After her decades of groundbreaking work with chimpanzees, I am quite convinced that she found them to have better character than most humans. And singling out those who should be launched into space was awesome. The worst of the worst.
I would have thrown in Peter Thiel and JD Vance too, but that's me. ☺️
I adored her. One.of the most shocking losses. She was still so alive, making appearances. I'm glad she went doing what she loved. 🙏💔 Her chimps are going to mourn her.
I would have thrown them in too, along with the entire regime and his crappy crooked family, but for brevity's sake and impact, Dr. Goodall kept it simple, following the academic adage, the KISS rule: keep it simple, stupid (or shithead)
Compassionate, but clear-eyed about the human condition. The real one, not the aspirational one you heard from your momma or at Sunday school. The one where we're genetically very close to, and behaviorally not that far from, chimps. Or bonobos, when we have a good day.
I never knew she'd done/said that. I'd already adored her and that wonderful, wise and compassionate face and presence she exuded. Now I MISS her more than I thought I ever could. No one lives forever, but damnit - couldn't we have HER?
Indeed. Her best observations, from a ways back, drew parallels between the bad leadership of a chimp troop and a human troop. Both are very prone to end badly. The only real difference is the degree to which the oppressed go to exact their retribution on the bad leader. Humans don't *usually* eviscerate and tear apart limbs and genitals in their rage, over days. There are probably exceptions, of course.
Yes! Thank you, Jeff. I have seen it so many times I've lost count. Every time I see again it is like the first time and I laugh myself silly. Again. I LOVE slapstick. Especially when it's Kegbreath's stick getting slapped.
I can watch it 50 times and still be laughing on the 51 time. Doesn’t get old, especially after seeing that insane speech he gave in front of our generals. 🤦♀️
I read in the Chicago Sun Times today that Trump is sending National Guard from Texas to Illinois, and also taking National Guard from Illinois. I don't know why Illinois doesn't have a lawsuit against this.
Ruth Ben Ghiat told us yesterday in her weekly Zoom talk that ICE has extraordinary powers more than other enforcement divisions, and they can be viewed as secret police.
They keep getting dumber and more aggressively dangerous… but I’m guessing the “dumber” has more staying power. They peaked too early. And they are gonna crash and burn. I’m praying they don’t burn us all down in the process.
Keep laughing at them. All of them. Every fucking one of them. It makes them the most madder than anything.
Every morning, I get up and go inside where the DH is watching TV (he gets up before I do) and ask, ‘Is he dead yet?’ The answer (so far) has been ‘No’.
We just have to eradicate the Supreme Court of its Right Wing influence to be certain—let's start with the impeachment of Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brent Kavanugh, and John Roberts (so we can replace him as Chief Justice with Bernie Sanders! 😈). Leave Amy Coney Barrett there so she can quake in fear at being the LONE Right Wing voice on the Supreme Court....
Yes, it's legal—"a Supreme Court justice can be impeached and removed from office. Like other federal 'civil officers,' justices can be removed for 'Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors'."
EDITED b/c I misspelt the name of a Right Wing Supreme Court Justice.... Oh, Myyyyy.
Even if it doesn't happen (always find a way to obstruct) it might keep the Supremes busy until we can get the majority in the House (and stop Mike J. from giving the Repubs eternal vacations)
Warren was chief justice at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, which didn’t endear him to the Confederate flag wavers, hence the bumper stickers.
"Warren was chief justice at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, which didn’t endear him to the Confederate flag wavers, hence the bumper stickers."
Ahh—so it WAS his not rubberstamping Jim Crow!
I also know a lot of people were NOT happy with him over The Warren Report because they didn't believe it was One Lone Nut who assassinated JFK.
Oh they do hate the comedians! That’s become more and more obvious as the days go by. As the broligarchy buys up the media and cancels all the comedians we’re left with the one truly independent online publishing platform, SubStack. Shoutout to the guys who run this platform. Thanks guys.
And the more they get laughed at, the madder they get, and the more they react with even more amped-up rage. They can’t stop now. I like to think that envelope they’re pushing is about to get torn to shreds.
"Any chance that T is acting crazy, so he can claim an insanity plea ?"
No, because to claim insanity would mean he's somehow defective, and not The Very Stable Genius he believes himself to be.
I'm sure Trump THINKS he's playing Sixth-Dimensional Chess and that he's beating Barack Obama like a gong (because Trump's obsessed with how Obama's respected and admired while he's a laughingstock!), while what he's really doing is (like a pigeon playing chess) knocking over all the pieces, shitting on the board, then strutting around like he won.
Nah. He is genuinely as dumb as he seems to be, as ignorant and incurious as he seems to be, as racist and greedy and hateful as he seems to be. As delusional as drugs can make him.
Yea, the fact that they are an inherently a bunch of bumblers without much ability may be our only protection. I just keep praying for their continued incompetence to thwart them in the end.
Although I am certain that we must suffer through even greater outrages before we get some relief, somehow
Perhaps the 2026 midterm elections, if he allows them.
That is also the message from AOC. She made a video that she posted on Instagram where she is telling everyone to just laugh at them. She called Miller a clown. It was perfect.
Our neighbors in Chicago were subjected to police violence, Dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night. Held in handcuffs for hours. On September 30.
One way to fight back against these lawless no warrant searches is through a civil suit for damages. About half of those targeted were American citizens, all of them black. What we need at this point is not ambulance chasing lawyers but ICE chasing lawyers. Having your front door bashed in and being held handcuffed for three hours should be worth at least $100,000 per citizen. All the kids involved should have college tuition funds waiting for them when they grow up. If I was a lawyer, I would be in Chicago signing up clients right now. Money and ongoing bad publicity are the only things that can stop this!
Paul, can you contact appropriate lawyers in Chicago? This needs to get going!
This will also give ongoing publicity to this horrific event as the case winds its way through court procedures. Please see my post on these issues:
Smart. I would think that law firms should be lined up around the block to take these cases. In part because I’m certain that many if not most of the persons committing these acts are independent contractors looking for bounty. And also because they are being directed illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security claims that they are all federal law enforcement employees. But they're committing so many well-established Breaches of constitutional rights that I have run out of fingers!
No one can tell me that the so-called "federal law enforcement" and "ICE" thugs are anybody but January 6th rioters and traitors. Hence the masks, the lack of badges, and the violent responses to being asked to remove the masks or show the badges. They're the same people who beat the shit out of legitimate law enforcement, were convicted, and then freed from jail.
"One way to fight back against these lawless no warrant searches is through a civil suit for damages." The better way would be to arrest them, interrogate them until we determine which of them committed which crimes, and then prosecute them.
Yeah, but at least we'd get to strip them naked and humiliate them for hours, maybe beat the crap out of them, before it got to court. Maybe we could steal their wallets while we're at it, and make them try to sue and find out who took their money.
Excellent suggestion, Kathleen. Wondering if there could be a class action (everyone is from the same building), or if there's a civil equivalent of a hate crime bias? There would certainly seem to be grounds for it.
“and please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center.”
WHY ISN’T TAPPER ALL OVER THIS? ISNT PRESIDENTIAL COGNITIVE ABILITY HIS ‘AREÀ OF EXPERTISE? WHY ISNT DEM LEADERSHIP POINTING JAKE’S BLATANT ONESIDING OF THIS ISSUE OUT??? FVK
"WHY ISN’T TAPPER ALL OVER THIS? ISNT PRESIDENTIAL COGNITIVE ABILITY HIS ‘AREÀ OF EXPERTISE? WHY ISNT DEM LEADERSHIP POINTING JAKE’S BLATANT ONESIDING OF THIS ISSUE OUT??? FVK"
"Well well ‘journalism ish’ is EVOLVING in real time… 🤢"
Is Tapper's "journalism ish" like Stephen Colbert's "truthiness"? Which was least was a joke...?
I do think it was my fat ginger cat Percy. He was trying to catch a HUGE cricket at the time so was slamming his fat floofy paws all over my keyboard. (Those ugly fuckers jump HIGH and I was cringing my feet up onto my chair)! What's that you say? 'Made the same 'sense' as tapper/frump-ish together? But then, cats always do.
Ya know a thing that STILL confounds me? The republicans were oddly SILENT after those days and NO ONE offered ANY congratulations to Obama....and to this day NOTHING. did they hate him THAT much???? (I know the answer).
The GOP cretins were showing their racist and misogynistic streaks big time and wouldn't congratulate Obama or his female Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. They were praying for Obama to fail every day of his administration.
In fact, they paraded out Condi Rice and a whole bunch of folks saying ‘not so fast- it was THEIR policies that had started the ball rolling’ - we were never allowed that collective burst of relief/joy…
The blathering wastrels lies of fustian and fantasy aren’t challenged, for fear of being sued… pointing his drug addled idiocy and demented speech is apparently our job Sunny!
I’m trying to figure out how Trump could have told Pete Hegseth that Osama was a danger in 2000, when Pete was about 12 years old. Maybe Petey was one of Epstein’s girls.
Oh, but - there were boys too! Several, from the leaked stories, whose parents were paid Millions to 'look the other way/sign NDA's, blah blah, blabbity-blah' Not to squelch any of the truths and pain of any of the other boys who are still suffering PTSD from their days there - but Kegsbreath sure looks like somebody desperate to get back into his abuser's good graces? It isn't only a 'female' thing as he'd love to have everyone believe.
When I’m feeling overwhelmed with all the bad news, I love reading your newsletters, Jeff.
I also stumbled across this quote from Mahatma Gandhi:
“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.”
That’s about where I am. I’m so fucking tired and weary of tRUMP’s malignant narcissism, his vile braggadocios lies and the unrest he’s creating whilst trying to turn the Country into a dictatorship with States controlled by the Military under the guise of keeping Americans safe. He’s an ignorant bastard who just doesn’t get that he’s “not served well” because of who he is and what he does.
I am ready for the 'Soft Succession' idea thats being considered. If I were Illinois, Oregon and California, I would halt ALL federal money. Maybe America is just too big and we should break it all up into littler countries. Let Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana fend for their stupid selves.
The whole thing is based in racism and it makes me sick people are this hateful.
It’s kind of a Catch-22: If our country were more like S. Korea or Brazil, we wouldn’t be the USA. Or the way we were like the USA. Now I’ve got Barbra Streisand in my head.
Susan, That was an instant classic ! ‘Slapped him with a writ of Go Fuck Yourself!’ Wonderful !
I too also marvel at our inability to do what S. Korea and Brazil accomplished in short order. We have grown weak. And our youth are hopelessly uneducated about History so they have no basis to compare these dangerous times to.
It’s ultimately going to take 20 Million or more in the streets and marching on the White House in numbers they cannot suppress!
Are there enough of us ? I’m not sure. Lots of armchair computer commandos but how many will put feet on the street?
Truth. SK and Brazil got it done. I'll be out on the 18th. I hope this will be the biggest protest yet. And I just dont believe the US Army is going to shoot US citizens.
IMPORTANT!!! I learned....ya know why D hasn't been flooding courts with judges?? NONE ARE RETIRING! They are hanging on to save the republic. God bless them. But like one judge who had her South Carolina home burnt down expect radicals to target the judges.
In the 60s & 70’s iirc, the IRS had a TON of power… intimidating. Yet today, we do indeed ‘expect radicals to target the judges’. WOW how far we’ve fallen… where is the FBI? NO JUDGE should feel threatened in the USA… REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS AS THE NEW NORMAL!!!!
President Stephen Miller's unhinged (as usual) response to the latest TROs is off the charts. He's calling the ruling of a trump-appointed judge "insurrection" on social media.
They are desperately trying to stir up a civil war and martial law all rolled into one. And did anyone note that a South Carolina judge who ruled against the trump DoJ had her house blown up over the weekend? With people in it!
Miller needs to be straitjacketed and tied to a handcart like Hannibal Lector.
Every day, I wake up and check if Demento has expired; then I scan for happy news about Nosferatu Miller, Holy Brother Mike, and JustaDick.......Alas--no joy in Mudville yet. But--some day, and the champagne will flow in the streets and the red dancing shoes will be strapped on.
Just means donald will have to pardon Maxwell himself, instead of hoping the Extreme Court would do it first. It is rather surprising though, given who the majority are.
Canada's PM....the guy with the PhD in economics???! Dean Blundell is gonna have a field day with 2morros meeting! Dean & Jeff are alike .....is D gonna get another economics lesson from the master ....and D is studying now???? D doesn't like him...you know why.
I'm at rock bottom with my ability to withstand any more from Donny Demento. I can't laugh at him anymore - even with your help, Jeff. I've been getting migraines every single day by noon, because I start my days by reading news and Substack. I stop reading when my eyeballs bleed, but I'm thinking I should spend my mornings doing something else - like hammering nails through my hands so I can't hold my tablet or phone.
Ever get that empty pit in your stomach when you start to feel like you might vomit? That's where I'm at when I get to the end of my rope. Damn. Make it stop.
Yes, Susan. I'm feeling it now. And I haven't read anything yet, aside from the headlines bringing up the hideous 2 year anniversary of the genocide. I didn't sleep last night, so I'm feeling more like I'm in a nightmare than usual.
And the scrotums on the SCOTUS rejected the appeal of President Pedophile’s teenage-arranger in chief. That had to piss off the entire Grind On Pedophiles! (GOP) band of antichrists.
Now put the evil incarnate piece of shit Jiz-lame back in a real prison for evil satanic sex offenders. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FUCKING ATTENTION IN THIS DEPLORABLE FUCKING MATTER YOU BAND OF DEPLORABLES.
Pre-TSA regs, my friends flying cross-country stopped in KC to buy gallons of the Arthur Bryant’s BBQ sauce recommended by Calvin Trillin. They teased me brutally for brushing Bryant’s elixir onto my grilled tofu.
tRump is now completely incoherent, unable to communicate a cogent or rational thought. he's always been allergic to truth, but now he continues to just make shit up - every f'n time he speaks, about anything.
as you pointed out so brilliantly yesterday, Russ Vought and his heritage goons have been pulling the levers, destroying all our once vibrant & trusted institutions and services. all in concert with the oligarchs and tech bros draining the treasury, and the putin assets burning down what's left of our Democracy. tRump is their "useful idiot," their fall guy, so to speak. once he melts to the ground like the Wicked Witch, they'll just replace him with thiel's boy - "JD McCouchfuck" (one of your best). tRump's good for another 60 to 90 days max. He really is fading fast. My favorite nickname by far, Nosferatu McGoebbels, is also more than likely another useful tool. Evils as fuck, sure, and the heritage goons probably have a jizzfest with every child being routed into the street in zip ties in the middle of the night. Thinking he is also but another fall guy, as are most of this absurd Cabinet. All will quickly be let go the moment they become inconvenient. Seems the ultimate heritage goal is to return the country to Jim Crow, and even beyond. An all white, christo fascist fantasy, and they're working hard and fast to make that happen.
I think you're correct straight down the line, Michael. Nosferatu might think he's in charge, but he's not. Likewise, Kegsbreath, Blondi, Gnome, et. al. Every one of them, just disposable placeholders.
to the person who emailed me with the suggestion that every post end with that Kegstand gif, this one's for you
I commend you Jeff.
Here is our contribution.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/today-in-the-fucked-world-jane-goodall-i-love-you
Jane Goodall posthumously wished for Trump, Theil, Musk, and the others to be chunked into the void of deep space.
I final Fuck You.
I found it warming.
Jane Goodall was a badass.
After her decades of groundbreaking work with chimpanzees, I am quite convinced that she found them to have better character than most humans. And singling out those who should be launched into space was awesome. The worst of the worst.
I would have thrown in Peter Thiel and JD Vance too, but that's me. ☺️
I adored her. One.of the most shocking losses. She was still so alive, making appearances. I'm glad she went doing what she loved. 🙏💔 Her chimps are going to mourn her.
I would have thrown them in too, along with the entire regime and his crappy crooked family, but for brevity's sake and impact, Dr. Goodall kept it simple, following the academic adage, the KISS rule: keep it simple, stupid (or shithead)
Have to keep the payload light for liftoff (I would have shoved them in there somehow)😂
Truly, I agree with you.
She was a wonderful compassionate person! The world needs more Jane Goodall’s ! ❤️
Compassionate, but clear-eyed about the human condition. The real one, not the aspirational one you heard from your momma or at Sunday school. The one where we're genetically very close to, and behaviorally not that far from, chimps. Or bonobos, when we have a good day.
I thought I loved Jane Goodall before I read her "yeet the f*ckers into space" quote, but now I adore her as well.
Rest in Power, dear Doctor Goodall. The world is a poorer place without you.
She was so honest. I loved that interview.
Agree with you 100%
I never knew she'd done/said that. I'd already adored her and that wonderful, wise and compassionate face and presence she exuded. Now I MISS her more than I thought I ever could. No one lives forever, but damnit - couldn't we have HER?
Indeed. Her best observations, from a ways back, drew parallels between the bad leadership of a chimp troop and a human troop. Both are very prone to end badly. The only real difference is the degree to which the oppressed go to exact their retribution on the bad leader. Humans don't *usually* eviscerate and tear apart limbs and genitals in their rage, over days. There are probably exceptions, of course.
We could learn a great deal from our cousins, the chimpanzees. Especially in dealing with bad leadership, :D
Wellllll.....there was Mussolini..................................
...and Ghaddafi.
No; they just shoot them to death. A sort of high powered rending, if you will.
"McDonald's was built on the spot where Mussolini's corpse was defiled by an angry mob, it's worth sacrificing some flavor for a taste of history."
-found somewhere on the interwebs
McDonalds. The ultimate humiliation in Italy.
Words to live by
Agreed.
Yes! Kick them off the planet!
In one of muck's spaceships!
Hahaha
As did I. Lady Jane got along with much smarter great apes so she did not suffer fools lightly. Her exit interview is one for the ages.
Yes! Heartwarming with great advice and practical.
I loved seeing that this morning about Jane Goodall. The best comments ever about how to rid ourselves of this band of criminals.
Yes! Thank you, Jeff. I have seen it so many times I've lost count. Every time I see again it is like the first time and I laugh myself silly. Again. I LOVE slapstick. Especially when it's Kegbreath's stick getting slapped.
I'm hoping it was hard enough to render him sterile. The world will be better off.
Unfortunately he has already reproduced.
True, but we don't need any more of them, whatever they are.
At his next batshit bloviating to the military brass: "Real warriors wear cups. . ."
I can watch it 50 times and still be laughing on the 51 time. Doesn’t get old, especially after seeing that insane speech he gave in front of our generals. 🤦♀️
Clownstick McDaydrunk🤣🤣🤣.
I think T meant Satays or as we know them PB McChickensticks.
😂😂😂
I read in the Chicago Sun Times today that Trump is sending National Guard from Texas to Illinois, and also taking National Guard from Illinois. I don't know why Illinois doesn't have a lawsuit against this.
Ruth Ben Ghiat told us yesterday in her weekly Zoom talk that ICE has extraordinary powers more than other enforcement divisions, and they can be viewed as secret police.
They do.
It warms the chuckles of my heart. So please more🤣
Please Uncle Jeff??
Was that a “sortay” jacket on our DUI guy?
YES! I love this.
At least til a better one comes along and at the rate things are happening, it shouldn’t be too long now.
It was so satisfying… perfect ending
They keep getting dumber and more aggressively dangerous… but I’m guessing the “dumber” has more staying power. They peaked too early. And they are gonna crash and burn. I’m praying they don’t burn us all down in the process.
Keep laughing at them. All of them. Every fucking one of them. It makes them the most madder than anything.
They’re definitely going to crash and burn.
It cant happen soon enough. Every day we ask each other, is he dead yet?
Pass the Xanax.😂
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and check my phone to see if he’s died while I was sleeping.
So it's not just me?
No, I don't have a cell phone, but it's my first question every morning.
My 97 year old, law abiding, Korean War veteran mom does the same. Him and Musk, every morning.
And no matter what time of the day or night, I’ve got a bottle of good champagne chilled and ready. 👏👏👏
The morning that I walk into the kitchen and see my husband smiling, I'll know that trumpedo has died.
I LOVE that 'trumpedo'. Fits SO well! We need to use it more.
Hahaha
Every morning, I get up and go inside where the DH is watching TV (he gets up before I do) and ask, ‘Is he dead yet?’ The answer (so far) has been ‘No’.
Sadly.
Every time I get a BREAKING NEWS alert, my husband asks that.
I take comfort in knowing it WILL happen…just not soon enough. 😂
Yeah....if only the good die young, he's going to live to be 198.
But I'm pretty sure he'll be an exception.
We can hope...any minute now!
I have no Xanax to spare. I've been rationing them. Sorry, Susan.
HA! I completely understand!
The breaking news has been very disappointing so far, but I keep hoping.
His dementia gets worse every day.
Live and suffer “like hell”. We CANNOT have a Pres JD, sooo much more dangerous!
We just have to eradicate the Supreme Court of its Right Wing influence to be certain—let's start with the impeachment of Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brent Kavanugh, and John Roberts (so we can replace him as Chief Justice with Bernie Sanders! 😈). Leave Amy Coney Barrett there so she can quake in fear at being the LONE Right Wing voice on the Supreme Court....
Yes, it's legal—"a Supreme Court justice can be impeached and removed from office. Like other federal 'civil officers,' justices can be removed for 'Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors'."
EDITED b/c I misspelt the name of a Right Wing Supreme Court Justice.... Oh, Myyyyy.
Impeach the shits !
Even if it doesn't happen (always find a way to obstruct) it might keep the Supremes busy until we can get the majority in the House (and stop Mike J. from giving the Repubs eternal vacations)
"We're gonna need longer vacations."
AND EXPAND THE SCOTUS!
I love the Spoonerism some wag came up with for her: Bony Carrot
You know what came to mind when I read that?
Boney M's "Rasputin"!
https://youtu.be/DrtgtHOrP94?si=xl2QwS55WYgKM8_I
I’m old enough to remember the “Impeach Earl Warren” bumper stickers.
"I’m old enough to remember the “Impeach Earl Warren” bumper stickers."
Was that over The Warren Report, or him not rubberstamping Jim Crow?
Warren was chief justice at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, which didn’t endear him to the Confederate flag wavers, hence the bumper stickers.
"Warren was chief justice at the time of Brown v. Board of Education, which didn’t endear him to the Confederate flag wavers, hence the bumper stickers."
Ahh—so it WAS his not rubberstamping Jim Crow!
I also know a lot of people were NOT happy with him over The Warren Report because they didn't believe it was One Lone Nut who assassinated JFK.
BTW, it's Coney Barrett
And a coney is a rabbit....Extreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrabbit.
Oops! Thanks for the correction.
The MAGAverse is a confusing place, with Comey, Comer, Coney,. . .and full o' cronies.
"The MAGAverse is a confusing place, with Comey, Comer, Coney,. . .and full o' cronies."
I'm sure there's a song in there someplace.
Where's Randy Rainbow when you need him?
Oh they do hate the comedians! That’s become more and more obvious as the days go by. As the broligarchy buys up the media and cancels all the comedians we’re left with the one truly independent online publishing platform, SubStack. Shoutout to the guys who run this platform. Thanks guys.
Indeed.
And the more they get laughed at, the madder they get, and the more they react with even more amped-up rage. They can’t stop now. I like to think that envelope they’re pushing is about to get torn to shreds.
I guess we shall see.
Alas, Neal, I've lost my ability to laugh. When I try, screams come out. 😱
Paging Edvard Munch
The day after the election I printed out a copy of The Scream and put it on my apartment door. It's also the screensaver on my tablet.
Yeah!!!
Kinda sorta same.
Any chance that T is acting crazy, so he can claim an insanity plea ?
I mean,he is delusional and weird, but, he is so out there now, it is incredulous that he hasn't been removed!
YIKES!
"Any chance that T is acting crazy, so he can claim an insanity plea ?"
No, because to claim insanity would mean he's somehow defective, and not The Very Stable Genius he believes himself to be.
I'm sure Trump THINKS he's playing Sixth-Dimensional Chess and that he's beating Barack Obama like a gong (because Trump's obsessed with how Obama's respected and admired while he's a laughingstock!), while what he's really doing is (like a pigeon playing chess) knocking over all the pieces, shitting on the board, then strutting around like he won.
Nah. He is genuinely as dumb as he seems to be, as ignorant and incurious as he seems to be, as racist and greedy and hateful as he seems to be. As delusional as drugs can make him.
Yea, the fact that they are an inherently a bunch of bumblers without much ability may be our only protection. I just keep praying for their continued incompetence to thwart them in the end.
Although I am certain that we must suffer through even greater outrages before we get some relief, somehow
Perhaps the 2026 midterm elections, if he allows them.
IF he's still around next year, which I very much doubt, I'm betting that THEY won't allow elections.
That is also the message from AOC. She made a video that she posted on Instagram where she is telling everyone to just laugh at them. She called Miller a clown. It was perfect.
🇺🇸👌😊
Our neighbors in Chicago were subjected to police violence, Dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night. Held in handcuffs for hours. On September 30.
One way to fight back against these lawless no warrant searches is through a civil suit for damages. About half of those targeted were American citizens, all of them black. What we need at this point is not ambulance chasing lawyers but ICE chasing lawyers. Having your front door bashed in and being held handcuffed for three hours should be worth at least $100,000 per citizen. All the kids involved should have college tuition funds waiting for them when they grow up. If I was a lawyer, I would be in Chicago signing up clients right now. Money and ongoing bad publicity are the only things that can stop this!
Paul, can you contact appropriate lawyers in Chicago? This needs to get going!
This will also give ongoing publicity to this horrific event as the case winds its way through court procedures. Please see my post on these issues:
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/where-are-the-ice-chasing-lawyers
Smart. I would think that law firms should be lined up around the block to take these cases. In part because I’m certain that many if not most of the persons committing these acts are independent contractors looking for bounty. And also because they are being directed illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security claims that they are all federal law enforcement employees. But they're committing so many well-established Breaches of constitutional rights that I have run out of fingers!
No one can tell me that the so-called "federal law enforcement" and "ICE" thugs are anybody but January 6th rioters and traitors. Hence the masks, the lack of badges, and the violent responses to being asked to remove the masks or show the badges. They're the same people who beat the shit out of legitimate law enforcement, were convicted, and then freed from jail.
100%
Are there enough brave and honest lawyers left in this country to do the job?
Sure. And this ought to be pretty simple. But they may need to hire bodyguards.
God invented ACLU for a good reason.
Class action???
Totally agree
"One way to fight back against these lawless no warrant searches is through a civil suit for damages." The better way would be to arrest them, interrogate them until we determine which of them committed which crimes, and then prosecute them.
Unless they confess, it's hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt exactly who did what to whom.
Don't release any of them until they start talking. What? Are they going to complain that they're not getting their due-process rights?
Yes, they will complain about their due process rights, and they will be heard by any honest judge. I just finished writing a post about these issues.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/where-are-the-ice-chasing-lawyers
Yeah, but at least we'd get to strip them naked and humiliate them for hours, maybe beat the crap out of them, before it got to court. Maybe we could steal their wallets while we're at it, and make them try to sue and find out who took their money.
Either you've got a great imagination or you’ve of watched a lot of cop movies! Where are the old Southern sheriffs when we need them?
Okay... So who exactly is going to arrest or prosecute them?
Excellent suggestion, Kathleen. Wondering if there could be a class action (everyone is from the same building), or if there's a civil equivalent of a hate crime bias? There would certainly seem to be grounds for it.
“and please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center.”
WHY ISN’T TAPPER ALL OVER THIS? ISNT PRESIDENTIAL COGNITIVE ABILITY HIS ‘AREÀ OF EXPERTISE? WHY ISNT DEM LEADERSHIP POINTING JAKE’S BLATANT ONESIDING OF THIS ISSUE OUT??? FVK
Because Tapper is busy with his BY TEXT interview with Trump. What in the actual fvck!?
I’ve got news for Tapper. He could have been texting with my late cat, but it sure the hell wasn’t Trump on the other end of that phone/computer.
Well well ‘journalism ish’ is EVOLVING in real time… 🤢
"WHY ISN’T TAPPER ALL OVER THIS? ISNT PRESIDENTIAL COGNITIVE ABILITY HIS ‘AREÀ OF EXPERTISE? WHY ISNT DEM LEADERSHIP POINTING JAKE’S BLATANT ONESIDING OF THIS ISSUE OUT??? FVK"
"Well well ‘journalism ish’ is EVOLVING in real time… 🤢"
Is Tapper's "journalism ish" like Stephen Colbert's "truthiness"? Which was least was a joke...?
Omg u r right…
I will check: it's distinctly possible that my Betta and four pygmy corydora catfish were texting Jake Crapper.
I do think it was my fat ginger cat Percy. He was trying to catch a HUGE cricket at the time so was slamming his fat floofy paws all over my keyboard. (Those ugly fuckers jump HIGH and I was cringing my feet up onto my chair)! What's that you say? 'Made the same 'sense' as tapper/frump-ish together? But then, cats always do.
“…and history will never forget that it was the Seals who stormed the compound at Osama bin Laden, and put a bullet in his head.”
And history will never forget that it was under Obama that the Seals located and took out Bin Laden.
Ya know a thing that STILL confounds me? The republicans were oddly SILENT after those days and NO ONE offered ANY congratulations to Obama....and to this day NOTHING. did they hate him THAT much???? (I know the answer).
The GOP cretins were showing their racist and misogynistic streaks big time and wouldn't congratulate Obama or his female Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. They were praying for Obama to fail every day of his administration.
As per Moscow Mitch McConnell’s orders….”we will not work with this president.” A very big fuckity bye bye to Mitch mf’er!
In fact, they paraded out Condi Rice and a whole bunch of folks saying ‘not so fast- it was THEIR policies that had started the ball rolling’ - we were never allowed that collective burst of relief/joy…
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Untethered and not just to the law.
‘Untethered’, ‘Bonkers’, ‘Misspoke’… so many gentle words (as they burn it all down)
Absolutely fucking insane with a side of dementia!
The blathering wastrels lies of fustian and fantasy aren’t challenged, for fear of being sued… pointing his drug addled idiocy and demented speech is apparently our job Sunny!
*allegedly?!*
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
OR
- H. L. Mencken
OR
- William Jennings Bryan
In The Corporate States of America…. This is a problem - agree💯‼️
I’m trying to figure out how Trump could have told Pete Hegseth that Osama was a danger in 2000, when Pete was about 12 years old. Maybe Petey was one of Epstein’s girls.
He meant that he told oily Pete the story last year. So that means it’s true, Tell ‘em, Pete.
Ole, are you sure? Did he even know PS in 2024?
Last week, then. Idk
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Oh, but - there were boys too! Several, from the leaked stories, whose parents were paid Millions to 'look the other way/sign NDA's, blah blah, blabbity-blah' Not to squelch any of the truths and pain of any of the other boys who are still suffering PTSD from their days there - but Kegsbreath sure looks like somebody desperate to get back into his abuser's good graces? It isn't only a 'female' thing as he'd love to have everyone believe.
When I’m feeling overwhelmed with all the bad news, I love reading your newsletters, Jeff.
I also stumbled across this quote from Mahatma Gandhi:
“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.”
I needed that quote. Thank you. Because I've been having some "pit in my stomach" days and can't shake the dread. UGH.
every single day. Most days I don’t even want to get out of bed.
Hang in there. They Want us to give up and stop paying attention.
You can do it!
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I’ll share my Xanax with you 😉
I love you people.
Me too. Helps me maintain what very little of my sanity I have🥴
That’s about where I am. I’m so fucking tired and weary of tRUMP’s malignant narcissism, his vile braggadocios lies and the unrest he’s creating whilst trying to turn the Country into a dictatorship with States controlled by the Military under the guise of keeping Americans safe. He’s an ignorant bastard who just doesn’t get that he’s “not served well” because of who he is and what he does.
I am ready for the 'Soft Succession' idea thats being considered. If I were Illinois, Oregon and California, I would halt ALL federal money. Maybe America is just too big and we should break it all up into littler countries. Let Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana fend for their stupid selves.
The whole thing is based in racism and it makes me sick people are this hateful.
Well, didn’t you say you were leaving the Country?So you won’t be around for whatever comes, anyway.
When do you stop suggesting solutions for those of us who remain behind once you no longer have any skin in the game?
Ouch.
Vacation.
Well I read that completely wrong. My sincere apology.
Thought you were bailing on us ! And I was already missing your acerbic wit
Vacations are perfectly ok, and much needed if we are to see this through to the end.
Whatever that may turn out to be.
Sorry, Susan
The question is, “How much damage can he do before he ultimately croaks?”
"slapped him with a writ of go fuck yourself." 👏👏👏👏
Christ, why cant we be more like South Korea or Brazil and stop this crap once and for all...
The one thing that continues to bring me joy is your gif of Plastered Pete. Thank you for that! 😂
It’s kind of a Catch-22: If our country were more like S. Korea or Brazil, we wouldn’t be the USA. Or the way we were like the USA. Now I’ve got Barbra Streisand in my head.
Susan, That was an instant classic ! ‘Slapped him with a writ of Go Fuck Yourself!’ Wonderful !
I too also marvel at our inability to do what S. Korea and Brazil accomplished in short order. We have grown weak. And our youth are hopelessly uneducated about History so they have no basis to compare these dangerous times to.
It’s ultimately going to take 20 Million or more in the streets and marching on the White House in numbers they cannot suppress!
Are there enough of us ? I’m not sure. Lots of armchair computer commandos but how many will put feet on the street?
Truth. SK and Brazil got it done. I'll be out on the 18th. I hope this will be the biggest protest yet. And I just dont believe the US Army is going to shoot US citizens.
The National Guard has already shot US citizens. Kent State, Ohio, 1969.
It could happen again.
But the troops who fired that day were not given orders to fire from their commanding Officer.
There’s the rub- Will commanding Officers in the field give that order to fire on Citizens when it comes from superiors far away from the action?
« This is so blatantly unfair. what’s even the point of getting to hand-pick your own judges if they’re going to actually follow the Constitution? »
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"I appointed the judge and he goes like that, so I wasn’t served well ...." King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had the same grievance.
So basically the judges he appoints are only supposed to do what he orders them to do. Gosh, wonder how SHE got that wrong.
IMPORTANT!!! I learned....ya know why D hasn't been flooding courts with judges?? NONE ARE RETIRING! They are hanging on to save the republic. God bless them. But like one judge who had her South Carolina home burnt down expect radicals to target the judges.
In the 60s & 70’s iirc, the IRS had a TON of power… intimidating. Yet today, we do indeed ‘expect radicals to target the judges’. WOW how far we’ve fallen… where is the FBI? NO JUDGE should feel threatened in the USA… REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS AS THE NEW NORMAL!!!!
To quote someone we know well, BOO-fucking-HOO !!!
Haha yes
Every sentence out of Orange Hitler’s anus mouth begins with “I”. That says it all.
President Stephen Miller's unhinged (as usual) response to the latest TROs is off the charts. He's calling the ruling of a trump-appointed judge "insurrection" on social media.
They are desperately trying to stir up a civil war and martial law all rolled into one. And did anyone note that a South Carolina judge who ruled against the trump DoJ had her house blown up over the weekend? With people in it!
Miller needs to be straitjacketed and tied to a handcart like Hannibal Lector.
Every day, I wake up and check if Demento has expired; then I scan for happy news about Nosferatu Miller, Holy Brother Mike, and JustaDick.......Alas--no joy in Mudville yet. But--some day, and the champagne will flow in the streets and the red dancing shoes will be strapped on.
I wish I could like this, but that whole situation terrifies me.
This comment should go straight to the top. Seriously.
The "we're sorry, grampa, but give us the car keys" moment is long, long past due.
They are hiding Trump again today. So out of 6 days, he was in public on 1 occasion for a couple hours. Totally normal.
Guess he’s resting up (detoxing)? For the visit from Canada’s PM Tues.
Oh. & I just read that SCOTUS refused to hear Maxwell’s appeal. Release the #EpsteinFiles
Is this for real ? Arch criminal Trump bestie Ghislaine is actually being knocked back by SCOTUS ?
Can barely believe it.
Just means donald will have to pardon Maxwell himself, instead of hoping the Extreme Court would do it first. It is rather surprising though, given who the majority are.
As I've said elsewhere, it's not necessary for the Supremes to expose themselves to blowback when they can let Donnie take it on by issuing a pardon.
Anti-woman
Why does any country's leader even give T the time of day at this moment in history? It must be for entertainment purposes only.
Then they can go back and tell their cabinet members all the batshit crazy things Donny said and have a laugh fest at his expense.
Canada's PM....the guy with the PhD in economics???! Dean Blundell is gonna have a field day with 2morros meeting! Dean & Jeff are alike .....is D gonna get another economics lesson from the master ....and D is studying now???? D doesn't like him...you know why.
I'm at rock bottom with my ability to withstand any more from Donny Demento. I can't laugh at him anymore - even with your help, Jeff. I've been getting migraines every single day by noon, because I start my days by reading news and Substack. I stop reading when my eyeballs bleed, but I'm thinking I should spend my mornings doing something else - like hammering nails through my hands so I can't hold my tablet or phone.
Ever get that empty pit in your stomach when you start to feel like you might vomit? That's where I'm at when I get to the end of my rope. Damn. Make it stop.
Yes, Susan. I'm feeling it now. And I haven't read anything yet, aside from the headlines bringing up the hideous 2 year anniversary of the genocide. I didn't sleep last night, so I'm feeling more like I'm in a nightmare than usual.
Do whatever you need to do to keep yourself healthy and, as JoJo says,
sane-ish. This is affecting all of us in the worst way. HUGS from Philly.
I'm with you. It hurts--yet I keep going back, hoping to read good news.
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And the scrotums on the SCOTUS rejected the appeal of President Pedophile’s teenage-arranger in chief. That had to piss off the entire Grind On Pedophiles! (GOP) band of antichrists.
Now put the evil incarnate piece of shit Jiz-lame back in a real prison for evil satanic sex offenders. THANK YOU FOR YOUR FUCKING ATTENTION IN THIS DEPLORABLE FUCKING MATTER YOU BAND OF DEPLORABLES.
I thought it was SCROTUS.
Dear god, the smell of Portland burning…. Oh wait that’s my neighbor bbqing in my neck of the woods
Pre-TSA regs, my friends flying cross-country stopped in KC to buy gallons of the Arthur Bryant’s BBQ sauce recommended by Calvin Trillin. They teased me brutally for brushing Bryant’s elixir onto my grilled tofu.
I’m not a huge tofu eater, but I would scarf that down in seconds.
tRump is now completely incoherent, unable to communicate a cogent or rational thought. he's always been allergic to truth, but now he continues to just make shit up - every f'n time he speaks, about anything.
as you pointed out so brilliantly yesterday, Russ Vought and his heritage goons have been pulling the levers, destroying all our once vibrant & trusted institutions and services. all in concert with the oligarchs and tech bros draining the treasury, and the putin assets burning down what's left of our Democracy. tRump is their "useful idiot," their fall guy, so to speak. once he melts to the ground like the Wicked Witch, they'll just replace him with thiel's boy - "JD McCouchfuck" (one of your best). tRump's good for another 60 to 90 days max. He really is fading fast. My favorite nickname by far, Nosferatu McGoebbels, is also more than likely another useful tool. Evils as fuck, sure, and the heritage goons probably have a jizzfest with every child being routed into the street in zip ties in the middle of the night. Thinking he is also but another fall guy, as are most of this absurd Cabinet. All will quickly be let go the moment they become inconvenient. Seems the ultimate heritage goal is to return the country to Jim Crow, and even beyond. An all white, christo fascist fantasy, and they're working hard and fast to make that happen.
I wish from the bottom of my heart I could disagree with you, but alas….
I think you're correct straight down the line, Michael. Nosferatu might think he's in charge, but he's not. Likewise, Kegsbreath, Blondi, Gnome, et. al. Every one of them, just disposable placeholders.