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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

meanwhile, I paid nine bucks for a dozen eggs yesterday. granted, they were the free-range, humane-treatment kind, but still ...

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Mary Brock's avatar

Canadian here: I paid $6.49 for organic, no abuse here, eggs. That's about $4.50 in American dollars. If you were our 11th Province, it would be cheaper for you and you would have health care too. ;->

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James Starr's avatar

Dear Canadian government: please annex California and up to Washington State...

We would love it, thanks, West Coast folks ashamed of America

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Mary Brock's avatar

To be safe from the Orange Turd, all blue states should join us until he is gone.

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Linda Koepcke's avatar

And include Wisconsin because we sound like Canadians anyway.

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Bikracer's avatar

You made me laugh 😂

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Kate's avatar

Definitely annex Illinois, please please

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Doreen Garza's avatar

😂 yes we do!!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Can we get Florida included in this deal ? No, I Don’t guess so.

Wish he’d have stayed in his gauche gold palace in NY instead on inflicting himself on us.

Our sheriff in Palm Beach County has asked the County Commissioners for $45 Million to cover overtime hours incurred protecting lard ass the last 6 months. Meanwhile we County workers got 2% raises last year.

What a joke. A very bad joke. The guy just sucks all the energy, and the money out of any place he goes.

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Anne Whitney's avatar

THAT is a super interesting observation because it's true. Now that I think about it... he's like a big black hole of a hungry ghost - never enough.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

It is past time for the Blue Few to say Fuck You to the red freeloaders and to stop paying ALL Federal taxes until the oligarch and his MAGAt minion are tied to rails, tarred, feathered and deposited in the Gulf Of Blow A Horse,

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Eileen's avatar

😂😂😂

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Doreen Garza's avatar

👏😂

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Pamela Sousa's avatar

Thanks James was writing that yesterday but never finished it to send..it was just one of those busy busy days & I was writing inbetween it all! ☝️🤣

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Betsy Jumper's avatar

And SW Alaska, which is blue.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Want some distant relatives?

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Barbara Morgan's avatar

Me too 🙏🏻✌🏻💙

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I checked into moving to Canada and I was told they’re not allowing people to move there. Only teachers, Doctors, etc. 😔

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Lisa Ferrara's avatar

I'm hopeful that perhaps Canada and other countries will accept Americans seeing political asylum at some point. I'm staying and fighting for now, but I also want to explore other options.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Like in The Handmaid’s Tale?

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Lisa Ferrara's avatar

*Exactly* like The Handmaid's Tale.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

My thought, too, Lisa.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

If you're a nurse practitioner and fluent in English, French and Spanish, you can move. My niece brought her illegal (in the states) husband and three children to Canada several years ago, because she could not get the US to legalize her husband from Mexico. So that's how it works, the US loses a citizen with valuable skills because they don't want her husband, who has done unskilled work here ever since I met him (barista, house repair, smoking fish, building toy playhouses for his kids and never spent any time lounging around, like a golf playing president I know of).

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Tully's avatar

A friend just moved to New Zealand - she said they would take any NP on a required two year work condition. Would rather go to Canada - can just U haul everything across the border!

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Marla's avatar

I applied, too. Only to be rejected. Even though I have plenty of assets and wouldn't be any kind of a burden, I'm old(er), fluent in French, retired and lack the skills Canada wants/needs. Tant pis! Canada's loss. Mine, too, sadly.

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Tully's avatar

A Canadian friend told us if you can afford to buy a house there, you can go - don't know if that gets you citizenship or medical care.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

You can only (legally stay 6 months in it though.) I'm married to a Canadian and we looked into all the options. As for healthcare, no, you must have status. But they don't know how to take money for payment. I had that problem until I got my Permanent Resident card ( I had to be sponsored or have a guaranteed amount of money in the bank) and until then they had to figure out how to bill me. Citizenship is entirely different, you can't just squat there and get that. There's tons of legal paperwork and you have to be legal permanent resident for at least five years IIRC. I'm in the process of it now.

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Tully's avatar

Yes, I didn't think the friend knew her own country's requirements! We were accepted to farm in Nova Scotia after GWB's re-election with the guaranteed money amount a part of it, but it would have been a cross-country move and no guarantee of permanent citizenship. My sister is a permanent Australian resident, but with some of her ordeals, not sure about that one either. We'll just stay here and fight back as well as we can!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, I think you have to actually be involved to know the issues, I could not tell you our requirements except for PR card, because I sponsored my husband here. Citizenship is nil because he doesn’t want it.

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Cindy Watter's avatar

What about retired teachers/doctors? We still know stuff! Whoops, I was asking for a friend.

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James Starr's avatar

even with a costly immigration attorney it is difficult. A multi-year process.. And for those who are financially set, you have to have another purpose to live there besides you can afford it.

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Pamela Sousa's avatar

Yes..they reworked the amount of immigrants coming in sometime this year or late last year..Also very smartly I think because of what's going on here in the states..We r not going to be able to run off to alot of countries- we need to stay right here a resolved this mess that some of r fellow Americans so proudly supported with their vote..so they sold r freedoms for cheaper gas & eggs & a better economy that by the way was improving..Know ur history in all categories..the economy & gas & groceries go up & down..when u have people in charge u understand it all the ups & downs can be managed..When u got people who know nothing then u nose dive deeper & have to have someone else come along & fix it..Also what really makes me laugh is people who voted for trump did so because they didn't want to vote for a woman & they didn't know enough about her!..🙈lol..but all they had to do is take a few minutes & bring up her bio..trump on the other hand had a hugh lifetime of exposure - he was a known con artist u like to skip out on paying his contractors - he was a noted liar - he was a womanizer/Adulter - rapist - sexual harasser- something he bragged about on t.v. years ago..his bio is so ugly & long u couldn't go to the polls not knowing who u were voting for - ever!

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Nevertheless, She Persisted's avatar

Oh how I wish.

A friend sent out a bunch of resumes to Canada right after the election. He didn't expect any responses, since he'll be 60 in a few months. But lo and behold, he got a great offer in Vancouver. He's just waiting on his visa.

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Pamela Sousa's avatar

Congratulations & I wish u much luck..My grdparents & grt grd,¹parents r from Vancouver B.C...I use to have the address & 0v one day as an adult I would research where the address was located..but well life got in the way!☝️🤣..I did make it to Windsor once when spent summer with Aunt-uncle..Met a great shop girl & we talked all about their educational system..

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

You're on!

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John Crowe's avatar

I live in California. Getting adopted by Canada is looking better and better.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

I love this. Count me in.

But would you want Idaho?

They are the MAGA play pen of America.

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Mary Hall's avatar

No Idaho. Sorry.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Agree 👍

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Idaho, fuck, no.

I lived there for two years in S.E., and it seemed like two decades. If you're not LDS, you're nobody and it gets worse from there.

The whole reason there's Idaho is so idiots don't have to go all the way to Texas.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

🤬

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Huzzah!! Is there a petition I can sign??

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Costa Rica here I asked at the farmer’s market he said $8 for 40 eggs you do the math.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

You must be yolking

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Doreen Garza's avatar

🤣

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Julie's avatar

I would love to be your 11th province.

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Mary Hall's avatar

In my next life I'm going to be Canadian.

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Robin's avatar

Please take us

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Maybe you can adopt some of us?

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Bikracer's avatar

$5.99 doz for much loved and treasured pasture raised eggs at our local Sprouts in San Luis Obispo, CA yesterday.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Might you be looking to adopt, Mary? I come with my own clothes, books, car, and pets.

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Dave the Spot-on Moron's avatar

I’d be happy to be your 11th province! Where do I sign?!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Our kids have chickens and share their lovely eggs with us. Of course, the chicken coop is hidden away out of sight and wrapped in concertina wire, but hey.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Centuries from now, as democracy has survived at least in other countries,, political scientists will marvel at the disastrous implosion of America, hopefully a temporary one, over how much eggs cost in 2024, only to see the prices get much worse in 2025. It will be a case study in unfathomable manipulation using a ridiculous resentment meme.

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LesG's avatar

Egg prices and the "threat" of trans-gendering. That's just about all they had.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

And yet it worked. That’s the sad and insane part. It’s like I saw someone say in a TikTok vid to the MAGAts: you could have voted for actual policies or for hate. And you chose hate

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LesG's avatar

But, let's not forget the swing state 5 million voters that were disenfranchised by eligibility challenges. According to Greg Palast. Which is what usually happens to big inner city voters with black or Latino sounding names--except this time on steroids.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Palast is nuttier than squirrel poop. Might as well quote Alex Jones.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Lunatic, like the tulip craze in the 1630s. Although, eggs are not really the issue, are they?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Egg prices were representative of the ceaseless lying trump and the repubs did about inflation. That, and the hot button issue of immigration, which twanged the racist and xenophobic chords of MAGAs and the MAGA-susceptible, were more effective than Harris’s ideas to actually help people.

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Your own private Fort Knox! You should probably consider some armed guards....lots of them are looking for jobs since they were fired from their government/military jobs.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Dig a moat too

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Now you’re thinking!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏😂

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Nightmaher's avatar

Same here Walt. Both my kids are organic farmers and one has 12 chickens that give eggs.

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Tess's avatar

No farmer’s markets up there? Ours are $4.00 at farmers market….

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

it's the middle of winter here in the Hudson Valley, no farmers markets until May

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David (Dave) Jaspers's avatar

Where's everyone's lists?

1.) wondered what hole Donny Convict was on

2.) drank a delicious mix of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen

2.) Made a mistake

4.) pondered what i did this week

5.) felt existential dread

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Susan B's avatar

1. Took copious amounts of Pepto to soothe my anxious stomach

2. Took Xanax to calm my nerves

3. Bought a case of scotch to ease my worries

4. Smoked ounces of pot to try and pretend I was in a dream

5. And called the Senate switchboard 20 times to register my outrage

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Mary Hall's avatar

Stock up on Xanax since Secretary Wormbrain thinks they are evil.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

I made out an entire email then realized I’m on the account that doesn’t allow me to send 😞. Will redo later. Loved the one with the Beatles song

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shee-rah's avatar

#5 🥲😟😩

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Tess's avatar

Ours is indoors from Nov-May!

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

lucky lucky

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Sorry I already posted but in case people missed it I’m in Costa Rica and asked a farmer at the market last week 40 eggs for $8.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

And you can buy a house for $500.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I wish! We Oregonians have to wait for spring for farmer’s markets to reopen. It’s the rain ☔️ that binds us.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I can go to the farmers market 6 days a week in my city center in Germany, and in my local grocery store, there is also a section where one can fill a carton with regional fresh eggs. No one even refrigerates them here. We just keep them in cartons out of the fridge and use them.

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

In the USA, the egg suppliers wash the natural protective coating off. Thus, in the fridge they go.

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Kay-El's avatar

I have an indoor one close to me, but haven’t been there yet. Just discovered it.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

I don’t mean to be a jerk but has it occurred to anyone to not buy eggs when they’re astronomically priced? I mean, are they THAT necessary? I like them but they aren’t a must-have food in my pantry. I eat Greek yogurt and fruit for breakie. I cynically think that Big Egg is going to see how nutty we are about eggs. Remember when the big cholesterol scare? People were afraid to eat eggs.

I know, I know, this is about bird flu, which is serious. But I wonder if the run on eggs has more to do with fear of not having any.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

For some people, eggs are an essential source of protein. And per meal, they're still cheaper than many meats.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

". . .fear of not having any"

Like toilet paper in 2020

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Doc Blase''s avatar

They are a necessary ingredient in many recipes, as cooks know.

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Julie's avatar

Jeff, I love how you interact with your subscribers. Thank you.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

It's the middle of winter here, too. 81° outside today 😎

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thanks Steve. For some reason it's raining today in Seattle.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

My brother lives there (well in Gig Harbor anyway.) Rain is what Seattle does best ☂️😂

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Tully's avatar

We're on an island south of Gig Harbor. Very heavy rain past two days. They're calling it an 'atmospheric river'.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

It's pouring here. Even so, two of our Representatives and hundreds of people showed up to show solidarity with Ukraine.

Not being a native, I am usually too chicken to show up in the rain. Rain is very wet.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Actually, it doesn't rain any more than a lot of cities. It's the damn darkness 8 months of the year.

Gig Harbor is the same thing, just smaller.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Unheard of!!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You live with your choices. I can't help you. However, the lady who baked our pies, and we still order them for special occasions, did move to upper New York state last year. Pie Society was the name here in Berkeley.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Best, most beautiful farmers' markets I have ever seen were in Ottawa, Canada. Wish I'd moved there before I got too old to be accepted as an immigrant....some mistakes we never stop paying for, it seems.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I'm going to Ottawa in August! I will look for the farmer's market.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I've never been there. I need to put my passport to better use.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

You would be astonished by the place. It's what the U.S. was supposed to be and never was.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

That's the beauty part--every neighborhood has one! Can't miss them. There's also the big one downtown.

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Wendymae's avatar

I paid $11/dozen (with $1 off per dozen for bringing my own cartons!) at my farmers market in FL last week, and was happy to do so because there weren't any in the stores. Yes they are organic and pasture raised and delicious. I eat them every day so have been hoarding them a bit and am grateful that I have the ability to pay double what I did before.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

They were $9 here in South Jersey at the supermarket, the jumbo brown eggs were only $6.29, so now I have jumbo eggs.

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Sara Toye's avatar

Where do you you live, Tess? I'm packing as I type.

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Tess's avatar

Wisconsin

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I've driven all over the south half of the state. I really liked Madison, and stayed at a boutique hotel in La Crosse that used to be a candy factory, super-cool 🍬😎

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Lisa59's avatar

😅

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Julie's avatar

The farmers market here is riddled with MAGA weirds. Not an option for me 🤢

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Kay-El's avatar

Trader Joe’s $4.99 but one carton to a customer.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Trader Joe’s is maga. You should grocery shop at food lion or giant or Costco

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Lisa59's avatar

Trader Joe's was part of the lawsuit with Musk and Bezos to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board. 🖕🖕

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J Glaspie's avatar

PLEASE NOTE: Excerpt from Chicago Tribune February 19:

Some companies, such as Amazon and Trump ally Elon Musk’s SpaceX, have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB’s structure, . . . .

Rohde maintained Trader Joe’s has no intention of filing or joining a lawsuit against the NLRB.

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Lisa59's avatar

The NLRB accused TJ of illegally firing union workers, spreading lies about unions, and suppressing union activities. There are dozens of articles about their involvement with the lawsuit.

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Kay-El's avatar

JFC. I’ve already dumped 3 grocery stores. No Food Lion here. I’d do Costco but I’m one person and can’t use up the amount of stuff I’d normally buy. Was a member when I was married and the kids were small. Thanks for the info!

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Susan Keefer's avatar

I don’t eat eggs.🥚

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Kay-El's avatar

That simplifies things.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

I don’t belong to Costco either for the same reason. Although I do have plenty of storage space and freezer

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

It's worth being a member just for the $5 rotisserie chickens 🍗😋

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

I've shopped at Trader Joe's before it was Trader Joe's (i.e., Pronto Market.)

The founder, Joe Coulombe, sold the chain to Aldi (a German supermarket chain) in the late 70s but remained as chairman until he retired in the late 80s. Aldi had a hands-off approach, only wanting to grow the business. Things went south after Dan Bane, who replaced Joe as CEO, retired in mid-2023. The new CEO is a MAGA knucklehead. I haven't shopped there in about a year.

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Marty's avatar

Please don’t shop at MAGA!

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Mary Hall's avatar

I got two dozen eggs at Costco for less than $8.00 just last week.

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J Glaspie's avatar

What is the source for your statement, please?

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Substack: Bridges to Burn, Feb 4 Grocery Stores

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J Glaspie's avatar

If it was this, I don't see Trader Joe's on the list: https://bridgestoburn.substack.com/p/wall-of-shame

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Lisa59's avatar

You need to read it again. Trader Joe's is Aldi Nord. Aldi is on the shit list.

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Lisa59's avatar

Nakia Rohde is the public relations manager for TJ. TJ in court papers said the NLRB is unconstitutional.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

I have it saved in my archive but don’t know how to link to it

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

I just ordered from Giant. Eggs near Scranton; nine dollars/dozen. You can find it less expensive by a dollar or two if you look.

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Scranton!! Awe I miss NE PA. From a little north of Hazleton. Now in VA

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Yesterday, Cosco had a big stack of two dozen egg flats for $7.99. In the meantime, local restaurants are charging patrons a .50 surcharge per egg.

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

I just bought them yesterday in Novato, California!

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Yes, even at our TJ’s in CA they were that price. Bless them!

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Linda Weide's avatar

That should definitely be on your list of 5 things you did. In fact, a list of prices you paid, and how they are going up because Musk got rid of the people that could do something like manage avian flu should be in the list.

Maybe someone can be sending in a list of 5 things EM did last week. It is not hard to find, because there is the Trump Tyranny Tracker, Musk Watch, Democracy Index, Project 2025 Tracker, etc...

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Brought to you by range free Nazis.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

We desperately need a cheap Avian Flu vaccine for the poultry industry, but of course those are the people at the CDC that Melon fired...

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Rick Calegari's avatar

However, there's also the unqualified dipshit RFK Jr. who opposes conventional medicine and wisdom. In Finland, the government is vaccinating their poultry farmers. For those of us over 65 who got the super flu shot this season, it offers a certain degree of protection although the risk of transmission to humans is still considered low.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

For now. Flu viruses are notoriously fast mutating

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shee-rah's avatar

Bovines also need to be vaccinated. They’re catching avian flu from chickens and other birds.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I made a quiche yesterday and my son said, "Wow, that thing must be worth its weight in gold!"

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nkrempa's avatar

I guess we have more flocks that aren't dead yet in Michigan... I only paid $6 for a dozen ORGANIC eggs yesterday!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Jeff, you should move to Berkeley. I checked at the biggest grocery store in Berkeley (Berkeley Bowl West) on Thursday and I didn't see any eggs over $7.99 a dozen. The kind I buy, Clover free range, were $4.99 and as you could say, locally laid, across the Bay in Sonoma County. The Bay Area, where you can be a locavore for almost everything you eat.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Is there a Target near you? They got cheap eggs. Yeah, Target. Go figure.

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JENNIFER's avatar

Target has to sell eggs cheap cause their stock is in a free fall ... I would pay 3x the price of eggs at my local non-corprate grocery store than go to Target. Fortunately, my local has eggs and even my preferred Jumbo Eggs are still under $4.00 a dozen cause they source their eggs locally

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

We don't shop at Target.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Holy shit Jeff!! I have to ask the husband what he paid for our free-range eggs(the only eggs we buy) nine bucks is crazy!!

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Keith E. Cooper's avatar

I paid $2.00 for a dozen at a Smith's store in Albuquerque last week. Lucky, lucky me, indeed!

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Ron Davidson's avatar

Costco outside of Cleveland was selling two dozen organic eggs for $8.50.

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Planet 99's avatar

At my Wegmans on friday, $4.99 xl, cage fee, limit 10 doz.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

"The Wife" found eggs at $3.99 at our local Trader Joe's (that bastion of liberal sanity and bland ethnic food).

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Lisa Ferrara's avatar

I cannot love those responses to Ketamine Kid's email enough.

My two cents: threatening people's livelihoods with a ridiculous anwer-by-Monday-night-or-be-fired missive ON A WEEKEND with the intent to cause chaos and instill fear, anxiety, and panic into innocent people is FUCKING TERRORISM. Russ Vought, who helped author Project 2025, flat-out admitted that he wanted to terrorize federal employees.

We The People have had FUCKING ENOUGH. Vought, Musk, Butternut Bitchtits and all who acquiesce to these fucking Nazi DOGEbags should be arrested as the terrorists they are. NOW.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Props to those workers for viciously funny responses. If they get fired, maybe they can write comedy. "Izafukinazi" Hahaha

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I saw a sign at a protest yesterday that called them ""Swasticars".

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Kathleen Weber

From:

ne***ew@yahoo.com

To: hr@opm.gov

Sun, Feb 23 at 12:05 PM

Spent my Social Security check.

Did not get transgender surgery.

Thought bad things about Elon Musk.

Cheered for Ukraine.

Hoped Donald Trump would drop dead.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Absolutely brilliant response! Kudos to you Kathleen. Can I borrow this, please?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Of course!!!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well dug week of work Kathleen !!

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Lisa59's avatar

Musk is literally high as fuck. Real high. He's incoherent. He's an addict. He can only afford his consequences for so long. One thing evil does is expose our vulnerabilities.

Putin and the Saudis love this guy. They use X to flush out their political enemies to imprison and kill them. Don't think for one second they aren't monitoring everyone on X. After all, we are Marxist Leftists. As described in every fucking page of Project 2025.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Muskolini must go!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

No more sunglasses at night for dope addicted Ketamine boy. He’s busted but that maybe is why he’s on it and are the black market or prescribed?

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Some people use ketamine for its hallucinogenic properties. Ketamin can sedate, incapacitate, and cause short-term memory loss, and because of this, some people use it as a date-rape drug. Google sez.

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

Ketamine is a disassociative drug. Some people find this pleasant. Some find it terrifying.

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SPW's avatar

Money. He’s probably got a direct drug distributor. The Ketamine Kid rambles again.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I think when one has billions of dollars there is no more black market.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

It's pretty dumb to be on Xitter.

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Lisa59's avatar

At this point, it's insanity.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Indeed Hannah!!

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Joanne Beck's avatar

And the circus continues...

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

A friend whose husband worked for USAID said DOGE jackboots raided his office, ordered everyone to leave, ripped posters off the walls and threw them on the floor. Over 190 nearly completed USAID projects around the globe were simply cancelled without review and without notice. Employees were treated like criminals.

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Lisa Ferrara's avatar

Like I said... terrorism. They are intentionally bullying, intimidating, and harassing people in the hopes that they'll be scared or stressed enough to resign.

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

…and that the rest of us will be cowed into mute acceptance.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

They are wrong. The tide is rising against them

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Make it so!

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Burke's avatar

Will the Press ask Why? Probably not. Too lazy to think.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

I don’t understand how they are getting away with it!

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Totally agree! 👍

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

They are breaking laws constantly! How come they haven’t already been arrested?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Bravo Lisa!!

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Marian Vitale's avatar

Here's mine:

"Dear Unelected Bureaucrat,

Here are my five accomplishments for the past week:

- I told as many people as possible that no one elected you and that your actions are illegal and Un-American

- I called my representatives in the House and Senate to tell them to block any actions you and your unelected minions try to push through via legislation

- I shared ridiculous photos of you holding your phallic chainsaw in what is so obviously an attempt to compensate for your physical shortcomings

- I shared the story of your public document that was supposed to be “proof” of fraud and waste but instead was proof that you and your team can’t even do basic math.

- I proudly wore my “Hey, I Didn’t Vote For Him” t-shirt, which applies to both you AND your demented boss.

Can’t wait to share next week’s list."

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Abbi's avatar

Allison Gill’s The Breakdown has a bunch sent to her by current federal employees. It’s a good read. No competition with Jeff’s humor, although several of the emails are fvkcing hilarious.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Good work, Marian. We all need to do our bit.

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Marian Vitale's avatar

And send it from a throwaway email address.

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Tex237's avatar

No, I used my real name and email address.

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Alice B Toklas's avatar

Fuck that shit. Bring it on!

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Tess's avatar

brilliant

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏. Wonderful!

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J Glaspie's avatar

I'd email it multiple times if I were you. I'm busy sending as many emails as I can now.

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Diane J's avatar

Did the same things only my "Don't look at me, I didn't vote for him " shirt is a sweatshirt because it's cold here.

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Marian Vitale's avatar

I’m in Amsterdam so also cold! I also have one that says, “Sorry about Donald Trump” which always gets a smile!

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Americans are ignorant because it's not that hard to get through life as a dumbass. If you can hold down a gig and keep a roof over your head, food in the fridge and gas in the tank, you can carry on without a thought in your head. I once taught a class of college freshmen who didn't know America used to be English colonies. The dumb runs deep in this country.

So that said, even dummies know when they've been smacked upside the head with a dead mackerel, and town halls are reflecting a growing anger at Trump and Musk. Someone predicted that there will be a peel-off of Trump support, county by county, issue by issue, and that sounds intuitively correct to me. Hang in there, folks. We're down but not out.

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

I'm thinking that soon the GOP congress will refuse to hold town hall meetings. They are fragile and weak.

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Julie's avatar

Our stupid rep here, Eli Crane, hasn’t held one. We have stood outside his office with signs once and will do it again Friday. He’s an asshole.

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Betsy L's avatar

That's what happened last time around. Representatives hated being screamed at, and might have been a touch scared, too, so they stopped holding town hall meetings.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

And cowardly.

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Burke's avatar

Musk is orchestrating everything. But he’s not “in charge” of anything. Donnie will take the fall. Vance and Thiel are in the wings. See Yarvin. The destroy Democracy plan is in process.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Best laid plans, etc.

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LesG's avatar

I think they're just biding their time as to when they will try the 25th.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Exactly Burke!!

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Post Fuck Trump memes

2. Post Fuck Elon memes

3. Post Fuck Noem meme

4. Post Fuck RFK Jr meme

5. Post Fuck everyone in Orange Fuckwit’s admin memes

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Your memes are great and people are noticing them, Kay-El.

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Kay-El's avatar

Thanks Walt. Just trying to do my part for our country. Resist!

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vorpal's avatar

Your activities interest me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol, I remember that saying from Wonkette

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well played Kay-EI!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I’m gonna need more coffee to respond to Elonias email… I consider this a creative challenge! 😂😂😂. I always laugh reading Jeff’s brilliance but today was priceless! 👏👏👏

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Lisa59's avatar

Hahaha! I tell everyone. The cashier behind the counter. The person pumping gas next to me at the gas station. I was at my local pharmacy and asked the women who worked there how they felt about being disenfranchised from voting. They were all yelling no. 😅 It was great. I talk to everyone. ☺️ It drives my family nuts.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

My grandmother Nellie Lee did the same thing. Here’s this cute little old lady walking up to a mom and going on and on about how cute her baby is or “ I buy the same cat food as you do” or god knows what else 😂😂. I’m just like her!🤣

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Ok your family was already nuts yes or no?

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Lisa59's avatar

Yes

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Touché Douglas !!

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Please share what you send so we can enjoy your creativity. I’m heading out for a run with the pups in the woods and will think on what to send as well…then I’ll need to create a throw away email address.

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J Glaspie's avatar

uh-oh. I used my real email address. Am I in trouble?

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Robert Eckert's avatar

If you get an email telling you you're fired from your nonexistent government job, please share.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Living dangerously can be fun J G!!

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Steve Kelly's avatar

'Elonias' - good one!

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Paula Scheider's avatar

I WISH school nurses were performing gender-affirming care! Where exactly ARE these magical places? We have spent tens of thousands on my son’s transition…pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, DOs, voice coaches, plastic surgeons…so you can understand my frustration at all the trans kids who got it all done between Algebra & Twentieth Century American Lit.

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Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

You're a wonderful parent. Your son must love you so much. I did laugh at your comment, pardon me.

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Paula Scheider's avatar

I LOVE that you laughed! That seriously makes my day!!! And thank you for your kind words 💙💙💙

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Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

No thanks needed, other than my own to you for making me laugh out loud. And for being a loving, amazing mom.

If you could do me favor: kiss your son on the forehead for me. No need to tell him why. I just want YOU to pass my love and support onto him via you, his dear mom. ❤️

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

“Tariff” is one of his favorite words and he doesn’t even know what it is. His clown handlers can’t even get it through his big fat pumpkin head that he is embarrassing himself.

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Tess's avatar

…and maggots have no clue

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Big fat pumpkin head.....

Still a fave of mine.

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Anne DePalma's avatar

Makes me laugh every time!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Hell, he does it everyday Walt. You never know what's going to come out of that rancid mouth of his but guaranteed, it'll be more of his usual bullshit of no substance that makes no sense. And, the media will do their best to ignore and sanewash him.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

We are the media now, Rick. Fuck those billionaires…fuck ‘em straight to hell.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Agreed Walt. Fuck those corporate gazillionaires.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The orange asshole has a bachelor's degree in economics from Wharton. Fred probably bought that one for him.

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Allan Voorhis's avatar

I keep going back to a video from several weeks ago where Elon said "You can hack anything." Did he hack vote tabulters in some key swing states? I can't get this out of my mind.

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

And I think I heard Elon talk about just messing with a few votes in each district so it wouldn't be obvious. I fear the upcoming special elections will be hacked as well. We may never win another election with Leon around.

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

Isn’t there anyone smart enough to figure out how he did it, find evidence and charge him as a traitor, election interference, fraud, anything else that would remove him from society? We could all split his billions.

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Clint Opine's avatar

Agreed. I don't have proof of anything, but I picture Musk saying, "I can get you the election, just have to fix Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and you're in." But of course the thin-skinned narcissist had to say " Uh-uh. I have to get ALL the swing states and the popular vote!!" Which almost gave the game away. He probably demanded California too.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

tRump kept saying it out loud! “We don’t need more votes, (fart squish), we have plenty of votes.” A phrase heretofore unheard of in the political spectrum.

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Tex237's avatar

Go to Greg Palast’s website and read how they did it: Prevent voters from voting and if they get away with voting, don’t count their votes.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Try, because it's fantasy.

You can't have a fair election when you win and a crooked one when you lose. WE were in charge in November 2024 and we lost.

Discard the Blue-anon and move on.

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Suzeebee's avatar

Dear techbros, had a busy week:

Monday had my free gender reassignment surgery paid for exclusively by Christian fundamentalist taxpayers

Tuesday rejoiced in finally getting my dream job of doing backbreaking work in the fields now that those pesky brown immigrants aren’t around to steal work from us white people

Wednesday did 10 pull ups and drank a gallon of bleach to stave off illness and disease

Thursday felt too gleeful over the suffering of others and economic calamity that certainly will only impact minorities and libtards (like children needlessly dying of AIDs, research funding frozen, soaring inflation, random firings of working class Americans etc) to get off my couch

Friday transitioned back to a girl cause I changed my mind and heck why not? It was free!

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Dave Drell's avatar

Wow- that’s a busy week for the “bee”!

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Suzeebee's avatar

Next will be even busier. Want to keep the overlords happy!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

20 years ago, if someone told you that a conman and wannabe celebrity would state aloud, for all to hear, on national television, that young children were going to school in the morning as boys and coming home in the afternoon as girls…and that smelly old conman would THEN run for POTUS and be “elected,” you’d definitely think I was smoking something.

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Derek Smith's avatar

Barely beats out Haitian immigrants eating -all- the cats and dogs in Ohio or somewhere.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

To be fair, you might have been. Not the point, but I'm into mind bending again. 😜

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WildKnitter's avatar

One of the people I follow put this as his answer to the 5 things he did:

1. Redacted

2. Redacted

3. Redacted

4. Redacted

5. Answered this shitty email

🤣🤣🤣

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Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

Love the response from John:

* I put my left foot in

* I pulled my left foot out

* I put my right foot in

* And I shook it all about

* I did the hokey pokey and I turned myself around

That's what it's all about.

🤣🤣🤣💙

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Tess's avatar

Dang Jeff! This was the best one yet! Leave trans people alone you assholes-learn something about them instead. God-so sick of this! And your messages to felony elonny (just made that up-sounds like a movie line Reese Witherspoon was in!) ….anyway-awesome!!!!!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

NCAA president Charlie Baker said he believed there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 510,000 competing at member schools.

This pain being inflicted on trans people is just for fun.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

This is another example of MAGA Math, a specialty of delusional loudmouths for manipulative purposes. Did you see James Carville rip Hannity a new one? Where Carville tells Hannity the supposed billions that DOGE tried to save by axing USAID was 0.014% of the $6 trillion federal budget? Massive savings! Thanks, Nelo Smuk!

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Geoff Anderson's avatar

Also, notice that they mostly get their knickers in a wad over trans women in women's sports.

I will ask them to go search for "trans men" and then ask them if they want them in the bathroom with their wives/daughters, or playing Women's sports in the NCAA.

(Of course, we test for testosterone levels so these "student athletes" are usually excluded. But if you truly want the XX and XY chromosomes to be the delineator, these trans men should be playing in women's sports)

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

First, I’m no doctor. My understanding is that many of the most difficult cases regarding sexuality in athletics has to do with people born with abnormal genetics. Extra chromosomes that blur the lines. How are those athletes to be treated? It’s a complicated issue…far too complicated for a smelly old demented gas bag occupying our White House with his equally demented minions.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

There are also those who are not chromosomally different but have gender dysphoria, where their neurology and gender identity do not match their phenotype. I have personally known several of these people. Why would anyone choose this feeling of not being comfortable in their own bodies? It is a highly personal aspect of who they are and it is difficult enough without judgment and worse, hatred and discrimination from others who don't understand it and have zero empathy. As Tim Walz said, mind your own damn business.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Well stated, Doc.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I saw a reality chart it is 1% over all in sports teams, but headlines are 20%, come on look around use your own damn eyes you now that is bs why not make is 51% then it would be the most of them, holy fuck! Stay out of peoples privacy (a right)! That’s why they use vague terms.

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counterlife's avatar

Yes, in addition to being dumbfucks, Trump, his boss Musk and the rest of the Project 2025 assholes are nasty sadistic. Malignantly so. They really enjoy hurting people. I see a lot of them as young boys torturing animals.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Walt they are bullies pure and simple. They have issues and take it out on everyone else.

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Wendy's avatar

He’s a brainless dumbfuck who’s going for Hitler status Jeff https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-plans-to-fire-all-democrat

Thank you Jeff for all you do

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Peaceful Mary T.'s avatar

Excellent, Wendy! Scary, but excellent.

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Charles Austin's avatar

A blabbering mass of evil and dementia. It looks like Elmo is getting on the nerves of his fellow Nazis. Circular firing squad, anybody?😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤪

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M.T. Kelly's avatar

✔️

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