I didn't write about the Supreme Court putting a hold on the lower court's order to force Donny to retrieve that innocent guy they sent to the Salvadoran slave labor prison, because it was too depressing — but here's what I posted to bluesky:
"let me guess: after sitting on the case for six months, John Roberts will rule that Donald Trump is a Very Special Boy who gets to clownfuck the Constitution any way he sees fit. we really do live in the shittiest timeline"
All of this, everything we are going through right now is on that shitty supreme court full of nazis and misogynists. If they had followed the law and the constitution, Orange Cat Turd would not have been permitted to run because we all know he is a felon and a seditionist.
Actually, everything we’re going through right now is Mitch McConnell’s fault. It all started to turn to shit when Obama became president and Mitch threw his hissy fit on Inauguration Day 2009. He’ll be remembered in history as the bastard who put the first nail in the coffin of democracy.
No question McConnell is a blazing pile of pig turds. But, he's intensely intelligent and crafty in a lizard (turtle?) -like way. The effects of all of this, much still to be revealed, and his role in setting it all in motion is certainly crystal clear to him. He saw an opportunity to dog-whistle up some old-fashioned race hate for the rubes, and vastly mis-calculated. I think he understood the dangers to the country and the world if the rubes were able to ascend to power, but he took a risk since that had never happened at this scale before (Andrew Jackson notwithstanding). He was wrong. He knows he was wrong. He will suffer with this guilt until he dies. He destroyed the greatest creation mankind ever devised, just to score a few short-term political points, and I'm certain he knows it. Rot in hell, you old bastard.
Well, I don't blame the entire Supreme Court, just ass-kissing Clarence Thomas, justice-denying Samuel Alito, lying John Roberts, hyper-religious Amy Coney Barrett, beer-loving rapist Brett Kavanaugh and gory Neil Gorsuck. Suck was intentional.
of course I did not mean the three women with integrity - Brown Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan -who are most likely throwing up every day they have to work with those assholes.
Finally, I was waiting to find out what those rich assholes were going to do, because that tells us which direction the wind is blowing. They should watch out for the draft that hits their nuts when there's a general strike. I think protestors should go after their business interests directly. They are a huge part of this problem, buying elections and judges.
I'm of the opinion that Koch & Leo are apart of the cabal that corrupts Clearance Thomas and Sammy Alito. And if either of them whines, I can imagine Chuckie screaming at them, "If I Don't Get Paid, YOU don't get paid."
We need to get rid of this court. Of course that may not be possible. People who can leave need to consider it. I think immigrant students should look elsewhere for a study place.
Even if Trump expands it, we can have the next president expand it again.
We need to rally enough that Musk's Tesla stock falls through the floor. Trump is helping with that with his tariffs. Rally enough that Trump's approval ratings drop. I heard national security expert Juliette Kayyem say that Donald Trump's popularity needs to fall below 40% then he is vulnerable.
Then,
1) Run for local school boards, attend town halls-ongoing
2) Make sure we take back Congress 2026
3) Make sure we take back the White House 2028
4) Expand the court as much as it takes, and get rid of Citizens United and reinstate Roe v Wade and other protections. Do not vote in Democratic candidate that we do not think will do this.
In preparation
We need people developing laws we want to have once we get back in power.
Right now, Trump is in power and that reminds people of how awful it is to live through his chaos. We don't need Covid, we can have massive tariff wars destroying our economy and making the whole world hate our country. It will be a long time of sane leaders that will get the US creds in the world again.
Today someone mentioned that a good thing coming out of this, is that with the tariffs, Putin is getting worried because the price of oil is dropping. If it drops below $50 a barrel, he has nothing. I would say another good thing is that the 93 mil eligible voters who did not vote, may begin to see why they had better vote. I hope so at least.
Weak-kneed, helpless, "oooh, we're not in power!" crap is over. I want a scholar like Congressman Jamie Raskin to unearth a deadly spell of long forgotten laws and bring the criminals in SCOTUS to heel. Peel them off one by one. Let's start with bribery. At the same time, go after Clarence Thomas's wife. Find out that the SCOTUS passed judgement under the influence of bribes. No recusal when they should have. ANYTHING! But the president is immune has got to be overturned. Keep them so busy trying to stay out of jail. And most important of all, go after Trump. He's broken so many laws, HE'S the national security risk. Relentless. Now. Why, because the public hates them and so does the rest of the world. Use this raw energy to our advantage. And when it's all over, 13 SCOTUS. Reverse the rulings of the Roberts court. Jail the tyrants and lawbreakers.
It’s ’The Weave’ so we’re not sure if this is profoundly stupid and sick, can we ask barferaroma she has insights that could pull us out of this ditch I’m sure. Straight from Trump University the weave has been known thru academia and will be moved to Harvard Law School. One other thing that NOBODY mentions and is not a Recession no it’s a depression DEPRESSION. Write that down and see who uses that word next. A recession is just two quarters of declined GDP well the market is going there like this quarter. Maria (Baghdad barferaroma) will wait until after the soup lines are public knowledge. But dopey don won he won again how does he weave golf scores so well.
It took 47 three years and a global pandemic to tank the economy last time. But LDFF has been taught (and bought) a lot since those halcyon days. It’s only been 3 months and he’s well on his way to tanking the whole world economy. But oddly enough, the uber wealthy don’t seem to be complaining. Do they perhaps know something(s) we don’t, hmmm?
I think there is a lot of man-splaining about how these hedge fund assholes are 'optomists' which is why they didn't see the downside (for themselves) of a felon insurrectionist rapist shit for brains multi bankruptcy reality TV deadbeat Russian asset handling the world economy by fiat. It really doesn't add up. Some days I think these rich assholes are all just actors playing poorly written characters on a bad TV show. They are all ivy and should know better if public schools BAs can figure it out. The press is clearly gaslighting us, and so are the GOP with their faux concern.
Koch and Leo are suing Trump and several other uber-wealthy are voicing their displeasure. They are the ultimate Faces who are surprised to find the Leopard eating them.
Respectfully disagree about your comment on the Uber Wealthy. Even Elmo was whining that his portfolio shrank, by 10.5% or $11 Billion. I'm sure the oligarchs want to be richer or stay rich, but I'm sure they whup Dwumpy upside the head if their loses are permanent, or if the entire world goes to shit, and their elventy billion dollar portfolios can't even buy a decent supreme court justice. Chuckie Koch and wild eyed fascist Leonard Leo have only fired their first salvo against the Twumpy madness. Other messages may not be available for public consumption.
Btw I totally agree with you about the backlash coming his way from all sides...and I'm looking forward to watching the rich beat on each other for a bit while we get our act together, but I also think both things can be true. Was reading something about how autocrats go down because their assessment of the situation does not factor for what the people do and if the movement of the people is strong enough (Korea) and forceful enough it makes ruling impossible. The next question isn't how to disrupt the gvmt because 47 sure took care of that, but how do we disrupt the flow of resources to those who don't oppose him yet. Last week we might have said boycotts would work but 47 took that leverage consumers had with business and smashed it like a raging baby. What next?
Well sure Elmo was whining, because he miscalculated which direction the shit was going to fly and how much influence he thought he had over the narcissist moron. Elmo also has proven himself to be wickedly destructive (it doesn't take a genius to trash a hotel room or arbitrage everything you get your hands on) but also delusional about where everyone else (the US pop) in the room is and how they feel about him. It's not tariffs that are ruining him but the genuine hate he has inspired in otherwise normal live and let live citizens around the 🌎 - and he made it personal with the mars sized hubris. I'm talking about wall street managers who were saying '47 won't hurt us' when all he said for 8 yrs was how he wanted to hurt ALL of us - and they thought they were the exception and capital markets were strong enough for him to eat the poor while they watched? They were duped? I have an econ degree and didn't think what they were banking on was sustainable and manageable with 47 because he's personality disordered plus dementia. Think about trying to deal with your parents w/dementia and getting them to move to assisted living. Then give them more money than God and the presidency and see what happens.
I was telling someone the same thing the other day. I'm old now and disabled enough that I don't care much anymore. I'd miss my pets, but they're all old, too. I haven't even seen my family in ages. I'd be OK spending my last few months (or years, if needed) or even bumping myself off, if push comes to shove.
Mary, you just described me! This year has shown me just how near the end I am. Watching my country dissolve beneath me has shown how little there is for me to do now. I will write to my congressmen/women, march in protests with my cane/walker, and send $ until my SS is gone, which might be this week.
We should form a support group -- AD (Almost Dead) and pick off these bastards one at a time beginning with the obvious at the so-called TOP. And, since shit runs downhill, we'd be easily able to find our way to the bottom. AD and friends UNITE!
I'm sorry, Jan! This was not how I expected things to turn out for me, or for any of us! I've had a chronic illness for many years, nothing that'll kill me, but it makes me miserable most days. It kept me from the protest on Saturday which really pissed me off because I was looking forward to it. I've become an online warrior for the most part, but too tired on some days to even do that! I might be able to scrape up some energy for a bit of mayhem, though. ;)
I'm 70. I cannot adequately convey how comforting it is to hear so many older women so pissed off that they want to take up arms, explosives, pitchforks, hatpins, and secreted laxative weapons against the white corrupt flaccid patriarchy. It may well take folks using their bodies to resist what is coming. Women know it. Men are so used to enjoying privilege and the assumption of superiority over anyone else that they don't have a fucking clue what patriotic Americans (the real ones) are prepared to do to rescue our democracy.
You're so right! I'm 71, soon to be another year older. I've always been anti-gun (not enough to do away with the 2nd amendment, but enough to not buy my son any toy guns or G.I. Joes when he was a kid). Last night I was drifting off to sleep and I was wondering if it was time to get myself one. I never thought I'd even come close to considering it, but... here we are. :'(
"white corrupt flaccid patriarchy" Love It! I'm a 64 year old liberal warrior. I was looking forward to some relaxing last couple of years I have left. (okay, closer to two decades, if I take my father's longevity at face value). I am mad as hell that the Repubs are such limp wristed, lying, corrupt, cowardly, suck ass losers. Be careful what you wish for, and you got your Führer, who if you don't fix this, is executed first, with all you pathetic enabling sycophants being next.
This happened in our upstate NY community of Sackets Harbor. Rallies were held to raise awareness of the issue and bring the family home. People marched to Homan's seasonal residence. A few of his supporters were there holding signs but were outnumbered. The rally and march were peaceful. And not to mention that the Supreme Court is giving Trump Supreme power to do whatever he wants. It appears that even the Supreme Court has an agenda - at least the majority that voted for the Aliens Enemies Act did so on a moment's notice. Interesting to read who dissented and that individuals should have due process, but when and where?
And, that is because we watched as the Republicans eroded our rights and filled the courts, and did not do anything. We should not have treated it as fair and equal, but as disturbing overthrowing of our system from within. Now we know, now we have to do that. We have to protest the court decision because like ending Roe v Wade, this is an assault on our very freedom. I also recommend that foreigners leave the US, starting with students.
I guess Homan didn't like all of his neighbors demonstrating in front of his house. Or perhaps he is getting the message that he may have to move from beautiful Sackets Harbor to a more MAGA friendly place in a deep red state.
rallies feel good. I went one in LA last weekend, going to another one this weekend with AOC and Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately nothing meaningful comes from these rallies but awareness. Nothing changes. I go for therapeutic reasons. Plus I want to see AOC ! Love her.
Weismann says all 9 agreed there must be due process but there was a split about under what provision? I havent seen a written summary of the opinion yet.
The Democrats wasted the time when they had control over the Presidency and both houses of Congress, as well as the critical last two months of Biden's presidency because they were unwilling to stoop to the level of the Republicans.
Perhaps We the People should take a page from the Republicans' book on how to do peaceful protests. Especially once we've redoubled our numbers.
Not sure the Dems had to get down in the mud with the MAGATS, but they most certainly should have been aggressively fighting the lies of the Right. They also slept through the acquisition of damn near every multimedia outlet by fascist oligarchs, allowing for and promoting the endless lies told to the masses everyday.
Not 100% sure we will last 6 months. Either 3 rescumliCons decide to be heroes and defect or they will drown with everyone else in their own cesspool of shit.
I am getting so scared and depressed and I am not even in the US. It is so Nazi-like and the most scary thing is not just Trump, but that the people of the USA put this man into office. I cannot hear one more person who voted for him whining in surprise over what is happening. I guess empty heads are being filled now, but it is too late. It is just sickening. I am afraid for anyone to be there, because we know these people just slowly come after more and more people.
I'm a disabled combat veteran. 75 years old. If they come for me they won't like the coffee and donuts. Thanks for your concern. Somehow we will prevail. Things will never be the same but they will improve. Deep breathe everyone.
Chris, what you are saying makes me think of this article that is talking about the impending crash and what to do. I do not think I would be well prepared. You might be. I assume you have weapons training.
Worms are turning fast. These organizations are growing exponentially and liberals are reconsidering their "non-violence uber alles" philosophies. LGC training and coaching is very good. My instructor is a rabbi. You can't make this shit up.
Funny point, here: chapter one of the Totalitarian Playbook is seize all the guns. When Cletus and the boys, who howled for a decade that they would be slaughtering us en masse to support their fascist lords, get a snoot full of evaporated 401Ks, no jobs, and having their precious guns seized, they may start blazing. I just don't think they'll be wasting bullets on us, since we didn't do ANY of this to them. I would even say that bedfellows may start getting stranger...
Relax, Linda. It is character trait of republicans, they are totally incapable of conceiving of consequences to what they do. If only we could get them started on a 50 mile march that ends in a sheer cliff that they would march off. In your next demonstration, carry signs encouraging this kind of action by republicans. Tell them they'll be more physically fit to fight us. Pick your location carefully. I've never been, but perhaps encouraging them to go to the Grand Canyon would be a useful idea.
I am imagining this happening to my immigrant husband who works in the US, and to my daughter who is at university in our other country and wants to visit her friends. I imagine this happening to my 90+ year old mom with dementia, and her sister who is 79 and is blind. They are both immigrants living in the US. I imagine this happening to my nephews and niece who live in the US. I imagine it happening to my neighbors and friends, many of whom are immigrants.
I agree that Republicans are incapable of conceiving consequences of what they do, but as they see pictures of people in ICE and in the El Salvadoran death camp prison, I think they have the same kind of sadistic glee that their forefathers had beating a slave senseless, or hanging a black man or woman from a tree. The brutal people, the sadists among us, they are having a jolly good time right now, and they are led by the chief sadistic sociopath, Mr. DJT.
Linda, I'm 75. I grew up and still live in Berkeley. I lived through J. Edgar Hoover and did not relax until he died. I've never had a cell phone, because of the FBI. If I were your husband I would relocate. Frankly, things are so unstable, you might want to get everyone out. We really have no where to go, so we will stay. But I have a certain amount of confidence in the republicans being surprised by the consequences of what they are doing. And I still hope California will secede.
My husband is in Germany right now, but he has a return ticket. He is planning on relocating here. The US does not mind losing scientists anyway. He was going to retire next year, but might be retiring sooner.
Right now the US is not only making people in countries not want to buy US products if they don't have to, but also not want to go to the US. Supposedly the travel and tourism industry contributed 2.3 trillion to our economy. That is not nothing to sneeze at. So, far under Trump I see revenue leaving, not revenue coming in.
The question is, will it become more dangerous for Republican politicians to defy Trump or their own constituencies. Many did not bargain for a reduced quality of life under MAGA. I hope the Blue States secede collectively. It would be more powerful. It would be like East and West Germany. Something that could come together again if it wanted to. One side allies with democratic countries. The Democratic States of America. People have a year to decide which side they are on. They get money (that the government probably does not have) to move.
Here is a discussion by Gary Whittenberger of this.
They are torturing innocents. Torturing innocents. Killing children. Killing women. Stealing from the poor. Forcing starvation and misery upon the world and endangering future generations. For nothing. For nothing. For nothing. I am long past angry. If not for JT and so many other good people who manage to maintain focus, I don’t know how we’d carry on.
Exactly how I feel. I’m still going out to the streets, protesting, bearing witness each day. Now we’ve got trolls faking videos of handouts of payments at protests There is no decency. I’m not giving up, but my mad-as-hell meter is in the red zone.
Not only Dearborn but the college protesters so upset over Joe Biden's relationship with Israel, I hope they're miserable and have learned from their infantile mistake.
There's a great interview with Joy Reid today and she said her Dem contacts say those voters are understanding that trump will turbocharge ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the Hispanic voters for trump have woken up, and it's shifting the board in real time.
Ah yes… when even Fox News starts gently tugging at the blindfold, you know the economic piñata has exploded into a flaming bag of Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons.
Donny didn’t just crash the economy—he gift-wrapped the wreckage, tweeted about how perfect the wreckage is, then sold autographed NFTs of himself moonwalking through the ashes.
Even Maria Bartiromo—usually more loyal than a labrador on Ambien—had to admit the obvious: tariffs are hiking prices, the economy’s heading toward recession, and Dear Leader is about as reassuring as a fire alarm that screams “YOLO!”
And Congress? Mike “Spineless Sage of Soft-Spoken Surrender” Johnson thinks we should let Donny finish his economic exorcism because… democracy or something?
Meanwhile, Wall Street is having a full-blown hallucination, bouncing up and down like it just drank ayahuasca brewed in Peter Navarro’s air fryer. Some ghost of a rumor about a “tariff pause” caused an 8% surge, followed by a 3.5% plunge—basically, your 401k got drunk and went cliff diving.
And now Peter “Jobs for Robots” Navarro wants to bring iPhone factories to the U.S. because “there’ll be plenty of jobs… for robots.” Fantastic. So the machines get to work while we humans fight each other for tips from their OnlyFans pages?
Thankfully, Senator Brian Schatz finally found the courage to say no to fascism with a side of tariffs. Bless him. May his spine remain titanium and his inbox free of Fox News fan mail.
In the meantime, don’t forget: when they say “recession,” what they really mean is you’ll suffer while they golf.
So eat the rich. Or at least their imported foie gras, before the tariff makes it $200 a spoonful.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Still broke, still holy, still watching this freakshow with popcorn and prayer beads.
Kudos to Sen. Schatz for giving these iron fisted assholes a taste of what they deserve. Not likely that Sec. of Altered State Stoogio will get back anytime soon and that's to be expected. In the meantime, keep up the good work Sen. Schatz.
You are so correct - and you're also hilarious! "basically, your 401k got drunk and went cliff diving." "...sold autographed NFT's of himself moonwalking through the ashes". Humor and satire always help in those intervals when you're not feeling angry or depressed.
Wish Schumer would catch that virus. I'm at the point now, when I see him mumbling in Congress with his glasses trembling on the tip of his nose, I think "There's that old c*nt."
Who's over? Over what? We've shown a thousand times already that nothing can or will stop him. We signed up for a suicide pact, we became so invested in a duopolistic republic that we cannot and will not pursue anything else. We're a drunk, we have to hit rock bottom if we have any chance of something better.
The MAGAs have no monopoly on delusion. We're trapped in a mahout-string reality of our own making, reinforced by generations of peace and prosperity. A baby elephant cannot break a piece of twine a mahout ties to its leg. When that baby grows to an 8-ton bull, it does not question that the twine will still hold it. So it is with us.
Eight years ago the dog caught up to the bus as the passengers cheered, and the dog’s owner got behind the wheel and drove.
Eight years later the dog again caught up to the bus as the passengers cheered. They suddenly stopped cheering when they realized the dog is steering, this time.
I truly believe the whole tariff debacle was a plan to enrich Republicans on the inside. Sell your stocks, tank the market, buy at bargain basement prices and the reap huge, ugly profits.
That’s what I’ve been thinking too. It’s the little guy whose 401K is cratering. Some people don’t have time to let the market recover, they’re just stuck. If they are just reaching retirement age, they are victims, it isn’t right.
Oh, and they fucking did sell their stocks before the crash. Rick Scott, #1 inside trader. STD Marge sold hers. They're sticking to their with 'toxic emapthy' governing.
OK - the dog humping the toy almost gave me a nasal coffee enema. This is why I drop by Mr. Jeff's neighborhood every day. A good laugh as the plane careens toward the mountain.
and I know it's not a plushie, and I expect a gazillion emails pointing that out. but I couldn't think what else to call that plastic inflatable whatsit
Yes, what’s going on is pure market manipulation. Idiots who follow the stock market on an hourly or daily basis as their barometer of the economy lose sight of the long-term damage this idiot of a President is doing.
In one year, Warren Buffet's net worth has climbed $11.5 billion to $153.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The system is so well engineered for obscene wealth accumulation now, crime is baked into the rules.
You got it, remember Enron? That was obscene it crashed the market and lasted until some ineffective regulations were passed a few of the silly rich goy put in silly rich prisons for a bit but right now this is the most corrupt since the DEPRESSION z that we will officially enter very soon. All hiel the king.
Business can only plan and ultimately make a profit when they can plan their investments... If they don't have a clue what is coming down the pike in the next 15 minutes, they cannot plan. People are already cutting back on purchases. When the big layoffs start, even Oligarchs are going to miss the middle class that tRump is thumping so hard. We are going to find out just how bad a deal Laissez-Faire economics was.
These are surreal times we’re in… the idiot MAGA people will never learn. They think it’s democratic propaganda that social security is under attack. (I learned this from the “experts” on LinkedIn) still the greatest mystery is how people put any faith in such a disgusting piece of shit like Dump.
Every time one of Donnie’s minions opens their mouth stupid spills out! We have been a global market since the beginning of this nation. The richest bitches in this country became that way via global trade. All those foreign companies are NOT going to move to America! AND anyone who thinks ALL those industries are going to be built here BY AMERICANS FOR AMERICANS is insane! JFC! THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!
Now why in the fuck would you want to invest in this country with the on again off again tariffs? The tariffs need to stay on for a long time to recoup your investment for building here. Business wants stability. It's fucking common sense.
I didn't write about the Supreme Court putting a hold on the lower court's order to force Donny to retrieve that innocent guy they sent to the Salvadoran slave labor prison, because it was too depressing — but here's what I posted to bluesky:
"let me guess: after sitting on the case for six months, John Roberts will rule that Donald Trump is a Very Special Boy who gets to clownfuck the Constitution any way he sees fit. we really do live in the shittiest timeline"
https://bsky.app/profile/jefftiedrich.bsky.social
When the Supremes are corrupt, nothing is sacred.
All of this, everything we are going through right now is on that shitty supreme court full of nazis and misogynists. If they had followed the law and the constitution, Orange Cat Turd would not have been permitted to run because we all know he is a felon and a seditionist.
Actually, everything we’re going through right now is Mitch McConnell’s fault. It all started to turn to shit when Obama became president and Mitch threw his hissy fit on Inauguration Day 2009. He’ll be remembered in history as the bastard who put the first nail in the coffin of democracy.
He has been Kentucky's biggest embarrassment for decades. Shameful.
Well, there’s a way they could have stopped him and they didn’t so Kentucky must like McConnell bunches!
I’m pretty sure that like Governors, you can’t gerrymander Senators.
I am not defending KY's voters. They obviously did not choose well.
That does not change the fact that in my opinion McConnell is the Commonwealth of Kentucky's biggest embarrassment.
The first nail was Antonin Scalia stealing the 2000 election, giving Republicans the belief they would never have to give up power again.
Excellent point, Robert. Exactly right.
Let's not forget Merrick Garland.
Indeed.
No question McConnell is a blazing pile of pig turds. But, he's intensely intelligent and crafty in a lizard (turtle?) -like way. The effects of all of this, much still to be revealed, and his role in setting it all in motion is certainly crystal clear to him. He saw an opportunity to dog-whistle up some old-fashioned race hate for the rubes, and vastly mis-calculated. I think he understood the dangers to the country and the world if the rubes were able to ascend to power, but he took a risk since that had never happened at this scale before (Andrew Jackson notwithstanding). He was wrong. He knows he was wrong. He will suffer with this guilt until he dies. He destroyed the greatest creation mankind ever devised, just to score a few short-term political points, and I'm certain he knows it. Rot in hell, you old bastard.
Well, I don't blame the entire Supreme Court, just ass-kissing Clarence Thomas, justice-denying Samuel Alito, lying John Roberts, hyper-religious Amy Coney Barrett, beer-loving rapist Brett Kavanaugh and gory Neil Gorsuck. Suck was intentional.
of course I did not mean the three women with integrity - Brown Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan -who are most likely throwing up every day they have to work with those assholes.
you can bet on it
True.
If only we had a female president . . . .
Just FYI, Barrett voted with the liberals again on this.
The others may have to choose between Trump and their paymasters, now that Koch and Leo are backing a suit against tarriffs...
Finally, I was waiting to find out what those rich assholes were going to do, because that tells us which direction the wind is blowing. They should watch out for the draft that hits their nuts when there's a general strike. I think protestors should go after their business interests directly. They are a huge part of this problem, buying elections and judges.
I'm of the opinion that Koch & Leo are apart of the cabal that corrupts Clearance Thomas and Sammy Alito. And if either of them whines, I can imagine Chuckie screaming at them, "If I Don't Get Paid, YOU don't get paid."
We need to get rid of this court. Of course that may not be possible. People who can leave need to consider it. I think immigrant students should look elsewhere for a study place.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/foreign-students-at-a-us-university?r=f0qfn
Not now! Trump would make sure everyone on the court was a trump loyalist, we’d never get a break.
Even if Trump expands it, we can have the next president expand it again.
We need to rally enough that Musk's Tesla stock falls through the floor. Trump is helping with that with his tariffs. Rally enough that Trump's approval ratings drop. I heard national security expert Juliette Kayyem say that Donald Trump's popularity needs to fall below 40% then he is vulnerable.
Then,
1) Run for local school boards, attend town halls-ongoing
2) Make sure we take back Congress 2026
3) Make sure we take back the White House 2028
4) Expand the court as much as it takes, and get rid of Citizens United and reinstate Roe v Wade and other protections. Do not vote in Democratic candidate that we do not think will do this.
In preparation
We need people developing laws we want to have once we get back in power.
Right now, Trump is in power and that reminds people of how awful it is to live through his chaos. We don't need Covid, we can have massive tariff wars destroying our economy and making the whole world hate our country. It will be a long time of sane leaders that will get the US creds in the world again.
Today someone mentioned that a good thing coming out of this, is that with the tariffs, Putin is getting worried because the price of oil is dropping. If it drops below $50 a barrel, he has nothing. I would say another good thing is that the 93 mil eligible voters who did not vote, may begin to see why they had better vote. I hope so at least.
Weak-kneed, helpless, "oooh, we're not in power!" crap is over. I want a scholar like Congressman Jamie Raskin to unearth a deadly spell of long forgotten laws and bring the criminals in SCOTUS to heel. Peel them off one by one. Let's start with bribery. At the same time, go after Clarence Thomas's wife. Find out that the SCOTUS passed judgement under the influence of bribes. No recusal when they should have. ANYTHING! But the president is immune has got to be overturned. Keep them so busy trying to stay out of jail. And most important of all, go after Trump. He's broken so many laws, HE'S the national security risk. Relentless. Now. Why, because the public hates them and so does the rest of the world. Use this raw energy to our advantage. And when it's all over, 13 SCOTUS. Reverse the rulings of the Roberts court. Jail the tyrants and lawbreakers.
If they'd followed the law, Al Gore would have been President in January 2001, and the whole trajectory of the country would have been different.
Me too. Too depressing.
I can't stop thinking about that 8-year-old kid in detention.
There are a whole bunch of people who'd better hope I never get a terminal diagnosis.
JJ - I am with you on that 💯
Same here.
Same here.
Absolutely💙✌🏻
It’s ’The Weave’ so we’re not sure if this is profoundly stupid and sick, can we ask barferaroma she has insights that could pull us out of this ditch I’m sure. Straight from Trump University the weave has been known thru academia and will be moved to Harvard Law School. One other thing that NOBODY mentions and is not a Recession no it’s a depression DEPRESSION. Write that down and see who uses that word next. A recession is just two quarters of declined GDP well the market is going there like this quarter. Maria (Baghdad barferaroma) will wait until after the soup lines are public knowledge. But dopey don won he won again how does he weave golf scores so well.
Yes the next great depression I'm afraid. Donny is the king of bankruptcy so is on his way to bankrupting us.
I'm already experiencing a great depression every day I wake up.
I’ve uttered those exact words JJ!!
It took 47 three years and a global pandemic to tank the economy last time. But LDFF has been taught (and bought) a lot since those halcyon days. It’s only been 3 months and he’s well on his way to tanking the whole world economy. But oddly enough, the uber wealthy don’t seem to be complaining. Do they perhaps know something(s) we don’t, hmmm?
I think there is a lot of man-splaining about how these hedge fund assholes are 'optomists' which is why they didn't see the downside (for themselves) of a felon insurrectionist rapist shit for brains multi bankruptcy reality TV deadbeat Russian asset handling the world economy by fiat. It really doesn't add up. Some days I think these rich assholes are all just actors playing poorly written characters on a bad TV show. They are all ivy and should know better if public schools BAs can figure it out. The press is clearly gaslighting us, and so are the GOP with their faux concern.
Koch and Leo are suing Trump and several other uber-wealthy are voicing their displeasure. They are the ultimate Faces who are surprised to find the Leopard eating them.
Respectfully disagree about your comment on the Uber Wealthy. Even Elmo was whining that his portfolio shrank, by 10.5% or $11 Billion. I'm sure the oligarchs want to be richer or stay rich, but I'm sure they whup Dwumpy upside the head if their loses are permanent, or if the entire world goes to shit, and their elventy billion dollar portfolios can't even buy a decent supreme court justice. Chuckie Koch and wild eyed fascist Leonard Leo have only fired their first salvo against the Twumpy madness. Other messages may not be available for public consumption.
Btw I totally agree with you about the backlash coming his way from all sides...and I'm looking forward to watching the rich beat on each other for a bit while we get our act together, but I also think both things can be true. Was reading something about how autocrats go down because their assessment of the situation does not factor for what the people do and if the movement of the people is strong enough (Korea) and forceful enough it makes ruling impossible. The next question isn't how to disrupt the gvmt because 47 sure took care of that, but how do we disrupt the flow of resources to those who don't oppose him yet. Last week we might have said boycotts would work but 47 took that leverage consumers had with business and smashed it like a raging baby. What next?
Well sure Elmo was whining, because he miscalculated which direction the shit was going to fly and how much influence he thought he had over the narcissist moron. Elmo also has proven himself to be wickedly destructive (it doesn't take a genius to trash a hotel room or arbitrage everything you get your hands on) but also delusional about where everyone else (the US pop) in the room is and how they feel about him. It's not tariffs that are ruining him but the genuine hate he has inspired in otherwise normal live and let live citizens around the 🌎 - and he made it personal with the mars sized hubris. I'm talking about wall street managers who were saying '47 won't hurt us' when all he said for 8 yrs was how he wanted to hurt ALL of us - and they thought they were the exception and capital markets were strong enough for him to eat the poor while they watched? They were duped? I have an econ degree and didn't think what they were banking on was sustainable and manageable with 47 because he's personality disordered plus dementia. Think about trying to deal with your parents w/dementia and getting them to move to assisted living. Then give them more money than God and the presidency and see what happens.
I was telling someone the same thing the other day. I'm old now and disabled enough that I don't care much anymore. I'd miss my pets, but they're all old, too. I haven't even seen my family in ages. I'd be OK spending my last few months (or years, if needed) or even bumping myself off, if push comes to shove.
Mary, you just described me! This year has shown me just how near the end I am. Watching my country dissolve beneath me has shown how little there is for me to do now. I will write to my congressmen/women, march in protests with my cane/walker, and send $ until my SS is gone, which might be this week.
We should form a support group -- AD (Almost Dead) and pick off these bastards one at a time beginning with the obvious at the so-called TOP. And, since shit runs downhill, we'd be easily able to find our way to the bottom. AD and friends UNITE!
I'm sorry, Jan! This was not how I expected things to turn out for me, or for any of us! I've had a chronic illness for many years, nothing that'll kill me, but it makes me miserable most days. It kept me from the protest on Saturday which really pissed me off because I was looking forward to it. I've become an online warrior for the most part, but too tired on some days to even do that! I might be able to scrape up some energy for a bit of mayhem, though. ;)
I'm 70. I cannot adequately convey how comforting it is to hear so many older women so pissed off that they want to take up arms, explosives, pitchforks, hatpins, and secreted laxative weapons against the white corrupt flaccid patriarchy. It may well take folks using their bodies to resist what is coming. Women know it. Men are so used to enjoying privilege and the assumption of superiority over anyone else that they don't have a fucking clue what patriotic Americans (the real ones) are prepared to do to rescue our democracy.
You're so right! I'm 71, soon to be another year older. I've always been anti-gun (not enough to do away with the 2nd amendment, but enough to not buy my son any toy guns or G.I. Joes when he was a kid). Last night I was drifting off to sleep and I was wondering if it was time to get myself one. I never thought I'd even come close to considering it, but... here we are. :'(
"white corrupt flaccid patriarchy" Love It! I'm a 64 year old liberal warrior. I was looking forward to some relaxing last couple of years I have left. (okay, closer to two decades, if I take my father's longevity at face value). I am mad as hell that the Repubs are such limp wristed, lying, corrupt, cowardly, suck ass losers. Be careful what you wish for, and you got your Führer, who if you don't fix this, is executed first, with all you pathetic enabling sycophants being next.
I couldn't have said it better.
I'm in.
That's a nice way to say it.
I’ve been saying that for a while now, too!
JJ-Exactly my very words to a friend the other day.
Proof that you can read my thoughts.
Here's the latest HomanVileAct, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-border-czars-neighbors-released-from-ice-custody-after-uproar/
3rd, 10th and 11th graders handcuffed, kidnapped in a van to a distant detention center, with a violent criminal also apprehended in the same van!
Homan's neighbors no less!
This happened in our upstate NY community of Sackets Harbor. Rallies were held to raise awareness of the issue and bring the family home. People marched to Homan's seasonal residence. A few of his supporters were there holding signs but were outnumbered. The rally and march were peaceful. And not to mention that the Supreme Court is giving Trump Supreme power to do whatever he wants. It appears that even the Supreme Court has an agenda - at least the majority that voted for the Aliens Enemies Act did so on a moment's notice. Interesting to read who dissented and that individuals should have due process, but when and where?
ICE is just disappearing people. No warrants, no investigation, no justice.
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Pol Pot would be proud.
And, that is because we watched as the Republicans eroded our rights and filled the courts, and did not do anything. We should not have treated it as fair and equal, but as disturbing overthrowing of our system from within. Now we know, now we have to do that. We have to protest the court decision because like ending Roe v Wade, this is an assault on our very freedom. I also recommend that foreigners leave the US, starting with students.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/foreign-students-at-a-us-university?r=f0qfn
Another history lesson being perpetrated in the good old USA— reminiscent of Germany, 1930’s…
I guess Homan didn't like all of his neighbors demonstrating in front of his house. Or perhaps he is getting the message that he may have to move from beautiful Sackets Harbor to a more MAGA friendly place in a deep red state.
rallies feel good. I went one in LA last weekend, going to another one this weekend with AOC and Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately nothing meaningful comes from these rallies but awareness. Nothing changes. I go for therapeutic reasons. Plus I want to see AOC ! Love her.
Awareness is a good thing.
Weismann says all 9 agreed there must be due process but there was a split about under what provision? I havent seen a written summary of the opinion yet.
Wow so glad that the protests worked!! Congrats to Sackets Harbor for standing up for the kids.
When you serve the unreconstructed they just let you do it.
When you serve the unreconstructed they just let you do it.
Roberts made Trump a king, why not go all in and make him a lawless tyrant?
Already done 77 days ago.
The Democrats wasted the time when they had control over the Presidency and both houses of Congress, as well as the critical last two months of Biden's presidency because they were unwilling to stoop to the level of the Republicans.
Perhaps We the People should take a page from the Republicans' book on how to do peaceful protests. Especially once we've redoubled our numbers.
See y'all on April 19th!
Not sure the Dems had to get down in the mud with the MAGATS, but they most certainly should have been aggressively fighting the lies of the Right. They also slept through the acquisition of damn near every multimedia outlet by fascist oligarchs, allowing for and promoting the endless lies told to the masses everyday.
That has proved to be A MAJOR FUCKUP.
Unfortunately, they are still dithering, with too few exceptions.
F'n Merrick Garland doing NOTHING on January 7th, and repeat nothing all the way for three f'n years. Jeeeesus on a skateboard.
Roger that. IMO Garland is in the same basket as McConnell.
As my older brother was fond of saying, “same difference.” It never made sense to me -until now.
Not 100% sure we will last 6 months. Either 3 rescumliCons decide to be heroes and defect or they will drown with everyone else in their own cesspool of shit.
That's why I have the bumper sticker "THE COURT IS OUT OF ORDER" on my car.
I am getting so scared and depressed and I am not even in the US. It is so Nazi-like and the most scary thing is not just Trump, but that the people of the USA put this man into office. I cannot hear one more person who voted for him whining in surprise over what is happening. I guess empty heads are being filled now, but it is too late. It is just sickening. I am afraid for anyone to be there, because we know these people just slowly come after more and more people.
https://zeteo.com/p/gratuitous-cruelty-the-supreme-court?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I'm a disabled combat veteran. 75 years old. If they come for me they won't like the coffee and donuts. Thanks for your concern. Somehow we will prevail. Things will never be the same but they will improve. Deep breathe everyone.
Chris, what you are saying makes me think of this article that is talking about the impending crash and what to do. I do not think I would be well prepared. You might be. I assume you have weapons training.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zeitgeistpulse/p/brace-for-impact-the-crash-is-coming?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
My coffee and donuts should keep them away from my door. I've up armored my walker.
https://theliberalgunclub.com/
https://www.liberalgunowners.org/
Worms are turning fast. These organizations are growing exponentially and liberals are reconsidering their "non-violence uber alles" philosophies. LGC training and coaching is very good. My instructor is a rabbi. You can't make this shit up.
Funny point, here: chapter one of the Totalitarian Playbook is seize all the guns. When Cletus and the boys, who howled for a decade that they would be slaughtering us en masse to support their fascist lords, get a snoot full of evaporated 401Ks, no jobs, and having their precious guns seized, they may start blazing. I just don't think they'll be wasting bullets on us, since we didn't do ANY of this to them. I would even say that bedfellows may start getting stranger...
Relax, Linda. It is character trait of republicans, they are totally incapable of conceiving of consequences to what they do. If only we could get them started on a 50 mile march that ends in a sheer cliff that they would march off. In your next demonstration, carry signs encouraging this kind of action by republicans. Tell them they'll be more physically fit to fight us. Pick your location carefully. I've never been, but perhaps encouraging them to go to the Grand Canyon would be a useful idea.
I am imagining myself being treated like ICE and the El Salvadoran prison system is treating people right now.
https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/20/ice-detain/
I am imagining this happening to my immigrant husband who works in the US, and to my daughter who is at university in our other country and wants to visit her friends. I imagine this happening to my 90+ year old mom with dementia, and her sister who is 79 and is blind. They are both immigrants living in the US. I imagine this happening to my nephews and niece who live in the US. I imagine it happening to my neighbors and friends, many of whom are immigrants.
I agree that Republicans are incapable of conceiving consequences of what they do, but as they see pictures of people in ICE and in the El Salvadoran death camp prison, I think they have the same kind of sadistic glee that their forefathers had beating a slave senseless, or hanging a black man or woman from a tree. The brutal people, the sadists among us, they are having a jolly good time right now, and they are led by the chief sadistic sociopath, Mr. DJT.
Linda, I'm 75. I grew up and still live in Berkeley. I lived through J. Edgar Hoover and did not relax until he died. I've never had a cell phone, because of the FBI. If I were your husband I would relocate. Frankly, things are so unstable, you might want to get everyone out. We really have no where to go, so we will stay. But I have a certain amount of confidence in the republicans being surprised by the consequences of what they are doing. And I still hope California will secede.
My husband is in Germany right now, but he has a return ticket. He is planning on relocating here. The US does not mind losing scientists anyway. He was going to retire next year, but might be retiring sooner.
Right now the US is not only making people in countries not want to buy US products if they don't have to, but also not want to go to the US. Supposedly the travel and tourism industry contributed 2.3 trillion to our economy. That is not nothing to sneeze at. So, far under Trump I see revenue leaving, not revenue coming in.
The question is, will it become more dangerous for Republican politicians to defy Trump or their own constituencies. Many did not bargain for a reduced quality of life under MAGA. I hope the Blue States secede collectively. It would be more powerful. It would be like East and West Germany. Something that could come together again if it wanted to. One side allies with democratic countries. The Democratic States of America. People have a year to decide which side they are on. They get money (that the government probably does not have) to move.
Here is a discussion by Gary Whittenberger of this.
https://secularhumanism.org/exclusive/secession/
The UNSupreme Cult is as destructive as Fox Propaganda.
Trump will be reincarnated many times as that dog only he'll be humping a pit bull....hence many reincarnation. Let the pain begin!
I have begun referring to SCOTUS as the 'sub-primes' (vs. the 'supremes.')
Unbefuckinglievable!
That’s the damn truth about the timeline. If we could just jump to the next one, that’d be great.
They are torturing innocents. Torturing innocents. Killing children. Killing women. Stealing from the poor. Forcing starvation and misery upon the world and endangering future generations. For nothing. For nothing. For nothing. I am long past angry. If not for JT and so many other good people who manage to maintain focus, I don’t know how we’d carry on.
Thanks. I mean it.
Exactly how I feel. I’m still going out to the streets, protesting, bearing witness each day. Now we’ve got trolls faking videos of handouts of payments at protests There is no decency. I’m not giving up, but my mad-as-hell meter is in the red zone.
Ditto Cassandra and Neal, “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”!!
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Pam Bondi, come on down and hop on this rack! I’m itching to turn the crank!
Yes! and to know this hurts like hell.
And that’s just in Gaza and the West Bank . . .
I hope all those voters in Dearborn are happy now. Trump gave Bibi permission to destroy Gaza and up the ethnic cleansing.
Not only Dearborn but the college protesters so upset over Joe Biden's relationship with Israel, I hope they're miserable and have learned from their infantile mistake.
Biden was complicit by association of genocide. He should never have given arms to Israel.
The college kids were right.
There's a great interview with Joy Reid today and she said her Dem contacts say those voters are understanding that trump will turbocharge ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the Hispanic voters for trump have woken up, and it's shifting the board in real time.
Just what I was going to say. No wonder Israel is our "ally".
Sad coupled with stupid truth ltbw!!
I feel your anger. I share your anger. 👍🤬
I sense the Brown Shirts are just around the corner.
Ah yes… when even Fox News starts gently tugging at the blindfold, you know the economic piñata has exploded into a flaming bag of Bed, Bath & Beyond coupons.
Donny didn’t just crash the economy—he gift-wrapped the wreckage, tweeted about how perfect the wreckage is, then sold autographed NFTs of himself moonwalking through the ashes.
Even Maria Bartiromo—usually more loyal than a labrador on Ambien—had to admit the obvious: tariffs are hiking prices, the economy’s heading toward recession, and Dear Leader is about as reassuring as a fire alarm that screams “YOLO!”
And Congress? Mike “Spineless Sage of Soft-Spoken Surrender” Johnson thinks we should let Donny finish his economic exorcism because… democracy or something?
Meanwhile, Wall Street is having a full-blown hallucination, bouncing up and down like it just drank ayahuasca brewed in Peter Navarro’s air fryer. Some ghost of a rumor about a “tariff pause” caused an 8% surge, followed by a 3.5% plunge—basically, your 401k got drunk and went cliff diving.
And now Peter “Jobs for Robots” Navarro wants to bring iPhone factories to the U.S. because “there’ll be plenty of jobs… for robots.” Fantastic. So the machines get to work while we humans fight each other for tips from their OnlyFans pages?
Thankfully, Senator Brian Schatz finally found the courage to say no to fascism with a side of tariffs. Bless him. May his spine remain titanium and his inbox free of Fox News fan mail.
In the meantime, don’t forget: when they say “recession,” what they really mean is you’ll suffer while they golf.
So eat the rich. Or at least their imported foie gras, before the tariff makes it $200 a spoonful.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Still broke, still holy, still watching this freakshow with popcorn and prayer beads.
Kudos to Sen. Schatz for giving these iron fisted assholes a taste of what they deserve. Not likely that Sec. of Altered State Stoogio will get back anytime soon and that's to be expected. In the meantime, keep up the good work Sen. Schatz.
You are so correct - and you're also hilarious! "basically, your 401k got drunk and went cliff diving." "...sold autographed NFT's of himself moonwalking through the ashes". Humor and satire always help in those intervals when you're not feeling angry or depressed.
There’s a term for today’s market gains: a dead cat bounce.
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I can't remember now where I saw it, but apparently Blumenthal is following the lead of Schatz in placing holds on Trump's nominees.
good deeds are contagious
Wish Schumer would catch that virus. I'm at the point now, when I see him mumbling in Congress with his glasses trembling on the tip of his nose, I think "There's that old c*nt."
As seen on a protest sign…I’d call him a cunt but he lacks depth and warmth.
In my family, we call him "Thrush."
Because he's an irritating c*nt. . .
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He's over.
Who's over? Over what? We've shown a thousand times already that nothing can or will stop him. We signed up for a suicide pact, we became so invested in a duopolistic republic that we cannot and will not pursue anything else. We're a drunk, we have to hit rock bottom if we have any chance of something better.
The MAGAs have no monopoly on delusion. We're trapped in a mahout-string reality of our own making, reinforced by generations of peace and prosperity. A baby elephant cannot break a piece of twine a mahout ties to its leg. When that baby grows to an 8-ton bull, it does not question that the twine will still hold it. So it is with us.
The sub-thread is discussing Senator Schumer.
Indeed.
They all should have put a hold on every nominee from the get go!
That’s fantastic news.
Not where I originally saw the post (I still can't remember) but just so you know I'm not making it up:
https://www.threads.net/@briantylercohen/post/DIKwWgQRscp/breaking-sen-richard-blumenthal-says-he-plans-to-place-a-hold-on-all-trump-nomin
Way to late. Look at the Democrats voting for Trmp's deplorables.
77 million voters thought, lets give the reins to a dishonest felon who backrupted every casino he ever tried to run. What could go wrong?
Still impossible for me to believe that AnusMouthPantLoad got 77 million votes.
Walt, get outside your circle of friends and ask Americans how they decide whom to vote for, and you will understand.
Eight years ago the dog caught up to the bus as the passengers cheered, and the dog’s owner got behind the wheel and drove.
Eight years later the dog again caught up to the bus as the passengers cheered. They suddenly stopped cheering when they realized the dog is steering, this time.
Yes dogee.
I truly believe the whole tariff debacle was a plan to enrich Republicans on the inside. Sell your stocks, tank the market, buy at bargain basement prices and the reap huge, ugly profits.
Robert Reich put up a post yesterday afternoon about how recessions are a boon for oligarchs
Yeps, it's a win-win game for the 1%. The golden rule: Those with the gold make the rules.
That’s what I’ve been thinking too. It’s the little guy whose 401K is cratering. Some people don’t have time to let the market recover, they’re just stuck. If they are just reaching retirement age, they are victims, it isn’t right.
Can you say "insider trading"? Sure, I knew you could.
Wall Street is so rigged they should pay out with monopoly worthless paper, I can’t believe the USD is holding this well.
Of course it is! Trump telegraphed exactly when he would announce the tariffs, giving them plenty of time to sell
Gene…this IS the Soviet Union playbook. We know the ending of that…the country collapsed. Putin got trump to do this to the U.S.
Oh, and they fucking did sell their stocks before the crash. Rick Scott, #1 inside trader. STD Marge sold hers. They're sticking to their with 'toxic emapthy' governing.
Yes
Coincidentally, or not, further isolating us from former allies while throwing us into chaos and likely mass death also benefits Putin enormously.
Jobs for robots! Thank God! I’ll let my robots know! WTF.
Right! My robots are rusting away with nothing to do. 😂😂
😂😂😂 They get mischievous when they're bored.
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And putting screws into i-Phones. 😶
Mine are really worried about their 401Ks.
Maria admits it, Donny shits it and Holy Moses Johnson’s runway is full of potholes.
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OK - the dog humping the toy almost gave me a nasal coffee enema. This is why I drop by Mr. Jeff's neighborhood every day. A good laugh as the plane careens toward the mountain.
and I know it's not a plushie, and I expect a gazillion emails pointing that out. but I couldn't think what else to call that plastic inflatable whatsit
I’d call it a “humper.”
Your retirement is gone - might as well blow your last paycheque on a blowup pup for your little fur ball😉
The last three words of yours do it for me
My dog does it and he’s fixed so the humpee doesn’t get sloppy.
It's the mask on the toy that is disturbing.
Yes, what’s going on is pure market manipulation. Idiots who follow the stock market on an hourly or daily basis as their barometer of the economy lose sight of the long-term damage this idiot of a President is doing.
Insider trading wasn’t getting them rich enough? Market manipulation is a much quicker way to steal other people’s money.
Didn’t see much reported on djt’s sales the DAY BEFORE… (Martha Stewart would like a word)…
They carried that on and on and for 40,000. Off with her head!
In one year, Warren Buffet's net worth has climbed $11.5 billion to $153.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The system is so well engineered for obscene wealth accumulation now, crime is baked into the rules.
Of course, Buffet moved into cash early on in this administration
You got it, remember Enron? That was obscene it crashed the market and lasted until some ineffective regulations were passed a few of the silly rich goy put in silly rich prisons for a bit but right now this is the most corrupt since the DEPRESSION z that we will officially enter very soon. All hiel the king.
Business can only plan and ultimately make a profit when they can plan their investments... If they don't have a clue what is coming down the pike in the next 15 minutes, they cannot plan. People are already cutting back on purchases. When the big layoffs start, even Oligarchs are going to miss the middle class that tRump is thumping so hard. We are going to find out just how bad a deal Laissez-Faire economics was.
These are surreal times we’re in… the idiot MAGA people will never learn. They think it’s democratic propaganda that social security is under attack. (I learned this from the “experts” on LinkedIn) still the greatest mystery is how people put any faith in such a disgusting piece of shit like Dump.
Basically because they're idiots.
Those of us who are immune to the Hypnotoad just see the toad, and will never be able to see whatever it is that the culties see.
Bridge on the River Why....thats all I gotta Ask jeff.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/morning-edition-april-8th-2025-the
Be happy in your work!
"ass-smoochery". Thanks for that one. Perfection.
Every time one of Donnie’s minions opens their mouth stupid spills out! We have been a global market since the beginning of this nation. The richest bitches in this country became that way via global trade. All those foreign companies are NOT going to move to America! AND anyone who thinks ALL those industries are going to be built here BY AMERICANS FOR AMERICANS is insane! JFC! THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!
Now why in the fuck would you want to invest in this country with the on again off again tariffs? The tariffs need to stay on for a long time to recoup your investment for building here. Business wants stability. It's fucking common sense.
NOBODY is gonna build here! It’s ridiculous to think anyone wants to invest that kind of money in a nation that’s in free fall!
Tesla is one of the easiest no brained short ever it is still so overpriced it has a long way to drop yet.
$30-$50 would be a fair price.
The old norms are out and Congressional Dems need to play dirty. Who would even notice?
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It must be jebus job to scramble little Mikey's brain anew everyday whilst setting his porn bracelet.