world where it could happen and things could change. It was just a few years later where it worked. You see the glass half empty I see it half full. Even if we don't impeach him is no reason not to try. You cannot wait until then, you need to start it now. Does it hurt you to sign the petition? Do you think he legally should be impeached? Does he fit the criteria? They are listed in my article. Argue against those points please, not what can or cannot happen. Last year, no one thought someone could oust Orbán either, or Ukraine could be ahead in the war, now those tides have turned. It wish you were not feeling so hopeless Daniel.
There are NOT 67 votes to convict in this Senate. THAT is the reality. Going though the motions so he can falsely claim he was "exonerated" helps no one. I want to take actions that will have an effect, not that will leave him stronger. And I really don't care how strong you imagine your arguments are. He led an insurrection against our government and the Senate refused to convict. My focus is on the midterms and in resisting his actions as much as possible, not engaging in nonsensical attempts that will go nowhere but will make you feel good about yourself.
The banks love it when people get into credit card debt, maybe thatʻs why the stock market remains high.
As Robert Reich explained it the other day, the stock market is high because corporate profits in general are high. We've seen all the recent headcount cuts, and prices that went up because of supply line snags during the pandemic have only continued to increase, despite the elimination of those snags (= even higher profit margins). So....until either the crypto and/or AI bubbles burst, OR people simply can't buy anything anymore, OR the EU stops investing in the U.S. altogether, the stock market won't see more than temporary small losses.
High end net worth control the markets and they are making a fortune while the rest of America crumbles.
True DAT!!
There should also be a noticeable bump when the corporations start getting their tariff refund checks, but no doubt we won't see any lower prices.
No doubt whatsoever.
Debt is good, right? How many TRILLION in debt in this overreached country?
Of course it's good news to their buddies, because they're making money hand over fist. They won't be happy until they have it all.
Mr. Big Bank should have brought action figures to explain economics to Hassett because it seems like he got the takeaway backwards.
I can't wait to see how that smirk transforms when millions of people default on credit card debit because of Republican Shit-Storm reasons.
the worst of it is that the Dear Leader's wealthiest cash cows are often not supplying any goods consumers can purchase, so they don't give a damn if people are broke. This includes the odious Peter Thiel, Sergei Brin, the CEO's of the vile private prison industry, as well as all the security and war profiteers. Consumer goods are becoming secondary to massive amounts of cash flowing through no-bid contracts to these criminal enterprises. The Democrats have also been engaged in the inflation of the ever growing war budget. This has to end.
As usual, I started my day laughing! Thank you!
I've set up my Substack account to auto-like Jeff's posts. Slam dunk every time.
A better matrix to the credit card usage would be to measure, how many credit cards are in arrears or maxed out! Just saying!
In what universe does it make sense that having more money makes people charge more purchases to credit cards? Yep, 2 + 2 = 28 1/2, Kev.
And being further gouged by interest rates which cost way more than overdraft fees and place struggling cardholders in a downward spiral of debt!
And Mrs. Spouse had beautiful eyes. <3
I think you misquoted Hassett. It should have been "In fact, I was giving head to..."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
"First Thing: Uncertainty looms as last oil tanker from Middle East arrives in California"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/first-thing-uncertainty-last-oil-tanker-middle-east-arrives-california?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
California's going to run out of oil in six weeks, if the Strait of Hormuz doesn't open. fun stuff
And the fuckheads at the top will tell us “two more weeks” which — if I take that based on past evidence — truly means 10 to forever years from now.
The Strait I will open!
The Strait I will close!
Which is it now?
Who even knows?
The ceasefire is on!
The ceasefire is off!
He can't make up his mind
The world's nations scoff
Such unstable bullshit
Each time he speaks
Perpetual chaos
Another two weeks
“He can’t make up his mind” Hey Doc another wonderful limerick… However, you are assuming that guy has a mind that is not instant oatmeal… I beg to differ… The dude is gone, he ain’t never coming back..it’s only that fucking dance hall that keeps him… intact😄.. my feeble attempt at a rhyme…
Sorry to be pedantic, Friend Fredo, but a limerick is a five line poem in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The one above is easier because the "every other line" rhyme is more flexible. Limericks are very challenging since many of the adjectives and nouns germane to him are very difficult to rhyme, like asshole, douchebag, dipshit, idiot, . . .you get the idea. The poems from Frosty and me below are limericks.
Thanks for the explanation Doc… English literature and composition was not a strong point in my education way back in the last century.🫨🫨
So... more of a haiku then. Got it!
Yes, a set structure like a haiku, which is a three line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables but not required to rhyme. In my limited understanding of the Japanese language, rhyming is virtually impossible anyway.
frontal lobe of the orange asshat is shrinking for sure
Two weeks, two weeks, two weeks….. 🥴
Another gem Doc!
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Oooooooo….really really pithy and spot on! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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😂Doc!
Why dont we just leave the area. Say we won, we're going to leave. When the Iranians open the Strait, Trump can say he opened it and pat himself the back. Have a parade.
This is actually prophetic.
Even someone as egotistical and overwhelmingly stupid as he is may eventually realize that is his only way out.
and in the end....all for nothing
Oh, no, not for nothing. Billions and billions, as Carl Sagan used to say.
Trump will probably end up leveling Cuba just to have a win.
Yep. You're probably right.
And let Bebe clean up the mess he manipulated asshat into.
I haven't heard boo about Bebe paying reparations. He blew shit up too.
Absolutely right rlritt! That’s the only way the emperor’s war ends peacefully or otherwise.
But the Iranians will only let ships pass who pay toll.
And Trump wants his cut of that money. When the Strait opened and Iran announced a toll, Trump immediately sent ships to close the Strait. Why? Because he thought it was unfair? No, because he wants his cut of the 2 million dollars toll per ship. No one can tell me thats not the way looks at it..
I agree, they lie about everything, they gaslight on a professional level so just lie and gaslight your way out of this. Say we won, that you taught the Iranians a lesson, blah blah blah and let our military come home already!
I agree. They bullshit about everything.
Trump is Mad Captain Ahab, demonically persuing his devilish White Whale across the globe. No regard for his crew. Just revenge and his just retribution. Somewhere along the path of this mad pursuit, America's current Ahab will find his end out in the void and the world can return to a quieter state of conflict
May it be sooner rather than later!
Trump’s demise will be epic when we run out of oil while the republicans keep telling us we produce enough here to supply the country for eleventy billion years. It might be a little tough to lie about Americans not being able to buy gas because there is none. Based on their shameless ability to lie about pretty much everything, I’m sure they’ll give it a shot.
And, Peace, let’s not forget the oil companies who, instead of doing the patriotic thing of serving the American public with affordable gas are instead selling our oil on the open market to line their pockets. Our oil companies have never been loyal or patriotic— just scum of the earth. Full stop.
Plus taking billions of taxpayer $$$ in subsidies
We do pump a lot of oil but most of it gets sold to other countries. You know: profits.
I also read we produce the kind of oil we don’t refine for our own consumption, so who knows? All we know is our reality today.
I’m so glad I drive a fully electric car now & our house runs off of solar energy, albeit, I’m in the UK, but what Trump has done has pushed up our gas prices too! It’s almost £1.50 a liter. I’m too mentally drained to convert that into gallons & then $$ or $$ then gallons. I’m having severe brain fog today.
Multiply by 3.78 (liters in a gallon) so you are paying £5.67 a gallon or $7.73 a gallon.
In France I’m paying €2.25/liter or €8.50/gallon or $10.00/gallon (for diesel - gas is a tad cheaper)
I hear Ireland is paying $12 a gallon (not sure if it’s gasoline or diesel - diesel USED to be cheaper than gas in EU…)
Thank you for that. I’m a former middle school math teacher, but I suffer from chronic pain & recently had neck surgery along with other health issues. Brain fog is a very real thing!! My husband & I often play a funny version of charades because there are A LOT of instances where I can’t come up with the name of things. Once I couldn’t recall the “shiney thing on the counter that browns toast!” 🤦🏻♀️🤭
likewise (HS-CC Bio); did you have vertebrae fused? am a few years out from that yet, but part of my brain fog is self medication for chronic pain- so yeah, get that.
Yes, C3 & C4, & my surgeon said the whole left side is riddled with arthritis! I’m only 56! This surgery was the most painful one I’ve ever had, & I’ve had my pancreas along with my spleen removed, part of a lung, gallbladder, hysterectomy in two parts, carpal tunnel, ulnar nerve, tarsal tunnel & a c-section! I have to have surgery done on my back sometime in the near future too. I was shocked to learn a couple of weeks ago that your C3 is connected to your breathing! That explains why they got me in so quickly. I developed fibromyalgia in Sept 2019, but it was when I started having horrific pain in my neck 3 years ago that the brain fog got really bad along with my short term memory. I’ve always had an exceptional memory, & now I can’t remember tv shows I watch with my husband. 🤦🏻♀️ We have a wicked sense of humor about my health problems. 🤭 Sorry, you’re a few years out from having had your neck fused or are going to have your neck fused?
diesel is ~ $7USD / gallon along the main north-south corridors in California, where gasoline is $5. big logistics have reserves and LT contract prices, but I am sure the Spirit Airlines of small trucking companies is already out there.
Living in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. We paid 194.9 per litre yesterday, which works out to $7.36 CAD ($5.40 USD) per gallon. Our next vehicle will be electric. Over the past 5 years, enough charging stations have been installed to make owning an EV a realistic option in more rural areas now.
The USA should have to convert to the metric system to atone for causing so much chaos and suffering with the second Drumpf administration. That could be a start.
so glad we have our two chevy volts
they are shipping '27 bolts now- new battery chemistry that benefits from being topped off to 100% and charges at 150kW via a native tesla port.
Oh diaper Don would just LOVE IT if CA went dry
Why can't they understand that everything, everything is delivered by diesel trucks. If there is no gas there is no food, no beer (oh, Lord!), no diapers. Well, you get the idea. I was just thinking, maybe Budweiser will bring the horses to deliver beer. That would be awesome.
They dont care. As long as they live in luxury with gold statues of their hero, they're happy. We can all eat cake.
They should read history. It wont end well for them. I look forward to the day when we can see all of Trumps stupid staues pulled down.
Diesel is going for $7.99 a gallon in my Seattle suburb.
In CA also, it is something like $7.50. This regime is strangling American people and they want to hurt Europeans.
Truckers just pass the higher freight cost to customers receiving their delivery—- lots of time it’s on the invoices as:
Fuel expense or sone other wording.
HUSH! No BEER? Blasphemy!!!!!
We used to have a working rail system but gas.....
Uncertainty is a nice way to frame it. It's like those medieval sundials that said in Latin DEATH IS CERTAIN ONLY THE HOUR IS UNCERTAIN
Don’t you think they would love to fuck with California? Then it would be drill, baby, drill, and wait for the oil slicks in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Again? Sigh.
Trump's team wants to force oil exploration off the coast of CA. Most of the refineries in the state are aging relics. But the jerk has been a gift to the EV industry he's tried to crush here. Except no one wants a Tesla.
The oil companies have also been drooling over offshore drilling in Florida--which, by the way, is another reason Donnie Demento's handlers want to conquer Cuba (King Rubio Big Shoes I), so there's no messy squabbling over borderlines.
Of course, Florida's entire economy is tourism......Even the Republicans nearly passed out from fear caused by the Deepwater Horizon debacle.
California leads the country with the most electric vehicles. Those 1.2 million owners won’t sweat this.
Well, it’s California so Preznit Befuddlepants won’t give a fuck. 🇦🇺
Amazing. First this idiot makes Americans think twice before buying cheap crap they don’t need from China, now he’s going to force us all to reduce our fossil fuel consumption. Biden… is that you?
In the meantime, Iran keeps up their Rope a Dope strategy. Best candidate for that tactic they could’ve hoped for.
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Kevin Hassett out here acting like people putting groceries on credit cards is proof the economy is thriving
Yeah and if I start paying rent with Monopoly money that means I’m secretly crushing it financially.
Groceries, cat food, and booze are the three things we NEVER put on the cc because it fucking DUMB to pay interest on any of those in the rare case that the cc doesn't get paid down in full every month. 🙄
Ever notice how Hassett has ASS right in his name?
Coincidence? I think not.
And Trump has RUMP in his. The universe laughs at us.
Trump has RUMP in his name but he acts like an ASS
lol
So true!!
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Asshat.
He has that in his name too
"Conservative economist" is right up there with the other outstanding oxymorons jumbo shrimp and limited war
Don’t forget military intelligence.
Especially under Trump.
Some oxymorons are pretty ugly but others are awful good
<insert drum sting here>
Oxymorons is a generic term used to describe Trump cabinet members and spokespersons.
Lying dumbshits who are aerobic organisms, requiring oxygenation to facilitate mitochondrial electron transport for energy production
Trickle down theory is their mantra
Did your autocorrect change 'eat dick' to 'edict'?
😂😂😂😂😂
The world's a big foul clusterfuck
'Cause the madman is running amok
Moronic and stupid
He thinks that he's Cupid
On my Johnson he can take a big SUCK.
Ok, ok that one made me laugh out loud. Usually, only Jeff can do that. I salute you, sir.
Me too
Thanks!!
Thanks!!! I appreciate it.
I’m dyin’ here. I told myself I’d be quiet today. Not get myself all worked up. Well, screw that. I can’t stop repeating that ditty in my head and giggling.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Awesome!
A billion bucks for a ballroom
Should lead us to assume
That the fat orange lunker
Is building a bunker
Too bad it's not his tomb
Nausoleum
Oh, I *like* that!
That can be arranged. They'll install special drains to handle all the urine.
It could be...
Omg!
Another excellent one!
good one!
Thanks, Doc!
😂
Wunnerful Frosty!
Thanks, pal!
These eyes have seen a lot of loves, but they're never gonna see another one like I had with you · These eyes are cryin'
I’m no economist, but maybe a REAL financial expert should explain to these clowns that instead of measuring the health of the economy by how many people are using credit cards (which has increased) they should look at how many people are paying off their balances each month (which I’m sure has decreased).
And btw, I love the addition of “the daily Claudia.”
Only a conservative can think that people having to buy food on credit cards with interest rates of 17%, 18%, and up is a sign that the economy is doing well. Just like only a conservative can stump for trickle down economics like it actually works. Delusional, avaricious assholes
High credit card usage lowers one's FICA score. So the folks using their cards to live paycheck to paycheck will pay higher interest rates when they actually need to finance something. And Hassett will be smiling and swimming through the air.
I'm sure it's great in the short term for the banks. In the long-term it is disastrous but who thinks more than 3 mos out these days?
I doubt there has been a lack of 'splaining available to these quacks. Their minds don't work in objective facts, they attempt to twist reality into a form that *sounds* more beneficial for themselves. And it works fine, until it doesn't. They live in a perpetual 'now' Zen-state. History has no meaning for them, so the fates of all the other lying shits that came before them is wholly unknown.
I have one card that I've been paying off in full every month for ages. The other day I tried to charge an Amtrak ticket on it. It was declined. I had to call -- and jump through several hoops -- to assure them this was real. They tried to tell me this was security and they were protecting me. I think the banks are getting really nervous about the coming wave of defaults.
Despite the bone-deep stupidity of our current regime, I'm seeing hopeful signs from former MAGAs who finally feel some personal pain from their shitty decisions. Protest and parody songs are all over YouTube today. Ex-MAGA is owning their stupidity and it's very encouraging. When that group reaches critical mass, a change is gonna come.
can you share some links? it might be something I can write about
The YouTube channel is called the Resistance, so algorithm-wise I'm not sure who's seeing this. Nevertheless some well-made creative stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BouWH-BlCx4&list=RDBouWH-BlCx4&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb_s1ZGTMaM&list=RDtb_s1ZGTMaM&start_radio=1
thanks!
Check out JD's Lament below. Made me howl with laughter.
From the channel MAGA country. All the songs I see so far are country. Talking their language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v49Pxsshz1o&list=RDv49Pxsshz1o&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxrWOnbytk
For a palate cleanser, some Billy Joel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8afWABDWhW8&list=RD8afWABDWhW8&start_radio=1
I love this site! Thanks!
love the second song!
I'd be more reassured, though, if I didn't think the MAGAs would just transfer their worship to the next dicktater wannabe.
These assholes are terminally stupid. Only metastisizing and inbreeding will kill them off.
Now you’ve gone and done it! I chuckle all the way through your essay…& you bring literal tears to the surface at the end. Be well, my friend
Same here. Thanks for your writing and sharing, Jeff.
Hanta virus arriving just about the same time as a golden statue appears in Florida is kinda Exodus shite writ large with a fat Sharpie™. Add to that just about everything else that’s happening… and I’m thinking about lotsa stuff.
My kiddo was just telling me about this. He said the on-line (Tik-Tok) consensus is to let everyone on the ship die rather than bring Hanta virus on shore. I tried to explain things like penetrance and contagion. I think the impression that everyone on the ship is rich is contributing to the sentiment.
Send them off the ship and immediately send them to the WH. for a guided tour and meeting w/ Donny in the OvalOrifice
:) Nice plan. I'm sure RFK, Jr. would be happy to feed them all organic soup until they were better.
That’s hard to take. One would hope for a more developed understanding. Good luck.
I love to see the photos of your Claudia. ❤️ Today, my Tim left me five years ago today. I miss him more than I can say because if he was here he would help keep me calm during our current chaos. Damn colon cancer. Please, everyone.... get a colonoscopy.
And you are so right...NONE of this is normal. I need to remind myself of this.
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Personally, I appreciated his lesson about the difference in "see" and "sea". It always baffled me. Hoping that today he'll explain the difference between "be" and "bee". Another head-scratcher.
What a complete dolt he is. Honestly!!
My goodness, the sweetness captured in that photo is the perfect way to pull us down out of the rafters after reading your thorough description of the insanity in the completely unqualified people who are running our country. Into the ground.
Snickering. Smug. Drunks. Truly the wheel of moron. I’d like to get off now.
How is your daughter doing?
she's dealing with it. she has a loving husband and a thriving career to keep her distracted
I share your daughter's grief. I lost my mom not too long ago. Sure, keeping busy is a distraction until the dark stillness of night releases the grief.
Grief is a long process. Yet my heart is warmed every day I read your posts, especially when they include these beautiful pictures of your family. Thank you Jeff!
And a wonderful father!
SO this, Polly - thank you for giving Jeff the credit he deserves. Their wedding photo - the love shining in his face as he gazed at his gorgeous bride was nearly too much for me, knowing he'd just lost her. Then her with their brand-new infant Katie - AND Kate as an adult with her Mom. These are marvelous photos which do MY heart good. To be honest, I'm unsure which of the two women (Claudia and her best friend Kathy) are which, in their photo, they look so much alike! AND both so filled with love, joy and their happiness at being together. It broke me - missing my own best friend who's all of 5ft with me around 5'8" so I always called us 'Mutt and Jeff'. She had the grace to wear 4-5 inch heels to try to appear taller but was so tiny-framed it never worked. Strangely I can't get the photos today - just that weird blue thingie which doesn't bring me to a photo or video. :( We all already feel we know Jeff through his writing, but now with these wonderful photos, he's become our friend/brother/bestie. I only hope posting the photos doesn't hurt his heart more than it is. It helps ours, for sure.
THIS gladdens my heart. Something tells me she inherited writing skills from both of
you whether or not she's begun to focus on them - yet. But she still has you, thankfully, although young women tend to have different conversations with their mothers (assuming they have good relationships) than they do with their Dads...I have a feeling that isn't an issue with you two. MY mother was so horrid to me but I so enjoyed conversing with my Dad on the phone, yet she'd grab the phone out of his hand which drove me nuts when I was in my 30's...he never argued which still bothers me - we missed out on so much 'connection'. He died shortly after that and I still miss him so much---too much left unsaid. I hope he knew how much I really wanted him to come to live with us.