It's disgusting that the arrest/detainment of Sen Padilla has overshadowed what ICE Barbie said just before the incident. I watched the full video in horror as she actually said that the troops would remain until they had "liberated" the city from the "Socialist leaders". She's declaring that the Jan 6th coup is back in full swing!
Anyone who would kill a healthy dog they raised from a puppy has to be a sociopath. There is nothing more loyal than a dog. She blamed him for not being well trained. She should have shot herself because it was her bad training.
Murdering her dog for not following orders tells us a lot. Krusty Gnome thinks “owning a dog” means she has rights to enslave the animal. There is no companionship, no relationship of love and caring. If it doesn’t obey, the animal has no value.
This is the same way she treats people. If they cannot provide her with something she wants, they should be removed, ignored and deported. She resides at the top of the Distasteful Totem Pole.
That she would admit this heinous act in a book, no less, and seems to brag about it, shows her callousness. And like a 6 year old who thrives on attention, especially negative attention, she’ll keep up her tough girl cosplaying. Her tribunal will be a fun watch.
About her book, according to Guardian, 'She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.'
And the other horror:
'Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down.”'
Did the gnome even consider rehoming Cricket? Did she even think that she was a fucking incompetent trainer? That in a new home with people who loved him and spent time training him he may very well have flourished? No, killing it was the only option that came to her mind.
Did she even consider castrating the (unnamed) goat? Did she wonder why the goat loved to chase her children? Did she ever think about washing her goat? No, killing it was the only option that came to her mind.
This speaks volumes about her method of running Homeland Security. Killing, literally and figuratively, is the only solution.
I'm STILL working with my own adopted rescue Eskie dog (got him as a companion for our much older American Eskimo rescue pup). Picked him up during Covid. He was a year Plus, UN-neutered so pretty much out of control and had lived on Brooklyn Streets scavenging for food. A CAT rescue took him in so needed him out of there (probably feeding him salmon which he still tries to steal - and if he can't get a fresh can, will sneak in as we clean the litter and nab our remaining kitty's 'leavings' since it probably tastes nearly as good - to him. I realize many of you are now 'Ugh-ing' over the very idea, but he IS a dog and they do like to roll in all kinds of things. He was fostered briefly IN Brooklyn by a sweet woman who seemed quite anxious to hand him over to us because of our 'big, wooded backyard' which is now his domain. We didn't find out until later that he eats paper, magazines, (bills) important irreplaceable papers, even the sheetrock next to the door he wants out of, etc. He even ate half of my Wedding album. So now EVERYTHING has been moved up to top shelves - the lower ones are empty and have stayed this way for the last 5 years. He steals the DISH remote and chews it until Daddy bribes him with a cookie. 'That damned dog' is the refrain heard the most here. Sigh. He wanted to give him back in early days (and even later ones) but I refused. Luka (not his previous name) had been abused, clearly - his microchip wiped BY HIS OWNERS! Why? Hubby went in for elective surgery just before Covid - which ended up extended to multiple surgeries over months, leaving me trying to deal with Luka alone. 'Twas impossible so I contacted trainers (husband and wife team) in Connecticut who came by Ferry, evaluated him then took him for weeks, extending into the entire length of hubby's hospitalization. Cost - a lot! Worked with him, sent me updates and lots of photos of him getting along well with other dogs and even their cat. Ha! Then they brought him home. He was as good as gold. What excitement! It lasted a day until he realized he was back 'here' where all the good stuff he could destroy was still available, lol. So I kissed that money goodbye and have figured him out sloooowly. He has an innate sweetness and has come a long way but I can't trust him with strangers. He loves me...sleeps next to me and falls asleep to MY Smooth Jazz music. He's anxious when left alone, still
has separation anxiety I'm working to alleviate. Long hard road...he's worth it. LOVE is how it's done. I can't imagine ANYONE doing what Noem did to her own puppy! - I'd run into a burning building for my fur babies!
I have had some issues with my pups as well. Thankfully not as much as you have endured🤓 I never had two-legged kids, by choice. My four-legged kids ARE my children 😊 No matter what they do, I love them dearly.
Until Luka, my multiple furbabies were a breeze to deal with, and I'm the original 'cat lady' here.. ;) The wee feral cat mommies somehow always found their way to our property to birth their babies where I'd spot them soon after, fall in love and work to entice both Moms and babes up to the back door. I still have videos (somewhere) of them all and me - when I could, kneeling there doling out kitten food to both skinny and skittish mommies and their huge litters. Most of them ended up INside to live out their lives. Only a few were un-capturable. I've also found grown-assed big boy catz perched on my back wall watching me until I come down (it's quite hilly) with a can and plate. They too ended up inside, some already on their last legs. No matter, all wonderful and MY loves. I decided there must be a big sign written in 'cat' on the back of my house: 'Bring us your poor, your hungry, yearning to be fed'. We only began with dogs in the 2000's when a friend's husband, just like Noem a gun nut, decided to murder their 10month old purebred Eskie pup. I'd babysat her at six months and fallen in love so the phone call telling me to 'come get her or he'll put a bullet in her brain today' was shocking/galvanizing. We sped there, my friend handed her over through the door without a word all of her 'gear' was dumped outside. She'd been badly abused and was terrified of men. Thus began our love for American Eskimo dogs. Luka's our 4th and the toughest, although like Shawnee - hubby does have affection for him he doesn't like to admit. They all desperately want him to love them as 'pack leader'. I surmise Noem 'could' have spent a tiny amount of time paying a trainer/working with her animals to socialize them. Nope, killing them was 'more fun'. Ugh. Her goat's behaviour was NORMAL. She IS a sociopath and vile.
It would have been a good lesson if she taught her daughter to keep the goat clean by washing it occasionally. But on the other hand, it is a farm animal, which by definition is smelly.
Pam Bondi. Nancy Mace. Tulsi Gabbard. Linda McMahon (A1 Education Secretary) should not be considered because she is just ignorant. Same with Marsha Blackburn. Brooke Rollins (let them raise chickens if they do not like the price of eggs) had many Democratic Senators consent to her elevation to Secretary of Agriculture even though her affiliations should have been a decisive NO, so if we are voting for the worst, she cannot be considered. I think Bondi is #1.
Bondi has the most power in that she allows all of the others to continue their inhumane deeds rather than serving the people of the United States. They are all tribal sociopaths in service to their king. That will not change once he is gone. They will just worship the next most hateful shiny object in a long line of succession. What we are seeing now is the demise of hate. It will not fade away peacefully. It will go down kicking and screaming until its power is drained and it becomes irrelevant.
When I lived in Florida (god help me), the first I knew of Pam Blondi was when she tried to steal a St. Bernard that belonged to Katrina evacuees: the family had turned the dog over to a shelter for safekeeping (NOT adoption) until they found safety themselves. Blondi got the dog and would not return it to the rightful owners; she slandered them in the news....and finally caved when the family was going to take her to court, because an honorable, decent human being of an attorney took their case, pro bono.
Blondi also took $25K from Demento to ignore the Trump University scam.
In other words....she is......something else.......
She also found out the crooked Texas AG got $10,000 dollars more bribe than she did, so she threatened to "maybe" look at the victims complaints. Ivanka suddenly sent her a check for the difference.
Yeah.....when the family tracked the dog down and asked Blondi to give it back, she refused; the story hit the local paper, and Blondi spread the lies that the family had surrendered the dog, and neglected it--that it was underweight and had heartworms (the latter which the family said was true--unfortunately, that happens a LOT to dogs in Louisiana--and the dog was being treated for it). Typical Blondi, as we have all learned: attack and lie. But she beat a hasty retreat when the local attorney came to the family's rescue.
Leavitt is very young and will almost certainly become aware of her complicity in this before she reaches the ripe old age of 40. I don’t take her seriously. But the other mascara mommas on tRump’s cheer squad don’t get a pass.
AND smirk - that especially awful smirk they seem to have perfected WHILE lying through their teeth. She's married to a much older dude and already has his baby. She's a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist nazi who loves all the trappings and spotlight she's been given. Bullshit Barbie applies to so many in orange babyman's thuggery.
Yes, that fucking smirk! When I catch a glimpse of that fool (before I can change the channel) that’s all I see, his shit eating grin. That smirk which renders everything coming out of his pie hole moot.
Oh, she's plenty dumb...but she's also a non-stop liar and vicious into the bargain, plus there is that resting bitch face without peer...another one of Donny's fluffers, along with Alina and Pammy.
Bondi? I know she's supposed to be Attorney General and non-partisan...but she's thrown that right out the window and is busily fluffing Twumpy's teenie weenie, doing whatever her inner Nazi directs her to do.
The closest woman I can think of is Kim Jong Unʻs sister. She routinely has people killed for not clapping hard enough at rallies. Sort of like why Kristi killed her puppy...not following orders.
Pam Bondage, Marjorie Trailer Trash, Joni Pig Castrator, Susan Clutch Your Pearls, Secretary of Stupid aka Linda McMahon, Marsha Blackburn-it-all-down, Nancy Mace I Show You My Big Tits - just to name a few. You show me a Republican woman and I’ll show you a horror show.
Absolutely. Since goebbels/miller is behind 99% of this, spilling OUR blood is the goal. I was waiting all day yesterday for that to happen DURING the peaceful protests - then realized it had already occurred at 2a.m. when a psycho had assassinated a DEMOCRATIC lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota, nearly murdered another State Senator and his wife and was only prevented from working his way down his LONG list of would-be victims by one quick-thinking LEO Sergeant telling others that another Democratic lawmaker resided in the same general vicinity so they needed to check on that family as well. They literally saw him LEAVING in his fake cop car and exchanged gunfire but he got away on foot! I strongly suspect he's been holed up in some other poor soul's home nearby, or he's already carjacked another innocent. Remember just recently demento REMOVED Secret Service protection from so many Democratic lawmakers? Another miller 'suggestion'? THIS is why...they SO want blood, imagining it will stop resistance. As if!
I’m late catching up on my reading, but your comment reminded me that those murders, & attempted murders, sure did disappear from the news really quickly. The murderer, Boelter, was a religious extremist & very anti abortion. People like him are going to be given a pass to ramp up their violence against abortion clinics if the Repubs get away with repealing the FACE Act as they very much want to.
She supposedly didn't know who he was, that he had not stated his name and identity before he spoke and moved "toward" her. None of these people know how to read a room, do they?
He SAID his name: 'I'm Senator Alex Padilla', but of course bullshit butcherbarbie was already blathering so wasn't listening. Everyone ELSE heard him since the person filming the entire episode from further away caught every word on a cellphone including her nonsense about 'liberating Los Angeles FROM it's duly elected Governor and Mayor'! Aside from that: There are only 100 Senators, 2 from each State. WHY doesn't she know who they are by now - in her lofty position? Isn't that a fucking requirement? I bet even nosferatu goebbels miller knows every. single. one.
No, no, no - she'd first have to drag him TO the gravel pit before shooting him (the gravel hides/absorbs the bloody mess, y' know)? AND I imagine she just threw some gravel over her poor puppy's bloody body in that pit... since I couldn't bear to read the rest of that horrid story. But a full-grown man like Alex? Much too difficult for this cold-blooded nasty. She'd just order it done, now - with a snap of her barbiebitch fingers.
I despise her. She clearly relishes her role as evildoer. There's a smugness to her pronouncements about sending people to Cecot (which is a literal HELLHOLE) even as their children are screaming in fear which stabs to my core.
I saw that she and Corey Lewandowski are still an item. A report said that Lewandowski followed the goons tackling Padilla out into the hall and urged them to lighten up (which he wouldn't likely do if someone "lunged" at his GF).
Radical, socialist, woke, pronoun, these are all red meat for the brainless mob that supports trump and his stooges, so they use these words all the fucking time. The actual definitions of these weaponized terms and the proper usage of them is not relevant.
I have been reading an article exposing the possibility of pretty sophisticated hacking of the election results in the swing states. Musk must know some really talented hackers.
I believe it’s because of the MAGAs & tRump making such a huge ruckus about stolen election & voting machine hacking; & then all of the Democrats insisting there was no way in hell the machines could have been hacked, that it would then “prove” that tRump & co had been right all along. It would make the Democrats look like idiots, & so they didn’t challenge it.
Fuck that. She has declared war on California. We elected Governor Newsom. We elected Mayor Bass. We elected Senator Padilla. She can fuck all the way off to the hole she shot her dog in.
I do not think California National Guard would do that -- they've worked closely with Newsom during the wildfires and are loyal to California. But I am worried about the Marines, who are trained for war....
I am deeply concerned that the 9th Circuit put the district court ruling on hold while the Marines are deployed. This will not end well. It will make Kent State look like a tea party. Oops, maybe the wrong analogy.
Krista, I watched that video in horror and it was discussed on my local Democrats Abroad Germany Signal Group. Noem is a criminal and should be tried in an international court in the end when we get rid of this administration.
I hope everyone will be safe tomorrow at your No Kings Day rallies. Here is a piece I put together from my training by Indivisible with links to different parts of what you can do to protect yourself and know your rights.
I told my husband that 'next will be Chicago, New York and then ALL of those the orange fuckwit hates and thinks of as 'Blue' Cities which didn't vote for him'. ONE HOUR LATER came the announcement that the National Guard and Ice were going to be 'deployed' to Seattle, Chicago, New York, etc. Am I prescient? Perhaps a wee bit. Mostly, we just KNOW what a vile piece of shit the tag team of frump/miller are teeing up to be, and if they can draw blood in a BLUE State, all the better in those nazi eyes.
Right? I was going nuts last night when no one was talking about what she said! Yes, what they did to Padilla needed attention, but what she said was truly terrifying.
And here in FL our governor reminded magats that they can run over and kill protesters with no consequences if they feel threatened. I'm still going to join Lev Parnas (!!!) at my local protest.
What!? He said citizens could kill other citizens they dont like. What's wrong with this picture? Is this why the gun nuts have been hording guns these past 30 years?
Yeah--Rhonda DeSantis' solution to the "problem" of BLM protesters blocking Florida streets was to give permission for anti-BLMers (aka, MAGAts) to drive through the protests.
On the Nextdoor app for St. Petersburg, a psycho posted a frothing-at-the-mouth rant about how his daughter and grandchild were TRAPPED by those nasty BLM protesters: the daughter couldn't pull out of her parking spot downtown, so she and her child were FORCED to shelter in a store for an HOUR; if he had been there, he posted, those protesters would've learned a 2nd Amendment lesson....
The store his daughter was FORCED to stay in?
An ice cream shop.
Oh, the suffering. So much white pain....................
Heather Cox Richardson has a name for what Bimbo Noem is talking about there: a military coup. Using the military to remove democratically elected leaders...what else would you call it. Puppy killer Noem needs to be impeached ASAP.
I watched the CBS video of the Padilla incident. There was no “lunging”! He began his question with “Madame Secretary...” then he was grabbed. And the bitch stood there and let it happen. Fascism. Those fucking agents all need to be arrested.
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully impeachment process will be started in Jan. 2026 if the House flips. Nothing will come of it, but it will at least put Noem, and Bondi, and Miller in the history books as being impeached. And the news attention will at least make them temporarily uncomfortable while the spotlight is being directed at them. (Would like to add Hegseth to my impeachment wish list - please, Santa!)
MAGAT non-thinking has the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level position, on a higher tier than a U.S. Senator. This ignorant cosplaying backwoods kkkunt has assumed more power than any former DHS Secretary, even those installed when Al Qaeda was at its peak. Meanwhile, she's killing FEMA and attempting to invade and occupy California. Congress, do your fucking job.
Democracy=socialism for them. They have convinced their followers that socialism=tyranny. Of course, the MAGAs are convinced that somehow they have more liberty under a tyrant.
I agree . I say Californians quit paying federal taxes and keep all that income tax within our state. Either that or NOem needs to be fired . Our state covers 80% of the Nations entire budget .Our state wouldn't have homelessness ,poverty or food shortages and better schools .and childcare if we kept this and created a equality state . If the freaks in Washington can't understand well then TOO BAD
The mad king is one taco short of a combination. And Jeff's line about like a monkey playing with a hand grenade is some pretty funny shit. This past Monday, someone with a medical background observed that Dump was hooked up to a catheter. She also noted that this is a sign of the later stages of frontal lobal dementia. If this is what's happening to him along being a raging lunatic in the first place, how in the hell will we be able to get through this insanity?
"the man is stark barking bonkers. he’s out there where the buses don’t run, lost and wandering in an ever-thickening haze of dementia and untreated tertiary syphilis."
The biggest job we have now is trying to elevate decency into America society...because anyone who can STILL find a way to support this tyrannical regime is a traitor to democracy. Tackling a sitting Senator was a surreal event. These fucking people MUST be stopped.
Pass the word to your friends and relatives. We need absolutely massive peaceful crowds tomorrow. Really, there shouldn't be a municipality of any size without streets full of people spreading their message of hope for the republic.
THIS is what bothers me the most. It’s apparent that a prerequisite for being a member of the ICE/Trump Gestapo is the ability to inflict pain and suffering. Complete lack of compassion and empathy might just put you in a higher income bracket. When this is over these repulsive people will be reviled and hated for their traitorous acts!
I honestly cannot help but wonder if their families even know about their new "jobs". Accountability to anyone? Their own children? Maybe that whole lizard people walking amongst us has some validity. No shame, no feelings for anyone or anything. Heading to the streets tomorrow!
Their families may be just as bullying and bad. Or, are his victims. Remember the son that turned in his crazy, insurrectionist, father? The father said he was going to kill him when he got out. And Comb-over Caligula pardoned him.
Father Coughlin if you are old. But modern times, yes. I though Rushbo was a political satirist like Tom Lehrer when I first heard him, because he took things so far out of context.
That’s the problem. For as long as Dictator tRUMP is in office and their allegiance lies with him, they’re accountable to no one. Perhaps not even to themselves as they sold their souls to the devil by siding with him. No one will be held accountable until Congress wakes the hell up and takes drastic steps before it’s too late.
I’d show you my bag of fucks for tomorrow’s protest if comments allowed pictures. It’s a picture of the king of spades with a red arrow crossed through his face and the following underneath:
I have never hated someone so much. The only reason millions of people can support him is because he tells them it's okay to hate and hurt people who are different than you. They no longer have to think it through.
Very interesting. I can’t fire up anyone in my sphere but my youngest granddaughter. We are making signs today. So much fodder we could make 20 signs. We march tomorrow 👍🥳🇺🇸
My mom told me never to say I"hate" anyone. I always used"despise". Despise is too bland for what I feel for this man and what he is doing to our democracy. I hate the sight of him. I hate his voice. I hate those vile monsters that he has working for him doing all measure of cruelty against a lot of the most defenseless folks in this country. Sorry, not sorry, mom.(she would be appalled at what is happening now, I know)
You will be here for it because it will be happening soon. I'm frightened but I will march tomorrow. Please get out there or at least drive by and honk in solidarity.
It's a breath of fresh air and logical, sensible thinking produced by William A. Finnegan.
It IS a long memo, and it is TOTALLY worth reading for its ability to speak plainly and informatively but entertainingly about what is possible. It definitely is hard to argue after reading it that a regime this incompetent, or any regime, will succeed with attempting to control our country through the use of military force. That part of the memo greatly reassured me.
I think we have to worry more about election integrity, the corruption of courts and Congress, and the control of the media. Which, I think we can fix if we band together and work to defeat it. It will take real effort and persistence and educating others, but I think we can. And then we better hold these utter bastards and bitches responsible for their treasonous deeds.
A large ship does not sink quickly, but the USA has a lot of holes under the waterline. The reputational damage will not heal until everyone who remembers this time is dead: people overseas now see the problem not as a particular leader but as the untrustworthiness of too large a section of the population, so that even when we have a sane President they will worry that this can reverse in four years; the era from Roosevelt to Biden when we were the leader of the western alliance is dead. The institutional damage probably cannot be healed without a convention rewriting the constitution: the weaknesses are now openly known for any future demagogue to exploit. The intellectual damage is generational: we will no longer be a center of research and learning, and the lack of critical thinking and general education to basic facts will continue to hamper attempts to make policy decisions based on reality; another plague killing a million or more also has to be considered an odds-on favorite now, along with increasing climate disasters handled increasingly poorly. The social damage is deep, with mutual hatreds continuing to make an outbreak of civil war a non-negligible possibility. The economic damage could be anything from a recession we get over, to a depression worse than the 30s, to a general collapse of industrial society and reversion to medieval conditions.
Remember how when you were little, kids would grab another kid's hand and use it to hit that kid in their own face and be like "WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF???"
That would play into their hands. Drumpf could declare martial law, which is what he wants to do anyway. After that, no more elections, just the Diaper King in all his glory. I hope someone is minding the store, but I doubt it.
Yup. And who the hell can we trust to protect the U.S.? Not one of the imbeciles in this administration. They would catch their dick in a door scrambling to run for shelter.
We have to keep telling people LA is 500 square miles and the protests are in a few blocks of that! Perspective is everything! And participate on Saturday if you can-here in deep red Missouri we will be out and hopefully have our biggest crowd yet!!🤞🇺🇸
We Californians already know that. I lived there in the summer of 1969 (you know, the Tate/LaBianca murders) and I never even went to downtown. I lived in Venice, spent a lot of time at the Ash Grove, and some time in Pacific Palisades. But downtown? LA is probably bigger than Washington DC. That's why freeways connect different parts... That's why you can't see the hills from Venice, except for that one clear day a month. People from out of state who talk about California, demonstrations, etc. don't know hoo-hah from hah-hoo, including the fact that we support all the red states, and feed them too. TACO is chickening out on farmworkers now that our farmers and their three congresspeople have told him that the people who do the actual farming are immigrants. Californians work, which is more than all those people who left can say.
What else to say? It is wrong to use troops. They know that and move to authoritarianism anyway. It will be soon that the tension on this will break the strap and violence will escalate. I am not hopeful that protest peacefulness can be sustained. The authoritarians are stoking the flames to start the fire. It is just not in our nature to put up with dictators.
Putin fought in WWII according to El Grande Taco#47. He’s gone, just like that train rolling down the tracks, he gone and he’s not coming back… J Garcia. Best to All
That video at the end of the article was like a balm to the soul. I enjoyed seeing that seated man being calm and collected while refusing to let those overweight, badly dressed bounty hunters into his workplace.
Ok, jeff, I know youlll know I couldnt resist, and I was up all fucking night writing about Israel and iran trying to fuck each other. Which isnt going to end well, no one can not TRY to have a bigger dick over this mess, and published everything up to recent as of about an hour ago. Because thats all my fucked up brain to take.
The Israeli military announcement stinks of cold brutality—dozens of Iranian radar installations and missile launchers now lie in twisted heaps of smoking metal. They systematically dismembered Iran's defensive skeleton, leaving the nation's airspace gaping open like a wound. Each destroyed installation screams Israel's message across the desert: your shield is in tatters, and we can reach you whenever we fucking want.
And yes, Im somewhat fluent in Hebrew, dont judge me.
It's disgusting that the arrest/detainment of Sen Padilla has overshadowed what ICE Barbie said just before the incident. I watched the full video in horror as she actually said that the troops would remain until they had "liberated" the city from the "Socialist leaders". She's declaring that the Jan 6th coup is back in full swing!
I tried to think of a woman in politics more despicable than the Puppy Killer and came up blank.
Anyone who would kill a healthy dog they raised from a puppy has to be a sociopath. There is nothing more loyal than a dog. She blamed him for not being well trained. She should have shot herself because it was her bad training.
Murdering her dog for not following orders tells us a lot. Krusty Gnome thinks “owning a dog” means she has rights to enslave the animal. There is no companionship, no relationship of love and caring. If it doesn’t obey, the animal has no value.
This is the same way she treats people. If they cannot provide her with something she wants, they should be removed, ignored and deported. She resides at the top of the Distasteful Totem Pole.
“Distasteful Totem Pole”? You are too kind.
Yeah, way too kind.
I know some Lakota Sioux folks in her state who refer to her as "Krusty Gnome," which I found delightful.
Thanks. Me too!
How can one administration find so many "broken inside" people to do their bidding? I suppose those are the only kind of people who'd consider it.
Perfectly described👍
That she would admit this heinous act in a book, no less, and seems to brag about it, shows her callousness. And like a 6 year old who thrives on attention, especially negative attention, she’ll keep up her tough girl cosplaying. Her tribunal will be a fun watch.
About her book, according to Guardian, 'She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.'
And the other horror:
'Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
Did the gnome even consider rehoming Cricket? Did she even think that she was a fucking incompetent trainer? That in a new home with people who loved him and spent time training him he may very well have flourished? No, killing it was the only option that came to her mind.
Did she even consider castrating the (unnamed) goat? Did she wonder why the goat loved to chase her children? Did she ever think about washing her goat? No, killing it was the only option that came to her mind.
This speaks volumes about her method of running Homeland Security. Killing, literally and figuratively, is the only solution.
Sheesh, makes you wonder how she disciplined her children.
I'm STILL working with my own adopted rescue Eskie dog (got him as a companion for our much older American Eskimo rescue pup). Picked him up during Covid. He was a year Plus, UN-neutered so pretty much out of control and had lived on Brooklyn Streets scavenging for food. A CAT rescue took him in so needed him out of there (probably feeding him salmon which he still tries to steal - and if he can't get a fresh can, will sneak in as we clean the litter and nab our remaining kitty's 'leavings' since it probably tastes nearly as good - to him. I realize many of you are now 'Ugh-ing' over the very idea, but he IS a dog and they do like to roll in all kinds of things. He was fostered briefly IN Brooklyn by a sweet woman who seemed quite anxious to hand him over to us because of our 'big, wooded backyard' which is now his domain. We didn't find out until later that he eats paper, magazines, (bills) important irreplaceable papers, even the sheetrock next to the door he wants out of, etc. He even ate half of my Wedding album. So now EVERYTHING has been moved up to top shelves - the lower ones are empty and have stayed this way for the last 5 years. He steals the DISH remote and chews it until Daddy bribes him with a cookie. 'That damned dog' is the refrain heard the most here. Sigh. He wanted to give him back in early days (and even later ones) but I refused. Luka (not his previous name) had been abused, clearly - his microchip wiped BY HIS OWNERS! Why? Hubby went in for elective surgery just before Covid - which ended up extended to multiple surgeries over months, leaving me trying to deal with Luka alone. 'Twas impossible so I contacted trainers (husband and wife team) in Connecticut who came by Ferry, evaluated him then took him for weeks, extending into the entire length of hubby's hospitalization. Cost - a lot! Worked with him, sent me updates and lots of photos of him getting along well with other dogs and even their cat. Ha! Then they brought him home. He was as good as gold. What excitement! It lasted a day until he realized he was back 'here' where all the good stuff he could destroy was still available, lol. So I kissed that money goodbye and have figured him out sloooowly. He has an innate sweetness and has come a long way but I can't trust him with strangers. He loves me...sleeps next to me and falls asleep to MY Smooth Jazz music. He's anxious when left alone, still
has separation anxiety I'm working to alleviate. Long hard road...he's worth it. LOVE is how it's done. I can't imagine ANYONE doing what Noem did to her own puppy! - I'd run into a burning building for my fur babies!
I have had some issues with my pups as well. Thankfully not as much as you have endured🤓 I never had two-legged kids, by choice. My four-legged kids ARE my children 😊 No matter what they do, I love them dearly.
Until Luka, my multiple furbabies were a breeze to deal with, and I'm the original 'cat lady' here.. ;) The wee feral cat mommies somehow always found their way to our property to birth their babies where I'd spot them soon after, fall in love and work to entice both Moms and babes up to the back door. I still have videos (somewhere) of them all and me - when I could, kneeling there doling out kitten food to both skinny and skittish mommies and their huge litters. Most of them ended up INside to live out their lives. Only a few were un-capturable. I've also found grown-assed big boy catz perched on my back wall watching me until I come down (it's quite hilly) with a can and plate. They too ended up inside, some already on their last legs. No matter, all wonderful and MY loves. I decided there must be a big sign written in 'cat' on the back of my house: 'Bring us your poor, your hungry, yearning to be fed'. We only began with dogs in the 2000's when a friend's husband, just like Noem a gun nut, decided to murder their 10month old purebred Eskie pup. I'd babysat her at six months and fallen in love so the phone call telling me to 'come get her or he'll put a bullet in her brain today' was shocking/galvanizing. We sped there, my friend handed her over through the door without a word all of her 'gear' was dumped outside. She'd been badly abused and was terrified of men. Thus began our love for American Eskimo dogs. Luka's our 4th and the toughest, although like Shawnee - hubby does have affection for him he doesn't like to admit. They all desperately want him to love them as 'pack leader'. I surmise Noem 'could' have spent a tiny amount of time paying a trainer/working with her animals to socialize them. Nope, killing them was 'more fun'. Ugh. Her goat's behaviour was NORMAL. She IS a sociopath and vile.
You are a very kind hearted person to take in so many cats🙂
And her daughters pet goat, "because it was smelly".
It would have been a good lesson if she taught her daughter to keep the goat clean by washing it occasionally. But on the other hand, it is a farm animal, which by definition is smelly.
Exactly my thought
Love it!!😍
Know that she is #18 in line to succeed the president. Scroll down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession
All the people in front of her are horrid too! We have a Kakistrocracy. A government, filled with the worst people.
Intentionally designed to mock us :/
Pam Bondi. Nancy Mace. Tulsi Gabbard. Linda McMahon (A1 Education Secretary) should not be considered because she is just ignorant. Same with Marsha Blackburn. Brooke Rollins (let them raise chickens if they do not like the price of eggs) had many Democratic Senators consent to her elevation to Secretary of Agriculture even though her affiliations should have been a decisive NO, so if we are voting for the worst, she cannot be considered. I think Bondi is #1.
Don’t forget Ernst
Bondi has the most power in that she allows all of the others to continue their inhumane deeds rather than serving the people of the United States. They are all tribal sociopaths in service to their king. That will not change once he is gone. They will just worship the next most hateful shiny object in a long line of succession. What we are seeing now is the demise of hate. It will not fade away peacefully. It will go down kicking and screaming until its power is drained and it becomes irrelevant.
When I lived in Florida (god help me), the first I knew of Pam Blondi was when she tried to steal a St. Bernard that belonged to Katrina evacuees: the family had turned the dog over to a shelter for safekeeping (NOT adoption) until they found safety themselves. Blondi got the dog and would not return it to the rightful owners; she slandered them in the news....and finally caved when the family was going to take her to court, because an honorable, decent human being of an attorney took their case, pro bono.
Blondi also took $25K from Demento to ignore the Trump University scam.
In other words....she is......something else.......
She also found out the crooked Texas AG got $10,000 dollars more bribe than she did, so she threatened to "maybe" look at the victims complaints. Ivanka suddenly sent her a check for the difference.
She also has collaborated with Scientology
She also is a lobbyist for Qatar.
Ugh!
Holy...cow (dog?)
Yeah.....when the family tracked the dog down and asked Blondi to give it back, she refused; the story hit the local paper, and Blondi spread the lies that the family had surrendered the dog, and neglected it--that it was underweight and had heartworms (the latter which the family said was true--unfortunately, that happens a LOT to dogs in Louisiana--and the dog was being treated for it). Typical Blondi, as we have all learned: attack and lie. But she beat a hasty retreat when the local attorney came to the family's rescue.
Leavitt?
Leavitt is very young and will almost certainly become aware of her complicity in this before she reaches the ripe old age of 40. I don’t take her seriously. But the other mascara mommas on tRump’s cheer squad don’t get a pass.
She's a racist white privileged bitch!!!
I doubt it. Once a Nazi, always a Nazi.
Leavitt was born and raised to fill the position of “Public Prevaricator.”
AND smirk - that especially awful smirk they seem to have perfected WHILE lying through their teeth. She's married to a much older dude and already has his baby. She's a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist nazi who loves all the trappings and spotlight she's been given. Bullshit Barbie applies to so many in orange babyman's thuggery.
Yes, that fucking smirk! When I catch a glimpse of that fool (before I can change the channel) that’s all I see, his shit eating grin. That smirk which renders everything coming out of his pie hole moot.
Hopefully at that time she'll be about halfway through her prison term.
Close but maybe not as dumb?
Oh if you want repellent and dumb there is Alina Habba!
At least she doesn't have commercials showing a racist kkkunt she is.
Oh, she's plenty dumb...but she's also a non-stop liar and vicious into the bargain, plus there is that resting bitch face without peer...another one of Donny's fluffers, along with Alina and Pammy.
Bondi? I know she's supposed to be Attorney General and non-partisan...but she's thrown that right out the window and is busily fluffing Twumpy's teenie weenie, doing whatever her inner Nazi directs her to do.
In the words of the late Rufus Thomas, "If you don't know how to do it I'll show you how to shoot the dog."
Can't we just walk the dog?
Geez, I don’t like that saying at all. 😢
KKKaroline the Liar comes close!
Methinks they're all in a struggle to be the nastiest, bitchiest, vilest KKK'ers so demento will reward them with bigger bucks.
Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher both did more long-term harm, but admittedly not with such panache
The closest woman I can think of is Kim Jong Unʻs sister. She routinely has people killed for not clapping hard enough at rallies. Sort of like why Kristi killed her puppy...not following orders.
Pam Bondage, Marjorie Trailer Trash, Joni Pig Castrator, Susan Clutch Your Pearls, Secretary of Stupid aka Linda McMahon, Marsha Blackburn-it-all-down, Nancy Mace I Show You My Big Tits - just to name a few. You show me a Republican woman and I’ll show you a horror show.
ICE Barbie said that Padilla lunged and threatened her. Then why didn't she shoot him and throw him in a gravel pit?
That is not a crazy question. The way the MAGATS are escalating their fascism, could cold blooded murder be far behind?
Absolutely. Since goebbels/miller is behind 99% of this, spilling OUR blood is the goal. I was waiting all day yesterday for that to happen DURING the peaceful protests - then realized it had already occurred at 2a.m. when a psycho had assassinated a DEMOCRATIC lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota, nearly murdered another State Senator and his wife and was only prevented from working his way down his LONG list of would-be victims by one quick-thinking LEO Sergeant telling others that another Democratic lawmaker resided in the same general vicinity so they needed to check on that family as well. They literally saw him LEAVING in his fake cop car and exchanged gunfire but he got away on foot! I strongly suspect he's been holed up in some other poor soul's home nearby, or he's already carjacked another innocent. Remember just recently demento REMOVED Secret Service protection from so many Democratic lawmakers? Another miller 'suggestion'? THIS is why...they SO want blood, imagining it will stop resistance. As if!
I’m late catching up on my reading, but your comment reminded me that those murders, & attempted murders, sure did disappear from the news really quickly. The murderer, Boelter, was a religious extremist & very anti abortion. People like him are going to be given a pass to ramp up their violence against abortion clinics if the Repubs get away with repealing the FACE Act as they very much want to.
She supposedly didn't know who he was, that he had not stated his name and identity before he spoke and moved "toward" her. None of these people know how to read a room, do they?
He SAID his name: 'I'm Senator Alex Padilla', but of course bullshit butcherbarbie was already blathering so wasn't listening. Everyone ELSE heard him since the person filming the entire episode from further away caught every word on a cellphone including her nonsense about 'liberating Los Angeles FROM it's duly elected Governor and Mayor'! Aside from that: There are only 100 Senators, 2 from each State. WHY doesn't she know who they are by now - in her lofty position? Isn't that a fucking requirement? I bet even nosferatu goebbels miller knows every. single. one.
No, no, no - she'd first have to drag him TO the gravel pit before shooting him (the gravel hides/absorbs the bloody mess, y' know)? AND I imagine she just threw some gravel over her poor puppy's bloody body in that pit... since I couldn't bear to read the rest of that horrid story. But a full-grown man like Alex? Much too difficult for this cold-blooded nasty. She'd just order it done, now - with a snap of her barbiebitch fingers.
Pam the cunt Bondi
Pam Bondi has politicized the DOJ, so she’s just as despicable.
I despise her. She clearly relishes her role as evildoer. There's a smugness to her pronouncements about sending people to Cecot (which is a literal HELLHOLE) even as their children are screaming in fear which stabs to my core.
Delilah?
She's America's Eva Braun.
She's the Bitch of Buchenwald. And her fake lips look like the old couch cushions Vance liked to pile drive.
That’s one big eww Sharon. It’s still morning. Hopefully that image will be forgotten by this afternoon 🤞🤞🤞
Bravo, Sharon!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I do believe that's the look she was going for.
I saw that she and Corey Lewandowski are still an item. A report said that Lewandowski followed the goons tackling Padilla out into the hall and urged them to lighten up (which he wouldn't likely do if someone "lunged" at his GF).
You’re on a tear today Sharon…you GO Girl!!
Eva Braun was a pretty bauble compared to her.
🎯🎯🎯🎯
What socialist leaders? The mayor? The governor? Has she seen how Newsome lives? If that's socialism, I want some too.
Radical, socialist, woke, pronoun, these are all red meat for the brainless mob that supports trump and his stooges, so they use these words all the fucking time. The actual definitions of these weaponized terms and the proper usage of them is not relevant.
“The digital coup is well underway, and most Americans are blissfully unaware of the threat”
Amidst the outrage and the chaos… there's a quiet revolution taking place in America that could change elections forever
- truth matters
(You know - they didn’t even CHALLENGE that ‘24 election result? Love to know why…)
I have been reading an article exposing the possibility of pretty sophisticated hacking of the election results in the swing states. Musk must know some really talented hackers.
I believe it’s because of the MAGAs & tRump making such a huge ruckus about stolen election & voting machine hacking; & then all of the Democrats insisting there was no way in hell the machines could have been hacked, that it would then “prove” that tRump & co had been right all along. It would make the Democrats look like idiots, & so they didn’t challenge it.
I think you're right.
Fox teaches them they mean the opposite of what they do.
Democracy=socialism according to MAGA.
Fuck that. She has declared war on California. We elected Governor Newsom. We elected Mayor Bass. We elected Senator Padilla. She can fuck all the way off to the hole she shot her dog in.
I fear this is all a set up for the NG to go kill people in CA tomorrow.
I do not think California National Guard would do that -- they've worked closely with Newsom during the wildfires and are loyal to California. But I am worried about the Marines, who are trained for war....
They should be training to invade Iran since Israel opted to first-strike and will look to us for massive military backup.
I am deeply concerned that the 9th Circuit put the district court ruling on hold while the Marines are deployed. This will not end well. It will make Kent State look like a tea party. Oops, maybe the wrong analogy.
DAMN STRAIGHT!
Krista, I watched that video in horror and it was discussed on my local Democrats Abroad Germany Signal Group. Noem is a criminal and should be tried in an international court in the end when we get rid of this administration.
I hope everyone will be safe tomorrow at your No Kings Day rallies. Here is a piece I put together from my training by Indivisible with links to different parts of what you can do to protect yourself and know your rights.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/indivisible-training-recommendations?r=f0qfn
I will be marching with family and friends in Chicago!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
We want
NO KINGS! NO TYRANTS! NO DICTATORS! NO FASCISTS!
In Solidarity! ✌🏽
I’ll be out in Portland tomorrow. There is this feeling in my bones that the Bloated Yam of Scam will be attacking us next.
I told my husband that 'next will be Chicago, New York and then ALL of those the orange fuckwit hates and thinks of as 'Blue' Cities which didn't vote for him'. ONE HOUR LATER came the announcement that the National Guard and Ice were going to be 'deployed' to Seattle, Chicago, New York, etc. Am I prescient? Perhaps a wee bit. Mostly, we just KNOW what a vile piece of shit the tag team of frump/miller are teeing up to be, and if they can draw blood in a BLUE State, all the better in those nazi eyes.
Yay!
Right? I was going nuts last night when no one was talking about what she said! Yes, what they did to Padilla needed attention, but what she said was truly terrifying.
And here in FL our governor reminded magats that they can run over and kill protesters with no consequences if they feel threatened. I'm still going to join Lev Parnas (!!!) at my local protest.
What!? He said citizens could kill other citizens they dont like. What's wrong with this picture? Is this why the gun nuts have been hording guns these past 30 years?
Yeah--Rhonda DeSantis' solution to the "problem" of BLM protesters blocking Florida streets was to give permission for anti-BLMers (aka, MAGAts) to drive through the protests.
On the Nextdoor app for St. Petersburg, a psycho posted a frothing-at-the-mouth rant about how his daughter and grandchild were TRAPPED by those nasty BLM protesters: the daughter couldn't pull out of her parking spot downtown, so she and her child were FORCED to shelter in a store for an HOUR; if he had been there, he posted, those protesters would've learned a 2nd Amendment lesson....
The store his daughter was FORCED to stay in?
An ice cream shop.
Oh, the suffering. So much white pain....................
Yes, the ammosexuals are drooling with anticipation. They have dreamed of shooting people for years and are just waiting for permission.
They have asked "when do we get to shoot people?" They are not mentally right.
Heather Cox Richardson has a name for what Bimbo Noem is talking about there: a military coup. Using the military to remove democratically elected leaders...what else would you call it. Puppy killer Noem needs to be impeached ASAP.
I watched the CBS video of the Padilla incident. There was no “lunging”! He began his question with “Madame Secretary...” then he was grabbed. And the bitch stood there and let it happen. Fascism. Those fucking agents all need to be arrested.
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully impeachment process will be started in Jan. 2026 if the House flips. Nothing will come of it, but it will at least put Noem, and Bondi, and Miller in the history books as being impeached. And the news attention will at least make them temporarily uncomfortable while the spotlight is being directed at them. (Would like to add Hegseth to my impeachment wish list - please, Santa!)
Could any of the worthless scribblers of the press ask our esteemed Secretary of Homeland Security the following questions:
1. Who are you to tell the people of California whom to elect?
2. Where does South Dakota rank against California in any quality of life metric?
And here's one for Dear Leader:
How are those nuclear negotiations with Iran going?
That statement is what bothers the shit iut of me. “We are going to liberate you from your popularly elected leaders”! Fuck that cunt and her lover!
Gotta wonder if this twit knows what a socialist is.
MAGAT non-thinking has the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level position, on a higher tier than a U.S. Senator. This ignorant cosplaying backwoods kkkunt has assumed more power than any former DHS Secretary, even those installed when Al Qaeda was at its peak. Meanwhile, she's killing FEMA and attempting to invade and occupy California. Congress, do your fucking job.
Democracy=socialism for them. They have convinced their followers that socialism=tyranny. Of course, the MAGAs are convinced that somehow they have more liberty under a tyrant.
if any of them enter our state they should be arrested and charged with crimes
I agree . I say Californians quit paying federal taxes and keep all that income tax within our state. Either that or NOem needs to be fired . Our state covers 80% of the Nations entire budget .Our state wouldn't have homelessness ,poverty or food shortages and better schools .and childcare if we kept this and created a equality state . If the freaks in Washington can't understand well then TOO BAD
that is so right ! Very interesting idea ! I think we would be just fine to go on our own.
Arkansas, not so much
“He’s out there where the buses don’t run.”
That is poetry, Jeff.
Always appreciate a Carlin callback, especially since he probably would have had a LOT to say about Trump.
Oh, how I wish Carlin were here to opine on all that's happening.
You can listen to George’s act from 20 years ago and it is just as pertinent now as it was then.
Hell yes 👏 👏👏he was brilliant!!
https://youtu.be/fT03vCaL-F0
George was way ahead of his time— not enough of us were listening…
https://youtu.be/C_FQZUSy1Vg?si=HN-iJjyiEYLaQ3hG
He was absolutely prescient… He saw this awful future
Off topic, but his Modern Man is the best standup piece evah!!!
The mad king is one taco short of a combination. And Jeff's line about like a monkey playing with a hand grenade is some pretty funny shit. This past Monday, someone with a medical background observed that Dump was hooked up to a catheter. She also noted that this is a sign of the later stages of frontal lobal dementia. If this is what's happening to him along being a raging lunatic in the first place, how in the hell will we be able to get through this insanity?
There's a story that he has braces on his legs because he's had a mild stroke.
Yet strangely not hearing the constant drumbeat of ‘too old too old (laptop!) TOO OLD!’… yeah right
The NYT got an interview with him, so he's golden to them.
That and the way he leans forward aren't signs of good health. His medical records are about as transparent as he is.
Is that why he does not stand at his desk for Elon or dignitaries? He’s always staying seated like he’s on the can.
Oh my god
Oh no! Is his little baby mushroom 🍄🟫 okay?
Walt, you just ooze sympathy!
😂
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrg2wadk5s2o
Splendid, Gavin…
‘The cheese has slipped off the cracker’
‘One sandwich shy of a picnic”
(Friends used to collect these ;)
“Driveway doesn’t quite reach the road”
“All parachute no ripcord” ;)
"Blender doesn't go all the way to puree."
"Elevator doesn't go to the top floor"
“Knitting with one needle…”
OK I had to dumpster dive for that one… 🤗
👌
😂🤣
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
"Duller than a box of rocks"
“Not the brightest bulb on the tree…”
*classic*
"The lights are on, but nobody's home"
“Lights are flashing’ and the gate’s down - but no train comin’…”
🤪🤪🤪🤪
“Short a couple buttons on his remote”
“One fry short of a Happy Meal”
And the granddaddies:
“Not quite playing with a full deck” & “The lights are on but no one’s home”…
“Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
Haha thx for ‘one taco short of a combination’, Rick…😆‼️
🤣🤣🤣
"the man is stark barking bonkers. he’s out there where the buses don’t run, lost and wandering in an ever-thickening haze of dementia and untreated tertiary syphilis."
The biggest job we have now is trying to elevate decency into America society...because anyone who can STILL find a way to support this tyrannical regime is a traitor to democracy. Tackling a sitting Senator was a surreal event. These fucking people MUST be stopped.
Pass the word to your friends and relatives. We need absolutely massive peaceful crowds tomorrow. Really, there shouldn't be a municipality of any size without streets full of people spreading their message of hope for the republic.
These officers just love the fact that they have no restrictions against their brutality.
THIS is what bothers me the most. It’s apparent that a prerequisite for being a member of the ICE/Trump Gestapo is the ability to inflict pain and suffering. Complete lack of compassion and empathy might just put you in a higher income bracket. When this is over these repulsive people will be reviled and hated for their traitorous acts!
I honestly cannot help but wonder if their families even know about their new "jobs". Accountability to anyone? Their own children? Maybe that whole lizard people walking amongst us has some validity. No shame, no feelings for anyone or anything. Heading to the streets tomorrow!
Their families may be just as bullying and bad. Or, are his victims. Remember the son that turned in his crazy, insurrectionist, father? The father said he was going to kill him when he got out. And Comb-over Caligula pardoned him.
Didn’t the stoking start with Rush?
Father Coughlin if you are old. But modern times, yes. I though Rushbo was a political satirist like Tom Lehrer when I first heard him, because he took things so far out of context.
That IS what they signed up for.
Yes, you are correct.They must be stopped.And after they are,I would like to see these people tried for crimes against humanity.
That’s the problem. For as long as Dictator tRUMP is in office and their allegiance lies with him, they’re accountable to no one. Perhaps not even to themselves as they sold their souls to the devil by siding with him. No one will be held accountable until Congress wakes the hell up and takes drastic steps before it’s too late.
MAG-a-SA (make America give a sh*t again :/)
I’d show you my bag of fucks for tomorrow’s protest if comments allowed pictures. It’s a picture of the king of spades with a red arrow crossed through his face and the following underneath:
No Kings
Remove the jokers too
ICE is better crushed
The Turd Reich - just say nein
I may have to steal some of them.
Please do. I stole one too.
Love it!
He finally figured out that the housekeepers at his golf motels are not rapists and murderers?
Finally figured he needs some of them, at least.
I have never hated someone so much. The only reason millions of people can support him is because he tells them it's okay to hate and hurt people who are different than you. They no longer have to think it through.
Remember: The opposite of love is… indifference. ;)
(Hate can get tricky)
Very interesting. I can’t fire up anyone in my sphere but my youngest granddaughter. We are making signs today. So much fodder we could make 20 signs. We march tomorrow 👍🥳🇺🇸
My mom told me never to say I"hate" anyone. I always used"despise". Despise is too bland for what I feel for this man and what he is doing to our democracy. I hate the sight of him. I hate his voice. I hate those vile monsters that he has working for him doing all measure of cruelty against a lot of the most defenseless folks in this country. Sorry, not sorry, mom.(she would be appalled at what is happening now, I know)
My mother made us say "dislike intensely".
lol
Yeah pretty tepid as well.
At some point all of this batshittery is going to implode. I hope I'm alive to see it.
You will be here for it because it will be happening soon. I'm frightened but I will march tomorrow. Please get out there or at least drive by and honk in solidarity.
Get out there and honk but don't run over any protesters even though DeSantis says it's okay.
It shocked me that he allowed the flags at half staff remembering the Pulse massacre today.
I just hope it doesn't involve open warfare with its attendant death and destruction
Read this: https://www.thelongmemo.com/p/people-think-trump-wants-martial
It's a breath of fresh air and logical, sensible thinking produced by William A. Finnegan.
It IS a long memo, and it is TOTALLY worth reading for its ability to speak plainly and informatively but entertainingly about what is possible. It definitely is hard to argue after reading it that a regime this incompetent, or any regime, will succeed with attempting to control our country through the use of military force. That part of the memo greatly reassured me.
I think we have to worry more about election integrity, the corruption of courts and Congress, and the control of the media. Which, I think we can fix if we band together and work to defeat it. It will take real effort and persistence and educating others, but I think we can. And then we better hold these utter bastards and bitches responsible for their treasonous deeds.
How can you educate a Fox News watcher? Fox plays non-stop at military bases. That makes me afraid. It's impossible to educate a brainwashed cult.
I hope the next Dem CIC/POTUS will order that it be stripped from all military bases around the world.
A large ship does not sink quickly, but the USA has a lot of holes under the waterline. The reputational damage will not heal until everyone who remembers this time is dead: people overseas now see the problem not as a particular leader but as the untrustworthiness of too large a section of the population, so that even when we have a sane President they will worry that this can reverse in four years; the era from Roosevelt to Biden when we were the leader of the western alliance is dead. The institutional damage probably cannot be healed without a convention rewriting the constitution: the weaknesses are now openly known for any future demagogue to exploit. The intellectual damage is generational: we will no longer be a center of research and learning, and the lack of critical thinking and general education to basic facts will continue to hamper attempts to make policy decisions based on reality; another plague killing a million or more also has to be considered an odds-on favorite now, along with increasing climate disasters handled increasingly poorly. The social damage is deep, with mutual hatreds continuing to make an outbreak of civil war a non-negligible possibility. The economic damage could be anything from a recession we get over, to a depression worse than the 30s, to a general collapse of industrial society and reversion to medieval conditions.
Thanks for at least trying to be positive.
Remember how when you were little, kids would grab another kid's hand and use it to hit that kid in their own face and be like "WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF???"
I feel like Trump would do that to himself.
😂😂😂 LOL!!
Why not? He's been doing it to everyone else for most of his life. Time for The Bitch Known As Karma to have some puppies.
Alison, I love that dumb trick I wish we could do it to dear loser too!
Judging by the expressions seen on Diaper Donnie Tinydick lately the stupid must be excruciatingly painful.
I cannot say this enough.... all of this chaos is creating opportunities for a massive terrorist attack on US soil.
From our domestic terrorists?
Exactly— remember Timothy McVeigh.
And the terrorists that attacked the Capitol on Jan6. They’ve all been “pardoned” and released from prison — and they’re all out there.
I don’t think that is what eliza james meant but it should be clarified.
That would play into their hands. Drumpf could declare martial law, which is what he wants to do anyway. After that, no more elections, just the Diaper King in all his glory. I hope someone is minding the store, but I doubt it.
READ THIS, O LOYAL FOLLOWERS OF THE TIEDRICH: https://www.thelongmemo.com/p/people-think-trump-wants-martial
It is long and it will help you. Yes we have work to do to restore our country, but we will get there, if we get there, together.
Excellent review of military & martial law
IK,R? Had to get it out there to y’all. I just hope more of the people here will take the time to read it.
I did!!
Yup. And who the hell can we trust to protect the U.S.? Not one of the imbeciles in this administration. They would catch their dick in a door scrambling to run for shelter.
You’re being kind about the size of their dick. I suspect they’re just tiny, shriveled shrooms.
Massive cyber attack by Russia.
That already happened. They won.
I’ve got my bag of fucks for tomorrow!
We have to keep telling people LA is 500 square miles and the protests are in a few blocks of that! Perspective is everything! And participate on Saturday if you can-here in deep red Missouri we will be out and hopefully have our biggest crowd yet!!🤞🇺🇸
We Californians already know that. I lived there in the summer of 1969 (you know, the Tate/LaBianca murders) and I never even went to downtown. I lived in Venice, spent a lot of time at the Ash Grove, and some time in Pacific Palisades. But downtown? LA is probably bigger than Washington DC. That's why freeways connect different parts... That's why you can't see the hills from Venice, except for that one clear day a month. People from out of state who talk about California, demonstrations, etc. don't know hoo-hah from hah-hoo, including the fact that we support all the red states, and feed them too. TACO is chickening out on farmworkers now that our farmers and their three congresspeople have told him that the people who do the actual farming are immigrants. Californians work, which is more than all those people who left can say.
GO!!!👍🥳🇺🇸
What else to say? It is wrong to use troops. They know that and move to authoritarianism anyway. It will be soon that the tension on this will break the strap and violence will escalate. I am not hopeful that protest peacefulness can be sustained. The authoritarians are stoking the flames to start the fire. It is just not in our nature to put up with dictators.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/troops-in-los-angeles?r=3m1bs
Putin fought in WWII according to El Grande Taco#47. He’s gone, just like that train rolling down the tracks, he gone and he’s not coming back… J Garcia. Best to All
Thats an amazing trick since Putin wasn't born until 1952.
Damn, Pooty looks good for a man of 102
That video at the end of the article was like a balm to the soul. I enjoyed seeing that seated man being calm and collected while refusing to let those overweight, badly dressed bounty hunters into his workplace.
People come through at the oddest times ☑️
Ok, jeff, I know youlll know I couldnt resist, and I was up all fucking night writing about Israel and iran trying to fuck each other. Which isnt going to end well, no one can not TRY to have a bigger dick over this mess, and published everything up to recent as of about an hour ago. Because thats all my fucked up brain to take.
The Israeli military announcement stinks of cold brutality—dozens of Iranian radar installations and missile launchers now lie in twisted heaps of smoking metal. They systematically dismembered Iran's defensive skeleton, leaving the nation's airspace gaping open like a wound. Each destroyed installation screams Israel's message across the desert: your shield is in tatters, and we can reach you whenever we fucking want.
And yes, Im somewhat fluent in Hebrew, dont judge me.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/morning-muse-israel-is-trying-to
Liked, Restacked, Quoted, and X-posted, Jeff, Keep on the hard works.
They also killed 70 Iranians.
Israelis have claimed they will kill until no Iranian breathes Persian Air.
I find this position detestable and insane.
And as far as I have heard, made the surroundings radioactive. Also, why do Israel and North Korea get to have nuclear weapons and Iran does not?
The nuclear club's gatekeepers decide who deserves the power to incinerate worlds - a grotesque dance of geopolitical favoritism.
I know....it was a rhetorical question....:(
But didn't countries acquire their nukes clandestinely?
some did
It’s possible theoretically , has that been proven ? I’m not sure