by the way, if you don't hear from me tomorrow morning, that means that I lost power during the big-ass blizzard we're going to get. don't worry, I've got plenty of food and firewood, as well as neighbors with generators who are willing to let me crash, if the situation requires it
Iran has had a 3 million dollar price on his head for a while. It might have gone up since I last read about it. It is a fatwa or something like that. Maybe that is who showed up at Mar-a-lago to shoot Trump.
That Sharpie is still recovering from Donnie using it to draw a Happy Birthday Jeffrey picture of an underage naked teen who’s just beginning to acquire secondary sex characteristics
That sharpie is probably on the ship going to Greenland to kidnap their Prime Minster and put him in a US prison on the ship, and never return again. Trump uses the Doublethink of Totalitarians/fascists, and his cabinet uses Duckspeak. If you do not know what those are you can find out in a piece I wrote last week.
Agree. I keep hoping the next hurricane in Florida is tiny but powerful and makes a direct hit solely on Mar-A-Lago. Preferably while Trump is in the middle of "dancing" to YMCA.
I wish there'd been a gas leak explosion at Mar-A-Taco on New Year's Eve, when his entire Clown Car cabinet, and people like Netanyahu and Rudy Giuliani, were present. We could have rid the world of the vermin, all in one fell swoop. I can dream...
Wasn't it the Cricket Killer that danced with him for 30+ minutes during the campaign last summer? That alone should have eliminated them from everything but a rubber room. I can't believe how much I despise them all.
You did see that someone who showed up at Mar-a-Lago with a gun was shot and killed by the Secret Service. Bless the AP for getting the story out before Trump could and his Duckspeaking followers could tell us that it was a trans lefty who showed up. No, everyone says his whole family are big Trump supporters. This is the kind of support Trump gets.
As for the ship going to Greenland. I wonder if it is the Trojan Horse that is sneaking up to Greenland in plain sight, not to heal, but to kill Greenlanders. Something to divert us from the awfulness of the Epstein Files. I will not distract, it will add to the sense that something is totally rotten and it is not in Denmark, but in Trump.
Exactly. A trojan horse. Donald knows Iran won't be an easy situation and might turn people against him, so he wants an "easy" victory to talk about to his people.
I was traveling through the UP in August & it was 63 degrees & rainy most of the time. I mentioned this to a resident & he said, “ You should come up in summertime.” Did I mention it was August?
We’ve been getting our share of snowfall here in Michigan’s Thumb this year which makes up for the lack of snow in the past several years. Still have at least six more weeks before we’re out of the woods…
I hear you! I’m in the northern L.P. But still don’t bother shoveling out the front door in the winter. Snows up to my knees on the flat, plowed up over my head. I hate winter!
My problem is that I also hate summer--at least summer in Kansas City. Hot, humid, and miserable!! That's why I moved here. Okay. Not spending another winter here, for sure. Any suggestions? Anyone??
The Oregon coast if you don't mind rain. It's beautiful and doesn't get too hot. I'm in the Portland metro area, about an hour and a half away. While it gets hot in the summer, there is no humidity.
And another hour and a half further east you have Mount Hood if you want snow and winter sports.
You have a gorgeous place to live, for sure! My son attended Lewis and Clark College there, and I have been there several times with my travel trailer. Wish I could have lived there from the beginning of my life! Now, I'm searching for a saner, more civilized country to spend my end days. Someplace with universal healthcare.
Oh, you can HAVE this kind of heavy, wet snow. I couldn't get out my front OR back doors. Our lovely next-door neighbours snow-blew and shoveled a path down our driveway AND the top front for us (but couldn't manage our long and deep stairs. However, it was enough for me to squeeze out to feed and put water out for the outdoor feral cats. In the back, hubby shoveled a tiny bit, then put down icemelt and sand. THEN it began to melt and refroze over (our temps went well below zero) - mind you this is all fairly aberrant for Long Island, NY. So the poor doggos were afraid to try to walk on it, especially my old guy who has hip problems. I've been cleaning up his pee IN the laundry room for weeks, now. Not fun at all. We had about 4- 5 days of relief and now this HUGE storm/blizzard is coming today. Ugh. Those who still don't believe that Climate Change is real need to open their glued-shut eyes.
So many good ones, but I can't afford more than the half dozen I have. This one is one of the essentials though, right after Block Club Chicago (hometown) and The Rooster (Ohio politics), which has been breaking national Wexler/Epstein stories.
I do have one advantage. I don’t live in the US currently so am not dealing with all the expenses I would have had if I had stayed. Frees up funds so I can support informative writing and good campaigns.
Oh shut up. I'm finally getting used to New England after living most of my life in Manhattan Beach and Santa Cruz. When my mother passed away this last December in Stockton, we lost not only the greatest mom/grandma, but also our last California vacation home in the hills above Santa Cruz. I'm now doomed 🙃
The stretch of Hwy 1 through Big Sur just might be the prettiest section of coastline on the planet. I used to love riding my motorcycle through there.
I used to live in Manhattan Beach in the early '80s. It was a 208 sq ft bootleg apartment below the rear guest house on a beachfront lot. I think it was originally a garden shed/closet. But hey, it *was* the beach.
Ever go to the 2nd Street Cafe in Redondo for banana pancakes? A good friend from Chicago lived in Redondo in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s, worked at TRW’s environmental systems division. Saint Ronnie’s EPA killed its single contract.
I never lived in the South Bay when I was out there. Long Beach for several years. Then Orange, behind The Curtain, which now has gaping holes. Family reasons brought me back to Chicago.
My great-grandmother had a house in Santa Cruz less than a block from Seabright Beach. When she died (I was two, never met her) my grandfather, living in Pittsburgh at the time, decided that managing a house out in California would be too much trouble, and sold it for $10,000.
When I was in Los Gatos walking with a couple friends it was about 50 and drizzling, and the Californian complained "If only it weren't so cold and wet."
I said, "I'm from Michigan. This is not cold."
My other buddy said "I'm from Oregon. This is not wet."
In Palm springs, Ca the shorts are never put away. It's gorgeous today with blue skies and the higher mountains around us covered in snow. We will remember these days in August when it's 115 degrees for weeks on end.
and here in CANADA I'm planting potatoes - old shriveled things from the back of the fridge, and into the frigid ground, BUT... (this is the moderate southwest corner of BC, not typical)
Stay safe, Jeff. It’s just raining here at the Jersey shore right now, but it’s supposed up switch to snow later. I’m not leaving the house. I may not even get out of my PJs.
It's lovely here in Cleveland, coldish but with a light snow cover. I work at home on Sundays, and have time to hang with my cats and read. I have plenty of hot tea, hot soup and chocolate.
I hope your snow day is beautiful with no power disruptions. Another stellar newsletter today. Hospital ship, wut? I’m sure you nailed it. The Danes rescued the US sailor, and that event was not comprehensible by Some Fucking Idiot, and fired up the crashing cymbals in his head, leading to more dystopian nonsense from Some Fucking Idiot.
The true story here is that the orange shit stain is not golfing on a weekend!
That alone speaks of his health problems but when they say he is in the WH and Melanoma is there with him then I’m thinking an end of days scenario.
Of course they’re probably Lying about the Slovenian slut being there. Or her plane couldn’t fly her back home to New York because of the blizzard.
Which brings me to How much are we spending on her because she refuses to live with her husband? Planes, Secret Service protection and everything else.
Remember that completely charming story of Ivanka and Jared making their Secret Service detail walk blocks to use a bathroom in the middle of the night,in the freezing cold?? That was special.
And remember how those hypocritical mo fo's used to complain about Michelle Obama's mother living in the WH with them bc you know, it was somehow costing the country too much $. The double standards are maddening.
This is excellent news ,as a retired ICU Nurse it won’t be much longer for this INSANITY on wheels, the old ticker is coming and going and he’s still shooting up meth throughout the day and for bogus/ Social
No, it wasn't. First rule of staging an assassination: don't use live ammo and aim for the head. The fat SOB would've took it right behind the ear had he not turned his head. That would've been a kill shot.
Have no fear, Greenland. If Donnie keeps that ship pointed East toward the morning sun, South toward the midday sun and West toward the setting sun, that ship from Louisiana will never come within 3,000 miles of Greenland
If tRUMP was told it was a Trojan Horse hospital he’d be convinced it was a woman’s job to take care of contraceptives and rabbit on about it with the full authority and wisdom he believes only HE has
Oh I didn't think of that. OMG. Denmark should not let that ship dock. That totally could happen, Trumps flunkies have no imagination and may very well go with something tried and true.
I sent an email to the NYT reporter who wrote today’s article about Trump’s rant about Greenland. In essence, I asked him why they don’t call out Trump for his lunacy. I’m trying to get even one mainstream reporter
Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as Subodh Chandra, a wonderful lawyer I know in Cleveland who works on behalf of free, fair elections and against voter suppression tactics. (He also represents Tamir Rice's mother, Samaria, a case I take very personally.) However, it also produced Josh Hawley, who is hellbent on stripping women of their human rights.
I think we should breathe a side of relief today that Vance visited a Pope and the pope survived. Since Leo is an American, he would know about the long tradition here of religious authorities being used by a politician, and of the too-frequently-ignored concept of separation of church and state. But going to Lampedusa instead is the chef's kiss.
Too bad for MAGA the new Pope is an American who apparently has a very strong moral conviction. Maybe it would've worked better for them if the Pope was not so familiar with MAGA hate
I read an article that the young pro men/anti women Nick Fuentes followers dislike Vance. They think he's soft and not "masculine" enough AND he has a brown wife and children.
This is why I'm so much less panicked about the possibility of a JD Vance presidency than some Democrats are. He just doesn't have that big, tough, macho thing MAGAs imagine they see in Trump. He doesn't really appeal to anyone.
I think that's a widespread opinion about Vance. MAGAs are laser-focused on a single person whom they've imagined into heroic stature. This is why I'm somewhat optimistic about our chances of flipping Ohio this November. The GOP ticket is topped by a brown-skinned Hindu vegan with a "funny name," running for governor. My thinking is that could de-motivate MAGAs from turning out. I hate thinking this way because I believe we need to improve voter turnout in every election, but if I can't change their minds, oh well.
Donnie is so irretrievably shitty he can't even manage a simple 'thank you' to the governments of Greenland and Denmark for rescuing a sick US service member. Instead, we get this fever-swamp AI BS pretending that Greenland is some primitive land still sacrificing to the gods to cure their sick. And the freaking corporate media treats this crap like it's perfectly normal.
Amazing, ain't it? We can see Donnie's dementia accelerating in real time, but nobody in the media says a word. Not even Jake Tapper who had so much to say about much less regarding Joe Biden he wrote a whole freaking book about it. But now? Crickets........
He will thank Denmark after releasing a congratulatory statement to Womens and Mens USA hockey . Wait . I am hearing in my earpiece that he is not doing that either .
Well our eyes and our ears do not deceive us . We see what we see and hear what we hear , or in this case , what we are not hearing . The silence is deafening .
Whether or not he is, he's being controlled by Musk, Thiel and Bondi.
Big tech billionaires want the rare earth metals underneath the ICE in Greenland. And is their puppet so he must take Greenland. What a fucking nightmare.
Once we get past this mess, we've got to make major changes to make sure this never happens again, including psych evaluations to preclude psychopaths and other mentally ill persons from obtaining positions of power. Also, overturn Citizens United, which has led to the destruction of America.
First, Money out of politics. Strong laws against bribing the President, he must make visible all his and his family's bank accounts and tax returns. And a stronger Congress. More checks on the presidency.
In fact, so easy I can tell you what it is without looking: a constitutional amendment that simply says "Corporations are not people and money is not speech." That would destroy the entire basis of Citizens United.
I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but it is hard not to think the end is getting closer for Cankles. Whether it be dementia that even his sycophants can't ignore, or a lard-induced stroke.
Do you really think they will tell us if he does? These are people who cannot tell the truth nor participate in reality. And spineless Congress has not stood up to them. I could see them "Weekend at Bernie's" us until he would've been 150 years old!
They will mummify him and sit him in a chair. It will be like the character John Gill on the planet Ekos visited by Kirk and Spock in TOS. Patterns of Force is the episode.
As a reply to this ship to Greenland bullshit, I saw an AI-generated ship with the Danish flag heading to the US, with the perfect ship name: Mental Health! Blessed are the meme creators indeed...
Is it just me or is anyone incredulous that we only have *two* hospital ships, and they're both out of commission at the same time? Sounds like some knuckleheaded lack of planning, all around.
Agreed! Especially when we get both our favorite skateboard to the nuts meme and the throw back our heads in laughter meme! I look forward to Jeff’s clever and lively posts every day (but I understand if he needs a day off once in a while).
If only Trump were as clever as Dr.Evil, he could sneak up to Greenland in his underwater lair currently inside the mouth of a dormant volcano. Then he can destroy it unless Denmark pays 15 bigillion dollars.
Or maybe he’s more like Goldmember. It’s complicated.
Greenland's response was priceless, though. Reminds me of the scene with the French knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, paraphrasing: 'Hospital? No thanks, we already got one!'
Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires want access to the rare earth metals under the ice in Greenland. They bought Trump and now they want a return on that investment.
We all think that when they visited him after the election, that they bent the knee. It was the opposite. They went there to remind him who put him there.
Also,Jeff, ever since I came to Substack I’ve followed you and your articles and they are everything!!! Your style cracks me up while telling the news…a breath of fresh air!!!
by the way, if you don't hear from me tomorrow morning, that means that I lost power during the big-ass blizzard we're going to get. don't worry, I've got plenty of food and firewood, as well as neighbors with generators who are willing to let me crash, if the situation requires it
I keep hoping and praying for a bomb cyclone to descend on Mierda Lardo but so far nuthin'. Shit.
I sent out a memo to Iran with coordinates
Thank you for your service.
You are hereby thanked!
Iran has had a 3 million dollar price on his head for a while. It might have gone up since I last read about it. It is a fatwa or something like that. Maybe that is who showed up at Mar-a-lago to shoot Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516
A hurricane, and then we can see if Trump's Sharpie can still defect a storm.
That Sharpie is still recovering from Donnie using it to draw a Happy Birthday Jeffrey picture of an underage naked teen who’s just beginning to acquire secondary sex characteristics
That sharpie is probably on the ship going to Greenland to kidnap their Prime Minster and put him in a US prison on the ship, and never return again. Trump uses the Doublethink of Totalitarians/fascists, and his cabinet uses Duckspeak. If you do not know what those are you can find out in a piece I wrote last week.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/the-language-of-the-fascist-regime?r=f0qfn
"Mierda Lardo" 🏆
It only works in his addled mind
You mean Adderalled mind
Both?
Good one!
Agree. I keep hoping the next hurricane in Florida is tiny but powerful and makes a direct hit solely on Mar-A-Lago. Preferably while Trump is in the middle of "dancing" to YMCA.
I wish there'd been a gas leak explosion at Mar-A-Taco on New Year's Eve, when his entire Clown Car cabinet, and people like Netanyahu and Rudy Giuliani, were present. We could have rid the world of the vermin, all in one fell swoop. I can dream...
Wasn't it the Cricket Killer that danced with him for 30+ minutes during the campaign last summer? That alone should have eliminated them from everything but a rubber room. I can't believe how much I despise them all.
Yes, that incident happened at a Kristi No (em) event.
Kristi Gnome.
Me too!!! I have been hoping for that for years!
Love the name for Mar-A-Lago! I've been calling it Mar-A-Taco.😁
Mar a LARDO! 😂
Merde-A-A-hole
Plus . . . 25th Amendment.
Plus . . . Stay the fuck out of Greenland.
Plus . . . Stay the fuck off the public golf course.
Also a great name for it!😁
Mierda Loco
I call it Hawk-a-Loogie
I’ve been calling it MAGA-Largo but I might have to switch.
my fav is still the golf motel.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by
bolts of lightning.
-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (1958- ) Calvin and Hobbes
They're probably stocked up on hamberders and Adderall.
You did see that someone who showed up at Mar-a-Lago with a gun was shot and killed by the Secret Service. Bless the AP for getting the story out before Trump could and his Duckspeaking followers could tell us that it was a trans lefty who showed up. No, everyone says his whole family are big Trump supporters. This is the kind of support Trump gets.
https://apnews.com/article/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516
As for the ship going to Greenland. I wonder if it is the Trojan Horse that is sneaking up to Greenland in plain sight, not to heal, but to kill Greenlanders. Something to divert us from the awfulness of the Epstein Files. I will not distract, it will add to the sense that something is totally rotten and it is not in Denmark, but in Trump.
That's my fear: the hospital ship thing is a ruse to take a warship in there.
Exactly. A trojan horse. Donald knows Iran won't be an easy situation and might turn people against him, so he wants an "easy" victory to talk about to his people.
Like Grenada.
Wonder if the troops that were sent to Greenland from various European countries are still there?
If indeed this is his handlers' plan, it will be monstrous.
Read this and see the image of the hospital ship. While Dean does not directly say it is a war ship, I will.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/denmark-rescues-an-american-sailor?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
I am very aware of this after my book club just finished discussing "1984" I wrote this discussion of the language of fascist regimes.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/the-language-of-the-fascist-regime?r=f0qfn
Remember that Totalitarians like to get their countries into perpetual war. This is from "Orwell 2+2=5" by Raoul Peck.
https://youtu.be/PCTSYWjoKWA?si=cr4UvPkTa0XqY9vp
Like your use of the Mierda Lardo designation, Doc. Worked on it for a while.
Shit and fat. Apropos for him
Stay safe Jeff—-and all in the path of this big-ass blizzard!❤️
I’m jealous, Jeff. Up here in northern Minnesota, we haven’t had a meaningful snow storm in more than three years.
Just ICE storms.
Bazinga!!
I live in Colorado and we’ve had two snow “storms” this winter. Wasn’t even enough to shovel. Fire season is going to be nasty.
Waving in solidarity from Washington State. Summer is going to be brutal! 🔥🌲🔥🌲🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🧑🚒
Same in Montana. I've walked the dog in short sleeves most days in January and February. Fire season will be bad.
Same! From NAZ! We are going to have a terrible fire season, too.
Move to the U.P. It will be May before the snowbanks surrounding my house allow me to see out the windows....
I used to live there! Couldnʻt use the front door from November to April!
I would not like that one bit!😳
Probably has a lot to do with why you live where you are now!
No traffic in town in the winter at all--except for the snowmobiles.
Nope. Have to keep a snow shovel inside the door to dig my way out!
I was traveling through the UP in August & it was 63 degrees & rainy most of the time. I mentioned this to a resident & he said, “ You should come up in summertime.” Did I mention it was August?
Yeah, summer around here is July 15 around 3 P.M. Lasts about as long as a lunar eclipse--you can easily miss it....
LOL! 🤣👍
Hi Linda. What is the “U.P.”? Upper Peninsula? University of Pakistan?
The UP is the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.🙂
I had to Google it. :)
What Megan said...
We’ve been getting our share of snowfall here in Michigan’s Thumb this year which makes up for the lack of snow in the past several years. Still have at least six more weeks before we’re out of the woods…
I hear you! I’m in the northern L.P. But still don’t bother shoveling out the front door in the winter. Snows up to my knees on the flat, plowed up over my head. I hate winter!
My problem is that I also hate summer--at least summer in Kansas City. Hot, humid, and miserable!! That's why I moved here. Okay. Not spending another winter here, for sure. Any suggestions? Anyone??
The Oregon coast if you don't mind rain. It's beautiful and doesn't get too hot. I'm in the Portland metro area, about an hour and a half away. While it gets hot in the summer, there is no humidity.
And another hour and a half further east you have Mount Hood if you want snow and winter sports.
You have a gorgeous place to live, for sure! My son attended Lewis and Clark College there, and I have been there several times with my travel trailer. Wish I could have lived there from the beginning of my life! Now, I'm searching for a saner, more civilized country to spend my end days. Someplace with universal healthcare.
Move to Palm Springs, Ca. Hot in summer but we have pools and air conditioning. Winter is fabulous.
Yeah, see, that "hot in summer" part kills it for me. Too old to be seen in swimwear and hate air conditioning!
Same here in Wisconsin!
Oh, you can HAVE this kind of heavy, wet snow. I couldn't get out my front OR back doors. Our lovely next-door neighbours snow-blew and shoveled a path down our driveway AND the top front for us (but couldn't manage our long and deep stairs. However, it was enough for me to squeeze out to feed and put water out for the outdoor feral cats. In the back, hubby shoveled a tiny bit, then put down icemelt and sand. THEN it began to melt and refroze over (our temps went well below zero) - mind you this is all fairly aberrant for Long Island, NY. So the poor doggos were afraid to try to walk on it, especially my old guy who has hip problems. I've been cleaning up his pee IN the laundry room for weeks, now. Not fun at all. We had about 4- 5 days of relief and now this HUGE storm/blizzard is coming today. Ugh. Those who still don't believe that Climate Change is real need to open their glued-shut eyes.
Wow. Yes, climate change is real.
Here in Maine, we haven’t seen the ground since November. I’m way over my shoveling quota for the season.
I used to live there, too! 157 inches of snow on the ground the day I moved there--for the second and last time!
You can most definitely have ours. I’m in NJ
Stay safe and warm Jeff! I’m finally able to comment after a year because of my subscription!!!
Couldn't afford subscriptions to all the substacks I read, but this one is a necessity. :)
If I had to give up all my Substacks, this is the one I would keep. Jeff keeps me sane. Relatively sane.
Same here, but Jeff has helped me retain my sanity the past couple years, so my paid subscription is psychotherapy.
Same here. Did a recount yesterday and saw I’m up to 11! Jeff Tiedrich and Celia Rivenbark here are MEDICINE though and better for us than booze.
So many good ones, but I can't afford more than the half dozen I have. This one is one of the essentials though, right after Block Club Chicago (hometown) and The Rooster (Ohio politics), which has been breaking national Wexler/Epstein stories.
I do have one advantage. I don’t live in the US currently so am not dealing with all the expenses I would have had if I had stayed. Frees up funds so I can support informative writing and good campaigns.
Where are you? How do you like it there??
Agreed!!
What climate change? Uncle Jeff, run out and get yourself some of that clean coal.
hahaha!!
Coalie approves
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75°F here today, supposed to be 80°F tomorrow. It's another brutal SoCal winter 😎
Oh shut up. I'm finally getting used to New England after living most of my life in Manhattan Beach and Santa Cruz. When my mother passed away this last December in Stockton, we lost not only the greatest mom/grandma, but also our last California vacation home in the hills above Santa Cruz. I'm now doomed 🙃
I love the area around Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay and Big Sur.
The stretch of Hwy 1 through Big Sur just might be the prettiest section of coastline on the planet. I used to love riding my motorcycle through there.
I agree with that. It gives me goosebumps!
I used to live in Manhattan Beach in the early '80s. It was a 208 sq ft bootleg apartment below the rear guest house on a beachfront lot. I think it was originally a garden shed/closet. But hey, it *was* the beach.
Ever go to the 2nd Street Cafe in Redondo for banana pancakes? A good friend from Chicago lived in Redondo in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s, worked at TRW’s environmental systems division. Saint Ronnie’s EPA killed its single contract.
Never went there. My go-tos were Uncle Bill's on Highland, El Tarasco on Rosecrans, and Tomboy's on MB Bl. They're all still there 🥞🌮🌯🍔
I never lived in the South Bay when I was out there. Long Beach for several years. Then Orange, behind The Curtain, which now has gaping holes. Family reasons brought me back to Chicago.
El Tarasco! What a great place
My great-grandmother had a house in Santa Cruz less than a block from Seabright Beach. When she died (I was two, never met her) my grandfather, living in Pittsburgh at the time, decided that managing a house out in California would be too much trouble, and sold it for $10,000.
$10k probably wouldn't even cover the property tax bill for 6 months on that house today
Offering you my deepest sympathy (from Santa Cruz) for the loss of your mother, Paula. ❤️🩹
It got so cold here in South Florida a couple of weekends ago we had to shut off our AC.
In San Diego the natives break out the gloves,beanies and big down coats...when it's 60 degrees.
When I was in Los Gatos walking with a couple friends it was about 50 and drizzling, and the Californian complained "If only it weren't so cold and wet."
I said, "I'm from Michigan. This is not cold."
My other buddy said "I'm from Oregon. This is not wet."
In Palm springs, Ca the shorts are never put away. It's gorgeous today with blue skies and the higher mountains around us covered in snow. We will remember these days in August when it's 115 degrees for weeks on end.
Yep, so cold I had to put on a long sleeved shirt.
OTOH, come June when hurricane prep season hits, I start to regret living in a snowless area.
I couldn't even wear shorts for 2 days last week!
If you were trying to make us jealous, congrats, it worked. 😉
This is how we get kilt, saying stuff like that. Isn't Palm Springs glorious if a bit cool this time of year?
"A bit cool" in Palm Springs = Shorts Weather in WI
High of 72 degrees, dry and no wind. It's kinda nice.
We're supposed to reach 90° by next weekend here in Tucson. Sigh.
Like they say, "At least it's a dry heat"
On the other hand, we don't have mudslides and "fire season."
We have four seasons here: Fire, mudslide, earthquake, and drought
In this city so fair
Only four things to beware,
The fire, the water, the earth, and the air
There is none of that nonsense in the Coachella Valley. We do get a windy season that lasts too long and very hot summers.
In San Diego...I haven't worn long pants in probably a year,if at all.
I'ma keeping my mouth shut
and here in CANADA I'm planting potatoes - old shriveled things from the back of the fridge, and into the frigid ground, BUT... (this is the moderate southwest corner of BC, not typical)
Stay safe, Jeff. It’s just raining here at the Jersey shore right now, but it’s supposed up switch to snow later. I’m not leaving the house. I may not even get out of my PJs.
It's lovely here in Cleveland, coldish but with a light snow cover. I work at home on Sundays, and have time to hang with my cats and read. I have plenty of hot tea, hot soup and chocolate.
I'm kinda looking forward to being Buried in Boston. It's nice and quiet when that happens, and man, do I need quiet!
I feel the same... soups are made, beers in the fridge, books at the ready here in Philly.
Susan, beer and books; I'm in!!
Might throw some popcorn in the mix. 😂✌️
oh yes!!! 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Just ran out for milk. By tomorrow I'll be Snowed-in in Somerville.
NWS says we're getting 14-22". TWC says 9". Adding up the hourly estimates from TWC yields 1.02". I'm ready!!!
Stay safe!
Stay safe and warm Jeff! 🤗
Stay safe and warm!
Stay warm, Jeff!
Holy hell. WTF can we do? Oh yah IMPEACH THE MF!
I hope your snow day is beautiful with no power disruptions. Another stellar newsletter today. Hospital ship, wut? I’m sure you nailed it. The Danes rescued the US sailor, and that event was not comprehensible by Some Fucking Idiot, and fired up the crashing cymbals in his head, leading to more dystopian nonsense from Some Fucking Idiot.
Good luck, Jeff; I hate that expression "stay warm" or I'd say it.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —
"Man Is Fatally Shot at Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service Says"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/us/politics/mar-a-lago-shooting-secret-service.html
ugh, no one should be trying to do this.
"FBI Director Kash Patel said that the bureau would be “dedicating all necessary resources” to the investigation"
But Renee Good or Alex Pretti? Oh no, we don't have time for that kind of nonsense.
Yeah, they didnt need to investigate. There was many videos that showed what happened. Unarmed citizens have no protection from the government goons.
But first...NAPTIME!!!
Did anyone see Jared Moskowitz take down that hateful Indian Cash Patel POS made him open his big mouth and talk… it was brilliant !!
Kinda like "the UN escalator stoppage was on purpose" and the whole bullet to the ear thing
The true story here is that the orange shit stain is not golfing on a weekend!
That alone speaks of his health problems but when they say he is in the WH and Melanoma is there with him then I’m thinking an end of days scenario.
Of course they’re probably Lying about the Slovenian slut being there. Or her plane couldn’t fly her back home to New York because of the blizzard.
Which brings me to How much are we spending on her because she refuses to live with her husband? Planes, Secret Service protection and everything else.
Pisses me off
Waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s what they are all about. It’s what they do.
Remember that completely charming story of Ivanka and Jared making their Secret Service detail walk blocks to use a bathroom in the middle of the night,in the freezing cold?? That was special.
Maybe while she’s in DC she can testify about Epstein.
You can follow the Trump Golf Tracker here: https://didtrumpgolftoday.com
She's the least of our problems.
Correct. Let's keep the focus on Pam Bondi and the Epstein Files .
And remember how those hypocritical mo fo's used to complain about Michelle Obama's mother living in the WH with them bc you know, it was somehow costing the country too much $. The double standards are maddening.
Many fine people are reporting that Mr. Trump can longer drive off the tee past 100yds despite perpetual Mulligans : 75 yards at the most .
That sounds bad...which is good!
Miniature golf may be an option . Or trying not to destroy the country .
This is excellent news ,as a retired ICU Nurse it won’t be much longer for this INSANITY on wheels, the old ticker is coming and going and he’s still shooting up meth throughout the day and for bogus/ Social
All these shittin Rethugs are flying around in private planes Kristi fucking Noem, Cash idiot Patel and the shittstain himself
Let's not forget our repugnant VP, who just wasted a shitload of Our money taking 7 planes to the Olympics.
Wasn’t one of the planes full of actual cars? I’m sure that barely cost the American taxpayer anything
The bullet to the ear thing was so staged. It's too bad the shooter killed someone behind the jerk.
No, it wasn't. First rule of staging an assassination: don't use live ammo and aim for the head. The fat SOB would've took it right behind the ear had he not turned his head. That would've been a kill shot.
Unfortunately for us it was not. So sad.
Sorry not sorry my first reaction is that this too is made up, ala the guy on the FL golf course.
unfortunately this patsy didn’t survive the pantomime.
He was probably going after the other ear.
💥🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Keep warm…time to get a generator, Jeff!
Shit. Paywall.
Also: if you're using an Edge browser: at the right end of the address bar, there's a circle with three dots. Click it and select "Immersive Reder".
That will display the story text w/o the paywall.
Google it. The story is reported elsewhere.
https://apnews.com/article/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516
Trump is probably already sporting an ear tampon.
Can’t blame him, tho.
NO one should be trying to do this.
A special kind of stupid thing.
Poor guy.
Don't get excited,false alarm,it wasn't him,I clicked on the article,but when I realized it was the NYT,I ran for my life.
So is he “sending hospital ships” out of “care” ….or…. Are the hospital ships full of measles or smallpox infected blankets?
My Native American ancestry has me a bit biased….
Good thinking. I'd be very suspicious if I were a Greenlander
Have no fear, Greenland. If Donnie keeps that ship pointed East toward the morning sun, South toward the midday sun and West toward the setting sun, that ship from Louisiana will never come within 3,000 miles of Greenland
😂
🤣🤣At that rate he’ll have it docked in the Potomac River, spinning in circles, and blame Joe Biden
Could be his “plan” to remove pesky native people off their own land. Nothing can be put past their fascist murderers.
Thiel and Musk, 2 immigrants from Africa, both want access to the rare earth minerals under the ice in Greenland.
Deport THOSE immigrants
I was thinking Trojan Horse hospital ship. Your idea, Unity in Defiance, seems more plausible.
I hate how unoriginal they are with every single fascist plan—which makes this theory more than plausible.
If tRUMP was told it was a Trojan Horse hospital he’d be convinced it was a woman’s job to take care of contraceptives and rabbit on about it with the full authority and wisdom he believes only HE has
do you suppose Hegseth will be smart enough to send an icebreaker along with this unneeded 'Hospital ship'?
or will they need to beg for help when they get there?
Instead of an icebreaker he’ll equip that ship with his skateboard, The Ballbreaker
Touche!
Hot damn! you expressed my exact same sentiments Bob 🤣
They were defeated by the 2 dogsleds...so now are sending a ghost ship... pretty scary,huh kids?
But they can't even send the hospital ships because they are in dry dock. Who in the Hell is minding grampa?
the naked mole rats running willy-nilly throughout the remnants of where his brain ought to be
tho, truth be told, they're probably doing a better job than he's capable of doing
Oh I didn't think of that. OMG. Denmark should not let that ship dock. That totally could happen, Trumps flunkies have no imagination and may very well go with something tried and true.
Don't worry,the ship was sent UP the Mississippi...
And its source is Northern MN. So the poor folks there are going to be invaded by the Govt.....again.
I sent an email to the NYT reporter who wrote today’s article about Trump’s rant about Greenland. In essence, I asked him why they don’t call out Trump for his lunacy. I’m trying to get even one mainstream reporter
to accept Jeff’s challenge.
Ha! I was just getting ready to post the same thing!!
Great minds think alike my friend!
He's getting ready to bail with as much money as possible
Obviously "devout" Catholic J(uicy) D(ivan) Vance must hate having such a woke Pope who won't go along with the MAGA cosplay. Boo hoo.
I get the sense that this Pope doesn’t suffer fools gladly… I wonder when he’ll excommunicate the couch molester?
I want Yale Law School to revoke his degree for making stupid statements that a first year law student would know are wrong.
Yale has much to answer for.
Brett "I love beer!" Kavanaugh
Both of the Bush preznits, Alito and Thomas. To be honest, there are some good people among their grads as well.
Hillary and Bill Clinton, as well as Subodh Chandra, a wonderful lawyer I know in Cleveland who works on behalf of free, fair elections and against voter suppression tactics. (He also represents Tamir Rice's mother, Samaria, a case I take very personally.) However, it also produced Josh Hawley, who is hellbent on stripping women of their human rights.
I think we should breathe a side of relief today that Vance visited a Pope and the pope survived. Since Leo is an American, he would know about the long tradition here of religious authorities being used by a politician, and of the too-frequently-ignored concept of separation of church and state. But going to Lampedusa instead is the chef's kiss.
Too bad for MAGA the new Pope is an American who apparently has a very strong moral conviction. Maybe it would've worked better for them if the Pope was not so familiar with MAGA hate
Likely this Pope isn't in the Epstein files.
They don’t consider Catholics to be Christian.
I hope so. JD can attend the white nationalist church that Kegsbreath attends.
Is it Catholic? BTW, Vance's wife is East Indian. Is she also Catholic?
She's Hindu which JD has openly said he wants to change.
she isn't, but I'd seen somewhere that JD is trying to get her to convert
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/world/jd-vance-wife-india-religion-debate-hnk-dst
Thank you for this link
OMG - JD is SUCH an entitled dick! And she seems to be the much smarter and more accomplished person in that relationship.
IMO procreating with an asshole is never a good idea.
I doubt the Pope wants to give him that much personal attention and allow him to posture as aggrieved.
He might pass it down stream and have jd’s bishop do the job on him.
Soooo, that’s what “woke” means!
Compassionate. . .empathetic. . .”aligned with the values” inmplied in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
I read an article that the young pro men/anti women Nick Fuentes followers dislike Vance. They think he's soft and not "masculine" enough AND he has a brown wife and children.
This is why I'm so much less panicked about the possibility of a JD Vance presidency than some Democrats are. He just doesn't have that big, tough, macho thing MAGAs imagine they see in Trump. He doesn't really appeal to anyone.
I read the incels think he is soft and pudgy, ie effeminate.
I think that's a widespread opinion about Vance. MAGAs are laser-focused on a single person whom they've imagined into heroic stature. This is why I'm somewhat optimistic about our chances of flipping Ohio this November. The GOP ticket is topped by a brown-skinned Hindu vegan with a "funny name," running for governor. My thinking is that could de-motivate MAGAs from turning out. I hate thinking this way because I believe we need to improve voter turnout in every election, but if I can't change their minds, oh well.
They recognize their own kind.
One thing we can all agree on: Vance sucks. Different reasons, obviously, but same conclusion.
The guy is a huge fraud
That's according to his Grindr profile.
Good one!
At this point I'd expect JD to arrive home to the wife and kids..and they'd boo him.
lol!!!!
Wasn’t Bannon trying to depose “woke” Pope Francis?
And His Holiness says, "who?".
More likely his Holiness woud say 'What's that smell?'
Donnie is so irretrievably shitty he can't even manage a simple 'thank you' to the governments of Greenland and Denmark for rescuing a sick US service member. Instead, we get this fever-swamp AI BS pretending that Greenland is some primitive land still sacrificing to the gods to cure their sick. And the freaking corporate media treats this crap like it's perfectly normal.
the challenge goes unanswered...
I think it's more of his confabulation. His cognitive failings are dangerous, but the Repubs will not do anything, and the media sanewashes it.
Amazing, ain't it? We can see Donnie's dementia accelerating in real time, but nobody in the media says a word. Not even Jake Tapper who had so much to say about much less regarding Joe Biden he wrote a whole freaking book about it. But now? Crickets........
He will thank Denmark after releasing a congratulatory statement to Womens and Mens USA hockey . Wait . I am hearing in my earpiece that he is not doing that either .
You mean the self-centered whinge baby won't share the spotlight? Say it ain't so!
Well our eyes and our ears do not deceive us . We see what we see and hear what we hear , or in this case , what we are not hearing . The silence is deafening .
He's a walking lobotomy crime
And his family's infested with slime
It's making me sick
As I watch the clock tick
WHEN WILL THEY SERVE PRISON TIME?!
Feel free to subscribe to my Substack for political limericks, poems, song parodies and a healthy dose of vehemence....
Here's an A I ship
I'm sending it to Greenland
Where's my pudding cup?
Imaginary
ship will give the same type care
Non-existent aid
That is awesome.
Great haiku! Thank you
'Places Cheetolini can't point out on a map for $500 Alex'
Haiku! Excellent!
Excellent!
There's never been a "president" like him
Who can make up crazy BS on a whim
His mind's in absentia
From full-blown dementia
For the whole world this is quite grim
Absentia/dementia 🤌
Whether or not he is, he's being controlled by Musk, Thiel and Bondi.
Big tech billionaires want the rare earth metals underneath the ICE in Greenland. And is their puppet so he must take Greenland. What a fucking nightmare.
Absentia dementia is excellently done.
The 🤌 is the cherry on top.
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Huzzah!!!
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Once we get past this mess, we've got to make major changes to make sure this never happens again, including psych evaluations to preclude psychopaths and other mentally ill persons from obtaining positions of power. Also, overturn Citizens United, which has led to the destruction of America.
First, Money out of politics. Strong laws against bribing the President, he must make visible all his and his family's bank accounts and tax returns. And a stronger Congress. More checks on the presidency.
the checks on the presidency don't work when a majority in Congress and SCOTUS are complicit and corruptible
ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS!!! The Founders assumed people would have morals,shame and conscience...no longer.
particularly among a scheming cabal and easily led mass of hypocritical white nationalistic, so-called Christians.
Who'da thunk?
Yes and no fucking felons in office.Period.Full stop!
I agree, Michael. We the People have A LOT of work to do!
Follow the efforts of Move to Amend. It's simple, straightforward and easy to understand: https://www.movetoamend.org/codirectors
In fact, so easy I can tell you what it is without looking: a constitutional amendment that simply says "Corporations are not people and money is not speech." That would destroy the entire basis of Citizens United.
Some background on the case-law-no-not-really:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Co.
Felons need not apply.
I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but it is hard not to think the end is getting closer for Cankles. Whether it be dementia that even his sycophants can't ignore, or a lard-induced stroke.
From your keyboard to God's eyes!
Do you really think they will tell us if he does? These are people who cannot tell the truth nor participate in reality. And spineless Congress has not stood up to them. I could see them "Weekend at Bernie's" us until he would've been 150 years old!
Collapsing on live TV this Tuesday would be ideal
Why wait? Sunday before midnight is open.
Shitting himself at the SOTU would be hysterical.
They would just hustle everyone out. He's pooping himself so often that it isn't even an event if he doesn't.
I’m still pulling for the tumble from the top of the AF One stairway, face planting the sharp edge of every step on his way down.
Debating with my sister in law on how many weeks we want him in extensive care before shuffling off this mortal coil.
What a wonderful sister you have.
She’s Canadian
Nah, don't get our hopes up. They pump him so full of drugs that he could blast through a cement wall.
They will mummify him and sit him in a chair. It will be like the character John Gill on the planet Ekos visited by Kirk and Spock in TOS. Patterns of Force is the episode.
I live in hope.
I'm almost hoping he shits himself at the SOTU Tuesday.
"Cankles" 🏆
Keep sending those Happy Meals to the White House!
I am manifesting like crazy every day.
As a reply to this ship to Greenland bullshit, I saw an AI-generated ship with the Danish flag heading to the US, with the perfect ship name: Mental Health! Blessed are the meme creators indeed...
😂😂😂
Is it just me or is anyone incredulous that we only have *two* hospital ships, and they're both out of commission at the same time? Sounds like some knuckleheaded lack of planning, all around.
But are we REALLY surprised with Kegstand in charge?
Exactly! Who tf let that happen? Do they fall under FEMA/Noem or Defense/Hegsted?
The ships are from Qatar...they're gifts.
Thank you dear Jeff! What would we do without you? Best read every day.
Agreed! Especially when we get both our favorite skateboard to the nuts meme and the throw back our heads in laughter meme! I look forward to Jeff’s clever and lively posts every day (but I understand if he needs a day off once in a while).
If only Trump were as clever as Dr.Evil, he could sneak up to Greenland in his underwater lair currently inside the mouth of a dormant volcano. Then he can destroy it unless Denmark pays 15 bigillion dollars.
Or maybe he’s more like Goldmember. It’s complicated.
Greenland's response was priceless, though. Reminds me of the scene with the French knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, paraphrasing: 'Hospital? No thanks, we already got one!'
Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires want access to the rare earth metals under the ice in Greenland. They bought Trump and now they want a return on that investment.
We all think that when they visited him after the election, that they bent the knee. It was the opposite. They went there to remind him who put him there.
They expect a return on their investment.
It's verrry nice!
Or "Airplane" -
"A hospital? What is it?"
"It's a big building with patients."
"...but that's not important right now."
Let's not go there, it's a silly place.
Their mothers are hamsters and their fathers smell of elderberries.
It's only a model.
😂😂
'My gun is right here!!'
Scott
When I think of hospital ships standing off a coast, I think of land invasions.
Have to add, maybe Trump didn’t know they were both in dry dock? Maybe he was planning on a landing without planning a landing? Who knows? It’s early.
maybe he could ask JD to row over to Greenland in a dinghy
They couldn't defeat the 2 dog sleds...bummer.
More unneeded money for guns, bombs, and missiles
One of the many well-worn right wing dog whistles
As they cut funding for schools
'Cuz they want voters who're fools
While the Weak Man threatens and bristles
This is so on point. 🤬😡💔🇺🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Also,Jeff, ever since I came to Substack I’ve followed you and your articles and they are everything!!! Your style cracks me up while telling the news…a breath of fresh air!!!
Welcome aboard Lisa.
Thanks David!
I think I might go to Mass today in solidarity with Pope Leo
I think I might go to mass today too, and I’m not catholic. Da Pope!
If anyone gets me back to church it is Pope Leo. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm a Jewish Unitarian so I think I'll abstain.
It so happens that I tried to visit Guangzhou's only Catholic church yesterday, but it was still closed for Chinese New Year.
And I'm a Buddhist in any case.