Jeff, I have to tell you I can’t believe not only anything comes out of Vance’s mouth is actually true, but I also can’t believe anything that comes out of anyone else’s mouth from the administration so the administration itself is just a giant lying machine and anyone that believes otherwise is rather deluded
That’s a great way to describe them-“a giant lying machine”. When we get through this-and we will-I hope lying becomes so very uncool.Truth really does matter to a helluva lot of people.smfh
I got SO frustrated in 2016. NOT ONE WORD the barbaric orange pedophilic sadist said was true!!! NOT ONE WORD! I kept waiting for the news to point this out. NO ONE DID. "Alternate truths" was used. I really felt so anxious during those first three years. NO ONE was telling the truth -- INCLUDING the MSM. I remember in 2019, Anderson Cooper ventured a timid comment: "That is false." Now, a TERRIBLE, LONG DECADE LATER, everyone says -- both Right and Left -- "the guy's lying." WHY WHY WHY didn't they say that when it still could have made a difference?! Their passivity and both-siderism continues to amaze and horrify me.
lol! You've discovered the Theme Song for the barbaric orange pedophilic sadist's reign! And it's perfect for not just him, but for every single person he's gotten to fill positions during his reign. Revolving door, yes. But they're all the same.
It's a damn good thing Pinocchio is fiction. Otherwise the entire administration would be beating the living shit out of each other. Which might not be such a bad idea.
Or maybe people should tear down Usha, due to the fact that she is, as well as James Talarico, a vegan.. cause not eating beef is… Un American.. Amiright sports fans?
Imaginary, along with him being gay, having "low T" and, according to Stephen Miller, being trans. What he really is is boyish — he's 37 and could pass for 25. (We should all be so lucky!) He looks like Opie from The Andy Griffith Show.
If ANYONE is the advert for "low T" it's Stephen Miller! Between that pastt white complexion, that balding head and that waisted looking physique, that guy needs some serious T. It would at least give him some facial hair
Video released today of a car running into a woman yesterday at the NJ ICE concentration facility. A small group of protestors were at the entrance to the facility; the young woman was twirling an upside-down American flag and, while her back was turned to the entrance, a car entered and drove directly into her--no hesitation, no swerve: it was with deliberate intention. She was knocked off her feet and across the hood of the car; she seemed to fall onto the pavement to the side of the car, so that the driver could not run the car right over her. I'm sure he regretted that part.
Yeah, for me, I don't believe anything from this non-stop lying administration. I only believe what I get from Meidas, and I'm far more likely to believe the Iranians, even though they do quite a bit of lying too.
In any case, I'm definitely not going to believe what our soulless, empty suit VP and his failed real-estate cohorts have to say.
Talk about totally disrespecting the negotiations! Where's Marco Rubio? Iran has come with their top people, and the only people we have are the equivalents of used car salesmen! I'm amazed that Iran hasn't just told us that they will not negotiate until some truly qualified negotiators are found.
Iran has never had any intention of negotiating, since they know that Trump's word is worthless and he would never abide by any agreement he pretended to go along with. They don't want to look like the side that won't negotiate, however, so they go through the motions, while never backing down from any of their maximalist demands. I'm sure they were astonished when Trump signed the Meme of Misunderstanding that they drafted, but are hardly surprised that he is breaking it immediately.
I received an update from Heritage this morning in which they are very very excited about how well the Iran peace process is going. Aged like a mayfly. They should probably give up trying to propel the propaganda while Mr. Unpredictable el Caudillo is in office. It's just embarrassing for everyone.
Trump says vandalizing a national monument is a crime and people who do it are crazy and horrible…yet…at least antifa isn’t bulldozing entire buildings. It’s as if he’s never considered how hypocritical x 1000 he is all day, every day. I guess that would take self reflection and actually remembering what he did and said a minute ago let alone a month or year ago.
Plus- breaking into the Nations Capital and fighting and killing law enforcement isn’t a crime ? Silly me- they’ve all been pardoned and he’s trying to PAY them for being weaponized ?? That logic just doesn’t make any sense to me at all‼️
Trying to pay them MILLIONS of dollars EACH. (I'm never going to stop pointing out the $1.776 billion, because stupidity. And pretending that they were just peaceful tourists while tossing around references to the (violent) American Revolution.)
Why oh why do we live in the timeline where more people have been erroneously arrested for touching lime green algae in Donnies DIY swamp, then have been arrested for the Epstein files?
MS-NOW played a clip last night of Donnie Demento bragging, a couple weeks ago, that the paint job was so "powerful" that no one could cut through it, even if they had a knife.........
Isn't the weapon of choice for Antifa cans of soup? Now, if the Reflecting Pool were filled with Campbell's Chunky, that would be clear evidence of Antifa's invidiousness.
To his base, this explanation is totally plausible and doesn’t call for common sense. There’s no way a 14 million dollar job so beautiful could get fucked up all on its own.
Donnie's DIY swamp, LOL. I racked my brain when I heard the contractor who did the paint job was named John Cafaro. I used to live outside Youngstown OH for a few years and the Cafaro family is well known for their corruption in that area. They were in bed with Jim (Beam me up Scotty) Traficant who went to prison and is now deceased. Only the best people.
Algae covered rubbery stuff should be controlled and added to the BATF: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, and Algae-Covered Rubbery Stuff.
"The Radical Left is vandalizing my vandalism!" Reminiscent of a MASH episode where Klinger feigns self-immolation with water to leverage a Section 8 from Col. Potter. Potter and Radar realize Klinger faked it so they replace his water with real gasoline, and when Klinger pours it over himself, he exclaims in terror "Who put gasoline in my gasoline?! Stay away from me with that lighter!"
And he won't take down the Kennedy Center tarp, either because another of his crack teams botched the removal job, or he's having A Very Big Mad about having to have his name removed, and now NOBODY is allowed to see the Kennedy Center facade. I see an echo of having to put the USS John McCain behind a curtain so Demento wouldn't lose his shit over it.
What makes me sad is that nobody says no to Trump at any level. The cops could easily ignore a command to arrest people for picking up paint chips. The national guard could ignore the order to post people every 10 feet. Or at least slow walk the implementation. He's a dottering old fool. Smile, say yes sir, and then go about life as usual. It can't possibly be that difficult.
I agree! What is it that makes people do what he says when he is clearly out of his fucking mind? It's not against the law to touch paint! There are probably thousands of videos of his own shitty contractors pouring what amounted to paint thinner into our reflecting pool, but it must have been antifa. He has vandalized our entire White House and its grounds; there is no end to his destruction, but by all means, keep enforcing his bullshit directives. (Whew, I needed to vent, sorry!)
The modern world is so strange. I automatically read the correct word. I didn't even notice that the word was "ship". Auto-correct is now embedded in our brains along with God knows what else.
The stealing of paint chips. The hurling of dangerous sandwiches. All of it far more important than the blatant acts of Trump corruption, unchecked by a GOP-led Congress. And it is going to get a treatment in my soon to be released into the wild article "The Architecture of Corruption".
Here's an excerpt (unedited and not final version):
"A foreign government gave the President of the United States an airplane.
A Boeing 747-8 valued at roughly $400 million, offered by the royal family of Qatar.
When I receive a gift valued at $400 million, I write the thank-you note by hand. A gift that size gets my attention. It also raises a question I cannot help asking: what can I do for you, royal family, to show my appreciation? That is how a gift this large works. It is never free. It asks for something in return.
A gift like this is not supposed to cost the recipient a dime. It is not supposed to arrive postage due. This one did. Making it usable cost more than $900 million. Donald Trump does not pay that bill.
We do.
It was already in the budget, you might say. A trillion-dollar defense budget, and this was less than a thousandth of it. The money was going to be spent anyway.
That is the shrug this whole piece has to get past, so it is worth slowing down here, once, because the answer is the same for every story that follows. And notably, the shrug stems from manufactured exhaustion, not apathy. When there are so many lies we stop caring and paying attention to them. I’ve written that Trump has a tell when he speaks. If sounds are coming from his mouth as he tries to piece together a coherent sentence, he’s lying. The same is true for the pattern of blatant corruption. When every act is grounded in “hand in the till” self-dealing, we become exhausted.
A budget is not a vault of money already paid for. Washington spends more than it collects, and has for decades, but the modern debt was not built evenly. It was built mostly by one repeated choice: large tax cuts, tilted to the already wealthy, that no one paid for. Reagan made that choice. George W. Bush made it and turned a surplus into deficits. Trump made it twice, once in his first term and again, larger, this year. The $934 million for the 'gift' jet was borrowed inside the hole those choices dug. It did not come from the Trump Organization, Trump Casinos, or Trump Steaks. It came from taxes that will be owed in the future, paid for by us, our children, and our grandchildren, with interest attached. The national debt has crossed $39 trillion. The interest alone now runs more than a trillion dollars a year, roughly $3 billion a day. Your kids will still be paying interest on this jet long after it has been towed into Trump’s private library, next to 1,000 copies of “Art of the Deal”, “Mein Kampf”, and “Project 2025” with the President’s name over the door.
And here is the part our exhausted shrug misses completely. The missile program this money was taken from did not stop being necessary. So either the country is now less defended than the budget Congress passed said it should be, or that $934 million gets put back later as fresh spending, and you fund the jet and the missiles both.
You paid for missile defense. You got a flying penthouse you will never set foot in and never own.
The ruined wreck of the Grand Old Party, now the Guardians of Predators, has foisted on much of under- or misinformed America some gargantuan myths, now coming into full view with unsurprising consequences. Among these outright lies are that they, the conservatives, are the party of the Constitution, the party of law and order, the party of family values, the party of fiscal responsibility, all evidence to the contrary. Until the swath of American voters long beguiled by these lies awakens, the hijacking of our nation will continue unabated.
Thank you -and yes, I often think that Dwight Eisenhower was the last true conservative Republican who put the interests of the nation before party. Nixon, in some of his policies leaned liberal, Reagan was the worst modern day President (until Trump’s kleptocracy), George Bush was disconnected, forgettable, and had his hands sullied by Reagan’s Iran-Contra actions, George W.’s tax cuts and wars led the U.S. economy to a cliff. Calling post-Eisenhower Republicans conservative is like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a vegan.
I am not as well versed as you on the political history of our nation. My view of conservatism, forged by those individuals after Eisenhower that you mentioned, makes me (as an ethnic minority myself) fully believe that conservatism is not only contrary to but destructive to a diverse nation comprised of immigrants, many of whom are ethnic and religious minorities, not to mention when more than half the populace are females. Conservatism as it exists in the last four decades is rife with bigotry and extreme bias toward the rich, including the fervent embrace of vulture capitalism, exacerbating the rift between the wealthy and everyone else and decimating the middle class. The GOP to my mind has diligently pursued mirroring the wealth distribution of authoritarian nations, distinguished by their dysfunction and corruption. Not what my view of America is or should be. So I despise the right and their hypocrisy, self-dealing, and greed. Conservatism as a concept is anathema to me.
I think it really depends upon who is wielding the label of conservative or liberal. When I see political campaigns now where someone announces themselves as a GOP-candidate for some office, or a family values conservative for this or that -I cringe for all of the reasons you powerfully list.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about “The Fierce Urgency of Now” more than 60 years ago and in those 60+ years we have largely been blocked from strengthening voting rights, codifying equality, addressing entrenched systemic racism, and our egregious past. GOP party members from Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott to today’s Chief “Justice” Roberts, Hegseth, and the racist Trump continue to block progress, or worse, move us backwards in time toward polarizing hatred and fear.
Nevertheless -I have friendships across political ideologies -with one important thread -they are conservatives who believe in the rule of law, they defend the Constitution, they embrace equality. So I try to look beyond the labels and generalities -and sometimes we learn from each other and develop new understanding.
I yield to your experience and knowledge. I do not personally know anyone who can be a conservative and yet have a world view compatible with universal human rights and dignity, not to mention equality. I do not feel, perhaps arrogantly or obstinately, that conservatives have anything useful that I can assimilate.
No need to yield -your context and experiences matter just as much as mine -actually more so. While I've personally known poverty I am a product of white privilege, so some of my own perspectives are flawed because they have been formed while insulated.
Exactly, George. Ike was the last Republican worthy of the Oval Office. I've known that all my life. And his legacy, his warning of the rise of the military-industrial complex, has sadly come true. Someone asked why we spent so much on weaponry. I put it down to the philosophy on the latrine wall in Da Nang: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest m.....f....r in the valley." We have become the world's armorer, responsible for more destruction than any other nation.
Is it wrong of me to feel the enormous satisfaction of schadenfreude when conservatives have gay family members? I'm assuming you are referring to Mary, not Liz. Or maybe they both had some effect, since Liz is vehemently anti-trump. Whatever, the whole gay daughter thing is emblematic of another conservative trait that I loathe: "I do not care in the least when other people have a problem. I only care when it affects me."
I derive great pleasure as well. It's the universe telling all of us to remember Carl Sagan's perspective -we're all in a pale blue dot life raft spinning through space at high speed -let's be good to one another. :)
Like RatFuck Kennedy, who is destroying medical research and trying to eradicate vaccines.....except regarding Lyme disease. Why? Because, as he claims, everyone in his family has contracted Lyme disease, with one kid suffering partial facial paralysis from it.
On many issues yes, but haven’t quite forgiven him for opposing Title II and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (I have a long memory and am slow to forgive).
Of the many embarrassing things that have come out of Trump’s mouth this is most immediately idiotic.
Trump did what he always has, no research, no bid, overcharge for the least expensive, least qualified, pocket the difference, blame someone else when shit hits the fan.
Grand Theft Paint Chips is the perfect Trump-era crime: entirely stupid, wildly overcharged, and somehow Jeanine Pirro is yelling about it on television like the Republic was stabbed by a sandwich. The pool peeled because the job was garbage. That’s it. No Antifa algae squad. No radical-left paint-chip cartel. Just one more golden-calf screwup guarded by cops because Dear Leader cannot survive being laughed at.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Vance hails a ‘very good day’ of US-Iran negotiations"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon-hnk
yeah, like I'd believe anything that comes out of the couchfucker's mouth.
Jeff, I have to tell you I can’t believe not only anything comes out of Vance’s mouth is actually true, but I also can’t believe anything that comes out of anyone else’s mouth from the administration so the administration itself is just a giant lying machine and anyone that believes otherwise is rather deluded
That’s a great way to describe them-“a giant lying machine”. When we get through this-and we will-I hope lying becomes so very uncool.Truth really does matter to a helluva lot of people.smfh
It's a perpetual motion lying machine!
I got SO frustrated in 2016. NOT ONE WORD the barbaric orange pedophilic sadist said was true!!! NOT ONE WORD! I kept waiting for the news to point this out. NO ONE DID. "Alternate truths" was used. I really felt so anxious during those first three years. NO ONE was telling the truth -- INCLUDING the MSM. I remember in 2019, Anderson Cooper ventured a timid comment: "That is false." Now, a TERRIBLE, LONG DECADE LATER, everyone says -- both Right and Left -- "the guy's lying." WHY WHY WHY didn't they say that when it still could have made a difference?! Their passivity and both-siderism continues to amaze and horrify me.
Good question. Afraid?
Just angry.
I meant: why don't journalists report? btw, I'm angry too.
I'm not sure about the first years, 2016 till maybe 2018? Lazy? Being told by owners to curry favor? Your thoughts?
I'm just a love machine
I don't love nobody but me.
lol! You've discovered the Theme Song for the barbaric orange pedophilic sadist's reign! And it's perfect for not just him, but for every single person he's gotten to fill positions during his reign. Revolving door, yes. But they're all the same.
It's a damn good thing Pinocchio is fiction. Otherwise the entire administration would be beating the living shit out of each other. Which might not be such a bad idea.
I've often thought that each politician should have Pinocchio DNA inserted into them at the start of their run. Just to keep them honest!
Oh, I think it would be a WONDERFUL idea!
Oh Vance, your career is over. The bus wheel marks are already on your body.
I know. I used to worry about how we could fight back against Vance for 2028. But all we need to do is sit back and watch Trump destroy him.
😂
He will still cling on to its tailpipe.
Hopefully with his mouth around it…
lol!
Amen!
He occasionally slips up and commits a truth, like wishing Usha would stop being a heathen and convert to Xtian nationalism
Let's hope Usha declines to throw herself on his funeral pyre.
Or maybe people should tear down Usha, due to the fact that she is, as well as James Talarico, a vegan.. cause not eating beef is… Un American.. Amiright sports fans?
Talarico isn't vegan. That was an imaginary supposed insult conjured up by the pro-Paxton crowd.
Imaginary, along with him being gay, having "low T" and, according to Stephen Miller, being trans. What he really is is boyish — he's 37 and could pass for 25. (We should all be so lucky!) He looks like Opie from The Andy Griffith Show.
If ANYONE is the advert for "low T" it's Stephen Miller! Between that pastt white complexion, that balding head and that waisted looking physique, that guy needs some serious T. It would at least give him some facial hair
She's making a joke.
Or she doesn't eat beef because she is a Hindu, which her unctuous husband finds insulting
That's the perfect description of Vance...unctuous.
The miserable Usha (JD's words. not mine) is a study in hypocrisy herself.
The psychologists should term a new syndrome after her, like Dunning-Kruger
Or like Stockholm.
noticed that - weird
Funny, I read elsewhere that he had a no good, very bad day.
Lmao!!! 🤣
I heard it was cloudy, with a chance of meatballs.
Which is the bigger lie? Couch Cassanova’s “very good day” of Iran talks or Donnie’s Algae vandals?
Yes
Well, it's not exactly the case that "nobody is vandalizing the Pool": there is one person who vandalized it very seriously.
I'd believe him if he said his favorite store was Ashley.
He is trying to get the Wheel of Moron to come back to him and off of Judge Jeanine Botabox...
We all know the drill: If it's Good News it gets credited to Orange Jabba. Bad News get blamed on the Dum(b)ocrats and, secondarily, JD Vance.
Also in Shit That Happened While.....
Video released today of a car running into a woman yesterday at the NJ ICE concentration facility. A small group of protestors were at the entrance to the facility; the young woman was twirling an upside-down American flag and, while her back was turned to the entrance, a car entered and drove directly into her--no hesitation, no swerve: it was with deliberate intention. She was knocked off her feet and across the hood of the car; she seemed to fall onto the pavement to the side of the car, so that the driver could not run the car right over her. I'm sure he regretted that part.
Yeah, for me, I don't believe anything from this non-stop lying administration. I only believe what I get from Meidas, and I'm far more likely to believe the Iranians, even though they do quite a bit of lying too.
In any case, I'm definitely not going to believe what our soulless, empty suit VP and his failed real-estate cohorts have to say.
Talk about totally disrespecting the negotiations! Where's Marco Rubio? Iran has come with their top people, and the only people we have are the equivalents of used car salesmen! I'm amazed that Iran hasn't just told us that they will not negotiate until some truly qualified negotiators are found.
Iran has never had any intention of negotiating, since they know that Trump's word is worthless and he would never abide by any agreement he pretended to go along with. They don't want to look like the side that won't negotiate, however, so they go through the motions, while never backing down from any of their maximalist demands. I'm sure they were astonished when Trump signed the Meme of Misunderstanding that they drafted, but are hardly surprised that he is breaking it immediately.
I received an update from Heritage this morning in which they are very very excited about how well the Iran peace process is going. Aged like a mayfly. They should probably give up trying to propel the propaganda while Mr. Unpredictable el Caudillo is in office. It's just embarrassing for everyone.
He spent quality time in his room with the velvet settee?
The Deflection Pool strikes again 😒
I’ve been calling it the projection pool, which is coming even more to fruition with the VJay Bombs projection of swamp monsters there now lmao 🤣
Apparently pooping in the Capitol Rotunda isn’t a federal crime anymore. But touching floating pool paint is. It’s so confusing!!
I know! It’s so hard to keep up! Maybe pooping in the pool and taking paint chips out of the Capitol?
Paint chips?
You mean wall candy?
Ouch!
excellent!
Worse yet, that image inside the Lincoln Memorial looks vaguely like Stephen Miller! That is beyond the pale, IMO.
my personal favorite is donnie depicted as the troll under a bridge
You are absolutely right - I missed that one!
Well, it IS.
The Deflection Fool's Projection Pool.
Trump says vandalizing a national monument is a crime and people who do it are crazy and horrible…yet…at least antifa isn’t bulldozing entire buildings. It’s as if he’s never considered how hypocritical x 1000 he is all day, every day. I guess that would take self reflection and actually remembering what he did and said a minute ago let alone a month or year ago.
The words “hypocrisy” and “irony” are missing from his very limited vocabulary, as is the phrase “self-awareness.”
Self-awareness is precisely what any narcissist is missing.
Mr. Orange Squashed never developed to the place where he recognized different people have existence independent of himself.
Plus- breaking into the Nations Capital and fighting and killing law enforcement isn’t a crime ? Silly me- they’ve all been pardoned and he’s trying to PAY them for being weaponized ?? That logic just doesn’t make any sense to me at all‼️
P.s love your posting name❤️
Trying to pay them MILLIONS of dollars EACH. (I'm never going to stop pointing out the $1.776 billion, because stupidity. And pretending that they were just peaceful tourists while tossing around references to the (violent) American Revolution.)
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P123Sunny, that is crushingly funny!!!
I think I saw it on Wajahat Ali - The Left Hook‼️
Why oh why do we live in the timeline where more people have been erroneously arrested for touching lime green algae in Donnies DIY swamp, then have been arrested for the Epstein files?
Well that is a depressing thought.
I would also like to know what kind of knife he thinks Antifa uses to make those jagged, irregular shapes out of the slime-covered paint.
MS-NOW played a clip last night of Donnie Demento bragging, a couple weeks ago, that the paint job was so "powerful" that no one could cut through it, even if they had a knife.........
Isn't the weapon of choice for Antifa cans of soup? Now, if the Reflecting Pool were filled with Campbell's Chunky, that would be clear evidence of Antifa's invidiousness.
🤣🤣🤣
To his base, this explanation is totally plausible and doesn’t call for common sense. There’s no way a 14 million dollar job so beautiful could get fucked up all on its own.
Nothing is EVER el Caudillo's fault. I'd be surprised if he didn't claim the poop in his boxers was put there by Antifa.
pinking shears
Donnie's DIY swamp, LOL. I racked my brain when I heard the contractor who did the paint job was named John Cafaro. I used to live outside Youngstown OH for a few years and the Cafaro family is well known for their corruption in that area. They were in bed with Jim (Beam me up Scotty) Traficant who went to prison and is now deceased. Only the best people.
Only the best people until they *uck up - then he conveniently has amnesia ‼️
When only collecting clumps of algae covered rubbery stuff is outlawed, only outlaws will have clumps of algae covered rubbery stuff
okay, that's good
I'll give up my clumps of algae covered rubbery stuff when you pry it from my cold, dead hydrogen peroxided hands 😵🖐️🖐️🦠🦠🧪🔪
😂😂
Algae covered rubbery stuff should be controlled and added to the BATF: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, and Algae-Covered Rubbery Stuff.
I love Jeff for his daily posts, and I also love everyone who posts a comment
The GREAT VANDALIZER is accusing people of vandalizing his VANDALISM.
How funny is that!!!!
"The Radical Left is vandalizing my vandalism!" Reminiscent of a MASH episode where Klinger feigns self-immolation with water to leverage a Section 8 from Col. Potter. Potter and Radar realize Klinger faked it so they replace his water with real gasoline, and when Klinger pours it over himself, he exclaims in terror "Who put gasoline in my gasoline?! Stay away from me with that lighter!"
Yeah that’s about where we are?! They race to cut our ability to afford ANYTHING - and still sending me push notifications from a m a z o n
Truth. I had to tell Alexa to "stop trying to sell me shit every time I ask a question."
And he won't take down the Kennedy Center tarp, either because another of his crack teams botched the removal job, or he's having A Very Big Mad about having to have his name removed, and now NOBODY is allowed to see the Kennedy Center facade. I see an echo of having to put the USS John McCain behind a curtain so Demento wouldn't lose his shit over it.
Pour Klinger’s gasoline on the tarp and get out all the lighters
Oh, my. That made my head spin for a moment.
omg WELL PUT
Pretty funny when you put it that way!!😆
Wicked funny Ingrid‼️🤭
Quick question box of wine, is the Capitol building like the reflecting pool? Asking for 140 police injured on jan 6
So, pardons for MAGA predators fondling children. 10-yr. prison sentences for those fondling paint chips. Got it.
What makes me sad is that nobody says no to Trump at any level. The cops could easily ignore a command to arrest people for picking up paint chips. The national guard could ignore the order to post people every 10 feet. Or at least slow walk the implementation. He's a dottering old fool. Smile, say yes sir, and then go about life as usual. It can't possibly be that difficult.
Soon those paint chips will be up for sale on Ebay.
There’s a meme showing trumps devil spawn selling three different sizes of paint chips for hundreds each. Sounds about right.
I agree! What is it that makes people do what he says when he is clearly out of his fucking mind? It's not against the law to touch paint! There are probably thousands of videos of his own shitty contractors pouring what amounted to paint thinner into our reflecting pool, but it must have been antifa. He has vandalized our entire White House and its grounds; there is no end to his destruction, but by all means, keep enforcing his bullshit directives. (Whew, I needed to vent, sorry!)
Mt. Vesuvius says . . . "Thank you for your attention to this matter"
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Amen to that.
Isn’t that what his administration did in his first term- at least we had Generals in the WH‼️
Basically. I have to give Trump credit for finding the greediest, stupidest, and most cowardly sycophants.
"Grand Theft Paint Chips" 😂😂😂😂
It's called science, something the Republican party cant comprehend.
This continues to be a nightmare. MAKE IT STOP!!!!
And Claudia loved photography...a woman of many talents. ❤️
I am the Reflecting Pool
Perpetually venerable and solemn
A part of the Lincoln Memorial
Like each classical Greek column
I was there for Marian Anderson
And MLK's I Have a Dream
Forrest and Jenny hugged in my water
After his name he heard Jenny scream
Then this ignorant narcissist
Compared me to buildings and called me a "pond"
Inflicted a dumb non-bid paint job
Again the taxpayers were conned
Only someone so monumentally stupid
Would worsen the algal blooms
He is irredeemably shallow and clueless
Gassed by his own noxious fumes
Every single American
Should rightfully be feeling sick
By this destructive, corrupt fuckery
Help me and make it quick!
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So relieved to see Sealant Team Six guarding the pool. Reported on Algaezeera. I'll see myself out.
Brilliant! You're in fine form this morning.
Algae jokes are all over the internet today.
Sad isn’t it? Millions of dollars spent for nothing!
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I’m gonna be sure to be careful if I even think of picking up a paint ship at Sherwin-Williams.
Not ship…CHIP. Hate dictation.
The modern world is so strange. I automatically read the correct word. I didn't even notice that the word was "ship". Auto-correct is now embedded in our brains along with God knows what else.
I knew what you meant! And it was funny. But I wasn't about to tag you in public with it. That's rude.
Besides, I'm too busy today to proofread the Internet.
Well, there are many rubbery paint “ships” sailing around in the Reflecting Pool, even as we speak!
Thank you Jeff.
The stealing of paint chips. The hurling of dangerous sandwiches. All of it far more important than the blatant acts of Trump corruption, unchecked by a GOP-led Congress. And it is going to get a treatment in my soon to be released into the wild article "The Architecture of Corruption".
Here's an excerpt (unedited and not final version):
"A foreign government gave the President of the United States an airplane.
A Boeing 747-8 valued at roughly $400 million, offered by the royal family of Qatar.
When I receive a gift valued at $400 million, I write the thank-you note by hand. A gift that size gets my attention. It also raises a question I cannot help asking: what can I do for you, royal family, to show my appreciation? That is how a gift this large works. It is never free. It asks for something in return.
A gift like this is not supposed to cost the recipient a dime. It is not supposed to arrive postage due. This one did. Making it usable cost more than $900 million. Donald Trump does not pay that bill.
We do.
It was already in the budget, you might say. A trillion-dollar defense budget, and this was less than a thousandth of it. The money was going to be spent anyway.
That is the shrug this whole piece has to get past, so it is worth slowing down here, once, because the answer is the same for every story that follows. And notably, the shrug stems from manufactured exhaustion, not apathy. When there are so many lies we stop caring and paying attention to them. I’ve written that Trump has a tell when he speaks. If sounds are coming from his mouth as he tries to piece together a coherent sentence, he’s lying. The same is true for the pattern of blatant corruption. When every act is grounded in “hand in the till” self-dealing, we become exhausted.
A budget is not a vault of money already paid for. Washington spends more than it collects, and has for decades, but the modern debt was not built evenly. It was built mostly by one repeated choice: large tax cuts, tilted to the already wealthy, that no one paid for. Reagan made that choice. George W. Bush made it and turned a surplus into deficits. Trump made it twice, once in his first term and again, larger, this year. The $934 million for the 'gift' jet was borrowed inside the hole those choices dug. It did not come from the Trump Organization, Trump Casinos, or Trump Steaks. It came from taxes that will be owed in the future, paid for by us, our children, and our grandchildren, with interest attached. The national debt has crossed $39 trillion. The interest alone now runs more than a trillion dollars a year, roughly $3 billion a day. Your kids will still be paying interest on this jet long after it has been towed into Trump’s private library, next to 1,000 copies of “Art of the Deal”, “Mein Kampf”, and “Project 2025” with the President’s name over the door.
And here is the part our exhausted shrug misses completely. The missile program this money was taken from did not stop being necessary. So either the country is now less defended than the budget Congress passed said it should be, or that $934 million gets put back later as fresh spending, and you fund the jet and the missiles both.
You paid for missile defense. You got a flying penthouse you will never set foot in and never own.
Who covers the difference?
We do."
The ruined wreck of the Grand Old Party, now the Guardians of Predators, has foisted on much of under- or misinformed America some gargantuan myths, now coming into full view with unsurprising consequences. Among these outright lies are that they, the conservatives, are the party of the Constitution, the party of law and order, the party of family values, the party of fiscal responsibility, all evidence to the contrary. Until the swath of American voters long beguiled by these lies awakens, the hijacking of our nation will continue unabated.
Thank you -and yes, I often think that Dwight Eisenhower was the last true conservative Republican who put the interests of the nation before party. Nixon, in some of his policies leaned liberal, Reagan was the worst modern day President (until Trump’s kleptocracy), George Bush was disconnected, forgettable, and had his hands sullied by Reagan’s Iran-Contra actions, George W.’s tax cuts and wars led the U.S. economy to a cliff. Calling post-Eisenhower Republicans conservative is like calling Jeffrey Dahmer a vegan.
I am not as well versed as you on the political history of our nation. My view of conservatism, forged by those individuals after Eisenhower that you mentioned, makes me (as an ethnic minority myself) fully believe that conservatism is not only contrary to but destructive to a diverse nation comprised of immigrants, many of whom are ethnic and religious minorities, not to mention when more than half the populace are females. Conservatism as it exists in the last four decades is rife with bigotry and extreme bias toward the rich, including the fervent embrace of vulture capitalism, exacerbating the rift between the wealthy and everyone else and decimating the middle class. The GOP to my mind has diligently pursued mirroring the wealth distribution of authoritarian nations, distinguished by their dysfunction and corruption. Not what my view of America is or should be. So I despise the right and their hypocrisy, self-dealing, and greed. Conservatism as a concept is anathema to me.
I think it really depends upon who is wielding the label of conservative or liberal. When I see political campaigns now where someone announces themselves as a GOP-candidate for some office, or a family values conservative for this or that -I cringe for all of the reasons you powerfully list.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about “The Fierce Urgency of Now” more than 60 years ago and in those 60+ years we have largely been blocked from strengthening voting rights, codifying equality, addressing entrenched systemic racism, and our egregious past. GOP party members from Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott to today’s Chief “Justice” Roberts, Hegseth, and the racist Trump continue to block progress, or worse, move us backwards in time toward polarizing hatred and fear.
Nevertheless -I have friendships across political ideologies -with one important thread -they are conservatives who believe in the rule of law, they defend the Constitution, they embrace equality. So I try to look beyond the labels and generalities -and sometimes we learn from each other and develop new understanding.
I yield to your experience and knowledge. I do not personally know anyone who can be a conservative and yet have a world view compatible with universal human rights and dignity, not to mention equality. I do not feel, perhaps arrogantly or obstinately, that conservatives have anything useful that I can assimilate.
No need to yield -your context and experiences matter just as much as mine -actually more so. While I've personally known poverty I am a product of white privilege, so some of my own perspectives are flawed because they have been formed while insulated.
Exactly, George. Ike was the last Republican worthy of the Oval Office. I've known that all my life. And his legacy, his warning of the rise of the military-industrial complex, has sadly come true. Someone asked why we spent so much on weaponry. I put it down to the philosophy on the latrine wall in Da Nang: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I am the baddest m.....f....r in the valley." We have become the world's armorer, responsible for more destruction than any other nation.
President Cheney was pretty bad. Used to be my least favorite elected official ever, but times have changed.
His daughter almost managed to redeem him. :)
Is it wrong of me to feel the enormous satisfaction of schadenfreude when conservatives have gay family members? I'm assuming you are referring to Mary, not Liz. Or maybe they both had some effect, since Liz is vehemently anti-trump. Whatever, the whole gay daughter thing is emblematic of another conservative trait that I loathe: "I do not care in the least when other people have a problem. I only care when it affects me."
I derive great pleasure as well. It's the universe telling all of us to remember Carl Sagan's perspective -we're all in a pale blue dot life raft spinning through space at high speed -let's be good to one another. :)
Like RatFuck Kennedy, who is destroying medical research and trying to eradicate vaccines.....except regarding Lyme disease. Why? Because, as he claims, everyone in his family has contracted Lyme disease, with one kid suffering partial facial paralysis from it.
Goldwater, too. He seemed to stay true to his principles and he definitely understood the danger of the religious crazies.
On many issues yes, but haven’t quite forgiven him for opposing Title II and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (I have a long memory and am slow to forgive).
Overt racism deserves no forgiveness
As with Eisenhower, no matter his other qualities, gifting the US with "Operation Wetback"--yes....the actual name for the mission to deport Mexicans.
Of the many embarrassing things that have come out of Trump’s mouth this is most immediately idiotic.
Trump did what he always has, no research, no bid, overcharge for the least expensive, least qualified, pocket the difference, blame someone else when shit hits the fan.
We need a list, a long one, of all the crazy shit rump said - Windmills cause cancer, etc.
Grand Theft Paint Chips is the perfect Trump-era crime: entirely stupid, wildly overcharged, and somehow Jeanine Pirro is yelling about it on television like the Republic was stabbed by a sandwich. The pool peeled because the job was garbage. That’s it. No Antifa algae squad. No radical-left paint-chip cartel. Just one more golden-calf screwup guarded by cops because Dear Leader cannot survive being laughed at.
But, but, but I saw on the internet that you can buy algae seeds at the Antifa store. I saw it on the internet so it must be true, right?
Oh no! There are huge clumps of paint!
That resemble old Drumpfbaboon's taint
Obese and horrific
He thinks he's terrific
And holy moly! He thinks he's a saint!
He learneded all he learned from Roy Cohn
A hideous douche, real well known
Drumpf's taking a beatin'
His soul has been eaten
And his stupid cuts right to the bone!
Cohn and known-very nice!
Thank you, Lisa!