Will someone PLEASE tell us why a felon is not able to enlist in the military, but a convicted felon with 34 charges, can be commander in chief “over” all the branches of the military??
That right there is some real mind blowing shit. His felony convictions would preclude him from many positions but if you're once again running for Commander in Thief, what the hell, it's perfectly ok. For a heartless, demented, disrespectful asshole who constantly treats the military like garbage and bitches about paying for a brutally murdered soldier's funeral, one hopes that more top brass like General Kelly will speak out about how dangerous and insane a second term would be.
I’m pretty certain that all of the charges against him, civil and criminal, would exclude him from being hired to mop floors in any hospital. Seriously. Few companies want to hire in such a high risk.
The Karma Bus 🚍🚍 is balancing the scales. McD's listeria outbreak is the cosmic smackdown for closing a store, leaving workers unpaid, for a TraitorTurd photo op.
Dumpster the Pumpster and the E.Coli bacteria 🦠 have become so entwined into one creature …the bacteria anticipated his visit to that Mickey D’s and thought they’d get a head start on infecting it !
Because the Founding Fathers, naively, thought that the American people would never be stupid enough to elect a convicted felon, so they neglected to include that as a disqualification.
But there certainly was familiarity with crooks. It seems no guardrails were put in place. Just because this new government supposedly was based on individual’s rights rather than bloodlines, why would that eliminate bad actors?
The military requires intelligence,integrity,honor and courage none of which the yellow bellied Hitler adoring MAGAT repugnantkin candidate possesses ! He might be called the C.I.C. If elected but I doubt his orders will be followed and he’ll never be entitled to wear a U.S. Military uniform!
I am not sure what the voting status is for those convicted but are not yet sentenced. I found the instances for which rights are restored >after< serving a sentence, but not for that in-between period, the several months that Special Boy Donnie is enjoying now.
How can one serve a sentence which has not yet been imposed?
Megan said if they're convicted and haven't done their time or paid their fines. I do believe all remedies have to have been completed (time served/fines paid) before they can vote.
Frump has done EVERYTHING to disqualify him of being ANYTHING!! You have to ask WHY he has not faced charges and sent to prison without possibility of parole of any kind. There is rot all over our elected/ appointed officials.
Because there are no laws to prevent a felon from being commander in chief. If there were laws there would likely be no prosecutors to enforce them. If prosecutors sought to enforce them a trial judge would have to rule that the laws should be enforced and specifiy how. If the judge ruled to enforce the laws the ruling would be appealed. And appealed again until it reached the Supreme Court. Today's Supreme Court is a fully owned subsidiary of Donald Trump-MAGA-GOP. The Supreme Court would strike down the ruling of the trial judge. Isn't that the way things have been going since Trump came on the scene? If Democrats are able to take the White House and Congress shouldn't this be one of the first things they fix? And get rid of Merrick Garland while doing so? I would love for any lawyers out there to tell me I am wrong.
It seems that the DOJ has sent a sternly worded letter to Musk warning him that his vote-buying scheme might be illegal. That'll get him to stop - yeah, sure. No indication that DOJ actually intends to do anything about it. Garland is a disaster.
“I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t have the expertise to evaluate your analysis or verify your conclusions, which makes me hesitant to fully accept them. However, I do appreciate your response and would love to understand this better. Is there a way you can provide further validation? The media touches on many things but rarely addresses questions like ‘why isn’t he in prison?’ or ‘how is he allowed to run, given his record?’ Please don’t take offense—I’m simply trying to avoid the trap of believing everything I read.”
Are there ANY laws against having a criminal who has paid their dues, or not, take office? Is this all state by state, no Federal? Does this all come down to the founders not imagining such a negative scenario so they didn’t include it in the constitution? I’m way over the tips of my skis then it comes to details on such things. But I’m gobsmacked that such issues weren’t, nor haven’t, been considered. Founders were creating a government here to free themselves from tyranny there. It’s not as though they were unfamiliar with crooks. How could this have escaped them? I feel a reading binge coming on to try to understand more about all of this.
Is the orange turd, as a convicted felon, even able to VOTE? If it was anyone else, they wouldn't. Or did I miss class the day this was discussed? Please enlighten. Thank you.
(he is based on Florida law) Since he's not actually IN prison in New York, he'd be allowed to vote there based on New York state law. And Florida law says if he's allowed to vote in the state he was convicted in, then he's allowed to vote in Florida.
Florida defers to the rule in the state where the conviction occurred. New York does not bar felons from voting, so Florida does not bar Trump from voting.
I was driving while listening to Walz. When he said that I laughed so hard I almost drove into the car in front of me. The absolute best line of the campaign season! I need to stop reading the polls. I’m getting agita.
Almost every day I read a comment somewhere on a thread where someone says
"How can it be this close" ! I think we all know in reality it is not even this close.
The only voters voting for orange Hitler are the ones who are completely absent minded and out of touch with reality. And there is a scary percentage of those out there.
🎯 Why would this election be closer than Biden’s massive win!? And since then, Roe V Wade was reversed!, J6 deadly seditionist attack occurred, trump CONVICTED of 34 felonies, CONVICTED of rape, Brown people & immigrants have been injured or killed over his lies…and people believe THIS election is thread bare close! BULLSHIT!
yep ! Almost every day I read a comment somewhere on a thread where someone says
"How can it be this close" ! I think we all know in reality it is not even this close.
The only voters voting for orange Hitler are the ones who are completely absent minded and out of touch with reality. And there is a scare percentage of those out there.
“Skipping like a dipshit!” Damn, I love that man! I’ve been giggling ever since I heard him say it. I love Jeff. too, for helping me stay sane, at least until now.
Being born and raised in the Twin Towns, I can inject a couple thoughts into Walz speech… most of my vocabulary is curse, like many of my generation, it may come in the form of another language perhaps, but it’s a cleverly disguised anger filled rant, none the less Neal!
"Skippin' like a dipshit" is now ilodged in my brain to the tune of the "Chicken In A Biskit" commercials from decades ago. The music was Yakety Sax by Boots Randolph.
Yes, my plain speaking governor. Such a long, long time ago when "plain speaking" was normal. Or when my fathers generation would just call out Trump for what he was/is, " that guy's an Asshole ".
Merrick Garland will do nothing. He's a right-wing stooge, and Biden was played for a fool and really fucked up appointing him. I just hope that the 11th Circuit slaps her down on her dismissal and boots her off the case at last. This is utterly corrupt and ridiculous.
She's been slapped down and basically called an idiot by the court above her, who rejected two of her 🐂 appeals. I don't know if that upper court is hearing Jack Smith's appeal of her throwing out the classified docs case over top secret docs at golf-a-lago. I seem to recall (?) legal experts say if the 3rd appeal goes against her, she may also be removed from the case.
It's the same court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Smith has filed his appeal. I'm just thinking that the revelation that Cannon is being considered as a potential AG may confront the Circuit with Cannon's corruption and blatant conflicts of interest that they won't be able to ignore and that they will resolve the issue by reinstating the case and kicking her to the curb.
The fact that the AG job is being publicly dangled could get her recused, except the case won't be back in front of her until after the election. If Trump loses, she might try to say that since the possibility will never come to pass, it doesn't affect her "impartiality." Of course, if Trump loses, eliminating any chance of getting rewarded for her loyalty, she may start acting like a real judge.
She's stupid and ignorant, and absolutely incapable of acting like a "real judge". She is grossly unqualified for the bench, including even a municipal court. The sooner she's booted off this case the better.
IIRC legal eagles posit that her extreme inability to process routine court docs & act like a judge say this third "offense" (tossing the docs case based on the well established Special Prosecutor statute may get her thrown off the case, or the bench. 🤞
Thrown off the case would be great. Getting her off the bench would be even better, but that would require impeachment, unless she is capable of being embarrassed into resigning. Grossly unqualified.
Some of her clerks said that she was doing fine on non-Trump-related cases and it was only these Trump documents cases that turned her into a mess. She also drew the case of the gunman on Trump's golf course and seemingly so far handled it ok. (Not that, if I was that defendant, I would ever let her decide my fate.)
I believe it is. Let's hope he keeps his nose out of it, although Cannon did base her dismissal on his ridiculous theory that Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional. Let's also hope that if this goes to Boy Clarence the rest of the Court will run in the other direction. Of course, with this Court all bets are off.
Dibs on "Skipping Around Like a Dipshit" as a song title for a ballad about my misspent youth.
Hitler did one really good thing, late but better than never--he did it on April 30, 1945. Incidentally, the article about Daffy Don's Germanophilia says that General Kelly mentioned Rommel as a general who defied Hitler and had to commit suicide over it. Daffy is like "Who's Rommel?" Isn't a pity all those generals that Adolph hung never got to write their tell-all memoirs?
Whatever the cause, I am sick, sick, fucking sick of Musk and Thiel, the founders of the Billionaires Fascist Asshole Club, trying to take over our electoral process. And they were both fucking immigrants earlier in their lives, for fucks sake. How about some gratitude to America for providing the system in which they made shitloads of money? Fucking ingrates.
And I'm freaking tired of hearing & seeing people heap adulations on Elon Musk for founding Tesla. No, you morons. Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla! Nor did he invent the electric car. That would be the engineers Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla in 2003.
After Musk sold PalPay to EBay, he bought lots of Tesla stock, ultimately becoming its largest shareholder. In 2008 he took over as its CEO. End of story.
Musk did not really buy out Eberhard and Tarpenning -- he got himself embedded in the company by investing in it, then pushed the them out of the company a few years after, in part by coming up with allegations that were probably completely fabricated. Not only did he not found Tesla, he didn't come up with the idea of making electric cars more desirable by also making them luxury/sports cars. Eberhard & Tarpenning were actual tech geniuses; Musk just plays one on Xitter. He did come up with the Cybertruck, though, which should probably tell you all you need to know. Unsafe at any speed.
And since Musk got his hands on the company, he's been driving it into the ground (or maybe just into 18-wheelers the car can't see when it's driving itself.) He fired a bunch of workers (reportedly 10% of them) at random, Idk, maybe 2-3 years ago? and this year he announced a round of actual layoffs -- 10% of the company's workforce. Exactly the kind of stuff he did at Xitter.
Elno likes to play the billionaire tech genius, but he does not appear to be that much of a genius. Part of his reputation, at least early on, was his "genius" in creating a computer game when he was 12 and selling it to a magazine -- except it never actually worked until someone came along recently and rewrote it. (I'm guessing his emerald-mine-owner dad had something to do with its purchase in the first place.)
How about revoking citizenship and kicking Apartheid Karen out of the country? I don't know enough about the other fascist to even know where it lives, and I don't want to, but if it's here, that needs to stop, too.
I believe that is what did Hitler in. His doctor was some sort of horrid quack, who was treating Hitler's depression with massively toxic drugs. In fact, I contribute Hitler's death to his doctor more than anything else. Dr. Morel is like the mad doctor of horror films as is Hitler just a horror in and of himself. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/518986612
Except you have the heart throb british gay king of the 80's George Michael jumping about and singing for the joy and beauty of sex. A much happier sight than scum like Musk who gets off on the millions of his subsidized taxpayer money he is using to bolster Trump's MAGA criminal enterprise. His egomaniacal fleeting happiness is that the fools of Americka are such easy marks. He's a bad man. And a terrible dancer.
Yeah the video is so much worse than this still. He looks like he’s doing the sidekick shuffle … awkwardly. I wonder what it does to one’s moral compass to have enough money to be able to buy your way out of literally anything.
Aileen Cannon: one more reason to make sure the Senate remains BLUE! (Actually, it needs to be 10 more senators blue so her impeachment will not be stopped!)
It will be tough. WV will flip and Jon Tester may lose in Montana because the state is full of MAGA idiots. The contested seats in OH, MD, MI, NV, PA are D seats being defended. The hope for new seat pickups are TX, MO, and FL. Fingers crossed.
The only good thing Hitler ever did was shoot himself in his fascist head, and even then, it wasn't all good because he took away the chance for someone else to experience the joy of ending that fuckface's life.
Alison, you have courage so I think you should be the one to tell fucknut tRomp that for months before his disappearance Shitler complained constantly about on his grave he wanted to inscribe, “His Generals were all against him”. That was his wish so I agree we should have that ready for him, if it’s under ten bucks. I’ll pick up that tab.
Sometimes after a few cold ones I wonder about things I’ve been told and taught all my life ! Hitlers death is one thing that still bugs me ….did he really die or stage his suicide and escape to South America as some theories have suggested! The present make believe society of perpetual lies and conspiracy theories that we are living under makes me wonder more and more about how anything can be twisted and manipulated for the benefit of the powerful by and for powerful! 🧐🤔😵💫⁉️ More and more $$$$$$$$ Money seems to be the determining factor in the writing of history and the reality that we live in!! Please let me be believe in a just and honest world 🌍for my grandkids sake !
VOTE BLUE ,the alternative is unacceptable! VOTE BLUE!
Unforgivable turd re female military member being murdered and her body burned and buried by her boyfriend and his new gf. Doesn't the military pay for members' funerals? F'ING billionaire my ass.
Trump spent over $150,000.00 of Ivana's money on her funeral. The fuckin gold casket cost 125k! If it's someone else's money he doesn't care one bit the cost. I still think he buried thousands of documents in her casket with her ASHES.
Every thing that prick does is more vile than the time before …this disgusting act of miserly racist inhuman behavior takes the fucken cake ! Until the next vomit inducing episode of his shit eating existence! When his time comes hang him from a yardarm and let the seagulls rip his eyes and putrid flesh from his shit stinking corpse! Better yet do it while he lives !🤬
I just read in our local news this morning that my city of Grand Rapids is currently holding the bag for $32,000 for the expenses of Trump’s last hate fest here. I hope they don’t let him come back until it’s paid - in full. That should keep him away for a good long time.
The above commenters said it all better than I can, I just want to add a thank you to Jeff for relating the skippin like a dipshit line, I laughed out loud for the first time in awhile as all this furor roils around us— love Tim, love Kamala , c’mon US do the right thing!! 🙏🏻
This November 5th will determine whether or not we’ll be allowed to be expressing our opinions about anything not approved by the Thought Police 👮🤔😵💫 next November ⁉️
These two latest hated filled comments from the Felon are getting decent coverage on the news channels this morning. Politico needs to send their editors skippin like the dipshits they are as well. Side note, haven’t heard much about P2025 lately. This is Vance’s best baby, and let’s face it, he’s the one who will carry on this fascist mandate long after they lose and The Felon is in prison.
They're keeping him quiet, like a mistress, because the obvious contradiction between his ability to put a sentence together and the felon's is too striking, and they don't want to remind voters that the felon will be removed almost instantly and replaced by the couchfucker. He's a true fascist's fascist, willing to say or do literally anything for power, and guided by the worst, most unAmerican ideas ever. Never, ever, ever, forget, or let anyone else forget, that he actually believes that childless people should have no say in the government because they don't have an investment in the country. That alone should terrify everyone, quite apart from everything he says and everything he believes.
I think they did do that. Every time the little weasel opens his mouth it’s a brown shit storm everywhere. Maybe not every one of Trump’s acolytes is stupid. Maybe they can actually see that shitstorm phenom and, because he’s not “thicker than mud” Trump, they can tell him what to do—and he’ll do it.
Fuck Politico. Has Peter Thiele taken it over? Lousy media. Politico has sucked for years. ProPublica is the best. The Guardian isn't so bad. But that's it. I'm surprised Russian Times isn't quoted more often. Actually, Ron Johnson is very fond of RT. He's a paid Russian asset. He has to stay informed. 🫡
Axel Springer bought Politico , also Politico Europe and Tech, my knowledge of the PayPal Mafia, is pretty extensive…Thiel isn’t part of the aptly named group Lisa!
Finding a trusted news site isn’t easy Walter, especially when 5 corporations own and control everything we read, hear or watch on the TV… I’m amazed that the majority of people get their news from social media sites, namely Facebook! Trusting Zuckerberg to fact check anything is laughable, knowing he owns the largest data-mining site in the world! Personally I read a number of sites daily, once even felt RT was a decent source. Fact requires one hell of a lot of research, I no longer have the time, nor trust. Having worked for a long list of defense contractors for many years, I believe little of what I hear, those days have certainly jaded my belief’s!!
Either Biden was played for a fool when he appointed Garland, or he deliberately wanted to avoid prosecuting Trump and his enablers. I don't know which is worse.
That's the beauty of a movement like MAGA. The leader can be all those things Jeff said, ignorant, blithering stupidity, advancing dementia, malevolent, crooked, predatory, but his follower love these qualities. He can openly admire and emulate Hitler and his zombies either are ignorant of Hitler's evil or they actually embrace it. Damn alarming to have this cancer in America
Doc, I still can’t wrap my old brain around this. How is it possible that so many Americans are so misinformed (rhetorical question)? If Kamala doesn’t win in a landslide, I’ll be shocked.
Think of how many people you know who knew who Eminem was yesterday on stage with Elissa Slotkin, and how few of them knew who she is. Or how many people know who's been on Dancing with the Has-Beens, but can't name their own state's senators. Or who just "know" the Democrats will take their guns away, despite the fact that Democrats have been in power for the past four years, and for 8 years before the horror show that was the felon's regime, and nobody's gun has been seized.
They aren't "misinformed," they're deliberately not-informed. They don't want to think about anything deeply. They haven't got the brain power to understand how much politics affects their lives. If they did, they'd be horrified.
Deliberate ignorance, shallowness, and flightiness are all detrimental to self governance. These people are screwing themselves and the rest of us. Stupid, indefensible, self defeating
My neighbor and friend has never voted in his life 72 years old and hasn’t a clue of the shit that’s happening all around him ! I’ve asked him many times why so uninterested in who is making the rules that you have to follow in your life! He has never been able to give me a reasonable explanation.At best I get a shrug and A….it doesn’t affect me ! WTF….. is this as prevalent as I suspect it to be ? If so it explains a lot of our present day insanity ! This guy doesn’t give a shit or even know who’s running for the Presidency unless he’s told ! Fucking amazing!
I won’t be shocked or surprised if he wins. I’ll be mad as hell and sad to the bone. There would be no Trump if there were no followers. And to follow him one must be an ignoramus or … and I believe this is the highest majority of his people … RESENTFUL.
That’s the common denominator across all the groups that follow him. Knowledgeable as well as ignorant. Employed or not. Rich as well as poor. Black, all POC and women who should know better. They resent some thing or many things. They believe they are victimized by others. Or are ashamed they didn’t reach some height they thought they could.
He is an idea. An avatar possessing what they perceive as being able to put “the man” in his place. He is perceived as being able to tell everyone other than their ilk to go piss off. And he does that. He delivers.
It’s discouraging that his followers cannot see the damage (constitutionally, politically, intellectually, emotionally, functionally, attitudinally, spiritually) he has done. Or worse, they can’t see his capacity and how that would affect our future if he should get elected.
To date, it appears that at least 47% of our neighbors are not smart enough nor emotionally secure enough to understand. This is what is shocking.
So many Americans are hugely (purposely?) ignorant. The "person on the street" question segments on Jay Leno and now Jimmy Kimmel show that many folks don't know shit.
Most of the people who were old enough to remember WWII are mostly dead. That's my parents generation. Boomers don't remember it because they weren't born yet. I notice though, when I'm in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, that the horror stories of the Nazis and Communists are still fresh in their minds. The draft here ended in '73. No one since then has been to war unless they volunteered to enlist. To many, these events are only told in history books. How many Americans have traveled to Europe? We are not a well rounded education wise country. Some people have never been out of their state.
We boomers weren’t born yet, but I was born shortly thereafter in 1948. We were familiar with it all and felt emotionally attached to it because of our parents’ involvement. We grew up with it in school. We had memorials, stories, photos. Deaths. Aftermath trauma. No, we weren’t there, but nor can we cannot be described as “not remembering”. Most of us were very connected to it all, and it added a layer to our lives having to do with respect for it all.
I remember looking into my father’s eyes when he was telling us kids about the war years … it was the saddest stare that I ever recall seeing on his face , I’m sure other boomers have similar memories of those stories 68 years later and they still haunt me !
Will someone PLEASE tell us why a felon is not able to enlist in the military, but a convicted felon with 34 charges, can be commander in chief “over” all the branches of the military??
That right there is some real mind blowing shit. His felony convictions would preclude him from many positions but if you're once again running for Commander in Thief, what the hell, it's perfectly ok. For a heartless, demented, disrespectful asshole who constantly treats the military like garbage and bitches about paying for a brutally murdered soldier's funeral, one hopes that more top brass like General Kelly will speak out about how dangerous and insane a second term would be.
I’m pretty certain that all of the charges against him, civil and criminal, would exclude him from being hired to mop floors in any hospital. Seriously. Few companies want to hire in such a high risk.
Well he has “experience” at Mickie D’s.
Well, if the E. Coli outbreak is just a coincidence.... (too good to pass up)
That joint already had citations for um… filth. Hair and stuff.
And now they have more!
And like Trump did, handling food without hairnet or gloves.
The Karma Bus 🚍🚍 is balancing the scales. McD's listeria outbreak is the cosmic smackdown for closing a store, leaving workers unpaid, for a TraitorTurd photo op.
Correction: E. Coli
Dumpster the Pumpster and the E.Coli bacteria 🦠 have become so entwined into one creature …the bacteria anticipated his visit to that Mickey D’s and thought they’d get a head start on infecting it !
Yup and all of a sudden, there's an E Coli outbreak affecting Mickie D's in 10 states.
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He couldn’t even work where I work, not to mention our commitment to DEI here.
Because the Founding Fathers, naively, thought that the American people would never be stupid enough to elect a convicted felon, so they neglected to include that as a disqualification.
Back when the Constitution was written, there were no "felonies."
But there certainly was familiarity with crooks. It seems no guardrails were put in place. Just because this new government supposedly was based on individual’s rights rather than bloodlines, why would that eliminate bad actors?
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SCOTUS says so, that’s why!
SCOTUS should be renamed to SCROTUM OF THE SCOTUS.
I call it the Extreme Cult.
Or it could also be called the Extreme Court with six injustices.
I call it the UNSupreme Cult.
SCROTUS is shorter.
Scrotums aren’t such bad things. 😉.
Scum Coddling Overt Twats Undoing Sanity
C’mon. Pitch in and improve that. You all can do better than my try.
IDK 🤷♀️ yours is pretty top notch
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No, Patrick, SCOTUS says, “FUCK YOU!”
No shit!
The military requires intelligence,integrity,honor and courage none of which the yellow bellied Hitler adoring MAGAT repugnantkin candidate possesses ! He might be called the C.I.C. If elected but I doubt his orders will be followed and he’ll never be entitled to wear a U.S. Military uniform!
People can't even vote if they're a convicted felon and haven't done their time or paid their fines!
In many states but not all
I am not sure what the voting status is for those convicted but are not yet sentenced. I found the instances for which rights are restored >after< serving a sentence, but not for that in-between period, the several months that Special Boy Donnie is enjoying now.
How can one serve a sentence which has not yet been imposed?
Megan said if they're convicted and haven't done their time or paid their fines. I do believe all remedies have to have been completed (time served/fines paid) before they can vote.
And....McDonald's will not hire felons.
Says right there in the MacD Employee Manual: Thou shalt only allow felons to cosplay … no hiring allowed.
Frump has done EVERYTHING to disqualify him of being ANYTHING!! You have to ask WHY he has not faced charges and sent to prison without possibility of parole of any kind. There is rot all over our elected/ appointed officials.
Because there are no laws to prevent a felon from being commander in chief. If there were laws there would likely be no prosecutors to enforce them. If prosecutors sought to enforce them a trial judge would have to rule that the laws should be enforced and specifiy how. If the judge ruled to enforce the laws the ruling would be appealed. And appealed again until it reached the Supreme Court. Today's Supreme Court is a fully owned subsidiary of Donald Trump-MAGA-GOP. The Supreme Court would strike down the ruling of the trial judge. Isn't that the way things have been going since Trump came on the scene? If Democrats are able to take the White House and Congress shouldn't this be one of the first things they fix? And get rid of Merrick Garland while doing so? I would love for any lawyers out there to tell me I am wrong.
Merrick Garland should have been removed during the second year of his delay on justice for the J6 terrorists
It seems that the DOJ has sent a sternly worded letter to Musk warning him that his vote-buying scheme might be illegal. That'll get him to stop - yeah, sure. No indication that DOJ actually intends to do anything about it. Garland is a disaster.
“I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t have the expertise to evaluate your analysis or verify your conclusions, which makes me hesitant to fully accept them. However, I do appreciate your response and would love to understand this better. Is there a way you can provide further validation? The media touches on many things but rarely addresses questions like ‘why isn’t he in prison?’ or ‘how is he allowed to run, given his record?’ Please don’t take offense—I’m simply trying to avoid the trap of believing everything I read.”
Are there ANY laws against having a criminal who has paid their dues, or not, take office? Is this all state by state, no Federal? Does this all come down to the founders not imagining such a negative scenario so they didn’t include it in the constitution? I’m way over the tips of my skis then it comes to details on such things. But I’m gobsmacked that such issues weren’t, nor haven’t, been considered. Founders were creating a government here to free themselves from tyranny there. It’s not as though they were unfamiliar with crooks. How could this have escaped them? I feel a reading binge coming on to try to understand more about all of this.
Is the orange turd, as a convicted felon, even able to VOTE? If it was anyone else, they wouldn't. Or did I miss class the day this was discussed? Please enlighten. Thank you.
(he is based on Florida law) Since he's not actually IN prison in New York, he'd be allowed to vote there based on New York state law. And Florida law says if he's allowed to vote in the state he was convicted in, then he's allowed to vote in Florida.
So you follow individual state law and have to be IN prison. Crossing my fingers that the latter happens soon. Thanks for your responses.
Florida defers to the rule in the state where the conviction occurred. New York does not bar felons from voting, so Florida does not bar Trump from voting.
In many states, convicted felons cannot vote but there are states that allow it.
Yes, I would like the answer to that question too!!!!
“Skippin’ like a dipshit”… has Walz been talking to your less potty-mouthed Minnesota cousin? ‘Cause that line is fucking GOLD.
I was driving while listening to Walz. When he said that I laughed so hard I almost drove into the car in front of me. The absolute best line of the campaign season! I need to stop reading the polls. I’m getting agita.
Fuck the polls. They're just clickbait news to sell papers. Rasmussen polls are bs propaganda. 🥱
Almost every day I read a comment somewhere on a thread where someone says
"How can it be this close" ! I think we all know in reality it is not even this close.
The only voters voting for orange Hitler are the ones who are completely absent minded and out of touch with reality. And there is a scary percentage of those out there.
🎯 Why would this election be closer than Biden’s massive win!? And since then, Roe V Wade was reversed!, J6 deadly seditionist attack occurred, trump CONVICTED of 34 felonies, CONVICTED of rape, Brown people & immigrants have been injured or killed over his lies…and people believe THIS election is thread bare close! BULLSHIT!
Those people, and the filthy rich who want more power and to pay less - OR ZERO - taxes.
Yes!!
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I had an election-related technicolor nightmare last night. No more looking at the polls before bed. What was I thinking?
Do NOT believe the polls.
I know, I know. I believe she will win, but that there will be trouble. I live in PA.
yep ! Almost every day I read a comment somewhere on a thread where someone says
"How can it be this close" ! I think we all know in reality it is not even this close.
The only voters voting for orange Hitler are the ones who are completely absent minded and out of touch with reality. And there is a scare percentage of those out there.
Check out Simon Rosenberg’s SubStack called “Hopium”. It helps with 2016 PTSD symptoms.
“Skipping like a dipshit!” Damn, I love that man! I’ve been giggling ever since I heard him say it. I love Jeff. too, for helping me stay sane, at least until now.
I was laughing at that too and a few more things he said. Gawwwd…he’s such a joy!
The way he pronounces the word "dipshit" is giving me endless joy
Walz & Harris make me love them more with each & every speech! What a winning pair!
FINALLY!
Being born and raised in the Twin Towns, I can inject a couple thoughts into Walz speech… most of my vocabulary is curse, like many of my generation, it may come in the form of another language perhaps, but it’s a cleverly disguised anger filled rant, none the less Neal!
Since hearing “skippin’ like a dipshit” yesterday, I have randomly and repeatedly burst into giggles. Tim Walz is a much-needed breath of fresh air.
I still have High Election Anxiety, but moments like this help!
"Skippin' like a dipshit" is now ilodged in my brain to the tune of the "Chicken In A Biskit" commercials from decades ago. The music was Yakety Sax by Boots Randolph.
Boots’ tune was good enough for Benny Hill.
And it's too good for Elon Musk. My dad loved Boots Randolph. He had a cassette or it could have been an 8-track.
Gold, it should win every reward ✌🏻💙
Gotta love VP Walz!
Yes, my plain speaking governor. Such a long, long time ago when "plain speaking" was normal. Or when my fathers generation would just call out Trump for what he was/is, " that guy's an Asshole ".
WALZ for the win. 👏👏👏👏 Thats awesome. 😂😂😂
👍👍😂😂
Merrick Garland will do nothing. He's a right-wing stooge, and Biden was played for a fool and really fucked up appointing him. I just hope that the 11th Circuit slaps her down on her dismissal and boots her off the case at last. This is utterly corrupt and ridiculous.
She's been slapped down and basically called an idiot by the court above her, who rejected two of her 🐂 appeals. I don't know if that upper court is hearing Jack Smith's appeal of her throwing out the classified docs case over top secret docs at golf-a-lago. I seem to recall (?) legal experts say if the 3rd appeal goes against her, she may also be removed from the case.
It's the same court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Smith has filed his appeal. I'm just thinking that the revelation that Cannon is being considered as a potential AG may confront the Circuit with Cannon's corruption and blatant conflicts of interest that they won't be able to ignore and that they will resolve the issue by reinstating the case and kicking her to the curb.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻💙
If only…
The fact that the AG job is being publicly dangled could get her recused, except the case won't be back in front of her until after the election. If Trump loses, she might try to say that since the possibility will never come to pass, it doesn't affect her "impartiality." Of course, if Trump loses, eliminating any chance of getting rewarded for her loyalty, she may start acting like a real judge.
She's stupid and ignorant, and absolutely incapable of acting like a "real judge". She is grossly unqualified for the bench, including even a municipal court. The sooner she's booted off this case the better.
IIRC legal eagles posit that her extreme inability to process routine court docs & act like a judge say this third "offense" (tossing the docs case based on the well established Special Prosecutor statute may get her thrown off the case, or the bench. 🤞
Thrown off the case would be great. Getting her off the bench would be even better, but that would require impeachment, unless she is capable of being embarrassed into resigning. Grossly unqualified.
Some of her clerks said that she was doing fine on non-Trump-related cases and it was only these Trump documents cases that turned her into a mess. She also drew the case of the gunman on Trump's golf course and seemingly so far handled it ok. (Not that, if I was that defendant, I would ever let her decide my fate.)
I believe it is. Let's hope he keeps his nose out of it, although Cannon did base her dismissal on his ridiculous theory that Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional. Let's also hope that if this goes to Boy Clarence the rest of the Court will run in the other direction. Of course, with this Court all bets are off.
From your lips to …
True dat Linda, had you or I pulled this sort of con, we wouldn’t be scribbling our thoughts here!!
Dibs on "Skipping Around Like a Dipshit" as a song title for a ballad about my misspent youth.
Hitler did one really good thing, late but better than never--he did it on April 30, 1945. Incidentally, the article about Daffy Don's Germanophilia says that General Kelly mentioned Rommel as a general who defied Hitler and had to commit suicide over it. Daffy is like "Who's Rommel?" Isn't a pity all those generals that Adolph hung never got to write their tell-all memoirs?
Yeah, Elon gave a performance reminiscent of Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-go
Maybe all his drug use is catching up with him? Hope so.
Whatever the cause, I am sick, sick, fucking sick of Musk and Thiel, the founders of the Billionaires Fascist Asshole Club, trying to take over our electoral process. And they were both fucking immigrants earlier in their lives, for fucks sake. How about some gratitude to America for providing the system in which they made shitloads of money? Fucking ingrates.
And I'm freaking tired of hearing & seeing people heap adulations on Elon Musk for founding Tesla. No, you morons. Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla! Nor did he invent the electric car. That would be the engineers Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla in 2003.
After Musk sold PalPay to EBay, he bought lots of Tesla stock, ultimately becoming its largest shareholder. In 2008 he took over as its CEO. End of story.
Thanks for that bit of history. I didn't actually know that.
Musk did not really buy out Eberhard and Tarpenning -- he got himself embedded in the company by investing in it, then pushed the them out of the company a few years after, in part by coming up with allegations that were probably completely fabricated. Not only did he not found Tesla, he didn't come up with the idea of making electric cars more desirable by also making them luxury/sports cars. Eberhard & Tarpenning were actual tech geniuses; Musk just plays one on Xitter. He did come up with the Cybertruck, though, which should probably tell you all you need to know. Unsafe at any speed.
And since Musk got his hands on the company, he's been driving it into the ground (or maybe just into 18-wheelers the car can't see when it's driving itself.) He fired a bunch of workers (reportedly 10% of them) at random, Idk, maybe 2-3 years ago? and this year he announced a round of actual layoffs -- 10% of the company's workforce. Exactly the kind of stuff he did at Xitter.
Elno likes to play the billionaire tech genius, but he does not appear to be that much of a genius. Part of his reputation, at least early on, was his "genius" in creating a computer game when he was 12 and selling it to a magazine -- except it never actually worked until someone came along recently and rewrote it. (I'm guessing his emerald-mine-owner dad had something to do with its purchase in the first place.)
Good info. Didn't know that.
I have no idea why my comment got posted twice!
How about revoking citizenship and kicking Apartheid Karen out of the country? I don't know enough about the other fascist to even know where it lives, and I don't want to, but if it's here, that needs to stop, too.
Hiding. And complicit.
Very well said! That’s a point I’ve made too. They emigrated here to change our form of government? No, just no.
I believe that is what did Hitler in. His doctor was some sort of horrid quack, who was treating Hitler's depression with massively toxic drugs. In fact, I contribute Hitler's death to his doctor more than anything else. Dr. Morel is like the mad doctor of horror films as is Hitler just a horror in and of himself. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/518986612
It caught up to him long ago arne, hence the diaper!
I was actually referring to Musk, but yes. You are right.
Except you have the heart throb british gay king of the 80's George Michael jumping about and singing for the joy and beauty of sex. A much happier sight than scum like Musk who gets off on the millions of his subsidized taxpayer money he is using to bolster Trump's MAGA criminal enterprise. His egomaniacal fleeting happiness is that the fools of Americka are such easy marks. He's a bad man. And a terrible dancer.
Yeah the video is so much worse than this still. He looks like he’s doing the sidekick shuffle … awkwardly. I wonder what it does to one’s moral compass to have enough money to be able to buy your way out of literally anything.
The only thing good about “Leon” is that he can’t gun for President bc he wasn’t born here! Gonna have a champagne toast over that one!
Some years back I heard that DFF complained that General Kelly “kept lecturing him.” Now we have the notes from those lectures.
"Skipping Around Like a Dipshit" should have a twin chorus of JD Vance lookalikes.
A: Skipin'
B: Dippin'
A: Skippin'
B: Shitin'
AB: La-dee-da-dee-la-dee-da-dee-dah!!!!!
A good artist would be Pee Wee Herman.
I think that covers just about everyone’s misspent youth!
Lol 😉
Aileen Cannon: one more reason to make sure the Senate remains BLUE! (Actually, it needs to be 10 more senators blue so her impeachment will not be stopped!)
It will be tough. WV will flip and Jon Tester may lose in Montana because the state is full of MAGA idiots. The contested seats in OH, MD, MI, NV, PA are D seats being defended. The hope for new seat pickups are TX, MO, and FL. Fingers crossed.
I heard Angela Alsobrooks is leading by a fair margin
I've donated to her. She made her case on Lawrence O'Donnell.
So did I. Very articulate lady
Hopefully impeachment won’t be necessary for Kamala, but would love more democratic senators!
Drumpf is exhausted?
Hell I’m goddamned DEPLETED by this fuckin’ guy.
Wake me when it’s over.
Vote blue first please!
I voted on Saturday. :)
The only good thing Hitler ever did was shoot himself in his fascist head, and even then, it wasn't all good because he took away the chance for someone else to experience the joy of ending that fuckface's life.
Alison, you have courage so I think you should be the one to tell fucknut tRomp that for months before his disappearance Shitler complained constantly about on his grave he wanted to inscribe, “His Generals were all against him”. That was his wish so I agree we should have that ready for him, if it’s under ten bucks. I’ll pick up that tab.
I have zero courage and also zero desire and ability to be anywhere near him.
Sometimes after a few cold ones I wonder about things I’ve been told and taught all my life ! Hitlers death is one thing that still bugs me ….did he really die or stage his suicide and escape to South America as some theories have suggested! The present make believe society of perpetual lies and conspiracy theories that we are living under makes me wonder more and more about how anything can be twisted and manipulated for the benefit of the powerful by and for powerful! 🧐🤔😵💫⁉️ More and more $$$$$$$$ Money seems to be the determining factor in the writing of history and the reality that we live in!! Please let me be believe in a just and honest world 🌍for my grandkids sake !
VOTE BLUE ,the alternative is unacceptable! VOTE BLUE!
He bitches and moans like the money is coming out of his own wallet…if he has one. He uses the wallets of his deluded sycophants instead.
Unforgivable turd re female military member being murdered and her body burned and buried by her boyfriend and his new gf. Doesn't the military pay for members' funerals? F'ING billionaire my ass.
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Trump spent over $150,000.00 of Ivana's money on her funeral. The fuckin gold casket cost 125k! If it's someone else's money he doesn't care one bit the cost. I still think he buried thousands of documents in her casket with her ASHES.
I hope NSA, CIA etc has 👀👀👀 on Ivana's casket & turd plane.
Drumpf telling ANYONE or any Organization that he will “pick up the bill” is in for a rude awakening… no matter if it’s $10 or $60,000.
Every thing that prick does is more vile than the time before …this disgusting act of miserly racist inhuman behavior takes the fucken cake ! Until the next vomit inducing episode of his shit eating existence! When his time comes hang him from a yardarm and let the seagulls rip his eyes and putrid flesh from his shit stinking corpse! Better yet do it while he lives !🤬
Just a bit of wishful thinking 🤔,don’t need any knocks on the door J.Edgar 😬
VOTE BLUE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That's why I'm laughing my ass off about him staging his hate rally at Madison Square Garden 🙄🤣✌🏻💙
Isn't NYC deep blue? Same with outside NYC area?
I wonder if the trump rally at MSG will resemble the 1939 Nazi rally organized by the German American Bund on 2/20/ 1939??!!
WTH is he doing in NY???
He can’t change his numbers there. They hate him. Blue state, with some outlying red areas.
NYC? Snowball’s chance in hell. All blue.
He came here to CA too. Good luck with that. Hard blue. Why isn’t he is swing states??
What he’s doing looks more like a good bye tour than an election circuit.
I just read in our local news this morning that my city of Grand Rapids is currently holding the bag for $32,000 for the expenses of Trump’s last hate fest here. I hope they don’t let him come back until it’s paid - in full. That should keep him away for a good long time.
The above commenters said it all better than I can, I just want to add a thank you to Jeff for relating the skippin like a dipshit line, I laughed out loud for the first time in awhile as all this furor roils around us— love Tim, love Kamala , c’mon US do the right thing!! 🙏🏻
This November 5th will determine whether or not we’ll be allowed to be expressing our opinions about anything not approved by the Thought Police 👮🤔😵💫 next November ⁉️
VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE FREEDOM 🇺🇸VOTE BLUE !🇺🇸
Watching Walz and Obama yesterday felt great. More of that, please.
These two latest hated filled comments from the Felon are getting decent coverage on the news channels this morning. Politico needs to send their editors skippin like the dipshits they are as well. Side note, haven’t heard much about P2025 lately. This is Vance’s best baby, and let’s face it, he’s the one who will carry on this fascist mandate long after they lose and The Felon is in prison.
Where IS Vance? Crickets in the news about him. He disappeared about the time as Loomer.
They're keeping him quiet, like a mistress, because the obvious contradiction between his ability to put a sentence together and the felon's is too striking, and they don't want to remind voters that the felon will be removed almost instantly and replaced by the couchfucker. He's a true fascist's fascist, willing to say or do literally anything for power, and guided by the worst, most unAmerican ideas ever. Never, ever, ever, forget, or let anyone else forget, that he actually believes that childless people should have no say in the government because they don't have an investment in the country. That alone should terrify everyone, quite apart from everything he says and everything he believes.
Furniture shopping?
That’s SOFA king hilarious!😅😂🤣
😂 Good one!
Could JD Vance be squirreled away? Perhaps the MAGATS in charge would like to keep him secreted while Diaper Donny is busy “listening to a music.”
Vance and Loomer are deranged sociopaths. Electing tRump means electing them!
I think they did do that. Every time the little weasel opens his mouth it’s a brown shit storm everywhere. Maybe not every one of Trump’s acolytes is stupid. Maybe they can actually see that shitstorm phenom and, because he’s not “thicker than mud” Trump, they can tell him what to do—and he’ll do it.
It’s probably Dumper being paranoid about VD stealing his thunder !⚡️😵💫
I think you have a great point. Better than mine!
After seeing Elons Skippy dance I think Vance and his family have secretly moved to India.....I know his wife and kids are ready to go...
Fuck Politico. Has Peter Thiele taken it over? Lousy media. Politico has sucked for years. ProPublica is the best. The Guardian isn't so bad. But that's it. I'm surprised Russian Times isn't quoted more often. Actually, Ron Johnson is very fond of RT. He's a paid Russian asset. He has to stay informed. 🫡
Axel Springer bought Politico , also Politico Europe and Tech, my knowledge of the PayPal Mafia, is pretty extensive…Thiel isn’t part of the aptly named group Lisa!
Thanks for the clarification, Lisa. I get Politico and ProPublica mixed up.
Finding a trusted news site isn’t easy Walter, especially when 5 corporations own and control everything we read, hear or watch on the TV… I’m amazed that the majority of people get their news from social media sites, namely Facebook! Trusting Zuckerberg to fact check anything is laughable, knowing he owns the largest data-mining site in the world! Personally I read a number of sites daily, once even felt RT was a decent source. Fact requires one hell of a lot of research, I no longer have the time, nor trust. Having worked for a long list of defense contractors for many years, I believe little of what I hear, those days have certainly jaded my belief’s!!
Patrick, I hear you. Now, I have people that I trust to inform me, not MSM. Several of those trustworthy writers were met here, on Substack. 😊
Vance may be Thiels protege, but he’s still the most despised VP candidate b a sed on several polls!
Fucking Garland will haunt Biden’s legacy forever. worthless underpants skid mark.
Either Biden was played for a fool when he appointed Garland, or he deliberately wanted to avoid prosecuting Trump and his enablers. I don't know which is worse.
That's the beauty of a movement like MAGA. The leader can be all those things Jeff said, ignorant, blithering stupidity, advancing dementia, malevolent, crooked, predatory, but his follower love these qualities. He can openly admire and emulate Hitler and his zombies either are ignorant of Hitler's evil or they actually embrace it. Damn alarming to have this cancer in America
Doc, I still can’t wrap my old brain around this. How is it possible that so many Americans are so misinformed (rhetorical question)? If Kamala doesn’t win in a landslide, I’ll be shocked.
Think of how many people you know who knew who Eminem was yesterday on stage with Elissa Slotkin, and how few of them knew who she is. Or how many people know who's been on Dancing with the Has-Beens, but can't name their own state's senators. Or who just "know" the Democrats will take their guns away, despite the fact that Democrats have been in power for the past four years, and for 8 years before the horror show that was the felon's regime, and nobody's gun has been seized.
They aren't "misinformed," they're deliberately not-informed. They don't want to think about anything deeply. They haven't got the brain power to understand how much politics affects their lives. If they did, they'd be horrified.
Deliberate ignorance, shallowness, and flightiness are all detrimental to self governance. These people are screwing themselves and the rest of us. Stupid, indefensible, self defeating
My neighbor and friend has never voted in his life 72 years old and hasn’t a clue of the shit that’s happening all around him ! I’ve asked him many times why so uninterested in who is making the rules that you have to follow in your life! He has never been able to give me a reasonable explanation.At best I get a shrug and A….it doesn’t affect me ! WTF….. is this as prevalent as I suspect it to be ? If so it explains a lot of our present day insanity ! This guy doesn’t give a shit or even know who’s running for the Presidency unless he’s told ! Fucking amazing!
Walter, my wife and I ask ourselves this constantly. Continually. Repeatedly. In a recurring manner.
I won’t be shocked or surprised if he wins. I’ll be mad as hell and sad to the bone. There would be no Trump if there were no followers. And to follow him one must be an ignoramus or … and I believe this is the highest majority of his people … RESENTFUL.
That’s the common denominator across all the groups that follow him. Knowledgeable as well as ignorant. Employed or not. Rich as well as poor. Black, all POC and women who should know better. They resent some thing or many things. They believe they are victimized by others. Or are ashamed they didn’t reach some height they thought they could.
He is an idea. An avatar possessing what they perceive as being able to put “the man” in his place. He is perceived as being able to tell everyone other than their ilk to go piss off. And he does that. He delivers.
It’s discouraging that his followers cannot see the damage (constitutionally, politically, intellectually, emotionally, functionally, attitudinally, spiritually) he has done. Or worse, they can’t see his capacity and how that would affect our future if he should get elected.
To date, it appears that at least 47% of our neighbors are not smart enough nor emotionally secure enough to understand. This is what is shocking.
We’re only what maybe 3 1/2 generations from the WWII era and it’s been forgotten by so many ……now that sucks ! 🤬😬
So many Americans are hugely (purposely?) ignorant. The "person on the street" question segments on Jay Leno and now Jimmy Kimmel show that many folks don't know shit.
Scary
Most of the people who were old enough to remember WWII are mostly dead. That's my parents generation. Boomers don't remember it because they weren't born yet. I notice though, when I'm in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, that the horror stories of the Nazis and Communists are still fresh in their minds. The draft here ended in '73. No one since then has been to war unless they volunteered to enlist. To many, these events are only told in history books. How many Americans have traveled to Europe? We are not a well rounded education wise country. Some people have never been out of their state.
We boomers weren’t born yet, but I was born shortly thereafter in 1948. We were familiar with it all and felt emotionally attached to it because of our parents’ involvement. We grew up with it in school. We had memorials, stories, photos. Deaths. Aftermath trauma. No, we weren’t there, but nor can we cannot be described as “not remembering”. Most of us were very connected to it all, and it added a layer to our lives having to do with respect for it all.
I remember looking into my father’s eyes when he was telling us kids about the war years … it was the saddest stare that I ever recall seeing on his face , I’m sure other boomers have similar memories of those stories 68 years later and they still haunt me !
Cognitive dissonance or willful ignorance…it’s difficult to tell.
I hear that women have been outnumbering men in early voting. Let us hope that means it is a blue wave. We won't go back!
I’ve said before the Ladies are going to save our collective ass ! A Pink Tsunami 🌊!
A Blue Tsunami!