The thing about stupid people is that they don’t know what they don’t know. They happily keep their fingers in their ears whenever facts are presented while yelling “lalalalala”. It’s going to be depressing to watch the out and out damage being done by morons and con artists to this country, waiting to see if any of the rubes notice it. I’m doubtful we’ll ever get to see them regret their ignorance….too stupid to learn anything, too stupid to acknowledge their wrongs, too stupid to stop hurting themselves and others.
Watching TV 24-7 has had that effect on half the denizens in this country Sarah! The Uber wealthy plan to create a more ignorant society has worked to perfection!!
I believe it’s a long list of things that have contributed: all types of right wing media that has directly lied and distorted facts, people being deliberately manipulated and jacked up with fear tactics, lack of civic-government-history education, lack of understanding of the impact of linguistics-repetition-simple brainwashing techniques, inability and lack of information about how to stand up for democracy, etc.
In other words: A big beautiful Psyop, the military has been using them for decades… disinformation, fear, and man’s behavioral problems to clear thought and problem solve turned against us!
The fun fact regarding the brain is that the protective myelin sheath that surrounds brain tissue when young and allows the easily manipulated compartmentalisation of a ‘fight or flight’ response to be compulsive, begins to break down around age 50. Live long enough and social mediated dopamine stops working.
The most significant thing is actually the fact that most Americans don't follow politics at all. They vote based on the bullshit they pick up literally days before the elections.
The plan began with TV, and radio years ago! It was certainly carried forward via the internet and social media. Thanks in large part to Clinton signing the revised Telecommunications Act Marycat!!
No shit. I remember when TV wasn't even on all day unless you count the test pattern.
My late husband repaired electronics in the 70s. He would go to homes to fix TVs. People would stay seated, watching their dead set until it got fixed. Never took their eyes off of it. This happened often.
We urgently need honest open sourced research on how this kind of behaviour, ie patterns of reinforced behavioural intellectual passivity, may have had a deleterious affect upon our brains and our societies.
There is a lot of research regarding TV and affect on children. Most of it is corollary, but may be causative. Some research is available regarding adults and violence on TV.
I remember one study that stated cause and effect as being the same as smoking and lung cancer. It's been a while since I looked at it. I bet there is a lot by now that is easily available.
There's a brilliant book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" about this by Neil Posterman, and it was written 30-40 years ago, but it is well worth looking up and reading...
That's exactly what I was going to comment. Not as well-composed as what you've managed, but there you have it. Have they yet registered what the considered VA cuts are? Hah! Forget medicaid/medicare/social security threats. If totally ignorant of that, then threats to FDIC bank deposit insurance is like Chinese mountain dialect that hasn't come near to breaking through yet. And it's not just the average duh-level Maga, we're even talkin' about the Republican voters who really should know more than the morons, for example the counterparts to Democrats who just don't dig "politics" all that much. Democrats who don't really give that much of a shit, either to make some effort to be informed--whether or not they even bother to vote--let alone be active citizens.
Forget the misinformation that tells them, the Magas, they're unhappy with grocery prices.
What is talk radio telling them now about the nominations for key cabinet and other Government positions? It's a total, unequivocal shitshow from Musk down to Guilfoyle. A dangerous catastrophic shitshow.
Who's to tell them they're unhappy? They're as deranged as their hero President.
How can we avoid the conclusion that overall, we just don't deserve Democracy? Well, it's on the kids now. No matter what I plan to do in re rescussitating grammar school Social Studies and high school Civics, this is gonna take at least a generation to rectify. I'll be long gone before this mess--the gazillionaire kakistocracy--is dealt with, and by that time Hello Polio, Hi Climate Change, bye bye Miami. Ain't life grand? Let's make the most of what time we've got left.
Truth. It is always worth fighting against the corruption in any way one can until our last breath. You never know who is watching and it may be that last silent witness that become a game changer after we are all long gone 🐈⬛
Well said LesG! The only thought that comes to mind.is, getting the hell out of the country, for an endless stretch of time, or until the flat circle that is time rolls back to normality!
Just for fun, some attorney is trying to get the requirement for polio vaccines tossed out. I know it's in the NYT and WaPo today and probably others. The Guardian, my newspaper, won't let me read until I pay more than I do, but it's probably there also.
They’ll be singing a different tune when their kids contract measles, mumps, chickenpox, rubella, whooping cough or polio. Trump is old enough to remember what life was like before vaccines for these diseases were introduced.
Also, largely due to transportation costs, the price of chicken feed is, well, no longer "chicken feed." I know people who had to destroy their entire chicken population because of bird flu. It takes time to get new chicks and more time for them to reach laying age. (And they keep eating even when they aren't producing.)
A lot of that work is likely done by undocumented labor, so labor costs will contribute to further increases. But, sure, only trump can fix it. I'm so sick of stupid people who are scrambling to become even more stupid.
You have the same reason for the increase in egg prices. But what drives me to the edge is when people like Peggy Noonan on “ The Beat” lectured Ari Melber on how
“w-o-r-d-y” Democrats are. Oh, they lose people. I am so sick of the trashing of logic, reason, and facts. We are about to get a fire hose of gaslighting and lies.
Well, now that Trump is beginning to admit that he lied about the price of "groceries" being "simple" to reduce (and the idiots who voted for him not admitting to themselves that if that were true, every president in US history would've done it), the press reported it but is walking on eggshells. Trump successfully sued ABC News and George Stephanopolos for saying he raped E. Jean Carroll. This shows the media that they have to be very careful of what they say. I remember a lot of media people using the word "rape" in that case.
I worked in a cage-free chicken barn for several months last year. It's smelly work, very hard on the lungs, too. (If we think Don Jr. is sniffing a lot now, just wait until he spends a month on a chicken farm!)
I will be slapping these gas and egg stickers onto gas pumps and eggs shelves in the grocery store nonstop for the next 4 years. Repeat it over and over and over again. Remind them incessantly that they were lied to and are stupid marks...
Entire flocks of chickens are being destroyed to prevent the spread of bird flu. It takes awhile for baby chickens to start producing eggs (if they can acquire the chicks). And now a variant has jumped species and it's affecting dairy cows. (They're coming for your cheap milk, too.) You might want to stock up on "shelf stable milk" which can go months without refrigeration; even after opening, it lasts longer in the fridge than the regular milk. Too bad the budget won't cover pandemic response teams.
🧨🧨🧨🧨Don't give up in advance. I read some fascinating information about how the federal bureaucracy—the hated and feared Deep State—can help stop Trump's henchmen from getting anywhere fast. Give yourself reasons to hope!
Thanks for the link. Brilliant article and advice for all civil servants. Play them at their own game. Mimic Aileen Cannon and legally delay:delay:delay. Both Thiel and Musk with their slavish worship of all things Roman Empire building will surely appreciate this form of guerilla warfare with its historical origins in the delaying tactics of Fabius ‘Cunctator’ Maximus (289-203 BC). Who by delaying saved The Republic 🐈⬛
And yes, while MAGA is taken for a ride, we are all on the MAGA train headed for the station without brakes. And not just us, anywhere in the world (except Ukraine, Syria and South Korea -because people have the courage to depose tyrants, not vote them into office).
This train ride is going to fucking suck, especially because we have to listen to the orange shit head conductor speak over the next four years. That voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Ugh.
That hideous voice is worse than a saw on a rock. Four more years of his daily bullshit and blatant incompetence is going to be very difficult to endure. How so many voters once again fell for a reckless criminal with the brains of a dildo is even more baffling and hard to comprehend.
Let Jeff listen for you! His transcriptions of the highlights are invaluable, as I fortunately don't have a family member that watches any cable news programs, which can't resist showing clips of trump talking every 5 minutes.
I thought Pence was supposed to be the “adult” in the room. Vance is a power slut who will do whatever his ma$ters tell him to do and will have no moral or mental reservations about it. 47 is an attention slut and erratic and working on a fine case of dementia (apparently), which will make him somewhat less effective. Erratic plus ineffective is going to put the real movers in a chronic state of diarrhea.
In my darkest moments I think he’s being groomed for his REAL next job. Per Bloomberg (which I just read) while the muskrat is getting lots of photo ops, Vance is waiting in the chamber. For 2028 or for…
If I see that orange face and have warning that he will be speaking I change the channel! I will not look at his discolored face or listen to his whiney wimp voice again ever!! I tried going back to my local news but he is everywhere!!
I only watch Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. That’s it. I read our local newspaper 4 days a week and get the SF Chronicle on Sundays. I read Substack and look at bluesky if I want to be informed. I refuse to listen to a rapist, a misogynist, a thief, a grifter, a liar, a narcissist.
Thanks for sharing George, it will be interesting to see, how the unctuous derps that bought this malodorous codpiece’s con, when they start to pay more for all the the goods and services
Just ordered 1,000 "Where're my $1.75 eggs?" stickers.
To go along with the 1,000 "Where's my $1.25 gas?" ones that arrived last week!
The thing about stupid people is that they don’t know what they don’t know. They happily keep their fingers in their ears whenever facts are presented while yelling “lalalalala”. It’s going to be depressing to watch the out and out damage being done by morons and con artists to this country, waiting to see if any of the rubes notice it. I’m doubtful we’ll ever get to see them regret their ignorance….too stupid to learn anything, too stupid to acknowledge their wrongs, too stupid to stop hurting themselves and others.
Watching TV 24-7 has had that effect on half the denizens in this country Sarah! The Uber wealthy plan to create a more ignorant society has worked to perfection!!
It's not TV. It's social media.
I believe it’s a long list of things that have contributed: all types of right wing media that has directly lied and distorted facts, people being deliberately manipulated and jacked up with fear tactics, lack of civic-government-history education, lack of understanding of the impact of linguistics-repetition-simple brainwashing techniques, inability and lack of information about how to stand up for democracy, etc.
In other words: A big beautiful Psyop, the military has been using them for decades… disinformation, fear, and man’s behavioral problems to clear thought and problem solve turned against us!
The fun fact regarding the brain is that the protective myelin sheath that surrounds brain tissue when young and allows the easily manipulated compartmentalisation of a ‘fight or flight’ response to be compulsive, begins to break down around age 50. Live long enough and social mediated dopamine stops working.
The Elders will save the world !
It's also Fox (so-called) News, and (so-called) Reality TV between that, and soap operas, you can see their intellect dropping as they watch it.
Beautifully executed Psyops Ethereal!!
The most significant thing is actually the fact that most Americans don't follow politics at all. They vote based on the bullshit they pick up literally days before the elections.
The plan began with TV, and radio years ago! It was certainly carried forward via the internet and social media. Thanks in large part to Clinton signing the revised Telecommunications Act Marycat!!
It's not a Rock, it's a boulder.
No shit. I remember when TV wasn't even on all day unless you count the test pattern.
My late husband repaired electronics in the 70s. He would go to homes to fix TVs. People would stay seated, watching their dead set until it got fixed. Never took their eyes off of it. This happened often.
We urgently need honest open sourced research on how this kind of behaviour, ie patterns of reinforced behavioural intellectual passivity, may have had a deleterious affect upon our brains and our societies.
There is a lot of research regarding TV and affect on children. Most of it is corollary, but may be causative. Some research is available regarding adults and violence on TV.
I remember one study that stated cause and effect as being the same as smoking and lung cancer. It's been a while since I looked at it. I bet there is a lot by now that is easily available.
There's a brilliant book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" about this by Neil Posterman, and it was written 30-40 years ago, but it is well worth looking up and reading...
🙏
Ew
MORE ignorant??
That's exactly what I was going to comment. Not as well-composed as what you've managed, but there you have it. Have they yet registered what the considered VA cuts are? Hah! Forget medicaid/medicare/social security threats. If totally ignorant of that, then threats to FDIC bank deposit insurance is like Chinese mountain dialect that hasn't come near to breaking through yet. And it's not just the average duh-level Maga, we're even talkin' about the Republican voters who really should know more than the morons, for example the counterparts to Democrats who just don't dig "politics" all that much. Democrats who don't really give that much of a shit, either to make some effort to be informed--whether or not they even bother to vote--let alone be active citizens.
Forget the misinformation that tells them, the Magas, they're unhappy with grocery prices.
What is talk radio telling them now about the nominations for key cabinet and other Government positions? It's a total, unequivocal shitshow from Musk down to Guilfoyle. A dangerous catastrophic shitshow.
Who's to tell them they're unhappy? They're as deranged as their hero President.
How can we avoid the conclusion that overall, we just don't deserve Democracy? Well, it's on the kids now. No matter what I plan to do in re rescussitating grammar school Social Studies and high school Civics, this is gonna take at least a generation to rectify. I'll be long gone before this mess--the gazillionaire kakistocracy--is dealt with, and by that time Hello Polio, Hi Climate Change, bye bye Miami. Ain't life grand? Let's make the most of what time we've got left.
Truth. It is always worth fighting against the corruption in any way one can until our last breath. You never know who is watching and it may be that last silent witness that become a game changer after we are all long gone 🐈⬛
Well said LesG! The only thought that comes to mind.is, getting the hell out of the country, for an endless stretch of time, or until the flat circle that is time rolls back to normality!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said it all. 😪
And, too stupid to know the difference between before and after.
Order some "where's my kid's polio vaccine?" stickers while you're at it, if Bobby Brainworms has his way, you'll need them!
God, we live in the stupidest and most depressing timeline.
What M O R O N would want to remove a vaccine that saved millions of lives??
TELL ME AGAIN HOW THIS 2bit moronic
fuckface is even allowed near the WH., let alone he should be locked away in a mental facility with his worms.
Cheryl Hines - please push this KENNEDY out a 5th floor window just the the Ruskies do!!!
You think she is smarter than him? She married him.
And take herself with him, she doesn't refute his nonsense.
Just for fun, some attorney is trying to get the requirement for polio vaccines tossed out. I know it's in the NYT and WaPo today and probably others. The Guardian, my newspaper, won't let me read until I pay more than I do, but it's probably there also.
I'm going to skip the stickers but plan to find a US source for "I TOLD YOU SO" t-shirts.
I’m waiting for the YOU ELECTED THIS SHIT! shirt.
Don’t blame me, I voted for HER
They’ll be singing a different tune when their kids contract measles, mumps, chickenpox, rubella, whooping cough or polio. Trump is old enough to remember what life was like before vaccines for these diseases were introduced.
He has zero medical background. None
correct me if I’m wrong
Bird flu decimated the egg industry which drove up the price of eggs, which, where I live, never came down.
Also, largely due to transportation costs, the price of chicken feed is, well, no longer "chicken feed." I know people who had to destroy their entire chicken population because of bird flu. It takes time to get new chicks and more time for them to reach laying age. (And they keep eating even when they aren't producing.)
A lot of that work is likely done by undocumented labor, so labor costs will contribute to further increases. But, sure, only trump can fix it. I'm so sick of stupid people who are scrambling to become even more stupid.
You have the same reason for the increase in egg prices. But what drives me to the edge is when people like Peggy Noonan on “ The Beat” lectured Ari Melber on how
“w-o-r-d-y” Democrats are. Oh, they lose people. I am so sick of the trashing of logic, reason, and facts. We are about to get a fire hose of gaslighting and lies.
Ah geez, we all know why eggs are expensive. The Magtards don't, and think trump will magically bring prices down. Thus, "Where're my $1.50 eggs?"
These idiots don't need reason or graduate-school level econ lessons.
Trump said he'd make groceries cheaper, so let's remind them that their eggs are still expensive...
Well, now that Trump is beginning to admit that he lied about the price of "groceries" being "simple" to reduce (and the idiots who voted for him not admitting to themselves that if that were true, every president in US history would've done it), the press reported it but is walking on eggshells. Trump successfully sued ABC News and George Stephanopolos for saying he raped E. Jean Carroll. This shows the media that they have to be very careful of what they say. I remember a lot of media people using the word "rape" in that case.
never liked that snotty bitch. ugh
Maybe all those disaffected white boys will work in the chicken coops. American jobs, right
I worked in a cage-free chicken barn for several months last year. It's smelly work, very hard on the lungs, too. (If we think Don Jr. is sniffing a lot now, just wait until he spends a month on a chicken farm!)
Ah geez, we all know why eggs are expensive. The Magtards don't, and think trump will magically bring prices down. Thus, "Where're my $1.50 eggs?"
These idiots don't need reason or graduate-school level econ lessons.
Trump said he'd make groceries cheaper, so let's remind them that their eggs are still expensive...
And dump has a concept of a plan to wipe out the bird flu virus. 🤮
He'll just "think it away", like magic.
Yeah, so to hell with regulations. 😨
Or say there is no epidemic, just as there was no covid epidemic.
Ah geez, we all know why eggs are expensive. The Magtards don't, and think trump will magically bring prices down. Thus, "Where're my $1.50 eggs?"
These idiots don't need reason or graduate-school level econ lessons.
Trump said he'd make groceries cheaper, so let's remind them that their eggs are still expensive...
Agree, David. My impulse is strong to throw all the hollow promises and lies right back in their faces.
I will be slapping these gas and egg stickers onto gas pumps and eggs shelves in the grocery store nonstop for the next 4 years. Repeat it over and over and over again. Remind them incessantly that they were lied to and are stupid marks...
David K. ‼️ BRILLIANT! 😂
Gotta do what we gotta do!
hahaha great... I hope you discreetly slap them on every pickup truck you see at a walmart or Home Depot
and Hobby Lobby LOL
I have some specially made ace of spades/Dark Brandon playing cards I slip under the windshield wipers of those...
😂👍🏼
Entire flocks of chickens are being destroyed to prevent the spread of bird flu. It takes awhile for baby chickens to start producing eggs (if they can acquire the chicks). And now a variant has jumped species and it's affecting dairy cows. (They're coming for your cheap milk, too.) You might want to stock up on "shelf stable milk" which can go months without refrigeration; even after opening, it lasts longer in the fridge than the regular milk. Too bad the budget won't cover pandemic response teams.
Wait a minute! Jeff, are you saying that inflation won't disappear on Jan. 20? Well fuck-a-duck, he promised.
Excellent use of "fuck a duck."
Well, fuck-a-duck, someone else uses that expression. Welcome to the 2 person club, Marc. Any one else want to join in?
Of course fuck a duck 🦆. Oldie, but still resonates .
I have used that expression for decades. I’m 78 so I’m not kidding when I say decades either.
Me too. 1950 baby!
It must have been picked up in our youth, I’m not far behind you in age. Hopefully you would have been out of diapers, unlike the orange moron. 😆
Here
🧨🧨🧨🧨Don't give up in advance. I read some fascinating information about how the federal bureaucracy—the hated and feared Deep State—can help stop Trump's henchmen from getting anywhere fast. Give yourself reasons to hope!
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/resistance-is-silent
Thanks for the link. Brilliant article and advice for all civil servants. Play them at their own game. Mimic Aileen Cannon and legally delay:delay:delay. Both Thiel and Musk with their slavish worship of all things Roman Empire building will surely appreciate this form of guerilla warfare with its historical origins in the delaying tactics of Fabius ‘Cunctator’ Maximus (289-203 BC). Who by delaying saved The Republic 🐈⬛
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Of course, it won't disappear— not when the Orange Monster has been saddled with the Sucky Biden economy.
"the Sucky Biden economy"? You forgot to use the sarcasm font. (It's indicated as /s at the end of the sarcastic comment.)
I really assumed Jeff's readership would catch the whiff of sarcasm.
Indeed, all the ducks got fucked.
Hey, some of my friends are ducks!
Thank you Jeff.
And yes, while MAGA is taken for a ride, we are all on the MAGA train headed for the station without brakes. And not just us, anywhere in the world (except Ukraine, Syria and South Korea -because people have the courage to depose tyrants, not vote them into office).
This train ride is going to fucking suck, especially because we have to listen to the orange shit head conductor speak over the next four years. That voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard. Ugh.
That hideous voice is worse than a saw on a rock. Four more years of his daily bullshit and blatant incompetence is going to be very difficult to endure. How so many voters once again fell for a reckless criminal with the brains of a dildo is even more baffling and hard to comprehend.
“The brains of a dildo”: FTW
Wrong, at least a dildo can bring some joy. The only thing he brings is the “oh god” over and over and over again.
Like a dildo does, over and over.
AMEN SISTA!😃😆
Let Jeff listen for you! His transcriptions of the highlights are invaluable, as I fortunately don't have a family member that watches any cable news programs, which can't resist showing clips of trump talking every 5 minutes.
If we’re “lucky” we get 47. Because if we get Vance, it’s going to be a Cosmic Shitstorm.
The same was said about Pence. There is no advantage to having tfg.
I thought Pence was supposed to be the “adult” in the room. Vance is a power slut who will do whatever his ma$ters tell him to do and will have no moral or mental reservations about it. 47 is an attention slut and erratic and working on a fine case of dementia (apparently), which will make him somewhat less effective. Erratic plus ineffective is going to put the real movers in a chronic state of diarrhea.
Where is Vance?????
In my darkest moments I think he’s being groomed for his REAL next job. Per Bloomberg (which I just read) while the muskrat is getting lots of photo ops, Vance is waiting in the chamber. For 2028 or for…
Pray for a derailment !
If I see that orange face and have warning that he will be speaking I change the channel! I will not look at his discolored face or listen to his whiney wimp voice again ever!! I tried going back to my local news but he is everywhere!!
I just mute the audio, and this keep his anus mouth going so I can laugh at him. It sure reduces the stress.
I only watch Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. That’s it. I read our local newspaper 4 days a week and get the SF Chronicle on Sundays. I read Substack and look at bluesky if I want to be informed. I refuse to listen to a rapist, a misogynist, a thief, a grifter, a liar, a narcissist.
I am not listening to that voice. Not watching him either. Cartoons are more inspirational
I compare it to being stuck in a car with a drunk driver.
Our children and grandchildren are stuck in the drunk driver's car, too.
Ever so much this^^^ that nasal, sing-song, low-intellect whine, that makes no coherent sense, is nausea-inducing.
I just use the mute button myself. Can’t stand his voice the whiney pussy assed bitch.
Mute button.
Thanks for sharing George, it will be interesting to see, how the unctuous derps that bought this malodorous codpiece’s con, when they start to pay more for all the the goods and services