Juneteenth, Jeff, is my child Gizmo's birthday. She's 19 today. And she is as every part of social justice warrior mixed with ultra empathy person than I could ever have put into someone else, as their mom.
Wendy The Druid, we call this your child's golden birthday. Juneteenth is also my mother's birthday. She is 92-years-old today. I hope both she and my mother who raised me to be active in the Civil Rights Movement, and I have been an activist ever since, have a great day. It sounds like your daughter and my mom are cut from the same people caring cloth. Happy Juneteenth! Happy Birthingday!
My fun little story for today. We went to a local place, a fairly good-sized courtyard surrounded by restaurants, three stories high. The courtyard hosts concerts (not major acts, but cover bands and some local bands) for the most part, but today, they were using their large video screen for the USA v. Australia FIFA match. The place was pretty packed.
As you can imagine, me being in Texas, there was a substantial Mexican/South American contingent there. On the first US goal (the OG* by an Australian player), the place erupted into cheers and ended in a "USA" chant, and then watching more. It was during that when I saw a South American fan of some sort turning around and high-fiving friends and such, and I noticed his t-shirt. It was modeled after the original Obama campaign posters, featuring a picture of Obama and the words "Still My President" under it.
I couldn't let that go by. I went and tapped him on the shoulder. He thought I wanted to get by him and was like, "Oh, sorry" and stepped backward to let me through. I said, "No, not that," and pointed to his shirt. "Yeah?" he asked. "Awesome," I said, and gave him the standard "bro handshake" and a quick hug.
I went back to where my wife was. She said, "I figured you'd see his shirt" and knew exactly why I did what I did. And then the USA won 2-0 and we went home.
Happy Juneteenth from Whitey McWhiterson in Texas. :)
(PS - In soccer parlance, an "OG" is an "own goal". An American player sent in a pass for a teammate in front of the goal, and an Australian player, in an attempt to deflect the pass, kicked it into his own team's goal. He scored against his own team. Hence, OG.)
I read that Little Donny Fuckface was not invited to the Obama Opening. Good! Nobody wanted to look at his ugly fat ass and be grossed out by his smelly farts.
Thanks Jeff! If your readers can, they should find Michelle Obama's entire speech given at the Obama Presidential Center ceremony. She could substitute as a preacher on Sundays, her speech was so good! Getting a bit of her own back from the MAGATrash, especially Julius Geezer. And remember the rumors about why Melania delayed moving into the White House the first time, stated in the tell-all book written by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, her former employee?
"In August 2020, allegations surfaced suggesting Melania Trump, then-U.S. first lady, delayed her move into the White House until renovations were completed, specifically to replace the bathroom facilities used by the previous occupants, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.
The renovations were said to include replacing the shower and toilet used by the former first lady in the Executive Residence — the residence traditionally is where the sitting president and the first family live — before Melania Trump and her son, Barron, would move in alongside her husband, then-President Donald Trump.
She ended up staying put in her quarters in the Trump Tower penthouse in New York while the bathroom was redone and other improvements were made to Michelle Obama's old living space. Barron remained with her and she ended up extending her stay in New York to July 2017, when his school term ended there.
These claims, detailed in the "tell-all" book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," written by her former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and released Sept. 1, 2020, sparked controversy and ignited discussions about potential racist undertones behind Melania Trump's actions."
Joey Mannarino is most famous for making fake posts—my personal favorite, the one that featured a headshot of a Black woman with this caption:
« I'm a TRUE Black American woman and l've been Black all my life. I was born Black and I will die Black… I will NEVER cast a ballot for that Kamala Harris woman as long as I live!
Trump all the way, all day every day! »
—AND POSTING THEM UNDER HIS OWN NAME because he was too inept to keep track of his fake accounts.
Just out of morbid curiosity i looked at Cynthia Holt's twitter account as i'd never hear of her or Joey Mannarino. I could only stomach the maga cult comments filled glaring distortions and blatant lies for a minute or two bc they were all so disturbing. Felt physically ill seeing all the racism and hatred on full display.
Wondering if that Cynthia Holt can define Marxist? Guessing no. Maga like to use words, Marxist, socialist, communist, yet they've no clue what they mean. 😂
Heck, it’s just nice to see a PRESIDENT! What’s in that golden bordello today is in no way a president. By the way, in the latest tell-all book(Haberman/Swann), apparently KKKaroline walked into the oval and caught the fat one using Krazy Glue to glue even more tacky gold shit to whatever surface was still empty. To say his brain is fried would be the understatement of the decade.
The Magatrash know nothing except hatred. It feeds their identity and gives them false courage with their anger. Plus, they don’t have to learn to read and learn things (anathema to the uneducated). All they need to do is sit in their easy chair all day snacking and listening to Faux entertainment, (it’s certainly not news).
The meat-headed cucks in caps are working double-time to deny Shitler is in his last days. A joyfully received rumor circulated yesterday that he had fainted at the G-7. If true, it would have turned the entire Reflecting Pool blue again.
It was so good to hear a true leader for a change! And I loved loved all the news reports last night who were focusing on Obama. I am so sick of hearing about Trump every single day. I can barely stand to turn on the news any longer, wondering what the hell has he done now?
When Obama speaks, tears automatically begin rolling down my cheeks to witness such a vivid reminder of what we once had. Before he-who-does-not-deserve-a-name hit the national fan.
So absolutely true. We are only now truly appreciating how fortunate and lucky we have been. Obama should some day be on the Supreme Court. He is incredibly honest , kind and deeply thoughtful. He should be so fortunate for him to support and serve America again.
Per Simon Rosenberg this am the no bid contract for the reflecting pool went to Donnies neighbor and donor next door to Mar-a-Lago. His name is John Cafaro and he's a fat fuck who looks like he came out of central casting for a role in the Sopranos.
elseweb: "looks like he is either about to bulldoze the youth center in a John Hughes movie, or berate Matilda for reading books instead of watching telly"
My fervent hope is that the H2O2 will peel every last inch of that hideous blue paint up and we can get back our original Reflecting Pool. And then somehow keep donald's creepy hands and handlers away from it.
I miss Obama so very much. I miss the feeling that our country could be better, could start to rise above racism, could reach for equality and inclusion. I miss having a president that, while not perfect, was working on behalf of all of us. (This applies to Joe Biden too). I miss having a classy, articulate, funny president who seemed like a regular guy and could relate to the problems of regular people, while also being brilliant.
I used to work in a majority-Black neighborhood in Sacramento during the Obama years. In the post office there, there was the official portrait of Barack, but an entire wall of unofficial portraits of Michelle clipped from magazines and newspapers.
Barack appeared in some of those images, but it was mostly Michelle.
I was just saying that to my husband last night. Mamdani definitely gives off Obama vibes! (On another note, my husband wore a tan suit to our wedding almost 47 years ago. LOL!)
I think I figured out why that is. On January 25, 2025, someone whispered to DJT that today and every day moving forward is Backwards Day. Normally celebrated just on January 31st. Everything he says is the opposite of the truth.
Claudia, President Obama, Michelle Obama, Stephen Colbert -it's almost too much joy and heart in one post -and a reminder of what we continue to fight for.
By the way, I know there are Wall Street derivative investments on about anything. Do you or any of your subscribers know where I can buy a boatload of "Tan Suit" futures?
And Michelle did not wear a hat that looks like a lampshade! Plus, the entire Obama Family looked happy. Not going to see that at a Trump Family Party.
no, Greenwater is the company hired to 'fix' the algae problem. I'm pretty sure a different company was hired to do the shitty blue paint job in the first place
I do have musical roots going back to a great great great grandfather Frederick Bolster who played fviolin for the crown Heads of Europe in the 19th century. The musical genes are not the Webers who were merely Swiss farmers.
You're right - Greenwater Services was hired in April under a $1.7M contract to do the water purification system, not the $14M contract to paint it blue (Atlantic Industrial Coatings).
But this is what I read in God's Substack:
BUT NOW we’ve learned the name of the firm that got paid $14 million to screw this up so badly and it’s named GREENWATER SERVICES.
GOD IS NOT KIDDING. The firm is actually named Greenwater Services.
Now Greenwater Services is providing green water services and the Reflecting Pool looks much worse than it did during Obama and Biden's administrations (where there was still an algae problem, but they stayed on top of it.)
Seems like the multi-miilion dollar plan to improve the purification system was shitcanned just to meet the deadline for Trump's Birthday/250 Cage Fight. (Optics.) Since Greenwater Services is not re-draining the pool to address the purification problem, but pouring short-term algaecide into it, the pressure must be on to just fix the appearance of the pool before media attention during the July 4th celebrations. (Optics.) Then, for all he cares, it can turn into a septic tank. The Wizard of Ooze working his illusory magic.
He hates openly failing- maybe you have the right idea and the next step is draining the whole thing- how about a monument to the Dear Leader's golf prowess? With scuptural representations of all the awards he has won by cheating? And a sculpture of Arnold Palmer, highlighting the part of his anatomy that impressed the donald?
Lucien Truscott had a substack post last evening that explained the only way to prevent algae is to use marine paint but it requires wearing hazmat suits and I'm sure donny's no bid contractor buddy never heard of it
I’ve heard different things but I’m wondering if the reflecting pool is granite. Not sure why anyone would paint granite but if they can fly people around the moon they should have a better solution to seal granite than slapping dark blue paint on it. It almost looks thick like the material they put on flat roofs. And why did it cost $1.7 million to dump a few gallons of peroxide in the pool? Let me DOGE this fucking government. I’ll get shit done right for a fraction of what they’re paying!
I googled it and I guess it’s concrete on the base and the walls are granite. Also, apparently they didn’t let the coating cure for the proper amount of time before filling it.
Someone was saying that the idea was that the granite filters the water slowly, and the pump refills it as the water level goes down. It's not a recirculating system because it's supposed to be still in order to reflect.
Oh I see. I know nothing about it but I do believe it’s always wrong to paint granite! I guess trumps dream of having a nice blue pool for the 4th of July was ill conceived, in other words, a shitshow.
(don't tell anyone that I actually knew that, and played fast and loose with the facts JUST THIS ONE TIME in order to have a good narrative. they might take away my Nobel Responsible Journalist and Everything Prize.)
Who would want that stinky fart clown anywhere near them? I thought the loser was still constantly embarrassing us in Europe and being Uber trolled by Macron in Versailles.
The only book in whatever trump opens will be for room service. The permanent special is shitty martinis and store bought taco salad. The hamberders and diet coke are for him alone.
Submitted on the “Contact the President” form at WhiteHouse.gov:
(Edited final version)
"Hey, Trump, since no one on your inept, incompetent team will tell you the truth….. I’m going to tell you the truth!
Regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions, President Obama got a MUCH better DEAL than you did!
And, President Obama struck the deal without having to spend over $50 Billion in US Taxpayer money, without causing inflation in the U.S. to spiral out of control, without the loss of lives of American service members, without seriously depleting America’s weapons arsenal, without seriously depleting America’s oil reserves, without damaging relations with America’s allies, without driving up the cost of gas to ridiculously high levels, without breaking any U.S. laws…….and without lying even one time.
And, President Obama struck the deal he did without Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, without having to order the U.S. Navy to blockade Iranian ports, without having to establish a $300 Billion fund to fund reconstruction projects in Iran, and President Obama released far less Iranian assets than your dumbDEAL TACO’d up.
President Obama is a perfect example of “America’s Brightest”, whereas, to the opposite extreme, you are a perfect example of “America’s Disgrace.”
You can (and, we all know you will) lie over and over about your accomplishments, but Americans who have a working brain (or even half of a working brain) know that you will go down in U.S. History books as the G.O.A.T. Liar and The Worst President in American History."
It was such a good deal, so competently executed, we probably wouldn't have heard much about it if the conservative rage machine hadn't kicked into high gear.
In Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter today, she said the Pedo and hand me down wife were NOT invited to last night’s opening of the Obama Center. Isn’t that something, especially where George and Laura were? So it’s not a partisan thing…
When Carter and H.W. were still alive, they - along with the former presidents attending the opening - would get together periodically as a “former presidents’ club,” usually for a charitable purpose.
Trump is so odious that he’ll never get an invite.
"Team of Five" (subtitled 'in the time of trump,' I think) is a very interesting book about the bond among recent former presidents (both Bushes, Carter, Clinton, Obama)--even if they've been political enemies, even if they don't particularly care for one another.....all have worked together and supported each other through various challenges, often ending up being friends (notably HW and Clinton). The one president who refused to take any advice from his predecessors or to treat them with any respect? Oh, guess who!
" ‘why are we dumping paint-stripper into a freshly painted pool?’" 😂😂😂 That pool is the symbol of the massive amount of stupid that rolls out of the Oval Office on an hourly basis.
The Obama's made me cry yesterday....damn. When I think about what we had, and how the bigoted, greedy, inept Republican party fucked this country completely...They could end this madness right now.
I have a feeling that Vlad is going to have an accident near a very high window soon. Losing 30,000 troops a month plus Ukraine blowing up all their oil refineries is not sitting well with the Russian economy.
the worst thing about the Medal of Honor ceremony? The felon couldn't fasten the ribbon (fine motor skills &/or vision problems because of his dementia) so he TIED it around the recipient's neck.
I blame Susie Wiles big time on this. she's supposed to be the adult.
Jeff, I remember when Obama was a happy smiling president, who rolled eggs down the lawn at Easter, and how talked eloquently and kindly, and with intelligence. I remember when Obama actually supported the country and those of us that live in it.
A man in Tehran signed a paper this week, and another man in a gilded room at Versailles signed the same one, and between those signatures sat a corpse-pile of three and a half months no ink will scrub clean. They are calling it peace. Surrender. A historical document — every goddamn thing except what it is, which is the exhausted arithmetic of two regimes that ran out of bodies to spend. The war stopped. Do not mistake stopping for healing.
That pic in front of the tv, in a totally modest room - with his mother-in-law holding his hand on Election night 2008 - has got to be my favorite picture OF ALL TIME 🇺🇸🗳️
Excellent commentary again. Love the tributes to your wife also. Obama is such a class act and so genuine. As an interesting side note, several years ago my husband and I were in Eleuthera, and because no one is ever there on the stunning beaches, I always talk to people if I see them. We met a couple from Sweden, and we have become great friends, even visiting them in Stockholm. He was a mathematician who was at one time chair of the Nobel Foundation. We learned a bit about the workings of the prizes, and of course the Peace Prize is given by Norway. Evidently there was much discussion about whether or not Obama had done anything to warrant his selection even though they had great respect for him as does much of the world. Ultimately the pro positions prevailed. My friend assures me that there is nothing the disgraceful orange man can do to get it.
happy Juneteenth, everyone!
please check out my Juneteenth posts from 2025: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/mad-king-donnys-juneteenth-message
and 2024: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/racists-celebrate-juneteenth-by-completely
and 2023: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/its-juneteenth-and-neo-nazis-are
You summed up this entire administration in just three words:
"Firehose of fuckery"
Only word I'd add is dumb with a b.
Are you that’s how it’s spelled??
Juneteenth, Jeff, is my child Gizmo's birthday. She's 19 today. And she is as every part of social justice warrior mixed with ultra empathy person than I could ever have put into someone else, as their mom.
Keep on, Keeping on Jeff.
Happy Birthday Gizmo 🥳 A special girl because of a special Mom❣️
Happy Birthday kiddo! Enjoy your special, big damn deal day 🥳🥳🥳 and have a wonderful year.
Happy 19th Birthday Gizmo
Happy Birthday!!!
Wendy The Druid, we call this your child's golden birthday. Juneteenth is also my mother's birthday. She is 92-years-old today. I hope both she and my mother who raised me to be active in the Civil Rights Movement, and I have been an activist ever since, have a great day. It sounds like your daughter and my mom are cut from the same people caring cloth. Happy Juneteenth! Happy Birthingday!
Happy 19th Birthday, Gizmo!
This Juneteenth, we should remind ourselves of two facts:
1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.
It’s as simple as that.
- @strandjunker.com
Well said.
My fun little story for today. We went to a local place, a fairly good-sized courtyard surrounded by restaurants, three stories high. The courtyard hosts concerts (not major acts, but cover bands and some local bands) for the most part, but today, they were using their large video screen for the USA v. Australia FIFA match. The place was pretty packed.
As you can imagine, me being in Texas, there was a substantial Mexican/South American contingent there. On the first US goal (the OG* by an Australian player), the place erupted into cheers and ended in a "USA" chant, and then watching more. It was during that when I saw a South American fan of some sort turning around and high-fiving friends and such, and I noticed his t-shirt. It was modeled after the original Obama campaign posters, featuring a picture of Obama and the words "Still My President" under it.
I couldn't let that go by. I went and tapped him on the shoulder. He thought I wanted to get by him and was like, "Oh, sorry" and stepped backward to let me through. I said, "No, not that," and pointed to his shirt. "Yeah?" he asked. "Awesome," I said, and gave him the standard "bro handshake" and a quick hug.
I went back to where my wife was. She said, "I figured you'd see his shirt" and knew exactly why I did what I did. And then the USA won 2-0 and we went home.
Happy Juneteenth from Whitey McWhiterson in Texas. :)
(PS - In soccer parlance, an "OG" is an "own goal". An American player sent in a pass for a teammate in front of the goal, and an Australian player, in an attempt to deflect the pass, kicked it into his own team's goal. He scored against his own team. Hence, OG.)
I read that Little Donny Fuckface was not invited to the Obama Opening. Good! Nobody wanted to look at his ugly fat ass and be grossed out by his smelly farts.
He wouldn't have gone anyway. No need to invite the whole class to your party on that occasion.
Thanks Jeff! If your readers can, they should find Michelle Obama's entire speech given at the Obama Presidential Center ceremony. She could substitute as a preacher on Sundays, her speech was so good! Getting a bit of her own back from the MAGATrash, especially Julius Geezer. And remember the rumors about why Melania delayed moving into the White House the first time, stated in the tell-all book written by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, her former employee?
"In August 2020, allegations surfaced suggesting Melania Trump, then-U.S. first lady, delayed her move into the White House until renovations were completed, specifically to replace the bathroom facilities used by the previous occupants, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.
The renovations were said to include replacing the shower and toilet used by the former first lady in the Executive Residence — the residence traditionally is where the sitting president and the first family live — before Melania Trump and her son, Barron, would move in alongside her husband, then-President Donald Trump.
She ended up staying put in her quarters in the Trump Tower penthouse in New York while the bathroom was redone and other improvements were made to Michelle Obama's old living space. Barron remained with her and she ended up extending her stay in New York to July 2017, when his school term ended there.
These claims, detailed in the "tell-all" book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," written by her former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and released Sept. 1, 2020, sparked controversy and ignited discussions about potential racist undertones behind Melania Trump's actions."
Damn. In one minute and 25 seconds, Barack Obama was more articulate, eloquent, and cogent than trump has been 10+ years.
It's sure nice to see a President who can even make complete, beautiful sentences!
I guess Joey Mannarino thinks anyone who can speak intelligently is a loser. Back in the basement, Joey.
Joey Mannarino is most famous for making fake posts—my personal favorite, the one that featured a headshot of a Black woman with this caption:
« I'm a TRUE Black American woman and l've been Black all my life. I was born Black and I will die Black… I will NEVER cast a ballot for that Kamala Harris woman as long as I live!
Trump all the way, all day every day! »
—AND POSTING THEM UNDER HIS OWN NAME because he was too inept to keep track of his fake accounts.
Just out of morbid curiosity i looked at Cynthia Holt's twitter account as i'd never hear of her or Joey Mannarino. I could only stomach the maga cult comments filled glaring distortions and blatant lies for a minute or two bc they were all so disturbing. Felt physically ill seeing all the racism and hatred on full display.
My thought as well…who the hell is Joey Mannarino? And who cares?
https://meidasnews.com/news/maga-troll-who-posed-as-a-black-woman-online-spotted-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-home
It is disturbing when they flaunt their mental illness.
Wondering if that Cynthia Holt can define Marxist? Guessing no. Maga like to use words, Marxist, socialist, communist, yet they've no clue what they mean. 😂
The only absolute piece of shit in that screenshot is in the upper left corner‼️
I miss the Obama presidency so much.
Heck, it’s just nice to see a PRESIDENT! What’s in that golden bordello today is in no way a president. By the way, in the latest tell-all book(Haberman/Swann), apparently KKKaroline walked into the oval and caught the fat one using Krazy Glue to glue even more tacky gold shit to whatever surface was still empty. To say his brain is fried would be the understatement of the decade.
LOL whaaaaaat oh that's hilarious!
I truly enjoyed the perfectly timed Hillary laugh!
And with such a mellifluous tone!
It was wonderful to see a real leader again. How can anyone hate this man?
The types who hate him say a lot more about themselves than their hatred says about him
The Magatrash know nothing except hatred. It feeds their identity and gives them false courage with their anger. Plus, they don’t have to learn to read and learn things (anathema to the uneducated). All they need to do is sit in their easy chair all day snacking and listening to Faux entertainment, (it’s certainly not news).
I've heard the regurgitated BS talking points from Fox. Brainwashing for the brain impaired
The meat-headed cucks in caps are working double-time to deny Shitler is in his last days. A joyfully received rumor circulated yesterday that he had fainted at the G-7. If true, it would have turned the entire Reflecting Pool blue again.
A true measure of a person is the reaction their departure will elicit. We know what his will be.
Magatrash is a great description, hope it's ok if i borrow it.
Trumpanzees is good as well, I also like magazombies as well see link for pic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/that-ohio-protest-photo-looked-like-a-zombie-movie-zombie-movie-directors-think-so-too/2020/04/17/b518fc48-801c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
Fox the Russian propaganda pipeline.
💥
Racist shits. Anyone remember no red states and blue states, but the United States.
How divisive.
Jealousy
More articulate than Trump's been his whole life...
You nailed it Doc !! Miss the Obamas so much- I could listen to him all day- Donald is always on mute at this house!
Demento is never shown at all in our house.
Good house rules‼️
Amen!👏🙏👏🙏
It was so good to hear a true leader for a change! And I loved loved all the news reports last night who were focusing on Obama. I am so sick of hearing about Trump every single day. I can barely stand to turn on the news any longer, wondering what the hell has he done now?
It was really poetry, wasn’t it Doc. Seriously, when Obama speaks I am soothed by the sound and meaning.
Obama’s words are uplifting and joyous.
When Obama speaks, tears automatically begin rolling down my cheeks to witness such a vivid reminder of what we once had. Before he-who-does-not-deserve-a-name hit the national fan.
Than the Tangerine Twaddlehead has in 80 years existence
Mission accomplished.
So absolutely true. We are only now truly appreciating how fortunate and lucky we have been. Obama should some day be on the Supreme Court. He is incredibly honest , kind and deeply thoughtful. He should be so fortunate for him to support and serve America again.
My cat could easily leap that bar.
Always has been Docz, Trumps a drug addled, cretinous stunod!
You’re being extra special generous today Doc….more than the 🍊🤡🐖y could ever be in a lifetime!!
Exactly!
And likely ever will be.
I didn't realize that was ever articulate!
Now that the chemical warfare on the Reflecting Pool has failed, perhaps Algae would accept a $300B payout to stop growing.
Maybe J.D. Vance can keep an eye on it from his couch.
JD will also need a psychiatrist’s couch after Trump gave him the responsibility of Iran. So JD “two couch” Vance.
Oh, JD said “he was just kidding, of course”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣For someone with no sense of humor, he sure does kid around a lot.
Will m a g a twist themselves into pretzels defending HIM?😏
They do not seem to like him. I don't either.
They’ve backtracked on quite a few ‘bright red line’ issues (see pedo ring) 😒
Vance's biggest problem is that the dislike of him is bi-partisan.
His couch needs hydrogen peroxide to kill off his spooge
🤢🤢🤢🤢
😂😂😂😂
Per Simon Rosenberg this am the no bid contract for the reflecting pool went to Donnies neighbor and donor next door to Mar-a-Lago. His name is John Cafaro and he's a fat fuck who looks like he came out of central casting for a role in the Sopranos.
elseweb: "looks like he is either about to bulldoze the youth center in a John Hughes movie, or berate Matilda for reading books instead of watching telly"
That movie, "Matilda", is so great!
Maybe this is the new way of handing out bribes without having to file a lawsuit.
And keep their nuclear program the same
I can imagine all the pool guys knew the whole deal was a cockup and didn't care. Coming out way ahead, even after kickbacks.
My fervent hope is that the H2O2 will peel every last inch of that hideous blue paint up and we can get back our original Reflecting Pool. And then somehow keep donald's creepy hands and handlers away from it.
🏆🏆🏆🏆
🤭🤭🤭👏👏👏👏
I miss Obama so very much. I miss the feeling that our country could be better, could start to rise above racism, could reach for equality and inclusion. I miss having a president that, while not perfect, was working on behalf of all of us. (This applies to Joe Biden too). I miss having a classy, articulate, funny president who seemed like a regular guy and could relate to the problems of regular people, while also being brilliant.
I so miss that dear man so much and his wonderful wife.
Funny - I have a friend (raging lib) who, when Obama kinda came outta nowhere - 100% voted for him only AFTER SEEING MICHELLE ;) 💙💙💙
I used to work in a majority-Black neighborhood in Sacramento during the Obama years. In the post office there, there was the official portrait of Barack, but an entire wall of unofficial portraits of Michelle clipped from magazines and newspapers.
Barack appeared in some of those images, but it was mostly Michelle.
That was the same with me!
Of course, I think I would have voted for him (in caucus) anyway, but Michelle was so inspiring!
I remember we were all dancing and crying happy tears when they won.
It seemed like the beginning of a better America.
My neighbor tried to resurrect a statement made early on that Michelle didn't want to become FL and that made her less of an American!
https://substack.com/@cellyblue/note/c-277604793?r=w40wr
Crazy that no one ever asked Laura Bush to provide supermodel-level photos (which….Michelle DOES) just sayin
GEEZUS AMERICA - GROW UP
I think that Mandani modeled himself on Obama. It's working.
I was just saying that to my husband last night. Mamdani definitely gives off Obama vibes! (On another note, my husband wore a tan suit to our wedding almost 47 years ago. LOL!)
Hee hee, Prima! Happy 47th anniversary coming up! 🥂
Thanks, Punkette! ❤️🤣
Love how every diverse audience at an Obama event looks chill and happy…
(It’s not hard ppl- other forces are pitting us against each other…)‼️
It's really amazing to see the MAGAt cultists project the flaws of their divisive idol onto Obama. Every accusation really is a confession.
I think I figured out why that is. On January 25, 2025, someone whispered to DJT that today and every day moving forward is Backwards Day. Normally celebrated just on January 31st. Everything he says is the opposite of the truth.
Daniel, 🎯 every accusation IS a confession…fact
Thank you for sharing Jeff.
Claudia, President Obama, Michelle Obama, Stephen Colbert -it's almost too much joy and heart in one post -and a reminder of what we continue to fight for.
By the way, I know there are Wall Street derivative investments on about anything. Do you or any of your subscribers know where I can buy a boatload of "Tan Suit" futures?
Happy Friday.
Barak Obama rocks about any suit at all. Michelle Obama can wear a sack and just ooze class!!
And Michelle did not wear a hat that looks like a lampshade! Plus, the entire Obama Family looked happy. Not going to see that at a Trump Family Party.
That hat did what it was intended to do though, keep his kissy face away from Melania's face!
Hell no! They are a pathetic group of blood sucking jerkoffs
https://substack.com/@cellyblue/note/c-277604793?r=w40wr
Buy sage futures. You can't go wrong because we're going to need tons of it when the change comes.
Love it. I said something very similar to the hubs the other day: "Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of sage!"
SO MUCH toxic juju.
I keep a shit load of sage growing in my yard for that exact purpose! Free to anyone who needs it! 😊
Aren’t we supposed to burn it all down and salt the ashes? Forgive me if I’m not up on all the latest trends.
Salt is bad for high blood pressure. Based upon the world today, high blood pressure is all there is.
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Good one!
White sage would be the hit. Apparently, so much has been harvested, it's now scarce.
I'm not sure there's enough sage in the whole world to clear *that* air.
Never mind the futures. Buy yourself an actual tan suit!
Excellent advice! 🤓
I just read in God's Substack that the company who got the $14 million no bid contract is called....wait for it....GREENWATER SERVICES.
I know this administration is a constant stream of "you can't make this shit up," but this was particularly schadenfreudinous.
no, Greenwater is the company hired to 'fix' the algae problem. I'm pretty sure a different company was hired to do the shitty blue paint job in the first place
🎵🎵🎵... gave proof through the night that the flag paint was no longer there...🎵🎵🎵
Very funny
Hilarious K/ maybe you have some musical roots? possible descendent of famed composer
Anton Weber?
I do have musical roots going back to a great great great grandfather Frederick Bolster who played fviolin for the crown Heads of Europe in the 19th century. The musical genes are not the Webers who were merely Swiss farmers.
Someone posted the green algae pic with the caption: PANTONE ‘American Flag Blue’
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That's pretty good.
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But here’s the whole problem - say what you will about Donnie - he frk’n supplies the media machine endless CONTENT:
https://bsky.app/profile/out5p0ken.bsky.social/post/3molnau6zmc2d
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You're right - Greenwater Services was hired in April under a $1.7M contract to do the water purification system, not the $14M contract to paint it blue (Atlantic Industrial Coatings).
But this is what I read in God's Substack:
BUT NOW we’ve learned the name of the firm that got paid $14 million to screw this up so badly and it’s named GREENWATER SERVICES.
GOD IS NOT KIDDING. The firm is actually named Greenwater Services.
From this NYT article (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/trump-donor-contract-reflecting-pool.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rVA.35KR.E-BsjvSuOceq&smid=url-share) and info otherwise available, it sounds like they planned to put in a water purification system all along after the paint job was finished, claiming that it was state-of-the-art and better than Obama's.
Now Greenwater Services is providing green water services and the Reflecting Pool looks much worse than it did during Obama and Biden's administrations (where there was still an algae problem, but they stayed on top of it.)
Seems like the multi-miilion dollar plan to improve the purification system was shitcanned just to meet the deadline for Trump's Birthday/250 Cage Fight. (Optics.) Since Greenwater Services is not re-draining the pool to address the purification problem, but pouring short-term algaecide into it, the pressure must be on to just fix the appearance of the pool before media attention during the July 4th celebrations. (Optics.) Then, for all he cares, it can turn into a septic tank. The Wizard of Ooze working his illusory magic.
Upvote for Wizard of Ooze.
The orange one is going to turn it into a presidential putting green or possibly a miniature golf course with a windmill
Oh, wait.
He hates openly failing- maybe you have the right idea and the next step is draining the whole thing- how about a monument to the Dear Leader's golf prowess? With scuptural representations of all the awards he has won by cheating? And a sculpture of Arnold Palmer, highlighting the part of his anatomy that impressed the donald?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trump-the-accidental-ecologist?r=6110o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Lucien Truscott had a substack post last evening that explained the only way to prevent algae is to use marine paint but it requires wearing hazmat suits and I'm sure donny's no bid contractor buddy never heard of it
Yep, Atlantic Industrial Coatings
They did the paint job and “fixed” the leaks.
“Re-paint and Thin No More” - #FuckTrump
Bummer. I liked Paula’s take better. 💁🏻
I’ve heard different things but I’m wondering if the reflecting pool is granite. Not sure why anyone would paint granite but if they can fly people around the moon they should have a better solution to seal granite than slapping dark blue paint on it. It almost looks thick like the material they put on flat roofs. And why did it cost $1.7 million to dump a few gallons of peroxide in the pool? Let me DOGE this fucking government. I’ll get shit done right for a fraction of what they’re paying!
I wonder when they are going to hang a ginormous curtain around the entire pool to hide Donny's latest boondoggle.
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It is, in fact, granite. Which is why it's a bad idea to seal it.
I googled it and I guess it’s concrete on the base and the walls are granite. Also, apparently they didn’t let the coating cure for the proper amount of time before filling it.
Well I imagine they needed to seal between the slabs but not the slabs themselves.
Someone was saying that the idea was that the granite filters the water slowly, and the pump refills it as the water level goes down. It's not a recirculating system because it's supposed to be still in order to reflect.
Oh I see. I know nothing about it but I do believe it’s always wrong to paint granite! I guess trumps dream of having a nice blue pool for the 4th of July was ill conceived, in other words, a shitshow.
If anyone ever wondered how Donnie Dipshit could bankrupt 4 casinos, here you go!
It’s been reported that Trump wants to take the exterior of the EEOB - which is granite - and paint it white.
This government, years ago, was caught paying stupid money for toilet seats. Just cause they can, and suppliers see them coming!
It’s all so wasteful and stupid. They treat our tax dollars like a money tree.
So BLACKWATER sat this one out ~ /s
They had already met their lifetime quota of no-bid contracts in the #43 administration. #45 gave them all the pardons they needed though.
Hahahahahaha! Too perfect!
"schadenfreudinous" <3 <3 <3
I don't know if it's a word, but it passed my own "fuck yeah" test.
the felon wasn't there because he wasn't invited.
(don't tell anyone that I actually knew that, and played fast and loose with the facts JUST THIS ONE TIME in order to have a good narrative. they might take away my Nobel Responsible Journalist and Everything Prize.)
We won't tell.
Shite had no idea you had a Nobel(!) well-played SIR 🫡🇺🇸 😆
My face in you is destroyed... DESTROYED!
Who would want that stinky fart clown anywhere near them? I thought the loser was still constantly embarrassing us in Europe and being Uber trolled by Macron in Versailles.
Even if invited, he woulda TACOed
Idk
He would have arrived late and made it all about himself .he's such an uncouth lump.
And none of them will show up when the Trump Library/Hotel opens.
You think it ever will? I'm pretty sure that Trump will take it into bankruptcy first. 😆
Lol, Cyndi! Good one, girl 😂
The only book in whatever trump opens will be for room service. The permanent special is shitty martinis and store bought taco salad. The hamberders and diet coke are for him alone.
Well, you can get a scoop of ice cream for dessert. Only he is allowed two scoops.
Submitted on the “Contact the President” form at WhiteHouse.gov:
(Edited final version)
"Hey, Trump, since no one on your inept, incompetent team will tell you the truth….. I’m going to tell you the truth!
Regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions, President Obama got a MUCH better DEAL than you did!
And, President Obama struck the deal without having to spend over $50 Billion in US Taxpayer money, without causing inflation in the U.S. to spiral out of control, without the loss of lives of American service members, without seriously depleting America’s weapons arsenal, without seriously depleting America’s oil reserves, without damaging relations with America’s allies, without driving up the cost of gas to ridiculously high levels, without breaking any U.S. laws…….and without lying even one time.
And, President Obama struck the deal he did without Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, without having to order the U.S. Navy to blockade Iranian ports, without having to establish a $300 Billion fund to fund reconstruction projects in Iran, and President Obama released far less Iranian assets than your dumbDEAL TACO’d up.
President Obama is a perfect example of “America’s Brightest”, whereas, to the opposite extreme, you are a perfect example of “America’s Disgrace.”
You can (and, we all know you will) lie over and over about your accomplishments, but Americans who have a working brain (or even half of a working brain) know that you will go down in U.S. History books as the G.O.A.T. Liar and The Worst President in American History."
Thank you for your attention to this banter!
I like to note that he will hold the "Worst President in American History" title forever.
We hope.
Can we give him a trophy declaring that? He loves shiny things, after all
I've been saying he should be told he's won The Hague Peace Prize but he has to go pick it up in person.
I love this idea!!!!!!
Brilliant!!!
It was such a good deal, so competently executed, we probably wouldn't have heard much about it if the conservative rage machine hadn't kicked into high gear.
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In Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter today, she said the Pedo and hand me down wife were NOT invited to last night’s opening of the Obama Center. Isn’t that something, especially where George and Laura were? So it’s not a partisan thing…
Happy Juneteenth everyone.
When Carter and H.W. were still alive, they - along with the former presidents attending the opening - would get together periodically as a “former presidents’ club,” usually for a charitable purpose.
Trump is so odious that he’ll never get an invite.
"Team of Five" (subtitled 'in the time of trump,' I think) is a very interesting book about the bond among recent former presidents (both Bushes, Carter, Clinton, Obama)--even if they've been political enemies, even if they don't particularly care for one another.....all have worked together and supported each other through various challenges, often ending up being friends (notably HW and Clinton). The one president who refused to take any advice from his predecessors or to treat them with any respect? Oh, guess who!
Haha, yes! Plus, as I recall, Michelle O and Dubya are buddies!
W has a huge crush on Michelle, which means he’s not completely evil or stupid.
Lol, Cats! I loathe Dubya but will throw him a crumb 😬
I agree with you 100%!
" ‘why are we dumping paint-stripper into a freshly painted pool?’" 😂😂😂 That pool is the symbol of the massive amount of stupid that rolls out of the Oval Office on an hourly basis.
The Obama's made me cry yesterday....damn. When I think about what we had, and how the bigoted, greedy, inept Republican party fucked this country completely...They could end this madness right now.
"Pedo-bestie hand me down" LORDY! BURNNNNN!!! 💀💀💀
Claudia smiling... wonderful.
Thank you for that clip of Email Lady laughing. That made my day.
And thank you to Italy for not taking his lying shit.
There was nothing better than Clinton's whoop of laughter at Michelle Obama's superb shot across the bows.
1. President Obama is the man that Trump can’t be, will never be, no matter what he does. Hail to the former Chief!
2. The Reflecting Pool is just a (fugly) shade of its former self. Another showing of ETTD
3. The only way former living Presidents will show up for Trump is at his grave to make sure he’s really dead.
I hope Obama comes to the funeral in a tan suit!
Former President Obama has way too much class to do something like that. I wonder who will deliver the Orange Odium's eulogy?
Putin
I have a feeling that Vlad is going to have an accident near a very high window soon. Losing 30,000 troops a month plus Ukraine blowing up all their oil refineries is not sitting well with the Russian economy.
and why would he waste his time at the funeral? To rub shoulders with the worst people in the world?
Oh, dear Lord I hope he does that, even in dead of winter.
<whines>We aren't even quite at Summer Solstice. Winter is 6 months away!</whine>
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the worst thing about the Medal of Honor ceremony? The felon couldn't fasten the ribbon (fine motor skills &/or vision problems because of his dementia) so he TIED it around the recipient's neck.
I blame Susie Wiles big time on this. she's supposed to be the adult.
Blame them all. They all sit there and praise Trump without a shred of dignity or sincerity as he gets more and more addled.
Damn near choked the guy in the process!
Ignorant and corrupt
A destructive mix
Bibi waited long
To get his fix
A US president
Dumb enough
To do his bidding
And buy his guff
It took a special kind of stupid
To attack Iran
The only one who would:
Dozin' Don the Con
It caused yooge inflation
Cost lives and treasure
A colossal mistake
By any sane measure
The not-war war
Wasted billions of bucks
Depleted our munitions
He could give two fucks
Yet he calls it a win
So he can capitulate
Paid $300 billion
To reopen the strait
Iran keeps their arms
In this shit MOU
Congrats, Preznit Dumbass
Another fuckup by you
Took a stable situation
Made it immeasurably worse
ETTD
You depraved orange curse
The only ones who cheer this
Are your stooges on a bender
Add this to your legacy:
Ignominious surrender
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Fuck, yeah, Doc!!! That’s a keeper! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jeff, I remember when Obama was a happy smiling president, who rolled eggs down the lawn at Easter, and how talked eloquently and kindly, and with intelligence. I remember when Obama actually supported the country and those of us that live in it.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-iran-declares-supreme-victory-over-the-united-states-and-calls-them-sucker
What we have now?
A man in Tehran signed a paper this week, and another man in a gilded room at Versailles signed the same one, and between those signatures sat a corpse-pile of three and a half months no ink will scrub clean. They are calling it peace. Surrender. A historical document — every goddamn thing except what it is, which is the exhausted arithmetic of two regimes that ran out of bodies to spend. The war stopped. Do not mistake stopping for healing.
That pic in front of the tv, in a totally modest room - with his mother-in-law holding his hand on Election night 2008 - has got to be my favorite picture OF ALL TIME 🇺🇸🗳️
Excellent commentary again. Love the tributes to your wife also. Obama is such a class act and so genuine. As an interesting side note, several years ago my husband and I were in Eleuthera, and because no one is ever there on the stunning beaches, I always talk to people if I see them. We met a couple from Sweden, and we have become great friends, even visiting them in Stockholm. He was a mathematician who was at one time chair of the Nobel Foundation. We learned a bit about the workings of the prizes, and of course the Peace Prize is given by Norway. Evidently there was much discussion about whether or not Obama had done anything to warrant his selection even though they had great respect for him as does much of the world. Ultimately the pro positions prevailed. My friend assures me that there is nothing the disgraceful orange man can do to get it.