I agree. But a WTF button would get worn out before we got through one of Jeff's posts. On the lighter side, bad and stupid as this all is, there's enough levity in his writing to keep us going. But, a word of warning: Don't read Jeff while eating a peanut butter sandwich. It isn't pretty.
'mumbling' bullshit again fits better, methinks? I mean, that was 19 minutes I'll never get back of sheer, unadulterated SHITFUCKERY delivered in a stupid-azz monotone without a comma or a full stop by THE dumbest fucking dumbest-shit dipshit EVER to stain our Oval Office. What the FUCK? I'd dozed off, assuming it'd be a 3-hour blither blather (as always) woke up to THAT awful voice droning on. THEN they played it again on MSNow. Seriously wished they hadn't bothered.
wouldn't we all just love to see adderalled donny strapped into one of those with the added benefit of BIG shackles around his ankles so he couldn't get up to 'storm out of the room' as in SCOTUS yesterday? I would have PAID to see a video of him forced to sit through their dismissive attitudes towards his insanely stupid arguments against birthright citizenship.
I suspect the Court is going to punt. They won't rule on the 14th amendment. They'll say that a president can not negate something in the Constitution by EO and therefore HIS act was unconstitutional. If they go that route, they could theoretically get a decision that was 7-2 or 8-1 or -- and that would drive him mad -- 9-0.
yes - although it would be SO MUCH more satisfying to actually hear them tell him 'you're nuts, now get out of here with your batshit fuckery' (lol). Aaah, I can dream, can't I?
I got there and then somehow am going back the other way since I read Jeff's post to my husband and 'do' orange critter's voice (which IS pretty damn funny if I say so myself). It's enough to make even hubby get the shudders - which is how 'I' used to react when he insisted on listening to him against my wishes, so turn-about has become fair play, wot? Now I'm having a wee bit of fun and he no longer wants to hear the orange one talk on tv at all!
Donny looks confused after every sentence he reads then has to repeat his rosary, "the likes of which have never been seen before," before stumbling into his next sentence.
We need to start saying hallucinations when talking about him. We know every word that spews from his mouth is a lie but now hallucinations is appropriate due to his growing mental instability. Think of AI and hallucinations - perfect analogy. How many times a day could we say that? ‘He’s hallucinating.’
Not me - at least not yet. I STILL want to put my fist through the screen, hoping it'll somehow miraculously transmit to his fucking face. When I saw that stupid toad smile after his 'faith leader' (wtf is that anyway?) paula white simpering up at him that HE's the reason Jesus resurrected after 3 days...omg - I nearly DID throw up in my mouth and I'm as far from being religious as one can get. UGH!
Like his "two weeks coming" health plan. Clearly, his plans are to push all social programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, back onto the states. The poorest, reddest states will have the highest scores in every category of the Misery Index.
YES! Appreciate your mentioning this. I feel exactly the same way but certainly don't say it enough. We love you Jeff and hope our nattering and bitching helps give YOU a wee laugh here and there. We know you're hurting and hope we can ease some of it.
The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.
“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,” said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. “This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.”
Butthead and beavis (or did I get that backwards?) are making BILLIONS for their dada who is even dumber and meaner than they are. My sole hope is that ALL of these dimwits (including jared) lose every single penny within the next couple of years in some bitcoin/crypto scam. Now THAT would be Karma coming around somewhat. STILL not quite enough, but partway there.
Why is Wall St so quick to believe that Iran will let our ships through the Strait? If I were Iran, I would let other countries’ ships through but not American & if they sold oil to the US, I would cut those ships off too
but, but, but - we were informed by the monotoned orange fuckwit that WE don't NEED the oil coming through the Strait(s) of Hormuz/trump (as he would prefer it be called), no? THEN he said the rest of our former(?) allies should handle it themselves OR that it would just 'naturally' open up...like Covid, would just wash away. SNL came to mind. THEN he said he's been having great discussions with the new regime (is that the old regime's son whose daddy he blew to smithereens along with the entire family OF the new regime's leader?) Inquiring minds and all that. THEN he said we have more than enough of our own oil - which makes ME wonder why the fuck should OUR oil and gas prices be escalating through the fucking ROOF?! But don't mind me, I guess logic isn't my strong point anymore than it is for the fucking blithering orange toddler.
I don't competely forgive you for stealing Preznit from me, but it's yours now, and I'm kinda proud of the contribution. (I had to post this. I've been holding it in.) Love yer guts, Jeff.
I feel proud as punch when you use ANY term I think I might have coined - whether someone used it before me or not. I steal YOUR (Jeff's) stuff all the time: 'preznit fuckwit', big orange pumpkin head, SO many things I can't now fucking remember at 3a.m., lol. Just had a wee bit of an argument/discussion with Adam Gussow (Blues Harmonica player/teacher/author) on facebook when he likened Smooth Jazz to AI 'elevator music' (which pissed me off a bit since I follow so many so-called smooth jazz musicians, especially in their LIVE music shows/concerts). I've talked often about Peter White's terrific guitar playing. IF you love sax music give a listen to the studio version of Gerald Albright's 'My, My, My'. Scrumptious! Anyway - I'd just been listening to 'Swept Away' by Peter and 'Midnight in Manhattan', grooving again to these amazing tunes when I read Adam's posts. I've met him several times and he's a bit of a mentor to Jason Ricci, harmonica player extraordinaire and long-time friend of mine. BUT I so dislike those kind of god-like pronouncements because jazz purists imagine that a music they don't love isn't 'good enough' or whatever it is they decide. Annoying as hell. I DO enjoy the occasional 'real' jazz but amn't overly enamoured - far preferring folk, rock, R&B and smooth jazz. But that's me - and what rocks MY boat. I love sentimental melodious music - not jangly to my ears (what I'm now calling 'janky' due to Jeff) jazz which doesn't go anywhere. I wouldn't insult those who do like it though. Which brings me to the doughy old orange pantload who's been stealing the Boss's 'Born in the USA" (never comprehending what it's about') yet just today had the temerity to call Bruce Springsteen a 'wrinkly old prune'! Has this jealous, talentless old fuckwit EVER understood ANY music OR looked in a real mirror? His gall takes my breath away.
Kristy: Now I'VE been calling him that for AGES, how dare you! (lol). ;) Kidding about that part but I use that EVERYWHERE - I capitalize ONLY the DUNCE as in presiDUNCE: on FB, Instagram, Twitter, wherever possible. It sure drives the magats crazy. SO nice to see someone else call him that too - it fits SO WELL - I wish it would catch on. :)
YES! - At least I like to think so. ;) Jeff keeping us sane is a MAJOR truism we mostly all react to - and love. Every little bon mot we can add is extra spice to his sauce.
Good one Ann! And historically accurate to boot. I laughed and then got sad thinking of our soldiers who have died or been injured and will continue to die and be injured for no, 0, nada good reasons. He’s insane.
Republicans, PUT HIM OUT OF OUR MISERY!
I’d tell you to see the truth that’s right in front of you.
I liken listening to one of his speeches these days to a long intricate math problem I have to solve without paper and pencil. (Tip of the hat to Gary Larson.)
You have to pronounce it as dementoed donny does: doo weeks. He can't pronounce a soft 't' in two. It comes out as 'd'. Everything's going to be done in doo weeks - or 3. Just wait and see.
Jesus. Glad I missed it. None of these lazy ass republicans will ever step in and stop this demented old coot will they? They must be making too much money trading stocks. 🙄
Only when the tunnel FROM the bunker under the 'noo' ballroom leading TO the Treasury is completed first. Has that been accomplished yet? I've believed his entire aim was to steal ALL the gold in our Treasury from day one. First what's in New York (shades of Die Hard 2 - the trucks under the East River)...now there's another plan involving that fucking bunker under his 'biggest ballroom ever'. Who the FUCK wants a ballroom? NOBODY - but a bunker where he can hide AND store all those stolen documents and goodies he got from rich Arab countries AND all the USA's gold, well - gotta be 'the biggest ever', right?
I consume so much news and media from all my substacks and their videos...especially all the lawyers and pundits I follow, that one recently said it will never be used. It really devastated me. They give us these tools like "break in case of an emergency" but they make it impossible for it to actually be followed through. I just wish he would die, but I'm also superstitious like "don't wish too hard, you just might get it" and be stuck with JD Vance who gives me nightmares.
Donnie Demento is carrying out Putin's orders like the good Krasnow he is, and the rest of the Rethuglicans are hoping to reap the profits from the destruction of the US. Too bad we don't have the details on what they all were promised after their July 4 visit to Moscow. Must've been reeeeeaaallllly good to convince them to set fire to the Constitution.
Idk, Ron Johnson has since purchased a mansion in Florida, so he's doing all right. Sometimes he takes a per diem to fly himself back to WI for a perfunctory appearance. They still voted the traitor back in. Rumor has it that the other guy was <whisper> Black and from MIKWAUKEE, so Super Black </>.
I can't wait for him to be interred INSIDE Planet Earth - from natural causes of course. Cankles, you have ONE JOB - hop to it! They need to make a nice 'memorial garden' so we can all go 'water' it.
That and they and their families are being threatened or they’re in the Epstein files or they’re otherwise Russian assets. Something serious to make that many people eagerly support the downfall of the United States
I used to think perhaps all of the above, Richard. Now? It's just greed and self-interest. They don't give a flying fuck about ANYONE ELSE other than themselves and their cushy bank accounts. Lee Zeldin, now on the short-list (supposedly) to replace blondi bondi WAS the congressman for OUR district - one of whose staffers even helped my husband (who was registered as a republican then) take care of some of his VA issues. He liked Zeldin just fine UNtil he realized he was an all-in frumpist with very big ambitions. He's positioning himself and his little fambly (he's one of those uber forgettable faces) to work his way up in this fucking regime. He's HORRID with the issues he's voted against and I bet would be even worse than bondi, all with a glad hand and simpering smile for the orange fuckwit.
In fairness, the Dems holding firm on no ice funding seems to have worked. Word today is that Holy Mike is going to support the bill now. If Drumpf screams at him, will he change his mind? We shall see.
I'm amazed that the Dems didn't crater. I am pleased that maybe the video of two American citizens peacefully living their lives and saying, "Dude, I'm not mad at you." and running to the rescue of a woman thrown on the grown only to be EXECUTED POINT BLANK by the Federal Government. Yes, OUR TAX DOLLARS underwrote their murders. Murders that have not resulted in the arrest of anyone while every motion of the transgressions were duly recorded and without doubt. Murder. Maybe, finally, that was a line the Democratic Leadership could hold.
"it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual— things. they can do it on a state basis. you can’t do it on a feda— we have to take care of one thing: military protection."
I wouldn't knock talking constantly about how bad Trump is. There are a lot of tuned out people. Every democrat should have taken to their preferred social media the second this came out of Trump's mouth. A real opposition party would be so nice to have right now.
How convenient that the White House “obliterated” the recording of Donny’s Easter Egg speech. A record of official events is a legal requirement, but those things aren’t as important as keeping the clips out of campaign ads.
It's true that every Democratic candidate in Nov. will be running against Trump. Young voters will be asking the Dems "We get it, so what else you got?" Schumer -- that fucking guy.
"Lazy ass"? You mean the minority whose hands are tied by a corrupt Rethuglican majority, as well as a court system salted with judges dedicated to Donnie Demento's agenda? That being said, it looks as if the "lazy ass Dems" are feeding Holy Brother Mike Johnson his crap sandwich.
The same lazy ass Dems that ignored the genocide in Palestine, held back Jack Smith from his investigation of Trump until it was too late and the same ones who thought Biden could run again? Yes, that’s who I’m referring to. They’re all compromised but the red side was busy enough to pass the Big Bad Bill with blue support and the blue guys are still not committed to opposing this stupid war that the Preznit is using to manipulate the stock market. BTW - the term “lazy ass” was simply a comparison “lazy ass republicans” from the first post.
In a dramatic finish, 50 Republican senators voted in favor of the Big Beautiful Bill. With the Senate split evenly, Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote, sealing the bill’s passage. *All 49 Democrats voted against the measure.* Three key Republican senators—Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and Thom Tillis—broke with their party and voted no, citing specific policy concerns.
Jamie Raskin, Brendan Boyle, Corey Booker, Josh Shapiro, EVERY woman in our Democratic Congress - along with the newer younger members Maxwell Frost...(and so many more whose names I can't think of right now because I've been up all night and am tired) who speak out every chance they get - YOU call 'lazy ass'? They're IN the House working on their committees passing bills OR stopping the repukes from passing HORRIBLE bills! That's their job and why they were sent to Congress. Maybe you're either watching the wrong channels (try MSNow to see which members are ALWAYS dropping by to inform the public of what new chicanery is going on which they're fighting against) or check C-Span which televises directly FROM the House floor. WHEN the republicans spend ALL of their time praising their orange lord for his utter greed and stupidity and a War no one wanted or approved, I certainly hope that Democrats speak out against THEM as well as HIM. That's NOT 'their platform' - but a reminder of exactly what magats did to our Country AND our Constitution by electing the DUMBEST POS they could find because they thought he 'told it like it is'. WTF? Most of US still believe in our Constitution, not a fucking 'biggest ballroom ever' OR ripping down the Kennedy Center, OR trashing our Constitution OR fomenting a War in the middle of the night!
He doesn't want the federal government to pay for any of those benefits because he has decided that is all his money. Maybe we should stop paying taxes to the federal government if he is going to piss it away on a marble and gold ballroon and killing children in Iran.
I think they voted for the racism and anti DEI. They really hate that businesses have to give women and Blacks "prefererential" consideration. The Hispanic male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump because the alternative was a black woman. They are sorry now.
I’m not on his crappy app, so I’m wondering if Donny, who professes to love Jews so much, bothered to wish a happy Passover to those who celebrate (as every other president has done). Or was he too afraid it would piss off his Nazi base?
miller HATES that he's jewish. DESPISES that his own grandmother was a Holocaust survivor so has spent his useless life railing against his own family's faith while working FOR and TOWARDS bringing back the 4th reich - in the form of the deeply anti-semitic frump (if you're a lifelong NY'er you know) - helping bring about Project 2025 as well as boasting how those who're not white deserve to be trampled on. He is THE vilest of the vile - has been since his early childhood. Was probably bullied by the likes of the orange toad he now worships. How psychotic is that!
AND his Uncle's essay SO needs to be read by everyone with a functioning brain. It's so beautifully written with zero apologies about his own faith and family. The story he tells about Joseph (of Eritrea) is heartbreaking, especially when one realizes that those days and months of torture were being done to a CHILD - and so closely match what is being done to even more children right now and right here! I'm still a wee bit confused about which grandmother it was who 'survived the Holocaust' now? Was it on his father's side? IF so, he had this brilliant Glosser family who'd worked hard for 100 years AS immigrants to build their lives AND generational wealth but no, not sufficient for goebbels/miller. HE has to become a white nationalist. How on Earth does someone with this kind of family background become so viciously vile/evil? I'm flummoxed - as well as SO impressed by his Uncle. I had read comments BY him about his nephew before - but not this. Wow and thank you.
Barb and Cheri, What does being a "performative" Jew mean? You CAN be an absolutely despicable, and loathsome "observant" or non-observant Jewish person, just like one can be an utterly despicable and loathsome practicing Christian. Do any of the Christians in his cabinet or gov't or MAGAS have a moral compass? Are they not THE biggest hypocrites on the planet (looking at you Bryon Noem and Pam Bondi and KKKaroline Leavitt).
I don't think a lot of you realize there are Jews here on this board, celebrating our holiday (and worried about possible terrorist attacks) even without us being religious, practicing or observant. So only "Jews" (observant or not) are driven by "greed and grift and have no moral compass"? Do you know how insulting you sound even though I know you don't mean it to be?
Please, I am asking you respectfully. Do not lump us all in together!
Unless an observant Jew is observing them in their home, there's no way to prove they're observant of any of the myriad things Jews do on a daily basis that make us different. Also, once converted, you can pretty much do whatever you want and forever be considered Jewish. There's no take-backs on getting welcomed to the tribe.
I should have said allegedly orthodox. In NJ the Kushner name is in big letters on a Hebrew Academy yet Jared's father Charles was sleazy and unethical and ended up in jail, only to be pardoned by the grifter in chief himself. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
I remember now that he and Ivanka are Modern Orthodox. Which is: "Modern Orthodox Judaism (also Modern Orthodox or Modern Orthodoxy) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the modern world". This is, to me, what I converted into, which is Conservative Judaism, which is creeping closer to Reconstructionist Judaism. It's all blah-blah, especially if one isn't involved in or paying attention to such things. Jared Kushner, as far as I know, has never been photographed wearing a kippah in public. And no man I know who is a Conservative Jew wears one in public either, only in synagogue or at private rituals which obvs we can't know. FWIW, I always provide head coverings for male and female Jews at ritual seders. Whether they wear them or not is entirely their choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism
Absolutely not! You're always a nice person. We have had some convos before.I appreciate your comments. I'm noticing an uptick in many comments on Substack boards from people I would expect to be different, yet I still find them surprising.
Thank you for this info which I didn't know, not being Jewish OR religious at all - am probably listed in some dictionary somewhere as the prime example of THE most lapsed catholic of all time, lol. 'Some of my best friends' growing up - in school who looked out for me and working were jewish, of course. I took extra college classes at the Bronx High School of Science. If you know, you know. They should've clued me in more. ONE lovely woman I worked and became close friends with (in our law firm) brought her now-divorced husband to visit back in the early 80's. HE was much more observant than she and for some reason got off on a tangent about the orange fuckwit (long before his foray into politics) telling how HE had been horribly bullied by the demented one purely because he wore a yarmulka. Of course that's what orange fuckwit had his gang of thugs do...torment other non-violent boys purely due to their religion. UGH! Her husband STILL carried that pain into adulthood. I've never forgotten him turning away to hide the tears. She was the child of Holocaust survivors and had turned away because her parents had children out of duty but with no real love left to raise her. She understood, astonishingly. Amazingly loving person who still reaches out of the blue (on facebook) to 'like' comments I make there during her travels. She especially likes when I was bold enough to tell the truth about donny fuckwit, long before anyone else there could or would. Now, there are so many following suit it does my heart good. Many are musicians who didn't wish to 'rock the boat' with their audiences but are now standing up openly.
Caroline, it’s not just that he doesn’t know “when” is Passover, he has no idea “what” is Passover.
I’m ashamed to say that I’m not sure what it is either. I assume it’s when Jesus had a come to Jesus moment. I’m guessing it was his last moment which is sad; because, maybe if it wasn’t his last moment he could help us out with this orange killing machine. Maybe he’s on a recess like the republicans always seem to be. Maybe if he checks out for a while all the icky stuff will be gone when he comes back and he won’t have to actually do something to fix it.
You would have thought that he would show up when Hitler started killing millions but no.
He even looked away when the Catholics in charge started aiding and abetting Hitler and the Nazis.
What’s even worse about the Catholic muckity mucks is that they helped the Nazis escape when they were obviously defeated and no longer a threat. Why would they do that? What could the Nazis possibly have that would motivate the Catholics to help them especially after they were no longer a threat. Oh ya, money, gold. And now who has more wealth than any other religion on earth? — oh ya, the Catholics.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the current pope and the one before—both are (the spirit can’t be killed) two of the most decent people to walk the earth and most people who are Catholics are really decent loving people.
Most all of us have been tricked at one time or another. I was tricked by a religious cult. I admit it. I started looking around and discovered that cults are everywhere. Some are benign. It depends who is leading them. The Catholic cult is benign right now because there is an awesome pope in charge. But if Trump were the pope ( something he drools over) there would be an Armageddon toot sweet. Trump’s dream is to be both pope and king of the world.
Trump and Bibi are doing their best to do an Armageddon at this very moment. I don’t believe that is their objective but their actions are pushing the planet in that direction. The Pope is doing all he can to stop it but it’s going to take all of us.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that praying for god or Jesus to do something about it is just pissing in the wind.
As an aside are they one and the same? I think that’s what people believe. I never tried being myself and my son at the same time but hey, we sent a man to the moon so I guess anything is possible.
Anyway, what I started to say is that if god or Jesus were going to do something about it they would have done so by now and they wouldn’t have allowed Hitler and the Nazis do what they did. And they wouldn’t allow pedophiles to be in their churches or be president of the United States. Also, if god and Jesus really did exist, there would only be one religion.
Most people also believe that there is only one true religion; and, lucky them, they happen to be in the right one; and, therefore they must do God’s bidding and wipe out all the other “fake religions”.
Isn’t that what the crusades were about? Well that…and the money and power and property. Isn’t that why we have Friday the thirteenth? — the day of the week the Catholics tortured and slaughtered the Knights Templar because they were accumulating too much power and wealth and thus the people in power including the Catholic Church felt they had to do what they did.
But hey, didn’t we get all those cool Friday the thirteenth movies? So it was good for something I guess.
We all need to wake up. Mommy, daddy, god and Jesus are not coming to bail us out. It’s up to us.
Most of us have eyes and ears and can see and hear what’s right and wrong. We don’t need a religion to tell us. Most of us are insecure about our abilities and our goodness and think we need someone or a religion to show us the way and forgive our sins. The only one who needs to forgive our sins is us. Acknowledge what we’ve done. Realize it is wrong. Admit that to the people we’ve harmed and do our best to make up the damage to them. Sometimes that includes prison. For those of us who can’t stop harming others we definitely need imprisonment until we can understand right and wrong and can change our behavior.
Our problem is that we turn over the reins to someone who is cocky and confident sounding.
We think that they’re very confident and seem to know what they are doing and we know we don’t have all the answers so we let these people run things because they obviously know more than we do — they don’t. They just trick you in believing they do so they can control you and profit off you. We thought we never met a man who’s never sinned and yet we elected one president. It is not a sin to be confident and competent; but, it is a sin to give power and control because someone says he’s infallible when your eyes and ears tell you he’s not. It’s not a sin to believe someone but it is a sin to believe someone because he said you should. Trust your eyes. Trust your ears. Believe in yourself. Trust in others when their actions assure you they can be trusted. When your perceptions tell you they can’t be trusted then disempower them. Do not support them.
I know this is maybe common sense to a lot of people but I’m saying this because common sense seems to be in short supply these days—at least it is in the Republican Party; and wouldn’t you know it, the republicans, one for one claim to be the most religious people on earth and are 100% sure (hell, make that 1000% right trump) that they know what’s best for you and if it’s death and destruction; well, then “that’s just God’s will cause I said so and you wouldn’t go against god would you?” “I mean I’m on God’s side so if you’re not with me that means you’re with the devil”. That’s how they control you. If you go against them that means you go against god and that means you’re going to hell and will be tortured forever.
Open your eyes—they’re the ones doing the torturing in present time. They’re taking food away from children, they’re killing children in wars, they’re denying people healthcare, they’re making surviving more and more difficult. Think of that the next time you grant someone power over you. Use your eyes and ears. What do their actions,or lack there of, tell you?
Trust yourself. Trust your perceptions. Do the right thing.
Don’t trust the charlatans. Look where they’ve gotten us (and no, the problem isn’t Hunter’s laptop or Hillary’s emails). They distract and deceive. Believe your eyes. They’re laying their mushroom dick in your hand and telling you it’s a popsicle and you better get busy because it’s melting. All the bragging about the popsicle doesn’t make it better—it was, is, and will continue to be poison.
Sorry for the rant.
I’m just mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
We can’t just sit around and let them destroy our lives and environment.
Fuck em. They need to change sides or leave us out of it and all move to an uninhabited island and rapture themselves because that’s apparently what they want.
That’s not what the rest of us want.
One last thing then I promise I’m done.
Do remember the movie Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg? Remember the black things that carry off the bad people? I do think there is some truth in that. It has nothing to do with if they pray or not or what religion they belong to. I think it has to do with how big an asshole they are.
I think if you try to do right by others and try to do the right whether it benefits you or not, you’ll be ok. At the very least you’ll be able to sleep at night.
Frank. Passover, or Pesach as it's called, has nothing to do with Jesus and is known about by Christians mainly because of its association with the crucifixion. The Last Supper was a Pesach seder, for which Jesus came to Jerusalem to celebrate as commanded by god several times in the Torah.
That said, yes - commanded by god. It's not only that god helped the Israelites escape slavery in Egypt, but that he commanded them to remember it by re-enacting it in a ritual seder and shunning of leavened bread for a week. "As it is written", we say.😄
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The biblical commandments concerning the Passover (and the Feast of Unleavened Bread) stress the importance of remembering:
Exodus 12:14 commands about God's sparing of the firstborn from the tenth plague: "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever."[29]
Exodus 13:3 repeats the command to remember: "Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength the hand of the LORD brought you out from this place."[30]
Deuteronomy 16:12: "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes".[31]
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Wiki has a fairly decent article about it. Side note - the yellow and brown hagadot on the table in the first pic are the same ones my family uses. 😄 It's a very popular version.
You're welcome, Frank. And you can call me Ink. I grew up in a non-religious Christian family, where Santa and Easter Bunnies ruled. My Mom said "you didn't convert out of something, you converted into something", and she was right. Then I chose atheism based on a plethora of reasons, but I'm still a Jew with Episcopalian and Lutheran familial roots. And my husband's Jewish family roots are Romanian pogrom hell.
Frank, I am totes on board with your acknowledgment of not understanding some things. I'll get back to you. In the meantime, it's 2nd night Passover and I'm just gonna go chill and be happy that even as a Jew, I get a 3 day weekend. *whew*
🤔 umm, I’m thinking not if only bc I can’t wrap my head around his request for a list of Jewish employees as part of a “federal agency investigation into discrimination and antisemitism” at UPENN. It smells 🐟y to me with a bigger unknown ulterior motive behind it???Another step towards his full authoritarian agenda ??
I was never conspiratorial until the 🍊🤡🐖 rode down that escalator. Fuck🤦♀️‼️
Wait, what the WHAT? Every Jew in the U.S. should have their Nazi radar pinging. And yeah, I despise conspiracy thinking, but I've already said one can't have a Christofascist country that's home to a large portion of the world's Jewish population. None of these shitweasels care about Bibi and his enablers kicking the Greater Israel Project into overdrive: where do you think they plan to deport all the Jews to?? The "ingathering of the exiles", anyone? 🤔👀
Jeff, best part of the SC hearing arguments against birthright citizenship was when Solicitor General, who was totally unprepared for questioning by the Justices, literally could not answer the question surrounding our Native Americans and citizenship… uh, uh, uh,.. was his response. Another s**tty attorney, a former attorney for Donald. The god king got up and exited after that line of questioning..I’m guessing it was time for a mid morning nap or his diaper was full or perhaps he was just too bored. At least he was able to attend the big Easter lunch where those preachers compared Donald to Jesus.. a great ego booster for this perpetual victim.. Best to All Fellow Travelers as noted American author Hunter Thompson would say…
Dude literally said "Uh, I'll have to think about that" or something to that effect when asked about Native Americans as if it wasn't an obvious question that would come up.
If there is one silver lining of this whole stupid fucked up timeline, it is that it's really helped my (and I suspected many other's) imposter syndrome.
Donny sat his bad self down to glare at the Supremes. I'm sure he used his practiced Menacing Mob Boss Face. And it didn't work. They ignored he was even there, as they should. What a tool.
We are now living through the economic and geopolitical equivalent of COVID, except with bombs. Next I suppose Trump will advocate shining bright lights into Iran’s …..ah, civilian infrastructure.
Nothing like threatening war crimes and the mass murder of a civilian population on Easter, then smugly preening about being like Jesus. Whatever floats your giant fake tits, eh, MAGA?
We weren't living under the threat of nuclear war with Iran. Iran said so, Trump's advisors and negotiators said so. We were only under the threat of nuclear war with our own country because we have this crazy paranoid shitwit holding the nuclear codes. And his crazy paranoid shitwit lieutenants, the ghoul and the religious sex maniac.
Thanks, Jeff! Yee haw! Meanwhile, Zelenskyy kicks butt and takes names. Check out this eye-opening analysis by Dean Blundell:
BREAKING: TRUMP JUST LOST SAUDI ARABIA
Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, "It's over".
Like the rest of the world, I can't believe what I am seeing either. So at least Diapergod got that right.
The richest country in the history of the world can't take care of its population because the GoldenDementedOne wants ALL the riches he can grab. "Lots for me, none for any of youz," He mutters while staring at the Palace Ballroom plans.
As far as the slated-to-become Ballroom, of course, he is now claiming that the reason for the gaudy 40-foot-high ceiling room is "protection," which he had before leveling the whole wing into rubble.
Meanwhile, stocks crater because no one believes a word that comes out of his rancid mouth, other than that he'll do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. The MAGA Congress does another vacation.
Our legal system was never built to push against the assault that we face at least three times a day.
Fuck him and all his todies. Today and every day till the end of time, may they all face the legal, political, and social rebukes that they all truly have earned. Including Kegsbreath, who I hope is tried for crimes against humanity.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
markets continue to tumble, and the price of oil continues to soar
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/01/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
the price of a barrel of crude is up 13% since Donny gave his speech
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2039686260399182280
I can't like this. There should be another button. Argghhh!
Exactly. An aargh button 😩
I keep hoping for a WTF button or one that resembles 🤬or a full of 💩button w/o the smiley face
I agree. But a WTF button would get worn out before we got through one of Jeff's posts. On the lighter side, bad and stupid as this all is, there's enough levity in his writing to keep us going. But, a word of warning: Don't read Jeff while eating a peanut butter sandwich. It isn't pretty.
💯‼️ Been there done that with coffee while reading Jeff’s post🤭
How about a " Trump talking Bullshit again" button?
That doesn't even need to be a button, it could just be a short circuit.
Works for me😂
'mumbling' bullshit again fits better, methinks? I mean, that was 19 minutes I'll never get back of sheer, unadulterated SHITFUCKERY delivered in a stupid-azz monotone without a comma or a full stop by THE dumbest fucking dumbest-shit dipshit EVER to stain our Oval Office. What the FUCK? I'd dozed off, assuming it'd be a 3-hour blither blather (as always) woke up to THAT awful voice droning on. THEN they played it again on MSNow. Seriously wished they hadn't bothered.
Ooh I like that; aargh!
A Pete Hegseth skateboard-to-the-nuts button, if you will.
Oh yes please X a hundred million!!!!!!!
yes - BUT - I do so like when Jeff inserts that GIF at JUST the perfect moment in time.
That's MY favourite response too - aside from Ugh. Aaaaaaaragh denotes a real scream of disgust. ;)
I like this because EVERYONE knows TRUMP DID THIS! Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🙄
Thought of another :
BSCT. We can say another #bsct. Bat-shit-crazy-talk.
I'M still waiting for everyone to refer to his Big UGLY bill as BUB - or Bubba. Would drive him nuts since he'd never get it.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I call this TES—trump Exhaustion Syndrome. After you listen to his lies long enough, you just collapse in a heap.
The next time he says the word “strait” he’ll be wearing a straight jacket.
Actually, the word is "straitjacket." Really.
Very appropriate, under the circumstances!
A hug me coat!!!
My doggie Gus had a thunder shirt. Don't know if they make them in size huge, though.
wouldn't we all just love to see adderalled donny strapped into one of those with the added benefit of BIG shackles around his ankles so he couldn't get up to 'storm out of the room' as in SCOTUS yesterday? I would have PAID to see a video of him forced to sit through their dismissive attitudes towards his insanely stupid arguments against birthright citizenship.
I suspect the Court is going to punt. They won't rule on the 14th amendment. They'll say that a president can not negate something in the Constitution by EO and therefore HIS act was unconstitutional. If they go that route, they could theoretically get a decision that was 7-2 or 8-1 or -- and that would drive him mad -- 9-0.
yes - although it would be SO MUCH more satisfying to actually hear them tell him 'you're nuts, now get out of here with your batshit fuckery' (lol). Aaah, I can dream, can't I?
We can only hope!
Let us hope there is no next time at all.
🙏🤞🙏🤞🙏🤞
I couldn’t want anything more
I've gone from being physically unable to listen to him to being unable to read what he says/posts.
I feel the same Martha. Even if you read the words you hear his voice. I wish his tongue was ripped out with a hot pincer.
I got there and then somehow am going back the other way since I read Jeff's post to my husband and 'do' orange critter's voice (which IS pretty damn funny if I say so myself). It's enough to make even hubby get the shudders - which is how 'I' used to react when he insisted on listening to him against my wishes, so turn-about has become fair play, wot? Now I'm having a wee bit of fun and he no longer wants to hear the orange one talk on tv at all!
Amen.
Donny looks confused after every sentence he reads then has to repeat his rosary, "the likes of which have never been seen before," before stumbling into his next sentence.
It’s much like a refrain in a terrible song.
Or I need a Kleenex button for when we collapse in a heap😪
It's always been the trumpers are deranged and anyone who claims we have it is calling the kettle black.
We need to start saying hallucinations when talking about him. We know every word that spews from his mouth is a lie but now hallucinations is appropriate due to his growing mental instability. Think of AI and hallucinations - perfect analogy. How many times a day could we say that? ‘He’s hallucinating.’
Not me - at least not yet. I STILL want to put my fist through the screen, hoping it'll somehow miraculously transmit to his fucking face. When I saw that stupid toad smile after his 'faith leader' (wtf is that anyway?) paula white simpering up at him that HE's the reason Jesus resurrected after 3 days...omg - I nearly DID throw up in my mouth and I'm as far from being religious as one can get. UGH!
🏆 THIS ⬆️
We all know that inside traders make millions every time he manipulates the market.
classic pump and dump. only on the largest scale possible.
DePedo Donnie might lie, but the markets tell the real story.
And we all know what “two weeks” means.
Some of those “two weeks” have still been ticking by since 2016.
Like his "two weeks coming" health plan. Clearly, his plans are to push all social programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, back onto the states. The poorest, reddest states will have the highest scores in every category of the Misery Index.
Jeff,
Thanks for keeping us informed, with humor, through your own personal grief. Much love sent your way
YES! Appreciate your mentioning this. I feel exactly the same way but certainly don't say it enough. We love you Jeff and hope our nattering and bitching helps give YOU a wee laugh here and there. We know you're hurting and hope we can ease some of it.
Maybe this will get the maggots’ attention. 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Not holding my breath for that to happen
They'll just blame Biden...or, the next closest "radical left" Democrat.
They are already at the point of no return.
"Lost causes"
Who got rich off of Donald's whiplash turn around this time?
and then there's this:
"Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-sons-powerus-drone-interceptors-iran-missiles-1d8d858fdad5104a56e4438994093594
The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father began.
“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want,” said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush. “This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.”
Butthead and beavis (or did I get that backwards?) are making BILLIONS for their dada who is even dumber and meaner than they are. My sole hope is that ALL of these dimwits (including jared) lose every single penny within the next couple of years in some bitcoin/crypto scam. Now THAT would be Karma coming around somewhat. STILL not quite enough, but partway there.
AND! bondi got fired!!!
The only exciting part of my day. I'll bet Todd Blanche stabbed her in the back. They are turning on each other and eating their own!
Why is Wall St so quick to believe that Iran will let our ships through the Strait? If I were Iran, I would let other countries’ ships through but not American & if they sold oil to the US, I would cut those ships off too
They are already doing that, oil is being allowed to transit through the strait selectively from what I've read (can't recall where).
Tiedrich again shamelessly confusing MAGAs with facts.
😂😂
#Schadenfreude
Which was the whole point of the speech. Betcha some more insider trading took place.
Also, Jeff, pamnesia was given a pink slip👋👋👋👋
but, but, but - we were informed by the monotoned orange fuckwit that WE don't NEED the oil coming through the Strait(s) of Hormuz/trump (as he would prefer it be called), no? THEN he said the rest of our former(?) allies should handle it themselves OR that it would just 'naturally' open up...like Covid, would just wash away. SNL came to mind. THEN he said he's been having great discussions with the new regime (is that the old regime's son whose daddy he blew to smithereens along with the entire family OF the new regime's leader?) Inquiring minds and all that. THEN he said we have more than enough of our own oil - which makes ME wonder why the fuck should OUR oil and gas prices be escalating through the fucking ROOF?! But don't mind me, I guess logic isn't my strong point anymore than it is for the fucking blithering orange toddler.
The hardest part of a two-week war is the first six years.
that's such a god line that I'm jealous I didn't think of it first
I don't competely forgive you for stealing Preznit from me, but it's yours now, and I'm kinda proud of the contribution. (I had to post this. I've been holding it in.) Love yer guts, Jeff.
"preznit" was coined by the blogger Atrios in 2003, unless yours predates his
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2003/12/preznit-no-giv-me-turkee.html
Never saw it so I'll just say great minds, etc. I'm just funnin wit ya Jeff. I love all the words you type.
I feel proud as punch when you use ANY term I think I might have coined - whether someone used it before me or not. I steal YOUR (Jeff's) stuff all the time: 'preznit fuckwit', big orange pumpkin head, SO many things I can't now fucking remember at 3a.m., lol. Just had a wee bit of an argument/discussion with Adam Gussow (Blues Harmonica player/teacher/author) on facebook when he likened Smooth Jazz to AI 'elevator music' (which pissed me off a bit since I follow so many so-called smooth jazz musicians, especially in their LIVE music shows/concerts). I've talked often about Peter White's terrific guitar playing. IF you love sax music give a listen to the studio version of Gerald Albright's 'My, My, My'. Scrumptious! Anyway - I'd just been listening to 'Swept Away' by Peter and 'Midnight in Manhattan', grooving again to these amazing tunes when I read Adam's posts. I've met him several times and he's a bit of a mentor to Jason Ricci, harmonica player extraordinaire and long-time friend of mine. BUT I so dislike those kind of god-like pronouncements because jazz purists imagine that a music they don't love isn't 'good enough' or whatever it is they decide. Annoying as hell. I DO enjoy the occasional 'real' jazz but amn't overly enamoured - far preferring folk, rock, R&B and smooth jazz. But that's me - and what rocks MY boat. I love sentimental melodious music - not jangly to my ears (what I'm now calling 'janky' due to Jeff) jazz which doesn't go anywhere. I wouldn't insult those who do like it though. Which brings me to the doughy old orange pantload who's been stealing the Boss's 'Born in the USA" (never comprehending what it's about') yet just today had the temerity to call Bruce Springsteen a 'wrinkly old prune'! Has this jealous, talentless old fuckwit EVER understood ANY music OR looked in a real mirror? His gall takes my breath away.
I call him the PRESIDUNCE, go ahead & use it, I don't mind at all 😊
Good one!
Kristy: Now I'VE been calling him that for AGES, how dare you! (lol). ;) Kidding about that part but I use that EVERYWHERE - I capitalize ONLY the DUNCE as in presiDUNCE: on FB, Instagram, Twitter, wherever possible. It sure drives the magats crazy. SO nice to see someone else call him that too - it fits SO WELL - I wish it would catch on. :)
Great minds think alike ! 😁
YES! - At least I like to think so. ;) Jeff keeping us sane is a MAJOR truism we mostly all react to - and love. Every little bon mot we can add is extra spice to his sauce.
I really thought there would be cake at the six year anniversary of you posting about "what the fuck is wrong with you?" last Monday.
OH FUCK I MISSED IT
It's ok, man. Under the circumstances it's completely understandable. And, it's only 363 days until the 7th anniversary...
I believe that comment is outlawed under the Geneva Conventions.
Gee, have you had a lot going on recently or something?
Well, today IS the first anniversary of "liberation day." You could impose a tariff on something.
Good one Ann! And historically accurate to boot. I laughed and then got sad thinking of our soldiers who have died or been injured and will continue to die and be injured for no, 0, nada good reasons. He’s insane.
Republicans, PUT HIM OUT OF OUR MISERY!
I’d tell you to see the truth that’s right in front of you.
BUT YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
That's a variation of Paul Samuelson's: "The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions."
Oh we are in it just wait for the report it’s unavoidable.
Good one!
I liken listening to one of his speeches these days to a long intricate math problem I have to solve without paper and pencil. (Tip of the hat to Gary Larson.)
All of this is reminding me of Total Recall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI
"TWOOO WWEEEEKKKSS"
You have to pronounce it as dementoed donny does: doo weeks. He can't pronounce a soft 't' in two. It comes out as 'd'. Everything's going to be done in doo weeks - or 3. Just wait and see.
Perfect!
Ha! Brilliant Ann!
How do we continue to miss this?????
Boom
Jesus. Glad I missed it. None of these lazy ass republicans will ever step in and stop this demented old coot will they? They must be making too much money trading stocks. 🙄
This situation is precisely why we have a 25th Amendment.
Except Trump's bat shit crazy talk is the point. The people who pulled their truck up to the back of the Treasury need the distraction.
Their own private ATM.
Only when the tunnel FROM the bunker under the 'noo' ballroom leading TO the Treasury is completed first. Has that been accomplished yet? I've believed his entire aim was to steal ALL the gold in our Treasury from day one. First what's in New York (shades of Die Hard 2 - the trucks under the East River)...now there's another plan involving that fucking bunker under his 'biggest ballroom ever'. Who the FUCK wants a ballroom? NOBODY - but a bunker where he can hide AND store all those stolen documents and goodies he got from rich Arab countries AND all the USA's gold, well - gotta be 'the biggest ever', right?
They won't do it as long as they are raking in the bucks. Sorry.
And we have a bat-shit Cabinet that loves Donnie. Where else can they get a cushy job with $$$$ benefits?
They don't love him. Most of them are unindicted (Homer Simpson voice "so far") Epstein co-cospirators who need him.
Now if the Repugnicans would find some testicular fortitude, they could invoke it.
READ it. With Vance and this Cabinet it's useless.
YES, GODDAMNIT!
Agreed but Vance and the Cabinet don’t have the balls to make such a declaration. 🐓💩💩💩💩‼️
I consume so much news and media from all my substacks and their videos...especially all the lawyers and pundits I follow, that one recently said it will never be used. It really devastated me. They give us these tools like "break in case of an emergency" but they make it impossible for it to actually be followed through. I just wish he would die, but I'm also superstitious like "don't wish too hard, you just might get it" and be stuck with JD Vance who gives me nightmares.
Donnie Demento is carrying out Putin's orders like the good Krasnow he is, and the rest of the Rethuglicans are hoping to reap the profits from the destruction of the US. Too bad we don't have the details on what they all were promised after their July 4 visit to Moscow. Must've been reeeeeaaallllly good to convince them to set fire to the Constitution.
Idk, Ron Johnson has since purchased a mansion in Florida, so he's doing all right. Sometimes he takes a per diem to fly himself back to WI for a perfunctory appearance. They still voted the traitor back in. Rumor has it that the other guy was <whisper> Black and from MIKWAUKEE, so Super Black </>.
https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/american-bridge-report-ron-johnson-charging-taxpayers-for-plane-rides-from-family-home-in-florida/
2-1/2 more years of his insane babbling and glazed over eyes!
I so look forward to the day when Trump is- to quote Caroline Leavitt when she spoke about the late Iranian regime - no longer on Planet Earth!
I can't wait for him to be interred INSIDE Planet Earth - from natural causes of course. Cankles, you have ONE JOB - hop to it! They need to make a nice 'memorial garden' so we can all go 'water' it.
That and they and their families are being threatened or they’re in the Epstein files or they’re otherwise Russian assets. Something serious to make that many people eagerly support the downfall of the United States
Agree.
I used to think perhaps all of the above, Richard. Now? It's just greed and self-interest. They don't give a flying fuck about ANYONE ELSE other than themselves and their cushy bank accounts. Lee Zeldin, now on the short-list (supposedly) to replace blondi bondi WAS the congressman for OUR district - one of whose staffers even helped my husband (who was registered as a republican then) take care of some of his VA issues. He liked Zeldin just fine UNtil he realized he was an all-in frumpist with very big ambitions. He's positioning himself and his little fambly (he's one of those uber forgettable faces) to work his way up in this fucking regime. He's HORRID with the issues he's voted against and I bet would be even worse than bondi, all with a glad hand and simpering smile for the orange fuckwit.
I don’t see any lazy ass Dems doing anything either but talking about how awful the Preznit is. I guess that’s still their platform.
In fairness, the Dems holding firm on no ice funding seems to have worked. Word today is that Holy Mike is going to support the bill now. If Drumpf screams at him, will he change his mind? We shall see.
I'm amazed that the Dems didn't crater. I am pleased that maybe the video of two American citizens peacefully living their lives and saying, "Dude, I'm not mad at you." and running to the rescue of a woman thrown on the grown only to be EXECUTED POINT BLANK by the Federal Government. Yes, OUR TAX DOLLARS underwrote their murders. Murders that have not resulted in the arrest of anyone while every motion of the transgressions were duly recorded and without doubt. Murder. Maybe, finally, that was a line the Democratic Leadership could hold.
But they're on paid vacation so it will have to wait! First things first!
It didn’t happen today, so the shutdown rolls along.
"it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual— things. they can do it on a state basis. you can’t do it on a feda— we have to take care of one thing: military protection."
I wouldn't knock talking constantly about how bad Trump is. There are a lot of tuned out people. Every democrat should have taken to their preferred social media the second this came out of Trump's mouth. A real opposition party would be so nice to have right now.
How convenient that the White House “obliterated” the recording of Donny’s Easter Egg speech. A record of official events is a legal requirement, but those things aren’t as important as keeping the clips out of campaign ads.
It's true that every Democratic candidate in Nov. will be running against Trump. Young voters will be asking the Dems "We get it, so what else you got?" Schumer -- that fucking guy.
Schumer! Aarrrggghhh! 🤦♀️
Jay Kuo said plenty of Dems grabbed copies of that speech, so it's still out there, waiting to be turned into memes and campaign vids.
"Lazy ass"? You mean the minority whose hands are tied by a corrupt Rethuglican majority, as well as a court system salted with judges dedicated to Donnie Demento's agenda? That being said, it looks as if the "lazy ass Dems" are feeding Holy Brother Mike Johnson his crap sandwich.
The same lazy ass Dems that ignored the genocide in Palestine, held back Jack Smith from his investigation of Trump until it was too late and the same ones who thought Biden could run again? Yes, that’s who I’m referring to. They’re all compromised but the red side was busy enough to pass the Big Bad Bill with blue support and the blue guys are still not committed to opposing this stupid war that the Preznit is using to manipulate the stock market. BTW - the term “lazy ass” was simply a comparison “lazy ass republicans” from the first post.
What "blue support" for the Big Bad Bill?
The Final Senate Vote: A 51–50 Showdown
In a dramatic finish, 50 Republican senators voted in favor of the Big Beautiful Bill. With the Senate split evenly, Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote, sealing the bill’s passage. *All 49 Democrats voted against the measure.* Three key Republican senators—Susan Collins, Rand Paul, and Thom Tillis—broke with their party and voted no, citing specific policy concerns.
https://usahousinginformation.com/which-senators-voted-for-the-big-beautiful-bill/
I’m mad at them too. 😞
They do not have the power, hopefully we WILL have midterm elections, the
Dems win, & can do much more
Jamie Raskin, Brendan Boyle, Corey Booker, Josh Shapiro, EVERY woman in our Democratic Congress - along with the newer younger members Maxwell Frost...(and so many more whose names I can't think of right now because I've been up all night and am tired) who speak out every chance they get - YOU call 'lazy ass'? They're IN the House working on their committees passing bills OR stopping the repukes from passing HORRIBLE bills! That's their job and why they were sent to Congress. Maybe you're either watching the wrong channels (try MSNow to see which members are ALWAYS dropping by to inform the public of what new chicanery is going on which they're fighting against) or check C-Span which televises directly FROM the House floor. WHEN the republicans spend ALL of their time praising their orange lord for his utter greed and stupidity and a War no one wanted or approved, I certainly hope that Democrats speak out against THEM as well as HIM. That's NOT 'their platform' - but a reminder of exactly what magats did to our Country AND our Constitution by electing the DUMBEST POS they could find because they thought he 'told it like it is'. WTF? Most of US still believe in our Constitution, not a fucking 'biggest ballroom ever' OR ripping down the Kennedy Center, OR trashing our Constitution OR fomenting a War in the middle of the night!
Donald can’t afford his ballroom, play golf, loot the treasury if US pays for healthcare, childcare, Social security, Medicare etc.
Oddly as a taxpayer, I’d be fine with universal healthcare, free regulated child care, CDC, roads, airports, education, etc.
Trump&Musk already don’t pay taxes. I don’t want to give them more while Americans sacrifice.
Paul Krugman today said it’s time to blame the people who voted Trump into office, twice.
That’s how the rest of the world sees it.
That’s how I see it.
He doesn't want the federal government to pay for any of those benefits because he has decided that is all his money. Maybe we should stop paying taxes to the federal government if he is going to piss it away on a marble and gold ballroon and killing children in Iran.
I would love to do that. Or, at least, be able to choose what percentage of my taxes are used for the programs I choose.
Agree
You have a point rlritt. Money (or lack of it) talks. When you’re talking money, republicans start to listen.
I have zero fucks to give about the troubles of fools who voted for some asshole because of egg prices.
I’m almost angrier with Democrats who think not voting is a worthy form of protest. Thought Trump would stand up to Netanyahu.
The just plain misogyny
Suki, the rotten orange doesn’t stand up to dictators who he believes will give him some money for his schemes
True
I think they voted for the racism and anti DEI. They really hate that businesses have to give women and Blacks "prefererential" consideration. The Hispanic male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump because the alternative was a black woman. They are sorry now.
"... afford his ballroom, play golf, *carry out illegal unauthorized wars and other military "operations" ..."
Because of him we’re hopelessly stuck
Yet he says it’s ’cuz our allies lack pluck
This mess serves only his needs
To obscure his past misdeeds
He’s just a cruel, selfish dumbfuck
You have made my day far less dreary. Thank you!
That’s the goal. Otherwise I’d be overwhelmed with rage and helpless despair
All true Doc. All true
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Perfect. Just perfect.
You can tell..
When the tele-
prompter.....
Scrolls to another-
page..
He has to pause..
Because his ...
brain can't keep
up
😂
I’m not on his crappy app, so I’m wondering if Donny, who professes to love Jews so much, bothered to wish a happy Passover to those who celebrate (as every other president has done). Or was he too afraid it would piss off his Nazi base?
Would he even know it's Passover?
Well, wouldn't Jared tell him? It's weird that Fake Jews have joined Fake Christians to destroy our country.
Or his BFF Bibi?
Make that co-conspirator
Or Stephen Miller?
miller HATES that he's jewish. DESPISES that his own grandmother was a Holocaust survivor so has spent his useless life railing against his own family's faith while working FOR and TOWARDS bringing back the 4th reich - in the form of the deeply anti-semitic frump (if you're a lifelong NY'er you know) - helping bring about Project 2025 as well as boasting how those who're not white deserve to be trampled on. He is THE vilest of the vile - has been since his early childhood. Was probably bullied by the likes of the orange toad he now worships. How psychotic is that!
Miller was denounced by his own uncle.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/
AND his Uncle's essay SO needs to be read by everyone with a functioning brain. It's so beautifully written with zero apologies about his own faith and family. The story he tells about Joseph (of Eritrea) is heartbreaking, especially when one realizes that those days and months of torture were being done to a CHILD - and so closely match what is being done to even more children right now and right here! I'm still a wee bit confused about which grandmother it was who 'survived the Holocaust' now? Was it on his father's side? IF so, he had this brilliant Glosser family who'd worked hard for 100 years AS immigrants to build their lives AND generational wealth but no, not sufficient for goebbels/miller. HE has to become a white nationalist. How on Earth does someone with this kind of family background become so viciously vile/evil? I'm flummoxed - as well as SO impressed by his Uncle. I had read comments BY him about his nephew before - but not this. Wow and thank you.
YES! And more than once! I believe later on more members of the family spoke out about their shame and disappointment, but his Uncle was the first.
My thoughts exactly. They may be observant jews but they're driven by greed and grift and have no moral compass so the hypocrisy is glaring!
Well Ivanka and Jared are observant jews (she converted) so he should have a clue.
I think I’d say performative Jews, Barb.
Barb and Cheri, What does being a "performative" Jew mean? You CAN be an absolutely despicable, and loathsome "observant" or non-observant Jewish person, just like one can be an utterly despicable and loathsome practicing Christian. Do any of the Christians in his cabinet or gov't or MAGAS have a moral compass? Are they not THE biggest hypocrites on the planet (looking at you Bryon Noem and Pam Bondi and KKKaroline Leavitt).
I don't think a lot of you realize there are Jews here on this board, celebrating our holiday (and worried about possible terrorist attacks) even without us being religious, practicing or observant. So only "Jews" (observant or not) are driven by "greed and grift and have no moral compass"? Do you know how insulting you sound even though I know you don't mean it to be?
Please, I am asking you respectfully. Do not lump us all in together!
Yeah, but they're far from being PRACTICING Jews, from what my Jewish friends have told me....so THEY probably have no clue, either.
Should is doing a lot of work in that sentence 🙃
Unless an observant Jew is observing them in their home, there's no way to prove they're observant of any of the myriad things Jews do on a daily basis that make us different. Also, once converted, you can pretty much do whatever you want and forever be considered Jewish. There's no take-backs on getting welcomed to the tribe.
I should have said allegedly orthodox. In NJ the Kushner name is in big letters on a Hebrew Academy yet Jared's father Charles was sleazy and unethical and ended up in jail, only to be pardoned by the grifter in chief himself. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
I remember now that he and Ivanka are Modern Orthodox. Which is: "Modern Orthodox Judaism (also Modern Orthodox or Modern Orthodoxy) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the modern world". This is, to me, what I converted into, which is Conservative Judaism, which is creeping closer to Reconstructionist Judaism. It's all blah-blah, especially if one isn't involved in or paying attention to such things. Jared Kushner, as far as I know, has never been photographed wearing a kippah in public. And no man I know who is a Conservative Jew wears one in public either, only in synagogue or at private rituals which obvs we can't know. FWIW, I always provide head coverings for male and female Jews at ritual seders. Whether they wear them or not is entirely their choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism
Thank you Irascible Ink. I have to get off this board.. Really, all of Substack is just getting offensive.
I hope I was not one of the offensive ones.
Absolutely not! You're always a nice person. We have had some convos before.I appreciate your comments. I'm noticing an uptick in many comments on Substack boards from people I would expect to be different, yet I still find them surprising.
Thank you for this info which I didn't know, not being Jewish OR religious at all - am probably listed in some dictionary somewhere as the prime example of THE most lapsed catholic of all time, lol. 'Some of my best friends' growing up - in school who looked out for me and working were jewish, of course. I took extra college classes at the Bronx High School of Science. If you know, you know. They should've clued me in more. ONE lovely woman I worked and became close friends with (in our law firm) brought her now-divorced husband to visit back in the early 80's. HE was much more observant than she and for some reason got off on a tangent about the orange fuckwit (long before his foray into politics) telling how HE had been horribly bullied by the demented one purely because he wore a yarmulka. Of course that's what orange fuckwit had his gang of thugs do...torment other non-violent boys purely due to their religion. UGH! Her husband STILL carried that pain into adulthood. I've never forgotten him turning away to hide the tears. She was the child of Holocaust survivors and had turned away because her parents had children out of duty but with no real love left to raise her. She understood, astonishingly. Amazingly loving person who still reaches out of the blue (on facebook) to 'like' comments I make there during her travels. She especially likes when I was bold enough to tell the truth about donny fuckwit, long before anyone else there could or would. Now, there are so many following suit it does my heart good. Many are musicians who didn't wish to 'rock the boat' with their audiences but are now standing up openly.
Caroline, it’s not just that he doesn’t know “when” is Passover, he has no idea “what” is Passover.
I’m ashamed to say that I’m not sure what it is either. I assume it’s when Jesus had a come to Jesus moment. I’m guessing it was his last moment which is sad; because, maybe if it wasn’t his last moment he could help us out with this orange killing machine. Maybe he’s on a recess like the republicans always seem to be. Maybe if he checks out for a while all the icky stuff will be gone when he comes back and he won’t have to actually do something to fix it.
You would have thought that he would show up when Hitler started killing millions but no.
He even looked away when the Catholics in charge started aiding and abetting Hitler and the Nazis.
What’s even worse about the Catholic muckity mucks is that they helped the Nazis escape when they were obviously defeated and no longer a threat. Why would they do that? What could the Nazis possibly have that would motivate the Catholics to help them especially after they were no longer a threat. Oh ya, money, gold. And now who has more wealth than any other religion on earth? — oh ya, the Catholics.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the current pope and the one before—both are (the spirit can’t be killed) two of the most decent people to walk the earth and most people who are Catholics are really decent loving people.
Most all of us have been tricked at one time or another. I was tricked by a religious cult. I admit it. I started looking around and discovered that cults are everywhere. Some are benign. It depends who is leading them. The Catholic cult is benign right now because there is an awesome pope in charge. But if Trump were the pope ( something he drools over) there would be an Armageddon toot sweet. Trump’s dream is to be both pope and king of the world.
Trump and Bibi are doing their best to do an Armageddon at this very moment. I don’t believe that is their objective but their actions are pushing the planet in that direction. The Pope is doing all he can to stop it but it’s going to take all of us.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that praying for god or Jesus to do something about it is just pissing in the wind.
As an aside are they one and the same? I think that’s what people believe. I never tried being myself and my son at the same time but hey, we sent a man to the moon so I guess anything is possible.
Anyway, what I started to say is that if god or Jesus were going to do something about it they would have done so by now and they wouldn’t have allowed Hitler and the Nazis do what they did. And they wouldn’t allow pedophiles to be in their churches or be president of the United States. Also, if god and Jesus really did exist, there would only be one religion.
Most people also believe that there is only one true religion; and, lucky them, they happen to be in the right one; and, therefore they must do God’s bidding and wipe out all the other “fake religions”.
Isn’t that what the crusades were about? Well that…and the money and power and property. Isn’t that why we have Friday the thirteenth? — the day of the week the Catholics tortured and slaughtered the Knights Templar because they were accumulating too much power and wealth and thus the people in power including the Catholic Church felt they had to do what they did.
But hey, didn’t we get all those cool Friday the thirteenth movies? So it was good for something I guess.
We all need to wake up. Mommy, daddy, god and Jesus are not coming to bail us out. It’s up to us.
Most of us have eyes and ears and can see and hear what’s right and wrong. We don’t need a religion to tell us. Most of us are insecure about our abilities and our goodness and think we need someone or a religion to show us the way and forgive our sins. The only one who needs to forgive our sins is us. Acknowledge what we’ve done. Realize it is wrong. Admit that to the people we’ve harmed and do our best to make up the damage to them. Sometimes that includes prison. For those of us who can’t stop harming others we definitely need imprisonment until we can understand right and wrong and can change our behavior.
Our problem is that we turn over the reins to someone who is cocky and confident sounding.
We think that they’re very confident and seem to know what they are doing and we know we don’t have all the answers so we let these people run things because they obviously know more than we do — they don’t. They just trick you in believing they do so they can control you and profit off you. We thought we never met a man who’s never sinned and yet we elected one president. It is not a sin to be confident and competent; but, it is a sin to give power and control because someone says he’s infallible when your eyes and ears tell you he’s not. It’s not a sin to believe someone but it is a sin to believe someone because he said you should. Trust your eyes. Trust your ears. Believe in yourself. Trust in others when their actions assure you they can be trusted. When your perceptions tell you they can’t be trusted then disempower them. Do not support them.
I know this is maybe common sense to a lot of people but I’m saying this because common sense seems to be in short supply these days—at least it is in the Republican Party; and wouldn’t you know it, the republicans, one for one claim to be the most religious people on earth and are 100% sure (hell, make that 1000% right trump) that they know what’s best for you and if it’s death and destruction; well, then “that’s just God’s will cause I said so and you wouldn’t go against god would you?” “I mean I’m on God’s side so if you’re not with me that means you’re with the devil”. That’s how they control you. If you go against them that means you go against god and that means you’re going to hell and will be tortured forever.
Open your eyes—they’re the ones doing the torturing in present time. They’re taking food away from children, they’re killing children in wars, they’re denying people healthcare, they’re making surviving more and more difficult. Think of that the next time you grant someone power over you. Use your eyes and ears. What do their actions,or lack there of, tell you?
Trust yourself. Trust your perceptions. Do the right thing.
Don’t trust the charlatans. Look where they’ve gotten us (and no, the problem isn’t Hunter’s laptop or Hillary’s emails). They distract and deceive. Believe your eyes. They’re laying their mushroom dick in your hand and telling you it’s a popsicle and you better get busy because it’s melting. All the bragging about the popsicle doesn’t make it better—it was, is, and will continue to be poison.
Sorry for the rant.
I’m just mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
We can’t just sit around and let them destroy our lives and environment.
Fuck em. They need to change sides or leave us out of it and all move to an uninhabited island and rapture themselves because that’s apparently what they want.
That’s not what the rest of us want.
One last thing then I promise I’m done.
Do remember the movie Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg? Remember the black things that carry off the bad people? I do think there is some truth in that. It has nothing to do with if they pray or not or what religion they belong to. I think it has to do with how big an asshole they are.
I think if you try to do right by others and try to do the right whether it benefits you or not, you’ll be ok. At the very least you’ll be able to sleep at night.
Frank. Passover, or Pesach as it's called, has nothing to do with Jesus and is known about by Christians mainly because of its association with the crucifixion. The Last Supper was a Pesach seder, for which Jesus came to Jerusalem to celebrate as commanded by god several times in the Torah.
That said, yes - commanded by god. It's not only that god helped the Israelites escape slavery in Egypt, but that he commanded them to remember it by re-enacting it in a ritual seder and shunning of leavened bread for a week. "As it is written", we say.😄
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The biblical commandments concerning the Passover (and the Feast of Unleavened Bread) stress the importance of remembering:
Exodus 12:14 commands about God's sparing of the firstborn from the tenth plague: "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever."[29]
Exodus 13:3 repeats the command to remember: "Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength the hand of the LORD brought you out from this place."[30]
Deuteronomy 16:12: "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes".[31]
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Wiki has a fairly decent article about it. Side note - the yellow and brown hagadot on the table in the first pic are the same ones my family uses. 😄 It's a very popular version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover
Thank you so much Irascible! I’ve got my work cut out for me. I grew up in a non religious family so the bible is kind of Greek to me.
You're welcome, Frank. And you can call me Ink. I grew up in a non-religious Christian family, where Santa and Easter Bunnies ruled. My Mom said "you didn't convert out of something, you converted into something", and she was right. Then I chose atheism based on a plethora of reasons, but I'm still a Jew with Episcopalian and Lutheran familial roots. And my husband's Jewish family roots are Romanian pogrom hell.
Frank, I am totes on board with your acknowledgment of not understanding some things. I'll get back to you. In the meantime, it's 2nd night Passover and I'm just gonna go chill and be happy that even as a Jew, I get a 3 day weekend. *whew*
His brain is in constant passover
Actually I think his brain is afflicted with the ten plagues.
Especially boils.
Good one Emma!
😂😂
I'm not sure I want the name of my favorite holiday on his rancid lips.
i’d like to pass over him
🤔 umm, I’m thinking not if only bc I can’t wrap my head around his request for a list of Jewish employees as part of a “federal agency investigation into discrimination and antisemitism” at UPENN. It smells 🐟y to me with a bigger unknown ulterior motive behind it???Another step towards his full authoritarian agenda ??
I was never conspiratorial until the 🍊🤡🐖 rode down that escalator. Fuck🤦♀️‼️
Wait, what the WHAT? Every Jew in the U.S. should have their Nazi radar pinging. And yeah, I despise conspiracy thinking, but I've already said one can't have a Christofascist country that's home to a large portion of the world's Jewish population. None of these shitweasels care about Bibi and his enablers kicking the Greater Israel Project into overdrive: where do you think they plan to deport all the Jews to?? The "ingathering of the exiles", anyone? 🤔👀
He wants a list of all the Jewish employees at U PENN, Lawrence Tribe on Lawrence O'Donnell last night was
rightly gobsmacked.An Obama appointed Judge said okie doke 😳
You’re right Steph. Can’t piss off the nazis — wouldn’t be prudent
Jeff, best part of the SC hearing arguments against birthright citizenship was when Solicitor General, who was totally unprepared for questioning by the Justices, literally could not answer the question surrounding our Native Americans and citizenship… uh, uh, uh,.. was his response. Another s**tty attorney, a former attorney for Donald. The god king got up and exited after that line of questioning..I’m guessing it was time for a mid morning nap or his diaper was full or perhaps he was just too bored. At least he was able to attend the big Easter lunch where those preachers compared Donald to Jesus.. a great ego booster for this perpetual victim.. Best to All Fellow Travelers as noted American author Hunter Thompson would say…
Another frightening display
That causes much dismay
Among those who see clearly
And are not just merely
Like his cultists cray-cray
Dude literally said "Uh, I'll have to think about that" or something to that effect when asked about Native Americans as if it wasn't an obvious question that would come up.
If there is one silver lining of this whole stupid fucked up timeline, it is that it's really helped my (and I suspected many other's) imposter syndrome.
Donny sat his bad self down to glare at the Supremes. I'm sure he used his practiced Menacing Mob Boss Face. And it didn't work. They ignored he was even there, as they should. What a tool.
I am absolutely amazed that he managed to sit quietly for an hour or more. That might be a presidential record.
hope the hvac fans were on to emit his ass music
Maybe he thought they (the Supremes) were gonna call on him to get up and say something
Someone sitting behind him observed he was "fidgeting" a lot.
Maybe he learned to sleep with his eyes open 😂
To be fair, he probably fell asleep for most of it.
All the Monty Python references make my day. 😂😂
I'm beginning to think they were better at predicting the future, than Nostradamus (however you spell it).
😂 you’re right!
We are now living through the economic and geopolitical equivalent of COVID, except with bombs. Next I suppose Trump will advocate shining bright lights into Iran’s …..ah, civilian infrastructure.
Nothing like threatening war crimes and the mass murder of a civilian population on Easter, then smugly preening about being like Jesus. Whatever floats your giant fake tits, eh, MAGA?
Except this time we had a choice. Dammit.
We weren't living under the threat of nuclear war with Iran. Iran said so, Trump's advisors and negotiators said so. We were only under the threat of nuclear war with our own country because we have this crazy paranoid shitwit holding the nuclear codes. And his crazy paranoid shitwit lieutenants, the ghoul and the religious sex maniac.
Thanks, Jeff! Yee haw! Meanwhile, Zelenskyy kicks butt and takes names. Check out this eye-opening analysis by Dean Blundell:
BREAKING: TRUMP JUST LOST SAUDI ARABIA
Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, "It's over".
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-just-lost-saudi-arabia?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
The U.S. is an untrustworthy partner to everyone including a large contingency here at home.
Absolutely. It’s sad how far we have fallen.
Wow, Dean really lays it out. Thanks for the link.
You’re welcome, Arne. Dean’s posts (from a Canadian’s perspective) are great. Barry Gander’s too.
great analysis - too bad it’s way way over Drumpfs brain to understand it.
He’s such an insulting and despicable creep. Who wants him to speak at an event? Our National Embarrassment!!!
Damn!!! Good catch. That’s gonna leave a mark. 😜
Another brainworm needlessly dying of starvation.
Don't worry. The freak is still eating roadkill, like severed dead raccoon penis. We wonder how he got the first brainworm ....
Probably from drinking unpasteurized warm milk.
🤣
That’s gold!!! 🌟
So who the hell is stopping these idiots? Our protests certainly tell them to grow a pair… but same shit different day… SO SICK OF IT!
Hey, stealing from the Treasury takes time. Give 'em a break.
Like the rest of the world, I can't believe what I am seeing either. So at least Diapergod got that right.
The richest country in the history of the world can't take care of its population because the GoldenDementedOne wants ALL the riches he can grab. "Lots for me, none for any of youz," He mutters while staring at the Palace Ballroom plans.
As far as the slated-to-become Ballroom, of course, he is now claiming that the reason for the gaudy 40-foot-high ceiling room is "protection," which he had before leveling the whole wing into rubble.
Meanwhile, stocks crater because no one believes a word that comes out of his rancid mouth, other than that he'll do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. The MAGA Congress does another vacation.
Our legal system was never built to push against the assault that we face at least three times a day.
Fuck him and all his todies. Today and every day till the end of time, may they all face the legal, political, and social rebukes that they all truly have earned. Including Kegsbreath, who I hope is tried for crimes against humanity.
Diapergod! 😂