I didn't write about the LA situation because I haven't yet figured out what the fuck is going on. Donny claims he sent in the National Guard. both Gavin Newsom and LA's mayor say he didn't. someone is lying, and I bet I know who
I think Donnie the Doorknob is saving all his tRump cards for next Saturday. Please, folks - find a No Kings Day protest near you and get everyone you can out to join you! The Orange Imbecile needs to see the level of our displeasure with him and his sadistic regime.
What will do with the troops in his Big Boy Parade next Saturday? Will he have them attack Congress? We are in very dangerous waters now and Trump is escalating the violence in order to quash all forms of dissent.
I’m hoping they all turn their guns on Mango Mussolini in a glorious firing squad moment - these military members will be vets one day too and might not want to be treated like shit after their service
Question is asked in our home too but I’m the early bird. No doubt that is a question asked every morning in millions of households. May the answer be yes sooner than later! 🙏
I thought it was a wasteful pander to Trump. I actually thought maybe even R congress would stop him, but after seeing tanks rolling; this is starting to seem nefarious??
My thoughts too. They’re gearing up to try to quash all our protests. Hopefully they’ll have a helluva fight on their hands. I, for one of many, will not be silenced.
Another night's sleep totally destroyed by the media announcement at 9:00 pm that Trump had deployed 2,000 National Guardsmen against, what, 60 protestors in LA? And he's ordered Marines (excuse me, "war fighters") at Camp Pendleton to stand back and stand by, in case the NG isn't enough to quell immigrants' supporters outrage in LA's garment district. There will be hundreds of protestors in DC this Saturday, and the army will already be there, marching its mindless ass off. So, I agree that martial law is forecast for this coming weekend.
ALL the scheduled No Kings demonstrations in the metro DC MD VA area will be OUTSIDE DC because we don't want to be included in the turd's crowd count and don't want to give him a reason to declare martial law.
Stay the fuck out of DC on the 14th, join a No Kings demonstration near you and let your local media know that they had fucking better give equal coverage to Pope and the protests!
tRUMP is “inching” his way to martial law with June 14 the declaration day after all the shit I suspect will go down this week, much to his joy. It is utterly terrifying and a reality Congress must face up to and act upon. The warning signs are and have been there. #2547
Jeff, being a girl who had been raised in the South until 18 years old and getting the hell outta Dodge, I absolutely cackled when I read your name for John Kennedy as Mushmouth McYokel! He just turns that fake accent on whenever he gets a chance. He thinks he’s the quisling equal of the McTurtleneck. Homan or Whoreman has declared that Mayor Bass and Gov. Newsom will feel his wrath “should they stand in the way for his ICE agents”. They start the chaos with peaceful demonstrators with their “agents” appearing in full regalia. The protestors never moved away. Even when these bastards threw tear gas. You think an area like Compton isn’t prepared?? People knew exactly as to what to do…they stayed. Only a rogue few went ballistic AND this was not happening throughout LA. LA was still functioning.
I will have my mask on since I have asthma and my city has dirty, dirty air. It has been unhealthy for days and will continue to be while I am here. I am leaving for cleaner air in a few weeks. That is all I can think about is being able to go outside and breathe without a mask on.
Yes. I will not have that kind of mask, although my painter is going to get us masks for gas and other noxious things. I will have a Covid type mask, although the other kind would be better for the air I have to breathe. Although, it would be interesting if the people started wearing balaclavas to marches. In Indivisible Abroad they recommend wearing covid type masks if one does not want to be accessible to facial recognition software. For me the concern, is that my hair is really recognizable. I was in a crowd of thousands and my friends could tell from the back of my head which was me from an aerial shot.
I have the same hair problem. How about a sun hat or scarf? Or a ponytail or bun? I used to dye mine light pink, but that would *really* be recognizable.
"According to DHS data, in the five-county Los Angeles area ICE, under the Biden Administration, made nearly thirty-eight thousand arrests and detentions in 2024.
Few, if any, resulted in conflict or protests. ICE followed Secretary Mayorcas' policy ("Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law," September 30th, 2021) and used low-profile tactics to conduct enforcement and removal operations.
What changed? The top one percent of the Republican Party- billionaires, financiers, real estate developers and CEOs- could care less about illegal immigration; they want a lower capital gains tax rate and less regulation and enforcement. But, the MAGA voters, ninety-eight percent of the party, provide the votes the one percent needs to stay in power: no MAGA support, no tax cuts.
The MAGA base hates non-white immigrants and religiously believes they pose an existential threat to "their America," and, in exchange for letting the Republican one-percent do what it wants, demands that this party elite use the power of the US Government to literally "Put the boots" to immigrants, illegal or not.
So, Los Angeles-area ICE agents dumped their low-key, rules-and-procedure based posture for disproportionate and militant tactics designed to inflame tensions in a region where immigrants, legal and illegal, are inextricably enmeshed in society, all to please their MAGA base and give them the cruelty they demand."
Dave, can you find a different descriptor for the Republicunts that doesn't end in “-tard.” I’m sure you can be more creative and not insult innocent retarded/developmentally disabled people, although I am sure that wasn't your intention. Please and thank you.
Can he send in the Guard and if he did/does can they help the law enforcement groups in LA? I don't think he can and neither can Kegstand send in the Marines.
There's going to be hell to pay for orange idiot immunity or not!!! The world is watching and there are many that are waiting to help and it'll happen since they hate him too.
The Governors Coalition members, originally formed to support climate change mitigation and which Newsom co-chairs, should force the states rights/jurisdiction issue to Congress and on to the Supreme Court immediately. Guess Schumer has issued his limp dick objection to use of the National Guard in LA but he yanked his own claws out years ago.
I don’t think he gives a shit about governors or states rights. He’ll make up another trash can of reasons and lies. His minions will believe him and Scrotus will give him their blessing.
There were about 300 National Guard in LA when I checked the news right now in response to large crowds of people shouting "shame" yesterday as ICE burst into restaurants and other places; protestors also set fire to a couple of trash cans. The ICE raids and deportations are disgusting, and Trump doesn't want people to know how angry Americans are about them and the unlawful shipments of workers without papers to a torture prison in El Salvador.
Whatever wins the moment for the useless scribblers in the MSM (and of course the rest of the rightwing media human centipede already has the propaganda circulating).
LA here.... they are here...local TV outlets captured helicopters landing and dropping off "the guard" but what role they are taking on is beyond me. I dont think they have hit the streets just yet according to some reports, I am not watching the news anymore...I cant stand this.
Pretty sure if the military isn't in a "shootin' war" kind of situation, they A. do not have live ammo loaded in their weapons, and B. are likely to be carrying, driving, flying, sailing with all weapons safe'd or disabled. So Dwumpy can't have his military parade suddenly go all 'marshal law' on the public.
We gotta craft an award for everyday heroes like the woman who took care of Tarrio. Maybe Harvard can make it a Performance Art award alongside its Hasty Pudding celebrations.
… Maybe, instead of buying a new pump shotgun and two new 9 mm pistols for home defense right after the Nov ‘24 elections, I should have just bought a loud megaphone to use at peaceful protests. Seems like the serious weapon of choice these days, especially for June 14 and that which is yet to follow.
I hate that motherfucker Tarrio so that was really gratifying to see. And who the fuck is the dude in the straw hat, jumping right to " this what the enemy looks like"? Check the mirror asshole.
As the wife of a 20-year federal employee who works so damn hard and does more stuff than almost everyone will ever know (most of his work is TS classified), I can’t stand the attacks on federal employees as though their knowledge, expertise, skills, dedication, etc. have no value. And thanks to DOGE, he’s currently doing the workload of multiple people but won’t see a raise until reasonable people take over the government again, if ever.
most people have only the foggiest about what govt employees do - not like a widget factory where you can have a view on the quality of the widgets - the govt covers a million often invisible matters people take for granted
Like safe food and water, weather warnings, help with heat in winter, etc. People think that stuff is a given? No. There are actual people involved in these services and it's not nothing. Sincere thanks to all who serve.
I was one of the many private government contractors… the chaos, injustice and insanity that current government employees endure daily is absolute fuckery! Thanks for all who manage to keep up the hard work under duress!!
That’s why imitating a handicapped reporter, insulting a Gold Star family- and the ‘suckers & losers’ comment ALL should have been deal breakers… waaaay back in the day :/ Sad.
We had a multitude of warnings about what was coming. While I can understand why a majority of Americans were oblivious to the fascism, trying to survive in difficult times, etc., I cannot begin to see why the Democratic Party has been unable to disseminate a clear message to the majority of Americans, about the evil being done by Republicons…for the last 50 years! The Republicon Saint, Ronny Raygun, was the first MAGAT.
Walt. Seriously. Do citizens not have any responsibility to learn some history and open their damned eyes? I can't comprehend why voters need a clear message from the Democrats, when red state legislatures have been leaning and moving this direction for decades. I'm sorry, but Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc. have taken over more minds than most of us would care to admit. Everyone I know who is "trying to survive in these difficult times" still spend hours every single day being entertained by their cell phone. The Dem party is just not entertaining enough for folks, unless they're the subject of ridicule and blame... which seems to be preferable to actually turning your phone off long enough to get to the polls. Yeah, tough times, so let's blame the party, the candidates, the boomers or all of the above. doG forbid we should do anything more than whine and make excuses on social media. 🙄 (And yes, I know that some do a LOT to participate in our democracy, but most don't.)
You make good points, Outdoorluvr. There is a lot of contributory negligence by citizens, like me, that existed in a world where we couldn’t imagine these evil fucking monsters were going to be running our country. There is so much blame to go around. Speaking for myself here, there was a false sense of security. America, despite its’ many struggles in the past, always seemed determined to do the right thing, eventually. I don’t know how that happens in the current environment. The Corrupt Supreme Court 6 have given a demented conman Carte Blanche to rip our country to shreds. This will be decided by We the People and it will not be easy.
About the time Claremont Institute was born Walt, most people know nothing of them, but the current situation we’re seeing was their vision. You’ll find all the bad actors and ideologies wrapped in a bow there!!
No one hired as a federal employee during the Trump Administration should be allowed to stay in their position without reapplying and testing after he's gone. It's a given they're probably spineless, or incompetent, or corrupt, or a traitor, or all the above.
Kay-El…After most of the MAGAs are wiped out from tornadoes, hurricanes, whatever else can’t be accurately forecast, it’ll be time to vote. There’s always a bright side. Not to mention MAGA loving farmers who are already getting wi-ed out. 😄
Love the woman with the bullhorn… she is not lying, he is a traitor and a convicted felon. Last night concerning the LA situation, I wrotethat America is at a very dark time, that we have reached the deep muddy. Calling out and federalizing the California NG, potentially calling Marines from Camp Pendleton.. well it just feels like and others concur that we have reached the level of Russia in the early 2000’s. But Jeff, we warned America these very instances would occur under this MAGA regime and yet… I am sick of this and it’s only been a few months…🤮
There are so many Hispanic young people serving in the Army and Marines. They are American citizens. How can they be forced to turn on their relatives? Are they going help pull Tia Maria out of the home she has occupied for forty years so that she can be deported? This is going to get ugly fast.
arne, there are so many people serving in our military that represent minorities. While I have little faith in local police departments to do any fucking thing, I do hold out hope for our military. You think they want to go to war for Pete Kegsbreath?
There are so many people in our military that vote MAGA also. Let's not forget that. People like you and me didn't get us to this. The ones that voted for Trump did. Look at what's happening in South Florida, especially with people from Venezuela. Heavy MAGA country. Did they not ever think that he would target their families/friends because they aren't white? I don't understand the utter naivety of anyone that isn't white and born here that ever thought he was a good choice for their community. And no, because you voted for him, you don't deserve what he is doing. But actions have consequences and I don't want to hear from his voters about how awful they realize he is now. We knew that, we had no control over their vote, and they got us into this mess.
I just googled it. Between 58 - 68% of Cuban Americans. This is what I just don’t get. I’m a white, female Boomer and I absolutely can’t understand how any minority or woman can vote for Trump. We know who he is. He doesn’t make an exception that he loves Cubans, but hates Venezuelans. That’s not how white racists think. They lump everyone in the same boat. Maybe that’s part of the problem. Because they don’t think like white racists and don’t hear the comments that white people make to each other, that they think that it pertains to that “other” minority group. As a woman, I would never vote for Andrew Tate, Sean Combs or any other female abuser for office, even if they promised me the moon.
The Cuban community thought they would be exempt from the declarations of this yam yam.. Unfortunately they have discovered that Donald will treat them the same as Fidel, they are unable to shake off their affections for a potential dictator and the right wing propaganda campaign. I wonder if that demographic watches FAUX?
I work with minorities. I asked one why would you think Trump was ok. These are naturalized citizens. They are used to an authoritarian leader. One who was corrupt. They felt like their country was better controlled then. They also come from a more misogynistic culture than America. This would also pertain to Cubans and those from Venezuela (I don’t know anyone personally in Vegas from those countries). When I was in Eastern Europe, my guide was talking about what it was like when the Soviet Union was in charge. One thing that stood out that he said, was that people had jobs. There was rigid structure in their lives because of the government.
What else does one need to hear about Marco Rubio to know he has compromised every working brain cell and 100% of his dignity to fall on his knees and subjugate himself to President AnusMouthPantLoad?
IDK, I'm just depressed. ICE is dragging people out of their homes. People are fighting back. I'm afraid there will be blood shed and you know that will precipitate marshal law, as planned. I'm still going to be at a demonstration next weekend. They say to wear a helmet....
Your column was a major updog toke this morning and much needed. Enjoying the White House energy vampire Colin Robinson/Kevin Hassett references and the fact that he lives on the WH lawn. Maybe he doesn't even work there officially, just shows up to suck energy and play the media.
These songs have been ringing in my head for months now. Thanks for mentioning them. I can add This Is Not America just for the title. Eve Of Destruction, We Gotta Get Outta This Place, or to really date myself, If I Had A Hammer, and Blowin' In The Wind.
Walt, I can't thank you enough for this. During People's Park in Berkeley (May 1969), people put Street Fighting Man on their record players in their open windows on Telegraph Avenue and played it at top volume. The police hated it. Hey Alan Mulman, I still remember!
The babbling orange baboon and his super evil dickhead side kick Heinrich Miller, who appears to be calling shots want martial law; especially here in CA. Now that the National Guard has illegally invaded LA, it's hard to say what the hell will happen. We purposely avoided the news this morning in favor of watching the Tour de France warm up bike race. Kudos to that kid featured on Bluesky standing in that awful tear gas with a skateboard in one hand and flipping the bird with the other hand at the goon squad perpetrators. This shit has got to end. Be careful everyone.
AFAIK,the National Guard is still 100 miles away from LA. They haven't invaded anything.
The Chief of LAPD slow-rolled their response, blaming the delay on LA's notorious traffic.
Meanwhile, Pee Wee German is so upset that the Space Nazi has stolen his woman and pantsed him in front of the whole country, that his shrieking has risen to decibel level not in human audio range.
The Tour is less than a month away. Can Tadej ride over Jonas this year? They are both riding well and are a class above all other contenders. It will be awesome viewing, again.
I agree there will be bloodshed at some point. And the point is getting closer and closer. At my age I'm happy to be among the martyrs for America. But I'm not willing that young people should have to be. But put pissed-off citizens trying to protest peacefully into the city streets, add a bunch of armed soldiers to the mix and you have one giant potential massacre waiting to happen. People are going to die. JMO
Yes, federal agents apparently fired pepper spray or some "irritant" (as they said) into the crowd protesting ICE in LA, which made it hard for police to know what was going on since they were apparently affected by the "irritants," too. But people were protesting the ugly ICE raids, not fighting from anything I've seen. Some trash cans were set on fire, but it was not the "lawlessness" the Trump admin said it was. Protest is still legal, despite Trump's false claims that it is "illegal" for protestors to wear masks.
And I saw videos looked like ICE or other agents also threw flash-bang grenades and fired projectiles into the crowd at the Paramount shopping mall where Home Depot was located...If there was 'violence,' it looked like it was on the side of ICE.
That’s been my consensus so far. Just lack of intelligence responses that attack my character as a trans woman and a progressive rather than providing some refuting evidence of my claim. People like that will AdHom constantly thinking it works on me. It doesn’t.
MAGATS have been told to open the Big Faucet now and double-flood the zone with their shit, just like their golfcart-bound and failing leader is doing. Tine is running out for him and them, so their butts are up against the wall.
Now, there's an idea! He could lead the troops in his golf cart. His parade could be a parade of golf carts. Maybe in Queens! Or parked in front of the Trump Tower. New Yorkers, on your mark...!!!
Yes, let’s build bananas right here in the U.S.. And since we’ll be able to overproduce, maybe we can store the extras up in the cloud. There should be a special place in hell for soulless bastards like HowLut.
Bill Hicks got there first, targeting H.W. Bush and corporatists -- They can "suck Satan's cock in Hell." The video of this segment was oddly banned from YouTube or I'd post it here.
Nutlick is a modern day Faust. Sold whatever passed for his soul to the orange menace. Such a sad spectacle to see Nutlick, who obviously has no self respect, lie like the dickens in service of the worst president ever.
My banana building enterprise is off to a good start. We have obtained funding now available through cancelled cancer research grants. We will, of course, source all of our equipment from here in the U.S. No foreign bananas will be manufactured by my company!
I’m growing catnip for my neighbors kitty. It’s growing through our cedar fence into their yard where he can visit at his leisure. Makes my doggos go a little nuts on our side of the fence, but Smoky seems to enjoy riling them up.
For a very funny look at Chuck Jones and the other Warner Bros animators at Termite Terrace, read Wild Minds by Reid Mitenbuler, a marvelous history of animation's Golden Age. I believe it's still in print.
I’ve been thinking about the national guard in LA too. So these are my suggestions and wondering what you think:
1- the protesters should walk away every time the Guard shows up and when they leave show up again. This will get tedious for the Guard.
2- the governor and mayor should go full on confrontation and take their local LE and march w the protestors. Protect them, align w them and get out of the comfort zone and stand w them.
I swear just study Ukraine and the genius they employ. The attacks near Moscow are pin point drones that don’t kill they do destroy infrastructure and have civilians worried. I think (outside the box) drones could drive the Rs nuts. Out of nowhere they come and terrorize tramp has no idea what terror is and he needs to feel it.
I read today that dear leader has been texting Mark Carney in secret as he is desperate to do a trade deal with Canada, as his Tariffs are tanking the American economy. They are particularly hurting Trumps heartland.
But I can't see for the love of me what Carney can do to convince the Canadian public to start buying American products or visiting America again. Shit for brains Trump, royally fucked up picking an argument with Mark Carney and the Canadians.
I think silence kills him, psychologically he wants to blabber. Jeff pointed that out and China has it figured out. Just let him ruin the US and that serves a purpose to let self destruction take its course.
I got as far as the word salad about predicting weather before I started to lose even more brain cells. It's like telling your great great meemaw to set up her iPhone.
“the idea is to automate that, to put it on the cloud, so that the 2,100 meteorologists and the hundreds of hydrologists can forecast the weather from central locations, and back up each other, and be more appropriate.”
I compared the quoted guy to someone telling their great great Meemaw how to use an iPhone to take pictures, upload them to the cloud and email them. "First thing, Gigi Meemaw, you have to open the box..."
People keep saying that TRump doesn't know what he's doing. TRump knows exactly what he's doing. He's destroying us with from within at Putin's direction. Let's quit pussyfooting around that fact. TRump is a Russian asset and if he's not stopped, we will no longer be a free country. This isn't hyperbole.
I didn't write about the LA situation because I haven't yet figured out what the fuck is going on. Donny claims he sent in the National Guard. both Gavin Newsom and LA's mayor say he didn't. someone is lying, and I bet I know who
I think Donnie the Doorknob is saving all his tRump cards for next Saturday. Please, folks - find a No Kings Day protest near you and get everyone you can out to join you! The Orange Imbecile needs to see the level of our displeasure with him and his sadistic regime.
What will do with the troops in his Big Boy Parade next Saturday? Will he have them attack Congress? We are in very dangerous waters now and Trump is escalating the violence in order to quash all forms of dissent.
I’m hoping they all turn their guns on Mango Mussolini in a glorious firing squad moment - these military members will be vets one day too and might not want to be treated like shit after their service
We should be so lucky.
They can maybe get the whole line of succession right there and then ,that will save the treasury lots of money !
My husband gets up hours before I do. Every morning, I ask him if "he" is dead yet.
Question is asked in our home too but I’m the early bird. No doubt that is a question asked every morning in millions of households. May the answer be yes sooner than later! 🙏
Nice hallucination
I thought it was a wasteful pander to Trump. I actually thought maybe even R congress would stop him, but after seeing tanks rolling; this is starting to seem nefarious??
Yes it is. He may try to declare martial law before Saturday.
Last night I told my Mr. Spouse that they created this tragedy in order to quash the No Kings rallies next Saturday.
Find a No Kings event near you https://mobilize.us
My thoughts too. They’re gearing up to try to quash all our protests. Hopefully they’ll have a helluva fight on their hands. I, for one of many, will not be silenced.
Another night's sleep totally destroyed by the media announcement at 9:00 pm that Trump had deployed 2,000 National Guardsmen against, what, 60 protestors in LA? And he's ordered Marines (excuse me, "war fighters") at Camp Pendleton to stand back and stand by, in case the NG isn't enough to quell immigrants' supporters outrage in LA's garment district. There will be hundreds of protestors in DC this Saturday, and the army will already be there, marching its mindless ass off. So, I agree that martial law is forecast for this coming weekend.
ALL the scheduled No Kings demonstrations in the metro DC MD VA area will be OUTSIDE DC because we don't want to be included in the turd's crowd count and don't want to give him a reason to declare martial law.
Stay the fuck out of DC on the 14th, join a No Kings demonstration near you and let your local media know that they had fucking better give equal coverage to Pope and the protests!
The Battle of Home Depot will be in the history books.
The High Brass and intelligence services will then have one fuck of a choice to make ! The Constitution or Heil Shitler !
They will obey Trump just as the German Army obeyed Hitler. Don't look to the military to save us.
No question marks necessary.
tRUMP is “inching” his way to martial law with June 14 the declaration day after all the shit I suspect will go down this week, much to his joy. It is utterly terrifying and a reality Congress must face up to and act upon. The warning signs are and have been there. #2547
Jeff, being a girl who had been raised in the South until 18 years old and getting the hell outta Dodge, I absolutely cackled when I read your name for John Kennedy as Mushmouth McYokel! He just turns that fake accent on whenever he gets a chance. He thinks he’s the quisling equal of the McTurtleneck. Homan or Whoreman has declared that Mayor Bass and Gov. Newsom will feel his wrath “should they stand in the way for his ICE agents”. They start the chaos with peaceful demonstrators with their “agents” appearing in full regalia. The protestors never moved away. Even when these bastards threw tear gas. You think an area like Compton isn’t prepared?? People knew exactly as to what to do…they stayed. Only a rogue few went ballistic AND this was not happening throughout LA. LA was still functioning.
No muted bull horns allowed. Liked what you said 6 years ago. Classic!
Masks are no longer allowed at protests… be prepared!!
That’s only the felon talking, it isn’t a law, just him trying to look “powerful”.
Except of course for the "law enforcement"
And he has zero pushback
He may ignore grassroots demonstrations bc he deems people irrelevant
YES!!! www.nokings.org. FIND YOUR LOCAL TRIBE! Show up and have a fabulous time!
I signed up yesterday!
Just posted 📫 thanks
I will have my mask on since I have asthma and my city has dirty, dirty air. It has been unhealthy for days and will continue to be while I am here. I am leaving for cleaner air in a few weeks. That is all I can think about is being able to go outside and breathe without a mask on.
I mentioned above Linda, masks are not allowed for protection from flash bombs and tear gas at protests!!
Yes. I will not have that kind of mask, although my painter is going to get us masks for gas and other noxious things. I will have a Covid type mask, although the other kind would be better for the air I have to breathe. Although, it would be interesting if the people started wearing balaclavas to marches. In Indivisible Abroad they recommend wearing covid type masks if one does not want to be accessible to facial recognition software. For me the concern, is that my hair is really recognizable. I was in a crowd of thousands and my friends could tell from the back of my head which was me from an aerial shot.
I have the same hair problem. How about a sun hat or scarf? Or a ponytail or bun? I used to dye mine light pink, but that would *really* be recognizable.
Good ideas. It is not that I am hiding, but my hair really identifies me.
Going to Chicago’s. Got my NO KINGS sign ready
Have shirts and registered in my town.
Borrowed from a comment in the NY Times:
"According to DHS data, in the five-county Los Angeles area ICE, under the Biden Administration, made nearly thirty-eight thousand arrests and detentions in 2024.
Few, if any, resulted in conflict or protests. ICE followed Secretary Mayorcas' policy ("Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law," September 30th, 2021) and used low-profile tactics to conduct enforcement and removal operations.
What changed? The top one percent of the Republican Party- billionaires, financiers, real estate developers and CEOs- could care less about illegal immigration; they want a lower capital gains tax rate and less regulation and enforcement. But, the MAGA voters, ninety-eight percent of the party, provide the votes the one percent needs to stay in power: no MAGA support, no tax cuts.
The MAGA base hates non-white immigrants and religiously believes they pose an existential threat to "their America," and, in exchange for letting the Republican one-percent do what it wants, demands that this party elite use the power of the US Government to literally "Put the boots" to immigrants, illegal or not.
So, Los Angeles-area ICE agents dumped their low-key, rules-and-procedure based posture for disproportionate and militant tactics designed to inflame tensions in a region where immigrants, legal and illegal, are inextricably enmeshed in society, all to please their MAGA base and give them the cruelty they demand."
Exactly 💯
Well said Gary, the great replacement theory is fucking lunacy!!
Did you know? There is no banana in Jello's Banana Cream pudding. We don't need no fucking Guatemala!
SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM PHOSPHATE, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE, SALT, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, YELLOW 5, YELLOW 6.
The HORROR!
Now, THIS is a scandal the Republitards should investigate! We have no bananas!
Dave, can you find a different descriptor for the Republicunts that doesn't end in “-tard.” I’m sure you can be more creative and not insult innocent retarded/developmentally disabled people, although I am sure that wasn't your intention. Please and thank you.
I will take under consideration. Although your “c” word attached to Republi… is pretty harsh too.
I reserve the right to call them conscienceless bastards.
Repugnicans works fine
🤮 The very thought that any breathing biped would indulge in such dross is sickening Kathleen!!
To be fair, there's no cream either.
And people eat it. Blah!
Can he send in the Guard and if he did/does can they help the law enforcement groups in LA? I don't think he can and neither can Kegstand send in the Marines.
The supremes have given him indemnity for whatever he wants. Get ready for more hearings , court cases and lawsuits.
I knew about the immunity but this is something that comes under governors rule not his.
States' Rights is only a thing when there's a Democratic president. And when the Lost Cause dipshits wanna defend slavery.
There's going to be hell to pay for orange idiot immunity or not!!! The world is watching and there are many that are waiting to help and it'll happen since they hate him too.
The Governors Coalition members, originally formed to support climate change mitigation and which Newsom co-chairs, should force the states rights/jurisdiction issue to Congress and on to the Supreme Court immediately. Guess Schumer has issued his limp dick objection to use of the National Guard in LA but he yanked his own claws out years ago.
Sad truth Patricia!!
I don’t think he gives a shit about governors or states rights. He’ll make up another trash can of reasons and lies. His minions will believe him and Scrotus will give him their blessing.
There were about 300 National Guard in LA when I checked the news right now in response to large crowds of people shouting "shame" yesterday as ICE burst into restaurants and other places; protestors also set fire to a couple of trash cans. The ICE raids and deportations are disgusting, and Trump doesn't want people to know how angry Americans are about them and the unlawful shipments of workers without papers to a torture prison in El Salvador.
Whatever wins the moment for the useless scribblers in the MSM (and of course the rest of the rightwing media human centipede already has the propaganda circulating).
LA here.... they are here...local TV outlets captured helicopters landing and dropping off "the guard" but what role they are taking on is beyond me. I dont think they have hit the streets just yet according to some reports, I am not watching the news anymore...I cant stand this.
(Don’t mind waiting til the dust settles… plus lotsa good ‘quotes’ from the Sunday shows on the topic oughta be interesting… 😒
Appears to me that Kegstand did… also threatened sending the marines if the Guard failed!!
Yes the news coverage last night was riveting. Never thought dump would target CA but I was wrong.
tRumps been triggered by California since the start.
trump did, Title 10 of the U.S. Code. It's illegal what he did because it wasn't needed.
This article explains it all:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/does-us-law-allow-trump-send-troops-quell-protests-2025-06-08/
Pretty sure if the military isn't in a "shootin' war" kind of situation, they A. do not have live ammo loaded in their weapons, and B. are likely to be carrying, driving, flying, sailing with all weapons safe'd or disabled. So Dwumpy can't have his military parade suddenly go all 'marshal law' on the public.
We gotta craft an award for everyday heroes like the woman who took care of Tarrio. Maybe Harvard can make it a Performance Art award alongside its Hasty Pudding celebrations.
That was fantastic! I hope the moron who kept standing in front of her has tinnitus for the rest of her life.
😄😂
Citizen Performance Art Award?
Maybe we all need a bullhorn, Sunny
Precisely.
… Maybe, instead of buying a new pump shotgun and two new 9 mm pistols for home defense right after the Nov ‘24 elections, I should have just bought a loud megaphone to use at peaceful protests. Seems like the serious weapon of choice these days, especially for June 14 and that which is yet to follow.
https://a.co/d/6NNgJC1
Let’s buy them from somebody besides Bezos.
There's only 2 left in stock 😂
Holy Sh1t, they’re sold out!🤣
Outstanding with that bullhorn!
Like this guy and his sousaphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4P1kKK-5k
Classic genius bit.
I’d definitely include him.
I’m going out and buy one of those bullhorns Neal!!
Who was the idiot in the straw boater who was saying, “ these are the people trying to take away your rights?”
I hate that motherfucker Tarrio so that was really gratifying to see. And who the fuck is the dude in the straw hat, jumping right to " this what the enemy looks like"? Check the mirror asshole.
She was fantastic!
As the wife of a 20-year federal employee who works so damn hard and does more stuff than almost everyone will ever know (most of his work is TS classified), I can’t stand the attacks on federal employees as though their knowledge, expertise, skills, dedication, etc. have no value. And thanks to DOGE, he’s currently doing the workload of multiple people but won’t see a raise until reasonable people take over the government again, if ever.
most people have only the foggiest about what govt employees do - not like a widget factory where you can have a view on the quality of the widgets - the govt covers a million often invisible matters people take for granted
Like safe food and water, weather warnings, help with heat in winter, etc. People think that stuff is a given? No. There are actual people involved in these services and it's not nothing. Sincere thanks to all who serve.
I was one of the many private government contractors… the chaos, injustice and insanity that current government employees endure daily is absolute fuckery! Thanks for all who manage to keep up the hard work under duress!!
That’s why imitating a handicapped reporter, insulting a Gold Star family- and the ‘suckers & losers’ comment ALL should have been deal breakers… waaaay back in the day :/ Sad.
We had a multitude of warnings about what was coming. While I can understand why a majority of Americans were oblivious to the fascism, trying to survive in difficult times, etc., I cannot begin to see why the Democratic Party has been unable to disseminate a clear message to the majority of Americans, about the evil being done by Republicons…for the last 50 years! The Republicon Saint, Ronny Raygun, was the first MAGAT.
Walt. Seriously. Do citizens not have any responsibility to learn some history and open their damned eyes? I can't comprehend why voters need a clear message from the Democrats, when red state legislatures have been leaning and moving this direction for decades. I'm sorry, but Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc. have taken over more minds than most of us would care to admit. Everyone I know who is "trying to survive in these difficult times" still spend hours every single day being entertained by their cell phone. The Dem party is just not entertaining enough for folks, unless they're the subject of ridicule and blame... which seems to be preferable to actually turning your phone off long enough to get to the polls. Yeah, tough times, so let's blame the party, the candidates, the boomers or all of the above. doG forbid we should do anything more than whine and make excuses on social media. 🙄 (And yes, I know that some do a LOT to participate in our democracy, but most don't.)
You make good points, Outdoorluvr. There is a lot of contributory negligence by citizens, like me, that existed in a world where we couldn’t imagine these evil fucking monsters were going to be running our country. There is so much blame to go around. Speaking for myself here, there was a false sense of security. America, despite its’ many struggles in the past, always seemed determined to do the right thing, eventually. I don’t know how that happens in the current environment. The Corrupt Supreme Court 6 have given a demented conman Carte Blanche to rip our country to shreds. This will be decided by We the People and it will not be easy.
"Americans can be counted on to do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other alternatives" -- Winston Churchill
Funny that
Unfortunately some voters didn't get the correct message and voted Felonious.
About the time Claremont Institute was born Walt, most people know nothing of them, but the current situation we’re seeing was their vision. You’ll find all the bad actors and ideologies wrapped in a bow there!!
Implosion: protests on June 14!
Damn straight Sunny!!
No one hired as a federal employee during the Trump Administration should be allowed to stay in their position without reapplying and testing after he's gone. It's a given they're probably spineless, or incompetent, or corrupt, or a traitor, or all the above.
1. I didn’t know forecasting weather was considered inappropriate. It’s more fun to be surprised by a coming weather disaster. Thanks NutLick!
2. Foghorn Leghorn could use a good dose of ideological capture. Maybe it would turn him into a decent human being
3. Patricia for the internet win of the day.
“Ideological capture?” Miss me with that bullshit.
😒
Kay-El…After most of the MAGAs are wiped out from tornadoes, hurricanes, whatever else can’t be accurately forecast, it’ll be time to vote. There’s always a bright side. Not to mention MAGA loving farmers who are already getting wi-ed out. 😄
Love them all Kay-EI!!
Love the woman with the bullhorn… she is not lying, he is a traitor and a convicted felon. Last night concerning the LA situation, I wrotethat America is at a very dark time, that we have reached the deep muddy. Calling out and federalizing the California NG, potentially calling Marines from Camp Pendleton.. well it just feels like and others concur that we have reached the level of Russia in the early 2000’s. But Jeff, we warned America these very instances would occur under this MAGA regime and yet… I am sick of this and it’s only been a few months…🤮
That woman! She won my heart and inspired my brain. Let’s all get bullhorns!
It's the air horn part that I love!!!
There are so many Hispanic young people serving in the Army and Marines. They are American citizens. How can they be forced to turn on their relatives? Are they going help pull Tia Maria out of the home she has occupied for forty years so that she can be deported? This is going to get ugly fast.
Weird part is... You don't have to be an American citizen to be in the American military.
Hah! I did not know that. Still, these Hispanic soldiers are citizens.
In many cases they have been promised citizenship in return for service. This promise has not always been kept.
Thx for the context
arne, there are so many people serving in our military that represent minorities. While I have little faith in local police departments to do any fucking thing, I do hold out hope for our military. You think they want to go to war for Pete Kegsbreath?
There are so many people in our military that vote MAGA also. Let's not forget that. People like you and me didn't get us to this. The ones that voted for Trump did. Look at what's happening in South Florida, especially with people from Venezuela. Heavy MAGA country. Did they not ever think that he would target their families/friends because they aren't white? I don't understand the utter naivety of anyone that isn't white and born here that ever thought he was a good choice for their community. And no, because you voted for him, you don't deserve what he is doing. But actions have consequences and I don't want to hear from his voters about how awful they realize he is now. We knew that, we had no control over their vote, and they got us into this mess.
All these “woe is me” MAGATS would actually vote for the Bloated Yam of Scam again. Sound judgement is something they are totally incapable of.
Totally agree. Most of them would. You can't cure stupid.
Not with Linda McMahon’s Department of Edumacation!
And how many Latinos voted for him? Especially in South Florida. FAFO.
How many Cubans voted for that yam yam? It’s a very slippery slope we are on.
I just googled it. Between 58 - 68% of Cuban Americans. This is what I just don’t get. I’m a white, female Boomer and I absolutely can’t understand how any minority or woman can vote for Trump. We know who he is. He doesn’t make an exception that he loves Cubans, but hates Venezuelans. That’s not how white racists think. They lump everyone in the same boat. Maybe that’s part of the problem. Because they don’t think like white racists and don’t hear the comments that white people make to each other, that they think that it pertains to that “other” minority group. As a woman, I would never vote for Andrew Tate, Sean Combs or any other female abuser for office, even if they promised me the moon.
The Cuban community thought they would be exempt from the declarations of this yam yam.. Unfortunately they have discovered that Donald will treat them the same as Fidel, they are unable to shake off their affections for a potential dictator and the right wing propaganda campaign. I wonder if that demographic watches FAUX?
Actions speak louder than words.
So much louder.
Well, the ones in Florida were Cubans. I guess they like dictators.
I work with minorities. I asked one why would you think Trump was ok. These are naturalized citizens. They are used to an authoritarian leader. One who was corrupt. They felt like their country was better controlled then. They also come from a more misogynistic culture than America. This would also pertain to Cubans and those from Venezuela (I don’t know anyone personally in Vegas from those countries). When I was in Eastern Europe, my guide was talking about what it was like when the Soviet Union was in charge. One thing that stood out that he said, was that people had jobs. There was rigid structure in their lives because of the government.
Rubio is deporting Cubans. Long time residents. Working people.
Those are his peeps!
What else does one need to hear about Marco Rubio to know he has compromised every working brain cell and 100% of his dignity to fall on his knees and subjugate himself to President AnusMouthPantLoad?
They can't. Their oath is to
"support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...", not to buoy up scurrilous rats.
My dream is that the NG would follow orders to show up....but then stand there and protect the protestors.
Didn't happen in Berkeley 1969. It also didn't happen at Kent State.
Exactly, LTBW. The NG were the actual transgressors at Kent State. Will they do better in 2025 than they did in 1970?
IDK, I'm just depressed. ICE is dragging people out of their homes. People are fighting back. I'm afraid there will be blood shed and you know that will precipitate marshal law, as planned. I'm still going to be at a demonstration next weekend. They say to wear a helmet....
I get it. I know it's hard NOT to be depressed. but remember: the fascists WANT you to be depressed. try as best you can not to give them the pleasure
For God sakes somebody tell kennedy (Louisiana) please put in you teeth every morning!
😆😆😆😆
Don’t get depressed, get mad.
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/71163
Attend all rallies.
Your column was a major updog toke this morning and much needed. Enjoying the White House energy vampire Colin Robinson/Kevin Hassett references and the fact that he lives on the WH lawn. Maybe he doesn't even work there officially, just shows up to suck energy and play the media.
I'm surprised we never see the tent he lives in.
Colin Robinson lives in the basement.
For us old-timers, who really didn't need a round of summer repeats:
"Tin soldiers and Nixon comin'/This summer I hear the drummin'/Four dead in Ohio....."
or
"There's a man with a gun over there/Tellin' me, I got to beware/It's time we stop, children/What's that sound?/Everyone look what's goin' down"
These songs have been ringing in my head for months now. Thanks for mentioning them. I can add This Is Not America just for the title. Eve Of Destruction, We Gotta Get Outta This Place, or to really date myself, If I Had A Hammer, and Blowin' In The Wind.
Hey! And Subterranean Homesick Blues!
Enjoy
https://youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?si=BWYrRYvvZfJdsFzw
Walt, I can't thank you enough for this. During People's Park in Berkeley (May 1969), people put Street Fighting Man on their record players in their open windows on Telegraph Avenue and played it at top volume. The police hated it. Hey Alan Mulman, I still remember!
A new (2016) anti trump protest song, “Before the Wall” by Kyle Craft. Google the lyrics and listen. Great song!
The babbling orange baboon and his super evil dickhead side kick Heinrich Miller, who appears to be calling shots want martial law; especially here in CA. Now that the National Guard has illegally invaded LA, it's hard to say what the hell will happen. We purposely avoided the news this morning in favor of watching the Tour de France warm up bike race. Kudos to that kid featured on Bluesky standing in that awful tear gas with a skateboard in one hand and flipping the bird with the other hand at the goon squad perpetrators. This shit has got to end. Be careful everyone.
AFAIK,the National Guard is still 100 miles away from LA. They haven't invaded anything.
The Chief of LAPD slow-rolled their response, blaming the delay on LA's notorious traffic.
Meanwhile, Pee Wee German is so upset that the Space Nazi has stolen his woman and pantsed him in front of the whole country, that his shrieking has risen to decibel level not in human audio range.
They're in LA now. Google it.
The Tour is less than a month away. Can Tadej ride over Jonas this year? They are both riding well and are a class above all other contenders. It will be awesome viewing, again.
Yes, I so wish Formula 1 was on this weekend.
Picking at a nit here but I've seen this so many times in the comments. It's martial law, not marshal law.
I agree there will be bloodshed at some point. And the point is getting closer and closer. At my age I'm happy to be among the martyrs for America. But I'm not willing that young people should have to be. But put pissed-off citizens trying to protest peacefully into the city streets, add a bunch of armed soldiers to the mix and you have one giant potential massacre waiting to happen. People are going to die. JMO
Yes, federal agents apparently fired pepper spray or some "irritant" (as they said) into the crowd protesting ICE in LA, which made it hard for police to know what was going on since they were apparently affected by the "irritants," too. But people were protesting the ugly ICE raids, not fighting from anything I've seen. Some trash cans were set on fire, but it was not the "lawlessness" the Trump admin said it was. Protest is still legal, despite Trump's false claims that it is "illegal" for protestors to wear masks.
And I saw videos looked like ICE or other agents also threw flash-bang grenades and fired projectiles into the crowd at the Paramount shopping mall where Home Depot was located...If there was 'violence,' it looked like it was on the side of ICE.
Same as it ever was. If shit is getting stirred, 100% it is instigated by the cops.
Excellent work Jeff , liked , restacked , cross posted and quoted
I am getting hammered by the MAGAs for the kkkaroline article , I’ve had to ban 9 accounts this morning alone. Must mean the shit I’m doing is working
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/kkkaroline-leavitt-blowjob-queen
Also I have to share this comment
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/kkkaroline-leavitt-blowjob-queen/comment/123923878?r=4r7yty
Simultaneously hilarious and nauseating🤣🤮.
They're just mad because they can't understand all the long words.
That’s been my consensus so far. Just lack of intelligence responses that attack my character as a trans woman and a progressive rather than providing some refuting evidence of my claim. People like that will AdHom constantly thinking it works on me. It doesn’t.
MAGATS have been told to open the Big Faucet now and double-flood the zone with their shit, just like their golfcart-bound and failing leader is doing. Tine is running out for him and them, so their butts are up against the wall.
Now, there's an idea! He could lead the troops in his golf cart. His parade could be a parade of golf carts. Maybe in Queens! Or parked in front of the Trump Tower. New Yorkers, on your mark...!!!
Relax, Wendy, you're just another person.
Ikea has smarter cabinets!
Bada-boom! Sara 😂
How many times can I hit the 'like' button?!???
Yes, let’s build bananas right here in the U.S.. And since we’ll be able to overproduce, maybe we can store the extras up in the cloud. There should be a special place in hell for soulless bastards like HowLut.
Dante is working on it as we speak.
Bill Hicks got there first, targeting H.W. Bush and corporatists -- They can "suck Satan's cock in Hell." The video of this segment was oddly banned from YouTube or I'd post it here.
Nutlick is a modern day Faust. Sold whatever passed for his soul to the orange menace. Such a sad spectacle to see Nutlick, who obviously has no self respect, lie like the dickens in service of the worst president ever.
Worst president, but best conman. He took his grift all the way to the White House, twice.
In fairness, he didn't do it alone. He had massive help from Russia.
and an ignorant populace
and Musk
There’s money in the Banana Stand!
My banana building enterprise is off to a good start. We have obtained funding now available through cancelled cancer research grants. We will, of course, source all of our equipment from here in the U.S. No foreign bananas will be manufactured by my company!
Walt, first, investigate the Banana Pudding mysterious lack of Bananas. This might hold the clue for a successful
Banana Empire! Seems like you don’t really need Bananas to make Bananas.
Next, watch the Woody Allen movie Bananas.
You are on your way to success!
Walt, I have some cat toy models of bananas. They're filled with catnip!
I’m growing catnip for my neighbors kitty. It’s growing through our cedar fence into their yard where he can visit at his leisure. Makes my doggos go a little nuts on our side of the fence, but Smoky seems to enjoy riling them up.
Yes, I grow catnip for my three cats and they love it, especially my 15 year old kitty.
Jesus H Fucking Christ, Kennedy really is Foghorn Leghorn.
Foghorn has more character than him
The great Chuck Jones is spinning in his grave.
You got me to look up Chuck Jones, Linda. Nicely done.
For a very funny look at Chuck Jones and the other Warner Bros animators at Termite Terrace, read Wild Minds by Reid Mitenbuler, a marvelous history of animation's Golden Age. I believe it's still in print.
Foghorn at least meant well, eh?
And when Foghorn was funny, it was intentional
The unbelievable stupidity of the Trump regime glares through every single day. We need to get rid of it in order to make America great again. Period.
I’ve been thinking about the national guard in LA too. So these are my suggestions and wondering what you think:
1- the protesters should walk away every time the Guard shows up and when they leave show up again. This will get tedious for the Guard.
2- the governor and mayor should go full on confrontation and take their local LE and march w the protestors. Protect them, align w them and get out of the comfort zone and stand w them.
I swear just study Ukraine and the genius they employ. The attacks near Moscow are pin point drones that don’t kill they do destroy infrastructure and have civilians worried. I think (outside the box) drones could drive the Rs nuts. Out of nowhere they come and terrorize tramp has no idea what terror is and he needs to feel it.
Or sit down / signs down..
I fear that T would use the "walking away ", as a win. Showing what "his NG" can do
I read today that dear leader has been texting Mark Carney in secret as he is desperate to do a trade deal with Canada, as his Tariffs are tanking the American economy. They are particularly hurting Trumps heartland.
But I can't see for the love of me what Carney can do to convince the Canadian public to start buying American products or visiting America again. Shit for brains Trump, royally fucked up picking an argument with Mark Carney and the Canadians.
I think silence kills him, psychologically he wants to blabber. Jeff pointed that out and China has it figured out. Just let him ruin the US and that serves a purpose to let self destruction take its course.
That bridge is burnt and not being rebuilt. If the lying Cheeto is texting Carney he’s probably been blocked by now. ✊🏼🇨🇦
Elbows up, Canada!
I got as far as the word salad about predicting weather before I started to lose even more brain cells. It's like telling your great great meemaw to set up her iPhone.
“the idea is to automate that, to put it on the cloud, so that the 2,100 meteorologists and the hundreds of hydrologists can forecast the weather from central locations, and back up each other, and be more appropriate.”
What the everloving fuck?!
I’ll tell ya what’s more “appropriate” ya knucklehead: Just STFUPA
(A= already!) You are more stupid than a bag of hammers!
Please tell me you weren't referring to me!
I compared the quoted guy to someone telling their great great Meemaw how to use an iPhone to take pictures, upload them to the cloud and email them. "First thing, Gigi Meemaw, you have to open the box..."
Not you - Nutlick was my target. In no way would I insult or target people here on Substack.
I love her. Makes me want to buy a bullhorn today! Thanks, Jeff! And do not be concerned about L.A. We all know what the 🍊 guy is doing!
Be careful. While Trump eagerly works to legalize fully automatic weapons, bullhorns will be declared illegal. Like “ideological capture”
I bought a bullhorn in 2018. It's awesome. It's the Vixen waterproof marine megaphone and it rocks: https://vixenhorns.com/product/vixen-horns-vxm2390nl-waterproofmarine-megaphone-siren-flashlight-rechargeable-battery-navy/
I have not accomplished what fantastic Patricia Eguino did as a true patriot, but it's ready. Get yours today!
People keep saying that TRump doesn't know what he's doing. TRump knows exactly what he's doing. He's destroying us with from within at Putin's direction. Let's quit pussyfooting around that fact. TRump is a Russian asset and if he's not stopped, we will no longer be a free country. This isn't hyperbole.