every time I write about Donny's batshit ravings, there are those who accuse me of falling for Donny's 'distractions' from his real agenda. please mark my words: these are not "distractions." Donny isn't playing 10-dimensional chess, nor is he strategizing. he's fucking serious about all of this. he's as intent on going to war over Greenland is he is about dismantling democracy. none of this is a distraction, and all of it demands our attention
True....The German media said that Hitler was just tryin' to rile up his base when H talked about wanting to deal with the Jews. How did that work out?
Tragically, most never knew it--thanks to the success of the effort to create an uneducated, compliant citizenry. More money for football, lots less for the history department.
Before there was the Final Solution, there was a plan to send all the Jews and unwanted people to Madagascar. Without Madagascar's permission. I kid you not. Sounds like Dumpy's plan to send undocumented migrants to the Bahamas, I think it was.
Steve Bannon said they would flood the zone with Shit.
Mission Accomplished!
what the EU should do:
Europe doesn't need to ship a gigantic army to Greenland. Several thousand soldiers could be shipped in by commercial Air flights. We just need to form a symbolic guard around the American base in Greenland and in the capital city. In other words, act as a human shield for Greenland. American volunteers could join this human shield if the Greenlanders are willing to have us.
If Trump is willing to kill members of NATO armies, I think that just might make an impression on the world and even some of his supporters.
I definitely think the incoming Secretary of State and head of the White House Security Council will be against this.
I think he wants Greenland because someone told him that when the ice cap melts it will open a new shipping route to the US. "Someone" like co-president Musk.
no, putin has been wanting Greenland for a long time. It will be the new shipping lanes as the ice melts. He needs to get his oil delivered to wherever because of all the sanctions.
There is no provision for NATO to throw out anyone. When you take on treaty obligations, you "can't" just disavow them unilaterally (of course you can, if you want to be the lawbreaker, but that would be on Trump).
I'll go join The Shield! Who better than those of us who benefitted most from the old way of doing things--anyone born before 2000--to stand in opposition to its destruction? We know what has been taken from us. Just let me know where and when to get on the Defenders of Democracy plane....
I hope Trump gets an international bounty warrant because it will take more than U.S. Democrats to end the rule of a dictator- yes i said it. ban me LoL
This is ridiculous. How the hell is this not a concern to the good people of the USA? How is this not an issue to be mindful of? I'm just not getting it. It's getting dangerous now.
I'm not sure which of my comments you are responding to. I definitely think Trump's threats against Greenland, Canada, and Panama should be a concern to any sane American.
How many volunteers are here reading this article? I can’t imagine anyone would have designs on Moving to Greenland, the base could be fully occupied though Kathleen!!
Elon is one of the craziest of the bunch Cam, he’s named after a fictitious ruler of underworld people inhabiting Mars! The German author who arrived in this country via Operation Paperclip, a highly regarded rocket scientist penned the book Mars Project, it’s his passion!
I wonder if the source of his fixation with faucets that deliver no water has to do with his occupancy of a 100+ year old golf motel. Ancient plumbing, never updated, may well deliver a shower spray that resembles a drip. Should somebody tell him, or let him keep suffering?
Jeff - someone has to cal this out. Keep at it. His rantings are dangerous and we’ve learned that what he says is what he wants and he will have his Cabinet and the Republicans support him because they have no backbone. This is not the country or the world anyone wants.
His crazy rantings are of an elderly man whose dementia is going forward in real time and can only get worse. People with dementia can initially have an awareness of their brains losing memories, losing words, losing abilities, losing control, increasing their vulnerability to social isolation...until they really do get lost in a mental fog and lash out at those around them. THIS MEAN, AWFUL DEMENTED CRIMINAL SHOULD NOT BE POTUS. The hateful, venal, dishonest people surrounding Trump are going to sanewash him as long as they can to maintain their own power, and/or to impose their insane beliefs on the rest of us. They will attempt in every way to fleece American taxpayers, to hurt, control, and rob all Americans. We must wrest control back from these assholes. NO sane American wants a repeat of WW II
But he has surrounded himself with more competent functionaries who might not be exactly on-board with Trump's evil plans, but who have evil plans of their own they'd like to use him to cram down our throats.
Agreed. His ability to spew the bat-shit crazy bull shit that forms in his sociopathic brain AND have evil intentions to strip people of all rights and become a dictator aren’t mutuality exclusive. Both parts of that sick fuck need to be discussed, and you’re a master at covering both.
There are those who advise that we should pay no attention to Trump; we should ignore his rants. I think that is dangerous, because he is so uneducated and ill-informed that his decisions could cost lives if unattended. Remember how he wanted people to be injected with bleach to cure Covid? Afterwards he said it was a “joke”, but Trump has no sense of humor. He can inflict pain and hate, but he has no joyful presence. When he’s wrong, jump on him.
The Felon Seditionist has been normalized by the right wing press but also the Old School Democrats. A smooth transition is being offered to the very terrorist who incited a deadly seditionist attack!!!
I hear this, but he's not surrounding himself with the most competent people (does he even know that only congress can declare war?). I think this will go the way of "build the wall, and Mexico will pay for it" and he'll probably just sell a lot of "MGGG" merch before moving on to the next insane idea.
Absolutely! His whole shtick is coming up with ever more lunatic ideas to profit from. Just think--if he had actually been held accountable by our weak-ass judicial system and ever spent even one night locked up somewhere, wow--how much cheap crap could he sell off of that?? Dude missed a big one there.
I think there is a big difference--right after 9/11, there was bipartisan support for attacking Afghanistan and later Iraq. It didn't make sense to me, but congress was pretty much aligned. Now, congress is deeply divided, and only a handful are full-burn-it-down-MAGA. No Democrats will approve invading a NATO ally, and there are enough non-insane Republicans that this won't happen. It's just bluster.
I was thinking the same. The sham that GW put over about WMD which led us into the war in Iraq - he's trying to do the same thing except it will be immigration or the military stopping protestors...
He won't need a declaration of war. He'll just go ahead and do whatever he wants to do and Congress and the military will go along with it. Wonder who's reading Mein Kampf aloud to him every night?
You're right about Congress, but as a 40-year military wife and a veteran, I'm reluctant to think that the military will go along with it. I really hope you're wrong there. However, Dumpy also wants to purge the military of any non-MAGAts, so maybe he'll get his war.
If the upper echelons of the military refuse to obey Trump's illegal orders, he'll just get rid of them until he finds people who will kiss his ass and go along. We are in the Fourth Reich and there's virtually no one to stop it.
My MAGA buddy believes its performative bs-ing and that the Constitution will hold. They really think he's just blustering. There is the money to be made by taking over Greenland with its mines of rare metals for use in hi tech, or the control of the Panama Canal to extort European or S/W African exporters. With the nukes behind him he'll do anything to be like Master KGB Hero PUT-it-IN
They say it takes a crazy person to understand another crazy person ("it takes one to know one"), so that very well could apply to MAGA too. It takes a MAGA to understand a MAGA. (God knows nobody here understands one iota of trump's nonsense speeches, but his audience seems to eat them up). So, maybe your trump-loving friend is right. All I know is I'm truly out in left field (another old saying) when it comes to relating to the MAGA brain.
MAGA goes for the aggressive “wrestling” entertainment factor and think he’s just joking and that the institutions will hold. OK I tell him. They haven’t held for women. Half the population doesn’t have civil rights to make decisions about the course of their lives. No answer.
Donnie doesn’t know how to play chess. He’s trying to cover up his dementia by blathering on about anything that appears in his STD addled brain.
The worst part of this all is that Americans voted for this idiot and GOP members of congress are bowing down to kiss his ass. We are going to suffer and I hold them, along with Merrick Garland, responsible.
Not just the Palisades, but Altadena (just N of Pasadena) too. I did service work for over 35 years in hundreds homes in the burn areas, more than a few of which are no longer standing. Businesses too. Some, like Wylie's, have been around for nearly 70 years. It's beyond horrible.
A mild Santa Ana wind is actually nice and makes for a pleasant winter day. A normal Santa Ana is only bad below the passes and canyons (where I live, unfortunately.) The fierce, widespread wind we have today is pretty rare, the last one this bad was in 2011.
This event is worse. In fact, it's the worst I've *ever* seen (a nearby NWS station recorded an 83 mpg gust), and I've lived in my house since 1989. I've always lived in SoCal, but not always in the wind tunnel.
I don't think so. I lived through the Oakland Hills Fire in 1991 and a small Berkeley Hills Fire in 1970 or 1971. Up here the wind can be a problem (not like SoCal) but the real issue is the eucalyptus trees. They're all over the east bay hills, cities and the park district. I have no idea why they're waiting. If you've never seen one explode, you're so lucky. I wish everyone in the Wildland Urban Interface in SoCal good luck, and get out now. Otherwise, it will take you 20 minutes to pack your car.
Wishing for safety for our friends in California. These brave people are truly the best in service for each other coming together to save community. What brave models for others.
I'm so sorry. We are scared for the many, many Americans affected by these fires. We hope for your safety, and for those many other people and animals, too.
We're about 30 miles from the fires and watching the devastation as I write this. There's now another fire close to my wife's office in Sherman Oaks which has shut down completely even if you work remotely like she does. Thank goodness Biden is here and he'll take care of all the people impacted before his assholiness takes office. The devil winds are suppose to deminish later this afternoon which will be a big help to the brave firefighters who are on the front lines.
Can you imagine what Dumpy will say about assistance to southern California when he takes office? "They didn't vote for me, so no aid." Shit. I'd forgotten about that.
The CA governor thanked Biden effusively for the assistance and included a statement such as "we canʻt expect it" or "we canʻt take it for granted" so I think he knows whatʻs coming.
I'm sorry to have to report....The vindictive piece of shit has already been non-stop posting today, denigrating Newsom and blaming Biden for leaving him "this mess."
I just read his crap on Bluesky and it's pretty much what you'd expect from this clueless imbecile. This is the same dipshit who suggested using aerial water drops on Notre Dame Cathedral when it was on fire. Like most disasters, he has zero knowledge about urban wildfires when combined with the Santa Ana winds.
Please pack up your car and drive another 30 miles away. 3,000 houses burned in Oakland, people died trying to get out when the fire swept over them. When we had the tsunami alarm, it took us 20 minutes to pack up all our records (and because of earthquakes, I keep them right by the front door) and the three cats and their food. People drove without getting stuck, so that was good. I think you should go somewhere out of the WUI now.
PC, do you follow CalFire (insert your county's name) on SM? They are a good source of up to date news. A Santa Ana + wildfire is probably being covered non-stop on local TV stations. Best of luck. 🙏
If you can communicate with her, find out what she needs, if you have a key, or can get one, go and get what's important and leave the area. Ten miles is not that far, Teri can tell you, she is in Paradise. In 1991 the fire jumped eight lanes of freeway when it switched directions. The wind just blows it.
True. The parents are old school Republicans. Socially, very liberal. The "mind your own business " outlook. Fiscally, very conservative. I can live with that.
I'm bummed that it ended, you write it, I'm reading it...the longer the better, but I'm selfish...this shit is helping to keep me sane as all of the insanity unfolds, and this vile ignorant fuckstick isn't even the fucking president yet!!!...god help us, god and jesus and baby jesus help us!!
Dump is so mentally ill...who will stand up and do something-anything-to control this? We're the laughing stock of the world, FFS. And Three Toes? SERIOUSLY. Is she angling for a job in the new admin? Crazy bitch. This is all so unnecessary and exhausting. 😭
Right...I think about the MASSIVE amounts of money that are being pissed away on such nonsense when so many people are hurting, struggling, starving. There is no sense of decency or humanity anymore. The Republican party ... a bunch of goons.
Waiting for his health care plan. It's high on even maga's priorities. How long for "concept" to finalized plan? When does he call in major grocery conglomerates to discuss wildly inflated profits & exec pay + bonuses? Then tell them, lower your prices, or my magic sharpie will move price gouging bonuses, pay etc. and move into fund with strict 3rd party oversight for helping pay for child care costs? (Still mulling over "does concept work on everything?")
I have a pal in Wisconsin who has a pretty thick accent...it's funny! (I'll say, I like your BOOOOOOTS, Pam!)And when I came to Philly people thought I had an accent. 😂
Every day brings new examples of his idiocy, ignorance, self aggrandizing delusions, and incompetence. The saving grace for MAGAts is they probably aren't paying attention so their bubble is safe. The rest of the world and those Americans who are not impaired cognitively can only cringe and clench. Sphincter exercise every fucking day. It's gonna be a long four years.
Think how strong your sphincter is gonna be in four years time. You'll be able to crack walnuts with it - and will never need a bottle opener again. . .
No, I prefer him to be in the background, not right in the immediate target area, thank you. This is not entertainment, this is information to help us be aware and digest the insanity.
When D assumes office they'd never let Jeff in the room. Things are gonna look different after 1/20. The conspiracists & fanatical will get the first 4 rows.
We could shave him , give him thick black glasses, cut his hair and say he is McFarley Snuffles from the Peoria Journal Star. Nobody would know. Sneak him in there and let him nail the MF to the cross!!!
In our dreams. Our Jeff must think of his & family's safety. Good thing Turd's enemies list is extremely long, and admin is already insanity on steroids.
forget it - if US takes us over, that will be the first thing to go (second will be our gun restrictions...we'd really rather keep that "artificial" border)
It beggars belief that not only were 71 million+ Americans willing to vote for this vile, evil creature, but that they would chose a person so monstrously stupid. He understands absolutely NOTHING about how ANYTHING works. I highly doubt his idols (Putin, Orban, etc.) are anywhere as IQ challenged as Mango Mussolini. I saw a meme that said for the first time in history we will have a president whose age is higher than his IQ. It's insane.
Agree. World opinion of the U.S. has shifted from concern and pity to well-deserved contempt and disgust. Our global standing as a leader is vanishing by the day and will have to be rebuilt from dust.
MZ, good thing CA is the 5th largest economy in the world. A mighty exporter of billions of $ of food, other goods, lowering the trade deficit (like turd knows what that means). Helps feed the nation, POURS billions of tax revenue into DC.
Teri, Teri. California is now the fourth largest economy in the world. And the nine (9) Bay Area counties are the 17th largest economy in the world. Don't forget our ports.
Get turd, 1,000 federal parks employees, 1,000 rakes. Full PPV media coverage. Take to the edge of a 5,000 foot canyon, straight up & down. Turd gives all instructions to rakers live in air as they "rake". Crevice. Abyss. Think Grand Canyon on a smaller scale.
This is why he wants to take the US out of NATO. He wants to be like the Dictator Putin and invade other countries. He is a very sick demented person. Sadly, we have a Democratic Party that refuses to cross the line of decorum and stand up shouting how absurd, illegal and wrong this batshit moron is. I’ve always been a proud democrat, but if they allow him to get away with this shit without screaming to the media, I think I may change to Independent. I’m watching my country fall deeper and deeper into Fascism. History is repeating itself 100 years later.
I think it's a good idea, but in California they're pretty strict about voting as an Independent, at least during the primary (I think) because they don't want Independents ruining the party votes. I'll have to research it before I change. In the general election, you can vote for any party.
I thought California changed to a "jungle primary" where all candidates regardless of party are on the same primary ballot and top two advance to the general.
Boy, that's a good question. The last elections I worked as a poll worker (I was the supervisor) were in 2018. Maybe it's changed. But I think (!) I distinctly remember in the primary in 2018 people who wanted to vote in the Democratic primary who were registered as Independents would have to re-register right there in order to vote in the Democratic primary. A lot of fun! In the general election, there was just one ballot with the top two candidates for each office. 2018 was not a presidential year, and I don't remember 2016 at all. I know in 2024 Adam Schiff ran against Steve Garvey and not Katie Porter, which tells me there was no top 2 last year.
I get that. But Schiff spent all his time attacking Katie Porter who was more like Bernie than he'll ever be, because he didn't think he could beat her in a top two contest. I, of course, voted for Barbara Lee
Say buh-bye when it gets to: He with the most nukes wins. Trump will think he has it in his favor....and has no clue that nobody wins a nuclear war. Not even if they're in space at the time.
He doesn’t like the fact that President Carter died and he is getting all the attention right now. This is his time, damn it!!!! Such a baby, whiny little bitch.
You can’t make this shit up. I am not sure if you saw the movie King of Hearts it was made 50-60 years ago about a mental hospital in Europe during the war and someone let’s all the patients out and they take over the town and are the new leaders. So much of what is going on now. Please watch it it is apropos.
Ilene since orange face first became president I often think of the movie King of Hearts!! I remember it so well and it is becoming all too familiar. The patients in the movie were not nearly as dangerous as King MAGA and the maggots!
I admit I was high when I watched this presser and I laughed through most of it. Absolutely insane. I plan on being a little high for the next four years.
It doesn’t matter if Trump is serious, distracting, or just bat shit crazy in his ramblings. What matters is the future President of the United States speaks for all of us in this crazy rant. Annexation of Greenland is not unhinged per se, hell Truman in fact did offer $100M post WWII. But Trump is feckless as he is rude. As Jeff so nicely points out, Trump allows invading a fellow NATO ally may be acceptable. OMG. There is no walking this back. Canada. Panama. One leg on the stool of national power is diplomacy. And Trump just flushed it away. Good luck Marco, you lack the moral courage necessary to stand up to this ‘Lebensraum.’ To the GOP, you own this disaster and our international shame.
Certainly possible 😁. More likely as Angela Merkle opined in the last Trump term, Europe must envision a future without the USA. I think that may be the world view. Like Britain’s ill thought Brexit, the cost for us may be great. Enter Elon Musk and the oligarchs.
I stand corrected then. I am technically correct that Truman never said any such thing, but I assume his Sec of State would not float such an idea without his OK.
every time I write about Donny's batshit ravings, there are those who accuse me of falling for Donny's 'distractions' from his real agenda. please mark my words: these are not "distractions." Donny isn't playing 10-dimensional chess, nor is he strategizing. he's fucking serious about all of this. he's as intent on going to war over Greenland is he is about dismantling democracy. none of this is a distraction, and all of it demands our attention
People ignored Hitler in the early days of his rantings... we seem to have forgotten a LOT of the global history
True....The German media said that Hitler was just tryin' to rile up his base when H talked about wanting to deal with the Jews. How did that work out?
Tragically, most never knew it--thanks to the success of the effort to create an uneducated, compliant citizenry. More money for football, lots less for the history department.
" Films, football and beer, but most of all gambling, filled the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. "
* George Orwell
"Entertaining ourselves to death.. Sociologist Neil Postman
Before there was the Final Solution, there was a plan to send all the Jews and unwanted people to Madagascar. Without Madagascar's permission. I kid you not. Sounds like Dumpy's plan to send undocumented migrants to the Bahamas, I think it was.
ah yes. Bread and Circuses . Not too much bread tho
Steve Bannon said they would flood the zone with Shit.
Mission Accomplished!
what the EU should do:
Europe doesn't need to ship a gigantic army to Greenland. Several thousand soldiers could be shipped in by commercial Air flights. We just need to form a symbolic guard around the American base in Greenland and in the capital city. In other words, act as a human shield for Greenland. American volunteers could join this human shield if the Greenlanders are willing to have us.
If Trump is willing to kill members of NATO armies, I think that just might make an impression on the world and even some of his supporters.
I definitely think the incoming Secretary of State and head of the White House Security Council will be against this.
I've wondered if Donny's threats and rantings about Greenland are his attempt to get NATO to throw the US out of it, rather than have to quit.
I think he wants Greenland because someone told him that when the ice cap melts it will open a new shipping route to the US. "Someone" like co-president Musk.
Yes, he's looking to make bank on the near-term effects of Global Warming.
While still lying about it being a "hoax" UGH
Could be.
no, putin has been wanting Greenland for a long time. It will be the new shipping lanes as the ice melts. He needs to get his oil delivered to wherever because of all the sanctions.
There is no provision for NATO to throw out anyone. When you take on treaty obligations, you "can't" just disavow them unilaterally (of course you can, if you want to be the lawbreaker, but that would be on Trump).
I'll go join The Shield! Who better than those of us who benefitted most from the old way of doing things--anyone born before 2000--to stand in opposition to its destruction? We know what has been taken from us. Just let me know where and when to get on the Defenders of Democracy plane....
Fully agree. But Greenland has to invite us.
I'm going, wait for me!?
In the event the worst comes to pass, do you think Trump and his minions will protect American citizens? Or American troops? I don't.
They aren’t protecting American citizens. Well, not female citizens or children.
What I'm wondering about is whether he will attack NATO troops and American citizens located in Greenland.
of course, he will. he wants people at rallies hurt.
I hope Trump gets an international bounty warrant because it will take more than U.S. Democrats to end the rule of a dictator- yes i said it. ban me LoL
So, hoping for assassination? Jeff has more than once encouraged us not to write anything that will get the Secret Service showing up at our doorstep.
it was just a figure of speech. relax.
So guns are other figures of speech.
This is ridiculous. How the hell is this not a concern to the good people of the USA? How is this not an issue to be mindful of? I'm just not getting it. It's getting dangerous now.
I'm not sure which of my comments you are responding to. I definitely think Trump's threats against Greenland, Canada, and Panama should be a concern to any sane American.
they won't last long in the regime....
How many volunteers are here reading this article? I can’t imagine anyone would have designs on Moving to Greenland, the base could be fully occupied though Kathleen!!
It's it certainly would be nicer if the crisis came in July rather than January. ;-)
We can't occupy the American base—think it used to be called Thule— but we can certainly park our tents just outside the walls.
Indeed HM
Some never learned it.
The United States of Amnesia.
I would bet a serious amount of money that Putin is planting all this craziness is Trumps otherwise empty cranium.
Putin doesn’t have to, he has Musk as his agent.
Putin via Elon, Thiel et al. Kim!!
Patrick I think you’ve got it!
How difficult would it be? Seems every time somebody, anybody, whispers something in his ear, he believes it.
As my (ex) husband once said to me "Everything I say to you goes in one ear - and straight out of your mouth. . ."
He’s surrounded himself with a bunch of crazies, just look at his Sectetaries. It’s really difficult to separate them into different boxes of crazies.
Elon is one of the craziest of the bunch Cam, he’s named after a fictitious ruler of underworld people inhabiting Mars! The German author who arrived in this country via Operation Paperclip, a highly regarded rocket scientist penned the book Mars Project, it’s his passion!
I wonder if the source of his fixation with faucets that deliver no water has to do with his occupancy of a 100+ year old golf motel. Ancient plumbing, never updated, may well deliver a shower spray that resembles a drip. Should somebody tell him, or let him keep suffering?
NEVER stop ignoring, PLEASE, Jeff.
Jeff - someone has to cal this out. Keep at it. His rantings are dangerous and we’ve learned that what he says is what he wants and he will have his Cabinet and the Republicans support him because they have no backbone. This is not the country or the world anyone wants.
His crazy rantings are of an elderly man whose dementia is going forward in real time and can only get worse. People with dementia can initially have an awareness of their brains losing memories, losing words, losing abilities, losing control, increasing their vulnerability to social isolation...until they really do get lost in a mental fog and lash out at those around them. THIS MEAN, AWFUL DEMENTED CRIMINAL SHOULD NOT BE POTUS. The hateful, venal, dishonest people surrounding Trump are going to sanewash him as long as they can to maintain their own power, and/or to impose their insane beliefs on the rest of us. They will attempt in every way to fleece American taxpayers, to hurt, control, and rob all Americans. We must wrest control back from these assholes. NO sane American wants a repeat of WW II
But he has surrounded himself with more competent functionaries who might not be exactly on-board with Trump's evil plans, but who have evil plans of their own they'd like to use him to cram down our throats.
Fascism’s warm embrace isn’t anything, but the Uber-wealthiest desire for an oligarchy, where they control everything and everyone Fred!!
Agreed. His ability to spew the bat-shit crazy bull shit that forms in his sociopathic brain AND have evil intentions to strip people of all rights and become a dictator aren’t mutuality exclusive. Both parts of that sick fuck need to be discussed, and you’re a master at covering both.
He's already done the President of the United States thing and now has to go bigger and be president of the US, Canada, Greenland and Panama.
"10-dimensional chess?!?" Dude isn't playing one-dimensional 52 Pick-Up.
There are those who advise that we should pay no attention to Trump; we should ignore his rants. I think that is dangerous, because he is so uneducated and ill-informed that his decisions could cost lives if unattended. Remember how he wanted people to be injected with bleach to cure Covid? Afterwards he said it was a “joke”, but Trump has no sense of humor. He can inflict pain and hate, but he has no joyful presence. When he’s wrong, jump on him.
He thinks saying it was a joke, covers his obvious ignorance.
True dat Kristy, love your ever changing avatar pics!!
That's a very critical point, Lisa. Too bad the Dems aren't listening right now.
The Felon Seditionist has been normalized by the right wing press but also the Old School Democrats. A smooth transition is being offered to the very terrorist who incited a deadly seditionist attack!!!
Exactly Lisa!!
They weren’t distractions last time either, there were just guardrails for some of it. This time there are none, including those scotus fuckers.
"First they came...
His ravings being called a "distraction" is partly why we're in for a second (gag) term with this lunatic.
I hear this, but he's not surrounding himself with the most competent people (does he even know that only congress can declare war?). I think this will go the way of "build the wall, and Mexico will pay for it" and he'll probably just sell a lot of "MGGG" merch before moving on to the next insane idea.
Absolutely! His whole shtick is coming up with ever more lunatic ideas to profit from. Just think--if he had actually been held accountable by our weak-ass judicial system and ever spent even one night locked up somewhere, wow--how much cheap crap could he sell off of that?? Dude missed a big one there.
We’re all hopeful for the
“Big” one as Fred Sanford professed was coming…couldn’t happen soon enough dans mon livre Linda!!
Congress is MAGA. They will declare war if he wants it. George Bush got his war. Why not Trump?
I think there is a big difference--right after 9/11, there was bipartisan support for attacking Afghanistan and later Iraq. It didn't make sense to me, but congress was pretty much aligned. Now, congress is deeply divided, and only a handful are full-burn-it-down-MAGA. No Democrats will approve invading a NATO ally, and there are enough non-insane Republicans that this won't happen. It's just bluster.
I hope you’re right.
Yes, only my congresswoman, Barbara Lee was the only one to vote against Afghanistan. Now we have her replacement, Lateefah...
I was thinking the same. The sham that GW put over about WMD which led us into the war in Iraq - he's trying to do the same thing except it will be immigration or the military stopping protestors...
With Bush those lies were riddled with hatred, and misinformation, worked then, would likely work even better with this coterie of connards Mary!!
He won't need a declaration of war. He'll just go ahead and do whatever he wants to do and Congress and the military will go along with it. Wonder who's reading Mein Kampf aloud to him every night?
You're right about Congress, but as a 40-year military wife and a veteran, I'm reluctant to think that the military will go along with it. I really hope you're wrong there. However, Dumpy also wants to purge the military of any non-MAGAts, so maybe he'll get his war.
If the upper echelons of the military refuse to obey Trump's illegal orders, he'll just get rid of them until he finds people who will kiss his ass and go along. We are in the Fourth Reich and there's virtually no one to stop it.
I never thought Iʻd be thinking positively about a military coup in the USA. It may be our last line of defense against the insanity.
Me too. That's how desperate I'm feeling.
Gotta say that I agree with you, Wahine. If ever there was a time for the cavalry to come to the rescue....
The lower echelons aren't going to go along either.
You think?
He’s surrounded himself with yes men, others who have allegiance to Putin Robin, but your point is valid!!
We are 12 days away from an apocalypse of stupidity. An even more demented, crazy conman is getting the nuclear codes back.
Giving a career criminal with a drug addled mind, coupled with Russian and N. Korean dictator pals nuclear codes is insanity, but here we are!!
We know. We know.
My MAGA buddy believes its performative bs-ing and that the Constitution will hold. They really think he's just blustering. There is the money to be made by taking over Greenland with its mines of rare metals for use in hi tech, or the control of the Panama Canal to extort European or S/W African exporters. With the nukes behind him he'll do anything to be like Master KGB Hero PUT-it-IN
He obviously doesn’t know that the Panama Canal is becoming seriously backed up due to decreased water levels.
They say it takes a crazy person to understand another crazy person ("it takes one to know one"), so that very well could apply to MAGA too. It takes a MAGA to understand a MAGA. (God knows nobody here understands one iota of trump's nonsense speeches, but his audience seems to eat them up). So, maybe your trump-loving friend is right. All I know is I'm truly out in left field (another old saying) when it comes to relating to the MAGA brain.
MAGA goes for the aggressive “wrestling” entertainment factor and think he’s just joking and that the institutions will hold. OK I tell him. They haven’t held for women. Half the population doesn’t have civil rights to make decisions about the course of their lives. No answer.
Agreed!! We can follow multiple threats at a time.
Donnie doesn’t know how to play chess. He’s trying to cover up his dementia by blathering on about anything that appears in his STD addled brain.
The worst part of this all is that Americans voted for this idiot and GOP members of congress are bowing down to kiss his ass. We are going to suffer and I hold them, along with Merrick Garland, responsible.
at just under 1,900 words, this might be my longest post. I swear I didn't sit down with the intention of writing a manifesto this morning
And you barely scratched the surface. Out here in LA. It’s rough.
Hoping for your safety, Neal. :(
Not just the Palisades, but Altadena (just N of Pasadena) too. I did service work for over 35 years in hundreds homes in the burn areas, more than a few of which are no longer standing. Businesses too. Some, like Wylie's, have been around for nearly 70 years. It's beyond horrible.
I’ve lived in both Pasadena and Los Angeles. The one thing I don’t miss about Southern California is the Santa Ana winds.
A mild Santa Ana wind is actually nice and makes for a pleasant winter day. A normal Santa Ana is only bad below the passes and canyons (where I live, unfortunately.) The fierce, widespread wind we have today is pretty rare, the last one this bad was in 2011.
True, a mild one is pleasant but I remember the 2011.
This event is worse. In fact, it's the worst I've *ever* seen (a nearby NWS station recorded an 83 mpg gust), and I've lived in my house since 1989. I've always lived in SoCal, but not always in the wind tunnel.
These Santa Ana winds are crazy. Have they increased in mph speed bc of climate change? Pls be safe. 🙏❣️
I don't think so. I lived through the Oakland Hills Fire in 1991 and a small Berkeley Hills Fire in 1970 or 1971. Up here the wind can be a problem (not like SoCal) but the real issue is the eucalyptus trees. They're all over the east bay hills, cities and the park district. I have no idea why they're waiting. If you've never seen one explode, you're so lucky. I wish everyone in the Wildland Urban Interface in SoCal good luck, and get out now. Otherwise, it will take you 20 minutes to pack your car.
And now the hills just NE of San Fernando. I have family and friends evacuating or waiting to evacuate in each of those areas. It's terrifying.
Sylmar, way too close for comfort.
Wishing for safety for our friends in California. These brave people are truly the best in service for each other coming together to save community. What brave models for others.
I'm so sorry. We are scared for the many, many Americans affected by these fires. We hope for your safety, and for those many other people and animals, too.
So sorry 💔
We're about 30 miles from the fires and watching the devastation as I write this. There's now another fire close to my wife's office in Sherman Oaks which has shut down completely even if you work remotely like she does. Thank goodness Biden is here and he'll take care of all the people impacted before his assholiness takes office. The devil winds are suppose to deminish later this afternoon which will be a big help to the brave firefighters who are on the front lines.
Can you imagine what Dumpy will say about assistance to southern California when he takes office? "They didn't vote for me, so no aid." Shit. I'd forgotten about that.
The CA governor thanked Biden effusively for the assistance and included a statement such as "we canʻt expect it" or "we canʻt take it for granted" so I think he knows whatʻs coming.
"It's their fault for not raking the forest and turning on the giant faucet. And batteries and Hannibal Lecter."
Since it was a done deal before that demented heartless dick takes office, he can't do a damn thing but bitch and lie about this disaster.
I'm sorry to have to report....The vindictive piece of shit has already been non-stop posting today, denigrating Newsom and blaming Biden for leaving him "this mess."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/wildfires-crisis-continues-trump-targets-californias-governor-rcna186884
I just read his crap on Bluesky and it's pretty much what you'd expect from this clueless imbecile. This is the same dipshit who suggested using aerial water drops on Notre Dame Cathedral when it was on fire. Like most disasters, he has zero knowledge about urban wildfires when combined with the Santa Ana winds.
It is stomach-turning to think he will be in charge of all disaster responses now. Stay safe please, Rick.
Please pack up your car and drive another 30 miles away. 3,000 houses burned in Oakland, people died trying to get out when the fire swept over them. When we had the tsunami alarm, it took us 20 minutes to pack up all our records (and because of earthquakes, I keep them right by the front door) and the three cats and their food. People drove without getting stuck, so that was good. I think you should go somewhere out of the WUI now.
Stay safe.
Be careful please.
Please be safe!
Oh man, my daughter lives in LA off of Hollywood Boulevard. Has the fire started moving that close now?
She’s in Paris now. I’m happy about that but if it destroys all her personal property it will damage her career.
I know im way off topic but if anyone knows how close this is please let me know.
That's 10+ miles away
https://app.watchduty.org/i/40335
Thank you Steve. It looks like it’s pretty damn close though.
She edits different things including the fire so she gets updated. I hope 🤞🏼
Again thank you so much for the info.
I have a picture her friend sent her. This is the front of her building but I can’t seem to get it posted!
PC, do you follow CalFire (insert your county's name) on SM? They are a good source of up to date news. A Santa Ana + wildfire is probably being covered non-stop on local TV stations. Best of luck. 🙏
If you can communicate with her, find out what she needs, if you have a key, or can get one, go and get what's important and leave the area. Ten miles is not that far, Teri can tell you, she is in Paradise. In 1991 the fire jumped eight lanes of freeway when it switched directions. The wind just blows it.
I can’t post it here it’s on my Substack on Constitutionalert.
She’s in Paris right now, trying to get her friends in LA in her building.
Thank you so much
😢
Neal & all in SoCal fire & high wind areas, pls stay safe. You are in our thoughts. ❣️🙏
Be safe Neal…
It was frightening to watch it with media surrounded by flames. Stay safe.
try to stay safe
Be safe. If they tell you to go, GO!!!
It looks horrifying.
I'm so sorry Neal. Hopefully the winds will stop and the Calfire teams can get them under control.
Jeff, we love every word.
Even my 92 year old, former Republicans parents enjoy your work. Many thanks
Eisenhower Republicans, they're a different breed
True. The parents are old school Republicans. Socially, very liberal. The "mind your own business " outlook. Fiscally, very conservative. I can live with that.
If you want to see how far the Rs have fallen, take a look at their 1956 platform -- it reads like Bernie Sanders' wish list.
Isn't that the truth?
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So much material, so little time! We never get tired of reading you, Jeff!
Well, that’s what happens when you try to cover Conspiracy-Whack-a-Mole.
Thank you for watching him so we don’t have to.
Worth every word. Caterwaul Sporkfoot !!!!
Too late. Now we’re going to demand a manifesto from you every day.
Seriously, I hate coming to the end of one of your posts because I always want more.
That's where the commentors take over.
If you write it, we will eagerly read every word.
You always make such great points, thank you!
Manifesto’s are in vogue these days Jeff!!
But, what you say needs to be said, repeatedly.
The longer , the better Jeff.
I'm bummed that it ended, you write it, I'm reading it...the longer the better, but I'm selfish...this shit is helping to keep me sane as all of the insanity unfolds, and this vile ignorant fuckstick isn't even the fucking president yet!!!...god help us, god and jesus and baby jesus help us!!
But we needed it!
As usual Michael de Adder has hit it hit the nail on the head.
https://deadder.substack.com/p/despot-dreams
Dump is so mentally ill...who will stand up and do something-anything-to control this? We're the laughing stock of the world, FFS. And Three Toes? SERIOUSLY. Is she angling for a job in the new admin? Crazy bitch. This is all so unnecessary and exhausting. 😭
"unnecessary" - which is particularly enraging
Right...I think about the MASSIVE amounts of money that are being pissed away on such nonsense when so many people are hurting, struggling, starving. There is no sense of decency or humanity anymore. The Republican party ... a bunch of goons.
Thugs
Exactly why I frequently refer to them as the "Rethuglicans."
Waiting for his health care plan. It's high on even maga's priorities. How long for "concept" to finalized plan? When does he call in major grocery conglomerates to discuss wildly inflated profits & exec pay + bonuses? Then tell them, lower your prices, or my magic sharpie will move price gouging bonuses, pay etc. and move into fund with strict 3rd party oversight for helping pay for child care costs? (Still mulling over "does concept work on everything?")
He's got nothing. We know it. But his cult hasn't figured it out yet. 🙄
They will soon.
No, I don't think they ever will.
Trump has always been nothing but a useful idiot, when he crosses the red line drawn by TPTB, he’ll be toast!!
Hopefully burnt !
I have a pal in Wisconsin who has a pretty thick accent...it's funny! (I'll say, I like your BOOOOOOTS, Pam!)And when I came to Philly people thought I had an accent. 😂
I get busted occasionally for my Minnesota/ Scandinavian accent less than I used to, but when I'm talking with my sister . . .
When we moved from Minnesota to Arizona ( the second 6th grade class I was in ) the kids teased me for my
" English accent ". 😊
You betcha!😂😂
Every day brings new examples of his idiocy, ignorance, self aggrandizing delusions, and incompetence. The saving grace for MAGAts is they probably aren't paying attention so their bubble is safe. The rest of the world and those Americans who are not impaired cognitively can only cringe and clench. Sphincter exercise every fucking day. It's gonna be a long four years.
If Smiths report and the years of criminal investigations into Trump’s criminal conduct would be released it would help! Fuck Cannon!!
Cannon is THE WORST!!!!
She is such a hack!
Yeah, but look on the bright side.
Think how strong your sphincter is gonna be in four years time. You'll be able to crack walnuts with it - and will never need a bottle opener again. . .
🤣🤣
No matter how strong it gets, I'm not opening any bottles with my butt, thank you very much.
Oh, come ON! Be a little adventurous! Shake the bottle hard first - and experience a cooling shower of beer round your proclivities. . .
Kinky
LOL!!
Jeff, why can't you attend one of these press conferences and ask some questions ? it would be great to have you respond to him in real time.
Oh, God..... would LOVE to see that!? 😂😂 Of course, my money is on Jeff.
That would be priceless.😂😂
No, I prefer him to be in the background, not right in the immediate target area, thank you. This is not entertainment, this is information to help us be aware and digest the insanity.
Agreed. I would like Jeff not to be doxxed or swatted, thank you very much
When D assumes office they'd never let Jeff in the room. Things are gonna look different after 1/20. The conspiracists & fanatical will get the first 4 rows.
We could shave him , give him thick black glasses, cut his hair and say he is McFarley Snuffles from the Peoria Journal Star. Nobody would know. Sneak him in there and let him nail the MF to the cross!!!
In our dreams. Our Jeff must think of his & family's safety. Good thing Turd's enemies list is extremely long, and admin is already insanity on steroids.
Roid rage ?
I have a question. If Canada becomes part of the US, can we have their universal healthcare system?
forget it - if US takes us over, that will be the first thing to go (second will be our gun restrictions...we'd really rather keep that "artificial" border)
Truly, I’s prefer Canada takes over the US
PLEEEASE!!!! :)
Can WA, OR, CA, NY, MI place ourselves in "available for Canadian adoption"? How do blue dots in red states apply?
Saw this on Bluesky this am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCLbdWVCEQ
She is good! I wish our journalists would be like this!
Now that’s what Trump is afraid of..A Woman who’s not afraid to tell it like it is!
Thanks for the link PJ Adk!
Powerful Canadian Pol Ms. May Burns Turd 💥💥💥
She's amazing! THANKS for the find!
BRILLIANT!!! She is so on the ball. Let's do it! The West Coast is so Canada, although I probably only speak for the Bay Area!
Longtimebirdwatcher, Cascadia!!!! Next 🇨🇦 Province.
Love Occupy Democrats !
And legal weed!
We have that in WA anyway. We're considered Baja B.C.
It beggars belief that not only were 71 million+ Americans willing to vote for this vile, evil creature, but that they would chose a person so monstrously stupid. He understands absolutely NOTHING about how ANYTHING works. I highly doubt his idols (Putin, Orban, etc.) are anywhere as IQ challenged as Mango Mussolini. I saw a meme that said for the first time in history we will have a president whose age is higher than his IQ. It's insane.
Agree. World opinion of the U.S. has shifted from concern and pity to well-deserved contempt and disgust. Our global standing as a leader is vanishing by the day and will have to be rebuilt from dust.
I’m an American living abroad. It’s mortifying when people meet me for the first time and ask me where I’m from.
Great zinger! "Age higher than IQ"!!!! SO TRUE 👍
That's just a joke. I ballpark it around 75. Maybe if he read more.
1. Greenland and the Panama Canal aren’t prizes you get for getting the ping pong ball into the bowl. You get a goldfish.
2. Thanks to Agent Orange my faucets now work. I simply turn them on.
3. Heartfelt condolences to Los Angeles, Altadena and all the other cities in the path of fire.
4. Maybe Orange Fuckwit can Sharpie the Santa Ana winds out of existence.
He’d prefer that California and all its granola-head communist libtards burn to the ground.
MZ, good thing CA is the 5th largest economy in the world. A mighty exporter of billions of $ of food, other goods, lowering the trade deficit (like turd knows what that means). Helps feed the nation, POURS billions of tax revenue into DC.
Teri, Teri. California is now the fourth largest economy in the world. And the nine (9) Bay Area counties are the 17th largest economy in the world. Don't forget our ports.
Longtime, SF Bay AREA 17th largest? 😮 #Cascadia
Yes! Hard to believe, isn't it? And four of the world's 10 richest people live here...
He’s just pissed off that California won’t take his advice to rake their forests. 🙄
He wants ALL of Californias money.
Get turd, 1,000 federal parks employees, 1,000 rakes. Full PPV media coverage. Take to the edge of a 5,000 foot canyon, straight up & down. Turd gives all instructions to rakers live in air as they "rake". Crevice. Abyss. Think Grand Canyon on a smaller scale.
Right on, Kay-El ! I was just going to suggest that we send him, President Muskrat and the cabinet clowns brooms !
They're HIS forests. They're national forests. He's just lazy.
Not likely with that demented fuckwad. He hates us here in CA.
Yes, he does, but he loves that Sharpie even more.
Yes he does but that Sharpie only belongs in one special spot and very deservingly so.
💯
Outta words. The least serious brain in the most serious times. Haven’t heard opinions voiced by Gabbard yet on any of this. Can’t wait.
If the GQPers in the Senate confirm her, they ought to be charged with treason.
The ones that helped plan the insurrection at the “war room” should have already been charged with treason. No consequences for them, though
Yes and that includes the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. (I can never remember his last name. Is that it?)
Johnson.
Thanks Mary!
Microphone Penis
This is why he wants to take the US out of NATO. He wants to be like the Dictator Putin and invade other countries. He is a very sick demented person. Sadly, we have a Democratic Party that refuses to cross the line of decorum and stand up shouting how absurd, illegal and wrong this batshit moron is. I’ve always been a proud democrat, but if they allow him to get away with this shit without screaming to the media, I think I may change to Independent. I’m watching my country fall deeper and deeper into Fascism. History is repeating itself 100 years later.
The democratic party AND media……
I will be registering as an Independent. Since the Al Franken debacle, the Dems have capitulated over and over again
I think it's a good idea, but in California they're pretty strict about voting as an Independent, at least during the primary (I think) because they don't want Independents ruining the party votes. I'll have to research it before I change. In the general election, you can vote for any party.
I thought California changed to a "jungle primary" where all candidates regardless of party are on the same primary ballot and top two advance to the general.
Boy, that's a good question. The last elections I worked as a poll worker (I was the supervisor) were in 2018. Maybe it's changed. But I think (!) I distinctly remember in the primary in 2018 people who wanted to vote in the Democratic primary who were registered as Independents would have to re-register right there in order to vote in the Democratic primary. A lot of fun! In the general election, there was just one ballot with the top two candidates for each office. 2018 was not a presidential year, and I don't remember 2016 at all. I know in 2024 Adam Schiff ran against Steve Garvey and not Katie Porter, which tells me there was no top 2 last year.
Steve Garvey took the #2 slot. From Ballotpedia:
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate California on March 5, 2024.
Candidate % Votes
✔
Adam Schiff (D) 31.6 2,304,829
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Steve Garvey (R) 31.5 2,301,351
Katie Porter (D) 15.3 1,118,429
Barbara Lee (D) 9.8 717,129
Eric Early (R) 3.3 242,055
James P. Bradley (R) 1.4 98,778
Christina Pascucci (D) 0.8 61,998
Sharleta Bassett (R) 0.8 54,884
Sarah Sun Liew (R) 0.5 38,718
Laura Garza (No party preference) 0.5 34,529
I get that. But Schiff spent all his time attacking Katie Porter who was more like Bernie than he'll ever be, because he didn't think he could beat her in a top two contest. I, of course, voted for Barbara Lee
Independents are just Republican Lite.
Say buh-bye when it gets to: He with the most nukes wins. Trump will think he has it in his favor....and has no clue that nobody wins a nuclear war. Not even if they're in space at the time.
Ah, Trump, a man of peace compared to Warmonger Joe. What happened to all the keyboard-tapping fuxsticks that used that line?
Peace in all things comes with surrender (to Putin), so sayeth our lord and savior Donald of Motel Lago. But we must fight Denmark!!!
I suggest we start calling them "Nevilles" and watch the smoke cme out of their ears as they try to figure out why.
If they Google it, they might be able to figure it out. They'll have to sort all the Nevilles, though. A major brain-strain!
WAG THE DOG people. He's blathering bullshit to distract us from the real evil going on...concentration camps for the designated "other "
He doesn’t like the fact that President Carter died and he is getting all the attention right now. This is his time, damn it!!!! Such a baby, whiny little bitch.
You can’t make this shit up. I am not sure if you saw the movie King of Hearts it was made 50-60 years ago about a mental hospital in Europe during the war and someone let’s all the patients out and they take over the town and are the new leaders. So much of what is going on now. Please watch it it is apropos.
Although the escapees in King of Hearts were all caring, compassionate people and they did a world of good in that town, unlike these fucking a'holes.
Ilene since orange face first became president I often think of the movie King of Hearts!! I remember it so well and it is becoming all too familiar. The patients in the movie were not nearly as dangerous as King MAGA and the maggots!
so true here is the link to the movie its on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYk_VT8rT0
Thank you Ilene! I want to watch it again!
They would have to be from an asylum for the criminally insane.
Thank you! I had forgotten the name of the movie. Now I can watch it again.
Yes I have to say the people in the asylum that run the town see much kinder than the orange asshole and his circus
I saw a cartoon this morning calling it the "Gulf of How Does This Lower Grocery Prices"
I admit I was high when I watched this presser and I laughed through most of it. Absolutely insane. I plan on being a little high for the next four years.
Only 'a little'??
It doesn’t matter if Trump is serious, distracting, or just bat shit crazy in his ramblings. What matters is the future President of the United States speaks for all of us in this crazy rant. Annexation of Greenland is not unhinged per se, hell Truman in fact did offer $100M post WWII. But Trump is feckless as he is rude. As Jeff so nicely points out, Trump allows invading a fellow NATO ally may be acceptable. OMG. There is no walking this back. Canada. Panama. One leg on the stool of national power is diplomacy. And Trump just flushed it away. Good luck Marco, you lack the moral courage necessary to stand up to this ‘Lebensraum.’ To the GOP, you own this disaster and our international shame.
I wonder how many countries are checking their nuclear arsenals....
Certainly possible 😁. More likely as Angela Merkle opined in the last Trump term, Europe must envision a future without the USA. I think that may be the world view. Like Britain’s ill thought Brexit, the cost for us may be great. Enter Elon Musk and the oligarchs.
Truman never said anything whatsoever about buying Greenland.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753192368/fact-check-did-harry-truman-really-try-to-buy-greenland-back-in-the-day
I stand corrected then. I am technically correct that Truman never said any such thing, but I assume his Sec of State would not float such an idea without his OK.