The Orange colostomy bag sitting in the Oval Office, put there by gullible, easy prey, stupid, morons, and I don’t care if you have a doctorate degree (evidently, you can purchase one online now, so there’s that), in Astrophysics, if you voted for this pedophile, you’re nothing but horseshit on our shoes. Until you stop supporting this pedophile, America sees you protecting an adjudicated abuser. Atone yourselves.
America will accept your heartfelt apology and put you to use fighting for what rightfully belongs to all Americans.
I prefer epic fuck up but troll slayer is right. We have to go with epic failure because of TV rules. However, save a pedo act is ready to go. I can’t wait for meet the press and all the Sunday shows to have at it.
The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. His father was a sleazy white collar criminal sent to jail and Jared is just as amoral and motivated by greed. Of course donnie pardoned the father and promoted him to ambassador to France bc being a sleazy criminal automatically qualified him in maga world.
I’ll bet the leaders of our NATO allies are coming up to Donnie with tears in their eyes saying, “Sir, thank you for starting WWIII. And for tariffing the shit out of us. And for threatening to take over Canada and Greenland. Now how may we help you?”
"Only if you're a star, then they let you do anything".... The starlight is 40000 light years old now, duper and blinking out. He is done but is blind to the widening pit of despair he has opened at his feet in the straits of Hormuz.
I'm worried that he's going to bomb our allies just because they told him no. He'd be perfectly content doing that and I fear our military would just follow orders.
I have been on Jeff’s substack for about 2 years now. Thanks to him, I think we all have kept our sanity in these trying times. His writing is very special to all of us.
But, I come also to praise all the great commentators,who have
shown great wit, humor, insight, and
information. For you guys& gals are what makes this more than a substack , but more of a community.
A special shout out to Frosty &12Doc
who over the last months have displayed such great poetic talent- their limericks have been enjoyed by all.
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John Fucking Fetterman. He musta got a gajillion dollars to turn into a Republican.
And blabbing the names of people's health? #youfucker Except Susie Wiles and her breast cancer...I want her to live long enough to go to prison for enabling the felon. 🙄
I remember when many Democrats were gushing over how refreshing he was to be so informal in his baggy shorts and hoodies. I find it more "refreshing" to hear from more formally dressed senators such as Chris Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, who may wear suits but you don't have to scratch your head about what comes out of their mouths.
Rubio seemed like the least bad of Trump's choices. His fellow senators probably remembered when he was rational and level-headed and were probably hoping he could bring some of that to the administration. False hope! But compared to everyone else Trump was appointing, Rubio is technically qualified for his job.
He's currently running for governor of Alabama, so he'll be leaving the Senate. With him gone and Markwayne Mullin going to DHS, I think that will officially make Ron Johnson the stupidest member of the Senate.
F*cknosed Susan Collins needs to go. I'd take an asshole with conviction over Collins who's played her grinning Lucy-Charlie Brown football prank on critical issues once too often.
I believe Janet Mills, current governor of Maine, is also a contender for the Senate against Graham Platner in the primary. Her age is a drawback but her feet are on the ground. She came up against Trump when he threatened to remove funding for education due to her stand on trans rights.
Platner gives me big-time Fetterman vibes. His backstory is false, and he has a million excuses for horrific things he's posted in the past that just don't ring true.
He is promoting the working class hero male macho archetype to contend with the feminized image of Democrats that MAGA propagates. Janet Mills a wiser choice.
Fetterman comes from a wealthy, conservative Republican family. He originally presented himself as a Bernie progressive but was probably maga all along. I live in Philly and everyone I know hates him.
Fetterman's recent attack of his on AOC and Kamala Harris in his interview with Sean Hannity reeks of toxic misogyny. I mean, attacking Harris for calling Trump a fascist? He IS — he practically calls himself that. And while AOC is certainly overrated by her fan boys, his criticism of her isn't coherent. He says she can't beat Schumer in a senate primary (probably true), then adds she'll probably run for president (for which she is wildly under qualified) or "continue to rise" in the House where she isn't rising at all in terms of leadership. Wha....?
I liked this: "Neither reps Ocasio-Cortez nor Harris responded Monday to requests for comment."
Probably the best thing to do when Fetterman is sounding off.
Whitehouse lost me when he voted along with Fetterman and only 3 other Democrats for Jamieson Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative who was willing to deliver the Trump/Putin plan to Ukraine for complete surrender.
I can't speak for all those who voted for Fetterman, but I know that I and my many friends, colleagues and members of my political organizations voted for him because we believed in what he was saying and saw his record of doing caring things, NOT because of they way he dressed. Liberal thinking people usually don't care about material ways of being, just how they think. IDK whether Fetterman was lying back then, his stroke messed with his brain, or felon47 threatened him and/or offered him money to become a DINO. Are we angry that he betrayed us - yes!
I loved seeing Sheldon Whitehouse in his half-zip fleece with a suit jacket on top speaking in the well of the Senate. Fetterman's refusal to do more than vote from the doorway because he can't be arsed to put on a jacket means he's not doing the business of the people of Pennsylvania. Which, honestly, is probably for the good of the people of Pennsylvania.
Even Tammy Duckworth's infant put on a jacket. Are you really more delicate than a literal baby, John-John?
It is a sad truth that people with brain damage (he had a big stroke during his campaign) frequently have personality changes. They are just not the same person any more. They lose information processing capacity which makes simplistic rethuglican thinking enticing and all they are really capable of. I’ve said for years that I’d like to see a Functional MRI study of 1000 MAGAts’ brains matched by 1000 center-left controls. I’m betting there is significant brain damage on the right. (I’d kill to see Orange Imbecile’s MRI.)
And remember when he flew to see the felon in Florida? He came back a different person… between the stroke and Trump buying him off…and to think I donated to him. Damn it. I turned the Tshirt into a dishrag.
That explains a lot. No, seriously, I wonder sometimes about the cognitive dissonance when smart people look at Trump and think, "this is a smart leader".
It actually was really startling. Right after he came back from the stroke he was a different man. I've seen this before. The brain is a mysterious organ.
I checked his net worth. It isn’t that high. Many middle class families are in the same bracket. As a nurse, I really think the stroke is the cause of personality change. 👹
With what though? As people above said, he's not all that wealthy. What else is there he could have promised him? Do you think he has some really bad dirt like he has on Lindsey?
pure speculation… why would Trump invite him down there… either threaten him or pay him off or??? Aren’t there ways to hide money? Maybe I’m wrong… and I do think the stroke was a factor. 🤷♀️
John Fucking Fetterman. His permanent name in my head now. Thanks. Although Dickbrain McHoodie is so good I’ll be laughing at it all day! I would climb on a stepstool any day to punch him in the neck! 🤬😡🤬😡🤬💔🇺🇸
We are a far, far better nation than our faux, deluded, hate-filled president and his cultist fans portray to America and the world.
In our own best interests and the interests of a freer world, we've spent 80+ years promoting a "Melting Pot" vision of equal governance across the globe. Democratic governance based on the simple concept that its key role is supporting the well-being of all citizens, not just the wealthy, white connected citizens.
Our mission in the months and years ahead is to restore this visionary gift to America and the world. The worldwide conservative Right, scoffs at these ideals. They admire the fascist
Ideal that "Might makes Right", aka "realpolitik".
Our ongoing battle is to rekindle our vision among the vast majority of Americans that a free and equal America is the real America. We are not a country of hate. We not a police state protecting the corruption of the powerful.
Embrace this battle with pride. Relish it. We've been fighting it for 250 years. We'll keep fighting it. We'll win again.
Someone wrote that the most important battle of this century was The Battle of Minneapolis, fought and won by ordinary ppl with cell phones and whistles who sent federal agents packing.
This is why the Republican congress is desperately trying to pass the restrictive voting SAVE ACT, which they hope will assure a permanent Republican hegemony. They can't get it through the Senate but the Republicans plan to hold an extended debate on the bill for a week or more, an effort to try and appease Trump and make Democrats defend their position. Call or email you senators to vote NO on SAVE ACT.
Trump says he'll never endorse any Republican who voted against it.
I know a lot of white women who are married and they have passports. Its young people, especially young men of color who only have a driver's license, which is not enough for the SAVE act.
It is so sad that Diaperload Donny is in the Oval Office because slightly more than 22% of the whole population put him there. We have a lot of work to do this year and in 2028!
Yet, since his first day in office his approval is still 40% +- 3%. The same 4 out of 10 idiots think he's just great. Who the fuck are these people?!?
I lived France when I was a student and they had a pretty cynical view of what the US really was, and Trump ripped off the cover and proved them right. We let this happen. We have to improve education everywhere so far right wing propaganda cannot take hold. And stop billionaires from monopolizing our media.
Break up media monopolies, for a start. Have strict standards regarding advertising, media ownership concentration, equal time, etc. Make it illegal to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers again. Same with sports betting, polymarkets, "social casinos," and every other griftery thing that's currently polluting our discourse.
Bring supplements under the regulation of the FDA, no matter how sad it makes podcast bros, wellness influencers, and the state of Utah.
Health claims made by products or services for sale must follow strict standards and be factual, scientifically-based, and not harmful. Public health is part of the Constitution, and fuck the MAHA crowd who wants to make a buck off fear.
Bring back real civics education and start teaching media literacy, and start having real standards for the basics. Treat teaching as a profession, compensate it and support it fairly, support schools adequately, stop expecting teachers to solve social problems and let them focus on teaching (if social support is needed, provide appropriate professionals, but stop expecting teachers to do it without pay or training or support). Train teachers well and let them teach. Stop measuring teacher and student success by standardized testing and college acceptance rates. Get religion out of schools. Stop allowing parents to homeschool their children without any kind of oversight (or at all).
Vastly, vastly expand the House of Representatives. People focus on the Senate being unrepresentative. It's supposed to be that way. The real issue is that the House hasn't expanded in size since the very early 20th century, despite the addition of multiple states and huge population growth and shifts. So you get distortions in the numbers of constituents per House seat in Wyoming vs. California because you only have 435 to work with no matter how many people there are and every state gets at least one. This will also unfuck the Electoral College and make it more representative, and will prevent the Republicans from getting control of the government for generations.
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Say what you will, but if someone who was so invested in MAGA can turn around and admit that, "you know the more I see Trump, the more I realize what a phony liar he is," I have to have a grudging respect for because she is going against all the people who supported her and probably friends and family. That takes guts.
An important reminder for understanding the war mongering criminal elect pedophile's key tell. If his mouth is moving and sounds are coming out -he's lying.
During these divisive, chaotic times, I just want to remind everyone that this administration WILL crash and burn, bringing to mind that old adage: This Too Shall Pass.
“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure” - John Lennon
I got as far as the video with him and Mike johnson...this one was dead, that one was dead, we have another terminal one who comes to work every day (tell his story Mike. Should we name him?) and he LAUGHS and smiles at Susie Wiles who had just announced she had breast cancer (I wish cancer on NO ONE! Half my family has died from cancer, or has it now) but she has great insurance, great doctors and every chance to survive it...unlike the millions.of people who have or will get it and don't have any chance because of what this scum bag has done) THE ONLY ONE WHO HASN'T DIED IS YOU, DONNIE...and I'm running out of patience you malevolent fuckwit!!! Make it snappy
So Donny is now yukking it up about a GOP congressman about to die. I'm beginning to think that maybe he doesn't understand how any of this works.
But the most *egregious* thing that's happening RIGHT NOW, is Marge careening around gratuitously *making sense*! Dafuk?!?! I'm becoming a little afraid that a mishap at CERN tore a hole in reality and some low-probability shit is leaking into it.
Mebbe CERN uncovered the Godawful Particle, where an insane, feces-flinging screech monkey makes sense. Temporarily, that is. The FITS (Formerly insane, temporarily sane) boson.
“Marco Rubio and the various people who are doing that will be announcing— and we do— I have to tell you, we have some that are really enthusiastic coming already, they’ve already started to”
He then continued, “actually they are already there, they begged to be there, and now the strait is open, the oil is on its way. It’s been refined into gas already, nobody wants to report that, it’s in your gas tanks right now while you were asking these dumb questions. Maybe just say thank you”
You missed the rest of the clip. Trump got the congressman into Walter Reed and now he's fully recovered or something. My takeaway was two guys yucking it up over how awesome it is to have the right connections.
My favorite thing this week (and there's stiff competition) is Trump insisting that a mysterious unnamed former president called him up to say he wished HE had bombed Iran. Very normal phone call.
"Hello, Sir, great job starting a war, really wish I'd done that."
Trouble is that all four living former presidents' offices immediately said nope, wasn't us.
Bush's people: nope. We invaded two countries and that was enough. Clinton's people: nope, we had our fun in Bosnia. Obama's people: nope. We used drones. Biden's people: nope. We were too busy cleaning the shit out of the Capitol from the Jan 6 crowd.
So we're left with some good guesses providing that we can bridge the gap of these guys being dead.
HW Bush was a hard no. One Bush speaks for all Bushes.
1. Jimmy Carter. Dude had a big grudge since 1979. Remember the hostages?
2. Reagan. He totally would have gone into Iran if Nancy's astrologer told him to.
3. Nixon. He would recommend this shit because bombing Cambodia was such a huge success.
4. LBJ. Fuck yeah. Vietnam was also a huge success.
5. JFK. No wait, he't the one talking about Cuba. Never mind.
6. Ike. WW2 taught him notning.
Of course we know none of this is true. He was talking about Trump 45, everyone's favorite three-term president. Miller had an intern make a Sora video of 2017 Trump sending him a message from the past and then put it on the TV with a Fox chyron under it.
The "President Newsum" comment is a bit harder to decipher. Maybe there's a future one too?
it’s not you. Fetterman’s stroke has altered his personality. Greene is still horrible, just a little less so, my guess is she’s worried about her eternal soul.
Not all Maga is stupid, Daniel. Cohen's insight had value for me, despite what rubbed me the wrong way, because he actually does know how a lot of that works. But, I'm not ignoring red flags any longer when actions are inconsistent with claims. It's not only him, I am questioning everyone's branding now. Felon47, himself, somehow convinced too many of a Populist platform. Everyone can see how the wind is blowing & we have to scrutinize those claiming to stand for the people very carefully, IMO.
In my book, want forgiveness and a second chance? Make apologies and reparations. She owes heartfelt apologies to David Hogg, OAC, Hunter Biden, Jeremy Raskin, and so many others. Sniping at them what brought you to the dance (Trump, QAnon, MAGA, etc.) ain't contrition. She's just running for dwindling relevance.
good call re: Sporky like Cohen. It's not that Maga has nuanced or changing standards, they demonstrably HAVE NO standards. I hate learning this over & over & over again. it used to be we could believe we all wanted basically the same thing & just had different ideas of how to get there. that was a mistake, these parasites want what they want at the expense of the rest of us. they are dysfunctional predators that have to be controlled.
Can we please change the name from Epic Fury to Epic Fuckup.
Along those lines, how about instead of Save America Act we call it Save A Pedo Act.
I'm sure there are other good alternatives.
POTUS….Pedophile of the United States
Even better, prosecuted pedophile of the united states
Deb -- may someone Make It So!!
The Orange colostomy bag sitting in the Oval Office, put there by gullible, easy prey, stupid, morons, and I don’t care if you have a doctorate degree (evidently, you can purchase one online now, so there’s that), in Astrophysics, if you voted for this pedophile, you’re nothing but horseshit on our shoes. Until you stop supporting this pedophile, America sees you protecting an adjudicated abuser. Atone yourselves.
America will accept your heartfelt apology and put you to use fighting for what rightfully belongs to all Americans.
I like it better when these letters are capitalized POtuS.
Epic Failure
Epic Fail is already a thing. Let's use it.
Epstein Fury Fuckup
Jinx a coke Joe! ;-)
Gotta name it the Trump-Epstein Save a Pedo Act. TESPA. All slanders must have Trump's name attached. Rebranding...
Epstein Fuckup, please!
I like it.
I prefer epic fuck up but troll slayer is right. We have to go with epic failure because of TV rules. However, save a pedo act is ready to go. I can’t wait for meet the press and all the Sunday shows to have at it.
Save Jared 😂
For what?
A tumbrel.
The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. His father was a sleazy white collar criminal sent to jail and Jared is just as amoral and motivated by greed. Of course donnie pardoned the father and promoted him to ambassador to France bc being a sleazy criminal automatically qualified him in maga world.
Operation Epstein Bury
https://www.duffelblog.com/typo-leads-to-epic-furry-parties-all-over-tehran/
A group of friends and I played trivia last week. Our name was Epic Furries.
Epic Purees?
Septic Slurry
Good ideas!
Brilliant. I approve your suggestions
I love that. It must trend. #EpicFuckup
I’ll bet the leaders of our NATO allies are coming up to Donnie with tears in their eyes saying, “Sir, thank you for starting WWIII. And for tariffing the shit out of us. And for threatening to take over Canada and Greenland. Now how may we help you?”
Big, strong leaders, who never cried before in their lives, came to me with tears streaming down their faces, crying “Sir! Sir!”
“Sir, Sir… We’ll be right there to save you in… Two Weeks”
😆
Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣
😳🫢🫠
Two days would sound more convincing.
I need to explain: Two Weeks is the time frame Donald always promises, when what he’s really saying is NEVER
Come to think of it, if there were tears in their eyes, they were probably coming from the stench emanating from his diaper.
I’m certain that his odious codpiece and dirty diaper stench is revolting Stephanie… brings tears to my eyes just imagining the wafting odor!
😂
"Can I kiss you, sir?"
"Only if you're a star, then they let you do anything".... The starlight is 40000 light years old now, duper and blinking out. He is done but is blind to the widening pit of despair he has opened at his feet in the straits of Hormuz.
Tic Tacs. Lotsa Tic Tacs.
"Sir would you like a diet Coke with that war?"
Or fries with that? Easily done. Blam!
I'm worried that he's going to bomb our allies just because they told him no. He'd be perfectly content doing that and I fear our military would just follow orders.
Exactly!!
“Sir! Nobody pisses off their former allies as well as you do, how do you do it, Mr. President, sir?”
The weakest man in his loaded Depends
Implores those who used to be friends
The situation is dire
In my fucked up quagmire
Send help or you're useless buttends
I have been on Jeff’s substack for about 2 years now. Thanks to him, I think we all have kept our sanity in these trying times. His writing is very special to all of us.
But, I come also to praise all the great commentators,who have
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information. For you guys& gals are what makes this more than a substack , but more of a community.
A special shout out to Frosty &12Doc
who over the last months have displayed such great poetic talent- their limericks have been enjoyed by all.
here, here! (or is it hear, hear?)
seriously, you commenter fucking rule, and make this place the community that it is
Comments are one of the ways I've chosen newsletters to subscribe to (This one I would've chosen anyway: levity is so essential right now.) The ones that devolve into conspiracy theories ("Kamala actually won; the election was stolen") or condescending insults I take off the list.
Riffing off Jeff… as is our wont ;)
Sometimes it's har, har.
Too bad the Strait of Hormuz
Ain't filled instead with booze
'Cuz then Whiskey Pete
Might think it neat
To try an oil tanker cruise
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Ditto. This amazing community raise the bar. Cheers to you all!🍀
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John Fucking Fetterman. He musta got a gajillion dollars to turn into a Republican.
And blabbing the names of people's health? #youfucker Except Susie Wiles and her breast cancer...I want her to live long enough to go to prison for enabling the felon. 🙄
I remember when many Democrats were gushing over how refreshing he was to be so informal in his baggy shorts and hoodies. I find it more "refreshing" to hear from more formally dressed senators such as Chris Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, who may wear suits but you don't have to scratch your head about what comes out of their mouths.
We democrats should really learn to listen to the locals.
I agree. I'm watching a video now of Chris Murphy calling out Tommy Tuberville for a racist post about Mamdani – and he's wearing a TIE!!!
Murphy is the only Senator who apologized for voting AYE for Marco Rubio. Great Senator. Too bad we have so many supplicants for Trump.
Rubio seemed like the least bad of Trump's choices. His fellow senators probably remembered when he was rational and level-headed and were probably hoping he could bring some of that to the administration. False hope! But compared to everyone else Trump was appointing, Rubio is technically qualified for his job.
So elitist.
Tommy Tuberville is SUCH an ass!!! Why does he keep getting elected? gd.
He's currently running for governor of Alabama, so he'll be leaving the Senate. With him gone and Markwayne Mullin going to DHS, I think that will officially make Ron Johnson the stupidest member of the Senate.
WI is back on top, baby!!
That is elitist. Why cannot Marsha Blackburn be #1.
Marsha Blackburn and Jon Husted would like a word.
Runners up. Johnson is truly a clown.
ALABAMA VOTERS.
A choice between Dr. Carpetbagger and Fetterman was much clearer 4 years ago.
Here in Maine we have a guy called Graham Platner running for senate. I am afraid he is an R in D's clothing. Also a bit of an asshole. UGH!
F*cknosed Susan Collins needs to go. I'd take an asshole with conviction over Collins who's played her grinning Lucy-Charlie Brown football prank on critical issues once too often.
Never! Vote for Mills.
Agreed!
It won't mean much if he's a loose cannon who discredits Democratic policies.
The crowd surfing and yell-sunging 2 weeks ago did it for me!
I believe Janet Mills, current governor of Maine, is also a contender for the Senate against Graham Platner in the primary. Her age is a drawback but her feet are on the ground. She came up against Trump when he threatened to remove funding for education due to her stand on trans rights.
Platner gives me big-time Fetterman vibes. His backstory is false, and he has a million excuses for horrific things he's posted in the past that just don't ring true.
Can’t be worse than Susan Collins
She is really awful! But would he be any better? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/janet-mills-graham-platner-ad-maine-senate-race.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.DXa0.vNLczcRR5OFv&smid=url-share
Yes Platner is BAD. and Dear Old Bernie Sanders endorsed him!!!!
He is promoting the working class hero male macho archetype to contend with the feminized image of Democrats that MAGA propagates. Janet Mills a wiser choice.
Sanders' endorsement is a negative for me. He's a disruptor who is all talk.
Me too
Fetterman comes from a wealthy, conservative Republican family. He originally presented himself as a Bernie progressive but was probably maga all along. I live in Philly and everyone I know hates him.
Fetterman's recent attack of his on AOC and Kamala Harris in his interview with Sean Hannity reeks of toxic misogyny. I mean, attacking Harris for calling Trump a fascist? He IS — he practically calls himself that. And while AOC is certainly overrated by her fan boys, his criticism of her isn't coherent. He says she can't beat Schumer in a senate primary (probably true), then adds she'll probably run for president (for which she is wildly under qualified) or "continue to rise" in the House where she isn't rising at all in terms of leadership. Wha....?
I liked this: "Neither reps Ocasio-Cortez nor Harris responded Monday to requests for comment."
Probably the best thing to do when Fetterman is sounding off.
Whitehouse lost me when he voted along with Fetterman and only 3 other Democrats for Jamieson Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative who was willing to deliver the Trump/Putin plan to Ukraine for complete surrender.
I don't know any background on this, but Whitehouse is the most dedicated and passionate advocate for the climate of anyone in Congress.
Agree. It’s a professional thing. FFS 🤦♀️
I can't speak for all those who voted for Fetterman, but I know that I and my many friends, colleagues and members of my political organizations voted for him because we believed in what he was saying and saw his record of doing caring things, NOT because of they way he dressed. Liberal thinking people usually don't care about material ways of being, just how they think. IDK whether Fetterman was lying back then, his stroke messed with his brain, or felon47 threatened him and/or offered him money to become a DINO. Are we angry that he betrayed us - yes!
I loved seeing Sheldon Whitehouse in his half-zip fleece with a suit jacket on top speaking in the well of the Senate. Fetterman's refusal to do more than vote from the doorway because he can't be arsed to put on a jacket means he's not doing the business of the people of Pennsylvania. Which, honestly, is probably for the good of the people of Pennsylvania.
Even Tammy Duckworth's infant put on a jacket. Are you really more delicate than a literal baby, John-John?
It is a sad truth that people with brain damage (he had a big stroke during his campaign) frequently have personality changes. They are just not the same person any more. They lose information processing capacity which makes simplistic rethuglican thinking enticing and all they are really capable of. I’ve said for years that I’d like to see a Functional MRI study of 1000 MAGAts’ brains matched by 1000 center-left controls. I’m betting there is significant brain damage on the right. (I’d kill to see Orange Imbecile’s MRI.)
And remember when he flew to see the felon in Florida? He came back a different person… between the stroke and Trump buying him off…and to think I donated to him. Damn it. I turned the Tshirt into a dishrag.
That explains a lot. No, seriously, I wonder sometimes about the cognitive dissonance when smart people look at Trump and think, "this is a smart leader".
Thank you for this. It makes me feel a little better about my early support of him. Cuz now he’s just a douche. 🤬😡
He had a stroke in 2022 and it turned him into a Republican. That's no lie
lie.
For sure, check Fetterman’s bank accounts. 💰💵💸
Is there a place to check this or are you just speculating? Honestly, I think the speculation about being affected by his stroke is more believable.
It actually was really startling. Right after he came back from the stroke he was a different man. I've seen this before. The brain is a mysterious organ.
Agree
I’ll never understand Fettermanchin. Susan, do you really think he got paid off? Who would pay him?
I checked his net worth. It isn’t that high. Many middle class families are in the same bracket. As a nurse, I really think the stroke is the cause of personality change. 👹
I agree with that too. Even his staff noticed.
You are probably right, Rachel.
I think Trump paid him off during Fettermans visit to Merdo-Lago.
With what though? As people above said, he's not all that wealthy. What else is there he could have promised him? Do you think he has some really bad dirt like he has on Lindsey?
pure speculation… why would Trump invite him down there… either threaten him or pay him off or??? Aren’t there ways to hide money? Maybe I’m wrong… and I do think the stroke was a factor. 🤷♀️
Ha ha! That sounds likely. But as Rachel C says, Fetterman’s net worth isn’t that high. Maybe it was a secret cash payment, like in Breaking Bad.
Money can be hidden … or maybe I’ve been watching too much tv!!😂
John Fucking Fetterman. His permanent name in my head now. Thanks. Although Dickbrain McHoodie is so good I’ll be laughing at it all day! I would climb on a stepstool any day to punch him in the neck! 🤬😡🤬😡🤬💔🇺🇸
Didn't change his sense of fashion .
Lol! I’ll help you! 😂
Trump’s diagnoses are top secret classified.
Not really. He parades them in front of cameras for us every day. We can see them in real time.
Right - but they are pretty apparent!!
We are a far, far better nation than our faux, deluded, hate-filled president and his cultist fans portray to America and the world.
In our own best interests and the interests of a freer world, we've spent 80+ years promoting a "Melting Pot" vision of equal governance across the globe. Democratic governance based on the simple concept that its key role is supporting the well-being of all citizens, not just the wealthy, white connected citizens.
Our mission in the months and years ahead is to restore this visionary gift to America and the world. The worldwide conservative Right, scoffs at these ideals. They admire the fascist
Ideal that "Might makes Right", aka "realpolitik".
Our ongoing battle is to rekindle our vision among the vast majority of Americans that a free and equal America is the real America. We are not a country of hate. We not a police state protecting the corruption of the powerful.
Embrace this battle with pride. Relish it. We've been fighting it for 250 years. We'll keep fighting it. We'll win again.
Someone wrote that the most important battle of this century was The Battle of Minneapolis, fought and won by ordinary ppl with cell phones and whistles who sent federal agents packing.
This is why the Republican congress is desperately trying to pass the restrictive voting SAVE ACT, which they hope will assure a permanent Republican hegemony. They can't get it through the Senate but the Republicans plan to hold an extended debate on the bill for a week or more, an effort to try and appease Trump and make Democrats defend their position. Call or email you senators to vote NO on SAVE ACT.
Trump says he'll never endorse any Republican who voted against it.
Good enough reason for me.
every time the SAVE Act comes up, I'm reminded that Republicans win married white women.
& those married white women don't have the paperwork the SAVE Act would require to vote.
Meanwhile, we women on the left who are single or never changed our names because of work, etc are fine.
bwahaha!
I know a lot of white women who are married and they have passports. Its young people, especially young men of color who only have a driver's license, which is not enough for the SAVE act.
They are still there!
You mean ICE? The reporting has vanished, supplanted by Iran etc.
It is so sad that Diaperload Donny is in the Oval Office because slightly more than 22% of the whole population put him there. We have a lot of work to do this year and in 2028!
Yet, since his first day in office his approval is still 40% +- 3%. The same 4 out of 10 idiots think he's just great. Who the fuck are these people?!?
The viewers/propagandized of Faux Snooze.
I lived France when I was a student and they had a pretty cynical view of what the US really was, and Trump ripped off the cover and proved them right. We let this happen. We have to improve education everywhere so far right wing propaganda cannot take hold. And stop billionaires from monopolizing our media.
How? I feel like I'm standing on the shore with tidal waves of propaganda assaulting me every day.
Break up media monopolies, for a start. Have strict standards regarding advertising, media ownership concentration, equal time, etc. Make it illegal to advertise prescription drugs directly to consumers again. Same with sports betting, polymarkets, "social casinos," and every other griftery thing that's currently polluting our discourse.
Bring supplements under the regulation of the FDA, no matter how sad it makes podcast bros, wellness influencers, and the state of Utah.
Health claims made by products or services for sale must follow strict standards and be factual, scientifically-based, and not harmful. Public health is part of the Constitution, and fuck the MAHA crowd who wants to make a buck off fear.
Bring back real civics education and start teaching media literacy, and start having real standards for the basics. Treat teaching as a profession, compensate it and support it fairly, support schools adequately, stop expecting teachers to solve social problems and let them focus on teaching (if social support is needed, provide appropriate professionals, but stop expecting teachers to do it without pay or training or support). Train teachers well and let them teach. Stop measuring teacher and student success by standardized testing and college acceptance rates. Get religion out of schools. Stop allowing parents to homeschool their children without any kind of oversight (or at all).
Vastly, vastly expand the House of Representatives. People focus on the Senate being unrepresentative. It's supposed to be that way. The real issue is that the House hasn't expanded in size since the very early 20th century, despite the addition of multiple states and huge population growth and shifts. So you get distortions in the numbers of constituents per House seat in Wyoming vs. California because you only have 435 to work with no matter how many people there are and every state gets at least one. This will also unfuck the Electoral College and make it more representative, and will prevent the Republicans from getting control of the government for generations.
Statehood for DC.
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A convicted five timey draft dodger
Tries to prove that he's not an old codger
"I'll bomb ol' Iran
Without any plan
And hoist own damn Jolly Roger!"
"But why do my MAGATTS desert me?
Oh man oh poor me oh they hurt me!
My mama don't love me
My daddy he shoved me
Where's a casino? God help me!"
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The orange slime
Uses his time
To golf and lie
While people die
All on our dime
So very true and so well written....
‘five timey’ ? You’re grasping now
Thanks for the laugh. That's funny.
Well, Ole, when it comes to rhymes ya gotta bend the words sometimes.
Wonderful...👏👏👏👏
Yikes! But also, I’m beginning to sense the end is near. A change is gonna come. The baffling mirror version of Sporkie has to be one of the signs.
Good song! (A change is gonna come!)
Say what you will, but if someone who was so invested in MAGA can turn around and admit that, "you know the more I see Trump, the more I realize what a phony liar he is," I have to have a grudging respect for because she is going against all the people who supported her and probably friends and family. That takes guts.
Meanwhile she accrued a lot of money when on the team and privvy to trade secrets.
But Sporkie wasn’t mentioned in the Bible along with peace in the Mideast, wars and rumors of wars, locusts, etc. What say you?
Look harder. Revelations, Jeremiah… she’s in there. ,
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Thank you Jeff.
An important reminder for understanding the war mongering criminal elect pedophile's key tell. If his mouth is moving and sounds are coming out -he's lying.
He is a liar. It defines him.
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During these divisive, chaotic times, I just want to remind everyone that this administration WILL crash and burn, bringing to mind that old adage: This Too Shall Pass.
“Love is the answer, and you know that for sure” - John Lennon
Happy belated birthday, Jeff.
I got as far as the video with him and Mike johnson...this one was dead, that one was dead, we have another terminal one who comes to work every day (tell his story Mike. Should we name him?) and he LAUGHS and smiles at Susie Wiles who had just announced she had breast cancer (I wish cancer on NO ONE! Half my family has died from cancer, or has it now) but she has great insurance, great doctors and every chance to survive it...unlike the millions.of people who have or will get it and don't have any chance because of what this scum bag has done) THE ONLY ONE WHO HASN'T DIED IS YOU, DONNIE...and I'm running out of patience you malevolent fuckwit!!! Make it snappy
Be back when I finish.
Robin, this is excellent!! Make it snappy!! 😆
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So Donny is now yukking it up about a GOP congressman about to die. I'm beginning to think that maybe he doesn't understand how any of this works.
But the most *egregious* thing that's happening RIGHT NOW, is Marge careening around gratuitously *making sense*! Dafuk?!?! I'm becoming a little afraid that a mishap at CERN tore a hole in reality and some low-probability shit is leaking into it.
A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me a thing--meme?--that goes: "Maybe we all died from covid and now we're all in hell." It tracks.
Saw something like that. Where is Rod Serling now that we need him.
Casually holding a cigarette: "Consider a world...."
Mebbe CERN uncovered the Godawful Particle, where an insane, feces-flinging screech monkey makes sense. Temporarily, that is. The FITS (Formerly insane, temporarily sane) boson.
As my bracelet and necklace say in Morse code: " Fuck Trump". I wear them with great pride.
I have flip flops that will print that in the sand when walking on the beach.
Send a photo if you can.
“Marco Rubio and the various people who are doing that will be announcing— and we do— I have to tell you, we have some that are really enthusiastic coming already, they’ve already started to”
He then continued, “actually they are already there, they begged to be there, and now the strait is open, the oil is on its way. It’s been refined into gas already, nobody wants to report that, it’s in your gas tanks right now while you were asking these dumb questions. Maybe just say thank you”
Rubio was actually face down after tripping in his too-big shoes.
That extended clip of Donnie and Holy Mike yukking it up over a GOP congressman’s terminal diagnosis is just ghoulish.
Only the best people, amirite?
You missed the rest of the clip. Trump got the congressman into Walter Reed and now he's fully recovered or something. My takeaway was two guys yucking it up over how awesome it is to have the right connections.
Yeah Limp dick Mike yucking it up about people dying but then always stating how Christian he is.WTF? 😡
My favorite thing this week (and there's stiff competition) is Trump insisting that a mysterious unnamed former president called him up to say he wished HE had bombed Iran. Very normal phone call.
"Hello, Sir, great job starting a war, really wish I'd done that."
Trouble is that all four living former presidents' offices immediately said nope, wasn't us.
Bush's people: nope. We invaded two countries and that was enough. Clinton's people: nope, we had our fun in Bosnia. Obama's people: nope. We used drones. Biden's people: nope. We were too busy cleaning the shit out of the Capitol from the Jan 6 crowd.
So we're left with some good guesses providing that we can bridge the gap of these guys being dead.
HW Bush was a hard no. One Bush speaks for all Bushes.
1. Jimmy Carter. Dude had a big grudge since 1979. Remember the hostages?
2. Reagan. He totally would have gone into Iran if Nancy's astrologer told him to.
3. Nixon. He would recommend this shit because bombing Cambodia was such a huge success.
4. LBJ. Fuck yeah. Vietnam was also a huge success.
5. JFK. No wait, he't the one talking about Cuba. Never mind.
6. Ike. WW2 taught him notning.
Of course we know none of this is true. He was talking about Trump 45, everyone's favorite three-term president. Miller had an intern make a Sora video of 2017 Trump sending him a message from the past and then put it on the TV with a Fox chyron under it.
The "President Newsum" comment is a bit harder to decipher. Maybe there's a future one too?
He didn’t say which country they presidented.
I think it was Netanyahu.
Former. I wish.
it’s not you. Fetterman’s stroke has altered his personality. Greene is still horrible, just a little less so, my guess is she’s worried about her eternal soul.
my prediction is that Sporky will eventually pull a Michael Cohen and go back to being MAGA. it's a more profitable grift
In with ya on this. But the enemy of my enemy—who still sucks donkey—is doing the heavy lifting that the hour demands.
Where do you get the idea that Cohen has gone MAGA? He just had a substack this morning spelling out why Hegseth is *literally* guilty of war crimes.
Yes, I read him fairly often and read the piece you mention. Doesn't sound MAGA to me.
Not all Maga is stupid, Daniel. Cohen's insight had value for me, despite what rubbed me the wrong way, because he actually does know how a lot of that works. But, I'm not ignoring red flags any longer when actions are inconsistent with claims. It's not only him, I am questioning everyone's branding now. Felon47, himself, somehow convinced too many of a Populist platform. Everyone can see how the wind is blowing & we have to scrutinize those claiming to stand for the people very carefully, IMO.
She’s not some miracle of enlightenment.
In my book, want forgiveness and a second chance? Make apologies and reparations. She owes heartfelt apologies to David Hogg, OAC, Hunter Biden, Jeremy Raskin, and so many others. Sniping at them what brought you to the dance (Trump, QAnon, MAGA, etc.) ain't contrition. She's just running for dwindling relevance.
good call re: Sporky like Cohen. It's not that Maga has nuanced or changing standards, they demonstrably HAVE NO standards. I hate learning this over & over & over again. it used to be we could believe we all wanted basically the same thing & just had different ideas of how to get there. that was a mistake, these parasites want what they want at the expense of the rest of us. they are dysfunctional predators that have to be controlled.
Honestly, I think Greene is just looking for attention and a lucrative grift.
Don't care. I assume a lot of people are like that. If she is a turn coat from Trump it still means the tide is turning.