I have to confess that today I came *this close* to declaring a 'mental health day' and not writing anything. but in the end I didn't want to break my five-hundred-and-something-day streak of posting every day
I haven't smoked pot in years. no judgement here in what others do, I just lost interest. I also have a pretty strict 'no drinking before 5pm' rule, but I do occasionally break it if I'm lunching with friends
As painful as it is to face the news without some something to ease the pain, that's probably fine with them: have we ever heard of a fascist/authoritarian regime where drinking is not a key part of the lifestyle? If we're going to resist, we have to do it with full faculties. Get shitfaced once we win.
I stopped smoking pot during my mid 20's, but kept on drinking. I also adhere to the "no drinking before 5pm" rule, but then again, it will always be past 5pm somewhere on this planet.
I also hadn’t smoked pot in decades and instead just enjoyed my alcoholic beverages. Nowadays though, I can’t (well, shouldn’t) drink, so I was delighted to discover Delta-8 gummies a few years ago, thanks to my nephew, who’s a Gen-X hippie, if there is such a thing.
Jeff …u deserve a few days off, too much work and worry. Wish I could join in consuming adult beverages but my docs say otherwise… just edibles for me.😜
Sensible. LOL, I didn't lose interest, but when I realized how much I could buy, and hold in my hands six months later, if I stopped smoking, I did. As for drinking, long, long ago I instituted this rule: "If I think that I'd enjoy a drink, I have one. If I think I NEED a drink, I do not."
During the last year I had to institute a "no drinking alone at night" rule. Things were so terrible and now they will be worse but my drinking won't help anyone. Now I only drink when I'm with friends.
not much of a drinker. Up until last tuesday I mostly smoked pot for pain and anxiety, but not before 6 or 7. I’ve now taken to smoking almost all day,and not stuff that is mostly CBD or CBN. I know staying high and tuning out isn’t the answer, but given the circumstances, I figure I owe myself at least a few weeks to decompress and relax before the chaos starts roiling in like an out of control freight train with no breaks.
I can’t drink I’m actually allergic to alcohol.. yeah.. no one in my family can drink.. except My Dad cause he’s white (Norwegian) and the rest of us Hawaiian Asian just turn tomato faced and get really hot and stuffy nose. So I’ll be eating my gummies smoking a dab pen and getting enough Indica in me to pass the Fvck out.. i just can’t deal with what is happening to our country and his appointments of people who aren’t even remotely qualified for their positions.. except bending over and blowing the bloviating Orange Shitstain
My son-in-law is half Asian, my grandson 1/4 Asian, and both have the same problem with alcohol. Of course, that didn’t stop either one of them when they were in college!
It’s kinda sad that corporate media won’t feel the pain of having to cower to the monster they created. They obviously enjoy kissing his ass and we know this because they started doing it before they needed to. People just need to unsubscribe and stop watching or listening. Maybe now would be the time to start calling it state run media.
I've unsubscribed to everything but Jeff. I need to consider my mental health. We are where we are and will just have to live through it as best we can.
I broke up with Twitter yesterday. It was painful, like leaving any love-hate relationship is. Lots of folks I know have fled to Bluesky, but I’m just not ready to date again yet. Becoming a total recluse has its appeal. I’m still following my favorites here on Substack.
We’d miss you, but we’d sure understand. I gave up a long time ago, but I’m considering an edible. The dispensary is close, and I just finished a bout of painful PT and a story about RFKjr. on NPR on my way home.
“How hard it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Mark 10:24-25
Oh please. DonOld has NEVER read the Bible; he uses it as a prop but read it and live by it??? Not a chance.
He wouldn't recognize ANY verse from the bible--or anywhere else.......well, okay, except maybe some entire paragraphs from Mein Kampf. Donny would probably recognize those.
MzNicky I know my brain went the same direction maybe it’s time for an all Beetles weekend we know the words and they are still legal. I think the forty year olds hold it against my generation there’s another the Who!
What I need to know, and hope someone explains to me like I'm stupid, because I guess I am, but, why does trump get to pick US Attorney for the Southern District of NY??
Yes. What Robert Eckert said. One of the first things Dumpy did in '17 was to replace Preet Bahira(sp?) whose sense of ethics was far too strong for Dumpy's taste. Now that I think about it, Bahira would have made a much better attorney general than Merrick Garland.
That's the federal prosecutor for that section of New York (which includes the City of course). The state prosecutors are a different bunch of people that Trump has no control over.
But, by choosing the US Attorney for that district, he effectively mutes the state attorneys and prosecutors? In other words, he's making the cases they have against him go away?
Sadly, they can't block a whole new form of government. Maybe state courts and Attorneys General will help their constituents and good for them. It's the red states legislators and judges that will make their populace suffer even more. No one deserves what is coming.
This attack on safe vaccines just kills me. I got polio as a baby & was left with semi-paralyzed right arm & left leg. It just makes me nauseous to think of any parent choosing not to protect their children from that; & of course even possible death.
you got me on that one! oh Lord, Elon, can you give DT an EV mercedes benz of a Tesla that drives itself over a cliff? All his friends should get one too--they can trade in their porsches.
Thank you for continuing the daily tradition- finding humor right now is one of the few ways we might survive without having to go into mass exile. On PBS on November 7, he denied saying "no vaccine is safe and effective" in a July podcast. Shockingly, the PBS news person, Amna Nawaz called him out for lying- repeatedly he denied saying it and then claimed that it was "inaccurate" because the report came from PBS. I am still hunting for a statement by him that he will continue the mandate for the polio vaccine- this really terrifies me.
And, well it should. Nobody my age(70) could have grown up without knowing someone with post-polio syndrome. FDR caught it as an adult. Most of the adults in the country are so far removed from the vaccine, they are probably susceptible.
My nursing school classmate and later roommate had had polio as a child; three years ago she died of Post-polio syndrome. I wish it on RFK, JR. He deserves it.
My Auntie Barb had polio and had one leg shorter than the other. Now she’s in hospice care and my Uncle ( Mom’s Brother) visits her everyday.. he should she stayed with that asshole after multiple affairs and std’s and the death of their only son who died of AIDS in the 80’s and that Fucktard never once visited his only son while he was dying.. not gonna lie there’s a special place in hell for him.. he can suck up to the 34 count convicted felon Orange Shitstain and share a cell together.. I’d pay money to see that one!
that is exactly what they plan on- can they get rid of the mandate in the states where we support public health? Nobody knows, but even if your state abuts a stupid state where they might get rid of the mandate, the unvaxxed will spread disease.
If you post “I’m taking a mental health day”, it’s still a post so the streak continues. Honestly, I wish you’d take them as needed. In the words of the guy who makes us laugh and keeps us sane..Practice self care.
Please, please practice self-care! You're preaching it and you also need to follow your advice. Re-post an oldie from time to time! They're gems 👏🇺🇲👊🇺🇲👊🇺🇲
Oh Jeff, please allow yourself the time and space to restore your mind and body. We are so appreciative of your community and the toll being immersed in this batshit craziness takes in you. Take more than a day. Wave fuckity bye to your streak. We will all be here when you return. You are our Fearless Leader. 🫂
Lord, I am trying. The sheer wrongness of these noms provides a sliver of relief. I don’t know why, but it does. The glaring sheen of the wrongness. But the roller coaster carriage hasn’t yet reached the top.
My mother died this summer at 103. Before the election. And having led a life of fighting for racial and religious equality, I have to say I’m glad she didn’t live to witness it.
Neal, regarding that "sliver of relief", I've felt it too. And the 'why' of it to me is that possibility that things will get so heinous that maybe, just maybe, some of the cult will wake the fuck up and realize what they've done. I've heard anecdotes that such 'duH' moments are occurring out there, so I guess there's always a chance. Even the Senate might finally be waking up, but I'm not holding my breath.
Nor am I but I'd like to think that Thune beating out sewer rat Scott to head the Senate offers a bit of hope. With the vote done by a secret ballot, those Senators who had the good sense to deny one of Trump's biggest loyalists didn't have to fear retaliation from the MAGA assholes who'd crawl over broken glass to fulfill his desires. Good to see there are a few in the GOP who behind closed doors see dear leader's demented bullshit for what it really is.
Yes, it's nice that POS Medicare fraudster Scott did not win. But Thune is a theocrat Christofascist who will persecute anyone not straight, white, and male.
Thune will follow all orders. This is a whole new form of government. He is not one of the good guys. Whatever noise they make is to appear to be sensible humans. Ha!
I agree Patrick. The master of manipulation will spin anything that goes wrong with his administration on Biden…with the help of the media of course. I’m still flopping back and forth between the stages of grief. But only three of them: denial, then anger then depression then back to anger then depression and now fury and denial together. What I want to know is what happened to “When we fight, we win!”?? Why are there no recounts? Why no forensic audits? I will never accept this election without a forensic audit of the swing states. It’s infuriating that we are just rolling over and accepting defeat and an authoritarian takeover.
No. Don’t think so. The people who follow rump, I am guessing did not engage in school, had little to zero exposure to educated people who follow laws as a study, have no respect for our institutions such as colleges universities,nor do they honor value that world.
They don't need to be deep thinkers. They only need to follow orders. They will.
They learned enough in (mostly) law school to pass. They learned analysis of law and arguing a position. That will get you a law degree. Most of it is memorization.
I don't know if you've seen, but apparently Google searches for "can I change my vote" and "do tariffs cause inflation" spiked basically the day after the election.
It's cold comfort, because it is moot now, but maybe at least some people are waking up to what they've done. It's also a glaring sign that civics and education in general in this country is seemingly nonexistent.
Yes, sorry for your loss! But you sure do have good genes. My dad died at 96 a year ago December 17. He and my stepmother went door to door canvassing for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
So sorry for your loss, Neal. I, too, am glad that my father, who fought in Europe during World War ll, is not here to see this travesty. I truly worry for our country.
I think about the MAGA and barely there Republicans (the ones that vote without information) getting their candidate of choice and never looking back to see what the hell happens for the next four years. They will never know what we know and they won't give a shit until something happens close to them that wakes them up. I hope for all our sakes that they are paying attention this time.
When they wake up all the programs Biden put into place will be working and Donny will get the credit. Of course that supposes Donny doesn't pull the money from these projects to line his pockets.
My mom is 92. Earlier this year she expressed the wish that she only wanted to live long enough to see a day when Donald Trump was no longer mentioned in the news. She may have to hang on to the century mark also.
Very sorry for your loss. my Ma went to the other side a year ago Dec 7 she made 90 years ,just 10 shy of her goal . Also glad she didn’t have to see this horror show !
Kennedy should have been charged in the deaths of those who died, his two partners in anti-vax crimes took the blame, while Kennedy denied any responsibility for the role he played.
Fuck that execrable connard, his Children’s Health Defense group is the work of an evil brain wormed mook!!
Bet his kids are all vaccinated and I'm sure he was too as a child. He's just nuts! The rest are douchebags and traitors, but I think he is the real deal NUTSO. And what makes him so dangerous is that he's smart. He presents his antivaxx bs with stats and he sounds intelligent. I'm sure most MAGAs don't or are too stupid to google the facts themselves and make a decision. I could just strangle that scientist in England and Jenny McCarthy for their part in linking autism to vaccines. There is no link and the scientist later on admitted he filed false data. The damage they have done. But I have no patience with the morons that ever listen to Hollywood stars promoting medicines or treatments. Remember Suzanne Somers and her cures for menopause. These morons have absolutely no medical background/education. It's the same type of personality that falls for their crap that also votes for Trump. You can't fix stupid.
Jenny McCarthy has an autistic child, so she went on the warpath after Andrew Winfield's invalid study, which was later discredited. McCarthy used her celebrity and loud mouth to scream her vitriol, shout down actual scientists, and spread antivax disinformation. Living a fact free life is easier than trying to find out what is real.
Suzanne Somers used her celebrity to grift. No surprise that she was a MAGA.
I used to joke that I needed a reversible sign around my neck. "Joke" and "Not Joking". I get your humor, but offer you my solution for what it's worth. 😁
It was the equivalent of giving indigenous people blankets infected with smallpox (a vaccination-eradicated disease that will also probably come back).
Scariest part of the story is the nurse who administered the vaccines where two children died was the reason Kennedy was in Samoa in the first place. The two deaths were caused by a dimwitted nurse who mixed the vaccine with a different drug!
He will thin the whole herd. I remember measles. I remember looking for the rash on the abdomen. The DOH posters on doors forbidding entry. My mom took me to one of those locked down houses to perform patterning on a kid. She said not to worry about the notice from the DOH. Dear old mom.
I still remember the excruciating earache I had from the measles when I was four years old. Because the only vaccine available was the smallpox vaccine, I had every childhood disease except polio and missed a lot of school. These anti-vaxxers did not live during the polio epidemic, so they do not realize what a frightening time it was. If their children were dying, they would no longer be against vaccines, which save lives and keep us safe and healthy. And why do they think that smallpox has been wiped out (except for Afghanistan)?
Vets, vet emergency rooms and doggy day care places will not see or take in your dog (and I believe cats) without official proof of all vaccinations. So that statement is true: your pets will have to be vaccinated but not you or your children. I’m not positive but I think some school districts have gone back to the “old days” when you couldn’t get your child into a school without proof of vaxx.
Here, kids still have to be caught up on vaccines to enter school. Vets will take pets who aren't vaccinated, but it's the first thing they do. That's all local law of course, so undoubtedly there are differences.
Ummmm, didn't PRESIDENT TRUMP order no more conformation of judges? You mean the democrats are not bending over backwards and NOT following his orders since "the people have decided?" God forbid the dems should be seen as "too political" like Merrick Garland, to always be known henceforth as Merrick "you had a chance to save democracy and you blew it" Garland.
Trump is still a private citizen even if he is president elect. He cannot order the US government to do or not do ANYTHING. He is such a colossal ass. Hearing an "order" such as that from Trump would cause me to do the exact opposite, too.
Hearing that from a mobbed up convicted 34 count felon, and adjudicated rapist, would force me to use the immunity SCOTUS granted, by yeating his malodorous codpiece into the closest jail cell!!
True! That didn't stop him from issuing his edict that the dems were to appoint no more judges and the GQP was not to confirm if they did. He's a fascist. This comes as no surprise given HIS presidency packed the courts after he lost.
You mean Merrick I-am-a-complicit-stooge Garland. I loathe Biden for appointing that right-wing asshole and not getting rid of him when he should have.
I’m definitely with you Linda, I know for fact that he opened an investigation into the meeting the night of Jan 5th at the Willard, Bill Barr killed that investigation as he did Reagan’s Irangate, HR’s Iran Contra including all of Trump’s criminal activities!
I believe you. I can't stand the fact that Trump and all his enablers are going to skate. They were allowed to get away with everything and were able to mount a successful coup this year. Damn Garland and Biden to the lowest circle of Hell.
He is not just a sex offender, sex trafficker and fucking pedophile, he is a Russian asset too, as is his new boss, and everyone he will be working with. Prof. Timothy Snyder explains this and how he is selected for that reason, because Putin is doing the hiring, or allowing Trump to do the hiring to destroy the USA.
<<now, when Bobby Brainworms finds the disease-ravaged body of America dead by the side of the road, he can stuff it in the trunk of his car and dump it in Central Park.>>
Either that or cut the head off and strap it to the roof of his car.
As I read your post daily Jeff, I can’t help think of how, in the most critically important election of our lifetimes, 19 million mooks declined to cast their vote! WTF, this country’s not worth saving dipshits???
We are not destroyed. We are in trouble. Not destroyed. A really important part of this mess is going to be to not keep preaching doomsday when there isn’t one. Yes. I know it could come to pass. But right now, we are in trouble. We aren’t done.
I hear you. When I say destroyed- I don’t mean obliterated. I mean destroyed as in the destruction of the United States as we’ve known it. When catastrophe befalls you it’s important to understand the reality, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of everything, Vlad and his minions are subjecting us to a psychological shock and awe.
The country that WE subjected to physical shock and awe still exists, but it has been radically transformed. We are already in a “cold” Civil War and speaking the truth is not perpetuating a doomsday narrative. It is simply stating what we are going through,
I agree. You said Vlad “has destroyed”. He has not. He is snd always has targeted to try to destroy us. But, in fact we are not destroyed. Currently reading Alexia Navalvy’s memoir. Very inspiring. And he was very clear about calling things out as they are, and not sane-washing realities of what might be coming. In that, it must always include seeing things clearly as they are. Because any misinterpretation risks becoming the banner. The conclusion. We are at risk. Vlad is in hog heaven with this “prez”. A lot seems to be going wrong. But he did not destroy the U.S. Thank you for opp to discuss further.
YES! It will take a lot of focus and attention that DonOld doesn't have. He does hold grudges and is vengeful so he will probably succeed in doing some damage but we aren't dead yet!
I agree 💯 and I am very concerned about the paint thinner remark. But I do understand that every single day is like "Omy God what is happening in the opposite reality where all the fuck fucker fuckups are residing??" I spent years working on my vulgarity but at this point I can't find any English words that I speak or know that can address what the FUCK FUCKERY FUCK FUCK FUCKS ARE TRYING TO DO!!!
The religious right wacko’s have been praying for the apocalypse, appears to be the closest thing Marie! Fuck Vlade, he’s another in a long list of worthless dictators!
He said "We will bury you" which Americans tended to misinterpret as "we will kill you" but idiomatically meant "we will be at your funeral; we will outlast you"
oh please- they haven’t buried shit, those Ruskies- actually they lost a big chunk of their empire, and trying to get it back has already cost them hundreds of thousands of lives.
Trump is putting these dipshits in charge of the departments that thwarted him. Revenge: destroy what denied him, challenged, or just didn't flatter him enough. And we fired him in 2020, so he wants to destroy us, too.
Harris has called for a recount in the swing states. They put together the funds to pay for it. Taken a deep breath. King Shitpants didn't win by that much.
I’ve been on her site searching for results for days to no avail… the election was closer than many expected, Trump even believed he had lost Lisa… fingers crossed, but arthritis is making it difficult!!
I don’t think that third-party statistic is relevant, Lisa. It's not causal, certainly. In either a mostly red or mostly blue state, voting third-party wouldn't make a bit of difference. In the swing states, according to the reports I read, the talking yam won by tens of thousands of votes per state.
Years ago Linda, even though I once covered, and was a face in a massive crowd at a Jefferson Airplane, which became Starship, concert in Central Park many years ago… it’s not even fish wrap worthy anymore!
Haven't thought about the Airplane in a long time. Saw them a few times at the Fillmore East, among other venues, including the Hunter College auditorium in 1966 or 1967. Ah, memories - it now seems like such an innocent time, although it really wasn't. That was when we were young and still had hope.
I’m really not a “conspiracy guy” but doesn’t it seem that Trump has marching orders from Putin to just fuck the nation up from the inside out? Permission was granted to go full Bizarro world with these selections!
Putin is blackmailing Agent Orange. Probably the only man on the planet that he is intimidated by. He owes him for getting him elected the first time. KGB Putin has the dirt on his friends and enemies. Russian TV celebrated Tulsi's victory. Calling her their Russian sister. Putin is calling the shots here. Agent Orange has been laundering Russian money for decades. They are one functioning unit. A glass eye in duck's ass can see that.
What would they have to blackmail him with, though? I’m wondering if there’s anything he could possibly have ever done that would harm his standing among his followers. Look at what we already know about him, and that’s all apparently fine by them.
No, he could blow up a daycare center and his followers wouldn't give two shits. His hero's, Roy Cohen and Putin, were the master class experts on baffle them bullshit. He's own father was a white supremacist. He's a malignant narcissist psychopath. This is what they do. My guess, Putin's got enough shit on him to fill a warehouse. That's how the KGB roll and control their orbit.
That and he's his own little Mafia machine. When you're a grifter, you break a lot of laws. He would take the nickels off his dead mother's eyes. He doesn't have a conscience. He just gets everyone else to do his dirty work. Their lives go down the shiter. Not his. There isn't a bottom to his criminal enterprise.
How crazy is RFK Jr? Even the total toady NY Post thinks he's batshit. Had forgotten about James Watt. But Lee Zeldin should give him a run for his money. I personally look forward to the Cabinet meeting where Orange Caligula pulls a King Leer(sic) and asks everyone present to describe how great he is.
He already did that in his first term. Remember the really cringey meeting where everyone sat around a big conference table and verbalized their adoration??? It was so so cringy.
As Maurice Chevalier sang in Gigi, "Ah yes, I remember it well." The inevitable reboot should be every bit as cringy. The sicko-phants(sic) know no shame.
Oh dear goddess, I remember that. It was the most sickening display of ego and narcissism I have ever seen. Every one of those people who obeyed should have crawled out of that room with bags on their head so no one could ever see their faces again. How embarrassing.
Could you check something for me? I’m randomly getting posts truncated. No pattern. Some of mine are. Some from others are. In this one, yours just stops at the word “How” … no “read more” or “continue” notice. It just stops. Can you tell me what you see?
Are you asking me or the Substack author?? "How embarrassing." was how I ended my post. And I haven't had that happen where I have been reading other Substack writers and commenters. That is strange.
So let me get this straight…if your alleged rapist, sexual assaulter, had several affairs, messed around with underage girls…you get a spot in the administration! Oh, and of course a friend of VLAD. Jeepers CREEPERS!!!!!!
I have to confess that today I came *this close* to declaring a 'mental health day' and not writing anything. but in the end I didn't want to break my five-hundred-and-something-day streak of posting every day
OMG Jeff…then at least go have a morning cocktail to relax your over-worked brain!!!!! That is a lot of shitty news to store in your head!💙
Of course, I don't know for sure, but my guess is that Jeff has a morning toke.
I haven't smoked pot in years. no judgement here in what others do, I just lost interest. I also have a pretty strict 'no drinking before 5pm' rule, but I do occasionally break it if I'm lunching with friends
What time zone shall we use to join you in possible day drinking?
eastern
Greenwitch Mean Time works for me.
Let those of us in eastern begin!
It's always 5 o'clock somewhere.
With tRump elected by the world’s lowest information voters, My new rule is no drinking before 9 am
🤣🤣🤣
Piece o’ cake! I don’t get up until noon anyway.
As painful as it is to face the news without some something to ease the pain, that's probably fine with them: have we ever heard of a fascist/authoritarian regime where drinking is not a key part of the lifestyle? If we're going to resist, we have to do it with full faculties. Get shitfaced once we win.
I stopped smoking pot during my mid 20's, but kept on drinking. I also adhere to the "no drinking before 5pm" rule, but then again, it will always be past 5pm somewhere on this planet.
Special times call for special measures
I also hadn’t smoked pot in decades and instead just enjoyed my alcoholic beverages. Nowadays though, I can’t (well, shouldn’t) drink, so I was delighted to discover Delta-8 gummies a few years ago, thanks to my nephew, who’s a Gen-X hippie, if there is such a thing.
There definitely is such a thing, it's all in the attitude, not the birth year!
Legalized weed made life so much better. I can't smoke weed anymore, damn. Gummies don't really do it for me, but it's better than no weed.
Never heard of a GenX hippie before. That's cool.
I ❤️ that “no drinking before 5” sayingbecause my grandparents had a clock with that written on it while ALL the numbers on the clock were 5s.
The actual rule is heartily ignored here in France where we all drink at any time of day.
I do remember you describing bending an elbow with Fred C Trump III.
If I go to bed at 7PM, but start drinking a 1PM, can it really be called day drinking ? 🤔
No it's normal drinking 😁
No, you’re good.
Understood. I'm right there with you.
Jeff …u deserve a few days off, too much work and worry. Wish I could join in consuming adult beverages but my docs say otherwise… just edibles for me.😜
I’m with you. It’s just not fun, especially when most of the friends you smoked with are dead m
❤️
Sensible. LOL, I didn't lose interest, but when I realized how much I could buy, and hold in my hands six months later, if I stopped smoking, I did. As for drinking, long, long ago I instituted this rule: "If I think that I'd enjoy a drink, I have one. If I think I NEED a drink, I do not."
During the last year I had to institute a "no drinking alone at night" rule. Things were so terrible and now they will be worse but my drinking won't help anyone. Now I only drink when I'm with friends.
not much of a drinker. Up until last tuesday I mostly smoked pot for pain and anxiety, but not before 6 or 7. I’ve now taken to smoking almost all day,and not stuff that is mostly CBD or CBN. I know staying high and tuning out isn’t the answer, but given the circumstances, I figure I owe myself at least a few weeks to decompress and relax before the chaos starts roiling in like an out of control freight train with no breaks.
I am your age and I feel the same about pot.
This really is a Fascism With Gummies moment.
Agreed. They've been a beneficial sleep aid these last 10 days.
I think it’s all very simple. Donnie just held up his finger and pointed a F…. You to the American people!
And to the world! If he can't own it, he'll kill it.
I can’t drink I’m actually allergic to alcohol.. yeah.. no one in my family can drink.. except My Dad cause he’s white (Norwegian) and the rest of us Hawaiian Asian just turn tomato faced and get really hot and stuffy nose. So I’ll be eating my gummies smoking a dab pen and getting enough Indica in me to pass the Fvck out.. i just can’t deal with what is happening to our country and his appointments of people who aren’t even remotely qualified for their positions.. except bending over and blowing the bloviating Orange Shitstain
It's been a challenging week. Ir shitshow if you prefer. Glad you have alternatives to destress.
From now on, I’m going to refer to the Orange Shitstain only as The Thing. He’s not worth the waste of perfectly good syllables.
My son-in-law is half Asian, my grandson 1/4 Asian, and both have the same problem with alcohol. Of course, that didn’t stop either one of them when they were in college!
It’s kinda sad that corporate media won’t feel the pain of having to cower to the monster they created. They obviously enjoy kissing his ass and we know this because they started doing it before they needed to. People just need to unsubscribe and stop watching or listening. Maybe now would be the time to start calling it state run media.
I've unsubscribed to everything but Jeff. I need to consider my mental health. We are where we are and will just have to live through it as best we can.
I broke up with Twitter yesterday. It was painful, like leaving any love-hate relationship is. Lots of folks I know have fled to Bluesky, but I’m just not ready to date again yet. Becoming a total recluse has its appeal. I’m still following my favorites here on Substack.
Twitter will soon be the only media outlet allowed. All others will be driven underground or disappeared.
I r-e-a-l - l - y hope it doesn't get to that point.
We’d miss you, but we’d sure understand. I gave up a long time ago, but I’m considering an edible. The dispensary is close, and I just finished a bout of painful PT and a story about RFKjr. on NPR on my way home.
Well that calls for weed definitely.
highly (get it?!) recommend.
Good point Tess, toss a couple of gummy’s in as well!
Jeff, if one day you simply write,
"God fuck Donald Trump all the way to an unmourned grave!"
I would regard that as a post giving full satisfaction, and I would respond:
“Amen and double hallelujah!"
That works. Or just, "FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
But I gotta know whether it's "FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK, we're screwed!” or "FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK, screw them!”
Porque no los dos?
Exactly.
And thence straight to the ninth circle of hell.
Nah, I don’t believe in it, but it's fun to think about.
“How hard it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” Mark 10:24-25
Probably not DFF's favorite Bible verse.
Oh please. DonOld has NEVER read the Bible; he uses it as a prop but read it and live by it??? Not a chance.
He wouldn't recognize ANY verse from the bible--or anywhere else.......well, okay, except maybe some entire paragraphs from Mein Kampf. Donny would probably recognize those.
Yeah. Good ol' "Two Corinthians" Dumpy. He's also too fat to go through the eye of a needle.
I can see a cartoon with Musk and Donald fighting to squeeze through
Oops you posted first🤣
In fairness, so is a camel 🐫
BUT BUT, Two Corinthians!!
That at least was funny. The rest of this shit is scaring me.
Ditto!!!!
Nice thought Kathleen!!
yes, that is worth the $5 a month , alone
🤣🤣🤣
But that grave is gonna smell worse than a homeless encampment.
Jeff sez: "State and appellate courts have in the past and will in the future continue to block hundreds of crappy laws passed by the GOP."
Thanks for giving us a realistic basis for hope. I thank God that you read the news today, oh boy, and that you are so accurately informed.
About a lucky man who made the grade, and though the news
was rather sad, well I just had to laugh/I saw the photograph
Amen.
MzNicky I know my brain went the same direction maybe it’s time for an all Beetles weekend we know the words and they are still legal. I think the forty year olds hold it against my generation there’s another the Who!
Wut. There's another The Who?
"We won't get fooled again" is the only Who song that comes to mind.
You mean, they’re jealous because we Boomers got them both? 😄 And so many others.
Thanks for dj'ing Friday night!
You’re so welcome! Long lifelong Beatlemaniac here. I didn’t even have to Google to make sure I had it right! 😄
What I need to know, and hope someone explains to me like I'm stupid, because I guess I am, but, why does trump get to pick US Attorney for the Southern District of NY??
Yes. What Robert Eckert said. One of the first things Dumpy did in '17 was to replace Preet Bahira(sp?) whose sense of ethics was far too strong for Dumpy's taste. Now that I think about it, Bahira would have made a much better attorney general than Merrick Garland.
I agree! He is well missed.
That's the federal prosecutor for that section of New York (which includes the City of course). The state prosecutors are a different bunch of people that Trump has no control over.
So, does he get to do this in every state?
Yes for US Attorney for each district but none for state attorneys general and state prosecutors. Trump was convicted in state court.
But, by choosing the US Attorney for that district, he effectively mutes the state attorneys and prosecutors? In other words, he's making the cases they have against him go away?
Thanks!! I learned from you. So, if you know, is Alvin Bragg a state or federal prosecutor?
Sadly, they can't block a whole new form of government. Maybe state courts and Attorneys General will help their constituents and good for them. It's the red states legislators and judges that will make their populace suffer even more. No one deserves what is coming.
hopefully we won't be importing iron lungs at high tariffs for the paralyzed school kids from polio because now Jonas Salk is a charlatan
This attack on safe vaccines just kills me. I got polio as a baby & was left with semi-paralyzed right arm & left leg. It just makes me nauseous to think of any parent choosing not to protect their children from that; & of course even possible death.
Mariel,, I am sorry you lost people you cared about. ❤️
I certainly hope that you do not lose any more loved ones over the next 4 yrs.
Thanks. I reckon we all gonna be juggling our needs for awhile.
Question, Uncle Jeff,
At what point do you think Trump will let Elin Musk change the country's name to X? Or DOGE (Douchebaggery Owing to Gigadouche Elon)?
Hehehe thank you Susan..
you got me on that one! oh Lord, Elon, can you give DT an EV mercedes benz of a Tesla that drives itself over a cliff? All his friends should get one too--they can trade in their porsches.
😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for continuing the daily tradition- finding humor right now is one of the few ways we might survive without having to go into mass exile. On PBS on November 7, he denied saying "no vaccine is safe and effective" in a July podcast. Shockingly, the PBS news person, Amna Nawaz called him out for lying- repeatedly he denied saying it and then claimed that it was "inaccurate" because the report came from PBS. I am still hunting for a statement by him that he will continue the mandate for the polio vaccine- this really terrifies me.
And, well it should. Nobody my age(70) could have grown up without knowing someone with post-polio syndrome. FDR caught it as an adult. Most of the adults in the country are so far removed from the vaccine, they are probably susceptible.
My nursing school classmate and later roommate had had polio as a child; three years ago she died of Post-polio syndrome. I wish it on RFK, JR. He deserves it.
No use, he was undoubtedly vaccinated as a child. Still, we can hope.
Bonnie, so sorry your friend passed. Had not heard of post polio syndrome https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy.clevelandclinic.org%2Fhealth%2Fdiseases%2F24584-post-polio-syndrome&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
There's Moscow Mitch, who caught polio as a toddler.
Right. My great aunt spent most of her life in a wheelchair from polio. There's smallpox, measles, etc.
exact same age, same memories
My Auntie Barb had polio and had one leg shorter than the other. Now she’s in hospice care and my Uncle ( Mom’s Brother) visits her everyday.. he should she stayed with that asshole after multiple affairs and std’s and the death of their only son who died of AIDS in the 80’s and that Fucktard never once visited his only son while he was dying.. not gonna lie there’s a special place in hell for him.. he can suck up to the 34 count convicted felon Orange Shitstain and share a cell together.. I’d pay money to see that one!
same age, same memories
Don't schools require proof of vaccinations before the child can go to school? If RFK Jr. reverses that rule, millions of kids could die!
that is exactly what they plan on- can they get rid of the mandate in the states where we support public health? Nobody knows, but even if your state abuts a stupid state where they might get rid of the mandate, the unvaxxed will spread disease.
Feel free Jeff! Relax and take one or two days off. No big deal. We’ll be waiting your return for sure. Thank you! Best!
Coming soon: FDA to approve the injection of brain worm larvae into the neocotex, which controls rational thought. Have a nice day!
RESPECT. And thanks.
If you post “I’m taking a mental health day”, it’s still a post so the streak continues. Honestly, I wish you’d take them as needed. In the words of the guy who makes us laugh and keeps us sane..Practice self care.
If you yourself need some self-care, no-one here will begrudge it to you.
Please, please practice self-care! You're preaching it and you also need to follow your advice. Re-post an oldie from time to time! They're gems 👏🇺🇲👊🇺🇲👊🇺🇲
Thank you for your commitment. Or obsession. It is all a bit MUCH.
You got lots of company.
Oh Jeff, please allow yourself the time and space to restore your mind and body. We are so appreciative of your community and the toll being immersed in this batshit craziness takes in you. Take more than a day. Wave fuckity bye to your streak. We will all be here when you return. You are our Fearless Leader. 🫂
It is hard not to write. 🙃 It is my only release. 🙂got to climb our way out.
Lord, I am trying. The sheer wrongness of these noms provides a sliver of relief. I don’t know why, but it does. The glaring sheen of the wrongness. But the roller coaster carriage hasn’t yet reached the top.
My mother died this summer at 103. Before the election. And having led a life of fighting for racial and religious equality, I have to say I’m glad she didn’t live to witness it.
Neal, regarding that "sliver of relief", I've felt it too. And the 'why' of it to me is that possibility that things will get so heinous that maybe, just maybe, some of the cult will wake the fuck up and realize what they've done. I've heard anecdotes that such 'duH' moments are occurring out there, so I guess there's always a chance. Even the Senate might finally be waking up, but I'm not holding my breath.
Nor am I but I'd like to think that Thune beating out sewer rat Scott to head the Senate offers a bit of hope. With the vote done by a secret ballot, those Senators who had the good sense to deny one of Trump's biggest loyalists didn't have to fear retaliation from the MAGA assholes who'd crawl over broken glass to fulfill his desires. Good to see there are a few in the GOP who behind closed doors see dear leader's demented bullshit for what it really is.
Yes, it's nice that POS Medicare fraudster Scott did not win. But Thune is a theocrat Christofascist who will persecute anyone not straight, white, and male.
Thune will follow all orders. This is a whole new form of government. He is not one of the good guys. Whatever noise they make is to appear to be sensible humans. Ha!
Take a look at Thune's record.
Dubious of any good coming from this Bob!
I agree Patrick. The master of manipulation will spin anything that goes wrong with his administration on Biden…with the help of the media of course. I’m still flopping back and forth between the stages of grief. But only three of them: denial, then anger then depression then back to anger then depression and now fury and denial together. What I want to know is what happened to “When we fight, we win!”?? Why are there no recounts? Why no forensic audits? I will never accept this election without a forensic audit of the swing states. It’s infuriating that we are just rolling over and accepting defeat and an authoritarian takeover.
Yes, why did they roll over so fast?
No. Don’t think so. The people who follow rump, I am guessing did not engage in school, had little to zero exposure to educated people who follow laws as a study, have no respect for our institutions such as colleges universities,nor do they honor value that world.
They don’t appear to be deep thinkers.
They don't need to be deep thinkers. They only need to follow orders. They will.
They learned enough in (mostly) law school to pass. They learned analysis of law and arguing a position. That will get you a law degree. Most of it is memorization.
I don't know if you've seen, but apparently Google searches for "can I change my vote" and "do tariffs cause inflation" spiked basically the day after the election.
It's cold comfort, because it is moot now, but maybe at least some people are waking up to what they've done. It's also a glaring sign that civics and education in general in this country is seemingly nonexistent.
They'll just blame Biden and the Jews.
I know they'll try, but it seems like that will be hard to make stick since they have the presidency, house, and senate.
But yes, I'm sure they'll blame the Jews too because they are fascist fucks.
Yes, sorry for your loss! But you sure do have good genes. My dad died at 96 a year ago December 17. He and my stepmother went door to door canvassing for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Neal, condolences…But I share your sentiment, for Quincy Jones, for all who missed this catastrophe, and including my own son.
Sorry for your loss….❤️
So sorry for your loss, Neal. I, too, am glad that my father, who fought in Europe during World War ll, is not here to see this travesty. I truly worry for our country.
I think about the MAGA and barely there Republicans (the ones that vote without information) getting their candidate of choice and never looking back to see what the hell happens for the next four years. They will never know what we know and they won't give a shit until something happens close to them that wakes them up. I hope for all our sakes that they are paying attention this time.
When they wake up all the programs Biden put into place will be working and Donny will get the credit. Of course that supposes Donny doesn't pull the money from these projects to line his pockets.
A life well lived. She will be missed.
May the wonderful memories of her live forever.
My mom is 92. Earlier this year she expressed the wish that she only wanted to live long enough to see a day when Donald Trump was no longer mentioned in the news. She may have to hang on to the century mark also.
She will. Those women are tough.
Her sister was born the same week as Queen Elizabeth, but unlike Liz, is still with us.
Very sorry for your loss. my Ma went to the other side a year ago Dec 7 she made 90 years ,just 10 shy of her goal . Also glad she didn’t have to see this horror show !
ALL my thoughts are with you at the passing of your Mom 🙏🏻💓
I understand. My beloved husband died this March and he would have been apoplectic.
so sorry.
Arne, I am so very sorry. What a blow. Lost mine in February, so I get it. Peace to you brother. ❤️
Neal, I hold on, for the moment ,to a “sliver” of hope as well.
Neal, sounds like a life well lived. My sincere condolences ❤️
Neal, sympathies on your mother's passing.
Sorry for your loss Neil.
If Kennedy does for America what he did to Samoa, he will thin the MAGA herd
Kennedy should have been charged in the deaths of those who died, his two partners in anti-vax crimes took the blame, while Kennedy denied any responsibility for the role he played.
Fuck that execrable connard, his Children’s Health Defense group is the work of an evil brain wormed mook!!
If only all children and older citizens and those with compromised immune systems were only MAGA. JFC! What a price to pay to "thin the MAGA herd."
But despite his antivaxx rhetoric, as long as vaccines are still available those who want them will hopefully have access to them
Bet his kids are all vaccinated and I'm sure he was too as a child. He's just nuts! The rest are douchebags and traitors, but I think he is the real deal NUTSO. And what makes him so dangerous is that he's smart. He presents his antivaxx bs with stats and he sounds intelligent. I'm sure most MAGAs don't or are too stupid to google the facts themselves and make a decision. I could just strangle that scientist in England and Jenny McCarthy for their part in linking autism to vaccines. There is no link and the scientist later on admitted he filed false data. The damage they have done. But I have no patience with the morons that ever listen to Hollywood stars promoting medicines or treatments. Remember Suzanne Somers and her cures for menopause. These morons have absolutely no medical background/education. It's the same type of personality that falls for their crap that also votes for Trump. You can't fix stupid.
Jenny McCarthy has an autistic child, so she went on the warpath after Andrew Winfield's invalid study, which was later discredited. McCarthy used her celebrity and loud mouth to scream her vitriol, shout down actual scientists, and spread antivax disinformation. Living a fact free life is easier than trying to find out what is real.
Suzanne Somers used her celebrity to grift. No surprise that she was a MAGA.
My state will support vaccinations as long as vaccines are available. If vaccines are blocked to many children will die. It's so avoidable.
I know. I was being flippant
I used to joke that I needed a reversible sign around my neck. "Joke" and "Not Joking". I get your humor, but offer you my solution for what it's worth. 😁
He killed 80 people by my count.
It was the equivalent of giving indigenous people blankets infected with smallpox (a vaccination-eradicated disease that will also probably come back).
Jeebus! We have smallpox to look forward to? Oh, my God!
Mumps
This country’s past treatment of the indigenous peoples was horrific… they should have yeated the colonialist white asses out!!
There’s nothing human about these disgusting creatures that do this shit. Nothing.
Scariest part of the story is the nurse who administered the vaccines where two children died was the reason Kennedy was in Samoa in the first place. The two deaths were caused by a dimwitted nurse who mixed the vaccine with a different drug!
Mike, in the end 83 were counted. Not to necessarily correct you, just saying it was worse.
He deserves the Nobel Poop Prize!
He will thin the whole herd. I remember measles. I remember looking for the rash on the abdomen. The DOH posters on doors forbidding entry. My mom took me to one of those locked down houses to perform patterning on a kid. She said not to worry about the notice from the DOH. Dear old mom.
I still remember the excruciating earache I had from the measles when I was four years old. Because the only vaccine available was the smallpox vaccine, I had every childhood disease except polio and missed a lot of school. These anti-vaxxers did not live during the polio epidemic, so they do not realize what a frightening time it was. If their children were dying, they would no longer be against vaccines, which save lives and keep us safe and healthy. And why do they think that smallpox has been wiped out (except for Afghanistan)?
If Kennedy is confirmed, our dogs and cats will be better protected against diseases than we will. Still trying to wrap my head around this nonsense.
It's just getting more impossible as each day goes by
I doubt that if you don't believe in vaccines for your children, that you will give them to your pets.
Most states “require” rabies shots. Some people won’t do it. But many will because they are properly afraid of rabies. Just not measles or tetanus.
Vets, vet emergency rooms and doggy day care places will not see or take in your dog (and I believe cats) without official proof of all vaccinations. So that statement is true: your pets will have to be vaccinated but not you or your children. I’m not positive but I think some school districts have gone back to the “old days” when you couldn’t get your child into a school without proof of vaxx.
Here, kids still have to be caught up on vaccines to enter school. Vets will take pets who aren't vaccinated, but it's the first thing they do. That's all local law of course, so undoubtedly there are differences.
Ivermectin!
Seems to have its uses for heart worms! (But not brain worms!)
In horses.
Ummmm, didn't PRESIDENT TRUMP order no more conformation of judges? You mean the democrats are not bending over backwards and NOT following his orders since "the people have decided?" God forbid the dems should be seen as "too political" like Merrick Garland, to always be known henceforth as Merrick "you had a chance to save democracy and you blew it" Garland.
Good. Go - judges!!
Trump is still a private citizen even if he is president elect. He cannot order the US government to do or not do ANYTHING. He is such a colossal ass. Hearing an "order" such as that from Trump would cause me to do the exact opposite, too.
Hearing that from a mobbed up convicted 34 count felon, and adjudicated rapist, would force me to use the immunity SCOTUS granted, by yeating his malodorous codpiece into the closest jail cell!!
"Trump is still a private citizen" according to the law, but the law doesn't apply to Very Special Boy.
True! That didn't stop him from issuing his edict that the dems were to appoint no more judges and the GQP was not to confirm if they did. He's a fascist. This comes as no surprise given HIS presidency packed the courts after he lost.
While we still have some power we need to use it.
You mean Merrick I-am-a-complicit-stooge Garland. I loathe Biden for appointing that right-wing asshole and not getting rid of him when he should have.
I’m definitely with you Linda, I know for fact that he opened an investigation into the meeting the night of Jan 5th at the Willard, Bill Barr killed that investigation as he did Reagan’s Irangate, HR’s Iran Contra including all of Trump’s criminal activities!
I believe you. I can't stand the fact that Trump and all his enablers are going to skate. They were allowed to get away with everything and were able to mount a successful coup this year. Damn Garland and Biden to the lowest circle of Hell.
Ah Patrick, the good ole days of Barr and his first "accomplishments" as AG.
Having entered the rage (forget mere anger) stage of grief, I am furious at Biden.
I want to see Brainworms bring Trump a healthy organic salad, and end up wearing it.
Welcome to the pro-polio party!
Woo sounds like fun 😉✌🏻💙
Looks like part of the job description DT is hiring for is affirmative action for sex offenders.
It's a prerequisite for high positions in office. We don't have an issue with misogyny. Nah!!
Just like him.
He is not just a sex offender. He is a sex trafficker and a pedophile.
He is a fucking pedophile.
He is not just a sex offender, sex trafficker and fucking pedophile, he is a Russian asset too, as is his new boss, and everyone he will be working with. Prof. Timothy Snyder explains this and how he is selected for that reason, because Putin is doing the hiring, or allowing Trump to do the hiring to destroy the USA.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/decapitation-strike?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks Linda, I finally read it.
<<now, when Bobby Brainworms finds the disease-ravaged body of America dead by the side of the road, he can stuff it in the trunk of his car and dump it in Central Park.>>
Either that or cut the head off and strap it to the roof of his car.
decisions, decisions ...
As I read your post daily Jeff, I can’t help think of how, in the most critically important election of our lifetimes, 19 million mooks declined to cast their vote! WTF, this country’s not worth saving dipshits???
porque no los dos?
You think I ruined the USA last time?
Hold my Big Mac and watch this!
Yup. But that's there point, isn't it? Gotta hand it to Vlad - he managed to destroy the U.S. without firing off one nuke.
We are not destroyed. We are in trouble. Not destroyed. A really important part of this mess is going to be to not keep preaching doomsday when there isn’t one. Yes. I know it could come to pass. But right now, we are in trouble. We aren’t done.
I hear you. When I say destroyed- I don’t mean obliterated. I mean destroyed as in the destruction of the United States as we’ve known it. When catastrophe befalls you it’s important to understand the reality, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of everything, Vlad and his minions are subjecting us to a psychological shock and awe.
The country that WE subjected to physical shock and awe still exists, but it has been radically transformed. We are already in a “cold” Civil War and speaking the truth is not perpetuating a doomsday narrative. It is simply stating what we are going through,
I agree. You said Vlad “has destroyed”. He has not. He is snd always has targeted to try to destroy us. But, in fact we are not destroyed. Currently reading Alexia Navalvy’s memoir. Very inspiring. And he was very clear about calling things out as they are, and not sane-washing realities of what might be coming. In that, it must always include seeing things clearly as they are. Because any misinterpretation risks becoming the banner. The conclusion. We are at risk. Vlad is in hog heaven with this “prez”. A lot seems to be going wrong. But he did not destroy the U.S. Thank you for opp to discuss further.
YES! It will take a lot of focus and attention that DonOld doesn't have. He does hold grudges and is vengeful so he will probably succeed in doing some damage but we aren't dead yet!
I agree 💯 and I am very concerned about the paint thinner remark. But I do understand that every single day is like "Omy God what is happening in the opposite reality where all the fuck fucker fuckups are residing??" I spent years working on my vulgarity but at this point I can't find any English words that I speak or know that can address what the FUCK FUCKERY FUCK FUCK FUCKS ARE TRYING TO DO!!!
Andy Borowitz this morning (the 15th) Turn Off The News post lays it out.
I try to hold that thought but we are in for four years of absolute Hell. We know it.
The religious right wacko’s have been praying for the apocalypse, appears to be the closest thing Marie! Fuck Vlade, he’s another in a long list of worthless dictators!
thank you
Khrushchev predicted it decades ago. We must have acted real stupid back then too.
Which did he predict?
He said "We will bury you" which Americans tended to misinterpret as "we will kill you" but idiomatically meant "we will be at your funeral; we will outlast you"
oh please- they haven’t buried shit, those Ruskies- actually they lost a big chunk of their empire, and trying to get it back has already cost them hundreds of thousands of lives.
Not to worry, they have all the North Korean troops they can purchase.
Trump is putting these dipshits in charge of the departments that thwarted him. Revenge: destroy what denied him, challenged, or just didn't flatter him enough. And we fired him in 2020, so he wants to destroy us, too.
Harris has called for a recount in the swing states. They put together the funds to pay for it. Taken a deep breath. King Shitpants didn't win by that much.
Wow, is that true?
The 3rd party vote in swing states didn't make any difference.
Yep
Should I contact the campaign to donate specifically for this action?
They got it covered with the leftover campaign donations.
They send me at least 30 texts a day to contribute. Even though I have.
Yes you can contact them and they will be there to take $$$.
I’ve been on her site searching for results for days to no avail… the election was closer than many expected, Trump even believed he had lost Lisa… fingers crossed, but arthritis is making it difficult!!
It was announced 4 days ago, that the campaign funds will go towards the recount. Goggle that.
I don’t think that third-party statistic is relevant, Lisa. It's not causal, certainly. In either a mostly red or mostly blue state, voting third-party wouldn't make a bit of difference. In the swing states, according to the reports I read, the talking yam won by tens of thousands of votes per state.
NYT gotta go. The fact that he won proves there is no Deep State. If there was, he woulda lost BIGLY.
The Times is jockeying to be the official administration mouthpiece, the American Pravda. Cancel your subscription if you haven't already done so.
THIS!!!
Years ago Linda, even though I once covered, and was a face in a massive crowd at a Jefferson Airplane, which became Starship, concert in Central Park many years ago… it’s not even fish wrap worthy anymore!
Haven't thought about the Airplane in a long time. Saw them a few times at the Fillmore East, among other venues, including the Hunter College auditorium in 1966 or 1967. Ah, memories - it now seems like such an innocent time, although it really wasn't. That was when we were young and still had hope.
However divisive and even murderous our politics became back then, nobody voted for Charles Manson to be President.
Although they did elect Nixon - twice.
or TASS
I’m really not a “conspiracy guy” but doesn’t it seem that Trump has marching orders from Putin to just fuck the nation up from the inside out? Permission was granted to go full Bizarro world with these selections!
Putin is blackmailing Agent Orange. Probably the only man on the planet that he is intimidated by. He owes him for getting him elected the first time. KGB Putin has the dirt on his friends and enemies. Russian TV celebrated Tulsi's victory. Calling her their Russian sister. Putin is calling the shots here. Agent Orange has been laundering Russian money for decades. They are one functioning unit. A glass eye in duck's ass can see that.
What would they have to blackmail him with, though? I’m wondering if there’s anything he could possibly have ever done that would harm his standing among his followers. Look at what we already know about him, and that’s all apparently fine by them.
No, he could blow up a daycare center and his followers wouldn't give two shits. His hero's, Roy Cohen and Putin, were the master class experts on baffle them bullshit. He's own father was a white supremacist. He's a malignant narcissist psychopath. This is what they do. My guess, Putin's got enough shit on him to fill a warehouse. That's how the KGB roll and control their orbit.
Sex with another man. It HAS to be this.
That’s a strong possibility. Or maybe Epstein videos of him raping young girls (or boys). His cult would just call it fake news, whatever it may be.
That and he's his own little Mafia machine. When you're a grifter, you break a lot of laws. He would take the nickels off his dead mother's eyes. He doesn't have a conscience. He just gets everyone else to do his dirty work. Their lives go down the shiter. Not his. There isn't a bottom to his criminal enterprise.
Of course he does. And you don't have to be a conspiracy nut to see it. It's all out in the open. Matt, you are completely sane. Welcome to the club.
How crazy is RFK Jr? Even the total toady NY Post thinks he's batshit. Had forgotten about James Watt. But Lee Zeldin should give him a run for his money. I personally look forward to the Cabinet meeting where Orange Caligula pulls a King Leer(sic) and asks everyone present to describe how great he is.
He already did that in his first term. Remember the really cringey meeting where everyone sat around a big conference table and verbalized their adoration??? It was so so cringy.
As Maurice Chevalier sang in Gigi, "Ah yes, I remember it well." The inevitable reboot should be every bit as cringy. The sicko-phants(sic) know no shame.
Oh dear goddess, I remember that. It was the most sickening display of ego and narcissism I have ever seen. Every one of those people who obeyed should have crawled out of that room with bags on their head so no one could ever see their faces again. How embarrassing.
Could you check something for me? I’m randomly getting posts truncated. No pattern. Some of mine are. Some from others are. In this one, yours just stops at the word “How” … no “read more” or “continue” notice. It just stops. Can you tell me what you see?
I can’t find an answer to what’s going wrong.
I also noticed this and another poster reported it yesterday. Substack said they will look into. This was over on Earls Stephen’s (?) group I think.
Thx for that. At least now I know I don’t have to go through the grind of figuring out what to try next!
Are you asking me or the Substack author?? "How embarrassing." was how I ended my post. And I haven't had that happen where I have been reading other Substack writers and commenters. That is strange.
Hi. Yes I was asking you because yours is cut off. It’s really weird. This will perhaps help me ask better questions to get resolved.
So let me get this straight…if your alleged rapist, sexual assaulter, had several affairs, messed around with underage girls…you get a spot in the administration! Oh, and of course a friend of VLAD. Jeepers CREEPERS!!!!!!
It’s a case of ‘It takes one to know one.’
Tess, let's just call Gaetz what he is: a sex trafficker and pedophile.
Jeff sez: "State and appellate courts have in the past and will in the future continue to block hundreds of crappy laws passed by the GOP."
Thanks for giving us a realistic basis for hope. I thank God that you read the news today, oh boy, and that you are so accurately informed.
Love the Beatles reference!
This is the last line in Jeffs posts every single day:
Recommend everyone is entitled to my own opinion to your readers
I read the news today, oh boy
They all wear Christian Nationalist symbols. Some are just more obvious than others.
Hegseth just screams White Power. He's got that MAGA douchebag look.