thank you everyone for all the birthday greetings! there were far too many for me to respond to, but I can promise you this: when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. so you got that goin' for you, which is nice
He is completely guilt free and cavalier about cheating and lying. He just doesn't care about others because he's a obese deranged imbecilic narcissistic Dickless Fuckoff. He just needs a constant crowd of fellators and stinking diaper sniffers around him, like anxious racehorses need goats.
ginnyr- you are so correct. Just like everything else in his history he has learned nothing except what his daddy and that foul lawyer Toy I mean Roy (bad finger!) Cohn taught him. To lie, cheat, refuse to take responsibility for anything, and stick it to everyone except those who genuflect, pay, and kiss the ring. Oh and I almost forgot memorize and mouth a few reusable lines from a bad and boring script. Did I leave anything out?
What gopher? The one that’s chewing up those greens so they are as lumpy as a lunar landscape?
I built golf course greens with my father and I can tell you from seeing the putts wobble and weave that Fat Ass has greens that are just as cheap and misshapen as the man himself! I’m sure the fat fool has no clue that they resemble a putt putt course more than a top shelf golf course.
As with most things trump it’s all sizzle and no steak, Big hype, lousy course.
Trump’s dubious and juvenile “championship crown” at his course reminds me of Steve Martin’s bit about how easy it is to become a millionaire: first, you get a million dollars…
Thank you for sharing your expertise, how cool. That somehow makes me feel better that it's not nice like pebble beach (we used to live down the road in Santa Cruz). I swear the only part of Jeff's post today that I can hold onto is the part when orange shithead says "... probably my last.". Playing, winning, alive for? I wonder if he's on death row with Putin and knows it's only a matter of time? A girl can dream...
Ole I am a former golfer and I saw that too, the goal #1 don’t leave the ball short! #2 slam it at the hole if you go past the hole you slam it again. Golf is such a waste of time but if you don’t do it a lot (wasting time a lot) you can’t improve. If you cheat and you are the only one who knows you are trying to fool yourself, obviously he has succeeded of course he fools himself constantly.
I remember being on a fairway and hearing from quite a distance “Am I out of my fucking mind?” Laughs heard all over, everybody gets pissed on the golf course. Not the club champs though cuz they so good.
Hey can I ask you to comment on the takeover of the US open or golfing in general by the middle eastern money bags? I don't understand what just happened to a whole sport.
They need to be stripped and graded to contour then smoothed.
There is no saving the mess as shown. No amount of plugging and filling will make them level.
And the moments I remember are not any shots I made but being 15 and being the first one out there to whip the dew off the greens with a long, thin bamboo pole. Early and silent except for the birds. Peaceful as any place on earth at that moment. And gorgeous in its green beauty.
You have the nicest memories and it’s like a religious experience to care that much, the greens can be a wonder with any hole placement fraught with danger or something incredible possible, on a good track. Not mar a dumpo.
love the Carl from Caddyshack reference...and happy belated...I went to Nicaragua and checked out - of everything - for a week, and I have to say it was nice to detach
'memba Katrina, Dubya gazing down at the damage from an airplane? He spent all of his remaining political capitol in one photo. Donny could piss all over the ruins of a house, the dead people in it, and his base wouldn't blink. This country is in the throes of mass mental illness.
I was in a closed door pharmacy one day and this elder gentleman who had recently had open heart surgery came in and we were sitting in the waiting room and there was a TV on -during the orange slacker's first turn on the white house dance floor - and we were chatting and all of a sudden he slipped in this comment about him not having a soul. He was a St Louis baptist and I never thought I'd hear something like that, so I stopped and asked him to clarify and he was completely serious and said orange and company were clones without souls. Looking at musk and all the anti-human stuff, you have to wonder why it feels like we are living in a twilight zone episode lately.
A Clusterfuck of Sewer Clowns. He never even pretends to care about other people. I have encountered a few narcissists and sociopaths in my life, but Donnie Dingleberry's pic is in the dictionary under 'Narcissism'. Imagine being so empty inside you have to hold golf 'tournaments' for yourself to win. And then a dinner to award yourself the championship prize. Even worse, imagine being one of the ass suckers who paid to play in the 'tournament'?
My theory is, you know all those "reels" where people doing idiotic things fall and catastrophically hit their heads and we're supposed to think it's funny? Brain damage. That's why people worship this creep.
With no end in site. The bigger the disaster, the more anus tangerinus fucks off and continues to cheat his way through life. The devastation that these storms have caused and the loss of life would've been addressed immediately by our empathetic former president Biden. However, this heartless turd continues to shit on the poor folks who need help the most, us and the rest of the world.
Elmo himself has stated that empathy is everything that's wrong with America. Joe Rogan, all the other right wing media guys, bro culture - they've taught a couple of generations not to give a damn about other people.
That reminds me of when GeeDumbya was standing on the rubble of the Twin Towers, with bodies still to be recovered, trying to look like he was presidentin'.
Have I told you lately how much I fking loathe Rethuglicans? All of 'em, Katie.
Thank you. Maybe it's our former Catholic upbringing that helped us form a conscience? Or at least taught us to recognize evil in its various manifestations.
If you have a conscience, you have one despite being raised Catholic, not because of it.
Christianity of all stripes has a really bad habit of taking credit for stuff it doesn't do. Like teaching morality. A conscience is a basic function of being human. Christianity has gotten really good at surgically removing people's natural capacity for empathy and decency and replacing them with the highly conditional Jesus approved version.
The Catholic Church is, quite literally, the world's longest continually running crime ring. And that's not even getting into the fact that child rape is practically a core tenet of the faith.
Unfortunately, they're nothing new. They're acting the same way most Christians have been acting for the past two thousand years. The only difference is they're not pretending to care about optics anymore.
Evil people can be Christian, and Christians can be evil people. There's no contradiction there.
Furthermore, it's entirely possible (even common) for Christians to be evil people BECAUSE THEY ARE CHRISTIAN.
If someone thinks queer people are satanic because their sect of Christianity teaches that queer people are satanic, then that Christian is an evil prick because they choose to remain in that sect of Christianity and adhere to its shitty tenets.
People are not prepared or being prepared for environmental catastrophes and under Trump they are going to get no help if Project 2025 is to be believed. They do not want to help people. I am not clear at this point what people are going to be getting for their federal taxes.
I think we have to become big environmentalists and band together. I wrote a piece about my trying to figure out how to adapt to the environment where I have moved to in Germany.
I don't think that true. My friends/family who are married or own homes have all sorts of benefits in terms of tax breaks that a single person not of means can't access. I was just told that the HUD dwnpmt assistance for 1st time home buyers progs are shut, but if you already have a house they can give you money to fix it. There are countless means tested progs directed towards the middle, just not enough of a middle. All these analyses from local gvmt about how to end poverty or help poor people except require living wages and stop letting VCs + corps buy up real estate and then gouge people to death. Being very poor or in poor health in the US is a nightmare and means your life expectancy is already 10 yrs shorter than ave person. There are no free lunches if you are poor and the handouts are so small as to not do anything more than maybe keep you from starving but you can work full time and still be homeless, and you will not have real 'healthcare' in a crisis with medicaid. I worked from the time I was 16 and became I'll during covid and now on SSDI, so I've seen both sides. If you have a home in the US and can hold onto it, you'll have a much better time of things than the rest. Unless you're in the path of a natural disaster. But that's weather, not Nazis and eugenicists from the gvmt trying to put you out to pasture.
Anne, you're not here in CA? When I didn't have any money to buy food, I went to food pantries and local food giveaways, until the ACA came in, and we got help paying for medical, which I needed for my husband. Berkeley has four giveaways, I think, and I went to three of them, a different one each week.
Thank you for that. We're ok now, but it was super dicey toward the end of the pandemic when I started running out of money waiting for SSDI and my partner was taking care of me. It was the first time I'd ever needed that kind of help and it was truly unsustainable. Making it work was, as you describe, a full time job and ACA/medicaid was truly necessary because housing assistance is a 20 yr wait list or something. It took them 2 yrs to finally give me SSDI without a hearing. They mishandled my case and I think didn't want to be in front of a judge with it, and they shorted the back pay substantially so I'm still digging out of debt from the whole thing. But now we're stuck for housing at double rent from 5 yrs ago and the majority of my PMT, I could not live on my own even if I wanted to.
I'm not unfortunately, I miss central CA. We are in NY now which is a GOP In Drag state full of machine Dems who haven't done much to improve things for the poor here but lots of "public private partnerships" where the developers drain the tax kitty and then when the voters catch on to the corruption the Dems golden parachute out. Schumer Gillebrand Hochul Byron Brown so much corruption, so little time.
Thank you Anne. I don't disagree with you, but I don't retract what I said. I guess I'm very poor. I'm definitely not Middle Class. I do own a (small, cheap) house, which I almost lost until Obamacare got going. And I still may lose it if Social Security and Medicare are cut. And they will be cut.
Margaret, do not let that small house go, I pray it keeps you afloat. And don't even think SSA is going away. 20% of the US pop is receiving an SSA retirement benefit. I think my problem with the whole thing - not you but the dialogue we have been/are allowed to have about what's happening and what led to this - is that nobody can have an honest conversation about what happens with 40 years or regressive trickle down taxation - and now we're being told there's not 'enough' to go around and it's complete bullshit. I have a degree in polisci and development econ and it's just bullshit. There's plenty of food, there's plenty of resources - we just can't have a quarter of the population living like kings and letting people starve. And the US has a lot of this greedy grubby hoarding resources going on. It's a shame because this country also has so much going for it. When Andrew yang talked about a basic income people laughed at him. But if you listened to his freakonomics episode he explained the whole thing w/automations and predicted what's happening now. All of this was avoidable but we've been bamboozled by corporations and politicians telling us there's not enough and not everyone deserves to live but we can still have more with no consequences. It didn't have to be this way for us.
They are THAT afraid to live in a country that doesn’t marginalize, terrorize, and arrest everybody who is non-white, non-male, and non-compliant. They’d rather live like Baptist preacher’s kids. They are frightened little bullies.
I also think they feel other people should live just like they do (they don't notice the fact that they don't live the way they think they should, either.) I'm sure they're big "waste not, want not" believers, but they never do it, and don't understand consequences. I was raised by parents with a very conservative lifestyle with the "waste not, want not" philosophy and always thought about consequences. As a result I turned out the same, and it's so easy to spot the phonies.
While the bizarre fervor is always unnerving, these people really don't know what authoritarian living is like...and I can say for sure it's not like southern living fantasies they are having. The upside of this is that even a sizeable chunk of registered republicans is still a minority of a minority. The worst part of this is the propaganda that even close to half of citizens either voted for this or want this to continue makes everyon second guess their friends and neighbors or people elsewhere. On any given day most people are already horrified or will be soon.
While there is definitely a faction of people who wanted this, when the oped writers start with '77 m voters' or 'the majority of voters' without any mention of the growing awareness around voter suppression in massive numbers I immediately think 'msnufacturing consent' by Noam Chomsky. I don't buy the numbers even if there are enough people to have rigged the outcome to put this stuff into place. You don't have to control everything to inflate support. Remember the first inauguration. A minority has done this because average people have been sleepwalking.
Gators like to take ya down deep, stick ya under a log, tenderize the meat for a while. As the Bloated Yam of Scam’s corpulent body has already begun its degenerative process, gators may love him!
His ball is always landing in either a sand trap or water, I love the idea…add poisonous snakes, a couple of anacondas, and more gators to the water hazards as well Alison!!
When will the rubes decide enough is enough? Jess Piper suggests making Elon, who is the face of American mass destruction, the point of conversation and it will all come back to Dump, who "hired" him and endorses him.
That guy’s contempt for the sacred American pass time of shopping was obvious. Has he forgotten that one of ways W. Bush told us to fight the 9/11 terrorists was to buy stuff?
"The American dream not contingent on cheap baubles from China" Wow....why the hell did we allow Wal Mart to put hundreds of thousands of small business out of work if we didn't want cheap crap???!¡¡
We no longer have the capability of firing anybody who is attacking the very fiber of our Constitution. Only President Elmo can fire someone…for no damn reason at all.
Omg if we could nationalize his assets. I've been asking about this forever. Who gets the rockets when he's dead? His stupid girlfriends or kids? I don't think so.
How the fuck do such dipshits get so rich? When they don't understand free markets? Or they do but they lie so easily, as is required to be in MAGAland
They start with money. For all his business fuckups, do you think The Orange Idiot would have ended up owning anything if he had started out as a plumber's son?
Why don't the DOGE incels flag that con's golfing on his own properties as WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE? Because it is. Taxpayer money is going into his own pockets. Fucking grifter and cheat
We have a fight to do. We are supported by the courts. Trump is big on stupid antics with no basis. He wants to see if you will buy it. We did buy his invoking the National Emergencies Act. A big mistake. There was no emergency. Shame on us. No more. Not buying the Alien Enemies Act. Now is the time to take to the streets, people. Trump is in contempt of court orders. He faces the irate judges today. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/alien-enemies-act-of-1798-invoked?r=3m1bs
Shouldn’t judges from all over America be rising up? We know they are well educated and care about the laws and regulations of the United States. Why aren’t they making some coordinated remarks regarding the sovereignty of our nation and the rule of law? Our country is in the midst of a hostile takeover! Our corrupt Supreme Court has come out on the side of tyranny. That doesn’t mean every other judge in America has capitulated to the whims of the Bloated Yam of Scam. So, judges everywhere, make some noise!
Bessent has the overly-styled hair, bad teeth veneers, and oily speaking cadence of the average reptilian televangelist whose conscience doesn't even twitch after he takes grandma's social security money as a 'prayer gift' then flies home on his brand new Gulfstream to his multi-million dollar compound in his mega-bucks gated community.
I wish Kamala won. We wouldn't be having all this fear and anxiety now. The Democrats need to get their shit together quick. Now I'm going to take my dog for a walk to lower my blood pressure
Too many voted for stayin home that day or were too afraid of a Black Women!!! We could have had a great economy, low unemployment, wouldn’t have made enemies of our 2 closest neighbors… I wouldn’t wake up every single freakin day wondering what shit happened overnight!!😢🙄😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤦🏼♀️
I became so incensed when I read Bessents comments…so denigrating and belittling to the U.S. people. I can only think how dare he??? He needs a lot of protesters outside his DC home. I’ve been totally frozen with fear. I rely on SS. but now I am filled with rage. I wish I wasn’t 75 years old and not very mobile because of arthritis cause I’d be one right out there protesting.
Gosh I’m so happy LDFF won the tournament!! whew! He had so much competition….he must be an excellent golfer if he wins every year! OMG. Yeah-Mike-blink 3 times-but guess what? No one will help you! Glad you had a nice BDAY Jeff! Happy St. Patrick’s Day☘️
Well, too bad those 40 people who died in the Midwest fires and storms over the weekend can't be around to congratulate the living, breathing PRICK on his huge win. I need to go puke. Anger CUBED. Mike . . . eyes blinking and mouth moving . . . not just lying, lying his ass off.
And Today is St. Patricks day. I'm sure He's down atMerde a Lago eating corned beef and eating corned beef and ketchujp three jumbo size diet cokes huddling with Leon about invading Ireland even though his rocket will explode somewhere over Georgia, no peaches for us.
thank you everyone for all the birthday greetings! there were far too many for me to respond to, but I can promise you this: when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. so you got that goin' for you, which is nice
I hope good food, good wine, and cake were in your day yesterday!!
Gotta have cake
Uhhh I’d just like a bowl of flat screen please.
Off with his fucking head
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ALWAYS!! 🎂
Did someone say cake? I was told there would be cake. Mmm, cake.
Unless pie is available HI2!!
Yeah well, I'm an Atheist, so I'm donating my soul to the high-octane tank in the abandoned Chevron station outside my town of Terrebonne Oregon.
Dare visit me.
Terrebonne? That’s a new place in our home state that I am not knowing. I’ll have to look it up, Terry. 😊
If one drives from Madras to Redmond, and doesn't blink, one will drive through Terrebonne. :-)
Me2 Walt
All of the rock climbers know where Terrebonne is.
Jeff, I'm just glad you got to the age where I start taking people seriously.
I thought he was supposed to be good enough without the cheating. I see a lousy, cramped swing, and no finesse in putting.
He’s the usual hack that believes he has real talent… never did, nor never will excel at anything, period!!
I think he only plays golf so he won't have to do real work.
He is completely guilt free and cavalier about cheating and lying. He just doesn't care about others because he's a obese deranged imbecilic narcissistic Dickless Fuckoff. He just needs a constant crowd of fellators and stinking diaper sniffers around him, like anxious racehorses need goats.
Well he really can’t do real work, so there’s that.
He has learned nothing about the game of golf. My awesome golf playing parents are screaming from the grave.
If it wasn't for cheating he would have no game at all.
ginnyr- you are so correct. Just like everything else in his history he has learned nothing except what his daddy and that foul lawyer Toy I mean Roy (bad finger!) Cohn taught him. To lie, cheat, refuse to take responsibility for anything, and stick it to everyone except those who genuflect, pay, and kiss the ring. Oh and I almost forgot memorize and mouth a few reusable lines from a bad and boring script. Did I leave anything out?
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But first kill the goddamn gopher.
What gopher? The one that’s chewing up those greens so they are as lumpy as a lunar landscape?
I built golf course greens with my father and I can tell you from seeing the putts wobble and weave that Fat Ass has greens that are just as cheap and misshapen as the man himself! I’m sure the fat fool has no clue that they resemble a putt putt course more than a top shelf golf course.
As with most things trump it’s all sizzle and no steak, Big hype, lousy course.
Trump’s dubious and juvenile “championship crown” at his course reminds me of Steve Martin’s bit about how easy it is to become a millionaire: first, you get a million dollars…
Thank you for sharing your expertise, how cool. That somehow makes me feel better that it's not nice like pebble beach (we used to live down the road in Santa Cruz). I swear the only part of Jeff's post today that I can hold onto is the part when orange shithead says "... probably my last.". Playing, winning, alive for? I wonder if he's on death row with Putin and knows it's only a matter of time? A girl can dream...
Ole I am a former golfer and I saw that too, the goal #1 don’t leave the ball short! #2 slam it at the hole if you go past the hole you slam it again. Golf is such a waste of time but if you don’t do it a lot (wasting time a lot) you can’t improve. If you cheat and you are the only one who knows you are trying to fool yourself, obviously he has succeeded of course he fools himself constantly.
He’s the King of the Foot Wedge.
and driving the cart ONTO THE DAMN GREEN
That is Infuriating to every golfer!
Lazy Fat Fuck violates the most sacred tenet of golf. But it probably doesn’t make much difference on that cow pasture masquerading as a golf course.
It’s all about being surrounded by manicured nature. Very peaceful if you don’t get mad at every bad shot.
I remember being on a fairway and hearing from quite a distance “Am I out of my fucking mind?” Laughs heard all over, everybody gets pissed on the golf course. Not the club champs though cuz they so good.
I used to get pissed at myself. When I chilled out, I started playing better.
Responding to Jeff's Caddyshack allusion.
I don't golf, but even I noticed how lumpy the green was. I just didn't know they weren't supposed to be.
Those are the worst greens I have ever seen on a supposed Championship course. Or even a Public course!
It would Never be selected for a PGA tournament.
Hey can I ask you to comment on the takeover of the US open or golfing in general by the middle eastern money bags? I don't understand what just happened to a whole sport.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they’ll lock me up and throw away the key.”
The gophers you silly nit. O we can do that and we don't even need a reason.
As you hear at courses they say “Golf is a nice walk wasted” . It did look like they may spike the greens which those greens should be permanently.
They need to be stripped and graded to contour then smoothed.
There is no saving the mess as shown. No amount of plugging and filling will make them level.
And the moments I remember are not any shots I made but being 15 and being the first one out there to whip the dew off the greens with a long, thin bamboo pole. Early and silent except for the birds. Peaceful as any place on earth at that moment. And gorgeous in its green beauty.
You have the nicest memories and it’s like a religious experience to care that much, the greens can be a wonder with any hole placement fraught with danger or something incredible possible, on a good track. Not mar a dumpo.
Those wobbly looking puts are the result of a horrible putting stroke.
And a lumpy green
and the losers were obeying in advance.
is that a money back guarantee?? can my heirs sue you if it doesn't happen? (smile)
Goonga la goonga.
To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever.
Thank you o mighty lama Jeff. And happy birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉.
love the Carl from Caddyshack reference...and happy belated...I went to Nicaragua and checked out - of everything - for a week, and I have to say it was nice to detach
'memba Katrina, Dubya gazing down at the damage from an airplane? He spent all of his remaining political capitol in one photo. Donny could piss all over the ruins of a house, the dead people in it, and his base wouldn't blink. This country is in the throes of mass mental illness.
They only blink, like MAGA Mike Johnson, when they lie incessantly and rapidly.
What's up with that? Nerves? Meds? Can't be a conscience. He's traveling light this lifetime.
That’s a “tell.”
Mikey "InTheCloset"Johnson is another well practiced pathological liar. Blink blink blink, motherfucker, blink!
I was in a closed door pharmacy one day and this elder gentleman who had recently had open heart surgery came in and we were sitting in the waiting room and there was a TV on -during the orange slacker's first turn on the white house dance floor - and we were chatting and all of a sudden he slipped in this comment about him not having a soul. He was a St Louis baptist and I never thought I'd hear something like that, so I stopped and asked him to clarify and he was completely serious and said orange and company were clones without souls. Looking at musk and all the anti-human stuff, you have to wonder why it feels like we are living in a twilight zone episode lately.
They sure give off soulless vibes to me, esp. Elmo.
I laugh at Mike Myers' impression of him, but there's really something to it. Weirdo and not in a good way.
Where's a gang of Weeping Angels when you need 'em, I ask ya?
Yeah. They move up on Dumpy every time he turns away to putt. What a wonderful image!
Mike keeps pet goats in his office for SOME REASON OR OTHER and dried dung will make you blink like that.
Goats, huh? Must be the Loooseeeanna way, like sheep in Kentucky
The tells are really obvious when these tosspots are busy confabulating HI2!!
My thoughts exactly. Fast blinking is a sign that someone is lying.
Well painted picture Lisa!!
A Clusterfuck of Sewer Clowns. He never even pretends to care about other people. I have encountered a few narcissists and sociopaths in my life, but Donnie Dingleberry's pic is in the dictionary under 'Narcissism'. Imagine being so empty inside you have to hold golf 'tournaments' for yourself to win. And then a dinner to award yourself the championship prize. Even worse, imagine being one of the ass suckers who paid to play in the 'tournament'?
I can't stop shaking my head. I'm going to give myself dain bramage.
Gummies help immeasurably, Ann.
All day long, my friend, all day long.
I’m pretty fond of the Muleshine syrup myself.
Don’t forget to preface narcissist with malignant. Wouldn’t be tRump without it. Can’t act without pure venom.
On the money with that take Cheryl, Happy Saint Patrick’s day!!
"mass mental illness". You are so right!!!🤦♀️
(Rupert just laughs…)
Mass psychosis is a real thing, isn't it? Like historically?
an enduring mystery why people worship this creep - maybe people get tired of adulting and their inner brat breaks free...and finds validation
As good an explanation as any.
My theory is, you know all those "reels" where people doing idiotic things fall and catastrophically hit their heads and we're supposed to think it's funny? Brain damage. That's why people worship this creep.
With no end in site. The bigger the disaster, the more anus tangerinus fucks off and continues to cheat his way through life. The devastation that these storms have caused and the loss of life would've been addressed immediately by our empathetic former president Biden. However, this heartless turd continues to shit on the poor folks who need help the most, us and the rest of the world.
Elmo himself has stated that empathy is everything that's wrong with America. Joe Rogan, all the other right wing media guys, bro culture - they've taught a couple of generations not to give a damn about other people.
Fuck Elon. Tick tock, tick tock. Time is almost up, scumbag.
“Empathy is everything that’s wrong with America FOR BILLIONAIRES.”There, fixed it for you.
Yes, but those states all voted Trump. NYes Trump, No FEMA.
That reminds me of when GeeDumbya was standing on the rubble of the Twin Towers, with bodies still to be recovered, trying to look like he was presidentin'.
Have I told you lately how much I fking loathe Rethuglicans? All of 'em, Katie.
I like your style, Mary.
Yeah, it's called Christianity.
Ouch. I used to call myself a Christian unti the Xtians poisoned the name. I guess now I'm an ethical Pagan. ;-)
Recovering Catholic here -- I don't need religion because I have a conscience.
Thank you. Maybe it's our former Catholic upbringing that helped us form a conscience? Or at least taught us to recognize evil in its various manifestations.
My Catholic upbringing taught me FEAR. Fear is the Catholic way.
Don't forget about guilt.
If you have a conscience, you have one despite being raised Catholic, not because of it.
Christianity of all stripes has a really bad habit of taking credit for stuff it doesn't do. Like teaching morality. A conscience is a basic function of being human. Christianity has gotten really good at surgically removing people's natural capacity for empathy and decency and replacing them with the highly conditional Jesus approved version.
The Catholic Church is, quite literally, the world's longest continually running crime ring. And that's not even getting into the fact that child rape is practically a core tenet of the faith.
Me too, Mary! If 4 years of Catholic school won’t send you reeling, nothing will.
Unfortunately, they're nothing new. They're acting the same way most Christians have been acting for the past two thousand years. The only difference is they're not pretending to care about optics anymore.
Those are not Christians.
They absolutely are. By definition.
Evil people can be Christian, and Christians can be evil people. There's no contradiction there.
Furthermore, it's entirely possible (even common) for Christians to be evil people BECAUSE THEY ARE CHRISTIAN.
If someone thinks queer people are satanic because their sect of Christianity teaches that queer people are satanic, then that Christian is an evil prick because they choose to remain in that sect of Christianity and adhere to its shitty tenets.
Oh, but they are. Historically.
Exactly.
Lucius: ouch again.
People are not prepared or being prepared for environmental catastrophes and under Trump they are going to get no help if Project 2025 is to be believed. They do not want to help people. I am not clear at this point what people are going to be getting for their federal taxes.
I think we have to become big environmentalists and band together. I wrote a piece about my trying to figure out how to adapt to the environment where I have moved to in Germany.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/lets-not-forget-the-climate?r=f0qfn
Here, I expect to get government support still if there is a climate catastrophe. Up until now one could expect that in the US too.
Thanks, Linda. I wish our government supported us. Unless you're very wealthy or very poor you're on your own.
Soon to be only the wealthy.
"The bankers will always land on their feet," my Dad used to say.
I don't think that true. My friends/family who are married or own homes have all sorts of benefits in terms of tax breaks that a single person not of means can't access. I was just told that the HUD dwnpmt assistance for 1st time home buyers progs are shut, but if you already have a house they can give you money to fix it. There are countless means tested progs directed towards the middle, just not enough of a middle. All these analyses from local gvmt about how to end poverty or help poor people except require living wages and stop letting VCs + corps buy up real estate and then gouge people to death. Being very poor or in poor health in the US is a nightmare and means your life expectancy is already 10 yrs shorter than ave person. There are no free lunches if you are poor and the handouts are so small as to not do anything more than maybe keep you from starving but you can work full time and still be homeless, and you will not have real 'healthcare' in a crisis with medicaid. I worked from the time I was 16 and became I'll during covid and now on SSDI, so I've seen both sides. If you have a home in the US and can hold onto it, you'll have a much better time of things than the rest. Unless you're in the path of a natural disaster. But that's weather, not Nazis and eugenicists from the gvmt trying to put you out to pasture.
Anne, you're not here in CA? When I didn't have any money to buy food, I went to food pantries and local food giveaways, until the ACA came in, and we got help paying for medical, which I needed for my husband. Berkeley has four giveaways, I think, and I went to three of them, a different one each week.
Thank you for that. We're ok now, but it was super dicey toward the end of the pandemic when I started running out of money waiting for SSDI and my partner was taking care of me. It was the first time I'd ever needed that kind of help and it was truly unsustainable. Making it work was, as you describe, a full time job and ACA/medicaid was truly necessary because housing assistance is a 20 yr wait list or something. It took them 2 yrs to finally give me SSDI without a hearing. They mishandled my case and I think didn't want to be in front of a judge with it, and they shorted the back pay substantially so I'm still digging out of debt from the whole thing. But now we're stuck for housing at double rent from 5 yrs ago and the majority of my PMT, I could not live on my own even if I wanted to.
I'm not unfortunately, I miss central CA. We are in NY now which is a GOP In Drag state full of machine Dems who haven't done much to improve things for the poor here but lots of "public private partnerships" where the developers drain the tax kitty and then when the voters catch on to the corruption the Dems golden parachute out. Schumer Gillebrand Hochul Byron Brown so much corruption, so little time.
Thank you Anne. I don't disagree with you, but I don't retract what I said. I guess I'm very poor. I'm definitely not Middle Class. I do own a (small, cheap) house, which I almost lost until Obamacare got going. And I still may lose it if Social Security and Medicare are cut. And they will be cut.
Margaret, do not let that small house go, I pray it keeps you afloat. And don't even think SSA is going away. 20% of the US pop is receiving an SSA retirement benefit. I think my problem with the whole thing - not you but the dialogue we have been/are allowed to have about what's happening and what led to this - is that nobody can have an honest conversation about what happens with 40 years or regressive trickle down taxation - and now we're being told there's not 'enough' to go around and it's complete bullshit. I have a degree in polisci and development econ and it's just bullshit. There's plenty of food, there's plenty of resources - we just can't have a quarter of the population living like kings and letting people starve. And the US has a lot of this greedy grubby hoarding resources going on. It's a shame because this country also has so much going for it. When Andrew yang talked about a basic income people laughed at him. But if you listened to his freakonomics episode he explained the whole thing w/automations and predicted what's happening now. All of this was avoidable but we've been bamboozled by corporations and politicians telling us there's not enough and not everyone deserves to live but we can still have more with no consequences. It didn't have to be this way for us.
Or ‘adulting denial’…😞
Ha - im suggesting a National therapist: Mary TrumP
True.
Truer words Ann!!
*awkward*
“So nearly 2/3 of Americans ARE NOT (maga)… GOT IT.” - Mehdi Hasan
I read a couple of days ago that a sizeable chunk of the GOP actively wants an authoritarian state.
They are THAT afraid to live in a country that doesn’t marginalize, terrorize, and arrest everybody who is non-white, non-male, and non-compliant. They’d rather live like Baptist preacher’s kids. They are frightened little bullies.
I also think they feel other people should live just like they do (they don't notice the fact that they don't live the way they think they should, either.) I'm sure they're big "waste not, want not" believers, but they never do it, and don't understand consequences. I was raised by parents with a very conservative lifestyle with the "waste not, want not" philosophy and always thought about consequences. As a result I turned out the same, and it's so easy to spot the phonies.
While the bizarre fervor is always unnerving, these people really don't know what authoritarian living is like...and I can say for sure it's not like southern living fantasies they are having. The upside of this is that even a sizeable chunk of registered republicans is still a minority of a minority. The worst part of this is the propaganda that even close to half of citizens either voted for this or want this to continue makes everyon second guess their friends and neighbors or people elsewhere. On any given day most people are already horrified or will be soon.
Time to bail this sinking ship Ann
Of GOP politicians or voters who say they are republican?
The article cited a poll - I believe it was registered Republicans, but I can't swear to it, cuz I don't remember where I read it.
Link?
I am late reading the comments; you might have found the answers by now. This post from The Bulwak gets to it: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-republican-voters-want-authoritarianism
While there is definitely a faction of people who wanted this, when the oped writers start with '77 m voters' or 'the majority of voters' without any mention of the growing awareness around voter suppression in massive numbers I immediately think 'msnufacturing consent' by Noam Chomsky. I don't buy the numbers even if there are enough people to have rigged the outcome to put this stuff into place. You don't have to control everything to inflate support. Remember the first inauguration. A minority has done this because average people have been sleepwalking.
That Bulwark article was excellent. Thanks for the link. I really need to be a paid subscriber to Bulwark.
They have a hat for that , Eva
Link?
Sorry, can't remember where I read it, but I am cautious about sources of info.
I’d like to read that piece of vacuousness Ann?
Like your style Eva!!
GoFundMe to fill the sand traps with quicksand and leave a trail of hamburgers leading right into them
He hits balls into the weeds and water all the time. Can't he stumble on to an alligator just once?
Even the Gators in Florida want nothing to do with him!!😂
Who can blame them?
Good one!!
He’s got MAGA Monkeys to dig his balls out…and I mean that in multiple ways.
Walt Nauta.
Yes, my dreaded namesake. 😩
LOL!
😂😂😂😂
Gators have taste buds, so they wouldn't soil them with his carcass.
Gators like to take ya down deep, stick ya under a log, tenderize the meat for a while. As the Bloated Yam of Scam’s corpulent body has already begun its degenerative process, gators may love him!
Hamberders
Oh I love it!
His ball is always landing in either a sand trap or water, I love the idea…add poisonous snakes, a couple of anacondas, and more gators to the water hazards as well Alison!!
You’re on to something, Patrick. Just think of the fun little obstacles we could hide along his cart path.
I’m on board with this
“Hamberdlers!”
Mike Johnscum's incessant blinking? A dead givaway tell that he is lying,
I like 'Little Johnson' for his epithet...
He looks like he's been drugged.
"Let them eat Flatscreens". Fuck that guy.
When will the rubes decide enough is enough? Jess Piper suggests making Elon, who is the face of American mass destruction, the point of conversation and it will all come back to Dump, who "hired" him and endorses him.
Boy, we have gotten back to the 1780s really quickly... I sincerely hope we can find a few handy-dandy guillotines.
And a few crossbows and hatchets.
Don’t leave out cudgels and pitchforks D!!
…to ‘clean up’ government agencies that he currently has contracts with AND others that were investigating him… right. Because that’s normal :/
As long as you don't let anyone eat anything with Riboflavin in it!
😂😂
That guy’s contempt for the sacred American pass time of shopping was obvious. Has he forgotten that one of ways W. Bush told us to fight the 9/11 terrorists was to buy stuff?
Completely agree! No one voted for that asswipe.
The Uber wealthy oligarchs have been dumbing down America for years Lisa, good point!
"The American dream not contingent on cheap baubles from China" Wow....why the hell did we allow Wal Mart to put hundreds of thousands of small business out of work if we didn't want cheap crap???!¡¡
Bassent has such contempt for average Americans who have been brainwashed by Corporate America to “buy, buy, buy your way” to success.
😩😤
We no longer have the capability of firing anybody who is attacking the very fiber of our Constitution. Only President Elmo can fire someone…for no damn reason at all.
Omg if we could nationalize his assets. I've been asking about this forever. Who gets the rockets when he's dead? His stupid girlfriends or kids? I don't think so.
Well dug comment Burke!!
Imagine Scott Bessent who was Financial advisor to George Soros is now running the Treasury Department. This is the end of irony.
How the fuck do such dipshits get so rich? When they don't understand free markets? Or they do but they lie so easily, as is required to be in MAGAland
They start with money. For all his business fuckups, do you think The Orange Idiot would have ended up owning anything if he had started out as a plumber's son?
Besides money he inherited his shitbag father’s racism and sociopathy
Excellent point Stephen, imagining Trumps plumber butt display is frightening!!
It’s called insider trading, corruption, graft and malfeasance…all qualities of a true political MAGAT.
They lie cheat and steal.
I think Robert Reich did a write up on the how-to-get-mega-rich ‘formula’ pretty recently.
Goes to show that these guys don’t have a political ideology, only a belief in making themselves richer.
I thought George was the enemy, WTF.
Why don't the DOGE incels flag that con's golfing on his own properties as WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE? Because it is. Taxpayer money is going into his own pockets. Fucking grifter and cheat
AND FRUMP IS NOT WORKING!!! Lazy dumb shit!!!
He’s not even a president - just a prop
Has he ever Terri?
I know this is a rhetorical question, Doc, cuz we all know why, don’t we?
Yes. I hate those DOGE assholes
Narcissists do not have any empathy. Surprise, trumphumpers
Anyone in media even ASKING him abt the storms/damage/deaths? Anyone 🦗
Bee sting wanted to know what they were wearing in the impact zone.
Why can’t they at least wear a suit for their review of the mass destruction?
Reminds me of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Anyone? Anyone?
We have a fight to do. We are supported by the courts. Trump is big on stupid antics with no basis. He wants to see if you will buy it. We did buy his invoking the National Emergencies Act. A big mistake. There was no emergency. Shame on us. No more. Not buying the Alien Enemies Act. Now is the time to take to the streets, people. Trump is in contempt of court orders. He faces the irate judges today. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/alien-enemies-act-of-1798-invoked?r=3m1bs
V I G I L A N C E
Shouldn’t judges from all over America be rising up? We know they are well educated and care about the laws and regulations of the United States. Why aren’t they making some coordinated remarks regarding the sovereignty of our nation and the rule of law? Our country is in the midst of a hostile takeover! Our corrupt Supreme Court has come out on the side of tyranny. That doesn’t mean every other judge in America has capitulated to the whims of the Bloated Yam of Scam. So, judges everywhere, make some noise!
Bessent has the overly-styled hair, bad teeth veneers, and oily speaking cadence of the average reptilian televangelist whose conscience doesn't even twitch after he takes grandma's social security money as a 'prayer gift' then flies home on his brand new Gulfstream to his multi-million dollar compound in his mega-bucks gated community.
Reptilian televangelist, NICE.
Hey, thanks, Walt!
excellent description jane.....
Thanks, Douglas!
Donny's even ignoring Red states now. They're no longer any use to him.
I wish Kamala won. We wouldn't be having all this fear and anxiety now. The Democrats need to get their shit together quick. Now I'm going to take my dog for a walk to lower my blood pressure
Too many voted for stayin home that day or were too afraid of a Black Women!!! We could have had a great economy, low unemployment, wouldn’t have made enemies of our 2 closest neighbors… I wouldn’t wake up every single freakin day wondering what shit happened overnight!!😢🙄😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤦🏼♀️
It was a darn good indicator of the true composition of our nation…unfortunately.
Dawna, there is no better balm for the soul. It keeps me sane walking my doggos through the grassy fields daily.
I became so incensed when I read Bessents comments…so denigrating and belittling to the U.S. people. I can only think how dare he??? He needs a lot of protesters outside his DC home. I’ve been totally frozen with fear. I rely on SS. but now I am filled with rage. I wish I wasn’t 75 years old and not very mobile because of arthritis cause I’d be one right out there protesting.
And if the storms weren't bad enough. The severe storm center in Norman, OK and the radar operation lease has been terminated by Muskrat.
https://www.kswo.com/2025/03/04/doge-cancels-lease-noaa-radar-operations-center-norman/
These fucking people are insane, but we all know that.
Gosh I’m so happy LDFF won the tournament!! whew! He had so much competition….he must be an excellent golfer if he wins every year! OMG. Yeah-Mike-blink 3 times-but guess what? No one will help you! Glad you had a nice BDAY Jeff! Happy St. Patrick’s Day☘️
Well, too bad those 40 people who died in the Midwest fires and storms over the weekend can't be around to congratulate the living, breathing PRICK on his huge win. I need to go puke. Anger CUBED. Mike . . . eyes blinking and mouth moving . . . not just lying, lying his ass off.
May the Leprechaun be with you.
The man is totally disgusting!
And Today is St. Patricks day. I'm sure He's down atMerde a Lago eating corned beef and eating corned beef and ketchujp three jumbo size diet cokes huddling with Leon about invading Ireland even though his rocket will explode somewhere over Georgia, no peaches for us.
He is CORNED BEEF.
Kristy, he’s “canned beef” with a noxious overflow valve in his seat.