"Biggest part of crooked Adams deal which is only barely being noted is that the charges aren't really dropped (not in the ordinary sense of the word). They're put on hold with the letter explicitly saying they'll be considered again after November. So Adams has ten months to perform for his freedom."
Not quite. I think Adams asked Trump for help. He's looking at prison time. This way, he gets Donny to bail him out and now he can delude himself into believing he has a chance to win another term as mayor. He's the idiot here. Trump will throw him under the bus.
Adams is Black, turd is being selectively racist. Save Adams from prison? Possible further career? What's THAT final cost be? See Hershall Walker, who lost in a bid for a seat in Congress. Now is Turd's Ambassador to The Bahamas. What's THAT gonna cost Walker some day?
What are you talking about? Adams' race is not the issue. Adams wants to stay out of prison. Period. He thinks he can win reelection even though everybody hates him.
It's Herschel, not Hershall. Which also has nothing to do with Adams.
"Kissing the ring" is the mafia way of showing fealty, and a sphincter (of the anal variety) is also a ring. The mafia guys kiss the actual don's ring on his hand.
I've said it before - Donnie isn't Hitler (he doesn't have the brains, or the ideals. If you asked him what his "ideals" are he'd tell you about an ideal Big Mac. . .) Who Donnie is, is Hindenburg - a doddering, right wing old fool who is the epitome of what the Right Wing voters want - and is easily ( oh, HOW easily!) manipulated by his handlers. MAGA went on and on about how Joe wasn't in charge - do they really think Donnie is?
Oh, I think he did. Not NICE ideals, of course - but he really believed what he was saying. Unlike donnie, who can be swayed by flattery - or a nice wodge of money. . .
Sadly, there is no mechanism in place for NYC voters to recall or impeach Mayor Adams. He would have to be removed from office by Governor Hochul. She probably won't but I'm going to email her the suggestion. And do it again tomorrow. Nobody in NYC would miss Adams.
The "suspension" of Adams' charges muddies the waters in regards the city council's legal standing to start removal. It's also a completely untried and awkward process complicated by a number of factors, including that several city council members are likely candidates to run against an Adams reelection bid. Personally, I think he's toast on that count -- nobody hates Trump like New Yorkers -- but there's still the next 10 months to consider. Hochul could kick him to the curb more quickly. Yes, she'd face pushback from upstaters who love Trump but the same upstaters hate NYC as much, if not more, than they love Trump.
Hochul is GOP in drag. She has no scruples whatsoever. Didn't anyone else see her smile and say happy to be here when being interviewed by national press over the massacre of my black fellow citizens at the east side fucking grocery store by a white trash suburban? Then she rolled over and fucked the East side with her legacy road project blowing up their neighborhood and then again denying the East side a shot to host the second football stadium to put it where? Across the street from the first one in a wealthy white suburb that she's from. Mayor of Buffalo is a corrupt piece of shit too. The city has been on life support literally her whole life and she awarded the only major investment from her term to create jobs out of reach. Buffalo people denied. More because fuck you happening here too.
This is not justice in any sense. It’s like bribery, or extortion, mafia-esque, I’m grasping for a word that exceeds beyond crooked. He has exposed how deranged his mind works, backed up by a thousand other chilling-beyond reason, treasonous acts he threatens or carries out daily. At his base, he is cruel, heartless, humorless, insecure, cowardly, vengeful POS bad, mad man. And those are his good traits. I ask the Good Lord to rectify that monstrosity and send him to he//. Seriously. And thank you Jeff, for being a truth teller with the bestest words!
Trump was born into a crime family, his threats are those of mobster FT&FP, the criminal syndicate went global years ago… we’re now living in a mafia run country!!
FTrump, does "transactional" work at all. I read that word for a couple years (1.0) never considering the actual meaning. Like going thru checkout: You give 💲💸💸 to cashier, you get groceries.
I wish that were true, but he is merely a symptom of the disease. The hyper-religious wing of the Republican party has been indoctrinated by the far right, fascist part of the party. The solution isn't for Trump to die, that changes only the figurehead of the organization. We need to root out the infection of racist and religious zealots from the government
I agree but I also disagree. the Republican party is corrupt to the core, but I don't think there's anyone in their ranks who could step into Donny's shoes as leader of a rabid cult. I think a lot of Donny's voters would stay home if he wasn't on the ballot
Yes. Authoritarians who pass a certain threshold of popularity, like trump with his 77 million, really exist on a "Cult of Personality" (cue the band Living Color). In trump's case, as Jeff says, it really is a weirdly unique one-off, centered almost entirely on his name-recognition. Many, many of these 77 million aren't going to recognize ANY other name in the MAGA orbit outside of that other celebrity, Elon Musk. These voters are not exactly the brightest among us.
Yes. Instead of YouTube videos of reporters annoying MAGA by asking them about Kamala - why don't we get one where they just ask them who their Senator and Representative is?
I agree he’s a figurehead and the only reason he’s kept around is because he gets votes. But as he himself said, “my Christians” only need to vote this one last time, he’d have it fixed by 2028. Not suspecting once it’s “fixed” and they don’t need to win elections anymore, the Heritage/Fed Soc dudes will get rid of him & install their own, unpopular tool.
JD Vance is positioning as The Usurper. His LIE about Presidential dominance over the Judicial Branch was a huge tell. This was a self-serving, obsequious lie to appeal to Mad King Elon. (The Press is missing the big story here. It's not what JD said, but why he said it. Why would he violate his oath to protect the Constitution with this lie? It is strategic.)
With backing from Elon and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin, JD believes he can erase the "Freedom" meme from 300 million American brains. He sold out to the billionaires who dream of an America devoid of human rights and personal freedom. An America ruled with the Iron Heel. "Democracy is Dead."
I'm sure they have a final plan for Trump. It was going to happen later but now it will happen sooner because he is acting like he's in charge, wandering off the range and so on.
I guess I'm at the point where I believe that, now that he has not only the American oligarchs, but foreign despots as well, that we are stuck here until someone grows enough of a set to stop it. He stirred up enough of the rabid right wingers that probably anyone who continues then message of hate and revenge that he has been spouting will be able to control his base. After they get elected, they can ignore everything they said they would do, and go back to fucking us over, just like Trump is doing...for the second time
Agreed. Trump is a cult of personality. It’s the entertainment factor. None of his acolytes in the White House or the Congress are qualified to be the next champion of the world. I think the WWE or WWF or whatever the fuck it’s called now runs into the same problem from time to time when the Hulk ages out.
The question is whether the Project 2025 people doing the real work behind the scenes will engineer it so it doesn't matter whether the successor has any charisma -- we (including MAGAs) will have no choice in who comes next.
And as all sociopaths he doesn’t give a fuck about you anybody for that matter he turns on his own (Jeff Sessions) because he would not break the law, it was awful and I hated Sessions. Upshot is everybody is a target. I haven’t thought of the psycho Blago for years but now here he is again. Jeff’s tirade today was beautiful who can keep it coming like him.
I hope that’s true. I want to know if Donny harasses you like he does meidas touch? If he reads the burns you write on a daily basis I’d think he would try to sue or something, you know, cease and desist.
Agree. The cult of trump is about trump. The republicans are just sniveling little sycophants who want a piece of his power, but none can match his weird, "anything goes" style of discourse. He's uncalculated (due to brain rot) while they all calculate their ass-kissing and the difference is obvious. Imagine, for instance, Gym Jordan or Spork Toes talking about annexing Greenland. It would seem like the insanity it is while with trump, it's just part of the package.
Right? At one of his fetid rallies, Stephen Miller took the stage and the idiots BOOED. I mean who the fuck do they think they're voting for? So yeah. Totally agree with Jeff here.
Well, without Orange, there’s no one for the cult to focus on. Couch has all the charisma of dryer lint. Just recently, Orange said that he didn’t see Couch as his successor. OK, what now?
Elno is not native born, which even Orange acknowledges is disqualifying. The GOP has no bench. Stephen Miller? Someone will take him out behind the White House and pants him. Mike Johnson? He better take his sanctimonious self back to Louisiana.
Uber Mon Uber Womb Man step up. It's not just ONE leader, its the MANY that will helps us through the shadow of the valley of death as USA is being laid out on the table. It seems we have stepped into it's A Mad Mad Mad World where suddenly insanity is de rigueur. Every one of them a psychopathic sociopath.
Oh but he is though, already. He's pulling all the strings. ALL of them. Just doing it in the dark, in the night, and behind closed doors. And with Project 2025's blessings. And trump is too egotistically naive to realize how much he's being played. They let him spout about taking over Gaza and Greenland and Canada and the Panama Canal in much the same way parents hand their whining toddler their phone - a colorful screen to be entertained with.
Nobody took over from Jim Jones. The Moonies church split into three after its leader died - and they split into many factions. I believe when Donnie finally goes to his just reward (permanently constipated on a cold golden toilet?) MAGA will split. There's plenty of power hungry, money grabbing idiots for them to choose from.
The hyper Christian part and the fascist part are the SAME part, and they always have been. And they're the entire party now. Any movement going forward that doesn't have an explicit plan to either eradicate or at the very least severely bind the Christian Church is bound to fail.
Trump dying gives us a chance to take advantage of the inevitable power vacuum that will follow. It's not the silver bullet, but it IS a prerequisite.
Cults don't follow anyone but their 'leader'. So, when the f***was died, his cult will end. I realize this does not end the right wing white supremacy or Christian nationalism but it will break up the cult.
you and me both. I really should do a write up on the ill health of Orange McShitsHisPants.....but there isnt alot of public record on what that is or is not.
At the moment, nothing is stopping Smuk. Sure, like Demented Donnie, he's being sued on multiple fronts daily but now these two fuckwads believe they can ignore court rulings. This shit will come to an end at some point but how many more mornings do we have to wake up fearing the worst?
I start the day with espresso and phone calls to my representatives… they’re sick to death of the calls, but it’s the best I can do while still living in this fuckery!!
I like the Smuk tag, Rick. I have been using Muck but that may be too regional for most readers. Muck is the rich, black soil of the sugar cane fields of S. Florida. I think I will start going with Smuk cause it’s a comment as well as a name.
I’ve been waiting for him to stroke out since 2016. Pretty sure he’s having mini-strokes, or TIAs. Hopefully, with the excellent health care he gets from Doktor Ronny Whatsit, the Orange Anal Distortion will be found dead in his bed one morning and we can move on to the reign of 🤮 President Vance.
Yes,I have been saying that for some time.This country and the entire planet would be a much better( and safer) place if Donnie FF wasn’t on it.I’ll take my chances with Vance.
Having lived in Illinois under the Blago reign, I assure you he was a massive scumbag. But here's the bigger thing: Dump is doing so much criming, who is gonna stop this? I honestly think there will be violence.
And the SAVE ACT??? Dont even start me because when these assholes find a way to stop/hinder women from voting, which this is designed to do, THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE! Women are being stripped of every single right. ENOUGH! CALL YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE!
Fuck, just fuck!! They want their forced birthers. They dont want us to vote. The misogynistic little boys want to be served by women. The Republicans and the rest of the bigots are using the term DEI to replace the n-word. Just like they have in the past. Now, King Shitpants has ordered legal bribery. Shut down all criminal investigations. They're pissing on the Constitution. The guardrails are buckling. If they snap, the State Capture is complete. Welcome to White Christian Nationalist Amerkkka.
LISA! Something has got to give. This cant happen....too many people will be pissed off...hell, even the stubborn farmers are starting to get mad and thats saying something. BUT.....Women will not and CAN NOT allow this to happen.
I know. But, it's going to take everyone's screams to be heard. This isn't red or blue. Like I've said to Republicans on the phone, they have declared war on the American public. The bigots aren't going to bend. The rest have to feel to the pain of their uneducated votes. It's a lot like chronic addictions, until it hurts, nothing changes. Too many white people think this doesn't affect them. Younger women are fucking livid. The older Republican women support their men's misogyny. I don't know...they need more pain. We have a high tolerance for fuckery in this country. Stupid leg humpers.
The blue states are fucking with the plan, hopefully the governors will fight this autogolpe, knowing that falling in line with these treasonous policies aren’t going to cut it with their constituents!!
I know. I'm calling them too. I've called Governor Walz, numerous times. They cave to lobbyists. I'm asking them if they are more interested in protecting their stock portfolios than their voters. Fuck!!!!😤
These days, I write only if voicemails are full. I write when not so much is going on. Phone calls are best, if in person visits aren’t possible. My experience with petitions is that I just get more begging letters, even from organizations I never heard of.
I just learned about the 5 Calls app. I love it. It makes calling easy and quick.
This is insanity. Riding the emotional roller-coaster. I hate living like this. Listening to other Democrats isn't very encouraging. Their plan is put pressure on Republicans. Oh, yay!! Now, I'll piss up a rope. That's so hopeful. Why didn't we think of that. 🥱 A body count never bothers them.
I can't wait for the Crude Crusaders to try to legislate that everyone has to go to church on Sunday. That was law here in New England under Puritan theocracy. One of the reasons for all the little villages, so farmers didn't have to travel so far to do their civic duty. I'm really perplexed how these White Christian Crusaders think they are going to make the traditional denominations fold. Oh right, demonize Missionaries and aid programs, TAX THEM. Make denominations that don't go along with the Revised Trump New Testament where Judas takes charge w/ the 11 to turn the tables over in the Temple and takes a % of the money changers haul. TAX THEM. Subsidize the churches that draw in militants for the "Army of God". Get pastors to bless their weapons. Yep, State Church. Fun and thrills. Wait till they Tax the Catholic church and take on the Pope. Doesn't the Vatican have an army?
Compulsory church attendance will indeed be coming. And anyone who is not an evangelical Christian will be denied benefits, employment, housing, and so on. They want women out of the work force and the universities, and intend to repeal the 19th Amendment and so deny women the right to vote. They would like to repeal the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments as well. The Confederacy has returned to power.
I'm working on getting my papers in order. They plan on going after married women who took their husband's names and didn't legally change it. You must have documentation that you legally changed it and just not assume your marriage certificate covers it. Enough with this partriarchal bull. I will not be disenfranchised as a 13th generation American, with veterans in almost every generation including the King Philip's and the Revolutionary War who fought for our freedom. Their sacrifice will not be denied. Puck these dastards.
I'm with you, sister. My ancestors came to New Amsterdam in the 17th century and Virginia in the 18th. I kept my own name when I married because I refused to be defined by the patriarchy. I am a widow and still have my own name. Fuck these fascist pigs.
I wish I had because Horsky wasn't even my husband's family's real name -it's a catholic name and means "mountainous" in Czech. I decided to honor it-and I did change it legally, it was 50 some years ago, though...they changed it while in hiding from the NAZIS in the Czechslovakian mountains. My Czech father in law (who had been expelled from the Czech calvary because of this ethnicity, and his brother found work with the Russian guerrillas taking care of their horses and tack to get food for the family hiding in caves and barns.
Hey! You mess with the women in our great land . ….. YOU WILL SEE HOW STRONG THEY ARE.
For YEARS CENTURIES WOMEN have worked like slaves to raise their families, support all that is good, give their family an anchor, look to the future …..
THEY NEVER GIVE UP.
WE SHOULD ARRIVE EN MASS AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRONT DOOR. REFUSE TO LEAVE UNTIL RUMP RESIGNS SND APPOINTS A DEMOCRATIC FEMALE PREZ.
THOSE REPUGS THINK THEY WILL ABDICATE US TO BE THEIR NONMIND SLAVES?
We've speculated for years about how high the crazy quotient has to climb before the real powers that be ditch their spokesmoron. Any guesses? Is he costing rich people money yet? On another note, there's a crowdsourcing site from Denmark, raising funds to buy California.
Which would include a lifetime supply of their delicious pastries. Why not? The Danes and the Dems here in CA would make a much better team than those demented, corrupt GOP assholes in DC.
I have lived my entire life in California. I would welcome a sale to Denmark. If a sale is not possible, how about a long-term lease that lasts as long as the Republicans are in power. I could visit Greenland without a passport or visa. Perhaps we can get a discount on danishes at the market.
I lived in CA for a long time. All the big life stuff happened there - marriage, divorce, remarriage, college, career. I'm right up the road in OR now, will always have a soft spot for California.
the asshole who lazed around the White House residence having "executive time" when he wasn't out golfing, in his first term, now thinks people aren't really working if they don't schlep into the office.
You know it's about the cruelty, not the "efficiency", because of the blunderbuss approach: just send "fork in the road" e-mails to all federal employees with no consideration or plan as to who you need, where, and who you don't; require everyone back to the office when there's not enough office space (and GSA has been told to cancel office leases.) Maybe chaos is the governing strategy or maybe it's just the PR that Trump (Musk) is "doing something."
Sadly, it appears there's not one true patriot with the nads to do what must be done. I honestly don't see any other way out of this nightmare. I actually had hopes that Joe would do it. Odd how he suddenly lost his self-proclaimed mission to save the soul of the nation. Maybe a little bit of F You for the way he was pushed out.
If Musk has all our financial data, the fucking chaos monkey could just extract a flat amount from our bank accounts and eliminate the IRS. Corporations would be excluded.
If you have a job, your taxes are withheld before you get your pay. The only way to stop paying taxes is to be self employed and not have any employees. Then you can “not pay in.”
And I doubt they will ignore the laws regarding submission of taxes by employers. The laws are extremely strict.
I wonder who he will blame when Palestinians start blowing shit up in the USA. Stupid mother fucker…they’ve been fighting with Israel for decades because they’re taking their land and now he thinks he is going to waltz in there with no repercussions to Americans? Get ready…they are going to be coming for America trying to take their homeland and I don’t blame them a bit! That guy has what my Grammy used to call diarrhea of the mouth. Just shit comes out of it constantly.
Although the plan has evolved from the USA acquiring the Gaza Strip, to the POS potus owning it…..he will still expect our Boys and Girls, in the uniform of Democracy, to clean out the unexploded bombs and life threatening debris because.. who will stop him?
i was just reading on Reddit from a Glacier National Park sub that seasonal workers aren't being hired for national parks this year, while the new interior department henchmen figure out how to monetize and destroy more nature and wildlife. if true, that is going to have a terrible ripple effect on red state economies that depend on tourism.
Seriously...I stay as North of the Mason Dixon line as possible. I do have a short visit planned to see a very BLUE friend in Arkansas soon. I wont stay long. 😂
I am willing to support the Blue Dots in Red states. In fact, we really need to lift them up. They are fighting despite the danger. Substack writer, Jess Piper, is an astonishing example of standing up to the sea of red.
These people spend their own money driving to different places in their states to talk to people. Instead of answering DNC requests for more money, give money to these people!
I just donated to the MoveOn, ACLU and support my local Democratic candidates. The DNC does NOT get anymore money from me until they stand up,forcefully, to drumph. And John Fetterman can KMA…
She will probably welcome your support. My sister lives in Nashville and has for many years. She is fully indoctrinated so we agree to not discuss politics because we have affection for one another. I doubt that I will ever see her again and that makes me sad.
Totally agree! I will only spend my $$ in blue states. I hope all of our Canadian snowbird friends stay out of the red states, too! See what happens when tourism dries up!
We have a lot of Canadian snowbirds where I live. I have spoken to several of them and they just want to sell-up and GTF out. Can't say that I blame them but it might seriously affect local real estate sales and that's too bad. Plus, they are nice people and I hate to lose them.
My parents winter in FL. Several wonderful Canadian snowbirds opted out of heading south after the Trump win. Wouldn’t spend their $$ in a fascist country…..Thank you Canada!!!!💕
My in -laws live in a red state, and they like it when Husband and Son and I visit. It’s a nice city that sadly happens to be in a red state across the river from an even redder state ☹️
Well, they did their best to try to get Sherrod Brown reelected. And they like their neighbors. They go to a nice Lutheran church where the pastor preaches the actual message of Christ, like, "help those in need, don't tell them to go f themselves."
Red staters visit other red states. Many attractions besides caves. There's a fab Creation Museum in Kentucky, I think. I saw a documentary which showed school buses outside and kids inside on a field trip, looking at a display of a prehistoric kid playing with his pet dinosaur.
On Sunday in Airforce 1, he let the cat out of the bag that he saw treasury bonds as his assets to be plundered with impunity. The last time that happened was under Hoover in 1929. It sparked a run on the banks b/c people saw their savings and acct. being next. In turn that caused the stock market crash when everyone divested at the same time. Suggest y’all buy a large coffee can and liquify all your assets, NOW, b4 he and emperor musk take them from you.
The collapse is coming. Especially now that the don’t recognize any responsibility with abiding by the Constitution or the rule of law. But they sure as hell will force us to abide by their rule of law replacements! It’s all about gaining access to our money so we will be completely beholden to the crumbs they throw us to keep us alive -barely to continue being the means to their profits. Those of us too old, disabled, in any way unable to be off use will be the first to be exterminated. So my question is, do we wait for this to happen?
Last week I had a conversation about this with my husband and son while my husband was in the hospital. Have they done anything? No. If the economy hasn't collapsed by May, when my time accounts start coming due, I'll start cashing them in.
My financial advisor offered me T-bills today. I declined, based on your post. I hope the banks don't fail. I'm operating on the theory that business people don't want a crash and will start to rein some of the more egregious stuff in. Time will tell.
Really most of what everything is nothing but an "account", a piece of paper with a number on it because there isn't enough currency in circulation. Unless you have cold hard currency you risk those "numbers" on that piece of paper just disappearing. That is Elon's grand plan. To move your worthless "numbers" over to his worthless numbers.
Why do these dictators live so long? I’m praying he kicks every day. The nonsense he spews gets worse and worse and more dangerous. It’s going to take years for our Allies to ever trust us again. He’s batshit crazy and his enablers know it. I’ve never seen so many extreme examples of mental illness in my 71 years.
Our allies will never trust us again. There is no reason for them to trust us. Just as there is no reason for us to trust that things will improve here. The Supreme Court made it clear that Donald Trump is untouchable. And it's obvious what he wants - to dismantle every part of government, break every law, impose his will on every person and organization, take money from the working poor and middle class and give it to the rich, and singlehandedly bring about the destruction of the United States, so his name will always be remembered. Just because he can. And he will. Who can stop him? The military will enforce his will. They have been spoonfed his propaganda through FOX on every military base. He will ignore any legal restraints that lower courts attempt to put on him because the Supreme Court will back him every time. His supporters are unaware of the truth by being exposed only to rightwing media that adore him or fear him. Even the mainstream media fear and obey him. Again, back to the asteroid being our only hope - annihilation of the planet quickly would be less painful than want's happening now.
Yep. It's like being in a hurricane watch zone - you keep waiting and wondering if it's going to miss you, sideswipe you, or roll right over the top of you and destroy everything you own.
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
It's a runaway train with two raving maniacs dancing on the sidelines (God forbid they would be on it). I hate to be pessimistic but I don't see this ending well. At least not in my lifetime. Someone please tell me I'm wrong.
It’s not stopping me from calling Congress every day, however. And I have my bullhorn ready when it’s time to organize beyond just showing up outside of buildings.
And now this gang! Looks like Pete Hegseth was "fondling the grape" again!
'Help me out': Pete Hegseth flubs motto of the United States in speech to troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slurred his words while trying to recall the nation's motto — E pluribus unum — to U.S. troops.
During a rant in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday Hegseth spoke about President Donald Trump's executive order ending government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
"Back to the basics," Hegseth said. "It's pretty simple principles and it's, at the Pentagon so far, it was driving that culture change, which I know has led to a lot of changes in a short period of time."
"And I have a great deal of respect for the manner in which our uniformed class has recognized the executive orders of new directors and said, hey, this is what we owe back to you," he continued. "But I also recognize that in your formations, in your families, in your communities, that they lead to a lot of change or uncertainty."
"And I just want to put a stop or emphasize that when it comes to the things you've seen, like reversing the DEI, things like that, that to me, again, is about getting back to basics."
Hegseth vowed to "treat every single person, regardless of their background or their gender or where they came from or the color of their skin, the exact same."
"[The military is] the forerunner of racial integration in this country," he insisted. "That's the message that we want coming out of the changes that are made."
"E pluris — E — help me out," the defense secretary said, turning to the crowd for the motto. "E pluribus unum. I need a drink of water. Out of many, one. E pluribus unum."
This fucker can't stay sober. He can't help himself. It's weird that Shitpants picked an alcoholic, when he doesn't like alcoholics. Like his brother, Fred. But, he's an excellent dick handler.
I hate it when I miss nuance. from Josh Marshall:
"Biggest part of crooked Adams deal which is only barely being noted is that the charges aren't really dropped (not in the ordinary sense of the word). They're put on hold with the letter explicitly saying they'll be considered again after November. So Adams has ten months to perform for his freedom."
https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lhvufykl3s2u
When Orange Fuckwit says jump, Adams will ask “how high?”
Not quite. I think Adams asked Trump for help. He's looking at prison time. This way, he gets Donny to bail him out and now he can delude himself into believing he has a chance to win another term as mayor. He's the idiot here. Trump will throw him under the bus.
Adams is Black, turd is being selectively racist. Save Adams from prison? Possible further career? What's THAT final cost be? See Hershall Walker, who lost in a bid for a seat in Congress. Now is Turd's Ambassador to The Bahamas. What's THAT gonna cost Walker some day?
What are you talking about? Adams' race is not the issue. Adams wants to stay out of prison. Period. He thinks he can win reelection even though everybody hates him.
It's Herschel, not Hershall. Which also has nothing to do with Adams.
If Adams did, then he’s beholden to Agent Orange, no?
Yes, that is pretty much how it goes.
Sad truth Kay-EI, the rest of the ambassador positions are all crooks, cons and crazy fuckers, what could go wrong??
I’m pretty sure he’ll just start jumping while waiting to see how high donOld wants him to go.
Why is kissing the ring being said? It’s probably dropping to their knees, till they get sticky, unless donOld can’t get it up… too gauche?
My give a damn busted for this regime.
"Kissing the ring" is the mafia way of showing fealty, and a sphincter (of the anal variety) is also a ring. The mafia guys kiss the actual don's ring on his hand.
I imagine he already does, Kay-El.
I've said it before - Donnie isn't Hitler (he doesn't have the brains, or the ideals. If you asked him what his "ideals" are he'd tell you about an ideal Big Mac. . .) Who Donnie is, is Hindenburg - a doddering, right wing old fool who is the epitome of what the Right Wing voters want - and is easily ( oh, HOW easily!) manipulated by his handlers. MAGA went on and on about how Joe wasn't in charge - do they really think Donnie is?
Absofuckinglutely 💙✌🏻
👆
Joe was absolutely in charge
Home run on that pitch Lady!!
Go to Lucid and read what Ruth Ben-Ghiat has to say about Donny being brainless. Unless you need to believe it to get through the day.
Ruth is far too kind Marycat, I would have loved to have her as my professor, but Trump deserves much saltier descriptors!!
Hitler didn't have ideals.
Oh, I think he did. Not NICE ideals, of course - but he really believed what he was saying. Unlike donnie, who can be swayed by flattery - or a nice wodge of money. . .
Sadly, there is no mechanism in place for NYC voters to recall or impeach Mayor Adams. He would have to be removed from office by Governor Hochul. She probably won't but I'm going to email her the suggestion. And do it again tomorrow. Nobody in NYC would miss Adams.
The city council has authority to remove him.
The "suspension" of Adams' charges muddies the waters in regards the city council's legal standing to start removal. It's also a completely untried and awkward process complicated by a number of factors, including that several city council members are likely candidates to run against an Adams reelection bid. Personally, I think he's toast on that count -- nobody hates Trump like New Yorkers -- but there's still the next 10 months to consider. Hochul could kick him to the curb more quickly. Yes, she'd face pushback from upstaters who love Trump but the same upstaters hate NYC as much, if not more, than they love Trump.
Write and request Adams be removed.
I did. Read later in the NYTimes that Hochul has said she will not remove Adams. His political career in NY is OVER.
Hochul is GOP in drag. She has no scruples whatsoever. Didn't anyone else see her smile and say happy to be here when being interviewed by national press over the massacre of my black fellow citizens at the east side fucking grocery store by a white trash suburban? Then she rolled over and fucked the East side with her legacy road project blowing up their neighborhood and then again denying the East side a shot to host the second football stadium to put it where? Across the street from the first one in a wealthy white suburb that she's from. Mayor of Buffalo is a corrupt piece of shit too. The city has been on life support literally her whole life and she awarded the only major investment from her term to create jobs out of reach. Buffalo people denied. More because fuck you happening here too.
New York has had a "sanctuary city" law since 1985. Does Adams really think he's gonna win if he goes and guts that?
But at least he avoids prison. There's gonna be a cost for that Mayor Adams.
Temporarily Teri!!
Andrew Weismann pointed that out this morning.
This is not justice in any sense. It’s like bribery, or extortion, mafia-esque, I’m grasping for a word that exceeds beyond crooked. He has exposed how deranged his mind works, backed up by a thousand other chilling-beyond reason, treasonous acts he threatens or carries out daily. At his base, he is cruel, heartless, humorless, insecure, cowardly, vengeful POS bad, mad man. And those are his good traits. I ask the Good Lord to rectify that monstrosity and send him to he//. Seriously. And thank you Jeff, for being a truth teller with the bestest words!
Trump was born into a crime family, his threats are those of mobster FT&FP, the criminal syndicate went global years ago… we’re now living in a mafia run country!!
FTrump, does "transactional" work at all. I read that word for a couple years (1.0) never considering the actual meaning. Like going thru checkout: You give 💲💸💸 to cashier, you get groceries.
Exactly!! He’s on the hook with Trump for the entire four years.
sick sick sick
The sooner he dies the better off the world is going to be.
I wish that were true, but he is merely a symptom of the disease. The hyper-religious wing of the Republican party has been indoctrinated by the far right, fascist part of the party. The solution isn't for Trump to die, that changes only the figurehead of the organization. We need to root out the infection of racist and religious zealots from the government
I agree but I also disagree. the Republican party is corrupt to the core, but I don't think there's anyone in their ranks who could step into Donny's shoes as leader of a rabid cult. I think a lot of Donny's voters would stay home if he wasn't on the ballot
I agree
I think he is the “ glue” that is hiding this together
Unfortunately, I have a lot of MaGa in laws
It is all about Donnie to them.
As soon as Donny turns on musk, so will they
Honestly I can’t stand the man and do not understand what is so “ charismatic “ about him
His voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard
I laugh every time I see him. How unkept, rumpled, disheveled he looks.
With all “his money and power” why is he looking and continue to look like that. A street bum
He is truly the emperor has no clothes
Luigi. Such a huge target. You can’t miss
Meme trending: "Doesn't anyone want to impress Jodi Foster anymore?"
If you don't get the joke, Google "John Hinkley"
I think all of us old farts here will get the joke.
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HAHAH!!
Oh, Lord forgive me. I love that.
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Hahahahahaha!!
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Yes. Authoritarians who pass a certain threshold of popularity, like trump with his 77 million, really exist on a "Cult of Personality" (cue the band Living Color). In trump's case, as Jeff says, it really is a weirdly unique one-off, centered almost entirely on his name-recognition. Many, many of these 77 million aren't going to recognize ANY other name in the MAGA orbit outside of that other celebrity, Elon Musk. These voters are not exactly the brightest among us.
Yes. Instead of YouTube videos of reporters annoying MAGA by asking them about Kamala - why don't we get one where they just ask them who their Senator and Representative is?
Agreed! Certainly not JDV, who Donnie disavowed as his successor in some tv interview over the weekend.
Have you noticed that every time they let JD out into the sunlight he blabs something the horde really doesn't want talked about... yet or ever.
He's not getting the daily talking points memo? Or has more important bs to show "FUCK THEM ALL!! F MUSK!"
Yes.
That was only because he's planning to be dictator for life.
And then passing it on to his children. Which son is next in line? My friends say it is Barron.
Doesn't Barron have some kind of learning disability or something? He seems kinda "off".
Linda, my first thought: Glynn Close in ??: "I WON'T BE IGNORED, DON!!!"
I agree he’s a figurehead and the only reason he’s kept around is because he gets votes. But as he himself said, “my Christians” only need to vote this one last time, he’d have it fixed by 2028. Not suspecting once it’s “fixed” and they don’t need to win elections anymore, the Heritage/Fed Soc dudes will get rid of him & install their own, unpopular tool.
And that will be Justa Dick Vance. Who will do/say whatever they want. For life.
JD Vance is positioning as The Usurper. His LIE about Presidential dominance over the Judicial Branch was a huge tell. This was a self-serving, obsequious lie to appeal to Mad King Elon. (The Press is missing the big story here. It's not what JD said, but why he said it. Why would he violate his oath to protect the Constitution with this lie? It is strategic.)
With backing from Elon and Thiel and Curtis Yarvin, JD believes he can erase the "Freedom" meme from 300 million American brains. He sold out to the billionaires who dream of an America devoid of human rights and personal freedom. An America ruled with the Iron Heel. "Democracy is Dead."
And Donny said "No" when asked in an interview if Vance is his successor. LOL Vance must really be hoping that those Big Macs catch up to Donny soon.
I'm sure they have a final plan for Trump. It was going to happen later but now it will happen sooner because he is acting like he's in charge, wandering off the range and so on.
They’re all filled with horrible ideas, but the cult doesn’t survive without the leader.
Nobody has his ridiculous cartoon villain persona the cult loves so much.
Well, there is Roger Stone!
Nah, I'd go for Eric. That guy's charisma is off the charts! (Unfortunately, in a downward direction. . . )
Ewww. He is the worst.
They don’t need the cult if there isn’t any VOTING ffs.
I guess I'm at the point where I believe that, now that he has not only the American oligarchs, but foreign despots as well, that we are stuck here until someone grows enough of a set to stop it. He stirred up enough of the rabid right wingers that probably anyone who continues then message of hate and revenge that he has been spouting will be able to control his base. After they get elected, they can ignore everything they said they would do, and go back to fucking us over, just like Trump is doing...for the second time
I don’t believe there is an obvious heir apparent to Trump. Not so easy for MAGA to replace him.
Not MAGA, NAP (Nazi American Party)
YES! It is a cult of personality for sure. Dump has the charisma the stupids fall for. They may never realize just how bad their life is going to get.
I find him as charismatic as Caligula.
As charismatic as cholera. . .
He is the humanistic version of herpes.
I vote to enshrine "the stupids" as the official trump supporter classification. It's science.
I like "Trumpanzees myself, they jump up and down, and hoot like violent chimpanzees. Totally spoiled the arena scene in "Idiocracy" for me.
Agreed. Trump is a cult of personality. It’s the entertainment factor. None of his acolytes in the White House or the Congress are qualified to be the next champion of the world. I think the WWE or WWF or whatever the fuck it’s called now runs into the same problem from time to time when the Hulk ages out.
The question is whether the Project 2025 people doing the real work behind the scenes will engineer it so it doesn't matter whether the successor has any charisma -- we (including MAGAs) will have no choice in who comes next.
Voight?
He has the charisma of a dirty, mildewed, limp dishrag.
Not if I have anything to say about it.
Russ Vought or Jon Voight ?
They both suck.
He's full of PERSONALITY DISORDERS.
And as all sociopaths he doesn’t give a fuck about you anybody for that matter he turns on his own (Jeff Sessions) because he would not break the law, it was awful and I hated Sessions. Upshot is everybody is a target. I haven’t thought of the psycho Blago for years but now here he is again. Jeff’s tirade today was beautiful who can keep it coming like him.
Is that was Kennedy Center is for, boxing, cage, + WWE events?
I hope that’s true. I want to know if Donny harasses you like he does meidas touch? If he reads the burns you write on a daily basis I’d think he would try to sue or something, you know, cease and desist.
Meidas Touch he can watch on video. To keep up with Jeff, he would have to read, something he can barely do and hates trying.
If it's not on TV, phhss, it's not important.
I think Dooner (aka Cokey McSniffles) figures it's his.
Well, he is going to be very disappointed, isn't he?
Not Donald would have trouble winning an election for dog catcher.
Ain’t never gonna happen.
Agree. The cult of trump is about trump. The republicans are just sniveling little sycophants who want a piece of his power, but none can match his weird, "anything goes" style of discourse. He's uncalculated (due to brain rot) while they all calculate their ass-kissing and the difference is obvious. Imagine, for instance, Gym Jordan or Spork Toes talking about annexing Greenland. It would seem like the insanity it is while with trump, it's just part of the package.
Right? At one of his fetid rallies, Stephen Miller took the stage and the idiots BOOED. I mean who the fuck do they think they're voting for? So yeah. Totally agree with Jeff here.
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Well, without Orange, there’s no one for the cult to focus on. Couch has all the charisma of dryer lint. Just recently, Orange said that he didn’t see Couch as his successor. OK, what now?
Elno is not native born, which even Orange acknowledges is disqualifying. The GOP has no bench. Stephen Miller? Someone will take him out behind the White House and pants him. Mike Johnson? He better take his sanctimonious self back to Louisiana.
One step at a time, Carl. Cut off the head of the snake…
Honestly? There must be a better figurehead somewhere. Someone who is not mentally ill.
Uber Mon Uber Womb Man step up. It's not just ONE leader, its the MANY that will helps us through the shadow of the valley of death as USA is being laid out on the table. It seems we have stepped into it's A Mad Mad Mad World where suddenly insanity is de rigueur. Every one of them a psychopathic sociopath.
Doubtful. Well, there is Musk, but he cant you know, constitutionally be the american leader.....yet......
Oh but he is though, already. He's pulling all the strings. ALL of them. Just doing it in the dark, in the night, and behind closed doors. And with Project 2025's blessings. And trump is too egotistically naive to realize how much he's being played. They let him spout about taking over Gaza and Greenland and Canada and the Panama Canal in much the same way parents hand their whining toddler their phone - a colorful screen to be entertained with.
Carl, doing both works for me
Nobody took over from Jim Jones. The Moonies church split into three after its leader died - and they split into many factions. I believe when Donnie finally goes to his just reward (permanently constipated on a cold golden toilet?) MAGA will split. There's plenty of power hungry, money grabbing idiots for them to choose from.
Spot on!
The hyper Christian part and the fascist part are the SAME part, and they always have been. And they're the entire party now. Any movement going forward that doesn't have an explicit plan to either eradicate or at the very least severely bind the Christian Church is bound to fail.
Trump dying gives us a chance to take advantage of the inevitable power vacuum that will follow. It's not the silver bullet, but it IS a prerequisite.
We're gonna need a bigger roto-rooter.
Cults don't follow anyone but their 'leader'. So, when the f***was died, his cult will end. I realize this does not end the right wing white supremacy or Christian nationalism but it will break up the cult.
I look for the obituary every day. 🙄
I’m looking for front page news.
When the news if his death hits the media, there will be international celebrations.
People will pour into the streets and dance all night long. You want babies? Many babies will result from that happy event.
I listen for the sounds of wild celebrating in the streets.
I’m listening for all the car horns going wild and all the left over fireworks being lit off.
I will instantly know what it means cause I am waiting for it. And wishing, too.
It’s the reason I power up my spaceship (phone) every morning.
😂😁👏🥂🌟 Yay ! He's dead !
( I'm just practicing)
Practice makes perfect Kristy!!
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I think Mr. Creosote (Monty Python: "The Meaning of Life")
" Wafer thin "
you and me both. I really should do a write up on the ill health of Orange McShitsHisPants.....but there isnt alot of public record on what that is or is not.
The makeup is getting thicker by the day. What is he hiding?
Good question
That’s not the way to start a new day Susan!
Every morning I wake up, go to see the DH and ask him, “Is he dead yet?” Since the answer is invariably “No.” I go back to bed.
Musk, too
At the moment, nothing is stopping Smuk. Sure, like Demented Donnie, he's being sued on multiple fronts daily but now these two fuckwads believe they can ignore court rulings. This shit will come to an end at some point but how many more mornings do we have to wake up fearing the worst?
I start the day with espresso and phone calls to my representatives… they’re sick to death of the calls, but it’s the best I can do while still living in this fuckery!!
I like the Smuk tag, Rick. I have been using Muck but that may be too regional for most readers. Muck is the rich, black soil of the sugar cane fields of S. Florida. I think I will start going with Smuk cause it’s a comment as well as a name.
Good job!
I’ve been waiting for him to stroke out since 2016. Pretty sure he’s having mini-strokes, or TIAs. Hopefully, with the excellent health care he gets from Doktor Ronny Whatsit, the Orange Anal Distortion will be found dead in his bed one morning and we can move on to the reign of 🤮 President Vance.
I'm rooting for the tiny coxswain in his brain, yelling "STROKE STROKE STROKE !"
Well played Kristy!!
You can't get better than that!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laughing so hard I dropped my fork in my lunch, which then went ‘splat’ onto my tablet.
Does anyone else find Vance to be a tad stupid and not an original thinker at all? Bet he’d be easy to wind up with ridicule too.
You are not wrong about that statement. Can he eat some more Taco bell and mcdonalds burgers faster please?
Trump won't go near Taco Bell. He thinks it's a Mexican phone company.
Oh, Jebus! That really made me laugh. Thank you for that.
Nice Rhesus!!
😂😂😂
Preferably intravaneously.
Maybe we could send some to the White House?
Yes,I have been saying that for some time.This country and the entire planet would be a much better( and safer) place if Donnie FF wasn’t on it.I’ll take my chances with Vance.
Depends on how much religious fuckery you can stand Victoria.!!
He’s still a useful idiot, but the clock is ticking Lucius!!
White Castle sackful of sliders with a couple of boxes of nails, should be introduced into his diet!!
As long as they're rusty.
Having lived in Illinois under the Blago reign, I assure you he was a massive scumbag. But here's the bigger thing: Dump is doing so much criming, who is gonna stop this? I honestly think there will be violence.
And the SAVE ACT??? Dont even start me because when these assholes find a way to stop/hinder women from voting, which this is designed to do, THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE! Women are being stripped of every single right. ENOUGH! CALL YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE!
Fuck, just fuck!! They want their forced birthers. They dont want us to vote. The misogynistic little boys want to be served by women. The Republicans and the rest of the bigots are using the term DEI to replace the n-word. Just like they have in the past. Now, King Shitpants has ordered legal bribery. Shut down all criminal investigations. They're pissing on the Constitution. The guardrails are buckling. If they snap, the State Capture is complete. Welcome to White Christian Nationalist Amerkkka.
Every American's 4th Amendment right to privacy has been violated by Eloon. Democrats have to stop playing by the old rules.
LISA! Something has got to give. This cant happen....too many people will be pissed off...hell, even the stubborn farmers are starting to get mad and thats saying something. BUT.....Women will not and CAN NOT allow this to happen.
I know. But, it's going to take everyone's screams to be heard. This isn't red or blue. Like I've said to Republicans on the phone, they have declared war on the American public. The bigots aren't going to bend. The rest have to feel to the pain of their uneducated votes. It's a lot like chronic addictions, until it hurts, nothing changes. Too many white people think this doesn't affect them. Younger women are fucking livid. The older Republican women support their men's misogyny. I don't know...they need more pain. We have a high tolerance for fuckery in this country. Stupid leg humpers.
The blue states are fucking with the plan, hopefully the governors will fight this autogolpe, knowing that falling in line with these treasonous policies aren’t going to cut it with their constituents!!
I know. I'm calling them too. I've called Governor Walz, numerous times. They cave to lobbyists. I'm asking them if they are more interested in protecting their stock portfolios than their voters. Fuck!!!!😤
I’m calling. I’m writing. I’m signing petitions. I’m at my wits end trying to fight this fucking shit show.
These days, I write only if voicemails are full. I write when not so much is going on. Phone calls are best, if in person visits aren’t possible. My experience with petitions is that I just get more begging letters, even from organizations I never heard of.
I just learned about the 5 Calls app. I love it. It makes calling easy and quick.
Its a good app!!
This is insanity. Riding the emotional roller-coaster. I hate living like this. Listening to other Democrats isn't very encouraging. Their plan is put pressure on Republicans. Oh, yay!! Now, I'll piss up a rope. That's so hopeful. Why didn't we think of that. 🥱 A body count never bothers them.
Same here Jodi
We all are trying to fight it Jodi, I promise you.
Ditto Jodi! I’m also calling pals in other countries as a contingency plan, all of them are shocked at Americans ignorance!!
Welcome to Gilead
I can't wait for the Crude Crusaders to try to legislate that everyone has to go to church on Sunday. That was law here in New England under Puritan theocracy. One of the reasons for all the little villages, so farmers didn't have to travel so far to do their civic duty. I'm really perplexed how these White Christian Crusaders think they are going to make the traditional denominations fold. Oh right, demonize Missionaries and aid programs, TAX THEM. Make denominations that don't go along with the Revised Trump New Testament where Judas takes charge w/ the 11 to turn the tables over in the Temple and takes a % of the money changers haul. TAX THEM. Subsidize the churches that draw in militants for the "Army of God". Get pastors to bless their weapons. Yep, State Church. Fun and thrills. Wait till they Tax the Catholic church and take on the Pope. Doesn't the Vatican have an army?
Compulsory church attendance will indeed be coming. And anyone who is not an evangelical Christian will be denied benefits, employment, housing, and so on. They want women out of the work force and the universities, and intend to repeal the 19th Amendment and so deny women the right to vote. They would like to repeal the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments as well. The Confederacy has returned to power.
I'm working on getting my papers in order. They plan on going after married women who took their husband's names and didn't legally change it. You must have documentation that you legally changed it and just not assume your marriage certificate covers it. Enough with this partriarchal bull. I will not be disenfranchised as a 13th generation American, with veterans in almost every generation including the King Philip's and the Revolutionary War who fought for our freedom. Their sacrifice will not be denied. Puck these dastards.
I'm with you, sister. My ancestors came to New Amsterdam in the 17th century and Virginia in the 18th. I kept my own name when I married because I refused to be defined by the patriarchy. I am a widow and still have my own name. Fuck these fascist pigs.
I wish I had because Horsky wasn't even my husband's family's real name -it's a catholic name and means "mountainous" in Czech. I decided to honor it-and I did change it legally, it was 50 some years ago, though...they changed it while in hiding from the NAZIS in the Czechslovakian mountains. My Czech father in law (who had been expelled from the Czech calvary because of this ethnicity, and his brother found work with the Russian guerrillas taking care of their horses and tack to get food for the family hiding in caves and barns.
The Vatican has unimaginable wealth, if they don’t have an army, they’ll purchase one Lynn!!
Under his Eye.....I mean really. Its going that way.
Amen! I have them on speed dial! Hoping and praying the Rule of Law holds…
Hey! You mess with the women in our great land . ….. YOU WILL SEE HOW STRONG THEY ARE.
For YEARS CENTURIES WOMEN have worked like slaves to raise their families, support all that is good, give their family an anchor, look to the future …..
THEY NEVER GIVE UP.
WE SHOULD ARRIVE EN MASS AT THE WHITE HOUSE FRONT DOOR. REFUSE TO LEAVE UNTIL RUMP RESIGNS SND APPOINTS A DEMOCRATIC FEMALE PREZ.
THOSE REPUGS THINK THEY WILL ABDICATE US TO BE THEIR NONMIND SLAVES?
JUST TRY.
Reminds me of the novel I’m re-reading. VOX, by Christina Dalcher. I found it, in some ways, closer to current times than Handmaids.
Blago was a classic Chicago machine guy. He married into that.
THIS!!!
The hair. The hair always told me that. He just looked "scummy" and "dirty".
We've speculated for years about how high the crazy quotient has to climb before the real powers that be ditch their spokesmoron. Any guesses? Is he costing rich people money yet? On another note, there's a crowdsourcing site from Denmark, raising funds to buy California.
I would happily become Danish. Those people live good lives.
I’d move to CA for that
Can we get them to buy Maine, too? Or, maybe Canada would buy us?
And Michigan & Minnesota? If they buy Lake Michigan, they can annex IL too
Oh Canada! Please buy Minnesota!!! We’d fit in well as we’re the “State of Hockey”
I’m begging…….!!!!!!
From IL- I approve! 😄
Isn't Lake Michigan now Lake Illinois? Gov Pritzer just called google up and told them to change the name on the map......
MI here! Please buy us, Canada!
Canada can get all of New England for a low low price!!
My ancestors are from Denmark! Count me in! And I'm already here in CA. Plus we have the little town of Solvang in So. CA. We're ready!
https://solvangusa.com/
It would become the new capital!
Two ebelskivers, please.
As the granddaughter of a Danish immigrant, I would love it ! Uf dah !
I visited Denmark in the 80's, met my Grand Uncle & a bunch of cousins Beautiful country, beautiful people.
Which would include a lifetime supply of their delicious pastries. Why not? The Danes and the Dems here in CA would make a much better team than those demented, corrupt GOP assholes in DC.
I want to visit SOLVANG again, get some awesome almond Kringle 😋
Seriously? 🤣 I'll donate to that!
Californians might give it serious consideration.
I have lived my entire life in California. I would welcome a sale to Denmark. If a sale is not possible, how about a long-term lease that lasts as long as the Republicans are in power. I could visit Greenland without a passport or visa. Perhaps we can get a discount on danishes at the market.
I lived in CA for a long time. All the big life stuff happened there - marriage, divorce, remarriage, college, career. I'm right up the road in OR now, will always have a soft spot for California.
As everyone knows, I'm definitely for secession.
Link?
I will even move to ca to become danish
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/10/2302882/-Denmark-crowdsourcing-to-Buy-California-Sign-the-petition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
Never was a Daily K fan, but this might be peek worthy Ann!!
Buy us!!
Link?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/10/2302882/-Denmark-crowdsourcing-to-Buy-California-Sign-the-petition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
the asshole who lazed around the White House residence having "executive time" when he wasn't out golfing, in his first term, now thinks people aren't really working if they don't schlep into the office.
the cruelty is the point.
Every comment he blathered was a confession. He doesn’t understand the concept of work.
to be honest... I kind of wish he'd go back to golfing.
You know it's about the cruelty, not the "efficiency", because of the blunderbuss approach: just send "fork in the road" e-mails to all federal employees with no consideration or plan as to who you need, where, and who you don't; require everyone back to the office when there's not enough office space (and GSA has been told to cancel office leases.) Maybe chaos is the governing strategy or maybe it's just the PR that Trump (Musk) is "doing something."
It doesn't take an asteroid. Just an asshole with good aim.
Sadly, it appears there's not one true patriot with the nads to do what must be done. I honestly don't see any other way out of this nightmare. I actually had hopes that Joe would do it. Odd how he suddenly lost his self-proclaimed mission to save the soul of the nation. Maybe a little bit of F You for the way he was pushed out.
Yes KD I think u r right. Can’t blame him at all.
Luigi
If millions of Americans resist by refusing to pay income tax to a corrupt government, can the IRS prosecute all of us?
Asking for (literally) millions of Americans.
I think at that point they'd just skip to federally organized death squads.
Meh. I had a good run. Bring it on.
Burying all of us would be a problem I am quite sure they could not solve.
The Dems solve problems not these fucks.
I'm surprised federally organized death squads haven't come from our talented woke influencers.
Blue state AG’s should be working on this as we pay the majority of taxes
If Musk has all our financial data, the fucking chaos monkey could just extract a flat amount from our bank accounts and eliminate the IRS. Corporations would be excluded.
Sharon, that's very SCARY!!!!
JFC...you're not wrong, and that's terrifying.
If you have a job, your taxes are withheld before you get your pay. The only way to stop paying taxes is to be self employed and not have any employees. Then you can “not pay in.”
And I doubt they will ignore the laws regarding submission of taxes by employers. The laws are extremely strict.
Lisa. GOOD IDEA!!! FOR REAL!!!!
I wonder who he will blame when Palestinians start blowing shit up in the USA. Stupid mother fucker…they’ve been fighting with Israel for decades because they’re taking their land and now he thinks he is going to waltz in there with no repercussions to Americans? Get ready…they are going to be coming for America trying to take their homeland and I don’t blame them a bit! That guy has what my Grammy used to call diarrhea of the mouth. Just shit comes out of it constantly.
Although the plan has evolved from the USA acquiring the Gaza Strip, to the POS potus owning it…..he will still expect our Boys and Girls, in the uniform of Democracy, to clean out the unexploded bombs and life threatening debris because.. who will stop him?
i was just reading on Reddit from a Glacier National Park sub that seasonal workers aren't being hired for national parks this year, while the new interior department henchmen figure out how to monetize and destroy more nature and wildlife. if true, that is going to have a terrible ripple effect on red state economies that depend on tourism.
Who would visit a Red state? I really don't want to be anywhere around those people. Too bad if they have great caves and water.
Seriously...I stay as North of the Mason Dixon line as possible. I do have a short visit planned to see a very BLUE friend in Arkansas soon. I wont stay long. 😂
I am willing to support the Blue Dots in Red states. In fact, we really need to lift them up. They are fighting despite the danger. Substack writer, Jess Piper, is an astonishing example of standing up to the sea of red.
These people spend their own money driving to different places in their states to talk to people. Instead of answering DNC requests for more money, give money to these people!
I just donated to the MoveOn, ACLU and support my local Democratic candidates. The DNC does NOT get anymore money from me until they stand up,forcefully, to drumph. And John Fetterman can KMA…
YUP. Same here. Proud to be a card carrying member of the ACLU. And Fetterman.... GTH. What a major disappointment.
She will probably welcome your support. My sister lives in Nashville and has for many years. She is fully indoctrinated so we agree to not discuss politics because we have affection for one another. I doubt that I will ever see her again and that makes me sad.
Ever been to Yellowstone? Sadly, if red states were only in the South, they couldn’t prevail nationally.
Or glacier
And I guess Grand Canyon, given that elump swept all the swing states — so statistically unlikely given his narrow margin of victory.
I will never believe that we had an honest count in the swing states.
Our tourism is down in Hawaii. My daughter flew here from NYC in January for just $600!! Come visit!
I've been to Hawaii twice, Kauai, I would love to sell everything I own , move there and die happy. If only.
Totally agree! I will only spend my $$ in blue states. I hope all of our Canadian snowbird friends stay out of the red states, too! See what happens when tourism dries up!
We have a lot of Canadian snowbirds where I live. I have spoken to several of them and they just want to sell-up and GTF out. Can't say that I blame them but it might seriously affect local real estate sales and that's too bad. Plus, they are nice people and I hate to lose them.
My parents winter in FL. Several wonderful Canadian snowbirds opted out of heading south after the Trump win. Wouldn’t spend their $$ in a fascist country…..Thank you Canada!!!!💕
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Fly girl, yes, boycott every red state!! Deny them money!! And don't let your children go to college in red states.
My in -laws live in a red state, and they like it when Husband and Son and I visit. It’s a nice city that sadly happens to be in a red state across the river from an even redder state ☹️
Poor them!!
Well, they did their best to try to get Sherrod Brown reelected. And they like their neighbors. They go to a nice Lutheran church where the pastor preaches the actual message of Christ, like, "help those in need, don't tell them to go f themselves."
Red staters visit other red states. Many attractions besides caves. There's a fab Creation Museum in Kentucky, I think. I saw a documentary which showed school buses outside and kids inside on a field trip, looking at a display of a prehistoric kid playing with his pet dinosaur.
yeah, it’s got a “ replica” of the Ark. 🤣
The Ark took serious damage in a flood event. The insurance refused to cover it because it was an act of God.
Ha, ha, ha. Hard pass on the Creation Museum.
WTF ?
Yup...we have heard this already from Acadia National Park.
Destroying our national parks would be horrid.
On Sunday in Airforce 1, he let the cat out of the bag that he saw treasury bonds as his assets to be plundered with impunity. The last time that happened was under Hoover in 1929. It sparked a run on the banks b/c people saw their savings and acct. being next. In turn that caused the stock market crash when everyone divested at the same time. Suggest y’all buy a large coffee can and liquify all your assets, NOW, b4 he and emperor musk take them from you.
This is why I liquidated my T-Bills and Savings Bonds. There is no doubt in my mind that Turdo is going to default on the debt.
The collapse is coming. Especially now that the don’t recognize any responsibility with abiding by the Constitution or the rule of law. But they sure as hell will force us to abide by their rule of law replacements! It’s all about gaining access to our money so we will be completely beholden to the crumbs they throw us to keep us alive -barely to continue being the means to their profits. Those of us too old, disabled, in any way unable to be off use will be the first to be exterminated. So my question is, do we wait for this to happen?
Last week I had a conversation about this with my husband and son while my husband was in the hospital. Have they done anything? No. If the economy hasn't collapsed by May, when my time accounts start coming due, I'll start cashing them in.
Smart! Time for the rest of us to follow suit. It’s one way to bring their house of cards down.
My financial advisor offered me T-bills today. I declined, based on your post. I hope the banks don't fail. I'm operating on the theory that business people don't want a crash and will start to rein some of the more egregious stuff in. Time will tell.
Really most of what everything is nothing but an "account", a piece of paper with a number on it because there isn't enough currency in circulation. Unless you have cold hard currency you risk those "numbers" on that piece of paper just disappearing. That is Elon's grand plan. To move your worthless "numbers" over to his worthless numbers.
T-bills were safe in '29, weren't they?
Gee - if only we'd been warned that this would happen.
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“I swear, some days you just want to root for the asteroid.” 🪨 ~ JT
Why do these dictators live so long? I’m praying he kicks every day. The nonsense he spews gets worse and worse and more dangerous. It’s going to take years for our Allies to ever trust us again. He’s batshit crazy and his enablers know it. I’ve never seen so many extreme examples of mental illness in my 71 years.
Our allies will never trust us again. There is no reason for them to trust us. Just as there is no reason for us to trust that things will improve here. The Supreme Court made it clear that Donald Trump is untouchable. And it's obvious what he wants - to dismantle every part of government, break every law, impose his will on every person and organization, take money from the working poor and middle class and give it to the rich, and singlehandedly bring about the destruction of the United States, so his name will always be remembered. Just because he can. And he will. Who can stop him? The military will enforce his will. They have been spoonfed his propaganda through FOX on every military base. He will ignore any legal restraints that lower courts attempt to put on him because the Supreme Court will back him every time. His supporters are unaware of the truth by being exposed only to rightwing media that adore him or fear him. Even the mainstream media fear and obey him. Again, back to the asteroid being our only hope - annihilation of the planet quickly would be less painful than want's happening now.
Yep. It's like being in a hurricane watch zone - you keep waiting and wondering if it's going to miss you, sideswipe you, or roll right over the top of you and destroy everything you own.
Gail SO WELL SAID!!!!!! MY DAILY AND NIGHTLY THOUGHTS. 💭
cable, satellite phones, butlers, maids and chefs with unlimited budget or reach!
reindeer nuts, chicken lips and pickled roadkill are only a 1-800 away!
hey grandpa what's for dinner?
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
https://bsky.app/profile/richraho.bsky.social/post/3lhvlwqd6hc2z
Looks like Pope Francis is pissed off at US Catholic bishops marching lockstep with the GOP.
good to hear! Wait till Trump wants the treasures of the Vatican....his greed will never end...
Good. Maybe he can get the Lord to smite them.
The pope 🌬ppfft
The entrenchment of Opus Dei in the Vatican proves a Pope is not a King.
It's a runaway train with two raving maniacs dancing on the sidelines (God forbid they would be on it). I hate to be pessimistic but I don't see this ending well. At least not in my lifetime. Someone please tell me I'm wrong.
Ditto, Jan. 𝕀 𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕖.
It’s not stopping me from calling Congress every day, however. And I have my bullhorn ready when it’s time to organize beyond just showing up outside of buildings.
And now this gang! Looks like Pete Hegseth was "fondling the grape" again!
'Help me out': Pete Hegseth flubs motto of the United States in speech to troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slurred his words while trying to recall the nation's motto — E pluribus unum — to U.S. troops.
During a rant in Stuttgart, Germany, on Tuesday Hegseth spoke about President Donald Trump's executive order ending government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.
"Back to the basics," Hegseth said. "It's pretty simple principles and it's, at the Pentagon so far, it was driving that culture change, which I know has led to a lot of changes in a short period of time."
"And I have a great deal of respect for the manner in which our uniformed class has recognized the executive orders of new directors and said, hey, this is what we owe back to you," he continued. "But I also recognize that in your formations, in your families, in your communities, that they lead to a lot of change or uncertainty."
"And I just want to put a stop or emphasize that when it comes to the things you've seen, like reversing the DEI, things like that, that to me, again, is about getting back to basics."
Hegseth vowed to "treat every single person, regardless of their background or their gender or where they came from or the color of their skin, the exact same."
"[The military is] the forerunner of racial integration in this country," he insisted. "That's the message that we want coming out of the changes that are made."
"E pluris — E — help me out," the defense secretary said, turning to the crowd for the motto. "E pluribus unum. I need a drink of water. Out of many, one. E pluribus unum."
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-e-pluribus-unum/?utm_source=push_notifications
There is no bottom to the dumb with this guy.
This fucker can't stay sober. He can't help himself. It's weird that Shitpants picked an alcoholic, when he doesn't like alcoholics. Like his brother, Fred. But, he's an excellent dick handler.
He probably just needs a DRINK. 🥃