this one's a bit of a podge of hodge, I know. it's basically all the items I didn't have room for in the past week's posts, all wrapped up in one untidy bow
Thanks for admitting when you make a mistake, Jeff. The good news is that your readers understand that it can happen (especially with all the shit you have to sift through daily). The bad news is that you’ll never get a job with Fox News.
I got a lot of emails — some of them quite angry — about the errors. so I really couldn't in all good conscience let it go without correcting the record
The rise of hatred and insanity in America isn’t a new phenomenon, the Tea Party kicked in when Obama was elected, its morphed into madness from my cheap seat, Kay-EI, dystopian fantasy is our new reality!!
Don’t beat yourself up — Missouri is still a MAGA cesspool, and the state legislature is famous for overturning the voters’ will. I’ll believe we have won the right to reproductive freedom here when I see it added to the Missouri constitution.
My Mom grew up in MO. When we were growing up, her favorite expression when she thought we were pulling her leg was, "I was born in the Show Me state, you know what that means." I'm sure she would be embarrassed of her state now.
Gosh, angry? Don't people have actual lives? I just hate the times we live in, so much useless anger. Remember the story about school kids meditating and how it calmed them down so they could concentrate. Well, the "authorities" put a quick stop to that shit. Let chaos reign, I guess.
You know what happened when I fact checked a "friend's" incorrect post? She deleted it, so there would be no record of me fact checking it, and posted it again with the same incorrect fact. Some people just don't care if they're wrong, they just want a reason to be angry.
One of the biggest gifts is being able to admit when you are wrong. Some of the best things in my life have happened when I admitted I made a mistake and changed course.
FFS. We're all friends here. Corrections are good and if well-intentioned will be edited in. But for the love of Christ on a broken cracker: DO NOT start throwing feces on our wonderful Oracle here (that's you, Jeff) who sheds light on all the crazed fuckery we must deal with daily. Errors, Smerrors. You own up to them. That's the beauty of the moment that we all experience here together. This is called IRL (In Real Life).
I’m sorry. But screw them! Let them try to do something like this. Most couldn’t come close. Not kissing up. It’s just that every time I read your column, it strikes me that your job is tough, and your commitment strong. I’m under the impression that this is a solo operation, perhaps with a little assistance. But it appears to be all encompassing because so much happens every day. Sorry. But tell them to buzz off.
1. No one whose name is "Markwayne" can ever be taken seriously.
2. AOC is right. Marge is a waste of time and air and dumb as floor tile. It's just sad to see all this money being wasted on these clowns.
3. Nancy Mace lost. (She's a "C") Sarah McBride emerged the clear winner by not taking the bait.
4. Don't worry about your corrections. We've all been sucked in to the bullshit. I believed a meme that 9 GOP congressmen had been served divorce papers. 🤦♀️
Mace is a typical weird republican woman, doing her best to take the rights away from other women, especially bodily-autonomy, and screaming how she "protects" other women from a very small part of the population who are harming no one. I would far rather share a bathroom with many trans-women than Nancy Mace, because she's probably one of those weirdos who preaches bullshit while you are washing your hands, trying to avoid eye-contact with the crazy lady, so you can escape her loud, hateful, lies.
Same holds true for Dems. Time to dial it back. The general public does not like having gay rights drilled into them non stop. If we want to win the Mid terms we need to change the message a bit. Don’t stop believing in their rights but not make it a pivotal part of the Democrat platform.
Other things need to lose their prominence as well so we are not perceived as a party of the wingnuts.
We aren't throwing anything in their faces, they are the ones shrieking about pronouns, I just call someone whatever they wish to be called. It's not hard. They just lie and make shit up, anyway.
The Democratic party didn't make gay or trans rights a big part of their message. I don't think they support groups that suffer from hate enough. We should be loud and clear that we won't put up with that shit.
I don't understand why you think people don't want to hear that we support them.
But we do have to examine our approach. Something went wrong. And, unless we believe they cheated or fucked with the numbers, we have to face that, like it or not, Harris’s message didn’t strike the mark. We need to understand.
Two things I've heard from others is when she said, "I'm a capitalist" as if she was addressing the upper crust and didn't realize many see them as the money takers. Also, when she said she couldn't think of anything she'd do different than Biden. With his current low approval numbers, that didn't go over well. Otherwise, I thought her campaign was uplifting and flawless.
Read a Tim Snyder-ish quote on resisting: Never refer to turd at "President-Elect, or "President" "Mr. T". Use a blanket term like "republicans". IOW, show no respect for the person, title. Starve him of tweet or other sm mentions which he craves.
Thanks for reminding me of Dubya’s nickname for Carl Rove: “Turd Blossom”. There’s a whole Wikipedia page listing the (mostly derogatory) nicknames he famously used for friends, family, his staff and world leaders. He called Putin “Pooty Poot”.
I've been using. 🤡 this time around. I used to use 45...I then used TFG...I thought about using 47...then, I figured I was putting way too much effort into this POS. And, after all, John Wayne Gacy dressed like a clown...so, I think I may go with 🤡 on platforms I can't really use more descriptive terms!🙃
Speaking of corn. I read a the Guardian article saying that people who voted for Trump are happy with his picks. Clearly they picked these people to illustrate this sector of the population. I am wanting them to revisit these same people every 6 months.
Good info and many more reasons why this sexual abusing fascist prick should go by the Gaetzside. Wondering if Fox News would let him come back or like most of dear leader's Cabinet picks, will his "qualifications" not matter?
It seems to me Don the Con wants inept know-nothings in all the key positions. He’s trying to put children in these key positions. He’s doing that so the country will be vulnerable to . . . probably Vladimir Putin.
If our country was attacked, we will be so purposefully disorganized there would be nothing we could do to stop it. It would be a pre-planned set up.
Putin’s government could be ready now to take over the U.S.
Donny will gladly greet him at the Whitehouse helicopter pad as Putin flies in on Marine One.
Susan, because Trump like so many idiots believes in destroying or what Elon Musk likes to say, he is a Disruptor, which is what you do when people are in cults and you need to deprogram them, or using drugs, but not when you are raising a child, or running a country. Of course Trump and Musk have never done either. Trump was the vehicle through which a lot of bad actors ran the country before while he mostly golfed. I says , send a plague of gophers to Mar-a-lago and disrupt his golf games.
Putin was handed the US on a platter with Trump's win, but he helped get his best asset into the White House again, along with another asset, or is Musk Trump's handler for Putin? Time will tell.
I have said Trump was a Russian deep cover spy when he first ran every night at dinner, in a tongue in cheek manner. I said he was planted to create chaos in the country. Putin, with dangerous media war on our people, over the years, along with his buddies from other ililberal countries, has been bombarding us with bots, and planting information for their US assets to spread on their own, as they suck up to Trump who is the master spreader of Russian disinformation. Once the US is out of the way, what will happen. It is not going to play itself out as Putin wants because Russia will still be a terrible place to live, just one that added the US to its list of terrible places to live as they jealously go after the rest.
Scandinavia is ready for Putin by updating their war preparedness. Read this article, and look at the 4 booklets for the civilian population and then make your own hybrid. They are all in English. Get ready for the war within that Trump is going to start on January 20, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
Do you think what he meant when he said he’d be dictator for one day means Putin will be dictator on day 2 ? Himself and so many others in Donny’s circle have been colluding with Vlad for at least 10 years. This is the takeover. Who will be sitting at the resolute desk?
Linda, Thank you for the Lautman article. Thorough, clear and good. Have you read Timothy Snyder’s The Submission Chain? I was picked up and put down by it.
It’s the absurdity that these people actually want to undermine & ultimately “replace” our democracy with whatever form of government their individual brains have colluded to devise that terrifies me. They’ll probably never agree on anything, but whatever mess they leave behind may be unrepairable.
As my Book Club was reading Project 2025, we turned to Andra Watkin's Substack because she has pieces that have made Christian Nationalism and the indoctrination of these people pretty clear. Since it is outside of my daily experience, I can see how that is a powerful piece of the picks. We see that they are both CNs, as well as Russian assets, in that an asset can be intentional or unintentional, but for many it is some of both. They are selling Putin's talking points and propaganda as much as they are Trump's.
The important thing about CNs, or as Prof. Timothy Snyder calles them Christian Reconstructionists, is that they are all about the End-of Days. The old school CNs don't need us all to bow to their Lord to get where they want to go, but the newer The New Apostolic Reformation Charismatic Christians believe that God is not coming to take them to Heaven unless EVERYONE writ large on the planet is living in what they call A Godly manner, meaning what they say HE wants. We are in the way of their eternal happiness. So, they have to force it on us, and for that they get points.
Given that the Congress, Supreme Court and White House are filled with these Project 2025 writing people, who are singular in their determination, and do not care about temporal life supposedly, everything is about that goal. So, schooling does not matter, the environment, even the economy, or avoiding war and nuclear catastrophe does not matter. I don't believe Putin is this kind of Christian (or any kind for that matter), so I am guessing he isn't going to want Trump to let Hegseth go all the way into leading us into nuclear annihilation, but that is just my guess.
Linda Weird, you solved a ten year old mystery. Everything you wrote about CR is totally new to me. I thought this was about making the US an oligarchy. 10 years ago, a good, kind, smart Christian woman & I were acquainted working on a town isshue in a group of 20. I noticed at first meeting most vehicles had "turd" or religious bumper stickers. One day she suddenly blurted out "are you a Christian?!". I was shocked, said "what does that have to do with our volunteer efforts?" She apologized, but turd was new into politics and they were gung ho for him. In disgust, I quietly resigned.
Linda Weird, *Weide 🥴 Days after Access HW tape came out, she called me, asked me to rejoin group. I unloaded in her, "how can you all be Christian/ "grab 'em by the p"? She finally said " We answer to a higher God". I finally get the cognitive dissonance: they were all about The End Times, turd was the conduit.
Teri, glad I could shed some light. It sounds like a wise move to put distance between yourself and this group. Andra Watkins is an expert on Christian Nationalism or as Prof. Timothy Snyder calls it, Christian Reconstructionism.
Snyder has this piece today, but he did a series of 3 pieces on The Handmaid's Tale and how is fits with the goals of this administration which he calls. Handmaid Fails.
I don't care what they do to me. I'm 74 and have lived my life. I am an atheist and escaped the clutches of the Catholic Church a long time ago, and I will not pretend to convert for anyone or anything. I hate the damage that religion has done.
Linda, nukes set off anywhere would make that part of the world uninhabitable. It would not be land, businesses to be plundered. Isn't Putin about claiming territory & businesses to take over?
There are a lot of survivalists in the USA who are probably really well prepared. But there is a basic level of preparedness we should all be having. You can use any combination of the above brochures, but at least start thinking about what you could be preparing for.
I read an article where a woman Ukrainian was interviewed who had survived Chernobyl. She was telling us that instead of staying inside for 3 days and taking iodine tablets, or something like that, Gorbachev made them all march and she went with her 4-year-old daughter and marched, because they did not know any better. I wished more people knew better than to follow their leadership, but people also were not given a choice. What I am reading is that one has to stay low for about a week before the air clears. One will want rain to come. It is something we should not be looking at as inevitable death, but what do we need to get beyond it. Looking at bomb shelters. The USA has relied on deterrence, but juvenile Americans that put the unserious junior high schoolers in charge, means that the rest of us need to be the adults.
Linda, your 2nd link on Pete Hegseth shows his disqualication -- he wants a Holy War. America run by. Christian values, or you are the enemy. To be converted, or ??.
Here is the article I posted, where people were giving reasons for being happy. They believe in implosion as a good thing. I am not that knowledgable about the bible, but perhaps that is in there.
I wonder who termed it trump derangement syndrome and why tfg uses it when speaking about himself in the third person---it's a great moniker...of COURSE he's deranged!
They stole it from people telling them they were deranged about Hillary, and Obama, not recognizing their qualifications, and believing the Russian and NYT (who was merrily selling us out even then) propaganda. Of course they are also deranged about trump, so it fits them better than anyone who realizes trump is a useless pile of dreck.
Trumpian incompetence is our friend. Most second-term presidents have big plans that hardly ever work out. I feel for the most vulnerable among us who will be on the receiving end of program cuts, INS raids, etc. The rest of us can resist and you best believe we will. Writing from a mercifully blue state, where expertise and democracy aren't dead yet.
Alas, he remains a negativity machine, albeit a deteriorating one. He in unable to do anything constructive and lives for chaos, which is what he is creating in his new administration. All the infighting is just what he wants so nothing can get done. Whatever he may say, he only wants everyone to be at everyone else's throats. He is out to destroy our country and our planet. I am alarmed by anyone who wants to try and work with him. It is impossible. Resistance is all we have as a counter to his monstrous energy.
I disagree. He creates chaos, but what he lives for is money and revenge (maybe not in that order). Of course, he has to deal with his vast ignorance, short attention span and lack of discipline, susceptiblity to flattery, need for daddy-substitute approval, and ongoing mental deterioration. Those around him know this, and yes, that will put them at each other's throats to see who can manipulate him better.
Reading about the Trump Transition Team's sharp elbows, jockeying for a seat on the plane next to him, shouting over each other, and racing to be the daily face and loudest voice in the media, I'm reminded of that great comedy "The Death of Stalin" (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+day+stalin+died+movie).
Yea, the more chaos at the top with this group of numb-minded morons, the less will get done on their “agenda”. Go fight amongst yourselves, we will enjoy
We all get snookered from time to time, Jeff. The difference is some people have the integrity to admit it when it happens to them - thanks for being that type of human.
Not sure why, in 2024, buildings in DC can't be retrofitted with unisex bathrooms. This isn't a new concept. Anyone who's been on an airplane uses gender- neutral facilities. FFS. 🙄
Trump’s little Johnson putting MTG together with Elon and Vivek has to be the funniest thing this week. If there's an opening for Fly On The Wall, I'm definitely applying.
This week was impossible to summarize. Coulda been twenty-eleven pieces on the clown car of shitweasels, rapists, prevaricating grifters and fluffers. If the Old Testament God wasn’t busy elsewhere, Mar-A-Lago woulda been destroyed by lighting bolts.
But as the song goes: “We ready. We ready. We ready. For y’all.”
Well…your description of the chaos-monkey is spot on! Mace, Mullen, Greene, Hegseth….eek…and poor you has to read about them so we are informed! Thus…no need to apologize for the correction-consider it as clearing up what we ALL thought! Have a great Thanksgiving week everyone!
1. AOC is correct. Attach one of those big box toys to Mad Marge’s playpen and she can make noises all day long.
2. It’s ironic that one of the programs that should be considered to cut government waste is Elmo’s inefficient space rockets (hat tip to Sweaty Spice for this. Go read him and watch the video)
The way that Minorman Gaetz cajoled and flattered his way into the worst Cabinet nomination in history is an awful reminder of what an incredibly easy mark that malignant narcissist idiot golf nut is. Putin has no doubt used flattery and guile to manipulate trump repeatedly, to America's detriment and Russia's huge advantage. We are screwed so badly. Veterans, is this what you have served and sacrificed for?
this one's a bit of a podge of hodge, I know. it's basically all the items I didn't have room for in the past week's posts, all wrapped up in one untidy bow
So the DOGE administrators are DOGEBAGS?
they are now
Anyone can easily be befooled by what they find while doing research Jeff my good man. I’m constantly asking myself . . . is that for real?
Truer words were never written!
Touché
A favorite word Kay-EI!!
Nice Mike!!
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The joke is DOGEcoin biggest high was .75 cents.
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Well dug podge of hodge it is!!
I think that’s also called ‘Hotdish’
Keep up the true-reality hodge podge! The ridiculousness of it all needs to constantly be exposed!
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Thanks for admitting when you make a mistake, Jeff. The good news is that your readers understand that it can happen (especially with all the shit you have to sift through daily). The bad news is that you’ll never get a job with Fox News.
I got a lot of emails — some of them quite angry — about the errors. so I really couldn't in all good conscience let it go without correcting the record
Correcting one’s errors is fine, people pointing out errors is acceptable, coming unglued is ridiculous.
The rise of hatred and insanity in America isn’t a new phenomenon, the Tea Party kicked in when Obama was elected, its morphed into madness from my cheap seat, Kay-EI, dystopian fantasy is our new reality!!
Uh, Patrick, we really need to start with Ronnie Raygun. He started this shit.
😂 people get so pissed! They should get so pissed at the actual things that happen
Don’t beat yourself up — Missouri is still a MAGA cesspool, and the state legislature is famous for overturning the voters’ will. I’ll believe we have won the right to reproductive freedom here when I see it added to the Missouri constitution.
Agree with you....I live in the NE corner of MO.... very very rural. I remember when it was a blue state.
Harry Truman!
We feel for you. I remember liking McCaskill and I live all the way on the left coast. Best of luck.
Did I spell her name right. Sorry if I didn't.
Now that you mention it, I wonder if I spelled it right! OOPS. She was a dynamite leader!
I have friends there. I remember too. Feels like ancient history
I really miss Claire McKaskill.
We all miss her.
She's on Nicole Wallace 's show a LOT !
My Mom grew up in MO. When we were growing up, her favorite expression when she thought we were pulling her leg was, "I was born in the Show Me state, you know what that means." I'm sure she would be embarrassed of her state now.
I give Jess Piper a ton of credit for getting abortion on the books!
I was thinking the same thing! She's been working nonstop!! We need more Jess Pipers. Wish I had her writing and speaking skills.
Gosh, angry? Don't people have actual lives? I just hate the times we live in, so much useless anger. Remember the story about school kids meditating and how it calmed them down so they could concentrate. Well, the "authorities" put a quick stop to that shit. Let chaos reign, I guess.
the angry people were generally of a mind that I was punching down at a person who didn't deserve it. I can't say that they don't have a point
Honestly, that will probably happen again in MO so perhaps it's prescience on your part.
Andrew Bailey is exactly like Schmitt and Hawley before him.
… very well stated
Yes arne, They couldn’t allow the children to locate their secret hiding place some call home — where they feel safe.
You know what happened when I fact checked a "friend's" incorrect post? She deleted it, so there would be no record of me fact checking it, and posted it again with the same incorrect fact. Some people just don't care if they're wrong, they just want a reason to be angry.
I'd say that person has a problem worse than anger!
One of the biggest gifts is being able to admit when you are wrong. Some of the best things in my life have happened when I admitted I made a mistake and changed course.
Thanks for committing a journalism and making a correction. The "flood the zone with $hit" must make it tough to verify it all. You rock!
Angry people?? No shit...
Grrrrrr
I rue the day I might piss you off 😁
FFS. We're all friends here. Corrections are good and if well-intentioned will be edited in. But for the love of Christ on a broken cracker: DO NOT start throwing feces on our wonderful Oracle here (that's you, Jeff) who sheds light on all the crazed fuckery we must deal with daily. Errors, Smerrors. You own up to them. That's the beauty of the moment that we all experience here together. This is called IRL (In Real Life).
I’m sorry. But screw them! Let them try to do something like this. Most couldn’t come close. Not kissing up. It’s just that every time I read your column, it strikes me that your job is tough, and your commitment strong. I’m under the impression that this is a solo operation, perhaps with a little assistance. But it appears to be all encompassing because so much happens every day. Sorry. But tell them to buzz off.
Marie, slight adjustment...Tell them to buzz "all the way the fuk" off!
Absofuckinglutely🤗
I have so many more things to get angry about than if you made an error, Jeff. Apparently, all the nut cases aren't all on the MAGA side.
1. No one whose name is "Markwayne" can ever be taken seriously.
2. AOC is right. Marge is a waste of time and air and dumb as floor tile. It's just sad to see all this money being wasted on these clowns.
3. Nancy Mace lost. (She's a "C") Sarah McBride emerged the clear winner by not taking the bait.
4. Don't worry about your corrections. We've all been sucked in to the bullshit. I believed a meme that 9 GOP congressmen had been served divorce papers. 🤦♀️
The name Markwayne Mullins, sounds like a serial killer 😳
The name Markwayne is so Deliverance sounding. Did his parents not know how to put a space between two words? Well, it's Oklahoma, sigh.
Oh God...you're right. 🙄 He tried to start a fight the president of the Teamsters. Whatta schmuck. https://apnews.com/article/senate-mullin-obrien-teamsters-fight-hearing-153e28d131973d1e10b539491c9e94a6
I remember that. What an asshole.
He's another failson, his dad made the money with owning a plumbing company.
Definitely.
Markwayne or whatever his fucking name is
I think that's how he was actually named? Mother: "What do you think of Mark or Wayne?" Father: "Mark, Wayne, or whatever"! LOL
He is one weird dude.
Markwhinnee : Been whomped in the head a few too many times. I heard he is not aware how much a dipshit he is. I listened and confirmed this was true.
Isn't that usually the case?
He sure is, claims to be part native, in Oklahoma could be true, but likely a lie.
Uh oh ! Is Markwayne a POCAHONTAS ?
"Markwayne appears to be 1/128 Cherokee by blood. Although, he is a citizen of Cherokee Nation as that tribe has no blood quantum .." from Quora..
Interesting
There’s a name for him, then. Pretendian. 1/128 does not count.
Well I am 1/8th Cherokee by marriage so there, Markwayne. Suck on that.
Mace is a typical weird republican woman, doing her best to take the rights away from other women, especially bodily-autonomy, and screaming how she "protects" other women from a very small part of the population who are harming no one. I would far rather share a bathroom with many trans-women than Nancy Mace, because she's probably one of those weirdos who preaches bullshit while you are washing your hands, trying to avoid eye-contact with the crazy lady, so you can escape her loud, hateful, lies.
Jeff, does he read your fine writing? That and a few Big Macs could be coronary-inducing.
John Oliver made the point that Markwayne had such stupid parents they couldn't even decide on a name. It's funny when he said it.
Same holds true for Dems. Time to dial it back. The general public does not like having gay rights drilled into them non stop. If we want to win the Mid terms we need to change the message a bit. Don’t stop believing in their rights but not make it a pivotal part of the Democrat platform.
Other things need to lose their prominence as well so we are not perceived as a party of the wingnuts.
We aren't throwing anything in their faces, they are the ones shrieking about pronouns, I just call someone whatever they wish to be called. It's not hard. They just lie and make shit up, anyway.
Hah! You said "Democrat". That's not the name of the party. It is the Democratic Party.
The Democratic party didn't make gay or trans rights a big part of their message. I don't think they support groups that suffer from hate enough. We should be loud and clear that we won't put up with that shit.
I don't understand why you think people don't want to hear that we support them.
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You are a warrior 💪
But we do have to examine our approach. Something went wrong. And, unless we believe they cheated or fucked with the numbers, we have to face that, like it or not, Harris’s message didn’t strike the mark. We need to understand.
Two things I've heard from others is when she said, "I'm a capitalist" as if she was addressing the upper crust and didn't realize many see them as the money takers. Also, when she said she couldn't think of anything she'd do different than Biden. With his current low approval numbers, that didn't go over well. Otherwise, I thought her campaign was uplifting and flawless.
And if the orange turd knows you’re laughing at him, remember that it makes him batshit. Has to be part of the arsenal.
Read a Tim Snyder-ish quote on resisting: Never refer to turd at "President-Elect, or "President" "Mr. T". Use a blanket term like "republicans". IOW, show no respect for the person, title. Starve him of tweet or other sm mentions which he craves.
I have not capitalized trump since 2016
I refuse to use his name in any way. #OrangeTurd or turd for short.
Tangeranus, Tangerini, Orange Foolius, or my favorite "Bronzo the Malignant". Everyone knows who I mean.
Ooo, Bronzo the Malignant, that’s one I haven’t heard before. I’ll have to add it to my list of nicknames for Dumbass Donny.
Thanks for reminding me of Dubya’s nickname for Carl Rove: “Turd Blossom”. There’s a whole Wikipedia page listing the (mostly derogatory) nicknames he famously used for friends, family, his staff and world leaders. He called Putin “Pooty Poot”.
I prefer his ancestral German name that his GF changed to fit in better in America - Drumpf.
I know them as "republikkkans"....
I’ve been using RepubliCONS for quite some time now.
I may switch to Republic party because I am weary of them using the antagonistic ‘Democrat party ‘
Steve, that's a better word. Will use republikkkans
I like rethuglikkkans
I've been using. 🤡 this time around. I used to use 45...I then used TFG...I thought about using 47...then, I figured I was putting way too much effort into this POS. And, after all, John Wayne Gacy dressed like a clown...so, I think I may go with 🤡 on platforms I can't really use more descriptive terms!🙃
I call him “the felon”.
Melon Felon is more descriptive.
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I think we should laugh at him & all his minions.
I think you're right!!
That’s the thing he hates most - to be laughed at.
I think if there was one more debate about a week before the election it may have turned out differently ( or a nail biter).
When Children of The Corn enter politics.
Speaking of corn. I read a the Guardian article saying that people who voted for Trump are happy with his picks. Clearly they picked these people to illustrate this sector of the population. I am wanting them to revisit these same people every 6 months.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/trump-supporters-react-cabinet-picks?utm_term=674323596e028330a2c1d2198ed272aa&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
Quite a contrast with what Prof. Timothy Snyder is saying of Pete Hegseth today. Not so much focusing on the rapist aspect, although included, but covering other aspects that make him totally unqualified to be Sec Def. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/pete-hegseth-the-short-course?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Honestly, these reasons are even scarier.
Good info and many more reasons why this sexual abusing fascist prick should go by the Gaetzside. Wondering if Fox News would let him come back or like most of dear leader's Cabinet picks, will his "qualifications" not matter?
It seems to me Don the Con wants inept know-nothings in all the key positions. He’s trying to put children in these key positions. He’s doing that so the country will be vulnerable to . . . probably Vladimir Putin.
If our country was attacked, we will be so purposefully disorganized there would be nothing we could do to stop it. It would be a pre-planned set up.
Putin’s government could be ready now to take over the U.S.
Donny will gladly greet him at the Whitehouse helicopter pad as Putin flies in on Marine One.
Susan, because Trump like so many idiots believes in destroying or what Elon Musk likes to say, he is a Disruptor, which is what you do when people are in cults and you need to deprogram them, or using drugs, but not when you are raising a child, or running a country. Of course Trump and Musk have never done either. Trump was the vehicle through which a lot of bad actors ran the country before while he mostly golfed. I says , send a plague of gophers to Mar-a-lago and disrupt his golf games.
Putin was handed the US on a platter with Trump's win, but he helped get his best asset into the White House again, along with another asset, or is Musk Trump's handler for Putin? Time will tell.
I have said Trump was a Russian deep cover spy when he first ran every night at dinner, in a tongue in cheek manner. I said he was planted to create chaos in the country. Putin, with dangerous media war on our people, over the years, along with his buddies from other ililberal countries, has been bombarding us with bots, and planting information for their US assets to spread on their own, as they suck up to Trump who is the master spreader of Russian disinformation. Once the US is out of the way, what will happen. It is not going to play itself out as Putin wants because Russia will still be a terrible place to live, just one that added the US to its list of terrible places to live as they jealously go after the rest.
Scandinavia is ready for Putin by updating their war preparedness. Read this article, and look at the 4 booklets for the civilian population and then make your own hybrid. They are all in English. Get ready for the war within that Trump is going to start on January 20, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
Do you think what he meant when he said he’d be dictator for one day means Putin will be dictator on day 2 ? Himself and so many others in Donny’s circle have been colluding with Vlad for at least 10 years. This is the takeover. Who will be sitting at the resolute desk?
Actually, Xi will be dictator on Day 2 and Putin on day 1 with Trump as his proxy. He is already dictating Trump's cast of character appointments according to Prof. Timothy Snyder. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-submission-chain?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Linda W, read Submission Chain & listened to Andrea Pitzer today. TY
The " Hostile Takeover " the MAGATS are bragging about. 😟🥺
Linda, Thank you for the Lautman article. Thorough, clear and good. Have you read Timothy Snyder’s The Submission Chain? I was picked up and put down by it.
Yes I have read the Submission Chain. Have you see Andrea Pitzer's How to Survive This Mess? https://youtu.be/BwFZpROLvX4?si=uQC3Yz_JWoPKBgbK
I will now
Substack
You were right.
Is it already game over? Has it been game over for a long time?
My dark side thinks it’s game over. My bright side thinks a lot can happen in 58 days.
And the fact that no news is good news could mean something is happening behind the scenes.
So many things I’m sure.
Has it all been for nothing ?
It’s the absurdity that these people actually want to undermine & ultimately “replace” our democracy with whatever form of government their individual brains have colluded to devise that terrifies me. They’ll probably never agree on anything, but whatever mess they leave behind may be unrepairable.
As my Book Club was reading Project 2025, we turned to Andra Watkin's Substack because she has pieces that have made Christian Nationalism and the indoctrination of these people pretty clear. Since it is outside of my daily experience, I can see how that is a powerful piece of the picks. We see that they are both CNs, as well as Russian assets, in that an asset can be intentional or unintentional, but for many it is some of both. They are selling Putin's talking points and propaganda as much as they are Trump's.
The important thing about CNs, or as Prof. Timothy Snyder calles them Christian Reconstructionists, is that they are all about the End-of Days. The old school CNs don't need us all to bow to their Lord to get where they want to go, but the newer The New Apostolic Reformation Charismatic Christians believe that God is not coming to take them to Heaven unless EVERYONE writ large on the planet is living in what they call A Godly manner, meaning what they say HE wants. We are in the way of their eternal happiness. So, they have to force it on us, and for that they get points.
Given that the Congress, Supreme Court and White House are filled with these Project 2025 writing people, who are singular in their determination, and do not care about temporal life supposedly, everything is about that goal. So, schooling does not matter, the environment, even the economy, or avoiding war and nuclear catastrophe does not matter. I don't believe Putin is this kind of Christian (or any kind for that matter), so I am guessing he isn't going to want Trump to let Hegseth go all the way into leading us into nuclear annihilation, but that is just my guess.
Linda Weird, you solved a ten year old mystery. Everything you wrote about CR is totally new to me. I thought this was about making the US an oligarchy. 10 years ago, a good, kind, smart Christian woman & I were acquainted working on a town isshue in a group of 20. I noticed at first meeting most vehicles had "turd" or religious bumper stickers. One day she suddenly blurted out "are you a Christian?!". I was shocked, said "what does that have to do with our volunteer efforts?" She apologized, but turd was new into politics and they were gung ho for him. In disgust, I quietly resigned.
Linda Weird, *Weide 🥴 Days after Access HW tape came out, she called me, asked me to rejoin group. I unloaded in her, "how can you all be Christian/ "grab 'em by the p"? She finally said " We answer to a higher God". I finally get the cognitive dissonance: they were all about The End Times, turd was the conduit.
No they don't. They answer to their preacher, dumb-asses.
She serves antichrist, literally.
So that higher god sexually assaults women. Lovely.
Teri, glad I could shed some light. It sounds like a wise move to put distance between yourself and this group. Andra Watkins is an expert on Christian Nationalism or as Prof. Timothy Snyder calls it, Christian Reconstructionism.
https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/christian-nationalists-and-the-end
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/pete-hegseth-the-short-course?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Snyder has this piece today, but he did a series of 3 pieces on The Handmaid's Tale and how is fits with the goals of this administration which he calls. Handmaid Fails.
Part 1 Men and Women Perform https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/men-and-women-perform?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Part 2 Casting the First Stone. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/casting-the-first-stone?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Part 3 The Crusade Against America. https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-crusade-against-america?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Next will be loyalty oaths, as in the 1950s, and compulsory church attendance. Anyone who is not an avowed Christian will be frozen out.
I was envisioning that converting to Christian Nationalism would be forced on us, and refusal would lead to waterboarding, prison or deportation.
I don't care what they do to me. I'm 74 and have lived my life. I am an atheist and escaped the clutches of the Catholic Church a long time ago, and I will not pretend to convert for anyone or anything. I hate the damage that religion has done.
Linda, nukes set off anywhere would make that part of the world uninhabitable. It would not be land, businesses to be plundered. Isn't Putin about claiming territory & businesses to take over?
This is what I get from the US government.
ready.gov_nuclear-explosion-hazard-info-sheet.pdf
This is what I get from the Norwegian government.
https://www.sikkerhverdag.no/globalassets/din-beredskap/brosjyrer-alle-sprak/dsb-egenberedskap-engelsk-web.pdf
This is what I get from the Swedish government.
https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf
This is what I get from the Finnish government.
https://www.suomi.fi/guides/preparedness
This is what I get from the Danish government.
https://www.brs.dk/en/prepared/
There are a lot of survivalists in the USA who are probably really well prepared. But there is a basic level of preparedness we should all be having. You can use any combination of the above brochures, but at least start thinking about what you could be preparing for.
I read an article where a woman Ukrainian was interviewed who had survived Chernobyl. She was telling us that instead of staying inside for 3 days and taking iodine tablets, or something like that, Gorbachev made them all march and she went with her 4-year-old daughter and marched, because they did not know any better. I wished more people knew better than to follow their leadership, but people also were not given a choice. What I am reading is that one has to stay low for about a week before the air clears. One will want rain to come. It is something we should not be looking at as inevitable death, but what do we need to get beyond it. Looking at bomb shelters. The USA has relied on deterrence, but juvenile Americans that put the unserious junior high schoolers in charge, means that the rest of us need to be the adults.
Hegseth creeps me the fuck out.
Yep, he reeks of "stranger danger".
Linda, your 2nd link on Pete Hegseth shows his disqualication -- he wants a Holy War. America run by. Christian values, or you are the enemy. To be converted, or ??.
I am for not calling these so-called Christians any kind of Christian.
They are cult members trying to co-opt the name Christian. I call them so-called believers in Christ who don't share or demonstrate Christian values.
BTW, I am not a Christian so I have no agenda other than to call these fuckers out.
The sexual predator part really just speaks to his being a rapist and serial adulterer. That's enough for most normal people.
He has sort of ideas that reflect another illness. His belief of a false Christianity to rule us and the rest of the world.
The guy is stupid and stupidity as SecDef could be extremely dangerous.
Who said, it's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled ?
You just did
Here is the article I posted, where people were giving reasons for being happy. They believe in implosion as a good thing. I am not that knowledgable about the bible, but perhaps that is in there.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/trump-supporters-react-cabinet-picks?utm_term=674323596e028330a2c1d2198ed272aa&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email
More like Children of the Damned.
I am hoping that these juvenile vultures all end up destroying each other like they did in Lord of the Flies.
They will be eating each other for lunch soon enough. Welcome to the Amerikkkan Dark Age.
Or The Hills Have Eyes.
Ugh. Forgot about that one.
Tr💩mp's not adverse to some creepy incest. Ala, The Hills . . .
Well put Linda!
Children of the Damned, is a DAMNED GOOD MOVIE !
LOL!!! Good one.
😂😂
Someone on Facebook accused me of having TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
I countered with Anthony Scaramucci’s remark, “I have TFS, Trump Fatigue Syndrome.
I then coined a new acronym for folks who voted for Trump. DTASS. Dumber than a stump syndrome.
I need a Bloody Mary and bottle of Valium. This will be a long 4 years.
I wonder who termed it trump derangement syndrome and why tfg uses it when speaking about himself in the third person---it's a great moniker...of COURSE he's deranged!
They stole it from people telling them they were deranged about Hillary, and Obama, not recognizing their qualifications, and believing the Russian and NYT (who was merrily selling us out even then) propaganda. Of course they are also deranged about trump, so it fits them better than anyone who realizes trump is a useless pile of dreck.
Orange pig is easier to say.
FYI, Dems coined Obama Derangement Syndrome so they can't even be original.
IIRC you’re right Maureen!
MTG is dumb as a stump, & built like one too. 🪵
That almost seems like stump libel!
Poor stumps ! 😂
Love those! lol
It's like they don't know what words mean, they have the "trump derangement syndrome" because they don't see how deranged he actually is.
Indeed Ethereal!!
Better, a plugged in controller that can drop the vodka, tomato juice, Valium and garnishes just when you need them 😋
Trumpian incompetence is our friend. Most second-term presidents have big plans that hardly ever work out. I feel for the most vulnerable among us who will be on the receiving end of program cuts, INS raids, etc. The rest of us can resist and you best believe we will. Writing from a mercifully blue state, where expertise and democracy aren't dead yet.
But unfortunately, his incompetence and malevolence are driving our beloved country into the ground.
There are many more knowledgeable and seasoned people on the blue line defending the neofeudalism power play rage HI2!!
Then we will push ourselves up from the ground.
Vulnerable one here 🙋♀️🖐
Hugs if you want them.
Ditto. My family also.
Right on Ann!!
Alas, he remains a negativity machine, albeit a deteriorating one. He in unable to do anything constructive and lives for chaos, which is what he is creating in his new administration. All the infighting is just what he wants so nothing can get done. Whatever he may say, he only wants everyone to be at everyone else's throats. He is out to destroy our country and our planet. I am alarmed by anyone who wants to try and work with him. It is impossible. Resistance is all we have as a counter to his monstrous energy.
I disagree. He creates chaos, but what he lives for is money and revenge (maybe not in that order). Of course, he has to deal with his vast ignorance, short attention span and lack of discipline, susceptiblity to flattery, need for daddy-substitute approval, and ongoing mental deterioration. Those around him know this, and yes, that will put them at each other's throats to see who can manipulate him better.
Reading about the Trump Transition Team's sharp elbows, jockeying for a seat on the plane next to him, shouting over each other, and racing to be the daily face and loudest voice in the media, I'm reminded of that great comedy "The Death of Stalin" (https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=the+day+stalin+died+movie).
Hilarious movie. Reality not so funny.
Sharon, on your advice I watched the comedic. "The Death of Stalin" on Amz Prime yesterday. Succession intrigue. 🫣
He lives for attention and praise.
May he find none in this life.
He who stirs the shit, should have to lick the spoon. 💩🥄
His own team is in fisticuffs, what could possibly go wrong Dr.?
I prefer rebellion.
Yea, the more chaos at the top with this group of numb-minded morons, the less will get done on their “agenda”. Go fight amongst yourselves, we will enjoy
the shit show.
Bannon=Deconstructionism.
That’s what really scares me.
Along with the Putin-Trump team.
AOC and the originator of unplugged controller for the win!
We all get snookered from time to time, Jeff. The difference is some people have the integrity to admit it when it happens to them - thanks for being that type of human.
Not sure why, in 2024, buildings in DC can't be retrofitted with unisex bathrooms. This isn't a new concept. Anyone who's been on an airplane uses gender- neutral facilities. FFS. 🙄
In Europe, public bathrooms are often unisex. Works. No problem. Never felt threatened.
Same in Japan.
The dinosaurs that roam the halls would not permit it!
$$$$
Trump’s little Johnson putting MTG together with Elon and Vivek has to be the funniest thing this week. If there's an opening for Fly On The Wall, I'm definitely applying.
Oh, Elon will soon confer a child upon her and all shall be as it should be.
Thanks arne. 🤮
What a horrible thought. We'll all be asking Who Let The Doge Out.
This week was impossible to summarize. Coulda been twenty-eleven pieces on the clown car of shitweasels, rapists, prevaricating grifters and fluffers. If the Old Testament God wasn’t busy elsewhere, Mar-A-Lago woulda been destroyed by lighting bolts.
But as the song goes: “We ready. We ready. We ready. For y’all.”
👍👍
Well…your description of the chaos-monkey is spot on! Mace, Mullen, Greene, Hegseth….eek…and poor you has to read about them so we are informed! Thus…no need to apologize for the correction-consider it as clearing up what we ALL thought! Have a great Thanksgiving week everyone!
You too Tess.
Mmmm Pumpkin pie ! 😋
Ditto Tess!
Hegpeth also fathered a child with his boss during his second marriage. Real pro creator .. 7 kids
Figures, he's one of those useless breeders.
1. AOC is correct. Attach one of those big box toys to Mad Marge’s playpen and she can make noises all day long.
2. It’s ironic that one of the programs that should be considered to cut government waste is Elmo’s inefficient space rockets (hat tip to Sweaty Spice for this. Go read him and watch the video)
The way that Minorman Gaetz cajoled and flattered his way into the worst Cabinet nomination in history is an awful reminder of what an incredibly easy mark that malignant narcissist idiot golf nut is. Putin has no doubt used flattery and guile to manipulate trump repeatedly, to America's detriment and Russia's huge advantage. We are screwed so badly. Veterans, is this what you have served and sacrificed for?
He’s about an easy “mark” as anyone coming down the pike in a long time.
So malleable, easy to fool & influence.