fun fact: the first draft of this post included a lengthy passage mocking Donny for thinking that Los Angeles had tumbleweeds. and then, just to be on the safe side, I decided to google "does Los Angeles have tumbleweeds?" oops. who knew? not me, apparently, I was born in New Jersey
And the idiot doesn’t understand that there are highly flammable living plants that go up like torches. Someone should send him a creosote bush to shove up his ass.
He walks like something is shoved up his ass…bent forward, arms hanging oddly in front of him(like he’s not sure what to do with them 🤣) He’s just an incoherent, bumbling, numbskull, asshole!!!
These are all signs of dementia, but he’s still an asshole. Rethuglicans (mostly billionaires and millionaires) know he has dementia and take every advantage of it. His everyday supporters are either haters (they hate the same people Dementia Don hates) or they are stupid or both, and, as most of us know, stupidity cannot be fixed.
But it still makes no sense to me that someone, ANYONE, doesn't just come right out and tell him there is no water to divert into California from somewhere up north, no faucet, nothing. And no such thing as a green tumbleweed. And no, Sir, you can't just start replacing houses and buildings in the midst of all that chaos. Why do they let him ramble on like that? Their allowing him to show his stupidity is even worse than his actual stupidity. Someone please stop the insanity!!!
No, risers don’t affect stance that much. Plus the fact that if risers are worn one can adjust their stance by being aware of their standing position. He has dementia. Also, risers don’t affect speech and memory; but you go ahead and make excuses for him.
It's how people are taught to think Trump is dumber than he really is. You don't get where he is by being stupid. But people get distracted by the stupid stuff - the faucet story is a case in point. He knows the stupid people will remember the story, not the reality that says there's nothing Trump can do to steal Canada's water. In fact, a few months ago Canada had wildfires that caused a lot of smoke to drift over the northeast US.
There are different aspects of intelligence. "Emotional" intelligence is the ability to read and manipulate the feelings of others: on this axis he is very cunning. But in such aspects as logical thinking and ability to absorb and connect facts, he is thick as a brick. "He knows the stupid people will remember the story, not the reality that says there's nothing Trump can do to steal Canada's water"? No: he really is that stupid that he thinks water flows "down" from north to south, and he heard something about the Klamath river's water no longer going to irrigate fields so as to keep fish alive, and has balled that into his head as "California turning off the water flow"; but he is cunning enough to see that this story plays well with his audience.
Thank you, he has a grifter's feral cunning and ability to bullshit a mark. That's all he needed to know that and his organized crime connections have taken him far further than he ever should have gotten.
The snow pack melting late spring and summer, provides more annual water. CA, OR & WA all have large MTN ranges. I wonder where the hundreds of streams eventually end.
Well, as the Righteous Brothers hit informs us, "to the sea, to the sea." Unfortunately, California's water policy was explained to Trump by an aggrieved agrobusinessman, and Trump's attention was elsewhere when he had it explained and so it was like (Charlie Brown adult muted trombone noises) "WAAH WAAH WAAH WAAH crystal clear water WAAH WAAH WAAAH the Delta smelt WAAH WAAH WAAH turning the San Joaquin valley into the dustbowl! WAAH WAAH!" Trump is a blitherer, but he remembers some things, like a senile aunt. She may not know how to press stop on a washing machine, or what day it was, but she remembers the time on the farm in 1952 when some college kids tipped the cow.
I am kind of surprised that felon47 didn’t suggest to build a wall to keep the smoke from drifting over from Canada and have Mexico pay for it. He is that stupid.
She was telling Trump that they had things under control, pushing back on his unhelpful advice (“They should start rebuilding tonight!” HUH?!?). She went on to explain they were going to have to clean stuff up… you know, the sort of details women would feel needs explaining to this TOTAL LUMMOX. It was the fact that she spoke up instead sat there like an idiot, being lectured by a moron, that I think annoyed the Idiot King.
Well, it didn’t. And it took me forever to ID the woman next to him. They both had on caps with visors. As if they didn’t want anyone looking at them. Which was smart on their part. You’d be able to see their lying eyes.
Yes, but trump never responded to the invite or to multiple phone calls from Newsom, just showed up. But Newsom was ready for him. Way to play the game Gov!
And the 118 as well. I encountered a tumbleweed or two driving home from work and they do occasionally blow across the freeway when it gets windy. Not nearly as bad as the wrong way driver that was heading my way one night but fortunately, the few of us who were on the road saw this careless jerk in plenty of time. In regards to Trump's shitful visit to LA and being his typical useless babbling self, it was typical
how he had no interest whatsoever in checking out the destruction in Altadena. Turns out this cool city at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains has a large black population of hard working and successful folks who have lived there for many years. Again, fuckface shows his true racism and purposely ignores a city that had many blocks of homes leveled. Same old shit, same old heartless asshole.
Kay, is that fucking 405 STILL under construction? Left LA in 1990. Always felt like I might die every time I had no other choices to get somewhere. People driving 85 mph in dangerous construction areas. My sis called me a wuss as she sped down the 405 in the left lane, while I begged her to slow down. 🥵🫣
It's still a mess. My wife's office is where the 405/101 meet and although she mostly gets to work from home, she dreads that 2-3 hour round trip drive.
I was born (1945) & raised in OC and grew up with new freeways and new lanes being added all the time. It was “normal”. Left in 2004 for So Oregon. When I go back to visit, I find lots of my old driving skills still apply, although at my age my reflexes don’t as much. It’s scary when you don’t do it all the time though. Better at the lighter times (2:00-5:00 a.m. as near as I could tell). Oh, and Never Ever on holidays. 🙃😰🤯😵💫
That's kind of like the freeways in the Bay Area during the dot.com boom. 2-5am only. I noticed several weeks ago that they're beginning to clog up around 2:30 pm again.
Arizona and New Mexico will be very surprised to hear there is abundant water from the north that will turn them green. I wonder what's been holding it up. Are they just as dumb as the people from California?
Look at her jawline, then look at Melania in church or at Carter's funeral, she's looking sallow and old that woman isn't, I don't think it is her, it is cheaper to use a body double because Melania asks a quarter mil per appearance.
Honestly I know people who could pull off that exact look with a ball cap pulled that low. It could be just about anyone with how awkwardly low that hat is
Yes, I mean it could be Brittany spears in a long brown wig, with extensions for all we know (it isn’t but you get the point) Ballcaps are used as to disguise celebrities all the time, as well as bank robbers. There a lot of celebrities that are known to use doubles for various reasons. As long as they don’t speak much, who would know. It’ll come out someday, I’m sure.
Ok, but when you're not sure of your information, you check it out. If you're wrong, you say so, and you change your thinking. That would never occur to anybody in the GOP, least of all Dumpy. If he doesn't know something, he makes shit up. He don't need no stinkin' research.
I think Dumpy thinks that all that wonderful water will flow from northern CA/Canada because it's flowing from north to south. On a map, it's flowing from the top of the map down towards the floor. In real life, it's got to go up or around a bunch of mountains, but on maps those mountains are flat, so they're not really in the way. Just trying to figure out Dumpy's thought process.
Oh, yeah, I've seen them rolling in the San Fernando Valley. I wish that the only thing that fuckus knew about California water is that agribusiness wants it and will drain the Sacramento delta if they can to get it.
No problemo! I'm also surprised that LA has them. I live in Pueblo West, Colorado, perhaps the tumbleweed capital of the world. Your description of their stages of life was accurate. When they are dry and blow around, each tumbleweed spews hundreds of seeds across the prairies and vacant lots, so we're not getting rid of them any time soon.
Keep up the good work. If all we can do is humiliate DJT by pointing out his idiocy, it's a start; and it's amusing. Thank you.
There are tons of tumbleweeds in California. But they’re a green Russian Thistle first and then when the dry season comes, they turn brown and die. But they grow in the hills and deserts where there’s NO IRRIGATION! And it’s going to get worse because of CLIMATE CHANGE!! But his minions lap that ridiculous shit up like he’s a fucking expert…..
Wow. What a concept, Imagine actually checking to see if a factual basis for a statement exists before just putting it out there. Probably wont catch on, though.
That is okay, Jeff. It is not like tumbling tumbleweeds are the issue here. He is a fool and he is out to destroy. He has started a world of fires in just six days. With the entire world. And damn if those eggs just keep getting more expensive! I am off to do some self care. It is hard, but we will prevail
That's a good one. Was watching some elderly punk rockers last night, and one had a lyric: "So much shit comes out of your mouth that your asshole is jealous." That's Our Fave President right there.
I'm sorry, they weren't introduced well. It was at the Kilowatt Jan 25, a favorite Mission beer hall that's been a club since the 1980s you know the drill: 7 bands offered up, 140 bands in the audience.
I truly hope that when Newsom was shaking his hand, he told him, "Call me 'Newscum' while you're here and I'm going to sock you in that massive gut, you bloated sack of fetid garbage."
Also...check the height difference. Remember when Trump insisted he was 6'3"? Well AFAIK Newsom is 6'4" and even with his little ball cap on, Newsom seems to have a good 3-4 inches over him. (I could make an "in more ways than one I bet heh heh heh" joke here but I won't do that.)
Little Donny Fkface has always lied about being 6'3" and 239 lbs. because if he said he was 6'3" and 240 lbs. he would officially be OBESE per the BMI chart.
That son of a bitch was easily 285+ when he was elected in 2016 (possibly 300) - observably obese. He's older and is possibly even taking Ozempic now, he's undergoing the natural height "shrinking" process that happens to everyone's intervertebral discs, and the loss of muscle mass with aging also contributes to lowering the scales,so he may be under 285+ these days - but if so it's fairly recent.
What is so crazy-making about that whole 'faucet' thing is, the entire nation saw him make that absurd argument on national TV *before* the election! And voted for the moron anyway.
Someone please take one for the team and put us out of our misery.
And this: "hey, I just signed an executive order, too — it mandates that technicolor pigs start flying out of my ass.” 🤣🤣 You’re so good, Uncle Jeff. 😂
So far I've managed to evade putting things like that in writing, although I do assure the Grand Princess Sophie on a regular basis that she is the most beautiful girl[-cat] in the universe. Kind of like a protection payment, so she doesn't shred the furniture -- or my face when I'm asleep.
... and the utterly useless US Senators from the state. I guess after the next storm, Fidel Cancun could send a telegram begging for help to his favorite president... when he gets back to Texas from the Caribbean, anyway...
I just realized: Fidel is not really in the top 5 most-horrible govt officials any more (I'm also counting cabinet picks here, because what a fucking bunch of losers!) He may not even be in the top 10, and he's dropped to #4 on my state shit list, even after Sid Miller departed Tx Ag! wtaf?
Not very well. After the May ‘24 tornado and Hurricane Beryl in June, we were recently dropped by our home insurance carrier (haven’t had a claim on our Houston, TX home in the 23 years we’ve owned), and are having trouble finding insurance because so many companies are bolting from high risk areas. I hate it here 😞
I am sorry all that happened to you Betsy and I hope you can get what you need to move ahead! I can’t imagine the terror and destruction of a tornado. In MA we have an association called the Mass Property Insurance Underwriting Association. They provide homeowner’s policies for people that can’t get the insurance through the usual companies. It is expensive though. Stupid question - does Texas have any association like that? Wishing you and your family healing and a light at the end of the tunnel! 💙🌻
I feel your pain -- we moved to the Austin area after I spent almost 30 yrs in Houston, and the only two things I miss are the many options for great food (especially Asian) and the higher percentage of drivers who know how to drive on freeways, even if it sometimes means doing 85mph in narrow lanes with a Metro bus on one side of you and a semi on the other.
I know part of the reason insurance companies are pulling out are storms like Harvey, but I suspect that they also decided that dropping customers who might not be so profitable wouldn't be a problem, especially with Trump in office.
... but I do NOT miss the "palmetto" bugs (HUGE honking unkillable cockroaches that will eat almost anything) and the mosquitoes, and what the bayous smell like after a hurricane, and 9 months a year of tropical summer, etc, etc...
Maybe we should hope that he gets rid of FEMA and then when those disasters show up (N. Carolina/Houston/New Orleans) those red states will come crying.
Yes our state was so beautiful, but the are giving the developers Carte Blanche to rape it. And don't get me started about the plan to put phospho-gypsum in the roads.
This is my first day as a subscriber. Thank you so much for helping me laugh at Orange Caligula instead of weeping as he destroys our nation. He's madder than a brace of March Hares.
"A long-held view is that the hare will behave strangely and excitedly throughout its breeding season, which, in Europe, peaks in the month of March. This odd behaviour includes boxing at other hares, jumping vertically for seemingly no reason and generally displaying abnormal behaviour."
I met the March Hare in the pages of Alice in Wonderland, like most Americans.
Yeah he's an elderly dementia patient with no control over his bowels, but with control over the nuclear football. Let that sink in for a moment.
I am still stunned that so many of our fellow Americans listened to this blithering idiot over at least the last 10 years and thought "yeah, that's what I want". We're literally the dumbest nation on Earth.
I liked when they walked away together behind the rotting orange. I could imagine him saying “Dump him. You can do better”. (Not that I’m a fan but she COULD do better)
Thank you! I joke that her mother must have told her not to sneer like that because her face might freeze that way! And it seems like it did what a scowl!
I agree but as a woman, I wouldn’t wish that motherfucker on any other woman. I’m not defending her. I just said what crossed my mind when I saw her walking with the Governor because he’s a decent human.
This isn't relevant, but I'm thinking of changing my name to Jackie R. Any thoughts? It's nice to see all these nice comments about Gavin, when all I used to see on Yahoo was negative ones.
H12thDoc, my family lived in a new housing development on the outskirts of Las Vegas. One block up was our elementary school. Immediately beyond that was 100 percent desert. Strong winds stung our legs with sand running one block home - also dodging tumbleweeds.
Now that Felon 47 is back in office, Missing Mel has turned into Omnipresent Mel. Did she have a special clause in her pre-nup that bumped up her haul if she had to trudge back to DC?
1.0 Mel & Barron stayed in NYC where Barron was still in high school. Later we learned Mel was also renegotiating her pre-nup due to the unplanned 4 years in DC. Wonder if she's re-renegotiatig again now that CF wants her back in DC for 4 more years. She says she's staying in NYC while Barron began college in 2024. 💋
Natalie, four pre-nup renegotiations!? She obviously has CF by his short hairs. Knows where the bodies are buried. She has her book out, now $40 million coming from Jeff Bezos for a documentary. Plus the inauguration morning crypto release. She's cashing in bigtime to feather her nest for her anticipated widowhood.
To be fair, she always was mercenary. I mean one would have to be to marry that arrogant, boorish orange ape. But she also knows her prenup, (now more of a post-nup) is only any good if she can actually collect, and he owes so much to Putin, I doubt she, or his ass-kissing to stay in his will kids, will either.
It's not her, look at her skin, the tight jawline and neck, then look at the Carter funeral pic of her, she looks like an old eastern European peasant woman.
Start prepping Newsom for democratic candidacy when that fucker finally drops dead
Or gets put in a home. There’s no way that no class hillbilly could beat him. The Trump
Motherfucker has been in office for ONE WEEK and he has already laid waste to a host of accepted laws and norms in place for a hundred years. That motherfucker is taking his marching orders from the Nazi and those 2025 assholes. Dem ocrats need to start building a strong PR staff and call
Him out on his shit every single time and remind the dumb fucks that interest rates are still the same, egg prices are higher than ever, and companies are starting to lay off and he’s sucking up to every billionaire in the country. He isn’t going to do shit for those morons and I hope they suffer like hell. But we have to get all of those idiot republicans out at the midterms and him out asap whenever “the good lord calls him home.”
There's got to be a site I can check every day that simply bullet-points all the dumbshittery he says and does on a daily basis. It's on overload already...I need this crap organized so I can view it in amazement
Newsome has always had his eye on the Presidency. The Democrats should have had him run instead of Kamala. She was brilliant and the enthusiasm was huge. I really thought she would win. I will never believe that the election was honest.
BS. My city, Berkeley, has had several black mayors. Okay, not national leadership. But I'd like to point to Ron Dellums and Barbara Lee, some of the finest congresspeople this country has ever had. Berkeley has always been 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. Oh, and what about Obama? You can speak for other places, but not my home.
Well, possibly. I believe our current problems stem from letting the Confederate states back into the union. It was a big mistake. They've never carried their weight and they can't even educate their children.
When I tried Christianity, I found a group of Jesus followers. They were really caring, nice people and let me use their money to increase my efforts with the unhoused community. That said, the magical thinking thing just never set right with me. I agreed with Jesus, but he didn't write his words, people who mostly came later did.
I let the religion go it's own way and I went mine.
Well, there is a large prejudice against Californians in the broad middle of the country also. Not as deep as the racial or gender prejudices, but not negligible either.
They don't want our money? You know, Bob, we don't like paying federal taxes to bail out welfare states that can't support themselves either. Since we pay more than any other state, maybe they should rethink that. After all, it's Newsom who has moved California from fifth largest economy in the world to the fourth largest economy in the world. But I'm sure they'd rather see the stock market drop like it did today under their business guru. (In an effort to spread the money, somewhat, I now have two books by you.)
Yes, seagull management is it! How can anyone put up with the Toddler King?
Not for long, hopefully. It takes people with experience to run our nation. The last time he was in the White House was amature hour for real, for four years. And all the years since, he has continued his work downhill.
In my 73 years I have known people whose life's ambition was to be a toxic waste. Trump has them all beat, by far. All fall short of the glory of Trump in his own mind. He is at the bottom of the pond with no way out.
Loved Newsome showing up on the tarmac and without any hesitation, walking straight into bloated Trump’s space and pointing at him and leveling him and dominating him. It was wonderful. It was what those spineless idiots in the Senate need to see. It can be done. Hell Cassidy Hutchinson had more courage in her pinky than the entire Republican Senate.
Cassidy needs to share all the text messages she received from the nasty shitweasels when she was testifying for the J6 committee. That would set them back. 😂😂 She’s one fabulous woman.
fun fact: the first draft of this post included a lengthy passage mocking Donny for thinking that Los Angeles had tumbleweeds. and then, just to be on the safe side, I decided to google "does Los Angeles have tumbleweeds?" oops. who knew? not me, apparently, I was born in New Jersey
Donny should be more concerned about the tumbleweeds rolling around inside his syphilis-infected brain.
Love this Stephanie!!
(Love your self-description!)
Love this comment! Nail it!
Funniest description I have read about all day!!! 🤣😂
You win Reply of the Day prize 🏆🏆🏆!
And the idiot doesn’t understand that there are highly flammable living plants that go up like torches. Someone should send him a creosote bush to shove up his ass.
He walks like something is shoved up his ass…bent forward, arms hanging oddly in front of him(like he’s not sure what to do with them 🤣) He’s just an incoherent, bumbling, numbskull, asshole!!!
These are all signs of dementia, but he’s still an asshole. Rethuglicans (mostly billionaires and millionaires) know he has dementia and take every advantage of it. His everyday supporters are either haters (they hate the same people Dementia Don hates) or they are stupid or both, and, as most of us know, stupidity cannot be fixed.
But it still makes no sense to me that someone, ANYONE, doesn't just come right out and tell him there is no water to divert into California from somewhere up north, no faucet, nothing. And no such thing as a green tumbleweed. And no, Sir, you can't just start replacing houses and buildings in the midst of all that chaos. Why do they let him ramble on like that? Their allowing him to show his stupidity is even worse than his actual stupidity. Someone please stop the insanity!!!
Risers.
No, risers don’t affect stance that much. Plus the fact that if risers are worn one can adjust their stance by being aware of their standing position. He has dementia. Also, risers don’t affect speech and memory; but you go ahead and make excuses for him.
It was a guess, not a defense. Whew!
It is actually a physical sign of dementia.
People with advanced dementia walk like that
Rather Ramapithecus primate style I’d say Doreen… perhaps 🤔
Oh he knows, Cassandra! Everything he says or does is performative. He is crazy and soulless.
Oh, I do not think he knows. But yes performative and transactional.
It's how people are taught to think Trump is dumber than he really is. You don't get where he is by being stupid. But people get distracted by the stupid stuff - the faucet story is a case in point. He knows the stupid people will remember the story, not the reality that says there's nothing Trump can do to steal Canada's water. In fact, a few months ago Canada had wildfires that caused a lot of smoke to drift over the northeast US.
There are different aspects of intelligence. "Emotional" intelligence is the ability to read and manipulate the feelings of others: on this axis he is very cunning. But in such aspects as logical thinking and ability to absorb and connect facts, he is thick as a brick. "He knows the stupid people will remember the story, not the reality that says there's nothing Trump can do to steal Canada's water"? No: he really is that stupid that he thinks water flows "down" from north to south, and he heard something about the Klamath river's water no longer going to irrigate fields so as to keep fish alive, and has balled that into his head as "California turning off the water flow"; but he is cunning enough to see that this story plays well with his audience.
Thank you, he has a grifter's feral cunning and ability to bullshit a mark. That's all he needed to know that and his organized crime connections have taken him far further than he ever should have gotten.
The entire US.
The snow pack melting late spring and summer, provides more annual water. CA, OR & WA all have large MTN ranges. I wonder where the hundreds of streams eventually end.
Well, as the Righteous Brothers hit informs us, "to the sea, to the sea." Unfortunately, California's water policy was explained to Trump by an aggrieved agrobusinessman, and Trump's attention was elsewhere when he had it explained and so it was like (Charlie Brown adult muted trombone noises) "WAAH WAAH WAAH WAAH crystal clear water WAAH WAAH WAAAH the Delta smelt WAAH WAAH WAAH turning the San Joaquin valley into the dustbowl! WAAH WAAH!" Trump is a blitherer, but he remembers some things, like a senile aunt. She may not know how to press stop on a washing machine, or what day it was, but she remembers the time on the farm in 1952 when some college kids tipped the cow.
I am kind of surprised that felon47 didn’t suggest to build a wall to keep the smoke from drifting over from Canada and have Mexico pay for it. He is that stupid.
I agree that would be very entertaining, but Hemlock sounds more likely to send him on his way.
I like how you think, Cassandra.
😁🤣😂👏👏👏
She was telling Trump that they had things under control, pushing back on his unhelpful advice (“They should start rebuilding tonight!” HUH?!?). She went on to explain they were going to have to clean stuff up… you know, the sort of details women would feel needs explaining to this TOTAL LUMMOX. It was the fact that she spoke up instead sat there like an idiot, being lectured by a moron, that I think annoyed the Idiot King.
It was a publicity trip, a media op that he thought would make him sound like the great and powerful Oz.
Well, it didn’t. And it took me forever to ID the woman next to him. They both had on caps with visors. As if they didn’t want anyone looking at them. Which was smart on their part. You’d be able to see their lying eyes.
If you look at the skin and jawline, it didn't look like Melania, I think they gave him a double, probably cost less.
Governor Newsome invited him.
Yes, but trump never responded to the invite or to multiple phone calls from Newsom, just showed up. But Newsom was ready for him. Way to play the game Gov!
The fact that she's an intelligent black woman may have had something to do with it.
True. He hates being outsmarted by any woman, but a Black woman, OMG!
You have to explain the simplest things to the simpleton. He's never clean after .... anything I guess 🤷
You're a humbleweed, Jeff. I like that. Humility is the best indicator of credibility.
Winner
In LA, dead inside, rolling around aimlessly and spreading seed nobody wants is an accurate description of tumbleweed AND now Orange Shitler, too!
AND, his billionaire cronies!
Not sure he is still capable of "spreading seed. . ."
Hope not!!!
🤢😂
That is a good thing!!! There are enough of those little drumpf’s running around.
Gawd, I hope not.
Orange Shitler. Can I borrow that one? Totally brilliant.
Hey, it's California, we got everything out here :P
Earthquakes and fire tornados and the 405, OH MY!
And the 118 as well. I encountered a tumbleweed or two driving home from work and they do occasionally blow across the freeway when it gets windy. Not nearly as bad as the wrong way driver that was heading my way one night but fortunately, the few of us who were on the road saw this careless jerk in plenty of time. In regards to Trump's shitful visit to LA and being his typical useless babbling self, it was typical
how he had no interest whatsoever in checking out the destruction in Altadena. Turns out this cool city at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains has a large black population of hard working and successful folks who have lived there for many years. Again, fuckface shows his true racism and purposely ignores a city that had many blocks of homes leveled. Same old shit, same old heartless asshole.
He knows LA had the rich people he might be able to grift.
Lol, do not miss the 405. It’s rage inducing all by itself.
Kay, is that fucking 405 STILL under construction? Left LA in 1990. Always felt like I might die every time I had no other choices to get somewhere. People driving 85 mph in dangerous construction areas. My sis called me a wuss as she sped down the 405 in the left lane, while I begged her to slow down. 🥵🫣
I’m not either but was visiting a few months ago. I didn’t see any construction, but some things never change.
It's still a mess. My wife's office is where the 405/101 meet and although she mostly gets to work from home, she dreads that 2-3 hour round trip drive.
I was born (1945) & raised in OC and grew up with new freeways and new lanes being added all the time. It was “normal”. Left in 2004 for So Oregon. When I go back to visit, I find lots of my old driving skills still apply, although at my age my reflexes don’t as much. It’s scary when you don’t do it all the time though. Better at the lighter times (2:00-5:00 a.m. as near as I could tell). Oh, and Never Ever on holidays. 🙃😰🤯😵💫
That's kind of like the freeways in the Bay Area during the dot.com boom. 2-5am only. I noticed several weeks ago that they're beginning to clog up around 2:30 pm again.
405 is bad enough
Except water according to imbecilic dotard Allison!!
And people like you! 💕
I think Patrick's comment was an excellent example of how important good punctuation is! He left out a comma. . .
The difference, Jeff, is that you check your facts before you publish. You go with boring old vanilla facts, not exciting new alternative facts.
if I get something wrong in a post, a thousand people will email me to tell me about it. that's powerful incentive to fact-check everything
Seemingly, the fact that a million people will email him has no impact on Trump.
Thst s because he needs somebody to read all of the mail to him while he’s on the shitter!
I knew so many guys from New Jersey when in the navy, and they were fun to be around and smart as whips. The pattern continues with you, Jeff!
Arizona and New Mexico will be very surprised to hear there is abundant water from the north that will turn them green. I wonder what's been holding it up. Are they just as dumb as the people from California?
Oh joy. As an AZ resident I can hardly wait for him to save our cactus by plumping them up with water and then turn green.
BTW- Melania is at his side because she's back on the clock. She's just like a hooker that gets paid by the hour.
Look at her jawline, then look at Melania in church or at Carter's funeral, she's looking sallow and old that woman isn't, I don't think it is her, it is cheaper to use a body double because Melania asks a quarter mil per appearance.
Honestly I know people who could pull off that exact look with a ball cap pulled that low. It could be just about anyone with how awkwardly low that hat is
Yes, I mean it could be Brittany spears in a long brown wig, with extensions for all we know (it isn’t but you get the point) Ballcaps are used as to disguise celebrities all the time, as well as bank robbers. There a lot of celebrities that are known to use doubles for various reasons. As long as they don’t speak much, who would know. It’ll come out someday, I’m sure.
I heard it was Biden's fault....
West Texas, too. We get about seven inches of rain in a normal year, but with the drought, we got four inches last year.
When I rode a bike across the United States, I had the great pleasure of going through West Texas from El Paso to Del Rio.
I'm guessing your route didn't take you through Big Bend... :)
Nope. Route 90 almost all the way. I have been to the Big Bend by automobile and it is very impressive.
Nobody has the strength to turn that great big fucking faucet on:
https://youtu.be/tOCWA3bdecY?si=_mpsennLoVigWK2X
Clap your hands if you believe in...
Ok, but when you're not sure of your information, you check it out. If you're wrong, you say so, and you change your thinking. That would never occur to anybody in the GOP, least of all Dumpy. If he doesn't know something, he makes shit up. He don't need no stinkin' research.
I think Dumpy thinks that all that wonderful water will flow from northern CA/Canada because it's flowing from north to south. On a map, it's flowing from the top of the map down towards the floor. In real life, it's got to go up or around a bunch of mountains, but on maps those mountains are flat, so they're not really in the way. Just trying to figure out Dumpy's thought process.
okay, I'm stuck -- still wondering when/where/how the orange asshole might have gotten an actual thought process grafted on...
Oh, yeah, I've seen them rolling in the San Fernando Valley. I wish that the only thing that fuckus knew about California water is that agribusiness wants it and will drain the Sacramento delta if they can to get it.
What about the “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” song by Gene Autry at the beginning of my favorite comedy “The Big Lebowski. 🤣
The title sequence to The Big Lebowski is a tumbleweed scene.
No problemo! I'm also surprised that LA has them. I live in Pueblo West, Colorado, perhaps the tumbleweed capital of the world. Your description of their stages of life was accurate. When they are dry and blow around, each tumbleweed spews hundreds of seeds across the prairies and vacant lots, so we're not getting rid of them any time soon.
Keep up the good work. If all we can do is humiliate DJT by pointing out his idiocy, it's a start; and it's amusing. Thank you.
There are tons of tumbleweeds in California. But they’re a green Russian Thistle first and then when the dry season comes, they turn brown and die. But they grow in the hills and deserts where there’s NO IRRIGATION! And it’s going to get worse because of CLIMATE CHANGE!! But his minions lap that ridiculous shit up like he’s a fucking expert…..
Beats thinking for yourself, if you are an idiot, it seems.
Wow. What a concept, Imagine actually checking to see if a factual basis for a statement exists before just putting it out there. Probably wont catch on, though.
The entire Southwest has tumbleweeds. They didn't start the fires, although they are excellent at spreading them.
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
Lightning starts most wildfires. We need to get rid of lightning.
🎶But when we are gone, it will still go on...
That is okay, Jeff. It is not like tumbling tumbleweeds are the issue here. He is a fool and he is out to destroy. He has started a world of fires in just six days. With the entire world. And damn if those eggs just keep getting more expensive! I am off to do some self care. It is hard, but we will prevail
Trump is an example of 'seagull management' -- flies in, squawks a lot, shits all over everything and then flies away.
I may have to steal that one
It's yours, Jeff. In fact, it's already a meme. Google it.
I knew I'd heard that one before! The One Minute Manager (book from the early 80s).
You must steal this one
Me too!
That's a good one. Was watching some elderly punk rockers last night, and one had a lyric: "So much shit comes out of your mouth that your asshole is jealous." That's Our Fave President right there.
Name of elderly punk rockers, please?
I'm sorry, they weren't introduced well. It was at the Kilowatt Jan 25, a favorite Mission beer hall that's been a club since the 1980s you know the drill: 7 bands offered up, 140 bands in the audience.
And steals your food if it can. Especially fries.
The ones with ketchup on them.
😂😂😂
Excellent!
you win! best comment! keep turning on your faucet. I'm Canadian, but I can't find our water faucet...
Keep looking!
and your understanding of the Oxford comma is perfect 👌
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Love this!
Best description ever!!! Thanks, I’m stealing this!!!
I truly hope that when Newsom was shaking his hand, he told him, "Call me 'Newscum' while you're here and I'm going to sock you in that massive gut, you bloated sack of fetid garbage."
Also...check the height difference. Remember when Trump insisted he was 6'3"? Well AFAIK Newsom is 6'4" and even with his little ball cap on, Newsom seems to have a good 3-4 inches over him. (I could make an "in more ways than one I bet heh heh heh" joke here but I won't do that.)
Little Donny Fkface has always lied about being 6'3" and 239 lbs. because if he said he was 6'3" and 240 lbs. he would officially be OBESE per the BMI chart.
That son of a bitch was easily 285+ when he was elected in 2016 (possibly 300) - observably obese. He's older and is possibly even taking Ozempic now, he's undergoing the natural height "shrinking" process that happens to everyone's intervertebral discs, and the loss of muscle mass with aging also contributes to lowering the scales,so he may be under 285+ these days - but if so it's fairly recent.
Don’t need any index to see he’s obese.
You can see in other video clips that trump is wearing stack heel boots, probably trying to add two inches , while Gavin is wearing sneakers.
And in a full shot Trump is wearing what looks like heavy boots with 2 inch heels.
They looked like elderly man Skechers with heels.
Elderly man sketchers with heels ahahahahaha 🤣😂🤣 good one.
Weren’t shoes like that called Cuban heels? They were specifically for men.
Alison, you already did! 🤣😂🤣 Good for you. Did you see how Melanoma was drooling over Newsome?
Yes, she was obvious.
No need; we all thought it as soon as we read that passage in your comment.
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What is so crazy-making about that whole 'faucet' thing is, the entire nation saw him make that absurd argument on national TV *before* the election! And voted for the moron anyway.
I found that horrifying.
Because they were more concerned about the price of eggs 🤣
They didn't see it if Fox edited it out, which they probably did.
His cult members are also morons.
Newsom is such a BOSS.
Faucets. Tumbleweeds. TRUMP. IS. INSANE.
Someone please take one for the team and put us out of our misery.
And this: "hey, I just signed an executive order, too — it mandates that technicolor pigs start flying out of my ass.” 🤣🤣 You’re so good, Uncle Jeff. 😂
I signed one this morning that declared Ms. Kitty and Shadow as rulers of the universe. (They already think that anyway.😂)
LOL!! 😂😂
So far I've managed to evade putting things like that in writing, although I do assure the Grand Princess Sophie on a regular basis that she is the most beautiful girl[-cat] in the universe. Kind of like a protection payment, so she doesn't shred the furniture -- or my face when I'm asleep.
😂😂😂😂
Am I insane to think I see 2028 hovering over his head?
(I mean, I don’t know him that well, but…he IS a white guy and seems decent. IMHO US won’t be ready for anything else by then. Very sadly. )
I know, right? Newsom would be a dynamic candidate in my view. A major threat to the old, white, hateful Republican men!
Personally- I’d donate some of my minuscule funds to that idea.
I think that’s the plan! Keep those funds ready!
I loved Kamala, but if Newsome had run he would have won, white man, handsome, no ties to Gaza. all the excuses are gone.
😂 I love it
I’d love to see just how long red states like Florida, Louisiana and Texas would survive without FEMA.
Especially considering the utterly incompetent electrical grid in Texas.
And Louisiana's decrepit economy.
... and the utterly useless US Senators from the state. I guess after the next storm, Fidel Cancun could send a telegram begging for help to his favorite president... when he gets back to Texas from the Caribbean, anyway...
I just realized: Fidel is not really in the top 5 most-horrible govt officials any more (I'm also counting cabinet picks here, because what a fucking bunch of losers!) He may not even be in the top 10, and he's dropped to #4 on my state shit list, even after Sid Miller departed Tx Ag! wtaf?
Not very well. After the May ‘24 tornado and Hurricane Beryl in June, we were recently dropped by our home insurance carrier (haven’t had a claim on our Houston, TX home in the 23 years we’ve owned), and are having trouble finding insurance because so many companies are bolting from high risk areas. I hate it here 😞
Marybeth, I'm sorry that you live in Texas. I hate those motherfucker republican politicians, too.
I am very sorry, Marybeth. Californians are experiencing that throughout the entire state, not just in the LA area.
Floridians too, and our Gov is busy trying to help round up immigrants to please his Orange overlord.
I am sorry all that happened to you Betsy and I hope you can get what you need to move ahead! I can’t imagine the terror and destruction of a tornado. In MA we have an association called the Mass Property Insurance Underwriting Association. They provide homeowner’s policies for people that can’t get the insurance through the usual companies. It is expensive though. Stupid question - does Texas have any association like that? Wishing you and your family healing and a light at the end of the tunnel! 💙🌻
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I feel your pain -- we moved to the Austin area after I spent almost 30 yrs in Houston, and the only two things I miss are the many options for great food (especially Asian) and the higher percentage of drivers who know how to drive on freeways, even if it sometimes means doing 85mph in narrow lanes with a Metro bus on one side of you and a semi on the other.
I know part of the reason insurance companies are pulling out are storms like Harvey, but I suspect that they also decided that dropping customers who might not be so profitable wouldn't be a problem, especially with Trump in office.
... but I do NOT miss the "palmetto" bugs (HUGE honking unkillable cockroaches that will eat almost anything) and the mosquitoes, and what the bayous smell like after a hurricane, and 9 months a year of tropical summer, etc, etc...
Maybe we should hope that he gets rid of FEMA and then when those disasters show up (N. Carolina/Houston/New Orleans) those red states will come crying.
Especially FLORIDUH!
"Red states vote for Donny, lose FEMA, are screwed next time a natural disaster hits" would be a textbook example of FAFO.
I’m a blue dot in the red state of Wi.
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I'm a blue dot in the red state of Florida. I love my state but despise the governor
Yes our state was so beautiful, but the are giving the developers Carte Blanche to rape it. And don't get me started about the plan to put phospho-gypsum in the roads.
And the hurricane in North Carolina.
This is my first day as a subscriber. Thank you so much for helping me laugh at Orange Caligula instead of weeping as he destroys our nation. He's madder than a brace of March Hares.
Welcome to this LOVELY group Caroline!!!!
thanks! I can already tell I'll fit in well, chuckle!
Welcome! Now, let’s be the force to destroy Trump and Trumpism.
Let’s.
Welcome! You’re going to love it here!!
Welcome.😃😃
👋 welcome! I look forward to Jeff’s Substack first thing every day
Welcome to the fun place 😜
Welcome! You're gonna love it here ❤️
welcome, and how mad dies a brace
of March hares get????
from Wikipedia:
"A long-held view is that the hare will behave strangely and excitedly throughout its breeding season, which, in Europe, peaks in the month of March. This odd behaviour includes boxing at other hares, jumping vertically for seemingly no reason and generally displaying abnormal behaviour."
I met the March Hare in the pages of Alice in Wonderland, like most Americans.
Governor Newsom is “more handsome”? The governor is handsome and Trump looks like Jabba the Hut!
Handsome is the LAST word I’d use to describe that putrid pile of shit. He doesn’t qualify for a rating of 1-10 when he’s in the negative category.
Absolutely.
What should his negative rating be Sandi?
Good comparison, Susan! 👏🏼👏🏼🤩
Indeed Susan!!
Yeah he's an elderly dementia patient with no control over his bowels, but with control over the nuclear football. Let that sink in for a moment.
I am still stunned that so many of our fellow Americans listened to this blithering idiot over at least the last 10 years and thought "yeah, that's what I want". We're literally the dumbest nation on Earth.
What's that "we" business, White Man?
dumbest yes!
most dangerous yes!
laziest yes!
Republican defunding of education has really paid off for them.
Second to last video, Gavin extends his hand to Melania, she kissed him on the cheek.
💋
I believe seeing Gavin was the ONLY reason she came along for this sh*t show of a “tour”. She moved right in on him, lol!
Melania on Newsom: 'I move on heem like bitch"
You win substack today, Teri!
Perfect! Just like she gave moon eyes to Justin Trudeau right in front of Fat Donny.
LOL!!!
Another Justin Trudeau moment for poor melanoma.
I must keep "melanoma." Thank you.
You're welcome. (It's really mean, but I don't have anything better.)
I liked when they walked away together behind the rotting orange. I could imagine him saying “Dump him. You can do better”. (Not that I’m a fan but she COULD do better)
No. She's a Russian spy and worse.
A vapid, boring, horrible harridan, who hisses and sulks when confronted with actual christian messaging.
Excellent summation of her behavior.
Thank you! I joke that her mother must have told her not to sneer like that because her face might freeze that way! And it seems like it did what a scowl!
A slit eyed Slovakian slut, vapid and mean spirited. A torment to trump and for that I’m glad
She’s a mean hateful bitch!!! I wouldn’t allow her(if I were a guy) kid my ass!
I agree but as a woman, I wouldn’t wish that motherfucker on any other woman. I’m not defending her. I just said what crossed my mind when I saw her walking with the Governor because he’s a decent human.
Don’t worry - he wouldn’t go near that poison!
I know. I’ve seen his ex-wife. He doesn’t need another hot mess lol.
Kimberly Guilfoil!! She is a hot mess and uglier than a bucket of assholes!!
You mean the current ambassador to Greece?
I saw that. She also checked him out.
She wasn't willing to do that to Dumpy at the inauguration!
This isn't relevant, but I'm thinking of changing my name to Jackie R. Any thoughts? It's nice to see all these nice comments about Gavin, when all I used to see on Yahoo was negative ones.
(Why Jackie R?)
Well, one of my favorite authors is Lee Child.
I've read some of his books. But I still don't know/remember who Jackie R. is. (Maybe Mrs. Reacher?)
Close, no cigar.
Aw, shucks! Are you going to tell?
Yahoo draws all the ignorant asshole trolls that's why.
At least he's a firehose of oxymorons. Add "green tumbleweeds" to his already ridiculously long and tragically ignorant list.
H12thDoc, my family lived in a new housing development on the outskirts of Las Vegas. One block up was our elementary school. Immediately beyond that was 100 percent desert. Strong winds stung our legs with sand running one block home - also dodging tumbleweeds.
Now that Felon 47 is back in office, Missing Mel has turned into Omnipresent Mel. Did she have a special clause in her pre-nup that bumped up her haul if she had to trudge back to DC?
Yeah. Why isn't she babysitting Barron in NYC? She looks stupid with a baseball cap on.
Deborah, her cap doesn't have MAGA it, I think!!! If so, she probably told donnyasshole that she wouldn't!! Hahaha!!!!
1.0 Mel & Barron stayed in NYC where Barron was still in high school. Later we learned Mel was also renegotiating her pre-nup due to the unplanned 4 years in DC. Wonder if she's re-renegotiatig again now that CF wants her back in DC for 4 more years. She says she's staying in NYC while Barron began college in 2024. 💋
Teri, I'm not going to like that. She should go to the bottom of the dung heap where T is.
She has renegotiated roughly four times according to those who keep track of these things.
Natalie, four pre-nup renegotiations!? She obviously has CF by his short hairs. Knows where the bodies are buried. She has her book out, now $40 million coming from Jeff Bezos for a documentary. Plus the inauguration morning crypto release. She's cashing in bigtime to feather her nest for her anticipated widowhood.
To be fair, she always was mercenary. I mean one would have to be to marry that arrogant, boorish orange ape. But she also knows her prenup, (now more of a post-nup) is only any good if she can actually collect, and he owes so much to Putin, I doubt she, or his ass-kissing to stay in his will kids, will either.
So grift by association is all she has.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/melania-trump-donald-trump-prenup
Because every college student wants mom around.
Maybe she took the space next to Trash-Heap that Musk has been occupying as part of Suzy Wiles' move to get Elon out of all the photo ops.
Yep!💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
She is 🤑
Sure, the $MELLANIA shitcoin was part of the deal
It's not her, look at her skin, the tight jawline and neck, then look at the Carter funeral pic of her, she looks like an old eastern European peasant woman.
Body double?! 🤣
Start prepping Newsom for democratic candidacy when that fucker finally drops dead
Or gets put in a home. There’s no way that no class hillbilly could beat him. The Trump
Motherfucker has been in office for ONE WEEK and he has already laid waste to a host of accepted laws and norms in place for a hundred years. That motherfucker is taking his marching orders from the Nazi and those 2025 assholes. Dem ocrats need to start building a strong PR staff and call
Him out on his shit every single time and remind the dumb fucks that interest rates are still the same, egg prices are higher than ever, and companies are starting to lay off and he’s sucking up to every billionaire in the country. He isn’t going to do shit for those morons and I hope they suffer like hell. But we have to get all of those idiot republicans out at the midterms and him out asap whenever “the good lord calls him home.”
There's got to be a site I can check every day that simply bullet-points all the dumbshittery he says and does on a daily basis. It's on overload already...I need this crap organized so I can view it in amazement
Well said 👏👏👏
Newsome has always had his eye on the Presidency. The Democrats should have had him run instead of Kamala. She was brilliant and the enthusiasm was huge. I really thought she would win. I will never believe that the election was honest.
I don’t believe for one minute the election was honest at all!! Some clownfuckery went on there 🤡
Last year wasn't his time. And if we leave the union, there won't be a time.
BS. My city, Berkeley, has had several black mayors. Okay, not national leadership. But I'd like to point to Ron Dellums and Barbara Lee, some of the finest congresspeople this country has ever had. Berkeley has always been 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. Oh, and what about Obama? You can speak for other places, but not my home.
Well, possibly. I believe our current problems stem from letting the Confederate states back into the union. It was a big mistake. They've never carried their weight and they can't even educate their children.
I agree. We should have let them secede after the Civil War. They've been nothing but a pain in the ass.
The patriarchy rules.
Fucking backwards religion, especially the Evangelicals, not the Episcopalians or other actual Jesus followers obs.
When I tried Christianity, I found a group of Jesus followers. They were really caring, nice people and let me use their money to increase my efforts with the unhoused community. That said, the magical thinking thing just never set right with me. I agreed with Jesus, but he didn't write his words, people who mostly came later did.
I let the religion go it's own way and I went mine.
We tried to elect one but we need more Independents, and crossover voters to succeed. I don't think it is us.
Well, there is a large prejudice against Californians in the broad middle of the country also. Not as deep as the racial or gender prejudices, but not negligible either.
They don't want our money? You know, Bob, we don't like paying federal taxes to bail out welfare states that can't support themselves either. Since we pay more than any other state, maybe they should rethink that. After all, it's Newsom who has moved California from fifth largest economy in the world to the fourth largest economy in the world. But I'm sure they'd rather see the stock market drop like it did today under their business guru. (In an effort to spread the money, somewhat, I now have two books by you.)
Yeah, California would probably do better from a breakup of the US than most states would.
Thanks for supporting my books. If anybody else likes Roman historical fiction I'm at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Robert-Eckert/author/B07549WKSW (and various non-Bezos sources as well).
Thanks, Bob.
Yes, seagull management is it! How can anyone put up with the Toddler King?
Not for long, hopefully. It takes people with experience to run our nation. The last time he was in the White House was amature hour for real, for four years. And all the years since, he has continued his work downhill.
In my 73 years I have known people whose life's ambition was to be a toxic waste. Trump has them all beat, by far. All fall short of the glory of Trump in his own mind. He is at the bottom of the pond with no way out.
I wish he was "on the bottom of a pond with no way out."
Orange Fuckwit doesn’t get the Tumbleweed Connection (apologies to Elton John)
I'd like to see a blood test on Melania. How does she keep from busting out.😆
The test would reveal 💰
Sooo right you are Kay-EI!!
It might be the angle but that woman looks younger than M. Maybe that's why the dumb looking hat.
Loved Newsome showing up on the tarmac and without any hesitation, walking straight into bloated Trump’s space and pointing at him and leveling him and dominating him. It was wonderful. It was what those spineless idiots in the Senate need to see. It can be done. Hell Cassidy Hutchinson had more courage in her pinky than the entire Republican Senate.
Cassidy needs to share all the text messages she received from the nasty shitweasels when she was testifying for the J6 committee. That would set them back. 😂😂 She’s one fabulous woman.