yes, I know that the headline — which I wrote last night — doesn't really have much to do with the post under it — which I wrote this morning. I liked the headline too much to change it. so sue me
Did ANYONE see the AI- (I can't call it slop because it had me laughing SO HARD last night) someone posted and labeled the creator a genius? It shows the same crap donnydemento claims he's a 'red cross doctor' AND adds something descending towards him from up and behind...lo and behold, as it gets closer - it's JESUS who gutturally grunts out 'what is this' (or words similar) WHILE he SMITES 'dr.donny' upside his fat head, blood spurts (a LOT of blood spurts) as the demented one is knocked sideways AND down, down, down into the fiery pits of hell. It's SO fucking hilarious I must have replayed it a dozen times.
These are the kinds of things which are going to be triggering for you about her awful loss, Jeff. IF you can roll with them, find the hidden humour while appreciating how much she helped and contributed to your own writing genius, it'll help - a lot, even to just get by day to day. It floored me when you mentioned that it'd been two months. Impossible! - yet you've lived it. :'(
Jeff, I just want the pope to excommunicate Trump, and then kick his ass. I mean, I feel like Pope Leo has a shot since all Trump does is shit his pants, and cry like a baby.
Unfortunately, he cannot be excommunicated because he isn’t Roman Catholic to begin with. But I say, Pope Leo should go for it. Trump’s so stupid he might think he’s been thrown out of the Church. He’s such a weenie.
He makes sure to stay a nondenominational “Christian” perhaps to hedge his bets on an afterlife. I like to think there will be a special place in hell for him and his twisted administration. May it include an eternity of not yet ripe pineapples🍍
The awful thing is I don't even know what "Christian" is anymore. Charlie Kirk? Joan of Arc? Billy Graham? J.D. Vance? Pete Kegbreath? Jimmy Carter? My sister, the Baptist minister? All of the above? None of the Above? Hell, I don't know.
Their entire aim is Christian Nationalism. IN fact it's deliberately used all through Project 25 (ironically partially authored by goebbels/miller). hmm. The SAME phrases, the SAME beliefs. Unless one is all-in on this insidious and awful 'belief system' you're not a 'real christian' in their eyes. THAT is what they plan to turn our Country into - getting rid of everyone who doesn't follow their edicts. I'm blanking her name right now - but the woman who wrote about this back in - I believe August 2024, spoke to Scott Dworkin on his Podcast (Andra Watkins? - I think I'm screwing up her name) - grew up in that environment, broke away - read Project 2025 and recognized all of the phrases and terms used within. Her warnings seem to fall on deaf ears. Ironically, she mentioned Eric Swalwell as one of only two congress people who likewise saw the christian nationalism behind it all. So now we lose someone who COULD HAVE held them to account and possibly stopped this takeover of our entire country by a sick, religious fanatical nazi-themed group? While I'm one who does 'believe the women' the timing of these multiple women accusers seems awfully fortuitous for demento given his stupid war on Iran, his losing court case after court case, democrats pushing forward with the Epstein Files and so on. If it was all 'an open secret' as I just saw claimed, WHY would he have been backed as the frontrunner for California governor with SO much money? Something smells - at least to me. Was this takedown planned as an emergency measure if demento's plans began to fail?
Exactly - he seems to know absolutely NOTHING about Catholic catechism. I've been lapsed for more years than I can count and STILL know more than he does, yet he's supposed to be trying to 'convert' his Hindu wife to Catholicism? Makes no sense. IF so, he'd be standing up FOR Pope Leo against frump's egregious attacks on the Pontiff who heads Roman Catholics world-wide. Frump has NO clue, imagining he's more 'powerful' than the Pope. Ach du lieber.
For him to be excommunicated would require that he believe in something, which he doesn't. If Christians are right about the afterlife, Trump has ample reason to be worried. I would say "he's probably shitting his pants," but we know he does that all the time and it's not special.
You can’t excommunicate someone who isn’t a Catholic, but Wendy knows that, of course. But, he can bind that shit on earth and it will be bound in heaven.
And,
“oh, come on. how many doctors do you know who swan about in flowing robes and have glowing hands while angelic what-the-fuck-even-is-that-horned-abomination-above-his-head float all around him?”
A match to see who channels Gods powers better. I would say if there is a Blue Tsunami in November, we all have to claim, God has spoken. He does not approve of all the wars.
I want someone to play Dylan's With God On Our Side during that match. Actually, I'd like someone to be playing it now as background music to every trump or hegseth speech, but I guess that's asking a lot.
I read "The Pope of Greenwich Village" a long time ago. Your comment made me think of "The Pope from Chicago" or rather "The Pope from the South Side of Chicago" which is where he is from.
"we’ll take our chances with the furniture fucker, thank you very much" 🤣🤣
Seriously...get the felon locked away in a nursing home and let JD take the reins because he's so inept, he cant even order doughnuts... it'll be fine.
And Every American MUST VOTE in the midterms because if Hungary can do it, we can do it. We must do it.
At one paper I worked at, the Korean American photo editor gave my boss a tin of marinated silk worm pupae to go with the tin of potted meat. Safe to say nobody swiped them from his desk.
Don't be so sure. Trump may eventually evaporate, but when people feel the system is cheating them, they will fall for another autocrat that will offer scapegoats while picking their pockets. Don't forget, Trump got elected TWICE! Dems need to stand for progressivism and vow to break the status quo into pieces--and then do it!
So true Unity. Like “The Tea Party “, Beanie Babies, parachute pants , disco and eating cinnamon powder, MAGA will become a relic of pop culture.
The problem is how many people will die, have their lives destroyed or become destitute and homeless before Trump and MAGA come to an end.
This chaos today is what happens when a fad becomes a cult and starts worshiping satan.
Most fads are just quirky diversions from the hamster wheel reality of life.
This fad has been deadly. These kind of fads need to be ridiculed out of existence before they get a foothold.
Hopefully we’ll do better the next time a film flam man tries to take the reins of society and send us back to the dark ages.
This is what happens when there is a full on assault on education where actual history gets replaced with fake history, political science gets thrown in the trash pile, children aren’t taught how to treat each other and how to handle disputes and solve problems; and, instead children are taught faith and prayer and to leave the problem solving to the powerful people who “really know what’s going on”.
Children need to be taught that actions determine a person’s character and not their words and not to trust someone just because they’re big and powerful (or that think that they are big and powerful).
Children need to be taught that there are people (mostly men) in this world who want to enslave them. The oligarchs don’t want this known and mostly hide in the shadows (because they’re cowards). They let egomaniacs like Trump do their dirty work for them and they profit off the chaos.
Our education system did not get trashed by accident. The oligarch fascists have been playing the long game and winning. We need to wake up and beat them at the long game.
Now we’re in desperation mode fighting off fascists and climate change. It might already be too late (don’t tell the children); but, amidst all this chaos we have to start playing the long game or even if we pull out of this mess we’ll back right back in the chaos when the next fad cult comes along.
People like Jeff and the people on this site give me hope that we can still turn this thing around. There are way more good people in this world then there are trumps, Stephen millers, putins, and Netanyahoos. If we can somehow stop granting them power they would cease to exist. Isn’t that a happy thought
Hmmm…now where is that cornfield kid from the Twilight Zone? That would be fast fix that could buy us some time.
Personally, I'd rather not have Peter Thiel running our White House in the way that Miller does now. While priorities might shift away from immigrants and war, the financial priorities of Thiel would not be pleasant happenstance for the globe.
I didn't know that about PT, but am thinking that the Pope will not stick his neck out there. His job is to message the tenets of Catholicism and Christ, rather than pointing fingers at the "sinners" or making examples of them. Catholics are called to atone for their own sins (through penance), and ask forgiveness... or not.
JustADick can't maintain his facade: he's very like Rhonda DeSantis in that neither of them can manage to function like a semi-normal human; both of them go batshit furious at the slightest criticism......and they both have all the attraction and charisma of the soap snot left in the bottom of the soap dish.
He is far smarter than Trump, but he is also a player--which has gotten him his fortunate breaks.
He's smarter in that he made it through high school with decent enough grades. Those decent grades and his "military service" were enough to get him into Ohio State U without a rich daddy to donate a building. He graduated from O.S.U. with highest honors, which help get him into Yale Law. That there might have been a little DEI going on with his Yale acceptance, there since he came from a very unprivileged background isn't mentioned anywhere.
Vance is an amoral character without any principles; in other words a player. At the very first opportunity, he schmoozed up Peter Thiel (another player), when Thiel spoke at Yale in 2011. Since Vance is slick enough to take advantage of any opportunity he somehow managed to create a rapport with Thiel and oddly enough, opportunities to make money suddenly started to slide his way.
Thiel essentially bought Vance's Senate seat and of course the phony "Hillbilly Elegy" (stuffed with welfare myths and nothing much else insightful or new) gave him that extremely important gloss of celebrity and success that Trump loves to rub up against.
Vance remains charmless and unlikeable as well as being one of Thiel's "tech bro" fans which is the only facet of Vance that I have worries about.
He is Peter Thiel’s creature, but we are lucky that he will always be white trash and has no base of real support from friends. Besides, he committed the white nationalist bro ultimate sin and married a brilliant woman from India who he claimed in his first work of fiction actually saved him.
while JD might have a tighter collar on him, the machinery behind him has no intention of easing up on their agenda, they have loved the smokescreen of outrage trump provides them on a daily basis
Orban only lasted 16 years. Trump has been running around anti-christing for 11. IF he lives through more cheeseburgers, (IF), he'll be gone soon after Dems take the House and Senate in November.
Dictators, fascists, despots - - they have a lifespan. They just don't think they do.
If we have to endure the Heritage nazis' wet dream of a theocratic kleptocracy - at least have it delivered by ANYone other than a stand up insult comic on Adderall. Then again ... president Sam Kinnison might be a hoot.
I will take a dead Sam Kinnison as president over what we have now. He was awesome! I got to see him live in Cleveland about a year before he died. So sad.
But, he wouldn’t be running the country any more than Trump is running it! It’s the Peter Thiels, etc who are running it & will continue to run it, no matter who the prez is! Sadly! Gotta change congress in order to stop this! Blue wave in November! 🤞
In light of all the humiliation Trump has put Vance through lately (fun to watch, sure), JD might be less inclined to pardon The Beast, should the need arise. Yes, yes, I know, he'd lose the MAGA base but, they already don't like him.
I think Melania is the fantasy MAGA men love about Trump. Vance only has Usha and she's not nearly the sex bomb as the first whore, nor is she white, and likely was never a whore. Vance could never get "a Melania", although he tried with Erica Kirk who also breathes at a deficit.
He will soon enough. Peter and Elon will buy them for him. I think we need to send him on a permanent mission to Hungary. Where he can hide from the people who voted against Orbán. There were a lot of those people holding torches while Magyar was giving his speech the other night. Looked like a million torches being held high.
That’s funny Mike! And Lindsey is shopping for a fainting couch. Those corsets have to be very restrictive. I’m sure he can find one in a second hand store somewhere.
It obviously wouldn't get done by the midterms, or ever in this administration, but I'd like to see us be like Australia and have mandatory voting. Vote or pay a fine. Too many people who think things are just fine the way they are (and for them, things ARE fine) won't bother to get off their ass and vote. I don't know how much the fine is in Australia, but it needs to be enough to sting and to motivate people to out and vote. It can't be a token fine that many people could pay out of money found in the couch cushions.
I like the Australian model but what I'd really like to see is our tax dollars used to fund elections. Each candidate would get the same amount of money to spend on their campaign and would not be allowed to use any other money. Level playing field and takes out the billionaire advantage. It would also have the effect of making our elected officials spend all their time working for us instead of trying to raise money for their next election.
Also, perhaps the active campaign season should be shortened--as in the U.K.--so we wouldn't have to listen to a year or more of endless electioneering. In the UK the electioneering is limited to 6 WEEKS!!!
Campaign season in the US is 24/7, 365…any limiting of this would be greatly welcomed by the regular populace! I like all the ideas being floated here.
Tom Tillis said in a recent interview that a Senator will need to raise half a billion dollars to spend in the next election. That’s billion with a B. It’s gone, (Tillis said) from one hundred twenty million dollars three elections ago to three hundred fifty two elections ago to half a billion this time around. They spend most of their time fund raising. No wonder they don’t get anything done. It’s a ludicrous way to run a country.
I totally agree with you Robin. There would be some things to work out. How would you limit the number of people running for office so you didn’t have 40 people running for the same seat? Would you run it like a beauty pageant? Each town and city select an entrant. There’s got to be some smart people who can figure it out; but, you’re right— we’ve got to get the big money and lobbyists out of politics
Yet, so many people can't make it to the polls--why it's so important that mail-In voting must be strongly supported, preserved, and not vilified. I drove my brother, a disabled veteran in Northern Virginia, to his polling site, he gave his ID to the registrar from the passenger seat at the curb, the registrar brought the ballot to the car so he could vote, and then returned it to the ballot box within his sight. Where there's a will, there's a way --- volunteer on polling days and at polling sites. We must have the largest turnout in history to combat this coup of Liberty & Justice for All to Pardons & Payoffs for the Few. And Abigail Spanberger got another vote on the Blue Wave. I'm hoping for a Tsunami!
They still do that and it’s a great idea! They also have limits on donation amounts and a spending cap per electorate. We desperately need all of that.
Don’t they also have a limited time frame to run a campaign and a financial maximum? Or am I misremembering that from an old John Oliver piece in The Daily Show
I think there was a maximum for the last NYC mayoral race - not sure if it’s a statewide maximum, or if it’s specific to NYC. I remember that Mamdani got so flooded with donations that he had to return some and post on social media telling people to stop sending money, and asking them to volunteer instead.
I'm not sure, but I think you're right and I sure would be happy to see both things apply here. I'm in favor of strictly public financing for campaigns or at least a maximum amount for donors. And if you can't convince people to vote for you in a 3 to 6 month time frame, you don't deserve to be elected.
Nope. Not him either. We need to move beyond these guys and impeach them both in November after we remove little Mike Johnson and replace him with a human being.
I also agree.I’ll take my chances with Couchfuck McGee.Trump is the head of the snake and must be gone asap.Then We The People must systematically vote every single mo fo R out of office.Every.Single.One.
Come on - he is a graduate of Yale Law... surely he can muster the smarts to order donuts... it's just that there was this coy little couch off to the side making him all hot and bothered.
Take a look at the celebration footage from Hungary. It's a sea of young people--unlike the "sea of middle-age/retiree" protests I've attended in the past year. Dems: Wake up and take a few clues from Mamdani. RUN ON PROGRESSIVISM and don't let the status quo stand in the way!
Also, I have already heard some commentators on MSNOW mention that Hungary overwhelmingly elected someone center-right and that Dems should sit up and take notice. TERRIBLE ADVICE! When people feel like the system isn't working for them, that's when they fall for blaming it on scapegoats. And autocrats are only too happy to offer scapegoats.
The Dems need to support candidates who fit within their own communities. That means some who support guns and hunting and some who are deeply religious. The important thing is to stuff congress and the senate with decent people. Also, get rid of pearl-clutching Collins by any means possible.
I certainly agree that Trump should be locked away, but IMO, a locked psychiatric ward would be more appropriate. Nursing home residents can be very vulnerable. Just a thought…
Do you understand what the vengeful religious god cult is all about Susan? There’s a reason that JD’s meeting the former pope ended the way it did. Look at JD’s record lately?
Seriously, DoorDash Granny, for your own sake, please stop voting for the party of oligarchs who keep you and the rest of the 99% in the economic oppression we have to suffer through.
It blows my mind that people have voted AGAINST their own self-interests for so long. I wanna ask my Catholic Farmer Neighbors who had their yards festooned with Trump Was Right signs... how's the price of diesel working out for you now? 🙄
But the right simply convinces them they should be more afraid of black people, trans people, pronouns, Muslims or anyone different than them than they should be of crushing medical debt, high prices and erosion of freedoms. Throw in scaring them that Dems will take away their guns and their Bibles and they'll vote to send themselves to concentration camps Convince them that things that don't really materially affect their lives in any way are more of a threat than economic catastrophe and they'll happily vote to fuck themselves over six ways to Sunday.
There was a big article in the local paper today about the sad travails of the soybean farmers, and all I want to say is, "Fooled me three times, shame on me." At least they get bailed out, unlike we food consumers.
Not enough is being written about how farmers are being SUPPORTED in Canada vs our farmers. The capitalistic system in our country does no favors to generational farmers in the US yet who is talking about this....until Canada no longer provides lumber, dairy, minerals, fertilizer etc. to us. Wake up people. This is more important than we realize.
"As of April 2026, Mexico is implementing a new Universal Health Service, aiming to provide free, comprehensive public healthcare to all 130 million citizens by 2027, regardless of employment." Our neighbor to the north instituted this ages ago. Yet the U.S. still struts around the globe claiming we're Number One, the biggest and the best. Impoverishing our population makes us stronger.
We have been sold a bill of goods for generations as to how "exceptional" we are while other countries provide free health care, free tuition, low cost public or even free transportation. I am learning this reality as a family member travels the world and reports back. I dread giving my federal taxes this week for a system spending my tax dollars on the mayhem created by this rogue administration.
In many of the books written leading up to Trump's rise to power various religious leaders, including Catholics, promoted Trump's candidacy although the rest of us unsuccessfully complained about no longer separation of church and state. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd love to have one of those Trump campaign lawn signs. Trump Low Prices, Kamela High Prices. I'd be proudly displaying that, trolling the fuck out of them with their own sign.
I'd also like one of those America First lawn signs. They are so hypocritical and stupid you can troll them with their own campaign signs.
That was the saddest part. She is clearly a MAGA supporter or they wouldn't have picked her. We can do better, DoorDash Granny, I promise. Just vote for your local democratic candidate.
What was her testimony? Yes, definitely give big tax breaks to billionaire instead of health care to my husband but if I could just keep a few pennies in tips that would be swell.
Thank you, Jeff. That was worth the time to read every word.
Could have been a moment where MAYBE Trump could address the fact that medical costs bankrupt people, leaving them homeless? Maybe he could have shocked us all by announcing some major medical legislation--or heck, just that "best healthcare ever on Day One" that he promised (checks notes, darn, can't find it, too much daily junk" I'll guess) about a decade ago? I mean, he's done every possible outrageous stunt to shock us and after cosplaying as Jesus, what's left? Maybe acting SANE and compassionate?
That's precisely the reason I didn't understand the whole photo op! Why the hell would she answer that planned question with, "Maybe" when she's a known supporter?
She’s a GOP prop. She was also at some GOP hearing last year, making a few extra bucks to pay for cancer treatments, if that’s even real. Honestly, you can’t believe a motherfucking word they say.
Food delivery systems expect tips on top of inflated food prices. I thought people were struggling to keep up with rising costs. Who is still able to afford these systems? And why is this woman having to support all these grandchildren? Me thinks another effort to tug on our heartstrings.
One little post in Jeebus drag and now the cult is all "Sir, you go too far!" Like it's the first offensive thing he's done. I just can't with these idiots.
HCR reported that some of the fallout of the election in Hungary is that Putin's besty was using government money to fund CPAC. Just another puzzle piece in how did Republicans become pro-Russia.
I have a hard time seeing how she could make enough tips to have 11k less taxes.
In fact, I just had to google this shit, and the Daily Mail tells us she saved around 3 or 4 thousand, which sounds about right for tax on 11k. Maybe they should use the money to get a Medicare supplement - I don't know if hubby is old enough but he looks it.
Oh and now the magats are parlaying their new found fame to get donations for their gofundme. I hope they don't discover that hubby has a Latino name.
Look, I know these money worries are legit in this shithole country but still...I have to wonder how much king fuckface pocketed from DoorDash for this stunt.
Yeah, since I don't see Trump doing free product placement I have to wonder how much he got for mentioning DoorDash myself. If it was a paid placement DoorDash did not do itself any favors with it. I would have passed it up.
If she only made $11k in tips, paying $3-4k of that in income tax would be way too high. I assume she made more than $11k in tips, given how much she is apparently working.
OTOH, I have a hard time imagining that she made so much in tips that she saved $11k in taxes. Probably some combination of saving $ in taxes, plus receiving the EITC.
Love your post but two things. I think it is unfair to refer to Pope Leo's response to Trump as "sniping." I'm from Chicago and we don't snipe at bullies. We take them down. Second, I have no idea where Grandma found $11,000 in tax savings but it wasn't from the tax deduction on tips. Assuming Grandma files a joint return, max deduction for tips is $25,000. Marginal tax rate on income of $300,000 (the deduction phases out at joint income over $300K) is 24%. You don't need a calculator to tell you that NO scenario gets you $11K of savings on $25K of income.
Totally agree - I read somewhere that the $11k was the total of the tips, not the tax savings. If she delivered 5 DD a day x 312 days, that would be 1560 trips in a year, working 6 days a week. If the average tip were $7 you'd get to $11,000 in a year. I don't do DD - how generous are people when they tip? Wouldn't she be better off just working AT McDonalds? (And I do think this is terrible.)
I never use delivery services, so I have no idea what is customary but working at McDonalds is no walk in the park for someone who is older. You don't get to set your own hours, you are likely on your feet for hours at a time and you have to deal with workplace "politics". Plus, if you are lucky with the timing and location or your deliveries, you can make more per hour delivering burgers than cooking them.
Fair enough. Gig work is great for many, but it seems so sketchy to me. But I live in a sparsely populated area, so that's influencing my POV for sure.
I do use DD. And the tip their app suggests is pathetic. I'm not sure it's even 10%. I always have to at least double it.
& I'm getting effing tired of tips, service charges, etc. Pay them at least full minimum (although McDonalds jobs around here seem to start at $12) so I can see the full cost on the menu.
And Door Dash drivers are independent contractors (self-employed), so the BBB "no tax on tips" rules aren't even applicable to her delivery job (as far as I've been able to discern). As per usual, we've not gotten the whole story in her case, but can assume that her federal return won't be audited!
The tips deduction applies to those who are self-employed in qualifying occupations. A "goods delivery person" is a qualifying occupation. However, it only applies to voluntary cash tips (a credit card charge is the same as cash) that are reported as income on your return. And if you are self-employed, the deduction can't exceed the amount you earned in total from your business. Moreover, you still have to pay other self-employment taxes on your income. The rub for many delivery people who get cash tips directly from the customer is that unless they declare the cash tips as income, they can't claim the deduction. So any "under the table" tips self-employed people may have been keeping rather than declaring, well, those don't count.
Thanks for explaining the details on tips. After filing as an independent contractor for almost 3 decades, I was sure the claim didn't add up. The $11,000 would more likely be a result of Schedule A itemizing of maybe astronomical medical expenses, and costs of her delivery job. No matter what else we don't know about her family income and tax return, the whole claim being made is shady as hell.
As i said up above somewhere in the comments, The Daily Mail says the refund was actually around 3 or 4 thousand, so yeah, 11k in tips sounds right. And I can pretty much guarantee that average tip is inflated, especially in AK. People are notoriously cheap tippers on deliveries.
I will also help pry all that gold shit off of every room in the “white house” (I can’t bring myself to even call it that! The staged events just so he can brag about himself (on fake stuff) and pretend to EVEN CARE what other people think makes me sick. YUK! Great post Jeff!
The "gold" stick on shit from Dollar General will probably peel off with the wallpaper.
I've got a pitch for TV producers: as soon as Donnie Demento clears out after the next presidential election (preferably feet first), you got your next season of "Rock the Block." Round up the all-star cast--Property Brothers, Fixer to Fabulous, Home Town, Bargain Block--and we can all get to work stripping the shit off the people's House and restoring it. Sorry--we won't be hiring "No Demo Reno," because we are demo'ing the fuck out of the Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and the accompanying Dick Garden.
I worked as an ER RN at a highly regarded hospital in California. I know (we all did) of many doctors who thought they were gods. But NEVER did one of them, not one!, post a picture of himself dressed as Jesus. Never! Not one!
PS and some of those physicians ACTUALLY did heal people.
Being a lifelong Chicago/Chgo suburbs resident, we all played the Bacon game when Leo was named. Closest I could find was I was 1 or 2 people removed. (I suspect that we attended at least a few of the same White Sox games)
All the reports were that he is a genuine guy. Don't make the mistake of thinking he'll cower in front of Trump--after all he answers to a higher GOD.
Seems to me that MAGA and Trump have a real problem with understanding Democrats/liberals. Okay, I get that, 'cause I sure as (bad word!) don't understand THEM!
So, for any of MAGA reading, some information!
Just because you are liberal and support gun laws does NOT mean you don't own guns. Shocker, I know!
Just because your are liberal and support/are part of the LGTBQ+ community, doesn't mean you are weak--physically or mentally.
Just because you are liberal and support social safety networks does not mean you can't also have a portfolio of seven figures.
This is unthinkable levels of batshit. And ahahaha I died laughing when he broke the kayfabe. Wasn't this walking, shambling forced meme supposed to be some big TV force? I hate everyone who funded this asshole and made him an omnipresent, oppressive presence in all of our lives for now, what, 12 years in politics? It feels like 120.
Every morning I'm anxious about what disaster America's Pilonidal Cyst has caused overnight with his sleep-deprived shitposting. So I am glad when it becomes darkly hilarious. Such as the blasphemy, which is suddenly the red line for these bigots. They were all fine with him having citizens shot in the face, fine with him banning Muslims from the USA. They were 100% for the ethnic cleansing he promised. They want to torture trans people just for existing. Threatening to kill 90 million people? A-OK.
They said with their chests how much they loved their "imperfect vessel," all violations of the Ten Commandments wrapped into one prurient discharge. But THIS is too far.
I am not a religious person, at all, but, I love Pope Leo! I think he's giving other people the courage to speak out against TRump who were afraid to before now. As for that lady who delivered the doordash to Trump's door? Nah, she's an actor and I don't believe one word out of any of them. I'd bet $1,000,000,000 she voted for the mad bastard all 3 times.
It’s true, since the passage of the Big Bastard’s Bill, tips have been exempted from income taxes (up to a limit of $25,000), but remain subject to payroll taxes, which contractors like Door Dash Grandma have to pay. That’s 15.3%. If Door Dash tips are her primary source of income, chances are that she wouldn’t have paid much in the way of income taxes, given her situation. Too bad Donnie doesn’t just lay his magic glowing hands on her husband.
yes, I know that the headline — which I wrote last night — doesn't really have much to do with the post under it — which I wrote this morning. I liked the headline too much to change it. so sue me
Ms Spouse would have def made me change it
Ms Spouse - she was AWESOME!
and BTW, I think you totally nailed the biting sarcasm and mockery in today's column.
Recent news has been grim . . . but it seems to me that just maybe this subversive part of you is beginning to see the light of day again.
"posted some bugfuck AI slop" ha ! that had me rolling ! made my day
Did ANYONE see the AI- (I can't call it slop because it had me laughing SO HARD last night) someone posted and labeled the creator a genius? It shows the same crap donnydemento claims he's a 'red cross doctor' AND adds something descending towards him from up and behind...lo and behold, as it gets closer - it's JESUS who gutturally grunts out 'what is this' (or words similar) WHILE he SMITES 'dr.donny' upside his fat head, blood spurts (a LOT of blood spurts) as the demented one is knocked sideways AND down, down, down into the fiery pits of hell. It's SO fucking hilarious I must have replayed it a dozen times.
This Kathi-with-a-K-and-an-I agrees. A brilliant column today Jeff and I think it shows you really beginning to penetrate the fog of your grief. ❤️
These are the kinds of things which are going to be triggering for you about her awful loss, Jeff. IF you can roll with them, find the hidden humour while appreciating how much she helped and contributed to your own writing genius, it'll help - a lot, even to just get by day to day. It floored me when you mentioned that it'd been two months. Impossible! - yet you've lived it. :'(
I think this is what is meant by “may her memory be a blessing.” For JT, and all of us, it is.
<3
Jeff, I just want the pope to excommunicate Trump, and then kick his ass. I mean, I feel like Pope Leo has a shot since all Trump does is shit his pants, and cry like a baby.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-a-dumbass-a-pope-a-war-no-one-wanted-walk-into-a-bar
Unfortunately, he cannot be excommunicated because he isn’t Roman Catholic to begin with. But I say, Pope Leo should go for it. Trump’s so stupid he might think he’s been thrown out of the Church. He’s such a weenie.
He makes sure to stay a nondenominational “Christian” perhaps to hedge his bets on an afterlife. I like to think there will be a special place in hell for him and his twisted administration. May it include an eternity of not yet ripe pineapples🍍
The awful thing is I don't even know what "Christian" is anymore. Charlie Kirk? Joan of Arc? Billy Graham? J.D. Vance? Pete Kegbreath? Jimmy Carter? My sister, the Baptist minister? All of the above? None of the Above? Hell, I don't know.
Their entire aim is Christian Nationalism. IN fact it's deliberately used all through Project 25 (ironically partially authored by goebbels/miller). hmm. The SAME phrases, the SAME beliefs. Unless one is all-in on this insidious and awful 'belief system' you're not a 'real christian' in their eyes. THAT is what they plan to turn our Country into - getting rid of everyone who doesn't follow their edicts. I'm blanking her name right now - but the woman who wrote about this back in - I believe August 2024, spoke to Scott Dworkin on his Podcast (Andra Watkins? - I think I'm screwing up her name) - grew up in that environment, broke away - read Project 2025 and recognized all of the phrases and terms used within. Her warnings seem to fall on deaf ears. Ironically, she mentioned Eric Swalwell as one of only two congress people who likewise saw the christian nationalism behind it all. So now we lose someone who COULD HAVE held them to account and possibly stopped this takeover of our entire country by a sick, religious fanatical nazi-themed group? While I'm one who does 'believe the women' the timing of these multiple women accusers seems awfully fortuitous for demento given his stupid war on Iran, his losing court case after court case, democrats pushing forward with the Epstein Files and so on. If it was all 'an open secret' as I just saw claimed, WHY would he have been backed as the frontrunner for California governor with SO much money? Something smells - at least to me. Was this takedown planned as an emergency measure if demento's plans began to fail?
He has never been ‘in the church’. If there’s a God, he/she/they will say ‘Be gone, I never knew you’ on Judgement Day.
I want the Pope to perform an exorcism on Donald and Just Dance.🤪
I know you're being facetious, but he can't excommunicate someone who isn't Catholic.
Now JD Vance, on the other hand....
Vance will just switch religions. Again. 🤷♀️
Good one, Elizabeth!
Exactly - he seems to know absolutely NOTHING about Catholic catechism. I've been lapsed for more years than I can count and STILL know more than he does, yet he's supposed to be trying to 'convert' his Hindu wife to Catholicism? Makes no sense. IF so, he'd be standing up FOR Pope Leo against frump's egregious attacks on the Pontiff who heads Roman Catholics world-wide. Frump has NO clue, imagining he's more 'powerful' than the Pope. Ach du lieber.
For him to be excommunicated would require that he believe in something, which he doesn't. If Christians are right about the afterlife, Trump has ample reason to be worried. I would say "he's probably shitting his pants," but we know he does that all the time and it's not special.
Never kick the ass of a pant shitter.
or wear a sturdy pair of galoshes when you do it . . . and then just KEEP ON KICKIN'
I think a hazmat suit would be de rigueur if it has to be done. And it does.
Oh definitely - and thank you for taking this up a notch!
There’s a time and a place for scatological humor. Now is the time and this is the place.
You can’t excommunicate someone who isn’t a Catholic, but Wendy knows that, of course. But, he can bind that shit on earth and it will be bound in heaven.
And,
“oh, come on. how many doctors do you know who swan about in flowing robes and have glowing hands while angelic what-the-fuck-even-is-that-horned-abomination-above-his-head float all around him?”
I think it’s his demon sponsor in hell, honestly.
The Pope from the South Side of Chicago
A cage match on the front lawn of the White House on 4th of July would be amazing!
A match to see who channels Gods powers better. I would say if there is a Blue Tsunami in November, we all have to claim, God has spoken. He does not approve of all the wars.
I want someone to play Dylan's With God On Our Side during that match. Actually, I'd like someone to be playing it now as background music to every trump or hegseth speech, but I guess that's asking a lot.
I dont think Trump is Catholic so he can't be excimmunicated.
Still, it would be an entertaining event!
The fucking Fuckwit would have to be a Catholic, to be excommunicated Wendy. He’s not even a Christian!
Hateful Pedo,Felon,Racist POS!
And suck his thumb and Rick in a corner. Is that transport to Mars complete yet??
I read "The Pope of Greenwich Village" a long time ago. Your comment made me think of "The Pope from Chicago" or rather "The Pope from the South Side of Chicago" which is where he is from.
Did everyone see this:
Trump building 4,500-seat UFC arena ‘right at the front door’ of White House for his 80th birthday celebration.
Idiocracy writ large.
another description of his ill-ballroom
NO
NO.
🤬🤮🤬🤮🤬
As Stephen Colbert put it last night, “Doctor Jesus, Medicine Christ.”
Swallwell & Gonzales finally just fucked off
No way Jeff. Write any headline you darn well wish and have fun doing it. Whatever will turn you on in this maelstrom of a crazy world these days.
"we’ll take our chances with the furniture fucker, thank you very much" 🤣🤣
Seriously...get the felon locked away in a nursing home and let JD take the reins because he's so inept, he cant even order doughnuts... it'll be fine.
And Every American MUST VOTE in the midterms because if Hungary can do it, we can do it. We must do it.
seriously, I would have no fear of a Couchfuck presidency. nobody likes him, he's repellent, and he doesn't have a cult following
Agree on all counts. White bread has more charisma.
Susan, he has the charisma of Casu Marzu, a Serbian bread delicacy containing maggots.
Oy vay! I had no idea such a thing existed.
Same here... what exactly is Mike having for breakfast!? 🤣🤣
Ewww 🤮🤢
A bowl of Korean dung beetle soup has more charisma.
You knew there would be people like me, who would be unable to rest until they'd Googled it, didn't you.
At one paper I worked at, the Korean American photo editor gave my boss a tin of marinated silk worm pupae to go with the tin of potted meat. Safe to say nobody swiped them from his desk.
Oh, you made me laugh with that one.
😂
YIKES!!!!
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Yesterday someone said he is the anti charisma.
OOOOH…thats good! 👏👏👏
It was the best I could come up with…
Thanks, I couldn’t remember who posted that. I think it’s absolute truth.
🤣 Good one, Susan!!!
A cult of personality —which MAGA is — never survives when their idol dies.
The MAGA movement has no future other than to fracture and die.
Don't be so sure. Trump may eventually evaporate, but when people feel the system is cheating them, they will fall for another autocrat that will offer scapegoats while picking their pockets. Don't forget, Trump got elected TWICE! Dems need to stand for progressivism and vow to break the status quo into pieces--and then do it!
So true Unity. Like “The Tea Party “, Beanie Babies, parachute pants , disco and eating cinnamon powder, MAGA will become a relic of pop culture.
The problem is how many people will die, have their lives destroyed or become destitute and homeless before Trump and MAGA come to an end.
This chaos today is what happens when a fad becomes a cult and starts worshiping satan.
Most fads are just quirky diversions from the hamster wheel reality of life.
This fad has been deadly. These kind of fads need to be ridiculed out of existence before they get a foothold.
Hopefully we’ll do better the next time a film flam man tries to take the reins of society and send us back to the dark ages.
This is what happens when there is a full on assault on education where actual history gets replaced with fake history, political science gets thrown in the trash pile, children aren’t taught how to treat each other and how to handle disputes and solve problems; and, instead children are taught faith and prayer and to leave the problem solving to the powerful people who “really know what’s going on”.
Children need to be taught that actions determine a person’s character and not their words and not to trust someone just because they’re big and powerful (or that think that they are big and powerful).
Children need to be taught that there are people (mostly men) in this world who want to enslave them. The oligarchs don’t want this known and mostly hide in the shadows (because they’re cowards). They let egomaniacs like Trump do their dirty work for them and they profit off the chaos.
Our education system did not get trashed by accident. The oligarch fascists have been playing the long game and winning. We need to wake up and beat them at the long game.
Now we’re in desperation mode fighting off fascists and climate change. It might already be too late (don’t tell the children); but, amidst all this chaos we have to start playing the long game or even if we pull out of this mess we’ll back right back in the chaos when the next fad cult comes along.
People like Jeff and the people on this site give me hope that we can still turn this thing around. There are way more good people in this world then there are trumps, Stephen millers, putins, and Netanyahoos. If we can somehow stop granting them power they would cease to exist. Isn’t that a happy thought
Hmmm…now where is that cornfield kid from the Twilight Zone? That would be fast fix that could buy us some time.
They always say Couchy is the more dangerous game, but I cannot see it. He’s such a fuck up
His likability rating is just above Stephen Miller.
And both are less likable than a box of bedbug eggs.
Whose price has increased, like chicken eggs
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Personally, I'd rather not have Peter Thiel running our White House in the way that Miller does now. While priorities might shift away from immigrants and war, the financial priorities of Thiel would not be pleasant happenstance for the globe.
So maybe the Pope could oust Thiel? PT does claim to be Catholic...
I didn't know that about PT, but am thinking that the Pope will not stick his neck out there. His job is to message the tenets of Catholicism and Christ, rather than pointing fingers at the "sinners" or making examples of them. Catholics are called to atone for their own sins (through penance), and ask forgiveness... or not.
Well, I think he is a lot smarter than Trump (yeah, I know. Who isn't) and Vance is devious. But he didnt do much for Orban.
I still cannot believe we sent the VP to campaign with a Putin backed dictator. For shame.
I cannot understand it either
JustADick can't maintain his facade: he's very like Rhonda DeSantis in that neither of them can manage to function like a semi-normal human; both of them go batshit furious at the slightest criticism......and they both have all the attraction and charisma of the soap snot left in the bottom of the soap dish.
Soap snot? That's good. I've never heard that before. Henceforth it shall be called thus.
I will never use another bar of soap. Body wash from now on. "Soap snot". Love it.
He is far smarter than Trump, but he is also a player--which has gotten him his fortunate breaks.
He's smarter in that he made it through high school with decent enough grades. Those decent grades and his "military service" were enough to get him into Ohio State U without a rich daddy to donate a building. He graduated from O.S.U. with highest honors, which help get him into Yale Law. That there might have been a little DEI going on with his Yale acceptance, there since he came from a very unprivileged background isn't mentioned anywhere.
Vance is an amoral character without any principles; in other words a player. At the very first opportunity, he schmoozed up Peter Thiel (another player), when Thiel spoke at Yale in 2011. Since Vance is slick enough to take advantage of any opportunity he somehow managed to create a rapport with Thiel and oddly enough, opportunities to make money suddenly started to slide his way.
Thiel essentially bought Vance's Senate seat and of course the phony "Hillbilly Elegy" (stuffed with welfare myths and nothing much else insightful or new) gave him that extremely important gloss of celebrity and success that Trump loves to rub up against.
Vance remains charmless and unlikeable as well as being one of Thiel's "tech bro" fans which is the only facet of Vance that I have worries about.
Repugs will never vote for someone starter than them.
He is Peter Thiel’s creature, but we are lucky that he will always be white trash and has no base of real support from friends. Besides, he committed the white nationalist bro ultimate sin and married a brilliant woman from India who he claimed in his first work of fiction actually saved him.
while JD might have a tighter collar on him, the machinery behind him has no intention of easing up on their agenda, they have loved the smokescreen of outrage trump provides them on a daily basis
You are 100% right. But that doesn't not mean they are invincible.
Orban only lasted 16 years. Trump has been running around anti-christing for 11. IF he lives through more cheeseburgers, (IF), he'll be gone soon after Dems take the House and Senate in November.
Dictators, fascists, despots - - they have a lifespan. They just don't think they do.
CouchFuck is a sex slave to the machinery behind him, the Peter Thiel thruster.
If we have to endure the Heritage nazis' wet dream of a theocratic kleptocracy - at least have it delivered by ANYone other than a stand up insult comic on Adderall. Then again ... president Sam Kinnison might be a hoot.
I will take a dead Sam Kinnison as president over what we have now. He was awesome! I got to see him live in Cleveland about a year before he died. So sad.
I'd take a senile Joe Biden being watered in a flower pot.
Can we seriously see parents murdering their children, and then killing themselves with cyanide-laced Kool Aid for VANCE?
I can see people in Vance's audiences throwing him their upholstery fabric, not their panties.
Ha ha!
Nobody in Congress, right down to the mice in the basement of the Capitol, is scared of the Shillbilly.
But, he wouldn’t be running the country any more than Trump is running it! It’s the Peter Thiels, etc who are running it & will continue to run it, no matter who the prez is! Sadly! Gotta change congress in order to stop this! Blue wave in November! 🤞
I believe we will. I so hope I'm not being naive. Won't be easy to reverse the damage but I believe we can.
In light of all the humiliation Trump has put Vance through lately (fun to watch, sure), JD might be less inclined to pardon The Beast, should the need arise. Yes, yes, I know, he'd lose the MAGA base but, they already don't like him.
That's what I say. Vance is so unlikable. But I think Trump is repugnant and yet, some people love him. But, I think its because he was a TV Star.
I think Melania is the fantasy MAGA men love about Trump. Vance only has Usha and she's not nearly the sex bomb as the first whore, nor is she white, and likely was never a whore. Vance could never get "a Melania", although he tried with Erica Kirk who also breathes at a deficit.
But the Techbros would change our lives at warp speed, instead of just the speed of LDFF’s crazy sounds. And I find that really scary.
He will soon enough. Peter and Elon will buy them for him. I think we need to send him on a permanent mission to Hungary. Where he can hide from the people who voted against Orbán. There were a lot of those people holding torches while Magyar was giving his speech the other night. Looked like a million torches being held high.
The only person who seems to like him is the billionaire Thiel.
Maybe they are secret lovers?
Theil and the gay mafia call him DP Vance, as in two is better than one.
I hear couchfucker was looking for sexionals.😎
He is a sofasexual
LOL!! 😂
😂😂
Bwahahaha. Brilliant.
That’s funny Mike! And Lindsey is shopping for a fainting couch. Those corsets have to be very restrictive. I’m sure he can find one in a second hand store somewhere.
It obviously wouldn't get done by the midterms, or ever in this administration, but I'd like to see us be like Australia and have mandatory voting. Vote or pay a fine. Too many people who think things are just fine the way they are (and for them, things ARE fine) won't bother to get off their ass and vote. I don't know how much the fine is in Australia, but it needs to be enough to sting and to motivate people to out and vote. It can't be a token fine that many people could pay out of money found in the couch cushions.
I like the Australian model but what I'd really like to see is our tax dollars used to fund elections. Each candidate would get the same amount of money to spend on their campaign and would not be allowed to use any other money. Level playing field and takes out the billionaire advantage. It would also have the effect of making our elected officials spend all their time working for us instead of trying to raise money for their next election.
Also, perhaps the active campaign season should be shortened--as in the U.K.--so we wouldn't have to listen to a year or more of endless electioneering. In the UK the electioneering is limited to 6 WEEKS!!!
Campaign season in the US is 24/7, 365…any limiting of this would be greatly welcomed by the regular populace! I like all the ideas being floated here.
There should be a limit on money spent on campaigns.
Problem is Australia has only 29 million people. CA alone 39 million. It would be a big job if everyone voted. But that doesn't mean you're not right
Tom Tillis said in a recent interview that a Senator will need to raise half a billion dollars to spend in the next election. That’s billion with a B. It’s gone, (Tillis said) from one hundred twenty million dollars three elections ago to three hundred fifty two elections ago to half a billion this time around. They spend most of their time fund raising. No wonder they don’t get anything done. It’s a ludicrous way to run a country.
I totally agree with you Robin. There would be some things to work out. How would you limit the number of people running for office so you didn’t have 40 people running for the same seat? Would you run it like a beauty pageant? Each town and city select an entrant. There’s got to be some smart people who can figure it out; but, you’re right— we’ve got to get the big money and lobbyists out of politics
Yet, so many people can't make it to the polls--why it's so important that mail-In voting must be strongly supported, preserved, and not vilified. I drove my brother, a disabled veteran in Northern Virginia, to his polling site, he gave his ID to the registrar from the passenger seat at the curb, the registrar brought the ballot to the car so he could vote, and then returned it to the ballot box within his sight. Where there's a will, there's a way --- volunteer on polling days and at polling sites. We must have the largest turnout in history to combat this coup of Liberty & Justice for All to Pardons & Payoffs for the Few. And Abigail Spanberger got another vote on the Blue Wave. I'm hoping for a Tsunami!
Good idea! I didn’t know Australia did that. 😊
They still do that and it’s a great idea! They also have limits on donation amounts and a spending cap per electorate. We desperately need all of that.
Unless they've changed, I'm pretty sure that's their system.
Har - good luck having Republitards let that pass
You’re right Dave — every time they have a say they fuck it up. “Self interest” is their motto.
Not till after the midterms, and maybe not till after 2028. Right now we need the MAGAts to be discouraged and stay home instead of voting.
Don’t they also have a limited time frame to run a campaign and a financial maximum? Or am I misremembering that from an old John Oliver piece in The Daily Show
Oh, we really need a financial maximum.
I think there was a maximum for the last NYC mayoral race - not sure if it’s a statewide maximum, or if it’s specific to NYC. I remember that Mamdani got so flooded with donations that he had to return some and post on social media telling people to stop sending money, and asking them to volunteer instead.
I'm not sure, but I think you're right and I sure would be happy to see both things apply here. I'm in favor of strictly public financing for campaigns or at least a maximum amount for donors. And if you can't convince people to vote for you in a 3 to 6 month time frame, you don't deserve to be elected.
I agree with you Liz and Max, 💯, but the issue presently is this administration is doing all it can to suppress the vote.
And the votes would have gone to Trump.
When he took a history class, Vance was pumped about the section covering the Ottoman Empire. Boy was he disappointed!
Ok, that is truly funny. Thank you.
😂😂😂😂
Good one J Hardy!
Nope. Not him either. We need to move beyond these guys and impeach them both in November after we remove little Mike Johnson and replace him with a human being.
After Jan 3, when the new Congress is sworn in.
I also agree.I’ll take my chances with Couchfuck McGee.Trump is the head of the snake and must be gone asap.Then We The People must systematically vote every single mo fo R out of office.Every.Single.One.
Come on - he is a graduate of Yale Law... surely he can muster the smarts to order donuts... it's just that there was this coy little couch off to the side making him all hot and bothered.
Lol! Well, a degree from Yale can’t guarantee common sense or relatability!😂
And what to make of Ted Cruze who hails from Harvard Law?
🤔 hmmmm… you make a good point.
So true. An education doesn't make you smart. It shows that you understand how the system works and that you are willing to do the work.
Take a look at the celebration footage from Hungary. It's a sea of young people--unlike the "sea of middle-age/retiree" protests I've attended in the past year. Dems: Wake up and take a few clues from Mamdani. RUN ON PROGRESSIVISM and don't let the status quo stand in the way!
Also, I have already heard some commentators on MSNOW mention that Hungary overwhelmingly elected someone center-right and that Dems should sit up and take notice. TERRIBLE ADVICE! When people feel like the system isn't working for them, that's when they fall for blaming it on scapegoats. And autocrats are only too happy to offer scapegoats.
The Dems need to support candidates who fit within their own communities. That means some who support guns and hunting and some who are deeply religious. The important thing is to stuff congress and the senate with decent people. Also, get rid of pearl-clutching Collins by any means possible.
I certainly agree that Trump should be locked away, but IMO, a locked psychiatric ward would be more appropriate. Nursing home residents can be very vulnerable. Just a thought…
Nobody would ever visit JD in the Oval Office because they know he spends time with the couch. They'd have to be issued hazmat suits.
They could send in Bobby Brainworms to practice his felching skills.
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We will do it. We r Americans.
NOOOO, JD is FAR MORE dangerous than Frump.
🤔. How do you figure?
Susan, let's lock him up in a prison instead of a nursing home please
Do you understand what the vengeful religious god cult is all about Susan? There’s a reason that JD’s meeting the former pope ended the way it did. Look at JD’s record lately?
The first American Pope
Has given the world much hope
He is caring and humane
Intellectual and urbane
The antithesis of the fat orange dope
🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏 Excellent.
BRAVO!
😆
Yes!!!
O bless the Pope
of Red White and Blue
O how the bishops of the world
gladly voted for you
A Pope! Someone the president can't sue
Leo, the Fourth of your kind
Peacemaker, a light to the blind
Solace to the mass mind
End the violence to coexist
A dialogue of demons, that's the twist
Exorcism is your trade
Now that they know your name
Off go the boars over a cliff
Bleating and pleading
Their bitter end is swift
Dear Leo thanks again
Your fine retorts
From a higher plane
with Prince Jesus at the helm
Your spit on them is holy phlegm!
Awesome! Hope to see more of your poetic forays!
you and Frosty inspired me:)
Love this one Doc! ❤️
Excellent!
Another classic Doc!
Succinct and accurate. I love it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love poetry!!
Seriously, DoorDash Granny, for your own sake, please stop voting for the party of oligarchs who keep you and the rest of the 99% in the economic oppression we have to suffer through.
It blows my mind that people have voted AGAINST their own self-interests for so long. I wanna ask my Catholic Farmer Neighbors who had their yards festooned with Trump Was Right signs... how's the price of diesel working out for you now? 🙄
Dumb asses every one.
But the right simply convinces them they should be more afraid of black people, trans people, pronouns, Muslims or anyone different than them than they should be of crushing medical debt, high prices and erosion of freedoms. Throw in scaring them that Dems will take away their guns and their Bibles and they'll vote to send themselves to concentration camps Convince them that things that don't really materially affect their lives in any way are more of a threat than economic catastrophe and they'll happily vote to fuck themselves over six ways to Sunday.
There was a big article in the local paper today about the sad travails of the soybean farmers, and all I want to say is, "Fooled me three times, shame on me." At least they get bailed out, unlike we food consumers.
Not enough is being written about how farmers are being SUPPORTED in Canada vs our farmers. The capitalistic system in our country does no favors to generational farmers in the US yet who is talking about this....until Canada no longer provides lumber, dairy, minerals, fertilizer etc. to us. Wake up people. This is more important than we realize.
"As of April 2026, Mexico is implementing a new Universal Health Service, aiming to provide free, comprehensive public healthcare to all 130 million citizens by 2027, regardless of employment." Our neighbor to the north instituted this ages ago. Yet the U.S. still struts around the globe claiming we're Number One, the biggest and the best. Impoverishing our population makes us stronger.
We have been sold a bill of goods for generations as to how "exceptional" we are while other countries provide free health care, free tuition, low cost public or even free transportation. I am learning this reality as a family member travels the world and reports back. I dread giving my federal taxes this week for a system spending my tax dollars on the mayhem created by this rogue administration.
I know. How can people who are sick be denied health care. Its outrageous. Health care shouldn't be a commodity that is subject to the market place.
It's astounding how completely brainwashed they are.
This is right on. I wish it would fit on a sign!
Are those signs still up or have they been humiliated enough to take them down?
Last time I was home, they were finally down.
Its amazing how a majority of people will vote for a tyrant because of issues that never, ever effect them.
Maybe his Jesus AI cosplay will finally do it for them, or threatening the Pope
Sigh, one can hope.
Any slip ups need to be closer to the voting date. People forget so fast!! 🤷♀️
And fertilizer!
In many of the books written leading up to Trump's rise to power various religious leaders, including Catholics, promoted Trump's candidacy although the rest of us unsuccessfully complained about no longer separation of church and state. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'd love to have one of those Trump campaign lawn signs. Trump Low Prices, Kamela High Prices. I'd be proudly displaying that, trolling the fuck out of them with their own sign.
I'd also like one of those America First lawn signs. They are so hypocritical and stupid you can troll them with their own campaign signs.
That was the saddest part. She is clearly a MAGA supporter or they wouldn't have picked her. We can do better, DoorDash Granny, I promise. Just vote for your local democratic candidate.
There is footage of her testifying at a ways and means committee meeting regarding the big ugly bill, so yeah total plant.
What was her testimony? Yes, definitely give big tax breaks to billionaire instead of health care to my husband but if I could just keep a few pennies in tips that would be swell.
No maga ugly baseball hat, or, t-shirt?
I thought I saw footage where he asked her if she voted for him and she said "maybe"
Anyone confirm that?
Heather Delany Reese reports she said 'maybe' —
https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/trump-has-a-god-complex
ICYMI: https://www.thedailybeast.com/doordash-grandma-sharon-simmons-secret-past-revealed/
Kate, THANK YOU for that link.
Maybe I'm CRAZY, but wouldn't lower gas prices AND universal health care help more than the tax tip thingy?
Thank you, Jeff. That was worth the time to read every word.
Could have been a moment where MAYBE Trump could address the fact that medical costs bankrupt people, leaving them homeless? Maybe he could have shocked us all by announcing some major medical legislation--or heck, just that "best healthcare ever on Day One" that he promised (checks notes, darn, can't find it, too much daily junk" I'll guess) about a decade ago? I mean, he's done every possible outrageous stunt to shock us and after cosplaying as Jesus, what's left? Maybe acting SANE and compassionate?
Naw. He's crazy but not crazy enough to try that.
That's precisely the reason I didn't understand the whole photo op! Why the hell would she answer that planned question with, "Maybe" when she's a known supporter?
I saw the full video, and that’s what she said. Probably doesn’t want to lose tips from either side.
Can confirm
https://www.thedailybeast.com/doordash-grandma-sharon-simmons-secret-past-revealed/
She’s a GOP prop. She was also at some GOP hearing last year, making a few extra bucks to pay for cancer treatments, if that’s even real. Honestly, you can’t believe a motherfucking word they say.
Yeah--I have my doubts about her story, since the Magat crew produces something almost akin to the vicinity of a slight truth 0.0000013% of the time.
And if her story happens to be true--well, good thing she got that $11K: she'll be able to fill her car's gas tank this week.
No way she got $11K back in taxes from tips.
Exactly!! Our thoughts too.
Im she she gets paid.
I wonder if one of her grandkids is trans and that’s why she wouldn’t agree with him. If so, more power to her.
Food delivery systems expect tips on top of inflated food prices. I thought people were struggling to keep up with rising costs. Who is still able to afford these systems? And why is this woman having to support all these grandchildren? Me thinks another effort to tug on our heartstrings.
One little post in Jeebus drag and now the cult is all "Sir, you go too far!" Like it's the first offensive thing he's done. I just can't with these idiots.
Particularly when they didn't have any problem with that golden idol statue of him.
That those CPAC fidiots were actually bowing down to and worshiping.
HCR reported that some of the fallout of the election in Hungary is that Putin's besty was using government money to fund CPAC. Just another puzzle piece in how did Republicans become pro-Russia.
Speaking of CPAC I saw a news item this morning that Magyar has announced that Hungary will no longer be contributing to it.
or having his literal shit dropped out of an airplane on Americans
The old fuckadoodledoo already posed as the Pope
More his style what with the gold and all.
From last week:
Hey all you evangelical fanatics
Who overlook his moral acrobatics
He never attends church
He will leave you in the lurch
Your blind brains need some informatics
I have a hard time seeing how she could make enough tips to have 11k less taxes.
In fact, I just had to google this shit, and the Daily Mail tells us she saved around 3 or 4 thousand, which sounds about right for tax on 11k. Maybe they should use the money to get a Medicare supplement - I don't know if hubby is old enough but he looks it.
Oh and now the magats are parlaying their new found fame to get donations for their gofundme. I hope they don't discover that hubby has a Latino name.
Look, I know these money worries are legit in this shithole country but still...I have to wonder how much king fuckface pocketed from DoorDash for this stunt.
Yes she didn’t make 11,00 on tips. No way.
I even had one employer who kept my tips.
Yeah, since I don't see Trump doing free product placement I have to wonder how much he got for mentioning DoorDash myself. If it was a paid placement DoorDash did not do itself any favors with it. I would have passed it up.
If she only made $11k in tips, paying $3-4k of that in income tax would be way too high. I assume she made more than $11k in tips, given how much she is apparently working.
OTOH, I have a hard time imagining that she made so much in tips that she saved $11k in taxes. Probably some combination of saving $ in taxes, plus receiving the EITC.
this wasn't the 1st time he did this or similar; they ignored all the previous posts. But the price of gas is too high for them to ignore any longer.
It’s Joe Biden’s fault
Love your post but two things. I think it is unfair to refer to Pope Leo's response to Trump as "sniping." I'm from Chicago and we don't snipe at bullies. We take them down. Second, I have no idea where Grandma found $11,000 in tax savings but it wasn't from the tax deduction on tips. Assuming Grandma files a joint return, max deduction for tips is $25,000. Marginal tax rate on income of $300,000 (the deduction phases out at joint income over $300K) is 24%. You don't need a calculator to tell you that NO scenario gets you $11K of savings on $25K of income.
I have an idea where Grandma found $11,000 in tax savings:
Never neverland… that’s typical BS story from this clown administration — show us her 1040!!! all lies
Did that guy who took the $50K of cash in a sack loan her $11K of it?
That's where it went!!!
Of course they are lying.
After he shows his…
22% of Tom CRO-Magnon Homan’s heist
Totally agree - I read somewhere that the $11k was the total of the tips, not the tax savings. If she delivered 5 DD a day x 312 days, that would be 1560 trips in a year, working 6 days a week. If the average tip were $7 you'd get to $11,000 in a year. I don't do DD - how generous are people when they tip? Wouldn't she be better off just working AT McDonalds? (And I do think this is terrible.)
I never use delivery services, so I have no idea what is customary but working at McDonalds is no walk in the park for someone who is older. You don't get to set your own hours, you are likely on your feet for hours at a time and you have to deal with workplace "politics". Plus, if you are lucky with the timing and location or your deliveries, you can make more per hour delivering burgers than cooking them.
Fair enough. Gig work is great for many, but it seems so sketchy to me. But I live in a sparsely populated area, so that's influencing my POV for sure.
I do use DD. And the tip their app suggests is pathetic. I'm not sure it's even 10%. I always have to at least double it.
& I'm getting effing tired of tips, service charges, etc. Pay them at least full minimum (although McDonalds jobs around here seem to start at $12) so I can see the full cost on the menu.
Yes our tips are making up for the employer not paying a living wage.
And Door Dash drivers are independent contractors (self-employed), so the BBB "no tax on tips" rules aren't even applicable to her delivery job (as far as I've been able to discern). As per usual, we've not gotten the whole story in her case, but can assume that her federal return won't be audited!
The tips deduction applies to those who are self-employed in qualifying occupations. A "goods delivery person" is a qualifying occupation. However, it only applies to voluntary cash tips (a credit card charge is the same as cash) that are reported as income on your return. And if you are self-employed, the deduction can't exceed the amount you earned in total from your business. Moreover, you still have to pay other self-employment taxes on your income. The rub for many delivery people who get cash tips directly from the customer is that unless they declare the cash tips as income, they can't claim the deduction. So any "under the table" tips self-employed people may have been keeping rather than declaring, well, those don't count.
Thanks for explaining the details on tips. After filing as an independent contractor for almost 3 decades, I was sure the claim didn't add up. The $11,000 would more likely be a result of Schedule A itemizing of maybe astronomical medical expenses, and costs of her delivery job. No matter what else we don't know about her family income and tax return, the whole claim being made is shady as hell.
As i said up above somewhere in the comments, The Daily Mail says the refund was actually around 3 or 4 thousand, so yeah, 11k in tips sounds right. And I can pretty much guarantee that average tip is inflated, especially in AK. People are notoriously cheap tippers on deliveries.
thanks, I was wondering about that but was too lazy to look at the math.
I will also help pry all that gold shit off of every room in the “white house” (I can’t bring myself to even call it that! The staged events just so he can brag about himself (on fake stuff) and pretend to EVEN CARE what other people think makes me sick. YUK! Great post Jeff!
I’ll bring the spackle to repair the wall damage!
It's gonna take a fkton of spackle and all of the sage in the world to restore our White House.
A truck load of sage!
We should invest in sage futures. We'll make millions.
They probably used cheap-ass stick on plastic gewgaws that won't harm the paint
Take it from a museum professional, cheap-ass stick-on ALWAYS ruins paint; as well, the Oval Office is wallpapered, so even more damage.
The "gold" stick on shit from Dollar General will probably peel off with the wallpaper.
I've got a pitch for TV producers: as soon as Donnie Demento clears out after the next presidential election (preferably feet first), you got your next season of "Rock the Block." Round up the all-star cast--Property Brothers, Fixer to Fabulous, Home Town, Bargain Block--and we can all get to work stripping the shit off the people's House and restoring it. Sorry--we won't be hiring "No Demo Reno," because we are demo'ing the fuck out of the Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and the accompanying Dick Garden.
Makes sense. Cheap usually sucks in every way
sleuths have found that exact plastic-like design fungus at Home Depot.
I would PAY MONEY to be a participant in the Great De-Trumpification of DC.
You may find this site of interest:
https://undotrump.org/
Duuuuuuuude!!! That’s awesome! Gonna help with the Kennedy Center! Woo Hoo!
Brilliant link!! Tried it out….👍
Yes to all that, although I'm personally looking forward to them taking a jackhammer to his concrete patio and restoring the Rose Garden.
Jackhammer to everything remotely connected to him.
He is such a stupid person.
I worked as an ER RN at a highly regarded hospital in California. I know (we all did) of many doctors who thought they were gods. But NEVER did one of them, not one!, post a picture of himself dressed as Jesus. Never! Not one!
PS and some of those physicians ACTUALLY did heal people.
Goddess bless the nurses.
Such a grandiose delusional whim
Over the top even for him
His life-long behavior
Makes him no savior
His bulb is increasingly dim
👏🤣👏
Drumpf's the son of God never
I wish someone would pull that damn lever
And eject him right now
With his kids who are cows
In the middle of hurricane weather!
Good one!
Thanks! I hope to see yours soon.
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Being a lifelong Chicago/Chgo suburbs resident, we all played the Bacon game when Leo was named. Closest I could find was I was 1 or 2 people removed. (I suspect that we attended at least a few of the same White Sox games)
All the reports were that he is a genuine guy. Don't make the mistake of thinking he'll cower in front of Trump--after all he answers to a higher GOD.
Seems to me that MAGA and Trump have a real problem with understanding Democrats/liberals. Okay, I get that, 'cause I sure as (bad word!) don't understand THEM!
So, for any of MAGA reading, some information!
Just because you are liberal and support gun laws does NOT mean you don't own guns. Shocker, I know!
Just because your are liberal and support/are part of the LGTBQ+ community, doesn't mean you are weak--physically or mentally.
Just because you are liberal and support social safety networks does not mean you can't also have a portfolio of seven figures.
Just sayin'
Re "... what-the-fuck-even-is-that-horned-abomination-above-his-head float all around him?"
That's Hawkeye, part of the Trump Universe of Heroes, which includes Captain America and, I think, Jessica Rabbit.
Ok, thanks. I'm not familiar with those cartoon characters.
😳😳
This is unthinkable levels of batshit. And ahahaha I died laughing when he broke the kayfabe. Wasn't this walking, shambling forced meme supposed to be some big TV force? I hate everyone who funded this asshole and made him an omnipresent, oppressive presence in all of our lives for now, what, 12 years in politics? It feels like 120.
Every morning I'm anxious about what disaster America's Pilonidal Cyst has caused overnight with his sleep-deprived shitposting. So I am glad when it becomes darkly hilarious. Such as the blasphemy, which is suddenly the red line for these bigots. They were all fine with him having citizens shot in the face, fine with him banning Muslims from the USA. They were 100% for the ethnic cleansing he promised. They want to torture trans people just for existing. Threatening to kill 90 million people? A-OK.
They said with their chests how much they loved their "imperfect vessel," all violations of the Ten Commandments wrapped into one prurient discharge. But THIS is too far.
What a country!
O to be like Jesus is a hymn they sing
But To Be Jesus is not a cross they'll bear
Instead they flout the trans and queer
Kick a muslim on his knees in prayer
Turn a black man from the door
Rape women by the score
Diddle children and what's more
Make other children whores
That’s so beautiful and it makes me cry.
Btw, this morning Door Dash put out propaganda —I mean an ad— of MAGA MeeMaw.
This was after the Door Dash PR person spent WAY too long crashing out on social media.
May door dash go the way of Target. I’m already on the boycott train for Door Dash and if you are reading this you should be too!!!
And how much did Donnie get paid for this "product placement?"
He probably has stock in it.
I am not a religious person, at all, but, I love Pope Leo! I think he's giving other people the courage to speak out against TRump who were afraid to before now. As for that lady who delivered the doordash to Trump's door? Nah, she's an actor and I don't believe one word out of any of them. I'd bet $1,000,000,000 she voted for the mad bastard all 3 times.
It’s true, since the passage of the Big Bastard’s Bill, tips have been exempted from income taxes (up to a limit of $25,000), but remain subject to payroll taxes, which contractors like Door Dash Grandma have to pay. That’s 15.3%. If Door Dash tips are her primary source of income, chances are that she wouldn’t have paid much in the way of income taxes, given her situation. Too bad Donnie doesn’t just lay his magic glowing hands on her husband.
There’s no way she saved $11k in taxes on just $25k of income, assuming she made enough in tips to get the maximum deduction. The maths don’t math.