You know, Rethuglicans, if you don't like the job Joe is doing, maybe fucking help him instead of throwing bags of flaming dog shit in front of his every step.
These dire circumstances are so enormous that it is causing a collapse in my body. Going through years of this worsening bullshit leaves me feeling helpless with no real, serious plan of action other than voting (or other small community action). Everything Jeff is saying has been happening ceaselessly for years now. The Media is a fucked up money making enterprise that has lost it’s way for years. The first failure is that they don’t highlight, attack and defeat lies. We’re over it!!! The obsessions with Biden’s age while side stepping the disgusting lies, dementia, criminality, age and ignorance of trump! But what can we do about this? It’s coming fast and furious now and how do we get our Democratic Team to hear us?
I think the time to have done something about it was 40 years ago, when Reagan kicked off this fuckery.
We do need independents to hear us, and understand that the right-wing has been plotting this very takeover for over four decades now. And we need to quit being Charlie Brown letting evil Republiscum Lucy hold the football.
As an independent I hear you all loud and clear!! I am a recovering Republican and I’m embarrassed to say that. My eyes were pried wide open in 2015, but it took about a year before I became completely horrified by the rights words and actions. I still don’t identify as democrat, but I’m 100% pro democracy and anti fascist.
If it’s true that Dems are tax and spend, let’s have a debate over that. Less negotiable are matters like the necessity of God on our public space, the banning of transgender people, and the importance of making sure that gay people know that they are second class citizens. I’m not remotely conservative, but I am old and a property owner, and I don’t want blood in the streets. When the evil of Trump is over, and a loyal opposition emerges that wants to talk about wallets instead of what’s in people’s pants…but who knows if that will ever happen.
They got busted in 1939 for attempting a coup funded by Hitler and Senator Robert Taft was one of them. They have been organizing and bideing their time.
I’m afraid this election will see smoke, mirrors, tricks and traps far worse than phony electors and threatening phone calls. The last election was a dress rehearsal.
Oh they know, we been here before, and we voted for Biden to win, they guesstimated, what Trump would need to win big, and they didn't know, We had so much more to lose and we knew it. I will give it up for Americans! The Republicans, call us dumb and lazy, I call us a Democratic union. They should've been long voted out. Let's get this done, once again!
Sarah, My older than yours body was all set to work harder than ever to get this EVIL BEING out of our lives. But after he slithered down that escalator back in 15 I have had 3 heart attacks because of the STRESS I allow him to cause me. Here we are in FEBRUARY and the creature still roams the earth getting more and more VOTERS to support him. It's after reading RACHEL MADDOWS's book, PREQUIL, that I know the end of AMERICA IS NEAR. So, I shall vote and quit the world as I have known it for 86 years.
Martha, I’m more than 2 decades younger than you, but the stress is affecting me too. Today, this is the ONLY Substack I’m reading because I need a vacation from our reality. After the SUPREME F’d UP Court of the US all went for keeping a seditionist and rapist on the ballot, I don’t have the energy. I will be back to fight, but the Democrats need to come out swinging and scream out what OUR base has wanted and been refused for decades now!
I’m Working on it, Little Nell! Together, you and I, and probably a few others, WE SHALL OVERCOME this evil being and his NAZI brown shirts, or grey or whatever they want to wear, but we shall outvote them!
I hear you. I need a knife and fork to take all the cardiac meds I’m on now. I’m beyond fighting for me. I have kids and a granddaughter who have to live in this fucked up world after I’m gone. That’s who I fight for.
We are doing it here. I share Jeff's post like this hoping curiosity will spark interest and truth seeking. Social media is our outlet and we need to shout this shit from the rooftops.
You’re dreaming if you think those two are going to be cracking rocks in prison. Swindlers and grifters on the level of Trump and Netanyahu always die at home, in bed, surrounded by their families and weeping retainers.
Well, perhaps there’s some truth to the old stories about what happens to the wicked after they die. I mean, they!re very old stories, and a boy can dream, can’t he?
Yes, Biden & ALL our Dems that we elected CAN do something. Stand up to Netanyahu & stop sending more money & weapons & being complicit in the war crimes. Children are being starved to death on purpose. I’ve stood by them up til now & said that despite their support of that crap I’d STILL vote for them, but this has gotten too horrific
Agreed. If this is what the Democrats do - and history shows that it is- then I cannot give them any more money or vote for them. Joe Biden holds the distinction of being the biggest recipient of a AIPAC bribes in Congress - 5 Million + over the years - so he’s making sure Israel is getting a nice fat return on its investment. Billions and billions in unrestricted weaponry to eradicate the Palestinian people. Your tax dollars at work, my fellow Americans.
I think, sadly, it’s too fucking late. I’m sorry for all of you, but I’m glad I married a Swede and got out of the shithole that would ever elect Herr Pumpkinfuhrer. BTW, it’s not a shower.
The media has taken a deadly turn that will challenge its very survival as the 'unbiased' fourth estate. At the very same time journalism is committing suicide, American liberals with a desire for 'normalcy' are sleepwalking into fascism. Unless we wake up and recognize that we are being pushed toward the end of the 'great experiment', it will be too late.
Yes, I know and I am already through with him and his show.I could not believe my ears last night when he started his monologue off with both sidesisms about Biden and Trump being old. I will NOT tolerate any ageist bullshit and have already started turning any tv news show off that utters one "Biden is old" crock of horseshit.
I couldn't believe it either. But I'm with everyone who says they're done with Jon Stewart after last night's fiasco. You only get one chance. I'm not playing this both-sides game. You're either with Biden and Democracy or you can go peddle your crap somewhere else. Anyone who wants to save our country and Democracy is welcome in my world...everyone else can STFU!!!! (Sorry for the rant, I'm just sick to death of all these jerks who use whatever celebrity they have to be dicks...just because they can!)
Yep and i skipped to the end of the recorded show immediately, screw him, all for laughs. Colbert just as guilty. THEY WORK FOR CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA AND IT IS PART OF THEIR CONTRACT TO 'NORMALIZE' EVIL DEEDS. More money in their pockets as they make their corporate overlords smile.
with almost 350 million citizens the only two we can find to run for the job of president are 2 octogenarians??? WTFING F*Kity FUK is wrong with this picture?
Exactly, that’s a fact! Watch republicans and learn one thing from them- hold together and support our only hope of escaping Fascism! Save any other arguments for after.
please don't misunderstand me. I am a lifelong DEm and will gladly vote for Biden. I will also go so as to mention that as a former New Yorker I totally DETEST Donald the loser Trump and the assholes he rode in on. that does not negate the fact that our 2 party system is untenable. or that term limits on all federal offices are long overdue. or that we have become a corporatocracy.
“Yes, President Biden is older, but with age comes wisdom and experience. President Biden’s experience is why he has been able to pass historic legislation to improve the economy, prevent gun violence, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and help veterans in a narrowly divided Congress. President Biden’s steady leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, criminality and incompetence of Donald Trump. This election is not a referendum on whether an 81-year-old should serve another four years as President. The election is a choice between a decent, accomplished 81-year-old man who cares about you and an incompetent, chaotic 77-year-old criminal who only cares about himself.” Dan Pfeiffer, The Message Box”
..And every elected Dem should be shouting this from the rooftops! Instead they cower and agree with all this "he's too old" but what can we do bullshit. Seems to me that only Karine Jean-Pierre has the balls to do it.
I have asked this question of many people and have yet to get an answer that makes sense. Why are you so scared of Bidens age based on his performance over the last three years?
THAT IS THE QUESTION. If Hur appears before a House committee, Dems should patiently ask him if he's aware that Biden and his administration have accomplished A, B, C, D, E, and so on, hammering it home until they're gavelled to shut up. And then the next one should do the same thing. And someone should say, "Not bad for a guy who forgets a few things, innit?"
I am a proud democrat and proud of Joe Biden, not scared at all and still think he is a great president. I see nothing wrong in asking why this is the best we can do. the old republican party is a total loss, leaving us with an unacceptable democratic national committee that is blind deaf and dumb and a sadly fascist party disguised as republicans. we. have. lost. our. way. greed has almost completely destroyed our country.
I don't know you, how long you've been politically aware, or whether you believe that the Grand Orc Party has been plotting and planning this, with the help of white nationalist christians, for the past 40+ years. They got their servants on the SCOTUS to deliver rulings like Citizens United and other cases, which tore down the spending limits and the transparency of donations in the USA. Now we don't just have PACs, we have superPACs, and the wealthiest players can pour money into elections with untraceable dark money, resulting in bought candidates and parties. We have oligarchs who love the idea of the rest of us paying for everything, and them being free of restraints like taxes and regulatory agencies. Capiche? Comprende?
Now think about what they're doing to change regulation and government as we've known it, forever if they hold onto power long enough. Think about what Heller, Dobbs, and so many other cases--past, present and future--would and are doing to our social safety net, our communities, our human rights, etc. Think about a future in which our country is compelled to have a state religion, a christianity from the upside down. With corruption, greed, venality and hate. A fascism in all but name. If we don't all start pulling together to defeat the fascists, we will all be vulnerable to what they've been projecting onto us. *Sigh*
absolutely totally correct. I have been politically aware and occasionally active for over 50 years and have witnessed the progression of our political system being corroded by greed and big money. it is raw fascism under a very thin blanket of white christian evangelical nationalism that has absolutely no relation to anything that christ supposedly stood for. IT>IS>ALL>ABOUT>THE>MONEY!!!!!!
I feel your pain Neal. We only have two choices in this years presidential election and acceptance of that by everyone on Bidens side at this point will help insure that we win. Not sure what the problem is with the DNC since they are a background player and there is never any news about them. The Republican national comm cult on the other hand is so full of clowns, clown cars and multiple big-tops, they would have great entertainment value if they weren't so deadly.
It’s a legitimate concern. And his support among key Democratic constituencies is low and getting lower by the day. Prior to Oct. 7, Biden was the Man! as far as I was concerned - just loved him. Now he’s a senile old ghoul with the blood of women and children dripping from his fingers. I won’t give his campaign money and I won’t vote for him.
That was / is a big mistake but not the end of the world since as we all enter the voting booth there will only be two old men on the ballot. We all will have to make a quiet decision of which man has done the most for each of us!! I have great hope.
There's a really great article in the recent The Atlantic about the survival of the press. We've seen it happening and the article addresses the fact that all that clickbait we accused them of was exactly that. They lost their way trying to survive and that's unsettling in a lot of ways but if they're going to keep normalizing Trump and bashing Biden about his age instead of his amazing list of accomplishments, this is one more thing on the list of change, bad and good.
Well, all those years of cheating and double dealing and manipulation and such has killed the Republican party. It is now the Trump party and there's zero doubt about that. Today's media and their constant adoration pieces on him and their bashing Biden has had a lot of us disgusted with "the media" for the last several years. At this point, what's there to save? But not having a press that actually reports is a terrifying thought.
The desire to appear unbiased is at the heart of the media problem. It means to them giving equal weight to both sides, but the effect is to cover Trump and his legal travails, his rallies and attention-getting unhinged statements because Democrats are so much less newsworthy. Being 'normal' and thoughtful doesn't provide the conflict (and entertainment) that the Republicans provide.
Bill, I don’t think they even try to be unbiased. Almost every single media conglmerate is owned by ultra right. If they appear to be balanced, beware, it’s usually what they DON’T report that matters most. Same withNewspapers…buy out by the right. That's why we aren’t going to hear from the Dems! If it doesn’t get reported, it’s up to us instead…not very effective though.
But it’s not equal weight. It’s the difference between a head cold vs cancer. I think money or lack thereof is the only way to influence the media—cancel subscriptions—or suspend as a first warning.
They need all the help they can get right now. Time to fight fire with fire and attempt to neutralize this pipeline of bullshit that the media and the very broken GOP keeps flowing at full speed. At some point, you would hope that the truth and facts would start to make a difference.
Cassandra is my middle name. And yeah. I do a lot of screaming and gentle cajoling and everything in between yet few understood, few come to understand.
For some reason that is beyond my comprehension, Democrats continue to believe that you can beat these sub-human nazi fucks with please and thank you. *Spoiler Alert*.........you can't.
Jeff, I, too, have hung in there with Garland, but like you also believe the time has come for change.
I get attorneys need to be led by facts and evidence but if as I assume would happen, Garland was given the report first for review as Hurr's boss, correct? After all, Barr announced the findings Barr wanted America to hear of Mueller's report, not Mueller.
To not step in and require Hurr to remove the gratuitous and inappropriate personal commentary because the standards of the law would demand that, to "remain as being seen as not politically driven" is a breech of duty in my opinion.
Why isn't there a call for Garland to present himself before the press and explain why the gratuitously partisan shit smearing Biden inserted by Hur into an otherwise "nothing here" report was allowed? Make the timid AG see his own shadow.
I think he would have done fine on SCOTUS. There his deliberate, thorough, and cautious nature would shine. The problem is he's AG at a time when we need quick, decisive action.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. He's weak and he's Republican to the core. Party and power and status and saving your own reputation, which he has now sullied, just is ruining everything that matters.
He threw the country under the bus with his outrageous delays. He wouldn’t have done anything if J6 Committee hadn’t brought truckloads of undeniable evidence!
Dems never learn! Stay the F away from RescumliCons and so called center, ho hum losers.
When you think about it, Obama passed over him twice. I was under the impression that the only reason he settled on him was because Chuck Grassley (who was the head of the Judiciary Committee then) told him that he thought that Garland would be agreeable to the GOP for the position. And what I will always remember is that Mitch McConnell, although he didn't support Garland for SCOTUS (he wouldn't have supported any Obama nominee at that time), McConnell signaled early on that he would support Garland for AG. The fact that Garland was also Federalist Society was also a big red flag as well for me.
So, your assessment of Garland’s basic personality & apparent dislike of confrontation (or cowardice) would allow him to be persuaded, or bulldozed by stronger more assertive justices on the court?
The Trump Playbook (Stone, Bannon, Miller) is founded on Roy Cohn's Philosophy of Life. Which is: I WIN. YOU LOSE. Period. Fairness doesn't matter. Rules don't matter. Honor doesn't matter. Dirty tricks and lies are effective tools. "It doesn't matter what you say. Just repeat it and 'they' will believe you." "They" is the Press. The DNC. The MAGAs. The opposition that treats his lies as valid.
2016: "The election will be rigged."
2020: "The election will be rigged."
2024: "The election will be rigged."
This is "Heads I Win. Tails you lose." Roy Cohn 101. A conman's trick. A literally deadly game.
The NY Times and WAPO and CNN and Fox and ABC and NBC and CBS report this shit as though its real. It's not! As long as they report on his lies as though they are legit, and never dig for the real reasons he says this shit, HE WINS. Wake the fuck up!
Honorable people have a difficult time understanding psychopaths like Roy Cohn. If the legit Press had a Ben Bradlee today, Trump's game would be toast. Con game victims don't want to admit they've been fooled.
The last part of your comment about the media for some reason made a phrase pop up in my head, the title of a great song (and album), "Give The People What They Want". The great Ray Davies. ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX,USA Today, and all the other infotainment media who pose as news sources for the mass of our public. They're all in on obtaining viewers at any cost to their country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9s02Rg4BKw
You're right. Al Capone's crimes and rumors of crimes sold newspapers. The owners had an incentive to treat Capone as a hero instead of a murderer. (Donald admires and talks about Al Capone all the time.) If a new Woodward & Bernstein shows up (and is allowed to tell the truth about Don's Con Game) and calls bullshit, like they did with Nixon, Trump will deflate and disappear. The Press/Media would lose a big source of eyeballs/revenue. I asked the Editor in Chief at WAPO to allow her reporters to break the story about the Trumpworld congame. Still waiting.
If you mean Sally Buzbee, the executive editor, that won't happen. She is a republican, and the paper began to tip over to the right under her guidance. I was a lifelong subscriber until her nonsense.
I have been here since Truman. The post WWII boom was going on, so what do Republicans do? Senator Joseph McCarthy started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
The 60s were a time of great economic growth. What do Republicans do? Republicans like Goldwater and Nixon started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
The economic growth continues through the 70s and Jimmy Carter was President. What do Republicans do? They started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
After the Republicans had ruined the economic growth of the 50s, 60s and 70s, we finally got a little breathing room with Bill Clinton, who still believed in the town 12 miles from here. What do Republicans do? As Jeff reports, they started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
When Barrack Obama was President the American people started to do better. What do Republicans do? They kept a big stink going and ruined people's lives.
Everyone has seen what they are doing now that Joe Biden has rebuilt the economy. Trump and the Republicans can be seen for what they are. Trump is against anything that benefits you or I. Republican Congress people spent Christmas in Russia getting promises of money from Oligarchs. Trump says that Putin can do what he wants.
Trump and the Republicans are no longer working for America. They are wholly beholden to Russia and the end of Democracy.
The American people have always suffered when a Republican was in the White House my entire 72 years. You would think that they could play a different tune, like actually doing something for the American people. They could refrain from attacking everything and pass legislation that solved problems. Maybe someday.
absolutely, 100% correct. Republicans have considered the political arena as combat since Reagan (and further back?). In fistfights, the first punch can be decisive and sucker-punches are not off-limits, if not encouraged. Until the Dems shift tactics and start to brawl, the GOP will continue win these battles despite their being out-numbered and despite the desires of the majority of Americans.
Is it in the Democratic DNA to fight? Aren't they supposed to be inclusive, welcome to our big tent of diversity, blah, blah, blah? Just this morning, I perused several essays full of sarcastic vitriol, accusatory statements, and bizarre theories (See Caitlin Johnstone-wow). I wish the Dems messaging was focused on accomplishments and successes. But will the anger and contrariness of our population get in the way? I'm exhausted.
It needs to BE in the DNA to fight. This Mamby-pamby let's sing Kumbaya, My Lord... is bringing water balloons to a gunfight. It has to stop.
All that stuff can happen *after* the Trumpublican fascists are beat into the ground and destroyed as a movement forever.
There's a time for talking, and a time for fighting. All the policy ideas and accomplishments won't mean shit if the Fascists take over the government, and they are planning to do exactly that.
If many of my fellow Dems were around in March of 1775, they'd have been organizing a Revolutionary Protest and expressing "concern" over British "overreach". Handing out posters and writing letters to the King.
You have once again hit the nail on the head, Cousin Jeff. The media needs to shut up about a man who, although he is old and maybe can't totally remember what happened thirty-some years ago (shit--neither can I!), but who know what the hell is going on NOW and is kicking butt as far as getting things done. They need to focus on what Biden's accomplished and what the Orange Menace did NOT accomplish during his hellish (for us) four years in the White House. Damn!!
Thank you, Jeff. Perfectly said. Actually, Garland should resign. But since that won’t happen, he needs to be shown the door. Thank you, in service. Bye, bye. Next up: Sally Yates
You know, Rethuglicans, if you don't like the job Joe is doing, maybe fucking help him instead of throwing bags of flaming dog shit in front of his every step.
Just a thought. Don't worry, it doesn't bite.
These dire circumstances are so enormous that it is causing a collapse in my body. Going through years of this worsening bullshit leaves me feeling helpless with no real, serious plan of action other than voting (or other small community action). Everything Jeff is saying has been happening ceaselessly for years now. The Media is a fucked up money making enterprise that has lost it’s way for years. The first failure is that they don’t highlight, attack and defeat lies. We’re over it!!! The obsessions with Biden’s age while side stepping the disgusting lies, dementia, criminality, age and ignorance of trump! But what can we do about this? It’s coming fast and furious now and how do we get our Democratic Team to hear us?
I think the time to have done something about it was 40 years ago, when Reagan kicked off this fuckery.
We do need independents to hear us, and understand that the right-wing has been plotting this very takeover for over four decades now. And we need to quit being Charlie Brown letting evil Republiscum Lucy hold the football.
As an independent I hear you all loud and clear!! I am a recovering Republican and I’m embarrassed to say that. My eyes were pried wide open in 2015, but it took about a year before I became completely horrified by the rights words and actions. I still don’t identify as democrat, but I’m 100% pro democracy and anti fascist.
Good for you. He is pretty obvious. Welcome, to the “other side of his lies” life could be good again without him. 🇺🇸
If it’s true that Dems are tax and spend, let’s have a debate over that. Less negotiable are matters like the necessity of God on our public space, the banning of transgender people, and the importance of making sure that gay people know that they are second class citizens. I’m not remotely conservative, but I am old and a property owner, and I don’t want blood in the streets. When the evil of Trump is over, and a loyal opposition emerges that wants to talk about wallets instead of what’s in people’s pants…but who knows if that will ever happen.
They got busted in 1939 for attempting a coup funded by Hitler and Senator Robert Taft was one of them. They have been organizing and bideing their time.
Prequel and The Nazis of Copley Square are instructive in so many ways, including the role of the church in the movement. Beyond Father Coughlin.
Yes.
ABSOLUTELY, TC!
What we need is independents to hear us. About 30% of the country is on each extreme wing. It's the 40% in the middle who determine outcomes.
I’m afraid this election will see smoke, mirrors, tricks and traps far worse than phony electors and threatening phone calls. The last election was a dress rehearsal.
I almost look forward to seeing how they'll cheat even more fhan usual.
Oh they know, we been here before, and we voted for Biden to win, they guesstimated, what Trump would need to win big, and they didn't know, We had so much more to lose and we knew it. I will give it up for Americans! The Republicans, call us dumb and lazy, I call us a Democratic union. They should've been long voted out. Let's get this done, once again!
Sarah, My older than yours body was all set to work harder than ever to get this EVIL BEING out of our lives. But after he slithered down that escalator back in 15 I have had 3 heart attacks because of the STRESS I allow him to cause me. Here we are in FEBRUARY and the creature still roams the earth getting more and more VOTERS to support him. It's after reading RACHEL MADDOWS's book, PREQUIL, that I know the end of AMERICA IS NEAR. So, I shall vote and quit the world as I have known it for 86 years.
Martha, I’m more than 2 decades younger than you, but the stress is affecting me too. Today, this is the ONLY Substack I’m reading because I need a vacation from our reality. After the SUPREME F’d UP Court of the US all went for keeping a seditionist and rapist on the ballot, I don’t have the energy. I will be back to fight, but the Democrats need to come out swinging and scream out what OUR base has wanted and been refused for decades now!
Very well said!!
Stick around, Martha. We may yet save this country.
I’m Working on it, Little Nell! Together, you and I, and probably a few others, WE SHALL OVERCOME this evil being and his NAZI brown shirts, or grey or whatever they want to wear, but we shall outvote them!
I hear you. I need a knife and fork to take all the cardiac meds I’m on now. I’m beyond fighting for me. I have kids and a granddaughter who have to live in this fucked up world after I’m gone. That’s who I fight for.
Ma’m where there is life there is hope.
We are doing it here. I share Jeff's post like this hoping curiosity will spark interest and truth seeking. Social media is our outlet and we need to shout this shit from the rooftops.
And We shall do so Donna!
Sarah, I'm donating and writing postcards. It's what I can do. We do what we can.
the DNC has it's head so far up it's own ass it looks just like the RNC.
Sarah-🎯
And that goes for the left! Quit throwing Biden under the bus because Netanyahu won’t be told what to do. Figure out what is at stake NOW FOR US!
If Netanyahu ends this war, he and his wife are looking at prison. He’s a Jewish Trump. Israelis want him out too. He’ll drag it out.
You’re dreaming if you think those two are going to be cracking rocks in prison. Swindlers and grifters on the level of Trump and Netanyahu always die at home, in bed, surrounded by their families and weeping retainers.
Well, perhaps there’s some truth to the old stories about what happens to the wicked after they die. I mean, they!re very old stories, and a boy can dream, can’t he?
Yes and like the " Orangutan" Netanyahu will end up in prison in Judea!
Yes, Biden & ALL our Dems that we elected CAN do something. Stand up to Netanyahu & stop sending more money & weapons & being complicit in the war crimes. Children are being starved to death on purpose. I’ve stood by them up til now & said that despite their support of that crap I’d STILL vote for them, but this has gotten too horrific
Agreed. If this is what the Democrats do - and history shows that it is- then I cannot give them any more money or vote for them. Joe Biden holds the distinction of being the biggest recipient of a AIPAC bribes in Congress - 5 Million + over the years - so he’s making sure Israel is getting a nice fat return on its investment. Billions and billions in unrestricted weaponry to eradicate the Palestinian people. Your tax dollars at work, my fellow Americans.
EXACTLY!!!
I think, sadly, it’s too fucking late. I’m sorry for all of you, but I’m glad I married a Swede and got out of the shithole that would ever elect Herr Pumpkinfuhrer. BTW, it’s not a shower.
Mike Johnson’s Jesus just tested his faith by giving Santos’ seat to a Democrat. How very sad.
Republican Jesus seems a deal less forgiving than the one from the book.
Come on, help him? They’d rather slit their own throats.
The media has taken a deadly turn that will challenge its very survival as the 'unbiased' fourth estate. At the very same time journalism is committing suicide, American liberals with a desire for 'normalcy' are sleepwalking into fascism. Unless we wake up and recognize that we are being pushed toward the end of the 'great experiment', it will be too late.
Even Jon Stewart used his first appearance back on the Daily Show to talk about how old President Biden is. WTF?!
Yes, I know and I am already through with him and his show.I could not believe my ears last night when he started his monologue off with both sidesisms about Biden and Trump being old. I will NOT tolerate any ageist bullshit and have already started turning any tv news show off that utters one "Biden is old" crock of horseshit.
Me too Victoria. I shut off the tv if trump is shown too.
I was truly horrified by John Stewart's debut last night. His presentation was a total 'both-sides' discussion with more emphasis on Biden than Trump.
Pssed me right the fuck off!
Agreed!!
I couldn't believe it either. But I'm with everyone who says they're done with Jon Stewart after last night's fiasco. You only get one chance. I'm not playing this both-sides game. You're either with Biden and Democracy or you can go peddle your crap somewhere else. Anyone who wants to save our country and Democracy is welcome in my world...everyone else can STFU!!!! (Sorry for the rant, I'm just sick to death of all these jerks who use whatever celebrity they have to be dicks...just because they can!)
Tell it Deb. It’s cathartic to hear someone say what I’m thinking! Rant away.👍🏼
👊🤗💙!
I’d love to see the media do a side-by-side comparison of Biden’s VP and cabinet vs Trump’s old and future cabinet. That would ease the “age” shit!
Yep and i skipped to the end of the recorded show immediately, screw him, all for laughs. Colbert just as guilty. THEY WORK FOR CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA AND IT IS PART OF THEIR CONTRACT TO 'NORMALIZE' EVIL DEEDS. More money in their pockets as they make their corporate overlords smile.
The media is only as liberal as its corporate owners.
with almost 350 million citizens the only two we can find to run for the job of president are 2 octogenarians??? WTFING F*Kity FUK is wrong with this picture?
I don’t give a shit how old President Biden is because he’s done more for this country than any other president since FDR!
Thank you! the critics only aid Putin at this point.
Exactly, that’s a fact! Watch republicans and learn one thing from them- hold together and support our only hope of escaping Fascism! Save any other arguments for after.
please don't misunderstand me. I am a lifelong DEm and will gladly vote for Biden. I will also go so as to mention that as a former New Yorker I totally DETEST Donald the loser Trump and the assholes he rode in on. that does not negate the fact that our 2 party system is untenable. or that term limits on all federal offices are long overdue. or that we have become a corporatocracy.
“Yes, President Biden is older, but with age comes wisdom and experience. President Biden’s experience is why he has been able to pass historic legislation to improve the economy, prevent gun violence, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and help veterans in a narrowly divided Congress. President Biden’s steady leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, criminality and incompetence of Donald Trump. This election is not a referendum on whether an 81-year-old should serve another four years as President. The election is a choice between a decent, accomplished 81-year-old man who cares about you and an incompetent, chaotic 77-year-old criminal who only cares about himself.” Dan Pfeiffer, The Message Box”
..And every elected Dem should be shouting this from the rooftops! Instead they cower and agree with all this "he's too old" but what can we do bullshit. Seems to me that only Karine Jean-Pierre has the balls to do it.
I have asked this question of many people and have yet to get an answer that makes sense. Why are you so scared of Bidens age based on his performance over the last three years?
THAT IS THE QUESTION. If Hur appears before a House committee, Dems should patiently ask him if he's aware that Biden and his administration have accomplished A, B, C, D, E, and so on, hammering it home until they're gavelled to shut up. And then the next one should do the same thing. And someone should say, "Not bad for a guy who forgets a few things, innit?"
Good one Hoyt! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I am a proud democrat and proud of Joe Biden, not scared at all and still think he is a great president. I see nothing wrong in asking why this is the best we can do. the old republican party is a total loss, leaving us with an unacceptable democratic national committee that is blind deaf and dumb and a sadly fascist party disguised as republicans. we. have. lost. our. way. greed has almost completely destroyed our country.
I don't know you, how long you've been politically aware, or whether you believe that the Grand Orc Party has been plotting and planning this, with the help of white nationalist christians, for the past 40+ years. They got their servants on the SCOTUS to deliver rulings like Citizens United and other cases, which tore down the spending limits and the transparency of donations in the USA. Now we don't just have PACs, we have superPACs, and the wealthiest players can pour money into elections with untraceable dark money, resulting in bought candidates and parties. We have oligarchs who love the idea of the rest of us paying for everything, and them being free of restraints like taxes and regulatory agencies. Capiche? Comprende?
Now think about what they're doing to change regulation and government as we've known it, forever if they hold onto power long enough. Think about what Heller, Dobbs, and so many other cases--past, present and future--would and are doing to our social safety net, our communities, our human rights, etc. Think about a future in which our country is compelled to have a state religion, a christianity from the upside down. With corruption, greed, venality and hate. A fascism in all but name. If we don't all start pulling together to defeat the fascists, we will all be vulnerable to what they've been projecting onto us. *Sigh*
absolutely totally correct. I have been politically aware and occasionally active for over 50 years and have witnessed the progression of our political system being corroded by greed and big money. it is raw fascism under a very thin blanket of white christian evangelical nationalism that has absolutely no relation to anything that christ supposedly stood for. IT>IS>ALL>ABOUT>THE>MONEY!!!!!!
NAILED THE SHIT OUT OF IT, STRANGER!!
I feel your pain Neal. We only have two choices in this years presidential election and acceptance of that by everyone on Bidens side at this point will help insure that we win. Not sure what the problem is with the DNC since they are a background player and there is never any news about them. The Republican national comm cult on the other hand is so full of clowns, clown cars and multiple big-tops, they would have great entertainment value if they weren't so deadly.
Both Susan Both
Not just Biden
the very definition of both-siderism
It’s a legitimate concern. And his support among key Democratic constituencies is low and getting lower by the day. Prior to Oct. 7, Biden was the Man! as far as I was concerned - just loved him. Now he’s a senile old ghoul with the blood of women and children dripping from his fingers. I won’t give his campaign money and I won’t vote for him.
I guess then you will be ok with Trump as dictator for life and the end of the United States and democracy?
You make me sick.
That was / is a big mistake but not the end of the world since as we all enter the voting booth there will only be two old men on the ballot. We all will have to make a quiet decision of which man has done the most for each of us!! I have great hope.
Pretty atrocious to add fuel to it. I’ve never been a fan of his but he’s very popular!
There's a really great article in the recent The Atlantic about the survival of the press. We've seen it happening and the article addresses the fact that all that clickbait we accused them of was exactly that. They lost their way trying to survive and that's unsettling in a lot of ways but if they're going to keep normalizing Trump and bashing Biden about his age instead of his amazing list of accomplishments, this is one more thing on the list of change, bad and good.
The ‘media’ is already on life support. Helping get Trump re-elected will bring about their ‘’suicidal “ self-wishing sooner rather than later.
Well, all those years of cheating and double dealing and manipulation and such has killed the Republican party. It is now the Trump party and there's zero doubt about that. Today's media and their constant adoration pieces on him and their bashing Biden has had a lot of us disgusted with "the media" for the last several years. At this point, what's there to save? But not having a press that actually reports is a terrifying thought.
Death by a thousand cuts.
The desire to appear unbiased is at the heart of the media problem. It means to them giving equal weight to both sides, but the effect is to cover Trump and his legal travails, his rallies and attention-getting unhinged statements because Democrats are so much less newsworthy. Being 'normal' and thoughtful doesn't provide the conflict (and entertainment) that the Republicans provide.
Bill, I don’t think they even try to be unbiased. Almost every single media conglmerate is owned by ultra right. If they appear to be balanced, beware, it’s usually what they DON’T report that matters most. Same withNewspapers…buy out by the right. That's why we aren’t going to hear from the Dems! If it doesn’t get reported, it’s up to us instead…not very effective though.
But it’s not equal weight. It’s the difference between a head cold vs cancer. I think money or lack thereof is the only way to influence the media—cancel subscriptions—or suspend as a first warning.
Damn STRAIGHT, Hoyt!
Jeff you need to call the WH and offer your incredible talent to help them with ads speech etc and slap trump and the GOP right in the face!!!!
They need all the help they can get right now. Time to fight fire with fire and attempt to neutralize this pipeline of bullshit that the media and the very broken GOP keeps flowing at full speed. At some point, you would hope that the truth and facts would start to make a difference.
Agreed 💯 it's just so scary
Jeff reminds me of Cassandra. She was a Trojan prophet who knew exactly what the Greeks were going to do, but no one believed her.
Arrggghhhh!!
Hence my screen name.
That was her curse, she would see the truth, and no one would belive her.
Yep.
A.K.A. my entire life
Let’s work together toward a better outcome for Jeff than Cassandra had.
Cassandra is my middle name. And yeah. I do a lot of screaming and gentle cajoling and everything in between yet few understood, few come to understand.
JAH what are you suggesting here? Our Jeff is not being "BALANCED?" Lol
It's the rest of the world that needs balance!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
For some reason that is beyond my comprehension, Democrats continue to believe that you can beat these sub-human nazi fucks with please and thank you. *Spoiler Alert*.........you can't.
We didn't win WWII with kindness? I've been bamboozled!
Jeff, I, too, have hung in there with Garland, but like you also believe the time has come for change.
I get attorneys need to be led by facts and evidence but if as I assume would happen, Garland was given the report first for review as Hurr's boss, correct? After all, Barr announced the findings Barr wanted America to hear of Mueller's report, not Mueller.
To not step in and require Hurr to remove the gratuitous and inappropriate personal commentary because the standards of the law would demand that, to "remain as being seen as not politically driven" is a breech of duty in my opinion.
Amen. If he had that ability to edit the report and he didn't care enough, he completely failed this republic.
Why isn't there a call for Garland to present himself before the press and explain why the gratuitously partisan shit smearing Biden inserted by Hur into an otherwise "nothing here" report was allowed? Make the timid AG see his own shadow.
It was a medical report given by someone with no medical credentials. There was legitimate reason to redact it.
Yes, Merrrick Garland, after all this, has proven he was actually not qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice.
I think he would have done fine on SCOTUS. There his deliberate, thorough, and cautious nature would shine. The problem is he's AG at a time when we need quick, decisive action.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. He's weak and he's Republican to the core. Party and power and status and saving your own reputation, which he has now sullied, just is ruining everything that matters.
He threw the country under the bus with his outrageous delays. He wouldn’t have done anything if J6 Committee hadn’t brought truckloads of undeniable evidence!
Dems never learn! Stay the F away from RescumliCons and so called center, ho hum losers.
Merrick Garland is not and has never been a Republican!
What? Then why has it been reported that he was (is?) a member of the Federalist Society?
He's registered as "Independent."
Republican IS as Republican DOES.
Yep, now I'm totally confused. If the usual crowd is around, we'll see if they pipe up for your saying this like they did when I implied it earlier.
When you think about it, Obama passed over him twice. I was under the impression that the only reason he settled on him was because Chuck Grassley (who was the head of the Judiciary Committee then) told him that he thought that Garland would be agreeable to the GOP for the position. And what I will always remember is that Mitch McConnell, although he didn't support Garland for SCOTUS (he wouldn't have supported any Obama nominee at that time), McConnell signaled early on that he would support Garland for AG. The fact that Garland was also Federalist Society was also a big red flag as well for me.
Monstrous red flag!
His slow, thoughtful, deliberative nature would have probably been great on the scotus, but we needed a pitbull for AG in this time of great need
Except that he has shown himself to be a spineless tool. Other than that, fabulous.
So, your assessment of Garland’s basic personality & apparent dislike of confrontation (or cowardice) would allow him to be persuaded, or bulldozed by stronger more assertive justices on the court?
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The Trump Playbook (Stone, Bannon, Miller) is founded on Roy Cohn's Philosophy of Life. Which is: I WIN. YOU LOSE. Period. Fairness doesn't matter. Rules don't matter. Honor doesn't matter. Dirty tricks and lies are effective tools. "It doesn't matter what you say. Just repeat it and 'they' will believe you." "They" is the Press. The DNC. The MAGAs. The opposition that treats his lies as valid.
2016: "The election will be rigged."
2020: "The election will be rigged."
2024: "The election will be rigged."
This is "Heads I Win. Tails you lose." Roy Cohn 101. A conman's trick. A literally deadly game.
The NY Times and WAPO and CNN and Fox and ABC and NBC and CBS report this shit as though its real. It's not! As long as they report on his lies as though they are legit, and never dig for the real reasons he says this shit, HE WINS. Wake the fuck up!
It is Roy Cohn
I said that exact phrase to my wife this morning, with the latest challenge to the Supreme Court
He learnt every thing from that piece of shit
Honorable people have a difficult time understanding psychopaths like Roy Cohn. If the legit Press had a Ben Bradlee today, Trump's game would be toast. Con game victims don't want to admit they've been fooled.
Look who owns the Washington Post! Jeff Bezos! You know, the guy Dems want to pay his fair share of taxes!
The last part of your comment about the media for some reason made a phrase pop up in my head, the title of a great song (and album), "Give The People What They Want". The great Ray Davies. ABC,NBC,CBS,FOX,USA Today, and all the other infotainment media who pose as news sources for the mass of our public. They're all in on obtaining viewers at any cost to their country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9s02Rg4BKw
You're right. Al Capone's crimes and rumors of crimes sold newspapers. The owners had an incentive to treat Capone as a hero instead of a murderer. (Donald admires and talks about Al Capone all the time.) If a new Woodward & Bernstein shows up (and is allowed to tell the truth about Don's Con Game) and calls bullshit, like they did with Nixon, Trump will deflate and disappear. The Press/Media would lose a big source of eyeballs/revenue. I asked the Editor in Chief at WAPO to allow her reporters to break the story about the Trumpworld congame. Still waiting.
If you mean Sally Buzbee, the executive editor, that won't happen. She is a republican, and the paper began to tip over to the right under her guidance. I was a lifelong subscriber until her nonsense.
In other words don’t bring a milquetoast to a fascist roast. Amirite?
Samantha, 🎯
Bingo!
I have been here since Truman. The post WWII boom was going on, so what do Republicans do? Senator Joseph McCarthy started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
The 60s were a time of great economic growth. What do Republicans do? Republicans like Goldwater and Nixon started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
The economic growth continues through the 70s and Jimmy Carter was President. What do Republicans do? They started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
After the Republicans had ruined the economic growth of the 50s, 60s and 70s, we finally got a little breathing room with Bill Clinton, who still believed in the town 12 miles from here. What do Republicans do? As Jeff reports, they started a big stink and ruined people's lives.
When Barrack Obama was President the American people started to do better. What do Republicans do? They kept a big stink going and ruined people's lives.
Everyone has seen what they are doing now that Joe Biden has rebuilt the economy. Trump and the Republicans can be seen for what they are. Trump is against anything that benefits you or I. Republican Congress people spent Christmas in Russia getting promises of money from Oligarchs. Trump says that Putin can do what he wants.
Trump and the Republicans are no longer working for America. They are wholly beholden to Russia and the end of Democracy.
Darrell..nicely written and 🎯
The American people have always suffered when a Republican was in the White House my entire 72 years. You would think that they could play a different tune, like actually doing something for the American people. They could refrain from attacking everything and pass legislation that solved problems. Maybe someday.
Thank you! EXACTLY!!!
absolutely, 100% correct. Republicans have considered the political arena as combat since Reagan (and further back?). In fistfights, the first punch can be decisive and sucker-punches are not off-limits, if not encouraged. Until the Dems shift tactics and start to brawl, the GOP will continue win these battles despite their being out-numbered and despite the desires of the majority of Americans.
Is it in the Democratic DNA to fight? Aren't they supposed to be inclusive, welcome to our big tent of diversity, blah, blah, blah? Just this morning, I perused several essays full of sarcastic vitriol, accusatory statements, and bizarre theories (See Caitlin Johnstone-wow). I wish the Dems messaging was focused on accomplishments and successes. But will the anger and contrariness of our population get in the way? I'm exhausted.
Crazy sells.
Right. This isnt fun anymore. 😂😂
And Donald smells.
Jared laid an egg?
What we need
Is to see
That fucker put away.
LOL
😂😂😂😹
It needs to BE in the DNA to fight. This Mamby-pamby let's sing Kumbaya, My Lord... is bringing water balloons to a gunfight. It has to stop.
All that stuff can happen *after* the Trumpublican fascists are beat into the ground and destroyed as a movement forever.
There's a time for talking, and a time for fighting. All the policy ideas and accomplishments won't mean shit if the Fascists take over the government, and they are planning to do exactly that.
If many of my fellow Dems were around in March of 1775, they'd have been organizing a Revolutionary Protest and expressing "concern" over British "overreach". Handing out posters and writing letters to the King.
You have once again hit the nail on the head, Cousin Jeff. The media needs to shut up about a man who, although he is old and maybe can't totally remember what happened thirty-some years ago (shit--neither can I!), but who know what the hell is going on NOW and is kicking butt as far as getting things done. They need to focus on what Biden's accomplished and what the Orange Menace did NOT accomplish during his hellish (for us) four years in the White House. Damn!!
Thank you, Jeff. Perfectly said. Actually, Garland should resign. But since that won’t happen, he needs to be shown the door. Thank you, in service. Bye, bye. Next up: Sally Yates
Excuse my language, but HOLY SHIT! And yes - Garland needs to go.
I didn't think I could despise Republican lawmakers any more than I did, so thanks for that Jeff:)
On the other hand, I've hated the oily, yellow, New York Times for a couple of decades now.
Yes, they gave us the orange swamp-creature and are trying to do it again.
Totally agree 100%!!!! Speak up and tell the truth- kick some ass Democrats!