Hi Jeff, glad to know that you share a birthday with my late father. He was born in 1921, in NYC, served his country in the Navy in WWII, and was a lifelong Rooseveltian Democrat
I personally am stunned by this development--so unexpected, so shocking. Yessiree. Surprised. Caught off guard. Never thought it could possibly happen.
How to tell if it's one of Trump's shit shows: Nobody attends, except for the red hats, nobody cares, except for the red hats, nobody smiles, except for the red hats, nobody talks about it, except for the red hats, or to make fun of it.
Three rulings in one week. All 6-3. The Supreme Court spent the back half of June handing the administration a deportation machine — and did it on the shadow docket, no argument, no briefing, just the quiet thunk of doors closing on people who did everything this country asked. Damn near 350,000 Haitians and Syrians stripped of protected status with a paragraph. This is not the law catching up to a crisis. It's the law bent into a crowbar.
Funny story - SCOTUS’ WHOLE DEAL was being / or appearing as ‘non-partisan’ as possible (I actually read Woodward’s ‘The Brethren’ back in the day) - how ‘quaint’. I don’t think ppl really know how completely bankrupt it is to constantly refer to the 6 ma ga justices… it’s so blatant. Much like R Congresscritters 100% voting in lockstep and not with their actual constituents in mind. Ever. Ah well
The U.S. run by a shadow docket and by spectacularly unqualified dim bulb podcasters and failed Fox Not News rejects overseen by an incoherent mentally declining malignant narcissist…
What could go wrong and what’s not to like…as we used to say in grade school—
“Duck and Cover” and I guess I should add “Pray for the best” — again, I am not religious but at this point I’m up to trying just about anything.
Also, I was not in the military and never had an inkling to be (I’m just not the fighting kind of guy…I refused to even play wrestle as a kid). That being said, I feel a great sense of gratitude for our soldiers who fought and died or who were maimed both physically and mentally so that the rest of us could live our lives in peace and freedom without the fear of being unlawfully arrested and hauled off to a concentration camp to be tortured and murdered which may have happened if Germany and Japan had won the war.
We owe everything to our soldiers and it breaks my heart that trump and his loonies are being allowed to throw it all away in a matter of months. None of us thought that our democracy could be dismantled so quickly. We owe it to all Americans but especially to our soldiers, past and present to destroy this abomination of a regime before it destroys us.
Well, the conservative republicans have seemingly had all their hearts desires come true; except for eliminating Social Security and Medicare (they’re working on those) and now, with our country about to collapse from the inside, I wonder if they still think that their “know best” crackpot ideas were all that wonderful.
No they will never learn. They still think Nixon was a stand up guy. As their Florida beach front home is swallowed up from the rising oceans caused by climate change that they refused to acknowledge you will hear the faint whispers from them as they struggle to keep their heads above water “But her emails” and “Hunter’s laptop caused all this” and “if it weren’t for Obama’s tan suit” and “see, it was the immigrants that ruined us”.
They will never admit being wrong. It will always be “If we just invaded more countries”, “If we just deported more people”, If we just hired more cops (ICE)”, If we just built more prisons and concentration camps” — we could be sitting in clover
You do not fix a “bad from the start”ideological system. You go with something else — you go with a system that works for everyone not just a select few (I’m talking to you oligarchs). Their solution is bribes, coercion and forced labor. They are very Neanderthal in that sense. They are very clever when it comes to scamming others — they just never got the tps cover sheet for the report on secondary consequences. Those secondary consequences are coming for them — check out the French Revolution. It didn’t work out too well for them.
When you tell people that there’s an American dream they can have and you trick them into working for you for an inadequate amount of money to the point where they can barely survive all so you can amass billions “just cause you can” eventually the shit hits the fan. You can misdirect them for a while by pointing your finger at the immigrants and the democrats and the muslims and the poor etc.; but eventually secondary consequences from your immoral acts start to raise their ugly heads and misdirection gets exposed for what it is and it will be your turn to pay the piper and you won’t like it and those people you’ve been abusing and deceiving will be coming up to you and saying “Hey you, oligarch fella — I got somethin’ for you”. “It’s called a cock punch—and I know what you’re thinkin’…but it’s not that. It’s really fun! You’re really gonna like it!”
And it will come to you when you least expect it; although, you could have and should have expected it all along…as a secondary consequence.
You do not fix an inherently bad system by adding patches to it. Remember “Windows” — Microsoft patched the hell out of that baby instead of re-writing that piece of crap.
Another place patches are added instead finding the source of the problem is illnesses. Big pharma waddles to the bank on repeat business. They are not interested in cures because that cuts into their repeat business. Why cure a patient when you can give them a patch (treatment) that lessens their problem instead of curing it; and, if there’s a bad side effect for your patch that’s all the better because now you can sell them a patch to treat their patch and then maybe that patch will require another patch $$$. These people aren’t stupid — they’re just evil.
The oligarchs system is bad because they are the only ones allowed to flourish and prosper. A way you can tell that their system is bad is by examining all their patches. They are all punitive: more cops, more prisons, more deportations, more concentration camps. Why are these the patches they are using? — to scare and keep in line the people they are abusing.
Does the thought never occur to them
that maybe if they were interested in the survival of others they wouldn’t need all this suppression? No it does not because they are not nice people. They see themselves as a hammer and everyone else as a nail…and nails are meant for pounding. Can these hammers be rehabilitated? Perhaps; but, at the very least, they should be locked up and kept away from the rest of us. We can put them into a disciplined re- education program that teaches them what it is to be a decent human being. If we did that we could probably get rid of most of the other prisons because they wouldn’t be needed now that the oppression was lifted. And the prisons could be used to house the homeless and give them training in occupations they are interested in.
Could this happen? It could. Will it happen? Probably not. The odds are against it. But it’s a nice thought.
Survival of the most dominant trickster is the way it is and the way it has always been. Why does that have to continue?
It doesn’t.
These terror systems of government always fail in the end because their seeds of destruction are planted in their beginnings and eventually grow to destroy them. Secondary consequences.
I like good secondary consequences Donnie T — not bad ones…oh, you’re not listening…sir, I am shocked! Shocked I say!
Not sure why TPS removed for 6,000 Syrians, but I guess the 350,000 Haitians had the audacity to actually assimilate in this country, get jobs, raise families, & educate their children all while their battered homeland continued to suffer the poverty, gang violence and political instability that they had been able to flee, and then even managed to send a team to the World cup. How dare they.
I am so glad that the Haitian refugee sponsored by friends of mine, and his family, who they got into the U.S. later, were able to resettle in Montreal after Trump was reelected. His employer here in the U.S. was so sad to see him leave.
Iran's Fars News revealed that the drumpf regime privately told the Iranian government to ignore his tweets, as they are for the consumption of his followers and do not constitute actual negotiations or official stance on issues. See the limerick above
Blatant, and done repeatedly just to highlight how brazen he can be with complete immunity from any future investigations. We will never know the names of all the insiders and donors who profited from these tweets during an ongoing war. This fucking corrupt system of and for the benefit of the wealthy!
I don't believe so. I stopped getting the paper a few years ago but I never hear anything on local TV. Our lawmakers don't care about women dying from the abortion ban. Just as lawmakers delight in our failing public schools so they can continue to justify the voucher scam they passed last year--It's going to cost the state billions over the next few years while public school funding is years behind. We MUST get these a-holes out of office!
Here's the open message I'm posting everywhere and sending to my Senators and Representative and office holders at all levels: "Trump is stealing from us. If you are on his side you are working for him, not us."
But..he's got a very high IQ. Higher than any IQ ever! And he identified the cow and the camel! And he's a great negotiator. The greatest negotiator ever! No negotiator has ever negotiated as greatly as he has!!
and markets are still responding to 'attack on Friday after market close, announce great new deal in time for opening Tuesday' but they have to know... Is it because so many people are basically vibe trading?
If MAGA can't get off their fat asses to attend a fair, what are the chances they'll vote this fall? The public wanking was the most entertaining thing there, and the average neighborhood street fair has better organized food.
And I heard you lived at the end of a BIGLY driveway the likes of which has never been seen before with no neighbors at either side of you or in front of you. YUGE PARTY🥳🥳
Another day, another pile. As a person born and raised in Washington DC, the DC metro area is resolutely blue. The only people who would ever attend this fair are out of town tourists.
It occurred to me that only someone who had never attended an actual state fair would have come up with the idea of a national state fair. I mean, the operative word is “state”.
I lived in D.C. most of the years from 1969 to 1985, when it was still Chocolate City. In presidential elections, D.C. reliably turned out +80% for the Democratic nominee. Being a native of Massachusetts (who's been back here since 1985), I was proud that MA usually had the second-highest Dem percentage. (Still have a T-shirt from the 1976 Festival of American Folklife.)
FYI, I grew up in nearby Annapolis. We all tended to regard people who said "Chocolate City," or "Chocolate" prefixing anything to do with Black people, as pretty racist. Not accusing you, just giving you a friendly warning.
DC tourism--that kind of died with the high price of gasoline and airline tickets and soldiers/ICE surrounding the museums and monuments. Also, these days, those from other countries are avoiding U.S. tourism as well.
Even the 1,500 J6 criminals granted pardons by Trump couldn't be bothered to attend his DOA Birthday Jerkoff Jubilee. It's transactional, even for MAGA.
Jeff wrote: "imagine that a President Kamala Harris had handed America’s 250th birthday celebrations over to a corrupt cabal of cronies, and that she was getting a taste of the action."
And I think every Republican voter understands the double standard. It's become a game to them. As long as Republicans win and Democrats lose, everything is fine. Our country could be a pile of rubble, but many would celebrate the fact that -- at least -- Republicans have control of the government. I hope that's changing in time for the November election.
Freedom 250 turning into melted ice cream, dead booths, broken rides, canceled acts, and one extremely confused Uncle Sam is almost too perfect. Trump tried to hijack America’s birthday and turn it into a merch table for his ego, but the country RSVP’d “new phone, who dis?” Patriotism cannot be grifted into existence. You can slap flags on a dumpster fire, but eventually people notice the smell.
It makes me sad because I remember the bicentennial, and how patriotic it made me feel at age 19. This year we had a chance to try to revive some good feelings about the country, thinking about our history, how far we have come, but nope.
I love how the booths for states that chose not to participate in the shit show have just a couple of lounge chairs and a table and lamp in them. How ridiculous.
And it seems that one of the former Confederate states (possibly NC?) celebrated the recent triumph of racism brought to us by the Extreme Court by flying a Confederate flag at the oxymoronic state national fair.
I’ll just say I moved to the not-a-city part of NC four years ago. I’m very much looking forward to leaving it. Though I did enjoy Durham in the five months we lived there last year (thank you, Duke University Hospital for hubby’s double lung transplant!).
Not even rides. Ride. One lonely Ferris Wheel. Not even a cool carosel with antique horses. Nope. Just one Ferris Wheel and a sad wood and canvas mock uo of the Triumphal Arch. Although we haven't triumphed since WW2.
I went to a NYC private school that was part of the same independent secondary school association that NYMA was, and even 50+ years ago everyone knew that was a place where parents with money sent bad seeds to try to straighten them out.
Tell us more . I am interested specifically in athletics and Trump's inability to create a lasting memory that any former classmates ever commented about .
Biden's team mates cited several highlight's of Joe's high school football contributions .
The only thing I ever heard or saw anyone remark about Donny was he had a different girlfriend every weekend. I mean "girlfriend experince.". How pathetic is it that your Dad has to buy you "girlfriends* every weekend because you can't get one for real. Playboys are really just sad men who can't get dates so they have to buy them. Nothing to admire there.
Sorry for the very late response - he'd have been there before my time but I have no doubt his contributions in athletics were comparable to his contributions in everything else in life, taking what exists and wrecking it.
To add to the story, the school I attended was also the alma mater of William Barr (before my time but sufficiently close in time that I have a yearbook from when I was in 7th and he was a senior and the his entry pretty much predicts the remainder of his career) and the execrable reptile and Shitler's mentor Roy Cohn. Maybe I should've gone to Bronx Science......
I'm trying hard not to wish for this, especially now I've come to believe that a hypothetical President Vance will get blown out of the water in the 2028 general election. ("Craptastic" is a most useful word!)
It will be interesting to see how Trump fans react when the water in the pool turns to blood during his next rally. Then comes the pestilence, the blight, the locusts flying out of his mouth. He really needs to up his game as an entertainer. Talk about losing a step.
Donnie also stole money from the National Park Service which forced layoffs of employees and deferred maintenance at our National Parks. That was our taxpayer money. He has the stickiest fingers. Freedom 250 my ass. Everything is a marketing gimmick. Always in used car salesman mode. Today we're at war again. Just go away permanently and take your family, cronies and crackpots you installed into our government with you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Grrrr!
Ew…ew…ew…. gross and incompetent handling of the 250th for America. WTF?! Anyway…besides the beautiful Claudia photos…I also love your closing remarks…today: “don’t take your dick out of the National Mall….” Sick freak is right! Have a nice Sunday everyone!
The incompetence was a byproduct, albeit a predictable one, of his grabbiness and grifting. He usurped what was a genuinely patriotic, non-partisan celebration in order to aggrandize himself and award non-bid taxpayer money to his cronies. He probably is getting kickbacks, too. Everyone should be incensed at this waste and defilement of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, where most ironically, the Founders threw off the mantle of oppression by a dictator.
I'm incensed. I have been since 1985 when he was splashed across the tabloid pages with his flashy lifestyle. Everything is with OPM- other peoples money.
The Bald Eagle attacking the orange sadist is the best part! That should be shown on Jumbotron screen -- better yet, Jumbotron screens at the "four directions" -- along with the Uncle Sam imitator masturbating in front of a group of women performers.
While this is ironic, and yeah, kinda funny--I'm also really sad and bummed out by this.
Don't get me wrong, I relish Trump's failures, but yet I'm so sad that EVEN THIS WONDERFUL anniversary is tarnished by the orange one!
I'm old enough to remember 1976 and how COOL and FUN it was to be a young person for the celebrations. 😟
Yet another thing Trump has destroyed.
I suggest everyone look up Heather Cox Richardson's "250 to 250" series she has been releasing. Ten videos of America per week, each about a minute or so long. I am grateful for them.
About Trump's photo - the caption says he's 20, but there's no way he would have been in a military uniform at 20. That was a military HIGH SCHOOL, and the date of the yearbook puts him at 17 or 18. After graduation, he got Daddy to get him all those deferments.
Yes! At 20, he was a junior at Penn in the Wharton School, being "the dumbest student" one professor ever had. Shows how demented he is that he couldn't even get his own age right.
I can't help laughing at DonnieFelon's failure. At 80, I was around for the Bicentennial, when relief from Tricky Dick and Vietnam was beginning. Now? We're screwed!
And how could it be nothing but poorly attended? The kinds of people who would go to an event held by this creature are the same ones deathly afraid of cities. If he had this crappy event over in Branson it'd maybe do better numbers.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
things are going swimmingly with Donny's peace deal:
"Iran attacks US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait as strikes strain fragile truce
US President Donald Trump warns Iran 'will no longer exist' if strikes continue, while Tehran threatens to halt negotiations."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/world/live-news/iran-war-strikes-trump?post-id
no one could have predicted this
Rick Wilson wrote in 2018, “Everything Trump Touches Dies.”
🎯🎯🎯🎯👏🏼👏🏼
I know right? I did nazi this coming.
Ba dum tsss!!
Sarcasm detected. The Gods love you Jeff.
No one except everyone with a functioning brain.
Haha, meaning only non-MAGAs
Hi Jeff, glad to know that you share a birthday with my late father. He was born in 1921, in NYC, served his country in the Navy in WWII, and was a lifelong Rooseveltian Democrat
WWII veterans are the OG Antifa
I personally am stunned by this development--so unexpected, so shocking. Yessiree. Surprised. Caught off guard. Never thought it could possibly happen.
How to tell if it's one of Trump's shit shows: Nobody attends, except for the red hats, nobody cares, except for the red hats, nobody smiles, except for the red hats, nobody talks about it, except for the red hats, or to make fun of it.
Except my magic 8 ball.
Taco Everyday
good one
No one but everyone!
NEVER‼️ Color me shocked 🤡
If by no one, you mean everyone.
jeff, Its so fucktastic, that I couldnt even write about it.
I focused on SCOTUS being a bunch of sycophantic ass suckers.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-lid-lung-donald-trump
Three rulings in one week. All 6-3. The Supreme Court spent the back half of June handing the administration a deportation machine — and did it on the shadow docket, no argument, no briefing, just the quiet thunk of doors closing on people who did everything this country asked. Damn near 350,000 Haitians and Syrians stripped of protected status with a paragraph. This is not the law catching up to a crisis. It's the law bent into a crowbar.
Supreme Court….well…except for 3 of them….not so supreme, more like sickening. UGH.
Those six injustices are turds
Their rulings are ridiculous words
Roberts, Alito and Thomas
Have fulfilled drumpf's promise
Of enabling the racist herds
Need an asterisk for Leo/McConnell somewhere Doc :/
Funny story - SCOTUS’ WHOLE DEAL was being / or appearing as ‘non-partisan’ as possible (I actually read Woodward’s ‘The Brethren’ back in the day) - how ‘quaint’. I don’t think ppl really know how completely bankrupt it is to constantly refer to the 6 ma ga justices… it’s so blatant. Much like R Congresscritters 100% voting in lockstep and not with their actual constituents in mind. Ever. Ah well
They aren’t ruling on laws; they are writing new laws
Supreme Caught ~ is more like it ::
Yes but Alito is so charming, yesterday want to give him a hug, so lovable.
The second SCOTUS reform (after adding judges) is to get rid of ghe shadow docket.
The U.S. run by a shadow docket and by spectacularly unqualified dim bulb podcasters and failed Fox Not News rejects overseen by an incoherent mentally declining malignant narcissist…
What could go wrong and what’s not to like…as we used to say in grade school—
“Duck and Cover” and I guess I should add “Pray for the best” — again, I am not religious but at this point I’m up to trying just about anything.
Also, I was not in the military and never had an inkling to be (I’m just not the fighting kind of guy…I refused to even play wrestle as a kid). That being said, I feel a great sense of gratitude for our soldiers who fought and died or who were maimed both physically and mentally so that the rest of us could live our lives in peace and freedom without the fear of being unlawfully arrested and hauled off to a concentration camp to be tortured and murdered which may have happened if Germany and Japan had won the war.
We owe everything to our soldiers and it breaks my heart that trump and his loonies are being allowed to throw it all away in a matter of months. None of us thought that our democracy could be dismantled so quickly. We owe it to all Americans but especially to our soldiers, past and present to destroy this abomination of a regime before it destroys us.
Well, the conservative republicans have seemingly had all their hearts desires come true; except for eliminating Social Security and Medicare (they’re working on those) and now, with our country about to collapse from the inside, I wonder if they still think that their “know best” crackpot ideas were all that wonderful.
No they will never learn. They still think Nixon was a stand up guy. As their Florida beach front home is swallowed up from the rising oceans caused by climate change that they refused to acknowledge you will hear the faint whispers from them as they struggle to keep their heads above water “But her emails” and “Hunter’s laptop caused all this” and “if it weren’t for Obama’s tan suit” and “see, it was the immigrants that ruined us”.
They will never admit being wrong. It will always be “If we just invaded more countries”, “If we just deported more people”, If we just hired more cops (ICE)”, If we just built more prisons and concentration camps” — we could be sitting in clover
You do not fix a “bad from the start”ideological system. You go with something else — you go with a system that works for everyone not just a select few (I’m talking to you oligarchs). Their solution is bribes, coercion and forced labor. They are very Neanderthal in that sense. They are very clever when it comes to scamming others — they just never got the tps cover sheet for the report on secondary consequences. Those secondary consequences are coming for them — check out the French Revolution. It didn’t work out too well for them.
When you tell people that there’s an American dream they can have and you trick them into working for you for an inadequate amount of money to the point where they can barely survive all so you can amass billions “just cause you can” eventually the shit hits the fan. You can misdirect them for a while by pointing your finger at the immigrants and the democrats and the muslims and the poor etc.; but eventually secondary consequences from your immoral acts start to raise their ugly heads and misdirection gets exposed for what it is and it will be your turn to pay the piper and you won’t like it and those people you’ve been abusing and deceiving will be coming up to you and saying “Hey you, oligarch fella — I got somethin’ for you”. “It’s called a cock punch—and I know what you’re thinkin’…but it’s not that. It’s really fun! You’re really gonna like it!”
And it will come to you when you least expect it; although, you could have and should have expected it all along…as a secondary consequence.
You do not fix an inherently bad system by adding patches to it. Remember “Windows” — Microsoft patched the hell out of that baby instead of re-writing that piece of crap.
Another place patches are added instead finding the source of the problem is illnesses. Big pharma waddles to the bank on repeat business. They are not interested in cures because that cuts into their repeat business. Why cure a patient when you can give them a patch (treatment) that lessens their problem instead of curing it; and, if there’s a bad side effect for your patch that’s all the better because now you can sell them a patch to treat their patch and then maybe that patch will require another patch $$$. These people aren’t stupid — they’re just evil.
The oligarchs system is bad because they are the only ones allowed to flourish and prosper. A way you can tell that their system is bad is by examining all their patches. They are all punitive: more cops, more prisons, more deportations, more concentration camps. Why are these the patches they are using? — to scare and keep in line the people they are abusing.
Does the thought never occur to them
that maybe if they were interested in the survival of others they wouldn’t need all this suppression? No it does not because they are not nice people. They see themselves as a hammer and everyone else as a nail…and nails are meant for pounding. Can these hammers be rehabilitated? Perhaps; but, at the very least, they should be locked up and kept away from the rest of us. We can put them into a disciplined re- education program that teaches them what it is to be a decent human being. If we did that we could probably get rid of most of the other prisons because they wouldn’t be needed now that the oppression was lifted. And the prisons could be used to house the homeless and give them training in occupations they are interested in.
Could this happen? It could. Will it happen? Probably not. The odds are against it. But it’s a nice thought.
Survival of the most dominant trickster is the way it is and the way it has always been. Why does that have to continue?
It doesn’t.
These terror systems of government always fail in the end because their seeds of destruction are planted in their beginnings and eventually grow to destroy them. Secondary consequences.
I like good secondary consequences Donnie T — not bad ones…oh, you’re not listening…sir, I am shocked! Shocked I say!
Damn, this is brillant, thought provoking and I gotta find what to call the Word file I'm copying it into. I'm in awe!
I should say Dr. George, just subscribed to your Substack.
Really? Wow. Speechless
Brigitte, stop it. You’re making me blush.
And…thank you! My wife is tired of my rants and I understand. I get tired of myself too. It is nice to know that when im screaming into the abiss
Sorry, Brigitte. My fat thumbs sent my reply instead of doing my self correction. Continuing…
…someone hears me. You’re very kind
u forgot the part about needing cheap eggs
Amen.
No one has ever abused the shadow docket as much as the corrupt 6 on this SC
I truly don’t understand the dragnet thrown on those specific people.
Why them??
Racism and Islamophobia
They're Black.
most vulnerable / easy grab for max effect
Mafia drumpf
Not sure why TPS removed for 6,000 Syrians, but I guess the 350,000 Haitians had the audacity to actually assimilate in this country, get jobs, raise families, & educate their children all while their battered homeland continued to suffer the poverty, gang violence and political instability that they had been able to flee, and then even managed to send a team to the World cup. How dare they.
I am so glad that the Haitian refugee sponsored by friends of mine, and his family, who they got into the U.S. later, were able to resettle in Montreal after Trump was reelected. His employer here in the U.S. was so sad to see him leave.
I feel so badly for the 3 who are trying to uphold the Constitution
Iran's Fars News spilled the tea
What non-MAGA Americans can see
drumpf's blustery tweets
Are cult bullshit treats
To create his own reality
How many times does Donnie think he can threaten (or claim) obliteration before the threat begins to lose its effect?
Iran's Fars News revealed that the drumpf regime privately told the Iranian government to ignore his tweets, as they are for the consumption of his followers and do not constitute actual negotiations or official stance on issues. See the limerick above
Or just playing for the Markets…?
Blatant, and done repeatedly just to highlight how brazen he can be with complete immunity from any future investigations. We will never know the names of all the insiders and donors who profited from these tweets during an ongoing war. This fucking corrupt system of and for the benefit of the wealthy!
Yet lots of ppl seem unbothered… planning vacays, same old same old - it’s surreal
I think it already has lost its effect.
We do not have bombs to take out Iran!!!
And they know that. They also know trump is just a big bloviating buffoon.
The boy/man child who cried wolf?
Or the troll under the bridge.
Forever--His idiot sheep will believe him until the end of time.
KP, do any newspapers in Texas report about how abortion bans are causing girls and women to die?
I don't believe so. I stopped getting the paper a few years ago but I never hear anything on local TV. Our lawmakers don't care about women dying from the abortion ban. Just as lawmakers delight in our failing public schools so they can continue to justify the voucher scam they passed last year--It's going to cost the state billions over the next few years while public school funding is years behind. We MUST get these a-holes out of office!
Only independent outlets like the Texas Tribune.
Do many people read the Texas Tribune?
I believe that happened long ago. Paper tiger & Iran knows it
The effect is already lost.
TACO EVERYDAY
The only thing Donny is good at is stealing. And even that is a joke. His family only gets away with it if we let them. See Magyar and Orban.
Quote of the week: “The American Spirit is ALIVE and WELL… in Albania.”😖
So good!
Here's the open message I'm posting everywhere and sending to my Senators and Representative and office holders at all levels: "Trump is stealing from us. If you are on his side you are working for him, not us."
I think the press has forgotten what "truce" means. If everybody is shooting at each other you don't have a truce.
America sent its best to negotiate. 2 real estate developers.
Just another daily clusterfuck engineered by the worst fucking President in American history by professional Presidential scholars again this year!!!
But..he's got a very high IQ. Higher than any IQ ever! And he identified the cow and the camel! And he's a great negotiator. The greatest negotiator ever! No negotiator has ever negotiated as greatly as he has!!
He managed to be both Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in the same negotiation! It was like nothing that anybody's ever seen before!
I cannot believe that the squeaky tank event was only a year ago. It feels like 10 years. Time is moving way too slowly.
And time... can do... so much... are you... still mine?
Well that's different...🙄
And magically, later today, there'll be a tentative "peace deal" for the markets.
As always. Yawn.
Cha-ching. Sigh
The Straits of Schrödinger will never release us!
I was thinking maybe it’s more like Schrödinger’s War at this point.
The only things going swimmingly are the sailors forced off their burning ships.
"Iran will no longer exist."
Seems I've heard variations of that before🧐
What a giant fuckwad agent orange is😡😡😡😡😡
So what’s the deal with the REAL America 250 not the “Freedom America” bs?
Has it been canceled or has it all fallen on Heather Cox Richardson’s shoulders?
They were denied permits for the events they attempted to organize.
Really?!
Yep.
and markets are still responding to 'attack on Friday after market close, announce great new deal in time for opening Tuesday' but they have to know... Is it because so many people are basically vibe trading?
Oh, joyful thanks for the Daily Mail link, which shares so many delightful images and vignettes.
If MAGA can't get off their fat asses to attend a fair, what are the chances they'll vote this fall? The public wanking was the most entertaining thing there, and the average neighborhood street fair has better organized food.
Our block party two years ago had more people. Just saying.
The line to the portable toilets at the air show had way more attention!
And I heard you lived at the end of a BIGLY driveway the likes of which has never been seen before with no neighbors at either side of you or in front of you. YUGE PARTY🥳🥳
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Another day, another pile. As a person born and raised in Washington DC, the DC metro area is resolutely blue. The only people who would ever attend this fair are out of town tourists.
It occurred to me that only someone who had never attended an actual state fair would have come up with the idea of a national state fair. I mean, the operative word is “state”.
Oxymoron, thy name is MAGA.
I lived in D.C. most of the years from 1969 to 1985, when it was still Chocolate City. In presidential elections, D.C. reliably turned out +80% for the Democratic nominee. Being a native of Massachusetts (who's been back here since 1985), I was proud that MA usually had the second-highest Dem percentage. (Still have a T-shirt from the 1976 Festival of American Folklife.)
FYI, I grew up in nearby Annapolis. We all tended to regard people who said "Chocolate City," or "Chocolate" prefixing anything to do with Black people, as pretty racist. Not accusing you, just giving you a friendly warning.
I picked it up from Black friends and co-workers, so I’m not too worried. IMO white gentrification was and is a bigger problem.
Not just DC, but the Maryland and Virginia suburbs are also very blue.
DC tourism--that kind of died with the high price of gasoline and airline tickets and soldiers/ICE surrounding the museums and monuments. Also, these days, those from other countries are avoiding U.S. tourism as well.
With the price of gas many are choosing to stay home- much cheaper‼️
And many of the MAGA voters probably can't afford a weekend in D.C. to attend the shitfest.
Even the 1,500 J6 criminals granted pardons by Trump couldn't be bothered to attend his DOA Birthday Jerkoff Jubilee. It's transactional, even for MAGA.
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I’ve seen more people at a neighborhood 4th of July parade.
The displays look my 6th grade science fair circa 1967. Did anyone make volcano with baking soda? Which state was that?
“Science” fair.
Another reason for the low turnout.
*snort*
Jeff wrote: "imagine that a President Kamala Harris had handed America’s 250th birthday celebrations over to a corrupt cabal of cronies, and that she was getting a taste of the action."
And I think every Republican voter understands the double standard. It's become a game to them. As long as Republicans win and Democrats lose, everything is fine. Our country could be a pile of rubble, but many would celebrate the fact that -- at least -- Republicans have control of the government. I hope that's changing in time for the November election.
The wanking incident should bring in a few jovial J6 folks.
The disallusion will flow like warm ooze
Apparently the votes are magically cast.
Excellent point.
It's just so typical MAGA that their version of Uncle Sam is a perv
Good one Doc!
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Freedom 250 turning into melted ice cream, dead booths, broken rides, canceled acts, and one extremely confused Uncle Sam is almost too perfect. Trump tried to hijack America’s birthday and turn it into a merch table for his ego, but the country RSVP’d “new phone, who dis?” Patriotism cannot be grifted into existence. You can slap flags on a dumpster fire, but eventually people notice the smell.
It makes me sad because I remember the bicentennial, and how patriotic it made me feel at age 19. This year we had a chance to try to revive some good feelings about the country, thinking about our history, how far we have come, but nope.
Yeah, that is a big nope. :-(
I love how the booths for states that chose not to participate in the shit show have just a couple of lounge chairs and a table and lamp in them. How ridiculous.
And it seems that one of the former Confederate states (possibly NC?) celebrated the recent triumph of racism brought to us by the Extreme Court by flying a Confederate flag at the oxymoronic state national fair.
Yes it was NC, and they removed it after the national attention
I remember when NC was considered "the reasonable, sane Carolina." No more...
I’ll just say I moved to the not-a-city part of NC four years ago. I’m very much looking forward to leaving it. Though I did enjoy Durham in the five months we lived there last year (thank you, Duke University Hospital for hubby’s double lung transplant!).
That’s so infuriating! Should be illegal
Alabama had a bucket of peanuts. And that's from a state that loves the mad king.
Yet another tRump success story!
In MN we call it ‘MN State Free Fair’. That is nothing dumb dumb would like.
Not even rides. Ride. One lonely Ferris Wheel. Not even a cool carosel with antique horses. Nope. Just one Ferris Wheel and a sad wood and canvas mock uo of the Triumphal Arch. Although we haven't triumphed since WW2.
Hell, yeah, brother!!!
Why was Trump still attending his military high school when he was 20 years old?
I went to a NYC private school that was part of the same independent secondary school association that NYMA was, and even 50+ years ago everyone knew that was a place where parents with money sent bad seeds to try to straighten them out.
Yep, I remember that the really bad boys got sent to military school when I was a teen. It wasn’t in any way honorable.
It’s why my idiot cousin got sent to one; he was psycho to the end.
Well Trumps bad seed continues on!
Like the MAGAt shooting his bad seed all over the National Mall
Tell us more . I am interested specifically in athletics and Trump's inability to create a lasting memory that any former classmates ever commented about .
Biden's team mates cited several highlight's of Joe's high school football contributions .
The only thing I ever heard or saw anyone remark about Donny was he had a different girlfriend every weekend. I mean "girlfriend experince.". How pathetic is it that your Dad has to buy you "girlfriends* every weekend because you can't get one for real. Playboys are really just sad men who can't get dates so they have to buy them. Nothing to admire there.
Sorry for the very late response - he'd have been there before my time but I have no doubt his contributions in athletics were comparable to his contributions in everything else in life, taking what exists and wrecking it.
To add to the story, the school I attended was also the alma mater of William Barr (before my time but sufficiently close in time that I have a yearbook from when I was in 7th and he was a senior and the his entry pretty much predicts the remainder of his career) and the execrable reptile and Shitler's mentor Roy Cohn. Maybe I should've gone to Bronx Science......
He never was good at math.
Growing them bone spurs arrested his development
It was an expensive private 'reform school'. 'Bet he did something bad enough to get him sent to the real thing without Daddy's checkbook.
His niece Mary would know .
Maybe set the dog on fire?
He was 18. He should fire that sycophant assistant that posts this garbage.
While Obama was surfing and smoking doobs while getting straight A's in Hawaii, Donald was curled up in his robe on his dorm bed taking perv selfies.
That was my first thought as well
Good question!
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the photo . Of course there will never be a truthful explanation .
Right?!!!
My question exactly.
Here's an idea: Let's celebrate America's 254th on the Mall in the summer of 2029. What better excuse for a summer-long party?
I like that idea
Chicken Choking Uncle Sam will be three years closer to sterility or more jail time
He is one that should have been neutered at military school and Asylum.
Ordinarily I don't support "post-birth abortion," but in his case . . .
Or maybe, courtesy of his extremely poor health, the logical consequence of craptastic self care, he will no longer be with us.
I'm trying hard not to wish for this, especially now I've come to believe that a hypothetical President Vance will get blown out of the water in the 2028 general election. ("Craptastic" is a most useful word!)
Great idea!!!
It will be interesting to see how Trump fans react when the water in the pool turns to blood during his next rally. Then comes the pestilence, the blight, the locusts flying out of his mouth. He really needs to up his game as an entertainer. Talk about losing a step.
The plague of frogs has begun with the amphifa
Good one Doc- got to Donald too‼️
Yes! My pet froggies and I concur!
"hey Gian — is that a chapstick in your pocket, or are you just happy to be at the Mall?"
😂😂😂 Thats brilliant.
Every day it goes from worse to worser. 😜
Terrific photos today...I would have really liked to share a cocktail hour with Ms. Spouse. ❤️
MAGA Uncle Sam thought his venue was Cirque du Jerk
HAHA!!
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I read it as 'chopstick' but that works too!
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Just wanted to say
Happy 100th Birthday Mel Brooks! 🎂🎂🎂
Nice!!! Great reason to change a subject! 🎉
Oh boy- my husband Jeff lovesss Mel Brooks! I listen to stories about Mel- then it’s a mental field trip for me …
Donnie also stole money from the National Park Service which forced layoffs of employees and deferred maintenance at our National Parks. That was our taxpayer money. He has the stickiest fingers. Freedom 250 my ass. Everything is a marketing gimmick. Always in used car salesman mode. Today we're at war again. Just go away permanently and take your family, cronies and crackpots you installed into our government with you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Grrrr!
I know Mingo - it’s beyond maddening BUT …it will end … soon hopefully 🤞
Ew…ew…ew…. gross and incompetent handling of the 250th for America. WTF?! Anyway…besides the beautiful Claudia photos…I also love your closing remarks…today: “don’t take your dick out of the National Mall….” Sick freak is right! Have a nice Sunday everyone!
The incompetence was a byproduct, albeit a predictable one, of his grabbiness and grifting. He usurped what was a genuinely patriotic, non-partisan celebration in order to aggrandize himself and award non-bid taxpayer money to his cronies. He probably is getting kickbacks, too. Everyone should be incensed at this waste and defilement of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, where most ironically, the Founders threw off the mantle of oppression by a dictator.
I'm incensed. I have been since 1985 when he was splashed across the tabloid pages with his flashy lifestyle. Everything is with OPM- other peoples money.
Well, at least someone was having fun the Freedom 250. He just took the Freedom to be himself.
The Bald Eagle attacking the orange sadist is the best part! That should be shown on Jumbotron screen -- better yet, Jumbotron screens at the "four directions" -- along with the Uncle Sam imitator masturbating in front of a group of women performers.
Yes! This is my favorite video of Shitler. Eagles are not fooled.
While this is ironic, and yeah, kinda funny--I'm also really sad and bummed out by this.
Don't get me wrong, I relish Trump's failures, but yet I'm so sad that EVEN THIS WONDERFUL anniversary is tarnished by the orange one!
I'm old enough to remember 1976 and how COOL and FUN it was to be a young person for the celebrations. 😟
Yet another thing Trump has destroyed.
I suggest everyone look up Heather Cox Richardson's "250 to 250" series she has been releasing. Ten videos of America per week, each about a minute or so long. I am grateful for them.
I’ve been watching HCR’s series every week. Learning new things because I’m not afraid of education.
Makes me sad, too, and for the same reason.
About Trump's photo - the caption says he's 20, but there's no way he would have been in a military uniform at 20. That was a military HIGH SCHOOL, and the date of the yearbook puts him at 17 or 18. After graduation, he got Daddy to get him all those deferments.
Yes! At 20, he was a junior at Penn in the Wharton School, being "the dumbest student" one professor ever had. Shows how demented he is that he couldn't even get his own age right.
Betsy, I call it an Asylum and they should have neutered him!
I can't help laughing at DonnieFelon's failure. At 80, I was around for the Bicentennial, when relief from Tricky Dick and Vietnam was beginning. Now? We're screwed!
Temu Fyre Festival looks amazing!
And how could it be nothing but poorly attended? The kinds of people who would go to an event held by this creature are the same ones deathly afraid of cities. If he had this crappy event over in Branson it'd maybe do better numbers.
Temu Fyre Festival? Brilliant!