I would have had this post finished up half an hour sooner, but the town was repaving the cul de sac that my house is on, and the ten-year-old boy in me kept wanting to watch it happen
Used to like stuff like that. Burly Spanish guys playing fun music on their radios...now it's white dudes huffing and puffing and bitching about the heat and waiting on break.
That's been my observation lately too. And I share the same sentiment. Lots of privilege on display from proud "American" beer bellies, shovel leaners, and generalized taking forever to perform the art of digging a fucking hole.
Note, Jeff did not say he was going over and interfering, he just said he loves to watch big machinery do their thing. It's long been know that there are still 5 year old boys in every grown up man. We love to watch big equipment move around, moving dirt, or knocking down dead trees. Its why NASCAR is popular despite their races looking like rush hour on an LA freeway.
I witnessed firsthand the unwrapping of Christmas gifts by my two nephews when they were like five and seven years old. I was stunned to see the carelessness and unconsciousness with which they tore into the Christmas presents their mother so carefully prepared for them. It’s a picture in my mind that never went away. Well sure enough today they are MAGA Cult guys.
I put it this way - women stop finding body function jokes funny at about the age of 12; men never stop finding them funny. (Well, ok, I was older than 12 and I laughed my ass off at the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles".)
Your response is disturbing. Are you saying that women *don't*, in fact, buy into this myth (until they get smart around middle age)?
I have lived experience of this. My two daughters, when they were 9 and 6, sat me down and demanded to know 'when boys will stop being such butts?'. I let them down as easily as I could but it was rough. With Trumpian tears in my eyes, I explained that, 'I'm sorry, sweethearts, what you see is what you get'.
They walked away saying 'so I gotta marry *that*?!?! Ewwww!'
Not sure how things are there in East Jesus, but we have a lot of world-class genetics authorities here. I have been assured by such acquaintances that men are, in fact, failed women. One of the chromosome legs broke off of our double-X during some evolutionary mishap, and here you go...
This is an essentially Archetypical human behavior consistent with survival. A reflexive action coming from the deep dark recesses of our brains. Curiosity, problem solving, fascination to learn - it’s delightful on so many levels….
And apropos for our times - like an community barn raising - it’s not just for the Amish.
We should REVEL in these Real Life moments now more than ever.
Maybe replace city block parties with repaving events? LOL
I remember when my oldest (barely able to pull himself up to see over the radiator) spent a week or more watching a massive repaving truck & support crews in front of our house while grunting constantly like Tim Allen in Home Improvement.
My son did the same thing. In fact, when they were constructing a new building across the street, he begged me to take him there every day. At the end of construction the truck driver put him up in the seat to see everywhere. I haven’t thought of that in 35 years. Thanks. 🤭😉
When my son was preschool age, we would pack a lunch and find a local construction site where he would watch them working for hours at a time. The highlight of his childhood may have been when a local utility worker gave him an orange vest and hardhat that he wore everywhere.
My 100 year old dad did the same thing, and took lots of photos representing the job from start to finish. Imagine the walls in the garage covered with posters and photos. He was such a great guy. Sweet. Funny. Artistic. Interested in life until the end. He couldn’t stand DJT. Did I mention smart?
At our old building, a municipal parking garage was being built directly behind us. The banging and noise were distracting, but I couldn’t tear my eyes off watching the various workers and trucks construct that thing. Like when do you ever get that sort of treat? If you’re even 1/4 interested in the world around you, you’d want to see it.
What other things would you like to see? I might want to see how doctors do a knee replacement. It’s fascinating that can even be done!
I'm not sure I would want to see my own--I've had both knees replaced--but I'll agree that it must be interesting to see (on somebody else!) and, I have to say, I have had an awesome outcome with both knees!!! No more hobbling about, inability to get up out of low chairs, and I can walk, hike and bike all without pain!
I’d like to see a knee replacement too. I’ve got two titanium knees that are just teenagers (18), and I would love to see how it’s done. Mine are still in excellent condition.
Congrats! Those are supposed to be really painful through recovery. The fact they are going strong is terrific. Combination of a great surgeon and a health-conscious patient who can follow directions, I’d imagine.
Yes, my surgeon is the best in my area, and no matter how much it hurt I did the therapy. I have not had one single issue with either knee. They were done on the same day.
Plenty of surgical videos on YouTube. Orthopedic surgery (the specialty that does such things as knee replacements) is basically carpentry. Sawing, measuring, drilling, hammering.
I'll be referencing the video on replacement of a driver's side headlight in a 2009 GMC Sierra. They've made it complicated. ( Fucking smart ass engineers!😂😂)
Don't forget the garbage trucks every week! My son used to stand on the couch to watch. If I took him outside, he and the garbage man would wave at each other. And when I worked at a school and the street was being repaved, one of the kindergarten teachers took the class outside and lined them up against the fence to watch, spellbound. She was a teacher who understood her students.
My oldest son hugged and kissed tires, too. He liked to slide underneath cars, too, to look at the undercarriage. It ‘d occupy him for hours. Me, I just liked to smell new tires. That still distracts me.
McCormick: “polling is not very accurate because the pollsters generally get out of it what they want. I don’t trust those polls.”
The American people don’t trust the fucking liars they elected. They elected those fucking liars because they believe all politicians are fucking liars, and every couple of years it’s their job to punish the most recent group of fucking liars they elected and go back to the previous group of fucking liars because both sets of fucking lies are equally bad for them and it makes no real difference.
As George Carlin said, the average American is fucking stupid - and half of them are stupider than that!
Yes I WANT to see these polls translated to Dem VICTORIES. The media & the right wing claim that those who get blamed for shutdown DO NOT face the wrath of voters. We shall see.
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Not to put too fine a point on it, but in the interest of widening the scope slightly -
I would add that Stupid is rooted in Lazy.
In politics, the ‘they’re all liars’ idea SELLS and STICKS because it affirms the lizard brain in everyone that wants more than anything to conserve energy.
It’s SO much easier to opt out and not GAF than it is to try - much less MANAGE.
IMHO People accept liars & thieves in office above them because they either can’t (survival bandwidth) or won’t (purely selfish) stick their necks out to MAKE change happen.
I was the same way when plumbers replaced my septic system last week! Bonus! They found two bowling balls when they were digging the new trench for the new piping.
At my previous house, after I had just moved in, I discovered the two ways to meet my new neighbors:
The men--Have a pool installed. Especially because the pool shell had to be lifted over the house and into the backyard. I suspect that some men were texted by their friends to leave work and get there as fast as possible to watch.
The women--Have a cop car in front of your house twice in a week and a half. You just need an indoor improperly-angled home security detector and a young cat to get the cops to arrive, and then, after the second incident, the women will arrive to see what the hell just moved into the neighborhood.
So Jeff, looks like “you” are “subscribing” to my account again, but this time “you” at least spelled your name correctly. After I blocked the new you, I couldn’t access your actual site because it said I needed to sign in. So now I’m going back to bed.
We’re in the 3rd month of the road in front of our house being replaced. Will be glad when it’s done. At its peak, all 3 of the ways out to go shopping, etc were under construction & usually one lane.
I got all excited about the crane coming to lift the new AC onto the roof a few weeks ago. MOSTLY because I wanted to show a pic to my grandkids, who were in school. Sadly, I somehow missed it and only caught the crane folding back down onto the truck.
So Donny could be dead and they might just show us AI Donny and keep running things in his name. Do you think they would make AI Donny blather as much blarney?
When sundowning Don has his final sundown, I promise, he will be immortalized by AI for his cult - AND - just as importantly, his owners of today will be relieved to finally have full control over the volatile imbecile flesh Trump would never concede.
Because we all know he can’t be out of the spotlight for more than a half hour, any absence will surely prove he’s not camera ready. Which means he’s dead or very unwell — or undergoing another face lift.
Do you have any idea how many typos I catch when reading online? Unfortunately, it's the dozens I make that I DON'T catch so I get to be embarrassed half the time.
Don't feel bad. The Economist Paul Krugman had a doozy of a typo in his newsletter this week. He typed Scalia instead of Alito, when referring to Supreme Court justices who are alive and doing damage to our country. ( Not that Scalia didn't fit that profile while he was living.)
Jeff, you comunícate brilliantly. I didn’t notice your typo and I can guarantee you that that everyone else either didn’t notice or didn’t care. We understood you and are just happy you’re speaking the gospel (truth). I get to attend your church every morning and leave feeling heard and vindicated. You wash away all the gaslighting that we all endure throughout day. I leave your sermons feeling at peace being relieved that the crazy that builds throughout the day is not mine. I’m not crazy—I’m just surrounded by it.
Just keep on truckin Jeff. You’re really good at this. You make us all feel a little saner (a LOT saner). Thank you.
You’re excused because you were pre-occupied watching the repaving. It’s been confirmed however, you’re not as good at multi tasking as you used to be🥴
I’ve started using the proofreading feature on my iPhone because it’s so easy to make typos even when we’re not being inundated by the firehose of fuckery.
All these fat politicians egging Kegsbreath on about military fitness. Really? They wanna go there? Ted Cruz looks like the Michelin Man in bad clothing.
Did you see Kegsbreath trying to do a pull up and kicking his feet like a rampaging toddler?
Jonathan Last had a brilliant critique of Kegsbreath's pep talk to the generals in The Bulwark. He pointed out that future wars will be fought with drones & AI and most likely weaponry that hasn't ever been invented yet! And the military is going to need every single computer geek and science nerd it can rustle up, and maybe not so many manly men - beards or no beards. Sending brigades of manly men to fight in future wars will be like sending in the horse brigades in WWI.
Daily Show (Ronny Chieng): "For a drone operator, I don't want that ripped kid with the sixpack abs. He looks like he hasn't spent nearly enough time sitting in a chair staring at a screen working a joystick."
It reminded me of MTG's videoed attempt at pull-ups. They involved a lot of violent swinging back and forth. I was amazed she didn't break her own back.
There’s a good reason Shitler’s cabinet is so stoopid. It’s pretty basic. You have to be a moron to want to work for the guy in the first place. Greedy, lying morons are the only ones evil enough to ascribe to his insanity. A willingness to lie is in the job description.
You forgot - also willing to suck up basically lick Trump’s bronze face on international tv so they can wreck havoc on the United States Constitution and the American people.
“Are staff posting since the stroke” is a very good question. The few Tweets since Tuesday with words don’t look like they were authored by him. Complete sentences. Coherent. Proper punctuation. Anyone can throw is some all caps & catch phrases. Newsom’s people do a better job than Trump’s of copying his style.
& that tweet about Vought? I need a LOT of convincing that that was Trump & not Vought & Miller high fiving each other. Remember: Trump ran away from Project 2025 when he found out how unpopular it was.
Bessent is a liar, but he might be upset when he discovers Clarence Thomas is working on his fellow Supreme Court losers to outlaw gay marriage. Does that mean Scott will be single again? That will take the smirk off his face!
Bessent is one of the most arrogant homosexuals (using the word deliberately) along with Peter Thiel, in this theocratic, false christian, treasonous shit show.
They are HOMOSEXUALS - Bessent is MARRIED!!!
Do they actually believe that the religious crazies will not kill them too???
Yes - they will! These arrogant men and their partners/spouses.
The scenes you pulled are from dark fantasy like the movie “Priest”
The freaking fools have engineered their own demise if this was allowed to continue.
I don’t know much about Bessent except every time I see his face I want to slap it with malice, don’t give a shit about his sexuality but who would do any of it with that smirking puppet, oh dear leader just do me I’ll be true to you only and maybe blow hard (pun) Miller.
OK...so, does this mean Bessent is such a devoted and skilled ass-kisser (or other anatomical part), that his open gay-ness was given a pass? Hard to believe. I would have expected an outcry from the base.
Bessent will discover he's actually gay and Clarence Thomas will discover he's actually Black, once the Project 2025 sadists finally hold complete sway. If the two doubt it, they can ask similar people who served the Nazi rise to power.....oh....wait. No, they can't: the Nazis killed those people back in the '40s, once they'd outlived their usefulness.
I've been really trying to be objective on who is at fault for this shutdown. And while I'm on the left I really do feel it's totally the Republicans fault for this. All the Democrats are asking for is one thing- restore the tax credits so ALL people who have health insurance under the ACA don't see an increase in their insurance premiums. ONE FREAKING THING and these cold, cruel and heartless Republicans won't give in on ONE FREAKING THING ! ! ! Politics is all about giving a little, getting a little and eventually having somewhat of a win-win for both sides. But those on the right never give in on anything. Just keep taking and taking and never giving back a thing.
Elton John sang in The Lion King "you should never take more than you give". These folks obviously have no concept of this and right now they're taking A LOT and not giving anything at all
The wrapping is off. Don’t listen to main media. This is about throwing out our Constitution and making Project 2025 the law of the land. What little Trump has said has confirmed that he knew about this all along. JDVance - Breado - was a contributor to the “Mandate….” book.
It’s still available on line. 900 plus pages that the Democrats told everyone the Republicans were going to impose on the American people.
But, who wants to read a 900+ page document that REPLACES our Constitution when Don the Con (realizing that Americans HATE what little they have heard about it) says “Oh, No, America - I know Nothing about Project 2025. Never heard of it!” British reporters talked to Kevin Roberts, or one of the other collaborators, undercover and found out Trump and his campaign was lying just to elected - but the Republican campaign machine rolled on and got the treasonous felon elected.
FELON - the man lies like a rug!!! These coup leaders knew he was perfect because he always lies and has never been held to account.
The organizers of Project 2025 had captured the Supreme Court before the election.
After hearing Trump's meandering comments about "steps" while addressing our military leaders at Quantico, one has to believe he is aware he is in a health crisis. He seemed more like a scared old man facing his mortality than the tanned winner he wants us to believe he is.
I will never grasp the fact that at least 30% of this country are still hardcore tRump supporters. Are they waiting for him to rape their daughter before they change their minds?
Lisa, exactly. I keep looking at these macho supposedly family values dudes in their massive pickup trucks. And I’m thinking “you are cool with Trump as you drop your daughter off at school? And pride yourself in keeping her safe? WTF!”
I read a lot and I’m convinced there is no plant, animal or child safe from men that must have some variant of sex/rape to get off on, it’s insane! It’s not Biden but it most certainly is dopey mushroom don. He’s very guilty get all Epstein documents out into the daylight.
I would have had this post finished up half an hour sooner, but the town was repaving the cul de sac that my house is on, and the ten-year-old boy in me kept wanting to watch it happen
Jeff
Whenever there is something similar in my neighborhood, my retired husband and a group of similar men, all have to go “supervise”. For hours.
Great neighborhood bonding. 😂
one of my neighbors is a retired municipal worker and you cannot keep him from 'supervising' every time something is going on in the vicinity
I bet the workers just LOVE the sidewalk supervisors ...
They should. Those sidewalk supervisors are the ones who can vote to protect those workers jobs.
Used to like stuff like that. Burly Spanish guys playing fun music on their radios...now it's white dudes huffing and puffing and bitching about the heat and waiting on break.
That's been my observation lately too. And I share the same sentiment. Lots of privilege on display from proud "American" beer bellies, shovel leaners, and generalized taking forever to perform the art of digging a fucking hole.
Bet the workers just love the old-timer critiquing their work.
Note, Jeff did not say he was going over and interfering, he just said he loves to watch big machinery do their thing. It's long been know that there are still 5 year old boys in every grown up man. We love to watch big equipment move around, moving dirt, or knocking down dead trees. Its why NASCAR is popular despite their races looking like rush hour on an LA freeway.
😂😂😂Every neighborhood seems to have one
I'm calling Dr. Rick!😂😂😂
I witnessed firsthand the unwrapping of Christmas gifts by my two nephews when they were like five and seven years old. I was stunned to see the carelessness and unconsciousness with which they tore into the Christmas presents their mother so carefully prepared for them. It’s a picture in my mind that never went away. Well sure enough today they are MAGA Cult guys.
The great myth that every generation of women tell themselves is that men continue to grow and evolve in any fundamental way after age 8.
I put it this way - women stop finding body function jokes funny at about the age of 12; men never stop finding them funny. (Well, ok, I was older than 12 and I laughed my ass off at the campfire scene in "Blazing Saddles".)
No, no we don't.
Your response is disturbing. Are you saying that women *don't*, in fact, buy into this myth (until they get smart around middle age)?
I have lived experience of this. My two daughters, when they were 9 and 6, sat me down and demanded to know 'when boys will stop being such butts?'. I let them down as easily as I could but it was rough. With Trumpian tears in my eyes, I explained that, 'I'm sorry, sweethearts, what you see is what you get'.
They walked away saying 'so I gotta marry *that*?!?! Ewwww!'
And I never did " marry that " cuz EWWW !
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😂😂
Well, aren't we the life of the party.
You really ought to grow a sense of humour.
I would have said age 4, myself. . .
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Careful where you post this sort of thing or you’ll be labeled a ‘misandrist’.
Not sure how things are there in East Jesus, but we have a lot of world-class genetics authorities here. I have been assured by such acquaintances that men are, in fact, failed women. One of the chromosome legs broke off of our double-X during some evolutionary mishap, and here you go...
Finally, a scientific explanation. I’m a believer.
OMG…I needed your remarks today! 😂
BTW The smell of hot tar is nauseating, & nose picking makes me gag.
This is an essentially Archetypical human behavior consistent with survival. A reflexive action coming from the deep dark recesses of our brains. Curiosity, problem solving, fascination to learn - it’s delightful on so many levels….
And apropos for our times - like an community barn raising - it’s not just for the Amish.
We should REVEL in these Real Life moments now more than ever.
Maybe replace city block parties with repaving events? LOL
I might look into that. ; D
That counts as self care and is critical.
Warm fuzzy memories assigned to that too.
I remember when my oldest (barely able to pull himself up to see over the radiator) spent a week or more watching a massive repaving truck & support crews in front of our house while grunting constantly like Tim Allen in Home Improvement.
Thanks for the reminder ; )
My son did the same thing. In fact, when they were constructing a new building across the street, he begged me to take him there every day. At the end of construction the truck driver put him up in the seat to see everywhere. I haven’t thought of that in 35 years. Thanks. 🤭😉
When my son was preschool age, we would pack a lunch and find a local construction site where he would watch them working for hours at a time. The highlight of his childhood may have been when a local utility worker gave him an orange vest and hardhat that he wore everywhere.
I was working in Hollywood when the Westin hotel was being built, we'd take lawn chairs out at lunch just to watch...
My 100 year old dad did the same thing, and took lots of photos representing the job from start to finish. Imagine the walls in the garage covered with posters and photos. He was such a great guy. Sweet. Funny. Artistic. Interested in life until the end. He couldn’t stand DJT. Did I mention smart?
At our old building, a municipal parking garage was being built directly behind us. The banging and noise were distracting, but I couldn’t tear my eyes off watching the various workers and trucks construct that thing. Like when do you ever get that sort of treat? If you’re even 1/4 interested in the world around you, you’d want to see it.
What other things would you like to see? I might want to see how doctors do a knee replacement. It’s fascinating that can even be done!
I'm not sure I would want to see my own--I've had both knees replaced--but I'll agree that it must be interesting to see (on somebody else!) and, I have to say, I have had an awesome outcome with both knees!!! No more hobbling about, inability to get up out of low chairs, and I can walk, hike and bike all without pain!
Fantastic! Kudos to you!
I’d like to see a knee replacement too. I’ve got two titanium knees that are just teenagers (18), and I would love to see how it’s done. Mine are still in excellent condition.
Congrats! Those are supposed to be really painful through recovery. The fact they are going strong is terrific. Combination of a great surgeon and a health-conscious patient who can follow directions, I’d imagine.
Yes, my surgeon is the best in my area, and no matter how much it hurt I did the therapy. I have not had one single issue with either knee. They were done on the same day.
Exactly! And good rehab is very important, too.
YouTube has videos.
Plenty of surgical videos on YouTube. Orthopedic surgery (the specialty that does such things as knee replacements) is basically carpentry. Sawing, measuring, drilling, hammering.
I'll be referencing the video on replacement of a driver's side headlight in a 2009 GMC Sierra. They've made it complicated. ( Fucking smart ass engineers!😂😂)
Probably a better choice for civilian viewing. And something you can actually do-it-yourself-at-home, hopefully. Good luck!
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Don't forget the garbage trucks every week! My son used to stand on the couch to watch. If I took him outside, he and the garbage man would wave at each other. And when I worked at a school and the street was being repaved, one of the kindergarten teachers took the class outside and lined them up against the fence to watch, spellbound. She was a teacher who understood her students.
My son was equally enthralled at 2! He also patted and kissed the tires on cars.
My oldest son hugged and kissed tires, too. He liked to slide underneath cars, too, to look at the undercarriage. It ‘d occupy him for hours. Me, I just liked to smell new tires. That still distracts me.
What a sweetie!
My granddaughters and I used to wave to the garbage men, it's a good memory..
That IS self care. We repaved our entire driveway and the whole neighborhood came out to watch. Our 15 minutes.
McCormick: “polling is not very accurate because the pollsters generally get out of it what they want. I don’t trust those polls.”
The American people don’t trust the fucking liars they elected. They elected those fucking liars because they believe all politicians are fucking liars, and every couple of years it’s their job to punish the most recent group of fucking liars they elected and go back to the previous group of fucking liars because both sets of fucking lies are equally bad for them and it makes no real difference.
As George Carlin said, the average American is fucking stupid - and half of them are stupider than that!
Yes I WANT to see these polls translated to Dem VICTORIES. The media & the right wing claim that those who get blamed for shutdown DO NOT face the wrath of voters. We shall see.
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
"Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Everything one needs to learn about life can be Iearned from Fred Roger’s.
Everything one needs to know about human behavior can be learned from *science fiction
*(broad brush including tech, humor, psychology eat al)
It's a bell curve!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but in the interest of widening the scope slightly -
I would add that Stupid is rooted in Lazy.
In politics, the ‘they’re all liars’ idea SELLS and STICKS because it affirms the lizard brain in everyone that wants more than anything to conserve energy.
It’s SO much easier to opt out and not GAF than it is to try - much less MANAGE.
IMHO People accept liars & thieves in office above them because they either can’t (survival bandwidth) or won’t (purely selfish) stick their necks out to MAKE change happen.
#stupidkills
#dosomething
#RUNFORSOMETHING (no matter how small)
#VOLUNTEER (#mutualaid = #survival)
#GOTV (GOTFV, to be more precise ; )
It's the little things that keep us going.
I was the same way when plumbers replaced my septic system last week! Bonus! They found two bowling balls when they were digging the new trench for the new piping.
If there’s sewer work happening on our street when my husband’s at work, he asks me to go take a pic of the hole.
😂😂
I love the smell of fresh asphalt in the morning...
At my previous house, after I had just moved in, I discovered the two ways to meet my new neighbors:
The men--Have a pool installed. Especially because the pool shell had to be lifted over the house and into the backyard. I suspect that some men were texted by their friends to leave work and get there as fast as possible to watch.
The women--Have a cop car in front of your house twice in a week and a half. You just need an indoor improperly-angled home security detector and a young cat to get the cops to arrive, and then, after the second incident, the women will arrive to see what the hell just moved into the neighborhood.
Glad you got to have some fun!
Good call
Tell them to keep going, and pave over the entire country.
Fun is allowed!
So Jeff, looks like “you” are “subscribing” to my account again, but this time “you” at least spelled your name correctly. After I blocked the new you, I couldn’t access your actual site because it said I needed to sign in. So now I’m going back to bed.
Getting high off the smell of hot asphalt?
We’re in the 3rd month of the road in front of our house being replaced. Will be glad when it’s done. At its peak, all 3 of the ways out to go shopping, etc were under construction & usually one lane.
I love to watch things being built and also being demolished. I love ❤️ it
I got all excited about the crane coming to lift the new AC onto the roof a few weeks ago. MOSTLY because I wanted to show a pic to my grandkids, who were in school. Sadly, I somehow missed it and only caught the crane folding back down onto the truck.
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"WE’RE not as gullible as your cultists"
yes, I really did put a typo in the subhead of today's post. UGH. way to be a fucking idiot, Jeffrey
That’s OK, WERE still friends.
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LOL!!
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So Donny could be dead and they might just show us AI Donny and keep running things in his name. Do you think they would make AI Donny blather as much blarney?
I’m not sure AI could be pretend to be as stupid as Donny. AI will need to generate a new capability, an Artificially Stupid Simulation, or ASS
Will we know?
That would be great.
Hahahaha… Good one!!
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Most of us would never know the difference.
When sundowning Don has his final sundown, I promise, he will be immortalized by AI for his cult - AND - just as importantly, his owners of today will be relieved to finally have full control over the volatile imbecile flesh Trump would never concede.
Because we all know he can’t be out of the spotlight for more than a half hour, any absence will surely prove he’s not camera ready. Which means he’s dead or very unwell — or undergoing another face lift.
He exists as AI.
Which means he doesn’t exist. But he didn’t exist before AI either.
Illiterate so didn’t notice
Do you have any idea how many typos I catch when reading online? Unfortunately, it's the dozens I make that I DON'T catch so I get to be embarrassed half the time.
You are NOT a fucking idiot.
What you are is a beloved wordsmith who can somehow point to the facts and still instill a sense of sanity prevailing.
Don't feel bad. The Economist Paul Krugman had a doozy of a typo in his newsletter this week. He typed Scalia instead of Alito, when referring to Supreme Court justices who are alive and doing damage to our country. ( Not that Scalia didn't fit that profile while he was living.)
I refer to them as "Scalito", a past and present entity pretending great intellectual dignity.
Jeff, you comunícate brilliantly. I didn’t notice your typo and I can guarantee you that that everyone else either didn’t notice or didn’t care. We understood you and are just happy you’re speaking the gospel (truth). I get to attend your church every morning and leave feeling heard and vindicated. You wash away all the gaslighting that we all endure throughout day. I leave your sermons feeling at peace being relieved that the crazy that builds throughout the day is not mine. I’m not crazy—I’m just surrounded by it.
Just keep on truckin Jeff. You’re really good at this. You make us all feel a little saner (a LOT saner). Thank you.
I never caught that...I was in too much of a hurry to read your words!!
Nor did I.
Hang your head in shame.
You’re excused because you were pre-occupied watching the repaving. It’s been confirmed however, you’re not as good at multi tasking as you used to be🥴
No worries it’s been a long week 😉
First thing I saw and thought “oh, crap, someone will say something”!
You do that, you go to the box, you know..2 min. by yourself.. and you feel shame, you know ...and then you get free.
-slapshot
😂😂 Love that movie!
Demerits....
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Yes, but you made up for it by supplying me a new character of the day (操) that for some odd reason never comes up in the rotation at ArchChinese.com.
BTW, I tried "操这个!" out on my Better ½ (hails from Guangzhou), who demanded to know where the hell I'd managed to learn it.
Thanks, Jeff! And I'll never tell, I promise.
I’ve started using the proofreading feature on my iPhone because it’s so easy to make typos even when we’re not being inundated by the firehose of fuckery.
I don't think a proofread would catch that: "clowns were not as gullible as your cultists"? What's wrong with that?
“Condescending cum-sock” is the phrase of the day.
Jeff had me laughing at "douche canoe."
That’s a classic, n’est-ce pas?
Exactly!!!! I’m gonna use that for my cat’s new nickname.
That’s just mean. For use with our idiot POTUS only. Be nice to your kitty.
You’re right. New punk band name then! (My cat is called Dashiell, and he is marvelous and appreciates your concern).
Thanks and give Dashiell a good belly rub from me. Do cats like belly rubs? I’m a dog man and they love it.
Some do, some don't.
They do until they play bear trap, which is how they efficiently (rudely) say — “done”!
Pets to your dog!!
I’ll pet both of them for you. Stay anchored, Peacock.
Should only apply to feral republicats
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Absolutely works for certain felines with attitude.
If you want poop or a hairball in your shoe.
And who doesn’t?
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Dude, you are the fucking Shakespeare of Swears. Rock on 🤘🏻
Let's be honest here. IT'S TIME TO LEAVE JOE BIDEN THE FUCK ALONE.
... AND RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
In case you missed it, Ted Cruz wants us to stop picking on pedophiles.
I know, I saw it. I know he hasn't earned it, but I'm giving the Esteemed Senator Fidel Cancun a pass on that one. it was an obvious misstatement
Dammit I was just sipping coffee when I hit ‘Fidel Cancun’
Misstatement or Freudian slip?
I'm going with the latter.
Was it though?
True to his Republicon Party above all.
All these fat politicians egging Kegsbreath on about military fitness. Really? They wanna go there? Ted Cruz looks like the Michelin Man in bad clothing.
Did you see Kegsbreath trying to do a pull up and kicking his feet like a rampaging toddler?
Jonathan Last had a brilliant critique of Kegsbreath's pep talk to the generals in The Bulwark. He pointed out that future wars will be fought with drones & AI and most likely weaponry that hasn't ever been invented yet! And the military is going to need every single computer geek and science nerd it can rustle up, and maybe not so many manly men - beards or no beards. Sending brigades of manly men to fight in future wars will be like sending in the horse brigades in WWI.
Daily Show (Ronny Chieng): "For a drone operator, I don't want that ripped kid with the sixpack abs. He looks like he hasn't spent nearly enough time sitting in a chair staring at a screen working a joystick."
Yesssss!!!!
I want the person who actually studies and is not worried about being my cross fit instructor!
Nothing wrong with being fit- good for your mind but the whole concept is outdated.
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It reminded me of MTG's videoed attempt at pull-ups. They involved a lot of violent swinging back and forth. I was amazed she didn't break her own back.
That's called a kipping pull-up, and it's very big in CrossFit, which she's into.
*wince*
She's destined for major back surgery.
Ted Cruz shouldn't wear plaid. 😂😂
Plaid and Beardo don't mix.
😂😂🤣😂 That's a Hell of a picture you put in my head.
May I add to that: unkempt werewolf
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"fuck off, you condescending cum-sock." My new go to phrase. 😂😂
It amazes me how easily these people lie and the brain dead cultists eat it up.
Make America Smart Again. Maybe theres a vaccine for stupid? 🤷🏼♀️
#TGIF
Can't fix stupid! Can only muffle it with duct tape!!!
LOVE IT, Kim!!
Give it a plastic bag and tell it that the warnings imprinted thereon are just part of the great Democrat conspiracy.
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They do indeed and that’s one of the reasons we’re in such a mess right now 🤬
Its infuriating.
We've been in a stupid pandemic for many years.
There’s a good reason Shitler’s cabinet is so stoopid. It’s pretty basic. You have to be a moron to want to work for the guy in the first place. Greedy, lying morons are the only ones evil enough to ascribe to his insanity. A willingness to lie is in the job description.
You forgot - also willing to suck up basically lick Trump’s bronze face on international tv so they can wreck havoc on the United States Constitution and the American people.
I would love to be assured that after '"serving" the Trump administration that all these people will be unemployable and even uninsured.
Some of them need to be imprisoned, but I am not unrealistic enough to expect it.
“Are staff posting since the stroke” is a very good question. The few Tweets since Tuesday with words don’t look like they were authored by him. Complete sentences. Coherent. Proper punctuation. Anyone can throw is some all caps & catch phrases. Newsom’s people do a better job than Trump’s of copying his style.
& that tweet about Vought? I need a LOT of convincing that that was Trump & not Vought & Miller high fiving each other. Remember: Trump ran away from Project 2025 when he found out how unpopular it was.
TACO
If trump does show his face, THAT will be all everyone will want to ask him about. LOL!
Also — “douche canoe” makes me want to have a band just so I can call it that.
Bessent is a liar, but he might be upset when he discovers Clarence Thomas is working on his fellow Supreme Court losers to outlaw gay marriage. Does that mean Scott will be single again? That will take the smirk off his face!
Bessent is one of the most arrogant homosexuals (using the word deliberately) along with Peter Thiel, in this theocratic, false christian, treasonous shit show.
They are HOMOSEXUALS - Bessent is MARRIED!!!
Do they actually believe that the religious crazies will not kill them too???
Yes - they will! These arrogant men and their partners/spouses.
The scenes you pulled are from dark fantasy like the movie “Priest”
The freaking fools have engineered their own demise if this was allowed to continue.
I don’t know much about Bessent except every time I see his face I want to slap it with malice, don’t give a shit about his sexuality but who would do any of it with that smirking puppet, oh dear leader just do me I’ll be true to you only and maybe blow hard (pun) Miller.
OK...so, does this mean Bessent is such a devoted and skilled ass-kisser (or other anatomical part), that his open gay-ness was given a pass? Hard to believe. I would have expected an outcry from the base.
Bessent will discover he's actually gay and Clarence Thomas will discover he's actually Black, once the Project 2025 sadists finally hold complete sway. If the two doubt it, they can ask similar people who served the Nazi rise to power.....oh....wait. No, they can't: the Nazis killed those people back in the '40s, once they'd outlived their usefulness.
Wow. Razor-sharp, Joyce. Love it!
Isn’t Peter Thiel gay too?
Yes!
I've been really trying to be objective on who is at fault for this shutdown. And while I'm on the left I really do feel it's totally the Republicans fault for this. All the Democrats are asking for is one thing- restore the tax credits so ALL people who have health insurance under the ACA don't see an increase in their insurance premiums. ONE FREAKING THING and these cold, cruel and heartless Republicans won't give in on ONE FREAKING THING ! ! ! Politics is all about giving a little, getting a little and eventually having somewhat of a win-win for both sides. But those on the right never give in on anything. Just keep taking and taking and never giving back a thing.
Elton John sang in The Lion King "you should never take more than you give". These folks obviously have no concept of this and right now they're taking A LOT and not giving anything at all
The wrapping is off. Don’t listen to main media. This is about throwing out our Constitution and making Project 2025 the law of the land. What little Trump has said has confirmed that he knew about this all along. JDVance - Breado - was a contributor to the “Mandate….” book.
It’s still available on line. 900 plus pages that the Democrats told everyone the Republicans were going to impose on the American people.
But, who wants to read a 900+ page document that REPLACES our Constitution when Don the Con (realizing that Americans HATE what little they have heard about it) says “Oh, No, America - I know Nothing about Project 2025. Never heard of it!” British reporters talked to Kevin Roberts, or one of the other collaborators, undercover and found out Trump and his campaign was lying just to elected - but the Republican campaign machine rolled on and got the treasonous felon elected.
FELON - the man lies like a rug!!! These coup leaders knew he was perfect because he always lies and has never been held to account.
The organizers of Project 2025 had captured the Supreme Court before the election.
Trump was legally barred from
Had to change locations and comment got cut off.
The 6 Supreme Court justices are hooked in with Opus Dei - remember the crazy religious extremists from the Dan Brown books.
These are the Catholic Church’s rich man and some women - international political manipulators. This group has been investigated for—-
“human trafficking “
Seems to be a common theme among the very rich.
Like that hideous raid in Chicago.
Where did those people go?
Where did the children and babies (some naked) ripped from their beds and taken from their parents - where did they go?
One of the ICE thugs told an American who was complaining about the treatment of the children “F..k the kids”
Maybe that’s the new rules of engagement, Hegsbreath was talking about.
Andra Watkins Substack “For Such A Time As This” has been writing and warning about Project 2025 for years.
Andra left the country so she could keep getting the word out.
Russ Vought, Kevin Roberts, JD Vance, Stephen Miller are
Then look to Peter Thiel and the Tech Bros.
The idea to make Americans “suffer” using our own Tax dollars is their sick fantasy.
It’s why we fought a Revolutionary War. It’s why the Declaration of Independence was written, that preceded that war.
This isn’t a nation of weaklings who will put up with the kind of cruelty theocracies impose on their people.
Our ancestors left Europe and subsequently other lands to get away from this evil crap.
The Spanish Inquisition was a lovely example,
Those senior military leaders knew what they were hearing when the “Sec of War” pranced around on stage.
They were hearing Treason.
Buckle up and get ready - it’s time to take the treasonous trash out.
Opus Dei was also a major force in the Rat Line, that allowed many Nazi war criminals to escape justice.
I love how Biden is simultaneously so old he doesn’t know he’s dead AND a mastermind of everything that’s wrong with the world.
Schrödinger's President!
After hearing Trump's meandering comments about "steps" while addressing our military leaders at Quantico, one has to believe he is aware he is in a health crisis. He seemed more like a scared old man facing his mortality than the tanned winner he wants us to believe he is.
Fuck drumph— his mind and body are toast. Let him stick his head between his legs and kiss his shitty ass goodbye!
I will never grasp the fact that at least 30% of this country are still hardcore tRump supporters. Are they waiting for him to rape their daughter before they change their minds?
Lisa, exactly. I keep looking at these macho supposedly family values dudes in their massive pickup trucks. And I’m thinking “you are cool with Trump as you drop your daughter off at school? And pride yourself in keeping her safe? WTF!”
I read a lot and I’m convinced there is no plant, animal or child safe from men that must have some variant of sex/rape to get off on, it’s insane! It’s not Biden but it most certainly is dopey mushroom don. He’s very guilty get all Epstein documents out into the daylight.