Al was just too smart to be president. He made the insecure fuckers feel insecure. Better to have the dunce Bush so the dunce entitled white male fuckwits wouldn't have to feel looked down on.
And he would likely have been president if those "originalists" on the supreme court hadn't made up a new rule, which essentially was: It's just too messy and would take too long to actually count the votes in Florida, so let's just appoint GWB as president.
It’s important, I think, to remember that when the chips were down in the disputed election between Gore and Bush, it was the Corrupt Supremes that actually cast the deciding vote. Fucking Scalia.
Mitch 🐢 McConnell played a critical role in the birth of their Christo-fascist coup. He could have ended it before it ever got started. By refusing to impeach a smelly conman that manifested an attack on the U.S. Capital, he laid the groundwork for everything that is happening today.
Rather than speculate about unknowables like Iraq, I'd rather point out something that is pretty certain: the US would have taken an altogether different track in combating climate change. GWB followed in the dismal tradition of Reagan as an anti-science politician, the diametric opposite of Gore.
The US electorate has had two chances in the last 45 years to get things right on climate change (Carter '80 and Gore '00) and have gotten it wrong both times. What's that saying about trying the same failed approach over and over again?
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results" -- Jane Forman in The Grapevine, the house magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous; the saying became attributed to Bill W, then when it spread outside AA to people who didn't know who Bill W was, it was often attributed to Albert Einstein.
There is no way to know for sure but the transition from Clinton to a Gore administration would probably have been smoother. The Democrats may have taken the threat of Al Queda more seriously, although to be fair, the Clinton admin did not do nearly enough to recognize how Islamic fundamentalism had risen to be a danger to us.
In the 9/11 report, there were myriad ways that in retrospect could and should have warned both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Look up FBI agent Colleen Rowley. Also the FAA did not act on reports from flight schools that reported an increase in the number of Middle Eastern foreign students. German intelligence passed info to our intel community about terror cells planning attacks, which apparently went unheeded. The turf war and lack of cooperation between the FBI and CIA crippled our preparations. Bush received a Presidential Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 stating "Bin Laden determined to strike in US." There was apparently no established protocol on what to do in the case of a hijacking with intent to use the aircraft as weapons. There apparently was no inkling that aircraft would be used that way. Airline employees were not alerted to be on the lookout for males buying one-way tickets using cash. Box cutters were allowed to be carried on board. There was one customs agent, in Miami, I believe, who denied entry to one of the men who we believe was supposed to be the twentieth hijacker some time before 9/11 because the man just didn't seem right to the agent. As a result, United flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville, PA after the passengers fought back had 4 hijackers on it, while the other three planes, United 175, and American flights 11 and 77, had five each. It is the easiest thing to play Monday morning quarterback after the game is over and say what should have been done. But it is clear that there were many, many failures that led to 9/11.
I think at least Condi knew and understood, because she was asked during a hearing if she knew Al Quaeda was planning to attack, she said yes. And remember, Bush and Cheney would not testify under oath. I'd also like to point out that the passengers on Flight 93 were led by Cal Berkeley rugby players in their assault on the hijackers.
Good take Doc, many of the published truths in regards to 9-11 were veiled with fustian and fantasy, full stop! You’re right on the money though with the transition from Clinton to Gore. Things would be much different than the dross we have today!!
Ok, what you're saying is that Gore would have taken the briefing seriously and would have taken effective unilateral action. That's an untestable hypothesis, but I'll stipulate it for brevity.
And for me that was the beginning of the end of what we have known as any kind of pushback in America. Because what I remember is that Al Gore did not fight that and neither did any of the Democrats.
Oh yes, the Supreme Court ruled, but what the actual fuck because what that proved to all of us is that the chips were in and the Supremes were corrupt. But then we just kept going as if the Supremes actually meant anything anymore. This country has been fucked for a long time.
Guaranteed Lady, however the New World Order, and the billionaire class, one we’ll never be a part of, has its jackboots on our throats in the current epoch!!
I think he also made a serious tactical error in distancing himself from Bill Clinton. Even though Ken Starr and his little lackey Bret Kavanaugh tried to make a federal case about it, I don't think anybody really gave that much of a shit about a guy getting a blow job and not wanting to admit it in kangaroo court.
I often wonder how different our entire political system would be had Clinton resigned. He behaved dishonorably and he and Hillary attacked an emotionally fragile young woman. If we go back even further, had Clinton just kept it in his pants and told Monica Lewinsky’s supervisor that she was behaving in an inappropriately sexual way and had her dismissed as she should have been. But Clinton had two brains - and his concern was and is that his conduct will affect his legacy. It will. Just like it affected JFK’s.
I attribute the current state of the Democratic Party to the Clintons and their abandonment of the working class as well as their “triangulation” strategy which produced a number of losing “Republican-lite” candidates and which continues to be losing strategy today. We saw that with the Harris campaign bringing in Liz Cheney and other Republicans while shunning the more progressive Democrats.
A pragmatic voter, I cast mine for HRC in 2016 with great frustration at the Democratic Party’s inability to recognize the zeitgeist and with full confidence that she would lose. I have yet to witness a moderate candidate generating the same excitement in voters as you know who. Perhaps that excitement won’t translate to votes but that hasn’t been tested since I can remember. Sorry, centrist Obama pitching a health plan developed by Republicans doesn’t count. I’m tired of Schumers, I want more Crocketts and Ocasios.
I saw him on Bill Maher show Friday and I thought about how different the world would be today if he had won instead of Bush. I think he should run again-maybe he will!!
"because nothing says efficiency in government more than wasting resources on an entire room devoted to making sure Pete’s nose isn’t all shiny" 😂😂 EVERY DAMNED DAY!
Something insane. How much longer must we endure this crap?
Lately Ive been thinking about the FDA and food safety regulations. I had food poisoning once and was seriously sick. This regime wants to kill us all and I keep thinking why, since you need workers and babies? Make some of this make sense. Again I ask, where are our elected officials on BOTH sides of the aisle? Stand together and end this before its too fucking late!
Haven't you heard, Susan, they don't need people anymore! They are making robots that can do all of those things, you know. I hear that the little incels are especially worked up about this because now they might actually be able to have a woman-like creature to fuck.
I involuntarily went with vomiting this morning so you don’t have to, my friend. Literally, the news flipped on my gag reflex. Couldn’t sleep last night bc my mind kept going to very dark places. If my thoughts were being read by the current gestapo I’d no doubt be in prison.
Take a mental health break. Don’t watch the news. Don’t scroll through all the news on your phone. Read some fiction. Watch a comedy on TV. Watch some sports. Have lunch with a friend and don’t discuss politics. Take a walk or go for a run. Lift weights. Go shopping. Go to a park. Work in the yard if you have one. Hug your loved ones; hug your pets. Just some suggestions for taking a mental health break from the stress of our current political disaster. Good luck!
The only televised moments I want to see are his televised court appearances when and if he goes on trial for being a traitor to national security. How is it that these mediocre white guys continue to fail upwards? Speaking of food poisoning, I contracted salmonella almost 30 years ago and was extremely sick. Lost 10 pounds in two weeks. I've had a sensitive stomach ever since. It's IBS and now that the dotard is back in office my IBS is back. It waned when Biden was in office because I wasn't on edge every day.
Mingo, we put AnusMouthPantLoad on trial before a jury of his peers. He was found guilty of 32 felonies. Still, Judge Merchant could not find one iota of courage to sentence him to the 4 year prison term he deserved. So, what’s the use? The Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches of our government are hopelessly compromised.
That comment I made was in reference to Kegstand. Remember he's not a very special boy with immunity. Chumps trial was disappointing with no jail time 😕
If it makes you feel any better, me too. I have also had eczema since the election. CBD helps. Meanwhile Kegbreath is single-handedly destroying everything that was great and reasonably trustworthy about the Pentagon. At this point in our history we can't afford the clusterfuck that is going on now. And as for the "make-up" room? Gag me with a spoon. Send the fucking money to USAID. Just my two cents if I can find two pennies.
Well, that's what Kristi Noem did when she was Governor of South Dakota - one of the first things she did was put a make-up room and a TV studio in the basement of the Governor's mansion, so she could appear on Fox News in all her glory. Gag.
I've often said that Donnie Dimwit spends more time on his hair and make up than I do. In fact, I don't wear makeup at all. And I generally just wash and dry my hair, then put it in a pony tail or something. I have no talent at applying makeup or doing hair. Eye shadow is wasted on me because when I open my eyes, my eyelids completely disappear. I always forget when I'm wearing mascara and will rub my eyes and smear it all over. I always think blush or rouge makes me look like a clown. Rarely, I'll wear some lipstick when I think of it.
It all makes sense when you flip it around and realize that the goal is to destroy the Government and a functional society. Vlad wants Donnie Diaperstain to turn the US into a great big El Salvador.
These deranged assholes could care less. It's more important to have an unqualified nimrod like RFK Jr. destroy everything that's designed to keep us healthy. And Hegsted's request for a damn makeup room is more of the idiotic horseshit that the Pentagon has to deal with. No doubt this room will also double as a fully stocked lounge so booze hound Pete can get a heater going before he's on camera. This cabinet of ignorance along with the president of incompetence, death and destruction can't go away soon enough.
Authoritarian conservatives have always supported the notion of "survival of the fittest" -- the "fittest" being the most empowered and monied, not the most intellectually or physically "fit." You can bet the conservatives on the Supreme Court imagine themselves to be among the most supreme, as do all of Trump's sewer clowns.
Eugenics has been part of the Nazi and GOP agenda for decades Susan, it’s also an obvious point in Yarvin’s Butterfly Revolution and Project 2025 plan for a new world order. The Rockefeller and Ford foundations offer an insightful view into the historical eugenics movement in this country, if interested!!
We would have been so much better off with Al as our president instead of the installed buffoon that we got. Think of what it would be like now without the trillions wasted in Iraq and the Middle East, The Tea Party and all of the other clownish republican shit that followed. We're still paying the price for that fuck up.
I often think about how different the world would be if Al Gore had taken his rightful place in the Oval Office. It was yet another theft by the Republicans and the Supreme Court. He was robbed, as were we all. 😞
Plus the millions stolen from the Social Security trust fund, and never paid back, would be available to shore up the system. Al Gore vowed to put the SS fund in a metaphorical lock box and jackasses in the media and GOP loudly mocked him for that. They had other plans.
Yeah, just a few trillion of our tax dollars spent on efforts to kill people around the world, thereby reducing the inventory of our very expensive stored ordinance.
I’m just spitballing, but what if those trillions were spent on actually helping other countries, as well as the working citizens in our own? Maybe, just maybe, they wouldn’t be our vicious enemies.
Would the U.S. industrial military complex be sooo sad? “We’re making lots and lots of new bombs and our inventory is stacking up.”
“Warfighters prepare!”
“We’re going into Yemen! Where’s my personal phone? I need to tell my wife about it.”
Thanks Jeff for putting this all together quickly this morning. It must feel almost magical when you’re typing away quickly with a zillion thoughts and you end up with a pretty darn good post.
But you must never apologize for being early or late, you have a private life and we all respect it. And no need to provide reasons for the time of day you post your column. It’s none of our business. Have a great day.
So many of the memories for the “good ol’ days” are for the wealthy white christian male. Yes, it was a great time when women couldn’t vote, or black people were “kept in their place”.
We need to stay in the streets until the republican Congress is more afraid of us than him!
YES!!!! Most of my friends say marching will do no good. Nothing will work. Bla bla bla. Makes me almost explode.
Only thing I can take from those thoughts is that a majority of our people NEVER saw or experienced the vast beat down many many marginalized people on our globe: BLACKS POOR IMMIGRANTS DISABLED WOMEN CHILDREN
HOW can they not SEE it? BIG question which contains the hidden answer to WHY Frump wins.
It was DEMOCRATS that ousted Al Franken. Christofascist Gillibrand could not shut up about Franken's depravity. With Democrats like her we do not need to blame Republicans!
So Donny wants to party like it’s 1912. Of course he does. Back when tycoons wore top hats, not indictments. When the streets were full of soot, orphans, and unregulated capitalism—his idea of Eden.
The man isn’t nostalgic. He’s regressive.
He doesn’t want to make America great again—he wants to make gilded-age plutocracy great again. When “we” had wealth, he says. But his “we” has never included you. If your family tree ever included coal dust or a lunch pail, you were never in that club. You were the help.
And now he’s running the same play: dangle prosperity, dismantle democracy, and distract the people with fantasies of simpler times—like 1912, when life expectancy was 50, and “healthcare” meant dying quietly.
Meanwhile, national secrets are passed around like party favors at Mar-a-Gestapo. Kegstand Pete’s installing a Pentagon glam room because nothing says “combat ready” like high-definition foundation and a ring light.
These are not patriots. They’re clout-chasing fascist fanboys with spray-on values and a Wi-Fi connection.
And yet they’re winning. Why? Because while they build mythologies, most people are too exhausted just trying to survive reality. That’s how tyranny works. It doesn’t need your belief—just your fatigue.
But here’s your heretical reminder: Empires fall. All of them. Especially the stupid ones.
So let them cosplay Caesar. We’ll be over here, whispering gospel in the ruins.
Blessed be your bullshit detector and your refusal to go quietly.
Relentless protesting and republican no-show town halls will eventually wear on THEM. We need more signs that say we will NEVER FORGET the Republicans who went along!
Every Democrat should mimic Al Gore’s manner of speaking. Yell it out! Fist pounding emphasis.
We’ve got Rep Green calling for impeachment which is better than doing nothing. But arrests are in order. 3-4 Republicans can make history if they join the Dems. Otherwise, they’ll go down with the rest of the party!
"The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media... Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, is now staying in an undisclosed location with her three children while Abrego Garcia remains thousands of miles away, despite a Supreme Court order requiring the U.S. government to facilitate his return. Both the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele say that Abrego Garcia will not be coming back to the U.S., and Vasquez Sura has received hateful comments and taunts on social media."
Obvious question, did Kristi Noem order this doxxing before or after her purse was stolen / she lost it in a melee / it vanished after aliens took it / she never had it with her?
I thought Jeff was going to start off talking about the party in Rome this weekend with spaghetti and all that red sauce and maybe some katsup flying around and landing on the walls of the Vatican, in honor of the Pope. Then a little two thumbs up dance to YMCA and on to Putin's house for a little "back door" action.
The Vatican should have REFUSED to allow that rude and vulgar clod to attend Pope Francis' funeral.
This service is meant to offer respect and to honor a man whose life's work modeled that of Jesus Christ. It is also a moment for people of the Catholic faith to grieve the loss of the leader of their church. To allow an infidel, who publicly belittled and criticized Pope Francis, to be at his funeral is an insult to the Pope, the Catholic faith, and another dirty stain on the United States.
Unfortunately, the media will play right into his hands and put his ugly fucking face on display. Jeff and I don't have to wait for him to do something stupid because we all know it's coming, and it will be Saturday, Jeff's favorite tag line day!
Trump reminds me of Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Quote ... "My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."
The idiocy knows no bounds! It is shameful and embarrassing! Countries around the world, both allies and adversaries, now view us as dysfunctional and a farce.
Alex, That damage will not reverse the minute Dems take over again. Because all of these people will wonder how a country could stand by and allow a Constitutional violating seditionist, convicted Felon and rapist could just walk in to the White House and take over with (what looks like) complicity!
You're exactly right. If we are able to repair our reputational damage throughout the world, and I don’t if that's even possible, it will take decades. It takes a long time and consistent good faith behavior to earn trust. Yet, it can be destroyed so quickly. The US will have a difficult time building back from the destruction and ashes that are left. It won't be easy.
Thing is, the stupid could rise again. Then we're right back to being laughing stocks and no country to trust. I'm afraid it's going to take a bloody civil war to eliminate the stupid.
I remain hopeful we can avoid a civil war. There are no real winners in a war. The results of a civil war are hatred, bloodshed, and lives lost. Surely, we can do better than that.
Al was just too smart to be president. He made the insecure fuckers feel insecure. Better to have the dunce Bush so the dunce entitled white male fuckwits wouldn't have to feel looked down on.
And he would likely have been president if those "originalists" on the supreme court hadn't made up a new rule, which essentially was: It's just too messy and would take too long to actually count the votes in Florida, so let's just appoint GWB as president.
I remember Jay Leno making a joke about needing 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency, or in W's case, 5 Supreme Court votes
Bush won 100% of the Black vote (among the 9 voters who counted)
The actual vote was conducted after the SCOTUS ruling iirc Greg, those messy hanging chads stole the win from Gore and the Bush idiocy that ensued!!
Ultimately, those Supremes wound up causing the death of how many Americans? In a war we had no business in.
Americans, yeah. We also fucked Iraq permeantly, and started ISIL.
And I'm still pissed they didn't count them! 😡💙✌🏻
It’s important, I think, to remember that when the chips were down in the disputed election between Gore and Bush, it was the Corrupt Supremes that actually cast the deciding vote. Fucking Scalia.
Greg & Walt: Indeed it was the Supremes who were responsible for that fiasco, not anything to do with Gore..
Mitch 🐢 McConnell played a critical role in the birth of their Christo-fascist coup. He could have ended it before it ever got started. By refusing to impeach a smelly conman that manifested an attack on the U.S. Capital, he laid the groundwork for everything that is happening today.
Yes, that evil man must freeze up permanently and not a moment too soon.
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History would have been different. Many thousands who died in 9/11 and the ridiculous invasion of Iraq would not have died.
Rather than speculate about unknowables like Iraq, I'd rather point out something that is pretty certain: the US would have taken an altogether different track in combating climate change. GWB followed in the dismal tradition of Reagan as an anti-science politician, the diametric opposite of Gore.
The US electorate has had two chances in the last 45 years to get things right on climate change (Carter '80 and Gore '00) and have gotten it wrong both times. What's that saying about trying the same failed approach over and over again?
It says, tell your children not to have children.
Mine are not. They both announced that years ago.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results" -- Jane Forman in The Grapevine, the house magazine of Alcoholics Anonymous; the saying became attributed to Bill W, then when it spread outside AA to people who didn't know who Bill W was, it was often attributed to Albert Einstein.
Exactly. I knew it was misattrubited to Einstein but didn't know the proper attribution. Thanks!
Yeah, we should just stop trying.
The world would be cleaner and on the right track to cleaning up the polluters.
What would have prevented 9/11? There was a logical jump there I can't follow.
There is no way to know for sure but the transition from Clinton to a Gore administration would probably have been smoother. The Democrats may have taken the threat of Al Queda more seriously, although to be fair, the Clinton admin did not do nearly enough to recognize how Islamic fundamentalism had risen to be a danger to us.
In the 9/11 report, there were myriad ways that in retrospect could and should have warned both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Look up FBI agent Colleen Rowley. Also the FAA did not act on reports from flight schools that reported an increase in the number of Middle Eastern foreign students. German intelligence passed info to our intel community about terror cells planning attacks, which apparently went unheeded. The turf war and lack of cooperation between the FBI and CIA crippled our preparations. Bush received a Presidential Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 stating "Bin Laden determined to strike in US." There was apparently no established protocol on what to do in the case of a hijacking with intent to use the aircraft as weapons. There apparently was no inkling that aircraft would be used that way. Airline employees were not alerted to be on the lookout for males buying one-way tickets using cash. Box cutters were allowed to be carried on board. There was one customs agent, in Miami, I believe, who denied entry to one of the men who we believe was supposed to be the twentieth hijacker some time before 9/11 because the man just didn't seem right to the agent. As a result, United flight 93 which crashed near Shanksville, PA after the passengers fought back had 4 hijackers on it, while the other three planes, United 175, and American flights 11 and 77, had five each. It is the easiest thing to play Monday morning quarterback after the game is over and say what should have been done. But it is clear that there were many, many failures that led to 9/11.
I think at least Condi knew and understood, because she was asked during a hearing if she knew Al Quaeda was planning to attack, she said yes. And remember, Bush and Cheney would not testify under oath. I'd also like to point out that the passengers on Flight 93 were led by Cal Berkeley rugby players in their assault on the hijackers.
Gore was particularly hawkish on al-Qaeda during the Clinton Administration, wanting more strikes than Clinton was willing to go for.
Good take Doc, many of the published truths in regards to 9-11 were veiled with fustian and fantasy, full stop! You’re right on the money though with the transition from Clinton to Gore. Things would be much different than the dross we have today!!
It might have been prevented if the president took the daily briefing seriously. Osama Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
Ok, what you're saying is that Gore would have taken the briefing seriously and would have taken effective unilateral action. That's an untestable hypothesis, but I'll stipulate it for brevity.
I Don’t know what Gore could have done after Scrotus made their ruling but he should never have conceded.
Handed it to Georgie Porgie on a platter. A drunken, AWOL frat boy totally unfit for the job. And he went and proved just how unfit he was.
Reminds you of a certain SecDef, does he?
And the asshole transphobe has returned.
You’re an idiot, is really the thing.
You had it right the first time, numb nuts.
If Al Gore had shown more of that fire when he ran against Jr., he might’ve won. Certainly, we would be entrenched in climate saving ideas!
The fucking USSC didn't even have jurisdiction to hear that case
So true. How history can come down to an handful of people who affect the lives of billions.
True dat Walt!!
Yep fuck him and his roommate in hell, Rushbo.
And for me that was the beginning of the end of what we have known as any kind of pushback in America. Because what I remember is that Al Gore did not fight that and neither did any of the Democrats.
Oh yes, the Supreme Court ruled, but what the actual fuck because what that proved to all of us is that the chips were in and the Supremes were corrupt. But then we just kept going as if the Supremes actually meant anything anymore. This country has been fucked for a long time.
We didn’t know at the time how deeply corrupt the SCOTUS was and is. Clarence Thomas should never have been seated.
Agreed. Gore’s biggest failure in many ways.
Yes.
But one can't help wondering "What if. . ."
I suspect the ENTIRE WORLD would be different today.
Guaranteed Lady, however the New World Order, and the billionaire class, one we’ll never be a part of, has its jackboots on our throats in the current epoch!!
My sentiments exactly
Becky, summed up well!
Of course, the Supreme Court actually made that decision to elect bush
Fucking Scalia!
He damaged us so badly with "Heller" the disgusting pig. Just because he liked to blast animals in "canned" hunts.
Smart people usually do badly as president, or even getting elected. Obama was a possible exception, he got a whole lot done, much of what stuck.
Extremely stupid people do worse, as evidenced by Reagan, Bush jr (shrub) and the current squatter in our white House.
I think he also made a serious tactical error in distancing himself from Bill Clinton. Even though Ken Starr and his little lackey Bret Kavanaugh tried to make a federal case about it, I don't think anybody really gave that much of a shit about a guy getting a blow job and not wanting to admit it in kangaroo court.
I often wonder how different our entire political system would be had Clinton resigned. He behaved dishonorably and he and Hillary attacked an emotionally fragile young woman. If we go back even further, had Clinton just kept it in his pants and told Monica Lewinsky’s supervisor that she was behaving in an inappropriately sexual way and had her dismissed as she should have been. But Clinton had two brains - and his concern was and is that his conduct will affect his legacy. It will. Just like it affected JFK’s.
Smart men, foolish choices.
I attribute the current state of the Democratic Party to the Clintons and their abandonment of the working class as well as their “triangulation” strategy which produced a number of losing “Republican-lite” candidates and which continues to be losing strategy today. We saw that with the Harris campaign bringing in Liz Cheney and other Republicans while shunning the more progressive Democrats.
A pragmatic voter, I cast mine for HRC in 2016 with great frustration at the Democratic Party’s inability to recognize the zeitgeist and with full confidence that she would lose. I have yet to witness a moderate candidate generating the same excitement in voters as you know who. Perhaps that excitement won’t translate to votes but that hasn’t been tested since I can remember. Sorry, centrist Obama pitching a health plan developed by Republicans doesn’t count. I’m tired of Schumers, I want more Crocketts and Ocasios.
I saw him on Bill Maher show Friday and I thought about how different the world would be today if he had won instead of Bush. I think he should run again-maybe he will!!
Bravo Becky!!
"because nothing says efficiency in government more than wasting resources on an entire room devoted to making sure Pete’s nose isn’t all shiny" 😂😂 EVERY DAMNED DAY!
Something insane. How much longer must we endure this crap?
Lately Ive been thinking about the FDA and food safety regulations. I had food poisoning once and was seriously sick. This regime wants to kill us all and I keep thinking why, since you need workers and babies? Make some of this make sense. Again I ask, where are our elected officials on BOTH sides of the aisle? Stand together and end this before its too fucking late!
Haven't you heard, Susan, they don't need people anymore! They are making robots that can do all of those things, you know. I hear that the little incels are especially worked up about this because now they might actually be able to have a woman-like creature to fuck.
Should I laugh or vomit about that!? 😂😂😂
Let’s laugh AND vomit!!!!!
Be careful of aspiration ladies.🤪
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HAHAHA!!!
I involuntarily went with vomiting this morning so you don’t have to, my friend. Literally, the news flipped on my gag reflex. Couldn’t sleep last night bc my mind kept going to very dark places. If my thoughts were being read by the current gestapo I’d no doubt be in prison.
Oh man… this is so difficult. “I hate it” isn’t strong enough. Pass the Xanex. Hang in there cause you’re not alone.
Take a mental health break. Don’t watch the news. Don’t scroll through all the news on your phone. Read some fiction. Watch a comedy on TV. Watch some sports. Have lunch with a friend and don’t discuss politics. Take a walk or go for a run. Lift weights. Go shopping. Go to a park. Work in the yard if you have one. Hug your loved ones; hug your pets. Just some suggestions for taking a mental health break from the stress of our current political disaster. Good luck!
Both? 🥴💙✌🏻
no more plastic blow-up dolls for the incels?
Sorry to digress, but whenever I hear of blow-up dolls, a picture of Trump's mouth comes to my mind.
Vlad has an orange blow up doll that looks just like that. Vlad has tarted the doll up in a gimp suit with just the mouth hole available.
Ha, why would he do that, when he has the real thing, anytime he wants?
Hard to make a plastic doll that says "Yes, sir! No, sir! You're so wonderful, sir!" and "My! Look at the size of THAT!"
You just gave me a marketing idea aimed at those incel creeps
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They probably want Elon to make robots to replace every senator and congressman in the house replacing all humans -
I wonder how those robots are gonna vote
They'll catch fire like his rockets.😂😂
They’re already doing that in Japan!
The only televised moments I want to see are his televised court appearances when and if he goes on trial for being a traitor to national security. How is it that these mediocre white guys continue to fail upwards? Speaking of food poisoning, I contracted salmonella almost 30 years ago and was extremely sick. Lost 10 pounds in two weeks. I've had a sensitive stomach ever since. It's IBS and now that the dotard is back in office my IBS is back. It waned when Biden was in office because I wasn't on edge every day.
Mingo, we put AnusMouthPantLoad on trial before a jury of his peers. He was found guilty of 32 felonies. Still, Judge Merchant could not find one iota of courage to sentence him to the 4 year prison term he deserved. So, what’s the use? The Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches of our government are hopelessly compromised.
That comment I made was in reference to Kegstand. Remember he's not a very special boy with immunity. Chumps trial was disappointing with no jail time 😕
Exactly Walt, we live in an era of fractured government and society sadly!!
If it makes you feel any better, me too. I have also had eczema since the election. CBD helps. Meanwhile Kegbreath is single-handedly destroying everything that was great and reasonably trustworthy about the Pentagon. At this point in our history we can't afford the clusterfuck that is going on now. And as for the "make-up" room? Gag me with a spoon. Send the fucking money to USAID. Just my two cents if I can find two pennies.
Good old Sal.🤢🤮
Well, that's what Kristi Noem did when she was Governor of South Dakota - one of the first things she did was put a make-up room and a TV studio in the basement of the Governor's mansion, so she could appear on Fox News in all her glory. Gag.
We the people pay for the most ridiculous stuff. That makes me sick!
You mean, Kristi Gnome, cosplaying champion of the Republicon Party?
Krusty
Krusty Gnome it is, Ole! 😂😂
Lady parts all Krusty from the STD's Just ask Corey.
I think she plays dress-up every time she goes before a camera.Ugh!
I don't even want to think about what she's wearing for Halloween. But, dear God, let her pouty mouth be covered.
Well she has to have somewhere to do those republican ammosexual videos for "only fans."
I actually had to look up ammosexual, but in typing it I realized the root word and felt silly 😛
It sounds nicer than “gun-humper.”
😂
And Nancy Reagan needed two salons in the White House. Second one built for her Hollywood stylist before important events.
Yes, but Jackie never invited her up to Hyannisport.
I didnt know that! UGH!
I was so embarrassed by her gauchness when she was first lady. Melania almost makes her look classy in comparison, though.
It seems that all the ‘manly’ men in this regime wear makeup.
It’s damn amusing Sharon, these tattooed, tough guy white supremacy connards need a room for makeup. WTF!!
Did you say “tattoos? Send them all to CECOT!
Agreed 100%!!
LOL Great observation! 😂😂😂
Yeah.
People say a lot of nasty things about poor old Chuck Schumer - but no one ever accused him of wearing Max Factor pancake!
But he probably does.
Then he needs shade advice even more than trump!
I've often said that Donnie Dimwit spends more time on his hair and make up than I do. In fact, I don't wear makeup at all. And I generally just wash and dry my hair, then put it in a pony tail or something. I have no talent at applying makeup or doing hair. Eye shadow is wasted on me because when I open my eyes, my eyelids completely disappear. I always forget when I'm wearing mascara and will rub my eyes and smear it all over. I always think blush or rouge makes me look like a clown. Rarely, I'll wear some lipstick when I think of it.
I never wear makeup either, and my hair is very short and wavy so I wash it, let it dry and comb it.
Neither do I! And my hair is straight so combining is optional.
. . . and diapers! Don't forget the diapers!
It all makes sense when you flip it around and realize that the goal is to destroy the Government and a functional society. Vlad wants Donnie Diaperstain to turn the US into a great big El Salvador.
You're right...I need to remember who Dump is really working for. If only his cult would understand that.
They do not WANT to understand anything, it is all about what they want to believe and would never wish to be proven wrong or stupid, for god’s sake.
These deranged assholes could care less. It's more important to have an unqualified nimrod like RFK Jr. destroy everything that's designed to keep us healthy. And Hegsted's request for a damn makeup room is more of the idiotic horseshit that the Pentagon has to deal with. No doubt this room will also double as a fully stocked lounge so booze hound Pete can get a heater going before he's on camera. This cabinet of ignorance along with the president of incompetence, death and destruction can't go away soon enough.
And yet Hegseth's nose will always be shiny as he daily puts his nose where it should not be (Trump's a..)
Susan, this is the perverse form of “degrowth” that the oligarchs are propagating. Too many people? Not if we let most of them die.
Authoritarian conservatives have always supported the notion of "survival of the fittest" -- the "fittest" being the most empowered and monied, not the most intellectually or physically "fit." You can bet the conservatives on the Supreme Court imagine themselves to be among the most supreme, as do all of Trump's sewer clowns.
Meanwhile Orange Jabba's hair color seems to change on a daily basis.
Well, even the best made wigs need a wash once in a while. And they take a bit of time to dry out and re-dress. A bit like Kegsbreath.
You’re right… sometimes blond, sometimes orange-ish. I’d hate to be the hair dresser who has to work with THAT mess 🙄
Remember the old commercial, "Only her hairdresser knows for sure?"
Trump's thing with her hair has always made me wonder. That, and her makeup, and her jealousy of JD's "beautiful" eyes
LOL!!!
He's very blonde these days.
Eugenics has been part of the Nazi and GOP agenda for decades Susan, it’s also an obvious point in Yarvin’s Butterfly Revolution and Project 2025 plan for a new world order. The Rockefeller and Ford foundations offer an insightful view into the historical eugenics movement in this country, if interested!!
Yes, I agree.We The People need heroes right now and our elected officials-or someone-should take it upon themselves to stop this madness now!
They've sold their souls for 💵💵💵😡😡
We would have been so much better off with Al as our president instead of the installed buffoon that we got. Think of what it would be like now without the trillions wasted in Iraq and the Middle East, The Tea Party and all of the other clownish republican shit that followed. We're still paying the price for that fuck up.
I often think about how different the world would be if Al Gore had taken his rightful place in the Oval Office. It was yet another theft by the Republicans and the Supreme Court. He was robbed, as were we all. 😞
We’d be a few $Trillion less in debt, have 10,000 more alive soldiers and 100,000 fewer with severe injuries from the ill advised second Iraq war
Plus the millions stolen from the Social Security trust fund, and never paid back, would be available to shore up the system. Al Gore vowed to put the SS fund in a metaphorical lock box and jackasses in the media and GOP loudly mocked him for that. They had other plans.
Yeah, just a few trillion of our tax dollars spent on efforts to kill people around the world, thereby reducing the inventory of our very expensive stored ordinance.
I’m just spitballing, but what if those trillions were spent on actually helping other countries, as well as the working citizens in our own? Maybe, just maybe, they wouldn’t be our vicious enemies.
Would the U.S. industrial military complex be sooo sad? “We’re making lots and lots of new bombs and our inventory is stacking up.”
“Warfighters prepare!”
“We’re going into Yemen! Where’s my personal phone? I need to tell my wife about it.”
Wow! Al Gore has fire in him! I bet he hates this regime with the heat of a thousand suns for what it’s doing to climate change and the environment.
Thanks Jeff for putting this all together quickly this morning. It must feel almost magical when you’re typing away quickly with a zillion thoughts and you end up with a pretty darn good post.
But you must never apologize for being early or late, you have a private life and we all respect it. And no need to provide reasons for the time of day you post your column. It’s none of our business. Have a great day.
Well said CAM!
Here here CAM! Agree completely!
Totally to Kam
So many of the memories for the “good ol’ days” are for the wealthy white christian male. Yes, it was a great time when women couldn’t vote, or black people were “kept in their place”.
We need to stay in the streets until the republican Congress is more afraid of us than him!
YES!!
Reply to seeking reason ….
YES!!!! Most of my friends say marching will do no good. Nothing will work. Bla bla bla. Makes me almost explode.
Only thing I can take from those thoughts is that a majority of our people NEVER saw or experienced the vast beat down many many marginalized people on our globe: BLACKS POOR IMMIGRANTS DISABLED WOMEN CHILDREN
HOW can they not SEE it? BIG question which contains the hidden answer to WHY Frump wins.
Partying on the decks of the Titanic
We need another Titanic (or mars rocket) for all the ultra wealthy to take a ride and confront their hubris against humanity.
Just send them up in one of Elon’s rockets. It will explode shortly after takeoff.
One way ride
Or golfing through a grave yard.
Al Gore steps up to the plate and knocks it out of the park!!
Hey Al! Y’all come back now reeel soon! Y’hear?!
Yeah! And bring Al franken with you! And Al Smith if he was still alive!
What have republicans got against people called "Al"?
It was DEMOCRATS that ousted Al Franken. Christofascist Gillibrand could not shut up about Franken's depravity. With Democrats like her we do not need to blame Republicans!
Oh Jeff, here we are, same as every day.
Trumps approval is in the toilet.
The economy is still fucked.
Musk is a about to be a broke ass homeless person.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/actions-of-a-diverse-america-april-296
And here we are , a diverse america trying to get by.
So Donny wants to party like it’s 1912. Of course he does. Back when tycoons wore top hats, not indictments. When the streets were full of soot, orphans, and unregulated capitalism—his idea of Eden.
The man isn’t nostalgic. He’s regressive.
He doesn’t want to make America great again—he wants to make gilded-age plutocracy great again. When “we” had wealth, he says. But his “we” has never included you. If your family tree ever included coal dust or a lunch pail, you were never in that club. You were the help.
And now he’s running the same play: dangle prosperity, dismantle democracy, and distract the people with fantasies of simpler times—like 1912, when life expectancy was 50, and “healthcare” meant dying quietly.
Meanwhile, national secrets are passed around like party favors at Mar-a-Gestapo. Kegstand Pete’s installing a Pentagon glam room because nothing says “combat ready” like high-definition foundation and a ring light.
These are not patriots. They’re clout-chasing fascist fanboys with spray-on values and a Wi-Fi connection.
And yet they’re winning. Why? Because while they build mythologies, most people are too exhausted just trying to survive reality. That’s how tyranny works. It doesn’t need your belief—just your fatigue.
But here’s your heretical reminder: Empires fall. All of them. Especially the stupid ones.
So let them cosplay Caesar. We’ll be over here, whispering gospel in the ruins.
Blessed be your bullshit detector and your refusal to go quietly.
—Virgin Monk Boy
Relentless protesting and republican no-show town halls will eventually wear on THEM. We need more signs that say we will NEVER FORGET the Republicans who went along!
The dumbest American or the most vile American or the most corrupt American? A fucking triple-threat and no fooling about the “threat” part.
Make it a Quatro Neil— most DANGEROUS too.
I think Satan itself came down and cursed us all.
All three descriptors fit him to a tee. It's the worst trifecta.
The DARK TRIAD.
Every Democrat should mimic Al Gore’s manner of speaking. Yell it out! Fist pounding emphasis.
We’ve got Rep Green calling for impeachment which is better than doing nothing. But arrests are in order. 3-4 Republicans can make history if they join the Dems. Otherwise, they’ll go down with the rest of the party!
tRump has tapped into the fond memories and the bold aspirations of obscenely rich 130-year olds everywhere.
1913 with Crypto: Utopia!
"The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media... Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, is now staying in an undisclosed location with her three children while Abrego Garcia remains thousands of miles away, despite a Supreme Court order requiring the U.S. government to facilitate his return. Both the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele say that Abrego Garcia will not be coming back to the U.S., and Vasquez Sura has received hateful comments and taunts on social media."
Obvious question, did Kristi Noem order this doxxing before or after her purse was stolen / she lost it in a melee / it vanished after aliens took it / she never had it with her?
https://newrepublic.com/post/194289/abrego-garcia-wife-hiding-dhs-address
The defiance of all 9 Supreme Court Justices SHOULD HAVE initiated an arrest.
Yes where the fuck is our glorious SC? WORTHLESS
But defying them takes their power away..not a good look. 5
There are 2 that will ALWAYS kiss trump’s ass.
By whom?
Both the military & US Marshals can do this.
You have more faith in Bondi following the Constitution than I do.
And No, the Military cannot do it. By Law they are forbidden to interfere in domestic enforcement activities. .
The US Marshall’s or the FBI are the ones who normally perform these services but both are under Bribery Barbie’s control and she will not
do anything trump doesn’t want her to do.
Attack the victims! It’s the Republicon way.
Holy shit.
I thought Jeff was going to start off talking about the party in Rome this weekend with spaghetti and all that red sauce and maybe some katsup flying around and landing on the walls of the Vatican, in honor of the Pope. Then a little two thumbs up dance to YMCA and on to Putin's house for a little "back door" action.
The Vatican should have REFUSED to allow that rude and vulgar clod to attend Pope Francis' funeral.
This service is meant to offer respect and to honor a man whose life's work modeled that of Jesus Christ. It is also a moment for people of the Catholic faith to grieve the loss of the leader of their church. To allow an infidel, who publicly belittled and criticized Pope Francis, to be at his funeral is an insult to the Pope, the Catholic faith, and another dirty stain on the United States.
Maybe that will be this week in stupid….lol…cuz everyone knows it will happen!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, the media will play right into his hands and put his ugly fucking face on display. Jeff and I don't have to wait for him to do something stupid because we all know it's coming, and it will be Saturday, Jeff's favorite tag line day!
Trump reminds me of Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Quote ... "My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening."
Thank you for that it's a perfect description of the orange lunatic!
The idiocy knows no bounds! It is shameful and embarrassing! Countries around the world, both allies and adversaries, now view us as dysfunctional and a farce.
Alex, That damage will not reverse the minute Dems take over again. Because all of these people will wonder how a country could stand by and allow a Constitutional violating seditionist, convicted Felon and rapist could just walk in to the White House and take over with (what looks like) complicity!
You're exactly right. If we are able to repair our reputational damage throughout the world, and I don’t if that's even possible, it will take decades. It takes a long time and consistent good faith behavior to earn trust. Yet, it can be destroyed so quickly. The US will have a difficult time building back from the destruction and ashes that are left. It won't be easy.
Thing is, the stupid could rise again. Then we're right back to being laughing stocks and no country to trust. I'm afraid it's going to take a bloody civil war to eliminate the stupid.
I remain hopeful we can avoid a civil war. There are no real winners in a war. The results of a civil war are hatred, bloodshed, and lives lost. Surely, we can do better than that.
Hopefully, we can, but "surely"? Assumes facts not in evidence.
I concur. I guess I was a bit too optimistic when I wrote my comment earlier today.
Our government and economy pretty much is.